S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Deployment Guide Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.0(1a) Cisco MDS 9000 FabricWare Release 5.x February 2010 Americas Headquarters Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA http://www.cisco.
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Contents S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Managing Federated Servers with Fabric Manager Web Client 2-10 Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Deployment Guide iv OL-21765-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Preface This preface describes the audience, organization, and conventions of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Server Federation Deployment Guide. It also provides information on how to obtain related documentation. Audience This guide is for experienced network administrators who are responsible for configuring and maintaining the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of multilayer directors and fabric switches.
Preface Related Documentation S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Screen examples use these conventions: screen font Terminal sessions and information the switch displays are in screen font. boldface screen font Information you must enter is in boldface screen font. italic screen font Arguments for which you supply values are in italic screen font. < > Nonprinting characters, such as passwords, are in angle brackets.
Preface Related Documentation S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o .
Preface Related Documentation S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o .
Preface Related Documentation S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Deployment Guide OL-21765-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.
Preface Related Documentation S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Deployment Guide lxvi OL-21765-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.
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Chapter 1 Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Overview S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m • Fabric Manager Server— Fabric Manager Server is a platform for advanced MDS monitoring, troubleshooting, and configuration capabilities. Fabric Manager Server provides centralized MDS management services and performance monitoring. SNMP operations are used to efficiently collect fabric information.
Chapter 1 Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Overview S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Fabric Manager Servers and the Fabric Manager Web Clients in the cluster share a common database. The HTTP load balancer interfaces with the web servers to handle requests from web clients and the Fabric Manager desktop client will access Fabric Manager Servers in a cluster through the cluster proxy.
Chapter 1 Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Overview S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Figure 1-3 Federated Servers Server IDs are assigned to the Fabric Manager Server when you install a Fabric Manager Server in the cluster. The Installer checks for server ID conflicts with the mapping table in the shared database.
Chapter 1 Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Overview S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Figure 1-5 Moving Fabrics Terminology The following table defines some of the common acronyms used in the federated server environment: Acronym Definition FM Fabric Manager. FMS Fabric Manager Server. PM Performance Manager. SAN Storage Area Network.
Chapter 1 Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Overview S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o .
Chapter 1 Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Overview S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Only Windows 2003 SP2 VM created on VMWare ESX Server 3.5 is supported. Note Java – Sun JRE and JDK 1.5(x) and 1.6(x) is supported Browsers – Internet Explorer 6.x and 7.0 – Firefox 3.0 – Mozilla 1.7 (packaged with Solaris 9) Database – Oracle Database 10g Express, Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition – Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition – PostgreSQL 8.
Chapter 1 Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Overview S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Note Server clustering will not function on a trial license. Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Deployment Guide 1-8 OL-21765-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m CH A P T E R 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Fabric Manager Server clustering provides high availability, scalability and easy manageability of data and programs running within the cluster. The core of server cluster includes several functional units such as Fabric Manager Server, embedded web servers, database, and Fabric Manager Client accesses the servers.
Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Installing the Federated Servers S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Installing the Federated Servers During this stage, you configure your environment, install Federated Servers, and then start operating and managing sites. Depending on your environment and your solution, you may have several configuration steps to perform for your servers.
Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Installing the Federated Servers S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Figure 2-1 Welcome to the Management Software Setup Wizard Step 5 Click the Custom radio button, and then click Next to begin the installation. Step 6 Check the I accept the terms of the License Agreement check box, and then click Next. You see the Install Options dialog box shown in Figure 2-2.
Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Installing the Federated Servers S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m • • Note Step 8 Check the Add server to an existing federation check box to add the server into an existing federation. Fabric Manager Standalone to install the standalone version of Fabric Manager.
Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Installing the Federated Servers S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Note Before you install PostgreSQL, remove the cygwin/bin from your environment variable path if Cygwin is running on your system. Step 11 If you select Use existing DB, click either the either Install PostgreSQL radio button or the Use existing DB radio button.
Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Installing the Federated Servers S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Figure 2-5 Step 14 Choose an authentication mode (Local, RADIUS, TACACS or MDS) and click Next. Note Step 15 Authentication Options Dialog Box When the MDS radio button is selected, the FM authentication uses the user database in the switch for authentication. Click Verify to test your login.
Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Installing the Federated Servers S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Step 16 Check the FC Alias and SNMPv3 check boxes as desired and click Install if you are installing Fabric Manager Standalone. You see the Configuration Options dialog box for Fabric Manager Server shown in Figure 2-7.
Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Installing the Federated Servers S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Figure 2-8 Progress of Installation Once the installation is finished, you see an installation completed message in the Cisco Fabric Manager Installer window shown in Figure 2-9.
Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Managing Federated Servers with Fabric Manager Client S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Step 20 Click Finish to close the Cisco Fabric Manager Installer window. Managing Federated Servers with Fabric Manager Client Discovering a Fabric Step 1 Double-click the Fabric Manager icon to launch Fabric Manager.
Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Managing Federated Servers with Fabric Manager Client S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Figure 2-11 Step 5 Control Panel – Open Tab Click Open to open a selected fabric. Opening the Fabric on a Different Server To open the fabric on a different server follow these steps: Step 1 Choose Server > Admin. You see the Control Panel as shown in Figure 2-12.
Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Managing Federated Servers with Fabric Manager Client S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Step 2 Click Discover. You see the Discover New Fabric dialog box as shown in Figure 2-13. Figure 2-13 Discover new Fabric Step 3 In the Seed Switch list box, enter the IP Address of the seed switch. Step 4 In the User Name field, enter the user name.
Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Managing Federated Servers with Fabric Manager Client S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Figure 2-14 Connected Clients Viewing the Servers in a Cluster To view all the servers in a cluster follow these steps: Step 1 Choose Server > Admin. Step 2 Click Servers tab.
Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Managing Federated Servers with Fabric Manager Web Client S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Figure 2-15 Servers Managing Federated Servers with Fabric Manager Web Client To start managing fabrics using Fabric Manager Web Client, follow these steps: Step 1 Click the Admin tab, and then click Configure. Step 2 Click Fabrics in the left navigation pane.
Chapter 2 Deploying Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Managing Federated Servers with Fabric Manager Web Client S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m You see the Add Fabric dialog box as shown in Figure 2-17 Figure 2-17 Add Fabric Step 4 Enter the fabric seed switch IP address for this fabric. Step 5 Enter the user name and password for this fabric. Step 6 (Optional) Check the SNMPV3 check box.
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m INDEX D Database 2 Deployment 1 F Fabric 3 Fabric Manager Client 2 Fabric Manager Server 2 Fabric Manager Web client 2 Fabric Manager Web Services Federated Server architecture 1 H HTTP load balancer 3 II Installing the Database 2 Installing the Fabric Manager Server 2 L license requirements 8 Logical Server 3 O Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition 2 P Physical Server 3 PostgreSQL 8.
Index S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o f m - d o c f e e d b a ck @ c i s c o . c o m Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Deployment Guide IN-2 OL-21765-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.