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

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Chapter

Fabric Manager Client

In this chapter

•Fabric Manager Startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

•Fabric Manager client uninstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

•Fabric Manager layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

•Fabric Manager Customization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

•Event Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Fabric Manager Startup

This section describes how to launch the Fabric Manager client. Before launching the client, you

must have already installed the Fabric Manager server, as described in Chapter 2, “Installation”.

The Fabric Manager client is automatically installed the first time you launch it. Note that the Fabric

Manager client is not a web-based client—but it supports a web-based client installation.

On Windows platforms, during client installation you can optionally choose to create desktop and

Start menu shortcut items for the Fabric Manager client. The Start Menu shortcut is:

Start > Programs > FabricManager serverIP

The user name and password that you use to start Fabric Manager are not used for authenticating

with the switch and these are typically not the same accounts.

Whenever the Fabric Manager server version is upgraded or downgraded, the version change is

auto-detected before the client is launched and the new version of the client is automatically

downloaded and installed.

If you launch the Fabric Manager client for multiple servers running the same or different versions,

then multiple copies of the Fabric Manager client are installed on the client machine. For Windows

and Linux users, one desktop icon is optionally created for all the Fabric Manager servers to which

you connect.

Launching Fabric Manager

1. Open a browser window and type the Fabric Manager server hostname or IP address in the

Address field; for example:

http://FMserverhost1.companyname.com/

http://192.168.10.11

http://[FEBC:A574:382B:23C1:AA49:4592:4EFE:9982]

If, when the Fabric Manager server was installed, a Fabric Manager web server port number

was specified (instead of the default 80), you must specify the port number after the hostname

or IP address. In the following examples, 8080 is the web server port number: