Focal Point - Opening Screen

A single Point System SNMP Agent can manage devices from several interconnected physical cabinets. The opening screen shows a list of these cabinets. Click one of the buttons at the left of the screen to open a Cabinet View screen. From there, you can inspect and manage individual Slide-in Devices.

Note that the Focal Point application shows only those cabinets currently managed by a single Point System agent. If your network contains multiple, non-interconnected Point System agents, you can use a Network Management System such as HP OpenView to present a map of all of the Agents on your network and launch Focal Point.

The Group Control String box on the opening screen allows a group of Slide-in Devices to be selected to receive subsequent configuration changes. For more information, see the help for Configuration Management.

Multiple Point System cabinets can be managed by a single Base Management Module if the Inter-Cabinet Interface (ICIF) ports of the Management Modules in all of the cabinets are connected with straight-through RJ-45 cables.

It is recommended that Management Modules be placed in the leftmost slot of each cabinet, and that a single set of Inter-Cabinet Interface cables be used to connect them. It is not possible to have redundant paths between the cabinets. If multiple Management Modules are present in a cabinet, only one ICIF is enabled. If there are any Base Management Modules present, it is the leftmost of them. Otherwise, it is the leftmost Expansion Management Module.

Also note that it is necessary for the system to select a single Management Module that is permitted to write configuration changes to the cabinet's hardware, so that multiple Management Modules don't all try to do it at once. Though it has nothing to do with inter-cabinet messaging, the ICIF performs this function.

It is possible to have multiple Base Management Modules installed in a single Point System stack. See the help file for the CPSMM100 Base Management Module for more information.