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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.
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.
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
user sessions simultaneously. For more
information, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000
Family CLI Configuration Guide.
Ethernet or serial
connection
IP over FC
Fabric Manager— For information, refer to the
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager
Configuration Guide.
Ethernet connection IP over FC
Standard SNMP applications — For
information, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000
Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide.
Ethernet connection IP over FC
Management Server — For more
information, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000
Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide.
Ethernet connection SMI-S compliant
management program