Fabric Pane

Use the Fabric pane to display the graphical representation of your fabric. Table 5-5 explains the graphics you may see displayed, depending on which devices you have in your fabric.

Table 5-5 Cisco DCNM-SAN Graphics 

Icon or Graphic	Description
	Director class MDS 9000 Fibre Channel switch.
	Non-director class MDS 9000 Fibre Channel switch.
	Nexus 7000 switch.
	Nexus FCoE or Fibre Channel switch.
	Catalyst LAN switch.
	Generic Fibre Channel switch.
	Cisco SN5428.
	Dashed or dotted orange line through a device indicates that the device is manageable but there are operational problems.
	Dashed or dotted orange X through a device or link indicates that the device or ISL is not working properly.
	A red line through a device indicates that the device is not manageable.
	A red X through a device or link indicates that the device is down or that the ISL is down.
	Fibre Channel HBA (or enclosure).
	Fibre Channel target (or enclosure).
	iSCSI host.
	Fibre Channel ISL and edge connection.
	Fibre Channel PortChannel.
	IP ISL and edge connection.
	IP PortChannel.
	DWDM connection.
	NPV connection.
	Fibre Channel loop (storage).
	IP cloud (hosts). This icon is also used to represent a fabric when viewing a SAN (multiple fabrics) in the Cisco DCNM-SAN Fabric pane.
	Any device, cloud, or loop with a box around it means that there are hidden links attached.

If a switch or director is grayed out, Cisco DCNM-SAN can no longer communicate with it.

The bottom of the Fabric pane has the following tabs:

• Fabric—When displaying multiple fabrics, each fabric has its own tab. You can switch between fabrics by clicking on their respective tabs.
• Log—Displays messages that describe Cisco DCNM-SAN operations, such as fabric discovery.
• Events—Displays information about the SNMP traps received by the management station. This includes combination events as detected by discovery and important traps such as license, SNMP, and FICON.

When viewing large fabrics in the Fabric pane, it is helpful to do the following tasks:

• Turn off end device labels.
• Collapse loops.
• Collapse expanded multiple links (collapsed multiple links are shown as very thick single lines).
• Dim or hide portions of your fabric by VSAN.

Note     When a VSAN, zone, or zone member is selected in the VSAN tree, the map highlighting changes to identify the selected objects. To remove this highlighting, click the Clear Highlight button on the Fabric pane toolbar or choose Clear Highlight from the pop-up menu.

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