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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Chapter 5 Fabric Manager Client
Fabric Manager Client Quick Tour
• Log—Displays messages that describe Fabric Manager operations, such as fabric discovery.
• Events—Displays information about the SNMP traps received by the management station. This
includes combination events as detected by discovery and important traps, such as license and
SNMP.
You can view large fabrics in the Fabric pane easier if you do the following tasks:
• 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
Note When a VSAN, zone, or zone member is selected in the VSAN tree, the map highlighting feature
changes to identify the selected objects. To remove this highlighting, click the Clear Highlight button
on the Fabric pane toolbar or choose Clear Highlight from the pop-up menu.
Context Menus
When you right-click an icon in the Fabric pane, you see a pop-up menu with options that vary depending
on the type of icon selected. The various options available for different objects include the following:
• Open an instance of Device Manager for the selected switch.
• Open a CLI session for the selected switch.
• Copy the display name of the selected object.
• Execute a ping or traceroute command for the device.
• Show or hide end devices.
• View attributes.
• Quiesce and disable members for SAN port channels.
• Set the trunking mode for an ISL.
• Create or add to a SAN port channel for selected ISLs.
The Fabric pane has its own toolbar with options for saving, printing, and changing the appearance of
the map. When you right-click the map, a pop-up menu appears that provides options (duplicated on the
toolbar) for changing the appearance of the map.
Note You can launch web-based or non-web-based applications from the Fabric pane. To do this, assign an IP
address to the storage port or enclosure, then right-click to bring up the pop-up menu and choose Device
Manager.
Saving the Map
You can save the map in the Fabric pane as an image, or as an editable Visio diagram. You can save the
map with or without labels on the links. The created Visio diagram is editable and saved in two layers:
• The default layer includes all switches and links in the fabric.
• The end devices layer includes the end devices and can be turned off to remove end devices from
the Visio diagram.