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Fabric Pane

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Use the Fabric pane to display the graphical representation of your fabric. <a href="fmc28.html#wp403208">Table&#160;5-5</a> explains the 
graphics you may see displayed, depending on which devices you have in your fabric.

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Table&#160;5-5	Cisco DCNM-SAN Graphics&#160;

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Icon or Graphic

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Description

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</p><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left"><img src="images/94108.jpg" height="48" width="48" align="left" id="wp403217" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"/></table></div><p class="pBodyRelative">

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Director class MDS 9000 Fibre Channel switch.

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</p><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left"><img src="images/94109.jpg" height="48" width="48" align="left" id="wp403224" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"/></table></div><p class="pBodyRelative">

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    <td><a name="wp403228"> </a><p class="pBody">
Non-director class MDS 9000 Fibre Channel 
switch.

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</p><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left"><img src="images/276008.jpg" height="36" width="36" align="left" id="wp403231" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"/></table></div><p class="pBodyRelative">

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    <td><a name="wp403235"> </a><p class="pBody">
Nexus 7000 switch.

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</p><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left"><img src="images/276009.jpg" height="36" width="36" align="left" id="wp403238" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"/></table></div><p class="pBodyRelative">

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Nexus FCoE or Fibre Channel switch.

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</p><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left"><img src="images/276006.jpg" height="36" width="36" align="left" id="wp403245" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"/></table></div><p class="pBodyRelative">

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Catalyst LAN switch.

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Generic Fibre Channel switch.

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Cisco SN5428.

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    <td><a name="wp403270"> </a><p class="pBody">
Dashed or dotted orange line through a device 
indicates that the device is manageable but there 
are operational problems.

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Dashed or dotted orange X through a device or 
link indicates that the device or ISL is not working 
properly.

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</p><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left"><img src="images/94112.jpg" height="48" width="48" align="left" id="wp403280" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"/></table></div><p class="pBodyRelative">

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A red line through a device indicates that the 
device is not manageable.

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    <td><a name="wp403291"> </a><p class="pBody">
A red X through a device or link indicates that the 
device is down or that the ISL is down.

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</p><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left"><img src="images/99512.jpg" height="48" width="48" align="left" id="wp403294" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"/></table></div><p class="pBodyRelative">

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Fibre Channel HBA (or enclosure).

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Fibre Channel target (or enclosure).

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iSCSI host.

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Fibre Channel ISL and edge connection.

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Fibre Channel PortChannel.

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    <td><a name="wp403333"> </a><p class="pBody">
IP ISL and edge connection.

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    <td><a name="wp403340"> </a><p class="pBody">
IP PortChannel.

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</p><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left"><img src="images/187285.jpg" height="48" width="48" align="left" id="wp403343" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"/></table></div><p class="pBodyRelative">

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    <td><a name="wp403347"> </a><p class="pBody">
DWDM connection.

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</p><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left"><img src="images/187286.jpg" height="48" width="48" align="left" id="wp403350" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"/></table></div><p class="pBodyRelative">

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    <td><a name="wp403354"> </a><p class="pBody">
NPV connection.

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</p><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left"><img src="images/94122.jpg" height="48" width="48" align="left" id="wp403357" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"/></table></div><p class="pBodyRelative">

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    <td><a name="wp403361"> </a><p class="pBody">
Fibre Channel loop (storage).

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    <td><a name="wp403368"> </a><p class="pBody">
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.

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</p><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left"><img src="images/94124.jpg" height="48" width="48" align="left" id="wp403371" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"/></table></div><p class="pBodyRelative">

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Any device, cloud, or loop with a box around it 
means that there are hidden links attached.

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

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The bottom of the Fabric pane has the following tabs:

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<div class="pSmartList1"><ul class="pSmartList1">
<a name="wp344960"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Fabric&#8212;When displaying multiple fabrics, each fabric has its own tab. You can switch between 
fabrics by clicking on their respective tabs.
</li>
<a name="wp344961"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Log&#8212;Displays messages that describe Cisco DCNM-SAN operations, such as fabric discovery.
</li>
<a name="wp344962"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Events&#8212;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.
</li>
</ul></div>
<a name="wp344964"> </a><p class="pBody">
When viewing large fabrics in the Fabric pane, it is helpful to do the following tasks:

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<a name="wp344965"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Turn off end device labels.
</li>
<a name="wp344966"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Collapse loops.
</li>
<a name="wp344967"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Collapse expanded multiple links (collapsed multiple links are shown as very thick single lines).
</li>
<a name="wp344968"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Dim or hide portions of your fabric by VSAN.
</li>
</ul></div>
<a name="wp344970"> </a><p class="pBodyAutonumNoRule">
<strong>Note	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong> 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 <b class="cBold">Clear Highlight</b> button on the Fabric 
pane toolbar or choose <b class="cBold">Clear Highlight</b> from the pop-up menu.

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<hr /><br><p class="pBody">Copyright 2010-2013, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.</p> 

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