Launching the Subsystem Management Window for a Selected Storage Subsystem

When you need to perform individual management operations (such as creating logical drives or recovering from failures) on a particular storage subsystem, you must launch its Subsystem Management Window using one of the following methods:

Result: The Subsystem Management Window is opened in a separate window. (If the appropriate Subsystem Management Window for the selected storage subsystem is already open on that storage management station, a second instance is not opened.)

Important: If you have configured more than one network management connection into the storage subsystem, the storage management software is aware of each connection and automatically chooses a connection when you attempt to manage the storage subsystem by launching an Subsystem Management Window. If a particular connection is currently not responding, the software tries all other configured network management connections into that storage subsystem.

In the example on the left, Hosts Alpha and Beta are each providing network management connections to Storage Subsystem Engineering (the storage subsystem appears under each host in the Device Tree).

The storage subsystem is unresponsive through the network management connection provided by Beta and therefore cannot be managed using this connection. However, if you select the storage subsystem node under Beta and launch an Subsystem Management Window, the Enterprise Management software opens an Subsystem Management window to manage the storage subsystem using the network management connection provided by Alpha.