HP Clustered FileSystem3.6.1 for Windows release notes (T4422-96003, September 2008)

• Support for HP MSA 2xxx arrays.

• Installation of the Micr osoft SNMP service is no longer required to enable HP

Clustered File System SNMP traps. It is still required to enable the HP Clustered

File System extension agent.

New features in FS Option for Windows

This release includes the following new FS Option for Windows features:

• Role-based securit y. Using the role-based security feature provided with Matrix

Server, you can

create aroletomanageVirtual CIFS Servers, VirtualFileShares,

and Cluster File Shares.

• Support for ofﬂine caching, which allows users to cache ﬁles and programs from

Virtual File S

hares or Cluster File Shares to their local machines.

Fixes in 3.6.1

The3.6.1 releaseincludes ﬁxes for the following issues:

• Defect 14031. A server rebooted continuously after recovering a device.

• D e f e c t 15618 . C e r t a i n ﬁle extending writes could result in an Access Violation.

• Defect 17591. In the 3.6.0 release, the mx server markdown command

failed if the user running the command did not belong to the machine local

administrators group. The com mand now completes successfully for users

authorized for updates at the cluster level.

• Defect 18750. An attempt to s uspend a ﬁlesystem while a heavy workload was

running on it could hang indeﬁnitely.

• Defect 19248. When View Alerts was selected for a Virtual SQL Instance, the

resulting dialog was empty.

• Defect 19406. The PSFS ﬁlesystem did not report a ﬁlesystem eviction when

SanPulse failed to join the cluster and instead incorrectly reported that the

ﬁlesystem was mounted.

• Defect 19414. A small race condition in grpcommd could potentially cause

server to be fenced.

• Defect 19417. After changing the maximum number of events to display on the

Event Viewer, it was necessary to click Refresh to update the Viewer.

• Defect 19423. The mx server add command did not report an error when the

command was invoked without specifying a server.

• Defect 19431. When the FibreChannel button was already enabled on the San

Fencing tab of the Conﬁgure Cluster window, clicking the button incorrectly

opened the Web Management Conﬁguration dialog.

• Defect 19578. A Java exception occurred when the connection to the HP

Management Console was closed while a Filesystem Properties dialog was

still

open.