Cisco DCNM Fundamentals Guide, Release 10.4(2)

Device Manager Features

Device Manager provides two views: Device View and Summary View. Use Summary View to monitor interfaces on the switch. Use Device View to perform switch-level configurations including the following:

• Configure virtual Fibre Channel interfaces.
• Configure Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
• Configure zones for multiple VSANs.
• Manage ports, PortChannels, and trunking.
• Manage SNMPv3 security access to switches.
• Manage CLI security access to the switch.
• Manage alarms, events, and notifications.
• Save and copy configuration files and software image.
• View hardware configuration.
• View chassis, module, port status, and statistics.

Using Device Manager Interface

This section describes the Device Manager interface as shown in Figure 11-1.

Figure 11-1 Device Manager, Device Tab

Menu Bar

The menu bar at the top of the Device Manager main window provides options for managing and troubleshooting a single switch. The menu bar provides the following options:

• Device—Opens an instance of Device Manager, sets management preferences, sets the page layout, opens a Telnet/SSH session with the current switch, exports a device image, and closes the Device Manager application.
• Physical—Allows you to view and manage inventory, modules, temperature sensors, power supplies, fans, and the entire system.
• Interface—Allows you to configure and manage PortChannels, as well as Fibre Channel, Ethernet, iSCSI, and FICON ports. Also provides diagnostic, management and monitoring capabilities, as well as SPAN and port tracking.

Note The Interface > Port Channels menu option does not appear if the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch is in NPV mode and runs a Cisco NX-OS release prior to 4.2(1).

• FC—Allows you to configure and manage VSAN, domain, and name server characteristics. Also provides advanced configuration capabilities.
• FCoE—Allows you to configure the FCoE parameters and map VSANs to VLANs on a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch.

Note The FCoE menu option appears only if the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch runs Cisco NX-OS Release 4.0(1a) or later releases.

• FICON—Allows you to configure and manage FICON VSANs, configure RLIR ERL information, swap selected FICON ports, and view FICON port numbers.
• IP—Allows you to configure and manage the following types of information: FCIP, iSCSI, iSNS, routes, VRRP, and CDP.
• Security—Allows you to configure and manage FCSP, port security, iSCSI security, SNMP security, common roles, SSH, AAA, and IP ACLs.
• Admin—Allows you to save, copy, edit, and erase the switch configuration, monitor events, manipulate Flash files, manage licenses, configure NTP, use CFS, and reset the switch. Also enables you to use the show tech support, show cores, and show image commands.
• Logs—Shows the various logs: message, hardware, events, and accounting. Also displays FICON link incidents, and allows you to configure the syslog setup.
• Help—Displays online help topics for specific dialog boxes in the Information pane.

Toolbar Icons

The Device Manager toolbar provides quick access to many Device Manager features. Once the icon is selected, a dialog box may open that allows configuration of the feature. The toolbar provides the main Device and Summary View icons as shown in Table 11-1 .

Dialog Boxes

If a toolbar icon is selected, a dialog box may open that allows configuration of the selected feature. The dialog box may include table manipulation icons. See the “Information Pane” for descriptions of these icons.

Tabs

Click the Device tab on the Device Manager main window to see a graphical representation of the switch chassis and components.

Note The Device view also shows the switch chassis information of the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders (FEXs) that are connected to a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch that runs Cisco NX-OS Release 5.0(1).

Click the Summary tab on the Device Manager main window to see a summary of active interfaces on a single switch, as well as Fibre Channel and IP neighbor devices. The Summary View also displays port speed, link utilization, and other traffic statistics. There are two buttons in the upper left corner of the Summary View tab used to monitor traffic. To monitor traffic for selected objects, click the Monitor Selected Interface Traffic Util% button. To display detailed statistics for selected objects, click the Monitor Selected Interface Traffic Details button. You can set the poll interval, the type or Rx/Tx display, and the thresholds.

Note The Summary tab does not display the utilization statistics (Util%) of virtual Fibre Channel interfaces for Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches that run Cisco NX-OS Release 4.2.

Legend

The legend at the bottom right of the Device Manager indicates port status, as follows:

Colors

• Green—The port is up.
• Brown—The port is administratively down.
• Red cross—The port is down or has failed as a result of either hardware failure, loopback Diagnostic failure, or link failure.
• Red square—The port is down or has failed as a result of failure other than described for red cross.
• Amber—The port has a minor fault condition as a result of either signal loss, synchronization loss, credit loss, LIP F8 receiver failure, non operational sequence receiver, or off-line sequence receiver failure.
• Gray—The port is unreachable.
• Blue—The port is out of service.

Labels

• X—Link failure
• E—ISL
• TE—Multi-VSAN ISL
• F—Host/storage
• FL—F loop
• I— iSCSI
• SD—SPAN destination
• CH—Channel
• CU—Control Unit
• NP—Proxy N-Port (NPV Mode)
• TNP—Trunking NP_Port (NPV Mode)
• TF—Trunking F_Port
• f—vFC Present (Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches only)

Supervisor and Switching Modules

In the Device View, you can right-click an object and get information on it, or configure it. If you right-click a module, the menu shows the module number and gives you the option to configure or reset the module. If you right-click a port, the menu shows the port number and gives you the option to configure, monitor, enable/disable, set beacon mode, or perform diagnostics on the port.

Tip You can select multiple ports in Device Manager and apply options to all the selected ports at one time. Either select the ports by clicking the mouse and dragging it around them, or hold down the Control key and click each port.

To enable or disable a port, right-click the port and click Enable or Disable from the pop-up menu. To enable or disable multiple ports, drag the mouse to select the ports and then right-click the selected ports. Then click Enable or Disable from the pop-up menu.

To manage trunking on one or more ports, right-click the ports and click Configure. In the dialog box that appears, right-click the current value in the Trunk column and click nonTrunk, trunk, or auto from the pull-down list.

To create PortChannels using Device Manager, click PortChannels from the Interface menu.

Note To create a PortChannel, all the ports on both ends of the link must have the same port speed, trunking type, and administrative state.

Context Menus

Context menus are available in both Device Manager views by right-clicking a device or table.

From Device View:

• Device—Right-click a system, module, or power supply to bring up a menu that gives you the option to configure or reset the device.
• Port— Right-click a port to bring up a menu that shows you the number of the port you have clicked, and to give you the option to configure, monitor, enable, disable, set beacon mode, or perform diagnostics on the port.

From Summary View:

• Table— Right-click the table header to show a list of which columns to display in that table: Interface, Description, VSANs, Mode, Connected To, Speed (Gb), Rx, Tx, Errors, Discards, and Log. Click the Description field to bring up the appropriate configuration dialog box for the port type.

DETAILED STEPS

Step 1 You can choose one of the following three steps

a. Right-click the switch you want to manage on the Fabric pane map and choose Device Manager from the menu that appears.

b. Double-click a switch in the Fabric pane map.

c. Select a switch in the Fabric pane map and choose Tools > Device Manager.

You see the Device Manager open dialog box as shown in Figure 11-2

Figure 11-2 Device Manager: Open Dialog Box

Step 2 Enter the IP adress of the device.

Step 3 Enter the user name and password.

Step 4 Check the Proxy SNMP through FMS check box if you want Device Manager Client to use a TCP-based proxy server.

Step 5 Choose the Auth-Privacy option according to the privacy protocol you have configured on your switch:

a. If you have not configured the switch with a privacy protocol, then choose Auth-Privacy option MD5 (no privacy).

b. If you have configured the switch with your privacy protocol, choose your Auth-Privacy choice.

Step 6 Click Open to open the Device Manager.