HP StorageWorks Interface Manager and Command View TL Installation Guide (March 2005)
Table Of Contents
- Title
- Contents
- About this Guide
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Hardware Installation
- Preparing the Installation
- Installing the Expansion Cage in the ESL Series Library
- Installing the Fibre Channel Interface Controllers into the Expansion Cage
- Installing the Interface Manager Card into the Expansion Cage
- Connecting the Cables
- Connecting the Interface Manager Card to the Fibre Channel Interface Controllers
- Connecting the SCSI Bus Cables
- Connecting the Fibre Channel Cables
- Connecting the Interface Manager Card to the LAN
- Connecting the PC or Laptop
- Completing the Hardware Installation
- 3: Configuration and Software Installation
- 4: Troubleshooting
- A: Serial and Ethernet Pin Assignments
- B: Regulatory Compliance Notice
- Federal Communications Commissions Notice
- Harmonics Conformance (Japan)
- German Noise Declaration
- C: Electrostatic Discharge
- D: Specifications
- Index
Introduction
14 Interface Manager and Command View TL Installation Guide
Architectural Concepts
The Interface Manager card and the FC interface controllers that it manages are
installed in the expansion cage of the ESL Series library. The Interface Manager
card has six Ethernet ports as follows:
■ Four Ethernet ports communicate directly with the FC interface controllers
over a private dedicated IP LAN.
■ One Ethernet port connects to the LAN. The Interface Manager card
communicates with the management station over the LAN. The management
station is a Microsoft Windows-based PC (server) that hosts the Command
View TL software. Ideally, the management station should have a static IP
address and be dedicated for use with the Interface Manager card and
Command View TL software.
■ The remaining Ethernet port is reserved for future functionality.
Any client machine on the LAN can communicate with the Interface Manager
card either through a rich GUI web interface, or through a Telnet command line
interface (CLI).
In addition, the Interface Manager card also has an RS-232 port that provides the
same CLI as the Telnet interface. Only one CLI interface can be active at a time.
For more information on configuring and using the different management
interfaces, see Configuration and Software Installation.