HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.3.0b Release Notes (AA-RWEYF-TE, October 2007)

Portstats: Selecting the “Show delta” radio button and clicking on
the clear counter button, doesn’t clear the counters. It changes the
values to negative. Clicking the clear counter button again will reset
counter to zero.
Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0
May see FFDC warning messages when manually changing switch IP
address in DHCP network.
Fixed per Fabr
ic OS 5.3.0
Able to establish API session to Admin Domain 255 using “user”
login which has Admin Domain membership only to Admin Domain
0,whichisnotallowedfromCLI,resultinginerror.UsersofSMIand
Web Tools won’t observe error because all operations performed
via Admin role user.
Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0
Web Tools currently not consistent with CLI on
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configuring long distance for ports if current Admin Domain owns
them but not switchmembership.
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Port long d
istance settings are read-only for owned ports on
non-owned
switches in Web Tools Extended Fabric tab, but editable
for owned
ports in Web Tools port configuration wizard.
Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0
SNMP traps repeatedly sent from the switch every 2 seconds when
port taken out of a fault state implicitly by removing cable or module.
Caused by too many port offline SCNs being sent out during port
fault and recover when there is laser fault.
Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0
Firmware downgrade to Fabric OS 5.1 or earlier is blocked even
after por ts 256 – 384 are removed from DCC policy created using
[*] option. Currently have to delete DCC policy to avoid this.
Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0
Admin user account with permissions to only Admin Dom ain 255
can create Admin Domains, but only Admin user accounts with
permissions for all Admin Domains should be able to do this.
Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0
Confirmation dialog doesn’t appear when name server table closed
by clicking the “X” button. User experiences unexpected close when
clicking “X” button.
Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0
Detailed view of any device doesn’t refresh properly when Auto
refresh option is selected & user resizes/scrolls the window.
Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0
Role name, and sometimes user name, missing from error message
when
user exits from a Telnet session.
Fixe
d per Fabric OS 5.3.0
The 2/16v switch produces ARB(vc) fill words instead of idles which
could cause failures with certain long distance devices when running
Fabric OS 5.2 with the following port configuration:
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—portcfglongdistance <port> LS 1 50
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—portcfgislmode <port> 1
Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0
Web
Tools not correctly reflecting physical switch state of a
persistently disabled switch when the switch is fastbooted. LEDs are
shown u nlit instead of slowly bli nking yellow.
Fi
xed per Fabric OS 5.3.0
No event is generated when the IP address of a switch is changed,
so user can’t determine IP address of the switch was changed by
issuing the comman d errdump or errshow because IP address
changeeventwasnotregistered.
Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0
Several issues observed in ZoneAdmin and in Admin Domain when
switch is configured in PID format 2, including being unable to see
ports 16-32.
Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0
During stress testing, a significant delay in trafficcomingback
from a Fibre Channel Router (FCR) failure in fully redundant SAN
configuration was seen, as traffic temporarily stopped before taking
redundant path after rebooting one of the FCRs in dual back bone
fabric.
Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0
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