Step 1 - Discover Switches

This section describes the following:

•”SMI-S Switches Must Be Removed and Rediscovered After Upgrading” on page 32

•”Discovering Brocade Switches” on page 33

•”Discovering CNT Switches” on page 34

•”Discovering Cisco Switches” on page 36

•”Discovering Sun StorEdge and QLogic Switches” on page 38

•”Changing the SNMP Trap Listener Port for Sun StorEdge Switches” on page 40

•”Discovering McDATA and EMC Connectrix Switches” on page 41

•”(Discovery from SE Only) Excluding McDATA and EMC Connectrix Switches from Discovery” on page 51

The following table provides an overview of the discovery requirements for switches.

Table 6 Discovery Requirements for Switches

Element

Discovery Requirements

Additional Information

 

 

 

Brocade switches

Enter the IP address/DNS name,

See ”Discovering Brocade

 

user name and password of the

Switches” on page 33.

 

Brocade switch to discover it. The

 

 

user name (default admin) and

 

 

password must be for the Admin

 

 

Account.

 

 

 

 

CNT switches

Enter the IP address and the port

See ”Discovering CNT Switches”

 

number for the InVsn Software that

on page 34.

 

manages the switch.

 

 

 

 

Cisco switches

Enter the IP address/DNS name of

See ”Discovering Cisco Switches”

(SMI-S)

the Cisco switch as well as the user

on page 36.

 

name and password of the switch.

 

 

All SMI-S switches require a user

 

 

name and password.

 

 

 

 

Cisco switches

Enter the IP address/DNS name of

See ”Discovering Cisco Switches”

(SNMP)

the Cisco switch. You do not need

on page 36.

 

to enter a password if you discover

 

 

it in HP SE. HP SIM requires a

 

 

password.

 

 

 

 

QLogic switches

Enter the IP address/DNS name of

See ”Discovering Sun StorEdge

(SMI-S)

the QLogic SMI-S switch as well as

and QLogic Switches” on

 

the user name and password of the

page 38.

 

switch. All SMI-S switches require a

 

 

user name and password.

 

 

 

 

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