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About This Document

The Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide is written to help you, the storage area network (SAN)
administrator, to monitor, configure, and manage your SAN. This document is specific to Fabric
Manager version 5.2.0 and all switches running Brocade Fabric OS version 5.2.0 and XPath version
7.1.2c or later. For a detailed list of the firmware and hardware versions that are supported with specific
versions of Fabric Manager, refer to the Fabric Manager release notes.
In those instances in which procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some switches
but not to others, this guide identifies exactly which switches are supported and which are not.
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How This Document Is Organized

This document is organized to help you find the particular information that you want as quickly and
easily as possible.
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Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide
Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP
"How This Document Is Organized,"
"Supported Hardware and Software" on page xxi
"What's New in This Document" on page xxi
"Document Conventions" on page xxii
"Additional Information" on page xxiii
"Getting Technical Help" on page xxvi
"Document Feedback" on page xxvii
Chapter 1, "Introducing Fabric Manager,"
supported operating systems.
Chapter 2, "Installation," provides information and instructions on installing the Fabric Manager
server on supported operating systems.
Chapter 3, "Fabric Manager Client,"
Chapter 4, "Discovering and Customizing Fabrics,"
administrators perform.
Chapter 5, "Viewing Fabric Topologies,"
Chapter 6, "Displaying Name Server Information,"
Chapter 7, "Monitoring Alerts and Events,"
Manager alerts and switch events, and how to manage and monitor them using Fabric Manager.
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provides an overview of Fabric Manager and lists the
introduces you to the graphical user interface.
includes common tasks that fabric
describes Fabric Manager's Topology View.
includes information in the Name Server table.
provides information about different types of Fabric
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