Cisco Systems MDS 9000 Integrating Cisco Fabric Manager with Other Management Tools

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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

Integrating Cisco Fabric Manager with Other Management Tools

Note You can create users with management traffic encryption (so a Privacy password is required) or

no management traffic encryption (no Privacy password is required). Requiring a Privacy

password, and making it different from the authentication password, ensures stronger security

but may cause AAA problems.

Step 7 Check the Use SNMP Proxy check box if you want Fabric Manager client to communicate with Fabric

Manager Server through a TCP-based proxy server. See the “Fabric Manager Server Proxy Services”

section on page 1-2.

Note Accelerate Discovery check box should remain checked for normal operation. Uncheck this only

if you have changed switch IP addresses. You may experience problems with out of sync SAN

IDs in Fabric Manager if you uncheck this check box.

Step 8 Optionally, select the Local Interface for Fabric Manager client. In Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2) or

later, Fabric Manager automatically detect the correct interface to use.

Step 9 Click Open.

You see either the Fabric Manager or the Device Manager.

Note When logging into Fabric Manager or Device Manager, the local SNMP database is checked first. If no

username entry is found, the AAA database is checked.

Note If you have an incomplete view of your fabric, rediscover the fabric with a user that has a network

administrator or network operator role.

Integrating Cisco Fabric Manager with Other Management

You can use Fabric Manager, Device Manager, and Performance Manager with other management tools.

Here is a brief description of these tools. For more information on these tools and how they work together

with the Cisco Fabric Manager management applications, see Chapter 35, “Troubleshooting Your

Fabric,”

•Cisco Traffic Analyzer—Allows you to break down traffic by VSANs and protocols and to examine

SCSI traffic at a logical unit number (LUN) level.

•Cisco Protocol Analyzer—Enables you to examine actual sequences of Fibre Channel frames easily

using the Fibre Channel and SCSI decoders Cisco developed for Ethereal.

•Cisco Port Analyzer Adapter 2—Encapsulates SPAN traffic (both Fibre Channel control and data

plane traffic) in an Ethernet header for transport to a Windows PC or workstation for analysis. Both

the Cisco Traffic Analyzer and Cisco Protocol Analyzer required the PAA to transport MDS SPAN

traffic to a Windows PC or workstation.