HP SureStore 7400 HP StorageWorks Multi-protocol Router XPath OS 7.4.1f releas - Page 13

Issue Security Description 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 9 Limitations Issue API support Description HP strongly encourages users of this release to do the following: • Manage the MP Router's functions using the MP Router's CLI and Advanced Web Tools. • Create LSANs in edge fabrics using any tools that can manage zoning. XPath OS 7.4.1d or later generally supports Fabric Access API-based applications such as Fabric Manager and OVSAM. However, note the following: • API-based applications testing has not been completed. Check with the management application vendor for AP support status. • Existing versions of Fabric Manager and other API-based applications that manage zoning in edge fabrics use the MP Router to configure LSAN zones that create logical storage area networks. • 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 2.6 switch does not properly interpret the presence of virtual switches and domains created in routed fabrics. Fibre Channel Class XPath OS supports 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 accept the F_Port's request for Fibre Channel Class 3 are affected. The IBM AIX operating system configured with the IBM 6228 HBA is known to be unable to accept Class 3 and therefore cannot register with the XPath OS Fibre Channel Name Server. Fibre Channel Management XPath OS 7.4.0 does not support Management Server requests from hosts Server in-band support connected to the switch. Login requests to the Management Server are rejected. Name Server and Zone Server database sizes The Name Server and Zone Server databases support fabrics within (and larger than) the scalability guidelines. Fabric and zone merge attempts with fabrics beyond the scalability limits presented in this document will prevent fabrics from merging. Fibre Channel Routing Services does not participate directly with Name Server and Zone Server databases on edge fabrics; rather, it consumes zones that begin with the string LSAN_ only and creates Name Server entries in edge fabrics for shared devices only. Multi-protocol Router XPath OS 7.4.1f 13