Brocade Communications Systems IP250 Configuring IP simple discovery, IP Snmp credentials

3 Configuring IP simple discovery

Configuring IP simple discovery

NOTE

You must have the All IP Products AOR (area of responsibility) in your user account to discover new products. For more information about user accounts, refer to “User accounts” on page 185.

To configure simple discovery, complete the following steps.

1.Select Discover > IP Products.

The Discover Setup - IP dialog box displays.

2.To add individual devices, refer to “Adding an IP device to discovery” on page 84.

3.Click Close to close the Discover Setup - IP dialog box.

4.Click Yes on the confirmation message.

IP SNMP credentials

NOTE

The Management application supports SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3.

The Management application requires SNMP credentials to obtain information from devices and to deploy configurations to devices. Because different devices may have different credentials, discovery can store many sets of credentials to make sure that the correct credentials are available when contacting a device.

Two types of credentials can be used for discovery: SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c read-write community strings and SNMPv3 read-write credentials. If SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c is enabled on a device, use read-write community strings. If SNMPv3 is enabled on a device, use SNMPv3 read-write credentials.

When a device is contacted, discovery tries the credentials in the order that they are listed on the SNMP tab on the Global Setting tab of the Discover Setup - IP dialog box until it finds one that matches the credentials on the device. Discovery tries the SNMPv3 credentials first. If none of the SNMPv3 credentials work, discovery tries the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c credentials. Discovery must detect the read only credentials to proceed to the read-write credentials. If discovery does not detect any read-write credential, the device may still be discovered; however, all write operations through SNMP (such as configure device) do not execute properly. When a match is found, the device becomes discovered to the Management application, and its properties are saved in the database so that it can be managed by the Management application.

Devices not discovered through profile-based discovery can be added individually. For more information, refer to “Adding an IP device to discovery” on page 84.

Adding SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c credentials

If SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c is enabled, or if you want to use community strings to gain access to the device, define community strings.

To add a SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c read-write community string, complete the following steps.

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