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Brocade Network Advisor
Installation Guide
Supporting Network Advisor 11.1.X

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In this guide
In this guide
•Edition feature support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
•Network Advisor packages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
•Management server and client ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
•System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
•Pre-installation requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
•Installing the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
•Headless installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
•Professional edition configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
•Trial configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
•License version configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
•SMI Agent only configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
•Syslog troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
•Installing the ODBC driver on Windows systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
•Configuring an explicit server IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
•Smart Card driver installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
•Uninstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Edition 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
Configuration file management
Yes Yes Yes
Active Sessions Active sessions Yes Yes Yes
Call Home Support all Call centers
SupportSave for Fabric OS switches
Support last 100 events
No Yes Yes
Configuration Management Periodic configuration backup and persistence No Yes Yes
Manual backup
Save configuration
Yes Yes Yes
Configuration repository management No Yes Yes
Replicate switch configuration No Yes Yes

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Edition feature support
Network Advisor Client
Authentication
Authorization
Auditing
Network Advisor user management No Yes Yes
Deployment Manager Yes Yes Yes
Encryption Layer 2 FC support Yes Yes Yes
Encryption configuration and monitoring No Yes Yes
Access Gateway – Cisco interop support No Yes Yes
Device decommissioning No Yes Yes
Fabric Binding Fabric Binding No Yes Yes
Fabric Watch All Fabric Watch features Element
Manager
Element
Manager
Element
Manager
Fault Management Show switch events
Show fabric events
Event actions
Pseudo events
Syslog registration and forwarding
SNMP trap registration and 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
Firmware Management and
SupportSave
Firmware download Yes Yes Yes
Capture SupportSave Yes Yes Yes
HBA Management Discovery Yes Yes Yes
Configuration Yes Yes Yes
HBA Port/Storage port mapping HBA port/Storage port mapping Yes Yes Yes
High Integrity Fabric High Integrity Fabric No Yes Yes
IPv6 Server - Client support
Server - Server support
Server - Switch support
Yes Yes Yes
TABLE 1 SAN features supported (Continued)
Feature Description Professional Professional
Plus
Enterprise

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Client - Server support
NOTE: Raw IPv6 is not supported for Client -
Server communication (Northbound
address) due to a JBOSS version
limitation.
No No No
iSCSI Discovery Discovery Yes Yes Yes
License New License Key No Yes Yes
Limited M-EOS fabric support Features that support M-EOS switches
Mixed fabric support
Pure fabric support
No Yes Yes
Meta-SAN Routing configuration No Yes Yes
Domain ID configuration No Yes Yes
M-EOS Element Manager Switch configuration for M-EOS switches
through Element Manager
No Yes Yes
Migration Migration from legacy EFCM and Fabric
Manager
No No No
Name Server Collection 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 selected ports)
No Yes Yes
Thresholds No Yes Yes
Top talkers No Yes Yes
Marching ants No Yes Yes
Performance aging No Yes Yes
End-to-End monitors No Yes Yes
Policy Monitor Best practice monitoring Yes Yes Yes
Port Administration All Port Administration features Element
Manager
Element
Manager
Element
Manager
Port Fencing Port Fencing policy configuration for M-EOS
switches
No Yes Yes
TABLE 1 SAN features supported (Continued)
Feature Description Professional Professional
Plus
Enterprise

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RBAC User management No Yes Yes
Reports Generate Yes Yes Yes
View Yes Yes Yes
Scalability Up to 1000 port support Yes Yes Yes
Up to 2560 port support No Yes Yes
Up to 9000 port support No No Yes
Security management Replicate switch policy configuration No Yes Yes
SNMP configuration Yes Yes Yes
L2 ACL Yes Yes Yes
SMI Agent Server Profile
Fabric Profile
Indication Sub Profile
Zone Control Sub Profile
Enhanced Zoning and Enhanced Zoning
Control Sub Profile
FDMI (Fabric Device Management Interface)
Sub Profile
Fabrics Virtual Fabrics Sub Profile
Topology View Sub Profile
FC HBA (Fibre Channel 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
Software Sub Profile
Access Points Sub Profile
Location Sub Profile
Fabric Switch Partitioning Sub Profile
FC Initiator Ports Sub Profile
Fabric and Host discovery
SAN Zoning
No Yes Yes
Switch configuration management Basic configurations through Element Manager Element
Manager
Yes Yes
Switch port enable/disable Switch port enable/disable through right-click
menu
Yes Yes Yes
TABLE 1 SAN features supported (Continued)
Feature Description Professional Professional
Plus
Enterprise

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Telnet Telnet
NOTE: Telnet through the server is only
supported on Windows systems.
Yes Yes Yes
Tool launcher Tool launcher (Setup tools) No Yes Yes
Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Device connectivity troubleshooting wizard Yes Yes Yes
Trace Route
Ping
Yes Yes Yes
Fabric device sharing No Yes Yes
Diagnostic Port Test
Virtual Fabrics Discovery 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 suppor t 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 Yes Yes
LSAN Zones No Yes Yes
Rolling back to an activated zone database No Yes Yes
Import or export a zone database No Yes Yes
TABLE 1 SAN features supported (Continued)
Feature Description Professional Professional
Plus
Enterprise

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Network Advisor packages
Network Advisor packages
Table 2 summarizes the packages and available versions for each package.
Management server and client ports
The Management application has two parts: the Server and the Client. The Server is installed on one machine and
stores device-related information; it does not have a user interface. To view information through a user interface, you
must log in to the Server through a Client. The Server and Clients may reside on the same machine, or on separate
machines. If you are running Professional, the server and the client must be on the same machine.
In some cases, a network may utilize virtual private network (VPN) or firewall technology, which can prohibit
communication between Switches and the Servers or Clients. In other words, a Server or Client can find a Switch,
appear to log in, but is immediately logged out because the Switch cannot reach the Server or Client. To resolve this
issue, check to determine if the ports in the table below need to be opened up in 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 switch ports
Professional
•SAN—Support for 1 fabric and 1,000 ports
NOTE: SMI Agent is not supported on Professional.
SMI Agent only N/A
TABLE 3 Professional ports
Port Number Ports Transport Description Communication Path Open in Firewall
201FTP Port (Control) TCP FTP Control port for internal
FTP server
Client–Server
Switch–Server
No
Yes
211, 2 FTP Port (Data) TCP FTP Data port for internal
FTP server
Client–Server
Switch–Server
No
Yes
221SSH or Secure Telnet TCP Sectelnet port from server to
switch/client to switch
Server–Switch
Client–Switch
Yes
231Telnet TCP Telnet port from server/client
to switch
Server–Switch
Client–Switch
Yes
25 SMTP Server port TCP SMTP Server port for E-mail
communication
Server–SMTP
Server
Yes
49 TACACS+ Authentication port TCP TACACS+ server port for
authentication if TACACS+ is
chosen as an external
authentication
Server–TACACS+
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80 jboss.web.http.port TCP Non-SSL HTTP/1.1 connector
port
Client–Server No
803, 4, 5 Switch http TCP Switch non-SSL http port for
http and CAL communication
Server–Switch
Client–Switch
Yes
1611SNMP Port UDP Default SNMP port Server–Switch Yes
1623snmp.trap.port UDP Default SNMP trap port Switch–Server Yes
5146Syslog Port UDP Default Syslog Port Switch–Server Yes
636 LDAP Authentication SSL port TCP LDAP server port for
authentication if LDAP is
chosen as an external
authentication and SSL is
enabled
Server–LDAP
Server
Yes
5432 Database port (Enforced during install) TCP Port used by database Server–Database
Remote ODBC–
Database
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 4 TCP RMI naming service port Client–Server No
24605 jboss.jrmp.invoker.port - port 5 TCP RMI/JRMP invoker port Client–Server No
24606 jboss.pooled.invoker.port - port 6 TCP Pooled invoker port Client–Server No
24607 jboss.connector.socket.port - port 7 TCP Socket invoker port Server No
24608 jboss.web.ajp.port - port 8 TCP AJP 1.3 connector port Server No
24609 jboss.web.service.port – port 9 TCP Web service port Server No
TABLE 3 Professional ports (Continued)
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Management server and client ports
Table 4 lists the ports that need to be opened up in the firewall for Trial and Licensed Version.
24610 connector.bind.port – port 10 TCP Port to listen for requests on Server No
1 Port is not configurable (either in the switch or the Management server).
2 Every FTP session requires an additional port which is randomly picked. If the firewall is enabled then FTP operation (used for firmware
download, technical support, firmware import (from client-server) and so on.) will fail.
3 Ports configurable in the switch and the Management server. Port must be the same for all switches managed by the Management
server.
4 Ports used to launch the Web Tools application for Fabric OS switches from the Management client. This is applicable only when the
Fabric OS version is earlier than 6.1.1.
5 Port 80 is the default web server port number. If you set the web server port number to a port other than the default, you must open that
port in the firewall.
6 The Syslog listening port is configurable in the Management server. The switch always sends syslog messages to port 514. If you have
any other syslog daemon 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 The Management server tries to find a 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). The port numbers mentioned in the table above are the default ports (for example, when 24600
is selected as the starting port number).
TABLE 4 Trial and Licensed Version ports
Port Number Ports Transport Description Communication Path Open in Firewall
201FTP Port (Control) TCP FTP Control port for internal
FTP server
Client–Server
Switch–Server
Yes
Yes
211, 2 FTP Port (Data) TCP FTP Data port for internal
FTP server
Client–Server
Switch–Server
Yes
Yes
221SSH or Secure Telnet TCP Sectelnet port from server to
switch/client to switch
Server–Switch
Client–Switch
Yes
231Telnet TCP Telnet port from server/client
to switch
Server–Switch
Client–Switch
Yes
25 SMTP Server port TCP SMTP Server port for E-mail
communication
Server–SMTP
Server
Yes
49 TACACS+ Authentication port TCP TACACS+ server port for
authentication if TACACS+ is
chosen as an external
authentication
Server–TACACS+
Server
Yes
80 jboss.web.http.port TCP Non-SSL HTTP/1.1 connector
port
Client–Server Yes
803, 4 Switch http TCP Switch non-SSL http port for
http and CAL communication
Server–Switch
Client–Switch
Yes
1611SNMP Port UDP Default SNMP port Server–Switch Yes
1623snmp.trap.port UDP Default SNMP trap port Switch–Server Yes
TABLE 3 Professional ports (Continued)
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389 LDAP Authentication Server Port TCP LDAP server port for
authentication if LDAP is
chosen as an external
authentication
Server–LDAP
Server
Yes
4433, 4, 5 Switch https TCP Switch SSL http port for https
and CAL communication
Server–Switch
Client–Switch
Yes
5146Syslog Port UDP Default Syslog Port Switch–Server Yes
636 LDAP Authentication SSL port TCP LDAP server port for
authentication if LDAP is
chosen as an external
authentication and SSL is
enabled
Server–LDAP
Server
Yes
10241, 7 MPI TCP MPI trap recipient port Switch–Server Yes
1812 RADIUS Authentication Server Port TCP RADIUS server port for
authentication if RADIUS is
chosen as an external
authentication
Server–RADIUS
Server
Yes
20481, 9 MPI TCP MPI discovery NMRU port Server–Switch Yes
20491,5,7,9 MPI TCP MPI discovery NMRU port for
SSL
Server–Switch Yes
26388Database port (Enforced during install) TCP Port used by database Server–Database
Remote ODBC–
Database
Yes
44301, 5, 7 MPI TCP XML-RCP port for 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 Client–Server Yes
24602 jboss.connector.bisocket.port - port 2 TCP Bisocket connector port Client–Server Yes
24603 jboss.connector.bisocket.secondary.port
- port 3
TCP Bisocket connector secondary
port
Client–Server Yes
246045jboss.connector.sslbisocket.port - port 4 TCP SSL Bisocket connector port Client–Server Yes
246055jboss.connector.sslbisocket.secondary.p
ort - port 5
TCP SSL Bisocket connector
secondary port
Client–Server Yes
24606 smp.registry.port - port 6 TCP RMI registry port Client–Server Yes
24607 smp.server.export.port - port 7 TCP RMI export port Client–Server Yes
24608 smp.server.cliProxyListening port - port
8
TCP CLI proxy telnet port Client–Server Yes
24609 jboss.naming.rmi.port - port 9 TCP RMI naming service port Client–Server Yes
TABLE 4 Trial and Licensed Version ports (Continued)
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24610 jboss.jrmp.invoker.port - port 10 TCP RMI/JRMP invoker port Client–Server Yes
24611 jboss.pooled.invoker.port - port 11 TCP Pooled invoker port Client–Server Yes
24612 jboss.connector.socket.port - port 12 TCP Socket invoker port Server No
24613 jboss.web.ajp.port - port 13 TCP AJP 1.3 connector port Server No
24614 jboss.web.service.port – port 14 TCP Web service port Server No
24615 connector.bind.port – port 15 TCP Port to listen for requests on Server No
5555510 Client Export Port TCP Client port to which server
pushes the M-EOS device
Element Manager updates
Server–Client Yes
55556 Launch in Context (LIC) client hand
shaking port
TCP Client port used to check if a
Management application client
opened using LIC is running on
the same host
NOTE: If this port is in use, the
application uses the
next available port.
Client No
1 Port is not configurable (either in the switch or the Management server).
2 Every FTP session requires an additional port which is randomly picked. If the firewall is enabled then FTP operation (used for firmware
download, technical support, firmware import (from client-server) and so on.) will fail.
3 Ports configurable in the switch and the Management server. Port must be the same for all switches managed by the Management
server.
4 Ports used to launch the Web Tools application for Fabric OS switches from the Management client. This is applicable only when the
Fabric OS version is earlier than 6.1.1.
5 Port used for SSL communication. If SSL is enabled, you must open 443*, 24604, and 24605 in the firewall. If SSL is not enabled, port
80* must be open in the firewall and 443*, 24604, and 24605 can be closed. An asterisk (*) denotes the default web server port number.
If you set the web server port number to a port other than the default, you must open that port in the firewall.
6 The Syslog listening port is configurable in the Management server. The switch always sends syslog messages to port 514. If you have
any other syslog daemon 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 8080
for http requests (firmware download, configuration backup/ restore, data collection). If M-EOSn firmware version is less than 9.1 the
Management application uses 8080 for XML-RPC requests (discovery and asset collection). If the M-EOSn firmware version is more
than 9.1 then it always uses SSL port (4430) for XML-RPC.
8 Port must be opened in firewall for the server when the remote ODBC client needs to talk to the Management database server (Only for
EE). The same port is used by the Management server to database server (local). This is not used by the Management client.
9 Ports used for communicating with M-EOS (excluding M-i10K) switches (only required when the Management server manages M-EOS
switches).
10 Port should be opened in firewall in the Management client to allow communication between server and client (only applicable for
M-EOS switches). If this port is not opened in the firewall, then the M-EOS element manager does not receive updates. Also if multiple
clients are opened, it will try to use the next available port (55556). So if there are n clients opened in the same machine then you must
open 55555 (configurable) to 55555 + n ports in the firewall.
11 The Management server tries to find a contiguous block of 16 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 15 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). The port numbers mentioned in the table above are the default ports (for example, when 24600
is selected as the starting port number).
TABLE 4 Trial and Licensed Version ports (Continued)
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System requirements
Use the following sections to determine if you have met the requirements for this application.
•“Operating system requirements” on page 13
•“Host requirements” on page 15
•“Memory requirements” on page 15
•“Disk space requirements” on page 16
•“Browser requirements” on page 16
•“Client and server system requirements” on page 17
•“Scalability requirements” on page 17
Operating 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
Edition (64-bit)
•2008 R2 Standard Edition
(64-bit)
•2008 R2 Enterprise Edition
(64-bit)
SAN with SMI Agent
SMI Agent only
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)
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Table 6 summarizes the required OS for clients.
VMware •ESX Server 4
•vCenter 4.1
•Windows 2003 Server SP2
(32-bit)
•Windows 2008 Standard
Edition (32-bit)
SAN with SMI Agent
SMI Agent only
•ESX Server 4
•vCenter 4.1
•Windows 2008 R2 Data Center
Edition (64-bit)
•Windows 2008 R2 Standard
Edition (64-bit)
•Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise
Edition (64-bit)
•Linux RedHat 5.5 Advanced
Platform (32-bit)
•Linux SuSE ES 10 SP 1, 11
(32-bit)
•Linux Oracle Enterprise 5.X
(32-bit)
SAN with SMI Agent
SMI Agent only
TABLE 6 Client operating system requirements
Operating system 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 SP2 (32-bit)
•Windows 2008 Standard Edition (32-bit)
•ESX Server 4
•vCenter 4.1
•Windows 2008 R2 Data Center Edition (64-bit)
•Windows 2008 R2 Standard Edition (64-bit)
•Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (64-bit)
•Linux RedHat 5.5 Advanced Platform (32-bit)
•Linux SuSE ES 10 SP 1, 11 (32-bit)
•Linux Oracle Enterprise 5.X (32-bit)
TABLE 5 Server operating system requirements (Continued)
Operating system Version Guest OS version Supported packages

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System requirements
Host requirements
Table 7 summarizes the minimum required host requirements for running Network Advisor SAN with SMI Agent on
Windows and Linux systems.
Table 8 summarizes the minimum required host requirements for running SMI Agent only on Windows and Linux
systems.
Memory requirements
Table 9 summarizes the minimum required system memory requirements for running Network Advisor SAN with SMI
Agent on Windows and Linux systems.
NOTE
These requirements are only applicable when no other applications are running on Network Advisor.
NOTE
Paging space should be equal to or exceed the physical memory size.
TABLE 7 SAN with SMI Agent host requirements
Professional Professional Plus Enterprise
Small Medium Large LAN
Server plus one local
client
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 requirements
Enterprise
Small Medium Large
Server plus one local
client
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 Intel Core2 duo
2GHz or equivalent
Intel Core2 duo
2GHz or equivalent
Intel Core2 duo
2GHz or equivalent
TABLE 9 SAN with SMI Agent memory requirements
Server/Client Professional Professional
Plus
Enterprise
Small Medium Large
Server plus 1 local client 2 GB (32-bit)
3 GB (64-bit)
3 GB (32-bit)
4 GB (64-bit)
3 GB (32-bit)
4 GB (64-bit)
4 GB (32-bit)
6 GB (64-bit)
4 GB (32-bit)
6 GB (64-bit)
Remote client only N/A 1 GB 1 GB 2 GB 2 GB

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System requirements
Table 10 summarizes the minimum required system memory requirements for running SMI Agent only on Windows
and Linux systems.
Disk space requirements
Table 11 summarizes the minimum required disk space requirements for running Network Advisor SAN with SMI
Agent on Windows and Linux systems.
Table 12 summarizes the minimum required disk space requirements for running SMI Agent only on Windows and
Linux systems.
NOTE
If you enable periodic supportSave or configure the Network Advisor server as the Upload Failure Data Capture
location for monitored switches, then additional disk space will be required. Each switch supportSave file is
approximately 5 MB and each Upload Failure Data Capture file is approximately 500 KB. To determine the disk space
requirements, multiply the frequency 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 Linux
•Java Plug-ins
-Oracle JRE 1.6.0 update 24 for Network Advisor
-Oracle JRE 1.6.0 update 24 for WebTools
TABLE 10 SMI Agent only memory requirements
Server/Client Enterprise
Small Medium Large
Server plus 1 local client 3 GB 4 GB 4 GB
Remote client only 1 GB 2 GB 2 GB
TABLE 11 SAN with SMI Agent disk space requirements
Server/Client Professional Professional
Plus
Enterprise
Small Medium Large
Server plus 1 local client 10 GB 10 GB 20 GB 40 GB 60 GB
Remote client only N/A 1 GB 1 GB 1 GB 1 GB
TABLE 12 SMI Agent only disk space requirements
Server/Client Enterprise
Small Medium Large
Server plus 1 local client 20 GB 40 GB 60 GB
Remote client only 1 GB 1 GB 1 GB

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Client and server system requirements
Network Advisor has the following client and server system requirements:
•Professional Edition — A single server supports a single client (local client only).
•Professional Plus Trial — A single server supports a maximum of 8 clients (local or remote).
•Professional Plus Licensed Version — A single server supports a maximum of 8 clients (local or remote).
•Enterprise Trial — A single server supports a maximum of 8 clients (local or remote).
•Enterprise Licensed Version — A single server supports a maximum of 8 clients (local or remote).
Scalability requirements
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 81624
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 14 Professional Plus-supported limits by SAN size
Values Limits
Number of Fabrics 4
Number of Domains 20
Number of Switch Ports 2560
Number of Device Ports 4096
Number of Access Gateways 20
Performance Monitoring Polling 5 minutes
TABLE 15 Professional-supported limits by SAN size
Values Limits
Number of Fabrics 1
Number of Domains 10
Number of Switch Ports 1000
Number of Device Ports 1000
Number of Access Gateways 5
Performance Monitoring Polling N/A

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TABLE 16 Supported limits by SAN size for mixed fabrics (Fabric OS and M-EOS fabrics)
Values Small Medium Large
Number of Fabrics 81624
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 17 Supported limits by SAN size for pure M-EOS fabrics
Small Medium Large
Number of Fabrics 81624
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 Fabric OS fabrics
Small Medium Large
Number of Fabrics 81624
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

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Pre-installation requirements
Pre-installation requirements
Before you install Network Advisor, make sure you meet the following requirements for each platform.
Pre-installation requirements for Windows systems
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
•Make sure all system requirements have been met prior to installation. For specific system requirements, refer
to “System requirements” on page 13.
•To avoid errors, close all instances of the application before beginning the installation or uninstallation
procedures.
If you still receive error messages 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.html.
TABLE 19 Supported limits by SAN size for SMI Agent only on mixed fabrics (Fabric OS and M-EOS fabrics)
Values Small Medium Large
Number of Fabrics 81624
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
TABLE 20 Supported limits by SAN size for SMI Agent only on pure M-EOS fabrics
Small Medium Large
Number of Fabrics 81624
Number of Domains 10 30 60
Number of Switch Ports 1000 2500 5000
Number of Device Ports 2500 5000 10000
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Installing the application
•Make sure that an X Server is available for display and is configured to permit X Client applications to display
from the host on which they are installing the Network Advisor server (typically, this simply requires that the
systems console be present and running with a logged-in user on the X Server-based desktop session, such as
KDE, GNOME, and so on).
If this is a headless unit with no console, refer to “Pre-installation requirements for UNIX systems (headless
installation)” on page 21.
•Make sure that the DISPLAY environment variable is correctly defined in the shell with a valid value (for example,
to display to the local console, export DISPLAY=:0.0, or to display to a remote system that has an X Server
running, export DISPLAY=Remote_IP_address:0.0).
You may also need to consider a firewall that might block the display to the X Server, which listens by default on
TCP port 6000 on the remote host.
To display to a remote system, you need to permit the remote display of the X Server by running the xhost +IP
command, where IP is the IP address of the Network Advisor server host from the X-based desktop of the remote
system.
•Make sure you test the DISPLAY definition by running the xterm command, from the same shell from which you
run install.bin. A new X terminal window to the destination X Server 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.
•For Windows systems, if autorun is enabled, the DVD Index page launches automatically. Click the Install
link.
If autorun is not enabled, open this file: DVD_Drive\Application_Name\windows\install.exe.
•For UNIX systems, open this file: DVD_Drive\Application_Name\UNIX_Platform\install.bin.
2. Click Next on the Introduction screen.
3. Read the agreement on the License Agreement screen, select I accept the terms of the License Agreement, and
click Next.
4. Select the usual location for your system application files (for example, D:\Program Files\Application_Name
11.1.X or opt/Application_Name 11_1_X) on the Select Install Folder screen and click Next.
TABLE 21 Management application installation
Operating system Procedures
Windows or UNIX systems To install the application, review the following sections:
•“Pre-installation requirements for UNIX systems” on page 19
•“Installing the application” on page 20
UNIX systems (Headless
installation)
To perform a headless installation, review the following sections:
•“Pre-installation requirements for UNIX systems (headless installation)” on page 21
•“Performing a headless installation on UNIX systems” on page 22
•“Troubleshooting the Linux headless installation” on page 22