Preface; Intended Audience; What Is In This Guide - Qlogic FastLinQ 3400 Series User Manual

Preface

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Intended Audience

This guide is intended for personnel responsible for installing and maintaining
computer networking equipment.

What Is in This Guide

This guide describes the features, installation, and configuration of the QLogic
FastLinQ™ 8400/3400 Series Converged Network Adapters and Intelligent
Ethernet Adapters. The guide is organized as follows:
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QLogic now supports QConvergeConsole
management tool across all QLogic adapters. The QLogic Control Suite
(QCS) GUI is no longer supported for the 8400/3400 Series Adapters and
adapters based on 57xx/57xxx controllers, and has been replaced by the
QCC GUI management tool. The QCC GUI provides single-pane-of-glass
GUI management for all QLogic adapters.
In Windows environments, when you run the QCS CLI and the Management
Agents Installer, it will uninstall the QCS GUI (if installed on the system) and
any related components from your system. To obtain the new GUI, download
QCC GUI for your adapter from the QLogic Downloads Web page:
driverdownloads.qlogic.com
Chapter 1, Product Overview
of features, a list of supported operating systems, and the adapter
specifications.
Chapter 2, Installing the Hardware
including the list of system requirements and a preinstallation checklist.
Chapter 3, Multi-boot Agent (MBA) Driver Software
module that allows your network computer to boot with the images provided
by remote servers across the network.
Chapter 4, Windows Driver Software
and removal, QLogic management application installation, adapter
properties management, and power management options.
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(QCC) GUI as the only GUI
provides a product functional description, a list
describes how to install the adapter
describes Windows
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describes the software
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