Cisco DCNM-SAN Client Quick Tour: Admin Perspective

This section describes the Cisco DCNM-SAN Client interface shown in Figure 5-1.

Figure 5-1 Cisco DCNM-SAN Main Window

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Menu bar—Provides access to options that are organized by menus.

2

Toolbar—Provides icons for direct access to the most commonly used options on the File, Tools, and Help menus.

3

Information pane—Displays information about whatever option is selected in the menu tree.

4

Status Bar (right side)—Shows the last entry displayed by the discovery process and the possible error message.

5

Fabric pane—Displays a map of the network fabric, including switches, hosts, and storage. It also provides tabs for displaying log and event data.

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Status Bar (left side)—Shows short-term transient messages, such as the number of rows displayed in a table.

7

Physical Attributes pane—Displays a tree of available configuration tasks depending on the fabric, VSAN, or zone selected previously. Lists the switches and end devices in the logical selection.

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Logical Domains pane—Displays a tree of configured SAN, fabrics, VSANs, and zones, and provides access to user-defined groups. The label next to the segmented VSAN indicates the number of segments.

Note     You can resize each pane by dragging the boundaries between each region or by clicking the Minimize or Maximize controls.



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