Monitoring Cisco MDS switches / directors using OpStor

• Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches such as Cisco MDS9216i
• Cisco SN 5428-K9 Storage Router

• Inventory information of switch & switch ports
• Cisco VSAN information
  
• Switch ports monitoring
• Reports:
  
• Availability reports for switch & switch ports
  
• Performance reports for switch Ports
  • Bandwidth Utilization
  • Port Frame Error Rate
  • Port In Drop Rate
  • Port Out Drop Rate
  • Rx Utilization
  • Tx Utilization
• Switch summary reports
  
• Real time graphs for trouble shooting
• SNMP trap based alarms
• Launch of telnet/applet brocade client for configuration
  

• Ensure SNMP agent is running in the Cisco Switch
• OpStor uses snmp port 161 and read community 'public' for discovery. If your settings are different , please provide the same in the OpStor web-client while adding Switch.
• Cisco Switch supports both snmp version v2 & v3. Enable v2 for OpStor discovery.
• Register OpStor server IP address as a trap destination for the Cisco Switch.
• In the Cisco switch CLI interface, use snmp-server host <host_address> traps command to specify Trap Recipient.

• Navigate to 'Admin tab' --> 'Manage Storage Devices' link in OpStor Webclient
• Default 'None' option will be selected
• Provide the IP Address of Cisco switch IP in the "IP Address' text fields
• If the read community is other than "public" , choose 'SNMP' option and specify it in the "community" field
• Click "Add Device'.