What’s New?

The following is a listing of some of the new features supported by the ClearPath Forward 4.0 release.

New FeatureLink to Topic

Option to enable or disable the FM-LAN.

Associating Secure Fabrics with Partition Image

Editing a Partition Image

Enabling a Partition Image

Resizing Partition Images

Inventory Report option to take a snapshot of the Fabric Manager’s current configuration information in the form of an Inventory Report.

Managing Inventory Reports

Advanced filtering options to customize the list of events displayed in the Events Console.

Filtering Events

Export option to export the events to your local computer in the XML format for further analysis.

Exporting Events

New high level information for a Linux administrator on using the Linux rescue environment for performing offline back up, repair, and restore of a Linux partition on the internal disk of the enterprise partition platform (EPP) Drive.

Using the Rescue Environment to Back Up, Repair, and Restore a Linux Partition on an Internal Drive

Information tab that displays possible causes and solutions for the warning and informational events along with the vital information such as the event ID, severity, and event code.

Viewing Events

Access to the new ClearPath Forward Fabric Management Platform Manager (also called as FMP Manager), a web-based graphical user interface, that helps you manage the high availability (HA) cluster and Fabric Management Platform (FMP) management tasks.

ClearPath Forward FMP Manager User Interface