DCFM Installation Guide (53-1001817-01, July 2010)

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In this guide

•Professional, Professional Plus, and Enterprise edition feature support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

•System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

•Pre-installation requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

•Installing the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

•Headless installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

•Professional edition configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

•Professional Plus or Enterprise edition configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

•SMI Agent only configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

•Syslog troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

•Installing the ODBC driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

•Configuring an explicit server IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

•Smart Card driver installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

•Uninstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Professional, Professional Plus, and Enterprise edition feature support

Table 1 details whether the features are supported in the Professional, Professional Plus, or Enterprise edition, or

only through the Element Manager of the device.

TABLE 1 Features supported

Feature Description Professional

Edition

Professional

Plus Edition

Enterprise

Edition

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

DCFM Client

Authentication

Authorization

Auditing

DCFM user management No Yes Yes