Managing The Switch; Management Features - Cisco 9124 - MDS Fabric Switch User Manual

3 Managing the Switch

This chapter provides the following information:

• Management features

• Maintaining the switch
• Replacing the switch
• Powering on and off
• Interpreting LED activity
• POST and boot specifications
• Interpreting POST results
Management features
The management tools built into the Cisco MDS 9124e Switch (listed in
monitor fabric topology, port status, physical status, and other information used for performance
analysis and system debugging.
When running IP over FC, these management tools must be run on both the Fibre Channel host and
the switch and must be supported by the Fibre Channel host driver. For a list of Fibre Channel hosts
supported by the Cisco MDS 9124e Switch, contact your HP representative.
Table 8 Cisco MDS 9124e Switch management features
Management tool
CLI — Run up to two admin sessions and four
user sessions simultaneously. For more
information, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000
Family CLI Configuration Guide.
Fabric Manager— For information, refer to the
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager
Configuration Guide.
Standard SNMP applications — For
information, refer to the
Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide.
Management Server — For more
information, refer to the
Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
You can connect a management station to one switch via Ethernet while managing other switches
connected to the first switch via FC. To do so, set the FC gateway address of each of the other
switches to be managed to the FC IP address of the first switch.
Out-of-band support
Ethernet or serial
connection
Ethernet connection
Ethernet connection
Cisco MDS 9000
Ethernet connection
Cisco MDS 9000
.
Cisco MDS 9124e Fabric Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem
Table 8) can be used to
In-band support
IP over FC
IP over FC
IP over FC
SMI-S compliant
management program
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