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3 Managing the 8Gb SAN Switch

This chapter provides the following information:

Management features

, page 33

Maintaining the 8Gb SAN Switch

, page 34

Powering on and off

, page 36

Interpreting LED activity

, page 36

LED patterns

, page 37

POST and boot specifications

, page 38

Firmware update

, page 39

About the reset button

, page 40

Replacing a faulty 8Gb SAN Switch

Management features

The management tools built into the 8Gb SAN Switch (listed in

Table 11

) can be used to monitor

fabric topology, port status, physical status, and other information used for performance analysis and
system debugging.

When running IP over FC, these management tools must be run on both the Fibre Channel host and
the switch and must be supported by the Fibre Channel host driver. For a list of Fibre Channel hosts
supported by the 8Gb SAN Switch, contact your HP representative.

Table 11 8Gb SAN Switch management features

In-band support

Out-of-band support

Management tool

IP over FC

Ethernet or serial con-
nection

CLI—Run up to two admin sessions and four user sessions
simultaneously. For more information, refer to the latest ver-
sion of the HP StorageWorks Fabric OS administrator guide
and the Fabric OS command reference guide.

IP over FC

Ethernet connection

Advanced Web Tools—For information, refer to the latest
version of the Fabric OS Web Tools administrator's guide.

IP over FC

Ethernet connection

Standard SNMP applications—For information, refer to the
latest version of the Fabric OS MIB reference guide.

SMI-S compliant
management pro-
gram

Ethernet connection

Management Server—For more information, refer to the latest
version of the HP StorageWorks Fabric OS administrator
guide
and the Fabric OS command reference guide.

You can connect a management station to one switch with Ethernet while managing other switches
connected to the first switch with FC. To do so, set the FC gateway address of each of the other
switches to be managed to the FC IP address of the first switch.

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