BANAS - Brocade Certification - Studying



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

  • Describe the installation and configuration of Brocade Network Advisor

  • Taken care of in my previous blog post. Can be installed in a VM for practice.

  • Perform SAN Discovery

  • What are seed switches?

  • Perform IP Discovery

  • 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