Setup Wizard guides a user to set up the Fabric Manager GUI , including the areas described below.
To add a new subnet, click the
button on the Hosts tab and provide the following attributes:
Name – unique name of the subnet
IP address or Host name – address used to connect with the FM, specifically the address used to connect to the FE
Port number - the port number used to connect
To add a subnet, user name is not required. Even for the secure connection (when the Secure check box is checked), user name is not necessary.
For a secure connection, check the Secure check box and enter Key Store and Trust Store information. See the "SSL Key Creation for Fabric Manager GUI" appendix in the Intel® Omni-Path Fabric Suite Fabric Manager User Guide.
The Auto Connect checkbox must be selected to make the connection automatic.
In the course of exploring a fabric, the Fabric Manager may send an event message to the Fabric Manager GUI to notify the user about an incident occurring on the network. The Events tab lists the classification and type of each event, and allows the user to select the severity level and action to take when an event is received.
Events are defined with the following attributes:
Event Class – Subnet Event, Miscellaneous Event, etc.
Event Type – Lost Connection with FE, Inactive Port, etc.
Severity – Informational, Warning, Error, Critical
Action – Set notification with an email, display, or both
All events have predefined default values, so you need to change only those events of interest.
On the Preferences tab, you define the following attributes:
Refresh Rate – the rate at which the UI is refreshed with the latest data from the Fabric Manager. This rate must not be less than the Fabric Manager sweep rate.
Reported a Critical, Error, or Warning event type
Was classified as a Worst Node based on its performance
In the following figure, a time window of 1 hour is defined. As time transpires the data collected prior to the time window is removed as new information is reported.
Indicators for these values can be found on the Home and Performance pages as shown in the highlighted panels below.
# Worst Nodes – number of the worst nodes to display.
Email recipients – used to list recipients of email notifications for the subnet. See Setting up Email Notification for more details.