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Switch Features
33 Edge Switch 2/24 Installation Guide
Management Appliance
The HAFM appliance and Element Manager provide a GUI to manage, monitor, and
isolate problems for multiple switches and multiswitch fabrics. The server and client
applications operate on the management appliance, and a user interface is provided
through an Ethernet LAN-attached PC or workstation running client-only applications as
shown in
Figure 4 :
Figure 4: Management appliance main window
The main window provides:
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Menu bar–Commands at the top of the window provide drop-down menu
selections to perform functions for SAN devices including editing, viewing,
planning, discovery, configuration, and monitoring.
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Tool bar–The tool bar (below the menu bar) provides button selections to
perform SAN management tasks including opening a SAN configuration,
configuring users, setting up and starting the device discovery process,
configuring zoning, displaying a SAN, displaying SAN utilization, and
viewing reports.