HP B-series Network Advisor Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Professional 11.1.2 Release Notes (5697-1433, December 2011-includes all 11.1.x versions)

Important notes
Consider the following information before using Network Advisor 11.1.2.
• A correction has been made for the issue described in the next bullet, which is related to
manageability of servers running DCFM 10.4.0, 10.4.1, 10.4.2, 10.4.3, 10.4.4 out of
application memory when managing HP StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director for several
weeks and resulting in recurring server restarts.
• DCFM 10.4.x cannot manage products running Fabric OS 7.0.0a or later. To manage those
products, upgrade the management application to Network Advisor 11.1.x before upgrading
the products to Fabric OS 7.0.0a or later.
• Host-based standalone SMI agents cannot manage products running Fabric OS 7.0.0a or
later. It requires use of the integrated SMI Agent with Network Advisor 11.1.x.
• While running diagnostic port test, selecting more than one port from the same switch or blade
and running a diagnosis on them simultaneously might result in failure. HP recommends that
you choose only one port at a time from any given switch or blade for running the diagnostic
port test.
• If a fabric has a large zone database or effective zone configuration (approximately 1 MB),
zoning report generation may fail.
• If IPv6 is enabled on the Fabric OS switch, along with the Network Advisor server host, IPv6
is the chosen mode of communication between server and switch.
• When migrating from the DCFM 10.4.x to Network Advisor 11.1.x, the corresponding DCFM
application service is expected to be up and running. The GUI message shown when the
DCFM server is not running prompts the user to start the Network Advisor service rather than
the DCFM application service.
• When any FC switch is upgraded from 6.4.x to 7.x.x firmware and downgraded again to
6.4.x, DCFM 10.4.x, servers will show a caution badge on switches and the discovery status
will not reflect the reason for this status.
• Firmware upgrades performed with Network Advisor on the HP StorageWorks 2408 FCoE
Converged Network Switch are disruptive to I/O on the HP StorageWorks 2408 FCoE
Converged Network Switch.
Removing switches
If you plan to segment and remove more than two switches from a fabric and you have “Historical
performance collection” enabled, HP recommends that you accept changes after each Switch
segmentation from the client rather than doing it together or switch off track fabric changes.
Secure Fabric OS fabrics cannot be discovered from Network Advisor
Network Advisor does not support Secure Fabric OS (SFOS). If you try to discover the fabric,
Network Advisor displays the error message Discovery Failed. You must remove the secure
Fabric OS settings and change back to a normal fabric before discovering it from Network Advisor.
Display of Logical switches
If you create logical switches through the Logical Switch dialog box, the logical switch displays
under undiscovered Logical Switch in the existing Logical Switches Panel. You must rediscover the
newly created logical switch fabric.
Destination columns are blank for HP StorageWorks Encryption SAN Switch in top talkers dialog
When the Top Talkers dialog box is launched for the HP StorageWorks Encryption SAN Switch,
the columns Destination, Destination port, and Destination switch port are sometimes empty.
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