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3 Managing the 16Gb SAN Switch
Management features
The management tools built into the 16Gb 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 FC host driver. For a list of FC hosts supported by
the 16Gb SAN Switch, contact your HP representative.
Table 6 16Gb SAN Switch management features
In-band support
Out-of-band support
Management tool
IP over FC
Ethernet or serial connection
CLI—Run up to two admin sessions
and four user sessions
simultaneously. For more information,
see the latest version of the Fabric OS
Administrator Guide and the Fabric
OS Command Reference Guide.
IP over FC
Ethernet connection
Advanced Web Tools—For
information, see the latest version of
the Web Tools Administrator's Guide.
IP over FC
Ethernet connection
Standard SNMP applications—For
information, see the latest version of
the Fabric OS MIB reference guide.
SMI-S compliant management program
Ethernet connection
Management Server—For more
information, see the latest version of
the HP 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.
The gateway address of the first switch should be set to whatever the gateway address is for the
subnet on which the first switch resides. See
.
Table 7 Connecting with a management station
Third switch
Second switch
First switch
Management station
Connection type
204.1.1.12
204.1.1.11
192.168.1.10
192.168.1.09
Ethernet
192.168.65.12
192.168.65.11
192.168.65.10
192.168.65.09
FCIP
192.168.1.10
192.168.1.10
any, not self
192.168.1.10
Gateway
Maintaining the 16Gb SAN Switch
The 16Gb SAN Switch does not require any regular physical maintenance.
It is critical, however, that environmental conditions, described in
, are met to help prevent switch failure due to heat stress or improper air
flow.
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