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Table Of Contents

Switch features22

Management Appliance

The HAFM appliance and Element Manager provide a GUI to manage, monitor, and isolate

problems for multiple switches and multiswitch fabrics. The server and client applications operate on

the management appliance, and a user interface is provided through an Ethernet LAN-attached PC

or workstation running client-only applications as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4 Management appliance main window

The main window provides:

• Menu bar—Commands at the top of the window provide drop-down menu selections to perform

functions for SAN devices including editing, viewing, planning, discovery, configuration, and

monitoring.

• Tool bar—The tool bar (below the menu bar) provides button selections to perform SAN

management tasks including opening a SAN configuration, configuring users, setting up and

starting the device discovery process, configuring zoning, displaying a SAN, displaying SAN

utilization, and viewing reports.

• View tab—Select the View tab to display a product list and physical map of the discovered

topology.

• Product list—When the View tab is selected, the product list at the left side of the window

displays a list of discovered devices and associated properties.

• Physical map—When the View tab is selected, the physical map at the right side of the window

depicts the SAN topology, discovered devices, and color-coded links.

• Tool box—The toolbox at the right side of the window provides button selections to change the

discovered topology display, including zoom in, zoom out, expand, and collapse functions.