Page 3 - Contents
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide iii 53-1003373-01 Contents About This Document In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii...
Page 7 - In this chapter
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide vii 53-1003373-01 About This Document In this chapter • How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii • Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Page 8 - Supported hardware and software; Fabric OS hardware and software support
viii Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Supported hardware and software In those instances in which procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some devices but not to others, this guide identifies exactly which devices are supported and which are n...
Page 11 - IronWare OS hardware and software support
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide xi 53-1003373-01 IronWare OS hardware and software support The following firmware platforms are supported by this release of Network Advisor 12.3.X: • BigIron 2.7.02e (sustaining mode) or later • FastIron 7.2.0 or later • NetIron 5.1.0 or late...
Page 15 - Network OS hardware and software support
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide xv 53-1003373-01 1 The Management application cannot discover or manage wireless access points running Mobility 5.1. Network OS hardware and software support Network Advisor 12.3.X supports the Network OS 2.1 or later firmware platform. For pl...
Page 16 - What’s new in this document; Text formatting; Notes
xvi Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 What’s new in this document The following changes have been made since this document was last released: • Information that was added: - Emulex HBA support - Qlogic HBA support • Information that was changed: - Server and clie...
Page 17 - Key terms; Notice to the reader; Additional information; Brocade resources
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide xvii 53-1003373-01 Key terms For definitions specific to Brocade and Fibre Channel, see the technical glossaries on MyBrocade. See “Brocade resources” on page xvii for instructions on accessing MyBrocade. For definitions of SAN-specific terms,...
Page 18 - Other industry resources; Getting technical help
xviii Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Other industry resources For additional resource information, visit the Technical Committee T11 website. This website provides interface standards for high-performance and mass storage applications for Fibre Channel, storag...
Page 19 - Document feedback
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide xix 53-1003373-01 • Brocade 7600 —On the bottom of the chassis • Brocade 48000 —Inside the chassis next to the power supply bays • Brocade DCX and DCX-8510-8 —On the bottom right on the port side of the chassis, directly above the cable manage...
Page 21 - Chapter; Installation
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 1 53-1003373-01 Chapter 1 Installation In this chapter • System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 • Downloading the software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Page 22 - Server and client operating system requirements
2 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 System requirements 1 Server and client operating system requirements Table 4 summarizes the required operating system (OS) for servers and the packages supported by each OS version. NOTE It is recommended that you run Network ...
Page 25 - Memory, host, and disk space requirements
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 5 53-1003373-01 System requirements 1 Memory, host, and disk space requirements Memory requirements are only applicable when there are no other applications running on the Network Advisor server. Paging space should be equal to or exceed the p...
Page 26 - Operating system cache requirements
6 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 System requirements 1 Table 7 summarizes the minimum system requirements for server (plus 1 client) installation. Table 8 summarizes the recommended system requirements for server (plus 1 client) installation. Operating system ...
Page 27 - Browser requirements; Client and server system requirements
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 7 53-1003373-01 System requirements 1 Browser requirements The launch of Network Advisor and the launch of Element Manager (Web Tools) from the application are supported from the following browsers with a Java plug-in: • Browsers - Windows Int...
Page 28 - Downloading the software
8 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Downloading the software 1 Downloading the software You can download the software and documentation from the MyBrocade website. 1. Go to the MyBrocade website. http://my.brocade.com/ 2. Enter your user ID and password. If you d...
Page 29 - Pre-installation requirements
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 9 53-1003373-01 Pre-installation requirements 1 Pre-installation requirements Before you install Network Advisor, make sure you meet the following requirements. • Make sure all system requirements have been met prior to installation. For speci...
Page 30 - Installing the application
10 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Installing the application 1 Installing the application Before you install the application, make sure your system meets the minimum pre-installation requirements (refer to “Pre-installation requirements” on page 9). If you are...
Page 31 - Mapping the loopback address to the local host
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 11 53-1003373-01 Installing the application 1 6. Make sure the Launch Configuration check box is selected (default) on the Installation Complete screen, and click Done. NOTE If a minimum of 10 GB space is not available on your server during in...
Page 32 - Headless installation
12 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Headless installation 1 3. Save and close the file. To configure the application, refer to one of the following sections: • If this is a fresh installation, refer to “Network Advisor Configuration” on page 17. • If you are upg...
Page 33 - Performing a headless installation on Windows; Troubleshooting the Linux headless installation
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 13 53-1003373-01 Headless installation 1 Performing a headless installation on Windows and UNIX systems To perform a headless installation through the CLI, download the software (refer to “Downloading the software” on page 8). • For Windows sy...
Page 34 - Collecting supportsave on Windows and Linux; Client-only installation; Installing the client-only application
14 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Client-only installation 1 Collecting supportsave on Windows and Linux To collect server supportsave, run the script file located at: <BNA_HOME>\bin\commandsupportsave Once the script file is triggered, the server suppor...
Page 37 - Network Advisor Configuration
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 17 53-1003373-01 Chapter 2 Network Advisor Configuration In this chapter • Configuring Network Advisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 • Accessing the Network Advisor interfaces . . . . . . . . . ....
Page 44 - Accessing the Network Advisor interfaces; Logging into a server
24 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Accessing the Network Advisor interfaces 2 c. Select the Start Client check box, if necessary. Only displays if you selected SAN with SMI Agent + IP or SAN with SMI Agent on the Package screen. d. Click Finish. After all of th...
Page 45 - Launching a remote client
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 25 53-1003373-01 Accessing the Network Advisor interfaces 2 3. Enter your user name and password. The defaults are Administrator and password, respectively. NOTE Do not enter Domain\User_Name in the User ID field for LDAP server authentication...
Page 46 - Clearing previous versions of the remote client; Launching the SMC on Windows
26 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Accessing the Network Advisor interfaces 2 4. Log into another server by entering the IP address to the other server in the Network Address field. NOTE The server must be the exact same version, edition, starting port number, ...
Page 47 - Launching the SMC on Linux; Launching the SMIA Configuration Tool
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 27 53-1003373-01 Accessing the Network Advisor interfaces 2 Launching the SMC on Linux NOTE The Server Management Console is a graphical user interface and should be launched from the XConsole on Linux systems. Double-click the SMC icon on you...
Page 48 - Launching the SMIA Configuration Tool remote client
28 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Accessing the Network Advisor interfaces 2 Launching the SMIA Configuration Tool remote client The remote client link in the Start menu does not automatically upgrade when you upgrade the Management application. You must clear...
Page 49 - Syslog troubleshooting; Finding the process
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 29 53-1003373-01 Syslog troubleshooting 2 Syslog troubleshooting If the default syslog port number is already in use, you will not receive any syslog messages from the device. Use one of the following procedures (depending on your operating sy...
Page 50 - Installing the ODBC driver; Installing the ODBC driver on Windows systems; Adding the data source on Windows systems
30 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Installing the ODBC driver 2 Installing the ODBC driver You must have the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver to allow remote clients to export data and generate reports. The ODBC driver enables you to configure the data ...
Page 51 - Installing the ODBC driver on Linux systems
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 31 53-1003373-01 Installing the ODBC driver 2 10. Enter the IP address or host name of the Network Advisor server in the Server field. 11. Enter the database server port number in the Port Number field. 12. Enter the database user name in the ...
Page 52 - Adding the datasource on Linux systems; Testing the connection on Linux systems
32 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Installing the ODBC driver 2 Adding the datasource on Linux systems Before you edit the INI files, install Network Advisor (refer to “Installation” on page 1) and make sure the PostgreSQL database is up and running. NOTE For R...
Page 54 - Smart Card driver installation; Installing the Smart Card driver on the local client
34 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Smart Card driver installation 2 Smart Card driver installation Windows operating systems do not require smart card drivers to be installed separately; the driver is bundled with the operating system. However, you must install...
Page 56 - Installing the Smart Card driver on the remote client; Detecting and correcting a default Linux Smart Card driver
36 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Smart Card driver installation 2 Installing the Smart Card driver on the remote client 1. Complete steps 1 through 4 in “Installing the Smart Card driver on the local client” on page 34. 2. Run the following commands to suppor...
Page 58 - Configuring an explicit server IP address
38 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Configuring an explicit server IP address 2 Configuring an explicit server IP address If you selected a specific IP address from the Server IP Configuration screen during installation and the selected IP address changes, you w...
Page 59 - Product improvement; Enabling product improvement data transfer
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 39 53-1003373-01 Product improvement 2 11. Enter your user name and password and click Login. The defaults are Administrator and password, respectively. NOTE Do not enter Domain\User_Name in the User ID field for LDAP server authentication. 12...
Page 60 - Disabling product improvement data transfer
40 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Product improvement 2 Disabling product improvement data transfer You can disable feature usage data transfer from the Options dialog box once your system is up and running. To disable feature usage data transfer from the appl...
Page 61 - Configuring remote client access to the database
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 41 53-1003373-01 Configuring remote client access to the database 2 11. When the file is successfully created, the client changes the state of the data transfer to “Uploading” and transmits the data. The client transmits the data securely to t...
Page 63 - Data Migration
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 43 53-1003373-01 Chapter 3 Data Migration In this chapter • Upgrading the license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 • Supported migration paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 65 - Supported migration paths
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 45 53-1003373-01 Supported migration paths 3 Supported migration paths NOTE Enterprise and Professional Plus editions are not supported on 32-bit servers. To migrate Enterprise and Professional Plus editions to a 64-bit server, refer to “Pre-m...
Page 67 - DCFM migration paths; INM migration paths
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 47 53-1003373-01 Supported migration paths 3 Table 16 shows the migration paths from SMI Agent only. For the step-by-step migration procedures, refer to “Migrating data” on page 52. DCFM migration paths NOTE Before you migrate from DCFM to Net...
Page 68 - Pre-migration requirements
48 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Pre-migration requirements 3 Pre-migration requirements Before you install Network Advisor, make sure you meet the following pre-migration requirements. • Make sure all system requirements have been met prior to installation. ...
Page 71 - Additional pre-migration requirements on UNIX systems
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 51 53-1003373-01 Pre-migration requirements 3 If you are migrating from Linux server that is no longer supported to a supported Linux server, complete the following steps. For a list of supported operating system servers, refer to Table 4 on p...
Page 72 - Additional trial requirements; Migrating data
52 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Migrating data 3 • Make sure that the DISPLAY environment variable is correctly defined in the shell with a valid value (for example, to display to the local console, export DISPLAY=:0.0, or to display to a remote system that ...
Page 79 - Cross flavor migration; Migration rollback; Migration rollback due to insufficient space
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 59 53-1003373-01 Cross flavor migration 3 Cross flavor migration To migrate from Brocade Network Advisor 12.0.X to a non-Brocade Network Advisor 12.3.X, complete the following steps. 1. Install Brocade Network Advisor 12.0.X (refer to “Install...
Page 81 - Uninstallation; Uninstalling from Windows systems
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 61 53-1003373-01 Chapter 4 Uninstallation In this chapter • Uninstalling from Windows systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 • Uninstalling from Windows systems (headless uninstall). . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 82 - Uninstalling from Windows systems (headless uninstall)
62 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Uninstalling from Windows systems (headless uninstall) 4 Uninstalling from Windows systems (headless uninstall) If the application was installed using the headless installation, complete the following steps to uninstall Networ...
Page 83 - Uninstalling from UNIX systems (headless uninstall)
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 63 53-1003373-01 Uninstalling from UNIX systems (headless uninstall) 4 Uninstalling from UNIX systems (headless uninstall) If the application was installed using the headless installation, complete the following steps to uninstall Network Advi...
Page 85 - Appendix; References; In this appendix
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 65 53-1003373-01 Appendix A References In this appendix • Network Advisor packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 • Scalability limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 86 - Scalability limits
66 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 53-1003373-01 Scalability limits A Scalability limits Table 18 summarizes the scalability limits supported for Network Advisor by edition. NOTE Virtual Fabrics are counted as fabrics when calculating the managed count limits. NOTE SMI Agent...
Page 87 - Edition feature support
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 67 53-1003373-01 Edition feature support A Edition feature support Table 19 details whether the features are supported in the Professional, Professional Plus, or Enterprise versions, or only through the Element Manager of the device. TABLE 19 ...
Page 97 - Management server and client ports
Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 77 53-1003373-01 Management server and client ports A Management server and client ports The Management application has two parts: the Server and the Client. The Server is installed on one machine and stores device-related information; it does...
