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Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent Developer’s Guide
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Fabric profile
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Virtual fabrics with dedicated ISL between the base switches where some of virtual fabrics
have been discovered but there is no base fabric.
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If the base fabric is discovered, Brocade_SAN.Name is the principal WWN of the base
fabric.
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If the base fabric is not discovered, the virtual fabrics will be disjointed and in each fabric
one SAN instance will be generated.
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Virtual fabrics with no dedicated ISL between the base switches but with a dedicated ISL
between one of the discovered virtual fabrics.
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In the absence of a dedicated ISL between the base switches, no actual logical fabrics
exist except for those which have a dedicated ISL. The virtual fabrics will be disjointed and
in each fabric one SAN instance will be generated.
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A FCR setup where the backbone fabric and edge fabrics have been discovered,
Brocade_SAN.Name is the principal WWN of the backbone fabric.
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A FCR setup where only one or more edge fabrics have been discovered.
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In the absence of the backbone, each edge fabric is associated to its own SAN instance
and the Brocade_SAN.Name is the principal WWN of that edge fabric.
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When a single edge fabric is connected to more than one separate backbone fabirc, all the
fabrics will be discovered as a single SAN. The Brocade_SAN.Name is the principal WWN of
one of the backbone fabric.
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A fabric containing a CEE switch, Brocade_SAN.Name is the principal WWN of the Fibre
Channel fabric with the switch.
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In a simple Fibre Channel fabric, Brocade_SAN.Name is the principal WWN of the fabric.
Registration
Figure 8
shows the SNIA profile registration profile model to advertise the Fabric profile and its
subprofiles.
