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

requiring a domain and the associated fabric rebuild traffic that is prevalent when switches are powered
on, or added, or removed from a fabric.
Refer to the Brocade Access G ateway Administrator’s Guide available on h
ttp://www.hp.com/go/sa n
for more information.
Access Gateway support in non-Brocade fabrics
In addition to being supported in Brocade fabrics, Access Gateway is suppor ted for connectivity to the
following:
• McDATA fabrics running EOS 09.00.xx with Brocade FOS 5.2.1b
• McDATA fabri
cs running EOS 09.02 .xx or 09 . 03.xx with Brocade FOS 5.3.0, 5.3.0a, 5.3.0b or 5.3.0c
• Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS 3.0(2a) with Brocad e FOS 5.2.1b
• Cisco fabrics running SAN- OS versions 3.1(2a), 3.1(3), 3.1(3a) with Brocade FOS 5.3.0, 5.3.0 a,
5.3.0b or 5.
3.0c
Dynam ic Ports on Demand (DPOD)
IMPORTANT:
DPOD is an optional features supported in the following H P product only:
• Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem (Brocade 4024)
Please check h
ttp://www.hp.com for the latest updates.
DPOD takes the expansion capability of fixed Ports on Demand (PODs) and ad ds the flexibility of
connecting to any available port as long as a valid license is available. Previously, POD allowed only
specific ports to be utilized. With D POD, any physically available port can be made active as long as a
valid license is available. This allows customers the flexibility of automatically changing port assignments
where previously the port assignments were fixed and inflexible.
Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS)
The R ASLog is modified to support IPv6. RAS will also obsolete traceftp and savecore CLI and
add its functionality to supportsave and supportftp.
Management
Fabric OS 5.3.0 added a new user role, the secAdmin or Security Administrator. This role maintains
security administration including logging and auditing. The addition of the secAdmin role allows users
to isolate security management from c omplete Administrator managem ent.
Security
Secure Fabric OS is no longer sold as an option, but integrated into Fabric OS 5.3.0 and later.
IMPORTANT:
Fabric OS 5.3.0 is the last major release that is compatible with SFOS.
Fabric OS 5.3.0 integrated the following new features:
• FICON Cascading no longer requires SFOS
• MAC policies have now been replaced by IP filters, allowing configuration of acceptable IP
addresses and ranges that may gain management access to the switch.
• Protected-Extensible Authentication Protocol (P-EAP with MSCHAP-v2) s uppor t for RAdmin
DomainIUS.
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