Specifications

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4.2.2. Product’s Deployment
The next figure shows a sample of Navisphere Supervisor or Manager deployment, to manage DAS
subsystems connected to AIX servers.
SCSI
AIX server
Navisphere Supervisor or
Manager
Navisphere agent
AIX server
DAS
DAS
Fibre Channel
DAS
Multiple DAS per
server
AIX server
DAS
Fibre Channel
AIX server
AIX server
Single DAS Shared DAS
NT host
Navisphere
management
station
4.2.3. Prerequisites
The Navisphere Management Station requires Windows NT 4 with SP6.
Navisphere Supervisor and Manager are backward compatible with previously installed AIX agents.
But the AIX agents must be upgraded to benefit from the latest DAS features and models.
4.2.4. Licensing
A Navisphere AIX agent is mandatory on each AIX server. The Navisphere Supervisor license is
bundled with the AIX agent's license.
Navisphere Supervisor for NT is delivered in the Bull Enhancement CD-ROM.
Navisphere Manager is a separately priced and packaged product.
4.3. Navisphere for AIX
4.3.1. Product Overview
Discontinued: 13/07/2001.
Bull Navisphere Manager for AIX® is a management and monitoring tool for DAS RAID storage
systems (1300, 2900, 3200, 3500, 5300, 5700 and 5720) connected to AIX server, either with a point-
to-point SCSI or Fibre Channel connection, or through a Storage Area Network.