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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-6965-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
Chapter 3 Fabric Manager Client
Using Fabric Manager Client
If a switch or director is grayed out, Fabric Manager can no longer communicate with it.
There are multiple tabs on the bottom of the Fabric pane:
•Fabric—When displaying multiple fabrics, each fabric has its own tab. You can switch between
fabrics by clicking on their respective tabs.
•Log—Displays messages that describe Fabric Manager operations, such as fabric discovery.
•Events—Displays information about the SNMP traps received by the management station. This
includes combination events as detected by discovery and important traps like license, SNMP, and
FICON.
When viewing large fabrics in the Fabric pane, it is helpful to:
•Turn off end device labels
•Collapse loops
•Collapse expanded multiple links (collapsed multiple links are shown as very thick single lines)
•Dim or hide portions of your fabric by VSAN
Note When a VSAN, zone, or zone member is selected in the VSAN tree, the map highlighting changes to
identify the selected objects. To remove this highlighting, click the Clear Highlight button on the Fabric
pane toolbar or choose Clear Highlight from the pop-up menu.
Fibre Channel ISL and edge connection.
Fibre Channel PortChannel.
IP ISL and edge connection.
IP PortChannel.
Fibre Channel loop (storage).
IP cloud (hosts). This icon is also used to represent
a fabric when viewing a SAN (multiple fabrics) in
the Fabric Manager Fabric pane.
Any device, cloud, or loop with a box around it
means that there are hidden links attached.
Table 3-1 Fabric Manager Graphics (continued)
Icon or Graphic Description