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CEE switch support
CEE switch support
The Brocade CEE switch behaves as both an FC switch and an Ethernet switch. The FC capabilities
are captured through the Switch profile. This is now enhanced to model the switch's Ethernet
capabilities.
The CEE switch is partitioned into an Ethernet Admin Domain and a Fibre Channel fabric, where the
Ethernet Admin Domain does not have any contained domain association. Only the Fibre Channel
fabric is associated to the SAN instance. Brocade_SAN.name is the principle WWN of the Fibre
Channel fabric.
Registration
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associated to the Brocade_RegisteredProfile instance for switch. There is no profile conformance
for the Ethernet portion of the model due to evolving standards.
Data model
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elements. This is a general model that covers device and switch connections to the CEE switch:
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"Registration"
on page 43. The Brocade_Switch instance representing the CEE switch is
shows the FC and Ethernet topologies along with their connections to the physical
Two CIM_ComputerSystem instances (Brocade_Switch and Brocade_EthernetSwitch) is shown
to represent the FC and Ethernet sides of the switch. These instances are associated to the
physical counterpart, which is the Brocade_PhysicalComputerSystem.
Brocade_EthernetSwitch is a component of Brocade_EthernetAdminDomain on the Ethernet
topology side. Similarly, the Brocade_Switch is a component of Brocade_Fabric on the FC
topology side.
The value of the dedicated property of Brocade_EthernetSwitch is "Ethernet switch" (38).
The Ethernet ports is shown as Brocade_EthernetPort instances associated to the physical
counterpart, which is the Brocade_PCSNetworkPort.
The virtual FCoE port is represented as the Brocade_SwitchFCPort instance with the PortType
as G, or F, or E and is not be associated to a Brocade_PCSNetworkPort. It is an internal port
and there is no physical representation for that port. Even though the virtual FCoE ports are
internal to the switch, they will be modeled as visible switch ports in order to show the devices
physically (directly or indirectly) connected to one of the Ethernet interfaces. However, these
internal ports exist in the ASIC and the Brocade_SwitchFCPort.PortDescriminator property has
the value "8" representing that this is an internal port.
The presence of an active FCoE session is registered as a name server node and port entry.
This is depicted in the host topology as the node and node ports.
The Brocade_EthernetPort of the host is associated to the Brocade_NodeFCPort(s)
(HostedDependency). The Brocade_EthernetPort on the host will not have all properties
populated. All key properties are populated. Among the non-key properties, the
OperationalStatus is 2 (OK) and EnabledState is 2 (Enabled).
All LANEndPoints are part of the EthernetLogicalNetwork in the
Brocade_EthernetAdminDomain.
Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent Developer's Guide
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