Brocade Communications Systems 804 manual Setting up out-of-band discovery for an adapter

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Setting up out-of-band discovery for an adapter

When performing out-of-band discovery, you are managing the adapter remotely. The application connects to the agent running on the host server over the IP network and product information is copied back from the Brocade adapter to the server. If you do not configure the application to directly discover the devices, the connections and attached devices may not display correctly.

1.From the Host Connectivity Manager, click Discovery > Setup. The Setup for Discovery dialog box, shown in Figure 6, displays.

FIGURE 6 Setup for Discovery dialog box

2.From the Host Name list, select the host name from where you will discover the adapter.

For the first time, the Host Name list will contain only the Local host. You must specify the host name or the IP address for discovering the remote servers. Only previously-discovered servers are available in the Host Name list.

3.Type the port number in the Port Number text box. The default is 34568.

4.Type in the user ID and password that will authenticate the SAN product with the agent. The default user ID and password are admin/password.

It is recommended you change the agent password on the host for security reasons.

NOTE

Click the Remember Host check box if you do not want to type it in each time you set up discovery.

5.In the Polling Frequency (seconds) text box, specify the value for how frequently the application has to poll for newly discovered devices.

All parameters related to the adapters that are installed in that server are refreshed each time the poll occurs.

NOTE

If the Keep Polling check box is checked, polling occurs after the specified polling interval. If the check box is not checked, polling stops.

6.Click OK.

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