Cisco DCNM SAN Client Online Help

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Cisco DCNM-SAN Advanced Mode

Advanced mode is enabled by default and provides the full suite of Cisco DCNM-SAN features, including security, IVR, iSCSI, and FICON. To simplify the user interface, from the list box in the upper right corner of the Cisco DCNM-SAN Client, choose Simple. In simple mode, you can access basic MDS 9000 features such as VSANs, zoning, and configuring interfaces. Advanced mode option is not available for server admin role.

Cisco DCNM-SAN Main Window

This section describes the Cisco DCNM-SAN Client interface that is specific to server admin users as shown in Figure 4-1.

Figure 4-1 Cisco DCNM-SAN Main Window: Server Admin Perspective

 

Menu Bar

The menu bar at the top of the Cisco DCNM-SAN main window provides options for managing and for controlling the display of information on the Fabric pane. Server admin will not have all the options that are available for SAN admin . The menu bar provides the following menus:

• File—Opens a new fabric, rediscovers the current fabric, locates switches, sets preferences, prints the map.
• View—Changes the appearance of the map (these options are duplicated on the Fabric pane toolbar).
• Tools—Manages the Server and configuration using the FlexAttach virtual pWWN feature.
• Help—Displays online help topics for specific dialog boxes in the Information pane.

Tool Bar

The Cisco DCNM-SAN main toolbar (specific to server admin ) provides icons for accessing the most commonly used menu bar options as shown in Table 4-1 .

 

Logical Domains Pane

Use the Logical Domains pane to view fabrics and to access user-defined groups. You can expand the groups to see different user-defined groups. The non-editable groups created for each core switch contains their NPV switches.

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 or group.

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, VFC (FCoE), Ethernet, SVC, and PortChannel interfaces.

Information Pane

Use the Information pane to display 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 5-2.

 

Fabric Pane

Use the Fabric pane to display the graphical representation of your fabric. Table 5-1 explains the graphics you may see displayed, depending on which devices you have in your fabric.

The bottom of the Fabric pane has the following tabs:

• 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 Cisco DCNM-SAN 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 such as license, SNMP, and FICON.

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Note Fabric map display is based on what you select in the logical domain pane. When you select a fabric node, all the switches that belong to that fabric will be enabled. When you select the group node, all the switches that belong to the groups listed under that group node will be enabled. When you select only a group, all the switches that belong to the specific group will be enabled.

1	Menu bar—Provides access to options that are organized by menus.
2	Toolbar—Provides icons for 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	Status Bar (left side)—Shows short-term transient messages, such as the number of rows displayed in a table.
7	Physical Attributes pane—Displays a tree of available configuration tasks depending on the fabric, VSAN, or zone selected previously. Lists the switches and end devices in the logical selection.
8	Logical Domains pane—Displays a tree of configured SAN, fabrics, VSANs, and zones, and provides access to user-defined groups. The label next to the segmented VSAN indicates the number of segments.

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Menu Bar

The menu bar at the top of the Cisco DCNM-SAN 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 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 “Cisco DCNM-SAN Troubleshooting Tools”.
• Performance—Runs and configures Performance Manager and Cisco Traffic Analyzer, and generates reports.
• Server—Runs administrative tasks on clients and fabrics. Provides Cisco DCNM-SAN Server management and a purge command. Lists fabrics being managed.
• Help—Displays online help topics for specific dialog boxes in the Information pane.

File

The file menu provides the following options:

• Open Fabric—Opens a new switch fabric.
• Locate Switches and Devices— Uses the SNMPv2 protocol to discover devices responding to SNMP requests with the read-only community string public. You may use this feature if you want to locate other Cisco MDS 9000 switches in the subnet, but are not physically connected to the fabric.
• Rediscover—Initiates an on-demand discovery to learn recent changes from the switches and update the Cisco DCNM-SAN Client. You may use this option when Cisco DCNM-SAN Server is not in sync with switches in the fabric and you do not want to wait until the next polling cycle. The rediscover option does not delete the fabric and add it again. You may delete and add the fabric only if the rediscover option fails to update Cisco DCNM-SAN Server.
• Resync All Open Fabrics— Cisco DCNM-SAN Server forces all the fabrics to close and re-open. You may use this option when Cisco DCNM-SAN Client is not in sync with Cisco DCNM-SAN Server.
• Rediscover SCSI Targets— Initiates an on-demand discovery to learn recent changes from the SCSI target switches. You may use this option when Cisco DCNM-SAN Server is not in sync with SCSI target switches in the fabric and you do not want to wait until the next polling cycle.
• Preferences—Sets your preferences to customize the behavior of the Cisco DCNM-SAN Client.
• Import Enclosures—Imports saved enclosures.
• Export

– Map Image—Generates and export the map to a specified location.

– Visio—Exports the map to a Visio file.

– Table—Exports the table data to a text file.

– Log—Exports the log to a text file.

– Events—Exports the events to a text file.

– Enclosures—Exports the enclosure values to a text file.

• Print —Prints the map.
• Exit—Exit Cisco DCNM-SAN.

View

View menu provides the following options:

• Refresh Map—Refreshes the current map.
• Layout

– Cancel—Cancels the current layout.

– Spring—Displays the layout based on spring algorithm.

– Quick—Quickly displays the layout when the switch has many end devices.

• Zoom

– In—Zooms in the view.

– Out—Zooms out the view.

– Fit—Fits the view in the fabric pane.

• Grid—Enables the grid view.
• Overview Window—Allows you to center the Fabric pane on the area of the fabric that you want to see. This option is useful for large fabrics that cannot be displayed entirely within the Fabric pane.
• Legend—Shows all the legends used in the fabric map.
• Find in Map—Finds a device in the fabric map.

Zone

The zone menu provides the following options:

• Edit Local Full Zone Database—Allows you to create zones across multiple switches. Zones provide a mechanism for specifying access control. Zone sets are a group of zones to enforce access control in the fabric. All zoning features are available through the Edit Local Full Zone Database dialog box.
• Deactivate Zoneset—Deactivates an active zone set.
• Copy Full Zone Database—Creates a new zone set. On the Cisco MDS Family switches, you cannot edit an active zone set. However, you can copy an active zone set to create a new zone set that you can edit.
• Merge Analysis—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 Cisco DCNM-SAN verifies that the zones contain identical members. You can use merge analysis tool before attempting a merge, or after fabrics are interconnected to determine zone merge failure causes.
• Merge Fail Recovery—Recovers the port from its isolated state either by importing the neighboring switch's active zone set database and replacing the current active or by exporting the current database to the neighboring switch.
• Migrate Non-MDS Database—Migrate a non-MDS database using Cisco DCNM-SAN (you may need to use the Zone Migration Wizard to accomplish this task).
• IVR

– Deactivate Zoneset—Deactivates an active zone set.

– Copy Full Zone Database—Recovers an IVR zone database by copying the IVR full zone database from another switch.

– Copy Full Topology—Recovers a topology by copying from the active zone database or the full zone database.

Tools

Tools menu provides the following options:

• Health

– Switch Health—Determines the status of the components of a specific switch.

– Fabric Configuration—Analyzes the configuration of a switch by comparing the current configuration to a specific switch or to a policy file. You can save a switch configuration to a file and then compare all switches against the configuration in the file.

– Show Tech Support—Collects large amount of information about your switch for troubleshooting purposes. When you issue a show tech support command from Cisco DCNM-SAN for one or more switches in a fabric, the results of each command are written to a text file, one file per switch, in a directory you specify. You can then view these files using Cisco DCNM-SAN.

• Connectivity

– End to End Connectivity—Determines connectivity and routes among devices with the switch fabric. This tool checks to see that every pair of end devices can talk to each other, using a Ping test and by determining if they are in the same VSAN or in the same active zone.

– Ping—Determines connectivity from another switch to a port on your switch.

– Trace Route—Verifies connectivity between two end devices that are currently selected on the Fabric pane.

– Compact Flash Report—Automatically scans the fabric and generate a report that shows the status of CompactFlash.

• NPV

– CFS Static Peer Setup—Manage the peer list used during CFS on NPV-enabled switches. After setting up the static peers list, the CFS discovery on the switches will be changed to static mode for all peers in the list. Cisco DCNM-SAN does not automatically update static peers list. You may need to update the list using the CFS Static Peer Setup Wizard when a new switch is added to the fabric.

– Traffic Map Setup—Configures the list of external interfaces to the servers, and enabling or disabling disruptive load balancing. Using Traffic Map Setup you can specify the external ports that a server should use for traffic management.

– Flex Attach Pre-Configure Server—Sets the port configurations for all the ports in a switch such as enabling or disabling FlexAttach, setting the default VSAN ID, and setting the interface status.

– Flex Attach Move Server—Moves a server to another port on the same NPV device or another NPV device without changing the SAN.

– Flex Attach Replace Server—Replaces a failed server with a new server on the same port without changing the SAN.

• Data Mobility Manager

– Server Based—Performs server-based data migration.

– Storage based—Performs storage-based data migration.

– Server LUN Discovery—Performs LUN discovery to select the LUNs available for migration and automates the session creation by matching the LUNs in the existing and new storage.

• FCoE—Launches the FCoE Configuration Wizard to create virtual Fibre Channel interfaces.
• Port Channel—Creates PortChannels from selected ISL either manually or automatically.
• DPVM Setup—Establishes dynamic port VSAN membership, enables autolearning, and activates the DPVM database.
• IP SAN

– FCIP Tunnel—Creates FCIP links between Gigabit Ethernet ports. Enables Fibre Channel write acceleration and IP compression.

– iSCSI Setup—Creates zones for iSCSI initiators and adds a VSAN to a target-allowed VSAN list.

– SAN Extension Tuner—Optimizes FCIP performance by generating either direct access (magnetic disk) or sequential access (magnetic tape) SCSI I/O commands and directing such traffic to a specific virtual target. This option is used to generate SCSI I/O commands (read and write) to the virtual target based on your configured options.

• Security

– Port Security—Prevents unauthorized access to a switch port in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family, rejects intrusion attempts and reports these intrusions to the administrator.

– IP ACL—Creates an ordered list of IP filters in a named IPv4-ACL or IPv6-ACL profile using the IPv4-ACL Wizard.

• Install

– License—Facilitate download and installation of licenses in selected switches in the fabric.

– Software—Verifies image compatibility and installs software images on selected switches in the fabric.

• Flow Load Balance Calculator —Allows you to get the best load-balancing configuration for your FICON flows. The calculator does not rely on any switch or flow discovery in the fabric.
• Device Manager—Invokes Device Manager for a switch.
• Command Line Interface —Enables command-line operations.
• Run CLI Commands—Runs command-line operations on more than one switch at a time.

Performance

The performance menu provides the following options:

• Create Flows—Creates host-to-storage, storage-to-host, or bidirectional flows. You can add these flows to a collection configuration file to monitor the traffic between a host or storage element pair.

Server

The server menu provides the following options:

• Admin—Opens the control panel.
• Purge Down Elements—Purges all down elements in the fabric.

Help

The help menu provides the following options:

• Contents —Launches the online help contents.
• Config Guide—Launches the Cisco DCNM-SAN Configuration Guide.
• About—Displays information about Cisco DCNM-SAN.

Toolbar

The Cisco DCNM-SAN main toolbar provides icons for accessing the most commonly used menu bar options as shown in Table 4-3 .

 

Logical Domains Pane

Use the Logical Domains pane to manage attributes for fabrics, VSANs, and zones, and to access user-defined groups. Starting from NX-OS Release 4.2(0), SAN and LAN nodes are listed under Datacenter node and all the fabrics are listed under SAN node. When you select Datacenter node in the tree, Cisco DCNM-SAN displays all the switches and ISLs. When you select LAN node, Cisco DCNM-SAN displays only Ethernet switches and Ethernet links. Under the fabric node, VSANs are ordered by a VSAN ID. The segmented VSANs are placed under the fabric node. The label next to the segmented VSAN indicates the number of segments. You can expand a segmented VSAN and the segments under that VSAN. 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.

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. The fabric names you see are as follows:

• Fabric <sysName>
• Fabric <ipAddress>
• Fabric <sWWN>

You can change the fabric name using Cisco DCNM-SAN.

DETAILED STEPS

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Step 1 Choose Server > Admin .

You see the Control Panel dialog box.

Step 2 Double-click the fabric name and enter the new name of the fabric.

Step 3 Click Apply to change the name.

 

Filtering

Cisco DCNM-SAN has a filtering mechanism that displays only the data that you are interested in. To filter, first select the fabric and VSAN from the Logical Domains pane. This action 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. The filter that you select is displayed at the top right of the Cisco DCNM-SAN window.

To further narrow the scope, select attributes from the Physical Attributes pane. The Cisco DCNM-SAN table, display, and filter criteria change accordingly.

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, VFC (FCoE), 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.
• FCoE—Views and configures FCoE interfaces.
• ISLs—Views and configures Inter-Switch Links.
• End Devices—Views and configures end devices.

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Note You cannot view the detailed physical attributes of the data center switches or monitor the connections. When you select either a data center node or a LAN node the physical attributes pane will be blank.

Context Menu for Tables

When you right-click in the table, you see a pop-up menu with options that vary depending on the type of option you selected in the Physical Attributes pane. You can perform various operations by right-clicking the device listed in the table. To view various options available for switches, ISLs, and end devices, refer to the procedures in the sections that follows:

Viewing Switch Options

When you select the datacenter node, the switch table displays all the switches that are discovered. When you select the SAN node or the fabric node, the switch table displays all the Fibre Channel switches and when you select the LAN node, the switch table displays all the Ethernet switches.

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Step 1 Click Switches in the Physical Attributes pane.

Step 2 Right-click the device in the table.

The pop-up menu provides the following options:

• Apply Changes—Applies the changes to the switch.
• Refresh Values—Refreshes the current values.
• Undo Changes—Undoes modifications to the switch.
• Export to File—Export the values to a file.
• Print Table—Prints the table.
• Detach Table—Detaches the table.
• Switch Attributes—Changes the switch properties.
• Interface Attributes—Changes the interface properties.
• Element Manager—Manages this switch.
• Command Line Interface—Enables to perform command line operations.
• Copy—Copies the switch.
• Purge—Purges the switch.
• Fix Location—Fixes the switch in the current location.
• Align—Aligns the switch.
• Show End Devices—Shows the end devices.
• Expand Multiple Links—Expands the links to this switch.
• Other—Other options.
• Group—Groups switches.

 

Viewing ISL Options

When you select the data center node, the ISLs table displays all of the Fibre Channel and Ethernet links. When you select the LAN node, the ISLs table displays all the Ethernet links.

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Step 1 In the Physical Attributes pane, click ISLs and then click Summary tab.

Step 2 Right-click the device in the table.

The pop-up menu provides the following options:

• Refresh Values—Refreshes the current values.
• Copy—Copies information from a specific field.
• Find—Conducts search based on the input string.
• Export to File—Exports the values to a file.
• Print Table—Prints the table.
• Detach Table—Detaches the table.
• Interface Attributes—Changes the interface properties.
• Element Manager—Manages the device.
• FCIP Tunnel Attributes—Changes FCIP tunneling properties.
• Create Port Channel—Creates port channel.
• Re-enable—Reenables a disabled device.
• Enable FC-SP—Enables FC-SP.
• SAN Extention Tuner—Optimizes FCIP performance.
• Purge—Purges the device.

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Note When you select a port channel from the table, the pop-up menu will have the following additional options:

• Member Attributes—Changes the member properties.
• Channel Attributes—Changes the port channel properties.
• Edit—Edits the channel properties.

 

Viewing End Device Options

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Step 1 In the Physical Attributes pane, click End Devices and then click the Summary tab.

Step 2 Right-click the device in the table.

The pop-up menu provides the following options:

• Apply Changes—Applies the changes to the device.
• Refresh Values—Refreshes the current values.
• Copy—Copies the information specific to the field.
• Paste—Pastes the copied text.
• Undo Changes—Undoes modifications to the device.
• Find—Searches for information depending on the input string.
• Export to File—Exports the values to a file.
• Print Table—Prints the table.
• Detach Table—Detaches the table.
• Device Attributes—Changes the device properties.
• Interface Attributes—Changes the interface properties.
• Element Manager—Manages this device.
• Command Line Interface—Enables you to perform command line operations.
• Copy—Copies the switch.
• Purge—Purges the switch.
• Fix Location—Fixes the switch in the current location.
• Align—Aligns the switch.
• Ping—Pings another device.
• Trace Route—Determines the route taken by packets across the network.
• Select Dependent Ports—Selects dependent ports.
• Group—Groups devices.

Information Pane

Use the Information pane to display 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 4-4 .

 

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

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Note The buttons that appear on the toolbar vary according to the option that you select. They are activated or deactivated (dimmed) according to the field or other object that you select in the Information pane.

Detachable Tables

Detachable tables in Cisco DCNM-SAN allow you to detach tables and move them to different areas on your desktop so that you can compare similar tables from different VSANs. You can keep informational tables open from one view while you examine a different area in Cisco DCNM-SAN. To detach tables, click the Detach Table icon in the Information pane in Cisco DCNM-SAN.

Fabric Pane

Use the Fabric pane to display the graphical representation of your fabric. Table 4-5 explains the graphics you may see displayed, depending on which devices you have in your fabric.

 

If a switch or director is grayed out, Cisco DCNM-SAN can no longer communicate with it.

The bottom of the Fabric pane has the following tabs:

• 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 Cisco DCNM-SAN 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 such as license, SNMP, and FICON.

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

• 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.

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 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.

Saving the Map

You can save the map in the Fabric Pane as an image, or 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:

• The default layer includes all switches and links in the fabric.
• The end devices layer 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, choose 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 the links as a Visio diagram, the Visio diagram shows those multiple links 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. The Refresh Map icon redraws the map but does not purge elements that are down. To purge down elements you can:

• Choose Server > Purge Down Elements. This purges all down elements in the fabric.
• Right-click the Fabric pane and choose Purge Down Elements.
• Right-click a down element and choose Purge. This action purges only this element from the fabric.

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Note If you select an element that is not down and purge it, that element will reappear on the next fabric discovery cycle.

Multiple Fabric Display

Cisco DCNM-SAN can display multiple fabrics in the same pane.

The information for both fabrics is displayed; you do not 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 the Cloud icon for the fabric in the SAN tab.

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Note Enclosure names should be unique. If the same enclosure name is used for each port, Cisco DCNM-SAN shows a host/target enclosure connected to both fabrics. To fix this problem, you can either disable auto-creation or create unique enclosure names.

Filtering by Groups

You can filter the Fabric pane display by creating groups of switches or end ports.

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Step 1 Right-click a switch or end port in the Fabric pane map and select Group > Create .

You see the Edit User Defined Group dialog box .

Step 2 Enter a group name in the Name field.

Step 3 Use the arrows to move additional switches or end ports from the Available column to the Selected column.

Step 4 Click OK to save the group.

 

To add a switch or end port to an existing group in Cisco DCNM-SAN.

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Step 1 Right-click a switch or end device and select Group > Add To > YourGroupName .

You see the Edit User Defined Group dialog box.

Step 2 Use the arrows to move additional switches or end ports from the Available column to the Selected column.

Step 3 Click OK to save the updated group.

 

To filter the display by a group you have created.

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Step 1 Expand the Groups folder in the Logical Domains pane.

You see the list of groups that you have created.

Step 2 Click the name of the group that you want to filter.

In the Fabric pane, the switches or end devices in your group are shown normally; all other switches and end devices are shown in gray.

Step 3 Click the Groups folder in the Logical Domains pane to return the display to normal.

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Note User-defined groups tables are filtered based on switches in the group except for switches where CFS-controlled features are enabled when all CFS member switches are displayed to avoid misconfigurations.

 

Status Bar

The status bar at the bottom of the Cisco DCNM-SAN 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.

Launching Fabric Manager Client in Cisco SAN-OS Release 3.2(1) and Later

You can launch Fabric Manager Client.

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Note Network administrators must initially launch Cisco DCNM-SAN Client using Cisco DCNM-SAN Web Server, as described in the following procedure. Once an administrator has installed the Cisco DCNM-SAN Client icon on your desktop, you can double-click the icon to launch the Cisco DCNM-SAN Client.

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Step 1 Open your browser and enter the IP address where you installed Cisco DCNM-SAN Server, or enter localhost if you installed Cisco DCNM-SAN Server on your local workstation.

You see the Cisco DCNM Web Client Login dialog box.

Step 2 Enter your user name and password and click Login .

You see the Cisco DCNM Web Client Summary page.

Step 3 Click the Download link in the upper right corner of the page.

You see the Download page for Cisco DCNM-SAN and Device Manager.

Step 4 Click the link for Cisco DCNM-SAN .

If you are launching Cisco DCNM-SAN Client for the first time, you see a message asking whether you want to create shortcuts for Cisco DCNM-SAN.

Step 5 Click Yes to create shortcuts for Cisco DCNM-SAN.

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Note This message only appears the first time you launch Cisco DCNM-SAN Client. If you select No, your selection will be remembered and you will not be prompted to make a selection again. In this case, you will need to launch Cisco DCNM-SAN Client using the Cisco DCNM-SAN Web Client.

Step 6 When the software is installed and icons are created on your desktop, double-click the Cisco DCNM-SAN icon to launch Cisco DCNM-SAN.

You see the Cisco DCNM-SAN Login dialog box.

Step 7 Enter the Cisco DCNM-SAN Server user name and password.

Step 8 Check the Use SNMP Proxy check box if you want Cisco DCNM-SAN Client to communicate with Cisco DCNM-SAN Server through a TCP-based proxy server.

Step 9 Click Login . Once you successfully log in to Cisco DCNM-SAN Server, you can set the seed switch and open the fabrics that you are entitled to access.

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Note When you launch Cisco DCNM-SAN Client for the first time or when there are no available fabrics, you see the Discover New Fabric dialog box.

You see the Discover New Fabric dialog box.

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Note Only network administrators can discover new fabrics.

Step 10 Click the Ethernet (CDP) radio button to discover using Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP).

Step 11 Starting from NX-OS Release 4.2(0), Fabric Manager uses Cisco Discovery Protocol to discover Ethernet switches such as Nexus 5000, Nexus 7000, Catalyst 4000, and Catalyst 6000 switches. You need to use a CDP seed switch for a CDP discovery.
Set the fabric seed switch to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch or Cisco Nexus 5000 Series that you want Fabric Manager to use.

Step 12 Choose the Auth-Privacy option according to the privacy protocol you have configured on your switch:

a. If you have not configured the switch with a privacy protocol, then choose Auth-Privacy option MD5 (no privacy).

b. If you have configured the switch with your privacy protocol, choose your Auth-Privacy choice.

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Note You may use SNMP v2 credentials for CDP discovery as the most of the Catalyst switches do not use MD5-DES for configuration.

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Note If you want a clean fabric discovery, remove the fabric and rediscover it. If you want a clean LAN discovery, unmanage LAN, remove the CDP seed switch and then rediscover it.

Step 13 Enter the username and password for the switch.

Step 14 (Optionsl) To limit the discovery, specify the VSAN range.
Scoping limits the resources discovered by Cisco DCNM-SAN client. You can either include a range of VSANs to be discovered or exclude a range of VSANs from being discovered.

a. To limit the discovery to a range of VSANs, click Included VSAN List radio button. Specify the range of VSANs.

b. To exclude a range of VSANs from being discovered, click Excluded VSAN List radio button. Specify the range of VSANs to be excluded.

Step 15 Click Discover .

You see the Control Panel dialog box.

 

You see the included and excluded VSANs list under the Fabric tab.

 

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Note You see a message in the dialog box when the server and client are running on the same workstation and there are unlicensed fabrics in the database. You also see a message when there are unmanaged fabrics (the state of the licenses is unknown).

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Note In the open tab, you see all the discovered fabrics displayed in the control panel. You need to click on the Open button to see all the discovered Ethernet switches.

Step 16 Check the check box(es) next to the fabric(s) you want to open in the Select column, or click Discover to add a new fabric.

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Note Only network administrators can continuously manage or unmanage fabrics. For more information, see the “Selecting a Fabric to Manage Continuously” section.

Step 17 Click Open to open the selected fabric(s).

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Note • If you have an incomplete view of your fabric, rediscover the fabric with a user that has no
VSAN restriction.
• If the fabric includes a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch, then the Layer 2 node appears under
the Switches > Interfaces > Ethernet tree, the VFC (FCoE) node appears under the
Switches > Interfaces tree, and the FCoE node appears under the Switches tree in the
Physical Attributes pane.
• For Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches in the fabric, the tooltip for the switch shows the bind
information of a virtual Fibre Channel interface to its corresponding Ethernet interface, such
as vfc2(eth1/4).

 

You can launch Cisco DCNM-SAN Client from within a running instance of Cisco DCNM-SAN.

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Step 1 Choose File > Open or click the Open Switch Fabric icon on the Cisco DCNM-SAN toolbar.

You see the Control Panel dialog box.

Step 2 Check the check box(es) next to the fabric(s) you want to open in the Select column and click Open .

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Note Changes made using Cisco DCNM-SAN are applied to the running configuration of the switches that you are managing. If you have made changes to the configuration or performed an operation (such as activating zones), Cisco DCNM-SAN prompts you to save your changes before you exit.

 

Launching Cisco DCNM-SAN Client Using Launch Pad

Starting from Cisco NX-OS Release 4.2(0), you can use Cisco DCNM-SAN launch pad to connect to any server by specifying the IP address of the server. With launch pad, you can connect to any Cisco DCNM-SAN Server version 3.3(0) and later. Launch pad establishes connection with the server using HTTP protocol.

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Step 1 Open your browser and enter the IP address where you installed Cisco DCNM-SAN Server, or enter localhost if you installed Cisco DCNM-SAN Server on your local workstation.

You see the Cisco DCNM-SAN Web Server Login dialog box.

Step 2 Enter your user name and password and click Login .

You see the Cisco DCNM-SAN Web Client Summary page.

Step 3 Click the Download link in the upper right corner of the page.

You see the Download page for Cisco DCNM-SAN and Device Manager.

Step 4 Click the link for Cisco DCNM-SAN .

You see the Cisco DCNM-SAN Server launch pad.

Step 5 Enter the host name of the server or IP address in the Server URL drop-down list.

Step 6 Click Start.

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Note Launch pad retains the history of the server URLs used. You can choose one of the previously user Server URLs from the drop-down list.

 

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Viewing Ethernet Switches

DETAILED STEPS

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Step 1 Click the LAN node under Datacenter node.

Step 2 Click Switches tab in the Information pane.

You can see the switch information.

 

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Note Datacenter is the parent node of SAN and LAN nodes. The SAN node remains in the tree as the parent for all the fabrics.

 

Removing a LAN

DETAILED STEPS

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Step 1 Choose Server > Admin.

You can see the switch information.

Step 2 Click to select the switch IP of the LAN you want to remove.

Step 3 Click Remove.

 

DETAILED STEPS

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Step 1 Expand End Devices and then choose Storage or Hosts in the Physical Attributes pane.

You see the end devices displayed in the Information pane.

Step 2 Click one of the devices in the Fabric pane, or click the Enclosures tab of the Information pane, and then click the device name (in the Name field) that you want to include in the enclosure.

Step 3 Enter a name to identify the new enclosure in the Fabric pane map.

Step 4 Click once on the device name in the Name field. To select more than one name, press 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 device name into the Name field.

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Note To remove devices from an enclosure, triple click the device name and press Delete. To remove an enclosure, repeat this step for each device in the enclosure.

 

Using Alias Names as Enclosures

DETAILED STEPS

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Step 1 Expand End Devices and choose Hosts or Storage from the Physical Attributes pane.

You see the list of devices in the Information pane. The NxPorts tab is the default.

Step 2 Right-click the enclosure names that you want to convert to alias names and choose Alias > Enclosure .

The Ailas > Enclosures window appears . It contains a list of expressions. You can also add expressions to the list and modify expressions in the current list.

Step 3 Click the Apply Changes icon to save the changes and then click Close.

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Note Cisco DCNM-SAN uses the regular expressions to convert multiple alias names into one enclosure. The alias names should be in the same expression pattern rule. You can create enclosure names from selected aliases using the regular expresssions list.

 

Using Alias Names as Descriptions

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Step 1 Choose End Devices and from the Physical Attributes pane.

Step 2 Click the General tab.

You see the list of devices in the Information pane.

Step 3 Select the device names that you want to populate the description with alias names and then click Alias > Enclosure button .

You see the alias names are copied to corresponding rows in the description column.

 

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Note Cisco DCNM-SAN does not parse or format the alias name while copying.

 

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Launching a Switch from the Topology Map

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Step 1 In the Cisco DCNM-SAN fabric pane, right-click the Nexus switch in the LAN map that you want to open with DCNM.

You see the pop-up menu .

Step 2 In the pop up menu, click DCNM and select appropriate context.