HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.3.0d Release Notes (AA-RWEYH-TE, December 2007)

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Additional Fabr

ic OS 5.3.0 enhancements

Additional Fabric OS 5.3.0 enhancements include:

• Provides new Fabric OS commands to rename an alias, a zone and a zone conﬁguration. Zone

–copy copies th

e zone object to a new zone object. Zoneobjectrename renames the zone

object.

• Detects and handles a corrupted zone conﬁguration [ under /etc/fabos/zone*]gracefully

instead of rebooting. The switch also logs the error in RASLog.

• Adds a new comm

and that provides both the WWN and serial number of the switch. Added

an –sn option to display the serial number. For example, wwn –sn will return both the world

wide name and serial number da ta

• Provides add

itional information on a faulty por t in Fabric Watch to aid in troubleshooting.

• Enables use of passive FTP to download ﬁrmware.

• Enables the customer to specify a quality password policy that prevents the selection of passwords

with consec

utive, identical characters.

• Uses multiple N TP servers with the tsclockserver command for redundancy. For example, if

one site NTP server fails (DR scenario) there is a b ackup that can be reached by the switches.

• Logs a RASLo

g message when a 2.x switch joins the fabric.

• HA failover and user notiﬁcation occurs on the 4/256 SAN Director when there is a failed

Ethernet chip (O scillator chip).

Additional Web Tools 5.3.0 enhancements

Additional Web Tools 5.3.0 enhancements include:

• Provides individual error counters for FC ports from Port admin.

• Provides SFP TX/RX power information in DB level from Port admin from Web Tools.

• Provides the Clear Counter feature to reset all counters.

• Provides ability to clear 400 M P Router or B-Series MP Router Blade GE port Error counters using

portStatsClear CLI command.

Fabric OS 5.3.0 ﬁxes

Table 3 lists defects closed in the Fabric OS 5.3.0 ﬁrmware release.

Table 3 Fa

bric OS 5.3.0 closed defects

Closed defec t su mmary

Solution

4/256 Dir

ector running FICON with fsmode enabled & DLS on and

port based route policy panics after upgrade from Fabric OS 5.0.x to

5.1.x or 5.2.0.

Fixed pe

r Fabric OS 5.3.0

Kernel Ops error when counter is overrun during stress to fail test.

Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0

Exception error on 4/256 can occur when performing port mirroring

causing reboot.

Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0

Tstimezone command doesn’t show correct time and date if

configdownload interface is used to update timezone.

Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0

After executing trunk disable/ enab le on all edge switches in large

scalability fabric, a 2/128 E_port became stuck in Loopback mode.

Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0

Admin Domains enforcement on SID/DID not performed.

Portmirror allowed addition of mirror port in Admin Domain3

when SID and DID were not port members.

Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0

HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.3.0d release notes