Introducing Advanced Web Tools; What's New In This Document; Requirements, Installation, And Support; Requirements - HP StorageWorks 2/64 - Core Switch Administrator's Manual

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Introducing Advanced Web Tools

HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x Advanced Web Tools is a GUI that enables administrators to monitor
and manage single or small fabrics, switches, and ports from a standard workstation. It is an optionally
licensed product that runs on HP Fabric OS.
Advanced Web Tools provides the administrative control point for HP Advanced Fabric Services,
including Advanced Zoning, Interswitch Link (ISL) Trunking, Advanced Performance Monitoring, and
Fabric Watch. Advanced Web Tools also provides an interface to telnet commands to perform special
switch functions and diagnostics that are available only through the telnet interface.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• What's New in This
• Requirements, installation, and
• Launching Advanced Web
• Logging in, page 21
• Logging out, page 22
• Session management, page 22

What's New in This Document

The following changes have been made since this document was last released:
• Information that was added:
• Upfront login and the switchAdmin role are described in
• Support for the 4/256 SAN Director and the 4/16 SAN Switch is added throughout.
• Information that was changed:
• Changes to the FICON CUP tab are described in
page 117.
For further information, see the release notes.

Requirements, installation, and support

Before you install Advanced Web Tools on your workstation, verify that your switches and workstation
meet the Advanced Web Tools requirements listed in this chapter.
This section contains the following subsections:
• Requirements, page 15
• Installing an Advanced Web Tools
• Value line
• Switch support, page 19
• Launching Advanced Web

Requirements

Advanced Web Tools requires a browser that conforms to HTML version 4.0, JavaScript version 1.0, and
Java TM Plug-in 1.4.2_06 or later.
HP has certified and tested Advanced Web Tools on the platforms shown in
Document, next
support, page 15
Tools, page 20
licenses, page 19
Tools, page 20
"Configuring CUP port
license, page 18
Fabric OS 5.x Advanced Web Tools administrator guide
"Logging in" on page 21.
connectivity" on
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