Users Guide

SmartFabric Director
SmartFabric Director manages the switches in a data center with or without any virtual infrastructure. SmartFabric Director
provides a single view of operating, managing, and troubleshooting of physical and virtual networks.
SmartFabric Director features
● Define, build, and maintain a Layer 2 or Layer 3 leaf-spine data center fabric (underlay).
● Intent template-based provisioning underlay
● Authoritative repository of intent and switch configuration and state
● Fabric health management and monitoring including events, logs, alarms, states, and metrics (counters)
● Operator-driven remediation
● Full life-cycle management of switches including grouping of switches and scheduling of jobs
● Uses Openconfig for provisioning and streaming telemetry of switches
For more information about SmartFabric Director, see Dell EMC SmartFabric Director User Guide.
Enable SmartFabric Director mode on a switch
To enable the SmartFabric Director mode in the switch, use switch-operating-mode command. For more information, see
switch-operating-mode.
Support for SmartFabric Director
SmartFabric Director uses gRPC Network Management Interface agent (gNMI) agent and lifecycle management to provision
and stream telemetry data for switches.
OS10 supports:
● gNMI agent that enables the telemetry agent to transmit pre-configured sensor groups data to the SmartFabric Director. For
more information about gNMI agent, see gNMI agent.
● Google Network Operating Interface (gNOI) APIs to enable lifecycle management using SmartFabric Director. For more
information, see Lifecycle management.
gRPC Network Management Interface agent
The gNMI agent, available with OS10 release 10.5.0.1 and later, provides a new interface to configure OS10 device. It uses gNMI
protocol and Openconfig Yang models to support Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) operations, life-cycle management
through gNOI and configuration of streaming telemetry.
The gNMI agent listens to the SmartFabric director to receive remote configuration-change requests or upgrade and downgrade
instructions. As a part of these remote configuration changes, the gNMI agent enables the telemetry agent to transmit
pre-configured sensor groups data in the OpenConfig format to the SmartFabric director. For more information about pre-
configured sensor groups, see Configure telemetry.
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