User`s guide

SANsurfer FC HBA Manager Application User’s Guide for OEMs
Management Application for SANblade Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters
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Section 5 Installing SANsurfer FC HBA Manager
5.1 Initial Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
5.1.1 Installation Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
5.1.2 Installation Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
5.2 Uninstalling the SANsurfer Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
Section 6 Getting Started
6.1 Starting the SANsurfer FC HBA Manager GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
6.1.1 Starting SANsurfer FC HBA Manager on Windows 2000/Windows
Server 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
6.1.2 Starting SANsurfer on Red Hat/SuSE Linux or Solaris SPARC . . . . . 6-2
6.2 SANsurfer FC HBA Manager Main Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
6.3 Exiting the SANsurfer FC HBA Manager GUI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
6.4 Getting Help with the SANsurfer FC HBA Manager GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
6.4.1 Viewing Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
6.4.2 Specifying the Browser Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
6.4.3 Viewing SANsurfer FC HBA Manager Software Information . . . . . . . . 6-8
6.5 Setting SANsurfer FC HBA Manager Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
6.6 Setting the Warning Display Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10
6.7 Setting the Configuration Change Alarm Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
6.8 Specifying the Polling Interval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
6.9 Setting the Event Log Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
6.10 Setting the Alarm Log Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
6.11 Setting Up Automatic Alarm Notification by Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
6.12 Specifying the HBA Driver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-17
6.13 Refreshing the Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-19
Section 7 Setting Up Connections
7.1 Connecting to Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
7.1.1 Manually Connecting to a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
7.1.2 Auto Connecting to All Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
7.1.3 Connecting to Hosts Using a Host Group File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
7.1.3.1 Creating a Host Group File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
7.1.3.2 Using a Host Group File to Connect to Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
7.1.4 Connecting to Hosts Automatically when Starting the SANsurfer FC
HBA Manager GUI from the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
7.1.4.1 Connecting on Windows 2000/Windows Server 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
7.1.4.2 Connecting on Red Hat/SuSE Linux or Solaris SPARC . . . . . . . . . 7-7
7.1.5 Disconnecting from a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8