Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual Product communication protocols, Icmp, Snmp

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•SwitchAssetCollector – Collects data about the switch including, inventory details, port level data, any blades that may be present (on directors), AG-port mapping, and auto trace dump settings. This is the major collector for switch data.

•FCIPCollector – Collects FCIP-related data on the older FCIP switches.

•XFCIPCollector – Collects extended FCIP-related data on the newer FCIP switches.

•MapsPolicyCollector – Collects data about MAPS policies configured on the switch.

•MetaSANCollector – Collects data about the IFLs (Inter Fabric Links) on the switch.

•FlowCollector – Collects data about the flow definitions on the switch. Also collects the subflows for each flow definition. This collector requires the Fabric Insight license on the switch.

•VPWwnInfoCollector – Collects data about the VPWWN (Virtual Port World Wide Name) on the switch.

The Management application collects performance monitoring data via SNMP. Performance monitoring data is collected asynchronously and is not affected by the collector scheduling. Performance data (mostly port statistics) is collected every 5 minutes.

Product communication protocols

Table 18 details the protocols that the Management application uses for communication between products and the Management application server.

TABLE 18	Product communication protocols
Protocol	Description	Management application use	Communicates with device type
ICMP	The Internet Control Message Protocol	Used during initial discovery.	Fabric OS
	(ICMP) is part of the Internet Protocol Suite,	For IronWare devices, used for every subse-	IronWare
	as defined in RFC 792.	quent polling cycle.	Network OS
	ICMP messages are typically used for diag-	You can edit the IronWare polling interval on
	nostic or control purposes or generated in	the Options dialog box (refer to “Configuring
	response to errors in IP operations.	polling service preferences” on page 163).
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol	Used during discovery, performance polling,	Fabric OS
	(SNMP) is an internet-standard protocol for	and operation status polling.	IronWare
	managing devices on IP networks. SNMP is a	You can edit the IronWare operating polling	Network OS
	component of the Internet Protocol Suite as	interval on the Options dialog box (refer to
	defined by the Internet Engineering Task	“Configuring polling service preferences” on
	Force (IETF). It consists of a set of standards	page 163).
	for network management, including an appli-	Note that performance polling (including
	cation layer protocol, a database schema,	data collection for dashboards) completely
	and a set of data objects.	relies on SNMP.
		For Historical data collection, the minimum
		time interval is 1 minute for IronWare and
		Network OS devices and 5 minutes for Fabric
		OS devices.
		For real time graphs, the minimum time
		interval is 10 seconds.

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