Fabric Os Integration - HP StorageWorks 8B - FC Entry Switch User Manual

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Tight Integration of Management Products
Fabric Manager is tightly integrated with the following SAN management products. It has the
native ability to work with:
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Web Tools for a rapid drill-down to individual SAN elements within a fabric.
•
Fabric Watch for advanced fabric wide status reporting, threshold gathering and information
analysis. Provides rapid access to Fabric Watch allows reporting of conditions across multiple
fabrics.
The ability to work easily with these management tools is unique and highly functional, effectively
reducing the time and costs of managing SANs.

Fabric OS Integration

The Fabric OS version running on the switch will determine what functionality is supported by
Fabric Manager. A matrix that outlines the features and what version of the Fabric OS they are
supported on is shown in
The cell contents indicate the access method being used by Fabric Manager to implement the
features:
Fabric Manager User's Guide
Fabric Merge Check Window
Figure 1-1 on page 1-6.
Introducing Fabric Manager
on page 7-8.
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