HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager 5.x Administrator Guide (AA-RUQSF-TE, September 2005)

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3 Fabric Manager layout
Fabric Manager is a complete SAN management tool for HP StorageWorks-based SANs. You can use
Fabric Manager to configure multiple switches simultaneously from one location, view the status of multiple
devices in one window, and 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) and can be used with other SAN and storage resource
management applications as the tool to drill down into single or multiple HP StorageWorks fabrics.
Fabric Manager includes the following basic features to manage multiple SANs:
• Management of multiple HP StorageWorks switch elements across multiple fabrics
• SAN discovery and data collection, including multiple views of the collected data (with topology maps
and views in tabular format)
• Status of critical fabric elements and key discovery data at varying levels of detail, such as high-level
At-A-Glance views, and detailed tables that display information about switches, ports, devices, and
events
• Data and management console views designed for effective management of a Fibre Connectivity
(FICON) environment
This chapter discusses the following topics:
• Launching Fabric Manager, next
• Using Fabric Manager, page 40
• Customizing Fabric Manager, page 50
Launching Fabric Manager
To launch Fabric Manager:
1. For Windows: From the Start menu, select Programs > Fabric Manager > Fabric Manager.
For Solaris: Navigate to the location where you installed Fabric Manager and run the
startFabricManager script.
The Fabric Manager Login dialog box opens (Figure 1).
Figure 1 Registration
The Server and Port fields are populated with the values that you specified when you installed Fabric
Manager.