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Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 4-1
Publication Number: 53-0000522-09
Chapter
4
Managing Your Fabrics, Switches, and Ports
This chapter contains the following sections:
• “Managing Fabrics, Switches, and Ports Using Web Tools,” next
• “Launching the Telnet Window” on page 4-3
• “Configuring IP and Netmask Information” on page 4-4
• “Configuring a syslog IP Address” on page 4-5
• “Configuring a Switch” on page 4-5
• “Rebooting the Switch” on page 4-7
• “Changing System Configuration Parameters” on page 4-8
• “Configuring Ports” on page 4-12
• “Activating Ports on Demand” on page 4-15
• “Maintaining Licensed Features” on page 4-16
• “Administering High Availability” on page 4-18
• “Monitoring Events” on page 4-20
• “Displaying a Fabric Topology Report” on page 4-26
• “Displaying the Name Server Entries” on page 4-27
• “Physically Locating a Switch Using Beaconing” on page 4-28
• “Displaying Swapped Port Area IDs” on page 4-29
Managing Fabrics, Switches, and Ports Using Web
Tools
You can perform most of management tasks described in this chapter through the Switch Admin
module. Information in the Switch Admin module is retrieved from the selected switch.
Click the Admin button in the Switch View to access the Switch Admin module. Figure 4-1 on
page 4-2 shows the Switch Admin module.