Chapter 3

Managing Your Switch

 

 

In this chapter

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Switch manager overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Task panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Switch View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Content page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Status bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Launching the EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Logging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Switch Manager sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Logging out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Viewing switch information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Viewing the status indicator legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Viewing fan, temperature, and power supply status . . . . . . . . . 31 Port status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Switch Information tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Port information tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Changing switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Add port license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Managing devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Device connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Assigning and renaming device aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Zoning management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Viewing the zone access map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Editing the zoning configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Validating zoning configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Restoring Typical Zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Accessing Web Tools for advanced management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Making EZSwitchSetup your default switch manager . . . . . . . . 45

Appendix A

EZSwitchSetup Limitations

 

 

General limitations

47

Index

 

 

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EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide

 

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