HP StorageWorks Multi-protocol Router XPath OS 7.4.1e Release Notes (AV-RW5LN-TE, August 2007)
Issue
Description
Where 10 represents the edge fabric ID, 20 is Remote fabric ID and 30 is the
preferred xlat
edomainID.Usethehelp command for more details on the
fcrxlateconf
ig command.
Password length is limited
to 8 characters.
For XPath OS 7.4.x, the maximum password length is 8 characters.
FTP servers
XPath OS supports downloading firmware from any FTP server that is RFC FTP compliant.
Limited testing has been completed against the following FTP servers:
• HP-UX
• RedHat Linux 8.0 built-in FTP service (vsftpd)
• Microsoft Windows™ Server 2000
FTP service (as part of Microsoft internet ser-
vices)
• NetBSD built-in FTP service
• Sun Solaris 8 built-in FTP service
GNU telne
tclient
GNU telnet client sessions on cer tain workstations (for example, Sun Solaris) will be
disconnected from XPath OS upon pressing Ctrl-C twiceinsuccession. Thisisincontrast
to B-Series Fabric OS, on which the same telnet client and the same key sequence does
not cause a session disconnect.
GNU telnet clients used with the UNIX® tee utility might be disconnected unexpectedly as
well.
Workaround:
Use /usr/bin/telnet instead of /usr/gnu/bin/telnet.
Root reboot command
vs. admin user reboot
command
Users should never reboot the system from the root account using the reboot command,
or data might be lost. To safely reboot the system, log in as root and change to admin
by entering admin at the root prompt. When you are at the adm in shell, execute the
reboot command.
FA zoning
A priv ate host attached to a Fabric OS switch might not be able to discover FA targets on a
MP Router due to the length of the host’s HBA PLOG I retry time out. You can reduce the
timeout value to resolve this issue.
FA and QuickLoop zone
management
While zone merges with Fabric OS zones containing Fabric Assist mode and QuickLoop
zone
s are supported when the MP Router is used for the FCIP services, users of the MP
Rout
er are not expected to manage such zones from the Router. It is not possible to manage
such zones from Advanced Web Tools.
FA and Q L zones can be managed in the CLI of the MP Router, or in the CLI, Advanced
Web
Tools, or supported management applications of Fabric OS-based sw itches .
Fibre Channel Layer
2 fabric parameter
management
It is not possible to manage the following fabric parameters from Advanced Web Tools:
• RA_TOV
• ED_TOV
• RSCN_Mode
These parameters can be managed from the CLI.
NVRAM-related cleanup
XPath 7.3.0b or later explicitly checks for NVR AM corruption that might have occurred
during use of earlier XPath releases. It also provides a utility for cleaning the corruption.
If you do not run the utility, failures might occur due to XPath OS detection of corrupt
NVRAM. The utility runs during installation when firmwareDownload is used as the
installation mechanism. If firmwareDownload is used to upgrade the recovery kernel
and install XPath OS, there should be no impact—NVRAM will be silently cleaned. If other
installation mechanisms are used, or if the new recovery kernel is not installed, then the
NVRAM might remain corrupt, leading to failures, unless you explicitly clean the NVRAM
using the following mechanism. Because XPath 7.3.0b or later is more insistent on go od
NVR AM content, these failures will occur more often in these versions than in previous
versions of XP ath OS.
NVRAM cleanup has been integrated into the latest version of the recovery kernel. If you
use firmwareDownload from the latest xpath_rk package, the recovery kernel will
be updated, any NVRAM corruption will be resolved, and the latest XPath OS will be
installed in a sin gle step.
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