Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide, Release 1.3 (from Release 1.3(1) through Release 1.3(6)) - Preface [Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS and SAN-OS Software]

Table Of Contents

Preface

Audience

Organization

Conventions

Obtaining Documentation

Cisco.com

Documentation DVD

Ordering Documentation

Documentation Feedback

Cisco Product Security Overview

Reporting Security Problems in Cisco Products

Obtaining Technical Assistance

Cisco Technical Support Website

Submitting a Service Request

Definitions of Service Request Severity

Obtaining Additional Publications and Information

Preface

This preface describes the audience, organization, and conventions of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager User's Guide. It also provides information on how to obtain related documentation.

Audience

This guide is for system administrators who intend to use the Cisco Fabric Manager to configure and monitor the switches that build the network fabric.

You should be familiar with the basic concepts and terminology used in internetworking, and understand your network topology and the protocols that the devices in your network can use. You should also have a working knowledge of the operating system on which you are running Fabric Manager, such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Solaris.

Organization

This document contains the following chapters:

•"New and Changed Information"—Summarizes the new and changed features for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Switch Configuration Guide.

•"Product Overview"—Presents an overview of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of multilayer switches and directors.

•"Getting Started with Cisco Fabric Manager"—Provides a brief overview of Fabric Manager components and capabilities, and information on installation and launching the applications.

•"Overview of Fabric Manager"—Provides in-depth descriptions of GUIs and capabilities for Fabric Manager Client, Fabric Manager Server, Device Manager, and Performance Manager.

•"Before You Begin"—Discusses some things to be aware of before installing your switch.

•"Obtaining and Installing Licenses"—Provides information on the Cisco MDS 9000 Family licensing model, license concepts, and license installation and management.

•"Initial Configuration"—Provides initial switch configuration options and switch access information.

•"Configuring High Availability"—Provides details on the high availability feature including switchover mechanisms.

•"Software Images"—Describes how to upgrade Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches, install software image files, use the Flash file system on the supervisor engine, and recover a corrupted bootflash image.

•"Managing Modules"—Explains how to display and analyze the status of each module and specifies the power on and power off process for modules.

•"Managing System Hardware"—Provides details on switch hardware inventory, power usage, power supply, module temperature, fan and clock modules, and environment information.

•"Configuring and Managing VSANs"—Describes how virtual SANs (VSANs) work, explains the concept of default VSANs, isolated VSANs, VSAN IDs and attributes, and provides details on how to create, delete, and view VSANs.

•"Configuring Interfaces"—Explains port and operational state concepts in Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches and provides details on configuring ports and interfaces.

•"Configuring Trunking"—Explains TE ports and trunking concepts.

•"Configuring PortChannels"—Explains PortChannels and load balancing concepts and provides details on configuring PortChannels, adding ports to PortChannels, and deleting ports from PortChannels.

•"Configuring and Managing Zones"—Defines various zoning concepts and provides details on configuring a zone set and zone management features.

•"Configuring Inter-VSAN Routing"—Describes Inter-VSAN Routing.

•"Managing FLOGI, Name Server, FDMI, and RSCN Databases"—Provides name server and fabric login details required to manage storage devices and display registered state change notification (RSCN) databases.

•"Configuring Switch Security"—Discusses the AAA parameters, user profiles, RADIUS authentication, SSH services, and SNMP Security options provided in all switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family and provides configuration information for these options.

•"Configuring Fabric Security"—Describes how to configure and manage fabric security.

•"Configuring Port Security"—Provides details on port security features that can prevent unauthorized access to a switch port in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family.

•"Configuring Fibre Channel Routing Services and Protocols"—Provides details and configuration information on Fibre Channel routing services and protocols.

•"Configuring IP Services"—Provides details on IP over Fibre Channel (IPFC) services and provides configuring IPFC, virtual router, and DNS server configuration information.

•"Configuring FICON"—Provides information on configuring and managing FICON with the Cisco MDS 9000 Family.

•"Configuring IP Storage"—Provides details on extending the reach of Fibre Channel SANs by connecting separated SAN islands together via IP networks using FCIP, and allowing IP hosts to access FC storage using the iSCSI protocol.

•"Configuring Call Home"—Provides details on the Call Home service and includes information on Call Home, event triggers, contact information, destination profiles, and e-mail Options.

•"Configuring Domain Parameters"—Explains the Fibre Channel domain (fcdomain) feature, which includes principal switch selection, domain ID distribution, FC ID allocation, and fabric reconfiguration functions.

•"Configuring Traffic Management"—Provides details on the quality of service (QoS) and Fibre Channel Congestion Control (FCC) features.

•"Configuring System Message Logging"— Describes how to configure system message logging on the Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches.

•"Discovering SCSI Targets"—Describes how the SCSI LUN discovery feature is started and displayed.

•"Monitoring Network Traffic Using SPAN"—Describes the switched port analyzer (SPAN), identifies SPAN sources, specifies filters, explains SPAN Sessions, SD port characteristics, and configuration details.

•"Advanced Features and Concepts"—Describes the advanced configuration features features—time out values, fctrace, fabric analyzer, world wide names, flat FC IDs, loop monitoring, and interoperating switches.

•"Configuring Fabric Configuration Servers"—Describes how the fabric Configuration Server (FCS) feature is configured and displayed.

•"Monitoring System Processes and Logs"—Provides information on displaying system processes and status. It also provides information on configuring core and log files, HA policy, heartbeat and watchdog checks, and upgrade resets.

•"Troubleshooting the Fabric"—Provides information on using Fabric Manager to troubleshoot your fabric.

•"Troubleshooting Fabric Manager Issues"—Describes some common issues you may experience while using Cisco Fabric Manager, and provides solutions.

Conventions

This document uses the following conventions:

Item

Convention

Commands, keywords, special terminology, and options that should be selected during procedures

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Variables for which you supply values and new or important terminology

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Displayed session and system information, paths and file names

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Information you enter

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Variables you enter

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Menu items and button names

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Indicates menu items to select, in the order you select them.

Option > Network Preferences

Tip Identifies information to help you get the most benefit from your product.

Note Means reader take note. Notes identify important information that you should reflect upon before continuing, contain helpful suggestions, or provide references to materials not contained in the document.

Caution Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might do something that could result in equipment damage, loss of data, or a potential breach in your network security.

Warning Identifies information that you must heed to prevent damaging yourself, the state of software, or equipment. Warnings identify definite security breaches that will result if the information presented is not followed carefully.

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