Appendix – UFM Multisite Portal Integration

NVIDIA® Mellanox® UFM® Enterprise Multisite Portal consolidates fabric information from several UFM servers into one central console. This provides the fabric administrator with a central view of devices, alerts, congestion, and other fabric health and performance information across all sites.

In order to configure UFM to work with the multisite portal, the following parameters must be set in the main UFM configuration file: gv.cfg.

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            [multisite]
enabled = true
#site name is mandatory when multisite is enabled
site_name = 
server = 10.213.1.122
port = 443
protocol=https
interval = 60
file=/opt/ufm/data/multisite/summary
max_files=60

Parameter	Description
enabled	Enables multisite agent in UFM
site_name	User-defined name which will be presented in the multisite portal
server	IPv4 address of the multisite portal server
port	The port to connect to on the multisite portal server
protocol	The communication protocol to use to connect to the multisite portal. The following options are available: https (default) http file (to save multisite agent summary information locally)
interval	Determines frequency in which data is sent by the multisite agent (in seconds)
file	Location where local summary data of the multisite agent is maintained
max_files	Maximum number of files to maintain

Configuring Multisite Agent Credentials

In order to configure the username and password of the multisite portal server, users must enter the scripts folder and run the following script:

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            cd /opt/ufm/scripts
./update_multisite_agent_creds.sh -u <USER> -p <PASSWORD>

For more options of configuring agent credentials, please run:

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            ./update_multisite_agent_creds.sh -h