Cisco Systems MDS 9000 Physical Attributes Pane, Status Bar, Context Menus

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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

Physical Attributes Pane

Use the Physical Attributes pane to display a tree of the options available for managing the switches in

the currently selected fabric, VSAN, or zone.

To select an option, click a folder to display the options available and then click the option. You see the

table with information for the selected option in the Information pane. The Physical Attributes pane

provides the following main folders:

•Switches—Views and configures hardware, system, licensing, and configuration files.

•Interfaces—Views and configures FC Physical, FC Logical, Ethernet, SVC, and PortChannel

interfaces.

•FC Services—Views and configures Fibre Channel network configurations.

•IP—Views and configures IP storage and IP services.

•Events—Views and configures events, alarms, thresholds, notifications, and informs.

•Security—Views and configures MDS management and FC-SP security.

•ISLs—Views and configures Inter-Switch Links.

•End Devices—Views and configures end devices.

The status bar at the bottom of the Fabric Manager window shows the last entry displayed by the

discovery process, and the possible error message on the right side. The status bar displays a message

stating that something has changed in the fabric and a new discovery is needed. The status bar shows

both short-term, transient messages (such as the number of rows displayed in the table), and long-term

discovery issues.

When you right-click an icon in the Fabric pane, you see a pop-up menu with options that vary depending

on the type of icon selected. The various options available for different objects include the following:

•Open an instance of Device Manager for the selected switch.

•Open a CLI session for the selected switch.

•Copy the display name of the selected object.

•Execute a ping or traceroute command for the device.

•Show or hide end devices.

•View attributes

•Quiesce and disable members for PortChannels

•Set the trunking mode for an ISL.

•Create or add to a PortChannel for selected ISLs.

The Fabric pane has its own toolbar with options for saving, printing, and changing the appearance of

the map. When you right-click on the map, a pop-up menu appears that provides options (duplicated on

the toolbar) for changing the appearance of the map.