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This section contains context-sensitive Online Help content for the Web Client > Monitor tab.
The Switch menu includes the following submenus:
Step 1 | From the menu bar, choose Monitor > 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. You can choose the chart type and chart options to show as well. |
Step 1 | From the menu bar, choose Monitor > 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 Switch 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 memory utilization chart in varied views. |
Note | It is not necessary to configure the LAN or SAN credentials under the Configure > Credentials Management > LAN Credentials screen to fetch the temperature monitoring data from the switches. |
You can enable the temperature monitoring feature for LAN switches from the LAN Collections screen, and for the SAN switches by setting a few properties under Administration > DCNM Server > Server Properties screens.
From the menu bar, choose Administration > Performance Setup > LAN Collections.
Select the Temperature Sensor check box.
Select the type(s) of LAN switches for which you want to collect performance data.
Click Apply to save the configuration
From the menu bar, select Administration > DCNM Server > Server Properties.
Navigate to the # PERFORMANCE MANAGER > COLLECTIONS area.
Set the environment fields pm.collectSanTemperature & pm.sanSensorDiscovery to TRUE.
Click Apply Changes to save the configuration.
Restart Cisco DCNM.
Step 1 | From the menu bar, choose Monitor > Switch > Custom Port Groups.
The Custom Port Groups page shows statistics and performance details for custom port groups. |
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 icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save. |
Step 4 | Click the switch name to view the Switch Dashboard. |
You can view the events and syslog from Cisco DCNM Web Client.
Step 1 | From the menu
bar, choose
Monitor
> Switch > Events.
The fabrics along with the switch name and the events details are displayed. The Count column displays the number of times that the same event has occurred during the time period that is shown in the Last Seen and First Seencolumns. If you click a switch name displayed in the Switch column, Cisco DCNM Web Client displays the switch dashboard. |
Step 2 | Select one events in the table and click the Add Suppressor icon to open the shortcut of adding an event suppressor rule. For detailed information about adding event suppressor rules, please refer to Add Event Suppression Rules. |
Step 3 | Select one or more events from table and click the Acknowledge icon to acknowledge the event information for the fabric. |
Step 4 | You can cancel an acknowledgment for a fabric by selecting the fabric and clicking the Unacknowledge icon. |
Step 5 | Select Advanced Filter beside the filter icon to search the accounting information by Source, User Name,Time and Description. Or select Quick Filter to search under each column. |
Step 6 | Select a fabric and use the Delete icon to delete the fabric and it’s event information from the list. |
Step 7 | You can use the Print icon to print the event details and use the Export to Excel icon to export the data to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. |
The SAN menu includes the following submenus:
Step 1 | From the menu
bar, choose
Monitor
> SAN > NPV Links
You see the NPV Links 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 see the VSAN window displaying the VSAN details along with the status and Activated Zoneset details. |
Step 1 | From the menu
bar, choose
Monitor
> SAN > Ports.
You see the Ethernet Ports 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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Step 1 | From the menu bar, choose Monitor > SAN > FC Ports.
You see the Inventory > End 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, Device Name or VSAN. |
You can view the performance of devices connected to host ports, storage ports and all ports.
Step 1 | From the menu
bar, choose
Performance > End Devices.
You see the End Devices Traffic and Errors window. | ||
Step 2 | You can choose to display All ports, Host ports or Storage ports from the drop-down list on the upper right corner. | ||
Step 3 | You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year. | ||
Step 4 | To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save. | ||
Step 5 | Click the chart
icon in the
Name column to see:
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You can view the performance of the FC Flow traffic through the Cisco DCNM Web Client.
Step 1 | From the menu
bar, choose
Monitor
> SAN > FC Flows.
You see the FC Flows 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 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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You can view the performance of devices connected to the host enclosure.
Step 1 | From the menu
bar, choose
Monitor
> SAN > Enclosures.
You see the Enclosures Traffic and Errors window. | ||
Step 2 | You can select to view Host Enclosures or Storage Enclosures from the drop-down list on the upper right corner. | ||
Step 3 | You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month and Year. | ||
Step 4 | To export the data into a spreadsheet, click the Export icon in the upper-right corner and then click Save. | ||
Step 5 | Click the chart
icon in the
Name column to see:
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You can view the performance of devices connected to the port groups.
Step 1 | From the menu
bar, choose
Monitor
> SAN > Port Groups.
You see the Port Group 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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The SAN Host Path Redundancy check enables you to view the non-redundant host storage paths. It helps you identify the host enclosure errors along with the resolution to fix the errors.
Note | All fabrics that are discovered must be licensed or this feature will be disabled in the Cisco DCNM Web Client. When the feature is disabled, a notification is displayed stating unlicensed fabrics are discovered. |
From the menu bar, choose Monitor > SAN > Host Path Redundancy.
You can see two parts in this window:
Step 1 | From the menu bar, choose Monitor > SAN > Host Path Redundancy. |
Step 2 | Under the upper Tests to Run area, use the check boxes to select the host redundancy optional checks. |
Step 3 | Check the Automatically Run Check Every 24 hours checkbox to enable periodic running of the checker. The checker will run every 24 hours starting 10 minutes after the server starts. |
Step 4 | Check Limit by VSANs check box, and select Inclusion or Exclusion. Enter VSAN or VSAN range in the text field to include or skip the host enclosures that belong to VSAN(s) from the redundancy check. |
Step 5 | Check other optional checks to do the relevant check. |
Step 6 | Click Clear Results to clear all the errors displayed. |
Step 7 | Click Run Tests Now to run the check at anytime. |
Step 8 | The results are displayed in the below Results area. |
Step 1 | From the menu bar, choose Monitor > SAN > Host Path Redundancy tab. |
Step 2 | The bottom Results area has four tabs that are Host Path Errors, Ignored Hosts, Ignored Storage and Ignored Host Storage Pairs. |
Step 3 | Click
Host Path Errors tab to display the host path
redundancy errors table. On the top of the table, the colored
Good,
Skipped and
Errored host enclosure counts, along with the last
update time are displayed.
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Step 4 | Click the
Ignored Hosts tab to display the list of host
enclosures that have been skipped or ignored by the redundancy check along with
the reason the host enclosure check was skipped. The following reasons may be
displayed:
Select a host enclosure and click the Delete button to remove the host from the ignored list and begin receiving errors about a host you had chosen to ignore. However, you can delete entries with message Host was ignored by user. |
Step 5 | Click the Ignored Storage tab to display the list of storage enclosures that have been selected to be ignored during redundancy check. Select a storage enclosure and click the Delete button to remove the storage from the ignored list and begin receiving errors about a storage you had chosen to ignore. |
Step 6 | Click the Ignored Host Storage Pair tab to display the list of host-storage pairs that have been selected to be ignored during redundancy check. Select a row and click Delete to delete the storage pair from the ignored list. |
The Slow Drain Analysis enables you to view slow drain statistics at the switch level and the port level. You can monitor the slow drain issue within any time frame. You can display the data in a chart format and export the data for analysis also.
The slow drain statistics are stored in the cache memory. Therefore, the statistics will be lost when the server is restarted or a new diagnostic request is placed.
Note | The jobs run in the background, even after you log off. |
To configure and view the slow drain statistics,
Step 1 | From the menu bar, choose Monitor > SAN > Slow Drain Analysis. |
Step 2 | In the Scope field, select the fabric from the drop-down list. |
Step 3 | In the Duration drop-down list, select Once or Daily for scheduled daily job. Once will include intervals, such as 10min, 30min, 1hour, and other hours and run the job immediately; while Daily will allow user to pick a start up time, and run the job for selected interval. Use the radio button to select the desired Interval to collect data.
Only daily slow drain job will sent out report which can be viewed from Monitor > Report > View. |
Step 4 | Click the Play icon to begin polling.
The server begins to collect the slow drain statistics based on the scope defined by the user. The Time Remaining is displayed in the right-side of the page. |
Step 5 | Click the Stop icon to stop polling.
The server maintains the counters in the cache, until a new diagnostic request is placed. You can stop the polling before the time is up. |
Step 6 | Click on the arrow next to Current jobs to display the slow drain details for the jobs running on the fabric. The Fabric Name, the Status of polling, Start, End, and Duration icon for each fabric is displayed. |
Step 7 | Select the fabric and click Result, Delete and Stopto view, delete and stop the job. |
Step 8 | Click on the Detail icon to view the saved information. |
Step 9 | Click on Interface chart icon to display the slow drain value for the switch port in chart format. |
Step 10 | Click on the Filter icon to display the details based on the defined value for each column. |
Step 11 | Select the Data Rows Only checkbox to filter and display the non-zero entries in the statistics. |
Step 12 | Click on the Print icon to Prints the slow drain details. |
Step 13 | Click on the Export icon to export the slow drain statistics to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. |
The LAN menu includes the following submenus:
Step 1 | From the menu
bar, choose
Monitor
> LAN > Ethernet.
You see the Ethernet 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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Step 1 | From the menu bar, choose Monitor > LAN > Link.
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.
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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The virtual port channel (vPC) feature enables you to view the links that are physically connected to different devices as a single port channel. A vPC is an extended form of a port channel which allows you to create redundancy and increase bisectional bandwidth by enabling multiple parallel paths between nodes and allowing load balancing traffic. Traffic is distributed among two single device vPC end points. If there is an inconsistency in the vPC configurations, the vPC does not function correctly.
Note | To view the vPC in vPC Performance, both primary and secondary device should be designated to the user. If either one kind of switch is not designated, vPC information will not displayed. |
Cisco DCNM Web Client > Monitor> vPC will display only consistent vPCs displays both the consistent and inconsistent vPCs.
You can identify the inconsistent vPCs and resolve the inconsistencies in each vPC by using the Cisco DCNM Web Client > Configure > Deploy > vPC Peer and Web Client > Configure > Deploy > vPC.
Table 1 displays the following vPC configuration details in the data grid view.
Column |
Description |
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Search box |
Enter any string to filter the entries in their respective column. |
vPC ID |
Displays vPC ID's configured device. |
Domain ID |
Displays the domain ID of the vPC peer switches. |
Multi Chassis vPC EndPoints |
Displays the multi-chassis vPC endpoints for each vPC ID under a vPC domain. |
Primary vPC Peer - Device Name |
Displays the vPC Primary device name. |
Primary vPC Peer - Primary vPC Interface |
Displays the primary vPC interface. |
Primary vPC Peer - Capacity |
Displays the capacity for the primary vPC peer. |
Primary vPC Peer - Avg. Rx/sec |
Displays the average receiving speed of primary vPC peer. |
Primary vPC Peer - Avg. Tx/sec |
Displays the average transmitting speed of primary vPC peer. |
Primary vPC Peer - Peak Util% |
Displays the peak utilization percentage of primary vPC peer. |
Secondary vPC Peer - Device Name |
Displays the vPC secondary device name. |
Secondary vPC Interface |
Displays the secondary vPC interface. |
Secondary vPC Peer - Capacity |
Displays the capacity for the secondary vPC peer. |
Secondary vPC Peer - Avg. Rx/sec |
Displays the average receiving speed of secondary vPC peer. |
Secondary vPC Peer - Avg. Tx/sec |
Displays the average transmitting speed of secondary vPC peer. |
Secondary vPC Peer - Peak Util% |
Displays the peak utilization percentage of secondary vPC peer. |
You can use this feature as below:
You can view the relationship among consistent virtual port channels (vPCs). You can view the statistics of all member interfaces and the aggregate of the statistics at the port channel level.
Note | This tab only displays consistent vPCs. |
Step 1 | From the menu
bar, choose
Monitor
> LAN > vPC.
The vPC Performance statistics appears and the aggregated statistics of all vPCs are displayed in a tabular manner. | ||
Step 2 | Click on the
vPC
ID and a window appears.
You are able to view the vPC topology and vPC Details, Peer-link Details and Peer-link Status table. The vPC Consistency, Peer-link Consistency, and vPC Type2 Consistency for the vPC is displayed.
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Step 3 | Click on the
peer-link icon in front of the
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 4 | Click
the Show
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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The Report menu includes the following submenus:
You can view the saved reports based on the following selection options:
You see the View Reports window displaying the View Reports by tree on the left pane.
Step 1 | In the left pane, expand By Template or By User folder. | ||
Step 2 | Select the report you wish to view. You can view the report in the main screen or you can select the report in the Report column to view the HTML version of the report in a new browser. | ||
Step 3 | To delete a specific report, select the check box and click the Delete icon. | ||
Step 4 | To delete all reports, check the check box in the header, and click the Delete icon.
The report is divided into two sections:
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You can generate reports based on a selected template or you can schedule the report to run at a specified time.
Step 1 | From the menu bar, select Monitor > Report > Generate.
You see the Generate Report window. | ||
Step 2 | In the configuration window, use the drop-down to define the scope for report generation.
In the Scope drop-down, you can select a scope group with dual fabrics, the traffic data generated by hosts and storage end devices are displayed side-by-side which enables you to view and compare traffic data generated on dual fabrics. To view this report, in the Other Predefined folder, select Traffic by VSAN (Dual Fabrics). Click Options to select the Device Type and Fabrics. Click Save to save the configuration. | ||
Step 3 | In the pane on the left hand, expand the folders and select the report. | ||
Step 4 | (Optional) In the pane on the right hand, you can edit the Report Name. | ||
Step 5 | (Optional) Check the Export to Csv/Excel check box to export the report in to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. | ||
Step 6 | In the Repeat radio buttons, if you select:
When you generate a report for Network Configuration Audit, the daily job generates a report for the selected devices for last 1 day. Similarly, the weekly job generates a report for the last 7 days, and the monthly job generates a report for the last 30 days. | ||
Step 7 | Click the Create button to generate a report based on the specifications.
You see the report results in a new browser window. Alternatively, you can view the report by choosing Monitor > Report > View and selecting the report name from the report template that you used in the navigation pane.
The report is divided into two sections:
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You can create custom reports from all or any subset of information obtained by Cisco DCNM-SAN. You create a report template by selecting events, performance, and inventory statistics you want in your report and set the desired SAN, fabrics or VSAN to limit the scope of the template. You can generate and schedule a report of your fabric based on this template immediately or at a later time. DCNM Web Client saves each report based on the report template used and the time you generate the report.
Since the Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.0, the report template design has changed to resolve the limitations of the earlier versions. With the new design model, you can perform add, delete, and modify functionalities on a single page. You can choose multiple fabrics and VSANs using the new navigation system, which allows you to add new items and categories in the future.
The new design model has three panels:
Follow the steps to create custom reports
Step 1 | From the menu bar, choose Monitor > Report > User Defined.
You see the Create User Defined window. |
Step 2 | In the Template panel, under the Name column, select CLICK TO ADD NEW CUSTOM to edit the Name of the new report.
In the Configuration panel: |
Step 3 | Click Scope to define scope of the report. The default scope will have Data Center, SAN, LAN, and Fabric configurations. |
Step 4 | Click Inventory and use the checkbox to select the inventory information required in the report. You can also use the drop-down to filter by selecting the Top performance and the timeline required in the report. |
Step 5 | Click Performance and use the checkbox to select the performance information required in the report. |
Step 6 | Click Health and use the checkbox to select the health information required in the report. |
Step 7 | Click Save to save this report template.
A confirmation message is displayed confirming that the report is saved. |
Step 1 | From the menu
bar, choose
Monitor
> Report > User Defined.
You see the Template, Configuration and User Selection panels. | ||
Step 2 | Select a report
from the
Template panel.
You see the current information about this report in the User Selection panel. | ||
Step 3 | Modify the information in the Configuration panel. | ||
Step 4 | Click
Save to save the report template.
A confirmation message is displayed confirming that the report is saved.
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The Configuration menu includes the following submenus:
A user with network operator role can view configuration archives for a switch and their details in the Archives window.
The following tables describe the icons and fields that are displayed in this window.
Icon |
Description |
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Compare |
Allows you to compare two configuration files either from different devices or on the same device. |
View/Edit |
Allows you to view or edit a configuration file. |
Field Name |
Description |
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Device Name |
Displays the device name Click on the arrow next to the device to view the configuration files. |
IP Address |
Displays the IP address of the device. |
Group |
Displays the group of the device. |
Configuration |
Displays the configuration files archived for that device. |
Archive Time |
Displays the time at which the device configuration files were archived. The format is Day:Mon:DD:YYYY HH:MM:SS. |
Size |
Displays the size of the archived file. |
Golden |
Shows whether the current version is a Golden backup or not. |
This section contains the following:
Perform the following task to compare configuration files.
Step 1 | In the Cisco DCNM web client home page, choose Monitor > Configuration > Archives. |
Step 2 | In the Archives area, click the arrow adjacent the name of the device whose configuration files you want to view. The list of configuration files is displayed. |
Step 3 | Check the check box next to configuration files and select two configuration files to compare.
The first file you select is designated as source and the second configuration file is designated as the target file. |
Step 4 | Click Compare.
The View Config Diff page displays the difference between the two configuration files. The Source and Target configuration files' content are displayed in two columns. From the drop-down list in the right-top corner, choose All to view the entire configuration or choose Changed to view the configuration differences between the configuration files. The differences in the configuration files are shown in a table, with legends. Red—Deleted configuration details Green—Newly added configuration Blue—Modified configuration details |
You can view an archived configuration file, or you can edit and save this file on your local system. The changes made to the archived configuration file is applied only to the file saved in your local system. The archived configuration file on the DCNM host server remains unchanged.
Perform the following task to view or edit the configuration file for the devices.
Step 1 | In the web client home page, choose Monitor > Configuration > Archives. |
Step 2 | In the Archives area, click the arrow adjacent the name of the device whose configuration files you want to view. The list of configuration files are displayed. |
Step 3 | Click the radio button adjacent the corresponding file you want to view or edit. |
Step 4 | Click the View/Edit configuration icon.
The View/Edit configuration window appears showing the configuration file content in the right column. |
Step 5 | Edit the configuration file as required. |
Step 6 | Click Save to apply the changes and download the configuration file on your local system, or click Cancel to discard changes. |
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