HP SAN - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
About this guide ................................................................................... 7
Intended audience ...................................................................................................................... 7
Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................... 7
Related documentation ................................................................................................................ 8
Document conventions and symbols ............................................................................................... 8
HP technical support ................................................................................................................... 9
Subscription service .................................................................................................................... 9
HP websites ............................................................................................................................... 9
Documentation feedback ............................................................................................................. 9
Product feedback ........................................................................................................................ 9
1 Overview ........................................................................................ 11
SAN Visibility package contents ................................................................................................. 11
Hardware and software requirements .......................................................................................... 11
Supported operating systems ...................................................................................................... 12
2 Installing and removing SAN Visibility ................................................ 13
Installing SAN Visibility ............................................................................................................. 13
Removing SAN Visibility ............................................................................................................ 13
3 Using SAN Visibility ......................................................................... 15
SAN Visibility GUI .................................................................................................................... 15
SAN Visibility menus .......................................................................................................... 16
Using SAN Visibility .................................................................................................................. 17
Accessing the SAN Visibility GUI ......................................................................................... 17
Specifying SAN details ....................................................................................................... 17
Adding SAN details ..................................................................................................... 18
Specifying switch details ..................................................................................................... 19
Adding a switch .......................................................................................................... 19
Modifying switch details ............................................................................................... 20
Removing a switch ....................................................................................................... 20
Removing a switch group .............................................................................................. 21
Renaming a switch group .............................................................................................. 22
Specifying customer details .................................................................................................. 23
Adding contact details ................................................................................................. 24
Specifying advanced settings (optional) ................................................................................. 25
Specifying FICON switch details .................................................................................... 25
Specifying HBA-Host map details ................................................................................... 26
Initiating data collection ...................................................................................................... 28
Data collection methods ...................................................................................................... 30
SNMP based data collection ......................................................................................... 30
SMI-Agent based data collection (for Brocade switch) ....................................................... 30
Sending raw data file to HP ................................................................................................. 31
Manually emailing raw data files to HP .......................................................................... 31
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