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Brocade Network Advisor
Installation Guide
Supporting Network Advisor 11.1.X

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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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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
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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
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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)
Port Number Ports Transport Description Communication Path Open in Firewall