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

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 9

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Chapter

Installation

In this chapter

This chapter describes the installation process, and includes the following sections:

•Planning for the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

•Fabric Manager Upgrade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

•Fabric Manager server installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

•How to copy an installation from server to server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

•Fabric Manager server uninstall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

This chapter describes how to install, upgrade, or uninstall the Fabric Manager server software. You

do not need to explicitly install the Fabric Manager client at this time; the Fabric Manager client

automatically installs the first time you launch it.

NOTE

You cannot downgrade to an earlier version of Fabric Manager if your fabric contains switches using

the IPv6 addressing scheme.

Performing a configuration download from a switch running Fabric OS v5.3 or later to switches

running Fabric OS version v5.2 or earlier will fail if the source configuration contains the following

IPv6 parameters:

snmp.accessList.*.address_v6

snmp.agtParty.*.address_v6

snmp.snmpv3TrapTarget.*.trapTargetAddr_v6

To avoid this problem, remove these parameters manually from source configuration before

attempting to download it to a destination switch with earlier Fabric OS versions.

Planning for the installation

You should have the following information available prior to starting the installation:

• Fabric Manager serial number and license key (if you are installing the full version).

• Details about whether to use the built-in FTP server or an external FTP server for operations

such as firmware or configuration download.

• SAN size; you must select the SAN size during the Fabric Manager installation.

• A dedicated machine that is not running any other server applications, such as another

database server.

• Type of authentication to use:

• Windows authentication: You need to know the Windows Domain or Workgroup name.