Create network configuration information (XML definition files) for registering network devices based on the network device information (admin IP address, account information, connection information) obtained from the network device administrator.
When Registering Network Devices as Network Devices before Installing Them
When Batch Registering or Modifying Multiple Network Devices
When Registering a Network Device that Provides a Web Interface for Management
When Registering Redundant Network Devices as Network Devices
When Regularly Monitoring Network Devices Registered as Network Device Resources
When Registering an Ethernet Fabric Switch (Converged Fabric)
When Registering Network Devices as Network Devices before Installing Them
When a network device is registered as a network device, the monitoring function starts monitoring the state of that device. To avoid unnecessary monitoring, specify "true" for the Maintenance element when registering devices.
This setting enables the maintenance mode, excluding that device from monitored devices. After installing a network device and making it a monitoring target, release the maintenance mode.
The Maintenance element can be specified on individual network devices (individual Netdevice elements) to be registered.
When Batch Registering or Modifying Multiple Network Devices
When registering or modifying multiple network devices at the same time, it is possible to register link information.
When specifying the device information (Devices) in the link information (in the Links element), it is necessary to specify the port name used to connect the network device.
Information
The methods to confirm port names are as follow:
When the network device is something other than an Ethernet Fabric switch
If the ifName of the standard MIB of the network device is unknown, use the snmpwalk command to confirm the port name.
Example
snmpwalk -v 1 -c [SNMP_community_name] [IP_address] ifName
If the information is available from the manual or vendor of the destination device, obtain it from there.
When the network device is an Ethernet Fabric switch (Converged Fabric)
Login remotely to the representative virtual IP address of the fabric of the corresponding device and confirm the name of the connection port necessary for registration, using the following command:
# show running-config
Port name and port type are displayed in the following form.
interface domain_id/switch_id/chassis_id/port type type
Port name is displayed following "interface". Port type is displayed following "type" after that.
Example
interface 3/1/0/3 type cir
The port names of the following port types can be specified for "unit connection port name" of the link information.
"type cir"
The port that connects to an external network device.
"type endpoint"
The port that connects to a server.
"type linkaggregation group"
The port that is "type cir" or "type endpoint" and uses link aggregation.
For details on the display contents of commands, refer to Ethernet Fabric switch manuals.
When the network device is an Ethernet Fabric switch (VCS)
Login remotely to the representative virtual IP address of the fabric of the corresponding device and confirm the name of the connection port necessary for registration, using the following command:
# show running-config
Port name and port type are displayed in the following form.
interface interface_name rbridge-id/slot/port
Port name is displayed following the interface name of "interface".
Example
interface TenGigabitEthernet 2/0/1
For details on the display contents of commands, refer to Ethernet Fabric switch manuals.
It is not necessary to specify the logical link information between IPCOM VX and IPCOM VA when the IPCOM VX firmware version is E10L12 or later.
When registering multiple network devices at once with the link information already registered, if link information (under the Links element) is defined in the network configuration information, already registered link information is processed according to the setting of the registration mode (the Mode element).
When "add" is specified
The same link information is not overwritten.
When "modify" is specified
Already registered link information is deleted, and then defined link information is registered.
Already registered connection information can be retrieved using the rcxadm netconfig export command.
When Managing Login Information
Specify the administrator information defined in "7.7.1 Settings for Managed Network Devices" in the XML definition file.
To check in advance whether the specified account information is correct, specify "check=true" for the LoginInfo element. This allows the login process to be performed using the specified account to check that login is possible.
However, if the account information has not been registered, because you do not use any function that uses account information, it is not necessary to specify the LoginInfo element.
The LoginInfo element can be specified on individual network devices (individual Netdevice tags) to be registered.
When "telnet" has been specified in the protocol element, only account information for network devices satisfying all of the following conditions can be confirmed.
Vendor | Unit Name | Prompt Type | Prompt Character |
|---|---|---|---|
Fujitsu | SR-X | Login prompt | Login: |
Password prompt | Password: | ||
Command prompt (*2) | Arbitrary string# | ||
Arbitrary string> | |||
IPCOM EX | Login prompt | login: | |
Password prompt | Password: | ||
Command prompt (*2) | Arbitrary string# | ||
Arbitrary string> | |||
Cisco | Catalyst | Login prompt | Username: |
Password prompt | Password: | ||
Command prompt (*2) | Arbitrary string# | ||
Arbitrary string> | |||
Nexus | Login prompt | login: | |
Password prompt | Password: | ||
Command prompt (*2) | Arbitrary string# | ||
Arbitrary string> | |||
Brocade Extreme Networks | VDX | Login prompt | Login: |
Password prompt | Password: | ||
Command prompt (*2) | Arbitrary string# | ||
Arbitrary string> | |||
F5 Networks | BIG-IP (*3) | Login prompt | There are no restrictions. |
*1: Fujitsu PRIMERGY Converged Fabric switch blades (10 Gbps 18/8+2) or Fujitsu Converged Fabric switch are the targets.
*2: The "#" or ">" following arbitrary string is used as a prompt character for the command prompt.
*3: The model name for the BIG-IP LTM series is handled as "BIG-IP".
When Registering a Network Device that Provides a Web Interface for Management
When a problem occurs on the system, sometimes investigation may be performed using the Web interface provided by the network device. In such cases, it was necessary to start the web interface of the network device from another Web browser. However, specifying a URL for opening the web interface of the network device for the MgmtURL element when registering the network device makes it be possible to quickly open the web interface of the network device from the ROR console.
The MgmtURL element can be specified on individual network devices (individual Netdevice tags) to be registered.
When Registering Redundant Network Devices as Network Devices
Network devices that have the same "vendor name" and "device name" can be registered for redundant configurations. When registering a network device that has the same vendor name and device name, specify the same value as the registered network device for "Group_ID" of the Redundancy group_id element to treat that device as being in a redundant configuration.
For the "vendor name" and "device name" of a network device, collect MIB information from the network device when registering it, and confirm that the "vendor name" and "device name" are same as the ones of the registered device.
When Visualizing Networks
Register following network link information enables visualization of their connection relationships.
Link information between two network devices
Link information between network devices and LAN switch blades
Link information between network devices and rack mount servers or tower servers
For details on visualization of networks, refer to "Chapter 13 NetworkViewer" in the "User's Guide VE".
For details on how to specify link information, refer to "8.1.1 Creation" in the "Reference Guide (Command) VE".
Information
When visualizing the link information between network devices and rack mount servers or tower servers, the following links are displayed for each server depending on the specifications of the link information of the network configuration information (XML definition).
Specification of the Connection Port Name of the Network Configuration Information | Displayed Link Information |
|---|---|
Connection port name of the device (Port) | The link to the NIC with the number specified in <Port> is displayed. |
Connection port name of the device for display (NicIndex) | The link to the NIC with Index specified in <NicIndex> is displayed. |
The connection port name of the device (Port) and the connection port name of the device for display (NicIndex) | The link to the NIC with Index specified in <NicIndex> is displayed. |
When Registering Unsupported Network Device Models
Add the model of the network device to be registered to the model definition for network devices, and register the network device after updating the model definition file.
For details on model definitions, refer to "8.2 Network Device Model Definition" in the "Reference Guide (Command) VE".
When Regularly Monitoring Network Devices Registered as Network Device Resources
When the workload of the network or network devices is temporarily increased, the response to the communication of regular monitoring may be delayed. When this delay exceeds the time-out period, the communication for regular monitoring will be executed again.
Therefore, if the monitoring interval (Interval element) or timeout period (Timeout element) specified during registration is short, the number of communications for regular monitoring may increase. It is recommended to use the default values in order to avoid increasing the load on the network and network devices.
When Registering an Ethernet Fabric Switch (Converged Fabric)
About the port name to specify for the link information
Specify a port with the type EP (End Point) and CIR (Clean Interface with Redundancy).
For details on how to confirm the port name to specify, refer to "When Batch Registering or Modifying Multiple Network Devices".
About the admin IP address to specify as network device information
Specify the representative virtual IP address of the fabric.
When Registering an Ethernet Fabric Switch (VCS)
About the admin IP address to specify as network device information
Specify the Virtual IP of the VCS set in "vcs virtual ip".
For details, refer to the manual of the relevant product.
Note
Register a VCS fabric which has been configured using Management Cluster mode, and has "vcs virtual ip" set.
Set the same character string for all VDX system names used for configuring the VCS fabric.
When Registering IPCOM VX
Specify "ManagementHost" in the Type element.
Register the link information of Ethernet Fabric switches (Converged Fabric) and IPCOM VA.
For details on the IPCOM VA link information, refer to "When Registering IPCOM VA".
When Registering IPCOM VA
For the type (Type element), specify either "SLB" or "Firewall" or specify both "Firewall" and "SLB", according to the model of the IPCOM VA.
When registering as an integrated network device with multiple types, specify multiple values for this element.
For the ApplianceType element, specify "virtual".
For the IP address of the admin host (the ManagementHost element), specify the admin IP address of IPCOM VX.
For the S-TAG ID (the StagId element), specify the VLAN ID defined in the virtual machine interface definitions for IPCOM VX.
It is not necessary to specify the S-TAG ID (StagId element) when the IPCOM VX firmware version is E10L12 or later.
For details on virtual machine interface definitions for IPCOM VX, refer to the manuals of IPCOM VX.
IPCOM VX Link Information
Register the connection relationship between IPCOM VA ports and IPCOM VX ports as the link information.
Specify "virtual" for the device type (the kind attribute of the Device element) of IPCOM VA.
It is not necessary to specify the logical link information between IPCOM VX and IPCOM VA when the IPCOM VX firmware version is E10L12 or later.
Example
Link Information to be Defined when 3/1/0/11 of the C-Fabric and LAN.0 of IPCOM VX and LAN0.0 of IPCOM VX and LAN0.0 of IPCOM VA are Connected
<Links>
<Link>
<Devices>
<Device ip="172.16.1.52" kind="netdevice" name="ipcom_vx">
<Port>LAN0.0</Port>
</Device>
<Device ip="172.16.1.53" kind="virtual" name="ipcom_va">
<Port>LAN0.0</Port>
</Device>
<Devices>
</Link>
<Link>
<Devices>
<Device ip="172.16.1.52" kind="netdevice" name="ipcom_vx">
<Port>LAN0.0</Port>
</Device>
<Device ip="172.16.3.3" kind="netdevice" name="cfabric">
<Port>3/1/0/11</Port>
</Device>
<Devices>
</Link>
</Links>Information
Necessary definitions based on the number of devices to be registered.
When registering each network device individually
The Netdevice element must be the first.
When registering all network devices at once
Starting with the Netconfig element, define the settings for each network device under the Netdevices element.
When registering multiple network devices at once, connection information can be also defined under the Links element.
See
For details on network configuration information (XML definitions), refer to "8.1 Network Configuration Information" in the "Reference Guide (Command) VE".
For details on the rcxadm netconfig command, refer to "3.2 rcxadm netconfig" in the "Reference Guide (Command) VE".
For details on releasing maintenance mode, refer to "20.1 Switchover of Maintenance Mode" in the "User's Guide VE".
For details on model definitions for network devices, refer to "8.2 Network Device Model Definition" in the "Reference Guide (Command) VE".