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Before You Begin Chapter 2 Getting Started Send documentation comments to [email protected] Step 4 Click Apply. Enabling DNS DNS offers services to map a host name to an IP address in the network through a DNS server. When you configure DNS on the switch, you can substitute the host name for the IP address with all IP commands, such as ping, telnet, upload, and download. You must decide to use DNS completely or to use IP addresses fully in your fabric. A combination of these will not work with the Cisco SME feature. If you chose to use DNS, the following requirements apply: • All switches should be configured using DNS. • The domain-name (or the domain list), and the IP name server must be configured to reach remote switches. • The DNS server should be configured on the Fabric Manager server. If you choose to use IP addresses, the DNS server should not be configured on any switch in the fabric and the use_ip flag in the smeserver.properties must be set to TRUE. For information on configuring DNS, refer to the "Configuring IP Services" chapter in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide. To verify that DNS is enabled everywhere in the cluster, ping between the Fabric Manager server and the MDS switches and also between the MDS switches with DNS names. Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Media Encryption Configuration Guide 2-8 OL-18091-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x