Users Guide

Maintenance

This section discusses maintenance tasks for Active Fabric Manager.

Using the AFM Virtual Appliance

After you have deployed and configured AFM VM, use the AFM Virtual Appliance to perform the following

tasks:

• Configure the system

• Change the AFM superuser password

• Update the AFM server

• Set AFM software to the next reboot

• Restart AFM Application

• Reboot the AFM server

• Shutdown AFM Server Transfer File

• Edit files

• Upload switch software images

• Back up the AFM database

• Restore the AFM database

• Log out

To access the AFM virtual appliance, go to the AFM VM, click the Console button, and login as

superuser. The first time you log in from the console or SSH using superuser, if there is an IP assigned

to the VM, AFM prompts you to change the password for

superuser. This password is used for both the

web URL login and console login. If no IP is assigned to the VM (which means that the DHCP is not

enabled), AFM prompts you to configure the network. After you configure the network, the VM reboots.

The AFM virtual appliance options are shown in the following screen shot.

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Maintenance