Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise User Manual v10.3.X (53-1001357-01, November 2009)

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View management
You can customize the topology by creating views at the managed host level in addition to the fabric
level views. If you discover or import a Fabric with more than approximately 2000 devices, the
devices display on the Product List, but not on the Connectivity Map. Instead, the topology area
shows a message stating that the topology cannot be displayed. To resolve this issue, create a new
view to filter the number of devices being discovered.
Instructions for managing customized views of the topology are detailed in “View management” in
Chapter 3, “Application Configuration” and include information about the following:
HBA server mapping
HBAs and servers discovered through one or more fabrics can be easily identified in the topology by
their product icons. For a list of products and their icons, refer to “Product icons” on page 17. Once
identified in the topology, you can create servers and assign the HBAs to them and import an
externally created HBA server mapping file (.CSV) to the Management application.
NOTE
The Management application now enables you to map HBAs from multiple fabrics (previous versions
limited HBA mapping to one fabric).
The Management application also enables you to discover hosts directly using Host discovery (for
step-by-step instructions, refer to “Host discovery” on page 45). If you discover a host directly, when
you open the HBA Server Mapping dialog box the Management application automatically groups all
HBAs under the host.
If you create a new HBA server and associate HBAs to it, and then you try to discover a host with the
same HBAs using Host discovery, the HBA’s discovered using host discovery must match the HBAs
associated to the HBA server exactly; otherwise, Host discovery will fail.
Instructions for mapping an HBA server to HBAs are detailed in “HBA server mapping” in Chapter 5,
“Device Configuration” and include information about the following:
• “Creating a new HBA server”
• “Renaming an HBA server”
• “Deleting an HBA server”
• “Viewing Server properties”
• “Associating an HBA with an HBA server”
• “Importing HBA-to-server mapping”
• “Removing an HBA from a HBA server”