Brocade/Broadcom discontinues the Brocade Network Advisor which is currently used by BVQ to collect topology and performance information via SMI/S.
End of support for the BNA will be 02/08/2022. The free of charge SMI-S Agent will reach its end of support the same day.
As an improved alternative, switch and fabric related information can now be collected from the switches directly using REST API.
This feature requires Fabric OS 8.2.1 or higher . (See see Supported Brocade systems).
While BNA was a single point of entry for BVQ and provided us the data for all switches and fabrics managed by the BNA, it is now necessary to create one scanner instance for each fabric.
For switches having virtual fabrics enabled, a scanner instance for each virtual fabric id is required.
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