On the Devices screen, the following tabs are displayed:
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Nodes Learned
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Device Connections
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Device Groups
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Subnet Gateway Config
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APIC Management
On the Nodes Learned tab, the following details are displayed for each node:
When you click the node name under the tab Node Name, the Update Node Information window is displayed. Update the following fields in the window:
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Node ID: Enter the node ID.
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Node Name: The name of the node.
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Tier: Select the tier of the node from the following options in the drop-down list: Unknown, Access, Distribution, and Core.
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Operation Mode: Choose how the traffic is handled based on the flows. This can be one of the following:
Allow reactive forwarding—No default flows are programmed. How traffic that does not match a flow is treated depends upon the switch implementation.
Proactive forwarding only—The following default flows are programmed on the switch:
On the
Device
Connections tab, click
Add
Device to add a device, click
Remove
Devices to remove a device, or click
Rediscover
Devices to rediscover a device. When you click
Rediscover
Devices tab, the
Rediscover
Device window is displayed. Click
Rediscover
Device so that the device gets deleted and rediscovered again.
In each device window, click View, Edit, or Delete to add a device, edit an existing device, or delete a device. The following details are displayed for each device in each device window:
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The name of the device and its IP address
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The username on the device
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The type of the mode, for example, NX-API
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The uptime on the device, for example, date and time
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The hardware on the node
On the Device Groups tab, click + Group to add a group of devices. In each group window, click View, Edit, or Delete to add a group of devices, edit an existing group of devices, or delete a group of devices respectively. The following details are displayed in each group window:
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The name of the node group, for example, Node Group Name One
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The names of the nodes in the group, for example, nx-tap-agg-sw1 and nx-tap-agg-sw2
On the Subnet Gateway Config tab, click + SubnetGatewayConfig to add a group of subnet gateway configurations. Click +Ports to add the ports on the switch node that is associated with the gateway. You can select the icons on each row to add ports to the switch node or to add a new subnet gateway. The following details are displayed on the Subnet Gateway Config tab:
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Serial number
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The name of the subnet gateway, for example, 10.16.206.116/16
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The Gateway IP Adddress/Mask
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The ports on the switch node that is associated with the gateway
On the APIC Management tab, click + APIC to add an APIC controller to the network. In each APIC window, you must add an APIC controller before you can set up SPAN session and SPAN destination. Click Edit or Delete to edit or delete an APIC controller. The following details are displayed on the APIC tab: