6Brocade Adapters Administrator’s Guide
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HCM features
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HCM features
Common HBA and CNA management software features include the following:
•Discovery using the agent software running on the servers attached to the SAN, which enables
you to contact the devices in your SAN.
•Configuration management , which enables you to configure local and remote systems. With
HCM you can configure the following items:
•Local host
•Brocade 4 Gbps and 8 Gbps HBAs
•HBA ports (including logical ports, base ports, remote ports, and virtual ports)
•Brocade 10 Gbps single-port and 10 Gbps dual-port converged network adapters (CNAs)
•CEE ports
•FCoE ports (CNA only)
•Ethernet ports (CNA only)
•Diagnostics, which enables you to test the adapters and the devices to which they are
connected:
•Link status of each adapter and its attached devices
•Loopback test, which is external to the adapter, to eval uate the ports (t ransmit and receive
transceivers) and the error rate on the adapter
•Read/write buffer test , which tests the link between the adapter and its devices
•FC protocol tests, including echo, ping, and traceroute
•Monitoring, which provides statistics for the SAN components listed in Table 9.
•Security, which enables you to specify a CHAP secret and configure authentication parameters.
•Event notifications, which provide asynchronous notification of various conditions and
problems through a user-defined event filter.
Tree node pop-up menus
You can use the HCM GUI main menu or the Brocade Command Line Utility (BCU) to configure,
monitor, and troubleshoot your SAN components. The instructions for using each feature are
detailed in subsequent chapters of this document. For each SAN component, you can optionally
right-click its icon and a pop-up menu displays (see Table 1 ).
The HCM GUI consists of three layers, and the features display differently depending on the
configuration. There are three possible configuration scenarios, as follows:
•Both the storage driver and the link layer driver are installed.
•Only the storage driver is installed.
•Only the link layer driver is installed.
Whether the FCoE Port node or the Ethernet node are presented in the tree depends on the drivers
that are installed.