Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Configuration Manual page 22

System Management Features
Feature
Cisco Fabric Services
Precision Time Protocol
User Accounts and RBAC
Session Manager
Online Diagnostics
System Message Logging
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series NX-OS System Management Configuration Guide, Release 5.2(1)N1(1)
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Description
The Cisco MDS NX-OS software uses the Cisco
Fabric Services (CFS) infrastructure to enable
efficient database distribution and to promote device
flexibility. CFS simplifies SAN provisioning by
automatically distributing configuration information
to all switches in a fabric.
The Precision Time Protocol (PTP) is a time
synchronization protocol for nodes distributed across
a network. Its hardware timestamp feature provides
greater accuracy than other time synchronization
protocols such as Network Time Protocol (NTP).
User accounts and role-based access control (RBAC)
allow you to define the rules for an assigned role.
Roles restrict the authorization that the user has to
access management operations. Each user role can
contain multiple rules and each user can have multiple
roles.
Session Manager allows you to create a configuration
and apply it in batch mode after the configuration is
reviewed and verified for accuracy and completeness.
Cisco Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD) define a
common framework for diagnostic operations across
Cisco platforms. The online diagnostic framework
specifies the platform-independent fault-detection
architecture for centralized and distributed systems,
including the common diagnostics CLI and the
platform-independent fault-detection procedures for
boot-up and run-time diagnostics.
The platform-specific diagnostics provide
hardware-specific fault-detection tests and allow you
to take appropriate corrective action in response to
diagnostic test results.
You can use system message logging to control the
destination and to filter the severity level of messages
that system processes generate. You can configure
logging to a terminal session, a log file, and syslog
servers on remote systems.
System message logging is based on RFC 3164. For
more information about the system message format
and the messages that the device generates, see the
Cisco NX-OS System Messages Reference.
Overview