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Brocade 6510

The Brocade 6510 is a 48-port, high-performance, enterprise-class switch that meets the demands of highly virtualized and private cloud storage environments by delivering market-leading Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology. The Brocade 6510 Switch provides maximum flexibility, simplicity, and reliability in an efficiently designed 1U package.

About

TheBrocade 6510 connector enables Skyline Communication DataMiner to communicate with a Brocade 6510 Switch allowing a user to remotely monitor and operate in the such device via SNMP.

Version Info

Range Description DCF Integration Cassandra Compliant
1.0.1.x [SLC Main] Full connector review in order to comply with Skyline standards. No Yes

Product Info

Range Supported Firmware Version
1.0.1.x 7.4.1d

Installation and configuration

Creation

SNMP Main Connection

This connector uses a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) connection and requires the following input during element creation:

SNMP CONNECTION:

  • IP address/host: The polling IP of the device.

SNMP Settings:

  • IP port: The IP port of the device.
  • Get Community String: Provides read access to the device. default: public
  • Set community string: Provides write access to the device. default: private

Usage

General

The general page provides generic information regarding the device system such as:

  • System Description
  • System Object ID
  • System Up Time
  • System Contact
  • System Name
  • System Contact
  • System Location
  • System Services
  • System URL
  • Firmware Version
  • System CPU and Memory Usage

Detailed Interface Info

In this page the user may find information regarding every interface this device contains.

Fabric Element

In the Fabric element page multiple features are available. The user can check the device Capabilities, Accounting performances, Error Statistics and configured Modules.

Physical Entities

This page provides a table that provides specific information regarding the device's present components.

Switch Configuration

The switch configuration page provides a set of pages that allow the user to check and configure multiple switch related components such as:

  • Neighbors
  • Connected Unit Statistics
  • Agent Community
  • Trunk
  • CPU and Memory
  • Name Server
  • Flash
  • Sensors
  • Ports

FICON

The Ficon page provides tables related with the IBM's Fibre Connection proprietary standard.

IP Address

This page provides information regarding the Internet Protocol. The user may find the configured IP Address's in this device, IP Route table, ARP Table and statistics pages regarding other IP related protocols such as TCP, UDP, ICMP and IP.

SNMP

The SNMP page allows the user to analyze and configure SNMP data present on the equipment.

This page contains 5 page buttons:

  • SNMP USM
  • SNMP Statistics
  • SNMP Targets
  • SNMP Community

Field Replaceable Units

This page allows a user to analyze the installed inventory and the specific installation/uninstallation events.

Events

In this page the user may find a log on which all device events are registered. The table is limited by the amount of entries configured in the device. This page also provides access to Trap related information.