Inband Management Access - McDATA StorageWorks 2/140 - Director Switch Planning Manual

Inband
Management
Access
OSMS
FMS
Inband management console access (through a Fibre Channel port) is
provided by enabling user-specified features that allow OSMS or
FICON (FMS) host control of a director or fabric switch. The features
can be simultaneously installed and enabled.
When the OSMS feature key is enabled at the Element Manager
application, host control and management of the director or switch is
provided through an open-systems interconnection (OSI) device
attached to a product port. When implementing inband product
management through an OSI connection, plan for the following
minimum host requirements:
• Connectivity to an OSI server with a product-compatible host bus
adapter (HBA) that communicates through the Fibre Channel
common transport (FC-CT) protocol.
• Installation of a storage network management application on the
OSI server. Management applications include Veritas
SANPoint™ Control (Version 1.0 or later), or Tivoli
(Version 6.0 or later).
For information about product-compatible HBAs, third-party SAN
management applications, and minimum OSI server specifications,
refer to the McDATA website at www.mcdata.com.
When the FMS feature key is enabled at the Element Manager
application, host control and management of the director or switch is
provided through a server attached to a product port. The server
communicates with the product through a FICON channel. When
implementing inband product management through a FICON
channel, plan for the following minimum host requirements:
• Connectivity to an IBM S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server
(Generation 5 or Generation 6), with one or more FICON channel
adapter cards installed, using System Automation for Operating
System/390 (SA OS/390) for native FICON, Version 1.3 or later,
plus service listed in the appropriate preventive service planning
(PSP) bucket. The PSP bucket upgrade is HKYSA30.
The minimum OS/390 level for a director or switch without the
control unit port (CUP) feature is Version 2.6, plus service listed in
PSP bucket upgrade 2032, device subset 2032OS390G5+. The
minimum OS/390 level for a director or switch with the CUP
feature is Version 2.1, plus service listed in the preceding PSP
bucket for that function.
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