HP B-series Network Advisor Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Professional 12.1.5 Release Notes

• 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: <IP Address of SSH server to be
deleted>
◦ Firmware version 2.1.1b IP Address/Hostname to be deleted:
sw0#execute-script sshdeleteknownhost
IP Address/Hostname to be deleted: <IP Address of SSH server to be
deleted>
If the above CLI commands do not work, go to Server > Options > Software Configuration
> FTP/SFTP/SCP, and uncheck the SCP/SFTP option.
• The Encryption Smart Card Driver is supported only for 32-bit Linux. It is not supported on
64-bit Linux.
• Firmware Download operation on Fabric OS switches fails via SCP/SFTP when trying to
upgrade from Fabric OS 6.3.2b to 6.4.2b4. The workaround is to use the FTP option in
Network Advisor to perform the firmware download operation.
• Firmware Download operation on Fabric OS switches fails when trying to upgrade from Fabric
OS 6.4.2a to 7.0.2c. The workaround is to use CLI for this operation.
• Trying to move 200+ ports to a Logical Switch with the ‘Reset to Default’ option selected,
results in an operation time-out.
• During installation, if Network Advisor database initialization fails on the Windows Operating
System, users need to verify access to the drive on which the installation is performed. If user
Administrator has access only to the drive, the required permissions should also be provided
to the Authenticated Users and then continue with the installation.
• On devices running Fabric OS 7.1 or earlier, which do not support firmware download via
FTP, users get a false notification that the firmware download is successful when trying to
download firmware using FTP. For such devices, SCP must be used to download firmware
using Network Advisor.
• When the active and defined zone sets have identical zones, which differ only by the case
of their names, users will be alerted that the active zone set is different from the defined
configuration in the zone database. The workaround is to edit the identical zone names (for
such zones) in the defined set, so that after modification, both zone names are identical in
active and defined zone sets.
• After upgrading to Network Advisor 12.x from 11.x, SSL-based product communication fails
if the devices have ‘weak’ authentication certificates. Users can see a ‘4002’ error on
attempting to discover such devices. Devices discovered prior to migration will not be
manageable in Network Advisor after migration. Java 1.7 used by Network Advisor 12.x
disables the use of certificates with ‘weak’ authentication. The certificates on such devices
need to be updated to be compliant with JRE 1.7. See the ‘Secure Sockets Layer protocol’
section of the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide for details on updating certificates.
• Receive Throughput measure is not updated in the Flow Vision dialog.
• D-port test fails for F-ports with the result as null in the report.
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