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1 QConvergeConsole QLogic Corporation All rights reserved Table of Contents 1 Package Contents 2 Requirements 2.1 Hardware Requirements 2.2 Software Requirements 3 OS Support 4 Supported Features 5 Using QConvergeConsole 5.1 Installing QConvergeConsole 5.2 Starting QConvergeConsole 6 Additional Notes 6.1 General (Applies to All Operating Systems) 6.2 Linux 7 Known Issues and Workarounds 8 Contacting Support 1 Package Contents QConvergeConsole installation packages are available for the following supported operating system (OS) platforms: File Name QConvergeConsole_Installer_<version>.exe QConvergeConsole_Installer_Linux_x32_<version>.exe QConvergeConsole_Installer_Linux_x64_<version>.bin Description All supported Windows platforms All supported Linux platforms All supported Linux platforms NOTE: The version in the preceding file names represents the build number of the current software release. QConvergeConsole Readme Page 1 of 8

2 2 Requirements This section defines the following minimum requirements: 2.1 Hardware Requirements 2.2 Software Requirements 2.1 Hardware Requirements The Apache Tomcat application server requires the following minimum hardware: Application server. Single-processor or multiprocessor server or workstation: Intel Core 2 Duo with 1GHz or greater Memory. 512MB of physical RAM required to run QConvergeConsole; 1GB recommended. Running with less memory can cause disk swapping, which severely affects performance. Video card. Capable of 16K colors and 1024 x 768 pixels recommended. Hard disk space. About 150MB disk space. The minimum hardware requirements for the server agent are as follows: Adapters. One or more of the following QLogic adapters: 2400 and 2500 Series Fibre Channel Adapters 3200 Series Intelligent Ethernet Adapters 8100 and 8200 Series Converged Network Adapters The SAN environment requires the following minimum hardware: Storage. Fibre Channel or iscsi devices, such as disks and RAID subsystems. QConvergeConsole supports most Fibre Channel and iscsi devices. See the QLogic Storage Networking Interoperability Guide, which you can download from the following QLogic Web page: NOTE: Tape devices are shown as part of the configuration, but are not fully supported. Only persistent binding is supported. 2.2 Software Requirements QConvergeConsole requires the following minimum software: Server on which your adapter is physically installed: QLogic adapter drivers for your operating system (OS) QLogic adapter management agents for your OS TCP/IP protocol for Windows remote management Administrative privileges to perform management functions Disable user access control to run the agent service (qlremote) on Windows 2008 Apache Tomcat application server: Apache Tomcat (if not already installed, installed using the QConvergeConsole installer) QConvergeConsole One of the operating systems identified in the OS Support section Web browser: Capability to launch Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9, Safari 5, Firefox 3.6, or Google Chrome 9 QConvergeConsole Readme Page 2 of 8

3 Adobe Flash Player Browser must have Flash plug-in enabled to support graphical charts. Browser must have pop-ups disabled. 3 OS Support QConvergeConsole runs on the following OS platforms. Client browser. These operating systems support running or hosting QConvergeConsole by running one of the following supported browsers. Operating Systems OS Name OS Type Hardware Platform Windows Server bit, 64-bit Intel x86, Intel 64, AMD 64 Windows Server bit, 64-bit Intel x86, Intel 64, AMD64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS and ES bit, 64-bit Intel x86, Intel 64, AMD64 RHEL AS and ES 5.5, bit, 64-bit Intel x86, Intel 64, AMD64 Novell SLES 11 SP1 32-bit, 64-bit Intel x86, Intel 64, AMD64 Novell SLES 10 SP4 32-bit, 64-bit Intel x86, Intel 64, AMD64 Apache Tomcat application server. The following operating systems can host the Tomcat server, which is required to support the QConvergeConsole GUI. Operating Systems OS Name OS Type Hardware Platform Windows Server bit, 64-bit Intel 64, AMD64 Windows Server bit, 64-bit Intel 64, AMD64 RHEL AS and ES bit, 64-bit Intel 64, AMD64 RHEL AS and ES 5.5, bit, 64-bit Intel x86, Intel 64, AMD64 Novell SLES 11 SP1 32-bit, 64-bit Intel x86, AMD64 Novell SLES 10 SP4 32-bit, 64-bit Intel IA64, Intel 64, AMD64 Server agent. Multiple operating system support allows control of heterogeneous environments. QConvergeConsole works with the following operating systems. Operating Systems OS Name OS Type Hardware Platform Windows Server bit, 64-bit Intel 64, AMD64 Windows Server bit, 64-bit Intel 64, AMD64 RHEL AS and ES bit, 64-bit Intel 64, AMD64 RHEL AS and ES 5.5, bit, 64-bit Intel 64, AMD64 Novell SLES 11 SP1 32-bit, 64-bit Intel x86, AMD64 Novell SLES 10 SP4 32-bit, 64-bit Intel 64, AMD64, AMD64 NOTE: For specific service packs (SP) and OS updates, refer to the descriptions where this software version is posted on the QLogic Web site: QConvergeConsole Readme Page 3 of 8

4 4 Supported Features QConvergeConsole has the following features: Unified adapter management. QConvergeConsole provides a browser-based GUI that lets you monitor, configure, and manage QLogic adapters with Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Ethernet networking (NIC), and iscsi networking protocols. Virtualization. QConvergeConsole provides configuration pages on selected Fibre Channel ports that let you create multiple virtual ports from a single physical adapter. Asset management. QConvergeConsole allows you to connect to and disconnect from local and remote hosts. It also provides information about connected hosts and their attached QLogic adapters with connected storage devices. Configuration management. QConvergeConsole allows you to configure local and remote systems. With QConvergeConsole, you can configure QLogic adapters and connected devices. It also lets you update adapter parameters, firmware, boot code, and drivers. Statistics. QConvergeConsole provides statistics for each host and adapter port. These statistics can be collected automatically or on request. They can be reset at any time. In addition, you can export the statistics to a comma separated values (CSV) file that you can import into other applications, for example, Microsoft Excel. Reports. QConvergeConsole provides a report facility that lets you generate reports, which you can use to view lists of all SAN assets: adapters, devices, and LUNs. After generating reports, you can view them and save them to a variety of file formats. notifications. QConvergeConsole can automatically send notifications with a copy of the current host configuration to an distribution list, thus enabling the information to be opened and analyzed from other locations. Wizards. QConvergeConsole provides easy-to-use wizards that walk you through Flash and driver parameter file updates on Fibre Channel and Converged Network Adapters. 5 Using QConvergeConsole This section provides information on the following: 5.1 Installing QConvergeConsole 5.2 Starting QConvergeConsole 5.1 Installing QConvergeConsole For detailed information on installing QConvergeConsole, refer to the QConvergeConsole User's Guide. You can download a copy of this document from the driver download page for your adapter at QLogic s Driver Downloads/Documentation page ( NOTE: You can install management agents (Ethernet networking, FCoE, and iscsi) to use for remote access to the adapters using Windows or Linux SuperInstallers. These SuperInstallers are located on the download section for Windows and Linux OSs for your specific adapter at The management agents are not included in the QConvergeConsole package that you download from the QLogic downloads page. 5.2 Starting QConvergeConsole For detailed information on starting QConvergeConsole, refer to the QConvergeConsole User's Guide. You can download a copy of this document from the driver download page for QConvergeConsole Readme Page 4 of 8

5 your adapter at QLogic's Driver Downloads/Documentation page ( 6 Additional Notes The following sections provide additional information according to operating system: 6.1 General (Applies to All Operating Systems) 6.2 Linux 6.1 General (Applies to All Operating Systems) Notes that apply to all Oss include the following: Manually Mapping the Host Name to IP Understanding the Displayed Hard Drive Size Under LUN Information Manually Mapping the Host Name to IP QConvergeConsole does not allow connecting to the same host more than once; doing so causes issues with policies and wastes system resources. Consequently, all host IP addresses must resolve to a host name to allow the connection to complete. If domain name service (DNS) is not used, you must edit the local host file on the system where you are running QConvergeConsole to manually map the host name to the static IP address. The following shows the name and location of the host file for each operating system (OS): Windows: <install drive>:windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Linux: /etc/hosts Understanding the Displayed Hard Drive Size Under LUN Information Two different measurement formats are used when displaying the hard drive size: decimal (GB) and binary (GB). Both Linux and Windows show the correct number using their numeric format: Windows uses binary (numbers that are a power of 2) Linux uses decimal (numbers that are a power of 10) For example: 2^10 is 1,024. The closest decimal number is 10^3 or 1,000. 2^20 is 1,048,576. The closest decimal number is 10^6 or 1,000,000. 2^30 is 1,073,741,824. The closest decimal number is 10^9 or 1,000,000,000. QConvergeConsole Readme Page 5 of 8

6 6.2 Linux Notes that apply to the Linux OS include the following: Running QConvergeConsole and Connecting to a Remote Red Hat Linux Machine Secure Portmapper QConvergeConsole Password IA32 QConvergeConsole Installer QConvergeConsole Installer on Red Hat Running QConvergeConsole and Connecting to a Remote Red Hat Linux Machine When running QConvergeConsole and connecting to a remote Red Hat Linux machine, you must modify the /etc/hosts files on the two machines to allow asynchronous notifications from the agent to QConvergeConsole to operate correctly. To resolve this issue, create a new entry with the host IP address assigned to ethx. Modify the existing entry by moving the hostname from the localhost line to the newly created line. For example: Initial: localhost runner.domain.com Modified: localhost runner.domain.com Secure Portmapper For Linux, QConvergeConsole includes a new secure portmapper. For remote communication to work correctly between the GUI and agents, add the statement portmap:all to the /etc/hosts.allow file QConvergeConsole Password The default QConvergeConsole password is config. You should change this password after installation to ensure that security is not compromised. To change the current QConvergeConsole password, you must install the shadow password option on your Linux machine. For example, the following steps install the etc/shadow file on a Linux 7.2 machine: 1. Install the shadow-utils rpm package from <Linux 7.2 CD-1>: /Red Hat/RPMS/shadow-utils i386.rpm 2. Go to the /etc file, and then type the pwconv command to convert the password to shadow password format. QConvergeConsole Readme Page 6 of 8

7 6.2.4 IA32 QConvergeConsole Installer To run the IA32 QConvergeConsole installer under Linux x86_64 (Intel 64), you must install the IA32 X11 libraries. These libraries are included in the xorg-x11-libs-<version>.el rpm file. If the libraries are missing, the following exception appears: java.lang.unsatisfiedlinkerror: /tmp/install.dir.4191/linux/resource/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so: libxext. o.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory QConvergeConsole Installer on Red Hat 5 To run the QConvergeConsole installer on a Red Hat 5 Linux machine when using the default installation, you must install the following Red Hat Package Managers (RPMs): compat-libstdc <arch>.rpm libxp <arch>.rpm NOTES: On x86_64 machines, load 32-bit libs. On PowerPC 64 Linux machines, load both the PPC64 and PPC RPMs. 7 Known Issues and Workarounds Known issues in this release, and workarounds (if any) are as follows: Known Issue Internet Explorer 8.0 sometimes displays the error message, A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly. The administrator or admin enabled account password must not be blank when changing the QConvergeConsole password. A Microsoft portmapper conflict occurs if Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX is installed after installing the QCC agents. Workaround Follow the procedures described in the article located at None. This is a Windows security restriction. Follow these steps: 1. Temporarily uninstall the QConvergeConsole Fibre Channel and FCoE agent. 2. Install Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX. 3. Re-install the QConvergeConsole Fibre Channel and FCoE agent. QConvergeConsole does not support adapter parameters and Flash updates on 8Gb adapters when running Windows Server 2008 Inbox Driver Version or The hot swap feature does not work on QLogic Fibre Channel Adapters. Update the host to the latest QLogic driver. Stop the qlremote agent. QConvergeConsole Readme Page 7 of 8

8 Contacting Support Please feel free to contact your QLogic approved reseller or QLogic Technical Support at any phase of integration for assistance.

8 8 Contacting Support Please feel free to contact your QLogic approved reseller or QLogic Technical Support at any phase of integration for assistance. QLogic Technical Support can be reached by the following methods: Web: Go to Top Copyright All rights reserved worldwide. QLogic, QConvergeConsole, the QLogic logo, and the Powered by QLogic logo are registered trademarks of QLogic Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. QConvergeConsole Readme Page 8 of 8

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