Setting Fabric Manager Preferences
Setting Fabric Manager Preferences
To set your preferences for the behavior of the Fabric Manager, choose File > Preferences from the
Fabric Manager menu bar. The Preferences dialog box appears.
This dialog box has the following tabs, which let you set your preferences for different components of
the application:
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The default SNMP preferences for Fabric Manager are:
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The default Map preferences for Fabric Manager are:
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Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager Switch Configuration Guide
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General
Discovery
Map
Show Switch Name by IP—This displays the IP addresses of the switches in the Map pane, rather
than the DNS or Logical Name.
Show WWN Vendor by Prepend Name—The other options are to show the vendor by replacing
vendor bytes, or not to show it at all.
Append Enclosures to End Device Names—The default setting for this value is OFF.
Show Shortened iSCSI Names—The default setting for this value is OFF.
Show Timestamps as Date/Time—The default setting for this value is ON.
Use Secure Shell instead of Telnet—The default setting for this value is OFF. When set to ON, you
must enter a path for your secure shell client.
Confirm Deletions—The default setting for this value is ON.
Export Tables with Tab-Delimited Format—The other option is to export with XML format.
Retry request 1 time(s) after 5 sec timeout—You can set the retry value to 0-5, and the timeout
value to 3-30.
Trace SNMP packets in Log—The default setting for this value is OFF.
Enable Audible Alert when Event Received—The default setting for this value is OFF.
Discover LUN by Host OS—The default setting for this value is All. The other options are
Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux, and HPUX
Display Unselected VSAN Members—This displays the unselected VSAN members in the Map
pane. The default setting for this value is ON.
Display End Devices—This displays the fabric's end devices in the Map pane. The default setting
for this value is ON.
Display End Device Labels—This displays the fabric's end device labels in the Map pane. The
default setting for this value is ON.
Expand Loops—This displays the loops in the fabric as individual connections in the Map pane.
The default setting for this value is OFF.
Expand Multiple Links—This displays multiple links in the Map pane as separate lines rather than
as one thick line. The default setting for this value is ON.
Open New Device Manager Each Time—This opens a new instance of Device Manager each time
you invoke it from a switch in your fabric. The default value is OFF, which means only one instance
of Device Manager will be open at a time.
Chapter 3
Overview of Fabric Manager
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