San Management Applications; Sanavigator And Efcm Applications - McDATA StorageWorks 2/140 - Director Switch Planning Manual

SAN Management Applications

SANavigator and
EFCM Applications
Application GUI
This section describes SAN management applications that provide a
GUI to monitor, manage, and control directors, fabric switches, and
SAN routers. SAN management applications include SANavigator ,
EFCM, and SANvergence Manager. An associated Element Manager
application is provided for each managed product.
NOTE: The Element Manager application for a director or fabric switch
resides on the associated management server. The Element Manager
application for a SAN router is a Java applet that resides on the router.
The management server implements a SAN management application
along with director or switch-specific Element Manager applications
to provide the interface for operators to control and monitor directors
and fabric switches (but not SAN routers). These applications can
also operate on workstations attached to the customer intranet that
function as remote clients.
The SAN management applications provide lifecycle planning,
discovery, configuration, and monitoring for an entire heterogeneous
SAN. Each SAN management application is an intuitive GUI that
communicates with multiple, vendor-specific applications, and
provides a common tool to access the following features:
• SAN planning - The application provides a planning tool to
develop and evaluate a SAN topology for feasibility and
performance. Virtual devices and links are assembled to build a
virtual SAN topology or an extension to an existing topology. The
planned topology or extension is then activated to evaluate the
design and identify and correct performance problems.
• Discovery and visualization - Through TCP/IP (out-of-band) or
Fibre Channel (inband) connections, the SAN management
application automatically discovers every device attached to a
SAN and produces an intuitive and dynamic map of the devices
and all interconnections. This map depicts device port usage,
virtual and logical data paths, and allows identification of
problem devices and data traffic bottlenecks.
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