HP StorageWorks Multi-protocol Router XPath OS 7.4.1f release notes (5697-0243, January 2010)

DescriptionIssue
Updates to Xpath OS 7.3.0 included openSSH version 3.8.1 to minimize
security vulnerabilities of fabrics. The MP Router implementation of SSH has
been modified to restrict use of SSH v1. SSH v1 may no longer be used to
connect to the MP Router, but SSH v2 can be used instead.
Security
Table 9 Limitations
DescriptionIssue
HP strongly encourages users of this release to do the following:
• Manage the MP Router's functions using the MP Router's CLI and Advanced
Web Tools.
• Create LSANs in edge fabrics using any tools that can manage zoning.
XPath OS 7.4.1d or later generally supports Fabric Access API-based
applications such as Fabric Manager and OVSAM. However, note the
following:
• API-based applications testing has not been completed. Check with the
management application vendor for AP support status.
• Existing versions of Fabric Manager and other API-based applications that
manage zoning in edge fabrics use the MP Router to configure LSAN zones
that create logical storage area networks.
• API-based applications must be compiled with new API libraries to control
directly-supported MP Router functions. Those libraries will be available at
a later date.
• A FAL-based application connected to a Fabric OS 2.6 switch does not
properly interpret the presence of virtual switches and domains created in
routed fabrics.
API support
XPath OS supports only Fibre Channel Class 3. Testing has shown that Class
2 devices attached to and supported by Fabric OS-based platforms
communicate properly through FC-FC routing services on XPath OS 7.30b
and are supported.
N[L]_Port devices that are connected directly to the MP Router and cannot
automatically or manually accept the F_Port's request for Fibre Channel Class
3 are affected. The IBM AIX operating system configured with the IBM 6228
HBA is known to be unable to accept Class 3 and therefore cannot register
with the XPath OS Fibre Channel Name Server.
Fibre Channel Class
XPath OS 7.4.0 does not support Management Server requests from hosts
connected to the switch. Login requests to the Management Server are rejected.
Fibre Channel Management
Server in-band support
The Name Server and Zone Server databases support fabrics within (and
larger than) the scalability guidelines. Fabric and zone merge attempts with
fabrics beyond the scalability limits presented in this document will prevent
fabrics from merging.
Fibre Channel Routing Services does not participate directly with Name Server
and Zone Server databases on edge fabrics; rather, it consumes zones that
begin with the string LSAN_ only and creates Name Server entries in edge
fabrics for shared devices only.
Name Server and Zone Serv-
er database sizes
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