Fabric Manager MDS 9200 Series.

How do you activate 120 Days eval on MDS 9200 series for Fabric Manager. Do I need to install a license?

Fabric Manager does not need a license. What does need a license is Fabric Manager Server. This is a dedicated machine that sits between the client machine, and the MDS fabric. It lets you open and manage multiple fabrics at one time. It also us used for detailed performance statics collection.
If you want to know the status of the current licenses on the MDS, issue this command from the command line interface.
show license usage
This will show if the FMS license has been triggered into the 120 day trial period. As far as I know, the only way to trigger it is to setup the MDS for statistics collection using the 'Performance Manager' of Fabric Manager.
Hope this helps,
Mike

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Cisco MDS 9513/9509 LDAP/AD Auth via SSH & Fabric Manager

Hello Folks,
I am trying to look for working config with LDAP auth over SSH. I know how to use them over TACACS+ & Radius. But due to other internal issue, currently I am trying to get the Cisco MDS to directly auth using LDAP/AD. Also, I see no option of LDAP/AD in FM(Fabric Manager), but just TACACS+, Radius, LocalFM and MDS. Do using MDS uses default auth(ie whatever AAA authentication is configured for ? or local DB on the switch). Does the new DCNM supports LDAP/AD auth on the GUI ?
Larger goal is SSH(CLI) & FM(GUI) using the same LDAP/AD auth. I understand the snmp-server user issue. But once I have SSH working over LDAP/AD I can figure that out to..
Here's what I need to ensure when using LDAP/AD auth
1) What is the exact config for this LDAP/AD auth
2) How do I ensure that network-admin & network-opertor roles are assigned when certain AD Groups Logins in Like ADMIN-AD-GROUP , OPERATOR-AD-GROUP --> trying to login to the switch
3) Also using SSL port for LDAP, do details are encrypted over the network.
4) Do I need to use the PASSWORD in paintext when BINDING the BaseDN ?, can it be an encrypted password.
Appreciate any info on this. Thanks for your time.

As of DCNM 6.1 (aka - Fabric Manager Server) we support LDAP authentication adding to existing Radius, TACACS+, local and switch authentications. You can upgrade from Fabric Manager 5.0 to DCNM 5.2 to DCNM 6.1 if you like to keep current performance, events, config data alive. We do recommend fresh install as we don't know what state your server dabatabase might be in. Including some links for you to help out with deployment and best practices (see release notes).
Resources:
Main Website:
http://www.cisco.com/go/dcnm
How To Video Series: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/netmgtsw/ps6505/ps9369/cisco_dc_nm_video_library.html
Install and Licensing Guide:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9369/prod_installation_guides_list.html
Evaluation Licenses: http://tools.cisco.com/SWIFT/LicensingUI/Home?FormId=65
Download Linux and Windows Executables: http://www.cisco.com/cisco/pub/software/portal/select.html?&i=!m&mdfid=281722751
Data Sheets: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/netmgtsw/ps6505/ps9369/data_sheet_c78-639737.html
Install Guide: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9369/prod_installation_guides_list.html
Configure Guide: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9369/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html
API Programming Guide:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9369/products_programming_reference_guides_list.html
Reference Guide: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9369/prod_technical_reference_list.html
Release Notes: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9369/tsd_products_support_general_information.html

Fabric Manager - do I need to install server component?

Hi,
I would like to know if I need to install the server component of Fabric Manager, or if I can just use the client component to manage the switches directly.
I have 2 MDS 9120 switches which will be run as 2 separate fabrics. They will be used in a non-production environment and I will need to configure VSAN and zoning using pWWN. If I do need to install the server part, what is the benefit of using the licenced version over the unlicenced?
Thanks, Darren.

Darren,
The choice to install and licence the server component would be to manage your entire SAN fabric as a holistic centralized topology versus using the client which pretty much only allows you to view the fabrics individually within Fabric Manager.
For a small non-production environment like yours you will be fine, but if you find yourself in a situation where your fabric is becoming a larger Production enironment then I would recommend moving to the licenced server version.
regards
Alan

Fabric Manager SA not updating 3.3(1c)

Fabric Manager SA not updating 3.3(1c). When I make zone changes or when a port goes down it won't update even after doing a rediscover or resync. Is this a bug in FM 3.3(1c)?

When FM was installed, was the option to continuously monitor the fabric after is was discovered? Not sure if this is your issue.
If you exit and then log back into FM after the change occurs, and is not observed, does the change show up? If the change is still not seen then I would suspect a bug and ask you to open a case with your MDS service provider. If the change is seen upon the new log in, then I would look into the option to 'monitor continuously'.
Hope this helps,
Mike

Trouble installing Fabric Manager 5.0.7 on 2008R2

Hello all,
We are about to upgrade our older MDS-9124s to MDS-9148s and I wanted to install the new Fabric Manager. I am trying to install version 5.0.7. I am having a couple issues but am not sure if they are all related. First if I try to select the install links from within start they do not work. The only way I can get the install to start is double clicking the jre file direct. The installation process starts and the dies at what appears to be trying to start postgresql with an error message that initdb cannot be processed because the libpq.dll file cannot be found. If I try to re-run the install it dies becuase the postgre user already exists. I can delete that local account and the installation process will restart only to once again die with the dll error.
Just for grins I ran the postgresql install seperate and it seems to go through a lot more prompts but figured this was not the proper way to get it installed so canceled it. I also tried running the install from the cmd line as I found in another post and it dies at basically the same point but has a net error message 2221. It looks at though this to means that the user created cannot be accessed so postgresql will not start.
I am disabling my virus software while trying all of these items.
Suggestions??/
Brent

@dynamoxxx,
This is a new install and I just completed getting it installed on Friday. I had to actually log onto the server as the local administrator to get it to install. An Admin equivalent account apparently was not good enough. Once I did that it completed just fine. I have come across another apparetly known isse and that is if you exit Fabric Manager and try to go directly back in a box pops up that says Fabric Manager is already running. This is apparently because java never shuts down. You kill the javaws servise and Fabric Manager starts back up without any issue. Of course this also works if you log off the server and back on. This was somthing that I talked with TAC about this morning and since they have quit working on Fabric Manager is not going to be fixed.
That brings me to DCNA. I am moving to Cisco Prime for the rest of my infrastructure and TAC says that DCNA is a part of that or that basically is DCNA. They were telling me that based upon the code level I am running (5.0(1a)) on my switches that Fabric Manager is better. If I was running newer 6.2 or 5.2 code then use the DCNM and apparently 5.2(8) is newer than 6.2. They also recommended me waiting until 5.2(8b) come out before upgrading the switches and then moving to DCNA. I will figure out that step once I get my SAN migration completed in a few weeks. Until then I am planning to keep what I have.
Brent

Cisco Fabric Manager silent installation

Hello,
I'm trying to deploy the Cisco Fabric Manager to a bunch of users and I would like to know if there is a way to automate the installation?
Defaults are fine (also default passwords for the postgreSQL database)
Has anyone done this or is it even possible.
Thanks in Advance
Edit: Verison of Fabric is 4.2.7a

Hello,
Release notes. Refer to Table 4 -
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/sw/5_0/release/notes/fm/fm_rel_notes_507.html#wp727733
Windows Server 2008 64 bit
Download link (once you are logged into Cisco.com with your cco userid) -
http://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=282731430&flowid=18002&softwareid=282762464&release=4.2%289%29&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest
Path -
Downloads Home
Products
Storage Networking
Cisco MDS 9000 Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches
Cisco Fabric Manager
Thanks,
Arun

UCS Manager on C-Series Standalone

Is it possible to run UCS Manager on a C-Series Standalone? I am not able to find any instructions on how to do this. Solarwinds has said that to interface Orion with the UCS, we need to be running UCS Manager. But all the documentation I've found seems to show the the C-Series in an integrated fashion with fabric interconnects. I found the software download for UCS Manager on C-Series, just can't figure out how to implement it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi jhitt-limited,
In order to utilize the features of the Cisco UCSM, you would have to have the C-Series Server configured as a C-Series integration with UCSM.
You can however, utilize the C-Series SNMP capability for monitoring purposes.
Thanks.
-Bruce

Fabric Manager InBand Mgmt/IPFC/FCIP?

The Fabric Manager documentation indicates that IPFC can be used for in-band Management of other switches.
Is this true when the only ISL connections between the switches are FCIP tunnels?
My experience is telling me the answer is no. VSAN 1 interfaces have been configured on all switches, but Fabric Manager can't do its job unless the mgmt0 interface is available.
Thanks, Craig

Common issue here is - you have to make static routing on all switches and point where is default-network (default-gateway) - so on switch that has mgmt0 interface down - use "ip default-gateway X.I.T.Y" where IP is the one from IPFC subnet of the switch that has connectivity to external network.
On the interconnecting switch - default-gateway should point to external router IP - and router has to know (static route on router - and redistributed to any routing protocol you use) that network X.I.T.0/24 is accessible thru interface that MDS is connected to (static route with MDS external IP as next-hop).
and don't forget to enable "ip routing" on all MDS switches - and all switches should have vsanX with IP assigned from this same subnet.
hope that helps.

Storage & Fabric manager license

Yet another licensing question
We have 5596's which are connecting fc/npv to brocade. We have the following licenses:
n55-8p-ssk9 ---> i hope it means that there can be max 8 ports between n5k/brocade for fiber channel connectivity? we also have a lot of server fc ports connecting to n5k, and they arent a part of this license right?
N5000FMS1k9 - fabric manager license --- really expensive though

Hello Juan
For L3 operations L3 daughter card should be used.
At the moment only Nexus 55XX series switches support this module.
Also in order to enable this module following license should present on N5k device:
LAN_BASE_SERVICES_PKG - it's free and lifetime.

Can no longer open Fabric Manager Web Client 4.7(2b)

Hello
I have recently upgraded from Fabric Manager 3.3(2b) to 4.2(7b). I followed the correct path, so went from 3.3 to 4.1 and then from 4.1 to 4.2.
The application opens but I can not browse to the localhost address on either http or https and there are no Cisco related services running, or, even available. Additionally, the server is no longer listenning on port 80 or 443.
Does anyone know of what might be happenning here because at the moment, trying to get to the server from itself, or remotely, just brings up a "page cannot be displayed" error.
Many thanks in advance
Anthony
p.s. I have rebooted since the rebuild.

Hi
Yes, the PostgreSQL service has started but there is not even a Cisco Fabric Manager service visible, nor a Fabric Manager Web Client service. I can open Fabric Manager and it works, just no services and I cant open the Web GUI.
Thanks for replying
Anthony

Can't Install CISCO Fabric manager in Windows 7 32 Bit.

Hello Folks,
Can some one let me know how to launch the Fabric manager installer in IE 8, I am using Windows 7 32 bit OS with IE 8.
I can't launch the Fabric manager installer in IE 8, your help much appriciated. thanks in advance.

Open DOS command prompt
\bin\java -Xms512m -Xmx512m -jar
example:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_11\bin\java -Xms512m -Xmx512m -jar c:\tmp\m9000-fm-5.0.7.jar

Unable to delete a custom report in Fabric Manager

Hi there,
If I create a Custom Report in Fabric Manager (3.2(3a)) I'm unable to Delete it aftwards :-(
Get an "Error on Page.":
Line: 388
Char: 1
Error: 'Delete560nClick' is undefined
Code: 0
URL: http:/xxxxxxx/s614.do
Any ideas ? IE version I'm running is : 6.0.3790.3959
Thanks!
Mark

I haven't heard of this issue before. Have you tried running FM on another host or upgrading FM to see if it goes away?
Thank you.

Hyper-V Fabric and Fabric Management Cluster

Dear All...........Would appreciate understanding of following:
What is the difference between Fabric Cluster and Fabric Management Cluster?
What virtual machines should be part of Fabric Cluster and Fabric Management Cluster respectively?
Thanks in advance.

It would be helpful if you provided a source from which you pulled those terms. They could mean just about anything without any context.
But I will take a stab at it based upon work I do with the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track program. In this reference architecture, a private cloud is being built. To manage the private cloud, a Hyper-V cluster is created and all the System
Center components required to manage the private cloud are installed on this cluster. This cluster is called the Fabric Management Cluster because from it all components of the Fabric, servers, storage, networking, VMs, policies, libraries, etc. are
managed.
Once that Fabric Management Cluster is established, any number of Fabric Clusters can be configured. For example, the Private Cloud could be configured for a business, and multiple business units have virtual systems deployed. The Fabric Management
manager could decide to build one large Fabric Cluster on which to deploy the various business unit machines, or the manager could create separate clouds, each consisting of its own Fabric Cluster. Each separate cloud could be dedicated to the use of
a single business unit.
Again, all conjecture on my part because you have not provided any context.
. : | : . : | : . tim

Changing Fabric name in Fabric Manager

How do you change the name of the Fabric in the Logical Domains section of Fabric Manager?

This is also something I'd be interested in seeing. I've got one fabric named correctly, the other after a switch dump took the name of a middle tier 9216i and won't switch back, despite the fact that I changed the principal priority on the 9509 to 1 and then made it the principal with a disruptive(nondisruptive didn't work either).
Cisco documentation is woefully inadequate in certain areas....Also, the error of fabric merge failed, "member mismatch" comes to mind.

VSAN link to DR shows as dashed line in Fabric Manager

We have a 9509 at our HQ site and a 9216 at our DR site.
We have a single VSAN configured from HQ to Dr that accries all of the replication traffic to DR.
We recenlty had a situation where the fcip link to DR was down with:
"2007 Aug 21 06:46:10 lkld-9509-01 %PORT-5-IF_DOWN_TCP_MAX_RETRANSMIT: %$VSAN 50%
$ Interface fcip1 is down(TCP conn. closed - retransmit failure)"
The link has been up fro a week now, but it is showing as a dashed line in Fabric Manager. The connection shows "Up" and all traffic is making it to the VSAN at the DR site.
Before, I could see the link as a solid yellow line when I would look in Fabric Manager.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Everything seems to be stable now, but is it possible there could be an issue with a port configuration?
I have been here for almost 5 months and it happend one time for those hours I mentioned, nothing since.
I have head that this has happened before.
I have heard that these could be an issue:
Buffer credits - not sure what to do there
Interface not configured for the 45Mbps DS3 link we have.
It seems if those were issues, we would see this more often that once every few months.
Anything I can look for?

Fabric Manager MDS 9200 Series.

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