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Managing your fabrics, switches, and ports

Managing fabrics, switches, and ports using

Advanced Web Tools

You can perform most of management tasks described in this chapter through the Switch Admin module.

Information in the Switch Admin module is retrieved from the selected switch.

Click the Admin button in the Switch View to access the Switch Admin module.

Figure 6

shows the Switch

Admin module.

Figure 6

Switch Admin module

When you click the Admin button from the Switch View, you must log in as an admin to launch the Switch

Admin module. Information displayed in the Switch Admin module is not updated automatically by

Advanced Web Tools. To update the information displayed in the Switch Admin module, see ”

Refreshing

the Switch Admin module

” on page 43.

CAUTION:

Any changes you make in the Switch Admin module are in a buffered environment and are

not applied to the switch until you save the changes. (The exception to this is the License tab, where

changes are applied immediately and there is no Apply button.) If you close the Switch Admin module

without saving your changes, your changes are lost. To save the buffered changes you make in the Switch

Admin module to the switch, click Apply before closing the module or before switching to another tab.

Some of the management tasks for the Core Switch 2/64 and SAN Director 2/128 are performed

through the Hi Avail module. This module and the associated tasks are described in

Administering high

availability

” on page 73.

You can also use telnet commands to perform management tasks. Refer to

Launching the Telnet window

on page 43 for information on how to launch a telnet window through Advanced Web Tools.

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