director 2/64 service manual

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General Information
Directors are managed and controlled through an HP-supplied HAFM server with the
HAFM and Director 2/64 Product Manager applications installed. The HAFM server
is a notebook personal computer (PC) that provides a central point of control for up to
48 directors and/or edge switches. Multiple directors and the HAFM server
communicate through the customer’s local area network (LAN).
The director provides dynamic switched connections for servers and devices, supports
mainframe and open-systems interconnection (OSI) computing environments, and
provides data transmission and flow control between device node ports (N_Ports) as
dictated by the Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH 4.3). Through
interswitch links (ISLs), the director can also connect to one or more additional
directors or switches to form a Fibre Channel multiswitch fabric.
Director Management
The following management access methods are provided:
• Management through the HAFM application. This graphical user interface (GUI)
resides on the HAFM server and provides a single point of management for all
directors, and a launching point for the Director 2/64 Product Manager
application.
• Management using simple network management protocol (SNMP). An SNMP
agent is implemented through the HAFM application that allows administrators on
SNMP management workstations to access director management information
using any standard network management tool. Administrators can assign internet
protocol (IP) addresses and corresponding community names for up to 12 SNMP
workstations functioning as SNMP trap message recipients.
• Management through the Internet using the Embedded Web Server interface
installed on the director. This interface supports configuration, statistics
monitoring, and basic operation of the director, but does not offer all the
capabilities of the Director 2/64 Product Manager application. Administrators
launch the web server interface from a remote PC by entering the director’s IP
address as the Internet uniform resource locator (URL), then entering a user name
and password at a login screen. The PC browser then becomes a management
console.
• Management through a customer-supplied remote workstation communicating
with the HAFM server through a corporate intranet.
• Management through the command line interface (CLI). The CLI allows you to
access many HAFM and Product Manager applications while entering commands
during a telnet session with the director. The primary purpose of the CLI is to
automate management of a large number of directors using scripts. The CLI is not