HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.0.0 Features Overview (AA-RW1NA-TE, May 2005)

17Fabric OS 5.0 features overview
Advanced Web Tools
Advanced Web Tools is a GUI that enables administrators to monitor and manage single or
small fabrics, switches, and ports from a standard workstation.
Advanced Web Tools provides the administrative control point for Advanced Fabric Services,
including the following:
• Advanced Zoning
• ISL Trunking
• Advanced Performance Monitoring
• Fabric Watch.
Advanced Web Tools also provides an interface to telnet commands to perform special switch
functions and diagnostics that are available only through the telnet interface.
Advanced Zoning
Advanced Zoning allows you to partition a SAN into logical groupings of devices that have
access to each other. These groupings are called zones.
Through the use of zoning, you can customize environments and optimize resources. You can
configure devices connected to a fabric into one or more zones.
After you enable zoning, devices that you have not explicitly defined in a zone are isolated
and other devices in the fabric cannot access them.
NOTE: You can enable zoning in most storage units in the switch fabric and on the host.
Zone functions
You can use zones for the following purposes:
• To create logical subsets of a fabric in order to accommodate specialized environments,
such as closed user groups or functional areas within the fabric. For example, you can
identify selected devices within a zone for the exclusive use of zone members, or you can
define a zone to create separate test or maintenance areas within the fabric.
• To logically consolidate equipment for efficiency or to facilitate time-sensitive functions. For
example, you can create a temporary zone to back up nonmember devices.