HP StorageWorks 2/128 HP StorageWorks SAN Director 2/128 Fabric OS V4.2.x Rele - 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 cover the following major topics: ■ Overview, page 3 ■ Documentation, page 4 ■ Standards Compliance, page 5 ■ Important Notes, page 6 ■ Commands Modified in v4.2.x, page 20 ■ Documentation Updates, page 20 ■ Issues and Workarounds, page 22 Audience These Release Notes are intended for systems administrators and technicians who are responsible for installing, operating, and maintaining Fabric OS version 4.2.x. Overview HP Fabric OS 4.2.x provides the following enhancements for the SAN Director 2/128: ■ Reduced fabric configuration downtime. Extended Edge PID for mixed fabrics 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 Director 2/128 Fabric OS 4.2.x Release Notes 3