Brocade Network Advisor Migration Guide v11.1x (53-1002321-01, May 2011)
Table Of Contents
- Brocade Network Advisor
- In this guide
- Feature support
- Network Advisor packages
- Management server and client ports
- System requirements
- Migration paths
- Pre-migration requirements
- Installing the application
- Cross operating system migration
- DCFM migration
- Network Advisor migration
- Network Advisor 11.0.X to 11.1.X command mapping
- Cross flavor migration
- Unsupported server migration
- Configuring an explicit server IP address
- IPv6 troubleshooting
- Syslog troubleshooting
- Uninstallation
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In this guide
•Feature support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
•Network Advisor packages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
•Management server and client ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
•System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
•Migration paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
•Pre-migration requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
•Installing the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
•Cross operating system migration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
•DCFM migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
•Network Advisor migration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
•Network Advisor 11.0.X to 11.1.X command mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
•Cross flavor migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
•Unsupported server migration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
•Configuring an explicit server IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
•IPv6 troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
•Syslog troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
•Uninstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Feature support
Table 1 details whether the SAN features are supported in the Professional, Professional Plus, or Enterprise
versions, or only through the Element Manager of the device.
TABLE 1 SAN features supported
Feature Description Professional Professional
Plus
Enterprise
Access Gateway Management Access Gateway topology display
Firmware download
SupportSave
Performance statistics
Configuration file management
Yes Yes Yes
Active Sessions Active sessions Yes Yes Yes
Call Home Support all Call centers
SupportSave for Fabric OS switches
Support last 100 events
No Yes Yes
Configuration Management Periodic configuration backup and persistence No Yes Yes
Manual backup
Save configuration
Yes Yes Yes
Configuration repository management No Yes Yes
Replicate switch configuration No Yes Yes