Cisco Nx-Os Software Configuration - Cisco MDS 9000 Series Configuration Manual

Overview

Cisco NX-OS Software Configuration

This section describes the tools you can use to configure Cisco NX-OS software, and provides an overview
of the software configuration process with links to the appropriate chapters.
Tools for Software Configuration
You can use one of two configuration management tools to configure your SANs:
• The command-line interface (CLI) can manage Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches using Telnet, SSH,
• The Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager, a Java-based graphical user interface, can manage Cisco MDS
This figure shows the tools for configuring the Cisco NX-OS software.
Figure 1: Tools for Configuring Cisco NX-OS Software
CLI
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.
Continue reading this document for more information on configuring the Cisco MDS switch using the CLI.
NTP
In a large enterprise network, having one time standard for all network devices is critical for management
reporting and event logging functions when trying to correlate interacting events logged across multiple
devices. Many enterprise customers with extremely mission-critical networks maintain their own stratum-1
NTP source.
Time synchronization occurs when several frames are exchanged between clients and servers. The switches
in client mode know the address of one or more NTP servers. The servers act as the time source and receive
client synchronization requests.
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or a serial connection.
9000 Family switches using SNMP.
Cisco MDS 9000 Family NX-OS Fundamentals Configuration Guide
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