HP StorageWorks B-series Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Professional 10.3.4 Release Notes (5697-0436, April 2010 - includes all 10.3.x versions)
Table Of Contents
- B-series Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Professional
- Version
- Description
- New hardware platforms
- New software features
- Enhancements
- Supported switches and firmware
- Supported operating systems
- Supported feature summary for DCFM
- Important notes
- Installation instructions
- Documentation updates
- DCFM 10.3.0 fixes
- DCFM 10.3.1 fixes
- DCFM 10.3.2 fixes
- DCFM 10.3.3 fixes
- DCFM 10.3.4 fixes
- Effective date
• Moves the port address and port index of ports on blades to new card
• After the swap is complete, enables all ports on the blades
• PDCM enhancements
• Now warns users when E-E and E-F port connections are prohibited
• Can provision the same PDCM updates to multiple switches
• Usability enhancement supports direct entry of row and column for allow/prohibit configuration.
• PDCM dialog–Changed from Modal to Non-Modal dialog
Reliability, availability, and serviceability enhancements
• DCFM SupportSave enhancements:
• Configure a user-determined interval at which SupportSaves are automatically captured from
specified switches
• Includes Brocade HBA SupportSave
• Increased the number of simultaneous switch SupportSave captures from 10 to 50
• Policy Engine improvement:
• Added an action to capture switch SupportSave in the Event Policy dialog
• Added a facility to register switches in upload failure data capture destination
• Added a facility to register DCFM as a trace dump destination
• Added Port Fencing policies for Class 3 frame drops
• Fault Management improvements:
• Receive syslog events from HBAs
• Increased the default value of the maximum number of events stored in the database from
10,000 to 20,000, with a maximum supported value of 50,000
• Added support to optionally back up the FTP folder, Technical Support folder, and Trace dump
folder
• System Monitor process improvement:
• Generates a Master Log event when memory usage is ≥80% and disk space usage is ≥90%
• Audit Log improvement:
• All important user actions generate application events
• Debug logging improvements:
• Log messages at the appropriate level to prevent the rollover of logs
• Increase default size of log files from 5 MB to 10 MB
• Isolate failures to small-grained tasks (for example, failure to collect one piece of data due to
errors will not prevent collection of remaining data)
• Include data source name to avoid ambiguity (multiple data collection sources)
Zoning enhancements
• Active Traffic Isolation (TI) zone enhancements:
• Active TI zone information is collected by DCFM and persisted in the database.
• Displays differences between the active TI zone and the defined TI zone in the zone database.
• Active TI zone members appear in the Active Zone Configuration tab.
• Added an Active Status display to the TI Zones Properties dialog.
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