EMC DS-8B manual Overview

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Introducing Web Tools

Overview

Web Tools provides a graphical interface that enables you to monitor and manage entire fabrics and individual switches and ports from a standard workstation.

Web Tools provides the following information and capabilities:

◆Monitoring of and the ability to manage the entire fabric:

•The status of all switches in the fabric.

•Access to event logs for entire fabric

•Zoning functions

•Access to the Name Server Table

•Telnet functions

•Switch beaconing for rapid identification in large fabric environments

•Loop diagnostics and query and control of loop interfaces to aid in locating faulty devices

•Ability to name and zone QuickLoops™

◆Monitoring of and the ability to manage individual switches:

•Summary information about each switch

•Access to event logs for individual switches

•Switch configuration and administration

•Ability to upgrade Fabric OS and license key administration

•Report capability for switch configuration information

◆Monitoring of and the ability to manage individual ports:

•Port status

•Information about GBIC (Gigabit Interface Converter) Serial IDs

•Information about connected devices

•Loop information

•Port performance including frame counts (frames in, frames out) and error counts

1-2 Departmental Switch Models DS-16B and DS-8B Web Tools User Guide