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

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FC routing

FIGURE 37 Fibre Channel Router data model

• FCR devices of Brocade act as normal switches and routers. Therefore, the switch which is

router capable and functioning in multi-domain mode, has both physical and logical

representation in SMIS. The FCR is represented by two instances of CIM_ComputerSystem, a

Brocade_Switch and a Brocade_PhysicalComputerSystem associated by

CIM_HostedDependency(Brocade_SwitchInPCS).

• The Brocade_PhysicalComputerSystem, in addition to being associated to the BackBone

Brocade_Switch instance, will also be associated to Brocade_Switch instances of front and

xlate phantoms.

• Both the xlate phantom and front phantom switches are represented as Brocade_Switch

instances. The front phantom domain and xlate phantom domain switches are associated by

the Brocade_SANActiveConnection. These phantom switches can be differentiated by

Brocade_Switch.OtherIdentifyingInfo property value (which would have the values as Translate

Domain, Front Domain, and None for translate phantom domain, front phantom domain, and

ordinary switches respectively).

• The InteropMode property of front phantom domain and xlate phantom domain switches are

not populated.