HP StorageWorks SAN Director Installation Guide (A7393-90009, May 2007)

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Software features
The 4/256 SAN Director must be running Fabric OS 5.1.x or greater; and with the B-Series iSCSI
Director Blade (FC4-16IP) installed, it must operate with Fabric OS 5.2.1b or greater.
The Fabric OS allows any Fibre Channel-compliant device to attach to the switches as long as it
conforms to the device login, name service, and related Fibre Channel standards. Each operating
environment requires that a Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) be available with a
standards-compliant driver for proper interface to the fabric.
Fabric OS consists of a set of embedded applications running on top of an embedded real-time
Linux operating system kernel. These applications are the name server, alias server, Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) agent, and several tasks to manage address assignment, routing,
link initialization, fabric initialization, link shutdown, switch shutdown, and the user interface.
Security
Secure telnet access is available using Secure Shell (SSH), a network security protocol for secure
remote login and other secure network services over an insecure network.
Advanced Web Tools management is available through a secure browser using Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL). The SSL security protocol provides data encryption, server authentication, message
integrity, and optional client authentication for a TCP/IP connection. Because SSL is built into all
major browsers and Web servers, installing a digital certificate turns on the SSL capabilities.
Network manageability
The 4/256 SAN Director has a single domain and is managed as a single element and appears as
a single element to a Network Management System (NMS). The Director responds to its own IP
address and appears as a separate entity to the Telnet protocol and SNMP.
All management interfaces, such as telnet, Advanced Web Tools, the Fabric Access Layer API, and
Management Server, support a “port N within card M” naming scheme.
When SNMP devices send SNMP messages to a management console running SAN management
software, the information is stored in a Management Information Base (MIB). Fabric OS 5.2.x
supports the latest Fibre Alliance Fibre Channel Management (FCMGMT) and Storage
Management Initiative (SMI) MIBs, which allow common information necessary for management
software to provide information to a SAN administrator. Refer to the
Fabric OS MIB reference manual
for additional MIB information. Go to this document’s Preface for instructions on accessing the
document via the web.