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
OL-16598-01
Chapter 2 Installing Cisco Fabric Manager
Information About Cisco Fabric Manager
Fabric Manager Server
The Fabric Manager Server software must be installed before running Fabric Manager. On a Windows
PC, the Fabric Manager Server is installed as a service and is administered using the Windows Services
control panel. Fabric Manager Server is responsible for discovery of the physical and logical fabric, and
for listening for SNMP traps, syslog messages, and Performance Manager threshold events. For more
information, see Chapter 3, “Fabric Manager Server.”
Fabric Manager Client
The Fabric Manager Client component displays a map of your Fibre Channel network fabrics, including
Cisco switches, third-party switches, hosts, and storage devices. Fabric Manager Client provides
multiple menus for accessing the features of Fabric Manager Server. For more information, see
Chapter 5, “Fabric Manager Client.”
Fabric Manager Server Proxy Services
Fabric Manager Client and Device Manager use SNMP to communicate with Fabric Manager Server. In
typical configurations, the Fabric Manager Server may be installed behind a firewall. The SNMP proxy
service available in Cisco Fabric Manager provides a TCP-based transport proxy for these SNMP
requests. The SNMP proxy service allows you to block all UDP traffic at the firewall and configure
Fabric Manager Client to communicate over a configured TCP port.
Fabric Manager uses the CLI for managing some features on the switches. These management tasks are
used by Fabric Manager and do not use the proxy services. Your firewall must remain open for Fabric
Manage to have access to the following CLI capabilities:
• External and internal loopback test
• Access to Flash files
• Creating CLI users
• Show image version command
• Show tech command
• Switch resident reports (syslog, accounting)
• Zone migration
• Show cores command
If you are using the SNMP proxy service and another application on your server is using port 9198, you
need to modify your workstation settings.
Note The switch always checks the local SNMP users before remote AAA users, unlike the CLI.
To modify a Windows workstation to use the proxy service, perform this task:
Step 1 Open Internet Explorer and choose Tools > Internet Options.
You see the Internet Options dialog box.
Step 2 Click the Connections tab and then choose LAN Settings.