HP StorageWorks 16-EL HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/16 Fabric OS V3.1.2 Release - Page 3

About This Document About This Document This section identifies the audience of these Release Notes and provides a high-level description of the information it contains. Release Notes Information These Release Notes discuss the following major topics: ■ About This Document, page 3 ■ Standards Compliance, page 6 ■ Important Notes, page 7 ■ Fabric OS v3.1.2 Important Notes, page 11 ■ New Command in v3.1.2, page 12 ■ Commands Modified in v3.1.2, page 19 ■ Documentation Updates, page 21 Audience These Release Notes are intended for systems administrators and technicians who are responsible for installing, operating, and maintaining Fabric OS version 3.1.2. Overview HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 3.1.2 provides the following enhancements for the SAN Switch 2/16: ■ Reduced fabric configuration downtime. ■ Extended Edge PID for mixed fabrics, which eliminates host reboot for hosts that statically bind PIDs. ■ Improved fabric diagnostics: - The pathinfo command displays path information between any two ports of a fabric. - The diagnostics monitor compact flash utilization and clean the file systems during periods of high utilization. - The supportshow command has improved functionality. - Hardware watchdog failures capture a kernel trace dump prior to reset. SAN Switch 2/16 Fabric OS 3.1.2 Release Notes 3