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53-1002320-01
13 May 2011

Brocade Network Advisor

Installation Guide

Supporting Network Advisor 11.1.X

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Page 1: ... 53 1002320 01 13 May 2011 Brocade Network Advisor Installation Guide Supporting Network Advisor 11 1 X ...

Page 2: ...h respect to any loss cost liability or damages arising from the information contained in this book or the computer programs that accompany it The product described by this document may contain open source software covered by the GNU General Public License or other open source license agreements To find out which open source software is included in Brocade products view the licensing terms applica...

Page 3: ...tion feature support Table 1 details whether the SAN features are supported in the Professional Professional Plus or Enterprise versions or only through the Element Manager of the device TABLE 1 SAN features supported Feature Description Professional Professional Plus Enterprise Access Gateway Management Access Gateway topology display Firmware download SupportSave Performance statistics Configura...

Page 4: ... forwarding NOTE Professional edition does not support Event actions Pseudo events Syslog forwarding and SNMP trap forwarding Yes Yes Yes FCIP Management FCIP configuration wizard Troubleshooting FCIP performance FCIP ping FCIP traceroute Yes Yes Yes FICON CUP Cascaded FICON configuration wizard No No Yes Cascaded FICON Fabric merge wizard No No Yes PDCM Matrix Element Manager Element Manager Yes ...

Page 5: ...ion and Views Yes Yes Yes Open Trunking Support Display trunks on the topology Yes Yes Yes Display trunks properties Yes Yes Yes Display marching ants Yes Yes Yes Display connections properties Yes Yes Yes Performance management Real Time Performance Collection Display Reports 5 second intervals on selected ports Yes Yes Yes Historical Performance Collection Display Reports 5 minute intervals on s...

Page 6: ...nel Host Bus Adapter Profile Fan Power Supply and Sensor Profiles Inter Fabric Routing FCR Profile Trunking CP Blade Sub Profile CEE Converged Enhanced Ethernet Launch In Context Profile Switch Profile Role Based Authorization CEE ACL Profile N port Virtualizer AG NPIV Profile Profile Registration Sub Profile Object Manager Adapter Sub Profile Fabric Views Sub Profile Physical Package Sub Profile ...

Page 7: ...ry Yes Yes Yes Configuration No Yes Yes VM Plugin Support VM Plugin No Yes Yes Zoning Member selection Yes Yes Yes Zone editing Yes Yes Yes Live fabric library scope Yes Yes Yes QoS support Yes Yes Yes Zone alias support Yes Yes Yes Delete Zone database No Yes Yes Impact analysis Yes Yes Yes Remove offline devices No Yes Yes TI Zones Yes Yes Yes Device to Zone zoneset participation analysis Yes Ye...

Page 8: ...the firewall NOTE Professional edition does not support remote clients Table 3 lists the ports that need to be opened up in the firewall for Professional TABLE 2 Packages and versions Package Versions SAN with SMI Agent Licensed Version Enterprise SAN Support for 24 fabrics 10 000 devices and 9 000 switch ports Licensed Version Professional Plus SAN Support for 4 fabrics 4 096 devices and 2560 swi...

Page 9: ...abase No 24600 jboss naming jnp port port 0 TCP Bootstrap JNP service port Client Server No 24601 jboss connector ejb3 port port 1 TCP EJB3 connector port Client Server No 24602 jboss connector bisocket port port 2 TCP Bisocket connector port Client Server No 24603 jboss connector bisocket secondary port port 3 TCP Bisocket connector secondary port Client Server No 24604 jboss naming rmi port port...

Page 10: ... contiguous block of 13 ports from the starting port configured for example 24600 if any port in this range is not available for the Management application then you must provide a new starting port Note that Port 1 to Port 12 in Ports column of the table above are not separately configurable and those ports vary based on the starting port number configuration specified as Port 0 in the above table...

Page 11: ...SSL Server Switch Yes 5988 SMI Agent port TCP SMI Agent port SMI Agent Server Client Yes 5989 SMI Agent port with SSL enabled TCP SMI Agent port with SSL enabled SMI Agent Server Client Yes 80801 7 MPI TCP XML RCP port HTTP port Server Switch Yes 2460010 jboss naming jnp port port 0 TCP Bootstrap JNP service port Client Server Yes 24601 jboss connector ejb3 port port 1 TCP EJB3 connector port Clie...

Page 12: ...mon on the Management server machine already listening to 514 then the Management Server can be configured to listen to a different port You must manually configure relay in existing syslogd to forward the syslog messages to the Management Server listening on the configured port 7 Ports used for communicating with M EOSn M i10K directors M i10K always uses NMRU over SSL 2049 M i10K always uses 808...

Page 13: ...ing system requirements Table 5 summarizes the required Operating Systems OS for servers and the packages supported by each OS version TABLE 5 Server operating system requirements Operating system Version Guest OS version Supported packages Windows 2003 Server SP2 32 bit 2008 Server 32 bit XP Professional SP3 32 bit 7 Professional 32 bit SAN with SMI Agent SMI Agent only 2008 R2 Data Center Editio...

Page 14: ...em Version Guest OS version Windows 2003 Server SP2 32 bit 2008 Server 32 bit XP Professional SP3 32 bit 7 Professional 32 bit 2008 R2 Data Center Edition 64 bit 2008 R2 Standard Edition 64 bit 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition 64 bit Linux RedHat AS 4 8 32 bit RedHat 5 5 Advanced Platform 32 bit SuSE ES 10 SP 1 11 32 bit Oracle Enterprise 5 X 32 bit VMware ESX Server 4 vCenter 4 1 Windows 2003 Server SP...

Page 15: ...t Intel Core2 duo 2GHz or equivalent Intel Core2 duo 2GHz or equivalent Intel Core2 duo 2GHz or equivalent Intel Dual CPU Core2 duo 2 4 GHz or equivalent Intel Dual CPU Core2 duo 2 4 GHz or equivalent Remote client only N A Intel Core2 duo 2GHz or equivalent Intel Core2 duo 2GHz or equivalent Intel Core2 duo 2GHz or equivalent Intel Core2 duo 2GHz or equivalent TABLE 8 SMI Agent only host requirem...

Page 16: ...cy of scheduled supportSave files by 5 MB and the expected Upload Failure Data Capture files by 500 KB before the planned periodic purge activity Browser requirements The launch of Network Advisor and the launch of Element Manager Web Tools from the application are supported from the following browsers with a Java plug in Browsers Windows Internet Explorer under Windows Firefox under Windows or Li...

Page 17: ...ements Table 13 through Table 18 summarize the scalability limits for support with Network Advisor TABLE 13 Enterprise supported limits by SAN size Small Medium Large Number of Fabrics 8 16 24 Number of Domains 20 60 120 Number of Switch Ports 2000 5000 9000 Number of Device Ports 5000 10000 20000 Number of Access Gateways 20 30 40 Performance Monitoring Polling 5 minutes 5 minutes 5 minutes TABLE...

Page 18: ... minutes 5 minutes TABLE 17 Supported limits by SAN size for pure M EOS fabrics Small Medium Large Number of Fabrics 8 16 24 Number of Domains 10 30 60 Number of Switch Ports 1000 2500 5000 Number of Device Ports 2500 5000 10000 Number of Access Gateways 20 30 40 Performance Monitoring Polling 5 minutes 5 minutes 5 minutes TABLE 18 Enterprise supported limits by SAN size for SMI Agent only on pure...

Page 19: ...ages after closing the application enter the following commands ps ef grep i to list the process IDs kill 9 Process_ID where Process_ID is any Management application process Check for and install the latest Java patches for your operating system Network Advisor requires Oracle JRE 1 6 0_24 For the website listing patch information go to http www oracle com technetwork java javase downloads index h...

Page 20: ...display should open Installing the application Use Table 22 to help install the application If you are migrating data refer to the Network Advisor Migration Guide Use this procedure to install Network Advisor SAN with SMI Agent or SMI Agent only on both Windows and UNIX systems To install the new application version complete the following steps 1 Insert the installation DVD into the DVD ROM drive ...

Page 21: ...ta and settings configure the FTP or SCP server configure IP and configure server ports Pre installation requirements for Windows systems headless installation Make sure all system requirements have been met prior to installation For specific system requirements refer to System requirements on page 13 Pre installation requirements for UNIX systems headless installation An X Server display is requi...

Page 22: ... and execute this command install exe i silent DUSER_INSTALL_DIR C Program Files Network Advisor11 X X For UNIX systems open a UNIX shell and execute this command install bin i silent DUSER_INSTALL_DIR opt Network_Advisor11_X_X The application installs in silent mode using default settings To configure the application refer to one of the following sections Professional edition configuration on pag...

Page 23: ...configuration 4 Select Network Advisor Professional on the Installation Type screen and click Next 5 Select Internal FTP Server or External FTP Server on the FTP Server screen Figure 1 and click Next If port 21 is busy a message displays Click OK to close the message and continue Once the Management application is configured make sure port 21 is free and restart the server to start the FTP service...

Page 24: ...erver IP Configuration Preferred Address list b Click Next 7 Complete the following steps on the Server Configuration screen Figure 3 NOTE Do not use port 1527 for any of these port numbers Port 1527 is used internally by the server FIGURE 3 Server Configuration screen a Enter a port number in the Web Server Port field default is 80 b Enter a port number in the Database Port field default is 5432 ...

Page 25: ...l of the Network Advisor services are started the Log In dialog box displays 10 Enter your user name and password The defaults are Administrator and password respectively 11 Click Login 12 Click OK on the Network Advisor Login Banner Trial configuration Use Table 23 to help configure a trial package If you have not installed the application refer to Installing the application on page 20 If you are...

Page 26: ... ports 24 fabrics and 10 000 devices Required for evaluation of DCX Backbone and FICON management Professional Plus 2560 switch ports 4 fabrics and 4096 devices b Click Next 6 SAN with SMI Agent Select Internal FTP Server or External FTP Server on the FTP Server screen Figure 4 and click Next If port 21 is busy a message displays Click OK to close the message and continue Once the Management appli...

Page 27: ...umeric and dash characters The IP address is selected by default If the an IPv6 address is selected server start up will fail If Domain Name System DNS is not configured for your network do not select the hostname option from either the Server IP Configuration or Switch Server IP Configuration Preferred Address list Selecting the hostname option prevents clients and devices from communicating with...

Page 28: ...server requires 16 consecutive free ports beginning with the starting port number e Enter a port number in the Syslog Port field default is 514 NOTE If the default syslog port number is already in use you will not receive any syslog messages from the device To find and stop the process currently running on the default syslog port number refer to Syslog troubleshooting on page 39 f Enter a port num...

Page 29: ...port number in the SMI Agent Port field default is 5989 if SSL Enabled is selected otherwise the default is 5988 e Click Next 10 SAN with SMI Agent Enterprise Select one of the following options on the SAN Network Size screen and click Next NOTE If you selected the 75 day trial with the Professional Plus 2560 switch ports 4 fabrics and 4096 devices option the SAN Network Size screen does not displ...

Page 30: ... product license package If you have not installed the application refer to Installing the application on page 20 If you are migrating data refer to the Network Advisor Migration Guide Configuring Licensed version package 1 Click Next on the Welcome screen 2 Select No on the Copy Data and Settings screen and then click Next To migrate data from a previous version refer to the Network Advisor Migra...

Page 31: ...Key field is not case sensitive 6 Select Internal FTP Server or External FTP Server on the FTP Server screen and click Next If port 21 is busy a message displays Click OK to close the message and continue Once the Management application is configured make sure port 21 is free and restart the server to start the FTP service NOTE If you use an FTP Server that is not configured on the same machine as...

Page 32: ...lphanumeric and dash characters The IP address is selected by default If the an IPv6 address is selected server start up will fail If Domain Name System DNS is not configured for your network do not select the hostname option from either the Server IP Configuration or Switch Server IP Configuration Preferred Address list Selecting the hostname option prevents clients and devices from communicating...

Page 33: ...24600 NOTE The server requires 16 consecutive free ports beginning with the starting port number e Enter a port number in the Syslog Port field default is 514 NOTE If the default syslog port number is already in use you will not receive any syslog messages from the device To find and stop the process currently running on the default syslog port number refer to Syslog troubleshooting on page 39 f E...

Page 34: ...e the default is 5988 e Click Next 10 SAN with SMI Agent Enterprise Select one of the following options on the SAN Network Size screen and click Next NOTE Port count is equal to the total number of switch ports across all fabrics Small managing up to 2000 switch ports 1 20 domains Medium managing up to 5000 switch ports 21 60 domains Large managing up to 9000 switch ports 61 120 domains 11 Verify ...

Page 35: ...inistrator and password respectively 14 Click Login 15 Click OK on the Network Advisor Login Banner SMI Agent only configuration Use Table 25 to help configure the SMI Agent only Configuring SMI Agent only NOTE If you choose to install only the SMI Agent the configuration defaults to the SAN Enterprise package When you open the Network Advisor client a License dialog displays where you must enter ...

Page 36: ...ddress list If DNS is not configured for your network do not select the hostname option from either the Server IP Configuration or Switch Server IP Configuration Preferred Address list Selecting the hostname option prevents clients and devices from communicating with the server If you select a specific IP address from the Server IP Configuration screen and the selected IP address changes you will ...

Page 37: ...server requires 16 consecutive free ports beginning with the starting port number e Enter a port number in the Syslog Port field default is 514 NOTE If the default syslog port number is already in use you will not receive any syslog messages from the device To find and stop the process currently running on the default syslog port number refer to Syslog troubleshooting on page 39 f Enter a port num...

Page 38: ...dium managing up to 5000 ports 21 60 domains Large managing up to 9000 ports 61 120 domains 8 Verify your configuration information on the Server Configuration Summary screen and click Next 9 Complete the following steps on the Start Server screen a Select the Start SMI Agent check box if necessary b Select the Start SLP check box if necessary c Click Finish After all of the services SLP and SMI A...

Page 39: ...514 and press Enter The process running on port 514 displays Example output UDP 127 0 0 1 514 3328 Stopping the process Type taskkill F PID PID and press Enter For example taskkill F PID 3328 OR 1 Select Ctrl Shift Esc to open Windows Task Manager 2 Click the Processes tab 3 Click the PID column header to sort the processes by PID 4 Select the process you want to stop and click End Process Linux o...

Page 40: ... different location than where the ODBC executable drivers are located 3 On the Ready to Install screen click Next 4 Click Finish to complete the installation 5 Choose one of the following opitions 32 bit OS Select Start Settings Control Panel Administrative Tools Data Sources ODBC 62 bit OS Select Start Run type windir SysWOW64 odbcad32 exe and press Enter The ODBC Data Source Administrator dialo...

Page 41: ...e IP address complete the following steps 1 Choose one of the following options On Windows systems select Start Programs Network Advisor 11 X X Network Advisor Configuration On UNIX systems execute sh Install_Home bin configwizard in terminal 2 Click Next on the Welcome screen 3 Click Yes on the confirmation message 4 Click Next on the FTP Server screen 5 Complete the following steps on the Server...

Page 42: ...ce URL http pcsclite alioth debian org ccid html Muscle PC SC IFD Driver pcsc lite 1 4 101 tar gz Open Source URL https alioth debian org frs group id 30105 The Encryption Manager Client within Network Advisor provides the binary code on both platforms for installation You must uncompress or untar the file depending on the platform The procedures for the local client and the remote client configur...

Page 43: ... chkconfig add pcscd or redhat ln s opt pcsc pcscctl etc init d pcscd redhat chkconfig add pcscd NOTE Before you enter chkconfig add pcscd you can enter chkconfig list grep pcscd to verify that the pcscd file is already on the list If it already exists you do not need to enter chkconfig add pcscd After you reboot the system you should expect the following links under etc rc2 d etc rc3 d etc rc3 d ...

Page 44: ...20 Jun 4 12 30 libpcsclite so 1 libpcsclite so 1 0 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Aug 5 14 36 libpcsclite so 1 0 0 opt pcsc lib libpcsclite so 1 0 0 rwxr xr x 1 root root 35428 Aug 4 16 17 libpcsclite so 1 0 0 org Detecting and correcting a default Linux Smart Card driver This section applies to the Linux system only Some Linux systems may provide a default Smart Card driver and have their own setup ...

Page 45: ...the existing pcscd start priority file by deleting the file as SNNpcscd where NN is the start priority For example from the preceding step the file name is S25pcscd find etc name S25pcscd exec rm print sync sync sync reboot After the reboot the new configuration from the opt pcsc pcscctl file should be under the etc rc2 d etc rc3 d etc rc4 d and etc rc5 d directories lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jul ...

Page 46: ...ll Network Advisor 2 Select one of the following options on the Uninstall Option screen Partial Uninstall Configuration and performance data is retained to be re used by the new installation Full Uninstall All data is removed 3 Click Uninstall 4 Click Done on the Uninstall Complete screen Uninstalling from UNIX systems Follow these instructions to uninstall the Network Advisor and SMI Agent from y...

Page 47: ...r11_X_X 2 Choose one of the following options To partially uninstall Network Advisor configuration and performance data is retained to be re used by the new installation execute Uninstall_Network_Advisor 11_X_X f absolute path of partial uninstall property file To fully uninstall Network Advisor all data is removed execute Uninstall_Network_Advisor 11_X_X f absolute path of full uninstall property...

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