Product guide

102 EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter
Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter
Logging in to SAN Advisor
The administrator logs in to SAN Advisor as follows:
1. On the Start menu, selects Programs > EMC > SAN Advisor. The SAN Advisor login
page appears.
2. Enters the username and password and clicks Login. The SAN Advisor home page
appears (Figure 74).
Figure 74 SAN Advisor home page
Validating an existing SAN environment
SAN Advisor takes snapshots of Ionix ControlCenter-managed environments. These
snapshots help accelerate SAN design and change management by allowing you to
model and validate environment changes before implementing them.
The administrator takes a snapshot of the existing SAN environment from the Ionix
ControlCenter Repository and directly from servers running SNMP as follows. (For
information on supported host and agent details, refer to the SAN Advisor online
help.)
To validate the SAN, the administrator: