Cisco Systems MDS 9000 Using Cisco Traffic Analyzer with Fabric Manager Web Services

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide

OL-6965-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x

Chapter 8 Cisco Traffic Analyzer

Using Cisco Traffic Analyzer with Fabric Manager Web Services

Using Cisco Traffic Analyzer with Fabric Manager Web

You can run Cisco Traffic Analyzer from within Fabric Manager Web Services in Fabric Manager

Release 2.1(2) or later.

Note Running Traffic Analyzer changed with Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2). You can still run Cisco Traffic

Analyzer from within Fabric Manager Web Services. However, with Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2) or

later, you can no longer access Traffic Analyzer from the Fabric Manager Client. For more information

on releases prior to Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2), see “Configuring Cisco Traffic Analyzer for Fabric

Manager Releases Prior to 2.1(2)” section on page 8-8

To use Cisco Traffic Analyzer from Fabric Manager Web Services, follow these steps:

Step 1 Install and launch Cisco Traffic Analyzer. See the “Installing and Launching Cisco Traffic Analyzer”

section on page 8-4.

Step 2 Configure Cisco Traffic Analyzer to use PAA-2. See the “Configuring Cisco Traffic Analyzer” section

on page 8-7.

Step 3 Discover instances of Cisco Traffic Analyzer from Fabric Manager Web Services. See the “Discovering

Cisco Traffic Analyzer from Fabric Manager Web Services” section on page 8-7.

Step 4 Access Cisco Traffic Analyzer from Fabric Manager Web Services. “Accessing Cisco Traffic Analyzer

from Fabric Manager Web Services” section on page 8-8.

You must launch Cisco Traffic Analyzer before you can discover and access it from Fabric Manager Web

Services. At a minimum , you need to provide the directory where Cisco Traffic Analyzer stores its database,

including the RRD files that it creates for trending.

Note Do not use the /tmp directory for storing the Cisco Traffic Analyzer database on UNIX or Linux

workstations. Many distributions of Linux periodically clean up the /tmp directory, thereby affecting

Cisco Traffic Analyzer. Instead you can use the /var/ntop directory.

Verify that you have sufficient space in the partition where the Cisco Traffic Analyzer database is stored.

To install and launch Cisco Traffic Analyzer on a UNIX workstation, follow these steps:

Step 1 Open a browser and go to the following website to access the web page where Cisco Traffic Analyzer is

available:

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

Step 2 Download fc-ntop.tar.gz and install it using the instructions at the following website:

http://www.ntop.org.

Step 3 Launch ntop using the following UNIX command:

ntop -P database_directory