Cisco Systems MDS 9000 Fabric Manager Server, Fabric Manager Client, Fabric Manager Server Proxy Services

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide

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

Chapter 1 Installation and Configuration

About Cisco Fabric Manager

Fabric Manager Server

The Fabric Manager server component must be started before running Fabric Manager. On a Windows

PC, the Fabric Manager server is installed as a service. This service can then be administered using the

Windows Services in the Control Panel. Fabric Manager server is responsible for discovery of the

physical and logical fabric, and for listening for SNMP traps, syslog messages, and Performance

Manager threshold events. See Chapter 2, “Fabric Manager Server.”

The Fabric Manager client component displays a map of your network fabrics, including Cisco MDS

9000 Family switches, third-party switches, hosts, and storage devices. The Fabric Manager Client

provides multiple menus for accessing the features of the Fabric Manager Server. See Chapter 3, “Fabric

Manager Client.”

The Fabric Manager Client and Device Manager use SNMP to communicate with the Fabric Manager

Server. In typical configurations, the Fabric Manager Server may be installed behind a firewall. The

SNMP proxy service available in Cisco Fabric Manager Release 2.1(1a) or later provides a TCP-based

transport proxy for these SNMP requests. The SNMP proxy service allows you to block all UDP traffic

at the firewall and configure Fabric Manager Client to communicate over a configured TCP port.

Fabric Manager uses the CLI for managing some features on the switches. These management tasks are

used by Fabric Manager and do not use the proxy services. Your firewall must remain open for CLI

access for the following:

•external and internal loopback test

•flash files

•create cli user

•security - iscsi users

•quiese pc

•show image version

•show tech

•switch resident reports (syslog, accounting)

•zone migration

•show cores

If you are using the SNMP proxy service and another application on your server is using port 8080, you

need to modify your workstation settings.

To modify a Windows workstation, follow these steps:

Step 1 Open Internet Explorer and select Tools > Internet Options. You see the Internet Options dialog box.

Step 2 Select the Connections tab and click LAN Settings. You see the LAN Settings dialog box.

Step 3 Check the Use a Proxy Server for your LAN check box and click Advanced.

Step 4 Add your server IP Address or localhost under the Exceptions section.