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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-6965-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
Chapter 3 Fabric Manager Client
Using Fabric Manager Client
Physical Attributes Pane
Use the Physical Attributes pane to display a tree of the options available for managing the switches in
the currently selected fabric, VSAN, or zone.
To select an option, click a folder to display the options available and then click the option. You see the
table with information for the selected option in the Information pane. The Physical Attributes pane
provides the following main folders:
• Switches—Views and configures hardware, system, licensing, and configuration files.
• Interfaces—Views and configures FC Physical, FC Logical, Ethernet, SVC, and PortChannel
interfaces.
• FC Services—Views and configures Fibre Channel network configurations.
• IP—Views and configures IP storage and IP services.
• Events—Views and configures events, alarms, thresholds, notifications, and informs.
• Security—Views and configures MDS management and FC-SP security.
• ISLs—Views and configures Inter-Switch Links.
• End Devices—Views and configures end devices.
Status Bar
The status bar at the bottom of the Fabric Manager window shows the last entry displayed by the
discovery process, and the possible error message on the right side. The status bar displays a message
stating that something has changed in the fabric and a new discovery is needed. The status bar shows
both short-term, transient messages (such as the number of rows displayed in the table), and long-term
discovery issues.
Context Menus
When you right-click an icon in the Fabric pane, you see a pop-up menu with options that vary depending
on the type of icon selected. The various options available for different objects include the following:
• Open an instance of Device Manager for the selected switch.
• Open a CLI session for the selected switch.
• Copy the display name of the selected object.
• Execute a ping or traceroute command for the device.
• Show or hide end devices.
• View attributes
• Quiesce and disable members for PortChannels
• Set the trunking mode for an ISL.
• Create or add to a PortChannel for selected ISLs.
The Fabric pane has its own toolbar with options for saving, printing, and changing the appearance of
the map. When you right-click on the map, a pop-up menu appears that provides options (duplicated on
the toolbar) for changing the appearance of the map.