HP Surestore 6164 - Switch Manuale utente

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Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Related Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Getting Software Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

1Introducing the FC 6164 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Management Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Fabric-level Management Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Switch-level Management Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2Mechanical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Chassis-level Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Weight Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Thermal Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

GBICs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Fiber Optic Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

CONTENTS

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Switch-level Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

General Information About the 2250 Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Switch Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2250 Switch Physical Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Switch Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Environmental Specifications for each Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

LED Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

3Installing and Configuring the FC 6164 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Installation Considerations and Safety Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Items Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Unpacking the FC 6164 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Installing the FC 6164 in the Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Configuring the FC 6164 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

4Maintenance Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Switch Replacement Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

ISL Cable Replacement Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

5Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Diagnostic Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

6Introducing Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Views Available in Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Contents 5

7Installing Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Switch Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Workstation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Installing Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Installing a Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Configuring the Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Installing the Java Plug-in on the Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Installing Fabric Manager on the Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Launching Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Adding the Browser Pathname to the Properties File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Uninstalling Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

8Using Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Fabric View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Fabric Events View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Fabric Topology View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Name Server Table View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Zone Administration View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Alias Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Zone Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

QuickLoop Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Config Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Fabric Manager Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Switch View for the FC 6164 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Switch View for Individual Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Switch Events View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Port Information View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

PortStats Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

GBIC Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Loop Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Fabric Watch View (Optional Software) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Alarm Notifications Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Configure Thresholds Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Current Settings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

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Performance View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Administrative Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Switch Admin Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

User Admin Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Firmware Upgrade Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Reboot Switch Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

SNMP Admin Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

License Admin Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Remote Switch Tab (Optional Software) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

QuickLoop Admin Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Config Admin Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Extended Fabric Tab (Optional Software) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Telnet Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

9Telnet Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

islTopoCheck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

islTopoShow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

sgroupDelete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

sgroupRename . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

sgroupSet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

sgroupShow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

sgroupSupportShow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

sgroupSwReplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

switchStatusPolicySet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

switchStatusPolicyShow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

snmpMibCapSet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

AFC 6164 Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Product Regulatory Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Revision History

July 2001 First release.

8HP Surestore FC Switch 6164 Installation and Reference Guide

PREFACE

About This Guide

This document provides both hardware and software information to support

the HP Surestore FC Switch 6164, and is organized as follows:

Chapter 1

Introducing the FC 6164

Provides general information about the FC 6164

and an overview of the installation procedure.

Chapter 2

Installing and

Configuring the FC 6164

Provides information about installing and

configuring the FC 6164.

Chapter 3

Mechanical

Specifications

Provides the mechanical details of the FC 6164.

Chapter 4

Diagnostics

Provides information about diagnostic tests and

error messages.

Chapter 5

Maintenance Procedures

Provides maintenance procedures for the

FC 6164.

Chapter 6

Introducing Fabric

Manager

Provides an overview of Fabric Manager, the

management software provided with the

FC 6164.

Chapter 7

Installing Fabric

Manager

Provides system requirements and instructions

for installing and launching Fabric Manager.

10 HP Surestore FC Switch 6164 Installation and Reference Guide

Related Publications

Related product information can be found in the following publications.

Those publications with part numbers are provided as printed copies with

your product. The HP Surestore FC Switch 6164 Documentation CD

contains all publications listed in the table below and is also provided with

your product.

For information about Fibre Channel standards, visit the Fibre Channel

Association web site, located at

http://www.fibrechannel.com.

Chapter 8

Using Fabric Manager

Provides information about each of the screens

available through Fabric Manager.

Chapter 9

Telnet Commands

Provides information about the Telnet

commands that are specific to administration of

the FC 6164.

Title Part Number

HP Surestore FC Switch 6164 Documentation

A7326-11011

HP Surestore FC Switch 6164 Installation and

Reference Guide

A7326-90902

HP Surestore FC Switch 6164 Quick Start Guide A7326-90901

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