HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.0.0 Features Overview (AA-RW1NA-TE, May 2005)

21Fabric OS 5.0 features overview

2 Optional features

This chapter describes the following optional features that you can use to manage HP

StorageWorks switches:

• Fabric Manager, page 21

• Fabric Watch, page 22

• Fabric Access, page 23

• Secure Fabric OS, page 23

• Ports on Demand, page 23

• Extended Fabrics, page 24

• ISL Trunking, page 25

• Advanced Performance Monitoring, page 27

Fabric Manager

Fabric Manager is a complete SAN management tool for HP-based SANs. You can use Fabric

Manager to complete the following activities:

• Configure multiple switches simultaneously from one location

• View the status of multiple devices in one window

• Perform SAN-level maintenance without having to access each switch in your fabric

or SAN

Fabric Manager is tightly integrated with additional SAN management products, including

Advanced Web Tools and Fabric Watch. You can use it with other SAN and storage resource

management applications to drill down into single or multiple HP fabrics.

Fabric Manager performs the following tasks in multiple SANs:

• Manages multiple HP switch elements across multiple fabrics

• Discovers and collects SAN data, and provides multiple views of that data (including

topology maps and detailed views in a tabular format)