Running Cisco Fabric Manager With Multiple Interfaces; Specifying An Interface For Fabric Manager Server; Specifying An Interface For Performance Manager - Cisco MDS 9000 Series Troubleshooting Manual

Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Fabric Manager Issues
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Running Cisco Fabric Manager with Multiple Interfaces

If your PC has multiple interfaces (NICs), the four Cisco Fabric Manager applications detect these
interfaces automatically (ignoring loopback interfaces). Fabric Manager Client and Device Manager
detect all interfaces on your PC each time you launch them, and allow you to select one. Fabric Manager
Server and Performance Manager detect on initial install, and allows you to select one. You are not
prompted again to choose an interface with these two applications.
There may be circumstances where you will want to change the interface you are using. For example:
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Refer to the following sections, depending on which application you want to recognize the interface.
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Specifying an Interface for Fabric Manager Server

To specify an interface for Fabric Manager Server, perform the following steps:
Go to the .cisco_mds9000 folder.
Step 1
Edit the server.properties file with a text editor.
Step 2
Step 3 Scroll until you find the line snmp.localaddress
Step 4 If the line is commented, remove the comment character.
Step 5 Set this value to the IP address or interface name of the NIC you want to use.
Save the file.
Step 6
Step 7 Stop and restart Fabric Manager Server.

Specifying an Interface for Performance Manager

To specify an interface for Performance Manager, perform the following steps:
Go to the .cisco_mds9000 folder.
Step 1
Edit the PMCollector.conf file with a text editor.
Step 2
Scroll until you find the line wrapper.java.additional.2=-Dmds.nmsAddress=
Step 3
Step 4 If the line is commented, remove the comment character.
Set this value to the IP address or interface name of the NIC you want to use.
Step 5
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If you add an interface after you have installed Fabric Manager Server and/or Performance Manager
If you decide to use a different interface than the one you initially selected
If for any reason one of the Cisco Fabric Manager applications did not detect multiple interfaces
Specifying an Interface for Fabric Manager Server, page 7-63
Specifying an Interface for Fabric Manager Client or Device Manager, page 7-64
Specifying an Interface for Performance Manager, page 7-63
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