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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-6965-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
Chapter 1 Installation and Configuration
Cisco MDS 9000 Switch Management
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See the “Running Fabric Manager Behind a Firewall” section on page 1-12.
Device Manager
The Device Manager presents two views of a single switch.
• Device View displays a graphic representation of the switch configuration and provides access to
statistics and configuration information.
• Summary View displays a summary of xE ports (Inter-Switch Links), Fx ports (fabric ports), and Nx
ports (attached hosts and storage) on the switch, as well as Fibre Channel and IP neighbor devices.
Summary or detailed statistics can be charted, printed, or saved to a file in tab-delimited format.
See Chapter 4, “Device Manager.”
Performance Manager
Performance Manager provides detailed traffic analysis by capturing data with SNMP. This data is
compiled into various graphs and charts that can be viewed with any web browser. See Chapter 33,
“Performance Monitoring.”
Fabric Manager Web Services
The Fabric Manager Web Services allows operators to monitor and obtain reports for MDS events,
performance, and inventory from a remote location using a web browser. For information on installing
and using Fabric Manager Web Services, see Chapter 5, “Fabric Manager Web Services.”
Cisco MDS 9000 Switch Management
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family of switches can be accessed and configured in many different ways and
supports standard management protocols. Table 1-1 lists the management protocols that Fabric Manager
supports to access, monitor, and configure the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of switches .
Table 1-1 Supported Management Protocols
Management Protocol Purpose
Telnet/SSH Provides remote access to the CLI for a Cisco
MDS 9000 switch.
FTP/SFTP/TFTP, SCP Copies configuration and software images
between devices.