Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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Snapshots and change reports
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The Change Management Wizard displays with existing values filled in.
3. Follow the wizard instructions as in creating a profile, making any changes to the existing
values.
Fabric Manager saves the cloned change management profile information to the database.
NOTE
Figure 87 displays a change management profile and its clone (“Zoning Profile”). Since the Profile
Name, Monitored Areas, Schedule, Fabrics, and Notification are identical, the only difference is the
Creation Time.
Editing a change management profile
1. Select Tasks > Change Management > Manage CM profiles.
The Change Management dialog box displays with the Manage Profile tab selected (see Figure
87 on page 133). Any existing profiles are displayed in the dialog box.
2. Select the profile you want to edit and click Edit Profile.
The Change Management Wizard displays with existing values filled in.
3. Follow the wizard instructions to make the desired changes to the existing values.
Deleting a change management profile
1. Select Tasks > Change Management > Manage CM profiles.
The Change Management dialog box displays with the Manage Profile tab selected (see Figure
87 on page 133). Any existing profiles are displayed in the dialog box.
2. Select one or more change management profiles from the table and click Delete Profile.
A confirmation dialog box displays.
3. Click OK to delete the selected profiles. All snapshots and change reports based on the
selected profiles are also deleted from the database.
Snapshots and change reports
After a change management profile is defined, a snapshot report of the information requested in
the profile is created and saved automatically on the Fabric Manager server. The initial snapshot
report serves as the baseline, and all subsequent snapshot reports are compared to the baseline.
Each change management profile can have multiple snapshots associated with it. You can assign
an existing snapshot to be the new baseline snapshot.
NOTE
Since each snapshot report is stored on the Fabric Manager server, you need to ensure adequate
disk space if you are running numerous checks on a large fabric (or on multiple fabrics).
A change report is automatically created each time a snapshot is created after the baseline
snapshot has been made. The change report lists any changes between the baseline snapshot and
the subsequent snapshot.