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

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2 Using Advanced Web Tools
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Viewing the Switch Explorer, page 25
• Displaying switches in the fabric, page 32
• Ending the Advanced Web Tools session, page 32
• Using Advanced Web Tools and secure mode, page 32
• Recommendations for working with Advanced Web Tools, page 33
Viewing the Switch Explorer
The first thing you see when you log in to a switch with Advanced Web Tools is the Switch Explorer (see
Figure 3). The Switch Explorer is divided into several areas that provide access to and information about
the switch and fabric. You should familiarize yourself with these areas, as the procedures in this guide
refer to them as follows:
• Fabric Tree, which displays a list of all the switches in the fabric
• Fabric Toolbar, which provides access to fabric-wide management interfaces, such as Name Server,
zoning, and events
• Switch View, which displays an interactive graphical representation of the switch
• Switch View Button Menu, which displays buttons providing switch information such as status, event
information, access to telnet, switch administration, switch performance, beaconing, and much more
• Switch Information View, which displays information about the switch such as name, status, Fabric OS
version, domain ID, IP address, and WWN
• Status Legend, which defines the meaning of the colors visible in the background of various icons in
the Switch Explorer
These areas are described further in the sections that follow.
Clicking some of the buttons and icons in the Switch Explorer opens up a separate module, from which
you can perform management tasks. In this document, a module is a collection of related tabs or views
that are displayed in a single browser window. The zoning module and the Switch Admin module require
you to log in, if upfront login is not enabled.
The format of the Switch Explorer varies, depending on the hardware type. Figure 3 through Figure 6 on
page 29 show Switch Explorer examples for several HP StorageWorks switches.
Note that the figures are grayed out so that you can more easily see the areas of the Switch Explorer.
In Figure 3 through Figure 6 on page 29, the letters A through F call out the different areas within the
Switch Explorer. Table 5 is a key for these callouts.
Table 5 Key to Figure 3 through Figure 6
Callout Area of Switch Explorer view
A Fabric tree
B Fabric toolbar
CSwitch view
D Switch view button menu
E Switch information view
FStatus legend