Brocade Network Advisor was the comprehensive management platform for Brocade SAN (Fibre Channel) and IP networks. It provided:
Contact Broadcom licensing. Often, they will provide a low-cost "maintenance-only" license for legacy switches that allows legal access to the download portal. download brocade network advisor
If you do not have an active support contract, your options are limited but not impossible: If you do not have an active support
During installation, you will be prompted to select either the or the Professional (free) version for SAN-only management, and you will need to provide a valid license key for the paid editions. Keys can be generated via the Broadcom support portal. Before we discuss the download process, it is
The official Broadcom-sanctioned replacement is SANnav Management Portal .
Before we discuss the download process, it is crucial to understand what BNA actually did. Released in various editions (Professional, Professional Plus, and Enterprise), Brocade Network Advisor allowed administrators to manage up to 9,000 switches and 24,000 ports from a single Java-based client.
For smaller environments, newer Brocade switches include embedded "Flow Vision" and "Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS)" that send alerts to your existing syslog or SNMP manager.