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HP StorageWorks 2.140 Director Switch User Manual

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Element Manager Overview

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• Nicknames to display instead of the WWN for the director and for attached node devices.
• Port Binding.
• port address configurations.
• SNMP trap recipients and community names.
• FICON and Open Systems Management Server features if optional Open Systems

Management Server is installed.

• Switch Binding if optional SANtegrity Binding feature is installed.
• Open Trunking if optional Open Trunking feature is installed.
• Management style between Open Systems and FICON management.
• Director name, location, description, and contact person.
• Data speed for the director (Director 2/64 only) and individual ports.
• Threshold alerts for ports.
• Control individual Fibre Channel ports by a blocking or unblocking operation, enabling LIN

alerts and Port Binding, setting data speeds, and running internal and external loopback

diagnostics.

Display the following Element Manager information:
• Field replacable unit (FRU) properties such as the FRU name, physical position in the director

(chassis slot number), active or failed state, part number, and serial number.

• Information for individual Fibre Channel ports, such as the port name, port number, Fibre

Channel address, operational state, type of port, and login data.

• Information on nodes attached to ports.
• Port performance and statistics.
• Vital product data for the director, such as the system name, description, contact person,

location, status, model number, firmware and Engineering Change (EC) level, and

manufacturer.

Perform miscellaneous Element Manager tasks:
• Enable Alternate Control Prohibited (ACP) to restrict access to FICON director connectivity

parameters.

• Enable beaconing for ports and the director unit.
• Enable channel wrap mode.
• Maintain a port address library.
• Monitor the operational status of the director and each of its hardware field-replaceable

units.

• Perform an initial program load (IPL).
• Perform maintenance tasks for the director, including maintaining firmware levels, enabling

the call-home feature, accessing the director logs, and collecting data to support failure

analysis.

• Reset port operation.
• Run port diagnostics.
• Set the date and time on the director.

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