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Brocade Fabric OS v7.1.0 Release Notes v2.0
January 16, 2013
Document History
Document Title Summary of Changes Publication Date
Brocade Fabric OS v7.1.0 Release Notes v1.0 Initial Release
December 14, 2012
Brocade Fabric OS v7.1.0 Release Notes v2.0 Added a warning in the “FOS
Migration Considerations”
section to advise users to
backup any existing error log
message before upgrading to
FOS v7.1.0
January 16, 2013
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Contents
New Hardware Support ............................................................................................................................... 5
Summary of New Software Features ......................................................................................................... 5
New Feature Descriptions .......................................................................................................................... 7 Diagnostic Port (D_Port) Enhancements ................................................................................................................ 7
In-Flight Encryption and Compression Enhancements .......................................................................................... 7
FEC (Forward Error Correction) Support Enhancements ....................................................................................... 8
Performance Optimization on FC Long Distance ISLs ........................................................................................... 8
FOS Security Enhancements ................................................................................................................................... 8
FCIP Enhancements ................................................................................................................................................ 9
Scalability Enhancements ....................................................................................................................................... 9
Fabric Services Enhancements .............................................................................................................................. 9
FCR Enhancements ............................................................................................................................................... 10
Access Gateway Enhancements ........................................................................................................................... 11
Various RAS Enhancements .................................................................................................................................. 11
Encryption Platform Enhancements ..................................................................................................................... 13
Miscellaneous Enhancements .............................................................................................................................. 14
Optionally Licensed Software .................................................................................................................. 16
Temporary License Support .................................................................................................................... 18
Other Licensing Changes......................................................................................................................... 18
Supported Switches .................................................................................................................................. 19
Standards Compliance ............................................................................................................................. 19
Technical Support ..................................................................................................................................... 19
FOS Migration Considerations ................................................................................................................ 21 FOS Upgrade and Downgrade Special Considerations........................................................................................ 21
Warning: ................................................................................................................................................................. 21
Recommended Migration Paths to FOS v7.1.0 ................................................................................................... 21
Important Notes ......................................................................................................................................... 23 Brocade Network Advisor Compatibility ............................................................................................................... 23
DCFM Compatibility ............................................................................................................................................... 23
WebTools Compatibility ......................................................................................................................................... 24
SMI Compatibility ................................................................................................................................................... 24
Fabric OS Compatibility ......................................................................................................................................... 24
Blade Support ............................................................................................................................................ 26
Scalability................................................................................................................................................... 31
Other Important Notes and Recommendations ..................................................................................... 31 Adaptive Networking/Flow-Based QoS Prioritization ........................................................................................... 31
Access Gateway ..................................................................................................................................................... 31
Brocade HBA/Adapter Compatibility .................................................................................................................... 32
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D-Port ...................................................................................................................................................................... 32
Encryption Behavior for the Brocade Encryption Switch (BES) and FS8-18 ...................................................... 32
FCIP (Brocade 7800 and FX8-24)......................................................................................................................... 35
FCoE/DCB/CEE (Brocade 8000 and FCOE10-24) ............................................................................................... 35
FCR and Integrated Routing .................................................................................................................................. 37
Forward Error Correction (FEC) ............................................................................................................................. 37
FICON ...................................................................................................................................................................... 37
FL_Port (Loop) Support.......................................................................................................................................... 37
ICLs on DCX/DCX-4S ............................................................................................................................................. 38
Native Connectivity (M-EOS interoperability) ........................................................................................................ 38
Port Initialization .................................................................................................................................................... 38
Port Mirroring ......................................................................................................................................................... 38
Port Statistics ......................................................................................................................................................... 38
Virtual Fabrics ........................................................................................................................................................ 39
Zoning ..................................................................................................................................................................... 39
Miscellaneous ........................................................................................................................................................ 39
Defects ....................................................................................................................................................... 41 Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.1.0......................................................................................................................... 41
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0 ..................................................................................................... 49
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0 ............................................................................................. 117
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New Hardware Support
FOS v7.1 introduces support for the following new 16G FC hardware platform:
Brocade 6520 Enterprise class FC switch platform that offers the following capabilities:
Supports 96 x 16G FC front end ports that support 2G/4G/8G/10G/16G speeds
48-port base switch with two 24-port Ports-On-Demand (POD) licenses
Supports all key software functionalities applicable to a high end enterprise class FC switch:
Trunking, Extended Fabrics, Fabric Watch, APM, Integrated Routing, NPIV, Virtual
Fabrics, and much more.
Advanced functionality unique to 16G FC platforms– D_Port diagnostics, In-flight
encryption/compression, VC level automatic buffer credit recovery, FEC, etc.
The following functionalities are not supported on Brocade 6520:
Does not support Access Gateway functionality
Does not support FICON
FOS v7.1 also supports increased distance for the optical ICLs on the DCX 8510 platforms:
Increased distance support for the optical ICLs up to 100m on the DCX 8510 (previously supported
distance limit was 50m). This requires QSFPs that support up to 100m and OM4 fiber.
Note:
FOS v7.1 supports all hardware platforms supported by FOS v7.0.x. However, FOS v7.1 does not support FR4-
18i and FC10-6 blades in the DCX/DCX-4S.
Summary of New Software Features
In addition to new hardware support, FOS v7.1 also includes support for several software features and
enhancements:
Diagnostic Port (D_Port) enhancements
D_Port on optical ICLs of the DCX 8510 platforms
New D_Port test options – users can specify number of frames, frame size, test
duration, etc.
Full D_Port support between Brocade 16G Adapter and 16G FC switch (requires
Brocade adapter driver version 3.2 or later)
D_Port between Access Gateway (enabled on 16G FC platform) and 16G FC switch
In-flight encryption and compression enhancements
FEC (Forward Error Correction) support enhancements
Performance optimization enhancements on FC long distance ISLs
FOS security enhancements
Addition of TACACS+ support
Support for Open LDAP
FCIP platform enhancements
Virtual Fabrics support on the Brocade 7800 platform
IPsec support on VE ports 22-31 of FX8-24 (supported only on new FX8-24 SKUs)
Various FCIP RAS enhancements
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Scalability Enhancement: Support for up to 2MB zone database in a fabric with only
DCX/DCX-4S/DCX8510 systems (the presence of any other platform will limit the maximum
zone database to 1MB)
Fabric Services enhancements
Zoning enhancements
Name Server enhancements
FDMI (Fabric Device Management Interface) enhancements
FCR enhancements
Access Gateway enhancements
Various RAS (Reliability Availability Serviceability) enhancements
Encryption platform (BES/FS8-18) enhancements
Miscellaneous enhancements
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New Feature Descriptions
Diagnostic Port (D_Port) Enhancements
FOS v7.1 implements the following enhancements to the D_Port functionality:
Support for D_Port on optical ICL ports of DCX 8510
New D_Port test options
D_Port between 16G Access Gateway and 16G FC Switch
D_Port between 16G Switch and Brocade 16G FC Adapter
Support for D_Port on Optical ICL ports of DCX 8510
FOS v7.1 implements D_Port functionality on the optical ICL ports of the DCX 8510 platforms. This support
however does not include Electrical and Optical loop-back functionality as these are not supported by the
QSFPs used on the optical ICLs ports.
New D_Port Test Options
New options are added to extend the D_Port functionality in FOS v7.1.0. These allow users to specify the
following options such as the number of frames, frame size, data pattern, duration of the test, etc. while
running the D_Port test
D_Port between 16G Access Gateway and 16G FC Switch
FOS v7.1 adds D_Port support on 16G platforms configured as Access Gateways (AG).
The supported configurations are:
D_Port between 16G AG and 16G switch
D_Port Between 16G AG and another 16G AG
D_Port between 16G Switch and Brocade 16G FC Adapter
FOS v7.1.0 enhances the D_Port support between a Brocade 16G FC Adapter and a Brocade 16G FC switch.
This enhancement includes support for the Dynamic D_Port mode which does not require any D_Port
configuration at the adapter. This functionality also requires Brocade HBA driver v3.2.
In-Flight Encryption and Compression Enhancements
FOS v7.1 implements the following enhancements for the In-flight Encryption/Compression features:
Increase the number of Encryption/Compression ports based on port speed – For any supported 16G
blade or 16G switch, the number of ports supported for Encryption/Compression at 8G speed is twice
the number of ports supported at 16G speed.
In-flight Encryption/Compression with port decommissioning – Starting with FOS v7.1 users can
enable port decommissioning on a port that also has in-flight Encryption/Compression enabled.
In-flight Encryption/Compression on EX_Ports - Note that this feature requires 16G capable ports at
both ends of the link.
Ability to display compression ratio – The portstatsshow command is enhanced to display
compression ratio on a compression enabled port.
Ability to display port speed – The portenccompshow command is enhanced to display the port speed
of Encryption/Compression enabled ports
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FEC (Forward Error Correction) Support Enhancements
FEC Support on Additional Links
With FOS v7.1 FEC support is extended as follows:
FEC support on links between 16G switch and 16G AG
FEC support on links between 16G switch and Brocade 16G HBA (requires HBA driver 3.2 or
later)
FEC support on links between a pair 16G AGs (for cascaded Access Gateway Configurations)
FEC support on links between 16G AG and Brocade 16G HBA (requires HBA driver 3.2 or
later)
Note:
In FOS v7.0.x FEC is supported only on the 16G FC ISLs.
Enable or Disable FEC for Long Distance Port
FOS v7.1 allows users to enable or disable the FEC feature while configuring a long distance
link. This allows end users to turn off FEC where it is not recommended, such as when
configuring active DWDM links.
Performance Optimization on FC Long Distance ISLs
Several enhancements are made in FOS v7.1 to allow users to optimize performance on FC long distance ISLs.
These enhancements include:
Two new options for the portcfglongdistance command - one option to configure the number of
buffers, and another option to configure the frame size for LD and LS modes.
Display of average buffer usage and average frame size in portbuffershow output
A new command portBufferCalc, to calculate the number of buffers required on a long distance port,
by providing the distance, speed and average frame size.
FOS Security Enhancements
TACACS+ Support
In addition to RADIUS and LDAP, FOS v7.1 also supports TACACS+ for user authentication and authorization.
Support includes:
Allowing users to login to FOS switches using user accounts configured in the TACACS+ server.
Allowing users to configure the TACACS+ server configuration using the “aaaconfig” command.
Open LDAP Support
Starting with FOS v7.1, OpenLDAP server based authentication is supported for FOS platforms. When
configured with the correct CA certificate(s), the complete LDAP session will be encrypted using TLS.
Miscellaneous LDAP Enhancements
Previous to FOS v7.1, complete “userPrincipalName” was mandatory for user authentication. Starting with FOS
v7.1, users need not provide the domain part of the “userPrincipalName”.
Support for Password Expiration Policy per User
FOS v7.1 allows the password expiration policy to be configured on a per user basis. User accounts without
this configuration will take the global password expiration configuration.
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Sorting Security Policy Member List
In a strict fabric wide consistency policy, if the security policy members are not in the same order, a
newly joined switch will be segmented. To avoid segmentation of ports due to member list order
mismatch, the security policy members are sorted by default. Newly added members to existing
policies will also be sorted.
FCIP Enhancements
FOS v7.1 implements the following FCIP features and enhancements:
Virtual Fabrics (VF) support on the Brocade 7800
FOS v7.1 adds Virtual Fabrics (VF) support on the 7800 platform with support for up to four logical switches.
However, the 7800 VF configuration does not support Base Switch functionality or XISL usage.
Enable IP Security on XGE0 of an FX8-24 blade
FOS v7.1 adds IPsec support for the XGE0 port of an FX8-24 blade. This enables creation of IP Security
enabled FCIP tunnels on VE ports 12-21 of an FX8-24 blade. Please note that this functionality requires the
new FX8-24 hardware SKU that supports this functionality.
FCIP Tunnel TCP Statistics Monitoring Enhancements
In FOS v7.1 two new sub-options (reset and lifetime) have been added to the “portshow fciptunnel” and
“portshow fcipcircuit” commands. The “--reset” option allows the user to start a new statistical checkpoint for
the tunnel, circuits and the TCP connections while the “--lifetime” option allows the user to see statistics
related to the lifetime of the tunnel, circuits and TCP connections.
These enhancements allow users to see statistics that represent a specific time period for tunnel(s), circuit(s)
and TCP connections.
FCIP Enforcement of ED_TOV (Error Detection Time Out Value) for FC frames
Starting with FOS v7.1, FCIP will enforce an internal queue time limit (of 2 seconds) for all FCIP received FC
frames to address issues in congested networks. This ensures that no old FC sequences will be forwarded to
the destination if the age (queue time) of the FC frame on an FCIP FC send queue exceeds 2 seconds.
CLI to Display GE Port Errors
FOS v7.1 implements a new command gePortErrShow that shows GE ports and their statistics.
FCIP RASlog Enhancements
FOS v7.1 implements the following FCIP RASlog enhancements:
Improved FCIP RASlog messages in a Virtual Fabrics environment
FCIP RASlogs to be logged against the correct Logical Switch or chassis
Minimize the creation of FICON Emulation RASlog messages (applies to the FICN-XXXX RASlog
messages)
Scalability Enhancements
Support for up to 2MB zone database in a fabric with only DCX/DCX-4S/DCX8510 systems (the
presence of any other platform in the fabric will limit the maximum zone database to 1MB for the
entire fabric).
Fabric Services Enhancements
FOS v7.1 implements various fabric services enhancements in the following areas:
Zoning enhancements
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Name Server enhancements
FDMI (Fabric Device Management Interface) enhancements
Zoning Enhancements
The zoning enhancements in FOS v7.1 are as follows:
Ability to replace a zone member (WWN/D, I) by another member via the zoneobjectreplace command.
Enhancement to the existing commands (zoneCreate, zoneAdd, zoneRemove) to take a collection of
zone aliases as an input instead of a single alias member. The group of aliases is selected by
matching a pattern specified by the user in the command line.
Provide more options to the existing commands, zoneshow and cfgshow, to list details/differences
between the transaction buffer and the committed/saved zone database.
Warn users at the time of cfgSave, if the zone database edits in the open zone transaction will make
the Defined and Effective Zone configurations inconsistent. This warning reduces the risk of having
mismatched effective zone configurations in the same fabric when merging a switch into the fabric.
Warn or notify users, when multiple users attempt to simultaneously configure or reconfigure zone
sets in more than one switch of a fabric.
Name Server Enhancements
The following are Name Server commands enhancements in FOS v7.1:
Enhancement to the nsZoneMember command to take “domain and port index” as optional
parameters to display zoned device data, including the device PID and zone alias. The domain and
index can be either of the local switch or a remote switch.
Add a new option “domain” to the nsAliasShow command to display a remote device’s details for that
particular domain in the fabric.
Add a new command to take “WWNs/PIDs” as input parameters and display the zones they belong to.
This will display both the regular and the special zones.
The details of the device login activities are made available to the user via CLIs. A new command
nsDevLog is implemented to display the device login details.
FDMI (Fabric Device Management Interface) Enhancements
FOS v7.1 enhances FDMI support by implementing support for additional FDMI commands.
Support for the FDMI FC-GS-6 “get” commands (GRHL, GRPL, and GPAS), “registration/ de-registration”
commands (RHAT, RPAT and DPA), and all optional attributes per FC-GS-6 are supported for RHBA, RHAT, RPRT
and RPA are implemented in FOS v7.1. Also, fdmishow CLI has been enhanced to display additional
information about registered devices.
FCR Enhancements
FOS v7.1 implements the following FCR enhancements
PathInfo with TIZ (Traffic Isolation Zone) Configured over FCR
In FOS v7.1, the pathinfo command has been enhanced to display accurate path information in TIZ over FCR
configurations.
Credit Recovery Support on EX_Ports
FOS v7.1 implements buffer credit recovery mechanisms on EX_Ports
Credit recovery is enabled by default on EX_Ports of 16G platforms.
Credit recovery on 8G platform EX_Ports is supported only if long distance mode is enabled.
Fabric Name Support on FCR
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In FOS v7.1 the fcrfabricshow command has been enhanced to display the names of the edge fabrics
attached to an FCR.
iflShow Command
In FOS v7.1 a new command “iflshow” is implemented to display the connection details between an edge
switch and an FCR. This command is intended be executed on an edge switch, also provides details of VE-VEX
connections.
Note: Platforms running FOS v7.1 do not support EX_ Port configuration in Interopmode 2 or Interopmode 3.
Access Gateway Enhancements
FOS v7.1 implements the following Access Gateway (AG) enhancements:
D_Port Support on AG
The supported configurations are:
D_Port between 16G AG and 16G switch
D_Port between a pair of 16G AGs (for AG cascading)
FEC Support in AG
FOS v7.1 implements support for the Forward Error Correction (FEC) feature on 16G FC platforms configured in
Access Gateway mode. FEC is supported on N_Ports and F_Ports of an AG in VC_RDY, EXT_VC_RDY and RDY
modes.
FEC support on links between 16G switch and 16G AG
FEC support on links between 16G AG and another 16G AG
FEC support on links between 16G AG and Brocade 16G HBA (requires HBA driver 3.2 or
later)
Credit Recovery Support in AG
FOS v7.1 adds support for buffer credit loss recovery on Access Gateway. This is aimed at automatically
recovering buffer credits and ensuring optimum performance. Credit recovery is supported in Access Gateway
mode on both 8G and 16G FC platforms.
This feature is supported in the following scenarios:
On the link between an Access Gateway and a Switch
On the link between an Access Gateway and another Access Gateway
On the link between an Access Gateway and a Brocade HBA
Credit recovery feature is supported both on F_Ports connected to a Brocade 8G or 16G HBA
(requires Brocade HBA driver v3.2 or later and HBA ports must be operating at the maximum
speed of 8G for 8G HBA, 16G for 16G HBA) and on N_Port links connected to a Brocade 16G
switch.
Authentication Support in Access Gateway (AG) Mode
FOS v7.1 adds support for authentication between an AG and a Switch, and between an AG and an HBA.
For Switch to AG authentication, FCAP or DH-CHAP protocol is used.
For HBA to AG authentication, only DH-CHAP protocol is used.
Various RAS Enhancements
FOS v7.1 implements the following RAS enhancements:
SFP Monitoring Enhancements
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Update sfpShow data when a new SFP is plugged-in
FOS v7.1 has been enhanced to update the SFP serial data information when a new SFP is
inserted even in a disabled port, and to show the "valid" data (Temperature, Current, Voltage
and Tx/Rx power, etc.) once the port is enabled and SFP data has been polled for that port.
Time stamp for SFP polling
In FOS v7.1 a new field has been added in the command “sfpshow port# [-f]” to display the
last poll time stamp for a port.
RASlog Management Enhancement
Ability to Suppress a RASlog Message
A new RASlog command “rasadmin” has been added in FOS v7.1 that can be used to
disable/enable a specific RASlog message or a group of RASlog messages. This command
provides control to the end users to suppress any frequently occurring or unwanted RASlog
message and re-enable the logging when required.
Change RASlog Message Default Severity
FOS v7.1 adds support to change a RASlog message’s default severity level via the
“rasadmin” command. For example, users may choose to lower the severity of a message
from warning to informational if they believe it is the appropriate severity level for that
message in their environment.
View RASlog Message Description on the Switch
Beginning with Fabric OS v7.1, users can view the message documentation such as the
message text, message type, class (for audit messages), message severity, cause, and action
on the switch console by using the rasMan message_ID command.
Errdump CLI Enhancement
New options have been added to the existing errDump command in FOS v7.1 to filter RASlog
messages according to slot , severity, etc.
CLI History Enhancements
Starting with FOS v7.1, CLI history will be persistent across reboot and firmwaredownload. A
maximum of 1680 records can be saved.
The CLI history feature has been enhanced to save the information such as timestamp,
username, IP address of the telnet session, command options, and arguments whenever a
command is executed on the switch.
Starting with FOS v7.1, each command executed on the switch from a non root account will be
saved as an Audit log. A new RASlog message,“RAS-3005”, has been added to log the CLI name,
including arguments. This RASlog is an audit only message and will not be saved in the RASlog’s
storage.
Bottleneck Detection Enhancements
Usability enhancements have been made to the bottleneckmon command in FOS v7.1 such that, when
changing bottleneck detection configuration, unspecified parameters do not revert back to their default
values, if they currently have non-default values. Please see the bottleneckmon command description for
additional details.
Edge Hold Time (EHT) Related Enhancements
FOS v7.1 adds support for the user defined EHT configuration only in the default switch in a Virtual Fabrics
environment. In addition, pre-defined EHT values can be configured for individual Logical Switches.
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Frame Viewer (Class 3 Discard Log) Enhancements
In FOS v7.1 Frame Viewer has been enhanced to display class 3 discard log messages associated with the
backend ports (internal ports) of a chassis.
Backend Link Monitoring Enhancements
FOS v7.1 introduces three different options/policies to fault the core blade/edge blade when the link reset
threshold of a Back End (BE) port is exceeded. Please see the bottleneckmon command description for
additional details.
LR_IN and LR_OUT in fabriclog
FOS v7.1 has been enhanced to indicate whether a Link Reset (LR) was initiated by the local or remote
switch.
LR_IN will be set if the remote device initiates the link reset and LR_OUT will be set if it was initiated by the
local switch. The LR_IN or LR_OUT indication will be displayed in the fabriclog output along with existing
fabric logs.
CLI to Read Real-time Error Status Block of an F_Port
FOS v7.1 implements a new command, “fcpRlsProbe”, with option –-start to read the error status block of
an F_Port. This command sends an RLS (Read Link Status) ELS to the device and caches information such
as the number of loss-of-signal, loss-of-sync, CRC errors, and protocol errors encountered on the specified
device port. The cached data is displayed through the fcpRlsProbe --show command.
Timestamp for portStatsClear, statsClear and slotStatsClear Operations
FOS v7.1 has been enhanced to display the time when port statistics were last cleared.
Updating enc_out, bad_os and pcs_err Counters after Port Online
FOS v7.1 has been enhanced to update enc_out, bad_os, and pcs_err counters only after a port has come
online. This ensures that users are not misled by the values these counters may have had before a port is
fully online.
Encryption Platform Enhancements
FOS v7.1 implements the following enhancements for the BES/FS8-18 platforms:
Thin Provisioning Support
A new feature that enables BES/FS8-18 to support Thin Provisioning of the disk LUNs. Thin
Provision support is only available on storage arrays that have been tested by Brocade.
Encrypted Data Throughput Performance Monitoring
A new feature in BES/FS8-18 to monitor the throughput of the redirected I/O flow to the
Encryption engine. A new FOS command has been added to display the performance data.
Increased Path Commit Limit for CTC Configuration
Increasing the number of transactions to 512 for disk LUN operation for virtualized
environments. This enhancement is applicable only through Brocade Network Advisor.
Expanded Device Decommissioning Support
Expanding support for the Device Decommissioning of disk LUNs for all the supported
keyvaults types, i.e. RSA DPM, NetApp LKM/SafeNet KeySecure in SSKM mode, HP ESKM,
Thales EKA, IBM TKLM and KMIP (using SafeNet KeySecure).
KMIP-compliant Key Management Client
A new feature in BES/FS8-18 platform that enables the FOS native KMIP client support for
Safenet KeySecure key vault server when running in KMIP mode.
RD Zone Creation Failure without L2 Zones
Prevent creation of redirection zones if regular zones for the corresponding host/target are
not present in the effective configuration for cryptoConfig commit operations.
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Miscellaneous Enhancements
Credit Recovery Support on F_Ports to Brocade HBA
FOS v7.1 implements credit recovery mechanisms on F_Ports connecting to Brocade 8G or 16G HBAs.
Credit Recovery alert to the User Level RASlog
FOS v7.1 adds a user level RASlog Cxx_1023 to alert about buffer credit recovery performed on 16G FC
platforms. This RASlog is generated whenever a single credit loss was detected and automatically recovered.
This RASlog can be viewed by using the errDump command.
Virtual Fabrics: Set Logical Switch Context Using Switch Name
In pre-FOS v7.1, in the Virtual Fabrics environment, when switching context between Logical Switches within a
physical switch, the FID number is required to set the context of a logical switch. In FOS v7.1 this setcontext CLI
has been enhanced to allow “switch name” to set the Logical Switch context.
Fabretrystats CLI
With FOS v7.1 a new command fabRetryStats has been implemented that not only includes functionality
equivalent to fabRetryShow (via –show option), but also implements additional functionality to clear any retry
counters of fabric SW_ILS commands.
Display of WWNN on Segmented ISLs
FOS v7.1 has been enhanced to display the WWN details of the neighbor switch in switchShow and islShow
command outputs when an ISL gets segmented. Please note that if the very first ELP (Exchange Link
Parameters) fails between neighboring ports then the WWNN may not be displayed at both ends of the
segmented link.
TI (Traffic Isolation) Zone Violation Handling for Trunk Ports
If a failover disabled TI zone has trunk members, but if not all members of that trunk group are in the same TI
zone, then there is a possibility of routing issues if the members in the TI zone fail. FOS v7.1 tries to detect
such mis-configurations upfront and warn users about this condition via the ZONE_1061 RASlog message.
Add Support for switchCfgPersistentDisable –set option
In pre-FOS v7.1, on executing the switchCfgPersistentDisable command, the switch is disabled immediately.
However, this may not be the desired behavior all the time. Hence in FOS v7.1 a new option has been added to
just set the switch to disable state and not actually disable the switch immediately. If the switch is
subsequently disabled or reboots, it will be held in the disabled state.
portAutoDisable Enhancements
FOS v7.1 adds the following options to portAutoDisable command:
1) “portcfgautodisable --suspend”
When this command is issued all the existing configurations will not be disturbed but no action will be
performed on the port for the configured options (i.e. option = LOSG, OLS, NOS, LIP,LOSN) .
2) “portcfgautodisable --resume”
For the configured option the action will be performed. Here the action means for the existing configured
option (i.e. option = LOSG, OLS, NOS, LIP, LOSN) the port gets auto disabled.
portnumbers in Hexadecimal Format
The commands portDisable, portEnable, portShow, portPerfShow, portCfgSpeed, portStatsClear, and
portStatsShow can accept port numbers in hexadecimal format.
“–x” option indicates that a port or a range of ports identified by port index numbers is in hex format.
CS_CTL based QoS Related Enhancements
FOS v7.1 provides an additional option to the end users to map CS_CTL values to QoS traffic priorities. Starting
with FOS v7.1, users have the choice to map CS_CTL values of 1, 2 and 3 to QoS priorities Low, Medium and
High respectively.
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SuperPing Enhancements
In FOS v7.1, SuperPing for FCIP supports the following features:
Traverse all possible FCIP links based on FCIP routing.
Display all possible VE and GE link in path.
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Optionally Licensed Software
Fabric OS v7.1 includes all basic switch and fabric support software, as well as optionally licensed software
that is enabled via license keys.
Optionally licensed features supported in FOS v7.1 include:
Brocade Ports on Demand—Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional ports via
license key upgrade. (Applies to select models of switches).
Brocade Fabric or E_Port or Full Fabric— This license enables a switch to connect to a multi-switch fabric via
E_Ports, forming ISL connections.
Note: This license is only required on select embedded switch models and the Brocade 300, and does not
apply to other fixed-port switches or chassis-based platforms.
Brocade Extended Fabrics—Provides greater than 10km of switched fabric connectivity at full bandwidth over
long distances (depending on the platform this can be up to 3000km)
Brocade ISL Trunking— Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one logical link for
enhanced network performance and fault tolerance. Also includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking on those
products that support Access Gateway deployment.
Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring—Enables performance monitoring of networked storage resources.
This license includes the Top Talkers feature.
Brocade Fabric Watch — Monitors mission-critical switch operations and provides notification if established
limits or thresholds are exceeded. Fabric Watch includes Port Fencing capabilities.
FICON Management Server— Also known as “CUP” (Control Unit Port), enables host-control of switches in
Mainframe environments.
Enhanced Group Management — This license enables full management of devices in a data center fabric with
deeper element management functionality and greater management task aggregation throughout the
environment. This license is used in conjunction with Brocade Network Advisor application software and is
applicable to all FC platforms supported by FOS v7.0 or later.
Adaptive Networking with QoS—Adaptive Networking provides a rich framework of capability allowing a user to
ensure high priority connections obtain the bandwidth necessary for optimum performance, even in congested
environments. The QoS SID/DID Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting features are included in this license,
and are fully available on all 8Gb and 16Gb platforms.
Note: Brocade 6520 does not require the Adaptive Networking with QoS license to enable the capabilities
associated with this license. These capabilities are included by default on the Brocade 6520.
Server Application Optimization (SAO) — When deployed with Brocade Server Adapters, this license optimizes
overall application performance for physical servers and virtual machines by extending virtual channels to the
server infrastructure. Application specific traffic flows can be configured, prioritized, and optimized throughout
the entire data center infrastructure. This license is not supported on the Brocade 8000.
Note: Brocade 6520 does not require the SAO license to enable the capabilities associated with this license.
These capabilities are included by default on the Brocade 6520.
Integrated Routing— This license allows any port in a DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4, Brocade 6510, Brocade 6520,
DCX-4S, DCX, 5300, 5100, 7800, or Brocade Encryption Switch to be configured as an EX_Port or VEX_Port (on
some platforms) supporting Fibre Channel Routing. This eliminates the need to add a dedicated router to a
fabric for FCR purposes.
Encryption Performance Upgrade — This license provides additional encryption processing power. For the
Brocade Encryption Switch or a DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4, the Encryption Performance License
can be installed to enable full encryption processing power on the BES or on all FS8-18 blades installed in a
DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 chassis.
DataFort Compatibility — This license is required on the Brocade Encryption Switch or DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-
8/DCX 8510-4 with FS8-18 blade(s) to read and decrypt NetApp DataFort-encrypted disk and tape LUNs.
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DataFort Compatibility License is also required on the Brocade Encryption Switch or DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-
8/DCX 8510-4 Backbone with FS8-18 Encryption Blade(s) installed to write and encrypt the disk and tape
LUNs in NetApp DataFort Mode (Metadata and Encryption Algorithm) so that DataFort can read and decrypt
these LUNs. DataFort Mode tape encryption and compression is supported beginning with the FOS v6.2.0
release on DCX platforms. Availability of the DataFort Compatibility license is limited; contact your vendor for
details.
Brocade 8000 FC Ports on Demand — This license enables all eight FC ports on the Brocade 8000.
Advanced Extension – This license enables two advanced extension features: FCIP Trunking and Adaptive Rate
Limiting. The FCIP Trunking feature allows multiple IP source and destination address pairs (defined as FCIP
Circuits) via multiple 1GbE or 10GbE interfaces to provide a high bandwidth FCIP tunnel and failover resiliency.
In addition, each FCIP circuit supports four QoS classes (Class-F, High, Medium and Low Priority), each as a
TCP connection. The Adaptive Rate Limiting feature provides a minimum bandwidth guarantee for each tunnel
with full utilization of the available network bandwidth without impacting throughput performance under high
traffic load. This license is available on the 7800 and the DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 for the FX8-
24 on an individual slot basis.
10GbE FCIP/10G Fibre Channel – This license enables the two 10GbE ports on the FX8-24 or the 10G FC
capability on FC16-xx blade ports. On the Brocade 6510 and Brocade 6520, this license enables 10G FC
ports. This license is available on the DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 on an individual slot basis.
FX8-24: With this license assigned to a slot with an FX8-24 blade, two additional operating modes (in
addition to 10 1GbE ports mode) can be selected;10 1GbE ports and 1 10GbE port, or 2
10GbE ports
FC16-xx: Enables 10G FC capability on an FC16-xx blade in a slot that has this license
Brocade 6510, Brocade 6520: Enables 10G FC capability on the switch
Advanced FICON Acceleration – This licensed feature uses specialized data management techniques and
automated intelligence to accelerate FICON tape read and write and IBM Global Mirror data replication
operations over distance, while maintaining the integrity of command and acknowledgement sequences. This
license is available on the 7800 and the DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 for the FX8-24 on an
individual slot basis.
7800 Upgrade – This license allows a Brocade 7800 to enable 16 FC ports (instead of the base four ports) and
six GbE ports (instead of the base two ports). This license is also required to enable additional FCIP tunnels
and also for advanced capabilities like tape read/write pipelining.
ICL 16-link, or Inter Chassis Links -- This license provides dedicated high-bandwidth links between two Brocade
DCX chassis, without consuming valuable front-end 8Gb ports. Each chassis must have the 16-link ICL license
installed in order to enable the full 16-link ICL connections. Available on the DCX only.
ICL 8-Link – This license activates all eight links on ICL ports on a DCX-4S chassis or half of the ICL bandwidth
for each ICL port on the DCX platform by enabling only eight links out of the sixteen links available. This allows
users to purchase half the bandwidth of DCX ICL ports initially and upgrade with an additional 8-link license to
utilize the full ICL bandwidth at a later time. This license is also useful for environments that wish to create ICL
connections between a DCX and a DCX-4S, the latter of which cannot support more than 8 links on an ICL port.
Available on the DCX-4S and DCX platforms only.
ICL POD License – This license activates ICL ports on core blades of DCX 8510 platforms. An ICL 1st POD
license only enables half of the ICL ports on CR16-8 core blades of DCX 8510-8 or all of the ICL ports on
CR16-4 core blades on DCX 8510-4. An ICL 2nd POD license enables all ICL ports on CR16-8 core blades on a
DCX 8510-8 platform. (The ICL 2nd POD license does not apply to the DCX 8510-4.)
Enterprise ICL (EICL) License – The EICL license is required on a Brocade DCX 8510 chassis when that chassis
is participating in a group of five or more Brocade DCX 8510 chassis connected via ICLs.
Note that this license requirement does not depend upon the total number of DCX 8510 chassis that exist in a
fabric, but only on how many chassis are interconnected via ICLs. This license is only recognized/displayed
when operating with FOS v7.0.1 but enforced with FOS v7.1.0 or later.
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Note: The EICL license supports a maximum of nine DCX 8510 chassis connected in a full mesh topology or up
to ten DCX 8510 chassis connected in a core-edge topology.
Temporary License Support
The following licenses are available in FOS v7.1 as Universal Temporary or regular temporary licenses:
Fabric (E_Port) license
Extended Fabric license
Trunking license
High Performance Extension license
Advanced Performance Monitoring license
Adaptive Networking license
Fabric Watch license
Integrated Routing license
Server Application Optimization license
Advanced Extension license
Advanced FICON Acceleration license
10GbE FCIP/10G Fibre Channel license
FICON Management Server (CUP) license
Enterprise ICL license
Note: Temporary Licenses for features available on a per slot basis enable the feature for any and all slots in
the chassis.
Temporary and Universal Temporary licenses have durations and expiration dates established in the licenses
themselves. FOS will accept up to two temporary licenses and a single Universal license on a unit. Universal
Temporary license keys can only be installed once on a particular switch, but can be applied to as many
switches as desired. Temporary use duration (the length of time the feature will be enabled on a switch) is
provided with the license key. All Universal Temporary license keys have an expiration date upon which the
license can no longer be installed on any unit.
Other Licensing Changes
The capabilities associated with the Adaptive Networking and SAO licenses are included by default on
the Brocade 6520. Hence these licenses are not applicable to the Brocade 6520 platform.
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Supported Switches
Fabric OS v7.1 supports the Brocade 300, 5410/5424/5430/5450/5460/5470/5480/NC-
5480, 5100, 5300, VA-40FC, Brocade Encryption Switch (BES), DCX/DCX-4S, 8000, 7800,
6505, 6510, 6520, DCX 8510-8 and DCX 8510-4.
Access Gateway mode is also supported by Fabric OS v7.1, and is supported on the following switches: the
Brocade 300, 5100, VA-40FC, 8000, 5450, 5430, 5460, 5470, 5480, NC-5480, M5424, 6510, 6505.
Standards Compliance
This software conforms to the Fibre Channel Standards in a manner consistent with accepted
engineering practices and procedures. In certain cases, Brocade might add proprietary supplemental
functions to those specified in the standards. For a list of FC standards conformance, visit the
following Brocade Web site: http://www.brocade.com/sanstandards
The Brocade 8000 and FCOE10-24 blade conform to the following Ethernet standards:
IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol
IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
IEEE 802.1w Rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP
IEEE 802.3ae 10G Ethernet
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
IEEE 802.1p Class of Service Prioritization and Tagging
IEEE 802.1v VLAN Classification by Protocol and Port
IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
IEEE 802.3x Flow Control (Pause Frames)
The following draft versions of the Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Standards are also supported on the Brocade 8000 and FCOE10-24 blade:
IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority-based Flow Control
IEEE 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection
IEEE 802.1 DCB Capability Exchange Protocol (Proposed under the DCB Task Group of IEEE
802.1 Working Group)
FC-BB-5 FCoE (Rev 2.0)
Technical Support
Contact your switch supplier for hardware, firmware, and software support, including product repairs and part
ordering. To expedite your call, have the following information immediately available:
1. General Information
Technical Support contract number, if applicable
Switch model
Switch operating system version
Error numbers and messages received
supportSave command output and associated files
o For dual CP platforms running FOS v6.2 and above, the supportsave command gathers
information from both CPs and any AP blades installed in the chassis
Detailed description of the problem, including the switch or fabric behavior immediately following
the problem, and specific questions
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Description of any troubleshooting steps already performed and the results
Serial console and Telnet session logs
Syslog message logs
2. Switch Serial Number
The switch serial number is provided on the serial number label, examples of which are shown here:
FT00X0054E9
The serial number label is located as follows:
Brocade Encryption Switch, VA-40FC, 300, 5100, 5300, 6510, 6505, 6520 — On the switch ID
pull-out tab located on the bottom of the port side of the switch
Brocade 7800 — On the pull-out tab on the front left side of the chassis underneath the serial
console and Ethernet connection and on the bottom of the switch in a well on the left side
underneath (looking from front)
Brocade 8000 — On the switch ID pullout tab located inside the chassis on the port side on the
left and also on the bottom of the chassis
Brocade DCX, DCX 8510-8 — Bottom right of the port side
Brocade DCX-4S, DCX 8510-4 — Back, upper left under the power supply
3. World Wide Name (WWN)
When the Virtual Fabric feature is enabled on a switch, each logical switch has a unique
switch WWN. Use the wwn command to display the switch WWN.
If you cannot use the wwn command because the switch is inoperable, you can get the
primary WWN from the same place as the serial number, except for the Brocade DCX/DCX-4S
and DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4. For the Brocade DCX/DCX-4S and DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4
access the numbers on the WWN cards by removing the Brocade logo plate at the top of the
non-port side. The WWN is printed on the LED side of both cards.
1. License Identifier (License ID)
There is only one License Identifier associated with a physical switch or director/backbone
chassis. This License Identifier is required as part of the ordering process for new FOS
licenses.
Use the licenseIdShow command to display the License Identifier.
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FOS Migration Considerations
This section contains important details to consider before migrating to or from this FOS release.
FOS Upgrade and Downgrade Special Considerations
Warning:
Before upgrading the firmware to FOS v7.1.0, you must run the supportSave command to save any existing
error log information. Once the switch is upgraded to FOS v7.1.0, any previously existing error log entries on
the switch will be permanently lost - only new error log entries created while running FOS v7.1.0 will be
retained.
DCX/DCX-4S units running any FOS v7.0.x can be non-disruptively upgraded to FOS v7.1.0. This upgrade is
non-disruptive to both FC and FCoE traffic (when using FCOE10-24 blades).
FR4-18i and FC10-6 blades are not supported on DCX/DCX-4S with FOS v7.1. Hence these blades must be
removed from the chassis before upgrading the firmware to FOS v7.1.
Disruptive upgrades to Fabric OS v7.1.0 are allowed and supported from FOS 6.4.x (up to a two-level
migration) using the optional “-s” parameter with the firmwaredownload command.
If there are multiple node EGs (encryption groups) in a fabric, please complete firmwaredownload on one node
at a time before downloading on another node.
The Brocade 8000 does not support non-disruptive hot code loads (HCL). Upgrading the Brocade 8000 to FOS
v7.1.0 will be disruptive to the I/O through the switch.
Recommended Migration Paths to FOS v7.1.0
Migrating from FOS v7.0.0x
Any 8G or 16G platform running any FOS v7.0.0x firmware can be non-disruptively upgraded to FOS v7.1.0.
However, users must pay close attention to the following before upgrading the DCX 8510 platforms to FOS
v7.1:
If the upgrade on a DCX 8510 from FOS v7.0.0x to FOS v7.1 is blocked due to the absence of the EICL license,
users must first upgrade the DCX 8510 to FOS v7.0.1x or later, install the EICL license on the DCX 8510, and
then proceed with upgrading the firmware to FOS v7.1.
Migrating from FOS v7.0.1x or 7.0.2x
Any 8G or 16G platform running any FOS v7.0.1x /FOS v7.0.2x firmware can be non-disruptively upgraded to
FOS v7.1.0. However, users must pay close attention to the following before upgrading the DCX 8510
platforms to FOS v7.1 release:
If the upgrade on a DCX 8510 from FOS v7.0.1x/FOS v7.0.2x to FOS v7.1 is blocked due to the absence of
the EICL license, users must first install the EICL license on the DCX 8510 and then proceed with upgrading
the firmware to FOS v7.1.
Migrating from FOS v6.4.x
DCX/DCX-4S units running any FOS v6.4.x firmware must be upgraded to FOS v7.0.x before they can be non-
disruptively upgraded to FOS v7.1.
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Any 8G platforms (other than DCX/DCX-4S) that are currently operating at lower than FOS v6.4.1a must be
upgraded to FOS v6.4.1a or later, they then must be upgraded to FOS v7.0.x, before non-disruptively
upgrading to FOS v7.1.0. Upgrading these platforms from any FOS V6.4.x release lower than FOS v6.4.1a to
FOS v7.0.x will cause disruption to FC traffic.
Any 8G platform operating at FOS v6.4.1a or later versions of FOS v6.4.x must be upgraded to FOS v7.0.x or
later before non-disruptively upgrading to FOS v7.1.0.
Migrating from FOS v6.4.1_fcoe1
Units running FOS v6.4.1_fcoe1 must be upgraded to FOS v7.0.x before non-disruptively upgrading to FOS
v7.1.
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Important Notes
This section contains information that you should consider before you use this Fabric OS release.
Brocade Network Advisor Compatibility
Brocade® Network Advisor provides the industry’s first unified network management solution for data, storage,
and converged networks. It supports Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs), Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE) networks, Layer 2/3 IP switching and routing networks, wireless networks, application delivery
networks, and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks. In addition, Brocade Network Advisor supports
comprehensive lifecycle management capabilities across different networks through a seamless and unified
user experience. It is the next-generation successor product to legacy Brocade management products (Brocade
Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM), Brocade Fabric Manager (FM) and Brocade Enterprise Fabric Connectivity
Manager (EFCM)).
Brocade Network Advisor is available with flexible packaging and licensing options for a wide range of network
deployments and for future network expansion. Brocade Network Advisor 12.0.0 is available in
SAN-only edition IP-only edition SAN+IP edition.
For SAN Management, Network Advisor 12.0 is available in three editions:
Network Advisor Professional: a fabric management application that is ideally suited for small-size
businesses that need a lightweight management product to manage their smaller fabrics. It manages
one FOS fabric at a time and up to 1,000 switch ports. It provides support for Brocade FC switches,
Brocade HBAs / CNAs, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switches.
Network Advisor Professional Plus: a SAN management application designed for medium-size
businesses or departmental SANs for managing up to thirty-six physical or virtual fabrics (FOS) and up
to 2,560 switch ports. It supports Brocade backbone and director products (DCX 8510-4/DCX-4S,
48Ks, etc.), FC switches, Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP) switches, Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) switches/
Integrated Routing (IR) capabilities, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) / DCB switches, and Brocade
HBAs / CNAs.
Network Advisor Enterprise: a management application designed for enterprise-class SANs for
managing up to thirty-six physical or virtual fabrics and up to 9,000 switch ports. Network Advisor SAN
Enterprise supports all the hardware platforms and features that Network Advisor Professional Plus
supports, and adds support for the Brocade DCX Backbone (DCX 8510-8/DCX) and Fiber Connectivity
(FICON) capabilities.
More details about Network Advisor’s new enhancements can be found in the Network Advisor 12.0 Release
Notes, Network Advisor 12.0 User Guide, and Network Advisor 12.0 Installation, Migration, & Transition
Guides.
Note:
Brocade Network Advisor 12.0 is required to manage switches running FOS 7.1 or later, and also to manage
the Brocade 6520 platform.
DCFM Compatibility
DCFM is not qualified with and does not support the management of switches operating with FOS v7.0 and
later firmware versions. You must first upgrade DCFM to Network Advisor 12.0 if you are planning to upgrade
devices to FOS v7.1.0 or later.
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WebTools Compatibility
FOS v7.1.0 is qualified and supported only with Oracle JRE 1.7.0 update 9.
SMI Compatibility
It is important to note that host SMI-S agents cannot be used to manage switches running FOS v7.1.0
If users want to manage a switch running FOS v7.1.0 using SMI-S interface, they must use Brocade
Network Advisor’s integrated SMI agent.
Fabric OS Compatibility
The following table lists the earliest versions of Brocade software supported in this release, that is, the earliest
supported software versions that interoperate. Brocade recommends using the latest software versions to get
the greatest benefit from the SAN.
To ensure that a configuration is fully supported, always check the appropriate SAN, storage or blade server
product support page to verify support of specific code levels on specific switch platforms prior to installing on
your switch. Use only FOS versions that are supported by the provider.
For a list of the effective end-of-life dates for all versions of Fabric OS, visit the following Brocade Web site:
http://www.brocade.com/support/end_of_life.jsp
Supported Products and FOS Interoperability
Brocade 2000-series switches Not supported, end of support
(December 2007)
Brocade 3200, 3800 Direct E-port connections are not
supported – must use FCR
Brocade 3000 Direct E-port connections are not
supported – must use FCR v3.2.1c 3
Silkworm 3016, 3250, 3850, 3900, 24000 Direct E-port connections are not
supported – must use FCR
4100, 4900, 7500, 7500e, 5000, 200E, 48K
Brocade 4012, 4016, 4018, 4020, 4024, 4424
v6.2.2 or later6
Silkworm 12000 v5.0.x 3 (Direct E_Port connections are
not supported – must use FCR)
Brocade 5410, 5480, 5424, 5450, 5460, 5470, NC-5480 v6.2.0 or later6
Brocade DCX, 300, 5100, 5300 v6.1.0e and later 2 6 8
VA-40FC v6.2.1_vfc 6, v6.2.2 or later 6
Brocade DCX-4S v6.2.0 or later 6 8
Brocade DCX with FS8-18 blade(s), Brocade Encryption Switch v6.1.1_enc or later 6
Brocade 7800, DCX and DCX-4S with FCOE10-24 or FX8-24 blades V6.3.0 or later
Brocade 8000 V6.1.2_CEE1 or later
Brocade DCX/DCX-4S with FA4-18 blade(s) DCX requires v6.0.x or later 6, DCX-4S
requires 6.2.x or later5 6
Brocade DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 FOS v7.0 or later
Brocade 6510 FOS v7.0 or later
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Supported Products and FOS Interoperability
Brocade 6505 FOS v7.0.1 or later
Brocade 6520 FOS v7.1 or later
48000 with FA4-18 blade(s), Brocade 7600 V6.2.2 or later 6
Secure Fabric OS (on any model) Not Supported
Mi10k, M6140, ED-6064, ES-3232, ES-4300, ES-4400, ES-4500, ES-
4700 (McDATA Fabric Mode and Open Fabric Mode) 1
Direct E_Port connections are not
supported – must use FCR running
pre-FOS v7.1.
M-EOS v9.9.5 or later
McDATA ED-5000 32-port FC director Not Supported
Multi-Protocol Router Interoperability
Brocade 7420 Not supported
Brocade 7500 and FR4-18i blade V6.2.2 and higher 4 6 8
McDATA SANRouters 1620 and 2640 Not Supported
NOS (VDX Platform) Interoperability
Brocade VDX6710, VDX6720, VDX6730 NOS v2.1.1 or later7
Brocade VDX8770 NOS 3.0 or later
Table Notes:
1 When routing to an M-EOS edge fabric using frame redirection, the M-EOS fabric must have a FOS-based product in
order to configure the frame redirection zone information in the edge fabric.
2 When directly attached to a Host or Target that is part of an encryption flow.
3 These platforms may not be directly attached to hosts or targets for encryption flows.
4 McDATA 1620 and 2640 SANRouters should not be used with FOS-based routing (FCR) for connections to the same
edge fabric.
5 FA4-18 is not supported in a DCX/DCX-4S that is running FOS v7.0 or later
6 If operating with FOS v6.2.2e or earlier, Adaptive Networking QoS must be disabled when connecting to 16G FC
platform. Otherwise, ISL will segment.
7 Connectivity to FC SAN is established via VDX6730 connected to FCR running FOS v7.0.1 or later. FCR platforms
supported include 5100, VA-40FC, 5300, 7800, DCX, DCX-4S, DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4, 6510, 6520 (requires FOS
v7.1 or later). For higher FCR backbone scalability (refer to separate “Brocade SAN Scalability Guidelines”
documentation for details), please use 5300, 6520, DCX, DCX-4S, DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4.
8 FR4-18i and FC10-6 are not supported on DCX/DCX-4S on FOS v7.1 or later.
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Zoning Compatibility Note:
Users are recommended to upgrade to the following versions of firmware when interoperating with a switch
running FOS v7.0 or later in the same layer 2 fabric to overcome some of the zoning operations restrictions
that otherwise exist:
Main code level Patch code levels with full zoning
compatibility
FOS v6.2 FOS v6.2.2d or later
FOS v6.3 FOS v6.3.2a or later
FOS v6.4 FOS v6.4.1 or later
If there are switches running FOS versions lower than the above listed patch levels in the same fabric as a
switch with FOS v7.0 or later, then cfgsave and cfgenable operations initiated from these switches will fail if
the zoning database is greater than 128KB. In such scenarios zoning operations such as cfgsave/cfgenable
can still be performed successfully if initiated from a switch running FOS v7.0 or later.
Blade Support
Fabric OS v7.1.0 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the DCX/DCX-4S noted in the following
table:
DCX/DCX-4S Blade Support Matrix
16-, 32-, 48- and 64-port 8Gbit port blades (FC8-16,
FC8-32, FC8-48, FC8-64)
Supported with FOS v6.0 and above (FC8-64 requires
FOS v6.4) with any mix and up to 8/4 of each. No
restrictions around intermix.
Intelligent blade Up to a total of 8/4 intelligent blades. See below for
maximum supported limits of each blade.
6 port 10G FC blade (FC10-6) Not supported on FOS v7.1 or later
FCIP/FC Router blade (FR4-18i) Not supported on FOS v7.1 or later
Virtualization/Application Blade (FA4-18) Not supported on FOS v7.0 or later
Encryption Blade (FS8-18) Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type.
Next Generation Distance Extension Blade (FX8-24) Up to a max of 4 blades of this type.
Note: FR4-18i cannot coexist with FX8-24 in FOS v7.0
or later
FCoE/L2 CEE blade FCOE10-24 Up to a max of 4 blades of this type. Not supported in
the same chassis with other intelligent blades or the
FC8-64 port blade.
FC16-32, FC16-48 Not supported
Table 1 Blade Support Matrix for DCX and DCX-4S with FOS v7.1
Note: The iSCSI FC4-16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX/DCX-4S.
Fabric OS v7.1 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the DCX 8510-8 and DCX 8510-4 noted in
the table below.
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DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 Blade Support Matrix
FC16-32, FC16-48 16G FC blades Supported starting with FOS v7.0
FC8-64 64 port 8Gbit port blade With any mix and up to 8/4 of each. No restrictions
around intermix.
Note: FC8-16, FC8-32, FC8-48 blades are not
supported on DCX 8510 platforms
FC8-32E, FC8-48E Condor3 based 8G blades Supported starting with FOS v7.0.11
FC10-6 Not supported.
Intelligent blade Up to a total of 8/4 intelligent blades. See below for
maximum supported limits of each blade.
FCIP/FC Router blade (FR4-18i) Not supported.
Virtualization/Application Blade (FA4-18) Not supported
Encryption Blade (FS8-18) Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type.
Next Generation Distance Extension Blade (FX8-24) Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type.
FCoE/L2 CEE blade FCOE10-24 Not supported
Table 2 Blade Support Matrix for DCX 8510-8 and DCX 8510-4 with FOS v7.1
Note: The iSCSI FC4-16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4.
1. Note that 16G SFP+ is not supported in FC8-32E and FC8-48E blades
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Power Supply Requirements for Blades in DCX/DCX-4S
Blades Type of Blade
DCX/DCX-4S
@110 VAC
(Redundant
configurations)
DCX/DCX-4S
@200-240 VAC
(Redundant
configurations)
Comments
FC10-61, FC8-
16, FC8-32,
FC 8-48, FC8-
64
Port Blade 2 Power
Supplies
2 Power Supplies
Distribute the Power Supplies
evenly to 2 different AC
connections for redundancy.
FR4-18i1 Intelligent
Blade
Not Supported 2 Power Supplies
FS8-18,
FX8-24,
FCOE10-24
Intelligent
Blade
Not Supported DCX: 2 or 4 Power
Supplies
DCX-4S: 2 Power
Supplies
For DCX with three or more
FS8-18 Blades, (2+2)
220VAC Power Supplies are
required for redundancy.
For DCX with one or two
FS8-18 Blades, (2) 220VAC
Power Supplies are required
for redundancy.
For DCX-4S, (2) 220VAC
Power Supplies provide
redundant configuration
with any supported number
of FS8-18 Blades.
For both DCX and DCX-4S
with FX8-24 blades, (1+1)
220VAC Power Supplies are
required for redundancy.
Table 3 Power Supply Requirements for DCX and DCX-4S
1. Note that FC10-6 and FR4-18i are not supported with FOS v7.1 or later
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Typical Power Supply Requirements Guidelines for Blades in DCX 8510-8
(For specific calculation of power draw with different blade combinations, please refer to Appendix A: Power Specifications
in the 8510-8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)
Configured
Number of Ports Blades Type of Blade
DCX 8510-8
@110 VAC
(Redundant
configurations)
DCX 8510-8
@200-240
VAC (Redundant
configurations)
Comments
Any combination
of 8Gb or 16Gb
ports with QSFP
ICLs
FC8-64, FC16-32,
FC8-32E
Port Blade 4 Power Supplies 2 Power
Supplies
200-240VAC: 1+1
Power Supplies
110VAC: 2+21
Power Supplies
256 16Gb ports +
QSFP ICLs
FC16-32, FC16-48
(Maximum of fully
populated FC16-32
blades)
Port Blade 4 Power Supplies 2 Power
Supplies
200-240VAC: 1+1
Power Supplies
110VAC: 2+21
Power Supplies
Max 8 FC16-32 port
blades
256 8Gb ports +
QSFP ICLs
FC8-32E, FC8-48E
(Maximum of fully
populated FC8-32E
blades)
Port Blade 4 Power Supplies 2 Power
Supplies
200-240VAC: 1+1
Power Supplies
110VAC: 2+21
Power Supplies
Max 8 FC8-32E port
blades
192 16Gb Ports &
max 2 intelligent
blades (FX8-24
/FS8-
18/combination)
with QSFP ICLs
FC16-32, FC16-48,
FX8-24, FS8-18
Port /
Intelligent
Blade
4 Power Supplies 2 Power
Supplies
200-240VAC: 1+1
Power Supplies
110VAC: 2+21
Power Supplies
Max four FC16-48
port blades and max
2 Intelligent blades
192 8Gb Ports &
max 2 intelligent
blades (FX8-24
/FS8-18/
combination) with
QSFP ICLs
FC8-32E, FC8-48E,
FX8-24, FS8-18
Port /
Intelligent
Blade
4 Power Supplies 2 Power
Supplies
200-240VAC: 1+1
Power Supplies
110VAC: 2+21
Power Supplies
Max four FC8-48E
port blades and max
2 Intelligent blades
336 16Gb ports +
QSFP ICLs FC16-48
(Maximum of
seven FC16-48
blades, with one
empty port blade
slot)
Port Blade
4 Power Supplies
2 Power
Supplies
200-240VAC: 1+1
Power Supplies
110VAC: 2+21
Power Supplies
Max 7 FC16-48 port
blades
336 8Gb ports +
QSFP ICLs
FC8-48E
(Maximum of
seven FC8-48E
blades, with one
empty port blade
slot)
Port Blade
4 Power Supplies
2 Power
Supplies
200-240VAC: 1+1
Power Supplies
110VAC: 2+21
Power Supplies
Max 7 FC8-48E port
blades
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Typical Power Supply Requirements Guidelines for Blades in DCX 8510-8
(For specific calculation of power draw with different blade combinations, please refer to Appendix A: Power Specifications
in the 8510-8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)
Configured
Number of Ports Blades Type of Blade
DCX 8510-8
@110 VAC
(Redundant
configurations)
DCX 8510-8
@200-240
VAC (Redundant
configurations)
Comments
384 16Gb ports +
QSFP ICLs
FC16-32, FC16-48 Port Blade Not Supported 4 Power
Supplies
200-240VAC:
For DCX 8510-8, four
(2+2)1
220V AC Power
Supplies are required
384 8Gb ports +
QSFP ICLs
FC8-32E, FC8-48E Port Blade Not Supported 4 Power
Supplies
200-240VAC:
For DCX 8510-8, four
(2+2)1
220V AC Power
Supplies are required
Any combination
of 8Gb or 16Gb
ports and
intelligent blades
with QSFP ICLs
FC16-32, FC16-48,
FC8-64, FC8-32E,
FC8-48E, FS8-18,
FX8-24
Intelligent
Blade
/Combination
Not Supported
4 Power
Supplies
For DCX 8510-8, four
(2+2)1
220V AC Power
Supplies are required
when any special
purpose blade are
installed
Table 4 Power Supply Requirements for DCX 8510-8
Notes:
1. When 2+2 power supply combination is used, the users are advised to configure the Fabric Watch setting for
switch marginal state to be two power supplies. Users can use the CLI switchstatuspolicyset to configure this
value if the current value is set to zero. In FOS v7.0.x, the default setting for the marginal state due to missing
power supplies is incorrectly set to zero (Defect 000349586), which will prevent Fabric Watch from generating
notifications when the switch enters the marginal state due to missing power supplies
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Typical Power Supply Requirements Guidelines for Blades in DCX 8510-4
(For specific calculation of power draw with different blade combinations, please refer to Appendix A: Power Specifications
in the 8510-4 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)
Configured
Number of
Ports
Blades Type of Blade
DCX 8510-4 @110
VAC (Redundant
configurations)
DCX 8510-4
@200-240
VAC (Redundant
configurations)
Comments
96 ports max
with QSFP
ICLs
FC16-32,
FC8-32E
Port Blade 2 Power Supplies 2 Power
Supplies
1+1 redundancy with 110
or 200-240 VAC power
supplies
Any
combination
of 8Gb or 16
Gb ports and
intelligent
blades with
QSFP ICLs
FC16-32,
FC16-48,
FC8-32E,
FC8-48E,
FC8-64,
FS8-18,
FX8-24
Intelligent Blade
/Combination
Not Supported 2 Power
Supplies
200-240VAC: 1+1 Power
Supplies
Table 5 Power Supply Requirements for DCX 8510-4
Scalability
All scalability limits are subject to change. Limits may be increased once further testing has been completed,
even after the release of Fabric OS. For current scalability limits for Fabric OS, refer to the Brocade Scalability
Guidelines document, available under the Technology and Architecture Resources section at
http://www.brocade.com/compatibility
Other Important Notes and Recommendations
Adaptive Networking/Flow-Based QoS Prioritization
Any 8G or 4G FC platform running FOS v6.2.2e or lower version of firmware cannot form an E-port
with a 16G FC platform when Adaptive Networking QoS is enabled at both ends of the ISL. Users must
disable QoS at either end of the ISL in order to successfully form an E-port under this condition.
Users can disable QoS via portcfgQos --disable command. Please consult Fabric OS Command
Reference manual for details related to portcfgQoS command.
When using QoS in a fabric with 4G ports or switches, FOS v6.2.2 or later must be installed on all 4G
products in order to pass QoS info. E_Ports from the DCX to other switches must come up AFTER
6.2.2 is running on those switches.
Access Gateway
AG cascading is not supported on Brocade 6510 or Brocade 6505.
Users who want to utilize Access Gateway’s Device-based mapping feature in the ESX environments
are encouraged to refer to the SAN TechNote GA-TN-276-00 for best implementation practices.
Please follow these instructions to access this technote:
o Log in to http://my.brocade.com
o Go to Documentation > Tech Notes.
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o Look for the Tech Note on Access Gateway Device-Based Mapping in VMware ESX Server.
Brocade HBA/Adapter Compatibility
Brocade HBA/Adapter should be using driver version 2.3.0.2 or later when attached to 16G ports on
Brocade switches.
D-Port
FOS v7.0.0a and later support the execution of D-Port tests concurrently on up to eight ports on the
switch.
Support of D-Port is extended to R_RDY flow control mode. The R_RDY mode is useful for active
DWDM links that do not work in VC_RDY or EXT_VC_RDY flow control modes.
A new sub-option “-dwdm” is added to “portcfgdport --enable” CLI to configure D-Port over active
DWDM links. The “-dwdm” option will not execute the optical loopback test while performing D-Port
tests as the active DWDM links do not provide necessary support to run optical loopback tests.
Encryption Behavior for the Brocade Encryption Switch (BES) and FS8-18
SafeNet’s KeySecure hosting NetApp’s LKM (SSKM) is supported for data encryption operations with
FOS v7.0.1 or later.
Use of SSKM with the Brocade encryption solution is only supported for SSKM operating in
PVM mode. Please see SSKM documentation for operating in PVM mode for details.
Operation in HVM mode is not supported.
It is recommended to use Tight VNC connection to access the management console for SSKM
and LKM key vaults instead of remote desktop. If remote desktop is used, customer may
encounter the following errors related to smart card reader:
Error communicating with smart card reader.
Card reader already in use by default key.
Unable to complete TEP/TAP process as window for selecting card and entering
password does not appear.
Please refer to SafeNet Keysecure install documentation for setting up and initially
configuring the SSKM key vaults. There are some changes between setting up the SSKMs and
the LKMs. Please refer SafeNet or NetApp documentation for any LKM to SSKM migration
procedures. This migration is not tested/supported with FOS v7.0.1 or later.
The following is tested and supported with FOS v7.0.1 or later
Platform Serial Number: 27CJNQ1
Platform FW Version: SSKM-1.0-03
Platform Firmware Build ID: 0.5_secure
DB version: 166
SEP FW ID: SEPLuna TDB
SEP HW ID: Luna K6 TBD
SEP SW ID: 6.2.0 TBD
System Card FW ID: 200.5
Management console version: 1.0 build 18.
For crypto tape operations, please ensure to use Emulex FC HBA firmware/drivers
2.82A4/7.2.50.007 or higher. Use of lower level firmware/drivers may result in hosts not being able to
access their tape LUNs through a crypto target container.
If the migration to FOS v7.0 or later does not occur from 6.4.1a, 6.4.1b, or 6.4.2, the following will
result
BES will reboot if auto reboot is enabled otherwise it needs to be rebooted manually for
recovery2010/11/08-04:54:35:485488, [FSS-1009], 4424/886, CHASSIS, ERROR,
MACE, FSS Error: fcsw0-vs: MISMATCH: component., svc.c, line: 2462, comp:FSSK_TH,
ltime:2010/11/08-04:54:35:485484
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Adding of 3PAR Session/Enclosure LUNs to CTCs is now supported. Session/Enclosure LUNs (LUN
0xFE) used by 3PAR InServ arrays must be added to CryptoTarget (CTC) containers with LUN state set
to “cleartext”, encryption policy set to “cleartext”. BES/FS8-18 will not perform any explicit
enforcement of this requirement.
When host clusters are deployed in an Encryption environment, please note the following
recommendations:
If two EEs (encryption engines) are part of a HAC (High Availability Cluster), configure the
host/target pair such that they form a multipath from both EEs. Avoid connecting both
the host/target pairs to the same EE. This connectivity does not give full redundancy in
the case of EE failure resulting in HAC failover.
Since quorum disk plays a vital role in keeping the cluster in sync, please configure the
quorum disk to be outside of the encryption environment.
The “–key_lifespan” option has no effect for “cryptocfg –add –LUN”, and only has an effect for
“cryptocfg --create –tapepool” for tape pools declared “-encryption_format native”. For all other
encryption cases, a new key is generated each time a medium is rewound and block zero is written or
overwritten. For the same reason, the “Key Life” field in the output of “cryptocfg --show -container -all
–stat” should always be ignored, and the “Key life” field in “cryptocfg --show –tapepool –cfg” is only
significant for native-encrypted pools.
The Quorum Authentication feature requires a compatible DCFM or Brocade Network Advisor release
(DCFM 10.3 or later for pre-FOS v7.0 and Network Advisor 11.1 or later for FOS v7.0 or later) that
supports this feature. Note, all nodes in the EG must be running FOS v6.3.0 or later for quorum
authentication to be properly supported.
The System Card feature requires a compatible DCFM or Brocade Network Advisor release (DCFM
10.3 or later for pre-FOS v7.0 and Network Advisor 11.1 or later for FOS v7.0 or later) that supports
this feature. Note, all nodes in the EG must be running FOS v6.3.0 or later for system verification to
be properly supported.
The Brocade Encryption switch and FS8-18 blade do not support QoS. When using encryption or
Frame Redirection, participating flows should not be included in QoS Zones.
HP SKM & ESKM are supported with Multiple Nodes and Dual SKM/ESKM Key Vaults. Two-way
certificate exchange is supported. Please refer to the Encryption Admin Guide for configuration
information. If using dual SKMs or ESKMs on BES/FS8-18 Encryption Group, then these SKM / ESKM
Appliances must be clustered. Failure to cluster will result in key creation failure. Otherwise, register
only one SKM / ESKM on the BES/FS8-18 Encryption Group.
FOS 7.1.0 will use SHA256 signatures for the TLS certificates, used to connect to the ESKM 3.0 Server
using ESKM 2.0 client. Upgrade from FOS versions (6.4.x/7.0.x) to FOS 7.1.0 and downgrade from
FOS 7.1.0 to FOS versions (6.4.x/7.0.x) would require regeneration and re-registration of CA and
signed KAC certificates to restore connectivity to the key vault. Please refer to Encryption AG for more
details on ESKM/FOS compatibility matrix
The RSA DPM Appliance SW v3.2 is supported. The procedure for setting up the DPM Appliance with
BES or a DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510 with FS8-18 blades is located in the Encryption Admin Guide.
Before upgrading from FOS versions (6.4.x/7.0.x) to FOS7.1.0, it is required that the RKM server
running SW v2.7.1.1 should be upgraded to DPM server running SW v3.2. Please refer to DPM/FOS
compatibility matrix in the Encryption AG for more details.
Support for registering a 2nd DPM Appliance on BES/FS8-18 is blocked. If the DPM Appliances are
clustered, then the virtual IP address hosted by a 3rd party IP load balancer for the DPM Cluster must
be registered on BES/FS8-18 in the primary slot for Key Vault IP.
With Windows and Veritas Volume Manager/Veritas Dynamic Multipathing, when LUN sizes less than
400MB are presented to BES for encryption, a host panic may occur and this configuration is not
supported in the FOS v6.3.1 or later release.
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Hot Code Load from FOS v6.4.1a to FOS v7.0 or later is supported. Cryptographic operations and I/O
will be disrupted but other layer 2 FC traffic will not be disrupted.
When disk and tape CTCs are hosted on the same encryption engine, re-keying cannot be done while
tape backup or restore operations are running. Re-keying operations must be scheduled at a time that
does not conflict with normal tape I/O operations. The LUNs should not be configured with auto rekey
option when single EE has disk and tape CTCs.
Gatekeeper LUNs used by SYMAPI on the host for configuring SRDF/TF using in-band management
must be added to their containers with LUN state as “cleartext”, encryption policy as “cleartext” and
without “-newLUN” option.
FOS 7.1.0 introduces support for “disk device decommissioning” to following key vault types: ESKM,
TEKA, TKLM and KMIP. To use disk device decommissioning feature for these KVs, all the nodes in the
encryption group must be running FOS v7.1.0 or later. Firmware downgrade will be prevented from
FOS v7.1.0 to a lower version if this feature is in use. Disk Device decommissioning for DPM and LKM
key vaults will continue to work as with previous firmware versions.
FOS7.1.0 introduces a new KMIP keyvault type for Safenet KeySecure SW v6.1 KMIP server. Firmware
downgrade will be prevented from FOS v7.1.0 to a lower version if key vault type is set to KMIP. Please
refer to the KMIP Encryption Admin Guide for more details.
FOS 7.1.0 mandates regular zones for Hosts and Targets must be defined in the effective
configuration before adding an initiator into a crypto container. If crypto commit operation is
performed without regular zones for Host and Target, frame redirection zones will not be created.
Hosts and targets must be zoned together by worldwide port name (WWPN) rather than worldwide
node name (WWNN) in configurations where frame redirection will be used
In FOS 7.1.0 the encryption FPGA has been upgraded to include parity protection of lookup memory
(ROM) within the AES engine. This change enhances parity error detection capability of the FPGA.
Special Notes for HP Data Protector backup/restore application
Tape Pool encryption policy specification:
On Windows Systems, HP Data Protector can be used with tape pool encryption
specification only if the following pool label options are used:
Pick from Barcode
User Supplied – Only 9 characters or less
For other options, behavior defaults to Tape LUN encryption policy.
On HP-UX systems, HP Data Protector cannot be used with tape pool encryption
specification for any of the pool options. The behavior defaults to Tape LUN
Encryption Policy.
Tape LUN encryption policy specification:
No restrictions, tape LUN encryption policy specification can be used with HP Data
Protector on HP-UX and Windows systems.
BES/FS8-18 will reject the SCSI commands WRITE SAME, ATS(Compare and Write/Vendor Specific
opcode 0xF1) and EXTENDED COPY, which are related to VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration)
hardware acceleration in vSphere 4.1/5.x. This will result in non-VAAI methods of data transfer for the
underlying arrays, and may affect the performance of VM related operations.
VMware VMFS5 uses ATS commands with arrays that support ATS. BES/FS8-18 does not support this
command set and therefore VMFS5 with ATS is not supported. It is recommended to use VMFS3.
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FCIP (Brocade 7800 and FX8-24)
Any firmware activation will disrupt I/O traffic on FCIP links.
Latency measurements supported on FCIP Tunnels:
o 1GbE & 10GbE - 200ms round trip time and 1% loss.
After inserting a 4G SFP in GE ports of an FX8-24 blade or 7800 switch, sometimes “sfpshow”
output might display “Cannot read serial data!” . Removing and re-inserting the SFP should
resolve this issue. It is recommended that users perform sfpshow immediately after inserting
the SFP and ensure SFP is seated properly before connecting the cables.
When running FOS v7.0.0 or later, if any of the following features are enabled in the FCIP
configuration, a downgrade operation to pre-FOS v7.0.0 will be blocked until the features are
removed from the FCIP configuration:
o InBand Management
o Multigigabit Circuit
o Shared GE among Logical Switches
o Auto-mode compression option
o VE as XISL
o 10GigE lossless failover
o Modified QoS percentages
o 10GigE ARL
o IP Configuration where multiple GigEs have same subnet values
o For a tunnel configuration on 1GE ports that has more than 4 circuits
o Teradata emulation enabled
o Circuits configured explicitly to be listeners or an initiators
FCoE/DCB/CEE (Brocade 8000 and FCOE10-24)
When upgrading a Brocade 8000 or DCX/DCX-4S with one or more FCOE10-24 blades from FOS v6.x
to FOS v7.0.0 or later, the user should carefully review Chapter 5 of the FOS v7.0.0 Converged
Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide.
FOS v7.0 or later supports a new optimized model for provisioning FCoE with fewer configuration steps
to enable FCoE on DCB ports. These changes do not allow the Brocade 8000 to retain FCoE
configuration information following an upgrade to FOS v7.0 or later. After the upgrade to FOS v7.0 or
later, all FCoE edge ports will need to be provisioned with the new model before any FIP FLOGIs will
take place
Although including Brocade 8000 in the path of TI (Traffic Isolation) and ETI (Enhanced Traffic
Isolation) Zones is not prohibited, it is not supported. Configuring Brocade 8000 in the TI/ETI Zone
path is not recommended and will result in undefined behavior.
Ethernet L2 traffic with xSTP Hello timer set to less than or equal to 3 seconds may experience
momentary traffic disruption during HA failover.
The Brocade 8000 balances the FCoE bandwidth across all six port groups (each port group contains
four ports). To get optimum performance for FCoE traffic it is recommended that the user distribute
server CNA connections across these six port groups.
Hot plugging a CP with firmware level less than FOS v6.3.0 into a DCX or DCX-4S with an active
FCOE10-24 blade will result in the new standby CP not coming up.
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When operating in Converged Mode, tagged traffic on the native VLAN of the switch interface is
processed normally. The host should be configured not to send VLAN tagged traffic on the switch’s
native VLAN.
When operating in Converged Mode, tagged frames coming with a VLAN tag equal to the configured
native VLAN are dropped.
The Converged Network Adapter (CNA) may lose connectivity to the Brocade 8000/FCOE10-24 if the
CNA interface is toggled repeatedly over time. This issue is related to the CNA and rebooting the CNA
restores connectivity.
The Brocade 8000 and FCOE10-24 support only one CEE map on all interfaces connected to CNAs.
Additionally, CEE map is not recommended for use with non-FCoE traffic. QoS commands are
recommended for interfaces carrying non-FCoE traffic.
Before upgrading to FOS v6.4.1_fcoe/v6.4.1_fcoe1/v7.0.0 or later, if the CEE map “default” value
already exists, the same “default” value is preserved after upgrading to FOS
v6.4.1_fcoe/v6.4.1_fcoe1/v7.0.0 or later. However, if the CEE map “default” is not configured before
upgrading to FOS v6.4.1_fcoe/v6.4.1_fcoe1/v7.0.0 or later, then after upgrading to FOS
v6.4.1_fcoe/v6.4.1_fcoe1/v7.0.0 or later, the following CEE map “default” will be created
automatically:
cee-map default
priority-group-table 1 weight 40 pfc
priority-group-table 2 weight 60
priority-table 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2
When upgrading from FOS v6.3.x or v6.4.x to FOS v6.4.1_fcoe/v6.4.1_fcoe1/v7.0.0 or later, the CEE
start up configuration dcf.conf file will be incompatible with the FCoE provisioning changes
implemented in v6.4.1_fcoe and later releases. Users can save the dcf.conf file as a backup and
apply it once the firmware upgrade is completed to get the DCX/DCX-4S to the same startup
configuration as in the older release.
It is recommended that Spanning Tree Protocol and its variants be disabled on CEE interfaces that are
connected to an FCoE device.
The Fabric Provided MAC Address (FPMA) and the Fibre Channel Identifier (FCID) assigned to a
VN_Port cannot be associated with any single front-end CEE port on which the FLOGI was received.
LLDP neighbor information may be released before the timer expires when DCBX is enabled on a CEE
interface. This occurs only when the CEE interface state changes from active to any other state.
When the DCBX is not enabled, the neighbor information is not released until the timer expires,
irrespective of the interface state.
The FCoE login group name should be unique in a fabric-wide FCoE login management configuration. If
there is a login group name conflict, the merge logic would rename the login group by including the
last three bytes of the switch WWN in the login group name. As long as the OUI of the switch WWNs
are identical this merge logic guarantees uniqueness in any modified login group name (switches with
the same OUI will have unique last 3 bytes in WWN). However, if the participating switches have
different OUIs but identical last three bytes in the switch WWNs, then the merge logic will fail to
guarantee uniqueness of login group names. This will result in one of the login groups being dropped
from the configuration. This means, no device can login to the login group that is dropped as a result
of this name conflict. Users must create a new login group with a non-conflicting name to allow device
logins.
Ethernet switch services must be explicitly enabled using the command “fosconfig –enable ethsw”
before powering on an FCOE10-24 blade. Failure to do so will cause the blade to be faulted (fault 9).
Users can enable ethsw after upgrading firmware without FC traffic interruption.
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The Brocade 8000 does not support non-disruptive hot code loads (HCL). Upgrading the Brocade
8000 to FOS v7.1 or downgrading from v7.1 is disruptive to the IO through the switch.
Upgrading firmware on a DCX or DCX-4S with one or more FCOE10-24 blades from FOS v6.4.1_fcoe1
to FOS v7.0 or later will be non-disruptive to FCoE traffic through FCOE10-24 blades and FC traffic.
Upgrading firmware on a DCX or DCX-4S with one or more FCOE10-24 blades from FOS v6.3.x, v6.4.x,
and v6.4.1_fcoe to FOS v7.0 or later will be disruptive to any traffic through the FCOE10-24 blades.
Connecting Brocade 8000 to an FCR-capable switch with fcrbcast config enabled will cause a storm of
broadcast traffic resulting in termination of iswitchd.
When rebooting a DCX or DCX-4S with an FCOE10-24 blade, Qlogic CNA and LSAN zoning, the switch
will become very unresponsive for a period of time. This is due to the CNA sending excessive MS
queries to the switch.
The Brocade 8000 and FCOE10-24 can handle 169 small FCoE frames in bursts. If you are using the
Brocade 8000 or FCOE10-24, and you delete a large number of v-ports with HCM, some of the v-ports
may not appear to be deleted. To correct this, disable and re-enable FCoE with the following CLI
commands:
switch:admin>fcoe –disable slot/port
switch:admin>fcoe --enable slot/port
When a FCOE10-24 blade is powered off during configuration replay, the interface specific
configuration won’t get applied. Later when FCOE10-24 blade is powered on, all physical interfaces
will come up with default configurations. User can execute “copy startup-config running-config”
command to apply the new configuration after powering on the FCOE10-24 blade.
When IGMP Snooping is disabled on a VLAN, all configured IGMP groups are removed from that VLAN.
User has to reconfigure the IGMP groups after enabling the IGMP snooping on that VLAN.
FCR and Integrated Routing
With routing and dual backbone fabrics, the backbone fabric ID must be changed to keep the IDs
unique.
VEX edge to VEX edge device sharing will not be supported.
To allow Hot Code Load on Brocade 5100 when using Integrated Routing, the edge switch connected
to the 5100 must be running Fabric OS v6.1 or later code.
Forward Error Correction (FEC)
Though FEC capability is generally supported on Condor3 (16G capable FC) ports when operating at
either 10G or 16G speed, it is not supported when using active DWDM links. Hence FEC must be
disabled on Condor3 ports when using active DWDM links by using portCfgFec command. Failure to
disable FEC on active DWDM links may result in link failure during port bring up.
FICON
For FICON qualified releases, please refer to the Appendix: Additional Considerations for FICON
Environments section for details and notes on deployment in FICON environments. (This appendix is
only included for releases that have completed FICON qualification).
FL_Port (Loop) Support
FL_Port is not supported on FC16-32, FC16-48, FC8-32E, FC8-48E, Brocade 6510, Brocade 6505
and Brocade 6520.
The FC8-48 and FC8-64 blade support attachment of loop devices.
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Virtual Fabrics must be enabled on the chassis and loop devices may only be attached to ports on
a 48-port or 64-port blade assigned to a non-Default Logical Switch operating with the default 10-
bit addressing mode (they may not be in the default Logical Switch).
A maximum of 144 ports may be used for connectivity to loop devices in a single Logical Switch within
a chassis in 10-bit dynamic area mode on DCX-4S.
A maximum of 112 ports may be used for connectivity to loop devices in a single Logical Switch within
a chassis in 10-bit dynamic area mode on DCX.
Loop devices continue to be supported when attached to ports on the FC8-16, FC8-32 with no new
restrictions.
ICLs on DCX/DCX-4S
If a DCX with an 8-link ICL license is connected to a DCX with a 16-link license, the DCX with the 16-
link license will report enc_out errors. The errors are harmless, but will continue to increment. These
errors will not be reported if a DCX with a 16-link license is connected to a DCX-4S with only 8-link ICL
ports.
If ICL ports are disabled on only one side of an ICL link, the enabled side may see enc_out errors.
Native Connectivity (M-EOS interoperability)
A switch running FOS v7.0 or later cannot form E-port connectivity with any M-EOS platform.
Platform running FOS v7.1 does not support EX port configuration in Interopmode 2 or Interopmode 3.
Device sharing between a switch running FOS v7.1 and McDATA fabrics is allowed via Integrated
Routing platforms using FOS v7.0.x (or earlier) firmware.
Port Initialization
Users may observe that a port is in “Port Throttled” state when an F_Port is being initialized. This is mostly an
informational message that is shown in switchshow output indicating systematic initialization of F_Ports.
However, a port may remain in “Port Throttled” state for an extended period of time and may never come
online if it fails to negotiate speed successfully with the neighboring port. Users are advised to check the speed
setting of the neighboring switch port to determine the cause of the speed negotiation failure.
Example Output:
74 9 10 36ed40 id N8 In_Sync FC Disabled (Port
Throttled)
Port Mirroring
Port Mirroring is not supported on the Brocade 7800.
Port Statistics
On 16G capable ports, the enc_in (number of encoding errors inside of frames) and enc_out
(number of encoding errors outside of frames) counters will not be updated when a port is operating
at either 10G or 16G speed. This is due to the different encoding scheme used at 10G and 16G
speeds when compared to 8G/4G/2G speeds. Because of this, Fabric Watch alerts and Port Fencing
based on ITW (Invalid Transmission Word) thresholds will not function as these enc_in and enc_out
counters will not be incremented when operating at either 10G or 16G (ITW is computed based on
enc_in and enc_out counters). Also any CLI or GUI that displays enc_in and enc_out counters will
show no incrementing of these counters when a port is operating at either 10G or 16G.
Both enc_in and enc_out counters contain valid information when a Condor3-based port is operating
at speeds other than 10G and 16G.
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Virtual Fabrics
When creating Logical Fabrics that include switches that are not Virtual Fabrics capable, it is possible
to have two Logical Switches with different FIDs in the same fabric connected via a VF incapable
switch. Extra caution should be used to verify the FIDs match for all switches in the same Logical
Fabric.
A switch with Virtual Fabrics enabled may not participate in a fabric that is using Password Database
distribution or Administrative Domains. The Virtual Fabrics feature must be disabled prior to deploying
in a fabric using these features.
Zoning
Support for up to 2MB zone database in a fabric with only DCX/DCX-4S/DCX8510 systems. The
presence of any other platform in the fabric will limit the maximum zone database to 1MB. Please
note that there is no enforcement by FOS 7.1 to restrict users to operate within a zone database limit -
it is the responsibility of the user to not exceed this limit.
There are limitations to zoning operations that can be performed from a FOS v6.x switch that is in the
same fabric as a FOS v7.0 or later switch if the FOS v6.x switch is not running the recommended
firmware version. Please see Fabric OS Interoperability section for details.
Beginning with the FOS v6.2.0 release, all WWNs containing upper-case characters are automatically
converted to lower-case when associated with a zone alias and stored as part of a saved configuration
on a switch. For example, a WWN entered as either “AA.BB.CC.DD.EE.FF.GG.HH” or
“aa.bb.cc.dd.ee.ff.gg.hh” when associated with a zone alias will be stored as “aa.bb.cc.dd.ee.ff.gg.hh”
on a switch operating with FOS v6.2.0 or later.
This behavioral change in saved zone alias WWN members will not impact most
environments. However, in a scenario where a switch with a zone alias WWN member with upper case
characters (saved on the switch with pre-FOS v6.2.0 code) is merged with a switch with the same alias
member WWN in lower case characters, the merge will fail, since the switches do not recognize these
zoning configurations as being the same.
For additional details and workaround solutions, please refer to the latest FOS Admin Guide updates
or contact Brocade Customer Support.
Miscellaneous
Using a Windows anonymous FTP server for supportsave collection
When using anonymous ftp, to avoid long delays or failure of simultaneous supportsave
collections when AP blades are present in a director chassis, the number of unlimited
anonymous users for a Windows FTP server should be configured as follows:
Number of anonymous FTP connections = (Number of director chassis) + (Number of
installed Application Blades x 3)
RASlog message AN-1010 may be seen occasionally indicating “Severe latency bottleneck
detected”. Even though it is a “Warning” message, it is likely to be a false alarm and can be
ignored.
POST diagnostics for the Brocade 5100 have been modified beginning with FOS v6.3.1b and
v6.4.0 to eliminate an “INIT NOT DONE” error at the end of an ASIC diagnostic port loopback
test. This modification addresses BL-1020 Initialization errors encountered during the POST
portloopbacktest. (Defect 263200)
It is important to note that the outputs of slotshow –p and chassishow commands also
display the maximum allowed power consumption per slot. These are absolute maximum
values and should not be confused with the real-time power consumption on 16G blades. The
chassisshow command has a “Power Usage (Watts):” field that shows the actual power
consumed in real-time on 16G blades.
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Class 3 frames that have been trapped to CPU will be discarded in the following scenarios on
DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510 during the following conditions:
HA failover on DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510 platforms while running FOS v7.0 or later firmware
Firmware upgrade from v7.0 to a later release on Brocade 300, 5100, VA-40FC, 5300,
6510
Firmware upgrade from v7.0.1 to a later release on Brocade 6505
Firmware upgrade from v7.1.0 to a later release on Brocade 6520
The QSFP information in the sfpshow output will indicate the ID field as all zeros. This is as
designed.
ras080:FID128:root> sfpshow 5/32
QSFP No: 8 Channel No:0
Identifier: 13 QSFP+
Connector: 12 MPO Parallel Optic
Transceiver: 0000000000000000 16_Gbps id
It is recommended that for directors with more than 300 E_Ports, the switch be disabled prior
to executing the “switchCfgTrunk” command (used to disable or enable trunking on the
switch).
During non-disruptive firmware upgrades, E_Ports in R-RDY mode may cause some frame
drops on the E-port links.
Defects
Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.1.0
This section lists defects with High or Medium Technical Severity open in Fabric OS v7.1.0 as of 12:00 PM on
December 14, 2012. While these defects are still formally open they are unlikely to impede Brocade customers
in their deployment of Fabric OS v7.1.0 and have been deferred to a later release.
None of these defects have the requisite combination of probability and severity to cause significant concern
to Brocade customers.
Note that when a workaround to an issue is available, it is provided; otherwise, no recommended workaround
is available at this time.
Defect ID: DEFECT000431529 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Restore Job failing after partial restore.
Symptom: Restore job runs up to a point and then tries to access the first dirve the restore started with. Host is
getting incorrect block and the job is terminating.
Workaround: disable tape read emulation
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Service Request ID: 1110201
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Probability: Low
Defect ID: DEFECT000363172 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Call home notifications continue to use previous (old) switch name after a switch name change has
been made
Symptom: Call home and e-mail notifications continue to use the previous (old) switch name.
Feature: FOS Software Function: SNMP
Service Request ID: 655745
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Probability: High
Defect ID: DEFECT000393844 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Customer security audit shows CVE-2011-3389 TLS-SSL Server Blockwise Chosen-Boundry
Browser Weakness
Symptom: Security audit of switch's admin Ethernet ports discovered CVE-2011-3389 TLS-SSL Server
Blockwise Chosen-Boundry Browser Weakness
Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Services
Service Request ID: 718989
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Probability: Low
Defect ID: DEFECT000409665 Technical Severity: High
Summary: DCX PCI slot access triggered CP hang/reboot
Symptom: DCX failed over without any reason and no panic dumps or core files were created. The failover is
followed by a EM-1051 (Inconsistency detected) for Slot 9.
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Service Request ID: 750723
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Probability: Medium
Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000415126 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Maximum number of IP Filter policies present causes Web Tools to report "Maximum number of
rules created" during rule edits
Symptom: When the maximum number of ipfilter policies are present, the user may see "Maximum number of
rules created" when editing inactive policies (adding or removing rules from policies)
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Security Policies
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: High
Defect ID: DEFECT000415775 Technical Severity: High
Summary: audit events for CLI are not recorded if a user sends a remote command
Symptom: Commands executed as in-line with ssh will not be logged in clihistory and auditCfg for CLI.
Feature: Security Vulnerability Function: OpenSSH
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000417149 Technical Severity: High
Summary: EPort Recommission of XISL EPorts causes "c3_disc" counters to increment. Traffic however does
not fail.
Symptom: EPort Recommission of XISL EPorts causes "c3_disc" counters to increment with DLS and Lossless
enabled. Traffic however does not fail.
Workaround: No workaround is needed currently, given that FICON traffic continues to run without errors.
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000418249 Technical Severity: High
Summary: spinfab is failing ports when the option -nframes 0 is run on multiple switches at the same time in a
fabric.
Symptom: Failed messages and ports seen after running spinfab -nframes 0.
Workaround: spinfab -nframes 0 can be run in serial on mupltiple switches instead of in parallel.
Feature: Diagnostics Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000422477 Technical Severity: High
Summary: HBA on 5460 embedded port does not login correctly after the host is rebooted
Symptom: Embedded switch port must be disabled/enabled once the host is fully booted to support successful
HBA login.
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Service Request ID: 1032557
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000423746 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FX8-24 comes up FAULTY(76) after inserting a non supported FC4-32 blade in another slot and
hafailover is issued.
Symptom: FX8-24 comes up as FAULTY(76) after hafailover when an unsupported FC4-32 is also in the same
chassis.
Workaround: Remove unsupported blade from the chassis and slotpoweroff/on the faulted blade.
Feature: Striker/Spike Platform Services Function: Blade Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Medium
Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000429970 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Host LUN discovery between two edges fails in FCR routed fabric
Symptom: A host in an edge fabric that is zoned with a target in another edge can not discover the LUNs across
the routed fabric when the host is removed and then subsequently added back to the LSAN zone.
Feature: 8G FCR Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000430219 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Ports in a Condor3-Condor2 ISL may be fenced unexpectedly after portenable when FabricWatch is
enabled with LR high threshold level set to custom values significantly below the default
Symptom: Ports are fenced unexpectedly
Workaround: Increase the FabricWatch LR threshold
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: High
Defect ID: DEFECT000431530 Technical Severity: High
Summary: With fabric binding and Insistent Domain ID on, kernel panics after moving all ports of blades 1-4
into newly created VF
Symptom: Switch panics
Feature: 16G ASIC Driver Function: 16Bbps/10Gbps Port
Service Request ID: 1095960,1095960
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000432200 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Nessus vulnerablity scan caused secd to panic after several "wt_pool_get: pthread_create: Cannot
allocate memory" and [SEC-1193] messages were observed
Symptom: Nessus vulnerability scan caused secd to panic. Observed multiple occurrances of [SEC-1193] and
memory allocation failure messages prior to secd crashing.
Feature: OS Services Function: Linux Kernal
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Low
Defect ID: DEFECT000432407 Technical Severity: High
Summary: F-Port trunk comes up as E-Port (unknown) following portdisable/enable when connected to FC HBA
Brocade 1860-2 running v3.2
Symptom: After an initial successful login, the Brocade 16G HBA running v3.2 is unable to login to a DCX FC8-
48 blade a switch portdisable/enable on the two ports. In this case, if port 10/21 (HBA port 0) is
enabled first, then it always works. If port 10/20 (HBA port 1) is enabled first, it always fails.
Workaround: Disable both ports in the trunk. Then enable switch port connected to HBA port 0. Verify it
comes online and logs in properly. Then enable the second port and verify the same.
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000432662 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Firmware download downgrade on 8510-4 in non-VF mode is blocked with reason per user password
policies are in effect
Symptom: While trying to downgrade from 7.1.0 to 7.0.0c on 8510-4, the system reported that per user password
policies were in place however, they did not appear to be set when showing them.
Workaround: Reset the passwords to default and then downgrade.
Feature: FOS Security Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Medium
Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000427618 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FFDC was not captured from the WEBD restart
Symptom: FFDC will not be captured on a webd restart.
Workaround: Internal logs persistent after a reboot are retained and can be used to debug.
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Probability: High
Defect ID: DEFECT000330166 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Port admin-AG: Master’s port number is shown in the field of “Logical port WWN” for both the
master and the slave of the N port trunk.
Symptom: Discrepancy would be seen between WT/CLI, in the values shown for Logical port WWN.
Workaround: No Workaround in WT. Use CLI
Feature: WebMgmt Function: AG Support
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Probability: High
Defect ID: DEFECT000244193 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FRU status change trap with status off is not generated on inserting a fan, blade or WWN card but
does get generated for a power supply insertion.
Symptom: FRU status change is not correctly updated.
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.0 Probability: Low
Defect ID: DEFECT000304478 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: 8b/10b encoding is not taken into account in Web Tools performance data
Symptom: Web Tools performance statistics do not match those of SAN Health.
Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Embedded
Service Request ID: 435501
Reported In Release: FOS6.1.1 Probability: High
Defect ID: DEFECT000315825 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Web Tools Port Admin-SFP: "Extended Long_dist" should be shown in "Distance" Label for
extended LW optics.
Symptom: Extended Long distance is shown as Long_dist, does not mach CLI output.
Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Probability: Low
Defect ID: DEFECT000336430 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Web Tools display in Switch Admin shows trunking bandwidth of 32 Gbps when trunk is actually 16
Gbps as shown in CLI
Symptom: Inaccurate Web Tools display for trunking bandwidth.
Feature: FOS Software Function: Web Management
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000338871 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Trunk slave E-port entries not in RNID database
Symptom: Entries may be missing when executing "ficonshow rnid"
Feature: FICON Function: MS-FICON
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Probability: High
Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000344141 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Upon closing the Web Tools EE SID/DID performance monitoring graph, no warning message is
displayed and the EE monitor gets deleted when the EE monitor is added from Web Tools
Symptom: No warning message is displayed upon closing the graph
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Other
Service Request ID: 583603
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000349576 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Unexpected error message is given by Web Tools 1) while removing the uncommitted static F port
mapping, in the presence of WWN – N port mapping 2) While removing the uncommitted WWN-N
port mapping, in the presence of static F port mapping.
Symptom: Wrong confirmation message and Unexpected error message would be given by Web Tools.
Workaround: Click on “cancel” present in the “WWN-N port mapping” and “Configure F-N port mapping”
dialog/Reopen the dialog and do the configuration again.
Use CLI
Feature: WebMgmt Function: AG Support
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000361863 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Vulnerability scan discovers Portmapper Available CVE-1999-0632 and Portmapper RPC
enumeration CVE-1999-0632
Symptom: Vulnerability scan discovers Portmapper Available CVE-1999-0632 and Portmapper RPC
enumeration CVE-1999-0632
Feature: Security Vulnerability Function: OpenSSH
Service Request ID: 649971,696577
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.1 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000375672 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: 16Gbps ISL capable ports occasionally come up at 8Gbps when cables are pulled out then plugged in
repeatedly.
Symptom: Connecting two 16Gbps capable ports together to form an ISL may come up at 8Gbps speed.
Workaround: Port disable/enable the affected ports
Feature: 16G ASIC Driver Function: 16Bbps/10Gbps Port
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000375916 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: CUP Quiesce: CUP does not return Unit-check / Busy status during interval between CP failover and
firmwarecommit
Symptom: When CUP Quiesce is operational, CUP on a dual-CP system resumes normal processing of
commands immediately after CP failover, timeouts may occur during firmwarecommit.
Feature: FICON Function: Ficud
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Probability: High
Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000410381 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: RPC entries need to be removed from IP filter
Symptom: ipfilter --show continues to display RPC ports
Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Embedded
Service Request ID: 753121
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Probability: High
Defect ID: DEFECT000414198 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: F port on core ag in cascaded configuration comes up as E-port (unknown) after configdownload
Symptom: F port on core ag in cascaded configuration comes up as E-port (unknown)
Workaround: Toggle the ports on which the issue is observed
Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000417089 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Invalid VF numbers can be specified in TACACS+
Symptom: If 0 is configured for the role list in tacacs/radius/ldap server configuration, userconfig --show will
show '0' also in the role list details.
Workaround: Avoid configuring the value '0' for role list
Feature: FOS Security Function: Authentication
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000419336 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: SFP in the port (1,2,7) shows the TX Power dispalys -40.0 on BR5100 while speed negotiation
Symptom: Problem Description : SFP in the port (1,2,7) shows the TX Power dispalys -40.0 on BR5100 while
speed negotiation
No fibre cable is connected to the SFP's.
Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Service Request ID: 1035679
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000420051 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: On DCX with FC8-48 in slot 3, CRC with good eof errors are seen.
Symptom: CRC with good EOF onbserved on DCX with FC8-48 in slot 3 on ports 3/42 <-> 8/139
Feature: FOS Software Function: System Performance
Service Request ID: 1035482
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000421461 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: On DCX-4S, backend CRC errors detected on core blade port 3/56 connecting FC8-32 port blade.
Symptom: RASLog message C2-5825 "Detect CRC error with good EOF" displayed.
Feature: FOS Software Function: OS: Configuration
Service Request ID: 1035401
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Probability: Medium
Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000421879 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: When an access control list is configured for SNMP and the list contains a subnet area, that particular
subnet will not be able to query the switch
Symptom: Not able to query SNMP from host on defined access host subnet area.
Workaround: Either explicitly define each IP address, or do not utilize ACLs.
Feature: FOS Software Function: SNMP
Service Request ID: 1087061
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000422267 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FOS Web Tools and Brocade Network Advisor should display VE ports as available in the FICON
PDCM matrix as VE ports are FMS manageable
Symptom: The PDCM matrix displays all VE ports as "unavailable".
Workaround: None, blocks, prohibits, and port naming can still be made and activated on the VE ports
displayed as "unavailable".
Feature: FICON Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000422392 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Logical switch does not report TS-1001 error message.
Symptom: Default switch will report TS-1001 message while the logical and base switch will not.
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure Function: Time Server
Service Request ID: 1033528
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Probability: High
Defect ID: DEFECT000425097 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: CAL will show supportsave status as in progress or done regardless of actual supportsave status
Symptom: Supportsave status column may erroneously note that supportsave is in progress or done after a failure.
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Low
Defect ID: DEFECT000426900 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: switchbeacon and chassisbeacon should not be allowed to be turned on at the same time via Web
Tools.
Symptom: Nonsensical led behavior will be exhibited on the switch.
Workaround: Make sure both switchbeacon and chassibeacon are not enabled at the same time.
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Low
Defect ID: DEFECT000427870 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FirmwareDownload is successful through Brocade Network Advisor but firmware is not downloaded
to the switch when configured with domain\username
Symptom: With domain\username is used as the username, firmwaredownload appears to be successful through
Brocade Network Advisor when in reality it is not.
Workaround: Do not use the \ in the username.
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Low
Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000428368 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: turboramtest output is differenet dependent on switch platform
Symptom: Inconsistent output from turboramtest on BR8510 and BR6510
Feature: Diagnostics Function: Post Diags
Service Request ID: 1102971
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Probability: Low
Defect ID: DEFECT000428466 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: "Link Fail" and "Loss of Sync" error counters incremented unexpectedly during Mainframe power on
reset.
Symptom: "Link Fail" and "Loss of Sync" error counters increment unexpectedly during controlled FICON Host
channel offline and online, during mainframe power on reset.
Feature: 16G ASIC Driver Function: 16Bbps/10Gbps Port
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: High
Defect ID: DEFECT000429899 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: In VF mode, Fabric Watch is not able to check the status of "State Change" area of LISL by
fwconfigure/portthconfig
Symptom: State change alarms from Fabric Watch when the LISL toggles exceed specfied thresholds will not be
received.
Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: PORT FENCING
Service Request ID: 1035413
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Medium
Defect ID: DEFECT000431096 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FCR host LUN discovery problem using fcrlsan speed tag
Symptom: Host in the edge fabric is not discovering LUNs when target is brought online before host when using
fcrlsan speed tag.
Workaround: When using fcrlsan speed tag, bring host online before target or toggle the host port if target is
brought online before host.
Feature: FC Services Function: Name Server
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Probability: Low
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
This section lists the defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change as of
December 14, 2012 in Fabric OS v71.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000231671 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Modifying LUNs while re-key is in progress, will abort the re-key.
Symptom: Message "Operation failed: EE(s) in the EG is busy. Please try it later. Or commit with -force
option." is observed if there is an attempt to add/remove or modify LUNs to/from a container while
re-key operations are in progress. If the user continues to commit with -force flag, the execution will
cause re-key operations to be aborted and can leave the re-key LUNs in an unknown state.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Disk Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS6.1.1_enc Service Request ID: 343561
Defect ID: DEFECT000231674 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Inconsistent specification of LUN configuration can end up with multiple paths to the LUN each using
different DEKs
Symptom: Potential corruption of data as 2 different keys might be used to access the same LUN
Workaround: Before enabling the LUN on a Path (Crypto Target Container) which was disabled, make sure that
LUN is not already enabled on another path (Crypto Target Container). First delete the LUN
(which was in disabled state) and add back the LUN to that Crypto Target Container with same
policies as for other path of the LUN.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: Data Security Function: Disk Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS6.1.1_enc Service Request ID: 343565
Defect ID: DEFECT000247754 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Switch gets nsd panic when connected to 3rd party switch with interop mode 3 with FOS v6.2.
Symptom: Customer may notice NSd panic when 3rd party switch sends invalid frames.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000265121 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: sfpshow displays incorrect information for static values of XFPs
Symptom: sfpshow displays incorrect data for XFPs in FC10-6 blade for wavelength.
Identifier: 6 XFP
Connector: 7 LC
Transceiver: 0000000000008080 10_GB/s MX sw Short_dist
Encoding: 224 SONET 8B10B 64B66B
Baud Rate: 99 (units 100 megabaud)
Length 9u: 0 (units km)
Length 9u: 0 (units 100 meters)
Length 50u: 0 (units 10 meters)
Length 62.5u:0 (units 10 meters)
Length Cu: 0 (units 1 meter)
Vendor Name: PICOLIGHT INC
Vendor OUI: 00:04:85
Vendor PN: PL-XXL-SE-S45-2B
Vendor Rev: A1Bh
Wavelength: 2000 (units nm) <<<<
Options: 4b19 Loss_of_Sig,Tx_Fault,Tx_Disable
BR Max: 20
BR Min: 16
Serial No: C716XAZUV
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.0 Service Request ID: 402099
Defect ID: DEFECT000272439 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: "no cee" command gives misleading error message
Symptom: When trying to remove cee map from interface, using "no cee qlogic" gives "% Error: Map does not
exist", which is acceptable but unnecessary and misleading because the actual command to remove
cee map is "no cee". "no cee lab" gives "% Error: Map is still activated", which is misleading and
wrong. the error message should have been along the lines of incorrect command.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: CEE-MANAGEABILITY Function: CLI
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.0 Service Request ID: 410621
Defect ID: DEFECT000275065 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: firmwaredownload with diagPost enabled can lead to unpredictable results such as continuous CP/BP
reboots or switch not getting enabled
Symptom: Results can be unpredictable and could lead to continuous CP/BP reboots or switch not getting
enabled
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: Diagnostics Function: Post Diags
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.2
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000280521 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Switch View doesn’t show steady black when port in No_Light state after cable plug out, whereas
hardware shows.
Symptom: Hardware and Switch View may not be in synch.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000285745 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Kernel watchdog timer expired when pulling Ethernet cable or connected to an unstable link
Symptom: Switch kernel watchdog panics with BR5100 and BR5300 occasionally
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: OS Services Function: Linux Kernal
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.0 Service Request ID: 423329
Defect ID: DEFECT000296816 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: "Invalid session" error message is shown when launching Web Tools from DCFM
Symptom: The Web Tools application will fail to launch.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Login / Session Management
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000299540 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: The manual_rekey -all command will not function in director-class chassis when multiple EEs are
present with access to the same LUN
Symptom: Manual rekey fails when there are DEK cluster LUNs hosted by both EEs from same chassis.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Disk Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000301856 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Boot Over SAN fails with switch port set to 8GB on Brocade 5470.
Symptom: A 3rd party device connected to a Brocade 5470 takes a long time to come online and boot over SAN
can fail.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: Embedded Platform Services Function: BR 5470 Integration
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000308538 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Direct P2P FCoE based device logins (VF to VN port) are being displayed as NPIV logins on the
8000 switch.
Symptom: Direct P2P FCoE based device logins (VF to VN port) are being displayed as NPIV logins. There is
no way to differentiate between a FIP FLOGI VN port logins and NPIV logins.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: CEE-FCOE Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000318367 Technical Severity: High
Summary: kacd crashes during offline rekey on REPL LUNs on the Brocade Encryption Switch
Symptom: If this daemon crash occurs, it will result in a switch reboot, and temporary traffic disruption
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: Data Security Function: Key Vault
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000321196 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: RSA user authentication will show clear text when in "next code" mode
Symptom: User is allowed to enter change of password in clear text
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Security Function: Radius
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1_fcoe
Defect ID: DEFECT000321362 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Detected termination of zoned:13272 when LSAN zones were pushed from edge fabric
Symptom: If multiple scripts are run to create and push the "LSAN" zone configuration, an hafailover of a
director, or reboot of a switch may result
Workaround: Create and push the "LSAN" zone configurations manually without multiple scripts.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services Function: Zoning
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: ,sr698567
Defect ID: DEFECT000326023 Technical Severity: High
Summary: HA-Failover of switch seen when running IP over FC with multi-frame sequences.
Symptom: With IPFC configuration, run IPFC Broadcast frames with multi frames in sequence, observe switch
fails over or hareboot after some run time.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 487819
Defect ID: DEFECT000334584 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FDISC ACC is not being properly translated on AG
Symptom: When booting up 3rd party virtualization platform connected to an AG, devices do not communicate
properly. Only seen when a device does FDISC followed by FLOGO for the same device PWWN.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Access Gateway
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.2 Service Request ID: 519669
Defect ID: DEFECT000336285 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: IPv6 encryption group connectivity with key vault fails
Symptom: Key vault connectivity is not possible, crypto operational LUNs will not become enabled.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Key Vault
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000336580 Technical Severity: High
Summary: SNMP: FA-MIB: ConnUnitLinkTable did not return all the VE ISL entries
Symptom: The user will not get all the FCIP ISL link information in ConnUnitLinkTable
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000337102 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Non-decryptable DF mode tape causes FPGA/blade fault
Symptom: When a non-decryptable DF mode tape is processed by the BES, it can cause a
DECRYPT_DECOMPRESS timeout/failure, which in some instances can cause other tape jobs to
fail. In the most serious case, the BES or FS8-18 will fault, aborting all tape jobs.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 516651
Defect ID: DEFECT000337504 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: AG: WWN mapped to port group from WT is getting mapped to a port. Improper information
message is given while mapping a WWN to a port group, after removing its primary and secondary
mapping.
Symptom: Error message given by WT misleads the user
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: WebMgmt Function: AG Support
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000338526 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: SNMP: FICON-MIB: rLIRFabricWwn of rLIRTable does not return the correct WWN.
Symptom: User will not see the correct WWN when rLIRFabricWwn is queried through SNMP
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FICON Function: MS-FICON
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000339179 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: ipfilter counters do not account for IPv6 statistics
Symptom: ipfilter --showcounters gives the bandwidth statistics for IPv4 but not for IPv6.
ipfilter --clrcounters clears statistics for IPv4 but not for IPv6.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: High
Feature: FOS Security Function: IP Filter
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000339196 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Wildcard-matched ports inconsistent with manually-allowed ports for DCC policies
Symptom: If secpolicycreate command with a range is executed in a switch having a broken port range(like 16-
21, 48-63), policies will be created for all the port numbers including the missing ports.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Security Function: ACL
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000339281 Technical Severity: High
Summary: ACL policy is ignored with HBA hardware based trunking.
Symptom: Configured permissions are not utilized in conjunction with HBA hardware based trunking.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000339701 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Even after removing the device from the LSAN zoning, nsinfo.html for switch is not updated with
removed devices.
Symptom: nsinfo.html may not be updated with devices that have been removed from an LSAN zone.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G FCR Function: FCR Daemon
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000341164 Technical Severity: High
Summary: SNMP Internal SCN reports a queue full message MQ-1005 from 48000 running FOS v6.4.0c1.
Symptom: Under a condition of a flood of RNID frames that are continuously sent from external ports, the
management server queue can become full. The queue is not stuck and will return to normal operation
after the RNID flood stops.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000342136 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: passwddefault and distribute do not remove associated authorized_keys file
Symptom: Associated authorized_keys file erroneously remains.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Security Function: SSH
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000342190 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: User may see a RASLOG about failover when N-Port is enabled that is not the N-Port for the
configured F-Ports. No failover actually happens.
Symptom: May see a RASLOG about failover even though no failover happens when Nport comes online and all
the configured ports are disabled by the user and cannot be brought up. The RASLOG gets printed
anyway.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: Access Gateway Services Function: CLI
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000342412 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: TPERF session may not be able to be restarted until all user disabled GE ports on the test tunnel are
re-enabled.
Symptom: If a user disables GigE ports on a TPERF test tunnel while a TPERF session is in progress and the
TPERF session is subsequently terminated, TPERF may not be able to be restarted until the disabled
GigE ports are re-enabled.
When in this state, if the user attempts to re-start TPERF, they will get a message indicating that a
TPERF session is already in progress.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: FCIP CLI
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000342752 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: LUN State shown as "Re-key pending (Unable to start because of critical error)" after replacing ha
member + failover
Symptom: If any of the following HA cluster related operations are executed when there are active/pending
rekeys on any of the containers hosted by any of the EEs involved in the operation and if a failover is
triggered at a later point, customer will see the rekey getting stalled.
1) Create an HA cluster
2) Add a member to an HA cluster
3) Remove a member from an HA cluster
4) Replace a member from an HA cluster with another member
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: HA Cluster
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000343519 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON: Local LPATHS not cleared from CUP LPATH db upon implicit logo for port disable
Symptom: Potential inability for FICON channels to successfully establish logical paths to the CUP, in
configurations where there are a large number of sub-channels defined to the CUP.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FICON Function: Ficud
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000344506 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Port fenced during supportsave
Symptom: Port without errors are fenced during supportsave
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: PORT FENCING
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000344871 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: LUN discovery failure for certain tape devices occurs after HAC failback during the restore operation.
Symptom: Infrequently, LUN discovery failure maybe encountered after HAC failback for certain tape devices
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Tape Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000345031 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON (w/o CUP)] Inconsistent switchshow output shown on Port #254 and #255 as port 254 is
showing "Disabled (FMS Mode)" and the port 255 is showing "Disabled (Persistent) (FMS Mode)
Symptom: port with area 254 will display "Disabled (FMS Mode)" and port with area 255 will display "Disabled
(Persistent) (FMS Mode)" in switchShow CLI. FMS mode will always persistently disable port with
area 254 even though it doesn't show it.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000345143 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: After changing the ads policy from NO ACCESS to ALL ACCESS on an FCOE switch, F ports are
disabled.
Symptom: When user sets up ADS policy to NO ACCESS, if an NPIV device logs in, the respective port gets
disabled.
Workaround: Yes. fcoe --disable <portnum> and fcoe --enable <portnum>
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: Access Gateway Services Function: Daemon
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000345301 Technical Severity: High
Summary: In FCR configurations with Speed Tags, if LSAN Binding is added, binding is not being properly
enforced.
Symptom: If LSAN Binding is added to an FCR configuration with Speed Tags already defined, binding may not
be properly enforced and devices may not get properly imported/exported.
Workaround: Removal of stale configuration.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G FCR Function: FCR Daemon
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000346417 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Data Encryption: if tape device is improperly identified as a disk device, BES could hang and go
faulty.
Symptom: BES switch is hanging/going faulty and stopping all tape backup operations.
Seeing message [CVLC-1009], ... Wrong device type: should be tape, found disk.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 585157
Defect ID: DEFECT000346532 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Disabling or shutting down a Brocade Encryption Switch (BES) causes 3rd party storage to go offline.
Symptom: Storage nodes go offline after a BES is disabled or powered off. The storage reboots several times
before it toggles between offline and services mode.
Workaround: Restart storage with VI/VT members (BES) online.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FC Services Function: Name Server
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000346554 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: When devices send LOGO and then FLOGI, without a port toggle, the route is not set up, causing
PLOGIs to peer device to be dropped.
Symptom: Devices unable to communicate with peer devices after logout/login sequence.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 567863
Defect ID: DEFECT000346889 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Raise RAS log severity level for AN-1003 to ERROR
Symptom: RASLOG AN-1003 severity is raised from WARNING to ERROR inFOS6.3.2c and later 6.3.x
release. This change provides an easy interface for customers to trap it through SNMP. AN-1003 itself
is not a real error but an indication of a potential bottleneck device. Customers who don't want to see
this RAS log should leave Bottleneck Detection disabled.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services Function: Bottleneck Management
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000347473 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: VERIFY - Failed expression: 0,kernel mode while inserting an FX8-24 blade into a DCX 8510
chassis.
Symptom: There are verify errors for the ports with invalid speed config. But ports will be disabled persistently
with disable reason. No functionality issue.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000347632 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Delays in Name Server observed during FICON CEC IMLs
Symptom: Invalid Attachment and Name Server Query failures may be observed due to delays in Name Server
processing when programming CAM entries for the ASIC.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000348098 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Web Tools zoning window fails to launch if device Port WWN and Node WWN are the same.
Symptom: Web Tools zoning window fails to launch.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Zone Admin
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000348161 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FIPS mode with DSA keys should be a blocked scenario
Symptom: An upgrade of a FIPs enabled switch with non FOS7.0.0 FIPS compliant configuration (e.g. DSA
keys for use in sshutil, Mgmt IP Sec, FCIP IP Sec) to v7.0.0 will be allowed rather than blocked as it
should.
Workaround: CLI(s) to configure FIPS certified configuration for Mgmt IP Sec, FCIP IP Sec, SSH public key
authentication should be executed for complete FIPS compliance.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low
Feature: Tech Pubs Function: Guides
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000348173 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Unable to make modifications on the Canvas Configuration List of WebTools (SID/DID
Performance).
Symptom: Once the CCL is has been created, individual names cannot be removed, copied, or edited.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: WebMgmt Function: WT Platform Support
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000348381 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Continuous Hafailover on a DCX may lead to an FFDC event
Symptom: May see ports not come online after many continuous HA failovers.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: System Controls/EM Function: Infrastructure
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000348516 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Switch failed to go active due to ASIC initialization failure.
Symptom: 4G Switch/blade may fail chip initialization, resulting in switch not going online. This is observed
more often under higher temperature with portloopback test.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 590691
Defect ID: DEFECT000348660 Technical Severity: High
Summary: After FCIP links in an FCR backbone fabric bounce several times, FCR is not translating all
SID/DIDs properly.
Symptom: Customer cannot access device after the FCIP links have bounced multiple times. Frames with same
SID/DID were sent to device after proxy translation failed in a backbone to edge FCR setup.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCR
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.2 Service Request ID: 602521
Defect ID: DEFECT000349008 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: DP panicked after modifying metric on FCIP Circuit using a crossport with IPSec enabled
Symptom: After modifying the metric on a standby FCIP Circuit of a crossport with IPSec enabled, the tunnels
for that DP complex go down due to a software fault on the DP.
Workaround: Disable IPsec on FCIP tunnel.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000349012 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FICON: Active config is out of synch with FOS indicating a port is blocked after HA failover
Symptom: Active configuration indicates port is not blocked. FOS indicates port is blocked.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FICON Function: Ficud
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000349150 Technical Severity: High
Summary: BES set to faulty, due to I/O sizes greater than 512KB starting at LBA 0 for a encrypted LUN
Symptom: BES goes faulty without clear indication of the reason
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Disk Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000349412 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: portcfgshow output displays "Fill Word (Current)" incorrectly
Symptom: portcfgshow displays incorrect values for "Fill Word (Current)" field
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000349465 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: TopTalker Monitor fails if user changes the monitor from Egress to Ingress
Symptom: User will be unable to create Top Talkers in Ingress mode
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000349730 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: IO is not distributed evenly across circuits in FCIP tunnel after multiple FCIP circuits are disabled
Symptom: If user disables multiple circuits in an FCIP tunnel, traffic may not be evenly distibuted across
remaining circuits.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000350157 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: pdmd memory increase seen on the standby CP of a DCX 8510-8 with max LS creation and fully
populated EX-Ports after a long period of time with I/O running
Symptom: pdmd memory usage may increase on the standby CP of 8510-8 with max LS creation and fully
populated EX-Ports after a long period of I/O running..
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: License Function: License
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000350270 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON Tape Pipelining Channel aborts I/O after presenting pending Attention status
Symptom: Channel aborts I/O after channel detected errors. Could lead to failed tape jobs in a FCIP FICON
Emulation configuration.
Workaround: Disable FICON Tape pipelining
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000350288 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FABR-1001, 1 of 8 trunks failed authentication during portenable of a port range.
Symptom: Port is segmented and the below error messages are seen:
2011/04/25-16:58:51, [FABR-1001], 2, SLOT 4 | FID 128, WARNING, PlutoPlus, port 791,
Incompatible Security Config -EFP rejected during AUTH.
================
2011/04/25-16:58:51, [FABR-1001], 3, SLOT 6 | FID 128, WARNING, DCX2, port 1187,
Authentication module internal error.
Workaround: Disable and enable the segmented port.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Security Function: Authentication
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000350457 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Access Gateway N-port stuck in G-port after firmware upgrade with QoS enabled on attached Fabric
switch
Symptom: AG N_Port could be stuck in G_Port after firmware upgrade.
Workaround: If this issue is encountered, disable QoS on the Fabric switch for the impacted link.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Access Gateway
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1 Service Request ID: 610119
Defect ID: DEFECT000350463 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Unable to configure ports as extended distance using CLI on 6510 10G ports without extended fabric
license
Symptom: The intention is that you should be able to configure any non-default Extended Fabric mode on a
licensed 10G FC port without requiring the Extended Fabric license – non-10G ports still require the
Extended Fabric license for this operation.
On the 6510 pizza box, for 10G ports, from CLI you cannot configure anything but the default
Extended Fabric modes without an Extended Fabric license present.
On DCX8510 family CLI, the Extended Fabric configuration behaves as expected for licensed 10G
ports (no Extended Fabric license is required for any extended distance modes).
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Switch Admin
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000350660 Technical Severity: High
Summary: D-port failing when more than 4-ports are initiated simultaneously
Symptom: D-port tests fail on some ports when run on more than 4 links simultaneously.
Workaround: Toggle the port
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FC Services Function: D-port
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000350809 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Encrypted IO halts when Initiator is configured for a frame size of 512 kb
Symptom: IO will halt.
Workaround: configure HBAs with 2112 frame size
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Disk Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000350984 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: After a reboot from firmwaredownload, fwd panic was observed
Symptom: Failed login attempt immediately after a reboot may cause fwd to panic.
Workaround: Wait 1 minute after reboot before trying to log in.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 614715
Defect ID: DEFECT000351152 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Name server assert triggered switch panic
Symptom: Switch reboot or hafailover observed when Admin Domain (AD) database was not in sync and there
was port offline event on local/remote switch.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 618539
Defect ID: DEFECT000351469 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FICON: LPATH Reset flag not cleared on local paths if CUB is returned for first init IU after reset -
path can't be assigned as CRP
Symptom: Operational CUP logical path indicates "Reset" state and cannot be assigned as CRP.
____:FID21:root> ficoncupset crp 74fa00 08
Processing - set CRP
Attempting to set Current Reporting Path to (74FA00:08)
Error return from set CRP(-48)
Specified Logical Path (74FA00:08) is not operational
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FICON Function: Ficud
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000351626 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: One of the E-ports connecting 7800 and 5300 switches was segmented due to (ESC mismatch,
Enhanced TI Zone)
Symptom: The switch may not join the fabric due to the E port segmentation.
Workaround: portdisable/enable will recover the port
Risk of Fix: Low
Feature: FC Services Function: Fabric
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID:
Defect ID: DEFECT000351796 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Duplicate E_Port SCN from Port... error messages seen after an HAFailover.
Symptom: Duplicate E_Port SCN error messages being seen after an HAFailover
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000352764 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Remote data replication application fails with multiple paths (multiple port pairs between arrays)
when FastWrite is enabled on the FCIP tunnel.
Symptom: With FastWrite enabled on an FCIP tunnel, and two data replication port pairs, the application
commands to move data between the arrays will fail. With only a single port pair or with FastWrite
disabled, everything works fine.
Customer Impact: Data Mirroring application failures.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000353202 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: CVE Identifier: CVE-2011-0419 [Security Alerts - Apache] Apache Portable Runtime Library
Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Symptom: A denial of service condition may be observed in which frequent HTTP server restarts occur.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Security Vulnerability Function: APACHE
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 626137
Defect ID: DEFECT000353341 Technical Severity: High
Summary: When XISL is disabled in VF, it leaves a condition that can trigger route problem.
Symptom: Connectivity is lost across VF with a large numbers of c3_other_discards.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FC Layer 2 Routing
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1 Service Request ID: 626039 690279
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000353445 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Out of band bulk requests (SMI) can cause Name Server to panic in frame redirection environments.
Symptom: Multiple name server panics observed in conjunction with applications which performs GXX_ID
(such as GCS_ID) queries via out of band.
Workaround: Avoid GXX_ID (like GCS_ID) queries via out of band (through RPC) querying with ID of device
that is part of frame redirection
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1 Service Request ID: 627097
Defect ID: DEFECT000354157 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FCOE LACP PDU length is non-standard
Symptom: Nonstandard size LACP PDUs being discarded at the remote end and switch could not form a
dynamic LAG with a 3rd party switch.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: CEE-LAYER2 Function: LACP
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1_dcb
Defect ID: DEFECT000354348 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Not receiving the RAS log Cx-5021 message for front port partial credit loss on an EX-Port
Symptom: Customer will be unaware if EX_Ports are leaking credit.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 8G FCR Function: FCR Daemon
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000354560 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Failed tape jobs encountered with tape pipelining enabled when utilizing a FICON to ESCON
converter
Symptom: Tape jobs intermittently fail with tape pipelining enabled when utilizing a FICON to ESCON
converter.
Workaround: Disable tape pipelining
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000354750 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Unable to access the boot prom on an BR5480 when it is installed in an embedded server chassis
Symptom: Unable to access the boot prom on a Brocade 5480.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: EMBEDDED DRIVER
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1 Service Request ID: 589577
Defect ID: DEFECT000354900 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Severity level for SCN-1002 is set to "Error" instead of "Warning"
Symptom: SCN-1002 are displayed as Errors
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: unknown
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000354967 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: WebTools: When attempting to upgrade a switch in IM2/IM3 to FOS v7.0, fail message should direct
user to Interoperability tab to change switch to Brocade Native Fabric Mode
Symptom: When upgrading a switch in IM2/IM3 to v7.0 via WebTools, the failure message references the
interopmode command, but does not provide WebTools instructions.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FC Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000355324 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: IPv6(auto) address is not displayed on WebTools if IPv4 address is not configured on a switch
Symptom: If IPv6 on a switch is configured as auto configuration, and if IPv4
address is not configured on a switch, the assigned IPv6 address is not
displayed on WebTools.
The information of "Ethernet IPv6" in the Switch Information of WebTools
shows "None".
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: High
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 447839
Defect ID: DEFECT000355346 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Replacing a failed FX8-24 blade may result in one circuit on a crossport configured tunnel getting
stuck "In Progress..."
Symptom: A crossport circuit fails to complete initialization and the user doesn't have the full bandwidth of the
tunnel.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: FCP TCP/IP Stack
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000355613 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Fabricd crash encountered during D-port testing
Symptom: Fabricd crash could be encountered when utilizing D_Port functionality
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FC Services Function: D-port
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000355888 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: D_Port (CLI): Caution message should not mention Brocade Branded SFPs.
Symptom: Caution message seen when executing D_Port CLI mentions "only Brocade Branded SFPs".
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FC Services Function: D-port
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000355909 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: perfaddusermonitor/fmconfig not correctly counting SOFf frames
Symptom: SOFf frame counter is not detecting SOFf frame ingress/egress when filter monitor is enabled.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 632819
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000356094 Technical Severity: High
Summary: IDLE not being sent after NOS - results in other issues and eventually causes G_Port.
Symptom: One side of the ISL becomes a G_Port, while the peer remains an E_Port.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.2 Service Request ID: 602057
Defect ID: DEFECT000356351 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Frame drops are observed after changing the FCR backbone domain ID.
Symptom: Hosts lost access to storage after changing FCR backbone domain ID on a DCX/DCX-4S Backbone
with FC8-64 and FC8-48 blades. Frame drops happen on the FC8-64/FC8-48 backend ports.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FC Layer 2 Routing
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 628477
Defect ID: DEFECT000356468 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Access Gateway does not clean up frame exchange properly if FLOGI/FDISC comes in from different
ports together with same exchange ID (OX-ID).
Symptom: 3rd party application reports migration failure between servers.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Access Gateway
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 629273
Defect ID: DEFECT000356559 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Need more detailed error message for blocking firmware upgrade from FOS 6.4.0c to FOS 7.0 due to
a deprecated feature.
Symptom: Firmware upgrade from v6.4 to v7.0 is blocked, and user does not get sufficient information from the
error message.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000356778 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Kernel panic following insertion/removal of SFP on B8000
Symptom: Kernel panic following rapidly insertion/removal of SFP in 10Gbit port on B8000.
Workaround: Please avoid reseating the SFPs in a quick succession.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 634985
Defect ID: DEFECT000356933 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: configdownload fails with specific timezones
Symptom: config download fails with the following error message:
configDownload: Invalid Time Zone tz = (Asia/Tokyo)
Process function of configdownload failed for filter ts, lrc = -1
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: OS: Configuration
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 635015
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000356964 Technical Severity: High
Summary: When Loop port(JBOD) and EX port are in same chip and LSAN is in place, Loop port drops PLOGI
Accept to the Host
Symptom: PLOGI Accept will be dropped and Device discovery will Fail
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000357181 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: During switch/blade initialization, FX8-24 blades forward BDPU broadcast frames
Symptom: If STP/BDPU guard is enabled on an Ethernet switch port, in some cases during a reboot of
7800/FX8-24 customer will see their Ethernet switch ports fenced offline due to rx'ing a BDPU
packet.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: n/a
Defect ID: DEFECT000357707 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON XRC processing is not correctly reporting RRS Sequence Validation failures (via 0x0F52
command reject) in all cases.
Symptom: FICON XRC is suspended and LOGREC entries with Command Rejects seen with reason code
0x0F61 against a 0xFF command.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 703661
Defect ID: DEFECT000357780 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Excessive encoding out errors on Brocade 300 ISL ports running at 8G
Symptom: Customer may notice excessive port errors (enc out) on Brocade 300 ISL ports in a configuration
consisting of a mix of 4G user ports interconnected via 8G ISLs.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000357783 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Tape device connected to BES is dropping frames.
Symptom: Tape Device Driver is failing with a check condition - illegal command while trying to retrieve a drive
dump.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: Data Security Function: Tape Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 635267
Defect ID: DEFECT000358118 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: perfttmon --show parser options have an unexpected output
Symptom: "perfttmon --show" command line parser does not validate options before accepting.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Performance Monitor Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.0 Service Request ID: 637299
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000358156 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FCIP Tunnel bounce caused by chip reset on FX8-24
Symptom: Chip reset due to PCIe errors with raslog BLS-5023. The chip reset can cause tunnel bounce and IO
halt
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Striker/Spike Platform Services Function: Blade Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000358183 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: No notification is made if a trunk has formed and not all members are in a TI zone.
Symptom: Potential routing issues after setting up TI zones for a trunk and not putting all members in it.
Workaround: Make sure all members of a trunk are in the TI zone.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: High
Feature: FC Services Function: F Port Trunking
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000358533 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Cold recovery observed when devices are not LSAN zoned but are exchanging ELS frames.
Symptom: Cold recovery after a CP Failover or during Firmware Download.
This is observed under rare conditions, in FCR fabrics. Devices that are not LSAN zoned somehow
know the PROXY ID of the other device and send ELS frames. These frames sent between the
devices that are not LSAN zoned, are not properly freed.
Workaround: Use LSAN zone or make sure devices not statically remember old proxy IDs
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 638173
Defect ID: DEFECT000358765 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Switchshow displayed the GigE port of BR7500/FR4-18i as "FCIP Copper"
Symptom: BR7500 and FR4-18i has optical SFP in GigE port, but switchshow displayed it as "Copper" . There is
no other functional impact.
Workaround: Run the portcfgdefault CLI on the GE ports
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Legacy FCIP (7500/FR4-18i) Function: FCIP CLI
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 629097
Defect ID: DEFECT000358793 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: DCX8510-4 panics during systemverification
Symptom: DCX8510-4 panics during systemverification when systemverification is run repeatedly.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Diagnostics Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 636925
Defect ID: DEFECT000358972 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Port is negotiating to 16G even though optic is only capable of 8G
Symptom: Customer will see multiple problems with I/O.
Workaround: bounce the problem port with this kind of mismatch speed setting.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel HA
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000359151 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: All clear text and encrypted LUN states are unavailable
Symptom: All clear text and encrypted LUNs are reporting: LUN state unavailable.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: Data Security Function: Encryption Group
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000359160 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Not able to enable NPIV on FCoE ports.
Symptom: If NPIV had been disabled on FCoE ports prior to upgrading to v7.0, NPIV cannot be enabled on
those FCoE ports.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 639985
Defect ID: DEFECT000359245 Technical Severity: High
Summary: The NS contains stale entries after a bad disk is removed from a loop attached device.
Symptom: When a disk is removed from a loop attached device, the PID still shows up in the name server.
Workaround: port bounce where the device connected.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FC Services Function: Name Server
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 641021
Defect ID: DEFECT000359287 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Access Gateway crashes upon receiving bad frame(s) from devices.
Symptom: switch panic when device send ELS_LOGO with SID 0 and DID as Login server.
Workaround: Avoid sending LOGO with SID 0 to AG.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Access Gateway Services Function: Daemon
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000359338 Technical Severity: High
Summary: CR8 blade in DCX went offline, but routes are not removed if the PCI scan finds an inconsistency in
power state of a blade.
Symptom: After CR8 blade in DCX failed, I/O was persistently interrupted until CR8 blade was replaced.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 636753
Defect ID: DEFECT000359493 Technical Severity: High
Summary: If FX8-24 blades are swapped, the Inband Mgmt configuration is not properly loaded onto the new
blade.
Symptom: Inband Mgmt is not functioning after FX8-24 blade is replaced (swapped).
Workaround: Reboot CP
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000359518 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Cannot remove configured Admin Domain if defzone is configured as "allaccess"
Symptom: Customer unable to remove admin domains when defzone --allaccess is set (which is an invalid
configuration, involving an unlikely "loophole" to configure.)
Workaround: remove zone files from switch and reboot.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.2 Service Request ID: 336453
Defect ID: DEFECT000359531 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Device returning more RRDYs than it's supposed to causing the TX credit of the switch to increase
beyond the initially negotiated value resulting in more frames TXed to the device
Symptom: Switch sends data to initiator without RRDY from initiator
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: C2 ASIC driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000359611 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: msd not freeing resources after RPL/DPL queries.
Symptom: Switch panic or failover due to out of resource
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1 Service Request ID: 641499
Defect ID: DEFECT000359729 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: The Brocade 8000 running v6.4.2 does not display LLDP neighbor Port Description when
interoperating with another vendor's switch
Symptom: LLDP does not display neighbor Port Description
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: CEE-LAYER2 Function: LLDP
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 642141
Defect ID: DEFECT000360104 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: With multiple BNA sessions requesting license details from the switch, requests may fail.
Symptom: Error message “Sentinel RMS Development Kit: Error[133]: Fail to acquire resource lock” seen on
switch and BNA unable to display license details.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: License Function: License
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000360186 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Encryption Engine does not handle Logout Extended Link with Initiator correctly.
Symptom: When the initiator issues logout to the Encryption engine, it received a response that it was successful,
but then the initiator is able to successfully issue a read command to the encryption engine.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000360329 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FSPF error message, "FSPF returned count_size 4 rc -5!!!!!" due to MSd call in FICON mode
Symptom: FSPF error message appears out as soon as the CEC POR is started. It does not appear in the
errdumpall output.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services Function: FSPF
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000360527 Technical Severity: High
Summary: An FCIP Tunnel in an FCR Backbone may lose buffer credits and go down if FastWrite is enabled.
Symptom: FCIP Tunnel in an FCR backbone fabric goes down due to credit loss.
Workaround: Disable FCIP FW.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000360650 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Unconnected ports randomly go into a disabled state after a hafailover.
Symptom: Ports are disabling on hafailovers on high port count directors
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000360958 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Continuous HP EVA Command View probe commands results in "Operation failed: Requested object
doesn't exist", "Operation failed: Unknown Error" and "Operation timed out.EE(s) is busy" for
cryptocfg --show -container -stats
Symptom: Continuous HP EVA Command View probe commands results in "Operation failed: Requested object
doesn't exist", "Operation failed: Unknown Error" and "Operation timed out.EE(s) is busy" for
cryptocfg --show -container -stats.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Infrastructure
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000361260 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Ports on 5022 are reporting as N16 when they should be AN when nothing is connected
Symptom: An incorrect value is displayed in the speed column of switchshow.
Risk of Fix: Low
Feature: Embedded Platform Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0_pha
Defect ID: DEFECT000361309 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: cryptocfg --zeroizeEE does not clear the DEK cache from the EE
Symptom: DEK cache from the EE is not cleared.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Data Security Function: Infrastructure
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000361820 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: CS_CTL potential marking issue due to Condor-2 to Blaster port toggle on FWDL
Symptom: With the CS_CTL bit being set properly, data is not traversing the correct FCIP H/M/L QoS
connection.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000361822 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FastWrite is clearing the F_CTL priority bit resulting in CS_CTL values not being maintained/used
Symptom: Configured CS_CTL values are no longer valid on write data frames (F_CTL priority bit disabled)
once frames are carried over FCIP links with FastWrite enabled.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000362317 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: "snmpconfig --set snmpv3" shows incorrect default value.
Symptom: default [NNMPIPC] is presented for an "Are you sure" question.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: SNMP
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 651261
Defect ID: DEFECT000362325 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Log rotation to include default.log file or eliminate it on the BP of a BES/FS8-18
Symptom: BP faults during operation.
Default.log needs to be handled in CP also.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000362362 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FC16-32 blade fails POST (FAULTY-51)
Symptom: After power cycling an 8510, FC16-32 port blade is set to Faulty-51.
Workaround: Power cycle the blade or the chassis.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Diagnostics Function: Post Diags
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000362957 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FRU status change Product event is not reflected with precise status change in the description
Symptom: FRU status shown is not precise
Risk of Fix: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000363258 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: CEE command reference guide missing operands in "show running-config"
Symptom: CEE command reference guide missing operands in "show running-config"
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: Tech Pubs Function: Guides
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 656483
Defect ID: DEFECT000363608 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Parity error detected on FCOE switch during supportsave collection
Symptom: Switch might fault during supportsave when non-significant parity errors were detected. This only
impacts FCOE switches
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000363675 Technical Severity: High
Summary: The Brocade 8000 stops passing IP traffic upon upgrading from v6.3.2d v6.4.2
Symptom: IP traffic cannot flow, SRDF fails.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: CEE-LAYER2 Function: L2 SUBSYSTEM
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 658649
Defect ID: DEFECT000363735 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Invalid words message is preceeded by "comma" in BNA master log
Symptom: comma is the 1st character in error message leading to what is missing.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000363794 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Out of order frames seen during Core blade removal/insertion with Lossless feature enabled.
Symptom: When running traffic across a core blade, out-of-order frames (OOO) are seen when a core blade is
removed and when a core blade is inserted.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: Routing
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000364055 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Brocade 8470 switch panics when it's attached to a EX4500 switch
Symptom: Switch continuously reboots however, not applicable to FOS 7.1.0 as it's not supported on the Brocade
8470.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1_cee Service Request ID: 660019
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000364066 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Some instances of swFwThLevel shows up as default even after fwsettocustom is executed
Symptom: Some instances of swFwThLevel shows up as default even after fwsettocustom is executed for VE
ports.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 654423
Defect ID: DEFECT000364382 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Executing CMSH through telnet or SSH causes switch panic
Symptom: Telnet or SSH to BR8000, then starting CMSH will cause switch reboot. No problem when
connecting through console, then CMSH.
Workaround: Telnet/SSH from same subnet or connect from console
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: CEE-MANAGEABILITY Function: CONFIGURATION MANAGER
INTERFACE
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 657425
Defect ID: DEFECT000364443 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Compact Flash became 100% full on BES after switch panic.
Symptom: BES crashed and rebooted and left a large corefile which is saved in Compact Flash, causing it to fill
up.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: OS: Linux
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 660833
Defect ID: DEFECT000364618 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: swIPv6ChangeTrap doesn't have the description of "swTestString = STRING: testTrap"
Symptom: Missing information from display without other functional impact
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 661101
Defect ID: DEFECT000364799 Technical Severity: High
Summary: After downgrading from v7.0.0 to v6.4.x, a route rebalance or recalculation will cause some ICL paths
to be blocked.
Symptom: Connectivity between devices lost after route change.
Workaround: Disable all ICL ports and then enable all ICL ports.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: UNDETERMINED Function: UNDER REVIEW
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000364848 Technical Severity: High
Summary: A race condition between scn processing and name server triggered switch panic or host/target access
problem in AG/NPIV enviroment
Symptom: AGs were not able to log back into the fabric.
Workaround: Take switches out of AG and into switch mode to get the devices back online.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Access Gateway
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 662225 682675
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000364945 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Unable create 4th tunnel with crossport circuits in chassis with multiple FX8-24 blades.
Symptom: Unable create more than three tunnels with crossport circuit configuration in a chassis with multiple
FX8-24 blades.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FCIP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000365028 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: While adding a host to a crypto target container using DCFM v10.4.5 weblinker crashed
Symptom: When adding a host to a CTC using DCFM v10.4.5, DCFM became unresponsive. System stabilizes
itself after weblinker reset and management of DCX through DCFM is operational again.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000365069 Technical Severity: High
Summary: ICL Ports on 8510 directors show "Mod_Val" on 1 out of 4 ports on a QSFP.
Symptom: Event log indicates bad QSFP requiring reseat or replacement.
Workaround: Reseating QSFP may correct the issue.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 16G Hardware Function: 16G QSFP
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000365071 Technical Severity: High
Summary: QSFP port status is not refreshed in WebTools port admin window.
Symptom: Insertion/Removal of QSFP is not reflected in Port Admin window.
Workaround: Refresh, or close and re-open Port Admin window.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Ports Admin
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000365075 Technical Severity: High
Summary: QSFP ICL ports are being fenced due to excessive state changes even though current high threshold
value is not exceeded
Symptom: QSFP ICL links are getting fenced unexpectedly.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: PORT FENCING
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000365296 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: DCX running slow after unplug and plug
Symptom: After unplug/plug, DCX is running slow even though "top" does not indicate any tasks taking up time.
All ICLs may take around 10 minutes to come back.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000365403 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: AG details is not present if one of the AG is incorrectly registered
Symptom: Switches become unmanageable through DCFM or BNA when attempting to fix highlighted
manageability issue. The affected switches remain installed and operational but cannot be discovered
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Access Gateway Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 651811
Defect ID: DEFECT000365651 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: On an embedded switch, when doing port disable/enable host will not log back in and stays
"No_Sync"
Symptom: When performing a port disable then enable, the host will not log back in.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000365735 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: In Extended Fabric sub tab shows the port speed as 0 for ports configured as N16.
Symptom: Configured N16 port speed is not displayed as N16 in the port speed column in Extended Fabric sub
tab for 16G platforms.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000365794 Technical Severity: High
Summary: In an IPSec configuration between FX8-24 and 7800, some circuits never come online
Symptom: IPSec circuits stuck in a In-progress state.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: FCP TCP/IP Stack
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000366033 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Web Tools not working with "IPv6-Only" switches
Symptom: Platforms seen with: BR5100, DCX-4s, DCX
On switches configured for exclusive IPv6 connectivity (IPv4 turned off), Web Tools fails to launch.
The error message is "Unable to launch the application".
Reproduced from desktops running Windows XP, Windows 7, and servers running Windows Server
2k8, using IE and Firefox.
Behavior also seen with FOS 7.0.1_bld05.
Risk of Fix: Low
Feature: Tech Pubs Function: Guides
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000366323 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON - IEBCOPY job fails during read pipelining on the Brocade 7800/FX8-24 blade.
Symptom: IEBCOPY may fail when read pipelining is enabled. Other tape jobs will not be impacted
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 658691
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000366713 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Topologyshow not correct on 8000 switch with Port-based routing
Symptom: VF_Ports are not distributed correctly over ISLs when port based routing is used.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000366749 Technical Severity: High
Summary: switch panic, auto-reboot when run “portloopbacktest” with “lb_mode” value 1
Symptom: BR5100 panics if using 8G speed while running portloopback with loopback cables.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000366776 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Fabric Watch may not monitor every SNMP event
Symptom: With High=0 and Low=0, Fabric watch does not monitor every SNMP event.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: SNMP
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.0 Service Request ID: 664803
Defect ID: DEFECT000366834 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Cleanup of crypto stat files fails in error scenarios like rsync failures due to low memory
Symptom: After rsync failure between BP and CP, cyrpto stat files cannot be cleaned up.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Tape Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 662425
Defect ID: DEFECT000367051 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: BES does not support HBAs that send ADISC request before PRLI request.
Symptom: The crypto stat requests will fail for certain HBAs.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: Data Security Function: Platform
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 667549
Defect ID: DEFECT000367062 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Manually stopping D-Port tests may result in software verify error.
Symptom: User sees the following software verify error message after manually stopping D-Port tests. "VERIFY
- Failed expression: (SM_SUCCESS == dp_return)"
Workaround: Let D-Port tests run to completion by not stopping it in the middle.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: FC Services Function: D-port
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000367405 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: configdownload command failed for using user account which has underscore in its name
Symptom: The configdownload command fails for using user accounts which have underscore in its name eg user_1. scp has the issue but the command works fine when using an underscore with ftp://ftp./
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 668853
Defect ID: DEFECT000367446 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: diagshow displays incorrect speed value for ports on FCOE10-24 blades
Symptom: diagshow displays the backend 4G ports. customer is expecting to see the front end 10G ports instead
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Diagnostics Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 668999
Defect ID: DEFECT000367452 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Using "switchcfgpersistentdisable/enable" can result is subsequent issues with zoning distribution.
Symptom: Zone DB distribution fails to reach all domains in the fabric.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Embedded
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 665233
Defect ID: DEFECT000367477 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: SSH "Allowed User" usernames are converted to all lower case when saved to the configuration file.
Symptom: Sshutil command will fail for the usernames containing upper case letters.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Security Function: SSH
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000368621 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: 8G switches running FOS 7.0.0 or above with locked G-port configuration and set to auto negotiate
may negotiate to 4G instead of 8G
Symptom: 8G ports negotiaing to 4G even though link is capable of 8G or higher.
Workaround: Locked to fixed speed
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: C2 ASIC driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000368894 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Need a new TZ update with Russa staying on Day light savings time all the time
Symptom: Unable to set the Timezone correctly on system and stay with Daylight savings time for countries that
have stopped changing time between standard and day light savings.
Risk of Fix: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 671549
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000368909 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: AG is not registering descriptor and creating /var/log/ag_desc.txt
Symptom: Switch experiences excessive CF usage due to generation of /var/log/ag_desc.txt.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 671597
Defect ID: DEFECT000369286 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Unsupported port speed configuration after replacing an FC16-xx blade with an FC8-xx blade
Symptom: After replacing an FC16-xx blade with an FC8-xx blade, ports previously configured to fixed 10G or
16G speed will show up as UN speed on all types of logical switches.
Workaround: Manually correct the configured port speed and reenable the port.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: 16G ASIC Driver Function: General
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000369430 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Host Discovery issue from edge to edge with VE in BB fabric if EX_Ports are on port 0-3 of an FX8-
24 blade in slot 7 of a DCX-4S.
Symptom: Hosts will not be able to discover targets across the backbone fabric.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low
Feature: Striker/Spike Platform Services Function: Routing
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000369610 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Emulated FICON Tape Read Channel Program can grow too large, resulting in FICON Protocol
timeouts and aborts
Symptom: FICON Abort during tape read emulation
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FCIP Function: FCIP I/O
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000369660 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Enhanced SERDES tuning to address CRC with good EOF
Symptom: CRC with good EOF reported with following platform, blade, port combination.
On DCX, when FC8-48 in slot 3, 3/55<->5/18
On DCX-4s, When FC8-48 in slot2, 3/56 <->2/40
On DCX, with FC8-64 in slot12, 5/151<->12/33
On DCX-4S, with FC8-16 in slot1, slot2
On DCX, with FC8-64 in slot2, 8/80 <->2/155
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 663795
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000369703 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Host could not Link up on 8G FC port when the port is configured at a fixed speed of 4G or 8G.
Symptom: After switch reboot, or slotpoweroff/slotpoweron, a port may sometimes not gain sync and also fail to
recover using portdisable/portenable. This may occur when an 8G port is configured at fixed speed of
4G or 8G, and the remote end is configured to auto negotiate, and it is the only port connected to the
remote end.
This problem is not observed when more than 1 port is connected to the remote end.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.2 Service Request ID: 672599
Defect ID: DEFECT000369858 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Panic in FCP Tape Emulation when retransmitting previously sent partial frames -- gather buffer
count is too high
Symptom: 10G ve to vex stuck in inProg. The ip address set on the xge0 disapear.
Workaround: SE reset
Risk of Fix: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: FCIP Port
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000369926 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Emulated I/O that traverses multiple hops in a VF base fabric and one of those links is a VE tunnel
with Fastwrite enabled.
Symptom: FastWrite fails in a multihop VE-XISL configuration.
Workaround: Disable FCIP Fastwrite and OSTP on the VE XISL
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Striker/Spike Platform Services Function: VF
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000370106 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Enabling track changes in native mode keeps feature active when AG mode is enabled but CLI no
longer works
Symptom: After enabling track changes using trackchangesset 1 when switch was in native mode, switch mode is
changed from native to AG; track change stays enabled but trackchange CLIs no longer work in AG
mode.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Access Gateway
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 673067
Defect ID: DEFECT000370943 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Network scanning application causing high CPU utilization by CNM daemon.
Symptom: Possible module timeouts seen during processing intensive operations such as SupportSave.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: HA Cluster
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 123606
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000371440 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON, XRC emulation sets wrong sequence count and sequence ID on re-driven RRS Chain after
getting immediate command retry status
Symptom: Host receives ABTS from the XRC utility device. Normal abort recovery successful.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 676649
Defect ID: DEFECT000371485 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Switch Ethernet port sends frame with invalid MAC address on Brocade 300E, 5100, 6510 and 7800
Symptom: Switch Ethernet port sometimes sends frames with invalid Ethernet MAC address. There is no
functional impact due to TCP/IP retransmit frame successfully; However, if there is security software
monitor each frame, it will trigger alarms upon detect invalid MAC address.
Workaround: Use 100 Half duplex instead of Full Duplex mode.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Web Management
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.0 Service Request ID: sr676355
Defect ID: DEFECT000372216 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: GA_NXT is not transfering the symbolic names (port or node) from the non-local device table
Symptom: Missing symbolic names (port or node) in device table.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FC Services Function: Name Server
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000373075 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Linux kernel module load bug causing panic on switch
Symptom: Kernel panic and reboot of switch
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 680849
Defect ID: DEFECT000373284 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: sloterrshow and ptbufshow display invalid credit value for longdistance link
Symptom: When viewing sloterrshow, values for the data VC of a longdistance link is displaying a large negative
value.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 680407
Defect ID: DEFECT000373587 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: chpids on address 0xFE fools FOS in to sending a CUP RSCN
Symptom: Dropped frames during non-disruptive firmwaredownload with open systems traffic.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FICON Function: Ficud
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000373589 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: The error message for a duplicate user assigned FAPWWN will show the slot/port as -1/-1 if the port
is in a different logical switch.
Symptom: Assigning a WWN that has already been assigned to a port in a different logical switch will display
the followng message:
"Error: Virtual Port WWN is already mapped (FID <xxx>, Switch port -1/-1)."
This does not indicate the actual physical port with the duplicate WWN assignment.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Fabric Provisioning Function: CLI
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000373721 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Switch name blanked out when FMS mode is enabled for the first time.
Symptom: Switch name configured is replaced with blanks.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Feature: FICON Function: Ficud
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000373854 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: BES does not do LOCATE to the correct position after PI does a PLOGI/PRLI during restore
Symptom: Tape restore job keeps waiting for data even after read is done and would eventually fail.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Tape Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000373879 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Firmwaredownload fails on Co-CPU of standby CP
Symptom: BNA indicates firmware download has failed.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Feature: FIRMWARE DOWNLOAD Function: co-CPU FWDL
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000373880 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Issue observed with perfcfgrestore command
Symptom: If a number of rwmonitors are created for a particular port using 'perfaddrwmonitor' command and
these are deleted, then in some situations the 'perfcfgrestore' will not restore all of the monitors
previously created.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: System Performance
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 680497
Defect ID: DEFECT000374065 Technical Severity: High
Summary: During hafailover, if there are too many timed-out and un-routable frames being forwarded to the
CPU, there is potential for a port to lose credits.
Symptom: Switch encountered many timeouts and destination unreachable frames due to a rare configuration
error. A HA fail-over while in this state resulted in hosts losing access to targets.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: High Availability
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 664775
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000374366 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Stuck VC detection is being intermittently delayed
Symptom: Stuck VC will be detected, however the detection maybe intermittently delayed
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Bottleneck detection Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000374571 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Commands stay running when telnet/ssh session is ended abruptly.
Symptom: When a telnet or ssh session ends abruptly, if there is a command in process, such as "top", the
command will continue to run in the background utilizing high CPU cycles.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: OS: Linux
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 683359
Defect ID: DEFECT000374689 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Software 'verify' error detected when portstatsshow was executed with invalid index (999) and the -f
option
Symptom: When survey a fabric , the invalid index is passed in and triggers switch panic when too many verifies
are displayed on the console.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 683277
Defect ID: DEFECT000374751 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Security vulnerability check for CVE-2011-3192 fails on switches running on FOS prior to v7.0.2
Symptom: When the vulnerability is explored, it may trigger increase in memory and CPU usage and lead to a
Denial of Service condition with Httpd server.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Web Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 683571
Defect ID: DEFECT000375295 Technical Severity: High
Summary: F_Port stuck in Disabled (N-Port Offline for F-Port) after AG reboot
Symptom: F_Ports on some access gateways are stuck in F_Port Disabled state (N-Port Offline for F-Port) and
observe raslog reports: [AG-1005], FDISC response was dropped.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Access Gateway
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.2 Service Request ID: 684505
Defect ID: DEFECT000375367 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: portCfgFillWord (C, F, W in upper case) command returns "exec error: 2, No such file or directory".
Symptom: The CLI command portCfgFillWord (C, F, W in upper case) command returns "exec error: 2, No such
file or directory".
Workaround: Use the cli portcfgfillword with all lower case letters.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 684139
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000376141 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Devices imported into VDX fabric clusters via FC Router with be listed as "Device type: Physical
Unknown(initiator/target)"
Symptom: Issuing "show name-server" on a VDX switch will display all imported SAN devices as unknown FC4
Type, "Device type: Physical Unknown(initiator/target)".
Workaround: User could login to the remote SAN fabric directly to acquire the FC4 Type information.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: 8G FCR Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000377420 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: ifmodeset is set to default after firmware upgrade
Symptom: Management ports went down after code upgrade.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Firmware Download
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 683983
Defect ID: DEFECT000377806 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: restoring snmp configurations over writing AAA LDAP Settings
Symptom: When trying to replicate SNMP settings alone from one switch to another switch using BNA, AAA
settings also getting replaced.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: OS: Configuration
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: FromPM
Defect ID: DEFECT000378374 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: F_Port trunk area configuration may be lost in switches when upgrading to FOS 6.4.x
Symptom: If there were F_Port trunk configured during switch running at FOS v6.1, Then selected F_Port trunk
configuration performed when FOS v6.2.x/v6.3.x was installed may be lost after an upgrade from
FOS v6.2.x/v6.3.x to FOS v6.4.x.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 689353
Defect ID: DEFECT000378642 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Performance Monitor Dialog: with Java 1.7.0, the selections for port/blade are not listed on the port
throughput, port error and blade aggregate throughput graphs.
Symptom: User will not see the port/blade selection on the port throughput, port error and blade aggregate
throughput graphs.
Workaround: User can manually enter the port number in the slot, port format to display the desired graph. For
blade aggregate throughput, manually entering just the slot number will display the appropriate
graph
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Performance Monitor
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000378874 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Unexpected behavior of End to End (EE) monitor
Symptom: Traffic reported with EE monitor while there is no traffic due to counters are not getting initialized
when configure EE monitor on port with no traffic.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 690341
Defect ID: DEFECT000379596 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Encryption Engine does not forward Tape "Load;unload;load" command to the virtual initiator
Symptom: The Encryption Engine does not send the "Load,Unload;Load" scsi command to the Virtual Initiator .
Workaround: Host port toggle could be used to recover.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: Data Security Function: Encryption Group
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000379613 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: spinFab does not work from switches running FOS v6.4.x to switches with FOS v6.2.x
Symptom: spinfab reports FAIL
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Diagnostics Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000379840 Technical Severity: High
Summary: fabric with ETIZoning, data stops flowing when switching zoning enforcement "Hard-Port" <-->
"Hard-Wwn"
Symptom: changing zoning enforcement from wwn <--> D,I <--> session based will cause some traffic to stop
flowing. lasers must be toggled to correct the issue
Workaround: User can toggle the port (disable/enable) to correct the issue.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FC Services Function: Name Server
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000380162 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: F-Port trunk lost connectivity after hafailover
Symptom: When a hafailover occurs on a fabric switch with F-port trunks, the fabric ID is not updated on the
slave ports of the F-port trunks. This causes the slave ports to have a possibly incorrect fabric ID. If
the entire F-port trunk goes down and a previous slave port becomes the trunk master of the F-port
trunk, this incorrect fabric ID is used and cause ACL check to fail and frame cannot go through.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Access Gateway
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 691443
Defect ID: DEFECT000381210 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Disk Controller warm start processing causing multiple IFCCs
Symptom: Multiple IFCCs occur after warm start processing completed on a FICON Disk Controller. The
number of IFCCs can cause XRC suspends.
Workaround: Disable FCIP FICON Tape Pipelining
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000381270 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: switch panic during SFP validation
Symptom: While running diagnostics, an unsuccessful read at low level or bad SFP/media itself can trigger
switch panic
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1 Service Request ID: 499697
Defect ID: DEFECT000381282 Technical Severity: High
Summary: The ability to change VC link init using WebTools port edit configuration dialog lacks appropriate
validation
Symptom: Approriate validation checking is missing which can lead to configuration missteps.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000381305 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Fabric Watch messages reporting TX/RX values above 100%
Symptom: Fabric Watch messages reporting TX and RX performance values above 100%:
2011/12/06-19:29:58, [FW-1190], 1425, SLOT 6 | FID 128, INFO, FOP Port#3/30,TX Performance,
is above high boundary(High=85, Low=0). Current value is 137 Percentage(%)/minute.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 693491,683501
Defect ID: DEFECT000381334 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Portloopbacktest clean up for 16G blades
Symptom: Cleanup portloopbacktest issues:
portloopbacktest -nframes option does not work properly on 16G platforms
Portloopbacktest actually gets skipped on 16G in slot3 and above
Default number of frames for portloopbacktest on 16G in man page is incorrect
Mode 1 portloopbacktest fails on FC16 blades in either slot 7 or 8 of 8510-4
Incorrect diagstatus outputs "dummytest" and not "portloopbacktest
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 679251
Defect ID: DEFECT000381361 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: After hareboot on B5460, internal ports go offline/online with warm recovery
Symptom: FOS version of 6.4.2 and before, traffic will be disrupted during HCL on B5460. This issue cannot be
resolved without a FPGA upgrade. FOSv6.4.3 contains upgrade of FPGA code. For the fix to be
effective, please schedule window on upgrade:
1. Upgrade to FOS v6.4.3
2. Run fpga_update after upgrade
3. and then power-cycle the switch to apply the fix.
After that, HCL to the future releases will be non-disruptive
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 678557
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000381459 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FCIP FastWrite: SRDF cannot handle busy response to commands
Symptom: Customer may get data corruption on SRDF replication with FCIP FastWrite enabled.
Workaround: Disable emulation
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 694909
Defect ID: DEFECT000381736 Technical Severity: Critical
Summary: switch domain changed and the change was not synced into configuration DB
Symptom: After fabric rebuild and merge event come very close together, domain goes out of sync. New device
will have wrong PID and inaccessible to others.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 694959,1121486
Defect ID: DEFECT000381796 Technical Severity: High
Summary: After running "sshutil delpubkeys", the admin account is locked out and user must login as root and
delete the known_hosts file to correct
Symptom: Admin account is locked out after running sshutil delpubkeys
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Security
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1 Service Request ID: 690889
Defect ID: DEFECT000381977 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Unable to add more than one FCIP circuit, even when AE license is installed after configdefault
Symptom: Unable to create additional FCIP circuits after configdefault.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: License Function: License
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000382177 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: IO will abandon a particular trunked link and cause IO disruption.
Symptom: In a multiple trunk group scenario to the same domain, a trunked link may be abandoned when the
bandwidth is not the same as the other trunked link causing IO disruption. This is only applicable to
FOS7.x.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: Routing
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000382231 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Seeing Error Messages on SKM Log "Unknown key name or insufficient permissions"
Symptom: The error message "Unknown key name or insufficient permissions" is visible on the SKM log
periodically.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Key Vault
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: SR686543
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000382643 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: CP panicked during core blade reseat
Symptom: During core blade replacement, a race condition caused a removed blade object being access by
routing module. Customer observed unintended Hafailover.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 695027
Defect ID: DEFECT000382765 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: perfhelp does not include fmconfig
Symptom: The perfhelp command output does not include information on fmconfig command.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Performance Monitor Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 696799
Defect ID: DEFECT000383265 Technical Severity: High
Summary: CVE-2009-3245: openssl: missing bn_wexpand return value checks
Symptom: Vulnerability scanning tools may report the presence of CVE-2009-3245 in FOS 7.0.0b (and older
FOS releases that use OpenSSL 0.9.8d). FOS does not have direct interface to expose this
vulnerability.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Security Vulnerability Function: OpenSSL
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000383300 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Shared memory segments are used up by name server
Symptom: Unable to manage switch: application gets shmInit: shmget failed: No space left on device
Workaround: avoid running nsaliasshow
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 698729
Defect ID: DEFECT000383327 Technical Severity: High
Summary: N-ports on AG do not receive responses after hareboot
Symptom: Sometimes AG does not show up in agshow. F-ports cannot login.
Workaround: Reboot switch (NOT hareboot)
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: C2 ASIC driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000383577 Technical Severity: High
Summary: CRC with good EOF detected on ICL ports
Symptom: Observed CRC with good EOF on multiple ICL ports between a DCX and DCX-4S.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 693593,693593
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000383769 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Switch clears all pending exchange upon receive busy status with "abort task set" causing missing
blocks on tape.
Symptom: Missing blocks on tapes written when tape pipelining is enabled.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1_fcoe Service Request ID: 682259
Defect ID: DEFECT000384078 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FCIP tunnel performance drop in FOS v7.x
Symptom: Small performance drop in FCIP tunnel from FOS v6.4.x to FOS v7.x when running small IO
throughput.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: FCIP Performance
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000385058 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: POST failure with FOS 16G blade with misleading test name
Symptom: 16G blade fails turboramtest as “fcbistest”, when chassis is power cycled due to not properly
initialized data structure. FOS turboramtest command line does not fail, reboot does not fail, slot
power on/off does not fail. Misleading error message and test name is cleaned up
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Diagnostics Function: Post Diags
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID:
Defect ID: DEFECT000385320 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON Selective resets during sort tape job with large channel programs when running through
FICON to ESCON converter and FCIP FICON Tape Pipelining.
Symptom: Customer sees the tape application fail with MIH error.
Workaround: Disable FCIP FICON and FCP Emulation
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000385620 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Entering wrong WWPN or WWNN for creating CTC will cause BES to panic
Symptom: Switch Panic
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: Data Security Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 701581
Defect ID: DEFECT000386010 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Device does re-FLOGI with a different WWN cause stale entry in Flogin DataBase
Symptom: switch reports duplicate WWN and panic.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 700637,722117
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000386083 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Diagshow output for FCOE10-24 shows 10Gig ports incorrectly
Symptom: Diagshow output for FCOE10-24 is inconsistent with that of 8000
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 701749
Defect ID: DEFECT000386528 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Switch panic upon detecting SRAM parity error on 7500 and FR4-18i
Symptom: Parity error in ASIC is very rare and may be observed after a long up time. This specific parity error
in 7500/FR4-18i SRAM cannot be recovered by software refresh, thus the attempted refresh generated
switch panic.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 705301,704563,721929
Defect ID: DEFECT000386559 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Good EOF CRC errors
Symptom: Customer is seeing C2-1006 and C2-1010 messages reporting internal link errors without hardware
fault. The issue are associated with Good EOF CRC errors: This defect tracks SERDES tuning for
FS8-18 in DCX on slot 12, FC8-16 on DCX4s in slot1,2,7.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 704947
Defect ID: DEFECT000386728 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON Printer Emulation enabled encounters DP Panic with 3900 type printers
Symptom: FCIP Complex DP reset, FCIP Tunnel failure (on the peer side).
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000386900 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: AGSHOW command is missing from supportshow and supportsave
Symptom: agshow missing from supportsave and supportshow
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: RAS Logging / Tracing
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 682189
Defect ID: DEFECT000387013 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Stale AG entry remains present in management server database after the removal of AG.
Symptom: Switch stays in manageability view even after it is physically removed from fabric.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Access Gateway
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.2 Service Request ID: 699581
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000387197 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: TKLM Connectivity fails with "Failed Authentication"
Symptom: BES may not be able to connect to any of the TKLMs.
Workaround: Reboot of the BES having connectivity issues.
Risk of Fix: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Key Vault
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: SR697353
Defect ID: DEFECT000387237 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FOS Nameserver is returning wrong value for GFF_ID (0x01F).
Symptom: No I/O impact, but it affects the ability to quickly establish the session with Initiators.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 705133
Defect ID: DEFECT000387287 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: OUI information changed for a specific OEM
Symptom: Updated OEM specific OUI name, no functional impact
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: OS Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000387371 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Replication application getting errors after upgrading from FOSv6.4.1_fcoe to FOSv7.0.x with FCIP
emulation
Symptom: Customer will get failures in Teradata replication
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 706489
Defect ID: DEFECT000387536 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Perfttmon only seems to output ingress values when egress is chosen
Symptom: In NPIV setup, unable to get valid data for running perfttmon.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 693225
Defect ID: DEFECT000387601 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Embedded platform with internal CU port turned into G Port
Symptom: Server lost access to the devices when internal CU port connected to HBA turned into G_Port.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000388283 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: zoned caused switch panic
Symptom: During rename zone, add new zone name in list and then remove the old zone name, switch panic.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000388570 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: static routes not supported in FOS7.0 but 'uRoute' commands still present
Symptom: The commands uRouteConfig, uRouteRemove and uRouteShow are present in a release that does not
support static routes.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FC Layer 2 Routing
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 702745
Defect ID: DEFECT000388607 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Unexpected NTP behavior starting at FOS v6.3.x
Symptom: TS-1002 RASLOG messages when changing NTP source using tsclockserver command are not as
expected.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: RAS Logging / Tracing
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.0 Service Request ID: 699177
Defect ID: DEFECT000388652 Technical Severity: High
Summary: CVLC daemon terminates as a result of processing large encryption configuration (8K-9K Initiator
Target Luns)
Symptom: Unexpected termination of CVLC daemon leading to timeouts and eventually the the stopping of
traffic when the encryption engine went offline.
Risk of Fix: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Disk Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 707387
Defect ID: DEFECT000388672 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FCIP tunnel bounces on 7800, high emulated IO can cause local keep alive timeout
Symptom: Customer will get FICON keep alive timeout if there is not enough bandwidth on the FCIP tunnel.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 670797
Defect ID: DEFECT000388762 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Switch upgrade from FOS 6.3.x to 6.4.x in IM2/IM3 mode caused zone daemon memory space over
run.
Symptom: Zoned panic after upgrade, when a remote domain goes out of fabric.
Workaround: To avoid this problem the customer can just do a hafailover when the firmware is
completely upgraded.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 709913
Defect ID: DEFECT000389055 Technical Severity: High
Summary: WWN of HBA connected to switch running in AG mode does not show up on zoning admin windows
Symptom: When trying to zone the WWN's, the WWN of the HBA port going through the AG switch did not
appear. Customer cannot configure zoning through BNA/Web Tools for HBA port.
Workaround: Use CLI to manually configure zoning
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Access Gateway Services Function: Platform Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0_pha
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000389202 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: After changing F-port buffers via WebTools 0n 7800 cannot set buffers back to 8 (Default)
Symptom: After set F-port buffer credits to 16 using WebTools > port admin (advanced mode) > F-port BB
credit, was unable to set it back to 8 and get the following error message:"Error when performing
specified action for port 1 - F-Port BB credits with value less than 9 is not allowed.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Web Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 710385
Defect ID: DEFECT000389227 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: seccertutil fails to download certificates from ftp server if a password ends with an exclamation mark
(!)
Symptom: seccertutil will fail to download certificates from ftp server
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Security
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 710141
Defect ID: DEFECT000389303 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Upgrade on Backbone Director from 6.4.1a to 6.4.2b resulted in many ports at "Not ready for F or L
ports"
Symptom: Upgrading backbone director from 6.4.1a to 6.4.2b may cause the director to lose connectivity.
Workaround: Manual fabric rebuild by bouncing E_port or switch disble/enable.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 710297
Defect ID: DEFECT000389307 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: DCX (FS8-18) reporting FSS error in the RAS log after a "cryptocfg --commit" command
Symptom: Posting of FSS-1001 message with "(cvlmd) dropping HA data update" This can affect CP to CP
communications.
Workaround: The recovery procedure for the customer would be:
- Rebooting the standby CP
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 709375
Defect ID: DEFECT000389391 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: CLI portname -i 0-79 -f will cause the switch to panic
Symptom: When user enters an index range with larger value than is actually present with portname -i -f
command, the switch panics.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 711133
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000389661 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: VeriSign Code Signing Certificate update for Web Tools
Symptom: WebTools will be considered an UN-trusted application to the user .
After the code fix, when launch WT first time with the updated certificate, a warning dialog will be
displayed. User can verify the certificate details (Issuer/Validity/Subject) by clicking “More
information” in dialog. Once user selects the checkbox “Always trust content….” and click on Run
button, warning message will not display in further login since it is consider as trusted application.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Login / Session Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000389731 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON Emulation is not handling IU pacing updates properly
Symptom: Observes aborts on the fabric with BR7500 and application fails.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FICON
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 684047
Defect ID: DEFECT000389967 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Switch name server rejects RFT_ID request on NPIV ports
Symptom: In FOS v7.0 and later,name server request " RFT_ID" for several NPIV ports are rejected with reason
0x05 (Logical Busy). Host cannot see device if it does not retry the request.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 710571
Defect ID: DEFECT000390209 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: portledtest does not function as described in documentation
Symptom: On Brocade6510, " portledtest -action" option does not give the LED pattern documented in help
page. No other functional impact.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 712387
Defect ID: DEFECT000390650 Technical Severity: Critical
Summary: Device does not register FC4 type and path unable to failover
Symptom: Device is not failing over to its alternate port if that alternate port happens to be on the upper part of
the FC8-64 port blade such as port indexes 868 to 884
Workaround: Use port indexes 239-254
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 712525
Defect ID: DEFECT000390657 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Ports LEDs do not flash on 16Gig switches during portloopback
Symptom: Portloopbacktest no longer gives an indication via the LEDs flashing fast green, that the port is in
loopback as it does on 8Gig switches.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 713217
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000391031 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Unable to create CSR files with seccertutil command with IPV6 configured on FOS
Symptom: Unable to create CSR file using the command seccertutil, when IPV6 is configured.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 707125
Defect ID: DEFECT000391046 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: portledtest, portloopbacktest etc diag command are updated.
Symptom: Failure is observed when running 'portledtest -npass 10', 'portloopbacktest -lb_mode 1' test
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 712391
Defect ID: DEFECT000391190 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: snmpd failed to restart
Symptom: SNMP no longer functioning on switch. SNMP crashed and generated a core file twice then failed to
restart.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: SNMP
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 714615
Defect ID: DEFECT000391856 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: userconfig --change command on 8510 running 7.0.1 getting glibc detected, invalid pointer error
Symptom: userconfig --change <user> -l 1-127 -r <role>
Will get the following error message on the console:
LF list should be the subset of existing LF list
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x3fc619e6 ***
Aborted
Workaround: Manually delete and recreate the user using CLI.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Services
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 710547
Defect ID: DEFECT000392226 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: WebTools function logged in using"user" profile has CSCTL option bold and functional.
Symptom: When switch is accessed through webtools,using 'USER' profile (Manage-->Port Admin --> CSCTL
Mode){in ADVANCED MODE} the CSCTL tab is bold and functional. The drop down list does not
show any options bold.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Web Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 715129
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000392322 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Emulation should free the previously aborted exchange if the Host re-uses the oxid within R_A_TOV
of the BA_ACC.
Symptom: FCIP Emulation not releasing aborted exchanges, potentially causing generated SCSI Busy status
sequences if the exchange is reused within 22 seconds.
Workaround: Disable emulation
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000393131 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: BR5300 goes to faulty after portloopback tetsing
Symptom: Customer performed portloopbacktest repeatedly on FOS v7.0.1 and v7.0.1a in a loop script, this
repeated test was "PASSED" a few times and then switch changed to faulty status. This affects
BR5300 only.
Workaround: avoid running portloopbacktest in loop.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 716189,714819
Defect ID: DEFECT000394217 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Onboard Administrator is not reporting correct IP address for BR5480 after FWDL to v6.4.x when
using DHCP
Symptom: After upgrading embedded Brocade SAN switch to FOS v6.4.0 and above, the management IP
address is shown as 0.0.3.0
Workaround: Reboot switch after firmwaredownload
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Embedded Platform Services Function: Bulova
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID:
Defect ID: DEFECT000394917 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Slow CLI response time running FOS v7.x
Symptom: User may notice the slowness when run a script with many commands; individual command response
time is still within second.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: OS: Linux
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 721373
Defect ID: DEFECT000395226 Technical Severity: High
Summary: BR8510 standby CP panics after running systemverification when it is fully populated with FC8-64
port blades.
Symptom: BR8510 standby CP panics during diagnostics.
Workaround: Remove one of the fully populated FC8-64 port blade, system verification passes without any
issue.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 721805
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000395418 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON Emulation incorrectly generating LBY in response to unsolicited status from an alias device
Symptom: An abort sequence detected (IFCC) on the host console after unsolicited status was received from an
Alias Device Address.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000395600 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Slow response to VLAN requests from CNA on 8000 switch
Symptom: Operating system network unable to get VLAN requests in a timely manner
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 738323
Defect ID: DEFECT000395750 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Update various man pages.
Symptom: Added more information on:
1. perfaddeemonitor -force parameter
2. perfttmon/perfaddeemonitor -force, -delete -all option
3. Dport over DWDM link
4. islshow
5. fdmishow
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low
Feature: Man Pages Function: Edit/Correct
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 722513
Defect ID: DEFECT000395766 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON Aborted sequences during initial online processing
Symptom: Several FICON IFCCs reported during device vary online processing
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000395880 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Allow non-FC ports to support media validated only against OEM OUI.
Symptom: Need to release new FOS every time for a new cable
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Infrastructure Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000396293 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: cmsh 'sh proc cpu sum' output shows incorrect cpu utiity
Symptom: show process cpu summary output does not match the current cpu utilization or load.
Workaround: top and upload at FOS interface shows the proper data.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1_dcb Service Request ID: 723011
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000396825 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: SFP shows "No Module" on switches connected through a DWDM
Symptom: A port connected to a third party DWDM goes into ‘no module’ mode during DWDM failover test.
Workaround: Disable and re-enable ports.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Infrastructure Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000396826 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Performance down on compressed FCIP tunnel in v7.0.1a vs. 6.4.2a
Symptom: Slightly lower throughput between the releases due to delay in sending from TCP Initiator side of the
connection. The delay between FC receive and TCP send can be as much as 1.4 ms when the TCP
packet is less than 1/2 of the TCP MSS.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: FCIP I/O
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 723895
Defect ID: DEFECT000397001 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Update islshow and fdmishow man page
Symptom: Man page update to be more consistent with code
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Man Pages Function: Edit/Correct
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 723871
Defect ID: DEFECT000397135 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: change Port Fencing raslog severity
Symptom: Change Port Fencing raslog message FW- 1202 FW-1501 from Warning to Error. No functional
impact.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Infrastructure Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3
Defect ID: DEFECT000397171 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: SW-MIB files not loading into MIB Browser due to a TAB being used instead of a space
Symptom: MIB Browser may crash or refuse to take the MIB when they trying to load.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: SNMP
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 723525
Defect ID: DEFECT000397275 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Performing switchdisable,configdefault, portcfgpersistenetenable, portcfgdefault, then
portcfgpersistent enable can cause some ports to stay in "FC Disabled" state.
Symptom: After a system config default, followed by a series of portcfg default and portcfgpersistentenable's a
few ports will still show disabled.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 724141
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000397353 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: When issuing the statsclear command it will return an error saying slot0 is non-existent in v7.0.1a
Symptom: > statsclear
Invalid slot number 0 detected in chassis system.
Please use --slot option or setslot command to provide a valid slot.
Workaround: Use slotstatsclear command
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 724465
Defect ID: DEFECT000397402 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Soft parity errors causing disruption on BES/FS8-18
Symptom: If a parity error occurs in the encryption path, frames may be transmitted to the destination carrying an
incorrect payload and without being marked with an error. If a parity error occurs in the decryption
path, the frame data might not be decrypted successfully.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 722589
Defect ID: DEFECT000397613 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Target device operating at 8G fails to gain connectivity to 8510
Symptom: Target device operating at 8G fails to gain connectivity to 8510
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: UNDETERMINED Function: UNDER REVIEW
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 721949
Defect ID: DEFECT000398829 Technical Severity: High
Summary: slotshow returns enabled for SW faulted CP (HW faults are ok)
Symptom: Results of slotshow command reports a software faulted CP as enabled despite it being halted as a
result of rebooting five times.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: System Controls/EM Function: Infrastructure
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000398954 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Webtools Throughput Utilization graph does not match portperfshow output.
Symptom: GUI throughput output is 1/2 of the portperfshow output.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Web Tools EZ
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 712501
Defect ID: DEFECT000399130 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Switch ports report CRC with Good EOF Errors.
Symptom: Large number of CRC with good EOF errors on DCX system when an FC8-64 is installed in slot 1,3,9
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: C2 ASIC driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 721423
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000399142 Technical Severity: High
Summary: PortPerfShow showing bandwidth utilization being reported as 0
Symptom: No throughput visible with portperfshow.
Workaround: HA failover
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 724189,733703
Defect ID: DEFECT000399439 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Modifications required on snmp MIBs
Symptom: 1. Syntax and units does not match the description for swCpuAction and swMemAction
2. Added new OID in FA-MIB to indicate the speed type
3. Added 16G field into swFCPortSpeed and also deprecated the same
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 730439
Defect ID: DEFECT000399592 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: BR6505 switch LED behavior of FAN FRU does not match the hardware manual.
Symptom: When a FAN is stopped(or detected as faulty by FOS), the LED should flash green but BR6505 shows
No light
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 724111
Defect ID: DEFECT000399649 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: fmmonitor --clear does not clear the Count value properly
Symptom: fmmonitor --clear does not clear counts sometimes.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 730829
Defect ID: DEFECT000399679 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: 'agshow' command does not report IP address for IPv6 on AG switch
Symptom: When a switch in AG mode is using IPv6, the IP address does not show up in 'agshow'.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: High
Feature: Access Gateway Services Function: CLI
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000399885 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: weblinker file descriptor on CEE platform leaks when monitored by BNA
Symptom: Customer will experience asserts and weblinker terminations & restarts. This is non disruptive to
customer traffic.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 719205
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000400194 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Selected switch configuration accessible without authenticating
Symptom: Able to query switch via HTTP for information without authenticating with a username/password
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Security
Reported In Release: FOS6.0.0 Service Request ID: 732065
Defect ID: DEFECT000400568 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FX8-24 DP 1 Soft Faults due to DP Panic
Symptom: FCIP tunnel bounces due to 'DP 1 Soft Faults due to SE Core Panic ' with BLS-5024 RASLOG
generated.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 730753
Defect ID: DEFECT000401114 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: root file system exported during nessus scan.
Symptom: During security scan using "nessus" auditing software, the root file system of a DCX may be exported.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: OS: Linux
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 729761
Defect ID: DEFECT000401218 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: RNID responses are dropped under load and session based zoning.
Symptom: Disk replication fails when response to RNID is discarded.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 724603
Defect ID: DEFECT000401406 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Unable to remove the fmmonitor that’s been added to port 0 with the default Frame Type(SCSI).
Symptom: fmmonitor --delmonitor scsi -port 0,4 will output "Specified Frame type doesn't exist on the specified
port" even though fmmonitor --show scsi will output differently.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: Performance Monitor Function: Frame Monitor
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 732319
Defect ID: DEFECT000401414 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: False positive Call home received for "power supplies not redundant".
Symptom: When there is race condition during bootup between fabric watch and environment monitor modules,
fabric watch could get stale information and falsely identify a power supply is not there.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Diagnostics Function: Post Diags
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 733915
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000402384 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Port mirroring causes switch traffic to stop
Symptom: With In Order Delivery set, using port mirror to view traffic causes the switch traffic to stop.
Workaround: Hafailover resumed traffic.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: System Performance
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 728825
Defect ID: DEFECT000402531 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: fmmonitor --create returns an undefined error code
Symptom: fmmonitor --create returns an undefined error code when trying to create the 42nd monitor instead of
"Maximum no of monitors reached”.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: System Performance
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 734939
Defect ID: DEFECT000402795 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Discard C3 counter does not match the sum of the registers it represents
Symptom: Discard C3 field shows a higher count than the C3 Timeout RX and TX fields in the porterrshow.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 733189
Defect ID: DEFECT000402990 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: the "thconfig --show filter", there are 51areas shown up, 9defaults, 41user-defined, and 1 perfPT
Symptom: The "thconfig --show filter" command shows that there are 51areas, (9defaults, 41user-defined, and 1
perfPT), even though the max frame_type is 50.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: System Performance
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 734939
Defect ID: DEFECT000402992 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Interface flowcontrol change modifies the running config, but interface stats do not show the changes
made.
Symptom: After modifying the flowcontrol configuration of an interface and turning off flowcontrol on the tx
side of a port, the running config displays tx off, but the interface stats still shows it on.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 737161
Defect ID: DEFECT000403214 Technical Severity: High
Summary: On Encryption platforms, high frequency of Test Unit Ready (TUR) etc commands results in
DataBase out of sync
Symptom: Unable to re-key Luns after moving Lun from clear text to encrypted state.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 733487
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000403223 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: perfttmon --show [number of flows] does not show expected results.
Symptom: When user enters the number of flows value which is equal to 32 in platforms where the maximum
flows allowed is 32 , then the output of perfttmon --show does not match with the expected results.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 735291
Defect ID: DEFECT000403616 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Brocade 5640 posts hundreds of LF and LOS during firmwaredownload and power on.
Symptom: Internal ports encounter errors after server blade power cycle.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Firmware Download
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 729803
Defect ID: DEFECT000403624 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Inaccurate performance counter using user monitor.
Symptom: When configuring a user monitor with multiple offsets and each offset has multiple values in the value
list, the counts are inaccurate.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 738843
Defect ID: DEFECT000403638 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: SFID and DFID displayed in Frame Viewer are not correct
Symptom: The SFID and DFID fields in the output of Frame Viewer (using framelog --show) may be incorrect.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Fabric Diagnostics Function: Frame viewer
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 738993
Defect ID: DEFECT000403996 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Enhancement needed to link credit loss recovery on 8G platforms
Symptom: Frame drops encountered on 8G platforms when credit loss is detected.
Workaround: Reseat the blade
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: C2 ASIC driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000404700 Technical Severity: High
Summary: With FCIP fast write enabled, the PI is sending the incorrect RXID after a check condition.
Symptom: IO failures to open systems disk or tape device on FCIP tunnel with FCIP Fast Write enabled.
Workaround: Disable FCIP Fast Write.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 740479
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000404746 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Fast Write Test Failure - RSP sent without Sequence Initiative
Symptom: IO Failures to Open Systems Tape Device on FCIP Tunnel with FCIP Fast Write enabled.
Workaround: Disable FCIP Fast Write.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 740479
Defect ID: DEFECT000405325 Technical Severity: High
Summary: fabricinfo.html not returning IPv6 addresses of member switches
Symptom: When fabric is discovered in BNA then even though the member switches have IPv6 address they will
show up with IPv4 address.
Risk of Fix: Low
Feature: FC Services Function: ESS
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: ,1122346
Defect ID: DEFECT000405501 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Brocade 5460 POST timeout, takes over 60 secs to complete
Symptom: Third party management module timeout and reset.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Embedded Platform Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Service Request ID: 706711
Defect ID: DEFECT000405546 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FCIP OSTP Encountering "File too large" errors when running to a new tape device.
Symptom: FCIP OSTP Tape Backup job fails with File too large error to new tape device.
Workaround: Disable FCIP OSTP Emulation or limit tunnel bandwidth to less than 5 Gbps with fewer than 5
FCIP Circuits.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 739145
Defect ID: DEFECT000406655 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Switch experiences panic during firmwaredownload and CPs loose HA sync
Symptom: While managing switch via SMI-A and when SMI-A sends management server request
"MS_GPORT_NG command" during code upgrade, switch panics
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Service Request ID: 743601,757155,775877
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000406671 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Update severity level for raslog
Symptom: Monitor software cannot trigger on INFO message and FSSM-1004 INFO message is upgraded to
Warning
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: RAS Function: RAS Log
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3
Defect ID: DEFECT000406809 Technical Severity: High
Summary: OXID being re-used on the target side in fast write tape pipelining causing failures
Symptom: Open Systems TSM jobs failing
Workaround: Disable FCIP Open Systems tape pipelining.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 709381
Defect ID: DEFECT000406814 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Tape read pipelining failure/corruption when running to multiple tapes under the same SID/DID
Symptom: Open Systems Tape Read job failures while running multiple tapes.
Workaround: Disable FCIP tape read pipelining.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 709381
Defect ID: DEFECT000406905 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FOS/BES/BNA should disallow encryption container creation in the absence of a related L2 zone
Symptom: May see a miscompare issue on the DS8800 LUN, which is being encrypted.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FC Services Function: Zoning
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000407000 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Loop port comes up "In_Sync" after port bounce
Symptom: 3rd party storage was unable to connect to Brocade switch with In_Sync after user executed
switchenable/switchdisable for configuration change
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 744343
Defect ID: DEFECT000407005 Technical Severity: High
Summary: BR5470 cannot negotiate to 8Gb with an OEM specific chassis mid-plane.
Symptom: BR5470 will only negotiate to 4Gb.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000407542 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Inappropriate information in swSensorValue MIB after switching off power supply on BR6510
Symptom: Fan sensor will show "unknown, value is 8000" with swSensorValue MIB after switching off the
power supply.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: SNMP
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 745319
Defect ID: DEFECT000407710 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Webtools SwitchView shows details for ports in other FIDs
Symptom: The port information of another switch appears on SwitchView of WEBTools if mouse-overed on a
port or port status LED. It indicates [No-Access], but the Port Address or Port Status such as online,
etc can be viewed from another logical switch.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Web Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 744627
Defect ID: DEFECT000407838 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: perfresourceshow --installed output is inconsistent with documentation
Symptom: The terms "Top Talker F-Port mode" and "Filter monitor" need to be updated to "Top Talker Port
Mode" and "Frame Monitor" to be consistent with manuals.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low
Feature: Performance Monitor Function: Frame Monitor
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 734875
Defect ID: DEFECT000408553 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Kernel panic during upgrade to FOS v6.4.3 and v7.0.1b or later.
Symptom: With more than 2 VE ports configured on a FX8-24 blade, switch could panic during HAfailover if
there are ELS frames coming in. This only applies to FOS v6.4.3, v7.0.1b and later.
Workaround: Try to avoid any discovery frame during HA/firmware-download
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: C2 ASIC driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 748441
Defect ID: DEFECT000409202 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Invalid IOB debug handling panic
Symptom: After running traffic through an invalidly operating WAN Optimizer, the FCIP Tunnel may fail and
the FCIP complex may panic. This will cause loss of connectivity to the remote site and potentially
the tunnel may not recover.
Workaround: Correct the WAN Optimizer configuration.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: FCIP-RAS
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 740755
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000409206 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Abort received from Channel immediately after starting FICON Tape Read Pipelining
Symptom: Channel detects error after starting FICON tape read pipelining due to Synchronizing status in the
received command that started Read Pipelining. The channel will retry and the tape job should
continue without further errors.
Workaround: Disable FCIP FICON tape read pipelining.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 749589
Defect ID: DEFECT000409350 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Observed SCSI "Clear ACA" dropped during boot over SAN
Symptom: Boot over SAN may have an 8 second delay when target device is not on the local switch.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 746453
Defect ID: DEFECT000409878 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: HTTPD (Apache server 1.3.31-10) goes to defunct state.
Symptom: Customer loses manageability via BNA.
Workaround: Restart httpd or ha failover
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 750519,750057,103192
Defect ID: DEFECT000410071 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: 3203 and 3800 Model 1 printer emulation fixes
Symptom: FICON IFCCs for extended Emulated Printer sequences during Unit Check Processing
Workaround: Disable FICON Printer Emulation
Risk of Fix: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000410075 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: CRC with Good EOF errors detected on DCX
Symptom: Observe CRC with Good EOF errors on 5/139 link when FC8-32 card installed in slot 3 and on 5/100
link when FX8-24 card installed in slots 4. These errors could impact traffic.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: C2 ASIC driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 731361
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000410181 Technical Severity: High
Summary: “HTTP error:: Fatal connection error” is shown when changing the port configuration policy while in
AG mode
Symptom: While switch is in AG mode, WebTools incorrectly issues “HTTP error:: Fatal connection error” upon
attempt to change port configuration from Automatic to Advanced mode.
Workaround: No workaround available via WebTools. The ag CLI may be used to configure the AG port
policy.
Probability: High
Feature: WebMgmt Function: AG Support
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000410236 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: EE monitors in VF environment with duplicate PID/SID on same ASIC do not function
Symptom: Create a logical switch and install EE monitors on the ports (same asic) of both default and logical
switch having same sid/pid, then run traffic and the EE monitor counters do not increament as
expected.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Virtual Fabric
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 752195
Defect ID: DEFECT000410424 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Turn off serdes transmitter for unlicensed ports on Brocade 300 and 5300
Symptom: Hardware tool shows serdes is still on and generate signals on ports without POD license cause EMI
issue.
Workaround: Run portdisable CLI on ports without POD license
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: C2 ASIC driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000410802 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Director became non responsive from all access methods, possible CPU overload
Symptom: Slow response, lost ability to use CLI to control the director.
Risk of Fix: High Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: System Performance
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 748941,1098368,11050
Defect ID: DEFECT000410916 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: fmmonitor --show -port will not work for a range of ports
Symptom: Cannot display fmmonitor --show for a range of ports (port list).
Workaround: Run fmmonitor --show on individual ports.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: System Performance
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 753109
Defect ID: DEFECT000411138 Technical Severity: High
Summary: CP in slot 6 of a DCX-4S with HW error interups resutls in CP kernel panic with Oops: kernel access
of bad area, sig: 11
Symptom: Kernel panics and DCX-4S experiences a failover
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 754579
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000411144 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Inappropriate numerical value of Logical port displayed by Webtools(SAM Report) on 5100 with
v6.3.2.e1
Symptom: The SAM report port numbers for no-base logical switches are displayed wrong on 6.3.2e1
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 754163
Defect ID: DEFECT000411481 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Switch drops ADISC requests from a third party HBA.
Symptom: With session based zoning, customer is unable to configure storage properly on servers with a third
party HBA.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 753595
Defect ID: DEFECT000411644 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: When executed on BR6510/BR06505, portloopbacktest command always uses 16G mode, regardless
of port speed specified.
Symptom: On BR6510/BR6505, "portloopbacktest -spd_mode 8" does not indicate the test is run in 8G speed.
Same is true for 4G and other valid "spd_mode" options
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 754811
Defect ID: DEFECT000411841 Technical Severity: Critical
Summary: Rolling reboots occur when faulty FX8-24 blade detected.
Symptom: Rolling reboots occur when FX8-24 cannot be properly initialized due to hardware failure.
Workaround: None. However relocating the FX8-24 blade to a different slot may alleviate the underlying
hardware fault.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Firmware Download
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 755867
Defect ID: DEFECT000411972 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: cfgsave intermittently failing following multiple zoneobjectrename commands
Symptom: cfgsave may intermittently fail following multiple zoneobjectrename commands.
Workaround: Retry.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 755889
Defect ID: DEFECT000412089 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON Emulation Error
Symptom: Observe backup and restore stopping and waiting timeouts.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 755461
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000412267 Technical Severity: High
Summary: WebTools "Beacon" button returns "The switch is currently not accessible".
Symptom: WebTools intermittently returns error "The switch is currently not accessible. Your request has failed
due to network IP connection loss or the switch is not running at this moment" when attempting to
perform "Beacon" and "Chassis Beacon" functions.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Switch Explorer/Switch View
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000412659 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FCIP VE Port invalid FC Receives are not counted in a statistic
Symptom: Slow IO and potentially aborted FC Exchanges.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: FCIP I/O
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000412669 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON Write Pipelining Failures with new 3rd party device.
Symptom: Tape Write Pipelining failures when writing large blocks to a recently deployed 3rd party device (a
virtual tape controller). Missing Device End Errors during tape write pipelining.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 753703
Defect ID: DEFECT000412671 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: VM host not able to vary on Tape CHPIDs through FICON Tape Emulating Tunnel
Symptom: After upgrading, VM hosts are unable to access FICON acceleration enabled tape drives. Unit Check
during VM CHPID ATTACH processing.
Workaround: Disable FICON Tape Pipelining, or upgrade FOS and modify the FCIP Tunnel FICON Debug
flags to include the 0x20 bit. The command to modify the FICON Debug Flag value is:
portcfg fciptunnel <slot/>vePort modify --ficon-debug <flag>
Where "flag" is a hex number that includes the 0x20 bit. e.g.
root> portcfg fciptunnel 16 modify --ficon-debug f7c90020
You can confirm the FICON Debug Flag setting by the following command:
Spike163:root> portshow xtun 16 -ficon -stats
Output at the end of the display will include the current FICON debug flag settings:
Bit 5 [0x00000020] = 1 : DISABLE_TAPE_MULTIPATH_PROTECTION
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 740755
Defect ID: DEFECT000412811 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Remove Ficon FMS mode restriction against 8bit addressing in Default Switch
Symptom: While enabling FMS mode on the default switch, it fails with following raslog: [FICU-1001], , ,
ERROR, , (Mode cannot be enabled since address mode is 8 bit Dynamic Area Mode).
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FICON Function: Ficud
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 753223
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000412890 Technical Severity: Critical
Summary: Upgrade to FOS 7.0.1b may cause certain storage ports to quit passing data
Symptom: Loss of access to storage array while performing a FOS upgrade to 7.0.1b.
Workaround: Port persistent disable/enable on the problem port to recover.
Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Firmware Download
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 726935
Defect ID: DEFECT000412938 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Fabric Watch erroneously reporting a "build fabric"
Symptom: On a busy switch, Fabric Watch falsely reports "build fabric" event.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: System Performance
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 756411
Defect ID: DEFECT000413322 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: swEventTimeInfo, swFwName and swFwLabel are displayed incorrectly.
Symptom: swEventTimeInfo, swFwName and swFwLabel does not match MIB Reference manual.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: SNMP
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 757111
Defect ID: DEFECT000413752 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Brocade 10G FC ports unable to interoperate with a third party DWD 10G FC ports
Symptom: Brocade 10G FC ports are unable to sync with third party 10G FC ports on DWDM equipment.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: 16G ASIC Driver Function: 16Bbps/10Gbps Port
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000413787 Technical Severity: Critical
Summary: Fail to push port blocked states on FMSENABLE.
Symptom: After a hafailvoer, many online switch ports become persistently disabled. This is observed when a
Logical Switch is created after upgrade to FOS v7.0.x in a Ficon setup.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FICON
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 760053
Defect ID: DEFECT000413879 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Unreachable switches are seen as Brocade 200E in Brocade Network Advisor dashboard.
Symptom: When a switch is unreachable from BNA , BNA shows the switch type as 200E regardless of the
actual switch type. When the switch becomes reachable, then it will show the actual switchType in
BNA.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: UNDETERMINED Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 756759
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000414024 Technical Severity: High
Summary: systemverification on 6505 runtime increased from 4 minutes in 7.0.1 to 29 minutes in 7.0.1b
Symptom: The time to complete running POST and systemverifcation takes longer. Switch will not be fully
operation prior to completion.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 759641
Defect ID: DEFECT000414491 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Switch panic during hafailover with Failed expression: (area == sw->sw_pt[port]->full_fmt_area
Symptom: After user had performed port address binding in the past, a HAfailover caused a panic on new active
CP during taking over and triggered disruption
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 759663
Defect ID: DEFECT000414700 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: perfttmon --delete -sconfig does not behave as expected on 16G platform
Symptom: The command perfttmon --delete -sconfig is not able to delete stale Top Talker Monitor
configurations.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 746845
Defect ID: DEFECT000414809 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: ABTS pattern does not match between man page description and actual command output.
Symptom: ABTS pattern on the command does not match what is specified in the manual.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: Man Pages Function: Edit/Correct
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 758931
Defect ID: DEFECT000414936 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Offline port FCID is not synced to standby CP.
Symptom: Move offline ports from default switch to logical switch, HAfailover, the newly moved ports FCID
change. This happens running in either address mode 1 or address mode 2
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: FC Layer 2 Routing
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 736579
Defect ID: DEFECT000414944 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: CRC errors on port with LWL SFP running at 8Gbit/sec
Symptom: Spinfab fails and CRC errors are observed on an 8Gbit/sec link with a specific LWL optics.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 759819
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000415047 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Busy buffer stuck caused blades to be faulted
Symptom: While diag is running on port blade, toggle slider on core blade can trigger busy buff stuck with traffic
issue on blade or blade fault.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 761781
Defect ID: DEFECT000415165 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: A fast FLOGI frame comes in before the port state has changed to AC (Active online) caused various
switch problems.
Symptom: In a mainframe setup, many Nport are bounced at the same time and some hosts cannot see storage.
Workaround: portdisable and then portenable the problem port during the massive Nport Flogi storm.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: SR 763577
Defect ID: DEFECT000415369 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FCIP OSTP can incorrectly hide device reservation conflict status causing unusable tape devices
Symptom: Complete loss of connectivity to remote tape devices through the FCIP connected fabric.
Workaround: Port disable and then port enable the impacted device ports, or reboot the tape device(s).
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 771557
Defect ID: DEFECT000416499 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Crypto target container (CTC) not ready for operation after Brocade Encryption panic reboot
Symptom: "Operation failed: Container is not ready for the operation" is observed when configuring the CTC.
VI and VT not created and internal EE LUN state stuck at "Login in progress".
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Disk Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 761005
Defect ID: DEFECT000416584 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Configdefault does not change link cost in a logical switch
Symptom: Link cost in a logical switch may not change as it is expected to do so after a configdefault.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.2 Service Request ID: 1033367
Defect ID: DEFECT000417440 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Detected termination of name server daemon (NSD) during CLI "nodefind" execution.
Symptom: CLI "nodefind" triggers switch panic when there are two devices present in NS for the same WWN.
Workaround: Avoid executing "nodefind" CLI command under conditions noted.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 1034213
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000417490 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: "CustomizeColumns" tab under "SwitchEvents" have three greyed out options in webtools.
Symptom: After starting the webtools, in the "SwitchEvents" when "CustomizeColumns" tab is choosen three
check box with a window of "CustomizeColumns" is greyed out and cannot be selected by the user.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Web Tools EZ
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 1033957
Defect ID: DEFECT000418473 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: sw.mib syntax error prevents loading in HP NNMi 9.10 patch 2
Symptom: sw.mib cannot be loaded by certain management applications.
Workaround: Manually edit the SW.mib file
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: SNMP
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 761035
Defect ID: DEFECT000418678 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FOS memory leak triggered through Storage Application Services with mis-configured zone.
Symptom: A high rate of failing “Frame Redirect Zone Creation” requests causes switch panics.
Workaround: Remove frame redirect and recreate binding.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: 4G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Service Request ID: 1033861
Defect ID: DEFECT000419541 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Running perfcfgrestore after perfcfgsave may not restore all PerfEEMonitors.
Symptom: Unexpected number of PerfEEMonitors are restored after running a perfcfgsave.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: OS: Configuration
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Service Request ID: 1088616
Defect ID: DEFECT000419620 Technical Severity: High
Summary: An hafailover, hareboot or firmwaredownload may cause unused ports with a ASIC register being
zeroed out
Symptom: If frames are queued to the unused ports, credit is permanently lost and observe busy buffer condition
on the port
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: C2 ASIC driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 1033850
Defect ID: DEFECT000419937 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Fabric LOGO is not clearing out the stale FCID logins on Brocade Access Gateway. Customer is
seeing "duplicate Alpa" error messages from fabric.
Symptom: Duplicate Alpa error message is being seen on Brocade AG when LPAR move is executed. This move
re-assigns virtual WWPNs to another physical host.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Access Gateway
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 1087072,1087072
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000420758 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Upgrade to FOS v6.4.3x/v7.0.2x/7.0.1a or later is resulting in errors on ports that have media
validation issues
Symptom: After upgrade, ENC, CRC and other errors occurred on some ports. ISL ports were affected to the
point of causing fabric interruption. No errors were noted prior to the upgrade.
Workaround: To avoid the issue, prior to upgrading firmware: issue an sfpshow –f to every port and then run
hasyncstop / hasyncstart; Or
To recover after upgrade: issue sfpshow -f <port#> to every port and then run hasyncstop;
hasyncstart; and portdisable/enable problem ports.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: System Controls/EM Function: PCI/I2C
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Service Request ID: 1032635,1032537,1088
Defect ID: DEFECT000421694 Technical Severity: High
Summary: CP panic's when running agshow command after observing stale AG entries
Symptom: Repeated CP faults due to msd panicing after upgrade to FOS v6.4.3b. This applies only to customers
who had stale AG entries as a result of defect 387013 noted in FOS v6.4.3b release notes.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Service Request ID: 1092403
Defect ID: DEFECT000421786 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Rekey of disk crypto target LUN is stuck
Symptom: LUN remains accessible however, first-time rekey operations do not progress past zero percent (0%).
Workaround: Toggling the target port will cause rekeying to be retried
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 1068973
Defect ID: DEFECT000422455 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: During DWDM link failover, OLS is experienced with LOS_TOV enabled.
Symptom: A port connected to a third party DWDM goes into ‘no module’ mode during DWDM failover.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: 16G ASIC Driver Function: General
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000422519 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: 5460 reboot whenever portloopbacktest run with port speed configuration set to 8G
Symptom: portloopbacktest -lb_mode 1 -spd_mode 8 -ports 25 -nframes 1000 will result in a switch panic.
Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 1093444
Defect ID: DEFECT000422523 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Switch in reboot loop after loading config with SSL certificate file entry and no certificate on the
switch
Symptom: Loading a configuration with an invalid ssl.certfile entry may cause the switch to reboot repeatedly.
Workaround: Delete the csr file in /etc/fabos/certs/sw0 then reboot the switch.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Web Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Service Request ID: 1093229
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000423365 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Missing device end reported running FICON Tape emulation
Symptom: Missing device end reported by MVS host using tape
Workaround: Disable FCIP FICON and FCP Emulation
Risk of Fix: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: FCIP I/O
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000423389 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Switch panic while running suppotsave with 4G blades.
Symptom: When RTE portion of supportsave is run on a 4G blade, it may trigger a switch panic.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 1094952
Defect ID: DEFECT000425581 Technical Severity: High
Summary: CRC w/ good EOF observed on ports 1/24 and 1/74 on FC8-64 in BR8510
Symptom: CRC w/ good EOF and enc errors occurring on ports 1/34 and 1/74. FOS auto-tuning cycles through
first 6 tuning value, but then blade is faulted before it can try other settings.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Service Request ID: Case#1099691,Case#10
Defect ID: DEFECT000425857 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: portledtest - -npass variable default is not configured correctly
Symptom: May see led light up a different number of times than what is expected when running portledtest.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: Diagnostics Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Service Request ID: 1095877/P1095742
Defect ID: DEFECT000428620 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Open Systems Tape Pipelining failing after upgrade to v7.0.1b
Symptom: After upgrading to v7.0.1b, local system trying to do a tape operation to the remote tape drivers may
fail. Subsequent disabling of Fastwrite and Tapepipelining causes the system to run with degraded
performance.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 1095761
Defect ID: DEFECT000430239 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FCIP tunnel bounces due to DRAM2 allocate failures or BLS-5024 event
Symptom: Memory allocation failures lead to VE ports down with circuits InProg. FX8-24 requires reset to
recover.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 1106257
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000430349 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Due to busy BES blade processor, LUN discovery is failing
Symptom: Host access to LUNs is lost after initiator WWNs are added to the crypto target container (CTC)
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 1106719
Defect ID: DEFECT000430676 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FICON tape performance is being throttled
Symptom: Severe performance issues on backups from mainframe across two FCIP tunnels to a remote disk
library at DR site.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 1106257
Defect ID: DEFECT000431840 Technical Severity: High
Summary: CP asserts during failover, Failed expression: (area == sw->sw_pt[port]->full_fmt_area),
Symptom: As a result of switch going unreachable, HA failover was performed from S6 to S7. S7 then
experienced panic and rebooted and an outage was experienced.
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
This section lists defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity closed without a code change as of
December 14, 2012 in Fabric OS v71.0.
Defect ID: DEFECT000378064 Technical Severity: Critical
Summary: Brocade 8470 intermittently rebooting due to out of memory condition as a result of management
application queries.
Symptom: Brocade 8470 reboots which can temporarily affect host/target accessability.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1_cee Service Request ID: 688761
Defect ID: DEFECT000385606 Technical Severity: Critical
Summary: Brocade M8428-k panics when polled/managed by Brocade Network Advisor
Symptom: Brocade M8428-k panics with error glibc detected *** double free or memory corruption followed by
termination of cald0, nsmd and reboots temporarily affecting host/target accessability.
Workaround: Avoid Brocade Network Advisor polling
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1_dcb Service Request ID: 703363
Defect ID: DEFECT000390472 Technical Severity: Critical
Summary: SwFwEvent of SW-MIB on FOSv6.4.2 doesnot have lowBufferCrsd(7)
Symptom: Since SwFwEvent of SW-MIB does not have the lowBufferCrsd(7) when the switch sends an
associated trap, fabric appliciation managers cannot translate it. Also, when checking the SW-MIB
file on FOSv6.4, swFwEvent does not have integer 7.
SwFwEvent ::= INTEGER {
started(1),
changed(2),
exceeded(3),
below(4),
above(5),
inBetween(6)
}
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: SNMP
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 713221
Defect ID: DEFECT000297799 Technical Severity: High
Summary: IFCC while running IRNDUP to 48k
Symptom: Unexpected unit-check status (0082) while running IRNDUP
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: FICON Function: Ficud
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000300506 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Observed routing problem after switch running in fmsmode (FICON) changed FID assignment
Symptom: Connectivity problems in the fabric after changing FID assignment, switch in fabric reported [RTWR-
1002] and [RTWR-1003] RAS log messages.
Workaround: Reboot or power cycle the affected switch or switches
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: C2 ASIC driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000318560 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Certain hosts/HBAs lose array / LUN access when target connected to AG switch
Symptom: Hosts connected to a disk array may lose connectivity when the target port is on a Brocade 300 in AG
mode.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Low
Feature: Access Gateway Services Function: NPIV
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000325015 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Double CP kernel panic occurs on a DCX after disabling a trunk master port. This can happen on a
DCX that is warm upgraded (Hot Code Loaded) from FOS v6.1.x through FOS v6.2.x to FOS v6.3.2
or later release.
Symptom: Upon disabling one link of a two port trunk, DCX encountered both CPs panicking within three
minutes. This is a topology and upgrade path specific issue
Workaround: See TSB 2011-119-A
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FC Layer 2 Routing
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 477019, 632207
Defect ID: DEFECT000327370 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Attached domain was segmented from fabric when switch with a duplicate Domain ID tried to join
Symptom: An intact fabric is disrupted and a switch is unexpectedly segmented when a switch with a duplicate
domain ID tries to join the fabric.
Workaround: Ensure you follow the recommended procedure when trying to add switches to the fabric or form
a new fabric to avoid unpredictable behavior. Bring the switch online, let it stabilize, and then
bring it into the fabric. Also, ensure that you do NOT try to add switches with conflicting domain
IDs to an existing fabric.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services Function: Fabric
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000329211 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Encountered a DataPath panic on the Brocade 7800 when portcfgdefault was executed on VE port
(with a circuit in test mode)
Symptom: User experiences temporary FCIP traffic disruption after executing portcfgdeault on a VE port that
has TPERF running.
Workaround: Avoid executing "portcfgdefault" on a VE port that has TPerf running.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: FCIP Port
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000339571 Technical Severity: High
Summary: WWPN duplication detection and FCR: Duplicate behavior is detected initially, but because the
device logs in again, 2 devices with the same WWN are left in the fabric
Symptom: Routed Fabric environments could end up with multiple devices with the same WWPN attached to the
fabric.
Workaround: No workaround.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Low
Feature: 8G FCR Function: FCR Daemon
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000341971 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Loop attached device loses secondary disk path after port disable/enable
Symptom: Secondary paths will not appear in the output from disk query commands.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000345259 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FC8-64 blade set to FAULTY 51 after removal/insertion of that blade in DCX 8510 chassis with
diagpost on
Symptom: May see a faulted blade upon insertion due to diagnostics failure.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000347264 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Following a configdownload, enabling vf may cause a termination of fabricd and ficud on DCX
8510-4 resulting in faulty 53 on a CP blade
Symptom: customer will see daemon termination and CP Fault.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: FOS-Infrastructure Function: VF infrastructure
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000349589 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FICON: CE DE received by host 5 seconds after B1 CCW causing channel timeout
Symptom: IFCC - CREJ Code of 00 until the implementation is completed in the patch branch, and the CCW is
enabled. Until then, it is responded to as an "Invalid CCW Command"
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: FICON Function: Ficud
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000349937 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Devices are not being properly exported when migrating devices from one edge to another.
Symptom: Hosts may not see targets so customer won't be able to run IO to those hosts. In addition, the
customer may run into a non-recoverable resource constraint.
Workaround: Not known
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G FCR Function: FCR Daemon
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000350136 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Encrypted/Compressed E-Port trunk goes down following CP failover
Symptom: Encrypted link goes down after hafailover and gets stuck at G-Port.
Workaround: Slotpoweroff /slotpoweron the blade.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: 16G ASIC Driver Function: In-flight encryption/compression
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000350290 Technical Severity: High
Summary: 5480 Embedded Blade reboots after FFDC Critical Chassis error
Symptom: Switch will reboot losing connectivity to attached devices and data loss.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Medium
Feature: Embedded Platform Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000350349 Technical Severity: High
Summary: bottleneckmon with -onLrThresh fails to fault blade
Symptom: When bottleneckmon is operating in onLrThresh mode, after three C2-1012 alerts a C2-1018 message
is received to notify the port blade is being faulted, but the blade does not fault. In this particular
scenario occured after the switch recovered from an hafailover.
sw051050_L1:FID61:root> bottleneckmon --showcredittools
Internal port credit recovery is Enabled with LrThresh
sw051050_L1:FID61:root>
sw051050_L1:FID61:root> /fabos/cliexec/exec_diag poke 0xdbb7250c 0
0xdbb7250c = 0x0
sw051050_L1:FID61:root> 2011/04/26-20:03:42, [LOG-1000], 791, SLOT 6 | CHASSIS, INFO, ?,
Previous message repeated 1 time(s)
2011/04/26-20:03:42, [C2-1018], 792, SLOT 6 | CHASSIS, ERROR, ?, Blade in Slot-12 faulted due
to Link reset threshold value exceeded.
sw051050_L1:FID61:root> slotshow -m
Slot Blade Type ID Model Name Status
--------------------------------------------------
1 SW BLADE 51 FC8-48 ENABLED
2 SW BLADE 51 FC8-48 EN
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000353981 Technical Severity: High
Summary: D-Port failures seen in stress and corner case scenarios.
Symptom: D-port test stays "in progress" for a long period of time and eventually times out.
Workaround: portdporttest --stop and disable/enable the port
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services Function: D-port
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000354980 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FIPS: Firmwaredownload signature verification fails for directors
Symptom: During a firmwaredownload, invalid packages might not be detected by directors. This could lead to
invalid packages being loaded as valid firmware.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS-Infrastructure Function: Firmware Download
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000355830 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Fabric Watch and Port Fencing Threshold settings should not apply to D-Ports.
Symptom: D-Ports become fenced during d-port testing.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: PORT FENCING
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000356650 Technical Severity: High
Summary: After hafailover, host CHPIDs report "Invalid Attach"
Symptom: Host/target operations related to affected CHPIDs are negatively affected
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000357193 Technical Severity: High
Summary: C2-1012 Between DCX-4S Core and FX8-24 Blade
Symptom: Credit loss on DCX-4S backend ports between Core Blade in slot 3 and FX8-24 Blade in slot 7.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000357938 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Backend CRC errors seen on a FC8-64 blade in a DCX 8510
Symptom: CRC errors and possibly I/O timeouts
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000357942 Technical Severity: High
Summary: LOSN not recognized by portautodisable
Symptom: Ports that leave AC state and lose sync are not auto disabled
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: High
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000357943 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Trackchanges is not generating TRK-1003 for SSH logout.
Symptom: With a Trackchanges setting of 1,1, the track changes feature is not generating the TRCK-1003
message when a SSH session is logged out.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: High
Feature: FOS Security Function: Authentication
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 631887
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000361070 Technical Severity: High
Summary: With virtual fabric configuration file from DCX-4S, when FC8-64 was installed in DCX8510-4 it
became faulty
Symptom: When FC8-64 was installed in DCX8510-4 it became faulty.
Workaround: Reseat the CP blades to sync the config files to that of 16G.
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Low
Feature: FOS-Infrastructure Function: Config Download
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 634655
Defect ID: DEFECT000361077 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FOS commands cannot be executed in DCX4S+ that has problematic CP blades
Symptom: FOS commands like slotshow, switchshow, date, nsshow, and firmwareshow return "command not
found" or " fabos not yet initialized: -1"
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: FOS-Infrastructure Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000361456 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Host ports disabled (authentication rejected) when both FCAP and DHCHAP authentication protocols
are configured and no FCAP certificates have been installed
Symptom: Host ports disabled (authentication rejected)
Workaround: In switches where both authentication protocols are set, FOS always selects FCAP protocol for
non-inflight encryption ports. For inflight encryption ports even if both the protocols are set,
authentication will be carried out only using DHCHAP. Import certificate(s) for FCAP
authentication or configure the protocol as DHCHAP and configure secrets for neighboring
wwn(s).
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Medium
Feature: Security Vulnerability Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000362720 Technical Severity: High
Summary: If an F_Port trunk has gone down and stays offline, the switch may panic during code upgrade.
Symptom: Director may experience hafailover and switches reboot caused by kernel panic while doing zone
check.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 653815
Defect ID: DEFECT000364137 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FabricWatch Port Class is not monitoring ICL ports. E-Port Class monitors are monitoring ICL ports.
Symptom: ICL Ports will not report any threshold warnings and will not be fenced for Port Class attributes.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: High
Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: PORT FENCING
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000365088 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Active I/O is observed despite default zone access of none and with no user zoning confiiguration in
effect
Symptom: I/O traffic is observed with default zone access set to none and no user zoning configuration is in
effect.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services Function: Zoning
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000367784 Technical Severity: High
Summary: CRC errors with good EOF on backend link between core blade and FX8-24 blade
Symptom: Observation of CRC errors with good EOF on backend link with recently installed FX8-24 blade
which could negatively affect host / target operations.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 668161
Defect ID: DEFECT000368746 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Traffic drops to zero when ingress EX link included in TI Failover enabled Zone is disabled
Symptom: Traffic drops to zero if one of the EX links is disabled
Workaround: Re enable the EX link.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000368931 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Deprecate FruReplace CLI command in FOS
Symptom: Use of FruReplace command in the process of performing replacement of a defective WWN card will
result with a potential failed transfer leaving the replacement WWN card unusable.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: FOS-Infrastructure Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 673189
Defect ID: DEFECT000371934 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Host loses encryption configured LUNS when Host target separated by FCIP tunnel.
Symptom: Cryptocfg scan LUNs fails.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services Function: Name Server
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000380005 Technical Severity: High
Summary: If an F_Port trunk has gone down and stays offline, the switch may panic during code upgrade.
Symptom: Director may experience hafailover and switches reboot caused by kernel panic while doing zone
check.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services Function: F Port Trunking
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 653815
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000381041 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Not all pathes recover for AIX hosts that do not have dynamic tracking enabled after switch reboot in
SVC encryption configuration
Symptom: After reboot/switch disable, AIX hosts paths do not recover where dynamic tracking has not been
enabled for the AIX host.
Workaround: Enable dynamic tracking for AIX hosts. rmdev -dl (all), cfgmgr -v can be used to recover paths in
the cases where dynamic tracking has not been enabled.
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Medium
Feature: Data Security Function: HA Cluster
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000381280 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Configuration changes through WebTools caused weblinker to stop with no indication of failure
Symptom: Weblinker failed to restart causing loss of manageability through Brocade Network Advisor and
Webtools.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: FICON Function: Ficud
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000381543 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Device Discovery between backbone fabric and edge fabric fails after changing FCR switch domain
ID.
Symptom: Host fails to discover target across backbone to edge routing.
Workaround: Reboot the hosts.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G FCR Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000381655 Technical Severity: High
Summary: switch panic after code upgrading and device re-login
Symptom: Switch panic upon detect duplicated WWN - sometimes false positive detection due to race
condition. When a duplicate is detected by NS, the NS-1006 RASLOG is already generated. It is at
this time that the fix will force the newer local device to be disabled. This is done in an effort to avoid
the code that generates the ASSERT. The port is disabled with reason "Duplicate WWN"
Workaround: Full duplicate WWN detection is supported in FOS7.0 and above, upgrade if possible. In AG
environment, use "ag --persistentalpaenable 1 -f" setting to reduce this condition.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: NPIV
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 694821,706745
Defect ID: DEFECT000384682 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Downgrade from FOS v7.0.x to v6.4.x leads to F port connectivity loss. It does not recover with
bouncing the port and requires a switch power cycle.
Symptom: After downgrade from FOS v7.0.x to FOS v6.4.x with "-s" in certain sequence, preinstall script may
fail and leave switch in a state Storage device loses connectivity to fabric and does not reconnect.
Switch port stays stuck at G-port and requires switch reset to regain connectivity.
Workaround: Don't do firmwaredownload with -s option by default
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 699169
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000393888 Technical Severity: High
Summary: NSMD daemon panics due to display of invalid data on interface poll.
Symptom: NSMD panics, followed by a switch reboot if more than one application is polling data at the same
time.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1_dcb Service Request ID: 719097
Defect ID: DEFECT000394458 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FCIP tunnel failure and reboot due to processing exception in FICON Emulation Abort processing
Symptom: Channel detected errors and loss of path, FCIP Tunnel bounce (when the complex rebooted).
Workaround: Disable FICON emulation on the FCIP Tunnel
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: FCIP CP
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 718879
Defect ID: DEFECT000395780 Technical Severity: High
Summary: "SNMP" daemon crash resulting in director cold recovery
Symptom: All FC switched connections lost due to double CP cold recovery
Workaround: Avoid querying switch with empty varbind list.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 722557
Defect ID: DEFECT000398718 Technical Severity: High
Summary: VEX port on FR4-18i requires Integrated Routing license on FOS v7.0.1 and FOS v7.0.1a; previous
releases did not require license.
Symptom: Customer can no longer import device and run traffic without Integrated Routing license on FR4-18i
Vex port.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: High
Feature: Legacy FCR - 7500/FR4-18i Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000404375 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Nessus security scan against 6510 identifies potential attack CVE 2010-0386 cross-site tracing (XST)
attack
Symptom: CVE 2010-0386 cross-site tracing (XST) attack is identified however, FOS is using a modified
Apache web server configuration that eliminates the vulnerability.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: Security Vulnerability Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 738055
Defect ID: DEFECT000406325 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Director panics during hafailover
Symptom: After port address binding took place, an hafailover caused a panic on new active CP during taking
over and triggered disruptions
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: High Availability
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 736579
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000407753 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Once during 400-500 repeated blade server shutdown boot up cycles, SW4016 AG F_port gets
disabled due to N-port busy
Symptom: AG F_port goes disabled due to N-port busy
Workaround: Portenable on AG F-port
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Access Gateway
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.2 Service Request ID: 746417
Defect ID: DEFECT000409322 Technical Severity: High
Summary: DP panic on Brocade 7800 switch due to object initialization errors
Symptom: Brocade7800 Switch panic leaves behind a FFDC file only. This panic is very rare and practically
impossible to reproduce but can cause disruption when it happens.
Workaround: disable emulation
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 750759
Defect ID: DEFECT000411095 Technical Severity: High
Summary: v6.1.0_uth5; C3 (Class 3) frame discards when supportsave is run.
Symptom: SCSI timeout may be seen on the 5481 embedded platform during supportsave. There is a very small
number of frames dropped and most of the time, the server will retry SCSI traffic and will not
experience any functional impact.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.1.0_utah Service Request ID: 707795
Defect ID: DEFECT000415795 Technical Severity: High
Summary: DCX with FC10-6 blade continuously reboots after fwdl; blade is stuck in POST2 before chassis
reboots
Symptom: When FC10-6 blades run POST, DCX went into a continuous reboot loop until POST was disabled
Workaround: Disable diag post.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 760993
Defect ID: DEFECT000417402 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Storage port comes up "In_Sync" after switchenable is performed (during switch config change)
Symptom: 3rd party storage is unable to connect to a switch with In_Sync after the execution of
switchenable/switchdisable for configuration change
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Embedded
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 744343
Defect ID: DEFECT000418583 Technical Severity: High
Summary: 8000 switch termination of l2sysd leads to system panic
Symptom: 8000 panic with the termination of l2sysd and core file generated
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: CEE-LAYER2 Function: L2 SUBSYSTEM
Reported In Release: FOS6.1.2_cee Service Request ID: 1035441
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000419845 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FCR routing devices exist in two FIDs
Symptom: Devices not imported correctly which can lead to host / target discovery issues.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 1035459
Defect ID: DEFECT000420763 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Iswitchd terminating multiple times
Symptom: Panic occurs resulting in cold recovery.
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G FCR Function: FCR Daemon
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 1089123
Defect ID: DEFECT000423050 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Daemon webd restarted after a port moved from one logical partition to another
Symptom: No FFDC file was generated and Brocade Network Advisor lost managability of the switch
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP Function: VF
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000423054 Technical Severity: High
Summary: Specifying 32 character usernames in snmpconfig causes unexpected termination of snmpd and
rolling reboot
Symptom: Termination of snmpd occurs, message [KSWD-1002] is displayed.
Workaround: Specify usernames less than 15 characters in length.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: SNMP
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 1092977
Defect ID: DEFECT000432476 Technical Severity: High
Summary: FCR routing incorrect in edge switch to dual FCR backbone metasan
Symptom: Edge to edge routing may not work or connectivity will be intermittent.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCR
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 1112440
Defect ID: DEFECT000297732 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: IFCCs are observed on host when running test application against DCX with two logical partitions
Symptom: IFCCs may affect host accessibility
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: FICON Function: Ficud
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000306686 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Vertical and horizontal scroll bars appear for several WebTools graphical performance and utilization
representations upon refresh
Symptom: In WebTools the space between the lines will shift when the following graphical representations are
refreshed (30 seconds).
- Switch Throughput Utilization
- Switch Percent Utilization
- Port Snapshot error
- SCSI vs. IP Traffic
After 30 seconds, vertical and horizontal scroll bars are added to the graph.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: High
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Web Tools EZ
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 438555
Defect ID: DEFECT000307838 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Failback from new trunk group to the original trunk group does not happen when N port not
configured for F ports in the original trunk group is enabled first.
Symptom: Failback behavior does not conform to expected behavior
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Medium
Feature: Access Gateway Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000324080 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: If all "Portlog Events" are set to enable in a config file, configDownload will not enable the port log
events
Symptom: Port Log Events will not be neabled after performing configDownload of a file with all portlog events
enabled.
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: OS: Infrastructure
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Service Request ID: 460035
Defect ID: DEFECT000328482 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: SNMP: SW-MIB: swFwName of swFwThresholdTable : SNMP WALK timed out
Symptom: User will not able to get the all the query results through the SNMP walk operation.
SNMP walk may timeout for swFwThresholdTable.
Workaround: Retry SNMP walk on swFwThresholdTable and also reduce the number of WT sessions to the
switch.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000330205 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: NULL MAC address (All zeros) packets are not getting discarded
Symptom: NULL MAC address may be learnt in the MAC address table.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Low
Feature: CEE-LAYER2 Function: L2 SUBSYSTEM
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000331071 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Auto Comp mode not changing from Aggressive mode on the Brocade 7800 when throughput levels
suggest Moderate mode
Symptom: Auto mode may not perform as expected
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Compression
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000333525 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: When adding many new user roles, the weblinker on non-directors are causing high CPU utilization
Symptom: When performing this function, sluggish command response time may be encountered, but this does
not impact traffic throughput
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL Function: User Defined Roles
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000333878 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Emails do not have “From” populated for all Areas of Fabric Class
Symptom: after failover, the new active does not have the domain name shown in the email "from" field.
this is limited only to fwd.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000336933 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Switch sends ELP to device after the device sends FLOGI during power-up sequence
Symptom: When connected to 4G switch, during a specific storage device power-up sequence, host cannot
access target.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.1.2 Service Request ID: 444823
Defect ID: DEFECT000337194 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Emulex 1205 CIOv 8Gb/s adapter fails to correctly autonegotiate FC speed
Symptom: Emulex 1205 CIOv 8Gb/s adapter unable to negotiate 8 Gb/s speed with the edge switch when
configured to do so. Rather, ends up with some other speed setting.
Reason Code: Can Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: Embedded Platform Services Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000337231 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: TX Word Count from perfshoweemonitor of Target Does NOT match RX Word Count from
perfshoweemonitor of Host after traffic has stopped
Symptom: If a user installs an EE monitor for a specific SID/DID between a Condor2 and Condor3 port, the
word counts may not match as expected. This applies to both AG and switch mode.
Reason Code: Can Not Fix Probability: High
Feature: Performance Monitor Function: EE monitor
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000337493 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Fabric Watch : When virtual PWWNs are created for Brocade HBA, the corresponding F port in
switch is not displayed in the "F/FL Optical port" class of fabric watch.
Symptom: The FA-PWWN will not be displayed in "F/FL Optical port" as designed
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Medium
Feature: Access Gateway Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000337623 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Webtools firmwaredownload on a 6510 may report that firmwaredownload completed successfully
while it is still in progress
Symptom: Firmware download through WT, sometimes WT shows firmwaredownload process is completed but
CLI shows the firmwaredownload is still in progress.
Workaround: Close all the applications and launch once the firmware download is completed completely on the
switch.
Reason Code: Can Not Fix Probability: Low
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Switch Admin
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000338431 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: On DCX 8510-8, fosconfig --enable ethsw may result in HSL Critical HSL error messages
Symptom: User may see the following error message: "[HSL-1000], 43/8, SLOT 7 | FID 128, CRITICAL, n210,
HSL initialization failed.", and be mislead that a Critical failure has occurred. No impact to
functionality will be experienced.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: CEE-Infrastructure Function: IFM
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000339574 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: WWPN Duplication Detection and FCR: After a device has been detected as a duplicate, a
switchshow displays the device with the wrong WWPN
Symptom: After a duplicate WWPN is detected, switchshow will ldisplay the port with the wrong WWN
Workaround: Even though the fabric-to-fabric device state for devices with conflicting WWN may differ, no
duplicate would exist in any fabric (each fabric would only have one entity). The duplicate
condition would be reported by at least one fabric, so the user will know which devices are
causing the issue (reported via RAS log) and can correct the situation.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: FC Services Function: Name Server
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000340566 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: During firmwaredownload, HSL_1003 messages are seen irrespective of SFPs present or absent;
sfpshow also showing incorrectly as SFP not used
Symptom: Customer will see the raslog “SFP removed and “SFP inserted” whenever
a. Switch reboot
b. Chassis disable/diag/chassis enable
c. Remote port shut/no shut.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: High
Feature: CEE-Infrastructure Function: IFM
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000342158 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Receiving C3 TX_TO Fabric Watch messages after slotpoweroff and subsequent slotpoweron for
FC8-64 in a DCX-8510 chassis
Symptom: If slotpoweroff is quickly followed by slotpoweron, the C3 TX_TO message may be displayed by
Fabric Watch for a short period of time.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: CLI
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000342944 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: WebTools dialog does not include FID in the error message resulting from Config Download failure
on DCX with multiple logical switches.
Symptom: If configdownload fails for a particular fid while being performed through WebTools , the displayed
error message does not include the logical switch FID.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: FOS-Infrastructure Function: Config Download
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000343970 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: MAN page info is not accurately reflecting officially supported commands for Advanced
Performance Monitoring and is not in sync with Command Reference
Symptom: Doubt regarding what commands are officially supported.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Medium
Feature: Man Pages Function: Edit/Correct
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000344044 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: SNMP: FA-MIB: ConnUnitLinkTable do not return all ISL links [E-ports]
Symptom: The user will not find the ISL entries in connUnitLinkTable
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000345346 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: For 16G platforms, configdefault may lead to an invalid port speed configuration state if ports in the
same group are in different logical switches.
Symptom: If configdefault is executed in the default switch, portcfgoctetspeedcombo settings will get set to
default on all logical switches.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: ConfigMgmt Function: Config Download
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000345401 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: ACL counters does not work after adding/removing interfaces to the port channel
Symptom: When LAG has a ACL with rules to count TCAM hit and LAG members leave and rejoin, ACL
counters will show the rules hit count as uncount.
Workaround: Remove ACL from the LAG and Re-Apply it.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: CEE-SYSTEM SERVICES Function: ACL
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000345415 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: LUNs (more than 10, issue is seen with last 7 out of 20 LUNs) with auto rekey configured don't start
auto rekey on slotpoweroff/on of FS8-24 in HA.
Symptom: In this particular scenario, the autorekeys will get delayed by time more than the key life.
Workaround: Issue manual rekey to perform rekey.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: High
Feature: Data Security Function: Re-key
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000346026 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: CAL reports an U-port as bottlenecked but CLI doesn't
Symptom: Customer is unable to accurately tell which port is bottlenecked and view bottleneck graph on the port
on BNA.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000347173 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: HAfailover on the Brocade 48000 with FC8-xx blades installed may encounter rare race condition
Symptom: If this rare condition is encountered, a reset of the port blades may result causing temporary traffic
disruption
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM
Reported In Release: FOS6.1.2 Service Request ID: 595467
Defect ID: DEFECT000347751 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Support for SFTP on FOS platforms
Symptom: Enhancement to support SFTP
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: Infrastructure Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000347991 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: DP may panic when a duplicate TCP SYN request is received for a valid address/TCP port from an
unknown source
Symptom: Customer would see an FFDC for a DP soft fault in the RASLOG. The Customer would have to have
an FCIP tunnel configured and up and active between a pair of 7800/FX8-24's and then have a third
7800/FX-24 box in the network trying to attach to the already established FCIP Tunnel.
Workaround: Avoid having a mis-configured 7800/FX8-24 in the network that has a tunnel configured to a
properly configured and already established tunnel between a pair of 7800/FX8-24's.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000348045 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Fabric Watch is not properly triggering E-Port state change events.
Symptom: Fabric Watch logs will not include E-Port state changes events.
Workaround: Use Fabric Watch Port Class to monitor state changes.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: SR 586189
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000348113 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Segmentation fault after running cryptocfg --show -tapepool -all -stat
Symptom: Customer will encounter failure of CLI cryptocfg --show -tapepool -all -stat with "segmentation fault"
when there are a large number of tapepools.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Medium
Feature: Data Security Function: Tape Encryption
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000348659 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: WT throws “Invalid VC transition link init for the port” while setting long distance modes LD, LS
when the VC translation link state is conflicting with portcfg fillword state.
Symptom: Error shown in Web Tools is not very clear as in CLI, this needs to match CLI error message.
Workaround: Use CLI for changing the portcfgfillword as 1/2/3 and then configure LD, LS from WT.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000348924 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: When changing port speed on 6510 from 4G to 16G or 8G to 16G it will not sync up with 8510(8)
ports set to ASN. Can take up to 45-60 seconds to come online
Symptom: changing 6510 from 4G to 16G with 8510 set to AN will fail link init; same with 8G to 16G.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: 16G ASIC Driver Function: 16Bbps/10Gbps Port
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000348926 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: A mismatch of the reference count between RTE and ASIC occurs after HA failover.
Symptom: Issuing hafailover command on may result in internal routing related errors for ICL ports.
Workaround: Run the commands "portdisable" and then "portenable" on the affected ICL ports.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: Routing
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: ,727861,1035122-1034
Defect ID: DEFECT000349010 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Component (ms) dropping HA data update during logical switch delete and moving of ports
Symptom: FICON Database out of Sync between CP's
HA failure
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: FICON Function: MS-FICON
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000349252 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Unable to set port speed as fixed 10G on a 6510 even though license is present in the switch
Symptom: From WebTools user not able to set 10G speed.
Workaround: Can attempt to retry the Webtools commands several times. If that doesn't work, the appropriate
CLI commands can be used.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: License Function: License
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000349301 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: After downgrading a DCX8510 chassis to DCX chassis, ports with configuration as speed 16G or
10G should be marked with more accurate information
Symptom: after downgrade a C3 chassis to C2 chassis, ports with configuration as speed 16G or 10G are not
marked with more accurate information as "(Persistent) (Port configured speed is not valid)"
Workaround: portcfgdefault the port to re-enable the port
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Low
Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000349310 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Host and target connectivity across FCIP link is lost with TI zones as a result of end device not
retrying PLOGI
Symptom: I/O traffic stops as expected when TI zone is created due to linkcost settings however, after setting
adjusted linkcost and disabling/enabling the VE-port, I/O still does not resume as a result of an end
device not retrying PLOGI.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000349500 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: laser fault msg followed by 10 gig interface toggling observed while collecting supportsave
Symptom: The interface went down and came up after which lot of discards and some CRCs on the L2 interface.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: CEE-FCOE Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000349839 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: DCX 8510-4 inundated with [PS-5011] internal messages
Symptom: List of TopTalker flows will not be accurate since some flows are not being monitored.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Medium
Feature: Performance Monitor Function: Top Talker
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000349891 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FCR related information is missing in the file while doing config uplaod for a base switch
Symptom: FCR infomation is missing when uploading Base switch configuration alone from webtools
Workaround: The user can perform configupload for base switch from cli rather than webtools. The user can
also perfrom configupload for "all" from both webtools and cli.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Low
Feature: FOS-Infrastructure Function: Config Upload
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000351031 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FIPS zeroization requires multiple prompting for DHCHAP clearing
Symptom: Multiple prompts for zeroization function
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Security Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000352406 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Storage Port logging in as unknown will be displayed as an initiator in BNA.
Symptom: Certain storage devices may log in with an unknown FC4 type. This will result in BNA incorrectly
displaying the device as an initiator.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services Function: FCP
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000352773 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: CRC errors on large data transfers using 3rd party Tape Drives on encryption products
Symptom: Customers have experienced intermittent CRC errors when performing large data reads from 3rd party
tape drives that may result in data read failures.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000356497 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Uneven bandwidth distribution over ISL is observed with 3rd party traffic generation tool
Symptom: One port is observed to be sending three times the rate of traffic than other ports primarily due to the
non-randomization of the OXID by the traffic generation tool (
FC Originator Exchange ID (OXID))
Workaround: Use random OXIDs
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Medium
Feature: Bottleneck detection Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000356518 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Using a 3rd party traffic generation tool it's observed that when one port on a quad of ports is slow
draining the other ports in the quad also have poor throughput
Symptom: When one traffic generation tool port is configured with a buffer credit delay, traffic throughput
appears to be affected on all quad ports as a result of non-randomization of the OXIDs by the traffic
generation tool (FC Originator Exchange ID (OXID))
Workaround: Use random OXIDs
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Medium
Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000356611 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FOS 6.4.1_fcoe to 6.4.2 upgrade causes any config upload to post "ERROR: Invalid FCoE port
configuration file"
Symptom: "ERROR: Invalid FCoE port configuration file" when running 6.4.2 with no FCoE blades resident in
the switch when running a configupload or supportsave. However, the supportsave and the
configupload still complete successfully.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000358370 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: When using a 3rd party traffic generation tool it's observed that with one port on a DCX port blade
that is slow draining, other ports on the blade have degraded throughput
Symptom: When one traffic generation tool port is configured with a buffer credit delay, traffic throughput
appears to be affected on all ports as a result of non-randomization of the OXIDs by the traffic
generation tool (FC Originator Exchange ID (OXID))
Workaround: Use random OXIDs
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Medium
Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000360199 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FOS 7.0.0a fails to load on 8510-8 standby CP (slot 7 CP1)
Symptom: firmwareshow indicates the standby CP (slot 7 CP1) did not get upgraded to 7.0.1a. Swapping CP
blades and repeating firmwaredownload -s succeeded in upgrading the other CP.
Workaround: Swapped CP's from slot 7 and 6.
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Low
Feature: FIRMWARE DOWNLOAD Function: Firmware Download
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000360256 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Brocade 8000 reported 503: chassis not ready for management followed by 500: Internal Server Error
in 3 mins intervals when attempting to manage it by Brocade Network Advisor
Symptom: Brocade 8000 will appear as not manageable
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000360817 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Displayed transceiver Tx / Rx power levels are not correct on 8000 for 10GbE
Symptom: No problem with the traffic flow however, Tx/Rx power wattage readings on an 8000 using Brocade
optics are incorrect.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: CEE-PLATFORM Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000360820 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: After the electrical port loop back test, D_port diagnostic test is not proceeding to the optical or link
traffic tests.
Symptom: D_port diagnostic test freezes after the electrical port loop back test and doesn't proceed to the optical
or link traffic tests.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: 16G ASIC Driver Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000362042 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Brocade Encryption Switch (BES) ignores ABTS Task Management command that followed a read
command
Symptom: A read command is issued by the initiator, then immediately following an ABTS is sent by the
initiator. BES then sends the data for the read and a good status, then sends a reject to the ABTS. It
never forwarded the ABTS to the actual target device.
BES received the read command from the initiator and the response from the
target before it processed the ABTS command. Since the read command had already completed at the
target, BES does not send the ABTS onto the target (the target would just reject the ABTS at that
point).
This behavior meets protocol and is a scenario that an initiator could encounter without BES in the
picture - a scenario in which the target completes the read command processing before the ABTS is
received
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Low
Feature: Data Security Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000364015 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: The port administration window of WebTools is missing several fields that used to be present
Symptom: Information is missing from WebTools port admin window
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Web Tools EZ
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000364788 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Unreliable speed negotiation may be encountered when BR5470 Cu ports are connected to a 3rd party
HBA.
Symptom: 3rd party HBA's are not properly negotiating to the correct speeds
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: PORT
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000366316 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FOS firmware upgrade on 8510 from 7.0.0 to 7.0.0a or 7.0.0b fails
Symptom: Detected termination of snmpd, firmwaredownload command fails, and active and standby CPs failed
to gain HA synchronization.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000367436 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: When the switch name is modified, Fabric Watch email alerts use the default switch name instead of
the modified switch name in the "Sent From" field.
Symptom: The 'Sent From' field name in a Fabric Watch email alert is the default switch name instead of the
modified switch name for the FID.
Workaround: hafailover or hareboot will trigger the use of the modified switch name
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: High
Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000367920 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Port Auto Disable is not triggered on master port in trunk
Symptom: Port Auto Disable (PAD) is not triggered on Master port in Trunk. PAD does trigger on slave port in
trunk.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Medium
Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: PORT FENCING
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000368286 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: 8000 switch returning isHADownloadPossible as 1 in switch.html
Symptom: Firmware download does not show I/O disruptive warning message in Brocade Network Advisor.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: High
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000368447 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Java null pointer exception resulted in trying to make a domain ID change using Brocade Network
Advisor
Symptom: Changing domain ID using Brocade Network Advisor was unsuccessful
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Medium
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Switch Admin
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000368520 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: WebTools Port Admin window can not be closed
Symptom: Can not close Port Admin window from WebTools
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Medium
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Ports Admin
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000368566 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: WebTools Port Admin window can not be closed
Symptom: Can not close Port Admin window from WebTools.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Low
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Ports Admin
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000370040 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Getting “No access” response while querying any table via an snmpv3 "user-defined" user that is
assigned to a particular Logical Fabric.
Symptom: Customer is not be able to contact the switch the first time and also will not be able to get complete
query results.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: ,697903,1094509
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000370495 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Brocade 8000 firmware dowload of 7.0.0c results in ISL being segmented due to rejected
authentication
Symptom: ISL segments as a result of rejected authentication and message [AUTH-1040] is displayed on the
Brocade 8000.
Workaround: Change Brocade 8000 authentication policy from off to passive.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Security Function: Authentication
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000370653 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: firmwaredownload -s with auto reboot enabled and HA disabled fails HCL when going from 6.3.2 to
6.4.X on backup CP
Symptom: When doing firmwaredownload -s with HA disabled and auto reboot enabled on backup CP, HCL
code load will fail with "HCL failed. Please use reboot to reboot the switch manually." Issue does not
exist on FOSv6.4 or above.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Firmware Download
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: 674841
Defect ID: DEFECT000371042 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Switch status is shown as "Unkown" for approx two hours by Brocade Network Advisor
(switch.html)
Symptom: ‘Unknown/Link Down’ icon displayed on the manageable switch by Brocade Network Advisor
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000371259 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Cert file names greater than 25 characters do not copy over to /mnt partition and get lost on hareboot
and firmwareupgrades
Symptom: Customer will lose cert file after upgrade when the cert file name is greater than 25 characters.
Workaround: Reduce cert name to 25 characters or less.
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: FOS Software Function: Security
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 674141
Defect ID: DEFECT000371302 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: CEE/FCoE: protocol spanning tree config is not visible after spanning tree shut/no shut
Symptom: If the customer changes the path cost to custom and does a shut/no shut the configuration will have
flat set as standard but rest of the config will remain as custom.
Workaround: Reconfigure “port-channel path-cost custom” and then configure “port-channel path-cost
standard".
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: CEE-LAYER2 Function: STP
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000371725 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: AG mode; ag --show;fabricshow output can be incorrect when changing ip address
Symptom: ag --show output displays incorrect IP address
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: FOS Software Function: Access Gateway
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1 Service Request ID: 674591
Defect ID: DEFECT000374924 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Port Admin Dialog: FC8-32E and FC8-48E blades will list speed combo values which are not
supported on these platforms.
Symptom: User will see speed combo values for FC8-32E and FC8-48E blades, but these settings are not valid
for these blade types.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: High
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Ports Admin
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000375412 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Sending Test Email from Web Tools does not work if DNS has not been properly configured.
Symptom: Sending Test Email from Web Tools does not work.
Workaround: DNS configuration needs to be in place and accurate for e-mail functionality to work correctly.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Medium
Feature: WebMgmt Function: Switch Admin
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000375418 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FCoE storage device logging in/out due to B8000 port disabling/enabling
Symptom: FCoE frames are observed to be dropped.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: CEE-Infrastructure Function: ANVIL DRIVER
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 685137
Defect ID: DEFECT000378573 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: CEE/FCoE: MSTP instance cost is not changing after configuring the spanning tree cost and
changing the mstp mode
Symptom: MSTP instances are not assigned proper costs when port-channel path-cost is changed.
Workaround: User needs to unconfigure the port-channel path-cost.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Low
Feature: CEE-LAYER2 Function: MSTP
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000386851 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Only trunk master gets disabled on FID sanity check during fabric events on edge fabric.
Symptom: When there is FID conflict, only one Ex-Port in a trunk is getting disabled leaving the other ports in
inconsistent state.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCR
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 705319
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000387099 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: For Condor-3 ASIC platforms, diagShow shows no frames TX or RX in diagnostics status display
when running portloopback -lb_mode 1
Symptom: diagShow does not show the BAD on Diag column if portloopbacktest fails for Condor-3 ASIC
platforms. This is properly working on 8G switch (5100) which is Condor-2 based.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: Diagnostics
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 703739
Defect ID: DEFECT000387572 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Persistence of "switchport" on port-channel is not working
Symptom: After code upgrade with a large configuration file, where port-channel and interface configurations
are back to back, information such as mtu, etc are lost. port-channel needs to be reconfigured.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Function: KERNEL
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1_dcb Service Request ID: 703363
Defect ID: DEFECT000391658 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Multivolume tape jobs failing over 7500/FR4-18i emulation
Symptom: Customer gets failures on multivolume tape drive jobs over 7500/Fr4-18i jobs
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 701075
Defect ID: DEFECT000391792 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Configuration of DWRR on the Brocade 8000 leads to unexpected results
Symptom: DWRR on the Brocade 8000 is not working as expected due to misconfiguration. DWRR distribution
is not reflective of desired setting.
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 697181
Defect ID: DEFECT000393891 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Embedded switches losing IP connectivity
Symptom: Switch is auto negotiated to half duplex while remote is set at 100M Full Duplex. Ethernet interface
reports timeout on console and overrun error in stats, User can no longer connect to IP management
interface.
Workaround: In order to recover transmit, use CLI commands ifconfig eth0 down/up. Following this use the
ipaddrest command to change the gateway to another address (doesn’t have to be an actual one)
and change it back to the actual gateway with the command which forces a reload of the default
route.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1_del Service Request ID: 705205
Defect ID: DEFECT000394214 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: cmsh core after user cntl^C repeatedly when daemon busy.
Symptom: customer will see core of cmsh process, this is non-disruptive.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCoE
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1_dcb Service Request ID: 719097
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000394636 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Last link in optical ICL trunks always has lower deskew value
Symptom: Observed only with 16G auto negotiated speed on trunk ports which has FEC enabled, no functional
impact to the trunk feature/traffic.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: High
Feature: 16G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 0,742043
Defect ID: DEFECT000395062 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: When DCX is powercycled it results in a faulty core blade in slot 8 and faulty port blades
Symptom: Core and port blades become faulty
Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Service Request ID: no SR for this case
Defect ID: DEFECT000396847 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Slow FICON Tape Write performance after reboot
Symptom: After a tunnel bounce or slot/chassis reboot, certain FICON Tape Write jobs’ performance is limited.
Workaround: Either start a multiple CCW tape write job (more than 1 CCW in the write chain) or a tape read
job. This will automatically correct the peer side pool state information.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 724213
Defect ID: DEFECT000397647 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FOS version incorrectly shown from cmsh prompt, however, firmware show is correct
Symptom: cmsh show version shows release as 6.3.1_del
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: High
Feature: FOS Function: Platform
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1_dcb Service Request ID: 724667
Defect ID: DEFECT000399125 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Tape traffic failing intermittently across routed fabric
Symptom: Host / target behavior is causing tape traffic to fail intermittently.
Workaround: Disable/enable ports to recover
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G FCR Function: FCR CLI
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 704001
Defect ID: DEFECT000401869 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Flood of FLOGIs with duplicate WWN will cause CP panic and reboots.
Symptom: Misbehaving device generate hundreds of FLOGIs with dup WWN within 300 ms. Switch was busy
processing these FLOGIs and caused Daemons to timeout and CP panic in a loop.
Workaround: Disable misbehaving port.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Services
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Service Request ID: 735211
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000403592 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Frame discards after enabling new TI zone.
Symptom: After enabling a new TI zone with failover enabled and all member ports disabled, discards due to
unroutable addresses were observed in another TI zone.
Workaround: Delete newly added TI zone.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software Function: FC Layer 2 Routing
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 738081
Defect ID: DEFECT000403862 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: fmmonitor --show results mismatch analyzer data
Symptom: Anlayzer data from a cascaded three switch configuration is showing a different number of SOFF
frames than fmmonitor.
Reason Code: Not a Defect Probability: Low
Feature: Performance Monitor Function: Frame Monitor
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 737989
Defect ID: DEFECT000405497 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Brocade 5460 POST times out as it takes over 60 secs to complete and SVP will time out
Symptom: SVP resets the Brocade 5460.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Function: Embedded
Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1_dcb Service Request ID: 706711
Defect ID: DEFECT000409266 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: dsim --portstart with multiple number of fdmi devices causes agd crash on Brocade 8000 switches.
Symptom: When devices created for fdmi profile using "dsim --portstart <portno> <more than_1_device>
fdmi_host", agd crashes on Brocade 8000 switches.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix Probability: Low
Feature: eDSIM Function: Daemon
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1
Defect ID: DEFECT000414993 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Diag code optimization
Symptom: Provide more information in case of portloopbacktest failure.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release Probability: Low
Feature: Diagnostics Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000419235 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FOS does not report physical port errors detected on FC10-6 10 Gpbs ports
Symptom: Devices attached to failing FC10-6 port may report errors.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Medium
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: Other
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 740975
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.1.0
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Defect ID: DEFECT000426728 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Experiencing CRC w/Good EOF errors C2-5825 on BR48000 port 5/45 with FC8-32 installed in slot
3
Symptom: CRC with Good EOF Errors is reported on slot 5/45 when FC8-32 card is installed in slot 3 of a
BR48000 system.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: Medium
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Service Request ID: 1084752
Defect ID: DEFECT000427117 Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Frimwaredownload on BR6505 is not blocked from FOSv7.0.2x to FOSv7.0.0x
Symptom: Brocade 6505 switch is supported with FOS v7.0.1 or above. Loading pre-v7.0.1 firmware will render
6505 switch inoperable.
Reason Code: Not Applicable Probability: High
Feature: FIRMWARE DOWNLOAD Function: Firmware Download
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Service Request ID: ,1110373/1110326