HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.3.0c Release Notes (AA-RWEYG-TE, November 2007)

Faulty SFPs
External port with a faulty SFP will be disabled, then enabled once good SFP is
inserted. However, port will still show as fault y even thou gh it is healthy. To get
the correct "h ealthy" indication, after enabling the port with the good SFP, remove
and re-insert it and the port will then show as healthy.
FC Fast Writ
e
Note the followin g important information when using FC Fast Write:
• Only World Wide Name (WWN) zone (including normal zone and FC Fast
Write zone) is supported on FC Fast Write enabled port.
• Only single device loop port is supported.
• NPIV (example Access Gateway) port is not supported.
• FCR backbone devices are not supported. That is FC Fast Write should not
be enabled on backbone devices.
• FCR edge to edge support is limited by all the target devices on given edge
fabric tha
t host talks to should be connected to a 400 MP Router or B-Series
MP Router B
lade in FC Fast Write mode. FC Fast Write should not be enabled
on ports w
hen testing the remote mirror application.
• When a ver
yhighvolumeoftraffic is being sent by host, FC Fast Write IOs
may time out and frame may be dropped.
• Within the context of FC Fast Write, L_Port is not supported in Fabric OS 5.3.0.
Web Tools
When th e regional language is set to anything other than English, B razilian
Portuguese,French,German,Italian,Japanese,Korean,TraditionalChinese,
Simplified Chinese or Spanish, Web Tools may not finish loading when
connecting to a switch running FOS 5.3.0, 5.3.0a or 5.3.0b. The Switch Explorer
progress bar hangs while initializing switch details. This problem is overcome by
changing the regional settings for the operating system to English and re-loading
Web Tools.
Ad ditional Fabric OS 5.3.0 enhancements
Additional Fabric OS 5.3.0 enhancements include:
• Provides new Fabric OS commands to rename an alias, a zone and a zone configuration. Zone
–copy copiesthezoneobjecttoanewzoneobject. Zoneobjectrename renames the zone
object.
• Detects and handles a corrupted zone confi guration [under /etc/fabos/zone*]gracefully
instead of rebooting. The switch also logs the error in R ASLog.
• Adds a new command that provides both the W WN and serial number of the switch. Added
an –sn option to display the serial number. For example, wwn –sn will return both the world
wide name and serial number data
• Provides additional information on a faulty por t in Fabric Watch to aid in troubleshooting.
• Enables use of passive FTP to download firmware.
• Enables the customer to specif y a quality password policy that prevents the selection of passwords
with consecutive, identical characters.
• Uses multiple NT P servers with the tsclockserver command for redundancy. For example, if
one site NTP server fails (DR scenario) there is a backup that can be reached by the switches.
• Logs a RASLog message when a 2 .x switch joins the fabric.
• HA failover and user notification occurs on the 4/256 SAN Director when there is a failed
Ethernet chip (Oscillator chip).
Ad ditional Web Tools 5.3.0 enhancements
A
dditional Web Tools 5.3.0 enhancements include:
• Provides individual error counters for FC ports from Port admin.
• Provides SFP TX/RX power information in DB level from Port admin from Web Tools.
• Provides the Clear Counter feature to reset all counters.
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