HP SN6000B HP Network Advisor B-series Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Prof - 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 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. 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 list switches and firmware families supported with HP Network Advisor 11.1.1. 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. 4