FW 6.4.0.06.00 McDATA 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem Release Notes (AA-RW1ZD-TE, November 2006)

Change in authen

tication secret checking

McDATA N_Port a

nd E_Port authentication now checks for duplicate secrets when the switch authenticates

on any of its ports. If the customer conﬁgured the same CHAP secrets for HP M-Series or McDATA

switches and directors in a release prior to 09.00.00, after upgrading to 09.00.00 or later, any port

that tries to log into the switch will go to an Invalid Attachment state and will be prevented from logging

into the switch. Be sure that you do not have duplicate CHAP secrets conﬁgured before upgrading the

ﬁrmware of the HP M-Series or McDATA switches to version 09.00.00 or later.

Known issues

This section describes the known issues related to the McDATA 4Gb SAN Switch.

Zoning alias

error message

Firmware ve

rsions 5.2.1.04.00 or later no longer support aliases. When upgrading from ﬁrmware

versions ea

rlier than 5.2.1.04.00 to version 6.4.0.06.00, with aliases deﬁned in the zoning database,

the followi

ng message may be seen when displaying zoning information:

Error retrieving Zone Alias member entries. Alias does not exist!

Workaround

Make any change to zoning on a remote switch and activate the changed zone set. This causes the

switch with an error to save the new zoning, which then clears the issue.

McDATA Web Server reports unknown status for all ports in the target/initiator

column

McDATA Web Server reports unknown status for all ports in the target/initiator column of the Devices

data window when the McDATA 4Gb SAN Switch is directly connected to a MSA1000 or MSA1500.

Workaround

This does not effect actual Fibre Channel connectivity, but is simply reported with unknown status by the

McDATA Web Server.

Sluggish command scroll in CLI

In a large fabric, commands that scroll their output in CLI are sluggish.

Workaround

Close all GUI sessions.

CLI does not display the switch binding state

It is not possible to see that switch binding is enabled in the CLI if there is no switch binding membership

list.

Workaround

Use Element Manager to see state of switch binding.