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About This Document

In this chapter

How this document is organized

This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible. This document supports DCFM 10.4.0 and later.
The document contains the following components:
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DCFM Professional Plus User Manual
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How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
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Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
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What's new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
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Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
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Additional information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxii
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Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii
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Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiv
Chapter 1, "Getting Started,"
Chapter 2, "Discovery," describes how to discover SANs and hosts.
Chapter 3, "Application Configuration,"
instructions.
Chapter 4, "Call Home," provides call home configuration instructions.
Chapter 5, "View management,"
Chapter 6, "Third-party tools,"
Chapter 7, "Server Management Console,"
Management Console to stop and start the Management application services, back up the
Management application database, and capture technical support information.
Chapter 8, "Device Configuration,"
Chapter 9, "Fabric Binding,"
Chapter 10, "Fault Management,"
Chapter 11, "Performance Data,"
Chapter 12, "Reports," provides instructions for generating reports.
Chapter 13, "Port Fencing,"
Chapter 13, "Role-Based Access Control,"
Chapter 14, "Host management,"
provides a high-level overview of the user interface.
provides Management application configuration
provides view and topology configuration instructions.
provides instructions for adding and launching third-party tools.
provides information on using the Server
provides device configuration instructions.
provides fabric binding instructions.
provides event management instructions.
provides information on how to manage performance.
provides information on how to configure port fencing.
provides information on how to manage users.
provides information on how to configure an HBA.
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