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

Physical Planning Considerations
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When the FICON management server (FMS) feature key is enabled at the Product
Manager application, host control and management of the director or switch is
provided through an IBM server attached to a product port. The server
communicates with the product through a FICON channel.
When implementing inband product management through a FICON channel, plan
for the following minimum host requirements:
■ Connectivity to an IBM System/390 (generation 5 or later) or zSeries 900
Parallel Enterprise server with one or more FICON channel cards installed.
■ Installation of System Automation for Operating System/390 (SA OS/390)
for native FICON, Version 1.3 or later, plus service listed in the appropriate
preventive service planning (PSP) bucket. The PSP bucket upgrade is
HKYSA30.
The minimum OS/390 level for a director or switch without the control unit
port (CUP) feature is Version 2.6, plus service listed in PSP bucket upgrade
2032, device subset 2032OS390G5+. The minimum OS/390 level for a
director or switch with the CUP feature is Version 2.1, plus service listed in
the preceding PSP bucket for that function.
■ A host-attached Hardware Management Console. The console runs the
Hardware Management Console application (HWMCA), and is the operations
and management PC platform for S/390 servers.
For additional information, refer to the IBM publication System Automation for
OS/390, Operations (GC28-1550).