Specifications

2 Monitoring the QLogic SANbox Fibre Channel Switch with NetCentral Preliminary July 7, 2005
Monitoring the QLogic SANbox Fibre Channel Switch with NetCentral
Preliminary
Before you begin monitoring
Before you can monitor a QLogic SANbox Fibre Channel Switch, you must prepare
the QLogic SANbox Fibre Channel Switch and the NetCentral system. The required
tasks and the documents in which you can find instructions are listed in the following
table:
Configuring the QLogic SANbox Switch for
NetCentral monitoring
The following section describes how to configure your switch for operation with
NetCentral.
SNMP configuration
The QLogic SANbox Switch has a SNMP agent, which is a standard software item on
all QLogic SANbox Switches. SNMP includes a mechanism to report events as soon
as they occur, rather than waiting until a device is polled to obtain its status. This type
of notification is called a trap, and can be sent to one or several SNMP managers.
When you monitor with NetCentral you want traps sent to the NetCentral manager
software component, so you set the trap destination to the IP address of the NetCentral
server PC.
NOTE: You can also perform the SNMP configuration using the SANsurfer switch
management application via the Ethernet network.
To configure the destination for trap notifications, follow these steps:
1. Use Telnet over the Ethernet LAN or a serial communication application such as
Hyperterminal through an RS-232 connection to enter access the Command Line
Interface.
2. Log in to the switch with administrator permissions. The default administrator
account is username admin and password password, all in lowercase characters.
3. Type the following command to enter the administrator mode, which allows you to
modify settings:
Do this... Using the following documentation:
Install the QLogic SANbox Fibre
Channel Switch
SANbox Fibre Channel Switch
Installation Guide
Assign an IP address to the
QLogic SANbox Fibre Channel
Switch
Grass Valley Fibre Channel Switch
Installation Manual
Set up the NetCentral system NetCentral User Guide and NetCentral
Release Notes
Install the QLogic SANbox Fibre
Channel Switch device provider
License the QLogic SANbox
Fibre Channel Switch device
provider
NetCentral Release Notes