Brocade SAN Switch SMI Agent

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.

This connector supersedes:

brocade^[5] enterprise^[6] hardware^[7] network^[8] storage^[9]

Target

Typical platform: Brocade SAN

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 to the managed host succeeds:
- Namespace: root/brocade1
- WQL 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`

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