## Cisco DCNM-SAN

Cisco DCNM-SAN is a set of network management tools that supports Secure Simple Network Management Protocol version 3 (SNMPv3). Cisco DCNM-SAN includes the following applications:

• DCNM-SAN Web Client—Provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays real-time views of your network fabric, and lets you manage the configuration of Cisco MDS 9000 Family devices and third-party switches.

Note SME configuration is supported in DCNM-SAN Web Client only.

• DCNM-SAN —Installed on a server and must be started before running the DCNM-SAN client. It can be accessed by up to 16 DCNM-SAN Clients at a time.

• Device Manager—Provides two views of a switch.

– Device View displays a continuously updated physical representation of the switch configuration, and provides access to statistics and configuration information for a single switch.

– Summary View displays real-time performance statistics of all active interfaces and channels on the switch for Fibre Channel and IP connections.

Note 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.
The smeserver.properties file is located at the following location: <fm install path>\dcm\fm\conf\
Once you make any modifications to the smeserver.properties file, you must restart DCNM-SAN.

The Cisco DCNM-SAN applications are an alternative to the CLI for most switch configuration commands.

For more information on configuring the Cisco MDS switch using DCNM-SAN, refer to the Cisco DCNM Fundamentals Guide.