HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.0.5f Release Notes (AA-RW1WH-TE, December 2007)

Fabric OS 5.0.5e
fixes
Table 6 listsimprovementsincludedinFabricOS5.0.5e.
Table 6 Fabric OS 5.0.5e closed defects
Closed Defects
Fabric Watch daemon panics with bad memory access and memory leak causing switch panic and
hafailover.
In Interop mode, zoned m ay die after cfgclear and cfgsave due to incorrectly initialized variable
causing read past end of buffer, leading to core dump.
Fspf daemon assert causes switch panic and hafailover during fspf updates from active CP.
FICON RNID request sent to CUP port is rejected on link init causing new FICON Channels to fail to come
online to the CUP Port.
Fabric watch daemon panic while pulling data on temperature sensors causing switch panic and
hafailover.
Fabric OS 5.0.5f fix
The following defect was fixed per Fabric OS 5.0.5f:
Switch panic due to extremely rare race condition in Linux kernel.
Workarounds
Table 7 lists
important information and workarounds.
Table 7 Important information and workarounds
Issue
Workaround
Locked G_Port comes up as an L_P ort after the
server/HBA is rebooted.
Lock the end device as a G_Port or
portdisable/portenable the switch port
once the port has become an L_Por t.
Though there are no environmental problems, the
status LEDs on all port blades blink amber every .5
seconds.
Reboot or slotpower off/on ALL blades.
Adding Ad
vanced Performance Monitor (APM),
perfAddU
serMonitor, without zoning enabled at
thesametimewillstopallframetraffic.
Add APM on
ly when zoning is enabled.
Links between Emulex HBAs and 4Gb Brocade
switches may not automatically be re-established.
This issue could occur after an error that h as forced
the switch and HBA to re-establish link initialization
such as a cold switch reboot.
To re-establish the link on the affected port without
trafficdisruptiononotherports,issuethecommands
portDisable and portEnable on the affected
port.
Single-CP switches experience unexpected cold boot
during firmware download.
Before downloading firmware to a switch running any
release prior to Fabric OS 5.0.5 or 5.1.0, first issue
the date command to force synchronization of the
hardware clock and the system clock.
If the switch is running NTP, first disable NTP with
the tsclockserver LOCL command, then issue
the date command.
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