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Configuring NTP and Timezones on Cisco devices(UCS, MDS, Nexus, Catalyst) in Vblock


21 Jun

Cisco UCS

  1. Open UCS manager.
  2. Select Admin tab and change filter to Timezone Management
  3. Select your timezone and click on green + to add NTP server details
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  4. Enter IP address of your NTP server and click OK. You can add FQDN of the server but then make sure that DNS is configured in UCS Manager.
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Cisco Nexus 5000 and 7000

  1. Login using CLI to your Nexus switch
  2. To configure your timezone and NTP server details:
    conf t
    clock timezone UTC 0 0
       <== Change your name of timezone from UTC. First 0 is for Hours offset and the second is for minutes offset
    ntp server 192.168.101.81 use-vrf management
  3. Verify that the configuration was set and packet are being received:sh ntp statistics peer ipaddr 192.168.101.81
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    sh clock

Cisco Nexus 1000v and MDS switchesLogin to CLI to your Nexus switch

  1. Login using CLI to your MDS or 1000v switch
  2. Configure timezone and NTP server details:
    conf t
    clock timezone UTC 0 0    
    <== Change your name of timezone from UTC. First 0 is for Hours offset and the second is for minutes offset
    ntp server 192.168.101.81
  3. Verify that the configuration was set and packet are being received:sh ntp statistics peer ipaddr 192.168.101.81
    5
    sh clock

Cisco Catalyst switches

  1. Login using CLI to your Catalyst switch
  2. Configure timezone and NTP server details:
    conf t
    clock timezone UTC 0 0    
    <== Change your name of timezone from UTC. First 0 is for Hours offset and the second is for minutes offset
    ntp server 192.168.101.81
  3. Verify that the configuration was set and packet are being received:
    sh ntp status
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    sh ntp associations detail
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    sh clock

Beware that it may take some time for clock to synchronize on all devices.
If you are using Microsoft Windows w32tm service for NTP then on your NTP server you need to change LocalClockDispersion to 0 seconds or Cisco devices will not sync.
To check the current setting:

  1. open command prompt on NTP server
  2. type:w32tm /query /status
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    By default Dispersion is set to 10 seconds. It cannot be more than 1 second for Cisco devices to sync
  3. Open registry and find the following key
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\Config
  4. Change the value of LocalClockDispersion from a to 0
  5. Restart Windows Time service
  6. The devices should start syncing.

MDS: How to identify what is connected to MDS on the other side of the cable


21 Jun

In ideal world each port configured on any device would have  description on it stating what it is connected to, but that it is not always the case and sometime the cables migh have been moved but descriptions left the same.
To identify what is at the other side of the cable of Cisco MDS switch you can run the following command:

show fcns database detail vsan <vsan id>
This will show all the ports for the vsan. Also you can put a range of vsans. Here are couple examples of the output.

------------------------
 VSAN:11 FCID:0x020001
 ------------------------
 port-wwn (vendor) :20:43:00:0d:ec:b4:dc:80 (Cisco)
 node-wwn :20:0b:00:0d:ec:b4:dc:81
 class :3
 node-ip-addr :192.168.104.32
 ipa :ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 fc4-types:fc4_features :npv
 symbolic-port-name :fi6120-B:fc2/3   <== connected to UCS Fabric interconnect port fc2/3
 symbolic-node-name :fi6120-B
 port-type :N
 port-ip-addr :0.0.0.0
 fabric-port-wwn :20:0b:00:0d:ec:c2:62:c0
 hard-addr :0x000000
 permanent-port-wwn (vendor) :20:43:00:0d:ec:b4:dc:80 (Cisco)
 Connected Interface :fc1/11 <==MDS fc port
 Switch Name (IP address) :mds9509B (192.168.101.21)
------------------------
 VSAN:11 FCID:0x020006
 ------------------------
 port-wwn (vendor) :21:00:00:24:ff:32:bd:5f
 node-wwn :20:00:00:24:ff:32:bd:5f
 class :3
 node-ip-addr :0.0.0.0
 ipa :ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 fc4-types:fc4_features :scsi-fcp:init
 symbolic-port-name :
 symbolic-node-name :QLE2462 FW:v5.06.02 DVR:v911.k1.1-19vmw  <== connected directly to Qlogic HBA that is running VMware drivers v911.k1.1-19vmw
 port-type :N
 port-ip-addr :0.0.0.0
 fabric-port-wwn :20:4d:00:0d:ec:c2:62:c0
 hard-addr :0x000000
 permanent-port-wwn (vendor) :21:00:00:24:ff:32:bd:5f
 Connected Interface :fc2/13 <==MDS fc port
 Switch Name (IP address) :mds9509B (192.168.101.21)
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 VSAN:11 FCID:0x02000b
 ------------------------
 port-wwn (vendor) :50:00:09:74:08:0e:79:5c (EMC)
 node-wwn :50:00:09:74:08:0e:78:00
 class :3
 node-ip-addr :0.0.0.0
 ipa :ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 fc4-types:fc4_features :scsi-fcp:target 253
 symbolic-port-name :SYMMETRIX::000292600926::SAF- 8fA::FC::5876_159+::EMUL B80F0000 3F89624E 914B24 02.28.13 13:42 <==Connected to EMC VMax array(code level 5876_159) port 8fA  
 symbolic-node-name :SYMMETRIX::000292600926::FC::5876_159+
 port-type :N
 port-ip-addr :0.0.0.0
 fabric-port-wwn :20:42:00:0d:ec:c2:62:c0
 hard-addr :0x000000
 permanent-port-wwn (vendor) :50:00:09:74:08:0e:79:5c (EMC)
 Connected Interface :fc2/2  <==MDS fc port
 Switch Name (IP address) :mds9509B (192.168.101.21)

If you wan to look at specific port only then first you need to get FCID for this port:
show interface fc2/2

mds9509B# sh interface fc2/2
 fc2/2 is up
 Port description is Vmax_D9/F0
 Hardware is Fibre Channel, SFP is short wave laser w/o OFC (SN)
 Port WWN is 20:42:00:0d:ec:c2:62:c0
 Admin port mode is F, trunk mode is off
 snmp link state traps are enabled
 Port mode is F, FCID is 0x02000b <== FCID
 Port vsan is 11
 Speed is 4 Gbps
 Rate mode is shared
 Transmit B2B Credit is 20
 Receive B2B Credit is 16
 Receive data field Size is 2112
 Beacon is turned off
 5 minutes input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 bytes/sec, 0 frames/sec
 5 minutes output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 bytes/sec, 0 frames/sec
 77 frames input, 5008 bytes
 0 discards, 0 errors
 0 CRC, 0 unknown class
 0 too long, 0 too short
 61 frames output, 3828 bytes
 0 discards, 0 errors
 9 input OLS, 9 LRR, 0 NOS, 4 loop inits
 9 output OLS, 9 LRR, 8 NOS, 7 loop inits
 16 receive B2B credit remaining
 20 transmit B2B credit remaining
 20 low priority transmit B2B credit remaining
 Interface last changed at Wed May 1 19:10:57 2013

Now type:
sh fcns database fcid <fcid> detail vsan <vsan id>

This will give output for this specific port.

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