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

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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
How this document is organized
The Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide is written to help you, the storage area network (SAN)
administrator, to monitor, configure, and manage your SAN. This document is specific to Fabric
Manager version 5.5.0 and all switches running Brocade Fabric OS version 6.1.0. For a detailed list
of the firmware and hardware versions that are supported with specific versions of Fabric Manager,
refer to the Fabric Manager release notes.
In those instances in which procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some
switches but not to others, this guide identifies exactly which switches are supported and which are
not.
The document contains the following components:
• Chapter 1, “Fabric Manager Introduction” provides an overview of Fabric Manager and lists the
supported operating systems.
• Chapter 2, “Installation” provides information and instructions on installing the Fabric Manager
server on supported operating systems.
• Chapter 3, “Fabric Manager Client” introduces you to the graphical user interface.
• Chapter 4, “Discovering and Customizing Fabrics” includes common tasks that fabric
administrators perform.
• Chapter 5, “Fabric Topologies” describes Fabric Manager’s Topology View.
• Chapter 6, “Name Server Information” includes information in the Name Server table.
• Chapter 7, “Alert and Event Monitoring” provides information about different types of Fabric
Manager alerts and switch events, and how to manage and monitor them using Fabric
Manager.
• Chapter 8, “Performance Monitoring” provides information about the Performance Monitoring
feature of Fabric Manager.