Cisco Cisco Fabric Manager Release 4.2 Release Notes

If you would like to request a copy of the source code under the terms of either GPL or LGPL, send an 
e-mail to mds-software-disclosure@cisco.com.

This section lists the guidelines recommended for upgrading Cisco Fabric Manager and includes the 
following topics:

If you plan to make use of the new Fabric Manager Server federation feature, then you need to follow a 
slightly different installation procedure for Cisco Fabric Manager. See the “Installation of Cisco MDS 
NX-OS and Fabric Manager” section in the Cisco Fabric Manager Fundamentals Configuration Guide for 
details.

If you do not plan to install a federation of servers, then the installation procedure is unchanged from 
Cisco Fabric Manager Release 4.1(3b). 

Cisco Fabric Manager 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 multistep process that involves installing a database, as well as Fabric 
Manager. The complete installation instructions are provided in the “Installation of Cisco MDS NX-OS and 
Fabric Manager” section in the Cisco Fabric Manager Fundamentals Configuration Guide,

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 NX-OS Release 4.2(x), you will need to upgrade from 
Release 3.1(x) to Release 3.2(x) to Release 3.3(x) and then upgrade to NX-OS Release 4.2(x).

3.0.x

3.1.x

3.1.x (HSQL)

3.2.x (Oracle)

3.1.x (HSQL)

3.2.x PostgreSQL