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

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Planning for the installation
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SAN Size polling rates
HTTP
HTTP must be enabled on each switch in the SAN that you want to discover, monitor, and configure
with Fabric Manager. Each supported switch has HTTP enabled automatically. See the Fabric OS
Command Reference for information about enabling HTTP with the command line interface (CLI), if
necessary, or see Chapter 18, “Secure Fabric Management” for information about secure Fabric
OS policies for HTTP.
Solaris installation considerations
When you install Fabric Manager over an existing version on a UNIX system, the installation wizard
prompts you to select the location where the existing version of Fabric Manager is installed. The
installation wizard then finds the existing serial number and license key and attempts to validate
them. If the serial number and license key are valid, the installation wizard skips the Specify Serial
Number and License Key dialog box and goes directly to the Backup Previous Config dialog box.
The serial number and license key are saved. If the serial number and license key are not valid, you
must re-enter the serial number and license key to install the Full version of Fabric Manager.
Ensure that the recommended J2SE patches for Solaris Java applications are installed. Use the
appropriate patch for your version of Solaris. These patches can be found at:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-access
NOTE
You might encounter issues when using XWindows emulators from Windows to access the SUN host.
Windows installation considerations
When you install Fabric Manager over an existing version, the installation wizard automatically
finds the existing serial number and license key and attempts to validate them. If the serial number
and license key are valid, the installation wizard does not prompt you to re-enter them. The serial
number and license key are saved. If the serial number and license key are not valid, you must
re-enter the serial number and license key to install the full version of Fabric Manager.
TABLE 4 Polling rates per SAN size
Total ports managed Polling rates
Performance
Monitoring
Fabric Manager updates
Small SAN (up to 512 ports, 1-20 domains) 5 minutes 1 minute
Medium SAN (513-1280 ports, 21-50 domains) 5 minutes 5 minutes
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1. Medium SANs can take between 5 and 10 minutes to update for some actions. Large SANs can take
between 30 to 60 minutes to update for some actions. You should issue a refresh manually for immediate
updates. Using Refresh Status Information to refresh a switch typically provides quicker updates than refreshing
an entire fabric.
Large SAN (1281-2560 ports, 51-80 domains) 5 minutes 30 minutes
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