Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent Developer's Guide v11.1.0 (53-1002169-01, May 2011)

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Discovering a fabric and a host
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Data model
• The Brocade_HostDiscovered class gives the discovery information of each host associated to
the Discovery service.
• The discovery service is hosted on the management server.
Figure 2 shows the data model of the host discovery through the SMIA extrinsic method.
FIGURE 2 Host discovery data model
Discovery using SMIA Configuration Tool
The fabric and host can be discovered, edited, and deleted using the SMIA Configuration Tool. The
Home tab includes the Fabric Discovery and Host Discovery links to discover the fabric and host
respectively.
Figure 3 shows the fabric discovery through the SMIA Configuration Tool.