Names; Data Model - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B Developer's Manual

NOTE
The Brocade_NumericSensor returns instances to represent the power usage value for Brocade
6505, 6510 switches, FC 16-32, FC 16-48, FC 8-32E, FC8-48E software Blades, CR16-4, and
CR16-8 core blades which are running on Fabric OS v7.0.1 or later.

Names

Various system objects such as a switch, switchport, device, deviceport, and so on are identified by
a WWN. For convenience, these system objects may also be assigned a user-friendly name. The
user-friendly name is generally the ElementName property in the instance. This feature provides
the ability to easily discover the user-friendly names for all the system objects.
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Data model

A new extrinsic method is defined in the Brocade_Agent class.
Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent Developer's Guide
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Discovering the list of user-friendly names.
There will be no support for setting of Name for a system object.
Fabric names will not be reported by the Brocade SMI Agent. This is to avoid the conflict where
the fabric and seed or principal switch share the same WWN.
All the detached WWN names are supported by the Brocade SMI Agent.
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