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
Understanding Switch Management
Fabric Manager connects to switches using in-band or out-of-band management connections. These
connection methods are described in the following sections:
• mgmt0, page 2-4
• IPFC, page 2-5
mgmt0
The out-of-band management connection is a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet interface on the supervisor module,
which is labeled mgmt0. The mgmt0 interface can be connected to a management network to access the
switch through IP over Ethernet. You must connect to at least one Cisco MDS 9000 Family or Nexus
SNMPv1, v2c, and v3 Includes over 80 distinct Management
Information Bases (MIBs). Cisco Nexus 5000
Series switches support SNMP version 1, 2, and 3
and RMON V1 and V2. RMON provides advanced
alarm and event management, including setting
thresholds and sending notifications based on
changes in device or network operation.
By default, the Cisco Fabric Manager
communicates with Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
switches using SNMPv3, which provides secure
authentication using encrypted user names and
passwords. SNMPv3 also provides the option to
encrypt all management traffic.
HTTP/HTTPS Includes HTTP and HTTPS for web browsers to
communicate with Fabric Manager Web Services
and for the distribution and installation of the
Cisco Fabric Manager software. HTTP is not used
for communication between the Cisco Fabric
Manager Server and Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
switches.
XML/CIM over HTTP/HTTPS Includes CIM server support for designing storage
area network management applications to run on
Cisco NX-OS.
ANSI T11 FC-GS-3 Provides Fibre Channel-Generic Services
(FC-GS-3) in the defining management servers in
the Fabric Configuration Server (FCS). Fabric
Manager uses the information provided by FCS on
top of the information contained in the Name
Server database and in the Fibre Channel Shortest
Path First (FSPF) topology database to build a
detailed topology view and collect information for
all the devices in the fabric.
Table 2-1 Supported Management Protocols
Management Protocol Purpose