Cisco Mds 9000 Fabric Manager; Command Line Interface; Before You Begin - Cisco AJ732A - MDS 9134 Fabric Switch Configuration Manual

Before You Begin

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Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager

The Cisco Fabric Manager is a set of network management tools that supports Secure Simple Network
Management Protocol version 3 (SNMPv3). The Cisco Fabric Manager includes the following
applications:
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Cisco SME configuration is supported in Fabric Manager Web Client only.
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During the Fabric Manager installation, the use_ip flag in the smeserver.properties file is set to FALSE
Note
by default. If you choose to use IP addresses, the DNS server should not be configured on any switch in
the fabric and the use_ip flag in the smeserver.properties file must be set to TRUE.
The Cisco Fabric Manager applications are an alternative to the CLI for most switch configuration
commands.
For more information on configuring the Cisco MDS switch using Fabric Manager, refer to the Cisco
MDS 9000 Fabric Manager Configuration Guide.

Command Line Interface

With the CLI, you can type commands at the switch prompt, and the commands are executed when you
press the Enter key. The CLI parser provides command help, command completion, and keyboard
sequences that allow you to access previously executed commands from the buffer history.
For more information on configuring the Cisco MDS switch using the CLI, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000
CLI Configuration Guide.
Before You Begin
This section describes the required tasks that must be completed before you configure Cisco SME. It
includes the following:
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Media Encryption Configuration Guide
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Fabric Manager Web Client—Provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays real-time views
of your network fabric, and lets you manage the configuration of Cisco MDS 9000 Family devices
and third-party switches.
Fabric Manager Server—Must be started before running the Fabric Manager Client. It can be
accessed by up to 16 Fabric Manager Clients at a time.
Device Manager—Provides two views of a switch.
Device View displays a continuously updated physical representation of the switch
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configuration, and provides access to statistics and configuration information for a single
switch.
Summary View displays real-time performance statistics of all active interfaces and channels on
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the switch for Fibre Channel and IP connections.
Enabling Clustering, page 2-3
Enabling Cisco SME, page 2-6
Enabling DNS, page 2-8
Chapter 2 Getting Started
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