Managing The 16Gb San Switch; Management Features; Maintaining The 16Gb San Switch - HP 16Gb SAN User Manual

3 Managing the 16Gb SAN Switch

Management features

The management tools built into the 16Gb SAN Switch (listed in
to monitor 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 FC host driver. For a list of FC hosts supported by
the 16Gb SAN Switch, contact your HP representative.
Table 6 16Gb SAN Switch management features
Management tool
CLI—Run up to two admin sessions
and four user sessions
simultaneously. For more information,
see the latest version of the Fabric OS
Administrator Guide and the Fabric
OS Command Reference Guide.
Advanced Web Tools—For
information, see the latest version of
the Web Tools Administrator's Guide.
Standard SNMP applications—For
information, see the latest version of
the Fabric OS MIB reference guide.
Management Server—For more
information, see the latest version of
the HP 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.
The gateway address of the first switch should be set to whatever the gateway address is for the
subnet on which the first switch resides. See
Table 7 Connecting with a management station
Connection type
Ethernet
FCIP
Gateway

Maintaining the 16Gb SAN Switch

The 16Gb SAN Switch does not require any regular physical maintenance.
It is critical, however, that environmental conditions, described in
requirements (page
flow.
20 Managing the 16Gb SAN Switch
Out-of-band support
Ethernet or serial connection
Ethernet connection
Ethernet connection
Ethernet connection
Management station First switch
192.168.1.09 192.168.1.10
192.168.65.09 192.168.65.10
192.168.1.10 any, not self
33), are met to help prevent switch failure due to heat stress or improper air
Table 6 (page
In-band support
IP over FC
IP over FC
IP over FC
SMI-S compliant management program
Table 7 (page 20).
Second switch
204.1.1.1 1
192.168.65.1 1
192.168.1.10
Environmental
20)) can be used
Third switch
204.1.1.12
192.168.65.12
192.168.1.10