HP Brocade 8/12c HP StorageWorks B-series Data Center Fabric Manager Enterpris - Page 6

Reliability, availability, and serviceability enhancements, Zoning enhancements

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• Moves the port address and port index of ports on blades to new card • After the swap is complete, enables all ports on the blades • PDCM enhancements • Now warns users when E-E and E-F port connections are prohibited • Can provision the same PDCM updates to multiple switches • Usability enhancement supports direct entry of row and column for allow/prohibit configuration. • PDCM dialog-Changed from Modal to Non-Modal dialog Reliability, availability, and serviceability enhancements • DCFM SupportSave enhancements: • Configure a user-determined interval at which SupportSaves are automatically captured from specified switches • Includes Brocade HBA SupportSave • Increased the number of simultaneous switch SupportSave captures from 10 to 50 • Policy Engine improvement: • Added an action to capture switch SupportSave in the Event Policy dialog • Added a facility to register switches in upload failure data capture destination • Added a facility to register DCFM as a trace dump destination • Added Port Fencing policies for Class 3 frame drops • Fault Management improvements: • Receive syslog events from HBAs • Increased the default value of the maximum number of events stored in the database from 10,000 to 20,000, with a maximum supported value of 50,000 • Added support to optionally back up the FTP folder, Technical Support folder, and Trace dump folder • System Monitor process improvement: • Generates a Master Log event when memory usage is ≥80% and disk space usage is ≥90% • Audit Log improvement: • All important user actions generate application events • Debug logging improvements: • Log messages at the appropriate level to prevent the rollover of logs • Increase default size of log files from 5 MB to 10 MB • Isolate failures to small-grained tasks (for example, failure to collect one piece of data due to errors will not prevent collection of remaining data) • Include data source name to avoid ambiguity (multiple data collection sources) Zoning enhancements • Active Traffic Isolation (TI) zone enhancements: • Active TI zone information is collected by DCFM and persisted in the database. • Displays differences between the active TI zone and the defined TI zone in the zone database. • Active TI zone members appear in the Active Zone Configuration tab. • Added an Active Status display to the TI Zones Properties dialog. 6

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Moves the port address and port index of ports on blades to new card
•
After the swap is complete, enables all ports on the blades
•
PDCM enhancements
•
Now warns users when E-E and E-F port connections are prohibited
•
Can provision the same PDCM updates to multiple switches
•
Usability enhancement supports direct entry of row and column for allow/prohibit configuration.
•
PDCM dialog
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Changed from Modal to Non-Modal dialog
Reliability, availability, and serviceability enhancements
•
DCFM SupportSave enhancements:
•
Configure a user-determined interval at which SupportSaves are automatically captured from
specified switches
•
Includes Brocade HBA SupportSave
•
Increased the number of simultaneous switch SupportSave captures from 10 to 50
•
Policy Engine improvement:
•
Added an action to capture switch SupportSave in the Event Policy dialog
•
Added a facility to register switches in upload failure data capture destination
•
Added a facility to register DCFM as a trace dump destination
•
Added Port Fencing policies for Class 3 frame drops
•
Fault Management improvements:
•
Receive syslog events from HBAs
•
Increased the default value of the maximum number of events stored in the database from
10,000 to 20,000, with a maximum supported value of 50,000
•
Added support to optionally back up the FTP folder, Technical Support folder, and Trace dump
folder
•
System Monitor process improvement:
•
Generates a Master Log event when memory usage is
≥
80% and disk space usage is
≥
90%
•
Audit Log improvement:
•
All important user actions generate application events
•
Debug logging improvements:
•
Log messages at the appropriate level to prevent the rollover of logs
•
Increase default size of log files from 5 MB to 10 MB
•
Isolate failures to small-grained tasks (for example, failure to collect one piece of data due to
errors will not prevent collection of remaining data)
•
Include data source name to avoid ambiguity (multiple data collection sources)
Zoning enhancements
•
Active Traffic Isolation (TI) zone enhancements:
•
Active TI zone information is collected by DCFM and persisted in the database.
•
Displays differences between the active TI zone and the defined TI zone in the zone database.
•
Active TI zone members appear in the Active Zone Configuration tab.
•
Added an Active Status display to the TI Zones Properties dialog.
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