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16 Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide

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Client-only installation

Contents

Main Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated Document History Title Publication number Summary of changes Date Contents About This Document Chapter 1 Installation Chapter 2 Network Advisor Configuration Chapter 3 Data Migration Page Page About This Document How this document is organized Supported hardware and software Fabric OS hardware and software support TABLE 1 Page Page IronWare OS hardware and software support TABLE 2 Page Page Network OS hardware and software support TABLE 3 Whats new in this document - - - - Document conventions Text formatting Notes Notice to the reader Additional information Brocade resources Other industry resources Getting technical help Document feedback Page Installation System requirements Server and client operating system requirements Page Page Memory, host, and disk space requirements Operating system cache requirements TABLE 7 TABLE 8 TABLE 9 Browser requirements Client and server system requirements Downloading the software Pre-installation requirements Additional pre-installation requirements for UNIX systems Installing the application Mapping the loopback address to the local host Headless installation Additional pre-installation requirements for UNIX systems (headless installation) Performing a headless installation on Windows and UNIX systems Troubleshooting the Linux headless installation Collecting supportsave on Windows and Linux Client-only installation Installing the client-only application Page Page Network Advisor Configuration Configuring Network Advisor ATTENTION - Page FIGURE 1 Page Accessing the Network Advisor interfaces Logging into a server Launching a remote client Clearing previous versions of the remote client Launching the SMC on Windows Launching the SMC on Linux Launching the SMIA Configuration Tool Launching the SMIA Configuration Tool remote client Syslog troubleshooting Finding the process Stopping the process Installing the ODBC driver Installing the ODBC driver on Windows systems Adding the data source on Windows systems Installing the ODBC driver on Linux systems Adding the datasource on Linux systems Testing the connection on Linux systems Page Smart Card driver installation Installing the Smart Card driver on the local client Page Installing the Smart Card driver on the remote client Detecting and correcting a default Linux Smart Card driver Page Configuring an explicit server IP address Product improvement Enabling product improvement data transfer Disabling product improvement data transfer Data transfer Configuring remote client access to the database Page Data Migration Upgrading the license TABLE 10 TABLE 11 TABLE 12 Supported migration paths TABLE 13 TABLE 14 Supported migration paths Network Advisor 12.0.X includes 12.0.0, 12.0.1, 12.0.2, 12.0.3, and 12.0.4. TABLE 15 Current version Professional version Trial Version Licensed Version Enterprise Professional Plus Enterprise DCFM migration paths INM migration paths EFCM and Fabric Manager migration paths TABLE 16 Pre-migration requirements Pre-migration requirements when migrating from one server to another Page Page Additional pre-migration requirements on UNIX systems Additional trial requirements Migrating data Page ATTENTION - Page FIGURE 2 Page Cross flavor migration Migration rollback Migration rollback due to insufficient space Page Uninstallation Uninstalling from Windows systems Uninstalling from Windows systems (headless uninstall) Uninstalling from UNIX systems Uninstalling from UNIX systems (headless uninstall) Page Appendix A References In this appendix Network Advisor packages Scalability limits TABLE 18 Edition feature support TABLE 19 Feature Professional Professional Plus Enterprise Page Page Page Page TABLE 20 - - Feature Professional Base Licensed version Base with Licensed Ethernet Base with Unlicensed Ethernet Feature Professional Base Licensed version Base with Licensed Ethernet Base with Unlicensed Ethernet Page Page Management server and client ports TABLE 21 Management server and client ports Management server and client ports A Management server and client ports