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Connectrix B-Series Management
CMCNE ESSENTIALS
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Simplifies operations by
providing an intuitive Graphical
User Interface (GUI) and
customizable dashboards
Reduces Total Cost of
Ownership (TCO) by providing
proactive performance analysis
and troubleshooting capabilities
Provides unprecedented
visibility and insight into the
SAN fabric through integration
with Fabric Vision technology
Simplified and Automated Network
Management
Optimize Your San Environment With Connectrix
Manager Converged Network Edition
The Connectrix® Manager Converged Network Edition (CMCNE) helps organizations
simplify management of data center SAN fabrics. CMCNE provides health and
performance dashboards, with an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI) and
comprehensive features that automate repetitive tasks. With CMCNE, storage and
SAN administrators can proactively manage their SAN environment to support non-stop
networking, address issues before they impact operations, and minimize manual tasks.
Proactive SAN Management
Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition is a simple yet powerful software
management tool that helps organizations ensure network availability and performance.
Organizations can monitor network health with customizable dashboards that provide a
summary of all discovered Connectrix B-Series devices. From these dashboards,
administrators can drill-down for more detail to rapidly identify problem areas and
troubleshoot accordingly.
Key Capabilities
CMCNE includes other key capabilities that help organizations proactively manage their
SAN and IP Storage Networking environment, such as:
Real-time and historical performance data reporting: Organizations gain visibility
into in-depth performance measures and historical data for advanced troubleshooting
and performance management.
Network time and scope: Administrators can set all dashboard widgets by network
type and/or time scope to easily troubleshoot and correlate errors.
Advanced Call Home: CMCNE can automatically collect diagnostic information and
send notifications for faster fault diagnosis, isolation and remote support operations.
Policy Monitor management: CMCNE can proactively validate SAN configurations
with best-practices templates.
Customizable Browser-accessible Dashboard: Proactively identify problem areas
and prevent network downtime with at-a-glance summaries of managed products.
Event management: Administrators can receive SNMP traps, syslog event messages
and customizable event alerts for monitoring, reporting and analysis.
Multi-protocol Support: Automate manual operations with configuration wizards for
Fibre Channel SANs, FICON® and cascaded FICON environments, Fibre Channel over
IP (FCiP) tunnels and IP Switches like the Connecrix VDX-6740B.
DATA SHEET
FABRIC VISION
Fabric Vision Technology
Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition integrates with Connectrix B-Series
Fabric Vision technology to provide unprecedented visibility and insight across the
storage network. CMCNE supports the following Fabric Vision technology features:
Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS): Configures and monitors data center
fabrics based on a set of user-defined policies.
Flow Vision: Identifies, monitors and analyzes application-level data flows to maximize
network performance.
COMPASS: Set preferred configurations for future switch deployments into a policy
and CMNE would monitor for adherence/violations of future configuration settings.
ClearLink Diagnostics: Runs diagnostic tests on optics and cables to quickly identify
and isolate potential fabric issues.
Fabric Performance Impact Automatically monitors and detects network congestion in
the fabric and identifies which devices are impacted by a bottleneck port.
Port Profiles: Easily configures network policies for ports with risk tolerance-based
templates, including server ports, storage ports and E_Ports.
Simplified Daily Network Operations
CMCNE helps organizations simplify network operations by providing a single tool to
manage the entire network lifecycle, including monitoring, diagnostics, change
management, troubleshooting and remediation. CMCNE also provides features that
automate time-consuming tasks, freeing up time and resources so organizations can
focus on more strategic IT initiatives. Some of these capabilities include:
Adapter Management: Configures multiple adapters simultaneously using consistent
parameters and pulls global reports.
Zoning configuration: Configures devices logically into zones, such as Logical SAN
(LSAN) zones or Boot LUN zones to increase security and network availability.
Zoning impact analysis: Allows administrators to edit zone information and preview
its impact without affecting a production fabric.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Enables organizations to define granular
administrator roles and privileges to support the needs of different SAN network teams.
CMCNE Ordering Information
Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition comes in two packages, providing
organizations with the flexibility to meet their network requirements. The CMCNE SAN
Enterprise package includes a software license for up to 15,000 switch ports and 100
fabrics. The CMCNE Professional Plus package provides a software license for up to
2,560 switch ports and 36 fabrics.
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