HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.X Advanced Web Tools Administrator Guide (AA-RVHYB-TE, September 2005)

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1 Introducing Advanced Web Tools

HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x Advanced Web Tools is a GUI that enables administrators to monitor

and manage single or small fabrics, switches, and ports from a standard workstation. It is an optionally

licensed product that runs on HP Fabric OS.

Advanced Web Tools provides the administrative control point for HP Advanced Fabric Services,

including Advanced Zoning, Interswitch Link (ISL) Trunking, Advanced Performance Monitoring, and

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.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• What’s New in This Document, next

• Requirements, installation, and support, page 15

• Launching Advanced Web Tools, page 20

• Logging in, page 21

• Logging out, page 22

• Session management, page 22

What’s New in This Document

The following changes have been made since this document was last released:

• Information that was added:

• Upfront login and the switchAdmin role are described in ”Logging in” on page 21.

• Support for the 4/256 SAN Director and the 4/16 SAN Switch is added throughout.

• Information that was changed:

• Changes to the FICON CUP tab are described in ”Configuring CUP port connectivity” on

page 117.

For further information, see the release notes.

Requirements, installation, and support

Before you install Advanced Web Tools on your workstation, verify that your switches and workstation

meet the Advanced Web Tools requirements listed in this chapter.

This section contains the following subsections:

• Requirements, page 15

• Installing an Advanced Web Tools license, page 18

• Value line licenses, page 19

• Switch support, page 19

• Launching Advanced Web Tools, page 20

Requirements

Advanced Web Tools requires a browser that conforms to HTML version 4.0, JavaScript version 1.0, and

Java

Plug-in 1.4.2_06 or later.

HP has certified and tested Advanced Web Tools on the platforms shown in Table 2.