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Tools menu provides the following options: 

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<a name="wp353048"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Health
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<a name="wp353059"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Switch Health&#8212;Determines the status of the components of a specific switch. </li>
<a name="wp353060"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Fabric Configuration&#8212;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.</li>
<a name="wp353061"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Show Tech Support&#8212;Collects large amount of information about your switch for troubleshooting purposes. When you issue a <span style="font-weight: bold">show tech support</span> 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.</li>
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<a name="wp353067"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Connectivity
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<a name="wp353068"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">End to End Connectivity&#8212;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. </li>
<a name="wp354313"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Ping&#8212;Determines connectivity from another switch to a port on your switch.</li>
<a name="wp354314"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Trace Route&#8212;Verifies connectivity between two end devices that are currently selected on the Fabric pane.</li>
<a name="wp358159"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Compact Flash Report&#8212;Automatically scans the fabric and generate a report that shows the status of CompactFlash.</li>
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<a name="wp353087"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">NPV
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<a name="wp353091"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">CFS Static Peer Setup&#8212;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.</li>
<a name="wp357444"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Traffic Map Setup&#8212;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. </li>
<a name="wp357372"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Flex Attach Pre-Configure Server&#8212;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.</li>
<a name="wp353092"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Flex Attach Move Server&#8212;Moves a server to another port on the same NPV device or another NPV device without changing the SAN. </li>
<a name="wp353093"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Flex Attach Replace Server&#8212;Replaces a failed server with a new server on the same port without changing the SAN. </li>
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<a name="wp353109"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Data Mobility Manager
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<a name="wp353110"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Server Based&#8212;Performs server-based data migration.</li>
<a name="wp353127"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Storage based&#8212;Performs storage-based data migration.</li>
<a name="wp353128"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Server LUN Discovery&#8212;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.</li>
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<a name="wp377340"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">FCoE&#8212;Launches the FCoE Configuration Wizard to create virtual Fibre Channel interfaces.
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<a name="wp353126"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Port Channel&#8212;Creates PortChannels from selected ISL either manually or automatically. 
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<a name="wp354799"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">DPVM Setup&#8212;Establishes dynamic port VSAN membership, enables autolearning, and activates 
the DPVM database.
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<a name="wp353112"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">IP SAN
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<a name="wp353113"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">FCIP Tunnel&#8212;Creates FCIP links between Gigabit Ethernet ports. Enables Fibre Channel write acceleration and IP compression.</li>
<a name="wp353114"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">iSCSI Setup&#8212;Creates zones for iSCSI initiators and adds a VSAN to a target-allowed VSAN list.</li>
<a name="wp353107"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">SAN Extension Tuner&#8212;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. </li>
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<a name="wp353514"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Security
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<a name="wp353515"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Port Security&#8212;Prevents unauthorized access to a switch port in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family, rejects intrusion attempts and reports these intrusions to the administrator. </li>
<a name="wp353516"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">IP ACL&#8212;Creates an ordered list of IP filters in a named IPv4-ACL or IPv6-ACL profile using the IPv4-ACL Wizard.</li>
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<a name="wp354808"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Install		
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<a name="wp354809"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">License&#8212;Facilitate download and installation of licenses in selected switches in the fabric.</li>
<a name="wp354810"> </a><li class="pSmartList2">Software&#8212;Verifies image compatibility and installs software images on selected switches in the fabric.</li>
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<a name="wp354352"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Flow Load Balance Calculator	&#8212;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. 
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<a name="wp354393"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Device Manager&#8212;Invokes Device Manager for a switch.
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<a name="wp353553"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Command Line Interface &#8212;Enables command-line operations.
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<a name="wp353554"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Run CLI Commands&#8212;Runs command-line operations on more than one switch at a time.
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