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

New features in 3.6.0
HP Clustered File Sy
stem 3.6.0 includes the following new features.
Security features
:
• Single sign-on. HP Clustered File System now uses AD single sign-on semantics
to
authorize users attempting to acc ess the cluster.
• Role-Based Secur
ity Control. You can create roles, define the operations that
are allowed or denied for each role, and add specific user or group a ccounts
to the
roles.
• Auditing of all l
ogin attempts and user-initiated actions that change the cluster
configuration.
Availability f
eatures:
• Dynamic volume recovery.
• Online membership partition repair and replacement. Membership partitions can
now be added, r
epaired, or replaced while H P Clustered File System is running.
Cluster manag
ement features:
• New event viewer. The event viewer shows the HP Clustere d File System event
messages currently in the Windows event log. You can filter the output to limit
the
messages that appear, and you can display details about specifi c messages.
• New event no
tifier services. The event notifier services can b e configured to send
an
SNMP tra
p, to send email, or to run a script when specific HP Clustered
File System events occur.
• New HP Clustered File System SNMP service. This service provides an SNMP
extensio
n
agent and MIBs for retrieval of all cluster-wide state and status
informat
ion.
HP Manage ment Console features:
• New Installed Software viewer that lists all of the H P software currently installed
on the
sy
stem.
• Progress task bar that displays progress indications when you initiate a task on
the
console.
Implementation changes in 3.6.0
The following implementation changes have been made in this release:
• Certain cluster configuration information is now stored in the new mxds datastore
on the
membership partitions. The datastore is automatically backed up on a
daily basis. However, you may want to back up the datastore manually after
making configuration changes to ensure that you always have an up-to-date
backup
• The minimum size for membership pa r titions has been incre ased to 1 GB.
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