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HP 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch QuickTools Switch Management User Guide 9

1 Using QuickTools

This chapter describes how to use the QuickTools web applet and its menus.

Workstation requirements

The requirements for fabric management workstations running the QuickTools web applet are described in

Table 1.

NOTE: Java must be configured to disable caching of temporary files and applets to prevent conflicts with

past or future versions of QuickTools. Also, caching may become enabled if the Java version is upgraded,

so you may need to disable caching again after a Java upgrade.

Table 1 Workstation requirements

Component Options/Requirements

Operating System Windows XP SP1/SP2/SP3

Windows 2003 SP2

Windows 2008 SP2 and R2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, 10 and 11

Memory 512 MB or more (1GB recommended)

Processor 2 GHz or faster

Hardware RJ-45 Ethernet port

RS-232 serial port (optional)

Internet Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later

Netscape Navigator 6.0 and later

Firefox 1.5 and later

Java Runtime Environment 1.4.2 or later

1. You must disable caching of temporary files and applets in Java to prevent conflicts with past or future versions of

QuickTools. Furthermore, you may need to disable caching again after upgrading Java.