Cisco MDS 9000 Series Troubleshooting Guide

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Troubleshooting Guide
OL-5183-02, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 1.3
Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Fabric Manager Issues
Running Cisco Fabric Manager with Multiple Interfaces
Running Cisco Fabric Manager with Multiple Interfaces
If your PC has multiple interfaces (NICs), the four Cisco Fabric Manager applications detect these
interfaces automatically (ignoring loopback interfaces). Fabric Manager Client and Device Manager
detect all interfaces on your PC each time you launch them, and allow you to select one. Fabric Manager
Server and Performance Manager detect on initial install, and allows you to select one. You are not
prompted again to choose an interface with these two applications.
There may be circumstances where you will want to change the interface you are using. For example:
• If you add an interface after you have installed Fabric Manager Server and/or Performance Manager
• If you decide to use a different interface than the one you initially selected
• If for any reason one of the Cisco Fabric Manager applications did not detect multiple interfaces
Refer to the following sections, depending on which application you want to recognize the interface.
• Specifying an Interface for Fabric Manager Server, page 7-63
• Specifying an Interface for Fabric Manager Client or Device Manager, page 7-64
• Specifying an Interface for Performance Manager, page 7-63
Specifying an Interface for Fabric Manager Server
To specify an interface for Fabric Manager Server, perform the following steps:
Step 1 Go to the .cisco_mds9000 folder.
Step 2 Edit the server.properties file with a text editor.
Step 3 Scroll until you find the line snmp.localaddress
Step 4 If the line is commented, remove the comment character.
Step 5 Set this value to the IP address or interface name of the NIC you want to use.
Step 6 Save the file.
Step 7 Stop and restart Fabric Manager Server.
Specifying an Interface for Performance Manager
To specify an interface for Performance Manager, perform the following steps:
Step 1 Go to the .cisco_mds9000 folder.
Step 2 Edit the PMCollector.conf file with a text editor.
Step 3 Scroll until you find the line wrapper.java.additional.2=-Dmds.nmsAddress=
Step 4 If the line is commented, remove the comment character.
Step 5 Set this value to the IP address or interface name of the NIC you want to use.

Cisco MDS 9000 Series Specifications

General

Category	Switch
Operating System	Cisco NX-OS
Ports	Varies by model
Protocols	Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), iSCSI
Redundancy	Redundant supervisors, power supplies, and fans
Management	Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), CLI, SNMP
Virtualization Support	VSANs (Virtual SANs)
Security Features	Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP)
Hot Swappable Components	power supplies, fans
Power Supply Options	AC and DC options available