sme.useIP for IP Address or Name Selection

If you do not have DNS configured on all switches in the cluster, you can use sme.useIP. The smeserver.properties file is located in the following location: <fm install path>\dcm\fm\conf\.

During the DCNM-SAN installation, the use_ip flag in the smeserver.properties file is set to FALSE by default. If you choose to use IP addresses, the DNS server should not be configured on any switch in the fabric and the use_ip flag in the smeserver.properties file must be set to TRUE. Once you make any modifications to the smeserver.properties file, you must restart DCNM-SAN.

Ensure you enable clustering first, and then enable SME.

You must decide to use DNS completely or to use IP addresses fully in your fabric. A combination of these will not work with the SME feature.

To verify that DNS is enabled everywhere in the cluster, ping between the DCNM-SAN server and the MDS switches and also between the MDS switches with DNS names.