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

56 Discovering and customizing fabrics
NOTE: You cannot log in to firmware version 4.0 through 4.2 switches with the factory user account in
Fabric Manager (although you can from the CLI or Advanced Web Tools). You must use an account with
administrative privileges (such as admin) to gain access.
To log in to multiple switches:
1. Select Discovery > Fabric Login.
The Fabric Login window opens (Figure 17).
Figure 17 Fabric login
2. Select the switches or fabrics you want from the SAN Elements tab and click the right arrow to move
them to the Selected Switches panel.
You can also drag fabric or switch names from the SAN Elements tab directly into the Selected Switches
panel.
3. Enter your user name in the User ID field.
4. Enter your password in the Password field.
5. Click Apply.
The success or failure of the login is displayed in the Status column of the Selected Switches table.
The background of the status field changes colors to display its status:
• Green indicates a successful login.
The user ID and password are saved to perform administrative operations until the session is
terminated. When the session is terminated, this user ID and corresponding password are persisted
to the database. The saved information is used for successive Fabric Manager sessions when
administrative operations are initiated from Fabric Manager.
• Red indicates that the login failed.
• Yellow indicates one of the following conditions:
• The switch login is being applied; the Status column text changes to Testing.
• The switch is unreachable in Fabric Manager. When you add this unreachable switch to the
Selected Switches list, the Status column text changes to Unreachable.
NOTE: If you did not log in to all of the switches successfully, remove the successful switches from the
Selected Switches panel and retry with a new user ID and password.
A key icon is displayed next to each switch and fabric that completes a successful login.