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

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4 Discovering and customizing fabrics
This section provides information about discovering fabrics with Fabric Manager (including running subnet
scans), renaming and deleting fabrics, customizing and using the information provided in the Fabric
Manager views, and synchronizing the data and time across an entire fabric. See the following sections for
the steps required to accomplish the specific Fabric Management tasks:
• Discovering a fabric, next
• Logging in to multiple switches simultaneously, page 55
• Running a subnet scan (fabric scan), page 57
• Deleting a fabric from fabric manager, page 58
• Renaming a fabric, page 58
• Renaming a switch, page 59
• Renaming a port, page 59
• Renaming a device node and device port, page 60
• Working with switch and port groups, page 63
• Managing passwords, page 66
Discovering a fabric
You must discover a fabric to add it to the SAN Elements tab and administer it with Fabric Manager.
To discover a fabric:
1. Place your cursor in the Address text box/drop-down menu and delete the contents of the field.
2. Enter the IP address or the DNS name of a switch in the fabric that you want to administer, and then
press Enter.
To discover a fabric using a DNS name, you must have an entry in the hosts.txt file in
C:\Windows\system2\driver\etc. The entry should be on a new line with the format
switchIP switchName. For example 10.144.8.42 mySwitch. The switch is discovered in
Fabric Manager using the DNS name switchName as specified in the hosts.txt file (mySwitch in
the above example).
You do not need to include http:// before the IP address to discover a fabric. If you do not know the
exact address of a switch, you can run a subnet scan to discover fabrics. See ”Running a subnet scan
(fabric scan)” on page 57.
3. Enter the user name and password used to log in to the switch.
The fabric is discovered only if the authentication succeeds. Otherwise, you are prompted again for a
user name and password. After the fabric is discovered, all switches in the fabric are tested against the
user name and password. If any of the switches fail to authenticate, you are prompted to log in to the
switches that failed. If you choose not to log in, the Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI) and
some data for the Fabric Inventory reports might not be available.
If you choose to not log in to the switches that failed, you can log in later by selecting Discovery >
Fabric Login.
Logging in to multiple switches simultaneously
You can use Fabric Manager to log in to multiple switches at the same time. With multiple login, you do
not need to log in to each switch individually to administer your fabric. After you log in to a switch, Fabric
Manager stores your login information and logs you in to the switches. By default, Fabric Manager stores
switch passwords on the server. You can also disable switch passwords from being saved on the server.
See ”Enabling and disabling switch passwords” on page 67 for additional information.
You must log in to a switch to perform most of the Fabric Manager administrative tasks.