User guide

1–FastFabric Overview
Feature Overview
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 Fabric topology analysis and verification
 Fabric route analysis
 Aids in ongoing fabric status and configuration monitoring
 Fabric Performance, Error and congestion monitoring
 Automated fabric health checks and configuration baseline compare
 Automated chassis health checks and configuration baseline compare
 Automated Subnet Management (SM) health checks and configuration
baseline compare
 Provides tools to accelerate common host administration tasks
 Executes commands across many hosts
 Copies files to and from many hosts
 Edits host-specific files across many hosts
 Provides tools to accelerate common chassis and switch administration
tasks
 Manage firmware levels on switches and chassis
 Execute commands across many chassis
 Administer switches
 Assists in the initial benchmarking and tuning of High Performance
Computing (HPC) fabrics.
FastFabric includes both a Textual User Interface (TUI) menu system and
command line tools. The TUI presents the menus in a typical order of execution
for a new fabric install to simplify fabric installation for new users. All operations
available in the TUI can also be accomplished using the command line. The
command line tools are designed to permit customer-specific scripts to invoke the
command line tools.