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Storage Essentials 5.1 User Guide 311

Set Up External Tools

- Lets you add a URL for accessing management software, such as

Hitachi HiCommand Device Manager and EMC ControlCenter™ Navisphere. See ”

Setting up

External Tools

” on page 311 for more information.

Access the Management Tool for the Storage System

- In some instances, the management

tool for the storage system is accessible from this menu. For example, HiCommand for HDS

storage systems and Command View for HP XP storage systems are accessible from the External

Tools menu.

Setting up External Tools

You can add URLs used for accessing external tools used for managing an element, such as Hitachi

HiCommand Device Manager and EMC ControlCenter™ Navisphere for storage systems.

NOTE:

When you add a URL, it only applies to the element you originally right-clicked.

To add a URL for accessing external tools:

1.

Access System Manager.

2.

Right-click the element and select External Tools > Set Up External Tools.

3.

Click the Add New Management URL button.

4.

In the Description field, type the name of the product you plan to access.

5.

In the URL field, type the URL that is used to access the product.

6.

Click OK.

When you right-click the element and select External Tools, the external tool is listed.

To delete the URL for an external tool, click the corresponding button in the External Tools

window.

About the Navigation Tab

The Navigation tab not only provides information about an element, but it also illustrates how the

element relates to other elements in its path. For example, the Navigation page displays logical and

physical components, such as ports, zone sets, zones and zone aliases. It also displays the

dependencies for switches, as shown in the following figure.
Keep in mind the following:

When McDATA or Connectrix switches are discovered through a proxy by using SNMP, you

cannot view or perform any provisioning operations for those switches. For example, you cannot

view zone sets, zones, and/or zone alias.

When McDATA or Connectrix switches are discovered by their IP address by using SNMP, you

can only view the active zone set and its members. You cannot create, modify, and/or delete

zone sets or its members.

If you see a message that zone aliases are not supported on a Brocade switch, perform

Discovery Data Collection/Get Details. The management server does not gather provisioning

information from a fabric until Discovery Data Collection/Get Details is performed.

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