Viewing Dashboard Information
The Cisco DCNM Web Client dashboard gives you comprehensive information of the following:
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Summary - You can view the summary dashboard which displays the overall functioning of all the devices connected. It gives you daily statistics of the connected devices.
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Dynamic Fabric Automation - You can view the status of the inter switch links and edge ports.
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Compute - You can view the details and events for a particular Host along with its events and topology.
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Switch Dashboard - You can view details pertaining to a switch along with its current status and licensing information.
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Storage - You can view details about the storage device along with its events and topology.
Summary
The intent of the summary dashboard is to enable network and storage administrators to focus on particular areas of concern around health and performance of the data center switching as a snapshot of the last 24 hours. The functional view of the LAN and SAN switching consists of six dynamic portlets that display information in context of the selected scope. The scope can be adjusted in the upper center of the page to display more focused information particular to the managed domain and offers details of the specific topology or set of topologies part of the data center scope.
The following portlets are displayed on the summary dashboard:
Health
Broken into two sections listing specific problem areas by type of alert (host, ISL/trunks, VSAN, switch, storage) and events in the form of traps and syslogs listed in order of their severity for a period of 24 hours. The events and problems are hyper-linked to Health>Events and are filtered only for the clicked entity allowing you to drill down to particular problem or event for the contextual information. The events and problems change in context of the selected topology scope to display fabrics (SAN) and switches (LAN) that are part of the default or user defined group. The Health pane will display counts for Path not redundant and Missing Paths which will redirect to the SAN Path Errors section.To customize these groups to display more granular information see the Managing Switch Groups section.
Inventory
Displays the currently discovered inventory based on the selected scope. Switch inventory is broken into FC (Director vs Switch) and Ethernet and Virtual environment totals (VSAN and VLAN configuration). The bar graphs depicts used vs. available for capacity planning.
Click the + icon in the upper right corner to display 6 new boxes displaying detailed inventory for the logical environment, physical switches, ISLs of various types, modules installed (director class line cards and switches are shown), Ports which are broken into type (FC vs. Ethernet) with sub-categories showing counts based on speed. The final box displays Port Capacity, which shows percentage of ports used and calculates the days remaining of available ports based on consumption of available ports. By clicking the square icon in the upper right corner you will return to the previous view
Top CPU
Displays CPU utilization for the discovered switches over the last 24 hours with a red bar displaying the high watermark for that 24 hour period.
Click the + symbol in the upper right corner to display more detailed information of the average percentage of usage, peak percentage of usage, and the last time the information was updated
Top ISLs/Trunks
Displays the performance data for the top 10 performing ISLs and/or Trunk ports. Each entry shows current receive and transmit percentage with a graph depicting the percentage of time each trunk spent exceeding the currently configured thresholds, see the Performance Manager Collections section. Clicking on the bar graph to the left of each entry will provide a 24 hour graph for the selected item to provide context to the performance data being shown.
Click the + symbol in the upper right corner to display more detailed information on each entry by displaying the speed of the ISL/Trunk, the average and peak receive data, the average and peak transmit data, the combined receive and transmit data, the total number of errors and discards in the last 24 hours, and the time the data was last updated. By clicking the square icon in the upper right corner you will return to the previous view.
Top SAN Host Ports
Displays the performance data for the top 10 performing SAN host ports. Each entry shows current receive and transmit percentage with a graph depicting the percentage of time each trunk spent exceeding the currently configured thresholds, see the Performance Manager Collections section. Clicking on the bar graph to the left of each entry will provide a 24 hour graph for the selected item to provide context to the performance data being shown.
Click the + symbol in the upper right corner to display more detailed information on each entry by displaying the speed of the ISL/Trunk, the average and peak receive data, the average and peak transmit data, the combined receive and transmit data, the total number of errors and discards in the last 24 hours, and the time the data was last updated. By clicking the square icon in the upper right corner you will return to the previous view.
Top SAN Storage Ports
Displays the performance data for the top 10 performing SAN host ports. Each entry shows current receive and transmit percentage with a graph depicting the percentage of time each trunk spent exceeding the currently configured thresholds, see the Performance Manager Collections section. Clicking on the bar graph to the left of each entry will provide a 24 hour graph for the selected item to provide context to the performance data being shown.
Click the + symbol in the upper right corner to display more detailed information on each entry by displaying the speed of the ISL/Trunk, the average and peak receive data, the average and peak transmit data, the combined receive and transmit data, the total number of errors and discards in the last 24 hours, and the time the data was last updated. By clicking the square icon in the upper right corner you will return to the previous view.
Viewing Health Summary Information
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Dashboard > Summary and then see the Health Summary view.
In the left side of the window, you see a summary table of problems and in the right side of the window, you see a summary table of events in the last 24 hours.
Step 2 Click the warnings next to Switches, ISLs, Hosts, or Storage (other than 0) to see an inventory of switches, ISLs, or end devices for that fabric.
Step 3 Choose the number of events next to the event severity levels (Emergency, Alert, Critical, Error, Warning, Notice, Info, or Debug) to see a summary of events and descriptions.
Viewing Performance Summary Information
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
To view performance information, you must activate performance collector.
From the menu bar, choose Dashboard > Summary, and then click Daily Performance view.
You see the Summary information.
The Top SAN Ports, Top SAN Storage Ports, Top ISL’s/Trunks and Top Access Ports are Performance pods that are displayed depending on the pods selected.
If you select the Scope as default_SAN, a new area Daily Performance is displayed. For more information see the Daily Performance section.
Viewing Inventory Summary Information
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Dashboard > Summary.
The Inventory summary pane is displayed.
Step 2 Click the + icon or double-click the Inventory summary pane to view information for the selected scope only.
The complete inventory details are displayed.
Differences by changing the Scope to default LAN or configured switch group
Note To configure switch groups, see the Managing Switch Groups section.
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Health - Only LAN events are displayed.
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Inventory - Only LAN switch data is displayed
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Top ISLs/Trunks - Only displays LAN based ISLs/Trunks
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Top CPU - Only displays CPU data for the LAN switches
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Top Access Ports - Displays LAN access port performance information.
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A new area Topology is displayed. For more information, see the Topology section.
Topology
This displays the current physical topology with color- coding (displayed with a key in the lower right corner) for ISL utilization. You can hover over the switch indication circles to display the configured switch name, IP address, switch model, firmware version, last polled CPU utilization, and last polled memory utilization.
You can toggle to display memory or CPU utilization on the switch indicators, by clicking the memory or CPU tachometer in the upper left corner in the topology map to display peak utilization for the last 24 hours on those switches. In addition the ISL/Trunk paths are also color-coded based on their TX+RX peak utilization. You can hover over the ISL/Trunk to show list of ports that create the connection and click on individual paths to launch the performance chart showcasing TX and RX utilization for the last 24 hours.
Click the + symbol in the upper-right corner to maximize the window and enables you to drag the switch icons to best display their infrastructure. Once icons are placed in the most desirable position you can save the layout by clicking the Save icon in the upper-left corner of the topology map. If the layout is moved you can restore the previously saved layout during the current session by clicking the Restore icon in the upper-left corner next to the save icon.
When the number of nodes is large, the switch information will not be displayed, as it cannot be accommodated on the page. However, if you click the Switch Name or use filters down to a subset, you will be able to view the switch information.
Differences by changing the Scope to default SAN or configured switch group
Note To configure switch groups, see the Managing Switch Groups section.
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Health - Only SAN within scope events are displayed.
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Inventory: Only SAN switch data within the inventory is displayed
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Top SAN Host Ports: Displays SAN host port performance information within scope.
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Top SAN Storage Ports: Displays SAN storage port performance information within scope.
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Topology: Displays SAN topology within scope.
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A new area Daily Performance is displayed. For more information, see the Daily Performance section.
Daily Performance
This area displays the total performance of the displayed scope broken into three sections. ISL, Host and Storage. Total monitored port count per area is shown below the circular graph.
Each of the circular graphs will display the percentage of utilization based on 3 different thresholds depicted with color differentiation as follows:
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0-50%: Green
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51-80%: Yellow
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81-100%: Red
You can click each displayed area to view performance data for only the ports, which fall within each performance scope. This will display more detailed information on each entry by displaying the name of the port. Click the bar graph icon to display the historical performance data for the selected port. A full performance graph also appears on the bottom of the screen displaying the last 24 hours, week, month, and year.
You can switch the graph to be displayed as a histogram and to perform predictive analysis on the port showing the most likely performance over the next 6 months based on the historical data gathered for the port. Click the + icon in the bar graph to overlay the performance data of any other port by clicking on the + icon and then clicking the graph icon next to another port listed above. The VSAN/VLAN configuration, speed of the trunk/ISL the average and peak receive data, the average and peak transmit data, the combined receive and transmit, the total number of errors and discards in the last 24 hours, and the last time the data was updated are also displayed.
To return to the summary view, from the menu bar select Dashboard>Network.
Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA)
The topology for the DFA Fabric provides a tiered, scalable display for all the spines and leaves in the fabric. The topology feature also provides a visualization showing the health of the Central Point of Management (CPoM)(, which includes accessibility of DCNM to different services such as Power on Auto Provisioning (POAP) and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol service ( LDAP).
The topology views are also integrated with an event/messaging mechanism using the open source package BlazeDS to dynamically update the display whenever any changes in the network are detected
There are two separate views:
Note You can use the Topology View or Table View icons to switch between different views.
Inter Switch Links View
This view displays the spines and leaves in a tiered fashion. The spines are displayed in the top tier under the section <number of> Spines, and the leaves are displayed under the section ‘<number of> Leaves’. All the nodes are shown as circles. The color of the circle depends on the status of the links or the status of the switch according to the color coding legend displayed under the Nodes section in the left-hand pane.
The numbers on the circles indicate how many links are down currently on the switch. The numbers are not displayed in case of green (all links are OK) or grey circle (unreachable).
Clicking on the spine or leaf node disables all other nodes in that tier and displays detailed information about the links for the selected node in the left-side pane. The status column in the table shows the status of the link as an icon.
When the mouse is hovered over the target switch, the link between the 2 nodes is shown as a line along with a detailed popup. The popup displays the source port, target port, and status. Also, the corresponding row in the table on the left side panel is highlighted
Clicking on the selected node again will deselect the node and enable all the disabled nodes.
The color of the line specifying the link between the switches depends on the status of the link as defined below.
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Green – Links status is Normal.
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Red – Link is down
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Blue – Cable/Tier mismatch detected
When a node is selected, the status of the link between the selected node and all the target nodes that the selected node is connected to is depicted by a colored halo around the original circle. The color of the halo depends on the status of the link, as specified above.
You can click Override Switch Role to change the role of a switch from leaf to spine and vice-versa.
You can click DFA Health to view the status of DFA components.
You can click DFA Health to view the status of DFA components
Fabric View
You can view all the Spines and Leaves, and can visually see if the DFA setup is correct. This view will display the fabric path links status. If all the elements are green, then all the links are up. If they are in yellow or red, it depicts that the link has an issue. When the color is black, then the link is unreachable. The switch details are displayed in the left-hand pane. You can also click the Selected Switch name to view the Switch Dashboard.)
When you click any leaf node, DCNM displays its connections to the spines, physical ports and status of the links. All the links with details will be displayed on the left-hand pane, and a popup displays the details for each link.
When you click any spine node, DCNM displays its connections to the leaves, physical ports and status of the links. All the links with details will be displayed on the left-hand pane, and a popup displays the details for each link.
The Show Links checkbox enables you to view links between the Spines and the Leaves.
Search
The search box in the left side panel provides a quicker way to search for a spine or leaf by name. It also supports VM search, where a user can enter a VM name (partial or complete) and search for the leaf/leaves that the VM(s) belong to.
The search box provides an auto-complete feature, which filters and shows the matched switch names in a drop down as the user types into the text box. User can type the partial or complete switch name in the box and enter to see the filtered results. If only one node matches the entered text, then that node is selected and the rest of the nodes in the tier are disabled. The details for the links for that node are displayed on the left side panel. If multiple switch names match the entered text, all the matched nodes are, but no details are shown in the left side panel.
Edge Ports View
Edge Ports view provides a view of the leaf nodes as VPC pairs. The visualization provides an interface similar to Fabric Path Links view but with details specific to VPC feature.
Each leaf is shown as paired with its VPC peer, with the line between the pair indicating the VPC link. The numbers on the nodes indicate the number of edge ports down for that node.
The color of the circle depends on the status of the edge ports or the status of the switch.
Clicking on a node selects the node and its peer (if any) and shows the edge port status details for that node in the left side panel, as shown below.
On Selecting a single VPC pair, specific information about the VPC setup such as VPC domain ID, VPC peer names, VPC consistency state, VPC Peerlink consistency, Primary VPC Port Channel ID, VPC role for each peer, primary VPC peer link ID, Secondary VPC port channel ID and secondary VPC Peerlink ID are all displayed in a short table above the interface listing.
No specific information is overloaded on the link colors, since the link is intended to represent both the Peer link and the keep alive link between peers.
You can click DFA Health to view the status of DFA components.
You can click DFA Health to view the status of DFA components
DFA Health
This view (popup) can be accessed by clicking on DFA Health hyperlink on any of the topology visualization screens.
This view shows health of different services as defined by their accessibility from DCNM. These services include POAP (Power on Auto Provisioning), XCP (Extensible Communications Platform) service, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) service, etc., and the orchestrator which in turn is connected to different vCDs.
The node color is either green, which means the service is up and running and is accessible to DCNM, or red, which mean the service is down and cannot be accessed.
Switch Dashboard
The switch dashboard displays the details of the selected switch. The system information area includes the logical name of the switch, the group where the switch belongs, model number of the switch, serial number of the switch, the switch version, the location of the switch, IP address, model, world wide name (WWN) if available, uptime, DCNM license, status of the switch, indicators to determine whether the switch is sending traps and syslog information, current central processor unit (CPU) and memory utilization.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Dashboard > Network.
Step 2 An inventory of all the switches that are discovered by Cisco DCNM Web Client appears. Click on a switch in the Name column. The switch dashboard appears.
Step 3 (Optional) Click ssh to access the switch through Secure Shell (SSH).
Step 4 (Optional) Click Device Manager to access the switch through Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for that switch.
Step 5 (Optional) Click Accounting to go to the Viewing Accounting Information page for that switch.
Step 6 (Optional) Click Backup to go to the Viewing a Configuration page.
Step 7 (Optional) Click Events to go to the Viewing Events Registration page.
This physical port capacity feature is available for Cisco DCNM licensed switches only.
The physical port capacity area includes the available ports in each tier, such as 40G, 10G, 8G, 4G, 2G, and 1G and also the predicted number of days remaining to reach the maximum (100%) utilization.
Step 8 Click a number under the Days left column to view the capacity trend.
Step 9 Choose the Modules tab to display all the modules that are discovered on the switch.
Step 10 Choose the Interfaces tab to display all the interfaces that are discovered for the switch. Select an interface row and right -click to view the following options:
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Port up... - Brings up a port.
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Port down... - Brings down a port.
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Access mode - Sets port in access mode.
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Trunk mode - Sets port in trunk mode.
Step 11 Select an option and in the CLI Authentication for the port window, specify the User Name and Password and click Connect to connect to the switch.
Note The CLI Authentication is required only if this is the first time you are performing an operation on an interface for a particular switch. For subsequent operations on the same switch, the authentication is not required.
A CLI window is displayed with the CLI details of the specific operation displayed at the bottom of the window.
Step 12 When you press Enter on your keyboard, a dialog is displayed confirming if you want to change the config on a selected interface.
Step 13 Close the Blades tab to display a list of UCS blades and their attributes.
Step 14 Click OK to continue or Cancel to abort the operation.
When you click on a link in the ConnectedTo column, you see the other end of where the interface is connected. For example, if the other end of the interface is a switch interface, then it launches the Interfaces tab of the switch that the interface is connected. If the interface is connected to an end device, then it launches the host or storage dashboard.
Step 15 Choose the Licenses tab to display all the licenses installed on the switch.
Step 16 Choose the Features tab to display a list of all the features installed on the switch. The features tab is displayed only on Cisco DCNM-SAN switches.
Compute
The compute dashboard provides you with all the information related to the discovered SAN and LAN hosts. It provides detailed information related to the network, such as I/O traffic, disk latency, CPU, memory statistics, topology, and events about each individual host and virtual machines that are configured on top of the virtual host. The compute dashboard consists of four panels:
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Host Enclosures panel—Lists the hosts and their network attributes.
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Traffic panel—Provides the I/O statistics, CPU and memory information, and disk latency of individual hosts or virtual machines.
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Topology panel—Provides end-to-end topology layout and path information between host enclosures and storage enclosures. The discovered virtual machines are displayed and when you select the virtual machine, the path to the SAN data source is displayed. You can toggle this view to list all data paths.
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Event panel—Provides information about events of all of the switch ports that are configured within a specific host enclosure.
This section contains the following topics:
Viewing Host Enclosures
Beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 7.x, you can view and search the network servers that are connected to the Cisco NX-OS devices. Cisco DCNM extends the fabric visibility up to the server and allows you to discover and search the end devices that are attached to the network.
Note Beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 7.x, Server Credentials, Servers, and Static Server-Adapter Mapping are no longer available.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Dashboard > Compute.
You see the list of hosts in the host enclosures table.
Step 2 Click the Show details icon next to the host enclosure to view more details.
You see the Events, topology and Traffic information in the dashboard.
Step 3 To edit the host name, double-click the Host Name, edit and then click the Apply Changes icon.
Step 4 You can click the Show Filter to filter the storage enclosures by Name or by IP Address.
Viewing Host Events
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Dashboard > Compute.
You see the list of hosts in the host enclosures table.
Step 2 Click the Events icon next to the host enclosure to view the Events panel.
Step 3 Click the + icon in the Events panel to expand.
A list of all the events for the selected Host is displayed.
Viewing Host Topology
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Dashboard>Compute.
You see the list of hosts in the host enclosures table
Step 2 Click the Show details icon next to the host enclosure to view the host topology details.
Step 3 Click the magnifier icons to zoom-in or zoom-out.
Step 4 Click the Fabric/Network icon to view the Fabric/Network path.
Step 5 Click the All Paths icon to view the complete set-up.
Step 6 Click the First Shortest Path icon to view the first shortest path.
Note Click Map View icon to enable the icons listed in Step 4, 5 and 6 above.
Step 7 Click the Tabular View icon to view the host topology in tabular format.
View Host Traffic
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Dashboard > Compute.
You see the list of hosts in the host enclosures table
Step 2 Click the Show details icon next to the host enclosure to view the host topology details.
Step 3 Use the drop-down to select the traffic according to the time duration.
Step 4 Select the icons to view the traffic as a Grid, Line Chart or Stacked Chart.
Step 5 In the Traffic pane, the Enclosure Traffic is displayed by default. Click the Traffic Utilization icon to view the traffic utilization. The daily average percentage of traffic utilization of the enclosure ports is displayed as a pie chart.
Network
Cisco DCNM Web Client enables you to view details of the switch including the system information, switch capacity, modules, interfaces, and licenses.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Dashboard > Network.
Step 2 An inventory of all the switches that are discovered by Cisco DCNM Web Client appears. Click on a switch in the Name column to view the Switch Dashboard.
Storage
The Storage dashboard provides you all the information about the SAN and LAN storage.
This section contains the following topics:
Viewing Storage Enclosure
Once a datasource is configured and the discovery is completed, the discovered storage system(s) are displayed in the Name column in storage enclosures
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Dashboard > Storage. Use the drop-down to select All, SAN Storage Enclosures or Storage Systems.
You see the storage enclosures table.
Step 2 Click the Show details icon next to the storage name to view more details.
You see the Events, Topology and Traffic information in the dashboard.
Step 3 You can click the Show Filter to filter the storage enclosures by Name or by IP Address.
Step 4 In the Traffic pane, the Enclosure Traffic is displayed by default. Click the Traffic Utilization icon to view the traffic utilization. The daily average percentage of traffic utilization of the enclosure ports is displayed as a pie chart.
Clicking on an individual port slice of the pie chart will display specific traffic utilization details for that port.
Note Only EMC and NetApp vendors are supported. The ‘Other’ storage discovery handler is vendor neutral, so it depends on the vendor’s conformity to SMI-S standards to retrieve and display information.
Viewing Storage Enclosure Events
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Dashboard > Storage. Use the drop-down to select All, SAN Storage Enclosures or Storage Systems.
You see the list of storage enclosures in the table.
Step 2 Click the Events icon next to the storage enclosure to view the Events panel.
Step 3 Click the + icon in the Events panel to expand.
A list of all the events for the selected storage enclosure is displayed.
Viewing Storage Enclosure Topology
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Dashboard > Storage. Use the drop-down to select All, SAN Storage Enclosures or Storage Systems.
You see the list of storage enclosures in the table.
Step 2 Click the Show details icon next to the storage enclosure to view the topology details.
Step 3 Click the magnifier icons to zoom-in or zoom-out.
Step 4 Click the Fabric/Network icon to view the Fabric/Network path.
Step 5 Click the All Paths icon to view the complete set-up.
Step 6 Click the First Shortest Path icon to view the shortest path.
Note Click Map View icon to enable the icons listed in Step 4, 5 and 6 above.
Step 7 Click the Tabular View icon to view the host topology in tabular format.
Viewing Storage Enclosure Traffic
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Dashboard > Storage. Use the drop-down to select All, SAN Storage Enclosures or Storage Systems.
You see the list of storage enclosures in the table
Step 2 Click the Show details icon next to the storage enclosure to view the topology details.
Step 3 Use the drop-down to select the traffic according to the time duration.
Step 4 Select the icons to view the traffic as a Grid, Line Chart or Stacked Chart.
Step 5 Click the Show Events icon to view the events.
Step 6 Use the options at the bottom of the screen to view a pie chart or a line chart. Click on each name on the chart to view its details.
Viewing Storage Systems
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Dashboard > Storage. Use the drop-down to select All, SAN Storage Enclosures or Storage Systems.
Note The datasource must be configured and discovered at least once to display the discovered storage system(s). For more information see Adding, editing, removing, rediscovering and refreshing SMI-S Storage.
Step 2 Select Click to see more details...icon to view the storage systems summary.
Step 3 Use the drop-down to select the Storage System. Only EMC and NetApp vendors are supported.
The default view consists of the storage system summary along with counts of it’s elements and graph indicating the total aggregate space used vs. free space.Click each name in the graph to go to the item in the left menu.
Step 4 The storage systems elements and their views are as follows:
Components
Components are containers for a set or sub-set of the disks in a storage system.The Component elements view displays a table of the disks in the collection, total number of disks managed and a summary of the collection’s used vs. raw space.
Step 1 Use the Storage System drop-down to select the storage system.
Step 2 The right-hand pane displays a summary of the storage components. Click each name to go to the item in the left menu
Step 3 Hover the mouse cursor on the graph to display its details.
Step 4 In the left-hand pane, select the storage component to view its details.
The number of disks managed along with its details are displayed.
Step 5 Click a Serial Number to display the disk and the mapped LUNs details.
Step 6 You can use the search box to search for a specific component.
Pools
Pools are user-defined collections of LUNs displaying the pool storage. The pools elements view displays a summary of the pools, lists the LUNs in the pool and also displays the total managed and raw space.
Step 1 Use the Storage System drop-down to select the storage system.
The bar graph next to each pool indicates the total managed space of that pool.
Step 2 In the left-hand pane, select a pool to display:
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Status of the pool
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LUN’s in the pool displaying the total raw space and the total managed space.
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Raid Type
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Disk Type
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Details of the LUNs in the pool
Step 3 You can use the search box to search for a specific pool.
LUNs
LUNs refer to a storage volume or a collection of volumes abstracted into a single volume. It is a unit of storage which can be pooled for access protection and management. Each LUN in the LUN Element View is displayed along with the mapping from Hosts to LUNs. If the associated Fabric has also been discovered, additional information concerning the end-to-end connection between a host and LUN is also displayed.
Step 1 Use the Storage System drop-down to select the storage system.
Step 2 In the left-hand pane, select a LUN to display:
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The LUN details along with its status and the number of Associated Hosts.
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The Host LUN Mapping details along with the Access (Granted) information.
If the associated Fabric has also been discovered, additional information about the switch interfaces and zoning concerning the end-to-end connection between the Host and LUN is also displayed.
Note All fabrics that are discovered must be licensed or the fabric correlation will be disabled in the Web Client. When the feature is disabled, all correlation fields display “Unlicensed Fabric”.
Step 3 You can use the search box to search for a specific LUN.
Filer Volumes
Filer Volumes are applicable only for NetApp. The Filer Volume Element view displays the Status, Containing Aggregate along with the total capacity and used space.
Step 1 Use the Storage System drop-down to select the storage system.
Step 2 In the left-hand pane, select the filer to display:
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The status of the filer along with the containing aggregate name.
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Hover the mouse cursor over the graph to view the total capacity and available storage of the filer.
Step 3 You can use the search box to search for a specific Filer.
Hosts
The Hosts only describes the NWWN(s) associated with a host or host enclosure along with the associated Host LUN Mapping and the Host Ports. If the associated Fabric has also been discovered, additional information concerning the end-to-end connection between a host and LUN is also displayed.
Step 1 Use the Storage System drop-down to select the storage system.
Step 2 In the left-hand pane, select a host to display:
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The NWWN (Node WWN) is the WWN of the device connected to the switch.
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The Host Ports along with the Host LUN Mapping.
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In the Host Ports section, click a Host Enclosure Name to view its Events, Topology and SAN Traffic. For more information see the Storage section.
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In the Host Ports sections, click a Host Interface to view the Switch Dashboard.
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In the Host LUN Mapping section, click a Storage Interface to view the Switch Dashboard.
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In the Host LUN Mapping section, click a Storage Name to view its Events, Topology and SAN Traffic. For more information see the Storage section.
If the associated Fabric has also been discovered, additional information about the switch interfaces and zoning concerning the end-to-end connection between the Host and LUN is also displayed.
Note All fabrics that are discovered must be licensed or the fabric correlation will be disabled in the Web Client. When the feature is disabled, all correlation fields display “Unlicensed Fabric”.
Step 3 You can use the search box to search for a specific host.
Storage Processors
Storage Processors are elements on a storage system, which enable some of its features. A storage processor includes the collection of Storage Ports it manages. In the Storage Processor Element View, the list of Storage Ports associated with a Storage Processor is displayed.
Step 1 Use the Storage System drop-down to select the storage system.
Step 2 In the left-hand pane, select a storage processor to display:
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The status, adapter details and the number of ports of the storage processor.
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The storage ports details.
Step 3 You can use the search box to search for a specific storage processor.
Storage Ports
A storage port is a single port on the Storage System. It displays the summary information of each port selected.
Step 1 Use the Storage System drop-down to select the storage system.
Step 2 In the left-hand pane, select a storage port to display its details.
Step 3 You can use the search box to search for a specific storage port.
Viewing Performance Information
The Performance option displays an overview of the average and peak throughput and link utilization of the SAN components. The Filter drop-down list at the top-right of the screen allows you to filter the data based on various time periods.
In a large scale environment, we recommend that you select only select only "Trunks" and not the "Access or Errors and Discards" option during Performance Collections operations. This will ensure optimal performance monitored and managed entities in DCNM and allow successful Performance collection.
All performance pages allows you to print the page and export to Excel, By default, the Export To Excel icon is the export traffic number in raw digit format. You can export the same unit number for the traffic data, such as GB/Gb/MB/Mb/KB/Kb/B/b, For example; If you want to display the traffic numbers in GB, you need to modify the server.properties fileto set export.unitless=false and export.unit=GB.
If you set export.unitless=false, and do not enter a value for the export.unit, it will display the default Web Client unit value.
Note You do not have to restart the DCNM server.
The Performance menu contains the following submenus:
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Switch—Shows the CPU, memory and traffic information.
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End Devices—Shows a detailed list of end devices (host or storage), port traffic and errors.
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ISLs—Shows a detailed list of ISL traffic and errors.
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NPV Links— Shows a detailed list of traffic between NPV devices and ports.
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Flows—Shows a detailed list of host-to-storage traffic.
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Ethernet—Shows a detailed list of Ethernet interfaces.
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Others—Shows a detailed list of other statistics.
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Virtual Port Channels—Shows a list of vPC utilization.
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N3K Buffer Usage - Displays performance of the N3K buffer usage and the total number of bursts during a specific time.
Rx/Tx Calculation
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Average Rx/Tx % = Average Rx/Tx divided by Speed * 100
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Peak Rx/Tx % = Peak Rx/Tx divided by Speed * 100
Note The conversion for Fabrics is 10 bit = 1 byte and for LAN traffic, the conversion is 8 bit = 1 byte.
Viewing Switch CPU Information
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > Switch > CPU.
You see the CPU pane. This pane displays the CPU information for the switches in that scope.
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 Hours, Week, Month and Year.
Step 3 In the Switch column, click the switch name to view the Switch Dashboard.
Step 4 Click the chart icon in the Switch column to view the CPU utilization. You can also change the chart timeline to 24 hours, Week, Month and Year.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
Viewing Switch Memory Information
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > Switch > Memory.
You see the memory panel. This panel displays the memory information for the switches in that scope
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year.
Step 3 Click the chart icon in the Name column to see a graph of the memory usage of the switch.
Step 4 In the Switch column, click the switch name to view the Switch Dashboard.
Step 5 You can use the drop-down to view the chart in different time lines. Use the chart icons to view the traffic chart in varied views.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
Viewing Switch Traffic and Errors Information
Step 1 .From the menu bar, choose Performance > Switch > Traffic.
You see the Switch Traffic and Errors panel. This panel displays the traffic on that device for the past 24 hours.
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year.
Step 3 To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save
Step 4 Click the switch name to view the Switch Dashboard.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
Viewing ISL Traffic and Errors Information
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > ISLs/Trunks.
You see the ISL Traffic and Errors pane. This panel displays the ISL information for the end devices in that scope. You can reduce or expand the scope of what is displayed by using the scope menu.
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year.
Notation NaN (Not a Number) in the data grid means that the data is not available.
There are variations to this procedure. In addition to these basic steps, you can perform the following steps to view detailed information for ISLs:
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To change the time range for this graph, select it from the drop-down list in the upper-right corner.
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To view the detailed information for a specific period, drag the slider control to choose the time interval for which you need the information.
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Use the chart icons to view the traffic chart in varied views.You can also use the icons to Append, Predict and Interpolate Data. To view real-time information, choose Real Time from the drop-down list in the upper right corner. The real-time data is updated in every 10 seconds.
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To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save.
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For the Rx/Tx calculation, see the Rx/Tx Calculation section.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance.
Viewing Performance Information for Ethernet Ports
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > Ethernet.
You see the Ethernet Traffic and Errors window.
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year.
There are variations to this procedure. In addition to these basic steps, you can also perform the following steps:
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Select the time range, and click Filter to filter the display.
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Select the name of an Ethernet port from the Name column to see a graph of the traffic across that Ethernet port for the past 24 hours. You can change the time range for this graph by selecting it from the drop-down list in the upper-right corner. To view real-time information, choose Real Time from the drop-down list in the upper-right corner.
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To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save
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Use the chart icons to view the traffic chart in varied views.You can also use the icons to Append, Predict and Interpolate Data.
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For the Rx/Tx calculation, see the Rx/Tx Calculation section.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
Viewing Other Statistics
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > Others.
You see the Others window.
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year.
There are variations to this procedure. In addition to these basic steps, you can also do the following:
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Select the time range, and click Filter to filter the display.
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Click the chart icon in the Switch column to see a graph of the performance for this user defined object. You can change the time range for this graph by selecting it from the drop-down list in the upper right corner.
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To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save
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Use the chart icons to view the traffic chart in varied views.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
Viewing Performance Information for NPV Links
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > NPV Links
You see the NPV Link and Traffic Errors window. This window displays the NPV links for the selected scope.
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year.
Step 3 Click the chart icon in the Name column to see a list of the traffic for the past 24 hours.
There are variations to this procedure. In addition to these basic steps, you can also perform the following steps to view detailed information for NPV links:
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You can change the time range for this information by selecting from the drop-down list in the upper-right corner.
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To view the detailed information for a specific period, drag the slider control to choose the time interval for which you need the information.
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Use the chart icons to view the traffic chart in varied views. You can also use the icons to Append, Predict and Interpolate Data.
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To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save.
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To view real-time information, choose Real Time from the drop-down list in the upper right corner. The real-time data is updated in every 10 seconds.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
Viewing Performance Information on All Ports
You can view the performance of devices connected to all ports.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > End Devices > All Ports.
You see the All Ports Traffic and Errors window.
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year.
Step 3 To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save.
Step 4 Click the chart icon in the Name column to see:
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A graph of the traffic on that device according to the selected timeline.
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Use the chart icons to view the traffic chart in varied views. To view real-time information, choose Real Time from the drop-down list in the upper right corner. The real-time data is updated in every 10 seconds.You can also use the icons to Append, Predict and Interpolate Data.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
Viewing Performance Information on Host Ports
You can view the performance of devices connected to the host ports
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > End Devices > Host Ports.
You see the Host Ports Traffic and Errors window.
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year
Step 3 To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save
Step 4 Click the chart icon in the Name column to see
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A graph of the traffic on that device according to the selected timeline.
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Use the chart icons to view the traffic chart in varied views. To view real-time information, choose Real Time from the drop-down list in the upper right corner. The real-time data is updated in every 10 seconds. You can also use the icons to Append, Predict and Interpolate Data.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection
Viewing Performance Information on Storage Ports
You can view the performance of devices connected to the storage ports.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > End Devices > Storage Ports.
You see the Storage Ports Traffic and Errors window.
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year.
Step 3 To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save.
Step 4 Click the chart icon in the Name column to see:
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A graph of the traffic on that device according to the selected timeline.
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Use the chart icons to view the traffic chart in varied views. To view real-time information, choose Real Time from the drop-down list in the upper right corner. The real-time data is updated in every 10 seconds.You can also use the icons to Append, Predict and Interpolate Data.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
Viewing Performance Information on Host Enclosure
You can view the performance of devices connected to the host enclosure.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > End Devices > Host Enclosure.
You see the Host Enclosures Traffic and Errors window.
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year.
Step 3 To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save.
Step 4 Click the chart icon in the Name column to see:
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A graph of the traffic on that device according to the selected timeline.
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Use the chart icons to view the traffic chart in varied views.
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You can also use the icons to Append, Predict and Interpolate Data.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
Viewing Performance Information on Storage Enclosure
You can view the performance of devices connected to the storage enclosure.
Step 1 .From the menu bar, choose Performance > End Devices > Storage Enclosure.
You see the Storage Enclosures Traffic and Errors window.
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year.
Step 3 To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save.
Step 4 Click the chart icon in the Name column to see:
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A graph of the traffic on that device according to the selected timeline.
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Use the chart icons to view the traffic chart in varied views.
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You can also use the icons to Append, Predict and Interpolate Data.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
Viewing Performance Information on Port Groups
You can view the performance of devices connected to the port groups.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > End Devices > Port Groups.
You see the Port Groups Traffic and Errors window.
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year.
Step 3 Click the name port group to see the members of that port group.
There are variations to this procedure. In addition to these basic steps, you can also perform the following steps to view detailed information for the port groups:
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To change the time range for this graph, select it from the drop-down list in the upper right corner.
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To view the detailed information for a specific period, drag the slider control to choose the time interval for which you need the information.
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Use the chart icons to view the traffic chart in varied views.
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You can also use the icons to Append, Predict and Interpolate Data.
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To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
Viewing Performance Information for FC Flows
You can view the performance of the FC Flow traffic
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > FC Flows.
You see the Flow Traffic window.
Step 2 You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year.
Step 3 To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save.
Step 4 Click the chart icon in the Name column to see:
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A graph of the traffic on that device according to the selected timeline.
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Use the chart icons to view the traffic chart in varied views. To view real-time information, choose Real Time from the drop-down list in the upper right corner.
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You can also use the icons to Append, Predict and Interpolate Data.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
Viewing Performance Information for Virtual Port Channels
You can view the relationship among virtual port channels (vPCs). You can view the statistics of all member interfaces and the aggregate of the statistics at the port channel level.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > Virtual Port Channels (vPC).
The vPC performance statistics appears and the aggregated statistics of all vPCs are displayed in a tabular manner.
Step 2 Click on a device name in the Primary vPC peer or Secondary vPC peer column to view its member interface.
A popup window displays the member interfaces of the selected device.
Step 3 Click the Chart icon of the corresponding interface to view its historical statistics.
The traffic distribution statistics appear at the bottom of the vPC window. By default, the Cisco DCNM Web Client displays the historical statistics for 24 hours.
There are variations to this procedure. In addition to these basic steps, you can also perform the following steps to view detailed information for flows:
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To change the time range for this graph, select it from the drop-down list in the upper right corner.
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To view the detailed information for a specific period, drag the slider control to choose the time interval for which you need the information.
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Use the chart icons to view the traffic chart in varied views.
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You can also use the icons to Append, Predict and Interpolate Data.
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To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
N3K Buffer Usage
You can view the performance of the N3K buffer usage and the total number of bursts during a specific time.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Performance > N3K Buffer Usage
You see the N3K Buffer Usage window which displays the average number of burst per hour, maximum number of burst per hour and the total number of burst per hour.
Step 2 To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export to Excel icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save.
Step 3 Click the chart icon in the Name column to see:
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A bar chart of the hourly based burst number for the selected interface.
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Clicking each item in the bar chart will open a detailed buffer burst window for the selected hour.
Note If the performance tables do not contain any data, see the Performance Manager Collections section to turn on performance data collection.
Viewing Inventory Information
Beginning with Cisco DCNM release 7.x, you can view the inventory and the performance for both SAN and LAN switches by using the global Scope pane. You can select LAN, SAN, or both to view the inventory information. You can also export and print the inventory information.
You can either Print this information or export to Microsoft Excel.
The Inventory menu includes the following submenus:
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Switches—Displays details about switches.
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Modules—Displays details for MDS switching and services modules, fans and power supplies.
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ISLs/Trunks—Displays the Inter-Switch Links.
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Licenses—Displays details about the licenses in use in the fabric.
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NPV Links—Displays the links between NPV devices and ports.
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VSANs—Displays details about VSANs.
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Active Zones— Displays details about the Regular and IVR zones.
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FC End Devices—Displays details about the devices connected to the various ports.
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.Port Mapper—Displays the port mapper information.
Note You can use the Print icon to print the information displayed or you can also use the Export to Excel icon to export the information displayed to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Viewing Inventory Information for Switches
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Inventory > Switches.
You see the Switches window displaying a list of all the switches for a selected Scope.
Step 2 You can also view the following information.
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In the Name column, select a switch to display the Switch Dashboard. For more information about switch dashboard, see the Switch Dashboard section.
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Use the drop-down to view All, Warning or Unmanaged switches.
Step 3 In the Health column, the switch health is calculated by the capacity manager based on the following formula in the server.properties file.
The function to implement is
# calculate(x, x1, y, y1, z)
# @param x: Total number of modules
# @param x1: Total number of modules in warning
# @param y: Total number of switch ports
# @param y1: Total number of switch ports in warning
# @param z: Total number of events with severity of warning or above
Step 4 The value in the Health column is calculated based on the following default equation.
((x-x1)*1.0/x) *0.4 + ((y-y1)*1.0/y)*0.3 + ((z*1.0/1000>=1) ? 0: ((1000-z)*1.0/1000)*0.3).
In the above formula, the switch health value is calculated based on the following:
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Percentage of Warning Modules (Contributes 40% of the total health).
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Percentage of Warning Ports (Contributes 30% of the total health)
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Percentage of events with severity of Warning or above (Contributes 30% of the total health. If there are more than 1000 warning events, the event health value is 0).
You may also have your own health calculation formula by implementing the common interface class:com.cisco.dcbu.sm.common.rif.HealthCalculatorRif. Add the.jar file to the DCNM server and modify the health.calculator property to point to the class name you have created.
The default Java class is defined as:health.calculator=com.cisco.dcbu.sm.common.util.HealthCalculator.
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Capacity Manager calculates health only for the license switches. If the health column does not display a value, the switch either does not have a license or it has missed the capacity manager’s daily cycle.
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If the switch is unlicensed, in the DCNM License column click Unlicensed. The Admin>License window appears which allows you to assign a license to the user.
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The capacity manager runs two hours after the DCNM server starts. So, if you discover a device after two hours of the DCNM start time, the health will be calculated 24 hours after this DCNM start time
Viewing Inventory Information for Modules
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Inventory > Modules.
You see the Modules window displaying a list of all the switches and its details for a selected Scope.
You can also view the following information:
Step 2 In the Name column, select a switch to display the Switch Dashboard. For more information about switch dashboard, see the Switch Dashboard section.
Step 3 Use the drop-down to view All, Warning or Unmanaged switches
Viewing Inventory Information for ISLs/Trunks
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Inventory > ISLs/Trunks.
You see the ISLs window displaying the ISL details along with the speed and status of the ISLs.
Step 2 Use the drop-down to view All or Warning information for the ISLs.
Viewing Inventory Information for Licenses
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Inventory > Licenses.
You see the Licenses window displaying the license type and the warnings. based on the selected Scope.
Step 2 In the Name column, select a switch to display the Switch Dashboard. For more information about switch dashboard, see the Switch Dashboard section.
Step 3 Use the drop-down to view All, Warning or Unmanaged switches.
Viewing Inventory Information for NPV Links
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Inventory > NPV Links
You see the NPV Links window displaying the NPV details along with the speed and status of the NPV links.
Step 2 Use the drop-down to view All, Warning or Unmanaged switches.
Viewing Inventory Information for VSANs
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Inventory > VSANs.
You see the VSAN window displaying the VSAN details along with the status and Activate Zoneset details.
Step 2 Use the drop-down to view All or Warning information for the VSANs.
Viewing Inventory Information for Regular Zones
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Inventory > Active Zones > Regular Zones.
You see the Regular Zones window displaying the inventory details of the fabrics in the regular zone.
Step 2 Click the Show Filter icon to enable filtering by VSAN or Zone.
Viewing Inventory Information for IVR Zones
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Inventory > Active Zones > IVR Zones
You see the IVR Zones window displaying the inventory details of the fabrics in the IVR zone.
Step 2 Click the Show Filter icon to enable filtering by Zone.
Viewing Inventory Information for All Ports on FC End Devices
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Inventory > End Devices > All Ports.
You see the End Devices window displaying details of the FC End Devices on the all the ports.
Step 2 Use the drop-down to view All or Warning information for the FC End devices.
Step 3 Click the Show Filter icon to enable filtering by Enclosure, Name or VSAN.
Viewing Inventory Information for Host Ports on FC End Devices
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Inventory > End Devices > Host Ports.
You see the End Devices>Host Ports window displaying details of the FC End Devices on the host ports.
Step 2 Use the drop-down to view All or Warning information for the FC End devices on host ports.
Step 3 Click the Show Filter icon to enable filtering by Enclosure, Name or VSAN.
Viewing Inventory Information for Storage Ports on FC End Devices
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Inventory > End Devices > Storage Ports.
You see the End Devices>Storage Ports window displaying details of the FC End devices on the storage ports
Step 2 Use the drop-down to view All or Warning information for the FC End devices on storage ports.
Step 3 Click the Show Filter icon to enable filtering by Enclosure, Name or VSAN.
Viewing Inventory Information for Port Mapper
Beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 7.x, you can view information about all the logical and physical ethernet interfaces of all the devices that are discovered by the Cisco DCNM Web Client.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Inventory > Port Mapper.
You see the Port Mapper window displaying the details listed in
Table 2-2
Table 2-2 Port Mapper Inventory
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Device
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Name of the device to which the interface belongs.
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Interface Name
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Name of the interface.
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Description
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Description of the interface.
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Mode
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Mode of the interface.
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Admin Status
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Admin status of the port.
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Operational status
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Operational status for the port.
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Speed
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Speed for the interface. It is not the configured speed.
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Duplex
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Single port channel that is connected to two single chassis vPC end points.
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STP Protocol
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Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) whether or not the Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST), Multiple Spanning Tree (MST), and rapid-PVST is configured.
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Access/Allowed VLANs
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Access VLAN is displayed if the port mode is access or displays allowed VLAN if the port mode is trunk.
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Built-in MAC Address
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MAC address for the port.
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IP Address/Mask
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IP address configured on the port and the IP mask.
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SFP Serial Number
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Serial number of the Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) if it is attached on the port
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Step 2 Click the Show Filter icon to filter the port mapping information.
The filter options in the Device, Interface Name, Description, Access/Allowed VLANs, Built-in MAC Address, IP Address/Mask, and SFP SerialNumber column allows you to enter text inputs in the respective field and search. In addition, you can use the drop-down list in the Mode, Admin Status, Operational Status, Speed, Duplex, and STP Protocol column to limit the objects that appear in the report.
Step 3 Click the Print icon to print the port mapping report of the selected device.
Step 4 Click the Export to Excel icon to export the port mapping report of the selected device to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Step 5 Click a cell in the STP Protocol column
A popup window displays the STP settings of the port.
Step 6 Click the Show Filter icon to filter the STP settings.
Configuring Cisco DCNM Web Client
Using Cisco DCNM Web Client, you can periodically start and backup the running configurations of a switch. You can also view backed-up configurations, schedule configuration backups, compare two backed-up configurations and copy a backed-up configuration.
Note You must configure a backup server with Admin/SFTP credentials to create a new backup job.
Beginning with Cisco DCNM Release 7.x, the backup for the LAN configuration are also supported and the backup is skipped for the all the switches where there are no configuration changes.
This section includes the following topics:
Viewing a Configuration
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Config>View.
You see the Groups, Eligible Switches and their configuration information.
Step 2 Select a fabric from the Groups list.
The Groups pane displays the global view with SAN, LAN, and Default LAN groups. Depending upon the value selected in the Groups pane, the eligible switches and their configurations are listed.
Step 3 From the Eligible Switch(es) list, select a switch.
Step 4 From the Configuration file list, select a configuration filename.
Step 5 Click View to view the configuration file.
Step 6 Click Delete to delete the configuration file.
Step 7 Click Copy Local File to DB... to save the configuration file to the local machine.
Step 8 Select the Show All checkbox to display all the configurations present, irrespective of the options selected in the global Scope pane
Comparing Configurations
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Compare.
You see the compare configuration information with the Compare and Differences tabs.
Step 2 .From the Groups list, select a fabric.
Step 3 .From the Eligible Switch(es) list, select a switch.
Step 4 (Optional) Click the Archive, Running, or Startup radio button.
Step 5 Click Compare.
Step 6 Click the Differences tab to view differences in configuration based on the specified legend.
Step 7 Select the Show All checkbox to display all the configurations present, irrespective of the options selected in the global Scope pane.
Copying a Configuration
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config > copy.
You see the Groups, Eligible Switches and their configuration information.
Step 2 From the Groups list, select a fabric.
Step 3 From the Eligible Switch(es) list, select a switch.
Step 4 From the Configuration file list, select a configuration file name.
Step 5 Click Copy to copy the configuration file.
Step 6 Select the Show All checkbox to display all the configurations present, irrespective of the options selected in the global Scope pane.
Configuring Jobs
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Config > Jobs.
You see the scheduled jobs information along with its status.
Step 2 Click Create Job icon to create a new config archive job.
Step 3 Specify the Repeat information, Start and End date, Time and Comment.
Step 4 Click Create to create a new config archive job.
Step 5 Select a job and click Delete Job to delete a specific job
Storage Media Encryption
Encrypting storage media in the data center has become a critical issue. Numerous high profile incidents of lost or stolen tape and disk devices have underscored the risk and exposure companies face when sensitive information falls into the wrong hands. To satisfy the most demanding requirements, Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Media Encryption (SME) for the Cisco MDS 9000 family switches offers a highly scalable, reliable, and flexible solution that integrates encryption transparently as a fabric service for Fibre Channel SANs.
This section contains the following:
Selecting the Key Manager and SSL Settings
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Provision.
The Key Manager Settings window is displayed with the following options:
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None-No Key Manager selected for SME.
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Cisco-Cisco Key Manager selected for SME.
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RSA-RSA Key Manager selected for SME
Note Once you have selected a Key Manager, you will not be able to change it.
Step 1 Select one of the Radio buttons and click Submit Settings.
The Key Manager Settings window is displayed.
The KMC SSL Settings pane displays the location where the certificate is stored.
Step 2 If you want to edit the SSL Settings, click Edit SSL Settings.
Step 3 Use the drop-down to select the SME KMC Trust Certificate.
Step 4 Use the drop-down to select the SME KMC Server Certificate.
Step 5 Specify and confirm the Server Cert Password.
Step 6 Click Submit SSL Settings.
Step 7 In the High Availability Settings pane, click Edit HA Settings to specify the KMC Role of this Server and SME Secondary Server Address.
Step 8 Click Submit HA Settings to confirm.
Viewing SME Clusters
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Provision and select SME from the ribbon.
You see the SME: Clusters window displaying the Cluster Name, Status, Fabrics and Key Management Server.
Step 2 Click the cluster in the Name column to view its details.
Step 3 In the Type option, click Convert to Signature Mode... to convert the cluster type to Disk Signature.
Note Once you have chosen to convert the cluster type, you will not be able to change it again
Step 4 In the Confirm Action window, click Next.
Step 5 In the Convert Cluster window, click Auto to automatically convert the cluster type to Disk Signature
Creating a Cluster
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Provision and select SME from the ribbon.
Step 2 You see the SME: Clusters window displaying the Cluster Name, Status, Fabrics and Key Management Server.
Step 3 Select Create to create a new cluster
Step 4 Select the Cluster Type, specify a Cluster Name and click Next.
Step 5 Select the Fabric(s) and click Next.
Note You can select multiple fabrics by holding the Ctrl key on your keyboard and selecting the fabrics.
Step 6 Select the SME Interfaces from the list and click Next.
Step 7 Select the Security Type for the cluster and click Next.
Step 8 Specify the Primary Key Management Server and the Secondary Key Management Server of the cluster. Alternatively, you can also use the drop-down to select the Key Management Servers for the cluster and click Next.
Step 9 Specify the Transport Settings for the cluster.
Step 10 Click Confirm to confirm the new cluster setup
Configuring Templates
You can view various templates configured across different Nexus and MDS platforms along with the Name of the template, its Description, Platforms and Tags. This section contains the following:
Additionally, from the menu bar, select Config>Delivery>Templates and you can also:
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Click the Show Filter icon to filter the templates based on the headers.
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Click the Print icon to print the list of templates.
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Click the Export to Excel icon to export the list of template to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
Adding a Template
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Delivery>Templates.
You see the name of the template along with its description, Platforms and Tags.
Step 2 .Click the Add icon to add a template.
Step 3 .Specify a Template Name, Template Description, Tags and select the Supported Platforms.
The Template content is displayed in the right-hand pane.
Step 4 Click Validate Template Syntax to validate the template values.
Step 5 Click Save to save the template.
Step 6 Click Save and Exit to save the configuration and go back to the configuring templates screen.
Creating a Template Job
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config > Templates.
You see the name of the template along with its description, Platforms and Tags.
Step 2 Use the checkbox to select a template from the list.
Step 3 Click the Launch Job Creation Wizard icon and click Next.
Step 4 Use the drop-down to select the Device Scope.
Step 5 Use the arrows to select the devices for job creation and click Next.
Step 6 Specify the VSAN_ID, VLAN_ID, ETH_SLOT_NUMBER, VFC_SLOT_NUMBER, SWITCH_PORT_MODE, ETH_PORT_RANGE and ALLOWED_VLANS values.
Step 7 Use the checkbox Edit variables per device to edit the variables for specific devices and click Next.
Step 8 If multiple devices have been selected, use the drop-down to select a specific device and preview its configuration.Click Back to edit the configuration or click Next.
Step 9 Specify a Job Description and enter the Device Credentials.
Step 10 Use the radio button to select Deliver Instantly or Choose time to deliver. If you select Choose time to deliver, specify the date and time for the job delivery.
Step 11 Use the checkbox to select Copy Run to Start.
Step 12 If you want to configure additional Transaction and Delivery options, use the checkbox to select Show more options.
Step 13 Under Transaction Options (Optional), if you have a device with rollback feature support, select Enable Rollback checkbox and select the appropriate radio button.
Step 14 Under Delivery Options (Optional), specify the Timeout in seconds and use the radio button to select the Delivery Order.
Step 15 Click Finish to create the job.
A confirmation message is displayed that the job has been successfully created.
Editing a Template
Note The pre-defined templates cannot be edited.
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config > Templates.
You see the name of the template along with its description, Platforms and Tags.
Step 2 Select a template from the list and click the Modify/View template icon
Step 3 Edit the Template Description, Tags and select the Supported Platform
The edited Template content is displayed in the right-hand pane.
Step 4 Click Validate Template Syntax to validate the template values.
Step 5 Click Save to save the template.
Step 6 Click Save and Exit to save the configuration and go back to the configuring templates screen.
Importing a Template
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config > Templates and select the Import template icon.
Step 2 Select the template saved on your computer.
Step 3 Specify the Template Name, Template Description and Tags.
Step 4 Use the checkboxes to select the Supported Platforms or you can select the All option.
Step 5 Click Validate Template Syntax to validate the template.
Step 6 Click Save to save the template or Save and Exit to save the template and exit.
Exporting a Template
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config > Templates.
Step 2 Use the checkbox to select a template(s) and click the Export template icon.
Step 3 Specify a name for the template and select a location to save the template on your computer.
Deleting a Template
Note Pre-defined templates cannot be deleted.
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config > Templates.
Step 2 Use the checkbox to select a template(s) and click the Remove template icon.
Step 3 In the confirmation dialog box, click Yes to delete the template.
Configuring Jobs
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Delivery>Jobs.
The jobs are listed along with the Job ID, description and status.
Step 2 Click the Show Filter icon to filter the jobs by Job ID, Description, Devices and Status. In the Status column, use the drop-down to select the job status.
Step 3 Select a job and click the Delete icon to delete the job
Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)
POAP automates the process of upgrading software images and installing configuration files on Cisco Nexus switches that are being deployed in the network for the first time.
When a Cisco Nexus switch with the POAP feature boots and does not find the startup configuration, the switch enters POAP mode, locates a DHCP server and bootstraps itself with its interface IP address, gateway, and DNS server IP addresses. It also obtains the URL of an SCP server and downloads a configuration script that is run on the switch to download and install the appropriate software image and configuration file.
Note When you move the mouse cursor over an error identified in a specific parameter in any window, it will display the exact error message before you move to the next screen.
There are five main steps to configure a POAP device:
Step 1 DHCP Scope Creation
Step 2 Add the boot, startup, image and server information.
Step 3 Startup configuration creation
Step 4 Cable plan.
Step 5 Script and files (license) attachment
POAP Launchpad
The POAP launchpad contains the following configuration steps:
DHCP Scope
DHCP scope is a well-defined term in DHCP arena. It is used to define a policy for giving out IP addresses and other options to host on a specific IP subnet. In DCNM, we use the DCHP scope to distribute IPv4 address, PYTHON bootscript, (or other supported protocol + access credential + server, for example; http://<dcnm-server-ip>/scripts) which stores the bootscript.
From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>DHCP Scope.
The columns in table
Table 2-3
are displayed
Table 2-3 :DHCP Scope
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Scope Name
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The DHCP scope name must be unique amongst the switch scopes. This name is not used by ISC DHCP but used to identify the scope.
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Scope Subnet
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The IPv4 subnet used by the DHCP servers.
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IP Address Range
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The IP address ranges allocated to the POAP switches. Multiple IP addresses can be used, separated by comma.
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Lease Time
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Maximum lease time for the DHCP lease.
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Default Gateway
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The default gateway for the DHCP scope. You must enter a valid IP as the default gateway.
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Domain Name Servers
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The domain name server for the DHCP scope.
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Bootscript Name
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The Python Bootup script.
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Bootscript Server
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The server that holds the bootscript.
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Adding a DHCP Scope
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>DHCP Scope.
Step 2 Click Add scope icon.
Step 3 In the Add DHCP Scope window, specify values in the fields according to the information in
Table 2-3
.
Step 4 Click Add.
Editing an existing DHCP Scope
Note Once the DCNM is accessed for the first time, you must edit the default scope named 'enhanced_fab_mgmt" and add free IP address ranges.
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>DHCP Scope.
Step 2 Use the checkbox to select the DHCP scope.
Step 3 Click Edit scope icon.
Step 4 In the Edit DHCP Scope window, edit the DHCP scopes.
Step 5 Click Apply to save the changes.
Deleting a DHCP Scope
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>DHCP Scope.
Step 2 Use the checkbox to select the DHCP scope.
Step 3 Click Delete scope icon.
Step 4 In the delete notification, click Yes to delete the DHCP scope.
Note You may click the Refresh icon to refresh the DHCP Scopes list.
Image and Config Servers
This feature enables you to specify the servers & credentials used to access the device images and the uploaded, or DCNM generated/published device configuration. The server containing the images could be different from the one containing the configurations. If the same server contains both images and configurations, you must provide the server IP address and credentials twice for each server because the root directory holding the images or configuration files could be different. By default, DCNM server will be the default image and configuration server.
Add Image and Configuration Servers
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>Image and Config Servers.
Step 2 Click the Add icon.
Step 3 In the Add Image or Configuration Servers URL window, specify a Name for the image.
Step 4 Enter Hostname/Ipaddress and Path to download or upload files.
Step 5 Specify the Username and Password.
Step 6 Click Validate to validate the credentials.
Step 7 Click OK to save.
Editing an Image or Configuration Server URL
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>Image and Config Servers.
Step 2 Select an existing Image and Configuration Server from the list, and Click the Edit icon.
Step 3 In the Edit Image or Configuration Servers URL window, edit the required fields.
Step 4 Click OK to save.
Deleting an Image or Configuration Server URL
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>Image and Config Servers.
Step 2 Select an existing Image and Configuration Server from the list, and Click the Delete icon.
Step 3 In the delete notification, click Yes to delete the image and configuration server.
Note The default SCP Repository cannot be deleted.
POAP Templates
Templates can be created or imported into the template builder of DCNM. There are some predefined DFA specific POAP templates bundled with DCNM. The template builder can be invoked from the GUI, Config->Delivery -> Templates. The templates dedicated to POAP will be used to generate many different POAP device configurations
The following icons are listed at the menu bar of the window to customize the view of the information in the window:
– Use the Refresh Switch icon to refresh the selected switch.
– Use the Show Filter icon to filter the templates.
– Use the Print icon to print the list of templates and their details.
– Use the Export icon to export the list of templates to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
This section contains the following:
Add POAP template
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>POAP Definitions.
Step 2 In the Configuration Steps, click the template hyperlink in the POAP Definitions section.
Step 3 Click Add template icon.
Step 4 Specify the Template Name, Template Description and Tags.
Step 5 Use the checkbox to specify the Supported Platforms.
Step 6 Select the POAP checkbox or else by default, the DCNM will consider it as a CLI template.
Step 7 Select the Published checkbox if you want the template to have ‘Read Only’ access.
Step 8 In the Template Content pane, you can specify the content of the template. For help on creating the template content, click the Help icon next to the Template Content header. For information about POAP template annotations see the POAP Template Annotation section.
Step 9 Click Validate Template Syntax to validate syntax errors.
Step 10 Click Save to save the template.
Step 11 Click Save and Exit to save the template and exit the window.
Step 12 Click Cancel to discard the template.
Job Creation Wizard
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>POAP Definitions.
Step 2 In the Configuration Steps, click the template hyperlink in the POAP Definitions section.
Step 3 Select a template from the list and click Launch Job Creation Wizard icon.
Step 4 In the Welcome screen, click Next.
Step 5 In the Select Devices screen, use the drop-down to select the Device scope.
Step 6 Select all the devices or a specific device and use the arrows to Add All devices or the specific device, and click Next.
Step 7 Define the Template Variables and click Next.
Step 8 Preview the configuration that will be delivered to all devices and click Next.
Step 9 Select the delivery options for the devices and click Save.
Editing a Template
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>POAP Definitions.
Step 2 In the Configuration Steps, click the template hyperlink in the POAP Definitions section.
Step 3 Select a template from the list and click Modify/View template icon.
Step 4 Edit the template content and click Save to save the template or Save and Exit to save and exit the screen.
Cloning a Template
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>POAP Definitions.
Step 2 In the Configuration Steps, click the template hyperlink in the POAP Definitions section.
Step 3 Select a template from the list and click Modify/View template icon.
Step 4 Edit the template and click Save to save the template or Save and Exit to save and exit the screen.
Importing a Template
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>POAP Definitions.
Step 2 In the Configuration Steps, click the template hyperlink in the POAP Definitions section.
Step 3 Select a template from the list and click Import template icon.
Step 4 Select the template file and upload.
Exporting a Template
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>POAP Definitions.
Step 2 In the Configuration Steps, click the template hyperlink in the POAP Definitions section.
Step 3 Select a template from the list and click Export template icon.
Step 4 Select a location for the file download.
Deleting a Template
Note Only user-defined templates can be deleted.
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>POAP Definitions.
Step 2 In the Configuration Steps, click the template hyperlink in the POAP Definitions section.
Step 3 Select a template from the list and click Remove template icon.
Step 4 Click Yes to confirm.
POAP Template Annotation
Annotation is used to add sematic, validation logic and description to the template variable.
The Annotation for a given template variable is required to precede the given template variable. Only one annotation statement is required for each template variable. When a template variable has an associated annotation statement, the template variable has to be declared on a single line, Multiple variables cannot be declared under the same annotation statement.
Format of an annotation statement is as follows:
@(<key1>=<value1>,<key2>=<value2>, …, <keyN>=<valueN>)
Note • Each annotation statement is composed of one or more key-values pair.
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The value can be true, false, or a string.
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If the value is a string, it should be double quoted.
The following is a sample template variable, “hostname”, with annotation statement with the keys “DisplayName”, and “Description”:
@(DisplayName=”Host Name”, Description = “Description of the host”)
String hostname;
The table displays the supported keys in the annotation statement:
Table 2-4 Annotation Keys
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DisplayName
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Empty String
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The value is displayed as a variable label in the template form GUI, on POAP definition screen.
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Description
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Empty String
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Displays the description next or below the template variable field in the template form GUI.
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IsManagement
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false
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The associated variable is of IP Address type. This will be used as the management IP address. DCNM used this IP address to manage the devices.
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IsMultiplicity
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false
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If true, this single value can take multiple values. For example; when it is used with IsManagement annotation, it allows you to type in multiple IP addresses and assign each IP address to a device.
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IsSwitchName
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false
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The associated variable value is used as the device host name.
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IsMandatory
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true
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It marks the field as mandatory if the value is set as ‘true’.
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UseDNSReverseLookup
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false
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This annotation compliments the IsSwitchName annotation. Once they are associated with a variable. The variable is populated with the reverse DNS name, if available during the creation time of the corresponding POAP definition record.
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IsFabricPort
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false
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The associated variable value contains a list of the ports used as fabric ports. The variable value will be used by the cable plan generation from POAP
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IsHostPort
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false
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Trunk ports connected to host/servers.
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IsVPCDomainID
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false
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Used as theVPC Domain ID.
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IsVPCPeerLinkSrc
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false
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Used as the VPC IPv4 source address.
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IsVPCPeerLinkDst
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false
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Used as the VPC IPv4 peer address.
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IsVPCPeerLinkPortChannel
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false
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Used for VPC port channel.
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IsVPCLinkPort
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false
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Used for VPC interface.
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IsVPC
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false
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Used as a VPC record.
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IsVPCID
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false
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Individual VPC ID.
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IsVPCPortChannel
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false
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Individual VPC port channel.
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IsVPCPort
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false
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VPC Interface.
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POAP Definitions
The POAP switch definition has two major functions:
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Monitoring switch POAP process
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Managing POAP switch configuration
The following icons are listed at the menu bar of the window to customize the view of the information in the window:
– Use the Refresh Switch icon to refresh the switch.
– Use the Show Filter icon to filter the devices.
– Use the Print icon to print the list of devices and their details.
– Use the Export icon to export the list of devices and their details to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
– Use the Select Columns icon to display selected columns.
Note Each annotation statement is composed of one or more key-values pair. the value can be true, false or a string. If the value is a string, it should be mentioned in double-quotes.
Note • You can click the hyperlink in the Publish Status column to view the Generated Configuration.
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You can click the hyperlink in the Template/Config File Name column to view the Template Content
This section contains the following:
Creating a POAP definition
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>POAP Definitions.
Step 2 Use the radio button and select Generate Definition to generate POAP definition from a template, and click Next to specify the switch details.
Step 3 Enter the serial number of switches separated by comma. Alternatively, you can click the Import from CSV File button to import the list of switches.
Step 4 Use the drop-down to select the Switch Type.
Step 5 Use the drop-down to select the Image Server.
Step 6 Use the drop-down to select the System Image and Kickstart image.
Step 7 Use the drop-down to select the Config Server.
Step 8 Use the drop-down in the Add Switches to Group to add the POAP devices to a specific group, and specify the Switch User Name and Switch Password.
Step 9 Select the Show password in clear text checkbox to view the password.
Step 10 Click Next to Select the Switch Config Template.
Step 11 Use the drop-down to select the Template and click View to specify the Template Parameters.
Step 12 Use the drop-down to select the Settings File. If the settings file in unavailable, click Save Parameter as New Settings File button to specify a name for the settings file, select the variables and click Save. The new settings file will now be listed in the Settings File drop-down.
Step 13 Click Apply to select the settings file.
Step 14 Click View to view the settings file parameters.
Step 15 Click Manage to modify the settings file parameters.
Step 16 Click Next to generate the configuration.
Uploading a POAP Definition
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>POAP Definitions.
Step 2 Use the radio button and select Upload Startup Config to upload startup config to the POAP repository Server, and click Next to Enter the switch details.
Step 3 Enter the serial number of switches separated by comma.
Step 4 Use the drop-down to select the Switch Type.
Step 5 Use the drop-down to select the Image Server.
Step 6 Use the drop-down to select the System Image and Kickstart image.
Step 7 Use the drop-down to select the Config Server.
Step 8 Use the drop-down in the Add Switches to Group to add the POAP devices to a specific group, and specify the Switch User Name and Switch Password.
Step 9 Select the Show password in clear text checkbox to view the password.
Step 10 Click Next to select Switch Config File.
Note You may click the Edit Username and Edit Password icons to edit the username and password..
Step 11 Click Save to save the uploaded config file or Publish to publish the POAP definition.
Editing a POAP Definition
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>Select the POAP switch definitions from the list and Click the Edit icon.
Step 2 Follow the steps listed in Creating a POAP definition and Uploading a POAP Definition sections.
Deleting POAP Definitions
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>Select the POAP switch definitions from the list and Click the Delete icon.
Step 2 Click Yes to delete the switch definitions.
Publishing POAP definitions
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>Select the POAP switch definitions from the list and Click the Publish icon.
Step 2 Click Yes to publish the switch definitions.
Reboot and Reload the POAP Switch Definition
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>Select the POAP switch definitions from the list and Click the Reboot and Reload icon.
Step 2 Click Continue to reboot and reload the switch definitions.
Cable Plan
The Cable plan configuration screen has the following options:
Note If you are generating POAP definitions from the uploaded configuration, then generation of cable plan using the option of “Generate Cable Plan from POAP definition” will not work as the POAP definitions generated from the uploaded configuration will not have the required meta-data to generate the cable plans. You must select either “Capture from Existing Deployment” or “Import Cable plan file” to create a cable plan.
Create a Cable Plan
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>Cable Plan.
Step 2 Click Create Cable Plan.
In the Create Cable Plan pop-up, use the radio button to select the options.
Step 3 If you select:
a. Generate Cable Plan from POAP definition: You can use the switches defined in the POAP flow and produce a port-to-port cable plan to be used when wiring the physical devices.
b. Capture from existing deployment: You can ascertain he Inter-Switch Links between existing switches managed by DCNM and “lock down” the cable plan based on the existing wiring.
c. Import Cable Plan File: You decide how to wire the switches (or how they are already wired) and select an XML file for import into DCNM.
Viewing an Existing Cable Plan Deployment
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>Cable Plan.
Step 2 Click View.
Step 3 In the Cable Plan - Existing_Deployment window, you can view the existing cable plan deployments.
Step 4 You can use the Table View and XML View icons to change the view of the cable plan deployments table.
Deleting a Cable Plan
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>Cable Plan.
Step 2 Click Delete from DCNM.
Step 3 Click Yes to confirm deletion.
Deploying a Cable Plan
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>Cable Plan.
Step 2 In the Switches table, use the checkbox to select cable plan(s) and click Deploy a Cable Plan.
Step 3 Click Yes to confirm deployment.
Revoking a Cable Plan
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>Cable Plan.
Step 2 In the Switches table, use the checkbox to select cable plan(s) and click Revoke a Cable Plan.
Step 3 Click Yes to confirm.
Viewing a Deployed Cable Plan from Device
Step 1 From the menu bar, select Config>Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP)>Cable Plan.
Step 2 In the Switches table, click In Sync or Out of Sync hyperlink in the cable plan status column.
Step 3 You can use the Table View and XML View icons to change the view of the cable plan table.
Administering Cisco DCNM Web Client
The Admin options allows you to perform minor administrative and configuration tasks on the Cisco DCNM-SAN Server.
The Admin option contains the following sub-menus:
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Status
—Displays the status of the Database Server and allows you to start and stop Performance Collector services on your server. You should restart services only if something is not working properly or if too large a percentage of system resources are being consumed.
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Data Sources—Allows you to view all the data sources such as Fabric, LAN, VMware, SMIS and so on.
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Logs
—Allows you to view all the logs from the various services running on the Cisco DCNM-SAN Server.
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Server Properties—Allows you to view all the fields defined in the server.properties config file.
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SFTP Credentials—Allows you to view the SFTP credentials.
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License—Allows you to view the licensing details.
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Federation—Allows you to view the server federation details.
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Clients—Allows you to view all the clients connected to the Cisco DCNM-SAN Server.
Note You cannot start or stop the Database Server services using DCNM Web Client. If you are using the Microsoft Windows operating system, you need to use Microsoft Management Console to stop, start, or restart the Database Server.
– If you see a database file lock error in the database log, you can fix it by shutting down and restarting the database server using the Web Client.
– Only network administrators can access the DCNM Web Client Admin options. Network operators cannot view the Admin options.
This section includes the following topics:
Starting, Restarting, and Stopping Services
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General >
Status
.
You see a table of services per server and the status of each.
Step 2 In the Actions column, use the Start, (Re)start or Stop icons to start, restart, or stop any of the services.
Administering Datasources
You can manage the Fabrics, LAN and VMWare using the datasources option. This section contains the following:
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Adding, Editing, Re-discovering, Purging and Removing Managed Fabrics
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Adding, Editing, Re-discovering, Purging and Removing LAN, LAN Tasks and Switch
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Adding, Editing, Re-discovering and Removing VMware Servers
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Adding, editing, removing, rediscovering and refreshing SMI-S Storage
Adding, Editing, Re-discovering, Purging and Removing Managed Fabrics
Cisco DCNM Web Client reports information obtained by the Cisco DCNM-SAN on any fabric known to Cisco DCNM-SAN.
This section contains the following:
Adding a Fabric
You can discover new fabric and start managing a fabric from Cisco DCNM Web Client. Before you discover a new fabric, ensure you create a SNMP user on the switch.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
You see a list of fabrics (if any) managed by Cisco DCNM-SAN in the Opened column.
Step 2 Click Add Fabric to add a new fabric.
You see the Add Fabric dialog box.
Step 3 Enter the Fabric Seed Switch IP address for this fabric.
Step 4 (Optional) Check the SNMPV3 check box. If you check SNMPV3, the fields Read Community and Write Community change to Username and Password.
Step 5 Enter the User Name and Password for this fabric.
Step 6 Select the privacy settings from the Auth-Privacy drop-down list.
Step 7 (Optional) Check the Limit Discovery by VSAN checkbox to specify the included VSAN list or excluded VSAN list from the VSANs provided to discover a new fabric.
Step 8 (Optional) Check the Enable NPV Discovery in all Fabrics check box. If you check enable NPV discovery in all fabrics, the changes are applied to all the fabrics that are previously discovered.
Step 9 Click Add to begin managing this fabric.
You can remove single or multiple fabrics from the Cisco DCNM Web Client.
Editing a Fabric
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Select the check box next to the fabric that you want to edit and click Edit Fabric.
You see the Edit Fabric dialog box. You can edit only one fabric at a time.
Step 3 Enter a new fabric Name.
Step 4 (Optional) Check the SNMPV3 check box. If you check SNMPV3, the Community field change to Username and Password.
Step 5 Enter the User Name and Password, privacy and specify how you want DCNM Web Client to manage the fabric by selecting one of the status options.
Step 6 Change the fabric management state to Managed, Unmanaged, or Managed Continuously.
Step 7 Click Apply to save the changes.
Note In the Admin>Datasources>Fabric, Select the fabric for which the fabric switch password is changed. Click Edit Fabric, unmanage the fabric, specify the new password and then manage the fabric. You will not be able to open the fabric as the new password will not sync with the database. To open the fabric, you must log into the DCNM-SAN client, Go to Server>Admin and click the Open tab. Select the fabric and change the password manually in the Client Password/Community column.
Rediscovering a Fabric
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin>General>Datasources.
Step 2 Select the check box next to the fabric and click the Re-discover Fabric icon.
Step 3 Click Yes in the pop-up window.
The Fabric will now be re-discovered.
Purging a Fabric
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin>General>Datasources.
Step 2 Select the check box next to the fabric and click the Purge Fabric icon.
Step 3 Click Yes in the pop-up window.
The Fabric will now be purged.
Removing a Fabric
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Select the check box next to the fabric that you want to remove and click Remove Fabric icon to remove the fabric from the datasource and to discontinue data collection for that fabric.
Moving Fabrics to Another Server Federation
This feature is only available on the federation setup and the Move Fabric is only displayed in the federation setup screen.
You can move the fabrics from a sever that is down to an active server. The management state will remain the same.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Select the fabrics from the fabric table. Click Move Fabrics to another Federation Server, or Move LAN Tasks to another DCNM Server.
Step 3 Select the fabrics that need to be moved and click Move Fabric.
Step 4 In the Move Fabrics to another Federation server dialog box, select the DCNM server where the fabrics will be moved. The server drop-down list will list only the active servers.
Step 5 In the Move LAN Tasks to another DCNM Server dialog box, enter the LAN tasks that need to be moved and specify the DCNM server.
Adding, Editing, Re-discovering, Purging and Removing LAN, LAN Tasks and Switch
Cisco DCNM Web Client reports information obtained by the Cisco DCNM-LAN devices.
This section contains the following:
Adding LAN Devices
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
You see the list of LAN devices in the Name column.
Step 2 Click Add LAN Task to add LAN.
You see the Add LAN dialog box.
Step 3 Select Hops from Seed Switch, Switch List or FWSM. The fields vary depending on your selection.
Step 4 Enter the Seed Switch IP address for the fabric.
Step 5 The options vary depending on the discovery type selected. For example; If you select SNMPV1 or SNMPV3/CLI check box varied fields are displayed.
Step 6 Select the switch group and specify the Scan Time-out.
Step 7 Specify the user credentials and the Optional Enable Password.
Step 8 Use the drop-down to select the switch group.
Step 9 Click Next to begin the Shallow Discovery.
Step 10 In the Shallow LAN Discovery window, you can select all switches by using the checkbox next to the switch name column or select individual switches. Click Previous to go back and edit the parameters.
Note In the Status column, if the switch status is Time-out or Cannot be contacted, these switches cannot be added.
Step 11 Select a switch and click Add to add a switch to the switch group.
If the seed switch(es) are not reachable, it will be shown as “unknown” on the shallow Discovery window.
Editing LAN Devices
You can modify a LAN from Cisco DCNM Web Client.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Select the check box next to the LAN that you want to edit and click Edit LAN by CDP Seed.
You see the Edit LAN dialog box.
Step 3 Enter the User Name and Password.
Step 4 Select the LAN status as Managed or Unmanaged.
Step 5 Select the Candidate Switches for Deep Discovery.
Note You can hold the Ctrl key on your keyboard to select multiple candidate switches.
Step 6 Click Apply to save the changes.
Purging LAN
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin>General>Datasources.
Step 2 Click the Purge unreachable devices or dead links in selected LAN icon.
Step 3 Click Yes in the pop-up window to purge the LAN device.
Note In case of a Federation set-up, you will have to select the LAN to purge.
Removing LAN Devices
You can remove a LAN from Cisco DCNM Web Client.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Select the check box next to the LAN that you want to remove and click the Remove LAN by CDP Seed icon to remove the switches and all their data.
Step 3 Click Yes to review the LAN device.
You can also remove an individual LAN Switch
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Click the arrow next to the DCNM Server check box to expand the field.
Step 3 In the Switch column, click Delete Switch icon to delete a switch connected to the DCNM server.
Edit LAN Task
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin>General>Datasources
Step 2 In the Discovery Task column, click the Edit LAN Task icon.
Step 3 In the Edit LAN Task dialog box, specify the user credentials and the Optional Enable Password.
Step 4 Use the radio button to select the Status.
Step 5 Click Apply to save the changes.
Re-discover LAN Task
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin>General>Datasources.
Step 2 In the Discovery Task column, click the Re-discover LAN icon.
Step 3 Click Yes in the pop-up window to re-discover the LAN.
Moving LAN Devices Under a Task
You can move LAN devices under a task to a different server using Cisco DCNM Web Client. This feature is available only in the federation setup and the Move LAN is displayed in the federation setup screen.
You can move the LAN from a sever that is down to an active server. The management state remains the same.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Choose the LAN from the LAN table. Click Move LAN Tasks to another Federated Server.
Step 3 In the Move LAN Tasks to another DCNM Server dialog box, enter the LAN tasks that need to be moved and specify the DCNM server. All the LAN devices under the selected tasks will be moved.
Remove LAN Task/Switch
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 In the Discovery Task column, click the Remove LAN Task icon.
Step 3 In the confirmation dialog box, click Yes to remove the LAN task.
Delete a Switch
You can also delete an individual switch connected to a DCNM Server.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 In the Switch column, click the Delete Switch icon.
Step 3 In the confirmation dialog box, click Yes to delete the switch
Toggle between Task and Device view
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Click the Toggle between Task and Device view icon.
By default, the Device view is displayed.
Step 3 In the Device view:
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In the Group column, use the drop-down to select the LAN group.
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Click the Add LAN Task icon to add a LAN. For more information see the Adding LAN Devices section.
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In the Discovery Task column, click the Edit LAN Task icon to edit the LAN task. For more information, see the Editing LAN Devices section.
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In the Discovery Task column, click the Re-discover LAN icon to rediscover the LAN. For more information see the Purging LAN section.
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In the Discovery Task column, click the Remove LAN Task icon to delete the LAN task. For more information, see the Removing LAN Devices section.
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In the Switch column, click Re-discover Switch icon to rediscover the switch.
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In the Switch column, click the Delete Switch icon to delete the switch.
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Click the Toggle between Task and Device view icon to toggle to the task view
Step 4 In the Task view:
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Under Discovery Task, use the checkbox to select the task.
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Click the Add LAN Task icon to add a LAN. For more information see the Adding LAN Devices section.
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Use the checkbox to select the task and then click the Edit LAN Task icon at the upper-right corner above the table to edit the LAN task. For more information, see the Editing LAN Devices section.
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Use the checkbox to select the task and then click the Remove LAN Task icon at the upper-right corner above the table to delete the LAN task. For more information, see the Removing LAN Devices section.
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Use the checkbox to select the task and then click the Re-discover LAN icon at the upper-right corner above the table to rediscover the LAN. For more information see the Purging LAN section.
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Click the Refresh icon to refresh the LAN table.
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Click the Purge unreachable devices or dead links in selected LAN icon to purge the LAN. For more information see the Purging LAN section.
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Click the Toggle between Task and Device view icon to toggle to the device view.
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Click Re-discover Switch icon to rediscover the switch.
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Click the Delete Switch icon to delete the switch.
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In the Group column, use the drop-down to select the LAN group.
Adding, Editing, Re-discovering and Removing VMware Servers
DCNM Web Client reports information gathered by Cisco DCNM-SAN on any VMware servers supported by Cisco DCNM-SAN.
This section contains the following:
Managing a VMware Server
You can manage a VMware server from Cisco DCNM Web Client.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
You see the list of VMware servers (if any) that are managed by Cisco DCNM-SAN in the table.
Step 2 Click the Add Virtual Center icon.
You see the Add VMware dialog box.
Step 3 Enter the Virtual Center Server IP address for this VMware server.
Step 4 Enter the User Name and Password for this VMware server.
Step 5 Click Add to begin managing this VMware server.
Removing a VMware Server
You can remove a VMware server from the Cisco DCNM Web Client.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Select the check box next to the VMware server that you want to remove and click Remove Virtual Center to discontinue data collection for that VMware server.
Modifying a VMware Server
You can modify a VMware server from Cisco DCNM Web Client.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Check the check box next to the VMware server that you want to edit and click Edit Virtual Center icon.
You see the Edit VMware dialog box.
Step 3 Enter a the User Name and Password.
Step 4 Select managed or unmanaged status.
Step 5 Click Apply to save the changes.
Rediscovering a VMware Server
You can rediscover a VMware server from Cisco DCNM Web Client.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Select the check box next to the VMware that you want to rediscover.
Step 3 Click Rediscover Virtual Center icon.
Step 4 Click Yes in the dialog box.
Adding, editing, removing, rediscovering and refreshing SMI-S Storage
The SMI-S providers are managed using the DCNM Web Client.
This section contains the following:
Adding SMI-S Provider
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Click the Add SMIS Provider icon.
Step 3 In the Add SMI-S Provider window, use the drop-down to select the Vendor. Only EMC and NetApp are currently supported. Additional SMI-S storage vendors are discovered through a ‘best effort’ handler using the ‘Other’ vendor option in the drop-down.
Note At least one valid DCNM license must be provisioned before adding SMI-S storage discovery datasources.
Step 4 Specify the SMI-S Server IP, User Name and Password.
Step 5 Specify the Name Space and Interop Name Space.
Step 6 By default, the Port number is pre-populated. If you select the Secure checkbox, then the default secure port number is populated.
When using the Secure mode with EMC, the default setting is mutual authentication. For more information, see EMC’s documentation about adding an SSL certificate to their trust store, or set SSLClientAuthentication value to ‘None’ in the Security_Settings.xml config file and then restart the ECOM service.
Step 7 Click Add. The credentials are validated and if it’s valid the storage discovery starts. If the credential check fails, you will be prompted to enter valid credentials.
Editing SMI-S Provider
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Use the check-box to select the SMI-S provider and click the Edit SMIS Provider icon.
Step 3 In the Edit SMI-S Provider window, use the drop-down to select the Vendor.
Note Only EMC and NetApp are currently supported.
Step 4 Specify the SMI-S Sever IP, User Name and Password.
Step 5 Specify the Name Space and Interop Name Space.
Step 6 By default, the Port number is pre-populated. If you select the Secure checkbox, then the default secure port number is populated.
Step 7 Click Apply. The Storage Discovery is stopped and a new task is created using the new information and the Storage Discover is re-started.
Deleting SMI-S Provider
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Use the check-box to select the SMI-S provider and click the Remove SMIS Provider icon.
The provider is removed and all data associated with the provider is purged from the system.
Re-Discover SMI-S Provider
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Use the check-box to select the SMI-S provider and click the Re-discover SMIS Provider icon
Refresh SMI-S Provider
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Data Sources.
Step 2 Use the check-box to select the SMI-S provider and click the Refresh Table icon.
The providers are re-discovered.
Viewing Log Information
This feature enables you to view the Cisco DCNM Web Client log. These processes have no corresponding GUI that allows you to view information about these log files. If you see errors, preserve these two files for viewing.
Note Logs cannot be viewed from a remote server in a federation.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Logs.
You see a list of viewable logs in the left column.
Step 2 Click a log file to view it.
Configuring Cisco DCNM-SAN Server Properties
To configure Cisco DCNM-SAN Server properties
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Server Properties.
Step 2 Follow the on-screen instructions and click Apply to confirm the changes.
While connecting to some switches if the connection is getting timed out, in the #CLI session channel type, change default the cli.channel.type value from exec to shell.
Note After configuring the server properties, you need to restart the DCNM server only if you receive a notification stating that the server must be restarted.
Configuring SFTP Credentials
You can configure the SFTP credentials for a switch.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > SFTP Credentials.
You see the SFTP/TFTP credentials page.
Step 2 In the Server Type field, use the radio button to select SFTP.
Step 3 Enter the SFTP Username and SFTP Password.
Step 4 Enter the Root Directory path.
Step 5 From the Verification Switch drop-down, select the switch.
Step 6 Click Apply to apply the configuration.
Step 7 Click Apply and Verify to apply and verify the configuration.
Step 8 Click Clear SSH Hosts to clear SSH hosts for all switches or selected switches. If there is a failure in any of the switches, an error message is displayed. Go to Admin>Logs>Web Report to view the number of successful and unsuccessful switches.
Managing Switch Groups
Beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 7.x, you can configure switch groups by using Cisco DCNM Web Client. You can add, delete, rename or move a switch to a group or move a group of switches to another group.
This section contains the following:
Adding Switch Groups
You can add a switch group from the Cisco DCNM Web Client.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Switch Groups.
Step 2 Click the Add Group icon or press the Insert key on your keyboard.
Note A field appears that allows you to enter the name for the switch group. The Insert key does not work unless you highlight the group table first.
Step 3 Enter the name of the switch group and click outside the text field or press the Return key to complete adding the switch group. Press the Esc key on your keyboard to discard the text input and exit.
The switch group name validation and the maximum tree depth is 10.If you do not choose a parent group before adding a new switch group, the new group is added on the top of the hierarchy
Renaming a Group
You can rename a switch group from the Cisco DCNM Web Client.
Step 1 Double-click on the switch group name that you want to rename.
Step 2 Enter a new name to rename the group.
Note The name of the group cannot contain any of these special characters: ()<>,;:\\\[]`~!#$% *=}|/?.
Step 3 Press the Return key to apply changes or press the Esc key on your keyboard to discard the modification.
Deleting a Group or a Member of a Group
You can delete group(s) and/or member(s) of a group from the Cisco DCNM Web Client. When you delete a group, the associated group(s) are deleted and the fabrics or Ethernet switches of the deleted group(s) are moved back to the default SAN or LAN.
Step 1 Choose the switch group or member(s) of a group that you want to remove.
Step 2 Click the Remove icon or press the Delete key on your keyboard.
A dialog box prompts you to confirm the deletion of the switch group or the member of the group. Click Yes to delete or No to cancel the action
Moving a Switch to Another Group
Step 1 Use the checkbox to choose a switch from the group.
Step 2 Select the Move the selected Switch/Fabric to Group icon.
The Move LAN Member dialog box appears.
Step 3 Select the switch group from the list and click Apply.
Moving a Switch Group to Another Group
Step 1 Use the checkbox to choose a switch group.
Step 2 Click Move Switch/Fabric to selected Group icon.
The Move LAN Member Group dialog box appears.
Step 3 Select the switch group from the list and click Apply.
Managing Licenses
This section includes the following topics:
Viewing Licenses Using the Cisco DCNM Wizard
You can view the existing Cisco DCNM licenses by selecting
Admin > License
to start the license wizard.
Note By default, the Switch Licenses tab appears.
Table 2-5
displays the Cisco DCNM server license fields.
Table 2-5 Cisco DCNM Server License Files
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File Name
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Name of the license file.
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Feature
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Describes the feature name specified in the license file. The following values are supported:
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DCNM-LAN
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DCNM-SAN
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DCNM-SAN-LAN
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LAN-ENT-N7K
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PID
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Describes the product ID found in the vendor string of the license file. For example, DCNM-N7K-K0 is an enterprise license for Cisco Nexus 7000 series switches.
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SAN (Free or Total)
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Lists the number of SAN licenses used and available.
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LAN (Free or Total)
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Lists the number of LAN licenses used and available.
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Eval Expiration
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Displays the expiry date of the license.
Note Text in the eval expiration field will be in red for licenses that expire in seven days.
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Table 2-6
displays the Cisco DCNM switch license fields.
Table 2-6 Cisco DCNM Switch Licenses
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Group
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Displays if it is a fabric or LAN group.
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Switch Name
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Displays the name of the switch.
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Model
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Displays the model of the device. For example, DS-C9124 or N5K-C5020P-BF.
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License State
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Displays the license state of the switch that can be one of the following:
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Permanent
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Eval
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Unlicensed
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Not Applicable
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Expired
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Invalid
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License Type
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Displays if the license is a switch-based embedded license or a server-based license.
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Eval Expiration
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Displays the expiry date of the license.
Note Text in the eval expiration field will be in Red for licenses that expires in seven days.
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Automatic License Assignment
When the Fabric is first discovered if the switch does not have a valid switch-based license, a license is automatically assigned to the Fabric from the file license pool until no more licenses are left in the pool. Also, if you have an existing Fabric and a new switch is added to the Fabric, the new switch will be assigned a license if one is available in the file license pool and if it does not already have a switch-based license.
Adding Cisco DCNM Licenses
You must have network administrator privileges to complete the following procedure.
Step 1 Choose Admin > License to start the license wizard.
Step 2 Choose the Server License Files tab.
The valid Cisco DCNM-LAN and DCNM-SAN license files appear.
Ensure that the security agent is disabled when you load licenses.
Step 3 Download the license pack file that you received from Cisco into a directory on the local system.
Step 4 Click Add License File and then select the license pack file that you saved on the local machine. The file will be uploaded to the server machine, saved into the server license directory and then loaded on to the server.
Note Ensure that you do not edit the contents of the.lic file or the Cisco DCNM software ignores any features that are associated with that license file. The contents of the file are signed and must remain intact. When you accidentally copy, rename, or insert the license file multiple times, the duplicate files are ignored, but the original will be counted.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
You must have network administrator privileges to complete the following procedure.
Step 1 Choose
Admin > License
to start the license wizard.
You see the licenses table.
Step 2 From the table, choose the switch that you want to assign the license to.
Step 3 Click Assign License.
Unassigning Licenses to a Switch
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
You must have network administrator privileges to complete the following procedure.
Step 1 Choose
Admin > License
to start the license wizard.
You see the licenses table.
Step 2 From the table, choose the switch that you want to unassign the license.
Step 3 Click Unassign License.
Viewing Server Federation
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > General > Federation.
The list of Servers along with its Status, Local Time and Data Sources are displayed.
Step 2 Use the Enable Automatic Failover checkbox to turn on/off the failover functionality.
Step 3 In the Location column, double-click to edit the location.
Note If the status of one of the servers in the federation is Inactive, then some functionality may not work unless the server status changes to Active in the federation.
Configuring AAA Properties
To configure AAA properties,
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > Management Users > Remote AAA Properties.
The AAA properties configuration page appears.
Step 2 Use the radio button to select one of the following Authentication Modes:
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Local - In this mode the authentication will authenticate with the local server.
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Radius - In this mode the authentication will authenticate against the Radius servers specified.
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TACACS+- In this mode the authentication will authenticate against the TACAS servers specified.
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Switch - In this mode the authentication will authenticate against the switches specified.
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LDAP - In this mode the authentication will authenticate against the LDAP server specified.
Local
Step 1 Use the radio button and select Local as the authentication mode.
Step 2 Click Apply to confirm the authentication mode.
Radius
Step 1 Use the radio button and select Radius as the authentication mode.
Step 2 Specify the Primary server details and click Test to test the server.
Step 3 (Optional) Specify the Secondary and Tertiary server details and click Test to test the server.
Step 4 Click Apply to confirm the authentication mode.
TACACS+
Step 1 Use the radio button and select TACACS+ as the authentication mode.
Step 2 Specify the Primary server details and click Test to test the server.
Step 3 (Optional) Specify the Secondary and Tertiary server details and click Test to test the server.
Step 4 Click Apply to confirm the authentication mode.
Switch
Step 1 Use the radio button to select Switch as the authentication mode.
Step 2 Specify the Primary Switch name and click Apply to confirm the authentication mode.
Step 3 (Optional) Specify the Secondary and Tertiary Switch name and click Apply to confirm the authentication mode.
LDAP
Step 1 Use the radio button and select LDAP as the authentication mode.
Step 2 In the Host field, enter DNS address of the host.
Step 3 Click Test to test the AAA server.
Step 4 Enter a valid Username and Password.
A dialog box appears confirming the status of the AAA server test. If the test has failed, the LDAP Authentication Failed dialog box appears.
Step 5 In the Port field, enter a port number.
Step 6 (Optional) Select the SSL Enabled check box, if SSL is enabled on the AAA server.
Step 7 In the Base DN field, enter the base domain name.
Step 8 In the Filter field, specify the filter parameters.
Step 9 Choose an option to determine a role by either Attribute or Admin Group Map.
Step 10 In the Role Admin Group field, enter the name of the role.
Step 11 In the Map to DCNM Role field, enter the name of the role to be mapped.
Step 12 Click Apply to apply the LDAP configuration.
Adding and Removing Users
You can use Cisco DCNM Web Client to add and remove Web Client users.
This section contains the following:
Adding Local Users
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > Management Users > Local.
You see the Local Database page.
Step 2 Click Add.
You see the Add User dialog box.
Step 3 Enter the username in the Username field.
Note The username guest is a reserved name (case insensitive). The guest user can only view reports. The guest user cannot change the guest password, or access the Admin options in DCNM Web Client.
Step 4 From the Role drop-down list, select a role for the user.
Step 5 In the Password field, enter the password.
Step 6 In the Confirm Password field, enter the password again.
Step 7 Click Add to add the user to the database.
Step 8 Repeat Steps 2through 7 to continue adding users.
Editing a User
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > Management Users > Local.
Step 2 Use the checkbox to select a user and click the Edit Local User icon.
Step 3 In the Edit Local User window, the User Name and Role is mentioned by default. Specify the Password and Confirm Password.
Step 4 Click Apply to save the changes.
Removing a User
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > Management Users > Local.
Step 2 Select the check box next to the user(s) you want to remove and click Remove.
Managing Clients
You can use the DCNM Web Client to disconnect DCNM Client Servers.
Step 1 From the menu bar, click Admin>Clients.
A list of DCNM Servers are displayed.
Step 2 Use the check box to select a DCNM server and click Disconnect Client icon to disconnect the DCNM server.
Note You cannot disconnect a current client session.
Performance Manager Collections
If you are managing your switches with the Performance Manager, you must set up an initial set of flows and collections on the switch. You can use Cisco DCNM Web Client to add and remove performance collections. The switch has to be licensed and in the Managed Continuously state before a collection for the switch can be created.
To add a collection follow these steps:
Step 1 From the menu bar, click Admin>Collections.
Step 2 Under Generate a threshold event when traffic exceeds % of capacity, use the checkbox to specify the Critical at and Warning at values. User can also use the For ISL/Trunk Only checkbox to limit the threshold events generated to ISL and Trunk events only and then click Apply.
Step 3 In the Licensed Fabrics panel, use the checkboxes to select the Fabric, ISLs/NPV Links, Hosts, Storage, FC Flows and FC Ethernet to enable performance collection for these data types.
Step 4 In the Licensed LAN Switches panel, use the checkboxes to enable performance data collection for Trunks, Access and Errors & Discards.
Step 5 Use the checkboxes to select the type(s) of LAN switches for which you want to collect performance data.
Step 6 Click Apply to save the configuration.
Step 7 In the confirmation dialog box, click Yes to restart the performance collector.
Configuring the RRD Database
Configuring the Round Robin Database (RRD) allows you to set the intervals at which data samples are collected. After applying the configuration, the database storage format is converted to a new format at those intervals. Because database formats are incompatible with each other, you must copy the old data (before the conversion) to the $INSTALLDIR/pm directory. See the "Importing the RRD Statistics Index" topic.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > Performance > Databases.
You see the Performance Database (collection interval) page.
Step 2 In the top row of the Days column, enter the number of days to collect samples at 5-minute intervals.
Step 3 In the second row of the Days column, enter the number of days to collect samples at 30-minute intervals.
Step 4 In the third row of the Days column, enter the number of days to collect samples at 2-hour intervals.
Step 5 In the bottom row of the Days column, enter the number of days to collect samples at 1-day intervals.
As of Cisco SAN-OS Release 3.1(1) and later releases, you can configure the sampling interval for ISLs. Select a sampling interval from the ISLs drop-down list.
Step 6 Click Apply to apply your changes, or click Defaults to reset the file sizes to the default values.
If you are applying new values, or if the current values are not the default values, you see a message indicating that the conversion of the RRD files take a certain amount of time and that the database is unavailable until then. The time it takes depends on the difference between the old and new values.
Note The system allows you to convert data, one process at a time. When you start converting the data, the Apply and Default buttons change to Refresh and Cancel so that another process cannot be inadvertently started. The display is the same for all browsers that access the server during this time. Click Refresh to view the latest progress. Click Cancel to cancel the process of converting the data. If the job is successfully canceled, you see the Apply and Default buttons again. If the cancel job is not successful, you see a message indicating that the cancellation has failed.
If you want to perform this procedure, perform it before collecting a lot of data because data conversion can take a long time.
Importing the RRD Statistics Index
Step 1 Stop Cisco DCNM-SAN Server.
Step 2 Copy the original RRD file into $INSTALLDIR/pm/db.
Step 3 Run $INSTALLDIR/bin/pm.bat s.
Step 4 Restart Cisco DCNM-SAN and add the fabric.
Configuring Other Statistics
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > Performance > Others.
You see the Others page.
Step 2 Click Add.
You see the Add SNMP Statistic dialog box.
Step 3 From the Switch table, select the switch for which you want to add other statistics.
Step 4 From the SNMP OID drop-down list, select the OID.
Note For SNMP OID ModuleX_Temp,IFHCInOctets.IFINDEX,IFHCOutOctest.IFINDEX, selected from drop down box, you must replace'X' with correct module number or the corresponding IFINDEX.
Step 5 In the Display Name box, enter a new name.
Step 6 From the Type drop-down list, select the type.
Step 7 Click Add to add this statistic.
Viewing Events Registration
To enable Send Syslog, Send Traps and Delayed Traps you need to configure the following in the DCNM-SAN client:
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Enabling Send Syslog - Log into the DCNM-SAN client. In the Physical Attributes pane, Select Events>Syslog>Servers. Click the Create Row icon, provide the required details and click Create.
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Enabling Send Traps - Log into the DCNM-SAN client. In the Physical Attributes pane, Select Events>SNMP Traps>Destination. Click the Create Row icon, provide the required details and click Create.
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Enabling Delayed Traps - Log into the DCNM-SAN client. In the Physical Attributes pane, Select Events>SNMP Traps>Delayed Traps. In the Feature Enable column, use the checkboxes to enable delayed traps for the switch and specify the delay in minutes.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > Events > Registration.
The SNMP and Syslog receivers along with the statistics information are displayed.
Step 2 Select Enable Syslog Receiver checkbox and click Apply to enable the syslog receiver if it is disabled in the server property.
To configure the Event Registration/Syslog properties, select Admin>Server Properties and follow the on-screen instructions.
Step 3 Select Copy Syslog Messages to DB and click Apply to copy the syslog messages to the database. If this option is not select, the events will not be displayed in the events page of the Web client.
Step 4 The columns in the second table displays the following:
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Switches sending traps
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Switches sending syslog
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Switches sending syslog accounting
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Switches sending delayed traps
Adding Notification Forwarding
This section contains the following:
Adding Notification Forwarding
You can use Cisco DCNM Web Client to add and remove notification forwarding for system messages.
Cisco DCNM Web Client forwards fabric events through e-mail or SNMPv1 traps.
Note Test forwarding will only work for the licensed fabrics.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > Events > Forwarding.
Step 2 The events forwarding scope, the recipient email address, severity of the event and type of the event is displayed. The description Regex field is applicable only when the forwarding source is selected as Syslog while adding the events forwarder.
Step 3 Select the Enable checkbox to enable events forwarding.
Step 4 Specify the SMTP Server details and the From e-mail address. Click Apply to save the configuration or in the Apply and Test icon, use the drop-down to select the fabric and click Apply and Test to save and test the configuration.
Step 5 Select the Snooze checkbox and specify the Start date and time and the End date and time. Click Apply to save the configuration.
Step 6 Click the Add Forwarder icon.
You see the Add Notification dialog box.
Step 7 In the Forwarding Method, choose either E-Mail or Trap. If you choose Trap, a Port field is added to the dialog box.
Step 8 In the Address field, enter the IP address.
Step 9 From the Scope drop-down list, choose the fabric or LAN group for notification.
Step 10 In the Source field select DCNM or Syslog.
If you select DCNM, then:
Step 1 In the VSAN Scope, choose either All or List.
Step 2 From the Type drop-down list, choose an event type.
Step 3 Check the Storage Ports Only check box to select only the storage ports.
Step 4 From the Minimum Severity drop-down list, select the severity level of the messages to receive.
Step 5 Click Add to add the notification.
If you select Syslog, then:
Step 1 In the Facility list, select the syslog facility.
Step 2 Specify the syslog Type.
Step 3 In the Description Regex field, specify a description that needs to be matched with the event description.
Step 4 From the Minimum Severity drop-down list, select the severity level of the messages to receive.
Step 5 Click Add to add the notification.
Note The minimum Severity option is available only if the Event Type is set to All.
The traps sent by Cisco DCNM correspond to the severity type followed by a text description:
trap type(s) = 40990 (emergency) 40991 (alert) 40992 (critical) 40993 (error) 40994 (warning) 40995 (notice) 40996 (info) 40997 (debug)textDescriptionOid = 1, 3, 6, 1, 4, 1, 9, 9, 40999, 1, 1, 3, 0
Removing Notification Forwarding
You can remove notification forwarding.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > Events > Forwarding.
Step 2 Select the check box in front of the notification that you want to remove and click Remove.
Configuring EMC CallHome
You can configure EMC Callhome from the Cisco DCNM Web Client for EMC supported SAN switches.
Step 1 From the menu bar, choose Admin > Events >
EMC CallHome.
Step 2 Select the Enable check box to enable this feature.
Step 3 Use the check box to select the fabrics.
Step 4 Enter the general e-mail information.
Step 5 Click the Apply to update the e-mail options.
Step 6 Click Apply and Test to update the e-mail options and test the results.