HP StorageWorks HA-Fabric Manager Release Notes, V08.09.01 (AA-RUR6J-TE, October 2006)

Description
Problem Category
Switch Blades and Enterprise Fabric Mode: switch binding is
deactivated when Enterprise Fabric Mode is deactivated for switch
blades.
Enterprise Fabric Mode
When an ethern
et cable is disconnected, the ethernet event is not
sent for switc
h in a discovered fabric.
Ethernet Even
t
No SNMP traps are displayed in the event log when sent across
through a firewall.
Event Log
Exception occurs when export- to-disk o peration is performed on
aremoteclientonAIXplatform.
Export
HAFM 8.7 Fab
ric Log falsely reports ISLs ad ded an d removed.
Fabric Persistence
Firmware load failure to a Director due to intermittent timeout. Install/Uninstall
The incorrect firmware version is displayed in fabric tree after
downgrading to firmware 7.1.3.
Install/Unin stall
FL Ports do n
ot show a destination icon and port in performance
graphs.
Performanc
e
The persist fabric does not work properly if th e connection is lost to
a non-McDATA principal switch. The persist fabric always keys off
the principal switch. Non-McDATA switches do not display in HAFM.
When a non-McDATA switch is the principal switch and the fabric is
persisted, incorrect persist fabric updates occur if connection is lost to
the principal switch.
Persisted Fabric
A fenced port reports as disabled after a clearing problem and the
port is placed back online.
Port Fencing
The user must unblock, block then unblock agai n to recover a port
after a f
encing policy has been invoked.
Port Fencing
Cannot enable a show route between the end devices attached to a
switch blades.
Show Route/Hide Route
Enhancements
This se
ction describes enhancements for HAFM 08.09.01.
4Gb Fibre Channel speed support for Director 2/140
This release now provides 4 Gb Fibre Channel speed support in the D irector 2/140 when using the 4
Gb/s Intrepid 6000 QPM Blade. You can purchase the 4 Gb/s Intrepid 6000 QPM Blade (QPM
blade) through an authorized McDATA Reseller.
For information about purchasing the 4 Gb/s Intrepid 6000 QPM Blade, please contact your authorize d
McDATA reseller. You can findthelatestMcDATAcontactinformationbyregionontheMcDATAwebsite
h
ttp://www.mcdata.com/abo ut/contact/index.html.
For detailed information about the 4 Gb/s Intrepid 6000 QPM Blade, see the latest versions of the
Intrepid 6140 and 6064 Directors Element Manager User Manual and the E/OS Command Line Interface
User Manual,availableontheMcDATAwebsite
h
ttp://www.mcdata.com/wwwapp/resourcelibrary/jsp/navpages/indexForSearchBy.jsp?search-
FolderNa me=/tpub/&resourceType=Technical%20Documents&product_li ne_root=tpub&re-
source=tpub_search&mcdata_category=www_resource.
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