Installing And Configuring Fabric Manager Server; Installing Fabric Manager Server - Cisco AP775A - Nexus Converged Network Switch 5010 Configuration Manual

Installing and Configuring Fabric Manager Server

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Note You must have the same release of Fabric Manager Client and Fabric Manager Server.
Installing and Configuring Fabric Manager Server
Note Prior to running Fabric Manage Server, you should create a special Fabric Manager administrative user
on each switch in the fabric or on a remote AAA server. Use this user to discover your fabric topology.
See the
To install Fabric Manager Server and set the initial configuration, follow these steps:
Step 1 Install Fabric Manager and Fabric Manager server on your workstation. See the
Manager Server" section on page
Log in to Fabric Manager. See the
Step 2
and Later" section on page
Set Fabric Manager Server to continuously monitor the fabric. See the
Step 3
Server Fabric" section on page
Repeat
Step 4
Install Fabric Manager Web Server. See the
Step 5
page
Verify Performance Manager is collecting data. See the
Step 6
section on page

Installing Fabric Manager Server

When you install Fabric Manager, the basic version of the Fabric Manager Server (unlicensed) is
installed with it. After you click the Fabric Manager icon, a dialog box opens and you can enter the IP
address of a computer running the Fabric Manager Server component. If you do not see the Fabric
Manager Server IP address text box, click Options to expand the list of configuration options. If the
server component is running on your local machine, leave localhost in that field. If you try to run Fabric
Manager without specifying a valid server, you are prompted to start the Fabric Manager Server locally.
On a Windows PC, you install the Fabric Manager Server as a service. This service can then be
administered using Services in the Administrative Tools. The default setting for the Fabric Manager
Server service is that the server is automatically started when the Windows PC is rebooted. You can
change this behavior by modifying the properties in Services.
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Continuous health monitoring—MDS health is monitored continuously, so any events that
occurred since the last time you opened the Fabric Manager Client are captured.
Roaming user profiles—The licensed Fabric Manager Server uses the roaming user profile feature
to store your preferences and topology map layouts on the server, so that your user interface will be
consistent regardless of what computer you use to manage your storage networks.
"Best Practices for Discovering a Fabric" section on page
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Step 2 through Step 3 for each fabric that you want to manage through Fabric Manager Server.
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"Launching Fabric Manager Client in Cisco SAN-OS Release 3.2(1)
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"Verifying Performance Manager Collections" section on
"Verifying Performance Manager Collections"
Chapter 3 Fabric Manager Server
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"Installing Fabric
"Managing a Fabric Manager
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