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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-6965-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
Chapter 8 Cisco Traffic Analyzer
Using Cisco Traffic Analyzer with Fabric Manager Web Services
Using Cisco Traffic Analyzer with Fabric Manager Web
Services
You can run Cisco Traffic Analyzer from within Fabric Manager Web Services in Fabric Manager
Release 2.1(2) or later.
Note Running Traffic Analyzer changed with Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2). You can still run Cisco Traffic
Analyzer from within Fabric Manager Web Services. However, with Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2) or
later, you can no longer access Traffic Analyzer from the Fabric Manager Client. For more information
on releases prior to Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2), see “Configuring Cisco Traffic Analyzer for Fabric
Manager Releases Prior to 2.1(2)” section on page 8-8
To use Cisco Traffic Analyzer from Fabric Manager Web Services, follow these steps:
Step 1 Install and launch Cisco Traffic Analyzer. See the “Installing and Launching Cisco Traffic Analyzer”
section on page 8-4.
Step 2 Configure Cisco Traffic Analyzer to use PAA-2. See the “Configuring Cisco Traffic Analyzer” section
on page 8-7.
Step 3 Discover instances of Cisco Traffic Analyzer from Fabric Manager Web Services. See the “Discovering
Cisco Traffic Analyzer from Fabric Manager Web Services” section on page 8-7.
Step 4 Access Cisco Traffic Analyzer from Fabric Manager Web Services. “Accessing Cisco Traffic Analyzer
from Fabric Manager Web Services” section on page 8-8.
Installing and Launching Cisco Traffic Analyzer
You must launch Cisco Traffic Analyzer before you can discover and access it from Fabric Manager Web
Services. At a minimum , you need to provide the directory where Cisco Traffic Analyzer stores its database,
including the RRD files that it creates for trending.
Note Do not use the /tmp directory for storing the Cisco Traffic Analyzer database on UNIX or Linux
workstations. Many distributions of Linux periodically clean up the /tmp directory, thereby affecting
Cisco Traffic Analyzer. Instead you can use the /var/ntop directory.
Verify that you have sufficient space in the partition where the Cisco Traffic Analyzer database is stored.
To install and launch Cisco Traffic Analyzer on a UNIX workstation, follow these steps:
Step 1 Open a browser and go to the following website to access the web page where Cisco Traffic Analyzer is
available:
http://cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/mds-fm.
Step 2 Download fc-ntop.tar.gz and install it using the instructions at the following website:
http://www.ntop.org.
Step 3 Launch ntop using the following UNIX command:
ntop -P database_directory