Assigning a Fabric Profile to Devices and Ports

Assigning a Fabric Profile

1. While in Build mode, select Fabric from the Profile and Configuration Management menu in the Tasks pane.

   The Manage Fabric Profiles page opens. The page displays all the Fabric profiles that you configured as well as the system-created profiles detected during device discovery.

2. Select a profile from the list of profiles and click Assign.

   The Assign Fabric Common Settings page opens to the Object Selection page.

   Note: If Network Director fails to read the configuration of one or more devices after the device discovery, such devices are not displayed in the Assign Profile page. You will not be able to assign profiles to such devices. The Manage Jobs page in System mode displays details of the device discovery jobs. Use the information displayed on this page to take appropriate corrective steps to enable Network Director to reread the configuration of the failed device. For more information, see Discovering Devices in a Physical Network.

3. Enable either Select Devices or Select Port Groups.
4. If you enabled Select Devices, expand the list of devices and select the devices to which to assign the profile by selecting the check box next to the plus sign for the device.

   Tip: Be sure that a check mark appears in the corresponding check box—highlighting the object name is not sufficient. Also, selecting a parent device also selects the child devices under it.

5. If you enabled Select Port Groups, select one or more port groups from the Select Port Group list.
6. Click either Next or Profile Assignment.

   The Profile Assignment page displays the list of existing assignments in the Assignments table.

7. To assign the profile to an entire device, select the device from the Assignments table, then click the Assign button, then select Assign to Device.

   Note: If you assign the profile to a device but not to ports on the device, the fabric will be created on the device, but no FC ports will be assigned to the fabric. You must assign FC ports to the profile to add them to the fabric.

8. To assign the profile to FC ports on a device:
   1. Select the device from the Assignments table.
   2. Click the Assign button; then select Assign to Port from the list.

      The Assign Profile to Ports window opens.

   3. Select the FC ports from the list; then click Assign.
9. To configure object-specific attributes for an interface:
   1. Click Define from the interface’s Attributes column in the Assignments table.

      The Configure attributes page opens.

   2. Configure the attributes.

      For information about these attributes, see Table 1.

   3. Click Save.
10. On the Profile Assignment page, you can view the assignment details for the selected device and also remove any assignments:
    • To view the assignment details, select the device and click View Assignments.

      The Profile Details page for selected device appears. Expand the Device name to view the details of the assignment. The assignment status displays the status whether the device is deployed or is pending device update, and so on.

    • To delete a device from the assignment list, select the device from the Assignments table and click Remove.
11. Click Next or click Review from the top wizard workflow to review the assignments. Use the Edit button if you want to edit the profile assignment.
12. Click Finish once you are done reviewing the profile assignment.

    After you click Finish, the Create Profile Assignments Job Details dialog box appears, which reports on the status of the profile assignment job. If you have assigned the profile to a large number of objects, the profile assignment job can take some time to complete. Instead of waiting for the Job Details dialog box to report job completion status, you can close it and check the details of the profile assignment job at a later time using the Manage Job task in System mode.

    Note: If any assignment fails, the profile assignment job fails and none of the assignments are created. Check the details for the profile assignment job for information about why the assignment failed.

After you assign a Fabric profile to a device, you can deploy the profile from the Deploy mode. For details, see Deploying Configuration to Devices.

To view the details of a profile, select the profile from the Manage Fabric Profiles page and click the Details button.

Editing the Assignments of a Fabric Profile

To edit a Fabric profile’s device and port assignments:

1. Select a profile from the Manage Fabric Profile page and click Edit Assign.

   The Edit Assignments page opens.

2. Expand the nodes in the list to locate the devices and ports you want to change.
3. To delete a device or port from a profile, click Delete in the Operation column of the device or port.

   An X appears in the Record Status column.

4. To delete multiple devices or ports from a profile, select the devices or ports, then click the Delete button.

   An X appears in the Record Status column of the deleted devices or ports.

5. To change a device or port’s attributes, click Define in the Attributes column of the device or port, then modify the attributes using the Configure attributes window.

   A pencil icon appears in the Record Status column of the edited device or port.

6. When you are done making assignment changes, click Apply.

   The Manage Fabric Profile page opens.