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