Installation Manual

Installing the Management Server on Microsoft Windows50
4. Add desired remote sites, by clicking the New Site button and providing the appropriate
information. Refer to the User Guide and online help for more information.
5. To upgrade the database with data from the added sites, click the Refresh Now button at the
bottom of the page.
Upgrade Your Storage Essentials CLI Clients
CLI clients earlier than Build 6.0 do not work with Build 6.0 of the management server. Refer to the
CLI Guide for more information about upgrading your CLI clients.
Upgrade Your CIM Extensions
See ”About Upgrading Your CIM Extensions” on page 189 " for details.
Migrate Your Brocade Switches to SMI-A
After successfully upgrading the management server, any Brocade switches that use the
Brocade Fabric Access API provider must be migrated to the Brocade SMI-A provider. The
management server will prompt you to migrate your Brocade switches the first time you log on to
the management server after the upgrade and will display the Brocade API switches that need to
be migrated.
Until you migrate your Brocade switches to SMI-A, data such as topology and zoning from the
Brocade switch will be stale and you will be unable to use the Brocade switch to perform
provisioning or gather port performance statistics through the Brocade switch. The Brocade
Fabric Access API switches are quarantined and you will have the option to migrate to the
Brocade SMI-A provider at your discretion in case your SAN policy requires that you validate the
new Brocade SMI Agent provider before migrating your Brocade switches.
The quarantined API-managed Brocade switches retain their historical data and that data
remains intact during the migration to the SMI-A provider.
However, new data will not be collected for the quarantined Brocade switches until you migrate
the switches to the SMI-A provider.
After migrating the Brocade switches to SMI-A, the Brocade SMI-A proxy server is placed in its
own discovery group. This new discovery group is not part of any Discovery Data Collection
schedule. If the Brocade switches were part of a Discovery Data Collection schedule prior to
migration, you must manually adjust those schedules to run Discovery Data Collection for the
migrated Brocade switches. If the schedules are not adjusted manually, Discovery Data
Collection will not run for the migrated switches as per pre-migration schedules.
Follow these steps to migrate your Brocade switches to the Brocade SMI-A provider:
1. Download the Brocade SMI Agent v120.6.0a provider software and its Installation Guide
from the Brocade website:
http://www.brocade.com/support/SMIAGENT.jsp
See the support matrix for your edition for details on the latest supported version for the
management server.