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3 Managing the 8Gb SAN Switch
This chapter provides the following information:
• Maintaining the 8Gb SAN Switch
• POST and boot specifications
• Replacing a faulty 8Gb SAN Switch
Management features
The management tools built into the 8Gb SAN Switch (listed in
) 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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