Cisco Cisco Fabric Manager Release 4.1

Family switch. It is included on the CD-ROM that ships with the switch. You can install Fabric Manager from 
the CD-ROM or from files that you download. 

Installing Cisco Fabric Manager is a multi-step process that involves installing a database, as well as Fabric 
Manager. The complete installation instructions are provided in the “Installation of Cisco MDS SAN-OS and 
Fabric Manager” section in the

and are 

available on-screen once you launch the Fabric Manager installer from the CD-ROM. 

When upgrading Fabric Manager, refer to the supported upgrade path shown in 

. For example, 

when upgrading from SAN-OS Release 3.1(x) to Release 4.1(3b), you will need to upgrade from Release 
3.1(x) to Release 3.2(x) and then upgrade to Release 4.1(3b).

The following section presents the flow of the installation process at a high level. Review these guidelines 
before you begin the installation process.

Verify supported software. Cisco Fabric Manager has been tested with the following software:

Windows 2003 SP2, XP SP2, Windows Vista

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Release 4 (Nahant Update 6)

Solaris (SPARC) 8, 9, and 10

VMWare ESX 3.5: 

Virtual Operating System: Windows 2003 SP2

Java Sun JRE and JDK 1.5(x) and JRE 1.6(x) are supported 

Do no use Java 1.6 Update 13.

Java Web Start 1.2, 1.0.1, 1.5, 1.6

Firefox 1.5 and 2.0

Internet Explorer 6.x, and 7.0

Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition

Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition

Oracle Database 10g Express 

PostgreSQL 8.2 (Windows and Linux)

3.0.x

3.1.x

3.1.x (HSQL)

3.2.x (Oracle)

3.1.x (HSQL)

3.2.x PostgreSQL

3.1.x (Oracle)

3.2.x (Oracle)

3.2.x (Oracle)

3.3.x (Oracle

3.2.x (PostgreSQL)

3.3.x (PostgreSQL)