Hi Has anybody ever successfully connected the SSMS to a Active Directory? I'm failing the synchronization of the LDAP groups although sniffing the access all data are polled correctly from the directory. I get the following "gidnumber" error message. Also when I try to add a directory user it fails with the error message "uid" => nil. Has anybody ever seen that error messages? Has anybody ever made the SSMS work with an active directory? What is the used LDAP-schema? Is it active directory at all or OpenLDAP or Sun Directory Server?   Any thoughts on that?     ... View more

Hi Does anybody know if there is a way to exclude specific SAN devices from the DCNM management? I'm running a SAN environment where my customers are attaching FabricInterconnects to it. Therefore the DCNM discovers them and tries to access them. But as they are in a different management domain none has working credentials for accessing those FI. This leads to massive timeout problems for the DCNM and everybody trying to work with the Java GUI, as the personal credentials are used for trying to access those devices. Is there a way to tell the DCNM to completely ignore those devices? If necessary it would be acceptable to exclude all FIs from discovery. Similar to the functionality for the LAN discovery, where we can exclude specific switch models from discovery. Kind regards Roberto ... View more

Hi We are planing to use IOAcceleration. And as we would like to use inband communication for the cluster communication we would like to use IPFC between the IOA devices. The IPFC data itself needs to be transported over an FCIP ISL. Does anybody know if that is supported? I know it sounds wired as we would be encapsulating IP into FC into IP. :-) Regards Roberto ... View more

Hi Current versions of DCNM don't support to use a different user for configuring the SAN switches as the one user that is configured to monitor the network. Therefore having multiple users with different privileges for configuring the SAN environment can not be implemented with DCNM. The sad thing is that multiple privileges for different user groups can be easily implemented on the MDS switch level. :-( Does anybody know if there are plans for the DCNM to support multiple users with different privileges for managing SANs? Am I realy the first one asking for such support? Regards Roberto ... View more

Hi Just wanted to upgrade the CIMC firmware on a SNS-3594-K9 appliance, which is basicly a C220M4 UCS server. But the ISO image (from Cisco) for the firmware upgrade comes without the necessary signature for UEFI Secure Boot. Unfortunately the SNS-3595-K9 firmware does not allow me to deactivate the Secure Boot option for upgrading the firmware. :-) Does anybody have an idea how to break out of this dead lock? Regards Roberto ... View more

Hi Is there a way to do location based authorization rules in the ISE. We need that for giving out different authorizations to VPN users based on their location they are connecting from.   Regards Roberto ... View more

Hi I've got a CSM who manages ASA firewalls. When deploying changes, it claims that the physical interface has no name and ACL on it. Which is right but also it's part of the design. IPs and names are only on the vlan sub interfaces and not on the physical interface. Is there a way to get rid of the nerving warning of the CSM as he comes up on every deployment?   Kind regards Roberto ... View more