HP SN6000B Release Note page 4

Network Advisor brings forward the capabilities found in Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) for
SAN management with additional features and enhancements:
• Policy Monitor allows users to set up best practices for their network and run a test manually, or
on a scheduled basis, to ensure the network conforms to the best practices.
• Frame Monitor provides a monitoring mechanism that allows configuring different thresholds for
different types of frames and report events whenever a count for a particular frame type crosses
its respective threshold.
• D-port: Network Advisor allows users to run optical and electrical loopback and link traffic tests.
Network Advisor also provides digital diagnostics information on 16–Gb port optics, such as
temperature, Rx/Tx power, bias current, and supply voltage.
• Bottleneck Detection allows users to configure the parameters and view the statistics. In addition,
when a bottleneck is detected, Network Advisor allows users to view where the bottleneck is oc-
curring on topology as well as obtain information on the affected hosts.
• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Pack populates Microsoft
SCOM with fabric details, switch details, statistics and call home events.
• Selective Server Support Save provides the ability to include or exclude performance and historical
events from the database while capturing server support save from SMC.
Migration and upgrades
DCFM 10.4.x running on the Linux and Windows operating systems can be upgraded to Network
Advisor 11.1.1. Network Advisor is not supported on the Solaris platform. DCFM 10.4.x running on
the Solaris platform must first migrate to a supported operating system, and then perform the upgrade
to Network Advisor 11.1 .0. Earlier versions of DCFM must first be upgraded to DCFM 10.4.x and
then upgraded to Network Advisor 11.1.1. Upgrades from DCFM to Network Advisor 11.1.x do not
require a new software license key.
Supported switches and firmware
Table 1 and Table 2
This does not imply that all firmware versions listed in the left column are still supported by HP, but
rather that those are the firmware streams on which the corresponding switches are, or were, supported.
It also does not imply that all the firmware listed in streams is supported on each of the corresponding
switches. HP recommends using the latest software versions to get the greatest benefit from the SAN.
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list switches and firmware families supported with HP Network Advisor 11.1.1.