Document Outline

• Table of Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
• Section 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Intended Audience
  • 1.2 Related Materials
  • 1.3 JDOM License
  • 1.4 Technical Support
    • 1.4.1 Availability
    • 1.4.2 Training
    • 1.4.3 Contact Information
• Section 2 Using SANsurfer Switch Manager
  • 2.1 Workstation Requirements
  • 2.2 Installing the Management Application
    • 2.2.1 SANsurfer Switch Manager
    • 2.2.2 SANsurfer Management Suite
      • 2.2.2.1 SMS Installation for Windows
      • 2.2.2.2 SMS Installation for Linux
      • 2.2.2.3 SMS Installation for Solaris
  • 2.3 Starting SANsurfer Switch Manager
  • 2.4 Exiting SANsurfer Switch Manager
  • 2.5 Uninstalling SANsurfer Switch Manager
    • 2.5.1 SMS Uninstall
    • 2.5.2 Standalone Uninstall
  • 2.6 Changing the Encryption Key for the Default Fabric View File
  • 2.7 Saving and Opening Fabric View Files
  • 2.8 Setting SANsurfer Switch Manager Preferences
  • 2.9 Using Online Help
  • 2.10 Viewing Software Version and Copyright Information
  • 2.11 SANsurfer Switch Manager User Interface
    • 2.11.1 Menu Bars
      • 2.11.1.1 Topology Display Menu
      • 2.11.1.2 Faceplate Display Menu
      • 2.11.1.3 Shortcut Keys
    • 2.11.2 Tool Bar
    • 2.11.3 Fabric Tree
    • 2.11.4 Graphic Window
    • 2.11.5 Data Window and Tabs
    • 2.11.6 Working Status Indicator
  • 2.12 Using the Topology Display
    • 2.12.1 Switch and Link Status
    • 2.12.2 Working with Switches and Links
      • 2.12.2.1 Selecting Switches and Links
      • 2.12.2.2 Arranging Switches in the Display
      • 2.12.2.3 Opening the Faceplate and Topology Display Popup Menus
    • 2.12.3 Topology Data Windows
  • 2.13 Using the Faceplate Display
    • 2.13.1 Port Views and Status
    • 2.13.2 Working with Ports
      • 2.13.2.1 Selecting Ports
      • 2.13.2.2 Opening the Faceplate Popup Menu
    • 2.13.3 Faceplate Data Windows
• Section 3 Managing Fabrics
  • 3.1 RADIUS Servers
    • 3.1.1 Adding a RADIUS Server
    • 3.1.2 Removing a RADIUS Server
    • 3.1.3 Editing RADIUS Server Information
    • 3.1.4 Modifying Authentication Order RADIUS Server Information
  • 3.2 Securing a Fabric
    • 3.2.1 Connection Security
    • 3.2.2 User Account Security
    • 3.2.3 Security Consistency Checklist
    • 3.2.4 Device Security
      • 3.2.4.1 Edit Security Dialog
      • 3.2.4.2 Creating a Security Set
      • 3.2.4.3 Create Security Group Dialog
      • 3.2.4.4 Creating a Security Group
      • 3.2.4.5 Create Security Group Member Dialog
      • 3.2.4.6 Creating a Security Group Member
      • 3.2.4.7 Editing the Security Configuration on a Switch
      • 3.2.4.8 Viewing Properties of a Security Set, Group, or Member
      • 3.2.4.9 Using the Security Config Dialog
      • 3.2.4.10 Archiving a Security Configuration to a File
      • 3.2.4.11 Activating a Security Set
      • 3.2.4.12 Deactivating a Security Set
      • 3.2.4.13 Configured Security Data Window
      • 3.2.4.14 Active Security Data Window
    • 3.2.5 Fabric Services
      • 3.2.5.1 Enabling SNMP Configuration
      • 3.2.5.2 Enabling In-band Management
  • 3.3 Tracking Fabric Firmware and Software Versions
    • 3.3.1 Saving a Version Snapshot
    • 3.3.2 Viewing and Comparing Version Snapshots
    • 3.3.3 Exporting Version Snapshots to a File
  • 3.4 Managing the Fabric Database
    • 3.4.1 Adding a Fabric
    • 3.4.2 Removing a Fabric
    • 3.4.3 Opening a Fabric View File
    • 3.4.4 Saving a Fabric View File
    • 3.4.5 Rediscovering a Fabric
    • 3.4.6 Deleting Switches and Links
    • 3.4.7 Adding a New Switch to a Fabric
    • 3.4.8 Replacing a Failed Switch
  • 3.5 Displaying Fabric Information
    • 3.5.1 Fabric Status
    • 3.5.2 Displaying the Event Browser
      • 3.5.2.1 Filtering the Event Browser
      • 3.5.2.2 Sorting the Event Browser
      • 3.5.2.3 Saving the Event Browser to a File
    • 3.5.3 Devices Data Window
    • 3.5.4 Active Zone Set Data Window
      • 3.5.4.1 Link Data Window
  • 3.6 Working with Device Information and Nicknames
    • 3.6.1 Displaying Detailed Device Information
    • 3.6.2 Exporting Device Information to a File
    • 3.6.3 Managing Device Port Nicknames
      • 3.6.3.1 Creating a Nickname
      • 3.6.3.2 Editing a Nickname
      • 3.6.3.3 Deleting a Nickname
      • 3.6.3.4 Exporting Nicknames to a File
      • 3.6.3.5 Importing a Nicknames File
  • 3.7 Zoning a Fabric
    • 3.7.1 Zoning Concepts
      • 3.7.1.1 Zones
      • 3.7.1.2 Aliases
      • 3.7.1.3 Zone Sets
      • 3.7.1.4 Zoning Database
    • 3.7.2 Using the Zoning Wizard
    • 3.7.3 Managing the Zoning Database
      • 3.7.3.1 Editing the Zoning Database
      • 3.7.3.2 Configuring the Zoning Database
      • 3.7.3.3 Saving the Zoning Database to a File
      • 3.7.3.4 Restoring the Zoning Database from a File
      • 3.7.3.5 Restoring the Default Zoning Database
      • 3.7.3.6 Removing All Zoning Definitions
    • 3.7.4 Managing Zone Sets
      • 3.7.4.1 Creating a Zone Set
      • 3.7.4.2 Activating and Deactivating a Zone Set
      • 3.7.4.3 Copying a Zone to a Zone Set
      • 3.7.4.4 Removing a Zone from a Zone Set or from All Zone Sets
      • 3.7.4.5 Removing a Zone Set
    • 3.7.5 Managing Zones
      • 3.7.5.1 Creating a Zone in a Zone Set
      • 3.7.5.2 Adding Zone Members
      • 3.7.5.3 Renaming a Zone or a Zone Set
      • 3.7.5.4 Removing a Zone Member
      • 3.7.5.5 Removing a Zone from a Zone Set
      • 3.7.5.6 Removing a Zone from All Zone Sets
      • 3.7.5.7 Changing Zone Types
    • 3.7.6 Managing Aliases
      • 3.7.6.1 Creating an Alias
      • 3.7.6.2 Adding a Member to an Alias
      • 3.7.6.3 Removing an Alias from All Zones
    • 3.7.7 Merging Fabrics and Zoning
      • 3.7.7.1 Zone Merge Failure
      • 3.7.7.2 Zone Merge Failure Recovery
• Section 4 Managing Switches
  • 4.1 Managing User Accounts
    • 4.1.1 Creating User Accounts
    • 4.1.2 Removing a User Account
    • 4.1.3 Changing a User Account Password
    • 4.1.4 Modifying a User Account
  • 4.2 Displaying Switch Information
    • 4.2.1 Devices Data Window
    • 4.2.2 Switch Data Window
    • 4.2.3 Port Statistics Data Window
    • 4.2.4 Port Information Data Window
    • 4.2.5 Configured Zonesets Data Window
  • 4.3 Configuring Port Threshold Alarms
  • 4.4 Paging a Switch
  • 4.5 Setting the Date/Time and Enabling NTP Client
  • 4.6 Resetting a Switch
  • 4.7 Configuring a Switch
    • 4.7.1 Using the Configuration Wizard
    • 4.7.2 Switch Properties
      • 4.7.2.1 Symbolic Name
      • 4.7.2.2 Switch Administrative States
      • 4.7.2.3 Domain ID and Domain ID Lock
      • 4.7.2.4 Fabric Device Management Interface
      • 4.7.2.5 Broadcast Support
      • 4.7.2.6 In-band Management
    • 4.7.3 Advanced Switch Properties
      • 4.7.3.1 Interop Mode for Zoning
      • 4.7.3.2 Legacy Port Address Format
      • 4.7.3.3 Timeout Values
    • 4.7.4 System Services Dialog
    • 4.7.5 Security Consistency Checklist Dialog
    • 4.7.6 Network Properties
      • 4.7.6.1 IP Configuration
      • 4.7.6.2 Remote Logging
      • 4.7.6.3 NTP Client
    • 4.7.7 SNMP Properties
      • 4.7.7.1 SNMP Configuration
      • 4.7.7.2 SNMP Trap Configuration
  • 4.8 Managing Switch Stacks
    • 4.8.1 Syslog
    • 4.8.2 Select Source Dialog
  • 4.9 Archiving a Switch
  • 4.10 Restoring a Switch
  • 4.11 Restoring the Factory Default Configuration
  • 4.12 Downloading a Support File
  • 4.13 Upgrading the Switch Using License Keys
  • 4.14 Installing Firmware
    • 4.14.1 Displaying Hardware Status
• Section 5 Managing Ports
  • 5.1 Displaying Port Information
    • 5.1.1 Monitoring Port Status
      • 5.1.1.1 Displaying Port Types
      • 5.1.1.2 Displaying Port Operational States
      • 5.1.1.3 Displaying Port Speeds
      • 5.1.1.4 Displaying Transceiver Media Status
    • 5.1.2 Port Statistics Data Window
    • 5.1.3 Port Information Data Window
  • 5.2 Configuring Ports
    • 5.2.1 Changing Port Administrative States
    • 5.2.2 Changing Port Speeds
    • 5.2.3 Changing Port Types
    • 5.2.4 I/O Stream Guard
    • 5.2.5 Device Scan
    • 5.2.6 Changing Port Symbolic Name
  • 5.3 Using the Extended Credits Wizard
  • 5.4 Resetting a Port
  • 5.5 Testing Ports
  • 5.6 Graphing Port Performance
    • 5.6.1 Starting SANsurfer Performance Viewer
    • 5.6.2 Exiting SANsurfer Performance Viewer
    • 5.6.3 Saving and Opening Performance View Files
    • 5.6.4 Changing the Default Performance View File Encryption Key
    • 5.6.5 Setting SANsurfer Performance Viewer Preferences
    • 5.6.6 Setting the Polling Frequency
    • 5.6.7 Displaying Graphs for a Switch
      • 5.6.7.1 Displaying Graphs for a Stack
      • 5.6.7.2 Arranging Graphs in the Display
      • 5.6.7.3 Customizing Graphs
      • 5.6.7.4 Setting Global Graph Type
      • 5.6.7.5 Rescaling a Selected Graph
    • 5.6.8 Printing Graphs
    • 5.6.9 Saving Graph Statistics to a File
• Appendix A Command Line Interface
  • A.1 Logging On to a Switch
  • A.2 User Accounts
  • A.3 Working with Switch Configurations
    • A.3.1 Modifying a Configuration
    • A.3.2 Backing up and Restoring Switch Configurations
  • A.4 Commands
    • Admin Command
    • Alias Command
    • CIM Command
    • CIMListener Command
    • CIMSubscription Command
    • Config Command
    • Create Command
    • Date Command
    • Feature Command
    • Firmware Install Command
    • Group Command
    • Hardreset Command
    • Help Command
    • History Command
    • Hotreset Command
    • Image Command
    • Lip Command
    • Passwd Command
    • Ping Command
    • Ps Command
    • Quit Command
    • Reset Command
    • Security Command
    • Securityset Command
    • Set Command
    • Set Config Command
    • Set Log Command
    • Set Port Command
    • Set Setup Command
    • Show Command
    • Show Config Command
    • Show Log Command
    • Show Perf Command
    • Show Setup Command
    • Shutdown Command
    • Test Command
    • Uptime Command
    • User Command
    • Whoami Command
    • Zone Command
    • Zoneset Command
    • Zoning Command
• Glossary
• Index