3 – Planning
Fabric Management
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3.5.3
Fabric Services
Fabric services include security-related functions such as inband management
and SNMP. Inband management is the ability to manage switches across
inter-switch links using SANbox Manager, SNMP, management server, or the
application programming interface. The switch comes from the factory with inband
management enabled. If you disable inband management on a particular switch,
you can no longer communicate with that switch by means other than a direct
Ethernet or serial connection. You can also enable or disable SNMP. Consider
how you want to manage the fabric and what switches you do not want managed
through another switch.
3.6
Fabric Management
The SANbox Manager application and CLI execute on a management workstation
that provides for the configuration, control, and maintenance of the fabric.
Supported platforms include Windows, Windows NT, Solaris, and Linux. The
SANbox Manager application can manage multiple fabrics. Consider how many
fabrics will be managed, how many management workstations are needed, and
whether the fabrics will be managed with the CLI or SANbox Manager.
A switch supports a combined maximum of 19 logins reserved as follows:
4 sessions for internal applications such as management server and SNMP
15 sessions for SANbox Manager inband and out-of-band logins,
Application Programming Interface (API) inband and out-of-band logins and
Telnet logins. Of these 15, there can be a combined maximum of 10 SANbox
Manager and API logins. Additional logins will be refused.
