Fabric OS Documentation Updates Supporting Fabric OS v6.4.x

10 Fabric OS Documentation Updates

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Documentation updates for Fabric OS v6.4.0 and later

• .pem (text)

RPC supports .pem file types. For RPC, the .cer and .crt file types are automatically converted

to .pem.

In the section “Installing a switch certificate” on page 125, the example is missing the command.

Add the following command line to the beginning of the example:

switch:admin> seccertutil import -config swcert -enable https

Chapter 7, Configuring Security Policies

In the section “Import CA for FCAP” on page 152, the command is incorrect in step 2. Change step

2 to the following:

2. Enter the secCertUtil import

–fcapcacert command.

In the section “Importing the FCAP switch certificate” on page 152, the command is incorrect in

step 2. Change step 2 to the following:

2. Enter the secCertUtil import

–fcapswcert command.

Chapter 9, Installing and Maintaining Firmware

In the section “Upgrading firmware on enterprise-class platforms (including blades)” on page 198,

change the third paragraph in step 9 to the following:

Autoleveling takes place in parallel with the firmware download being performed on the CPs,

but does not impact performance. Fibre Channel traffic is not disrupted during autoleveling,

but GbE traffic on AP blades may be affected. If there is an active FCIP tunnel on the FX8-24

blade, the FCIP tunnel traffic will be impacted for at least two minutes.

Chapter 11, Administering Advanced Zoning

Replace the section “Zoning enforcement” on page 242 with the following:

Zoning enforcement

Zoning enforcement describes a set of predefined rules that the switch uses to determine where to

send incoming data. Fabric OS uses hardware-enforced zoning. Hardware-enforced zoning means

that each frame is checked by hardware (the ASIC) before it is delivered to a zone member and is

discarded if there is a zone mismatch. When hardware-enforced zoning is active, the Fabric OS

switch monitors the communications and blocks any frames that do not comply with the effective

zone configuration. The switch performs this blocking at the transmit side of the port on which the

destination device is located.

There are two methods of hardware enforcement:

• Frame-based hardware enforcement

• Session-based hardware enforcement

The method used depends on how the zones are configured.