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Viewing Element Topology and Properties
Some of the features described in this chapter are not included in HP Storage Essentials Standard
Edition. To determine which features apply to your product, see the List of Features, which is
accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in HP Storage Essentials).
This chapter contains the following topics:
• About Cisco Switches and VSANs in System Manager
• About the User Interface for System Manager
• Creating a Virtual Application
• Asset Attributes of an Element
• Determining If a Host Belongs to a File System
• About the Data from CXFS File Systems
About System Manager
System Manager is the gateway to many features that let you view details about the discovered
elements. System Manager provides a topology that lets you view how the devices in your network
are connected. For example, direct-attached storage connections are displayed by a dotted line.
Another example is the display of Inter-Switch Link (ISL) trunking for supported Brocade switches. The
topology screens, as well as other related displays, show the ISLs between switches and indicate the
total number of ISLs and how many of them are trunked (for supported switches). For example, 6(3
trunked) means 6 is the total number and 3 is how many of them are trunked. ISL trunking
information for supported switches is also provided by switch port Properties, switch port Detail
table on the Navigation page, and by Reporter in various predefined reports, .