Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual Supported hardware and software

•Chapter 40, “Reports,” provides instructions for generating reports.

•Appendix A, “Application menus,” provides information about the main and shortcut menus.

•Appendix B, “Call Home Event Tables,” provides supplemental information about call home event tables.

•Appendix C, “Event Categories,” provides information about events.

•Appendix D, “User Privileges,” provides supplemental information about user privileges and access levels.

•Appendix E, “Device Properties,” provides reference information related to fabric, product, and port properties.

•Appendix F, “Regular Expressions,” provides a summary of Unicode regular expression constructs that you can use in the Management application.

•Appendix G, “CLI Templates,” provides information about preconfigured CLI templates.

•Appendix H, “Troubleshooting,” provides general troubleshooting details.

•Appendix I, “Database Fields,” provides reference information related to databases.

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 not.

Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. for Network Advisor 12.2.0, documenting all possible configurations and scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.

Fabric OS hardware and software support

The following firmware platforms are supported by this release of Network Advisor 12.2.0:

•Fabric OS 5.0 or later in a pure Fabric OS fabric

•Fabric OS 6.0 or later in a mixed fabric

NOTE

Discovery of a Secure Fabric OS fabric in strict mode is not supported.

The hardware platforms in the following table are supported by this release of Network Advisor 12.2.0.

TABLE 1	Fabric OS-supported hardware
Device name		Terminology used in documentation		Firmware level required
Brocade 6505 switch		24-port, 16	Gbps Edge switch	Fabric OS v7.0.1 or later
Brocade M6505 embedded switch		24-port, 16	Gbps embedded switch	Fabric OS v7.2.0 or later
Brocade 6510 switch		48-port, 16 Gbps switch		Fabric OS v7.0.0 or later
Brocade 6520 switch		96-port, 16 Gbps switch		Fabric OS v7.1.0 or later
Brocade 6547 embedded switch		48-port, 16 Gbps embedded switch		Fabric OS v7.2.0 or later

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