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3 – Managing Fabrics Tracking Fabric Firmware and Software Versions
3.1.3
Security Consistency Checklist
The Security Consistency Checklist dialog enables you to compare
3.2
Tracking Fabric Firmware and Software Versions
The Fabric Tracker option enables you to generate a snapshot or baseline of current system version information, which can be viewed, analyzed and compared to other snapshot files, and exported to a file. Information includes date and time, SANsurfer Switch Manager version, switch active firmware version, device hardware, drivers, and firmware version from FDMI.
The Snapshot Analyzer option enables you to:
Compare two snapshots
Detect mismatches of firmware and driver versions
Detect devices that have been moved, added to or removed from the fabric.
3.2.1
Saving a Version Snapshot
To save the current snapshot to an XML file, open the Fabric menu, select Fabric Tracker, and select Save Snapshot. To view and analyze system version information, open the Fabric menu, select Fabric Tracker, and select Analyze Snapshots. The Fabric Version Snapshot Analysis dialog, shown in Figure
The Summary tab page shows a brief description of the changes that have occurred between the older snapshot and the newer one. Use the Summary tab page quickly view what has changed.
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