1. Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring
  2. Discovery
  3. Add Brocade Fibre Channel Switch

Add Brocade Fibre Channel Switch

You can add Brocade Fibre Channel Switch entities using the Add Entity UI or using the cloud agent command line interface (omcli) with the appropriate JSON files.

Step 1: Prepare Brocade Fibre Channel Switch for monitoring.

Prerequisites

SNMPv1/v2 or SNMPv3 credentials are needed for monitoring.

If SNMPv1/v2 is used, you must provide the SNMP community string (entered during Brocade Fibre Channel Switch configuration), along with the IP address of the agent that will be used for Brocade Fibre Channel Switch monitoring.

If SNMPv3 is used, you must provide the SNMPv3 the user, plus the authentication method (SHA or MD5) and authorization password (if authorization is used), plus privilege method (only DES is supported) and privilege password if a privilege method is used. All of this needs to be manually configured up front in the Brocade Fibre Channel Switch.

Read-only access is enough for Brocade Fibre Channel Switch monitoring.

Step 2: Decide how you want to add the Brocade Fibre Channel Switch.

You can add Brocade Fibre Channel Switch entities using one of two ways:

  • Add them from UI
  • Use the agent's omcli add_entity command with the appropriate JSON files

Adding Entities from the UI

  1. From the Management Cloud main menu, select Administration, Discovery, and then Add Entity. The Add Entity page displays.
  2. Select the Brocade Fibre Channel Entity Type.
  3. Enter the following UI properties.
    Brocade Fiber Channel Switch UI Fields
    • Entity Name: Name of your Brocade Fiber Channel Switch in Oracle Management Cloud.
    • Dispatch URL: snmp://<Fully qualified host name or IP address of Brocade Fiber Channel Switch>
    • SNMP Port: Port where Brocade Fiber Channel Switch listens for SNMP requests - 161 by default (optional)
    • SNMP Timeout: Timeout for SNMP requests in seconds - 30 secs by default (optional)
    • Cloud Agent: Cloud agent monitoring your Brocade Fiber Channel Switch.

    Monitoring Credentials

    SNMP V1/V2:

    • Community String: SNMPv1/v2c community string.

    SNMP V3

    • Username: SNMPv3 username.
    • Authorization Password: Password used for authentication
    • Authorization Protocol: Protocol used for authentication. (MD5 or SHA)
    • Privacy Password: password used for encryption

See Add Entities from the Console for detailed instructions on using the Add Entity UI.

Using omcli and the Appropriate JSON Files

  1. Download and extract the required JSON file(s) from the master JSON zip file. See the table below for the specific JSON files you'll need.
  2. Edit the file(s) and specify the requisite properties shown below.
    Brocade Fiber Channel Switch JSON Files and Properties

    Definition File: omc_brocade_fc_switch_sample.json

    • name: Your Brocade Fibre Channel Switch entity name.
    • displayName: Your Brocade Fibre Channel Switch entity display name.
    • timezoneRegion: Time zone of your entity. It is recommended that you use the long values IANA-maintained TZ database time zones. For example: America/New_York
    • host_name: Under “value”, provide fully qualified host name or IP address of the Brocade Fibre Channel Switch
    • omc_dispatch_url: Under “value”, following the string snmp://, provide the fully qualified hostname or IP address of the Brocade Fibre Channel Switch.
    • omc_snmp_port: Under “value”, provide the port where the Brocade Fibre Channel Switch listens for SNMP requests. The default is 161.
    • omc_snmp_timeout: Under “value”, provide the timeout for SNMP requests in seconds, 10 by default.
    • omc_snmp_version: Under “value”, provide the SNMP version used to monitor the Brocade Fibre Channel Switch.

    Credential Files

    omc_brocade_fc_switch_snmpv1_sample_creds.json

    Use this credential file if you have configured your switch with SNMPv1/v2.

    • community: Under “value”, within the square brackets, provide the SNMPv2c community string used during the Brocade Fibre Channel Switch configuration.

    omc_brocade_fc_switch_snmpv3_sample_creds.json

    Use this credential file if you have configured your switch with SNMPv3.

    • authUser: Under “value”, within the square brackets, provide the SNMPv3 username.
    • authPwd: Under “value”, within the square brackets, provide the authorization password or empty out the field. .
    • authProtocol: Under “value”, within the square brackets, provide the authorization method (SHA or MD5).
    • privPwd: Under “value”, within the square brackets, provide the privilege method password, if privilege is used. Only the DES privilege method is supported.
  3. Add the entity using omcli.
    omcli add_entity agent DEFINITION_FILE [-credential_file CREDENTIAL_FILE [-encryption_method_gpg]]
  4. Verify the status of the newly added entity. 
    omcli status_entity agent DEFINITION_FILE

See step 4. Adding Entities to Your Service of Add Entities Using JSON Files for more information.

Step 3: (Optional but recommended) Set up alerts.

To enable lights-out monitoring, you can set up alert rules to generate alerts and send notifications if your entities have performance issues.

See Set Up Alert Rules and Set Up Alert Thresholds and Notifications.

Troubleshooting

If you run into any issues regarding discovery or monitoring of Brocade Fibre Channel Switch, see the following: