Data Center Fabric Manager Professional Plus User Manual - Supporting DCFM 10.3.x (53-1001356-01, October 2009)

DCFM Professional Plus User Manual v
53-1001356-01
Contents
Customizing the main window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Zooming in and out of the connectivity map . . . . . . . . . . .72
Showing levels of detail on the connectivity map . . . . . . .73
Customizing the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Displaying columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
Changing the order of columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Resizing the columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Sorting table information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Copying table information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Exporting table information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Searching for information in a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Expanding and collapsing tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Searching for a device in the connectivity map . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Call Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
System requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Showing a call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Editing a call home center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Editing the Brocade International or IBM call home center80
Editing the Brocade North America or HP Modem
call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Editing an E-mail call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
Editing the EMC call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Editing the HP LAN call home center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Enabling a call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Enabling support save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Testing the call home center connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Disabling a call home center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Viewing Call Home status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Assigning a device to the call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Removing a device from a call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Removing all devices and filters from a call home center . . . 90
Call Home for virtual switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Defining an event filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Assigning an event filter to a call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Assigning an event filter to a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Overwriting an assigned event filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Removing an event filter from a call home center. . . . . . . . . . 92
Removing an event filter from a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Removing an event filter from the Call Home
Event Filters table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Searching for an assigned Event Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Data backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
What is backed up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Management server backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Back up directory structure overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Configuring backup to a writable CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Configuring backup to a hard drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Configuring backup to a network drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Enabling backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98