> # Tools

> Tools menu provides the following options:

> - Health
> - Switch Health—Determines the status of the components of a specific switch.
> - Fabric Configuration—Analyzes the configuration of a switch by comparing the current configuration to a specific switch or to a policy file. You can save a switch configuration to a file and then compare all switches against the configuration in the file.
> - Show Tech Support—Collects large amount of information about your switch for troubleshooting purposes. When you issue a show tech support command from Cisco DCNM-SAN for one or more switches in a fabric, the results of each command are written to a text file, one file per switch, in a directory you specify. You can then view these files using Cisco DCNM-SAN.
> - Connectivity
> - End to End Connectivity—Determines connectivity and routes among devices with the switch fabric. This tool checks to see that every pair of end devices can talk to each other, using a Ping test and by determining if they are in the same VSAN or in the same active zone.
> - Ping—Determines connectivity from another switch to a port on your switch.
> - Trace Route—Verifies connectivity between two end devices that are currently selected on the Fabric pane.
> - Compact Flash Report—Automatically scans the fabric and generate a report that shows the status of CompactFlash.
> - NPV
> - CFS Static Peer Setup—Manage the peer list used during CFS on NPV-enabled switches. After setting up the static peers list, the CFS discovery on the switches will be changed to static mode for all peers in the list. Cisco DCNM-SAN does not automatically update static peers list. You may need to update the list using the CFS Static Peer Setup Wizard when a new switch is added to the fabric.
> - Traffic Map Setup—Configures the list of external interfaces to the servers, and enabling or disabling disruptive load balancing. Using Traffic Map Setup you can specify the external ports that a server should use for traffic management.
> - Flex Attach Pre-Configure Server—Sets the port configurations for all the ports in a switch such as enabling or disabling FlexAttach, setting the default VSAN ID, and setting the interface status.
> - Flex Attach Move Server—Moves a server to another port on the same NPV device or another NPV device without changing the SAN.
> - Flex Attach Replace Server—Replaces a failed server with a new server on the same port without changing the SAN.
> - Data Mobility Manager
> - Server Based—Performs server-based data migration.
> - Storage based—Performs storage-based data migration.
> - Server LUN Discovery—Performs LUN discovery to select the LUNs available for migration and automates the session creation by matching the LUNs in the existing and new storage.
> - FCoE—Launches the FCoE Configuration Wizard to create virtual Fibre Channel interfaces.
> - Port Channel—Creates PortChannels from selected ISL either manually or automatically.
> - DPVM Setup—Establishes dynamic port VSAN membership, enables autolearning, and activates the DPVM database.
> - IP SAN
> - FCIP Tunnel—Creates FCIP links between Gigabit Ethernet ports. Enables Fibre Channel write acceleration and IP compression.
> - iSCSI Setup—Creates zones for iSCSI initiators and adds a VSAN to a target-allowed VSAN list.
> - SAN Extension Tuner—Optimizes FCIP performance by generating either direct access (magnetic disk) or sequential access (magnetic tape) SCSI I/O commands and directing such traffic to a specific virtual target. This option is used to generate SCSI I/O commands (read and write) to the virtual target based on your configured options.
> - Security
> - Port Security—Prevents unauthorized access to a switch port in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family, rejects intrusion attempts and reports these intrusions to the administrator.
> - IP ACL—Creates an ordered list of IP filters in a named IPv4-ACL or IPv6-ACL profile using the IPv4-ACL Wizard.
> - Install
> - License—Facilitate download and installation of licenses in selected switches in the fabric.
> - Software—Verifies image compatibility and installs software images on selected switches in the fabric.
> - Flow Load Balance Calculator —Allows you to get the best load-balancing configuration for your FICON flows. The calculator does not rely on any switch or flow discovery in the fabric.
> - Device Manager—Invokes Device Manager for a switch.
> - Command Line Interface —Enables command-line operations.
> - Run CLI Commands—Runs command-line operations on more than one switch at a time.

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