HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager v5.3.0a release notes (AA-RWFGA-TE, October 2007)

Version
Fabric Manager 5.3.0a
Description
Fabric Manager is a powerful application that manages multiple B-Series switches and
fabrics in real time. In particular, Fabric Manager provides the essential functions
for configuring, monitoring, dynamically provisioning, and managing B-Series Fibre
Channel switch fabrics.
Through its single-point SAN management platform, Fabric Manager facilitates the
integration and execution of management tasks across multiple fabrics—thereby lowering
the overall cost of SAN ownership. As a result, it provides a flexible and powerful tool,
optimized to provide organizations with rapid access to critical SAN information.
Fabric Manager is tightly integrated with other SAN management products such as
Brocade Web Tools and Fabric Watch. O rganizations c an also use Fabric Manager in
conjunction with other leading SAN and storage resource management applications as
the drill-down element manager for a single B-Series or multiple B-Series fabrics.
These release notes contain information about installing, operating, and maintaining the
HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager 5.3.0a application.
Update recommendation
HP strongly recommends that users upgrade to Fabric Manager 5.3.0a as soon as
possible.
Supersedes
This version supersedes Fabric Manager version 5.3 .0.
Effective date
Octob
er 2007
Language
English
Devi
ces supported
For t
he latest supported devices, see the HP StorageWorks SAN design reference guide,
ava
ilable a t h
ttp://h18006.www1.hp.com /storage/saninfrastructure.html.
HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager 5.3.0a release notes
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