Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Fabric Manager Software Configuration Guide, NX-OS 4.0 (OL-16598-01, June 2008)

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Nexus 5000 Series Switch Fabric Manager Software Configuration Guide
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Nexus 5000 Management Software FAQ
This chapter answers some of the most frequently asked questions about Cisco Fabric Manager and
Device Manager. This chapter contains the following sections:
• Nexus 5000 Series Issues
• General Fabric Manager Issues
Nexus 5000 Series Issues
This section includes issues that are specific to Nexus 5000 Series switches, and contains the following
topics:
• What is Display FCoE Mode?, page 30-1
• Switching to Display FCoE Mode, page 30-1
What is Display FCoE Mode?
When Fabric Manager is running in Display FCoE mode, Fabric Manager displays additional tree nodes,
menu items, toolbar buttons, and topology nodes/links related to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
These features include the following:
• Displaying Virtual Interface Group (VIG) wizard and Virtual Interface wizard toolbar buttons and
menu items.
• Displaying VIG and virtual interface tree nodes in the physical attributes tree.
• Displaying FCoE links in the topology as dot-dot-dash lines.
• Displaying the Nexus 5000 Series switch with a different icon in the topology.
Switching to Display FCoE Mode
To switch Fabric Manager to Display FCoE mode, perform the following steps:
• Edit the server.properties file, which is located in the <installation directory>/conf folder of the
Fabric Manager server.
• Search the file for the text “displayFCoE”, which is the display FCoE property.
• Change the displayFCoE property to true.