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Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Deployment Guide
OL-21765-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.x
Chapter 1 Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Overview
• 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. Each computer configured as a Cisco Fabric Manager Server can monitor
multiple Fibre Channel SAN fabrics. Up to 16 clients (by default) can connect to a single Cisco
Fabric Manager Server concurrently.
• Fabric Manager Client— Cisco Fabric Manager Client is a Java and SNMP-based network fabric
and device management tool with a GUI that displays real-time views of your network fabric,
including Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches, Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches and third-party
switches, hosts, and storage devices.
• Fabric Manager Web client— Fabric Manager Web Client is a web-based application with which
you can monitor Cisco MDS switch events, performance, and inventory from a remote location
using a web browser.
• Database— Oracle Database 10g Express, Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition, PostgreSQL 8.2 / 8.1.
The Fabric Manager Servers and embedded web servers form a federation sharing a central database.
Fabric Manager Client or Fabric Manager Web Client facilitates centralized management of the servers
in a cluster.
Figure 1-1 Federated Server Architecture