Cisco Cisco Fabric Manager Release 5.0 White Paper

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Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Deployment Guide

OL-21765-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.x

Chapter 1 Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Overview

Note

Only Windows 2003 SP2 VM created on VMWare ESX Server 3.5 is supported.

Java

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Sun JRE and JDK 1.5(x) and 1.6(x) is supported

Browsers

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Internet Explorer 6.x and 7.0

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Firefox 3.0

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Mozilla 1.7 (packaged with Solaris 9)

Database

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Oracle Database 10g Express, Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition

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Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition

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PostgreSQL 8.2 (Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Release 4)

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PostgreSQL 8.1 (Solaris 8, 9 and 10)

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)

The Fabric Manager uses Oracle JDBC drivers ojdbc14.jar and ojdbc14.jar to access the Oracle database
and store data. You can download the recommended version (10.2.0.1.0) of the ojdbc14.jar file, from the
following link:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/htdocs/jdbc_10201.html

Software Licensing Requirements

Fabric Manager Federated Server environment has the following license requirements:

Cisco Fabric Manager Server is licensed on a per switch basis. The following functions and features will
be active only when you purchase the license.

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Federation and Multiple Fabric Management

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Historical performance monitoring

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Performance prediction

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Summary reports

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Detailed drill-down reports

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Continuous health and event monitoring

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Roaming user profiles

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Fabric analyzer integration