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Preface xxxi

Audience xxxi

Organization xxxi

Document Conventions xxxiv

New and Changed Information

The Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide provides release-specific information for the Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x (including Release 2.0(1b) through 2.1(2b) software) and Cisco MDS 9000 FabricWare Release 2.1(2). The latest version of this document is available at the following Cisco Systems website:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/sn5000/mds9000/index.htm

To check for additional information about this release, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes available at the following Cisco Systems website:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/sn5000/mds9000/index.htm

Table 1 summarizes the new and changed features for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager

Configuration Guide, and tells you where they are documented. The table includes a brief description of each new feature and the release in which the change occurred.

Table 1 Documented Features for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration

Guide

Changed in

Feature Description

Fabric Manager Web Services Enhancements

Performance Manager Enhancements

Cisco FabricWare Supports switches running Cisco

IVR Enhancements Supports IVR NAT, IVR auto-topology,

Network-Accelerated Serverless Backup

Includes custom report generation, license inventory, TACACS+ authentication, Traffic Analyzer integration, and SNMP user management.

Supports host-optimized port performance analysis reports.

FabricWare.

and autonomous fabric IDs.

Offloads data movement to Network-Accelerated Serverless Backup (NASB) devices that use SCSI Xcopy.

Release Where Documented

2.1(2) Chapter 5, “Fabric

Manager Web Services”

2.1(2) Chapter 6, “Performance

Manager”

2.1(2) Appendix C, “Managing

Cisco FabricWare”

2.1(1a) Chapter 16, “Inter-VSAN

Routing Configuration”

2.1(1a) Chapter 23, “Configuring

Intelligent Storage Services”

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Guide (continued)

Changed in

Feature Description

SANTap Integrates third-party data storage

applications into the SAN.

Performance Manager Enhancements

Exports Performance Manager reports in comma-separated format.

Generates Top10 Reports in Performance Manager.

Storage Services Module

Introduces the Storage Services Module or SSM (supported by Device Manager).

Fibre Channel Write Acceleration

Minimizes application latency or reduces transactions per second over long distances (supported by Fabric Manager).

SCSI Flow Statistics Collects statistics for configured SCSI

flows (supported by Fabric Manager).

Fabric Manager Server Enhancements

Supports multiple fabric management, centralized discovery, continuous health monitoring, and roaming user profiles

Fabric Manager Web Services

Performance Manager data, events and inventory information can be viewed remotely through a web browser. Performance baseline thresholds can be defined and monitored; custom report periods can be defined (in addition to day/week/month/year).

Release Where Documented

2.1(1a) Chapter 23, “Configuring

Intelligent Storage Services”

2.1(1a) Chapter 33, “Performance

Monitoring”

2.0(2b) Chapter 4, “Device

Manager”

2.0(2b) Chapter 23, “Configuring

Intelligent Storage Services”

2.0(2b) Chapter 23, “Configuring

Intelligent Storage Services”

2.0(1b) Chapter 2, “Fabric

Manager Server”

2.0(1b) Chapter 5, “Fabric

Manager Web Services”

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Table 1 Documented Features for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration

Guide (continued)

Changed in

Feature Description

Fabric Manager Enhancements

Displays SANs and multiple fabrics in Fabric pane.

View filtering.

Rearranged Logical and Physical panes.

Detachable tables in Information pane.

Persist fabrics for monitoring by Fabric Manager Server.

Login screen enhancements include simple versus complex displays, ability to load from the database, ability to sync server to same NIC as client.

Release Where Documented

2.0(1b) Chapter 3, “Fabric

Manager Client”

Enclosures in map bring up customized application when right-clicked.

Displays individual, segmented VSAN islands without collapsing into a single VSAN.

Enhanced zoning capabilities.

AES Support (authentication algorithm).

SCSI target IDs are now associated with storage targets.

FDMI and name server information is collated for initiators (hosts).

Enclosures are global across SANs.

FCIP Wizard enhancements include encryption and compression.

FICON enhancements include ability to display FICON port numbers on map, and ability to assign FICON ports for FCIP PortChannels.

Zoning enhancements include aliases treated as groups; multiple alias types; ability to rename zone sets, zones, and aliases; backup and restore zone database; and enhanced zoning.

Release 2.0(1b) feature support, including DPVM Wizard, Cisco Fabric Services, zone-based QoS, IKE/IPsec, port tracking, and DNS.

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Guide (continued)

Changed in

Feature Description

Device Manager Enhancements

MPS 14/2 support.

AES support (authentication algorithm).

FCIP interfaces displayed in Physical View.

Release 2.0(1b) feature support, including auto-trunk, port tracking, DNS, tape acceleration, IPS encryption, Cisco Fabric Services, and DPVM.

Gigabit Ethernet TCP statistics.

Multicast root.

Release Where Documented

2.0(1b) Chapter 4, “Device

Manager”

Performance Manager Enhancements

FCID area allocation.

Additional (and more accurate) Flash file manipulation capabilities.

Ability to read syslog information from FM Server.

Summary View enhancements including display of EtherChannel members, which Gigabit Ethernet port is associated with FCIP, and FCIP compression information.

Ability to power down a line card.

Includes summary and drill down report, Data Collector and Flow Setup wizard enhancements include interpolation, adaptive baseline thresholds, and enhanced collection capabilities

2.0(1b) Chapter 32, “Network

Monitoring”

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Preface

This preface describes the audience, organization, and conventions of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide. It also provides information on how to obtain related

documentation.

Audience

This guide is for experienced network administrators who are responsible for configuring and maintaining the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of multilayer directors and fabric switches.This guide includes information for switches running Cisco MDS 9000 Family SAN-OS or Cisco MDS 9000 FabricWare.

You should be familiar with the basic concepts and terminology used in internetworking, and understand your network topology and the protocols that the devices in your network can use. You should also have a working knowledge of the operating system on which you are running Fabric Manager, such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Solaris.

Organization

This guide describes the most commonly used features of Fabric Manager and Device Manager. Refer to the online help available with Fabric Manager or Device Manager for details on all features.

This guide is organized as follows:

Chapter Title Description

Chapter 1 Installation and Configuration Provides a brief overview of Fabric Manager

Chapter 2 Fabric Manager Server Provides in-depth descriptions of GUI and

Chapter 3 Fabric Manager Client Provides in-depth descriptions of GUI and

Chapter 4 Device Manager Provides in-depth descriptions of GUI and

Chapter 5 Fabric Manager Web Services Provides in-depth descriptions of GUI and

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components and capabilities, and information on installation and launching the applications.

capabilities for the Fabric Manager Server.

capabilities for the Fabric Manager.

capabilities for the Device Manager.

capabilities for the Fabric Manager Web Client.

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Chapter Title Description

Chapter 6 Performance Manager Provides overview of Performance Manager

architecture.

Chapter 7 Authentication in Fabric Manager Describes the authentication schemes between

Fabric Manager components and fabric switches.

Chapter 8 Cisco Traffic Analyzer Describes installing and launching Cisco

Traffic Analyzer from Performance Manager.

Chapter 9 Obtaining and Installing Licenses Provides information on the Cisco MDS 9000

Family licensing model, license concepts, and license installation and management.

Chapter 10 Software Images Describes how to upgrade Cisco MDS 9000

Family switches, install software image files, use the Flash file system on the supervisor engine, and recover a corrupted bootflash image.

Chapter 11 Configuration Files Describes how to update configuration files.

Chapter 12 Cisco Fabric Services Describes Cisco Fabric Services, used for

distributing configuration changes through the fabric.

Chapter 13 VSAN Configuration Describes how virtual SANs (VSANs) work,

explains the concept of default VSANs, isolated VSANs, VSAN IDs, and attributes, and provides details on how to create, delete, and view VSANs.

Chapter 14 Dynamic VSAN Configuration Describes how to dynamically assign VSAN

membership to ports by assigning VSANs based on the device WWN. This method is referred to as the Dynamic Port VSAN Membership (DPVM) feature.

Chapter 15 Zone Configuration Defines various zoning concepts and provides

details on configuring a zone set and zone management features.

Chapter 16 Inter-VSAN Routing Configuration Provides details on sharing resources across

VSANs using the inter-VSAN Routing (IVR) feature

Chapter 17 PortChannel Configuration Explains PortChannels and load balancing

concepts and provides details on configuring PortChannels, adding ports to PortChannels, and deleting ports from PortChannels.

Chapter 18 Interface Configuration Explains port and operational state concepts in

Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches and provides details on configuring ports and interfaces.

Chapter 19 FCIP Configuration Provides details on extending the reach of Fibre

Channel SANs by connecting separated SAN islands together through IP networks using FCIP.

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Chapter Title Description

Chapter 20 iSCSI Configuration Provides details on extending the reach of Fibre

Channel SANs by allowing IP hosts to access FC storage using the iSCSI protocol.

Chapter 21 FICON Configuration Provides details on the FI-bre CON-nection

(FICON) interface, fabric binding, and the Registered Link Incident Report (RLIR) capabilities in Cisco MDS switches.

Chapter 22 Configuring Intelligent Storage

Services

Chapter 23 Additional Configuration Describes the advanced configuration

Chapter 24 Users and Common Roles Describes Common user roles and SSH.

Chapter 25 SNMP Configuration Describes SNMP security, notifications, and

Chapter 26 RADIUS and TACACS+ Describes RADIUS and TACACS+

Chapter 27 IPsec and IKE Describes IPsec, and configuration through

Chapter 28 FC-SP and DHCHAP Describes Fibre Channel Security Protocol and

Chapter 29 IP Access Control Lists Describes controlling network access through

Chapter 30 Port Security Describes how to control access to the fabric

Chapter 31 Network Monitoring Describes SAN topology, inventory, and event

Chapter 32 Performance Monitoring Describes real-time and historical performance

Chapter 33 Third-Party Integration Describes integrating SNMP, syslog, and Call

Chapter 34 Troubleshooting Your Fabric Provides information on using Fabric Manager

Chapter 35 Management Software

Troubleshooting

Appendix A GUI/CLI Usage Chart Provides a table of procedures, organized by

Describes the intelligent storage services available on the Storage Services Module (SSM), including Fibre Channel write acceleration and SCSI flow statistics.

features—time out values, fctrace, fabric analyzer, world wide names, flat FC IDs, loop monitoring, and interoperating switches.

user roles.

authorization and accounting services.

Fabric Manager.

how to configure DHCHAP to work with FCSP.

IP ACLs.

through port security.

monitoring.

monitoring using Fabric Manager and Performance Manager.

Home with third party management applications.

to troubleshoot your fabric.

Answers some of the most frequently asked questions about Cisco Fabric Manager.

best performed by the CLI, Fabric Manager, or Device Manager.

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Chapter Title Description

Appendix B Interface Nonoperational Reason

Codes

Explains the reason codes for why an interface is operationally down.

Appendix C Managing Cisco FabricWare Explains Fabric Manager issues unique to

products running Cisco FabricWare.

Document Conventions

Command descriptions use these conventions:

boldface font Commands and keywords are in boldface.

italic font Arguments for which you supply values are in italics.

Screen examples use these conventions:

screen font

boldface screen font

italic screen font

< >

[ ]

!, #

Terminal sessions and information the switch displays are in screen font.

Information you must enter is in boldface screen font.

Arguments for which you supply values are in italic screen font.

Nonprinting characters, such as passwords, are in angle brackets.

Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets.

An exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the beginning of a line of code indicates a comment line.

This document uses the following conventions:

Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to material not covered in the

manual.

Caution Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might do something that could result in equipment

damage or loss of data.

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Installation and Configuration

The Cisco Fabric Manager is a set of network management tools that supports Secure Simple Network Management Protocol version 3 (SNMPv3). It provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays real-time views of your network fabrics, and lets you manage the configuration of Cisco MDS 9000 Family devices and third-party switches.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• About Cisco Fabric Manager, page 1-1

• Installing the Management Software, page 1-6

• Upgrading the Management Software, page 1-9

• Downgrading the Management Software, page 1-9

• Launching the Management Software, page 1-10

• Integrating Cisco Fabric Manager with Other Management Tools, page 1-11

• Running Fabric Manager Behind a Firewall, page 1-12

• Uninstalling the Management Software, page 1-13

About Cisco Fabric Manager

The Cisco Fabric Manager provides an alternative to the command-line interface (CLI) for most switch configuration commands. For information on using the CLI to configure a Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide or the Cisco MDS 9020 Switch Configuration Guide and Command Reference Guide. For details on managing switches running Cisco FabricWare, see the “Managing Cisco FabricWare with Fabric Manager” section on page C-3.

In addition to complete configuration and status monitoring capabilities for Cisco MDS 9000 switches, Fabric Manager provides powerful Fibre Channel troubleshooting tools. These in-depth health and configuration analysis capabilities leverage unique MDS 9000 switch capabilities: Fibre Channel Ping and Traceroute.

The Cisco Fabric Manager includes these management applications:

• Fabric Manager (client and server)

• Device Manager

• Performance Manager

• Fabric Manager Web Services

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Fabric Manager Server

The Fabric Manager server component must be started before running Fabric Manager. On a Windows PC, the Fabric Manager server is installed as a service. This service can then be administered using the Windows Services in the Control Panel. Fabric Manager server is responsible for discovery of the physical and logical fabric, and for listening for SNMP traps, syslog messages, and Performance Manager threshold events. See Chapter 2, “Fabric Manager Server.”

Fabric Manager Client

The Fabric Manager client component displays a map of your network fabrics, including Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches, third-party switches, hosts, and storage devices. The Fabric Manager Client provides multiple menus for accessing the features of the Fabric Manager Server. See Chapter 3, “Fabric

Manager Client.”

Fabric Manager Server Proxy Services

The Fabric Manager Client and Device Manager use SNMP to communicate with the Fabric Manager Server. In typical configurations, the Fabric Manager Server may be installed behind a firewall. The SNMP proxy service available in Cisco Fabric Manager Release 2.1(1a) or later provides a TCP-based transport proxy for these SNMP requests. The SNMP proxy service allows you to block all UDP traffic at the firewall and configure Fabric Manager Client to communicate over a configured TCP port.

Fabric Manager uses the CLI for managing some features on the switches. These management tasks are used by Fabric Manager and do not use the proxy services. Your firewall must remain open for CLI access for the following:

• external and internal loopback test

• flash files

• create cli user

• security - iscsi users

• quiese pc

• show image version

• show tech

• switch resident reports (syslog, accounting)

• zone migration

• show cores

If you are using the SNMP proxy service and another application on your server is using port 8080, you need to modify your workstation settings.

To modify a Windows workstation, follow these steps:

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Step 1 Open Internet Explorer and select Tools > Internet Options. You see the Internet Options dialog box.

Step 2 Select the Connections tab and click LAN Settings. You see the LAN Settings dialog box.

Step 3 Check the Use a Proxy Server for your LAN check box and click Advanced.

Step 4 Add your server IP Address or localhost under the Exceptions section.

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Step 5 Click OK to save your changes.

See the “Running Fabric Manager Behind a Firewall” section on page 1-12.

Device Manager

The Device Manager presents two views of a single switch.

• Device View displays a graphic representation of the switch configuration and provides access to

statistics and configuration information.

• Summary View displays a summary of xE ports (Inter-Switch Links), Fx ports (fabric ports), and Nx

ports (attached hosts and storage) on the switch, as well as Fibre Channel and IP neighbor devices. Summary or detailed statistics can be charted, printed, or saved to a file in tab-delimited format.

See Chapter 4, “Device Manager.”

Performance Manager

Performance Manager provides detailed traffic analysis by capturing data with SNMP. This data is compiled into various graphs and charts that can be viewed with any web browser. See Chapter 33,

“Performance Monitoring.”

Fabric Manager Web Services

The Fabric Manager Web Services allows operators to monitor and obtain reports for MDS events, performance, and inventory from a remote location using a web browser. For information on installing and using Fabric Manager Web Services, see Chapter 5, “Fabric Manager Web Services.”

Cisco MDS 9000 Switch Management

The Cisco MDS 9000 Family of switches can be accessed and configured in many different ways and supports standard management protocols. Table 1-1 lists the management protocols that Fabric Manager supports to access, monitor, and configure the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of switches .

Table 1-1 Supported Management Protocols

Management Protocol Purpose

Telnet/SSH Provides remote access to the CLI for a Cisco

FTP/SFTP/TFTP, SCP Copies configuration and software images

MDS 9000 switch.

between devices.

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Table 1-1 Supported Management Protocols (continued)

Management Protocol Purpose

SNMPv1, v2c, and v3 Includes over 80 distinct Management

Information Bases (MIBs). Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches support SNMP version 1, 2, and 3 and RMON V1 and V2. RMON provides advanced alarm and event management, including setting thresholds and sending notifications based on changes in device or network behavior.

By default, the Cisco Fabric Manager communicates with Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches using SNMPv3, which provides secure authentication using encrypted user names and passwords. SNMPv3 also provides the option to encrypt all management traffic.

HTTP/HTTPS Includes HTTP and HTTPS for web browsers to

communicate with Fabric Manager Web Services and for the distribution and installation of the Cisco Fabric Manager software. It is not used for communication between the Cisco Fabric Manager server and Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches.

XML/CIM over HTTP/HTTPS Includes CIM server support for designing storage

area network management applications to run on Cisco SAN-OS.

ANSI T11 FC-GS-3 Provides Fibre Channel-Generic Services

(FC-GS-3) in the defining management servers in the Fabric Configuration Server (FCS). Fabric Manager uses the information provided by FCS on top of the information contained in the Name Server database and in the Fibre Channel Shortest Path First (FSPF) topology database to build a detailed topology view and collect information for all the devices building the fabric.

Storage Management Solutions Architecture

Management services required for the storage environment can be divided into five layers, with the bottom layer being closest to the physical storage network equipment, and the top layer managing the interface between applications and storage resources.

Of these five layers of storage network management, Cisco Fabric Manager provides tools for device (element) management and fabric management. In general, the Device Manager is most useful for device management (a single switch), while Fabric Manager is more efficient for performing fabric management operations involving multiple switches.

Tools for upper-layer management tasks can be provided by Cisco or by third-party storage and network management applications. The following summarizes the goals and function of each layer of storage network management:

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• Device management provides tools to configure and manage a device within a system or a fabric.

You use device management tools to perform tasks on one device at a time, such as initial device configuration, setting and monitoring thresholds, and managing device system images or firmware.

• Fabric management provides a view of an entire fabric and its devices. Fabric management

applications provide fabric discovery, fabric monitoring, reporting, and fabric configuration.

• Resource management provides tools for managing resources such as fabric bandwidth, connected

paths, disks, I/O operations per second (IOPS), CPU, and memory. You can use Fabric Manager to perform some of these tasks.

• Data management provides tools for ensuring the integrity, availability, and performance of data.

Data management services include redundant array of independent disks (RAID) schemes, data replication practices, backup or recovery requirements, and data migration. Data management capabilities are provided by third-party tools.

• Application management provides tools for managing the overall system consisting of devices,

fabric, resources, and data from the application. Application management integrates all these components with the applications that use the storage network. Application management capabilities are provided by third-party tools.

In-Band Management and Out-of-Band Management

Cisco Fabric Manager requires an out-of-band (Ethernet) connection to at least one Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch. You need either mgmt0 or IP over Fibre Channel (IPFC) to manage the fabric.

mgmt0

The out-of-band management connection is a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet interface on the supervisor module, labeled mgmt0. The mgmt0 interface can be connected to a management network to access the switch through IP over Ethernet. You must connect to at least one Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch in the fabric through its Ethernet management port. You can then use this connection to manage the other switches using in-band (Fibre Channel) connectivity. Otherwise, you need to connect the mgmt0 port on each switch to your Ethernet network.

Each supervisor module has its own Ethernet connection; however, the two Ethernet connections in a redundant supervisor system operate in active or standby mode. The active supervisor module also hosts the active mgmt0 connection. When a failover event occurs to the standby supervisor module, the IP address and media access control (MAC) address of the active Ethernet connection are moved to the standby Ethernet connection.

IPFC

You can also manage switches on a Fibre Channel network using an in-band IP connection. The Cisco MDS 9000 Family supports RFC 2625 IP over Fibre Channel, which defines an encapsulation method to transport IP over a Fibre Channel network.

IPFC encapsulates IP packets into Fibre Channel frames so that management information can cross the Fibre Channel network without requiring a dedicated Ethernet connection to each switch. This feature allows you to build a completely in-band management solution.

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Installing the Management Software

To install the software for the first time, or if you want to update or reinstall the software, access the supervisor module with a web browser. Click the Install links on the web page that is displayed. The software running on your workstation is verified to make sure you are running the most current version of the software. If it is not current, the most recent version is downloaded and installed on your workstation.

Note Before upgrading or uninstalling Fabric Manager or Device Manager, make sure any instances of these

applications have been shut down.

Installation options include:

• Upgrade/Downgrade - The installer detects your current version of Fabric Manager and Device

Manager, and it provides the option to upgrade or downgrade. The default is to upgrade to the latest version of Fabric Manager or Device Manager.

• Uninstall - If you are downgrading from Fabric Manager 2.x to Fabric Manager 1.3x or earlier, use

the Uninstall batch file or shell script. Do not delete the MDS 9000 folder as this might prevent your installation from being upgraded in the future.

Note We recommend that you install the latest version of the Fabric Manager applications. Fabric Manager is

backward-compatible with the Cisco MDS SAN-OS and Cisco FabricWare software running on the switches. When upgrading, upgrade the Fabric Manager software first, and then upgrade the Cisco MDS SAN-OS or Cisco FabricWare software on the switch.

Before You Install

Before you can access the Cisco Fabric Manager, you must complete the following tasks:

• Install a supervisor module on each switch that you want to manage.

• Configure the supervisor module with the following values using the setup routine or the CLI:

–

IP address assigned to the mgmt0 interface

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SNMP credentials (v3 user name and password or v1/v2 communities), maintaining the same username and password for all the switches in the fabric

Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.1(1a) or later supports AAA authentication using RADIUS, TACACS+ or local SNMP users.

The Cisco Fabric Manager software executable files reside on each supervisor module of each Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch running Cisco MDS SAN-OS software in your network. The supervisor module provides an HTTP server that responds to browser requests and distributes the software to Windows or UNIX network management stations. You can also find Cisco Fabric Manager software pm Cisco.com at the following website:

http://cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/mds-fm

The Cisco Fabric Manager management software has been tested with the following software:

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Solaris 2.8

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Redhat Linux 7.2

• Java

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Sun JRE and JDK 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and 1.5.0

Note Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2a) or later support JRE and JDK 1.5.0. Earlier Fabric Manager

releases should use JRE and JDK 1.4.2.

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Java Web Start 1.2 and 1.0.1

• Browsers

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Internet Explorer 5.5 or later

–

Netscape 6 or later

–

Mozilla 1.0 or later

Installation Procedure

For switches running Cisco MDS 9000 FabricWare, you need to install the Fabric Manager software from the CD-ROM included with your switch, or download Fabric Manager from Cisco.com.

To install Fabric Manager from the CD-ROM, navigate to the Fabric Manager installation notes and follow the directions.

To download the software from from Cisco.com, go to the following website:

http://cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/mds-fm

To install Fabric Manager on your workstation, follow these steps:

Step 1 Optionally, enter the IP address or host name of the supervisor module running Cisco MDS SAN-OS in

the Address or Location field of your browser.

When you connect to the server for the first time, it checks to see if you have the correct Sun Java Virtual Machine version installed on your workstation. If not, a link is provided to the appropriate Sun Microsystems web page so you can install it. Fabric Manager looks for version 1.4(x) during installation.

The supervisor module HTTP server displays the installation window.

Step 2 Click the link to the Sun Java Virtual Machine software (if required) and install the software.

Using the instructions provided by the Sun Microsystems website, reconnect to the supervisor module by reentering the IP address or host name in the Location or Address field of your browser.

Note In some cases, license validation from Cisco partners requires Java version 1.4.2_04 or later. If

you cannot install licenses from a Cisco partner, check to make sure your Java version is at least

1.4.2_04.

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Note You can run CiscoWorks on the same PC as Fabric Manager, even though the Java requirements

are different. When installing the later Java version for Fabric Manager, make sure it does not overwrite the earlier Java version required for CiscoWorks. Both versions of Java can coexist on your PC.

Step 3 Click on the desired installation link (Fabric Manager, Device Manager, or Fabric Manager Web

Services and Performance Manager).

Note If Performance Manager generates errors on installation make sure that Fabric Manager and

Performance Manager are installed in the same directory.

Step 4 Select an installation folder for Fabric Manager on your workstation, as shown in Figure 1-1. The default

location is C:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\MDS 9000 for Windows. On a UNIX (Solaris or Linux) machine, the installation path name is /usr/local/cisco_mds9000 or $HOME/cisco_mds9000, depending on the permissions of the user doing the installation.

Step 5 Check the Use Global Aliases in place of FC Aliases if you want to use global device aliases or replace

existing per VSAN FC aliases with global device aliases.

Tip After installation, you can choose to use global aliases by setting fabric.globalAlias to true in

the server.properties file. In Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2) or later, you can select Server > Admin and check the Device Alias check box to use global aliases, or you can uncheck Device Alias to use FC aliases.

Step 6 Check the don’t install and run FM Server if you are installing just the Fabric Manager client on a

remote workstation.

Figure 1-1 Install Options

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A Cisco MDS 9000 program group is created under Start > Programs on Windows. This program group contains shortcuts to batch files in the install directory. Three services are started: Fabric Manager Server, Database, and Web Server. The Performance Manager server is installed but the service is not started at install time, as certain setup steps must be completed first.

On a UNIX (Solaris or Linux) machine, shell scripts are created in the install directory. The shell scripts that run the programs equivalent to the Windows services are: FMServer.sh, FMPersist.sh, PMCollector.sh and FMWebClient.sh. All server-side data and Performance Manager data are stored under the install directory.

Fabric Manager client cannot run without the server component, Fabric Manager Server. The server component is downloaded and installed when you download and install Fabric Manager or Device Manager. On a Windows machine you install the Fabric Manager Server as a service. This service can then be administered using Services in the Microsoft Windows Control Panel. The default setting for the Fabric Manager Server service is that the server is automatically started when the machine is rebooted. You can change this behavior by modifying the properties in Services.

Upgrading the Management Software

If you log into a switch running Cisco MDS SAN-OS with Fabric Manager or Device Manager, and that switch has a later version of the management software, you are prompted to install the later version. To upgrade the Cisco MDS Fabric Manager software, follow the instructions described in the “Installing the

Management Software” section on page 1-6. You can also upgrade the software at any time by entering

the IP address or host name of the supervisor module with the later version of software in the Address (Location) field of your browser.

Downgrading the Management Software

You can manage switches on your fabric with a later version of Fabric Manager than the version of Cisco MDS SAN-OS or Cisco FabricWare on the switches, but you cannot manage all features on switches with a later version of the switch software.

Downgrading to Release 2.x or Later

To downgrade from any Cisco MDS SAN-OS or Cisco FabricWare Release 2.x or later to an earlier version of Release 2.x, follow these steps:

Step 1 Close all instances of Fabric Manager Client or Device Manager on your workstation.

Step 2 Enter the IP address or host name of the supervisor module with the lower version of software in the

Address or Location field of your browser and follow the installation steps. See the “Installing the

Management Software” section on page 1-6.

Downgrading to Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 1.3(x) or Earlier

To downgrade the management software from any Cisco MDS SAN-OS or Cisco FabricWare Release

2.x or later to Release 1.3(x) or earlier, follow these steps:

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Step 1 Close all instances of Fabric Manager Client or Device Manager on your workstation.

Step 2 Choose Start > Programs > Cisco MDS 9000 > Uninstall to uninstall Fabric Manager on Windows.

Type /usr/local/cisco_mds9000/uninstall.sh or $HOME/cisco_mds9000/uninstall.sh to uninstall Fabric Manager on UNIX, depending on where Fabric Manager was installed.

Step 3 Enter the IP address or host name of the supervisor module with the lower version in the Address or

Location field of your browser.

Step 4 Click on the desired installation link (Fabric Manager, Device Manager, or Fabric Manager Web

Services and Performance Manager).

Step 5 Select an installation folder for Fabric Manager on your workstation.

Unless you specify a different directory on a Windows PC, the version 1.3(x) software is installed in the default location of .\Documents and Settings\USER_ID\.cisco_mds9000. A Cisco MDS program group is created under Start > Programs. On a UNIX (Solaris or Linux) machine, the installation path name is /usr/local/.cisco_mds9000 or $HOME/.cisco_mds9000, depending on the permissions of the user doing the installation.

Launching the Management Software

To launch the Fabric Manager (Fabric View) or Device Manager (Device View and Summary View), follow these steps:

Step 1 Double-click the Fabric Manager icon or the Device Manager icon on your desktop or select the option

from the Windows Start menu.

If you started Fabric Manager, the Fabric Manager server loads You see a log-in screen for Fabric Manager or Device Manager. (You briefly see a command-line window).

Step 2 Click Options to expand the login screen if necessary to select the seed switch and SNMP configuration.

Step 3 Enter the IP address or device name in the Device Name(s) field, or select an IP address from the list of

previously accessed devices from the drop-down menu to the right of the Device Name(s) field.

Step 4 Leave the SNMPv3 check box checked to select SNMP version 3. Otherwise, uncheck the check box to

use SNMP version 2.

Note The default authentication digest used for storing user names and passwords is MD5. In case you

selected SHA instead, the relative check box in the Fabric Manager initial login screen should be checked.

Step 5 Enter a User Name and Password.

Step 6 If the SNMPv3 Privacy option is enabled, enter the Privacy Password used for encrypting management

traffic.

The Privacy option causes all management traffic to be encrypted while, with SNMPv3, user names and passwords are always encrypted.

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Note You can create users with management traffic encryption (so a Privacy password is required) or

no management traffic encryption (no Privacy password is required). Requiring a Privacy password, and making it different from the authentication password, ensures stronger security but may cause AAA problems.

Step 7 Check the Use SNMP Proxy check box if you want Fabric Manager client to communicate with Fabric

Manager Server through a TCP-based proxy server. See the “Fabric Manager Server Proxy Services”

section on page 1-2.

Note Accelerate Discovery check box should remain checked for normal operation. Uncheck this only

if you have changed switch IP addresses. You may experience problems with out of sync SAN IDs in Fabric Manager if you uncheck this check box.

Step 8 Optionally, select the Local Interface for Fabric Manager client. In Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2) or

later, Fabric Manager automatically detect the correct interface to use.

Step 9 Click Open.

You see either the Fabric Manager or the Device Manager.

Note When logging into Fabric Manager or Device Manager, the local SNMP database is checked first. If no

username entry is found, the AAA database is checked.

Note If you have an incomplete view of your fabric, rediscover the fabric with a user that has a network

administrator or network operator role.

Integrating Cisco Fabric Manager with Other Management Tools

You can use Fabric Manager, Device Manager, and Performance Manager with other management tools. Here is a brief description of these tools. For more information on these tools and how they work together with the Cisco Fabric Manager management applications, see Chapter 35, “Troubleshooting Your

Fabric,”

• Cisco Traffic Analyzer—Allows you to break down traffic by VSANs and protocols and to examine

SCSI traffic at a logical unit number (LUN) level.

• Cisco Protocol Analyzer—Enables you to examine actual sequences of Fibre Channel frames easily

using the Fibre Channel and SCSI decoders Cisco developed for Ethereal.

• Cisco Port Analyzer Adapter 2—Encapsulates SPAN traffic (both Fibre Channel control and data

plane traffic) in an Ethernet header for transport to a Windows PC or workstation for analysis. Both the Cisco Traffic Analyzer and Cisco Protocol Analyzer required the PAA to transport MDS SPAN traffic to a Windows PC or workstation.

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Running Fabric Manager Behind a Firewall

For Windows PCs running Fabric Manager, Device Manager, and Performance Manager behind a firewall, certain ports need to be available.

By default, Fabric Manager client component and Device Manager use the first available UDP port for receiving SNMP responses. The UDP SNMP Trap local ports are (1162 for Fabric Manager, and 1163 or 1164 for Device Manager). Fabric Manager Client also opens TCP RMI port 9099. If Device Manager is opened from the Fabric Manager client, it listens on the first available UDP port for Fabric Manager requests.

In Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2) or later, you can select the UDP port that Fabric Manager client or Device Manager uses for SNMP responses by uncommenting the following statement:

• On a Windows desktop, uncomment the following:

rem JVMARGS=%JVMARGS% -Dsnmp.localport=9001

• On a UNIX desktop, uncomment the following:

# JVMARGS=$JVMARGS -Dsnmp.localport=9001

Note UDP port 161 on the firewall must be open for incoming traffic. If the firewall blocks outgoing responses

from snmp, then you can control which local ports DM or FM should open.

The Fabric Manager Server proxy services feature, available in Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.1(1a) or later, uses a configurable TCP port (9189 by default) for SNMP communications between the Fabric Manager client or Device Manager and Fabric Manager Server.

The Fabric Manager server component requires two predictable TCP ports to be opened on the firewall for an incoming connection:

• java.rmi.registry.port = 9099

• java.rmi.server.remoteObjectPort = 9199

As long as these two ports are opened, the Fabric Manager client can connect to the server. There may be other TCP ports connected to Fabric Manager Client, but they are initiated by the server, which is behind the firewall.

Below is a list of all ports used by the Fabric Manager applications:

Common to all applications

• SSH 22 (TCP)

• TELNET 23 (TCP)

• HTTP 80 (TCP)

• TFTP 69 (UDP)

• SYSLOG 514 (UDP)

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• SNMP_TRAP 2162 (UDP)

• SNMP picks a random free local port (UDP) - (can be changed in server.properties)

• Java RMI 9099, 9199 to 9299 (TCP)

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• Java RMI 9099, 9199 to 9299 (TCP)

• SNMP picks a random free local port. (UDP) or 9189 (TCP) if SNMP proxy is enabled (can be

changed in server.properties)

Device Manager

• SNMP_TRAP 1163 to 1170 (UDP) (picks one available in this range)

• SNMP picks a random free local port (UDP) or 9189 (TCP) if SNMP Proxy is enabled (can be

changed in server.properties)

Uninstalling the Management Software

To uninstall the Fabric Manager applications on a Windows PC, follow these steps:

Step 1 Close all running instances of Fabric Manager and Device Manager.

Step 2 Select Start > Programs > Cisco MDS 9000 > Uninstall to run the uninstall.bat script.

You can also run the batch file (located in the C:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\MDS 9000 folder by default) directly from the command line.

Note For older installations, delete the .cisco_mds9000 folder. You will have to manually delete all

desktop icons and program menu items.

On a Windows PC, this folder is created under the Documents and Settings folder (for example, d:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.cisco_mds9000 if you had installed it as user Administrator). On a UNIX machine, the default installation folder is /usr/bin.

Note You cannot downgrade from Fabric Manager Release 2.x to Fabric Manager Release 1.3(x). If

you want to run Fabric Manager Release 1.3(x) on a PC that is running Fabric Manager Release

2.x, you must first uninstall Release 2.x and then install Release 1.3. Fabric Manager will not work if you have Release 2.x and Release 1.3 installed on the same PC.

To uninstall the Fabric Manager applications on a UNIX machine, follow these steps:

Step 1 For all releases starting with Release 2.x, run the shell script

$HOME/cisco_mds9000/Uninstall.sh or /usr/local/cisco_mds9000/uninstall.sh, depending on where Fabric Manager was installed.

Step 2 For all releases starting with Release 1.3(1), run the shell script

$HOME/.cisco_mds9000/Uninstall.sh or /usr/local/.cisco_mds9000/uninstall.sh, depending on where Fabric Manager was installed.

Step 3 For earlier installations, delete the $HOME/.cisco_mds9000 folder.

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CHA P TER

Fabric Manager Server

Fabric Manager Server is a platform for advanced MDS monitoring, troubleshooting, and configuration capabilities. No additional software must be installed. The server capabilities are an integral part of the Cisco Fabric Manger software.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Fabric Manager Server Overview, page 2-1

• Fabric Manager Server Features, page 2-2

• Installing and Configuring Fabric Manager Server, page 2-2

• Fabric Manager Server Fabric Monitoring and Removal, page 2-7

• Fabric Manager Server Properties File, page 2-8

• Modifying Fabric Manager Server, page 2-9

Fabric Manager Server Overview

Install Cisco Fabric Manager Server on a computer that you want to provide centralized MDS management services and performance monitoring. SNMP operations are used to efficiently collect fabric information. The Cisco Fabric Manager software, including the server components requires about 20 MB of hard disk space on your workstation. Cisco Fabric Manager Server runs on Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Solaris 8.x or later, and Red Hat Linux.

Each computer configured as a Cisco Fabric Manager Server can monitor multiple Fibre Channel SAN fabrics. Up to 16 clients (by default) can connect to a single Cisco Fabric Manager Server concurrently. The Cisco Fabric Manager clients can also connect directly to an MDS switch in fabrics that are not monitored by a Cisco Fabric Manager Server, which ensures you can manage any of your MDS devices from a single console.

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Fabric Manager Server Features

Cisco Fabric Manager Server has the following features:

• Multiple Fabric Management— Fabric Manager Server monitors multiple physical fabrics under the

same user interface. This facilitates managing redundant fabrics. A licensed Fabric Manager Server maintains up-to-date discovery information on all configured fabrics so device status and interconnections are immediately available when you open the Fabric Manager client.

Note The unlicensed Cisco Fabric Manager can only monitor and configure one fabric at a time. You

must use the Open menu to switch to a new fabric, which causes the application to stop monitoring the previous one and to rediscover the new fabric.

• Continuous Health Monitoring—MDS health is monitored continuously, so any events that occurred

since the last time you opened the Fabric Manager client are captured.

• Roaming User Profiles—The licensed Fabric Manager Server uses the roaming user profile feature

to store your preferences and topology map layouts on the server, so that your user interface will be consistent regardless of what computer you use to manage your storage networks.

Note You must have the same release of Fabric Manager Client and Fabric Manager Server.

Installing and Configuring Fabric Manager Server

Note Prior to running Fabric Manage Server, you should create a special Fabric Manager administrative user

on each switch in the fabric or on a remote AAA server. Use this user to discover your fabric topology. See the “Best Practices for Discovering a Fabric” section on page 7-3.

To install Fabric Manager Server and set the initial configuration, follow these steps:

Step 1 Install Fabric Manager and Fabric Manager server on your workstation. See the “Installing Fabric

Manager Server” section on page 2-3.

Step 2 Set the seed switch. See the “Setting the Seed Switch” section on page 2-4.

Step 3 Optionally, create flows and collections for Performance Manager to monitor your fabric. See the

“Configuring Flows and Collections with Performance Manager” section on page 2-4.

Step 4 Set Fabric Manager Server to continuously monitor the fabric. See the “Fabric Manager Server Fabric

Monitoring and Removal” section on page 2-7.

Step 5 Repeat Step 2 through Step 4 for each fabric that you want to manage through Fabric Manager Server.

Step 6 Install Web Services. See the “Installing Fabric Manager Web Services” section on page 2-6.

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Step 7 Verify Performance Manager is collecting data. See the “Verifying Performance Manager Collections”

section on page 2-6.

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Installing Fabric Manager Server

When you install Fabric Manager, the basic version of the Fabric Manager Server (unlicensed) is installed with it. After you click the Fabric Manager icon, a dialog box opens and you can enter the IP address of a computer running the Fabric Manager Server component. If you do not see the Fabric Manager Server IP address text box, click Options to expand the list of configuration options. If the server component is running on your local machine, leave localhost in that field. If you try to run Fabric Manager without specifying a valid server, you are prompted to start the Fabric Manager Server locally.

On a Windows PC, you install the Fabric Manager Server as a service. This service can then be administered using Services in the Administrative Too. The default setting for the Fabric Manager Server service is that the server is automatically started when the Windows PC is rebooted. You can change this behavior by modifying the properties in Services.

Unlicensed Versus Licensed Fabric Manager Server

When you install Fabric Manager, the basic unlicensed version of Fabric Manager Server is installed with it. To get the licensed features, such as Performance Manager, remote client support, and continuously monitored fabrics, you need to buy and install the Fabric Manager Server package.

However, trial versions of these licensed features are available. To enable the trial version of a feature, you run the feature as you would if you had purchased the license. You see a dialog box explaining that this is a demo version of the feature and that it is enabled for a limited time.

If you are evaluating one of these Fabric Manager Server features and want to stop the evaluation period for that feature, you can do that using Device Manager. See the “Fabric Manager Server Licensing”

section on page 9-13.

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Setting the Seed Switch

When you run Fabric Manager, you must select a switch for Fabric Manager to use to discover the fabric.

Note If you have a mixed fabric of Cisco SAN-OS and Cisco FabricWare switches, we recommend that you

securely open the fabric with a Cisco SAN-OS switch using SNMPv3. The SNMPv1/v2c communities for the Cisco FabricWare switches should be entered in the communities.properties file. See the “Addin g

A Community String to the communities.properties File” section on page 26-4.

To set the seed switch, follow these steps:

Step 1 Double-click the Fabric Manager client icon on your workstation. You see the Fabric Manager dialog

box Click Options if necessary to expand the optional settings in this dialog box.

Step 2 Set FM Server to the IP address where you installed the Fabric Manager Server or set it to localhost if

you installed Fabric Manager Server on your local workstation.

Step 3 Set the Fabric Seed Switch to the MDS 9000 family switch that you want Fabric Manager to use.

Step 4 Set the username and password as required to start Fabric Manager Client.

Configuring Flows and Collections with Performance Manager

If you are managing your fabrics with Performance Manager, you need to set up an initial set of flows and collections on the fabric. See the “Historical Performance Monitoring” section on page 33-2 for a full description on Performance Manager features.

To create a flow in Performance Manager, follow these steps:

Step 1 Choose Performance > Create Flows to launch the wizard.

Step 2 Choose the VSAN from which you want to create flows. Flows are defined per VSAN.

Step 3 Click the Type radio button for the flow type you want to define.

Step 4 Check the Clear old flows on modified switches check box if you want to remove old flow data.

Step 5 Click Next to review the available flows for the chosen VSAN. Remove any flows you are not interested

in.

Step 6 Click Finish to create the flow.

Using the Performance Manager Configuration Wizard

To create a collection using the Performance Manager Configuration Wizard in Fabric Manager, follow these steps:

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Step 1 Choose Performance > Create Collection to launch the Performance Manager Configuration Wizard.

Step 2 Choose the VSANs from which you want to collect data or choose All to collect statistics across all

VSANs in the fabric.

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Step 3 Check the Type check boxes for each type of links flow or SAN element that you want included in your

collection.

Step 4 If you want to ignore flows with zero counter values, check that check box.

Step 5 If you are using Cisco Traffic Analyzer, enter the URL where it is located on your network.

Step 6 Click Next to review the collection specification data. Remove any links, flows, or SAN elements you

are not interested in.

Step 7 Click Next to configure other collection options.

Step 8 Check the appropriate check boxes if you want to include errors and discards in your collection, and if

you want to interpolate data for missing statistics.

Step 9 Check the Send event if traffic exceeds threshold check box if you want to configure threshold events

as explained in the “Using Performance Thresholds” section on page 33-4.

Step 10 Click the Use absolute values radio button if you want absolute value thresholds or click the Baseline

values over radio button if you want baseline thresholds.

Step 11 Choose the time window for baseline calculations if baseline thresholds are configured.

Step 12 Choose the Critical and Warning threshold values as a percent of link capacity (for absolute value

thresholds ) or weighted average (for baseline thresholds).

Step 13 Click Finish to create the collection configuration file. You see a dialog box asking if you want to restart

Performance Manager.

Step 14 Click Ye s to restart Performance Manager to use this new configuration file, or click No to exit the

Performance Manager Configuration Wizard without restarting Performance Manager. If you choose No, Performance Manager will not use the new configuration file until you restart it by choosing

Performance Manager > Collector > Restart.

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Installing Fabric Manager Web Services

You must install Fabric Manager Web Services to view Performance Manager reports through a web browser.

For switches running Cisco MDS 9000 FabricWare, you need to install the Fabric Manager Web Services software from the CD-ROM included with your switch, or download Fabric Manager from Cisco.com.

To install Fabric Manager Web Services from the CD-ROM, navigate to the Fabric Manager installation notes and follow the directions.

To download the software from from Cisco.com, go to the following website:

http://cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/mds-fm

To download and install the software on your workstation, follow these steps:

Step 1 Optionally, enter the IP address or host name of the supervisor module running Cisco MDS SAN-OS in

the Location or Address field of your browser. You see the installation page displayed by the HTTP server of the supervisor module.

When you connect to the server for the first time, it checks to see if you have the correct Sun Java Virtual Machine version installed on your workstation. If you do not have the correct version installed, a link is provided to the appropriate web page on the Sun Microsystems website so you can install it.

a. Click the Sun Java Virtual Machine software link (if required) to install the software.

b. Using the instructions provided by the Sun Microsystems website, reconnect to the supervisor

module by reentering the IP address or host name in the Location or Address field of your browser.

Note Fabric Manager requires Java version 1.4(x). We recommend Java version 1.4.2. To change

the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version, start Java Web Start and set the Java preferences.

Step 2 Click the Fabric Manager Web Services installation link. You see a prompt asking for permission to

install the application on your workstation.

Step 3 Click Ye s to run the installer, which detects the installed version of the software, and prompts for

upgrades/downgrades and other options if applicable.

Note If TCP port 80 is in use, Fabric Manager Web Services checks port 8080 next. If that port is also

in use, Fabric Manager Web Services uses the next available port. You can set the TCP port that you want Fabric Manager Web Services to use during the installation process.

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Once Performance Manager collections have been running for five or more minutes, you can verify that the collections are gathering data by choosing Performance Manager > Reports in Fabric Manager. You see the first few data points gathered in the graphs and tables.

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Note Viewing reports requires installing Fabric Manager Web Services. See the “Installing Fabric Manager

Web Services” section on page 5-4.

Fabric Manager Server Fabric Monitoring and Removal

Fabric Manager Server can continuously monitor a fabric, whether or not an instance of Fabric Manager (client) is monitoring that fabric. A continuously monitored fabric is automatically reloaded and monitored by Fabric Manager Server after the server starts up. Fabrics that are monitored by Fabric Manager Server can have their data managed by Performance Manager. Both the Continuous Monitor feature and Performance Manager require the Fabric Manager Server license. However, you can “check out” these features without a license for a limited time.

Designating a Fabric for Continuous Monitoring

When you quit the Fabric Manager client, you are prompted as to whether or not you would like to have Fabric Manager Server continuously monitor that fabric. Alternatively, you can use Fabric Manager client to select a fabric to monitor.

To continuously monitor a fabric, follow these steps:

Step 1 From Fabric Manager, select Server > Admin. You see a list of fabrics in the Server Admin dialog box.

Step 2 Check the Continuously Monitor check box next to the fabric(s) you want Fabric Manager Server to

monitor.

Step 3 Click Apply.

The Continuously Monitor feature requires the purchase of the Fabric Manager Server license package. If you have not purchased and installed this package, you see a popup window informing you that you are about to enable a demo license for this feature. Click Ye s to enable the demo license.

Note When you are finished trying the licensed features, you can “check in” the feature by clicking

the Check In FM button as described in the “Fabric Manager Server Licensing” section on

page 9-13.

Step 4 Click Close to close the Server Admin dialog box.

Note If you will be collecting data on these fabrics using Performance Manager, you should now configure

flows and define the data collections. These procedures are described in Chapter 32, “Network

Monitoring.”

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Removing a Fabric from Monitoring

To remove a fabric from the Fabric Manager Server monitoring list, follow these steps:

Step 1 From Fabric Manager, choose Server > Admin. You see a list of fabrics in the Server Admin dialog box.

Step 2 Uncheck the Continuously Monitor check box next to the fabrics you no longer want Fabric Manager

Server to monitor.

Step 3 Click Apply.

Step 4 Click Close to close the Server Admin dialog box.

Fabric Manager Server Properties File

The Fabric Manager Server properties file (MDS 9000\server.properties) contains a list of properties that determine how the Fabric Manager Server will function. You can edit this file with a text editor, or you can set the properties through the Fabric Manager Web Services GUI, under the Admin tab.

The server properties file contains these five general sections:

• RMI SPECIFIC—Contains the settings for the RMI registry.

• SNMP SPECIFIC—Contains the settings for SNMP requests, responses, and traps.

• SNMP PROXY SERVER SPECIFIC—Contains the settings for SNMP proxy server configuration

and TCP port designation.

• GLOBAL FABRIC—Contains the settings for fabrics, such as discovery and loading.

• CLIENT SESSION—Contains the settings for Fabric Manager clients that can log into the server.

• EVENTS—Contains the settings for syslog messages.

The following are new or changed server properties for Fabric Manager Release 2.x:

• fabric.globalAlias—Specifies whether Fabric Manager Server should discover aliases from a global

alias server (deviceAlias) or a VSAN-based alias server (fcAlias). Global aliases of a fabric are fetched if this value is set to true and a manageable global alias server exists in the fabric.

• java.rmi.data.portRange—Specifies the TCP port range that RMI uses to send/receive data. The

starting port number is also the Fabric Manager Server port, so that it should always be set to a non-zero value. The port range is also used in configuring TCP port access on a firewall. This property replaces the java.rmi.server.remoteObjPort property in earlier releases.

• fabric.autoReload—Specifies whether to automatically reload persistent fabrics from DB when

server starts up. The default is true if unspecified.

• fabric.loadFromDB—Specifies whether to load fabric from DB when it is opened. The default is

false if unspecified. This is equivalent to the Accelerate Discovery check box on the login dialog box.

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• proxy.autostart—Specifies whether to automatically start SNMP proxy server when Fabric Manager

Server starts. Default is true if unspecified. Note, proxy will not be started if snmp.proxy is specified as a non-localhost.

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• proxy.localaddress—Specifies the local network interface name, e.g. "eth0", "eth1", or a local IP

address, to bind proxy server socket on a multi-homed localhost. If IP address 0.0.0.0 is specified, proxy will be bound to the wildcard address, an IP address chosen by the kernel.

• proxy.localport—Specifies the local TCP port to listen for client connection. If port 0 is specified, proxy

will be bound to a port chosen by the kernel. Default is 9198.

For more information on setting the server properties, see Chapter 5, “Fabric Manager Web Services.”

Modifying Fabric Manager Server

Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2) or later allows you to modify certain Fabric Manager Server settings without stopping and starting the server. These settings include:

• Changing the Fabric Manager Server Username and Password, page 2-9

• Changing the Polling Period and Fabric Rediscovery Time, page 2-9

Changing the Fabric Manager Server Username and Password

You can modify the username or password used to access a fabric from Fabric Manager client without restarting Fabric Manager Server.

To change the username or password used by Fabric Manager Server, follow these steps:

Step 1 In Fabric Manager, select Server > Admin. You see the Admin dialog box displayed.

Step 2 For each fabric that you are monitoring with Fabric Manager Server, set the Username or Password.

Step 3 Click Apply to save these changes or click Close to exit the dialog box without saving any changes.

Changing the Polling Period and Fabric Rediscovery Time

Fabric Manager Server periodically polls the monitored fabrics and periodically rediscoveries the full fabric at a default interval of five cycles .You can modify these settings from Fabric Manager client without restarting Fabric Manager Server.

To change the polling period or full fabric rediscovery setting used by Fabric Manager Server, follow these steps:

Step 1 In Fabric Manager, select Server > Admin. You see the Admin dialog box displayed.

Step 2 For each fabric that you are monitoring with Fabric Manager Server, set the Polling Interval to configure

how frequently Fabric Manager Server polls the fabric elements for status and statistics.

Step 3 For each fabric that you are monitoring with Fabric Manager Server, set Rediscovery Cycles to configure

how often Fabric Manager Server rediscovers the full fabric.

Step 4 Click Apply to save these changes or click Close to exit the dialog box without saving any changes.

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Using Device Aliases or FC Aliases

You can change whether Fabric Manager uses FC Aliases or global devices aliases from Fabric Manager client without restarting Fabric Manager Server.

To change whether Fabric Manager uses FC Aliases or global devices aliases, follow these steps:

Step 1 In Fabric Manager, select Server > Admin. You see the Admin dialog box displayed.

Step 2 For each fabric that you are monitoring with Fabric Manager Server, check the Device Alias check box

to use global device aliases, or uncheck to use FC Aliases..

Step 3 Click Apply to save these changes or click Close to exit the dialog box without saving any changes.

Saving Device Aliases to the Switch

If you choose to use global device aliases on Fabric Manager Server, these changes are not reflected on the local switch. The switch continues to use FC aliases until you save the device aliases to the switch.

To save global devices aliases on a switch using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:

Step 1 Select Switches > Hosts or Switches > Storage. You see the end devices in the Information pane.

Step 2 For each device alias that you want the switch to recognize, highlight and right-click on the Device Alias

and select Save Selected Device Aliases.

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Fabric Manager Client

The Cisco Fabric Manager Client is a java based GUI application that provides easy access to the Fabric Manager applications from a remote workstation.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Fabric Manager Client Overview, page 3-1

• Launching Fabric Manager Client, page 3-2

• Using Fabric Manager Client, page 3-3

• Setting Fabric Manager Preferences, page 3-13

• Network Fabric Discovery, page 3-15

• Modifying Device Grouping, page 3-15

• Control of Administrator Access with Users and Roles, page 3-16

• Fabric Manager Wizards, page 3-16

• Fabric Manager Troubleshooting Tools, page 3-17

Fabric Manager Client Overview

The Cisco Fabric Manager is a Java and SNMP-based network fabric and device management tool with a GUI that displays real-time views of your network fabric, including Cisco MDS 9000 and third-party switches, hosts, and storage devices.

In addition to complete configuration and status monitoring capabilities for Cisco MDS 9000 switches, Fabric Manager client provides powerful Fibre Channel troubleshooting tools. These in-depth health and configuration analysis tools leverage unique MDS 9000 switch capabilities including Fibre Channel ping and traceroute.

Note You must have the same release of Fabric Manager Client and Fabric Manager Server.

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Fabric Manager Advanced Mode

Fabric Manager Release 2.1(1a) introduces Advanced Mode. Advanced Mode is enabled by default and provides the full suite of Fabric Manager features, including security, IVR, iSCSI, and FICON. Uncheck the Advanced check box in the upper right corner of Fabric Manager client to simplify the user interface. In this mode, you can access the basic MDS 9000 features like VSANs, zoning, and configuring interfaces.

Launching Fabric Manager Client

To launch Fabric Manager client, follow these steps:

Step 1 Double-click the Fabric Manager icon and follow the instructions described in “Launching the

Management Software” section on page 1-10 to launch Fabric Manager Client from your desktop.

Step 2 To launch Fabric Manager Client from within a running instance of Fabric Manager, follow these steps:

a. Choose Open Fabric from the Fabric Manager File menu.

b. Click the Open Switch Fabric button from the Fabric Manager toolbar.

c. Select the IP address of the fabric seed switch you want to access. If you do not see the fabric seed

switch in the pop-up window, click the Options button to expand the pop-up window options.

d. Click Open if the fabric you want to open has the same username and password as the fabric you

already have open.

Fabric Manager displays the new fabric and adds a tab to the Fabric pane.

Step 3 Click each fabric’s tab to view the fabric.

If the fabric you want to open has a different username and password, enter the username and password and click Open. You are prompted for whether or not you want the open fabric(s) to be monitored in the background. That fabric is then closed on the Fabric Manager client, and the new fabric is opened.

Note Changes made using Fabric Manager are applied to the running configuration of the switches

you are managing. If you have made changes to the configuration or performed an operation (such as activating zones), Fabric Manager prompts you to save your changes before you exit.

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Using Fabric Manager Client

This section describes the Fabric Manager client interface, as shown in Figure 3-1.

Figure 3-1 Fabric Manager Main Window

1 Menu bar—Provides access to options that are organized by menus.

2 Toolbar—Provides icons that provide direct access to the most commonly used options on the

File, Tools, and Help menus.

3 Information pane—Displays information about whatever option is selected in the menu tree.

4 Status Bar (right side)—Shows the last entry displayed by the discovery process, and the possible

error message.

5 Fabric pane—Displays a map of the network fabric, including switches, hosts, and storage. It also

provides tabs for displaying log and event data.

6 Logical domains—Displays a tree of configured SAN, fabrics, VSANs and zones.

Note Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2) or later displays all fabrics under one SAN.

7 Physical attributes—Displays a tree of available configuration tasks depending on the fabric,

VSAN, or zone selected above. Lists the switches and end devices in the logical selection.

8 Status Bar (left side)—Shows short-term transient messages, such as the number of rows

displayed in a table.

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Multiple Fabric Display

Fabric Manager can display multiple fabrics in the same pane (see Figure 3-2).

Figure 3-2 Fabric Manager’s Multiple Fabric Display

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1 The Fabric view tab for fabric 172.23.46.152. When selected, the Fabric view displays fabric

172.23.46.152.

2 The Fabric view tab for fabric 172.23.46.153. When selected, the Fabric view displays fabric

172.23.46.153.

3 All Fabrics tab (selected), showing two fabrics.

Note The same username and password must be used to log into multiple fabrics.

The information for both fabrics is displayed, with no need to select a seed switch. To see details of a fabric, select the tab for that fabric at the bottom of the Fabric pane, or double-click on the cloud icon for the fabric in the All Fabrics tab.

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Contents Panes

The following sections describe the panes in the Fabric Manager view. You can resize each pane by dragging the boundaries between each region or by clicking the Minimize or Maximize controls.

Fabric Pane

The Fabric pane shows the graphical representation of your fabric. Table 3-1 explains the graphics you may see displayed, depending on which devices you have in your fabric.

Table 3-1 Fabric Manager Graphics

Icon or Graphic Description

Director class MDS 9000.

iSAN

Non-director class MDS 9000.

Generic Fibre Channel switch.

Cisco SN5428.

An orange line through a device indicates that the device manageable but there are operational problems.

An orange "X" through a device or link indicates that the device or ISL is not working properly.

A red line through a device indicates that the device is not manageable.

A red "X" through a device or link indicates that the device is down or that the ISL is down.

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Fibre Channel target (or enclosure).

iSCSI host.

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Table 3-1 Fabric Manager Graphics (continued)

Icon or Graphic Description

Fibre Channel ISL and edge connection.

Fibre Channel PortChannel.

IP ISL and edge connection.

IP PortChannel.

Fibre Channel loop (storage).

IP cloud (hosts). This icon is also used to represent a fabric when viewing a SAN (multiple fabrics) in the Fabric Manager Fabric pane.

Any device, cloud, or loop with a box around it means that there are hidden links attached.

If a switch or director is grayed out, Fabric Manager can no longer communicate with it.

There are multiple tabs on the bottom of the Fabric pane:

• Fabric—When displaying multiple fabrics, each fabric has its own tab. You can switch between

fabrics by clicking on their respective tabs.

• Log—Displays messages that describe Fabric Manager operations, such as fabric discovery.

• Events—Displays information about the SNMP traps received by the management station. This

includes combination events as detected by discovery and important traps like license, SNMP, and FICON.

When viewing large fabrics in the Fabric pane, it is helpful to:

• Turn off end device labels

• Collapse loops

• Collapse expanded multiple links (collapsed multiple links are shown as very thick single lines)

• Dim or hide portions of your fabric by VSAN

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Note When a VSAN, zone, or zone member is selected in the VSAN tree, the map highlighting changes to

identify the selected objects. To remove this highlighting, click the Clear Highlight button on the Fabric pane toolbar or choose Clear Highlight from the pop-up menu.

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Saving the Map

You can save the map in the Fabric Pane as an image, or in Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2) or later, as an editable Visio diagram. You can save the map with or without labels on the links. The created Visio diagram is editable and saved in two layers:

• Default layer that includes all switches and links in the fabric.

• End devices layer that includes the end devices and can be turned off to remove end devices from

the Visio diagram.

To save the map as a Visio diagram, select Files > Export > Visio and choose Map... or Map with link

labels.... The saved Visio diagram retains the viewing options that you selected from the Fabric Pane.

For example, if you collapse multiple links in the Map and export this as a Visio diagram, the Visio diagram shows those as one solid link.

The Show Tech Support option from the Tools menu also supports saving the map as a Visio diagram.

Purging Down Elements

The Fabric pane allows you to refresh the map at any time by clicking the refresh map icon. In Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2) or later, the refresh map icon redraws the map but does not purge down elements. To purge down elements you can:

• Click Server > Purge. This purges all down elements in the fabric.

Main Menu

• Right-click on the Fabric pane and select Purge Down Elements.

• Right-click a down element and select Purge. This purges only this element from the fabric.

Note If you select an element that is not down and purge it, that element will re-appear on the next

fabric discovery cycle.

The menu bar at the top of the Fabric Manager main window provides options for managing and troubleshooting the current fabric and for controlling the display of information on the Fabric pane. The menu bar provides the following menus:

• File—Opens a new fabric, rediscovers the current fabric, locates switches, sets preferences, prints

the map, and clears (right-click on log) or exports the Fabric pane log.

• View—Changes the appearance of the map (these options are duplicated on the Fabric pane toolbar).

• Zone—Manages zones, zone sets, and inter-VSAN routing (IVR).

• Tools—Verifies and troubleshoots connectivity and configuration, as described in the “Fabric

Manager Troubleshooting Tools” section on page 3-17.

• Performance—Runs and configures Performance Manager and Cisco Traffic Analyzer, and generate

reports.

• Server—Runs administrative tasks on clients and fabrics. Provides Fabric Manager Server

management and a purge command. Lists switches being managed.

• Help—Displays online help topics for specific dialog boxes in the Information pane.

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Toolbar

The Fabric Manager main toolbar provides buttons for accessing the most commonly used menu bar options as shown inTab l e 3- 2 .

Table 3-2 Fabric Manager Client Main Toolbar

Icon Description

Open switch fabric.

Rediscover current fabric.

Find in the map.

Create VSAN.

Launch DPVM wizard.

Edit full zone database.

Launch IVR zone wizard.

Launch PortChannel wizard.

Launch FCIP wizard.

Launch iSCSI wizard.

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Launch QoS wizard.

Configure users and roles.

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Table 3-2 Fabric Manager Client Main Toolbar (continued)

Icon Description

Launch IP-ACL wizard.

Launch License Install wizard.

Launch Software Install wizard.

Perform switch health analysis.

Perform fabric configuration analysis.

Information Pane

The Information pane displays tables of information associated with the option selected from the menu tree in the Logical Domains or Physical Attributes panes. The Information pane toolbar provides buttons for performing one or more of the operations shown in Table 3-3.

Table 3-3 Information Pane Toolbar

Icon Description

Perform end-to-end connectivity analysis.

Monitor ISL performance.

Show on-line help.

Apply Changes Applies configuration changes.

Refresh Values Refreshes table values.

Create Row Opens the appropriate dialog box to create a new

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Table 3-3 Information Pane Toolbar (continued)

Icon Description

Delete Row Deletes the currently hilighted rows from the

table.

Copy/Ctrl+C Copies data from one row to another.

Paste/Ctrl +V Pastes the data from one row to another.

Undo Changes/Ctrl-Z Undoes the most recent change.

Export Exports and saves information to a file.

Print Table Prints the contents of the Information pane.

Detach Table Displays a non-editable copy of the table in the

Note After making changes you must save the configuration or the changes will be lost when the device is

restarted.

Note The buttons that appear on the toolbar vary according to the option you select. They are activated or

deactivated (dimmed) according to the field or other object that you select in the Information pane.

Logical Domains Pane

Use the Logical Domains pane to manage attributes for fabrics, VSANs, and zones.

To manage these things, right-click one of the folders in the tree and click a menu item from the pop-up menu. You see the appropriate configuration dialog box.

Information pane in its own window, which you can move around the screen.

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The default name for the fabric is the name, IP address, or WWN for the principal switch in VSAN 1. If VSAN 1 is segmented, the default name is chosen from a principal switch with the smallest WWN. In order, the fabric names you may see are:

• Fabric <sysName>

• Fabric <ipAddress>

• Fabric <sWWN>

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Physical Attributes Pane

Use the Physical Attributes pane to display a tree of the options available for managing the switches in the currently selected fabric, VSAN, or zone.

To select an option, click a folder to display the options available and then click the option. You see the table with information for the selected option in the Information pane. The Physical Attributes pane provides the following main folders:

• Switches—Views and configures hardware, system, licensing, and configuration files.

• Interfaces—Views and configures FC Physical, FC Logical, Ethernet, SVC, and PortChannel

interfaces.

• FC Services—Views and configures Fibre Channel network configurations.

• IP—Views and configures IP storage and IP services.

• Events—Views and configures events, alarms, thresholds, notifications, and informs.

• Security—Views and configures MDS management and FC-SP security.

• ISLs—Views and configures Inter-Switch Links.

• End Devices—Views and configures end devices.

Status Bar

The status bar at the bottom of the Fabric Manager window shows the last entry displayed by the discovery process, and the possible error message on the right side. The status bar displays a message stating that something has changed in the fabric and a new discovery is needed. The status bar shows both short-term, transient messages (such as the number of rows displayed in the table), and long-term discovery issues.

Context Menus

When you right-click an icon in the Fabric pane, you see a pop-up menu with options that vary depending on the type of icon selected. The various options available for different objects include the following:

• Open an instance of Device Manager for the selected switch.

• Open a CLI session for the selected switch.

• Copy the display name of the selected object.

• Execute a ping or traceroute command for the device.

• Show or hide end devices.

• View attributes

• Quiesce and disable members for PortChannels

• Set the trunking mode for an ISL.

• Create or add to a PortChannel for selected ISLs.

The Fabric pane has its own toolbar with options for saving, printing, and changing the appearance of the map. When you right-click on the map, a pop-up menu appears that provides options (duplicated on the toolbar) for changing the appearance of the map.

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Note You can launch web-based or non-web-based applications from the Fabric pane. To do this, you assign

an IP address to the storage port or enclosure. Then right-click to bring up the pop-up menu, and select Device Manager.

Filtering

Fabric Manager has a built-in filtering mechanism that displays only the data you are interested in. To filter, first select the fabric, and VSAN from the Logical Domains pane. This narrows the scope of what is displayed in the Fabric pane. Any information that does not belong to the selected items is dimmed. Also, any information that does not belong to the selected items is not displayed in the tables in the Information pane. As shown in Figure 3-3, the filter you select is displayed at the top right of the Fabric Manager window.

To further narrow the scope, select attributes from the Physical Attributes pane. The Fabric Manager tables, display, and filter criteria change accordingly.

Figure 3-3 Fabric Manager’s Filtering Mechanism

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Detachable Tables

Fabric Manager Release 2.0(2b) introduced detachable tables in Fabric Manager. You can, for example, detach tables and move them to different areas on your desktop so you can compare similar tables from different VSANs. Or, you can keep informational tables open from one view while you examine a different area in Fabric Manager. To detach tables, click the Detach Table icon in the Information pane in Fabric Manager.

Setting Fabric Manager Preferences

To set your preferences for the behavior of the Fabric Manager, choose File > Preferences from the Fabric Manager menu bar. You see the Preferences dialog box with the following tabs for setting different components of the application:.

• General

• SNMP

• Map

The default General preferences for Fabric Manager are:

• Show Switch Name by—Displays the switches in the Fabric pane by IP address, DNS name, or

logical name. The default setting for this value is Logical Name.

• Show WorldWideName (WWN) Vendor—This displays the world wide name vendor name in any

tables or listings displayed by Fabric Manager. If Prepend Name is checked, the name is displayed in front of the IP Address of the switch. If Replacing Vendor Bytes is checked, the name is displayed instead of the IP address. The default setting is enabled (checked) with the Prepend Name option.

• Show End Device Using—Displays end devices in the Fabric pane using alias or pWWN alias. The

default setting for this value is Alias.

• Append Enclosures to End Device Names—The default setting for this value is OFF.

• Show Shortened iSCSI Names—The default setting for this value is OFF.

• Show Timestamps as Date/Time—Displays timestamps in the date/time format. If this preference is

not checked, timestamps are displayed as elapsed time. The default setting is enabled (checked).

• Telnet Path—The path for the telnet.exe file on your system. The default is telnet.exe, but you will

need to browse for the correct location.

Note If you browse for a path or enter a path and you have a space in the pathname (for example,

c:\program files\telnet.exe), then the path will not work. To get the path to work, you must manually place quotes around it (for example, "c:\program files\telnet.exe").

• Use Secure Shell instead of Telnet—Specifies whether to use SSH or Telnet when using the CLI to

communicate with the switch. If enabled, you must specify the path to your SSH application. The default setting is disabled.

• Confirm Deletion—Displays a confirmation pop-up when you delete part of your configuration

using Fabric Manager. The default setting is enabled (checked).

• Export Tables with Format—Specifies the type of file that is created when you export a table using

Device Manager. The options are tab-delimited or XML. The default setting is Tab-Delimited.

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The default SNMP preferences for Fabric Manager are:

• Retry request 1 time(s) after 5 sec timeout—You can set the retry value to 0-5, and the timeout value

to 3-30.

• Trace SNMP packets in Log—The default setting for this value is OFF.

• Enable Audible Alert when Event Received—The default setting for this value is OFF.

The default Map preferences for Fabric Manager are:

• Display Unselected VSAN Members—Displays the unselected VSAN members in the Fabric pane.

The default setting for this value is ON.

• Display End Devices—Displays the fabric’s end devices in the Fabric pane. The default setting for

this value is ON.

• Display End Device Labels—Displays the fabric’s end device labels in the Fabric pane. The default

setting for this value is ON.

• Expand Loops—Displays the loops in the fabric as individual connections in the Fabric pane. The

default setting for this value is OFF.

• Expand Multiple Links—Displays multiple links in the Fabric pane as separate lines rather than as

one thick line. The default setting for this value is ON.

• Open New Device Manager Each Time—Opens a new instance of Device Manager each time you

invoke it from a switch in your fabric. The default value is OFF, which means only one instance of Device Manager is open at a time.

• Select Switch or Link from Table—Allows you to select a switch or link in the Fabric pane by

clicking on the switch or link in a table in the information pane. The default setting for this value is disabled (unchecked), which means clicking on a switch or link in the table does not change the switch or link selection in the Fabric pane.

• Layout New Devices Automatically—Automatically places new devices in the Fabric pane in an

optimal configuration. The default setting for this value is OFF. In this mode, when you add a new device, you must manually reposition it if the initial position does not suit your needs.

• Use Quick Layout when Switch has >=30 End Devices—The default setting for this value is 30. You

can enter any number in this field. Enter 0 to disable Quick Layout.

• Override Preferences for Non-default Layout—The default setting for this value is ON.

• Automatically Save Layout—If this option is enabled, any changes in layout are automatically

saved. The default setting for this value is ON.

• Detach Overview Window—Allows you to more easily center the Fabric pane on the area of the

fabric you want to see. (This is most useful for large fabrics that cannot be displayed entirely within the Fabric pane.) Bring up the overview window by clicking the Show/Hide Overview Window button. It overlays the fabric window and remains there until you click the Show/Hide Overview Window button again. If you enable this preference, you can detach the overview window and move it to one side while you access the Fabric pane. The default setting for this value is disabled (unchecked).

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Network Fabric Discovery

Cisco Fabric Manager collects information on the fabric topology through SNMP queries to the switches connected to Fabric Manager. The switch replies after having discovered all devices connected to the fabric by using the information coming from its FSPF technology database and the Name Server database, and collected using the Fabric Configuration Server’s request/response mechanisms defined by the FC-GS-3/4 standard. When you start the Fabric Manager, you enter the IP address (or host name) of a “seed” switch for discovery.

After you start Fabric Manager and discovery completes, Fabric Manager presents you with a view of your network fabric, including all discovered switches, hosts, and storage devices.

Modifying Device Grouping

Because not all devices are capable of responding to FC-GS-3 requests, different ports of a single server or storage subsystem may be displayed as individual end devices on the Fabric Manager map. Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2a) auto-creates enclosures based on the OUI and vendor name for the devices.

Note Two devices in isolated fabrics with the same alias name may cause Fabric Manager to link the two

devices in the same enclosure and show the isolated fabrics as linked. Turn off auto-creation or manually modify the enclosure to create unique names in each fabric to show the fabrics as isolated in Fabric Manager.

To turn off auto-creation, edit the server.properties file to set fabric.autoAlias to false and then restart Fabric Manager Server.

To manually group end devices in a single enclosure to have them represented by a single icon on the map, follow these steps:

Step 1 Select Storage or Hosts from the Fabric Manager’s Physical tree in the Navigation pane.

You see the end devices displayed in the Information pane.

Step 2 Click one of the devices or the Name field that you want to be in the enclosure.

Step 3 Enter a name to identify the new enclosure’s icon on the Fabric Manager Fabric pane.

Step 4 Click once on the Name field for that device. To select more than one name, hold down the Shift key and

click each of the other names.

Step 5 Press Ctrl-C to copy the selected name(s).

Step 6 Press Ctrl-V to paste the name into the Name field for that device.

Note To remove devices from an enclosure, triple click on the name of the device and press Delete.

To remove an enclosure, repeat this step for each device in the enclosure.

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Using Alias Names as Enclosures

To create an enclosure that uses the alias name as the name of the enclosure, follow these steps:

Step 1 Select Hosts or Storage from the Physical Attributes pane. You see the list of devices in the Information

pane.

Step 2 Select the NxPorts tab.

Step 3 Right-click the enclosure names that you want to convert to use alias names and select Alias >

Enclosure.

Step 4 Click Apply Changes to save these changes or click Undo Changes to discard any unsaved changes.

Control of Administrator Access with Users and Roles

Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches support role-based management access whether using the CLI or the Cisco Fabric Manager. This lets you assign specific management privileges to particular roles and then assign one or more users to each role.

Cisco Fabric Manager uses SNMPv3 to establish role-based management access. After completing the setup routine, a single role, user name, and password are established. The role assigned to this user allows the highest level of privileges, which includes creating users and roles. Use the Cisco Fabric Manager to create roles and users, and to assign passwords as required for secure management access in your network.

Fabric Manager Wizards

Fabric Manager client provides a series of wizards to facilitate common configuration tasks. These wizards include:

• VSAN—Creates VSANs on multiple switches in the fabric and sets VSAN attributes including

interop mode, load balancing, and FICON.

• Zone Edit Tool —Creates zone sets, zones, and aliases. Adds members to zones, and edits zone

database.

• IVR Zone—Creates IVR zone sets, zones, and aliases. Enables IVR NAT and auto-topology. Adds

members to IVR zones, and edits IVR zone database.

• PortChannel—Creates PortChannels from selected ISLs either manually or automatically. Sets

PortChannel attributes like channel ID and trunking mode.

• FCIP —Creates FCIP links between Gigabit Ethernet ports. Enables Fibre Channel Write

Acceleration and IP compression

• DPVM—Establishes dynamic port VSAN membership, enables auto learning, and activates the

DPVM database.

• iSCSI—Zones iSCSI initiators and adds VSAN to target allowed VSAN list.

• QoS—Sets QoS attributes for zones in the selected VSAN.

• IP ACL—Creates ordered IP access control lists and distributes to selected switches in the fabric.

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• License Install—Facilitates download and installation of licenses in selected switches in the fabric.

• Software Install—Verifies image compatibility and installs software images on selected switches in

the fabric.

Fabric Manager Troubleshooting Tools

Fabric Manager has several troubleshooting tools available from the toolbar or Tools menu. Procedures for using these tools are described in Chapter 35, “Troubleshooting Your Fabric.” Here is a brief description of each tool.

• Zone Merge Analysis—The zone merge analysis tool (available from the Zone menu) enables you

to determine if zones will merge successfully when two Cisco MDS switches are interconnected. If the interconnected switch ports allow VSANs with identical names or contain zones with identical names, then Fabric Manager verifies that the zones contain identical members. The merge analysis tool can be run before attempting a merge or after fabrics are interconnected to determine zone merge failure causes.

• End-to-End Connectivity—Fabric Manager’s end-to-end connectivity analysis tool uses FC Ping to

verify interconnections between Cisco MDS switches and end-device (HBAs and storage devices) in a particular VSAN. In addition to basic connectivity, Fabric Manager can optionally verify that:

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Paths are redundant.

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Zones contain at least two members.

End devices are connected to a manageable switch (have an currently active in-band or out-of-band management path.)

• Switch Health Analysis—You can run an in-depth switch health analysis with Fabric Manager. It

verifies the status of all critical Cisco MDS switches, modules, ports, and Fibre Channel services. Over 40 conditions are checked. This tool provides a very fast, simple, and thorough way to assess Cisco MDS switch health.

• Fabric Configuration Analysis—Fabric Manager includes a fabric configuration analysis tool. It

compares the configurations of all Cisco MDS switches in a fabric to a reference switch or a policy file. You can define what functions to check and what type of checks to perform. The analysis can look for mismatched values, and missing or extra values. If all configuration checking is performed for all functions, over 200 checks are performed for each Cisco MDS switch.

After the analysis is run, the results are displayed with details about the issues that were discovered. You can automatically resolve configuration differences by selecting them and clicking the Resolve button. Fabric Manager automatically changes the configuration to match the reference switch or policy file.

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Device Manager

This chapter contains descriptions of, and instructions for using, the Cisco MDS 9000 Device Manager.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Device Manager Overview, page 4-1

• Device Manager Features, page 4-1

• Launching Device Manager, page 4-2

• Using Device Manager, page 4-3

• Setting Device Manager Preferences, page 4-8

Device Manager Overview

Device Manager provides a graphic representation of a Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch chassis, including the installed switching modules, the supervisor modules, the status of each port within each module, the power supplies, and the fan assemblies.

The tables in the Fabric Manager Information pane basically correspond to the dialog boxes that appear in Device Manager. However, while Fabric Manager tables show values for one or more switches, a Device Manager dialog box shows values for a single switch. Also, Device Manager provides more detailed information for verifying or troubleshooting device-specific configuration than what is available from Fabric Manager.

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Device Manager Features

Device Manager provides two views: Device View and Summary View. You can use Summary View to monitor all of the interfaces on the switch. You can use the Device View to perform any switch-level configuration task including the following:

• Manage ports, PortChannels, and trunking.

• Manage SNMPv3 security access to switches.

• Manage CLI security access to switch.

• Manage alarms, events, and notifications.

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• Save and copy configuration files and software image.

• View hardware configuration.

• View chassis, module, port status and statistics.

Launching Device Manager

You can launch Device Manager in two ways.

To launch Device Manager from your desktop, double-click the Device Manager icon and follow the instructions described in the “Launching the Management Software” section on page 1-10.

To launch Device Manager from Fabric Manager, follow these steps:

Step 1 Right-click the switch you want to manage on the Fabric Manager Fabric pane and click Device

Manager from the pop-up menu that appears.

Step 2 Double-click a switch in the Fabric Manager Fabric pane.

Step 3 Select a switch in the Fabric Manager Map pane and choose Tools > Device Manager.

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Using Device Manager

This section describes the Device Manager interface, as shown in Figure 4-1.

Figure 4-1 Device Manager, Device Tab

1 Menu bar 5 Status

2 Toolbar 6 Supervisor modules

3 Ta bs 7 Switching or services modules

4 Legend

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Menu Bar

The menu bar at the top of the Device Manager main window provides options for managing and troubleshooting a single switch. The menu bar provides the following options:

• Device—Opens an instance of Device Manager, sets management preferences, sets the page layout,

opens a Telnet/SSH session with the current switch, and closes the Device Manager application.

• Physical—Allows you to view and manage inventory, modules, temperature sensors, power

supplies, fans, and the entire system.

• Interface—Allows you to configure and manage PortChannels, as well as Fibre Channel, Ethernet,

iSCSI, and FICON ports. Also provides diagnostic, management and monitoring capabilities, as well as SPAN and port tracking.

• FC—Allows you to configure and manage VSAN, domain, and name server characteristics. Also

provides advanced configuration capabilities.

• FICON—Allows you to configure and manage FICON VSANs, configure RLIR ERL information,

and swap selected FICON ports.

• IP—Allows you to configure and manage the following types of information: FCIP, iSCSI, iSNS,

routes, VRRP, and CDP.

Toolbar Icons

• Security—Allows you to configure and manage FC -SP, port security, iSCSI security, SNMP

security, common roles, SSH, AAA, and IP ACLs.

• Admin—Allows you to save, copy, edit, and erase the switch configuration, monitor events,

manipulate Flash files, manage licenses, configure NTP, use CFS, and reset the switch. Also enables you to use the show tech support, show cores, and show image commands.

• Logs—Shows the various logs: message, hardware, events, and accounting. Also displays FICON

link incidents, and allows you to configure the syslog setup.

• Help—Displays online help topics for specific dialog boxes in the Information pane.

The Device Manager toolbar provides quick access to many Device Manager features. Once the icon is selected, a dialog box may open that allows configuration of the feature. The toolbar provides the main Device and Summary View icons as shown in Table 4-1.

Table 4-1 Device Manager Main Toolbar

Icon Description

Open Device Opens the Device Manager view for another

switch, with the option to open this view in a separate window.

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information in the Device Manager view.

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Table 4-1 Device Manager Main Toolbar (continued)

Icon Description

Configure Selected Opens a configuration dialog box for the selected

component (line card or port).

SysLog Opens a window that lists the latest system

messages that occurred on the switch.

Threshold Manager Opens the Threshold Manager dialog box that

provides statistical monitoring and event reporting for the switch.

VSANs Opens the VSAN dialog box that provides VSAN

configuration for the switch.

Dialog Boxes

SNMP Users and Roles

Save Configuration Saves the current running configuration to the

Copy Copies configuration file between server and

Toggle FICON/Interface Port Labels

Help Accesses online help for Device Manager.

If a toolbar icon is selected, a dialog box may open that allows configuration of the selected feature. The dialog box may include table manipulation icons. See the “Information Pane” section on page 3-9 for descriptions of these icons.

Opens the SNMP configuration dialog box for SNMP users and roles.

startup configuration.

switch

Toggles the FICON and interface port labels.

Tabs

Click the Device tab on the Device Manager main window to see a graphical representation of the switch chassis and components.

Click the Summary tab on the Device Manager main window to see a summary of active interfaces on a single switch, as well as Fibre Channel and IP neighbor devices. The Summary View also displays port speed, link utilization, and other traffic statistics. There are two buttons in the upper left corner of the Summary View tab used to monitor traffic. To monitor traffic for selected objects, click the Monitor

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Selected Interface Traffic Util% button. To display detailed statistics for selected objects, click the Monitor Selected Interface Traffic Details button. You can set the poll interval, the type or Rx/Tx

display, and the thresholds.

Legend

The legend at the bottom right of the Device Manager indicates port status, as follows:

Colors

• Green—The port is up.

• Brown—The port is administratively down.

• Red—The port is down or has failed.

• Amber—The port has a minor fault condition.

• Gray—The port is unreachable.

Labels

• X—Link Failure

• E—ISL

• TE—Multi-VSAN ISL

• F—Host/Storage

• FL—F Loop

• I— iSCSI

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• SD—Span Destination

• CH—Channel

• CU—Control Unit

Note For a detailed table describing the legend, see the “There is a red/orange/dotted line through the switch.

What’s wrong?” section on page 36-14.

Supervisor and Switching Modules

In the Device View, you can right-click on an object and get information on it, or configure it. If you right-click on a module, the menu shows the module number and gives you the option to configure or reset the module. If you right-click on a port, the menu shows the port number and gives you the option to configure, monitor, enable ,disable, set beacon mode, or perform diagnostics on the port.

Tip You can select multiple ports in Device Manager and apply options to all the selected ports at one time.

Either select the ports by clicking the mouse and dragging it around them, or hold down the Control key and click on each port.

To enable or disable a port, right-click the port and click Enable or Disable from the pop-up menu. To enable or disable multiple ports, drag the mouse to select the ports and then right-click the selected ports. Then click Enable or Disable from the pop-up menu.

To manage trunking on one or more ports, right-click the ports and click Configure. In the dialog box that appears, right-click the current value in the Trunk column and click nonTrunk, trunk, or auto from the pull-down list.

To create PortChannels using Device Manager, click PortChannels from the Interface menu. For detailed instructions, see Chapter 17, “PortChannel Configuration.” You can also use Fabric Manager to conveniently create a PortChannel.

Note To create a PortChannel, all the ports on both ends of the link must have the same port speed, trunking

type, and administrative state.

Context Menus

Context menus are available in both Device Manager views by right-clicking on a device or table.

From Device View:

• Device—Right-click a system, module, or power supply to bring up a menu that gives you the option

to configure or reset the device.

• Port— Right-click a port to bring up a menu that shows you the number of the port you have clicked,

and to give you the option to configure, monitor, enable, disable, set beacon mode, or perform diagnostics on the port.

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From Summary View:

• Table— Right-click the table header to show a list of which columns to display in that table:

Interface, Description, VSANs, Mode, Connected To, Speed (Gb), Rx, Tx, Errors, Discards, and Log. Click the Description field to bring up the appropriate configuration dialog box for the port type.

Setting Device Manager Preferences

To set your preferences for the behavior of the Device Manager application, choose Device > Preferences from the Device menu. You can set the following preferences:

• Retry requests x time(s) after x sec timeout—Allows you to set the retry request values. The default

settings are 1 time after a 5-second timeout.

• Enable status polling every x secs—Allows you to set the status polling value. The default setting is

enabled (checked) with a time of 40 seconds.

• Trace SNMP packets in Message Log—Allows you to set whether Device Manager traces SNMP

packets and logs the trace. The default setting is disabled (unchecked).

• Register for Events after Open, listen on Port 1163—Allows you to register this switch so that events

are logged once you open Device Manager. The default setting is enabled (checked).

• Confirm Deletion—Displays a popup confirmation when you delete part of your configuration using

Device Manager. The default setting is enabled (checked).

• Show WorldWideName (WWN) Vendor—Displays the world wide name vendor name in any table

or listing displayed by Device Manager. If Prepend is checked, the name is displayed in front of the IP address of the switch. If Replace is checked, the name is displayed instead of the IP address. The default setting is enabled (checked) with the Prepend option.

• Show Timestamps as Date/Time—Displays timestamps in the date/time format. If this preference is

not checked, timestamps are displayed as elapsed time. The default setting is enabled (checked).

• Telnet Path—Sets the path for the telnet.exe file on your system. The default is telnet.exe, but you

need to browse for the correct location.

Note If you browse for a path or enter a path and you have a space in the pathname (for example,

c:\program files\telnet.exe, then the path will not work. To get the path to work, manually place quotes around it (for example, "c:\program files\telnet.exe").

• Use Secure Shell instead of Telnet—Specifies whether to use SSH or Telnet when using the CLI to

communicate with the switch. If enabled, you must specify the path to your SSH application. The default setting is disabled.

• CLI Session Timeout x secs (0= disable)—Specifies the timeout interval for a CLI session. Enter 0

to disable (no timeout value). The default setting is 30 seconds.

• Show Tooltips in Physical View—Determines whether tooltips are displayed in Physical (Device)

View. The default setting is enabled (checked).

• Label Physical View Ports With:—Specifies the type of label to assign to the ports when you are in

Physical (Device) View. The options are FICON and Interface. The default setting is Interface.

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• Export Table—Specifies the type of file that is created when you export a table using Device

Manager. The options are Tab-Delimited or XML. The default setting is Tab-Delimited.

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Fabric Manager Web Services

With Fabric Manager Web Services you can monitor Cisco MDS switch events, performance, and inventory from a remote location using a web browser. This chapter contains the following sections:

• Fabric Manager Web Services Overview, page 5-1

• Installing Fabric Manager Web Services, page 5-4

• Launching and Using Fabric Manager Web Services, page 5-7

Fabric Manager Web Services Overview

Using Fabric Manager Web Services, you can monitor MDS switch events, performance, and inventory, and perform minor administrative tasks.

Fabric Manager Web Services provides the following features:

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• Summary and drill down reports—The Performance Manager summary report provides a high-level

view of your network performance. These reports list the average and peak throughput and provides hot-links to additional performance graphs and tables with additional statistics. Both tabular and graphical reports are available for all interconnections monitored by Performance Manager. Performance Manager also analyzes daily, weekly, monthly and yearly trends. These reports are only available if you create a collection using Performance Manager and start the collector. See the

“Historical Performance Monitoring” section on page 33-2.

• Zero maintenance database for statistics storage—No maintenance is required to maintain

Performance Manager’s round-robin database, because its size does not grow over time. At prescribed intervals the oldest samples are averaged (rolled-up) and saved. A full two days of raw samples are saved for maximum resolution. Gradually the resolution is reduced as groups of the oldest samples are rolled up together.

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Fabric Manager Web Services displays in a web browser as shown in Figure 5-1.

Figure 5-1 Fabric Manager Web Services.

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This section contains the following features:

• Filter Tree, page 5-2

• Performance, page 5-3

• Inventory, page 5-3

• Custom, page 5-4

• Admin, page 5-4

Fabric Manager Web Services uses a filter navigation tree on the left pane to control the scope of the features in Fabric Manager Web Services. The filter tree expands or collapses based on clicking the + or

- icons. Select the scope you want to access by expanding or collapsing the filter tree and then clicking on the file or folder that represents your desired scope. You can select All, or a specific SAN, fabric or VSAN from the filter tree in the left pane. The features accessible from the tabs are limited to the scope of what you select in the filter tree.

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Events

The Events tab shows events and issues for the selected items, persistent across user sessions.

The Events tab contains the following subtabs:

• Summary—Shows a summary of events and problems for All SANs, or a selected SAN, fabric, or

switch. You can click on any of the blue links for more information about that item.

• Fabric—Shows a detailed list of events and hardware, or accounting. You can filter these events by

severity, date, and type of event.

• Syslog—Shows a detailed list of system messages. You can filter these events by severity, date, and

type of event.

Performance

The Performance tab shows an overview of the average throughput and link utilization of SAN components. You see pie charts for the throughput and utilization. You can click on a pie chart to view a table of the data. In these tables, clicking on a blue link will display a graph of that data, if applicable. The Filter drop-down menu at the top right of the screen allows you to filter the data based on various periods of time.

The Performance tab contains the following subtabs:

• Summary—Shows the total utilization and throughput in summary form.

Inventory

• Snapshots—Creates a snapshot of the historical performance at the time you generate the report.

• End Devices—Shows a detailed list of end device (host or storage) port traffic and errors.

• ISLs—Shows a detailed list of ISL traffic and errors.

• Flows —Shows a detailed list of host-to-storage traffic.

• Traffic Analyzer—Shows a summary of SPAN ports configured in the SAN and any Traffic

Analyzers configured.

Note Performance Manager shows statistics for fabrics that you have configured collections for using the

Collection Wizard. See the “Historical Performance Monitoring” section on page 33-2.

The Inventory tab shows an inventory of the selected SAN, fabric, or switch. You can export this information to an ASCII file in comma-separated value format, that can be read by applications such as Microsoft Excel. You can set the number of rows and columns per page.

The Inventory tab contains the following subtabs:

• Summary—Shows VSANs, switches, ISLs, and ports.

• VSANs—Shows details about VSANs.

• Licenses—Shows details about the licenses in use in the fabric.

• Modules—Shows details for MDS switching and services modules, fans, and power supplies.

• End Devices—Shows the host and storage ports.

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• ISLs—Shows the Inter-Switch Links.

• Zones—Shows the active zone members (including those in inter-VSAN zones).

Custom

The Custom tab allows you to create customized reports based on the historical performance, events, and inventory information gathered by Fabric Manager Server. You can create aggregate reports with summary and detailed views. You can also view previously saved reports.

The Custom tab contains the following subtabs:

• View—Views previously saved reports.

• Generate—Generates a custom report based on the selected report template.

• Edit—Edits an existing report template.

• Create—Creates a report template, allowing you to select any combination of events, performance

categories, and inventory.

See the “Creating Custom Report Templates” section on page 5-10.

Admin

The Admin tab allows you to perform minor administrative and configuration tasks on the Fabric Manager Server sending data to your web client.

The Admin tab contains the following subtabs:

• Status—Displays the status of, and allows you to start and stop the Database Server, Fabric Manager

Server, and Performance Collector services on your server. You should only need to restart services if something is not working properly, or if too large a percentage of system resources are being consumed.

• Configure—Allows you to configure various parameters for Fabric Manager Server.

• Logs—Allows you to view all the logs from the various services running on the Fabric Manager

Server.

• Web Users—Allows you to configure Fabric Manager Web Services local or RADIUS user

authentication.

• Events—Allows you to view the configuration settings for traps and syslog messages.

Note If you see a database file lock error in the database log, you can fix it by shutting down and restarting

the database server using the Web Client.

Installing Fabric Manager Web Services

If you are installing the Fabric Manager Web Services software for the first time, or if you want to update or reinstall the software, you access the supervisor module of the switch using a web browser. Install Fabric Manager Web Services on the same workstation where you installed Fabric Manager Server.

You must install Fabric Manager Web Services to view Performance Manager reports through a web browser.

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