HP StorageWorks 64 FW 07.00.00/HAFM SW 08.06.00 McDATA Products in a SAN Envir - Page 75
SAN Management Applications, SANavigator and EFCM Applications, SANavigator and, EFCM Applications
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Product Management 2 SAN Management Applications This section describes SAN management applications that provide a GUI to monitor, manage, and control directors, fabric switches, and SAN routers. SAN management applications include SANavigator 4.2 (or later), EFCM 8.6 (or later), and SANvergence Manager 4.6 (or later). An associated Element Manager application is provided for each managed product. NOTE: The Element Manager application for a director or fabric switch resides on the associated management server. The Element Manager application for a SAN router is a Java applet that resides on the router. SANavigator and EFCM Applications Application GUI The management server implements a SAN management application (SANavigator 4.2 or EFCM 8.6) along with director or switch-specific Element Manager applications to provide the interface for operators to control and monitor directors and fabric switches (but not SAN routers). These applications can also operate on workstations attached to the customer intranet that function as remote clients. The SAN management applications provide lifecycle planning, discovery, configuration, and monitoring for an entire heterogeneous SAN. Each SAN management application is an intuitive GUI that communicates with multiple, vendor-specific applications, and provides a common tool to access the following features: • SAN planning - The application provides a planning tool to develop and evaluate a SAN topology for feasibility and performance. Virtual devices and links are assembled to build a virtual SAN topology or an extension to an existing topology. The planned topology or extension is then activated to evaluate the design and identify and correct performance problems. • Discovery and visualization - Through TCP/IP (out-of-band) or Fibre Channel (inband) connections, the SAN management application automatically discovers every device attached to a SAN and produces an intuitive and dynamic map of the devices and all interconnections. This map depicts device port usage, virtual and logical data paths, and allows identification of problem devices and data traffic bottlenecks. Product Management 2-15