Brocade SANnav Management Portal (REST)

Description

This connector discovers Brocade SAN switches through the SANnav Management Portal REST API. It monitors switches (enclosures), Fibre Channel ports, and environment sensors (temperatures, fans, power supplies, etc.). Requires SANnav Management Portal version 2.x or 3.x.

brocade hardware network storage

Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Supersedes

This connector supersedes:

• BrocadeSwitchWBEM
• FibreAllianceSwitch
• BrocadeSwitch
• SMISSwitch

Target

Typical platform: Brocade

Operating system: Storage System

This connector is not available for the local host (it is applicable to remote hosts only).

Prerequisites

Leverages: Brocade SANnav Management Portal REST API

Technology and protocols: HTTP

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t storage -c +BrocadeSANnavREST --https --http-port 443 -u USERNAME

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: storage
        connectors: [ +BrocadeSANnavREST ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          http:
            https: true
            port: 443 # or probably something else
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The Brocade SANnav Management Portal (REST) connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The HTTP Request below to the managed host succeeds:
  • get /images/logo/Spectre/favicon.png
  • The entire response (header + body) contains: 200 (regex)
• The HTTP Request below to the managed host succeeds:
  • get /external-api/v1/inventory/switches/
  • Request Header: Authorization: Basic %{BASIC_AUTH_BASE64} Accept: application/json
  • The entire response (header + body) contains: 200 (regex)

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
blade	hw.status{hw.type="blade", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="blade", state="present"}	id model name type vendor
enclosure	hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="present"}	id model name type vendor
fan	hw.fan.speed hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
network	hw.network.bandwidth.limit hw.network.up hw.status{hw.type="network", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="network", state="present"}	device_type hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
power_supply	hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
temperature	hw.status{hw.type="temperature", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="temperature", state="present"} hw.temperature hw.temperature.limit{limit_type="high.critical"} hw.temperature.limit{limit_type="high.degraded"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name sensor_location
voltage	hw.status{hw.type="voltage", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="voltage", state="present"} hw.voltage	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name