958-000284-007, March 2005)

Hard zoning is compatible with legacy zone definitions, including World Wide Name

(WWN) and port zoning. You can use your existing zones and zone sets without any

changes. There are no changes to the zoning interfaces, so you do not need to modify

your zone management practice, modify your documentation, or retrain Storage Area

Network (SAN) administrators.

Hard zoning controls access at the ingress port. When a port at tempts to send a frame

to a destination outside its zones, the frame is blocked. A Class 2 frame is fabric

rejected, and a Class 3 frame is dropped.

Zoning change RSCN control

Normally, when

a zone set is activated, a fabric format domain Register State Change

Notification

(RSCN) is sent to all devices in the fabric. With firmware 05.00.00 or later,

you can disable these RSCNs from being sent. This is done using the Suppress RSCNs

on zone set activations check box on the Configure Switch Parameters dialog box.

This feature

significantly changes the normal behavior of the fabric. Devices will

have no warning when zones change and will not automatically update their zoning

information. The ability to suppress RSCNs is disabled (check box is not selected) by

default. This feature can be configured through HAFM, EWS, and CLI.

SNMP changes

Firmware 07.00.00-84 supports the following management information base (MIB)

versions on all products:

• Fabric Element M I B: 1.1

• MIB-II MIB: RFC-1213, non-implemented sections are not included

• FCEOS MIB: 2.0

• SNMP Framework MIB: RFC-2271 (199 7/09/30)

• FA MIB: 3.0

• FA MIB: 3.1

SNMP requests can be received in either 3.0 or 3.1 of the Fibre Alliance (FA) MIB, and

theswitchrespondsinthesameversion. Theswitchcanalsobeconfiguredtousea

specific version for traps generated by the switch.