Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager Server Software -
Overview & Features

Overview

The "Standard" Cisco Fabric Manager software that is included at no charge with the MDS switches provides basic switch configuration and troubleshooting capabilities. The Cisco Fabric Manager Server (FMS) Package extends Cisco Fabric Manager by providing historical performance data collection for network traffic hot-spot analysis, centralized management services and advanced application integration.

Features & Benefits

• FC Statistics Monitoring: Performance statistics for inter-switch links (ISLs), host and storage device connections, and traffic between specific Fibre Channel sources and destinations (Route Flows) are monitored continuously with Cisco FMS.
  Hot spots that may limit bandwidth performance within a fibre channel interconnect can be identified.
• Reporting, Graphing: Historical performance reports and graphs over daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly intervals are available for network hot-spot analysis. Top 10 and daily summary reports for all ISLs, hosts and storage connections, and Route Flows present fabric wide statistics.
  Track performance data over time and make adjustments enabling the best use of network bandwidth.
• Intelligent Setup: Wizards are provided to quickly select information to monitor, setup Route Flows and estimate performance database storage requirements. After initial configuration, host and storage device selections automatically adapt to switch port changes to maintain performance history continuity.
  Minimize the amount of application configuration.