Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-10000196-01-HP, November 2006)

2-4 Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide
Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP
Upgrading Fabric Manager
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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
Windows Installation Considerations
When you install Fabric Manager over an existing version, the install 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 install 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.
If you launch the Fabric Manager install wizard on a Windows XP or 2003 machine and an After
Installation window appears, click Cancel to exit. The After Installation window provides access to a
Windows program that exists only on a few Windows XP or 2003 machines (depending on your
Windows image). If you do not cancel this program, your Fabric Manager shortcut is moved to the All
Users folder after the installation is complete. Also, if you subsequently uninstall Fabric Manager, the
uninstall wizard is unable to remove the Fabric Manager menu item from the Start > Programs menu.
To find the name of the Windows authentication domain that must be specified during installation, open
a DOS window and type set. The alias USERDOMAIN indicates the active domain. If the client and
server reside on different Microsoft domains, both domains must have trusts established between them
or Fabric Manager will not be able to authenticate the client.
Upgrading Fabric Manager
You can upgrade to Fabric Manager 5.2.0 from versions 4.4.x, 5.0.x, or 5.1.x. All configuration data is
migrated to 5.2.0.
If you have earlier versions of Fabric Manager, you must first upgrade them to 4.4.x and then upgrade to
5.2.0.
The following information cannot be migrated to Fabric Manager 5.2.0:
• Topology settings
• View customization
• At-A-Glance window customization
Note
You might encounter issues when using XWindows emulators from Windows to access the SUN host.
Note
The domain name required is not the internet domain (such as corp.mycompany.com); it is the Domain
name Microsoft uses for authentication.
Note
After you upgrade to Fabric Manager 5.2.0, you cannot discover a fabric with a seed switch running
Fabric OS v2.x or lower. If, prior to the upgrade, you had discovered a fabric with the seed switch
running Fabric OS v2.x, this fabric is available for monitoring after the Fabric Manager upgrade.