958-000288-010, August 2005)

HAFM appliance may shut down following a ﬁrmware download

TheHAFMappliancemayshutdownfollowingaﬁ rmware download. If this occurs,

you have to restart

the HAFM appliance to recover. This is an issue with Java Virtual

Machine 1.3.1_07, which is used in the application. This is only an issue when running

ﬁrmware 06.00.01 or earlier.

Ethernet port on HAFM appliance may encounter problems

When you use TightVNC to access the HAFM appliance and you are running HAFM

locally on the HAFM appliance, the Ethernet port on the HAFM appliance can appear

to hang. When the Ethernet port encounters problems, the following may occur:

• There is an apparent loss of communication to switches being mana ged by

HAFM.

• The appliance CPU usage and memory usage d isplay abnormally high readings.

Workaround

If this condition persists, it may be necessary to reboot the HAFM appliance. This is not

disruptive to

managed switches, but monitoring and logging functions are interrupted

while the appliance is rebooting.

Exporting an XML topology is not successful for all views

Exporting an XML topology only exports fabric information. For example, expor ting an

XML topology of a user-deﬁned view displaying a connected set or isolated devices

resultsinanemptyXMLdocument.

HP StorageWorks HA-Fabric Mana g er release notes