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Fabric Full Path Analysis

The Fabric Full-Path Analysis is a utility that lets you query and obtain information about the connectivity among the fabric objects registered with SRM. The fabric topology treats the entire fabric as a collection of elements with possible links between some of the elements. Use the Fabric Full Path Analysis utility to query and get the complete path from an initiator to a target (or vice versa), which is only one of the many things that you can query for.

You can access the Fabric Full Path Analysis utility as a menu option under the Open Systems Menu in the Windows Client. The Full path analysis treats the fabric elements in SRM and their connectivity information as an undirected Graph G = <V, E>, where V is the Set of nodes and E the set of Edges. The nodes represent the fabric elements and edges represent the connectivity. For example, the Host is connected to the Physical Disk, so Host and Physical disk are two nodes and (Host, Physical Disk) and (Physical Disk, Host) are the edges.

The utility performs a rule-based traversal of the graph and the resulting paths are displayed in an output window.

Note: For more information about this option, see the online help system.