Using Cisco Network Management Products; Cisco Mds 9000 Port Analyzer Adapter - Cisco MDS 9000 Series Troubleshooting Manual

Using Cisco Network Management Products

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Using Cisco Network Management Products
This section describes network management tools that are available from Cisco and are useful for
troubleshooting problems with Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches and connected devices. It includes the
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Cisco MDS 9000 Port Analyzer Adapter

The Cisco MDS 9000 Port Analyzer Adapter is a stand-alone adapter card that converts Fibre Channel
(FC) frames to Ethernet frames by encapsulating each Fibre Channel frame into an Ethernet frame. This
product is meant to be used for analyzing SPAN traffic from a Fibre channel port on a Cisco MDS 9000
Family switch.
The Cisco Port Analyzer Adapter provides two physical interfaces:
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The Cisco Port Analyzer Adapter does not support half-duplex mode and for this reason, it will not work
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when connected to a hub.
The Cisco Port Analyzer Adapter provides the following features:
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Troubleshooting Guide
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Cisco MDS 9000 Port Analyzer Adapter, page 1-18
Cisco Fabric Analyzer, page 1-19
CiscoWorks RME, page 1-21
An FC interface that connects to the SPAN port of a Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch
A 100/1000 Mb/s Ethernet port that forwards the encapsulated Fibre Channel traffic with a broadcast
destination MAC Address
Encapsulates FC frames into Ethernet frames
Sustains 32 max size FC frames burst (in 100 Mb/s mode)
Line rate at 1Gb/s (for FC frames bigger than 91bytes)
64KBytes of onboard frame buffer
Configurable option for Truncating FC frames to 256 Bytes - for greater burst
Configurable option for Deep Truncating FC frames to 64 Bytes - best frames burst
Configurable option for Ethernet Truncating FC frames to 1496 Bytes - max size E-net frames
Configurable option for No Truncate Mode - sends jumbo frames on E-net side.
Packet Counter (Indicates number of previous packet drops)
SOF/EOF type information embedded
100/1000 Mb/s Ethernet interface - option on board
Auto Configuration on power up
Fibre Channel and Ethernet Link up indicator - LEDs.
Checks FC frame CRC
Chapter 1 Troubleshooting Overview
OL-5183-02, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 1.3