Technical data

INTRODUCING FABRIC MANAGER

Fabric Manager provides a graphical interface that allows the administrator

to monitor and manage a fabric from a standard workstation. Fabric

Manager can be used to manage fabrics containing the FC 6164 in addition

to individual switches. The six switches in a FC 6164 are represented as a

group.

Fabric Manager provides high-level information about all switches in the

fabric, and launching the Web Tools application when more detailed

information is required. The launching of Web Tools is transparent,

providing a seamless user interface. In addition to the ability to view the

switches in an FC 6164 as a group, Fabric Manager provides improved

performance over Web Tools alone. If Web Tools is launched directly,

rather than through Fabric Manager, the switches in the FC 6164 are

represented as six individual switches.

Fabric Manager is installed on the workstation, and can be used to manage

any switches that have Fabric OS v2.0 or later and Web Tools v2.2 or later

installed (this documentation describes Web Tools v2.3 functionality). All

switches in the fabric are represented in the main window of Fabric

Manager.