Cisco MDS 9000 Configuration Guide

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Fabric Manager Client Quick Tour
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Quick Configuration Guide
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If a switch or director is dimmed, Fabric Manager can no longer communicate with it.
There are multiple tabs on the bottom of the Fabric pane:
• Fabric—Displays multiple fabrics; each fabric has its own tab. You can switch between fabrics by
clicking on their respective tabs.
• Log—Displays messages that describe Fabric Manager operations, such as fabric discovery.
• Events—Displays information about the SNMP traps received by the management station, including
combination events as detected by discovery and important traps such as license, SNMP, and
FICON.
When viewing large fabrics in the Fabric pane, it is helpful to:
• Turn off end device labels.
• Collapse loops.
• Collapse expanded multiple links (collapsed multiple links are shown as very thick single lines).
• Dim or hide portions of your fabric by VSAN.
Fibre Channel target (or enclosure).
iSCSI host.
Fibre Channel ISL and edge connection.
Fibre Channel PortChannel.
IP ISL and edge connection.
IP PortChannel.
Fibre Channel loop (storage).
IP cloud (iSCSI hosts). This icon is also used to
represent a fabric when viewing a SAN (multiple
fabrics) in the Fabric pane.
Any device, cloud, or loop with a box around it
means that there are hidden links attached.
Table A-1 Fabric Manager Graphics (continued)
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Cisco MDS 9000 Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	MDS 9000
Category	Switch
Language	English