Migrating from Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager to Brocade
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1. e Start the Network Advisor server and client Once all the Network Advisor services are started you can log in You can use your Admin User ID and password from DCFM DCFM 10 x license keys are forward compatible in Network Advisor 11 0 This means that DCFM 10 x license keys are migrated and considered as SAN only license keys Existing DCFM customers can upgrade to SAN IP using a valid license key during migration or they can upgrade to SAN IP at a later date by installing a new license key Below is a summary of the supported DCFM gt Network Advisor license migrations e DCFM Enterprise 10 3 x and 10 4 x licenses are migrated to Network Advisor for SAN Enterprise licenses e DCFM Professional Plus 10 3 x and 10 4 x licenses are migrated to Network Advisor for SAN Professional Plus or Enterprise licenses e DCFM Professional 10 3 x and 10 4 x licenses are migrated to Network Advisor for SAN Professional Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 5 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF Migration Facts All DCFM data including discovered fabrics performance monitoring data events firmware images etc are migrated from DCFM to Network Advisor except for the following o Client login information saved username and password and save password selection o Client font size o Tools menu customizations o Client Server communication ports When migrating from DCFM Professional or Professional Plus2. NETWORK MANAGEMENT Migrating from Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager to Brocade Network Advisor Brocade Network Advisor continues Brocade leadership in network management with a unified SAN IP network management software platform It integrates the SAN management capabilities of Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager DCFM and the IP network management capabilities of Brocade IronView Network Manager INM BROCADE NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF CONTENTS lie el oilo E 3 OUER 3 Beete BEE 3 Migration Eemere EELER 4 eelere blll gen A Upgrade Pats ict deci sieht ees ee inti eel Gti eee rie eee eed de ee et 4 Migration lee seis cscscrdecscdecx devas dads craved savesincndvandesndseedxesclepdseacrexfedsdesedslnexasdeepavsedecnasatdesndvandssnduepinssdnexdsescesy sckexesnepiass 5 lieler le EE 6 Remote Chent LaUnGhis iieii ege EES EEN EeEEE CERN RENE EEN 6 PMA MI MUI geed 7 IMIS ei Be ele de LEE D le EC iee RW TEE 7 Firewall COMSIAGAtONS Aviscetscscpiscd ccceseczcecpessSevcscnsscvesdusl cseecespesepdsctssendacparsy eidaecustewetdnst lt vspeccpazerdecnetepardsepasendbcstcadsdvapdcs Ses 7 Client Interesse gg EE 7 Differences to Note m erea ae ees 9 RE EE 9 Role Based Access Control RBAG sis egeee sees enee ian tans dh anaana naaa a Anaa Aaaa Eaa na AeA AA AARAA AAAA aA AAAA Eeer 10 Authorization Authentication amp Accounting AAA 12 Fa ult Management fo evicsstecececececndccscesedeczexsscecsdvcecscsdusncesncseednencvepssd
3. 14 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF The Advanced tab shown in Figure 8 is similar to the DCFM Advanced filtering tab Some of the changes are listed below e Start Date can be used to display events that are logged after this date overrides the basic and other advanced filter settings e The event action is defined in the Event Actions dialog box e The Include filter allows events in addition to those allowed by the basic filter the exclude filter excludes events meeting the exclude criteria even when allowed by the basic include filter e If the advanced filter event action list is set then events not selected in the list are disallowed but can be overridden by setting an include filter e Filtering can be based on the following new columns available in the Event Column Area Acknowledged Origin and Product Address The Event Column lists all the columns mentioned in the Master Log table AS Define Filter i x Basic Advanced To only display events that were logged after the start date choose this option vi Start Date 2 2210 3 16 PM To only display events that meet certain criterion select the event category event column enter value for the selected column and move to the Additional Fitters list Define Fitter Additional Filters Include these events Event Category Event Category Event Column value Contains Al All Contributor zxbx Event Column Contributor v gt Value Conta
4. Solution The Network Advisor and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center solution provides customers with the ability to proactively manage monitor and control SAN fabrics IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center helps customers manage the capacity utilization of storage systems files systems and databases It enables customers to automate file system capacity provisioning configure and manage multiple devices from a single interface and tune and proactively manage the performance of storage devices on the SAN Key benefits of the integrated solution include e Unifies management of Brocade FOS M EOS and mixed multiprotocol fabrics within and across data centers including support for FCoE and DCB e Supports Virtual Fabrics and server virtualization including viewing and setting QoS for virtualized workloads e Reduces operating expenses and maximizes productivity by automating tasks through easy to use wizard driven operations e Monitoring troubleshooting diagnostics and event notification capabilities to enable SLAs e Secures data flow from applications to storage across data center fabrics by managing user access controls and ensuring consistent security settings e Delivers real time and historical performance monitoring to enable proactive problem diagnosis maximize resource utilization and facilitate capacity planning e Helps centralize the management of a customer s storage infrastructure from a single interface using
5. role based administration and single sign on e Provides a single management application with modular integrated components that are easy to install and provides common services for simple consistent configuration and consistent operations across host fabric and storage systems e Manages performance and connectivity from the host file system to the physical disk including in depth SAN fabric performance monitoring and analysis 2010 Brocade Communications Systems Inc All Rights Reserved 12 10 GA MB 321 01 Brocade the B wing symbol Biglron DCFM DCX Fabric OS Fastlron lronView Netlron SAN Health Serverlron Turbolron and Wingspan are registered trademarks and Brocade Assurance Brocade NET Health Brocade One Extraordinary Networks MyBrocade VCS and VDX are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems Inc in the United States and or in other countries Other brands products or service names mentioned are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners Notice This document is for informational purposes only and does not set forth any warranty expressed or implied concerning any equipment equipment feature or service offered or to be offered by Brocade Brocade reserves the right to make changes to this document at any time without notice and assumes no responsibility for its use This informational document describes features that may not be currently available Contact a Brocade sales office for in
6. storage values are same as the default values then during migration the default value changes to the new default value All the archived data is also migrated when upgrading to Network Advisor 11 0 Since the schema is different the archived events file is migrated as a new file with a prefix Migrated_ There is no impact in migration in severity mapping except that the severity named Panic in DCFM is changed to Emergency in all applicable entities such as events filters and policies after migration INSTALLATION AND DEPLOYMENT Installing Network Advisor Ensure that you have your DCFM serial number or a license key before the installation You can install Network Advisor by either 1 Using the DVD 2 Downloading the software from the www brocade com see Appendix A Unlike DCFM Network Advisor 11 0 provides a single installer which allows configuration options such as choosing packages and installation type via the configuration wizard For detailed installation procedures see the product documentation BROCADE Network Advisor Running the Client Launch the Network Advisor client either from the Start menu or use the Web Start the Network Advisor Client link on the Network Advisor Web page This displays the login screen The default user name and password are the same as they were for DCFM Administrator and password which is case sensitive In some cases a network may use Virtual Private Ne
7. these additional items will not be migrated to Network Advisor o Polling interval and memory size customizations o DAN size setting Brocade Network Advisor for SAN Enterprise supports a combination of pure FOS pure M EOS mixed FOS M EOS fabrics and host HBA management Some differences from Brocade DCFM discussed in more detail later are o Packaging of PostgreSQL database in place of Sybase and Derby o Role Based Access Control RBAC enhancements o Authorization Authentication and Accounting AAA enhancements o Fault management enhancements o Customers upgrading to Brocade Network Advisor Enterprise are required to purchase a service agreement with a minimum one year term Remote Client Launch This section describes the shortcut menu upgrade from DCFM 10 3 x 10 4 x to Network Advisor 11 0 0 during remote client launch Following are the steps to perform while doing the upgrade from DCFM 10 3 x 10 4 x to Network Advisor 11 0 0 4 With DCFM 10 3 x 10 4 x installed on machine A launch remote client from machine B The shortcut menu is created with name DCFM 10 3 x 10 4 x Upgrade the server to Network Advisor 11 0 0 on machine A From machine B launch the remote client in a browser window NOT by clicking the DCFM 10 3 x 10 4 x shortcut menu icon Another shortcut menu is created with the name Network Advisor 11 0 0 If you want to remove the DCFM 10 3 x 10 4 x shortcut menu right click on the menu item and selec
8. Management Console to create a snapshot and perform these steps 1 Click the Technical Support Information tab Note that the Technical Support Information tab is enhanced to provide options to include or exclude the database and to select Full or Partial database 2 Uncheck the Include Database option if you wish Or if you leave it checked click Partial or Full see details below 3 Inthe Output Path text box specify the path to a location in which to save the Network Advisor server technical support information or browse to a location 4 Click Capture to gather all the information and then click Close gt Network Advisor Server Console Services Ports AAA Settings Restore Technical Support Information HCM Upgrade Technical Support Information collects the logs and configuration files for all the discovered products Optionally the database can be excluded yi include Database Partial Excludes historical performance data and events Full Output Path Figure 10 DCFM Technical Support Information screen Since Brocade Network Advisor manages both SAN and IP the database size and hence the support save may grow in terms of GBs of size and it may be tedious to get the entire support save for troubleshooting issues The database occupies the greatest amount of space in Network Advisor support save In the database around 80 of the size is due to performance statistics and events data which typically are no
9. SAN iP e CT SAN Operational Status SAN Inventory Var Events o 1 Range This Hour V Show Syslog 100 150 4900 2 Error 19 5000 6 Warning 166 4100 1 Info 40 E Healthy Marginal W Down W Healthy Marginal W Down W Trap Application Event i em e 4 IP Reachability Status P inventory Fabrics 1 SAN Switches H Hosts D FGS FLSISTK 3 Events 225 This Hour IP Products 5 sFlow Inactive 0 Products D Ports Turbolron 1 IP Discovery Status Idle Netiron 2000 1 E Reachable W Not Reachable W Reachable W Not Reachable je Me S BS ocnscomanfews 1 a Figure 1 Network Advisor main desktop with active SAN and IP licensing VE View All Network Advisor 11 0 0 Server Edit View Discover Configure Monitor Reports Tools Help A mp Export SS D a ay Master Log Fiter _ Only events for current view _ Show all SAN IP _ Show acknowledged _ Freeze Severity Acknowled Area Source Name Source Address Origin Categoi SAN dcfm_pulsar_170 10 32 149 170 Other Produ SAN dcfm_pulsar169 10 32 149 169 Other Produ SAN dcfm_pulsar_170 10 32 149 170 Other Produ SAN dcfm_pulsar169 10 32 149 169 Other Produ SAN dcfm_pulsar_170 10 32 149 170 Other Produ SAN dcfm_pulsar169 10 32 149 169 Other Produ SAN 6TRLZF1 10 191 12 82 Application Event Mana D 4 jee oe enzlam pom Figure 2 SAN tab
10. allation Guide Describes how to install Network Advisor SAN IP and SAN IP versions and SMI Agent SAN and SAN IP versions only e Brocade Network Advisor Migration Guide Describes how Network Advisor is different from Brocade INM for customers who are migrating from Brocade INM note that there is no comparable Migration Guide for customers who are migrating from Brocade DCFM simply because the interface is very similar and if you are familiar with DCFM you will find it an easy transition to Network Advisor e Brocade Network Advisor Release Notes Of course you should always read the Release Notes for this and all subsequent versions of Network Advisor And other Brocade papers e Brocade Network Advisor Features Brief for Data Center Networks e Brocade Network Advisor Features Brief for IP Networks e Brocade Network Advisor Data Sheet Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 3 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION OVERVIEW Supported Firmware e FOS 5 0 0 or later e FOS 6 0 0 for Native Interoperability NI fabrics MIGRATION BRIEF NOTE Although you do not have to install or know the Java version used because it is bundled with Brocade Network Advisor development was conducted using Java JRE 1 6 0_21 Upgrade Paths Brocade Network Advisor provides a non disruptive path and functional continuity for organizations upgrading from Brocade DCFM without losing data and configuration settings It might be he
11. cence eeeeeeeaeeeeaeesaaeeaeeeaeeeaaeesaaeseaaeegaeeeeaeeeeaeeseaeeseaeeeaeees 23 IBM Systems Director Integration Solution cececeeceseeeceeeeee cence eeaeeeeaeetaaeeeaee sees eaaeesaaeesaaeeaeeseaeeseaeesaeesaeeeaeeseeeeeaes 23 IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Integration Solution ceecceeceeeceeeeee cence eeaeeteaeeeaaeeeaeeeeaeeseaeeseaeesaeenaeetsaeeeaes 24 Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 2 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF INTRODUCTION Brocade Network Advisor 11 0 is a new software management platform that unifies network management for SAN IP and converged networks It provides users with a consistent user interface across Fibre Channel FC IP and Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE Data Center Bridging DCB along with custom views and controls based on users areas of specialization Network Advisor provides users with the utmost flexibility in deployment and operational models including traditional SAN deployments FC iSCSI and NAS traditional Ethernet deployments Access Aggregation Core and end to end convergence FCoE iSCSI and NAS over DCB Network Advisor s comprehensive data center SAN fabric management features include configuring monitoring and managing the Brocade DCX Backbone and Brocade directors routers switches Host Bus Adapters HBAs and Converged Network Adapters CNAs Network Advisor also helps organizations discover monitor and manage conve
12. e 3 Data Migration screen in the configuration wizard showing the progress dialog box Migration continues even if a minor error occurs whereas it is aborted if a major error occurs In either case errors are logged in a log file located in lt installation dir gt logs cw 1og If the migration failed due to a major error an error dialog is displayed On successful completion of migration process a confirmation dialog is displayed in progress dialog of the configuration wizard After migration DCFM 10 3 x 10 4x is partially uninstalled even if an older version of DCFM is installed on the same machine and you choose not to migrate legacy DCFM is partially uninstalled on the machine You can recover DCFM 10 3 x 10 4 x after the migration if you choose to Consult product documentation for details Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 9 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF Role Based Access Control RBAC RBAC although present in DCFM is enhanced in Network Advisor in the following areas e Unified User Management for IP and SAN environments As in DCFM the user management interface is launched via the Users menu option In Network Advisor the Users menu is relocated to the Server menu Note that the Users menu option is available only for users with the User Management privilege and Read Only or Read Write permissions The Users window has three tabs Users Policy and LDAP Authorization see Figure 4 VE User
13. ed Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 11 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF Authorization Authentication amp Accounting AAA DCFM allows client to server authentication through local user accounts or external servers and the authorization is entirely based on local mapping in Network Advisor authorization and authentication are optionally externalized Accounting is still not externalized and referenced from locally available information Network Advisor provides options for primarily authenticating user accounts against Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus TACACS servers configured externally on server host machines or other hosts reachable from the Network Advisor server Authentication with TACACs RADIUS LDAP and Switch is supported on Windows and Linux platforms Authentication with Windows domain is supported only on Windows authentication with an NIS Password file is Supported only on Linux platforms The tab Authentication is replaced by the name AAA Settings as shown in Figure 5 Network Advisor Server Console Services Ports AAA Settings Restore Technical Support Information HCM Upgrade This Network Advisor server currently uses TACACS Server as the primary authentication and Local Database as the secondary Authentication Configure Fail Over Option to switch from primary authentication to secondary authentication Primary Authentication TACACS Server w Seco
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15. horization Preference option to Primary Authentication Server Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 12 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF Enhancements to the audit trail have been added in Network Advisor As shown in Figure 6 the Authentication Audit Trail Display has been renamed Audit Trail Display and the Audit Trail dialog box also displays authorization settings for audit purposes In the Audit Trail window the Authentication Settings Changes tab has been renamed AAA Settings Changes and the four new columns have been added gt Network Advisor Server Console Services Ports AAA Settngs Restore Technical Support Information HH Upgrade This Network Advisor server currently uses Local Database as the primary authentication and None as the secondary Authentication Local Database v Primary Authentication Secondary Authentication Audit Trail Cent To Server Authentication AAA Settings Changes Previous Pri Previous Sec Previous Fail Ov Previous Author Secondary C Fail Over Option C Authorization C None Local Database None Local Database None Local Database Local Databa LDAP Servers Not Primary Authent Local Database LDAP Servers N Primary Authent Local Detaba LDAP Authenticati Primary Authent Local Database LDAP Authentic Primary Authent None Primary Authent Figure 6 AAA Settings tab in the Network Advisor Server Console and the Audit T
16. implest method of moving from one edition to another is to enter the new license information in the Network Advisor License dialog box Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 4 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF Migration Procedure The migration is described in detail in the Brocade Network Advisor Migration Guide For your convenience this section lists high level steps required for the migration in a Windows environment including e Review the pre migration requirements for your platform making sure that o Aversion of Brocade DCFM that meets migration requirements is installed on your server o The fabric has FOS 5 0 x or EOS 9 6 or later running on all switches in the fabric o You install Network Advisor on the same system as your current management application NOTE Ensure that all instances of the DCFM client are closed on the management server and on remote workstations e Insert the Network Advisor installation DVD into the DVD ROM drive on a Windows or UNIX server and follow onscreen directions e Install Network Advisor and use the wizard to migrate data and settings could take several minutes and to perform other configuration tasks listed on the Welcome screen Network Advisor Configuration Welcome You may configure the following Migration of Data and Settings Package Installation Type License FTP Ports Server IP SMI Agent Network Size Cancel
17. in the View All window UU Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor MIGRATION BRIEF 8 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF DIFFERENCES TO NOTE The feature function differences between DCFM and Network Advisor mentioned earlier are discussed briefly below Databases The path of migrating data and settings from source to destination happen through the Network Advisor 11 0 installer The configuration wizard auto detects any earlier installed version path for migration and the installation directory is checked for credentials such as supported version Once validation is successfully completed data migration starts The prerequisites for database migration from DCFM 10 3 x 10 4 x to Network Advisor 11 0 are e Both source and target should be installed on the same system e Service of the source version should be running e Both remote and local client of source application should be shut down before migration Note that you can click the Do not migrate historical performance data check box for a faster data migration process and smaller database migrated check box is shown grayed out in Figure 3 gt BNM Configuration Data Migration SS Click the Start button to start the data migration process Note that this process can take up to 30 mintes On successful migration DCF Migration ed Data Migration Partially Uninstall the source Figur
18. ins zxbx q To filter out events select the event category event column enter value for the selected column and move to the additional fitters list Define Fitter Additional Filters Exclude these events Event Category o Event Category Event Column Value Contains Event Column Contributor v gt Value Contains 4 To display event that meet event action criteria select the event action and move to the selected event action list Available Event Action Selected Event Action to be displayed Basic Events 4 OK Cancel Help Figure 8 Advanced SAN tab in the Network Advisor Define Filter dialog box Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 15 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF Event Migration The way events are stored in the DCFM server has changed with respect to the database schema in Network Advisor hence migration needs to address the mapping of DCFM events to the new schema in Network Advisor All events from the existing DCFM repository are migrated to new database tables with the new schema DCFM keeps Syslog events other than audit events in a separate table compared to other events such as traps and application events All these events are merged to a single database table in Network Advisor marking their origin appropriately based on the source of the events trap Syslog and application events DCFM user configured event storage values are retained during migration If the old event
19. iscovered SNMP communication failed SNM wi EBC_DC_5000 10 66 13 130 10 00 00 05 1E 90 00 C6 Discovered a E Backbone wi EBC_DC_B_7500 10 66 13 185 10 00 00 05 1E 40 95 18 Discovered Seed Switch wi EBC_BO_B_7500 10 66 13 186 10 00 00 05 1E 38 9F F7 Discovered Add Host E DR_M E0S f M4700 10 66 13 161 10 00 08 00 88 E3 8D 2C Discovered wi M6140 10 66 13 160 10 00 08 00 88 07 06 7D Discovered Seed Switch wei M4400 10 66 13 162 10 00 08 00 88 E3 99 83 Discovered 4 e gt Previously Discovered Adresses S P Address Type Name ww User ID Community 10 66 13 150 Switch EBC_M_5000 10 00 00 05 1E 90 0E 4C admin public Figure 9 Network Advisor Discover Setup window Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 17 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF Validation Testing The main way to ensure that data has been migrated from Brocade Fabric Manager to DCFM correctly is to look at the data in Network Advisor For example check the following types of data Switch Configuration All switches discovered in DCFM will be automatically discovered in Network Advisor and the information below is migrated Right click on switches in a fabric and choose Properties to verify e P Address WWN Switch Name e Contact Location e Description Type Model e Firmware Version e Vendor e Max Virtual Switch Num Virtual Switch e Reachable Unreachable Ti
20. k Advisor for SAN Professional as detailed in the following tables Hardware Platform Network Advisor for Network Advisor for Network Advisor for SAN Professional SAN Professional Plus SAN Enterprise Brocade 40xx 54xx Embedded Switch v v vi Brocade 200E 4x00 5000 48000 v v v Brocade 300 5100 5300 v vi v Brocade 7500 7500E FR4 18i v a v wv Brocade 7600 FA4 18 Y b Y b v b Brocade FC4 16IP iSCSI Blade 2 v v vi Brocade DCX Backbone x x vi Brocade DCX 4S Backbone v v y Brocade Encryption Switch wv wv wv Brocade FS8 18 Encryption Blade y v v Brocade 8000 Switch v vi v Brocade FCOE10 24 Blade v v vi Brocade 7800 Extension Switch v vi v Brocade FX8 24 Extension Blade v v v McDATA 4xxx Switches x vii ve Brocade 6064 M6140 Directors x v c c Brocade Mi1OK Director x Vv c v 0 a Limited support b Basic Layer 2 configuration c Minimum M EOS 9 6 Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 20 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF Feature Network Advisor for SAN Professional Network Advisor for SAN Professional Plus Network Advisor for SAN Enterprise of fabrics 1 4 24 FOS FOS M EOS Mixed FOS M EOS Mixed 9 000 FOS 5 000 M EOS Mixed v Type of fabrics supported of ports 1 000 2 560 kW Virtual Fabrics v Limited support FICON Encryption configuration Quality of Service Q
21. lpful for you to know that Brocade Network Advisor 11 0 is based on the functionality and user interface from Brocade DCFM 10 4 So if you ve been using DCFM 10 4 you won t experience a steep learning curve when you migrate to Brocade Network Advisor 11 0 The following table details the supported upgrade paths Network Network Advisor Trial Network Advisor Production Advisor for Version License Version Current Version SAN SAN SAN SAN SAN Professional Professional Enterprise Professional Enterprise Plus Plus DCFM 10 3 x 10 4 x Professional Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes DCFM 10 3 x 10 4 x Professional No Yes Yes Yes Yes Plus Trial version DCFM 10 3 x 10 4 x Professional No No No wes Yes Plus DCFM 10 3 x 10 4 x Enterprise Trial No No Yes No Yes version DCFM 10 3 x 10 4 x Enterprise No No No No Yes Network Advisor 11 0 x Professional Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N i 11 0 x Professi etwork Advisor 0 x Professiona No Yes Yes Yes Yes Plus Trial version Network Advisor 11 0 x Professional No No No Yes Yes Plus Network Advisor 11 0 x Enterprise No No Vas No Yes Trail version Network Advisor 11 0 x Enterprise No No No No Yes NOTE If you want to migrate from Brocade EFCM Fabric Manager FM or DCFM 10 0 x 10 1 x to Network Advisor 11 0 0 you first have to migrate from EFCM FM DCFM 10 0 x to DCFM 10 3 x and DCFM 10 1 x to 10 4 x and then migrate to Network Advisor 11 0 0 The quickest and s
22. me e Operation Status e Syslog Registered SNMP Registered e Call Home enabled e Mgmt Server IP Fabric Information The fabric information listed below and stored in DCFM will be migrated to Network Advisor Right click on a fabric and choose Properties to verify e Fabric ID Seed Switch WWN Fabric Name e Contact Location e Description Type e Secure e Admin Domain ENV e Managed e Track Changes e Active Zoneset Name FTP Server Information Internal FTP information such as username password home directory and port number will be saved External FTP information will include only the IP address of the external FTP server Verify this through Server gt Options gt Software Configuration gt SAN FTP SCP e Zones Network Advisor will populate its database with zoning information retrieved from each discovered fabric Choose Configure gt Zoning to see all zoning information e Administrator User Profile Network Advisor will import user credentials Choose Server gt Users to see registered users and roles NOTE The system Administrator role is not a default role in Network Advisor and is considered as a user defined role after migrating from DCFM to Network Advisor Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 18 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF Technical Support Information After installing Brocade Network Advisor take a Snapshot to help with potential support issues Open the Server
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24. nd backbone platforms and Brocade HBAs and CNAs to help meet Service Level Agreements SLAs and reduce costs required for the world s most demanding data centers Network Advisor also extends seamless management of virtual and physical data center environments through integration with IBM Systems Director and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center IBM Systems Director Integration Solution IBM Systems Director is the systems management foundation that streamlines the way physical and virtual systems are managed across a multi system environment It is an easy to use point and click simplified management solution Through a single user interface IBM Systems Director provides consistent views for viewing managed systems determining how these systems relate to one another while showing their individual status Key benefits of the integrated solution include e Simplifies the management of physical and virtual platform resources e Provides essential systems management support for all IBM servers storage and network devices e Unifies management of Brocade FOS M EOS and mixed multiprotocol fabrics including support for FCoE and DCB e Supports Virtual Fabrics and server virtualization including viewing and setting QoS for virtualized workloads e Single sign on and launch in context Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 23 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Integration
25. ndary Authentication Local Database W Fail Over Option TACACS Servers Not Reachable w Authorization Preference Local Database TACACS Servers Not Reachable TACACS Servers and Selt AC AC Authentication Failed ahs Network Address imeout Sec Attempts 10 3719 5 49 3 Audit Trail Display Close Help Figure 5 AAA Settings tab in the Network Advisor Server Console Maintaining DCFM behavior configuring a local database as a secondary authentication or failover is applicable for RADIUS LDAP and Switch Network Advisor 11 0 also supports a local database or none as secondary authentication for TACACS servers In the case of an LDAP server in addition to Server not reachable one more failover option User not found in LDAP is addressed In Network Advisor one more failover option lt RADIUS TACACS LDAP gt Authentication Failed is introduced for RADIUS TACACS and LDAP servers Users can configure TACACS and RADIUS servers to perform failover to the local database when e The lt TACACS RADIUS gt server is not reachable e lt TACACS RADIUS gt authentication fails DCFM supports authorization by maintaining configurations in a local database Network Advisor allows user to authorize with external servers as an option by setting necessary parameters in external Servers Authorization via external server is turned off by default Authorization via an external server is turned on by setting the Aut
26. ntities used in defining Network Advisor RBAC The AOR can contain IP products in addition to all types of SAN products that were assigned to the resource group in DCFM All available AORs are listed in the AOR table at the bottom right of the Users tab in the Users window see Figure 4 e Role Privilege Management All available roles are listed in the Roles table at the bottom left of the Users tab in the Users window see Figure 4 The Roles table has the following default roles in addition to user defined roles for SAN o SAN System Administrator o Network Administrator o Security Administrator o Zone Administrator Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 10 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF o Operator o Security Officer o Host Administrator In a SAN IP environment the system roles are o SAN System Administrator o IP System Administrator o Network Administrator Security Administrator O o Zone Administrator o Operator o Security Officer o Host Administrator o Report User Group The DCFM default role System Administrator is replaced with SAN System Administrator in Network Advisor 11 0 e User Account Role Resource Group migration o Users without roles or resource groups are migrated however they will have only SAN permissions IP permissions will need to be added explicitly All migrated users will have an active state NOTE IP permissions will be added to roles with Use
27. oS Traffic Isolation Tl zones FCR LSAN Zoning FCIP Tunnels Interface FOS only FCIP configuration SENN NNN A NS AN NS AN Port fencing y FOS only S g S g RBAC and security schemes Real Time Performance SIS A Historical Performance DBMS ODBC and JDBC Top Talkers S S S Performance thresholds HBA CNA management Server Virtualization support Access Gateway FCoE DCB HBA management Partner software integration Call Home support Microsoft SCOM Management Pack Management Plugin for VMware vCenter Integrated SMI Agent x x sis S sl AT Si lt M is i i s BISI III Fe Ra Sha a SI S x LUSISSA S fv S SN Ser S S Ki a Support for Role Based Access Control RBAC and security schemes RADIUS LDAP Active Directory NIS NIS and more b Data persistence for up to two years of data out of box Open Database Connectivity ODBC and Java Database Connectivity JDBC access Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 21 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF APPENDIX B INTEGRATION WITH PARTNER MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS This information is available in several other documents but as a convenience it is added here too Brocade Network Advisor is designed with open standards interfaces to simplify integration with management frameworks supplied by server storage and infra
28. ocade Network Advisor in the Microsoft SCOM console e The SCOM plug in makes use of Management Pack and SCOM SDK services to extend the SCOM Console UI and present fabric inventory information e The SCOM plug in serves dynamic HTML pages that display fabric inventory data and EE Monitor Statistics e The SCOM plug in retrieves Call Home events from the Brocade Network Advisor server and periodically checks the health of Network Advisor NOTE Only one SCOM server can be added to Network Advisor for EE or PPE in this release Also the SCOM server and Network Advisor server must be on different host systems Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 22 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF Management Plug in for VMware vCenter The management plug in for VMware vCenter displays SAN connectivity information for managed ESX Server hosts and switch port statistics in the vSphere client The current plug in supports CNA and HBA connectivity The VMware vCenter plug in enables proactive SAN monitoring in the following ways e Provides Virtual Machine VM to storage LUN visibility e Enables VM to storage proactive port monitoring e Provides visibility to SAN performance statistics e Enables forwarding of SAN performance and fault events e Empowers vCenter administrators with bottleneck identification Network Advisor and IBM Integration Solutions Network Advisor simplifies the management of Brocade switches directors a
29. ork Advisor uses the following protocols to communicate to the device being managed to get fault information from both IP and SAN switches e Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP e Network Management Request Response Unit NMRU for M EOS switches e Network Advisor receives events from managed devices via the following protocols SNMP traps Syslog and NMRU for M EOS switches Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 13 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF Master Log The Master Log displays both IP and SAN events based on the current context an option to view both SAN and IP events irrespective of the current context is also provided and no user privileges are required Events listed are limited to the user s AoR In Network Advisor the following features are added to the features from DCFM only the Pagination feature has been removed e User acknowledgement of events e Show Hide acknowledged events e Freezing auto scrolling of the Master Log e Events shown are limited to the user s AOR e Location of the device corresponding to the selected event e Syslog shown by default for IP devices in the Master Log The following DCFM right click menu options have been removed Hide All Hide Selection and Show E mail gt Date The following right click menu options have been added Acknowledge Unacknowledge and Locate The Display Details right click menu option has been renamed Properties Filtering Fil
30. r Management read write permissions enabled o After migration the equal sign in role names will be replaced with the underscore character _ o If any user defined role is matched with any newly introduced system role in Network Advisor then it is migrated with name lt Role Name gt _ lt Integer Value gt _Migrated The lt Integer Value gt generated is a random value If DCFM had a role with the name lt Role Name gt and the lt Role Name gt text matches any of the newly introduced default Network Advisor roles then the respective role is migrated with same name o All resource groups are migrated to AORs resource groups without any members are migrated as empty AORs The system resource group All Fabrics is migrated Users assigned to resource groups are migrated o After migration the equal sign in resource group names will be replaced with the underscore character _ o Ham user defined resource group is matched with any newly introduced system AOR in Network Advisor then it is migrated with name Resource Group Name gt _ lt Integer Value gt _Migrated The lt Integer Value gt generated is a random value If DCFM had a resource group with the name lt Resource Group Name gt and the lt Resource Group Name gt text matches any of the newly introduced default Network Advisor AORs then the respective resource group is migrated with same name o All members fabrics and hosts of migrated resource groups are also migrat
31. rail window Accounting behavior in Network Advisor is the same as it is in DCFM that is user actions are accounted as part of application events internal events An event is triggered during user authentication and for any application specific operations The application events raised by various modules are the way of accounting for user actions in Network Advisor RBAC does not mandate any such events and it is up to the modules to decide which events to trigger All accounting related information is referenced from the Network Advisor local database and not from any configured external server In DCFM security is not enforced nor is there any provision to enforce security in communication between the DCFM and LDAP servers In order to integrate security between the Network Advisor server and LDAP server you can enable or disable security while adding or editing a particular LDAP server The underlying standards used for securing communication are SASL using GSSAPI and TLS is supported By default the security configuration is disabled When security is enabled communication is through the secured channel however Network Advisor does not perform host name verification and certificate management from Network Advisor is not supported Network Advisor allows user to configure the authentication protocol between the Network Advisor and LDAP servers The supported protocols for authentication are MD5 the default and Kerberos Fault Management Netw
32. rged FCoE network environments In addition Network Advisor provides comprehensive Layer 2 configuration with easy to use Data Center Bridging DCB interface administration FCoE port and trunk configurations and Quality of Service QoS Audience This document provides Brocade customers who are currently using Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager DCFME with information about migrating to Brocade Network Advisor It is not intended as a definitive technical reference but it provides guidelines for installing or upgrading to Network Advisor for field engineers or IT personnel Documentation For details about how to install configure and deploy Network Advisor ensure that you have access to the product documentation which can be downloaded from MyBrocade NOTE Brocade Network Advisor manuals describe features for all versions Professional Professional Plus and Enterprise Features not supported in a particular version are noted in the document e Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual Describes only the SAN part of Network Advisor for customers who want to use Network Advisor to manage their SAN only e Brocade Network Advisor IP User Manual Describes only the IP part of Network Advisor for customers who want to use Network Advisor to manage their IP network only e Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual For customers who want to use Network Advisor to manage both their SAN and IP networks e Brocade Network Advisor Inst
33. s Users Policy LDAP Authorization Authentication Primary Local Database Secondary None Authorization Local Database Users User ID Full Name Roles Area Of Respon E mail Notific Account Enabled Policy Violations Account State Administrator SAN System Ad All Fabrics All IP No Yes No Active user user SAN System Ad All IP Products No Yes Yes Password expir dcfm admin SAN System Ad No No Yes Locked out by u test Network Admini AIIP Products Mo Yes Yes Locked out thre Add Edit Duplicate Delete Disable Unlock ay Roles AOR Name Descriptio Name Description Host Administrator Host Admit All Fabrics All Fabrics fra IP System Administrator IP System All IP Products All IP Products Network Administrator Network Operator Operator Report User Group Report Usi SAN System Administrator SAN Syste Security Administrator Security Security Officer Security Zone Administrator Zone Adm 7 1 ee o l Add E mail Event Notification Setup Close Help Figure 4 Users tab in Users window e Area Of Responsibility AOR An AOR Manager allows users to place fabrics hosts products product groups and port groups in management groups which can then be assigned to Network Advisor users Users can manage only the management groups assigned to them What was called the resource group in DCFM is now called the area of responsibility in Network Advisor and is one of the e
34. structure management partners such as VMware vCenter Microsoft System Center Operations Manager SCOM IBM Tivoli Motorola and McAfee The Network Advisor open standards architecture has the following characteristics e Simplifies partner integration using open standard interfaces SNMP SMI S e Improves customer management of virtualized resources server fabric storage e Reduces management complexity of virtualized data centers e Improves administrator productivity to scale efficiently with storage and virtual server workloads Microsoft SCOM Management Pack Microsoft SCOM Management Pack is a Web application hosted on the Network Advisor server that serves Web service end points and following dynamic HTML content to the SCOM Console e Information about fabrics and switches that are managed by Network Advisor e End to End EE monitors e GAN events critical events for switches those that trigger Call Home in managed fabrics Server administrators can quickly identify SAN related application performance or other issues by viewing statistics such as Tx Rx percentage utilization or CRC errors Access to this statistical information helps administrators improve troubleshooting and resolution as well as communications between the SAN storage administrator and the server administrator Key benefits of the integrated solution include e The System Center Operations Manager plug in displays fabric inventory information collected by Br
35. t Delete For details about migrating to DCFM 10 4 see the Brocade DCFM Installation and Migration Guide for version 10 4 x Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 6 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF PLANNING As with all technology upgrades in the data center planning is a critical part of the process When you are migrating from one software application to another you need to find out as much as you can about the new application and how it differs from the application you are currently using that is Brocade DCFM Then decide the right time to upgrade and start putting a task list task owners and a timeline in place Migration Considerations There are several things to consider when you are making the decision to migrate to Brocade Network Advisor e Back up the Brocade DCFM server before starting the migration To do this open the Options dialog box from the DCFM client 1 select Server gt Options from the client menu bar 2 select the Server Backup category on the left side of the Options dialog box 3 enter a value in the Output Directory field if needed and click Backup Now e Itis recommended that you capture Technical Support information for the switches in your fabrics See Technical Support Information later in this document e The supported database in Network Advisor is PostgreSQL See the Databases section later in this document for details Roles and Privileges In both Ne
36. t used for troubleshooting Hence you have the following options for capturing Technical Support information e To exclude the database completely if you do not want to send entire database for troubleshooting e To include the database completely or partially as required in most cases this is the default option Selecting Partial captures the database excluding Historical Performance Statistics data and Events data However to get information from recent Events and Stats Network Advisor would include 5000 and 2000 numbers of records from EVENT_DETAILS_INFO view and Performance stats tables respectively by default Local Client Files In previous DCFM releases client log files support save files and saved login information for Web started clients were placed in a folder named lt user home directory gt lt DCFM product name gt lt server name gt The equivalent files for a local client were placed in lt user home directory gt lt DCFM product name gt In Brocade Network Advisor 11 0 0 files for the local client are placed in lt user home directory gt lt Network Advisor gt localhost The client file locations are the same for Windows and Linux Because of the new location the local client s saved login information user name and password is not preserved during migration You will need to re enter the user name and password on the first login after upgrading from DCFM to Network Advisor Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Ne
37. ters are migrated the event filters that are configured in a SAN only installation needs to be modified when upgrading to a SAN IP installation to include the IP products otherwise the IP events are not shown Basic filtering combines the basic filtering options from INM and DCFM By default basic filtering includes all the products the entire category and severity and no filtering on event description The filter specified is user specific Based on the license the SAN or IP or SAN and IP tabs are available in the Define Filter dialog box the SAN version is shown in Figure 7 LS Define Filter e E 1 xj Basic_ Advanced Fitter events based on a string present in the description of the event _ Event Description Example telnet login SAN IP y Allow all products Available Products Selected Products to be displayed Products E Products 10 00 00 05 1 90 00 6 A B 10 00 00 05 1E 90 16 BD gt Available Event Category Selected Event Category and Severity to be displayed Category Category vi Emergency viA ert WCriticall Error User Action Event v ri Y vj a gt Management Se D D De D Product Event v D Da Ki A Link incident Event v v v v Product Audit Ev v je m gi 4 OK Cancel Help Figure 7 Basic SAN tab in the Network Advisor Define Filter dialog box Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor
38. twork VPN or firewall technology which can prohibit communication between servers and clients In other words a client can find a server appear to log in but is immediately logged out because the server cannot reach the client To resolve this issue a set of ports need to be opened up in the firewall For a list of these ports see the Brocade Network Advisor User in the section entitled Management server and client Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 16 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF Post DEPLOYMENT CONFIGURATION Discovery of Environment e To display the Discovery window choose Discovery gt Setup in the View All window You can also use the Setup icon on the main toolbar The RBAC discovery permission controls access to displaying this dialog box and all its functions e To find out if a switch has been discovered or not use the switch s Properties dialog box e Ifa fabric has been discovered and some of its switches segment out into single or multiple new fabrics you can now easily rediscover those new fabrics in the Discover Setup window without entering their credentials see Figure 9 ioe a wn Vn Use the Add Fabric or Host buttons to discover Hosts with Pending discovery status will not be updated and cannot be modified until you reopen Discovered Addresses Name IP Address aan Discovery Status E amp Production Add Fabric EBC_DCX_3 10 66 13 37 10 00 00 05 1E 46 4E 00 D
39. twork Advisor 11 0 and in DCFM privileges are assigned to role and are not directly assigned to a user However in DCFM users are assigned a single role and in Network Advisor users may be assigned multiple roles Each role in turn can contain read write privileges and read only privileges Default roles their associated privileges and consolidated privileges for Network Advisor are outlined in the product documentation Firewall Considerations Certain ports must be open between the Brocade Network Advisor client and server processes Also other ports could optionally be exposed for other services via the intranet connection on the Network Advisor server that is SMI S SNMP HTTP SSL telnet SSH and FTP If a firewall is put between the Network Advisor server and the managed devices investigate which ports must be opened and which are optional Do not consider just day to day management but also the services listed above For details see the Brocade Network Advisor User Manual CLIENT INTERFACE Users of DCFM will be familiar and comfortable with the Network Advisor interface as mentioned earlier Figure 1 shows the Network Advisor main window with Dashboard SAN and IP tabs Display of the tabs is controlled by the active licensing option the Dashboard tab is available in all options Migrating from Brocade DCFM to Brocade Network Advisor 7 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT VE Network Advisor 11 0 0 Server View Help Dashboard
40. twork Advisor 19 of 24 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MIGRATION BRIEF APPENDIX A PURCHASING BROCADE NETWORK ADVISOR Brocade Network Advisor is available with flexible package and licensing options for a wide range of network deployments and for future network expansion The no cost Network Advisor for SAN Professional is included with all Brocade hardware platforms It includes a subset of features found in the Network Advisor for SAN Professional Plus and is designed to manage Brocade FOS based switches on a single fabric basis for up to 1 000 ports Brocade Network Advisor software and documentation are shipped on a DVD or available via download see the Installation Guide for details If you are interested in Network Advisor for SAN Professional Plus or SAN Enterprise a 75 day trial is available If you decide to purchase SAN Professional Plus or SAN Enterprise your data and configurations from SAN Professional can be migrated to SAN Professional Plus or SAN Enterprise You can upgrade from SAN Professional Plus to SAN Enterprise just by adding a new license key e Network Advisor for SAN Professional can be downloaded from www brocade com NetworkAdvisorPro e Network Advisor for SAN Professional Plus or SAN Enterprise Trial versions can be downloaded from www brocadeconnect com public NetworkAdvisorEval In addition to managing mixed fabrics Brocade Network Advisor for SAN Professional Plus and SAN Enterprise have other features not found in Networ
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