Fabric Manager - Issues

[Tiago_Molinos]

Hi all!

I've installed Fabric Manager and it seems that I cannot get it to draw the complete topology. It only shows a small subset of my Fabric Enabled devices.

I've checked the logs and found out that Fabric Manager is using invalid credentials to query the switches.

On the Operations Log I can see several errors on the Fabric Connect Discovery. It fails with "Bad Community Strings/Agent is down/Network is slow/Unknown Error".

At the same time I get SNMP Traps from the devices themselves saying "Incorrect Community Name" and rcnaAuthenticationFailure.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks to you all in advance!

[Tiago_Molinos]

Hi all!

I'm using XIQ-SE 23.11.11.9 (I think it's the latest available version.

I deployed the Fabric Manager appliance v. 22.9.13.5 mostly because of the note:

"Fabric Manager version 22.09.13.5 is compatible with ExtremeCloud IQ Site Engine version 23.11. If you are running a previous version of Fabric Manager, upgrade your deployment to Fabric Manager 22.09.13.5 for use with ExtremeCloud IQ Site Engine version 23.11."

Anyway if the features are embedded in XIQ-SE I cannot find them. If I go to the "Fabric Topology" option, it used to say that I needed Fabrica Manager to access the tab.

Long story short, how can I draw a fabric topology map? I would like to visualize where my different I-SIDs are present within the network. I can get a clear vision on where all the VLANs are, but since we switched to a Fabric Connect + Fabric Attach deployment I lost the capability to visualise this. Ex: I can see VLANs on the edge, but they are not present on distribution or core layers.

Thanks for your help! I guess I'll be deleting the Fabric Mgr. Appliance very soon... 

[Robert_Haynes · Accepted solution]

You no longer use the Fabric Topology options as you had in the past. That option will be removed in a future build. The Fabric Manager functionality has been built directly into the XIQ-SE Maps function. Create a MAP w/ Fabric enabled devices and it should draw both regular links and Fabric links. You can then choose to show either or both as part of the map.

[Tiago_Molinos]

Well, there is actually a very subtle diference between regular links and Fabric Connect links. By design they are very much overlapping, so it's not a very valuable representation from my point of view...

I consider valuable to have a "live" representation of your I-SIDs and their presence in the infrastructure. Specially because they are dynamic. Am I wrong?

[XTRMUser]

Not being an expert, this sounds like the community strings in FM and your switches are not the same.