FW V06.XX/HAFM SW V08.02.00 HP StorageWorks SAN High Availability Planning Guide (AA-RS2DD-TE, July 2004)

Physical Planning Considerations
145SAN High Availability Planning Guide
Inband Management Access (Optional)
Inband management console access (through a Fibre Channel port) is provided by
enabling user-specified features that allow Open Systems or FICON host control
of a director or switch. The features are mutually exclusive; only one can be
installed at a time.
Features are enabled through a feature key encoded to work with the serial
number of a unique director or switch. A feature key is a case-sensitive
alphanumeric string with dashes every four characters.
When the Open Systems management server (OSMS) feature key is enabled at a
Element Manager application, host control and management of the director or
switch is provided through an open-systems interconnection (OSI) device
attached to a product port.
When implementing inband product management through an OSI connection,
plan for the following minimum host requirements:
■ Connectivity to an OSI server with a product-compatible host bus adapter
(HBA) that communicates through the Fibre Channel common transport
(FC-CT) protocol.
■ Installation of a storage network management application on the OSI server.
Management applications include Veritas SANPoint Control (version 1.0 or
later) or Tivoli NetView (version 6.0 or later).
For information about product-compatible HBAs, third-party SAN management
applications, and minimum OSI server specifications, refer to the HP web site.
When the FICON management server (FMS) feature key is enabled in the
Element Manager application, host control and management of the director or
switch is provided through an IBM server attached to a product port. The server
communicates with the product through a FICON channel.
When implementing inband product management through a FICON channel, plan
for the following minimum host requirements:
■ Connectivity to an IBM System/390 (generation 5 or later) or zSeries 900
Parallel Enterprise server with one or more FICON channel cards installed.
■ Installation of System Automation for Operating System/390 (SA OS/390)
for native FICON, version 1.3 or later, plus service listed in the appropriate
preventive service planning (PSP) bucket. The PSP bucket upgrade is
HKYSA30.