Brocade SAN Switch SMI Agent

Description

This connector discovers the enclosures and fiber-channel ports of SAN switches as well as various environment sensors (temperatures, fans, power supplies, etc.). It relies on the Brocade SMI Agent Proxy and can monitor multiple switches.

brocade hardware network storage

Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Superseded Connector

This connector is superseded by:

• BrocadeSANnavREST

Supersedes

This connector supersedes:

• FibreAllianceSwitch
• BrocadeSwitch
• SMISSwitch

Target

Typical platform: Brocade

Operating system: Storage System

Prerequisites

Leverages: Brocade SMI Agent

Technology and protocols: WBEM

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t storage -c +BrocadeSwitchWBEM --wbem -u USER

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: storage
        connectors: [ +BrocadeSwitchWBEM ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          wbem:
            protocol: https
            port: 5989
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The Brocade SAN Switch SMI Agent connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The WBEM query below succeeds:
  • Namespace: root/brocade1
  • Query: SELECT Name FROM Brocade_Switch

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
blade	hw.status{hw.type="blade", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="blade", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id info model name serial_number
enclosure	hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="present"}	device_hostname id model name serial_number 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.errors{hw.type="network", hw.error.type="zero_buffer_credit"} hw.errors{hw.type="network"} hw.network.bandwidth.limit hw.network.full_duplex hw.network.io{direction="receive"} hw.network.io{direction="transmit"} hw.network.packets{direction="receive"} hw.network.packets{direction="transmit"} hw.network.up hw.status{hw.type="network", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="network", state="present"}	bandwidth device_type hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id info name physical_address physical_address_type
other_device	hw.status{hw.type="other_device", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="other_device", 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.parent.id hw.parent.type id name