•Access - Provides information about zone entries, persistent bindings, and storage system LUN masking. You can also manage zone, zone aliases, and zone sets from this tab. See ”About the Access Tab” on page 225 for more information.

•Path - Provides information about an element's path. See ”About the Path Tab” on page 230 for more information.

When you right-click an element in the topology or in the List, Access, or Path tab, a drop-down menu appears. This menu provides additional functionality depending on the type of element clicked, such as telnet and the creation of zone sets. See the topics, ”About the Right-Click Menu Options” on page 231.

If a switch has more than one connection to a host or storage system, the number of connections is displayed on the line connecting the elements. If there is only one connection, no number is displayed since the line indicates a connection exists.

Keep in mind the following:

•If your Java plug-in control panel cache setting is set to 50 MB, it is recommended you increase this setting to 100 MB or more. Increasing this setting improves the reloading performance of System Manager.

•Individual virtual SANs (VSANs) for Cisco switches are not displayed in the topology or fabric tree. The switches in a VSAN are displayed under the fabric to which their VSAN belongs. See ”About Cisco Switches and VSANs in System Manager” on page 219 for more information.

•ISL connections are not shown as connected ports between two McDATA or Connectrix switches that are not both managed by EFC Manager or Connectrix Manager in a fabric.

•NAS stitching to Windows XP hosts does not appear in the topology.

•The following IBM HBA appears as QLogic HBAs in the Navigation and Properties pages, in addition to reports:

•IBM MSJ

•FaStT FC-2/2-133

By double-clicking an element in the topology you have access to the following features:

•Navigation - The Navigation tab provides information about an element and how it relates to other elements in its path. See ”About the Navigation Tab” on page 270 for more information.

•Properties - The Properties tab provides a detailed status of the element. See ”Viewing Element Properties” on page 275 for more information.

•Topology - The Topology tab provides a graphical representation of an element's path. It displays additional information not found in System Manager, such as adapters, slots, and fibre channel ports. See ”Viewing Element Topology” on page 279 for more information.

•Chargeback Manager - The Asset Management tab lets you keep track of asset attributes, such as contact information for the element's owner. See ”Asset Attributes of an Element” on

page 290 for more information.

•Collectors - The Collectors tab lets you start a collector for a report and view the collector’s corresponding reports once the information has been gathered. See ”About the Collectors Tab” on page 292 for more information.

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