HP Brocade BladeSystem 4/12 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 10Gb/16Gb 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
occurring 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.
SAN size check: A popup message is displayed when the discovered port/switch/AG count
exceeds the SAN size selected (small/medium/large).
MD5 checksum validation: MD5 checksum validation is done before importing firmware files
into the repository.
Migration and upgrades
DCFM 10.4.x running on the Linux and Windows operating systems can be upgraded to Network
Advisor 1 1.1.x. 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 1 1.1.x. Earlier versions of DCFM must first be upgraded to DCFM
10.4.x and then upgraded to Network Advisor 1 1.1.x. Upgrades from DCFM to Network Advisor
1 1.1.x do not require a new software license key.
Supported switches and firmware
Table 1 (page 5)
Network Advisor 1 1.1.5. 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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and Table 2 (page 6) list switches and firmware families supported with HP