HP B-series Network Advisor Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Professional 11.1.
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Version 11.1.2 Description HP Network Advisor 11.1.2 is a new 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).
• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Pack populates Microsoft SCOM with fabric details, switch details, statistics and call home events. • Selective server support save provides the ability to include or exclude performance and historical events from the database while capturing server support save from SMC. • SAN size check: A popup message is displayed when the discovered port/switch/AG count exceeds the SAN size selected (small/medium/large).
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.
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.
Table 2 Supported switches and firmware (continued) (continued) Supported switches and firmware Switch/Director Fabric OS 5.2.x, 5.3.x, 6.0.x, 6.1.x, 6.2.x, 6.3.x, 6.4.0, 7.0.0x Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem1 (4024) Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class2 (5480) Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem (4012) HP StorageWorks EVA4400 embedded switch module, 8Gb Brocade2 (5410) M-EOSc 9.6.x, 9.7.x, 9.8.x, 9.9.x Sphereon 4400 (Brocade 4400) M-EOSc 9.6.x, 9.7.x, 9.
Table 4 Supported Network Advisor features Feature Network Advisor Professional Network Advisor Professional Plus Network Advisor Enterprise Number of fabrics 1 4 24 Type of fabric supported Fabric OS M-EOS, Fabric OS, Mixed M-EOS, Fabric OS, Mixed Number of ports 1,000 2,560 9,000 (Fabric OS); 5,000 (M-EOS/Mixed) 4-Gb and 8-Gb Switches Yes Yes Yes DC SAN Director 10/24 FCoE Yes Blade/2408 FCoE Converged Network Switch Yes Yes 1606 Extension SAN Switch Yes Yes Yes 4/256 SAN Directo
NOTE: All versions of DCFM (Data Center Fabric Manager) have entered EOL (End Of Life) status. Any customers who want to upgrade from DCFM Professional Plus to HP B-series Network Advisor Enterprise will need to upgrade their DCFM to Network Advisor (available at no charge at hp.com), and then apply the Network Advisor Professional Plus Upgrade license, TC354A.
Important notes Consider the following information before using Network Advisor 11.1.2. • A correction has been made for the issue described in the next bullet, which is related to manageability of servers running DCFM 10.4.0, 10.4.1, 10.4.2, 10.4.3, 10.4.4 out of application memory when managing HP StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director for several weeks and resulting in recurring server restarts. • DCFM 10.4.x cannot manage products running Fabric OS 7.0.0a or later.
Firmware download through SCP Server If you use the Windows-based SCP Server, firmware download fails for the switches. HP recommends that you use the Linux-based SCP Server. DCFM to Network Advisor remote migration is not supported Remote migration is not supported by Network Advisor. HP recommends that you first migrate from DCFM 10.3.x / 10.4.x to another DCFM 10.3.x / 10.4.x server, and then migrate to Network Advisor.
FTP Transfer Failure FTP transfers fail when transferring from the Network Advisor Support Repository dialog to a Cerberus FTP Server and an AIX built-in FTP Server. Startup time Network Advisor server startup and restart can take up to 10 or so minutes to complete. Linux OS: SMC–Restarting services after enabling SSL from Options Dialog in RedHat Linux 5 When the setting of SSL fails from the Options dialog box, follow the steps to enable SSL: 1. Close the client. 2. Stop the services from SMC. 3.
Table 5 Performance Counter calculation formulas (continued) Counter Name Type TX% / RX% Protocol used Source value Formula FC, GE, N/A FCIP, HBA, CNA N/A TX% or RX% = ((TX or RX) / ((105000000 * port speed)*( Polling interval2/ 1000.00))) * 100 If Utilization is less than 1 then the value is it to 0.0 TX% / RX% TE N/A N/A value = (TX or RX) / 10; TX% or RX% = ((value) / ((105000000 * port speed)*( 1000/ 1000.00))) * 100 if Utilization is less than 1 then the value is it to 0.
Installation on Network Mounted Drives is not supported. Installation onto a windows network mounted drive is not supported but installation, if attempted, is allowed and DB fails to start. Client disconnects Under heavy server load or degraded network links, there is a potential for the Network Advisor client to disconnect from the server. The workaround is to restart the client.
Management SMI Agent SLP application support includes the following components: • The slpd script, which starts the slpd platform • The slpd program acts as a Service Agent (SA). A different slpd binary executable file exists for UNIX and Windows systems. • The slptool script, which starts the slptool platform-specific program • The slptool program can be used to verify whether SLP is operating properly. A different slptool exists for UNIX and Windows.
SLP on UNIX systems This section describes how to verify the SLP daemon on UNIX systems. The following are SLP file locations on UNIX systems: • SLP log—Management_Application/cimom /cfg/slp.log • SLP daemon—Management_Application/cimom /cfg/slp.conf The SLP daemon can be reconfigured by modifying SLP register—Management_Application/cimom /cfg/slp.reg. You can statically register an application that does not dynamically register with SLP using SLPAPIs by modifying this file.
6. 7. Enter > slptool findsrvs service:wbem and press Enter to verify the SLP service is advertising its WBEM services. Select one of the following options to verify the SLP service is advertising the WBEM SLP template over its configured client protocol adapters. • Enter > slptool findattrs service:wbem:http://IP_Address:Port and press Enter. • Enter > slptool findattrs service:wbem:https://IP_Address:Port and press Enter.
Table 7 HP Network Advisor 11.1.0 closed defects Closed fixes summary Solution Brocade Access Gateway (AG) switches running Fabric OS 5.3 were not Fixed in HP Network Advisor 11.1.0. shown in DCFM and an inappropriate message was shown when trying to rediscover the fabric. Master log reports port number and port index as one greater than actual value. Fixed in HP Network Advisor 11.1.0.
Table 7 HP Network Advisor 11.1.0 closed defects (continued) Closed fixes summary Solution Syslog registration fails for HP StorageWorks 4/32B SAN Switches with a McDATA OUI 08:00:88 Workaround prior to upgrade: Add syslog registration via the CLI. Fixed in HP Network Advisor 11.1.0. Encryption HAC Failover status not displayed. Fixed in HP Network Advisor 11.1.0. Decommissioning a LUN in an Encryption Group (EG) that is configured with TKLM returns an error message that is invisible to the user.
Table 8 HP Network Advisor 11.1.1 closed defects Closed fixes summary Solution ASM is not set when activating the Active Configuration with Active=Save option enabled in the Active Matrix confirmation dialog. Workaround prior to upgrade: Close the dialog and reopen it to enable the ASM bit. Fixed in HP Network Advisor 11.1.1. In a FICON environment, the configure cascaded operation fails while setting HIF and does not display a reason for the failure. Fixed in HP Network Advisor 11.1.
Table 8 HP Network Advisor 11.1.1 closed defects (continued) Closed fixes summary Solution Incorrect details are displayed for the link failure event in the Master Log event description. Fixed in HP Network Advisor 11.1.1 The Unbind port addresses operation fails when ports are moved between Fixed in HP Network Advisor 11.1.1 logical switches. If the LKM certificate has a value other than ‘Decru’ the encryption switch will not accept the certificate.
