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Switch Features

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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.