HP B-series Fabric OS 7.1.0_blv Release Notes (5697-2827, September 2013)

RASlog message. Users can configure email or RASlog actions for each FRU state using the fwFruCfg
command.
Additional Fabric Watch enhancements:
• Pause and continue monitoring functionality is provided to monitor specific components at an
element-level granularity. This feature allows users to stop or start monitoring a set of thresholds
related to certain class, area, and index values.
• Thresholds for Packet loss area of VE port class can be configured to a real number up to two
decimal places (0.00 to 100.00).
• All parameters under port monitoring and SFP monitoring are not monitored on ports without
SFPs. Only voltage, temperature, and power-on-hours parameters of SFPs are monitored for
offline ports (in which SFPs are physically present, but ports are offline).
• Fabric Watch supports monitoring End-to-End and Frame monitor classes on Access Gateway
platforms.
• The fwconfigure and fwshow commands are not supported in this release.
• Second time base and changed events are not supported in this release. If these commands
are configured, the Fabric OS 7.1.0_blv installation is blocked.
Advanced Performance Monitoring (APM) Enhancements
• E_Port TopTalkers support and E_Port End-to-End monitors support on 16G platforms: The Port
level TopTalkers are supported on E_Ports of 16 Gbps platforms. The functionality provided
by the Port level TopTalkers on E_Ports is the same as the functionality provided by the Port
level TopTalkers on F_Ports.
Security enhancements
• User-defined roles/RBAC: This is a feature that provides the ability to create user roles
dynamically to manage the switch. This is in contrast to pre-defined user roles supported in
versions of Fabric OS earlier than 7.0x releases. The maximum number of user-defined roles
that are allowed on a chassis is 256.
• Switch banner support: The new command motd is used to configure whether a chassis banner
should be displayed before user login.
• Removing support for Brocade certificates for FCAP authentication: The
installation/FCAP-authentication using Brocade-issued certificates is not supported in this
release. However, third-party certificates can still be used for FCAP authentication.
• SSH authentication using public keys: This release supports SSH public key-based authentication
for multiple users.
• SFTP support for firmwaredownload, configupload and configdownload: Users can
now choose the SFTP protocol for performing firmwaredownload, and
configupload/configdownload operations.
• LDAP authentication: This release includes LDAP authentication.
Fabric Services Enhancements and Updates
• Allow a switch with default zone "no access" to merge with a fabric: Allows a switch with
default zone "no access" and with no zoning configuration to merge with a fabric that has
an active zone configuration.
• Duplicate WWN detection and resolution: Detects duplicate device WWNs in a fabric. It also
enables users to configure a policy to take actions once duplicate WWNs are detected.
• RASlog upon detecting Invalid TI zones: In a failover disabled configuration of a TI zone, if
the switch (domain) becomes unreachable, users are informed about this domain unreachable
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