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

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Headless installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Additional pre-installation requirements for
UNIX systems (headless installation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Performing a headless installation on Windows and
UNIX systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Troubleshooting the Linux headless installation . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2 Network Advisor Configuration
Configuring Network Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Accessing the Network Advisor interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Logging into a server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Launching a remote client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Launching the SMC on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Launching the SMIA Configuration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Launching the SMIA Configuration Tool remote client . . . . . . .26
Syslog troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Finding the process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Stopping the process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Installing the ODBC driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Installing the ODBC driver on Windows systems . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Installing the ODBC driver on Linux systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Smart Card driver installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Installing the Smart Card driver on the local client . . . . . . . . . .32
Installing the Smart Card driver on the remote client . . . . . . . .34
Detecting and correcting a default Linux Smart Card driver. . .34
Configuring an explicit server IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Product Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Enabling product improvement data transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Disabling product improvement data transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Data transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Configuring remote client access to the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Chapter 3 Data Migration
Upgrading the license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Supported migration paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
DCFM migration paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
INM migration paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
EFCM and Fabric Manager migration paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Pre-migration requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Pre-migration requirements when migrating from
one server to another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Additional pre-migration requirements on UNIX systems . . . . . 47
Additional trial requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Migrating data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48