Preferences
The Preferences page displays the user profile and general settings for the current instance of GigaVUE-FM. Users with fm_admin and fm_super_admin role can only edit the Preferences.
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Preferences for GigaVUE-FM |
To change the GigaVUE-FM preferences:
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On the left navigation pane, click and go to System > Preferences. |
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In the Edit Preferences page, you can perform the following: |
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Change the user name in the Username field. |
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Click the change password link to change the password. (For more information about changing the password, refer to Change Your Password.) |
Under Display, toggle the NOC View Mode option, as required. If the NOC View Mode is set to on, then you cannot set the auto-logout time. Therefore, the session will never be logged-out and the following screens get refreshed continuously:
- Alarm
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All Audit Logs
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Administrator/Events
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High Availability
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Flows
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Backup Files
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Image Servers
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Internal Image Files
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Licenses
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Search Results pages
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Tags
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Tools
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Chassis List & Topology View
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GS Dump
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Sys Dump
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All the statistics pages
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Map Groups
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Circuit Groups
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Circuit Tunnels
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Ports Discovery
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Virtual Nodes
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Virtual Maps
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Virtual Centers
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Virtual Switches
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NSX Virtual Nodes
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NSX Virtual Maps
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NSX Servers
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Sys Logs
You can configure the following using the Session option:
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Set the frequency of screen refresh using the Screen Refresh Rate (min) drop-down option. You can select from 0.5 to 5 minutes. |
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Set the auto logout time using the the Auto-Logout (min) option, the maximum duration GigaVUE-FM can be inactive before it is logged out automatically. By default, the auto-logout time is set to 30 minutes. You can set the auto-logout time to a maximum of 350 minutes, only if the NOC View Mode is set to off. |
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Select the number of items to be displayed on a page by entering a value in the Items displayed per page field. |
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Enter a name for the GigaVUE-FM instance in the FM Instance Name box. The GigaVUE-FM instance name is displayed in the browser tab as well as beside the GigaVUE-FM logo. Refer to the “Adding the GigaVUE-FM Instance Name” section in the “GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide”. |
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Configure a pre-login banner which states the security policy of your company or organization in the Login Banner box. For more information about configuring a custom banner, refer to the “Configure a Custom Banner” section in the “GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide”. |
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Flows is disabled by default in GigaVUE‑FM. You can change the status to enabled using the toggle option. |
Note: Once you enable Flows you cannot disable it again. Contact Customer Support to disable Flows. Refer to the "Flows" section in the GigaVUE-FM User's Guide for detailed information.
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GigaVUE‑FM acts as the default syslog server. You can also use external syslog servers using the following options: |
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Syslog server: Use the toggle option to enable or disable GigaVUE‑FM to act as the syslog server.. |
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Forward Events to System log: Turn on this option to forward events to external syslog servers. |
Note: For optimized performance of GigaVUE-FM use an external syslog server, that is, disable GigaVUE-FM as syslog server. Instead, use an external syslog collector.
Based on the system memory, the following throttling options are available when GigaVUE-FM acts as the syslog server:
- less than or equal to 16GB -> 100 syslogs/minute
- less than or equal to 32GB –> 1000 syslogs/minute
- greater than 32GB –> 5000 syslogs/minute
Throttling will be audited in the Events page.