HP Cisco MDS 9124 Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Rele - Page 38
Cisco Fabric Manager Release 4.1(1b) New Features, Server Admin Tool, Flow Management Simplification
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New Features in Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.1(1b) Send documentation comments to [email protected] Cisco Fabric Manager Release 4.1(1b) New Features Cisco Fabric Manager Release 4.1(1b) includes the following new features and enhancements: • Server Admin Tool, page 38 • Flow Management Simplification, page 38 • Web Client Enhancements, page 38 • Supported Platforms for Fabric Manager, page 39 Server Admin Tool In Cisco NX-OS Release 4.1(1b), a Server Admin Tool is included to address the needs of blade server administrators for SANs. This tool includes a unique Cisco Fabric Manager perspective view and a FlexAttach wizard. The Server Admin perspective view limits the scope of Fabric Manager to FlexAttach configurations and relevant data. The wizards available to the server administrator are as follows: • Pre-configuration of FlexAttach functionality • Replacement of a failed server with a spare • Movement of a server to another port or switch A perspective view provides simplified administration by filtering out menu items, buttons, tabs, tables, and configuration options that are not relevant to the server administration function. Certain administrators are only allowed to perform a certain set of actions on a subset of the SAN fabric, such as configuring FlexAttach for NPV switches. Limited information and views are provided on the NPIV core switches, NPV switches, and end-devices attached to them. Flow Management Simplification Cisco Fabric Manager Server (FMS) can monitor the performance of traffic between specific Fibre Channel initiators and targets (flows). The Flow Creation Wizard has been enhanced to show new flows and makes it easy to select specific flows. Only the new flows selected get configured on the switches, so the remaining flow counters are not affected. Also, after the new flows are created, they are automatically added to the data collection, eliminating the need for the FMS administrator to manually shutdown and restart the performance manager. Web Client Enhancements The Cisco FMS Web Client enhancements in NX-OS Release 4.1(1b) include the following: • FMS License Compliance Warning Message, page 38 • SAN Health Reports and Template, page 39 • Shared Reports and Templates, page 39 FMS License Compliance Warning Message The licensing policy for Cisco FMS requires that every switch in a fabric be licensed to use the all software capabilities, including performance monitoring. Currently FMS checks to see that at least one switch on a SAN fabric has a FMS license installed, but it does not verify that all the other switches are licensed. In NX-OS Release 4.1(1b), the FMS Web Client generates a license compliance warning Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.1(1b) 38 OL-17675-02