Management Appliance
The HAFM appliance and Element Manager provide a GUI to manage, monitor, and
isolate problems for multiple switches and multiswitch fabrics. The server and client
applications operate on the management appliance, and a user interface is provided
through an Ethernet LAN-attached PC or workstation running client-only applications as
shown in
Figure 4: Management appliance main window
The main window provides:
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4:
Menu bar–Commands at the top of the window provide drop-down menu
selections to perform functions for SAN devices including editing, viewing,
planning, discovery, configuration, and monitoring.
Tool bar–The tool bar (below the menu bar) provides button selections to
perform SAN management tasks including opening a SAN configuration,
configuring users, setting up and starting the device discovery process,
configuring zoning, displaying a SAN, displaying SAN utilization, and
viewing reports.
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