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3 Managing the Switch This chapter provides the following information: • Management features • Maintaining the switch • Replacing the switch • Powering on and off • Interpreting LED activity • POST and boot specifications • Interpreting POST results Management features The management tools built into the Cisco MDS 9124e Switch (listed in Table 8) can be used to monitor fabric topology, port status, physical status, and other information used for performance analysis and system debugging. When running IP over FC, these management tools must be run on both the Fibre Channel host and the switch and must be supported by the Fibre Channel host driver. For a list of Fibre Channel hosts supported by the Cisco MDS 9124e Switch, contact your HP representative. Table 8 Cisco MDS 9124e Switch management features Management tool CLI - Run up to two admin sessions and four user sessions simultaneously. For more information, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide. Fabric Manager- For information, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide. Standard SNMP applications - For information, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide. Management Server - For more information, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide. Out-of-band support Ethernet or serial connection Ethernet connection Ethernet connection Ethernet connection In-band support IP over FC IP over FC IP over FC SMI-S compliant management program You can connect a management station to one switch via Ethernet while managing other switches connected to the first switch via FC. To do so, set the FC gateway address of each of the other switches to be managed to the FC IP address of the first switch. Cisco MDS 9124e Fabric Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem 29