Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual v12.0.0 (53-1002696-01, April 2013)

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Host discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Discovering Hosts by Network address or host name . . . . . . .59
Importing Hosts from a CSV file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Importing Hosts from a Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Importing Hosts from a VM manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Editing Host adapter credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Removing a host from active discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Rediscovering a previously discovered fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Deleting a host adapter from discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Viewing the host discovery state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Troubleshooting host discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
VM Manager discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Discovering a VM manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Editing a VM manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Excluding a host from VM manager discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Including a host in VM manager discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Removing a VM manager from active discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Rediscovering a previously discovered VM manager . . . . . . . . 71
Deleting a VM manager from discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Viewing the VM manager discovery state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Troubleshooting VM manager discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Chapter 5 Application Configuration
Configurable preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Server Data backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
What is backed up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Management server backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Configuring backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Enabling backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Disabling backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Viewing the backup status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Changing the backup interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Starting immediate backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
Reviewing backup events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
Server Data restore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Restoring data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Restoring data to a new server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
SAN display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Setting your FICON display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Resetting your display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
SAN End node display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Displaying end nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
SAN Ethernet loss events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Enabling SAN Ethernet loss events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Disabling SAN Ethernet loss events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Event storage settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Configuring event storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Storing historical events purged from repository. . . . . . . . . . . . 89