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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-6965-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
Chapter 7 Authentication in Fabric Manager
Fabric Manager Web Services Authentication
Step 3 Right-click the fabrics that have updated username and password information.
Step 4 Click Remove to remove these fabrics from Fabric Manager server.
Step 5 Choose File > Open Fabric. You see the Open Fabric dialog box.
Step 6 Set the seed switch and the appropriate username and password to rediscover the fabric.
Step 7 Click Open to rediscover the fabric. Fabric Manager server updates its username and password
information.
Step 8 Repeat Step 5 through Step 7 for any fabric that you need to rediscover.
Step 9 Click Performance > Collector > Restart to restart Performance Manager and use the new username
and password.
Fabric Manager Web Services Authentication
Fabric Manager Web Services does not communicate directly with any switches in the fabric. Fabric
Manager Web Services uses its own username and password combination that is either stored locally or
stored remotely on an AAA server.
We recommend that you use a RADIUS or TACACS+ server to authenticate users in Fabric Manager
Web Services.
To configure Fabric Manager Web Services to use RADIUS authentication, follow these steps:
Step 1 Launch Fabric Manager Web Services. See the “Launching and Using Fabric Manager Web Services”
section on page 5-7.
Step 2 Choose Admin > Web Users to update the authentication used by Fabric Manager Web Services.
Step 3 Click AAA.
Step 4 Set the authentication.mode attribute to radius.
Step 5 Set the RADIUS server name, shared secret, authentication method, and ports used for up to three
RADIUS servers.
Step 6 Click Modify to save this information.
To configure Fabric Manager Web Services to use TACACS+ authentication, follow these steps:
Step 1 Launch Fabric Manager Web Services. See the “Launching and Using Fabric Manager Web Services”
section on page 5-7.
Step 2 Choose Admin > Web Users to update the authentication used by Fabric Manager Web Services.
Step 3 Click AAA.
Step 4 Set the authentication.mode attribute to tacacs.
Step 5 Set the TACACS+ server name, shared secret, authentication method, and port used for up to three
TACACS+ servers.
Step 6 Click Modify to save this information.