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CHAPTER 2
Managing FabricsThis section describes the following fabric management tasks:
■Tracking Fabric Firmware and Software Versions
■Managing the Fabric Database
■Displaying Fabric Information
■Verifying Fibre Channel Connections
■Worki ng w ith D evi ce In formation and Nicknames
■Enabling Fabric Services
Tracking Fabric Firmware and Software
Ver si on s
The Fabric Tracker option allows 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, switch
active firmware version, device hardware, drivers, and firmware version from FDMI.
The Snapshot Analyzer option allows 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.