Cisco Cisco Fabric Manager Release 4.2 Release Notes

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Release Notes for Cisco Fabric Manager Release 4.2(7a)

OL-20325-08

Limitations and Restrictions

This section lists the limitations and restrictions for this release. The limitations and restrictions are
divided into the following categories:

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General Limitations, page 13

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Limitations for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Switches, page 14

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Limitations for the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches, page 15

General Limitations

This section describes general limitations related to Cisco Fabric Manager.

Firefox Browser

The Fabric Manager installer for Cisco Fabric Manager Release 4.2(7a) does not launch from the Firefox
browser.

Solaris Windows Manager

Solaris Windows Manager does not resize windows correctly which affects some Device Manager
screens. To resolve this, download and install the 119538-1 patch from Sun Microsystems. The patch
(119538-17 GNONE 2.6.0: Windows Manager Patch, Generic, 2008/08/08) can be obtained from
sunsolve.sun.com.

Upgrading to Recover Loss of Performance Manager Data

Caution

You must upgrade to Fabric Manager Release 3.1(x) and then upgrade to a later release of Fabric
Manager to avoid losing Performance Manager data. If data has been lost, follow the steps below to
recover the data.

To recover lost data, follow these steps:

Step 1

Disable Performance Manager interpolation using Fabric Manager Web Client. Uncheck Interpolate
missing statistics, then click Apply.

Step 2

Stop the Fabric Manager Server.

Step 3

Save the data file in the $INSTALL_DIR directory.

Step 4

Move the old RRD file into the $INSTALL_DIR/pm/db directory.

Step 5

Run $INSTALL_DIR/bin/pm.bat s.

Step 6

Restart Fabric Manager Server.