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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 Supported Brocade systems).
Refined Object model
Brocade SAN REST Model has been refined to reflect the Brocade API model:
Information gathering
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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- See Supported Brocade & Cisco SAN systems for more information about supported HW/SW.
- See Getting started - Scanner for more Information about BVQ Scanner configuration.
- See Brocade SAN (REST) Switch preparation for additional Switch preparation tasks.
- See BVQ for Brocade SAN (REST) scan data /wiki/spaces/~557058f85a2b71be2d496e8e4575a825a92089/pages/13831307 for more details about scanned information.
Additional
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use cases
The legacy SMI/S interface restricted the available information, that new REST interface now shows.
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