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

requiring a domain and the associated fabric rebuild traffic that is p revalent when switches are powered
on, or added, or removed from a fabric.
Refer to the Brocade Access Gateway Administrator’s G uide available on h
ttp://www.hp.com/go/san
for m ore information.
Access Gateway support in non-Brocade fabrics
In addition to being supported in Brocade fabrics, Access Gateway is suppor ted for connectivity to the
following:
• McDATA fabrics running EOS 09.00.xx with Brocade FOS 5.2.1b
• McDATA fabri
cs running EOS 09.02 .xx or 09.03.xx with Brocade FOS 5.3.0, 5.3.0a or 5.3.0b
• Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS 3.0(2a) with Brocade FOS 5.2.1b
• Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS versions 3.1(2a), 3.1(3), 3.1(3a) with Brocade FOS 5.3.0, 5.3.0a
or 5.3.0b
Dynamic Ports on Demand (DPOD)
IMPORTANT:
DPOD is an optional features supported in the following HP p roduct only:
• Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem (Brocade 4024 )
Please check h
ttp://www.hp.com for the latest updates.
DPOD takes the expansion capability of fixed Ports on Demand (PODs) and adds the flexibility of
connecting to any available por t as long as a valid license is available. Previously, POD allowed only
specific ports to be utilized. With DPOD, any physically available port can be made active as long as a
valid license is available. This allows customers the flexibility of automatically changing port assignments
where previously the port assignments were fixed and inflexible.
Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS)
The RASLog is modified to support IPv6. RAS will also obsolete traceftp and savecore CLI and
add its functionality to supportsave and supportftp.
Management
Fabric OS 5.3.0 added a new user role, the secAdmin or Security Administrator. This role maintains
security administration including logging and auditing. The addition of the secAdmin role allows users
to isolate security m anag ement from complete Administrator management.
Security
Secure F abr ic OS is no longer sold as an option, but integrated into Fabric OS 5.3 .0 and later.
IMPORTANT:
Fabric OS 5.3. 0 is the last major release that is compatible with SFOS.
Fabric OS 5.3.0 integrated the following new features:
• FICON Cascading no longer requires S FOS
• MAC policies have now been replaced by IP filters, allowing configuration of accep table IP
addresses and ranges that may gain management access to the switch.
• Protected-Extensible Authentication Protocol (P-EAP with MSCHAP-v2) suppor t for R Admin
DomainIUS.
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