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OpStor is a heterogeneous storage infrastructure monitoring solution that helps enterprises to monitor their storage resources.
  • Multi-vendor storage infrastructure management
  • Pro-active Fault and Performance monitoring
  • Visualize SAN availability and health
  • Detect problems with utilization and availability of storage devices.
 
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"OpStor lets us monitor our entire storage environment, Servers, HBA's, Switches, and the SAN."- Bryan Dearlove, - Information Guelph General Hospital» More Success Stories
 

Monitoring Brocade Silkworm switches and directors

OpStor provides monitoring and management of Brocade Silkworm switches and Directors

Models Supported

  • Brocade SilkWorm switches
    • SilkWorm 4100
    • SilkWorm 200E
    • SilkWorm 3850
    • SilkWorm 3250
    • SilkWorm 4012
    • SilkWorm 3016
    • SilkWorm 3014
  • Brocade SilkWorm directors
    • SilkWorm 12000
    • SilkWorm 24000
    • SilkWorm 48000

Features supported
Inventory Details Performance Details Monitors Report Details
  • Fabric Switch
  • Fabric switch ports
  • Bandwidth Utilization
  • Errors
  • Rx Traffic
  • Rx Utilization
  • Tx Traffic
  • Tx Utilization
  • Fabric Switch Status
  • Switch Port status
  • Availability
  • Switch Summary
  • Switch Zoning
  • Switch Port statistics
  • Interconnect details
  • Real Time graphs

Prerequisites for monitoring Brocade Switches / Directors
  • Ensure SNMP agent is running in the Brocade silkworm switch / director
  • By default OpStor uses snmp port 161 and read community public for discovery.
  • If the settings are different , please provide the same details while adding the switch in OpStor
  • Make sure the IP of the server running OpStor is included in the SNMP access list of the Brocade Switch
  • The following command can be used to know the snmp community & access list configurations in brocade silkworm switches.
  • Run the command  agtcfgdefault via CLI  console of the switch
  • Register OpStor server IP address as a trap destination for the Brocade Silkworm Switch.
  • Use agtcfgset command in the Brocade Fabric OS command line interface to specify the Trap Recipient.

    Note : For more details refer the Brocade Fabric OS Reference Manual


Steps to add Brocade Fabric Switch in OpStor
  • Navigate to Admin Tab --> Manage Storage Devices link in OpStor client
  • Provide IP Address of Brocade Switch / Director
  • Choose Device Type as 'FCSwitch'
  • Choose Vendor as 'SNIA FCMGMT'
  • Provide SNMP Port and Community string (default is 161 and public)
  • If needed change the Timeout value (default value is 5 seconds)
  • Click on Add Device.

Note : If the Ping option is disabled for the device, then please uncheck 'Ping the given IP' field.
Note : In case of non discovery of the device, please follow the troubleshooting tips displayed in the webclient and try re-adding the device.

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