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

10 Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide
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Planning for the installation
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• RADIUS server authentication: For each RADIUS server, you need to know the IP or DNS
name, authentication port and type (PAP or CHAP), and shared secret.
• Switch-based authentication: You need to know the switch IP addresses.
• Solaris and Linux only: NIS authentication. You need to know the host name or IP address
of your NIS server and NIS domain name.
Installation and troubleshooting information
Before installing Fabric Manager, refer to the following sections for installation notes and
troubleshooting information (including information specific to the Windows, Solaris, and Linux
environments).
Uninstalling or upgrading Fabric Manager
Fabric Manager stores user-specific information— such as username and server port number—for
each user in a FabricManager.Properties file.
When you uninstall Fabric Manager, this properties file is not deleted automatically. To remove the
file, locate it in your home directory on the file system and delete it manually.
The properties file is commonly located at:
C:\Documents and Settings\userA\Fabric
Manager\<Server_IP>\client\FabricManager.Properties
When you uninstall an upgraded version of Fabric Manager, some files from the client, jre and bin
directories are not removed. You can safely delete these files manually.
Single server monitoring a fabric
You should have only one Fabric Manager server configured to monitor a fabric. If multiple Fabric
Manager servers monitor the same fabric, switches in that fabric are subject to duplicate requests,
which could result in performance degradation.
Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
The JRE used by Fabric Manager is embedded in the Fabric Manager install image; a separate Java
installation is not required. During the Fabric Manager installation, the JRE included in the Fabric
Manager install image is installed in the directory where Fabric Manager is installed. This JRE is
available only for Fabric Manager.
The Fabric Manager JRE installation does not modify any Java-related environment variables. This
JRE does not replace or conflict with any other JRE installed on the system (for example, this JRE is
not used by Web Tools). You can install or run any other application (such as Web Tools) using a
different JRE and the two JREs will not conflict with each other. See the Fabric Manager release
notes to determine the JRE version included in Fabric Manager.
Video drivers
Ensure that your system has the latest video drivers installed prior to installing Fabric Manager. As
an added precaution, also upgrade to the latest Microsoft DirectX drivers. This should fix any
interaction problems among the JRE, the DirectX drivers, and the video drivers.