HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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9 Viewing Element Topology and Properties
Some of the features described in this chapter are not included in HP Storage Essentials Standard
Edition. To determine which features apply to your product, see the List of Features, which is
accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in HP Storage Essentials).
This chapter contains the following topics:
• About System Manager, page 249
• Accessing System Manager, page 251
• About Cisco Switches and VSANs in System Manager, page 251
• About the User Interface for System Manager, page 252
• Viewing Storage Elements, page 271
• Setting Up Custom Commands, page 292
• Using External Tools, page 301
• About the Navigation Tab, page 302
• Viewing Element Properties, page 307
• Viewing Element Topology, page 310
• Creating a Virtual Application, page 320
• The Provisioning Tab, page 321
• About the Events Tab, page 321
• Asset Attributes of an Element, page 322
• About the Collectors Tab, page 324
• About the Monitoring Tab, page 324
• About the Policies Tab, page 324
• Determining If a Host Belongs to a File System, page 325
• About the Data from CXFS File Systems, page 325
About System Manager
System Manager is the gateway to many features that let you view details about the discovered
elements. System Manager provides a topology that lets you view how the devices in your network
are connected. For example, direct-attached storage connections are displayed by a dotted line.
Another example is the display of Inter-Switch Link (ISL) trunking for supported Brocade switches. The
topology screens, as well as other related displays, show the ISLs between switches and indicate the
total number of ISLs and how many of them are trunked (for supported switches). For example, 6(3
trunked) means 6 is the total number and 3 is how many of them are trunked. ISL trunking
information for supported switches is also provided by switch port Properties, switch port Detail
table on the Navigation page, and by Reporter in various predefined reports, .