Each PAN domain of the Egenera PAN Manager consists of several chassis that mounts different types of switches within them. Using this test, the administrators can figure out the current operating status of the chassis and identify the type of the switches present in each chassis. Apart from this, the number of uplink and downlink ports in each switch can be determined so that the administrator can easily identify whethere there are any uplink/downlink ports available for pServer connectivity.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the PANChasSwitchTest.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

• In the PAN MANAGER USER and PAN MANAGER PASSWORD text boxes, provide the credentials of a user with administrator privileges to the target Egenera PAN Manager.

• Confirm the password by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD text box.

• By default, the Egenera PAN Manager is not SSL-enabled. Accordingly, the SSL flag is set to No by default.

• By default, in most environments, the Egenera PAN Manager listens on port 80 (if not SSL-enabled) or on port 443 (if SSL-enabled) only. This implies that while monitoring the Egenera PAN Manager, the eG agent, by default, connects to port 80 or 443, depending upon the SSL-enabled status of Egenera PAN Manager - i.e., if Egenera PAN Manager is not SSL-enabled (i.e., if the SSL flag above is set to No), then the eG agent connects to Egenera PAN Manager using port 80 by default, and if Egenera PAN Manager is SSL-enabled (i.e., if the SSL flag is set to Yes), then the agent-Egenera PAN Manager communication occurs via port 443 by default. Accordingly, the WEBPORT parameter is set to default by default.

  In some environments however, the default ports 80 or 443 might not apply. In such a case, against the WEBPORT parameter, you can specify the exact port at which the Egenera PAN Manager in your environment listens, so that the eG agent communicates with that port for collecting metrics from the Egenera PAN Manager.

• Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the Update button will register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with “$” indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. e.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to “xyz” and $port will be changed to “80” when configuring a test.