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Device Discovery

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Once DCNM-SAN is invoked, a SAN discovery process begins. Using information polled from a seed 
Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch, including Name Server registrations, Fibre Channel Generic Services 
(FC-GS), Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF), and SCSI-3, DCNM-SAN automatically discovers all 
devices and interconnects on one or more fabrics. All available switches, host bus adapters (HBAs), and 
storage devices are discovered. The Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches use Fabric-Device Management 
Interface (FMDI) to retrieve HBA model, serial number and firmware version, and host operating-system 
type and version discovery without host agents. DCNM-SAN gathers this information through SNMP 
queries to each switch. The device information discovered includes device names, software revision 
levels, vendor, ISLs, PortChannels, and VSANs.

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For a VSAN change involving a third-party switch, DCNM-SAN will need a second discovery to show 
the correct topology due to the discovery dependency when there is any change in a mixed VSAN. The 
first discovery finds the third-party switch and the subsequent discovery will show the information on 
which VSAN it is going to join and can discover the end devices connected to it. You can wait for the 
subsequent discovery or trigger a manual discovery.

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