3 Managing the Switch

This chapter provides the following information:

Management features

Maintaining the switch

Replacing the switch

Powering on and off

Interpreting LED activity

POST and boot specifications

Interpreting POST results

Management features

The management tools built into the Cisco MDS 9124e Switch (listed in Table 8) can be used to monitor fabric topology, port status, physical status, and other information used for performance analysis and system debugging.

When running IP over FC, these management tools must be run on both the Fibre Channel host and the switch and must be supported by the Fibre Channel host driver. For a list of Fibre Channel hosts supported by the Cisco MDS 9124e Switch, contact your HP representative.

Table 8 Cisco MDS 9124e Switch management features

Management tool

Out-of-band support

In-band support

 

 

 

CLI — Run up to two admin sessions and four

Ethernet or serial

IP over FC

user sessions simultaneously. For more

connection

 

information, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000

 

 

Family CLI Configuration Guide.

 

 

 

 

 

Fabric Manager— For information, refer to the

Ethernet connection

IP over FC

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager

 

 

Configuration Guide.

 

 

 

 

 

Standard SNMP applications — For

Ethernet connection

IP over FC

information, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000

 

 

Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide.

 

 

 

 

 

Management Server — For more

Ethernet connection

SMI-S compliant

information, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000

 

management program

Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide.

 

 

 

 

 

You can connect a management station to one switch via Ethernet while managing other switches connected to the first switch via FC. To do so, set the FC gateway address of each of the other switches to be managed to the FC IP address of the first switch.

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