Installing Cisco Fabric Manager on Windows 7 x64

Installing Cisco Fabric Manager on Windows 7 x64

1. Download the latest version from the Cisco site.

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Management Software and Documentation CD-ROM - Image for vX
http://www.cisco.com/cisco/software/type.html?mdfid=282731430&catid=null

2. Download Java RE 1.6 - At the time of writing this the FM (4.2.9) software does not support Java RE 7.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_jre_32/13491/

3.  Right click on Command Prompt > "Run as administrator"

 >  cd "c:\Program Files (x86)\java\jre6\bin"

(example command line)
 >  java.exe -Xmx512m -jar "C:\m9000-cd-4.2.9\software\m9000-fm-4.2.9.jar"

From there it's next - next - next.

-Shep