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EMC Fibre Channel Storage System Model FC4700 Configuration Planning Guide
Storage-System Management
Introducing Navisphere Management Software
Navisphere software lets you bind and unbind disks, manipulate
caches, examine storage-system status and logged events, transfer
control from one SP to another, and examine events recorded in
storage-system event logs.
Navisphere products have two parts: a graphical user interface (GUI)
and an Agent. The GUIs run on a management station, accessible
from a common framework, and communicate with storage systems
through a single Agent application that runs on each server. The
Navisphere products are
•Navisphere Manager, which lets you manage multiple storage
systems on multiple servers simultaneously.
•Navisphere Analyzer, which lets you measure, compare, and
chart the performance of SPs, LUNs, and disks.
•Navisphere Integrator, which provides an interface between
Navisphere products and HP OpenView, CA Unicenter, and
Tivoli .
•Navisphere Event Monitor, which checks storage systems for
fault conditions and can notify you and/or customer service if
any fault condition occurs.
•Navisphere failover software. Application Transparent Failover
(ATF) is an optional software package for high-availability
installations. ATF software lets applications continue running
after the failure anywhere in the path to a LUN: a host bus
adapter, cable, switch, or SP. ATF is required for any server that
has two host bus adapters connected to the same storage system.
Another failover product is CDE (Driver Extensions) software,
which has limited failover features. CDE is included with each
host bus adapter driver package.
•Navisphere Agent, which is included with each storage system,
and Navisphere CLI (Command Line Interface), which lets you
bypass the GUI and type commands directly to storage systems.
The Agent runs on any of several different platforms, including
Windows and popular UNIX platforms; the other products run on
Windows platforms only.