Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide v12.0.0 (53-1002699-01, April 2013)

12 Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide

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Installing the application

Before you install the application, make sure your system meets the minimum pre-installation

requirements (refer to

“Pre-installation requirements” on page 10). If you are migrating data, refer

to “Data Migration” on page 41.

NOTE

SAN with SMI Agent + IP is not supported on 32-bit Windows

systems. For more information, refer to

“Pre-migration requirements” on page 45.

NOTE

SMI Agent is only available with the SAN with SMI Agent or SAN with SMI Agent + IP packages, it is

not available with the IP only package.

NOTE

On Windows systems, you must be an Administrator with Read and Write privileges to install Network

Advisor.

NOTE

On UNIX systems, you must be the root user to install Network Advisor.

To install the new application version, complete the following steps.

1. Choose one of the following options:

• For Windows systems, open this file:

Download_Location\Application_Name\windows\install.exe.

• For UNIX systems, complete the following steps.

a. On the Management application server, go to the following directory:

Download_Location/Application_Name/UNIX_Platform/bin

b. Type the following at the command line:

./install.bin

sh install.bin

NOTE

On Linux systems, if you double-click the install.bin file, select Run. Do not select Run in

Terminal.

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 or opt/Application_Name) on the Select Install Folder screen and

click Next.

NOTE

Do not install to the root directory C:\ (Windows) or / (UNIX).