Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise User Manual v10.3.X (53-1001357-01, November 2009)

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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx
•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxii
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii
How this document is organized
This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible. This document supports DCFM 10.3.0 and later.
The document contains the following components:
• Chapter 1, “User interface overview,” provides a high-level overview of the user interface.
• Chapter 2, “Discovery,” describes how to discover SANs and hosts.
• Chapter 3, “Application Configuration,” provides Management application configuration
instructions.
• Chapter 4, “Server Management Console,” provides information on using the Server
Management Console to stop and start the Management application services, back up the
Management application database, and capture technical support information.
• Chapter 5, “Device Configuration,” provides device configuration instructions.
• Chapter 6, “Fabric Binding,” provides fabric binding instructions.
• Chapter 7, “Fault Management,” provides event management instructions.
• Chapter 8, “Performance Data,” provides information on how to manage performance.
• Chapter 9, “Reports,” provides instructions for generating reports.
• Chapter 10, “Role-Based Access Control,” provides information on how to manage users.
• Chapter 11, “Host management,” provides information on how to configure an HBA.
• Chapter 12, “Fibre Channel over IP,” provides information on how to configure an FCIP.
• Chapter 13, “Fibre Channel over Ethernet,”provides information on how to configure an FCoE.
• Chapter 14, “FICON Environments,” provides information on how to manage FICON.
• Chapter 15, “FC-FC Routing Service Management,” provides information on how to manage
Fibre Channel Routing.