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Note If you see a database file lock error in the database log, you can fix it by shutting down and restarting the database server using the web client. Fabric Manager Web Client user passwords are encrypted and stored locally on the workstation where you installed Web Server.

If you forget a password, you can create a new network-admin user locally on the workstation where you installed Web Server and then log in and delete the old user account under the Admin tab. To create a user on the workstation where you installed Web Server and delete the old user, follow these steps:. Step 1 Go to the Web Server installation directory and enter the cd command to access the bin directory.

Step 2 Enter the following line to create a user:. Step 4 Select the user that you want to delete and click Delete to remove the old user. To start, restart, or stop services using Fabric Manager Web Client, follow these steps:. Step 1 Click the Admin tab, and then click Status. You see a table of services and the status of each as shown in Figure Step 2 Select the services you want to start, restart, or stop. Step 3 Click Start or Stop, or Restart.

Note If the word "more" is in the Status column, you can click it to view a detailed status of the service. Note You need to configure Performance collection in order to start, stop or restart Performance Collector.

Step 1 Click the Admin tab, and then click Configure. Step 2 Click Fabrics in the left navigation pane. You see the list of fabrics if any managed by Fabric Manager Server in the Opened column as shown in Figure Step 3 Click Add.

You see the Add Fabric dialog box as shown in Figure Step 4 Enter the seed switch IP address, read community and write community for this fabric. Step 5 Enter the user name and password for this fabric. You must enter your user name and password. Step 7 Select the privacy settings from the Auth-Privacy listbox. Step 8 Click Add to begin managing this fabric. Step 9 Select the IP address of the server from the Server listbox. Step 3 Check the check box next to the fabric that you want to remove and click Remove to discontinue data collection for that fabric.

Step 3 Check the check box next to the fabric that you want to edit and click Edit. You see the Edit Fabric dialog box as shown in Figure Step 4 Enter a new fabric name, user name and password and specify how you want Fabric Manager Server to manage the fabric by selecting an option from the drop-down list.

Step 5 Click Modify to save the changes. Step 2 Click Registration in the left navigation pane. Step 3 Select a fabric to display registration information for that fabric. You see the Registration screen showing the registration information for the selected fabric as shown in Figure You can use Fabric Manager Web Client to add and remove notification forwards for system messages. To add a notification forward using Fabric Manager Web Client, follow these steps:. Step 2 Click Forwarding in the left navigation pane.

You see the Add Notification dialog box as shown in Figure If you choose Trap , a Port field is added to the dialog box. Step 5 From the Fabric drop-down list, choose the fabric for notification.

Step 7 Enter the e-mail address for notifications in the Address field. Step 8 From the Minimum Severity drop-down list, select the severity level of the messages to receive. Step 9 Click Add to add the notification. Note The traps sent by Fabric Manager Server correspond to the severity type followed by a text description:. To remove a notification forward using Fabric Manager Web Client, follow these steps:.

Step 3 Check the check box in front of the notification that you want to remove. Step 4 Click Remove. Step 2 Click Clients in the left navigation pane. You see the Clients page as shown in Figure Step 3 Check the check box next to the client you want to disconnect. Step 4 Click Disconnect. To configure Fabric Manager Server preferences, click the Admin tab, click Configure and then click Preferences in the left navigation pane.

Follow the on-screen instructions. To add a community fabric using Fabric Manager Web Client, follow these steps:. Step 2 Click Communities in the left navigation pane. You see the Add Community dialog box shown in Figure Note The IP mask can contain wildcards 0s you can use to assign communities to subnets. Step 5 Enter the name of the community in the Community field. Step 6 Click Add to add the community. You see the Communities page shown in Figure Step 3 Check the check box next to the community that you want to remove and click Remove.

Note Cisco Fabric Manager 3. Step 2 Select Local Database in the left navigation pane. You see the Local Database page as shown in Figure You see the Add User dialog box as shown in Figure Step 4 Enter the user name in the User Name field.

Note The user name guest is a reserved name case insensitive. The guest user can only view reports. The guest user cannot change the guest password, nor can the guest user access the Admin tab in Fabric Manager Web Client. Step 5 Select a role for the user from the Role drop-down list.

Step 6 Enter the password in the Password field. Step 7 Enter the password again in the Confirm Password field. Step 8 Click Add to add the user to the database. Step 9 Repeat Steps 3 through 7 to continue adding users. Step 3 Click the radio button next to the user that you want to remove and click Remove. Step 2 Click Local Roles in the left navigation pane. You see the Local Roles page as shown in Figure You see the Add Role dialog box as shown in Figure Step 4 Enter the role name in the Role Name field.

Step 5 Select fabrics that the role can access from the Available Fabrics column and add them to the Selected Fabrics column. Step 6 Click Add to add the role to the database. Step 7 Repeat Steps 3 through 5 to add additional roles.

Step 1 Click the Admin tab and then click Configure. Step 2 Select Local Roles in the left navigation pane. Step 3 Click the radio button next to the role you want to remove and click Remove. If you are managing your fabrics with Performance Manager, you need to set up an initial set of flows and collections on the fabric.

You can use Fabric Manager Web Client to add and remove performance collections. The fabric has to be licensed and in the Managed Continuously state before a collection for the fabric can be created. Note You cannot manage performance collections for multiple devices through a single port interface. Step 2 Click Collections in the left navigation pane. You see the Collections page as shown in Figure You see the Create Collection dialog box as shown in Figure Step 4 Select a fabric for which to collect performance data from the Fabric drop-down list.

Step 6 Check the check boxes for the type s of entities for which you want to collect performance data. Step 7 Check the check boxes for the type s of thresholds you want to enable.

Step 8 Click Create to add the collection and add it to the table. Step 9 Repeat Steps 3 through 8 to continue adding roles. Note Performance Manager shows statistics for fabrics that you have configured collections for using the Collection Wizard.

Step 3 Check the check box next to the collection you want to remove and click Remove. To configue other statistics using Fabric Manager Web Client, follow these steps:. Step 2 Click Others in the left navigation pane. You see the Others page as shown in Figure You see the Add Oid dialog box as shown in Figure Step 4 Select a fabric for which you want to add other statistics.

Step 5 Select the statistic that you want to add from the Other OID drop-down list and specify a name for the statistic in the Display Name field. Step 6 Click Add to add this statistic. To configure collection thresholds using Fabric Manager Web Client, follow these steps:.

Step 2 Select Thresholds in the left navigation pane. You see the Thresholds page as shown in Figure Step 3 If you are using absolute values, follow these steps, otherwise skip to Step 3.

To configure conditions for sending Critical notifications, check the Send Critical check box. In the " To configure conditions for sending Warning notifications, check the Send Warning check box. Step 4 Select the time period for the collection 1 Week, 1 Month, or 1 Year from the Baseline Values over past drop-down list. The baseline value represents the sum of the absolute values. Step 5 Click Apply. Step 1 Stop Fabric Manager Server.

Step 4 Restart the Fabric Manager Server and add the fabric. Configuring the RRD database allows you to set the intervals at which data samples are collected. After applying the configuration, the database storage format is converted to a new format at those intervals. Step 2 Select Database in the left navigation pane. You see the Performance Database collection interval page as shown in Figure Step 3 Enter the number of days to collect samples at 5-minute intervals in the top row of the Days column.

Step 4 Enter the number of days to collect samples at minute intervals in the second row of the Days column. Step 5 Enter the number of days to collect samples at 2-hour intervals in the third row of the Days column. Step 6 Enter the number of days to collect samples at 1-day intervals in the bottom row of the Days column.

Select a sampling interval from the ISLs drop-down list. Step 7 Click Apply to apply your changes, or click Defaults to reset the file sizes to the default values. If you are applying new values, or if the current values are not the default values, you see a message indicating that conversion of the RRD files will take a certain amount of time and that the database will be unavailable until then.

The time it takes depends on the difference between the old and new values. Note The system allows you to convert data, one process at a time. When you start converting the data, the Apply and Default buttons change to Refresh and Cancel so that another process cannot be inadvertently started. The display is the same for all browsers accessing the server during this time.

Click Refresh to view the latest progress. Click Cancel to cancel the process of converting the data. If the job is successfully canceled, you see the Apply and Default buttons again. If the cancel job is not successful, you see a message indicating that the cancellation has failed. Step 1 Open your browser and enter the IP address where you installed Fabric Manager Server, or enter localhost if you installed Fabric Manager Server on your local workstation.

Step 2 Enter your user name and password and click Login. Step 3 Click the Download link in the upper right corner of the page. If you are launching Fabric Manager Client for the first time, you see a message asking whether you want to create shortcuts for Fabric Manager see Figure Step 5 Click Yes to create shortcuts for Fabric Manager. Note This message only appears the first time you launch Fabric Manager Client. Step 6 When the software is installed and icons are created on your desktop, double-click the Fabric Manager icon to launch Fabric Manager.

You see the Fabric Manager Login dialog box shown in Figure Step 7 Enter the Fabric Manager Server user name and password. Step 9 Click Login. Once you successfully log in to Fabric Manager Server, you can set the seed switch and open the fabrics that you are entitled to access.

Note When you launch Fabric Manager Client for the first time or when there are no available fabrics, you see the Discover New Fabric dialog box.

See the Discover New Fabric dialog box in Figure Note Only network administrators can discover new fabrics. Step 11 Enter the user name and password for the switch. Step 12 Choose the Auth-Privacy option according to the privacy protocol that you configured on your switch:. If you have not configured the switch with a privacy protocol, then choose Auth-Privacy option MD5 no privacy. If you have configured the switch with your privacy protocol, please choose your Auth-Privacy choice.

Note If you want a clean discovery, remove the fabric and rediscover it. Step 13 Click Discover. You see the Control Panel dialog box shown in Figure Note You see a message in the dialog box when the server and client are running on the same workstation and there are unlicensed fabrics in the database.

You also see a message when there are unmanaged fabrics the state of the licenses is unknown. Step 14 Check the check box es next to the fabric s you want to open in the Select column, or click Discover to add a new fabric.

Note Only network administrators can continuously manage or unmanage fabrics. Step 15 Click Open to open the selected fabric s. Note If you have an incomplete view of your fabric, rediscover the fabric with a user that has no VSAN restriction. To launch Fabric Manager Client from within a running instance of Fabric Manager, follow these steps:. You see the Control Panel dialog box see Figure Step 2 Check the check box es next to the fabric s you want to open in the Select column and click Open.

Note Changes made using Fabric Manager are applied to the running configuration of the switches that you are managing. If you have made changes to the configuration or performed an operation such as activating zones , Fabric Manager prompts you to save your changes before you exit. This section helps you get familiar with the various icons and sections that enable navigation in the Fabric Manager Client interface, as shown in Figure Toolbar—Provides icons to access the most commonly used options on the File, Tools, and Help menus.

Information pane—Displays information about whatever option is selected in the menu tree. Status bar right side —Shows the last entry displayed by the discovery process, and the possible error message.

The features accessible from the tabs are limited to the areas you select in the filter tree. You can filter the display of some tables to view subsets of the information. At the top right of these tables are one or more drop-down lists. Select an item from these lists, and then click Filter to filter the table information on that item.

You can change the number of rows displayed per page by selecting a number from the Rows per page drop-down list at the lower left corner of the table. Once you select a number, the table is updated with the new number of rows; you do not have to click a button. You can search certain columns in the tables for information if a table column has a black icon next to the column head.

Click the icon to display a Search dialog box. There is a Print icon in the lower right corner of some tables. Click this icon to view the table in a printer-friendly format. You can then print the page from the browser.

There is an Export icon in the lower right corner of some tables. Click this icon to export the data to a. CSV file that can be read by programs such as Microsoft Excel. On some screens, you can click a column head to sort the information for that column. If you are installing the Fabric Manager Web Client software for the first time, or if you want to update or reinstall the software, you access the supervisor module of the switch using a web browser.

To download the software from Cisco. You see the installation page displayed by the HTTP server of the supervisor module.

When you connect to the server for the first time, it checks to see if you have the correct Sun Java Virtual Machine version installed on your workstation. If you do not have the correct version installed, a link is provided to the appropriate web page on the Sun Microsystems website so you can install it.

Click the Sun Java Virtual Machine software link if required to install the software. Using the instructions provided by the Sun Microsystems website, reconnect to the supervisor module by reentering the IP address or host name in the Location or Address field of your browser. Note We recommend Java version 1. To use IPv6 addresses, you must have Java version 1. You see a prompt asking for permission to install the application on your workstation.

Step 3 Click Yes to run the installer, which detects the installed version of the software, and prompts for upgrades or downgrades and other options if applicable. If that port is also in use, Fabric Manager Web Client uses the next available port. This program group contains shortcuts to Fabric Manager and Device manager. Shell scripts are created in the bin directory. By default, Fabric Manager Web Client automatically starts when the workstation is rebooted.

You can change this behavior by modifying the properties in the Services Panel. You can purchase these certificates from a well-known Certificate Authority CA. To enable SSL, users must set up the keystore to use either a self-signed certificate or a certificate from a trusted third-party company such as Verisign.

Step 1 Set up a keystore to use self-signed certificate local certificate. From the command line, enter the following command:. Step 2 Enter your name, organization, state, and country.

Enter changeit when prompted for a keystore password. If you prefer to use your own password, do not forget to change the keystorepass attribute in the server. When prompted for a key password, press Enter or use the same password as the keystore password. The CSR is used by the certificate authority to create a certificate that identifies your website as secure. Step 1 Create a local certificate as described in the previous section.

Note You must enter the domain of your website in the field first and last name in order to create a working certificate. Step 2 The CSR is then created with this command:.

Now you have a file called certreq. The file is encoded in PEM format. You can submit it to the certificate authority.

You can find instructions for submitting the file on the Certificate Authority website. You will receive a certificate. Step 3 Once you have your certificate, you can import it into your local keystore.

You must first import a Chain Certificate or Root Certificate into your keystore. You can then import your certificate.

Step 4 Download a Chain Certificate from the Certificate Authority where you obtained the certificate:. If you installed this on Windows, you can stop the service using Windows Services under Administrative Tools. You see the following lines in the beginning after some copyright information:. Your file should look like the following example:. Step 4 Save this file. Before you can use Fabric Manager Web Client to monitor a switch, the service must be started on the server you are connecting through.

The browser does not have to be on the same workstation where Fabric Manager Web Client is installed. Enter your port number if you specified a different port during installation. You can omit the port number if you used port 80 by default. To start Fabric Manager Web Client , use a browser to go to the location of the service.

The text field at the bottom shows the Message of the Day from the server you logged into. Step 2 Enter your user name and password. Step 3 Click Login.

We recommend you change your password the first time you use Fabric Manager Server. If you do not have a new installation, you can use any existing passwords. Note If you are using Firefox to access Fabric Manager Web Client, you may receive a warning message indicating a problem with the security certificate of the website.

To resolve this issue, you may need to add the security exception. Step 1 On the warning page, click Or you can add an exception.

Step 2 Click Add Exception. Step 3 Click Get Certificate. Step 4 Click Confirm Security Exception. The Health tab shows events and issues for the selected items, persistent across user sessions. You can click any of the blue links for more information about that item.

You can filter these events by severity, date, and type of event. To view a summary of events and problems using Fabric Manager Web Client, follow these steps:. Step 1 Click the Health tab, and then click Summary tab. You see the Summary tab window. In the left navigation pane you see a list of the fabrics managed by Fabric Manager Server. In the right pane is a summary table of problems and events for the last 24 hours see Figure Step 2 Do one of the following:.

Step 4 Choose the number of events next to the event severity levels Emergency, Alert, Critical, Error, Warning, Notice, Info, or Debug to see a table of events and descriptions for that fabric. To view a detailed list of events and hardware or accounting using Fabric Manager Web Client, follow these steps:. Step 1 Click the Health tab, and then click Fabric Events tab.

You see the Fabric tab window as shown in Figure Figure Fabric Events Tab. Step 2 Expand a fabric and choose one of the switches to display event information for that switch. To view a detailed list of system messages using Fabric Manager Web Client, follow these steps:.

Step 1 Click the Health tab, and then click Syslog tab. You see the Syslog tab as shown in Figure Step 2 Select one of the fabrics to display a table of syslog information for that fabric.

Step 3 Expand a fabric and select one of the switches to display syslog information for that switch. Step 4 If you have selected a fabric and one or more switches in that fabric have system messages, you see Events , Hardware , Accounting , and Link Incidents in the Files column.

Click one of these message types to see system messages for the switches in that fabric filtered by the message type you clicked. Note If you select a switch, choose an interval and a message type from the drop-down lists, and then click Filter to see system messages filtered by the message type you chose.

You can run or schedule the following analysis reports:. If you choose host to storage, the report shows all storage devices zoned as accessible by each host. If you choose storage to host, the report shows all hosts that can access a specific storage device. Step 1 Click the Health tab, and then click Analysis tab. Step 2 Select a report from the Report Type drop-down list. Step 3 Click Run Report to run the report.

To schedule a report to run at a specified time, see "Generating Custom Reports by Template" section. The Performance tab shows an overview of the average throughput and link utilization of SAN components. You see pie charts for the throughput and utilization. You can click a pie chart to view a table of the data. In these tables, clicking a blue link displays a graph of that data, if applicable. The Filter drop-down list at the top right of the screen allows you to filter the data based on various periods of time.

To view total utilization and throughput in summary form using Fabric Manager Web Client, follow these steps:. Step 1 Click the Performance tab, and then click Summary tab. Note License compliance information is provided at the top of the pane indicating that unlicensed switches may not be supported in the future. You can click the link to view the list of unlicensed switches.

Note To view performance information, you must activate performance collector. To configure Performance Manager, follow the instructions described in the "Creating Performance Collections" section.

To view a detailed summary report of the performance details using Fabric Manager Web Client, follow these steps:. You will see the summary report details as shown in Figure Click Install if you are installing Fabric Manager Standalone. Installing Fabric manager on Windows bit Note that Cisco Fabric Manager has not been officially tested on any bit platforms, only bit platforms are officially supported. However users were able to install Fabric Manager on bit Windows by following these steps: Step 1.

Then just follow the steps for the install, as shown in section above. Tags: fabric. Community Member. Can somone please update this link, 64 bit is now supported. Latest Contents. Admin shut of routed sub-interfaces possible? Created by laurent. We have multiple L3OUTs making using of sub-interfaces bound to one physical interface.

We're currently not using these sub-interfaces and have therefore performed an admin shut of the parent interface. It turns out that the 'routed interfaces' and ' What does "Unknown" mean? I found "event Unknown" in show tech-support details outputs. I think switch can't receive connected devices RSCN information, right?

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