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January 27th, 2010 13:00
fabric manager upgrade from 3.2(3a) to 3.3(4) ..
Hi,
This is regarding fabric manager upgrade from 3.2(3a) to 3.3(4) ..
Below is the history
1) I stared installing it as per installation instruction given from software. (taken db and server backup)
It has 2 options 1) Fabric manager server (licensed) 2) standalone
2) I clicked (1) option
3) continue then 2 more option 1) use fcalias as fabric default 2) require snmp3 version
4) I clicked (2)
I couldnt able to open FMS as it showing me some error when I open FM
"unable to login to the server connot connect FMS on localhost
rootcause ,failed to connect to server localhost:9099
please verify that FMS is intalled and running "
after sometime, my change was running out of time , so I decided to reintall with standalone ver.then It was working fine. But This can't manage fabric whenver I close FM as per theory.
whats wrong..someone says below .. I want to find whether itis true or false..
"previous version 3.2.3 of Fabric manager and the new one, 3.3.4, there have been some big changes in the Fabric Manager software.
The previous version did allow multiple fabic's to be open as it had a free software licence available that would allow this to be done.
Since version 3.3.x this licence from Cisco is no longer free and has to be purchased to allow you to open multiple fabric 's at once. This is the main thing that I believe you have found a problem with.
Using the current software , each fabric switch has to be opened separately and you cannot have two switches open at the same time.
Using the stand alone software is the same as the server version as it loads a lightweight server and client onto the one machine as one package, The server version loads a server package onto the server and then on each of the client PC's, a client software is required to be down loaded from the server.
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Do you think .. I should buy license for FM 3.3(4) ver .. shouldnt it inherate the old ver license ?
healyj
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November 28th, 2017 07:00
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Joe_Ab
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January 28th, 2010 05:00
hi,
-can you run the "show license usage" ?
-Did you tried emc208570..
-do you have the old license ?? if yes you have to log a call to Cisco TAC.
ConnectrixHelpe
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January 28th, 2010 15:00
If your question is that in previously versions of FM you were able to open multiple fabrics at the same time without a FMS license why didn't I inherit the license when I upgraded, the answer is that you never had the license to inherit. In older FMS versions the software didn't check for the license and assumed the customer had purchased it. It was found that many people were using the feature and hadn't purchased the license so the application was first changed to warn the customer with a message, next the documentation was changed to state that future versions would restrict the option without a license, and in the last step FMS was changed to block the ability to open multiple fabrics without a license. Users were warned about this change years before it was done.
If you need the ability to open multiple fabrics at the same time in FMS you will need to purchase a license. If you can work on one fabric at a time in FMS and close it after each use, you can work without the FMS license.
Thank you.
NeilHopwood
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February 24th, 2010 04:00