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8 Brocade Network Advisor SAN Installation and Migration Guide

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Pre-installation requirements

8. Select the highest version number for the latest GA code.

For example, click Brocade Network Advisor 12.3.x, then click Brocade Network Advisor 12.3.3

Brocade GA.

To download the documentation, click Brocade Network Advisor 12.3.3 Manuals and then

select the manual you want to download.

9. Select one of the following links to download the software:

• Network Advisor 12.3.3 GA for Windows

• Network Advisor 12.3.3 GA for Linux

You can also access the release notes and md5 Checksum from this location.

10. Read the Export Compliance, select the certification check box, and click Submit.

11. Read the Brocade End User License Agreement and click I Accept.

12. Click Save on the File Download dialog box.

13. Browse to the location where you want to save the software and click Save.

Pre-installation requirements

Before you install Network Advisor, make sure you meet the following requirements.

• Make sure all system requirements have been met prior to installation. For specific system

requirements, refer to

“System requirements” on page 1.

If you are running Professional Plus or Enterprise edition on a 32-bit machine, you must

migrate to a 64-bit machine within your current release, then you can migrate to Network

Advisor 12.3.

• To avoid errors, close all instances of the application before beginning the installation or

uninstallation procedures.

For UNIX system, if you still receive error messages after closing the application, enter the

following commands:

#ps -ef | grep -i “” to list the process IDs

#kill -9 “Process_ID” where Process_ID is any Management application process