12 IBM Flex System FC5022 2-Port 16Gb FC Adapter User’s Guide
Installing the device drivers, utilities, and HCM
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Important notes
The following notes provide information on general installation and specific operating system
installation:
• The procedures in this section assume that the host’s operating system has been installed and is
functioning normally.
• The Brocade Adapter Software Installer (BASI) GUI-based application or commands are the
preferred methods to install the following components on your host system:
- Storage and network drivers
- Management Utilities. These include the HCM agent, BCU, BASI, installation scripts, CIM
provider, and SNMP agent files
- HCM only
• You must use the Brocade Adapter Software Installer application to install the Host Connectivity
Manager (HCM). You can install HCM to the host system where the adapter is installed or on a
separate remote management platform. After installation, an HCM desktop shortcut is available on
Windows and Linux systems.
• When using the Brocade Adapter Software Installer to install HCM, a “Found Backed up data”
message displays if a backup directory exists for previously installed software. This message
prompts you to restore or not to restore old configuration data.
• Only one driver installation is required for all Brocade adapters installed in a host system.
• Root or administrator privileges are required for installing the driver package.
• The following Brocade Adapter Software Installers are available for Windows and Linux operating
systems. For VMware systems, these installers only operate on “guest” operating systems.
- Windows systems BASI
brocade_adapter_software_installer_windows_<version>.exe
- Linux systems BASI
brocade_adapter_software_installer_linux_<version>.bin
Download BASI programs for your system from the adapters download page at
www.brocade.com/adapters-ibm-flex.
• Software installation or upgrade on a host system with a large number of adapters could take much
longer than normal.
• To use the Brocade Adapter Software Installer on Linux RHEL 6.x x64 systems, you must install
the x32-compatible libraries as they are not installed by default. Refer to “Using BASI and HCM on
RHEL 6.x version x64 systems” on page 13.
• On Linux SLES 10 and 11 systems when installing the source-based driver packages
(brocade_driver_linux_<version>.tar.gz) or when using the Brocade Adapter Software Installer and
the kernel has been upgraded to a version without pre-compiled binaries, perform the following
tasks to make sure the drivers will load on system reboot:
- For Linux SLES 10 systems, make sure that the LOAD_
UNSUPPORTED_MODULES_AUTOMATICALLY variable on your system is set to “yes.”
This variable is in the following configuration file:
/etc/sysconfig/hardware/config
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