Menu Bar

The menu bar at the top of the Device Manager main window provides options for managing and troubleshooting a single switch. The menu bar provides the following options:

Device—Opens an instance of Device Manager, sets management preferences, sets the page layout, opens a Telnet/SSH session with the current switch, exports a device image, and closes the Device Manager application.

Physical—Allows you to view and manage inventory, modules, temperature sensors, power supplies, fans, and the entire system.

Interface—Allows you to configure and manage PortChannels, as well as Fibre Channel, Ethernet, iSCSI, and FICON ports. Also provides diagnostic, management and monitoring capabilities, as well as SPAN and port tracking.

Note The Interface > Port Channels menu option does not appear if the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch is in NPV mode and runs a Cisco NX-OS release prior to 4.2(1).

FC—Allows you to configure and manage VSAN, domain, and name server characteristics. Also provides advanced configuration capabilities.

FCoE—Allows you to configure the FCoE parameters and map VSANs to VLANs on a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch.

Note The FCoE menu option appears only if the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch runs Cisco NX-OS Release 4.0(1a) or later releases.

FICON—Allows you to configure and manage FICON VSANs, configure RLIR ERL information, swap selected FICON ports, and view FICON port numbers.

IP—Allows you to configure and manage the following types of information: FCIP, iSCSI, iSNS, routes, VRRP, and CDP.

Security—Allows you to configure and manage FCSP, port security, iSCSI security, SNMP security, common roles, SSH, AAA, and IP ACLs.

Admin—Allows you to save, copy, edit, and erase the switch configuration, monitor events, manipulate Flash files, manage licenses, configure NTP, use CFS, and reset the switch. Also enables you to use the show tech support, show cores, and show image commands.

Logs—Shows the various logs: message, hardware, events, and accounting. Also displays FICON link incidents, and allows you to configure the syslog setup.

Help—Displays online help topics for specific dialog boxes in the Information pane.