HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager 5.x Administrator Guide (AA-RUQSF-TE, September 2005)

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11 Switch configuration and management
This chapter discusses the following topics:
• Synchronizing date and time across a fabric, next
• Opening a telnet session for a non-secure switch, page 127
• Enabling and disabling switches and ports, page 128
• Configuring ports, page 128
• Advanced Web Tools ports tab, page 129
• Advanced Web Tools trunking tab, page 130
• Using baseline configurations for configuration management, page 134
• Using the switchAdmin role, page 142
• Propagating RADIUS configuration across switches, page 142
• Designating a core switch, page 144
• Saving switch configuration files, page 144
• Displaying the switch health report, page 145
Synchronizing date and time across a fabric
You can synchronize date and time across an entire fabric. Because the firmware places timestamps on
entries in the port log dump, you can more easily correlate events when you synchronize your fabric.
You must be logged in to switches in a fabric when attempting to set the time on that fabric. The type of
fabric configuration determines which switches you must be logged in to. If you are not logged in to the
appropriate switches, Fabric Manager prompts you to do so before proceeding.
To synchronize the date and time:
1. Log in to the switches in the fabric that you want to synchronize.
2. In the SAN Elements tab, right-click the fabric element that you want to synchronize and select Set Time
from the context menu.
You can select a fabric, but not a switch group. The Time dialog box opens (see Figure 68).
Figure 68 Time dialog box
3. To adjust the time or date, click the applicable areas in the Time dialog box (day of week, month, day
number, year, hour, minute, second, AM or PM, and timezone), use the up and down arrows to change
the values, and then click OK.
Opening a telnet session for a non-secure switch
To open a telnet session for a non-secure switch (a switch without secure mode enabled):
1. In the SAN Elements tab, right-click a non-secure switch and select Telnet from the context menu.
The telnet prompt is displayed.
2. Log in using telnet.