Brocade network device module

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Brocade network device module

Overview

The Brocade network device module is designed to add support for managing Brocade switch configuration using Puppet and its Network Device functionality.

Following Brocade models have been verified using this module:

Brocade-6510

However, this module may be compatible with other versions.

Features

This module supports the following functionalities:

Alias creation and deletion
Addition and Removal of Members from Alias
Zone creation and deletion
Addition and Removal of Members from zones
Config creation and deletion
Addition and Removal of Zones from Config
Activation and De-Activation of Config

Requirements

Because the Puppet agent cannot be directly installed on the Brocade Fabric OS, the agent can be managed either from the Puppet Master server, or through an intermediate proxy system running a puppet agent. The proxy system requirements are not yet defined.

Usage

Device Setup

To configure a Brocade Fabric OS device, the device type must be brocade_fos. The device can either be configured within /etc/puppet/device.conf, or, preferably, create an individual config file for each device within a sub-folder. This is preferred as it allows the user to run the puppet against individual devices, rather than all devices configured.

To run the puppet against a single device, use the following command:

puppet device --deviceconfig /etc/puppet/device/[device].conf

Sample configuration /etc/puppet/device/brocade_fos1.example.com.conf:

[brocade_fos1.example.com]
  type brocade_fos
  url ssh://root:secret@brocade_fos1.example.com:22

Brocade FOS operations

This module can be used to create or delete an alias,add/remove member to/from alias, create or delete a zone, add/remove member to/from a zone, create or delete config, activate or de-activate config. For example:

brocade_member_alias { 'demoAlias': name => 'demoAlias:50:00:d3:10:00:5e:c4:ad;50:00:d3:10:00:5e:c4:ac' ensure => 'present' }

brocade_zone { 'demozone': ensure => 'present', member => 'demoAlias' }

brocade_config { 'democonfig': ensure => 'present', member_zone => 'demozone', configstate => 'disable', }

This creates an alias for the members, adds the alias to a zone, and then adds the zone to the config (in de-activation mode) as per defined input parameters.

You can also use any of the above operations individually, or create new defined types, as required.

Sample manifests can be referred from tests folder.