Managing The 8Gb San Switch; Management Features; 8Gb San Switch Management Features - HP Brocade 8Gb User Manual

3 Managing the 8Gb SAN Switch

This chapter provides the following information:
Management
Maintaining the 8Gb SAN
Powering on and
Interpreting LED
LED patterns, page 37
POST and boot
Firmware
About the reset
Replacing a faulty 8Gb SAN Switch

Management features

The management tools built into the 8Gb SAN Switch (listed in
fabric topology, port status, physical status, and other information used for performance analysis and
system debugging.
When running IP over FC, these management tools must be run on both the Fibre Channel host and
the switch and must be supported by the Fibre Channel host driver. For a list of Fibre Channel hosts
supported by the 8Gb SAN Switch, contact your HP representative.
Table 11 8Gb SAN Switch management features
Management tool
CLI—Run up to two admin sessions and four user sessions
simultaneously. For more information, refer to the latest ver-
sion of the HP StorageWorks Fabric OS administrator guide
and the Fabric OS command reference guide.
Advanced Web Tools—For information, refer to the latest
version of the Fabric OS Web Tools administrator's guide.
Standard SNMP applications—For information, refer to the
latest version of the Fabric OS MIB reference guide.
Management Server—For more information, refer to the latest
version of the HP StorageWorks Fabric OS administrator
guide and the Fabric OS command reference guide.
You can connect a management station to one switch with Ethernet while managing other switches
connected to the first switch with FC. To do so, set the FC gateway address of each of the other
switches to be managed to the FC IP address of the first switch.
features, page 33
Switch, page 34
off, page 36
activity, page 36
specifications, page 38
update, page 39
button, page 40
Out-of-band support
Ethernet or serial con-
nection
Ethernet connection
Ethernet connection
Ethernet connection
Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
Table 11) can be used to monitor
In-band support
IP over FC
IP over FC
IP over FC
SMI-S compliant
management pro-
gram
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