HP H-series Enterprise Fabric Management Suite Software User Manual
HP Storage
HP StorageWorks 8/20q and SN6000 Fibre
Channel Switch Enterprise Fabric Management
Suite User Guide
This guide describes the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Fabric Management Suite applicaton (version 8.0.4) for the HP
H-Series 8/20q and SN6000 Fibre Channel Switches (firmware version 8.0.4). Enterprise Fabric Management Suite is a
workstation-based graphical user interface for managing fabrics, switches, and ports. Enterprise Fabric Management Suite
includes EFMS Performance View, which plots port performance information in graphs. This guide is intended for users
responsible for installing and using switch management tools.
Part Number: 5697-0420
Published June 2010
Edition:1
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- Using Enterprise Fabric Management Suite
- Installing Enterprise Fabric Management Suite
- Starting Enterprise Fabric Management Suite
- Exiting Enterprise Fabric Management Suite
- Uninstalling Enterprise Fabric Management Suite
- Changing the encryption key for the default fabric view file
- Saving and opening fabric view files
- Setting Enterprise Fabric Management Suite preferences
- Using online help
- Viewing software version and copyright information
- Enterprise Fabric Management Suite user interface
- Managing Fabrics
- Fabric firmware and software versions
- Managing the fabric database
- Adding a new switch to a fabric
- Replacing a failed switch
- Displaying fabric information
- Verifying Fibre Channel connections
- Device information and nicknames
- Fabric services
- Transparent router
- Managing Fabric Zoning
- Zoning concepts
- Using the Zoning Wizard
- Managing the zoning database
- Merging fabrics and zoning
- Managing zone sets
- Managing zones
- Managing aliases
- Managing Fabric Security
- Connection security
- User account security
- Port security
- Device security
- Managing Switches
- Managing user accounts
- Viewing switch information
- Configuring port threshold alarms
- Paging a switch
- Setting the date/time and enabling NTP client
- Resetting a switch
- Configuring a switch
- Managing switch stacks
- Configuring the network
- Configuring SNMP
- Configuring Call Home
- Testing a switch
- Archiving a switch
- Restoring a switch
- Restoring the factory default configuration
- Installing feature license keys
- Downloading a support file
- Installing firmware
- Managing Ports
- Viewing port information
- Port Information data window
- Figure 77 Port Information data window
- Table 24 Port Information data window buttons
- Table 25 Port Information data window—Summary
- Table 26 Port Information data window—Advanced
- Table 27 Port Information data window—Extended Credits
- Table 28 Port Information data window—Media
- Table 29 Port Information data window—Digital Diagnostics Monitoring
- Figure 78 Detailed Media Display dialog box
- Port Statistics data window
- Port Information data window
- Configuring ports
- Using the Extended Credits wizard
- Moving a licensed port
- Resetting a port
- Testing ports
- Graphing port performance
- Figure 85 EFMS Performance View graph
- Starting EFMS Performance View
- Exiting EFMS Performance View
- Saving and opening Fabric View files
- Changing the default Fabric View file encryption key for EFMS Performance View
- Setting EFMS Performance View preferences
- Setting the polling frequency
- Displaying Graphs
- Saving graph statistics to a file
- Viewing port information
- Support and Other Resources
- Glossary
- Index