FW 05.01.00 and SW 07.01.00 HP StorageWorks SAN High Availability Planning Guide (AA-RS2DC-TE, June 2003)

Physical Planning Considerations
129SAN High Availability Planning Guide
Inband Management Access (Optional)
Inband management console access (through a Fibre Channel port) is provided by
enabling user-specified features that allow Open Systems or FICON host control
of a director or switch. The features are mutually exclusive; only one can be
installed at a time.
Features are enabled through a feature key encoded to work with the serial
number of a unique director or switch. A feature key is a case-sensitive
alphanumeric string with dashes every four characters.
When the Open Systems management server (OSMS) feature key is enabled at a
Product Manager application, host control and management of the director or
switch is provided through an open-systems interconnection (OSI) device attached
to a product port.
When implementing inband product management through an OSI connection,
plan for the following minimum host requirements:
■ Connectivity to an OSI server with a product-compatible host bus adapter
(HBA) that communicates through the Fibre Channel common transport
(FC-CT) protocol.
■ Installation of a storage network management application on the OSI server.
Management applications include Veritas SANPoint Control (Version 1.0 or
later), or Tivoli NetView (Version 6.0 or later).
For information about product-compatible HBAs, third-party SAN management
applications, and minimum OSI server specifications, refer to the HP website.