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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-17256-03, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
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Authentication in Fabric Manager
Fabric Manager contains interdependent software components that communicate with the switches in
your fabric. These components use varying methods to authenticate to other components and switches.
This chapter describes these authentication steps and the best practices for setting up your fabric and
components for authentication.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Fabric Manager Authentication Overview, page 4-1
• Best Practices for Discovering a Fabric, page 4-3
• Performance Manager Authentication, page 4-4
• Fabric Manager Web Server Authentication, page 4-4
Fabric Manager Authentication Overview
Fabric Manager contains multiple components that interact to manage a fabric.
These components include:
• Fabric Manager Client
• Fabric Manager Server
• Performance Manager
• Interconnected fabric of Cisco MDS 9000 switches and storage devices
• AAA server (optional)
Figure 4-1 shows an example configuration for these components.
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