Setting Up Discovery for a Fabric

To ensure that Fabric Manager Server discovers your complete fabric, follow these steps:

  1. Create a special Fabric Manager administrative user name in each switch on your fabric with network administrator or network operator roles. Or, create a special Fabric Manager administrative user name in your AAA server and set every switch in your fabric to use this AAA server for authentication.
  2. Verify that the roles used by this Fabric Manager administrative user name are the same on all switches in the fabric and that this role has access to all VSANs.
  3. Launch Fabric Manager Client using the Fabric Manager administrative user. This ensures that your fabric discovery includes all VSANs.
  4. Set Fabric Manager Server to continuously monitor the fabric.
  5. Repeat Step 4 for each fabric that you want to manage through Fabric Manager Server.
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