HP B-series Network Advisor Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Professional 12.1.
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Contents Version....................................................................................................................................5 Description..............................................................................................................................5 Key feature enhancements introduced in Network Advisor 12.1.1................................................5 Key feature enhancements introduced in Network Advisor 12.1.2...................................................
HP Network Advisor 12.1.4 fixes..........................................................................................24 HP Network Advisor 12.1.5 fixes..........................................................................................24 Effective date.........................................................................................................................
Version 12.1.5 Description HP Network Advisor is a software management platform that provides users with a consistent user interface across FC and FCoE / DCB along with custom views and controls based on the users’ areas of specialization. Network Advisor provides users with the utmost flexibility in deployment and operational models, including traditional SAN deployments (FC) and end-to-end convergence (FCoE, iSCSI and NAS over DCB).
and then upgrade to Network Advisor 12.1.5. Network Advisor is not supported on the Solaris platform. DCFM 10.4.x running on the Solaris platform must first migrate to a supported operating system. Once migration from the Solaris platform to either Linux or Windows is complete, upgrade to Network Advisor 11.1.x and then upgrade to Network Advisor 12.0.0 - 12.0.3 and then upgrade to Network Advisor 12.1.5. Earlier versions of DCFM must first be upgraded to DCFM 10.4.x, then upgraded to Network Advisor 11.1.
Table 1 Supported switches and firmware Supported switches and firmware Switch/Director Fabric OS 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 5.2.x, 5.3.x, 6.0.x, 6.1.x, 6.2.x,6.3.x, 6.4.x, 7.0.x, 7.1.x, 7.2.
Table 2 Supported switches and firmware (continued) Supported switches and firmware Switch/Director Fabric OS 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 5.2.x, 5.3.x, 6.0.x, 6.1.x, 6.2.x,6.3.x, 6.4.x, 7.0.x , 7.1.x, 7.2.
5. Requires Fabric OS 6.1.0a or later 6. Requires Fabric OS 6.0.0b or later 7. Requires Fabric OS 6.1.1_enc or later 8. Requires Fabric OS 6.2.0 or later 9. Requires Fabric OS 6.1.2_CEE or later 10. Requires Fabric OS 6.3.x or later 11. Requires Fabric OS 6.4.0 or later 12. Requires Fabric OS 7.0.0a or later 13. Requires Fabric OS 7.0.1 or later and Network Advisor 11.1.3 as a minimum version 14. Requires Fabric OS 7.1.0a or later and Network Advisor 12.0.0 as minimum version 15. Requires Fabric OS 7.1.
Table 4 Supported operating systems (32-bit) (continued) Operating System (32-bit) Architecture Versions Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1 (x86) Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.2 (x86) Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3 (x86) NOTE: All the above Operating Systems are supported as Guest VMs on VMware ESXi 5.1, KVM (RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.3 Adv) and Microsoft Hyper-V (Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012). Table 5 Virtual machine management supported versions Virtual machine Versions ESX 4.0, 4.1 ESXi 4.
Table 6 Supported Network Advisor features (continued) Feature Network Advisor Professional Network Advisor Professional Plus Network Advisor Enterprise Role Based Access Control (RBAC) No Yes Yes FICON No No Yes DC SAN Backbone Director No No Yes SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Backbone director No No Yes 1 Real-time stats for GE ports.
Launching the Network Advisor client from a remote host 1. Open a browser window and enter the Network Advisor server hostname or IP address in the Address field. For example: http://NetworkAdvisorServerhost1.companyname.com/ http://192.x.y.z/ 2. If a Network Advisor web server port number was specified (instead of the default 80) when the Network Advisor server was installed, you must specify the port number after the hostname or IP address.
• If the following error message occurs “Signature could not be validated” during firmware download or technical support data collection using SCP/SFTP, it could be due to a mismatch in the signature key used in the ssh handshake between the switch and SCP/SFTP server. Execute the following CLI command as a work-around to this issue: ◦ For Fabric OS devices sw0:FID128:admin> sshutil delknownhost IP Address/Hostname to be deleted: ◦ Firmware version 2.1.
• In Real Time performance graphs, percentage utilization fluctuates between 0 to 100 if a single port is selected. The workaround is to select more than one port while generating Real Time performance graphs. • By default, Network Advisor uses SNMPv3 to discover SAN products. If required, users can select the ‘Manual’ option in Discovery dialog and choose SNMPv1 for discovery.
Reset Ports operation in Logical switches dialog NOTE: 1. Reset ports to default operation is applicable only when the ports are moved from one Logical Switch to another Logical Switch through the Right Arrow button i.e., from (Chassis ports Tree/Tree Table) LHS to (Logical Switches Device Tree) RHS device tree.
shared_buffers = 256MB To: shared_buffers = 1024MB Connecting to the database In Linux 64-bit machines, connecting to the database through Open office using ODBC does not work. As a solution, connect from the Windows ODBC Client to the 64-bit Linux machine where Network Advisor is running to view the Database tables. Remote host connection to ODBC After migration to Network advisor 12.0.x, remote host connections to an ODBC database are no longer supported.
Servers Proliant BL465c G7, Proliant BL460c G6 HBA Brocade 804 8Gb FC HBA, Emulex LPe1205-HP 8Gb FC HBA, QLogic QMH2562 8Gb FC HBA Software/firmware Version HP SIM 6.2, 7.1 HP VCEM 6.2, 7.1 Onboard Administrator (OA) 2.41 or later VC E-net module (HP VC 8Gb 20-Port FC Module & HP VC 8Gb 24-Port FC Module) 3.15 SMI Agent • For Network Advisor that has more than 30K instances (2 MB zones), the CIMOM takes more memory to generate CIM instances.
You do not need a WBEM client to use SLP discovery to find a WBEM Server; that is, SLP discovery might already know about the location and capabilities of the WBEM Server to which it wants to send its requests. In such environments, you do not need to start the SLP component of the Management application SMI Agent. However, in a dynamically changing enterprise network environment, many WBEM clients might choose to use SLP discovery to find the location and capabilities of other WBEM Servers.
NOTE: IP_Address:Port is the IP address and port number that display when you use the slptool findsrvs service:wbem command. ◦ slptool findattrs service:wbem:https://IP_Address:Port Use this command to verify that the Management application SMI Agent SLP service is properly advertising its WBEM SLP template over the HTTPS protocol. Example input: slptool findattrs service:wbem:https://10.0.1.
SLP on Windows systems This section describes how to verify the SLP daemon on Windows systems. The following are SLP file locations: • SLP log—Management_Application\cimom \cfg\slp.log • SLP daemon—Management_Application\cimom\cfg\slp.conf (the SLP daemon can be reconfigured by modifying this file). • SLP register—Management_Application\cimom\cfg\slp.reg Statically register an application that does not dynamically register with SLP using SLPAPIs by modifying this file.
FC port type value for imported HBAs Brocade_topologyview.AntecedentFCPortType property value corresponding to the imported HBA is shown as L_Port. Documentation Updates For the most recent Network Advisor documentation, visit the following HP website: http:// h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/dc_fabricmgr/index.html. Under Support, select HP Support & Documents, and then select Manuals. HP Network Advisor 12.0.0 fixes Table 7 (page 21) lists the closed defects for this release.
Table 7 HP Network Advisor 12.0.0 closed defects (continued) Closed fixes summary Solution Cannot set port priority in excess of 240 for ServerIron ports when selected Workaround prior to upgrade: along with other non-ServerIron IOS products. Select ServerIron products only (and not other non-ServerIron IOS products) to set the port priority above 240. Fixed in Network Advisor 12.0.0. User documentation incorrectly states 'Large' configurations are not supported on a 32-bit OS.
Table 9 HP Network Advisor 12.0.2 closed defects Closed fixes summary Solution RMON alerts for interface CRC errors are incorrectly interpreted by Network Fixed in Network Advisor 12.0.2. Advisor as CPU utilization. The Network Advisor Historical Graph option dialog does not allow selection Fixed in Network Advisor 12.0.2. of start date for the previous year historical data. The value set by the user reverts back to the current year.
Table 12 HP Network Advisor 12.1.3 closed defects Closed defects summary Solution Cloning of MAPS policy does not copy all the current rules Fixed in Network Advisor 12.1.3. to the New Policy. Distribution of the MAPS 'All Fabrics' policy does not complete and the dialog becomes unresponsive. Fixed in Network Advisor 12.1.3. HP Network Advisor 12.1.4 fixes Table 13 (page 24) lists defects closed in the HP Network Advisor 12.1.4 release. Table 13 HP Network Advisor 12.1.
Table 14 HP Network Advisor 12.1.5 closed defects (continued) Closed defects summary Solution Transactions fail with the error: CIM native error: No Transaction if zoning operations are done on the Fabric simultaneously by more than one SMI Agent. Fixed in Network Advisor 12.1.5. When a filter is applied with virtual Switch IP address, chassis level events are not forwarded for the corresponding virtual switches. The SNMP Filter blocks Chassis level information. Fixed in Network Advisor 12.1.5.
