HP StorageWorks 2/128 - SAN Director Switch Release Note page 16

Important Notes
Table 5: Fabric OS Area Information (Continued)
Fabric OS Area
Firmware download
HA switch reboot
failure
Invalid Gateway IP
address error message
IP addresses
License removal
LTO 2 tape drive
support
OS hardware
rsh and rlogin
Security: default
password length
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Fabric OS v4.1.x and v4.2.x nondisruptive firmware download allows for
firmware downgrades and upgrades; however, you might see warning
messages such as the following:
0x239 (fabos): Switch: 0, Info PDM-NOTFOUND, 4, File not
found
(/etc/fabos/mii.0.cfg)
These warnings can be ignored.
When a switch reboot or a failover occurs before POST is complete, the HA
resynchronization is disrupted. HA does not resynchronize until POST
completes.
CAUTION: Allow POST to complete before performing a switch reboot or
failover, to avoid disruptive failover.
The user sees the following message on the console during startup when the
Ethernet IP and Gateway IP addresses are set to the defaults:
SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument.....ip.c:311:Invalid gateway
IP address 0.0.0.0
This is a display issue only and does not affect the functionality of the
switch.
CAUTION: Do not set a switch or CP IP address for the Ethernet interface to
0.0.0.0.
When a user removes a license from the switch, the feature is not disabled
until the switch is rebooted or a switch disable or enable is performed.
When using the LTO 2 tape drive, the user must enter the following
command on both Fabric OS v3.x and v4.x:
switch> portcfggport port# where drive is plugged in
This allows the tape drive to function in point-to-point mode rather than in
loop mode.
Bringing up port blades during a failover could cause the port cards to
come up in a disabled state. This is a rare occurrence; when it happens,
bring up the port blade again, after the failover on the SAN Director
2/128.
The programs rsh and rlogin are not supported in this release. If you try
to use an rsh or rlogin client, Fabric OS rejects the login attempt;
however, because most rsh and rlogin clients continue to retry the login
for several seconds before timing out, your system appears to hang.
The initial login prompt for a switch accepts a maximum password length of
eight characters. Any characters beyond the eighth are ignored.
Description
SAN Director 2/128 Fabric OS 4.2.x Release Notes