Cisco Systems MDS 9000 Setting the Seed Switch, Configuring Flows and Collections with Performance Manager

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-6965-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
Chapter 2 Fabric Manager Server
Installing and Configuring Fabric Manager Server
Setting the Seed Switch
When you run Fabric Manager, you must select a switch for Fabric Manager to use to discover the fabric.
Note If you have a mixed fabric of Cisco SAN-OS and Cisco FabricWare switches, we recommend that you
securely open the fabric with a Cisco SAN-OS switch using SNMPv3. The SNMPv1/v2c communities
for the Cisco FabricWare switches should be entered in the communities.properties file. See the “Adding
A Community String to the communities.properties File” section on page 26-4.
To set the seed switch, follow these steps:
Step 1 Double-click the Fabric Manager client icon on your workstation. You see the Fabric Manager dialog
box Click Options if necessary to expand the optional settings in this dialog box.
Step 2 Set FM Server to the IP address where you installed the Fabric Manager Server or set it to localhost if
you installed Fabric Manager Server on your local workstation.
Step 3 Set the Fabric Seed Switch to the MDS 9000 family switch that you want Fabric Manager to use.
Step 4 Set the username and password as required to start Fabric Manager Client.
Configuring Flows and Collections with Performance Manager
If you are managing your fabrics with Performance Manager, you need to set up an initial set of flows
and collections on the fabric. See the “Historical Performance Monitoring” section on page 33-2 for a
full description on Performance Manager features.
To create a flow in Performance Manager, follow these steps:
Step 1 Choose Performance > Create Flows to launch the wizard.
Step 2 Choose the VSAN from which you want to create flows. Flows are defined per VSAN.
Step 3 Click the Type radio button for the flow type you want to define.
Step 4 Check the Clear old flows on modified switches check box if you want to remove old flow data.
Step 5 Click Next to review the available flows for the chosen VSAN. Remove any flows you are not interested
in.
Step 6 Click Finish to create the flow.
Using the Performance Manager Configuration Wizard
To create a collection using the Performance Manager Configuration Wizard in Fabric Manager, follow
these steps:
Step 1 Choose Performance > Create Collection to launch the Performance Manager Configuration Wizard.
Step 2 Choose the VSANs from which you want to collect data or choose All to collect statistics across all
VSANs in the fabric.