Brocade Network Advisor SAN + IP User Manual v12.3.0 User Manual

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11 July 2014

Brocade Network Advisor

SAN + IP User Manual

Supporting Network Advisor 12.3.0

Table of contents

Document Outline

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About This Document
- How this document is organized
- Supported hardware and software
- What’s new in this document
- Document conventions
- Notice to the reader
- Additional information
  - Brocade resources
  - Other industry resources
- Getting technical help
- Document feedback
Getting Started
- User interface components
- Management server and client
- Accessibility features for the Management application
  - Keyboard shortcuts
  - Look and feel customization
- Product improvement
- PostgreSQL database
- Supported open source software products
- SAN feature-to-firmware requirements
Patches
- Installing a patch
- Uninstalling a patch
Discovery
- SAN discovery overview
  - Backbone Chassis discovery requirements
  - Discovering fabrics
  - Editing the password for multiple devices
  - Configuring SNMP credentials
  - Reverting to a default SNMP community string
  - Rediscovering a fabric
  - Removing a fabric from active discovery
  - Rediscovering a previously discovered fabric
  - Deleting a fabric
- DCB discovery
- Viewing the fabric discovery state
- Troubleshooting fabric discovery
  - Managed count exceeded troubleshooting
  - Virtual Fabric discovery troubleshooting
- SAN Fabric monitoring
  - Stop monitoring of discovered fabrics
  - Stop monitoring of discovered switches
  - Resume monitoring of discovered fabrics
  - Resume monitoring of discovered switches
- SAN Seed switch
  - Seed switch failover
  - Changing the seed switch
- IP discovery overview
  - Discovery of IPv6 addresses
- VDX/VCS discovery
  - VCS in-band management interface discovery
- Logical chassis cluster mode discovery
  - Administratively removing a node from a logical chassis cluster
  - How the Management application handles a cluster mode change
- HyperEdge stack discovery
- Configuring IP profile discovery
- Configuring IP simple discovery
- IP SNMP credentials
  - Adding SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c credentials
  - Adding SNMPv3 credentials
  - Editing SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c credentials
  - Editing SNMPv3 credentials
  - Reordering SNMP credentials in the list
  - Deleting SNMP credentials from the list
- Default IP user credentials
  - Adding user credentials
  - Editing login prompt user credentials
  - Editing enable prompt user credentials
  - Editing enable super user credentials
  - Reordering user credentials in the list
  - Deleting user credentials from the list
- IP Object identifier filters
  - Including product types
  - Excluding product types
  - Deleting product types from the list
- Defining global setting preferences
- Configuring event-based collection
- IP discovery profiles
  - Configuring a discovery profile
  - Duplicating a discovery profile
  - Configuring address ranges
  - Editing address ranges
  - Scheduling discovery
  - Suspending a discovery schedule
  - Editing a discovery schedule
  - Configuring advanced discovery profile preferences
  - Deleting a discovery profile
  - Creating a discovery address file
  - Starting discovery manually
  - Starting discovery automatically
  - Stopping discovery
  - Viewing discovery status
  - Viewing discovery reports
  - E-mailing discovery reports
  - Exporting discovery reports
  - Viewing the discovery log
- Individual IP device discovery
  - Editing IP device discovery
  - Deleting IP devices from discovery
- Host discovery
  - CIM and WMI host discovery requirements
  - Importing Hosts from a CSV file
  - Importing Hosts from a fabric
  - Importing Hosts from a VM Manager
  - Editing host adapter credentials
  - Removing a host from active discovery
  - Rediscovering a host to active discovery
  - Rediscovering a previously discovered host
  - Deleting a host from discovery
  - Viewing the host discovery state
  - Troubleshooting host discovery
- VM Manager discovery
  - Discovering a VM manager
  - Editing a VM manager
  - Excluding a host from VM manager discovery
  - Including a host in VM manager discovery
  - Removing a VM manager from active discovery
  - Rediscovering a previously discovered VM manager
  - Deleting a VM manager from discovery
  - Viewing the VM manager discovery state
  - Troubleshooting VM manager discovery
- IP Rediscovery
  - Rediscovering IP devices
  - Rediscovering IP devices from the Product List
  - Rediscovering a group
  - Enabling password validation on rediscovery
Management Groups
- Management groups overview
- Product group overview
- Port Groups
Application Configuration
- Configurable preferences
- Server Data backup
- Server Data restore
  - Restoring data
- SAN data collection
- Product communication protocols
- SAN display settings
- SAN End node display
- SAN Ethernet loss events
  - Disabling SAN Ethernet loss events
- Event storage settings
  - Storing historical events purged from repository
- Flyover settings
  - Turning flyovers on or off
  - Viewing flyovers
- Name settings
- Miscellaneous security settings
- Syslog Registration settings
- SNMP Trap Registration settings
- SNMP Trap forwarding credential settings
  - Configuring SNMP v3 credentials
- Software Configuration
- FIPS Support
- Fabric tracking
  - Accepting changes for a switch, access gateway, or phantom domain
User Account Management
- Users overview
  - Viewing configured users
- User accounts
- Roles
- Areas of responsibility
- Password policies
  - Viewing password policy violators
- User profiles
Web Client
- Web client overview
  - License
- Dashboard
- Dashboard customization
- Inventory
- Events
  - Table functions
- Reports
Dashboard Management
- Dashboard overview
- Default dashboards
  - SAN Ports Health
  - IP Port Health
- Status widgets
- Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite/Fabric Watch widgets
  - Out of Range Violations widget
  - Port Health Violations widget
- Performance monitors
- User-defined performance monitors
- Traffic flow dashboard monitors
View Management
- SAN tab overview
  - SAN main toolbar
  - View All list
  - Port Display buttons
  - Connectivity Map toolbar
  - Product List
  - Connectivity Map
  - Utilization Legend
- IP tab overview
  - IP main toolbar
  - Product List toolbar
  - Host Product List toolbar
  - Topology Map toolbar
  - Host topology map toolbar
  - IP Product List
  - Topology Map
- Master Log
- Minimap
- Status bar
- Icon legend
  - IP product icons
  - Host product icons
  - SAN group icons
  - Host group icons
  - IP group icons
  - SAN port icons
  - IP port icons
  - SAN product status icons
  - IP product status icons
  - Event icons
- Customizing the main window
  - Showing levels of detail on the Connectivity Map
  - Exporting the topology
  - Customizing application tables
- Product List customization
- Search
  - Searching for a device
  - Restricting a search by node
  - Searching for an exact match
- Address Finder
  - Finding MAC addresses
- SAN view management overview
  - Creating a customized view
  - Editing a customized view
  - Deleting a customized view
  - Copying a view
- SAN topology layout
  - Customizing the layout of devices on the topology
  - Customizing the layout of connections on the topology
  - Changing a group background color
  - Reverting to the default background color
  - Changing the product label
  - Changing the port label
  - Changing the port display
- Grouping on the topology
  - Viewing connections
  - Configuring custom connections
  - Deleting a custom connection configuration
- IP topology view manager
- Network Objects view
  - Filtering devices in the Network Objects Product List
- IP Topology view
- L2 Topology view
- Ethernet Fabrics view
- VLAN Topology view
- Host Topology view
- IP topology map components
  - Topology map elements
  - Viewing flyovers on the topology map
  - Topology map layout
  - Selecting a topology map layout
  - Creating a customized layout
  - Creating customized topology links
  - Customizing the Topology Map
  - Adding a background image to a map
  - Deleting a background image from the library
  - Exporting the topology
  - Printing a map
- Port actions
  - Disabling port actions
  - Displaying port properties for an attached device
  - Accessing performance monitoring
MRP Topology
- MRP Topology overview
- Viewing a MRP Topology map
- Viewing a MRP ring
- Configuring the application to show a dashed line
- Selecting a topology map layout
- Creating a customized layout
- Customizing the MRP Topology map
- Refreshing MRP Topology data
- Viewing MRP properties
Call Home
- Call Home overview
- Viewing Call Home configurations
- Showing a Call Home center
- Hiding a Call Home center
- Editing a Call Home center
  - Editing the IBM Call Home center
  - Editing an e-mail Call Home center
  - Editing the EMC Call Home center
  - Editing the HP LAN Call Home center
- Enabling a Call Home center
- Enabling supportSave
- Testing the Call Home center connection
- Disabling a Call Home center
- Viewing Call Home status
- Assigning a device to the Call Home center
- Removing a device from a Call Home center
- Removing all devices and filters from a Call Home center
- Defining an event filter
- Assigning an event filter to a Call Home center
- Assigning an event filter to a device
- Overwriting an assigned event filter
- Removing all event filter from a Call Home center
- Removing an event filter from a device
- Removing an event filter from the Call Home Event Filters list
- Searching for an assigned event filter
Third-party tools
- About third-party tools
- Starting third-party tools from the application
- Launching a Telnet session
- Launching an Element Manager
- Launching Web Tools
- Launching FCR configuration
- Launching Name Server
- Launching HCM Agent
- Launching Fabric Watch
- Adding a tool
- Entering the server IP address of a tool
- Adding an option to the Tools menu
- Changing an option on the Tools menu
- Removing an option from the Tools menu
- Adding an option to a device’s shortcut menu
- Changing an option on a device’s shortcut menu
- Removing an option from a device’s shortcut menu
- Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) plug-in
Server Management Console
- Server Management Console overview
- Services tab
- Ports tab
- AAA Settings tab
- Radius server configuration
- LDAP server configuration
- Restore tab
- Technical Support Information tab
- HCM Upgrade tab
- SMI Agent Configuration Tool
SAN Device Configuration
- Configuration file management
- Enhanced group management
- Firmware management
- Switch password management
  - Changing the switch password
  - Resetting the switch password
- Frame viewer
- Ports
- Port commissioning
- Administrative Domain-enabled fabric support
- Port Auto Disable
Host Port Mapping
- Host port mapping overview
- Creating a new Host
- Renaming an HBA Host
- Deleting an HBA Host
- Viewing Host properties
- Associating an HBA with a Host
- Importing HBA-to-Host mapping
- Removing an HBA from a Host
- Exporting Host port mapping
Storage Port Mapping
- Storage port mapping overview
- Creating a storage array
- Adding storage ports to a storage array
- Unassigning a storage port from a storage array
- Reassigning mapped storage ports
- Editing storage array properties
- Deleting a storage array
- Viewing storage port properties
- Viewing storage array properties
- Importing storage port mapping
- Exporting storage port mapping
Wireless Management
- Wireless management overview
- Wireless devices
- Wireless device discovery
- Wireless devices on the dashboard
- Port groups
- View management
- Wireless device properties
- Element Manager
  - Launching the Element Manager
  - Launching a Telnet session
- Configuration repository and backup management
- CLI configuration management
- Cluster mode
- VLAN management
- Performance management
- Policy Monitors
- Fault management
- AP Products report
VCS Management
- VCS
  - VCS mode types
  - Ethernet Fabrics view management
- Logical chassis cluster operations
- Serial firmware update and activation for Network OS devices
- Support for Network OS VDX 2740 embedded switch
- Network OS
- VCS product groups
  - Static product group
  - Dynamic product group
- Port profiles
- System Monitor support on Network OS VDX platforms
- Ethernet fabric traceroute
  - Exporting diagnostic data
Host Management
- Host management
- Supported adapters
- HCM software
  - HCM features
- Host adapter discovery
- VM Manager
  - Editing a VM Manager
  - Deleting a VM Manager
- HCM and Management application support on ESXi systems
- Connectivity map
- View management
- Host port mapping
- Adapter software
  - Driver repository
  - Boot image repository
- Bulk port configuration
  - Configuring host adapter ports
- Adapter port WWN virtualization
  - Configuring FAWWNs on switch ports
  - FAWWNs on attached AG ports
- Role-based access control
- Host performance management
- Host security authentication
- supportSave on adapters
- Host fault management
  - Filtering event notifications
  - Syslog forwarding
- Backup support
  - Enabling backup
  - Disabling backup
Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- FCoE overview
  - DCBX protocol
- Enhanced Ethernet features
- FCoE protocols supported
  - Ethernet link layer protocols supported
  - FCoE protocols
- FCoE licensing
- Saving running configurations
  - Copying switch configurations to selected switches
- DCB configuration management
- Switch policies
- DCB configuration
- QoS configuration
- FCoE provisioning
  - Changing the VLAN ID on the default FCoE map
  - Enabling or disabling the FCoE map on the port
- VLAN classifier configuration
- LLDP-DCBX configuration
- 802.1x authentication
- Switch, port, and LAG deployment
  - Deploying DCB product, port, and LAG configurations
  - Source to target switch Fabric OS version compatibility for deployment
- Network OS switches in VCS mode
- DCB performance
- FCoE login groups
- Virtual FCoE port configuration
  - Viewing virtual FCoE ports
  - Clearing a stale entry
Telemetry
- Telemetry overview
- Policy-based routing
- ACL Accounting
Security Management
- Security overview
- Layer 2 access control list management
- Layer 3 access control list policy
- Media Access Control (MAC) filter management
- Security configuration deployment
FC-FC Routing Service Management
- Devices that support Fibre Channel routing
- Fibre Channel routing overview
- Guidelines for setting up Fibre Channel routing
- Connecting edge fabrics to a backbone fabric
- Configuring routing domain IDs
Virtual Fabrics
- Virtual Fabrics overview
- Virtual Fabrics requirements
- FICON best practices for Virtual Fabrics
- Configuring Virtual Fabrics
SAN Encryption Configuration
- Encryption Center features
- Encryption user privileges
- Smart card usage
  - Using authentication cards with a card reader
  - Registering authentication cards from a card reader
  - Registering authentication cards from the database
  - Setting a quorum for authentication cards
  - Using system cards
  - Registering system cards from a card reader
  - Using smart cards
  - Tracking smart cards
  - Editing smart cards
- Network connections
- Blade processor links
  - Configuring blade processor links
- Encryption node initialization and certificate generation
- Key Management Interoperability Protocol
  - Configuration parameters
  - Key vault type and vendor
- Supported encryption key manager appliances
- Steps for connecting to a DPM appliance
  - Exporting the KAC certificate signing request (CSR)
  - Submitting the CSR to a certificate authority
  - KAC certificate registration expiry
  - Importing the signed KAC certificate
  - Uploading the CA certificate onto the DPM appliance (and first-time configurations)
  - Uploading the KAC certificate onto the DPM appliance (manual identity enrollment)
  - DPM key vault high availability deployment
  - Loading the CA certificate onto the encryption group leader
- Steps for connecting to an LKM/SSKM appliance
  - Launching the NetApp DataFort Management Console
  - Establishing the trusted link
  - Obtaining and importing the LKM/SSKM certificate
  - Exporting and registering the switch KAC certificates on LKM/SSKM
  - LKM/SSKM key vault high availability deployment
  - Data Encryption Keys
- Steps for connecting to an ESKM/SKM appliance
  - Configuring a Brocade group on ESKM/SKM
  - Registering the ESKM/SKM Brocade group user name and password
  - Setting up the local Certificate Authority (CA) on ESKM/SKM
  - Creating and installing the ESKM/SKM server certificate
  - Enabling SSL on the Key Management System (KMS) Server
  - Creating an ESKM/SKM High Availability cluster
  - Copying the local CA certificate for a clustered ESKM/SKM appliance
  - Adding ESKM/SKM appliances to the cluster
  - Signing the encryption node KAC certificates
  - Importing a signed KAC certificate into a switch
  - ESKM/SKM key vault high availability deployment
  - Data Encryption Keys
  - ESKM/SKM key vault deregistration
- Steps for connecting to a TEKA appliance
  - Setting up TEKA network connections
  - Creating a client on TEKA
  - Establishing TEKA key vault credentials on the switch
  - Signing the encryption node KAC CSR on the TEKA appliance
  - Importing a signed KAC certificate into a switch
- Steps for connecting to a TKLM appliance
  - Exporting the Fabric OS node self-signed KAC certificates
  - Converting the KAC certificate format
  - Establishing a default key store and device group on TKLM
  - Adding a device to the device group
  - Creating a self-signed certificate for TKLM
  - Importing the Fabric OS encryption node KAC certificates to TKLM
  - Exporting the TKLM self-signed server certificate
  - Importing the TKLM certificate into the group leader
- Steps for connecting to a KMIP-compliant SafeNet KeySecure
  - Setting FIPS compliance
  - Creating a local CA
  - Creating a server certificate
  - Creating a cluster
  - Configuring a Brocade group on the KeySecure
  - Registering the KeySecure Brocade group user name and password
  - Signing the encryption node KAC CSR on KMIP
  - Importing a signed KAC certificate into a switch
  - Backing up the certificates
  - Configuring the KMIP server
  - Adding a node to the cluster
- Steps for connecting to a KMIP-compliant keyAuthority
- Encryption preparation
- Creating a new encryption group
  - Configuring key vault settings for RSA Data Protection Manager (DPM)
  - Configuring key vault settings for NetApp Link Key Manager (LKM/SSKM)
  - Configuring key vault settings for HP Enterprise Secure Key Manager (ESKM/SKM)
  - Configuring key vault settings for Thales e_Security keyAuthority (TEKA)
  - Configuring key vault settings for IBM Tivoli Key Lifetime Manager (TKLM)
  - Configuring key vault settings for Key Management Interoperability Protocol
  - Understanding configuration status results
- Adding a switch to an encryption group
- Replacing an encryption engine in an encryption group
- High availability clusters
  - HA cluster configuration rules
  - Creating HA clusters
  - Removing engines from an HA cluster
  - Swapping engines in an HA cluster
  - Failback option
- Configuring encryption storage targets
  - Adding an encryption target
- Configuring hosts for encryption targets
- Adding target disk LUNs for encryption
  - Configuring storage arrays
  - Remote replication LUNs
  - SRDF pairs
  - Metadata requirements and remote replication
- Adding target tape LUNs for encryption
- Moving targets
- Configuring encrypted tape storage in a multi-path environment
- Tape LUN write early and read ahead
  - Enabling and disabling tape LUN write early and read ahead
- Tape LUN statistics
  - Viewing and clearing tape container statistics
  - Viewing and clearing tape LUN statistics for specific tape LUNs
  - Viewing and clearing statistics for tape LUNs in a container
- Encryption engine rebalancing
- Master keys
  - Active master key
  - Master key actions
  - Saving the master key to a file
  - Saving a master key to a key vault
  - Saving a master key to a smart card set
  - Restoring a master key from a file
  - Restoring a master key from a key vault
  - Restoring a master key from a smart card set
  - Creating a new master key
- Security settings
- Zeroizing an encryption engine
  - Setting zeroization
- Using the Encryption Targets dialog box
- Redirection zones
- Disk device decommissioning
  - Decommissioning disk LUNs
  - Displaying and deleting decommissioned key IDs
  - Displaying Universal IDs
- Rekeying all disk LUNs manually
  - Setting disk LUN Re-key All
  - Viewing disk LUN rekeying details
  - Viewing the progress of manual rekey operations
- Thin provisioned LUNs
  - Thin Provisioning support
- Viewing time left for auto rekey
- Viewing and editing switch encryption properties
  - Exporting the public key certificate signing request from properties
  - Importing a signed public key certificate from properties
  - Enabling and disabling the encryption engine state from Properties
- Viewing and editing encryption group properties
  - General tab
  - Members tab
  - Security tab
  - HA Clusters tab
  - Link Keys tab
  - Tape Pools tab
  - Engine Operations tab
- Encryption-related acronyms in log messages
Zoning
- Zoning overview
  - Zoning naming conventions
  - Zoning and FICON
- Zone database size
- Zoning configuration
- LSAN zones
- LSAN tagging
- Traffic Isolation zones
- Boot LUN zones
- Zoning administration
Fibre Channel over IP
- FCIP services licensing
- FCIP Concepts
- IP network considerations
- FCIP platforms and supported features
- FCIP trunking
  - Design for redundancy and fault tolerance
  - FCIP tunnel restrictions for FCP and FICON emulation features
  - FCIP Trunk configuration considerations
  - FCIP circuit failover capabilities
  - Bandwidth calculation during failover
  - Circuit Failover Grouping
- Adaptive Rate Limiting
  - FSPF link cost calculation when ARL is used
- QoS SID/DID priorities over an FCIP trunk
  - Configuring QoS Priorities
- IPsec and IKE implementation over FCIP
  - IPsec for the 4 Gbps platforms
  - IPSec for the 8 Gbps platforms
- QOS, DSCP, and VLANs
  - DSCP quality of service
  - VLANs and layer two quality of service
  - When both DSCP and L2CoS are used
- Open systems tape pipelining
  - FCIP Fastwrite and Tape Acceleration
- FICON emulation features
  - IBM z/OS Global Mirror (z Gm) emulation
  - Tape write pipelining
  - Tape read pipelining
  - Teradata pipelining
- Connecting cascaded FICON fabrics over FCIP
- FCIP configuration guidelines
  - Virtual Port Types
- Configuring an FCIP tunnel
- Adding an FCIP circuit
- Configuring FCIP tunnel advanced settings
  - Enabling Open Systems Tape Pipelining
  - Enabling Tperf test mode
  - Configuring QoS percentages
  - Configuring IPsec and IKE policies
  - Configuring FICON emulation
- Viewing FCIP connection properties
- Viewing General FCIP properties
- Viewing FCIP port properties
- Editing FCIP circuits
- Disabling FCIP tunnels
- Enabling FCIP tunnels
- Deleting FCIP tunnels
- Disabling FCIP circuits
- Enabling FCIP circuits
- Deleting FCIP Circuits
- Displaying FCIP performance graphs
  - Displaying performance graphs for FC ports
  - Displaying FCIP performance graphs for Ethernet ports
- Displaying tunnel properties from the FCIP tunnels dialog box
- Displaying FCIP circuit properties from the FCIP tunnels dialog box
- Displaying switch properties from the FCIP Tunnels dialog box
- Displaying fabric properties from the FCIP Tunnels dialog box
- Troubleshooting FCIP Ethernet connections
Fabric Binding
- Fabric Binding overview
- High Integrity Fabric overview
  - Activating high integrity fabrics
  - Deactivating high integrity fabrics
Port Fencing
- About port fencing
  - Viewing port fencing configurations
- Thresholds
- Adding thresholds
- Editing thresholds
- Removing thresholds
  - Removing thresholds from the thresholds table
FICON Environments
- FICON configurations
- Configuring a switch for FICON operation
- Configuring FICON display
- Configuring an Allow/Prohibit Matrix
- Configuring an Allow/Prohibit Matrix manually
- Saving or copying Allow/Prohibit Matrix configurations to another device
  - Copying an Allow/Prohibit Matrix configuration
  - Saving an Allow/Prohibit Matrix configuration to another device
- Activating an Allow/Prohibit Matrix configuration
- Deleting an Allow/Prohibit Matrix configuration
- Changing the Allow/Prohibit Matrix display
- Cascaded FICON fabric
  - Configuring a cascaded FICON fabric
- Cascaded FICON fabric merge
  - Merging two cascaded FICON fabrics
  - Resolving merge conflicts
- Port groups
- Swapping blades
IP Element Manager
- Element Manager overview
- Element Manager CLI
- Element Manager interface overview
- Configure dialog box
- Management Module switchover
- Switch Fabric Module
- Port mirroring
  - Configuring port mirroring
- sFlow
- VRRP-E: VRRP/ VRRP-E management
- VRF management
  - Configuring VRF in an MLX device
- Web Management interface
- Web Management interface troubleshooting
Configuration File Manager and Backup
- Configuration file manager
- Configuration deviation
- Change tracking
  - RASLog events
- Configuration snapshots
- Schedule backup
  - Disabling a backup schedule
IP Configuration Wizard
- Configuration requirements
- Payloads
- Creating a payload configuration
- Duplicating a payload configuration
- Modifying a payload configuration
- Deploying a payload configuration
- Deleting a payload configuration
CLI Configuration Management
- CLI configuration overview
- Viewing existing templates
- Product configuration templates
- Changing product credentials
- Importing parameter values into a configuration
- Previewing CLI commands
- CLI command guidelines
  - Copying a product configuration
  - Editing a product configuration
- Testing a configuration
- Valid and invalid responses from devices
- Deleting a configuration
- CLI configuration deployment
- Monitoring configurations
  - Copying a monitoring configuration
  - Editing a monitoring configuration
- CLI deployment reports
- CLI configuration scheduling
Image Repository for IP Products
- Obtaining software files
- Products supporting the image import
- Boot image management
- Software image management
- Unified image management
- Serial firmware update and activation for Network OS devices
VLAN Management
- VLAN Manager
- Port VLANs
- Spanning Tree Protocol configuration
- VLAN routing
  - Managing IP addresses on an SVI
MPLS Management
- MPLS pre-configuration
- MPLS licensing
- MPLS overview
  - Configuring LDP
- LSP
- MPLS Virtual Leased Line (VLL) overview
- VLL manager
- Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) overview
- VPLS Manager
- VCID pools
- 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management
VIP Servers
- VIP Servers overview
- Viewing the VIP Servers
- Viewing VIP Server information
- Enabling or disabling servers or server ports
- Server port statistics
Global Server Load Balancing
- GSLB Manager
  - Viewing the GSLB Manager
- GSLB policy management
- GSLB site management
- GSLB zone configuration
- Controller configuration
SSL Certificates for ServerIron Products
- SSL certificates
- SSL certificate configuration
  - Accessing SSL certificates on the Product View tab
- Generating a certificate signing request
- Adding an SSL certificate and key file
- Editing an SSL certificate and key file
- Duplicating an SSL certificate and key file
- Viewing SSL certificate details
- Importing certificates and keys from file locations
- Importing certificates and keys from products
- Exporting certificates and keys
- Deploying certificates and keys
- Creating key passwords
- Appending SSL certificates
- Chaining SSL certificates
- Deleting SSL certificates
Deployment Manager
- Introduction to the Deployment Manager
- Editing a deployment configuration
- Duplicating a deployment configuration
- Deleting a deployment configuration
- Deploying a configuration
- Viewing deployment logs
- Generating a deployment report
- Generating a deployment configuration snapshot report
- Searching the configuration snapshots
Fibre Channel Troubleshooting
- FC troubleshooting
- FCIP troubleshooting
  - Tracing IP routes
  - Viewing FCIP tunnel performance
Performance Data
- SAN performance overview
  - SAN performance management requirements
- SAN real-time performance data
  - Clearing port counters
- SAN historical performance data
- SAN end-to-end monitoring
- SAN Top Talker monitoring
- Bottleneck detection
- Thresholds and event notification
- SAN connection utilization
- IP performance monitoring and traffic analysis
- IP configuration requirements
- IP real-time performance monitoring
- IP historical performance monitoring
- MIB data collectors
- IP Custom performance reports
  - Interpreting the SNMP Monitor report
  - Exporting an SNMP Monitor report
- IP sFlow configuration
- IP Traffic analyzer monitoring and sFlow reports
- IP traffic accounting
Flow Vision
- Flow Vision overview
- Flow Vision features
- Flow Vision flows
- Flow Monitor
- Flow Generator
- Flow Mirror
- Predefined flow definition templates
  - Creating a flow definition from a template
  - Predefined flow definition templates for initiator group and storage array
- Flow Vision interoperability with other features
Frame Monitor
- Frame Monitor
- Creating a custom frame monitor
- Editing a frame monitor
- Assigning a frame monitor to a port
- Finding frame monitor assignments
- Removing a frame monitor from a port
- Removing a frame monitor from a switch
Power Center
- Power center overview
- Data monitoring
- PoE power on demand
  - Powering down PoE-capable ports on demand
- Schedule PoE power deployment
- PoE thresholds
- Viewing PoE performance
  - Monitoring real time power performance on products
  - Monitoring real time power performance on ports
Policy Monitor
- Policy monitor overview
- Preconfigured configuration policy managers
- Viewing configuration policy manager status
- Viewing existing configuration policy managers
- Adding a configuration policy manager
- Configuration policy manager scheduling
- Editing a configuration policy manager
- Deleting a configuration policy manager
- Configuration rules
- Running a configuration policy manager
- Viewing a configuration policy manager report
  - Exporting a configuration policy manager report
- Viewing historical reports for all configuration policy managers
- Viewing historical reports for a configuration policy manager
Fault Management
- Fault management overview
  - Restrictions
- Event notification
- Defining filters
  - Setting up advanced event filtering
  - Viewing events
- SNMP traps
- SNMP informs
- Syslogs
- Event action definitions
- Pseudo events
- Event custom reports
- Event custom report schedules
  - Adding or editing an event report schedule
- Event logs
Packet Capture (Pcap)
- Configuring packet captures
Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite
- Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite overview
  - MAPS role-based access control
  - Enabling MAPS on a device
- MAPS interoperability with other features
  - Fabric Watch
- MAPS category, object, and measure hierarchy
  - MAPS categories, measures, and actions
- MAPS monitoring categories
- MAPS policies
  - User-defined policies
- MAPS rules
- MAPS conditions
- MAPS actions
- MAPS groups
- MAPS violations
- MAPS events
  - Viewing MAPS events
- MAPS integration with other features
Technical Support
- Server and client support save
- Device technical support
- Upload failure data capture
Reports
- Reports overview
- SAN report types
- Generating SAN reports
- Viewing SAN reports
  - Fabric Summary Report
  - Fabric Ports Report
- Exporting SAN reports
- Printing SAN reports
- Deleting SAN reports
- Generating SAN performance reports
- Generating SAN zoning reports
- IP report types
- Viewing IP reports
- Exporting and saving IP reports to a file
- Exporting IP reports to e-mail recipients
- Reports Template Manager overview
- Host adapter reports
  - Adapters Inventory report
  - Adapters Faulty SFP report
Application menus
- Dashboard main menus
- SAN main menus
- IP main menus
- SAN shortcut menus
- IP shortcut menus
Call Home Event Tables
Event Categories
- Link incident events
- Product status events
- Product audit events
- Security events
  - Security events for FC devices
  - Security events for IP devices
- User action events
- Management server events
- Product events
- IP Performance monitoring events
- RASLog Events
User Privileges
- About user privileges
- About Roles and Access Levels
Device Properties
- Viewing SAN device properties
- Viewing VC module properties
- IP device properties
  - Viewing VCS fabric properties
- Host properties
- Properties customization
  - Deleting a property field
  - Editing a property field directly
Regular Expressions
CLI Templates
Troubleshooting
- Application Configuration Wizard troubleshooting
- Browser troubleshooting
- Client browser troubleshooting
- Configuration backup and restore troubleshooting
- Discovery troubleshooting
- Element Manager troubleshooting
- Fabric tracking troubleshooting
- FICON troubleshooting
- Firmware download troubleshooting
- Launch Client troubleshooting
- Master Log and Switch Console troubleshooting
- Names troubleshooting
- Patch troubleshooting
- Performance troubleshooting
- Port Fencing troubleshooting
- Professional edition login troubleshooting
- Server troubleshooting
- Server Management Console troubleshooting
- Supportsave troubleshooting
- Technical support data collection troubleshooting
- View All list troubleshooting
- Wireless troubleshooting
- Zoning troubleshooting
Database Fields
- Database tables and fields
- Views
Index