HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager 5.2.0a Release Notes (5697-6482, February 2007)

Version

Fabric Manager 5.2.0a

Description

Fabric Manager is a powerful application that manages multiple B-Series switches and fabrics in

real time. In particular, Fabric Manager provides the essential functions for configuring, monitoring,

dynamically provisioning, and managing B-Series Fibre Channel switch fabrics.

Through its single-point SAN managem ent platform, Fabric Manager facilitates the integration and

execution of management tasks across multiple fabrics—thereby lowering the overall cost of SAN

ownership. As a result, it provides a flexible and powerful tool, optimized to provide organizations with

rapid access to critical SAN information.

Fabric Manager is tightly integrated with other SAN management products, such as Brocade Web Tools

and Fabric Watch. O rganizations can also use Fabric Manager in conjunction with other leading SAN

and storage resource management applications as the drill-down element ma nager for a single B-Series

or multiple B -Series fabrics.

These release notes contain information about installing, operating, and maintaining the HP StorageWorks

Fabric Manager 5.2.0a application.

Update recommendation

HP stro

ngly recommends that users upgrade to Fabric M a nager 5.2.0a as soon as possible.

Supersedes history

This version supersedes Fabric M anager version 5.2.0.

Effect

ive date

February 200 7

Language

English

Devices supported

For the latest supported devices, see the HP StorageWorks SAN design reference guide,availableat

ttp://h18006.ww w1.hp.com/storage/saninfrastructure.html.

Fabric Manager 5.2.0a