HP StorageWorks Advanced Web Tools 7.4.X Administrator Guide (AA-RVHFC-TE, September 2005)

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2 Managing fabrics
This chapter contains procedures for monitoring and managing fabrics, including:
• Viewing fabric information, next
• Configuring fabric parameters, page 22
• Configuring the fabric, page 26
Viewing fabric information
You can view fabric information through the Switch Manager. Click Fabric in the navigation bar to access
the Fabric page, shown in Figure 5. The Fabric page displays fabric domain information. This page
contains two tables.
The Domains table lists all the domains in the fabric. This table contains the following information:
• The name of the switch. This is also a hyperlink leading to subsequent pages, depending on the nature
of the device platform:
• If this is the MP Router managed by this Switch Manager, the hyperlink leads to the Switch
Manager Application Platform page for that MP Router.
• If this is another switch in the fabric, the hyperlink opens another browser window that attempts to
connect to that switch. For an MP Router, this results in a new Switch Explorer instance being
launched from that MP Router. For other switches, the behavior depends on the type of switch.
• The domain ID for the switch. Every switch in the fabric has a unique domain ID.
• The version of the operating system running on this switch. For MP Routers, this is the XPath OS version;
for other HP StorageWorks switches, this is the Fabric OS version.
• The WWN for the switch. The WWN uniquely identifies the switch.
• The IP address of the switch.
• The switch role. This can be either principal or subordinate. (The principal switch is the first switch to
boot up in a fabric.)
• For MP Routers, the “FC Router” column will be marked as “Yes.”
• IFCS, which displays the status of IP service fabric configuration server (IFCS) switches in the fabric.
Status can be Primary, Secondary, Standalone, or N/A (indicating that the switch is not IFCS-capable).
The Topology table contains information about the fabric topology, as seen by the local MP Router. The
fabric topology consists of a list of all domains that are part of the fabric and the egress port for each
domain.
To reach a certain domain, frames addressed to that domain are forwarded from one port (the ingress
port) to another port (the egress port) by the MP Router. The egress port defines the next hop for the frame.
The Topology table displays the following information:
• Remote Domain. The domain ID of a remote switch in the fabric. This is a hyperlink to that switch.
Clicking it opens another browser window that connects to that switch. For an MP Router, this results in
a new Switch Explorer instance being launched from that MP Router. For other switches, the behavior
depends on the type of switch.
• Remote Switch Name. The name of a remote switch in the fabric. This is a hyperlink to that switch; it is
the same as the Remote Domain hyperlink.
• Out Port Name. The name of the port on the local MP Router that is connected to the remote domain.
This is a hyperlink to the port drill-down page.
• Out Port #. The port number for the port on the local MP Router that is connected to the remote domain.
• # Hops. The number of hops between the local MP Router and the remote domain.
• Link Cost. The cost of the link (for routing decisions).