FW 08.01.00 McDATA® Sphereon 3032 and 3232 Fabric Switches Installation and Service Manual (620-000155-220, November 2005)

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Task 19: Configure the Sphereon 3032/3232 Element Manager Applications
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Installation Tasks
1. At the Hardware View for the selected switch, click the Configure
icon at the navigation control panel and select Identification from
the Configure menu. The Configure Identification dialog box
displays.
Figure 2-67 Configure Identification Dialog Box
a. Type a switch name of 24 alphanumeric characters or less in
the Name field. Each switch should be configured with a
unique name.
If the switch is installed on a public LAN, the name should
reflect the switch’s Ethernet network DNS host name. For
example, if the DNS host name is es3232.mcdata.com, the
name entered in this dialog box should be es3232.
b. Click Set Name as Nickname and add a check mark if you want
to use the name in the name field as the nickname for the
switch’s WWN. The nickname will display instead of the
WWN in element manager views.
c. Type a switch description of 255 alphanumeric characters or
less in the Description field.
d. Type the switch’s physical location (255 alphanumeric
characters or less) in the Location field.
e. Type the name of a contact person (255 alphanumeric
characters or less) in the Contact field.
2. Click Activate to configure the switch identification and close the
dialog box.