I'm going to focus on the below things when studying for BANAS: They are based on the current objectives listed on Brocade's page.
Brocade Accredited Network Advisor Specialist Exam Topics
- The Brocade Accredited Network Advisor Specialist exam has these objectives:
Product Features
- Demonstrate knowledge of Brocade Network Advisor product features
Installation and Configuration
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Describe the installation and configuration of Brocade Network Advisor
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Taken care of in my previous blog post. Can be installed in a VM for practice.
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Perform SAN Discovery
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What are seed switches?
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Perform IP Discovery
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BNA 170-WBT is a course that's currently free by Brocade - it's about IP Discovery in BNA!
- Once discovered devices are stored in the Management application database. First IP of the device discovered becomes the primary address of the device.
- Simple/Profile based discovery: single: hostname/IP. Profile: range.
- Requirements
- Users must have Discover Setup-IP and "All IP Products AOR" privileges
- For rediscovery only "All IP Products AOR" is needed?
- ICMP or telnet must be enabled on devices
- Snmpv1+v2 or v3 read-write
- IP range of devices must be known
- All devices must have SNMP MIB support
- Access by: "Discover -> IP Products".
- One can add default username/password. One can add several and it tries the default and then the rest..
- It uses OIDs to select products to include/exclude.
- Cisco/Juniper are available by default.
- Seed address: the IP the BNA server will use to contact the switches?
Migration
- Describe considerations when migrating to Brocade Network Advisor from other tools
- Check out the Installation Guide for BNA.
Troubleshooting
- Demonstrate knowledge of troubleshooting Brocade Network Advisor