MDS9148 does not Recognise 6248 FI

Question

Hi there
I cannot get an MDS 9148 to recognise and push zoning to a 6248 FI.
I have an MDS9148 (6.2.3) connected to a 6248 FI (2.1.2a). I am using DCNM 6.2.3.  I only have the base port license on the MDS, and the free version of DCNM. My reading of the documentation suggests that with that suite of product I should be able to see and manage the 2 SAN elements of the MDS and FI  (zoning etc etc) from the DCNM.
I have configured the FI in Switch mode, I want the MDS to do the zoning for both devices.
I have link up on the ports between the  FI and the MDS. There are 2 ports, configured as a port channel.
I have an EMC SAN connected to the FI. It is visible to the MDS.
I have an operational blade in the chassis. The MDS can see that too.
So the DCNM shows the whole network, but does not recognise the FI as a 6248, and so it will not allow me to configure and manage my zones across the 6248 either.
I have attached showing the view of the network from fabric A and Fabric B sides.
Any thoughts would be appreciated
Anthony

Answer 1

calopez2
Thanks for that tip. I had an SNMP user "dcnmuser", in the UCS, but not a local admin user. Once I did that I was able to discover the Fabric and have the ability to pick the Fabric or the MDS ports for zoning purposes. That is certainly an advance!
I seem to be 2 steps forward and 1 step back though. I have 2 other issues.
1. when I edit the zone and add some of the SAN ports into the zone, I can select either the fabric or the MDS SAN Switch A, connected to Fabric A (so far so good), I can select the ports I want (I will use WWNN later, but for now I am using port zoning), but when I apply I get an error
"SNMP: zoneMemberRowStatus.10.1.1.3:Permission denied or feature disabled- MP001-SANSW01 zoneMemberRowStatus.10.1.1.3 Failed to add 1 members out of 1"
2. I have 2 FIs and 2 MDSs. I cannot see the same thing on fabric B (MDS and FI) as I see on fabric A. I have reviewed the configs on the 2 MDS units. They appear to be identical. However, if I do a Discover on the second MDS, it takes a very long time, and if I try to discover the B FI, on its specific address, it is successfully discovered, but then a
"192.168.25.86 has already been discovered as Fabric_MP001-SANSW02. The original SNMP credential will be used and the version checking is skipped"
If I look at License Assignments i see 4 switches, the 2 MDS 9148s and the A 6248 with correct model numbers, and the B 6248 "Switch model unknown". For some reason the B fabric is behaving differently from the A fabric. I expected that I would be able to do the same thing on both sides.
Anthony