Document Outline

• Contents
• About this guide
  • Intended audience
  • Related documentation
  • Document conventions and symbols
    • Table 1 Document conventions
  • HP technical support
    • HP Storage web site
    • HP authorized reseller
• Introducing Advanced Web Tools
  • Changes to this guide for OS v5.0.0
    • Ending the Web Tools session
      • To end the Web Tools session
        • Figure 10 Ports tab
    • Configuring port type
      • To change the port type
        • Figure 11 Extended Fabric tab
  • Launching Advanced Web Tools
    • Figure 1 Advanced Web Tools Switch Explorer for a SAN Switch 4/32
  • Switch Explorer
    • Table 2 Key to Figure 2 through Figure 4
    • Figure 2 Advanced Web Tools Switch Explorer for a Core Switch 2/64
    • Figure 3 Advanced Web Tools Switch Explorer for a SAN Director 2/128
    • Figure 4 Advanced Web Tools Switch Explorer for a SAN Switch 2/8V
    • Table 3 Polling rate in the Switch Explorer window
    • Fabric Tree
    • Fabric Toolbar
    • Switch View
    • Switch View button menu
    • Switch Information View
    • Status Legend
  • Displaying Switches in the fabric
  • Advanced Web Tools and secure mode
    • Advanced Web Tools access and HTTP_POLICY
    • Opening modules in a secure fabric
    • Primary-FCS-only functionality
    • Disabled functionality
  • Recommendations for working with Advanced Web Tools
• Requirements, installation, and support
  • Requirements
    • Table 4 Certified and tested platforms
    • Table 5 Tested platforms
    • Configuring Internet Explorer
      • Figure 5 Configuring Internet Explorer
    • Installing Java on the workstation
  • Installing an Advanced Web Tools license
    • Installing an Advanced Web Tools license through telnet
    • Installing an Advanced Web Tools license through the Web
  • Value line licenses
  • Switch support
• Managing your fabrics, switches, and ports
  • Managing fabrics, switches, and ports using Advanced Web Tools
    • Figure 6 Switch Admin module
    • Launching the Switch Admin module
    • Refreshing the Switch Admin module
  • Launching the Telnet window
  • Configuring IP and netmask information
    • Figure 7 Network tab
  • Configuring a syslog IP address
  • Performing a firmware download
    • Figure 8 Firmware tab
  • Configuring a switch
    • Enabling and disabling a switch
    • Changing the switch name
    • Changing the switch domain ID
    • Viewing and printing a switch report
  • Rebooting the switch
    • Performing a fast boot
    • Performing a reboot
  • Configuring fabric parameters
    • Figure 9 Configure tab, Fabric subtab
    • Enabling insistent domain ID mode
  • Configuring FAN frame notification parameters
  • Configuring ports
    • Figure 10 Ports tab
    • Configuring port speed
    • Assigning a name to a port
    • Disabling a port over reboots
    • Enabling and disabling a port
  • Activating ports on demand
  • Configuring a port for long distance
    • Table 6 Long-distance settings and license requirements
    • Figure 11 Extended Fabric tab
  • Configuring routes
    • Figure 12 Routing tab for port-based routing policy
    • Displaying fabric shortest path first (FSPF) routing
    • Configuring a static route
    • Enabling and disabling dynamic load sharing
    • Specifying frame order delivery
    • Configuring link cost
  • Maintaining configurations
    • Figure 13 Configure tab, Upload/Download subtab
    • Backing up a configuration file
    • Restoring a configuration
  • Maintaining licensed features
    • Figure 14 License tab
    • Activating a license on a switch
    • Removing a License from a Switch
  • Administering ISL trunking
    • Figure 15 Trunking tab
    • Displaying trunk group information
    • Disabling or reenabling trunking mode on a port
  • Managing trace dumps
    • Figure 16 Trace tab
    • How a trace dump is used
    • Setting up automatic trace dump transfers
    • Disabling automatic trace uploads
    • Uploading a trace dump manually
  • Creating and maintaining user-defined accounts
    • Figure 17 User tab
  • Configuring SNMP information
    • Setting SNMP trap levels
      • Figure 18 SNMP tab
    • Configuring SNMP information
  • Administering high availability
    • Launching the Hi Availability module
      • Figure 19 HA Admin module for the Core Switch 2/64
    • Synchronizing services on the CP
    • Initiating a CP failover
  • Managing a RADIUS server
    • Figure 20 AAA Service tab
    • Enabling and disabling RADIUS service
    • Configuring the RADIUS server
    • Modifying the RADIUS server
    • Modifying the RADIUS server order
    • Removing a RADIUS server
• Monitoring your fabrics, switches, and ports
  • Monitoring events
    • Table 7 Event security levels
    • Displaying fabric events
      • Figure 21 Fabric Events view
    • Displaying switch events
      • Figure 22 Switch Events view
    • Filtering fabric and switch events
      • Figure 23 Event Filter dialog box
  • Displaying a fabric topology report
    • Figure 24 Fabric topology report
  • Displaying the name server entries
    • Figure 25 Name Server view
  • Displaying switch information
    • Displaying detailed fan hardware status
    • Displaying the temperature status
    • Displaying the power supply status
    • Checking the physical health of a switch
      • Figure 26 Switch status report
      • Figure 27 Switch report action menu
    • Displaying detailed switch information
      • Figure 28 Switch information view
  • Physically locating a switch using beaconing
  • Displaying port information
    • Figure 29 Port and LED status color-coded information
    • Figure 30 Port Information screen
  • Displaying swapped port area IDs
• Zone administration
  • Introduction to zoning
  • Managing zoning with Advanced Web Tools
    • Figure 31 Zone Admin module
    • Figure 32 Device Detail view example
    • Launching the Zone Admin module
    • Refreshing the fabric information
    • Refreshing the Zone Admin module information
    • Saving local zoning changes
    • Closing the Zone Admin module
    • Zoning views
  • Managing zone aliases
    • Creating and populating a zone alias
    • Adding and removing members of a zone alias
    • Renaming a zone alias
    • Deleting a Zone Alias
  • Managing zones
    • Creating and populating a zone
    • Adding and removing the members of a zone
    • Renaming a zone
    • Deleting a zone
  • Managing QuickLoops
    • Creating a QuickLoop
    • Adding and removing members of a QuickLoop
    • Renaming a QuickLoop
    • Deleting a QuickLoop
  • Managing Fabric Assist zones
    • Creating a Fabric Assist zone
    • Adding and removing Fabric Assist zone members
    • Renaming a Fabric Assist zone
    • Deleting a Fabric Assist zone
  • Managing zoning configurations
    • Figure 33 Sample zoning database
    • Creating a zoning configuration
    • Adding or removing zone configuration members
    • Renaming a zone configuration
    • Deleting a zone configuration
    • Enabling a zone configuration
    • Disabling a zone configuration
    • Displaying the enabled zone configuration
      • Figure 34 Effective Configuration window
    • Displaying the zone configuration summary
      • Figure 35 Zone Configuration summary
    • Creating a configuration analysis report
    • Displaying initiator/target accessibility
      • Figure 36 Initiator/Target Accessibility Matrix
  • Managing the zoning database
    • Adding a WWN to multiple aliases, zones, and FA zones
    • Removing a WWN from multiple aliases, zones, and FA zones
    • Replacing a WWN in multiple aliases, FA zones, and zones
    • Searching for a zone member
    • Clearing the zoning database
    • Using zoning wizards
      • Figure 37 Add Un-zoned Devices wizard
      • Adding unzoned online devices to a zone or alias
      • Removing offline devices from the zoning database
      • Replacing offline devices
      • Defining device aliases
        • Figure 38 Entering a zone alias in the Define Device Alias wizard
• Performance monitoring administration
  • Monitoring performance using Advanced Web Tools
    • Predefined performance graphs
      • Table 8 Basic performance graphs
      • Table 9 Advanced performance monitoring graphs
      • Figure 39 Accessing performance graphs
    • User-defined graphs
    • Canvas configurations
      • Figure 40 Canvas of eight performance monitoring graphs
  • Launching the Performance Monitor module
  • Creating a basic Performance Monitor graph
    • Figure 41 Creating a port throughput graph
  • Customizing basic monitoring graphs
    • Figure 42 Switch Throughput Utilization setup dialog box
  • Creating advanced performance monitoring graphs
    • Creating an SID/DID performance graph
      • Figure 43 Creating an SID/DID performance graph
    • Creating a SCSI vs. IP traffic graph
    • Creating a SCSI command graph
      • Figure 44 Creating a SCSI command graph
    • Creating an AL_PA error graph
      • Figure 45 Creating an AL_PA error graph
  • Managing performance graphs
    • Adding a graph to an existing canvas
    • Saving graphs to a canvas
    • Printing graphs
    • Modifying an existing graph
• Fabric Watch administration
  • Introduction to Fabric Watch
  • Using Fabric Watch with Advanced Web Tools
    • Figure 46 Fabric Watch module
  • Configuring Fabric Watch thresholds
    • Configuring threshold traits
      • Figure 47 Threshold configuration for Fabric Watch
    • Configuring threshold alarms
    • Enabling and disabling threshold alarms for individual elements
  • Configuring alarms for FRUs
  • Displaying Fabric Watch alarm information
    • Displaying an alarm configuration report
    • Displaying alarms
      • Table 10 Alarm notification table fields
  • Configuring e-mail notifications
    • Configuring the e-mail server on a switch
    • Configuring the e-mail alert recipient
      • Figure 48 Fabric Watch e-mail configuration
• Issues and workarounds
  • General Advanced Web Tools issues and workarounds
    • Table 11 Advanced Web Tools issues and workarounds
  • Platform-specific issues and workarounds
    • Table 12 Platform-specific issues and workarounds
  • Mozilla browser issues and workarounds
    • Table 13 Advanced Web Tools issues when using the Mozilla browser
• Glossary
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