HP StorageWorks Multi-protocol Router XPath OS 7.4.1c Release Notes (AV-RW5LL-TE, December 2006)

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Issue

Description

Fabric OS Web Tools vs.

XPath OS Web Tools

The Fabric OS implementation of Web Too ls is different from the XPath OS implementation

of Web Tools. The Fabric OS Web Tools application runs entirely on the Fabric OS

switch while presenting an HTML interface to the client browser. XPath OS Web Tools is

implemented with Java™ objects running as plug-in s on the client browser. When a user

is observing switch events on an XPa th OS switch in a different time zone, the events

will show up in the local client’s time zone, Fabric OS keeps the event time base in

the switch’s time zone. This is a design implementation change that will be updated in

upcoming releases of XPath OS.

Zoning throu

gh Advanced

Web Tools

Perform zoning only from the Fibre Channel switch running the latest version of ﬁrmware

if fabric co

ntains only Fibre Channel switches or Fibre Channel switches and MP Routers

(router bac

kbone fabric). Zoni n g can be done from the MP Router in a backbone fabric

that only contains an MP Router. If zoning is done from the MP Router in a mixed fabric,

where chassis-based systems (Directors) are present, user will not see the correct slots and

ports for selection.

Secur ity

Updates to Xpath OS 7.3.0 included openSSH version 3.8.1 to minimize security

vulnerabilities of fabrics. The MP Router implementation of SSH has been modiﬁed to

restrict use of SSH v1. SSH v1 may no longer be used to connect to the MP Router, but SSH

v2 can be used instead.

Table 10 Limitations

Issue

Description

API supp

ort

Users of t

his release are strongly encouraged to:

• Manage t

he MP Router’s functions using the M P Router’s CLI a nd Advanced

Web Tool

• Create

LSANs in edge fabrics using any tools that can manage zoning.

XPath O

S 7.1.2c o r later generally supports Fabric Access API-based

applic

ations such as Fabric Manager and OVSA M. However, note the

following:

• Testing of API-based applications has not been completed. Check with the

manag

ement application vendor for AP support status.

• Exis

ting versions of Fabric Manager and other API-based applications that

manage zoning in edge fabrics can be used to conﬁgure LSAN zones that

create logical storage area networks by using the MP Router.

• API-based applications must be compiled with new API libraries to control

directly– supported MP Router functions. Those libraries will be available

at a later date.

• A FAL-based application connected to a Fabric OS v2.6 switch will not

properly interpret the presence of virtual switches and domains created

in routed fabrics.

Fibre Channel Class XPath OS suppor ts only Fibre Channel Class 3. Testing has shown that Class 2

devices attached to and supported by Fabric OS-based platforms communicate

properly through FC-FC routing services on XPath OS 7.30b and are supported.

N[L]_Port devices that are connected directly to the MP Router and cannot

automatically or manually a ccept the F_Port’s request for Fibre Channel Class 3

are affected. The IBM A IX operating system conﬁgured with the IBM 6228 HBA

is known not to be able to accept Class 3 an d therefore cannot register with the

XPath OS Fibre Channel Name Server.

Fibre Channel

Management Server

in-band support

XPath OS 7.4.0 does not support Management Server requests from hosts

connected to the switch. Login requests to the Management Server will be

rejected.