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Fabric OS v7.3.0 Release Notes v2.0

Brocade Fabric OS v7.3.0 Release Notes v2.0

June 27, 2014

Document History

Document Title Summary of Changes Publication Date

Brocade Fabric OS v7.3.0 Release Notes v1.0 Initial Release

June 27, 2014

Brocade Fabric OS v7.3.0 Release Notes v2.0 Add defect 508529 and

513920 to the Closed with

Code Change table. Add an

item for FCOE10-24 in DCX

8510-8 support under the

Other Important Notes section

July 14, 2014

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© 2014 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

ADX, AnyIO, Brocade, Brocade Assurance, the B-wing symbol, DCX, Fabric OS, ICX, MLX, MyBrocade,

OpenScript, VCS, VDX, and Vyatta are registered trademarks, and HyperEdge, The Effortless Network, and The

On-Demand Data Center are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States

and/or in other countries. Other brands, products, or service names mentioned may be trademarks of their

respective owners.

Notice: This document is for informational purposes only and does not set forth any warranty, expressed or

implied, concerning any equipment, equipment feature, or service offered or to be offered by Brocade. Brocade

reserves the right to make changes to this document at any time, without notice, and assumes no

responsibility for its use. This informational document describes features that may not be currently available.

Contact a Brocade sales office for information on feature and product availability. Export of technical data

contained in this document may require an export license from the United States government.

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Contents

Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 New Hardware Support ........................................................................................................................................... 5

Summary of New Software Features ...................................................................................................................... 5

New Feature Descriptions .......................................................................................................................... 7 New FCIP Features on Brocade 7840 .................................................................................................................... 7

Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) Enhancements ................................................................................ 8

Flow Vision Enhancements ..................................................................................................................................... 9

ClearLink Diagnostic (D_Port) Enhancements ..................................................................................................... 10

Read Diagnostics Parameters .............................................................................................................................. 11

Link Cable Beacon (Port Peer Beacon)................................................................................................................. 11

E_Port Balance Priority Routing ............................................................................................................................ 11

FCR enhancements ............................................................................................................................................... 11

Security Enhancements ........................................................................................................................................ 11

Access Gateway Enhancements ........................................................................................................................... 12

Zoning Enhancements ........................................................................................................................................... 12

High Integrity Fabric ............................................................................................................................................... 12

RAS Enhancements ............................................................................................................................................... 12

Brocade 8510 ICL Scalability Enhancement ....................................................................................................... 13

Miscellaneous Enhancements .............................................................................................................................. 13

Optionally Licensed Software .................................................................................................................. 15

Temporary License Support .................................................................................................................... 19

Supported Switches .................................................................................................................................. 20

Standards Compliance ............................................................................................................................. 20

Technical Support ..................................................................................................................................... 20

FOS Migration Considerations ................................................................................................................ 22 FOS Upgrade and Downgrade Special Considerations........................................................................................ 22

Recommended Migration Paths to FOS v7.3.0 ................................................................................................... 22

Important Notes ......................................................................................................................................... 23 Brocade Network Advisor Compatibility ............................................................................................................... 23

WebTools Compatibility ......................................................................................................................................... 24

SMI Compatibility ................................................................................................................................................... 24

Fabric OS Compatibility ......................................................................................................................................... 24

SNMP Support ....................................................................................................................................................... 26

Blade Support ............................................................................................................................................ 35

Scalability................................................................................................................................................... 40

Other Important Notes and Recommendations ..................................................................................... 40 Adaptive Networking/Flow-Based QoS Prioritization ........................................................................................... 40

Access Gateway ..................................................................................................................................................... 41

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Brocade HBA/Adapter Compatibility .................................................................................................................... 41

D_Port ..................................................................................................................................................................... 41

Encryption Behavior for the Brocade Encryption Switch (BES) and FS8-18 ...................................................... 42

FCIP (Brocade 7800 and FX8-24)......................................................................................................................... 43

FCIP (Brocade 7840) ............................................................................................................................................. 43

FCoE/DCB/CEE (FCOE10-24) ............................................................................................................................... 44

FCR and Integrated Routing .................................................................................................................................. 45

Forward Error Correction (FEC) ............................................................................................................................. 46

FICON ...................................................................................................................................................................... 46

FL_Port (Loop) Support.......................................................................................................................................... 46

Flow Vision ............................................................................................................................................................. 46

ICLs on DCX/DCX-4S ............................................................................................................................................. 46

Native Connectivity (M-EOS interoperability) ........................................................................................................ 46

Port Initialization .................................................................................................................................................... 47

Port Mirroring ......................................................................................................................................................... 47

Port Statistics ......................................................................................................................................................... 47

Virtual Fabrics ........................................................................................................................................................ 47

WebTools ................................................................................................................................................................ 47

Zoning ..................................................................................................................................................................... 48

Miscellaneous ........................................................................................................................................................ 48

Defects ....................................................................................................................................................... 50

Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.3.0 .................................................................................................................. 50

Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.3.0 ..................................................................................................... 66

Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v7.3.0 ............................................................................................. 107

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Overview

New Hardware Support

FOS v7.3 introduces support for the following new 16G FC hardware platform:

Brocade 7840 Gen 5 FC extension switch platform that offers the following capabilities:

o Support 24 16G FC ports, 16 10GE/1GE FCIP ports, and 2 40GE FCIP ports

o Support maximum 40G WAN throughput with two WAN Rate upgrade licenses.

o Support maximum 20G bandwidth on a VE port.

o Support existing FCIP features on Brocade 7800 and FX8-24 blade.

o Support non-disruptive firmware download.

o Support Fabric Vision features.

o Support increased compression performance.

o Support stream based flow control.

o Support out of order TCP delivery.

o Support WAN link test tool.

Brocade FC16-64 port blade for Brocade 8510 that offers the following capabilities:

o 16 QSFP ports per blade provide total 64 FC ports supporting 16G, 8G, and 4G speeds.

o 512 16G FC ports in a fully populated Brocade 8510-8 chassis.

FOS v7.3 introduces the support of the existing FCOE10-24 blade in a Brocade 8510-8 chassis.

FOS v7.3 supports all hardware platforms supported by FOS v7.2.x.

Summary of New Software Features

In addition to new hardware support, FOS v7.3 also includes support for a number of software features and

enhancements:

Support for new FCIP features on Brocade 7840.

Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suites (MAPS) enhancements

o Monitor Fabric Performance Impact due to bottleneck conditions

o Monitor new FCIP statistics on Brocade 7840

o Monitor fabric scalability limits

o Monitor ClearLink diagnostics ports

o Monitor Ethernet management ports

o Monitor Flow Vision learning flows

o Support Port Decommissioning as an action

o Support dynamic groups

o Support port group augmentation

o Usability enhancements

Flow Vision enhancements

o Flow Performance Monitor enhancements

o Flow Mirror enhancements

o Flow Generator enhancements

o Miscellaneous Flow Vision enhancements

ClearLink Diagnostic Port (D_Port) enhancements

o D_Port and MAPS integration

o Dynamic D_Port and On-demand D_Port on ISLs

o D_Port Provision

o D_Port test result display enhancements

o D_Port on FC16-64 QSFPs

Read Diagnostics Parameter (RDP)

Link Cable Beacon (Port Peer Beacon)

E_Port Balance Priority Routing enhancement

FCR enhancements

o Enhancements to FCR CLIs

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o Support fabric alias names for edge fabric IDs

Security enhancements

o Support SHA-256 for FCAP and DH-CHAP

o Support in-flight encryption with FCAP generated keys

o Support fabric-wide consistency policy co-existence with FCR

o Open Software Source packages upgrade

Access Gateway enhancements

o Support user account and password database distribution to Access Gateway

o Support dynamic D_Port on links connecting to HBAs.

Zoning enhancement

o Disallow zone merge with mismatching default zone access mode

Support High Integrity Fabric

RAS enhancements

FICON enhancements

Brocade 8510 ICL scalability enhancements

Miscellaneous enhancements

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New Feature Descriptions

New FCIP Features on Brocade 7840

In addition to the existing FCIP features supported on Brocade 7800 and FX8-24, FOS v7.3 supports the

following new FCIP features on Brocade 7840.

Support maximum 40G WAN throughput.

Support maximum 20G bandwidth on a VE port.

Non-disruptive firmware download.

Fabric Vision for Extension.

o ClearLink Diagnostic Port (D_Port) on all FC ports.

o Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suites (MAPS) for FCIP QoS, tunnels, and circuits.

o Full Flow Vision capabilities on all FC ports.

Ethernet Jumbo Frame

IPSec enhancement

Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL) enhancements

Increased compression performance

Path MTU Discovery

Stream based flow control

Out of order TCP delivery

WAN test tool

Support maximum 40G WAN throughput

FOS v7.3 supports maximum 40G WAN throughput on Brocade 7840. The maximum throughput is supported

with two WAN Rate Upgrade licenses. The base configuration without either WAN upgrade license supports

maximum 5G WAN throughput.

Support maximum 20G bandwidth on a VE port

FOS v7.3 supports on Brocade 7840 10 VE mode with maximum 20G bandwidth on a VE port and 20 VE mode

with maximum 10G bandwidth on a VE port. End users can create single FCIP circuit with 20G bandwidth or

create multiple circuits to load balance with different bandwidths that sum to 20G.

Non-disruptive Firmware Download

FOS v7.3 supports firmware download on Brocade 7840 without disruption to FCIP links. During a non-

disruptive firmware download, WAN bandwidth for a VE port is limited to 10G – half of the full bandwidth

capacity supported. In addition, a firmware download that does not contain any FCIP specific changes does not

impact WAN throughput.

Fabric Vision for Extension

FOS v7.3 supports and expands Fabric Vision features for Brocade 7840 Extension platform. These include:

ClearLink Diagnostic Port (D_Port) on all FC ports to diagnose FC link optics and cable problems.

Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suites (MAPS) enhancements to provide pre-defined threshold and

alerting rules for FCIP statistics at QoS level, tunnel level, and circuit level and capture FCIP specific

violations in MAPS dashboard.

Full Flow Vision feature support on all FC ports to provide broad visibility, deep insight, and pre-

production validation for traffic between data centers across FCIP links.

Ethernet Jumbo Frame

FOS v7.3 supports a Jumbo IP frame with MTU up to 9216 bytes on Brocade 7840.

IPSec Enhancements

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FOS v7.3 increase IPSec performance on Brocade 7840 with near line-rate throughput. FOS v7.3 implements

IPSec configuration through a policy applied to a FCIP tunnel. IPSec supports both IPv4 and IPv6 and jumbo

frames.

Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL) Enhancements

FOS v7.3 implements two new ARL algorithms, Modified Multiplicative Decrease and Time-based Decrease, to

provide additional performance tailored to network conditions. In addition, ARL ramp up time has been

decreased from 10s to 1s comparing to Brocade 7800.

Increased Compression Performance

FOS v7.3 supports increased compression performance on FC data frames on Brocade 7840 before they are

sent through FCIP channels. End users can choose None, Aggressive Deflate, Deflate, and Fast Deflate

compression algorithm to choose from the highest compression ratio but lowest pre-compression throughput

at 10G to lowest compression ratio but highest pre-compression throughput at 40G.

Path MTU Discovery

FOS v7.3 supports path MTU discovery on Brocade 7840 to automatically discover IP MTU settings over the

WANs.

Stream Based Flow Control

FOS v7.3 supports stream based flow control on Brocade 7840 to isolate slow devices from affecting

performance of other devices for emulated devices sharing the same VE_Port.

Out of Order TCP Delivery

FOS v7.3 supports out of order TCP delivery on Brocade 7840 over WAN connections to minimize

retransmission of FC frames in a scenario of TCP packet loss.

WAN Test Tool

FOS v7.3 supports a WAN test tool on Brocade 7840 to generate test traffic over a pair of IP addresses to test

a WAN path for any network issue.

Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) Enhancements

FOS v7.3 has a number of important MAPS feature enhancements. These include:

Monitor Fabric Performance Impact

Monitor new FCIP statistics on Brocade 7840

Monitor fabric scalability limits

Monitor ClearLink Diagnostic ports

Monitor Ethernet management ports

Monitor Flow Vision learning flows

Support Port Decommissioning as an action

Support dynamic groups

Support port group augmentation

Usability enhancements

Monitor Fabric Performance Impact

FOS v7.3 supports automatic monitoring and alerting of latency bottleneck conditions through pre-defined

thresholds and alerts in all pre-defined policies in MAPS. The advanced monitoring capabilities identify ports in

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two latency severity levels and provide intuitive reporting in MAPS dashboard under a new Fabric Performance

Impact category.

Monitor FCIP statistics

FOS v7.3 supports new monitoring elements (RTT, Jitter) in the FCIP circuit group, adds a FCIP tunnel group to

monitor tunnel state change and throughput, adds 4 FCIP tunnel QoS groups to monitor throughput and packet

loss for each QoS priority. These new monitoring elements and groups are included in MAPS pre-defined

policies and supported only on Brocade 7840.

Monitor fabric scalability limit

FOS v7.3 supports new monitoring elements in the switch group to monitor them against the fabric scalability

limits supported by Brocade. These elements include number of device connections in a layer2 fabric, number

of imported devices in a metaSAN, number of FCRs in a backbone fabric, and zoning database size. These new

monitoring elements are included in MAPS pre-defined policies.

Monitor ClearLink Diagnostic (D_Port) ports

FOS v7.3 supports new monitoring elements for port error statistics (CRC, ITW, PE, LF, and LOSS_SYNC) in a

new D_Port logical group to monitor D_Port tests so that the test results can be determined by thresholds in

the MAPS rules. These new monitoring elements and groups are included in MAPS pre-defined policies.

Monitor Ethernet management port

FOS v7.3 supports monitoring Ethernet management port state in a new Ethernet port group to generate alerts

if states for Ethernet management ports are changed. These new monitoring elements and group are included

in MAPS pre-defined policies.

Monitor Flow Vision learning flows

FOS v7.3 supports importing and monitoring of learning flows created through Flow Vision in MAPS.

Administrators can use this capability to configure thresholds and alerts for application flows without knowing

the source or destination device identities in advance.

Support Port Decommissioning as an action

FOS v7.3 supports port decommissioning as an action that can be triggered by MAPS rules. With port

decommissioning, ports can be gracefully shutdown in the event of violations without I/O interruption. FOS

v7.3 supports port decommissioning on E_Port natively through MAPS. For port decommissioning on F_Port,

Brocade Network Advisor 12.3 is required.

Support dynamic group based on user defined pattern

FOS v7.3 introduces dynamic group to enhance logic group definition for port objects. Administrators can

create custom groups whose membership dynamically changes based on user defined port identity traits.

Support port group augmentation

FOS v7.3 implements port group augmentation to pre-defined groups and dynamic groups so that

administrators can make small adjustments to group memberships without having to create a new group.

Usability enhancements

FOS v7.3 has a number of usability enhancements to MAPS. These include:

Change mapssam CLI to display system CPU, memory, and flash usage.

Change mapsrule and logicalgroup CLIs to make deletion of rules and groups easier.

Add a new option to mapsConfig CLI to send test emails to validate email configuration.

Flow Vision Enhancements

FOS v7.3 has a number of important Flow Vision enhancements to the Flow Monitor, Flow Generator, and Flow

Mirror functionalities.

Flow Monitor enhancements

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FOS v7.3 extends the learning capability to Flow Monitor on E_Port and Ex_Port. FOS v7.3 also supports Flow

Monitor for static and learning flows on XISL ports and backbone E_Port. These enhancements allow

administrators to apply Flow Monitor function at all point of interests in most supported SAN topologies.

Flow Mirror enhancements

FOS v7.3 introduces Local Flow Mirror to mirror application flows to a mirror port on the same local switch

where the flows are defined. This feature enables administrators to attach external analyzers to the mirror port

to capture all frames belonging to the flows for deep analysis. FOS v7.3 enhance Flow Mirror to mirror flows

originated from switch CPU and egress on a port, to mirror flows on either ingress or egress on F_Port and

F_Port trunks. FOS v7.3 adds the support of combination of -frametype and -ingrport keywords and

combination of -frametype and -bidir keywords in flow definition for Flow Mirror.

Flow Generator enhancements

FOS v7.3 introduces a system pre-defined flow sys_gen_all_simports for Flow Generator to generate test traffic

from every SIM port in a switch to all the other SIM ports. This allows administrators to fully stress test a switch

before deployment.

Miscellaneous Flow Vision enhancements

FOS v7.3 supports duplicated flow definition to be created but not activated in a switch. Administrators can

create flows with the same parameters but for different Flow Vision functions. FOS v7.3 increases the

maximum number of flows on fixed port switches to 128 user-defined flows and 128 sub flows and on

backbone switches to 512 user-defined flows and 512 sub flows.

ClearLink Diagnostic (D_Port) Enhancements

FOS v7.3 implements following important D_Port feature enhancements.

D_Port and MAPS Integration

FOS v7.3 integrate D_Port test with MAPS threshold based monitoring. Administrators can use this ability to

automatically monitor D_Port tests and determine D_Port test success or failure base on threshold settings

within MAPS.

Dynamic D_Port and On-demand D_Port

FOS v7.3 implements dynamic D_Port and on-demand D_Port modes on ISLs. With these modes,

administrators can configure D_Port test to be run automatically on ISLs after switch enable, slot enable, or

port persistent enable.

D_Port Provision

FOS v7.3 implements D_Port provision list to be configured by CLI command portcfgdport (via --provision

option). Ports on the pre-provisioned list do not need to be disabled before being configured as D_Port.

portCfgDport Show Result

FOS v7.3 enhances the D_Port test result displayed by portCfgDport command (via --show option) to clearly

identify loopback connection type or remote port index.

Port LED Display D_Port Result

FOS v7.3 implements visually display D_Port test failure by flashing yellow on the port LED.

D_Port on FC16-64 Blade QSFPs

FOS v7.3 implements D_Port test on the FC compliant QSFPs for FC16-64 blade. Electrical loopback and

optical loopback tests are not supported on these QSFPs. Only link saturation test and link distance and

latency measurements are performed.

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Read Diagnostics Parameters

FOS v7.3 introduces the Read Diagnostics Parameters feature to support reporting diagnostics parameters

associated with optics and media for any link between Nx_port and Fx_port from any point within a fabric.

Administrators can use this ability to discover and diagnose link related errors or degrading conditions from a

single point anywhere within a fabric.

Link Cable Beacon (Port Peer Beacon)

FOS v7.3 introduces the support of Link Cable Beacon feature, with which administrators can run the

portpeerbeacon command to turn on port LED beacon on both end of a link cable connection. Administrators

can use this feature to quickly identify peer ports of a connection without physically tracing the cables in a data

center.

E_Port Balance Priority Routing

FOS v7.3 enhances routing policy with the E_Port Balance Priority option. With this enhancement, when

multiple paths to a domain exist, routing policy would assign routes so that the bandwidth demands from

source ports are evenly distributed among all E_Ports.

FCR enhancements

FOS v7.3 adds a number of enhancements to FCR.

lsanZoneShow Change

FOS v7.3 enhances CLI lsanZoneShow (via -d option) to display the fabric IDs for devices exist in a fabric and

devices imported to a fabric.

lsCfg Change

FOS v7.3 enhances CLI lsCfg (via --show -n option) to display additional information for a logical switch.

Fabric Alias Name

FOS v7.3 supports assigning alias names to each edge fabric IDs. Administrator can use the fabric alias name

to represent each edge fabric.

Security Enhancements

FOS v7.3 has a number of important security enhancements.

FCAP and DH-CHAP Enhancements

FOS v7.3 supports SHA-256 hashing algorithm for FCAP and DH-CHAP in both FIPS mode and non-FIPS mode

to provide stronger security.

In-flight Encryption Enhancements

FOS v7.3 supports in-flight encryption with session keys derived from FCAP. With this enhancement,

administrators can use FCAP and in-flight encryption features at the same time.

Fabric-wide Consistency Policy Enhancements

FOS v7.3 supports FCRs to be present in a fabric with strict fabric-wide consistency policy configuration.

Administrators can turn on strict fabric-wide consistency policy even when an FCR is connected to the fabric via

an Ex_Port.

Open Source Software Packages

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FOS v7.3 upgrades a number of important open source software packages (openSSH, openSSL, Apache) to

provide stronger security.

Access Gateway Enhancements

FOS v7.3 implements following Access Gateway (AG) enhancements.

ClearLink Diagnostics (D_Port) Support on AG

FOS v7.3 supports dynamic D_Port on connections between an AG and an HBA to allow automatically start

D_Port test requested by an HBA.

User Account and Password Distribution to AG

FOS v7.3 supports user account and password database distribution from a native switch to an AG so that user

accounts and passwords can be managed the same way as native switches in a fabric.

Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI) Data Access on AG

FOS v7.3 adds the support of accessing device information for devices that are registered with FDMI and

connected through AGs.

Zoning Enhancements

FOS v7.3 enhances zoning to disallow two fabrics with empty zoning configuration to merge if one fabric has All

Access as default zone access mode and the other has No Access as default zone access mode. This

enhancement prevents the fabric with All Access default zone access mode from losing all device connections

due to converting to No Access default zone access mode after fabrics merging.

High Integrity Fabric

FOS v7.3 introduces support of High Integrity Fabric mode to ensure strict and consistent fabric configurations

required by a FICON fabric, which include Insistent Domain ID and strict fabric-wide Switch Connection Control

policy. Administrators can use the High Integrity Fabric mode to enforce these configurations for a FICON

fabric.

RAS Enhancements

FOS v7.3 implements the following RAS enhancements.

Frame Viewer (Class 3 Discard Log) Enhancements

FOS v7.3 enhances Frame Viewer to capture two new types of class 3 discard frames. The new discard types

captured include destination unreachable frames and unroutable frames.

Audit Log for Class 3 Discard Frames

FOS v7.3 adds to audit log message for each class 3 discard frame. This ability to allow administrator to

configure audit log to send class 3 discard frame messages to a centralized syslog server, which does not have

size limitation of a switch Frame Viewer log.

Forward Error Correction (FEC) Enhancements

FOS v7.3 adds the ability to allow FEC capability negotiation during speed negotiation in Transmitter Training

Signal. This ability can be configured by existing CLI command portCfgFec.

Firmware Download Enhancement

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FOS v7.3 introduces firmware sync ability for the firmware on an active CP to be automatically synced to a

standby CP after the standby CP is hot-plugged into a backbone switch chassis. Administrator can configure

this ability on their chassis to enable quick operational replacement of a standby CP.

Rolling Reboot Detection Enhancements

FOS v7.3 enhances the rolling reboot detection feature to detect and stop a rolling reboot in disabled FOS

switch state as a first attempt. This would enable an administrator to capture more diagnostic information.

New external RASLOG for Link Reset

FOS v7.3 adds a new external RASLOG (Cx-1014) for Link Reset due to credit loss for both front-end and back-

end ports.

supportInfoClear Command

FOS v7.3 introduces a new CLI command supportInfoClear to clear a number of statistics counters and logs.

This command can help administrators to quickly reset the counters and logs on behalf of switch vendors in

support scenarios.

Brocade 8510 ICL Scalability Enhancement

FOS v7.3 increases the supported number 8510 chassis connected via ICL in a core-edge topology to twelve

switches.

Miscellaneous Enhancements

trunkShow CLI Enhancement

FOS v7.3 adds to CLI trunkShow (via -swname option) to display the switch name of the neighboring switch

connected on the other end of trunked ports.

fabricShow CLI Enhancement

FOS v7.3 adds to CLI fabricShow (via -version option) to display the firmware version of each switch listed in

the fabricShow output.

portShow and portName CLI Enhancement

FOS v7.3 enhances the CLI portShow and portName to display as port name the host name registered with

FDMI for the host system attached to that port. Administrators must enable the “Display FDMI Host Name”

configuration via the configure CLI.

fspfShow and lsdbShow CLI Enhancement

FOS v7.3 changes fspfShow and lsdbShow CLI output to omit all zero value to be listed in port bitmap values.

Device Probing and Update on ALPA 0xC0 and 0x40

FOS v7.3 enhances FCP probing for devices connected to a port with ALPA 0xC0 and 0x40 to obtain the device

information for NS entry.

For base devices that logged in with ALPA 0xC0 and 0x40, FOS v7.3 provides the ability to update NS entries

when these base devices perform logout. Administrators can turn on this update mode to ensure NS and login

database consistency with “F-port Device Update Mode” option under the “Fabric parameters” section of the

configure CLI. This option can only be changed when a switch is disabled.

NPIV Base Device Logout Enhancements

FOS v7.3 enhances NPIV by allowing NPIV devices remain logged in on a port to a fabric when the base device

on the same port performs a logout. Administrator can configure this feature via the portCfgFlogiLogout CLI.

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fosExec Remote Execution

FOS v7.3 adds the ability to execute a FOS CLI command via fosExec CLI on a remote domain in the fabric.

Administrators can enable this capability to execute CLI commands on multiple switches from a single switch in

a fabric.

CS_CTL QoS Enhancements

FOS v7.3 enhances CS_CTL based QoS feature by reporting the CS_CTL auto mode in responses to device

FLOGI, FDISC, and PLOGI requests.

bottleneckMon CLI Change

FOS v7.3 deprecates the back-end credit recovery options in the bottleneckMon CLI. These options are

supported via the existing creditRecovMode CLI.

Maximum Auto Speed Negotiation

FOS v7.3 allows configuring a maximum speed for port auto speed negotiation with CLI portcfgspeed (via -m

option). Administrators can use this to control the maximum speed a device is allowed to join a fabric but still

allow port speed to be auto negotiated.

Back-end credit recovery on FX8-24 blade

FOS v7.3 enhances back-end credit loss detection and recovery to back-end links on FX8-24 with the existing

CLI command creditRecovMode.

aptPolicy change

FOS v7.3 deprecates AP policy related configuration from the CLI command aptPolicy. AP policy is used only by

FR4-18i blade, which is not supported since FOS 7.1.

slotPowerOn and slotPowerOff enhancement

FOS v7.3 supports slotPowerOn and slotPowerOff command on core blades in a DCX/DCX-4 or DCX 8510/DCX

8510-4 chassis. Administrators can use this command to power on or off a core blade without physical

presence.

Port Transition from Persistent Disabled to Disabled

FOS v7.3 supports directly transition a persistently disabled port to the disabled state without having to

persistently enable the port first. Administrator can configure this option via the new portCfgPersistence

command

portBeacon Change

FOS v7.3 enhances the portBeacon command to list all beaconing ports in a switch (via -all option).

ethif Command

FOS v7.3 introduces a new CLI command ethif to manage the switch Ethernet management interfaces. With

this command, administrator can configure and show the state Ethernet management interfaces.

haRedundancy Command

FOS v7.3 introduces a new CLI command haRedundancy to display switch uptime and HA redundancy settings

for a backbone switch.

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Optionally Licensed Software

Fabric OS v7.3 includes all basic switch and fabric support software, as well as optionally licensed software

that is enabled via license keys.

Optionally licensed features 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 Extended Fabrics—Provides greater than 10km of switched fabric connectivity at full bandwidth over

long distances (depending on platform this can be up to 3000km).

Note:

If a port on 16G FC blades or a 16G switch is configured to operate at 10G speed, Extended fabrics

license is not needed to enable long distance connectivity on that port.

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. Fabric Watch includes Port Fencing

capabilities.

Brocade Fabric Vision – Enables MAPS (Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite), Flow Vision, and ClearLink

(D_Port) to non-Brocade devices. MAPS enables rules based monitoring and alerting capabilities, provides

comprehensive dashboards to quickly troubleshoot problems in Brocade SAN environments. Flow Vision

enables host to LUN flow monitoring, application flow mirroring for non-disruptive capture and deeper analysis,

and test traffic flow generation function for SAN infrastructure validation. D_Port to non-Brocade devices

allows extensive diagnostic testing of links to devices other than Brocade switches and adapters.

(Functionality requires support by attached device, availability TBD).

Fabric Vision license also enables Fabric Watch and Advanced Performance Monitoring functionalities without

requiring Brocade Fabric Watch or Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring license (with FOS v7.2 and later

only).

Note:

If installed on a switch operating with FOS v7.1.x, the Fabric Vision license will be displayed as “Fabric

Insight”. If installed on a switch operating with FOS v7.0.x or earlier, the Fabric Vision license will be

displayed as “Unknown”. Fabric Vision features are not supported under FOS v7.1.x or earlier.

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.

Note: This capability is enabled by default on all Gen 5 65XX model switches and DCX 8510 platforms,

and on DCX and DCX-4S platforms that are running Fabric OS v7.0.0 or later. Gen 5 embedded

switches receive this capability by default with FOS v7.2.1 and later. Individual upgrade is required

when upgrading directly to FOS v7.2.1 on Gen 5 embedded switches. Subsequent group operations on

Gen 5 embedded switches including group upgrade are supported..

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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 the first components of

this license option, and are fully available on all 8Gb and 16Gb platforms.

Note :

With FOS v7.2, the Adaptive Networking license has become part of the base FOS firmware, and

features under this license no longer require the license to be installed. Customers that wish to have

these capabilities without purchasing the license are required to upgrade to FOS v7.2 or later.

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 — 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 :

With FOS v7.2, Server Application Optimization license has become part of the base FOS firmware,

and features under this license no longer require the license to be installed. Customers that wish to

have these capabilities without purchasing the license are required to upgrade to FOS v7.2 or later.

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, 7840, or Brocade Encryption Switch to be configured as an Ex_port or

VEx_port (on some platforms) supporting Fibre Channel Routing.

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.

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.

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, 7840, and the DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 for

the FX8-24 on an individual slot basis.

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10GbE FCIP/10G Fibre Channel – This license enables the two 10GbE ports on the FX8-24 and/or the 10G FC

capability on FC16-xx blade ports supported on DCX 8510 platforms except for the FC16-64 blade. On the

Brocade 6510, Brocade 6520 this license enables 10G FC ports. This license is not applicable to Brocade

7840 or Brocade 6505.

On FX8-24:

With this license installed and 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

On FC16-xx:

Enables 10G FC capability on an FC16-xx blade in a slot that has this license

On Brocade 6510, Brocade 6520:

Enables 10G FC capability on Brocade 6510 and Brocade 6520.

This license is available on the DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 on an individual slot basis.

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 Port 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 connected to four or more Brocade DCX 8510 chassis 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 the number of other chassis connected to a DCX 8510 via ICLs. This license is

recognized/displayed when operating with FOS v7.0.1 but enforced with FOS v7.1.0 or later.

Note: The EICL license supports a maximum of nine DCX 8510 chassis connected in a full mesh

topology or up to twelve DCX 8510 chassis connected in a core-edge topology. Refer to the Brocade

SAN Scalability Guidelines document for additional information.

WAN Rate Upgrade 1 License – The WAN Rate Upgrade 1 license provides the additional WAN throughput up to

10 Gbps on Brocade 7840. The base configuration of Brocade 7840 without the WAN Rate Upgrade 1 license

provides WAN throughput up to 5 Gbps.

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WAN Rate Upgrade 2 License – The WAN Rate Upgrade 2 license provides unlimited WAN throughput (other

than the hardware limit) on Brocade 7840. The WAN Rate Upgrade 2 licenses also enable the use of two

40GbE ports on Brocade 7840. The 40GbE ports cannot be configured without the WAN Rate Upgrade 2

license. A WAN Rate Upgrade 1 license must be installed on a Brocade 7840 before a WAN Rate Upgrade 2

license is installed. A WAN Rate Upgrade 1 license cannot be removed before the WAN Rate Upgrade 2 license

has been removed.

Note: The WAN Rate Upgrade 1 and WAN Rate Upgrade 2 licenses apply only to Brocade 7840. They

control the aggregate bandwith for all tunnels on a Brocade 7840. The entire capacity controlled by

the licenses can be assigned to a single tunnel subject to hardware limitation, or a portion of the

capacity can be assigned to multiple tunnels. The total bandwidth aggregated for all tunnels should

not exceed the limits established by the licenses.

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Temporary License Support

The following licenses are available in FOS v7.3 as Universal Temporary or regular temporary licenses:

Fabric (E_Port) license

Extended Fabric license

Trunking license

High Performance Extension license

Advanced Performance Monitoring license

Fabric Watch license

Integrated Routing license

Advanced Extension license

Advanced FICON Acceleration license

10GbE FCIP/10GFibre Channel license

FICON Management Server (CUP)

Enterprise ICL license

Fabric Vision 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.

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Supported Switches

FOS v7.3.0 supports the following platforms:

300, 5100, 5300, 7800, VA-40FC, Brocade Encryption Switch, DCX, DCX-4S

6510, 6505, 6520, 7840, DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4

FC8-16, FC8-32, FC8-48, FC8-64, FX8-24, FS8-18, FCOE10-24

FC16-32, FC16-48, FC16-64, FC8-32E, FC8-48E

5410, M5424, 5430, 5431, 5432, 5450, 5460, 5470, 5480, NC-5480

6547, 6548, M6505

Access Gateway mode is also supported by Fabric OS v7.3, and is supported on the following switches: the

Brocade 300, 5100, VA-40FC, 5410, 5430, 5431, 5450, 5460, 5470, 5480, NC-5480, M5424, 6547, 6548,

M6505, 6510, 6505.

The Brocade 8000 is not supported with FOS v7.2.0 and later.

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 FCOE10-24 blade conforms 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 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

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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

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, 7840 — 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 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

DCX/DCX-4S units running any FOS v7.2.x can be non-disruptively upgraded to FOS v7.3.0. This upgrade is

non-disruptive to both FC and FCoE traffic (when using FCOE10-24 blades).

Any firmware activation on Brocade 7800, or DCX, DCX-4S, DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4 with FX8-24 will

disrupt I/O traffic on the FCIP links.

Disruptive upgrades to Fabric OS v7.3.0 are allowed and supported from FOS v7.1.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.

Recommended Migration Paths to FOS v7.3.0

Migrating from FOS v7.2

Any 8G or 16G platform running any FOS v7.2.x firmware can be non-disruptively upgraded to FOS v7.3.0.

Migrating from FOS v7.1

Any 8G or 16G platform operating at FOS v7.1.x must be upgraded to FOS v7.2.x before non-disruptively

upgrading to FOS v7.3.0.

Disruptive upgrade to FOS v7.3.0 from FOS v7.1 is supported.

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Important Notes

This section contains information that you should consider before you use this Fabric OS release.

Issues that may significantly impact testing of the new hardware platforms are captured in the Defect Tables at

the end of this document.

Brocade Network Advisor Compatibility

Brocade Network Advisor greatly simplifies the steps involved in daily operations while improving the

performance and reliability of the overall SAN and IP networking environment. Brocade Network Advisor

unifies, under a single platform, network management for SAN, LAN and converged networks. Brocade Network

Advisor provides a consistent user experience, across the entire Brocade portfolio of switches, routers and

adapters.

Brocade Network Advisor provides health and performance dashboards, with an easy-to-use graphical user

interface and comprehensive features that automate repetitive tasks. With Brocade Network Advisor, storage

and network administrators can proactively manage their SAN environments to support non-stop networking,

address issues before they impact operations, and minimize manual tasks.

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 12.3.0 is available in

SAN-only edition IP-only edition SAN+IP edition.

For SAN Management, Network Advisor 12.3.0 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 12.3.0 Release

Notes, Network Advisor 12.3.0 User Guide, and Network Advisor 12.3.0 Installation, Migration, & Transition

Guides.

Note:

Brocade Network Advisor 12.3.0 or later is required to manage switches running FOS 7.3.0 or later.

The Brocade Network Advisor seed switch should always have the highest FOS version used in the fabric.

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WebTools Compatibility

FOS v7.3.0 is qualified and supported with Oracle JRE 1.7.0 update 60. Please refer to Other Important

Notes and Recommendations section for more details.

SMI Compatibility

It is important to note that host SMI-S agents cannot be used to manage switches running FOS v7.3.

If users want to manage a switch running FOS v7.3 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

4900, 7500, 7500e, 5000, 200E, 48K

Brocade 4012, 4016, 4018, 4020, 4024, 4424

v6.2.2 or later5

Brocade 5410, 5480, 5424, 5450, 5460, 5470, NC-5480 v6.2.0 or later5

Brocade 6548, 5432 V7.2.1 of later9

Brocade DCX, 300, 5100, 5300 v6.1.0e and later 1 5 7

VA-40FC v6.2.1_vfc 5, v6.2.2 or later 5

Brocade DCX-4S v6.2.0 or later 5 7

Brocade DCX with FS8-18 blade(s), Brocade Encryption Switch v6.1.1_enc or later 5

Brocade 7800, DCX and DCX-4S with FCOE10-24 or FX8-24 blades V6.3.0 or later

Brocade 80009 V6.1.2_CEE1 or later

Brocade DCX/DCX-4S with FA4-18 blade(s) DCX requires v6.0.x or later 5, DCX-4S

requires 6.2.x or later4 7

Brocade DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 FOS v7.0 or later

Brocade DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 with FC16-64 blade FOS v7.3.0 or later

Brocade DCX 8510-8 with FCOE10-24 blade FOS v7.3.0 or later

Brocade 6510 FOS v7.0 or later

Brocade 6505 FOS v7.0.1 or later

Brocade 6520 FOS v7.1 or later

Brocade 7840 FOS v7.3.0 or later

5430 FOS v7.1 or later9

5431, 6547, M6505 FOS v7.2 or later9

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Supported Products and FOS Interoperability

48000 with FA4-18 blade(s), Brocade 7600 V6.2.2 or later 5

Mi10k, M6140 (McDATA Fabric Mode and Open Fabric Mode) Not Supported

Multi-Protocol Router Interoperability

Brocade 7500 and FR4-18i blade V6.2.2 and higher 3 5 7

McDATA SANRouters 1620 and 2640 Not Supported

NOS (VDX Platform) Interoperability

Brocade VDX6710, VDX6720, VDX6730 NOS v2.1.1 or later6

Brocade VDX8770 NOS 3.0 or later

Table Notes:

1 When directly attached to a Host or Target that is part of an encryption flow.

2 These platforms may not be directly attached to hosts or targets for encryption flows.

3 McDATA 1620 and 2640 SANRouters should not be used with FOS-based routing (FCR) for connections to the same

edge fabric.

4 FA4-18 is not supported in a DCX/DCX-4S that is running FOS v7.0 or later

5 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.

6 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, and DCX 8510-4.

7 FR4-18i and FC10-6 are not supported on DCX/DCX-4S on FOS v7.1 or later.

8 Brocade 8000 is not supported with FOS v7.2 or later.

9 Represents the earliest major FOS version. These embedded platforms running respective dedicated FOS versions

can also interoperate with FOS v7.2.

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

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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.

SNMP Support

Starting with FOS v7.2.0, the Fabric OS MIB Reference document is not updated. You can obtain the latest

MIBs from the downloads area of MyBrocade site after logging in.

For information about SNMP support in Fabric Operating System (FOS) and how to use MIBs, see the Fabric

OS Administrator’s Guide.

Obtaining the MIBs

You can download the MIB files required for this release from the downloads area of the MyBrocade site.

To download the Brocade-specific MIBs from the Brocade Technical Support website, you must have a user

name and password.

1. On your web browser, go to http://my.brocade.com.

2. Login with your user name and password.

3. Click the downloads tab.

4. On the downloads tab, under Product Downloads, select All Operating Systems from the Download by list.

5. Select Fabric Operating System (FOS), and then navigate to the release.

6. Navigate to the link for the MIBs package and either open the file or save it to disk.

NOTE: Distribution of standard MIBs has been stopped. Download the required standard MIBs from the

http://www.oidview.com/ or http://www.mibdepot.com/ website.

Changes in MIBs and objects

This release introduces the following changes in MIBs and objects:

New MIBs

There are no new MIBs introduced in this release.

Updated MIBs

The following existing MIBs are supported for Brocade 7840 platform.

BRCD-FCIP-EXT-MIB

Table Name Is Supported Description

fcipExtendedLinkTable Yes

This table contains statistical information about FCIP tunnel

compression, retransmission, packet loss, and latency details. The

information stored in this table is returned in response to portshow

fciptunnel commands.

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fcipConnStatsTable Yes

The table contains statistical information about FCIP tunnel

compression, retransmission, packet loss, and latency details.

Note: This table shows circuits and TCP connections stats.

However, for Brocade 7840 platform this table shows only circuit

stats.

• IF-MIB

Table Name Is Supported Description

ifTable Yes This table contains the statistics of switch interfaces including FCIP

tunnels.

ifXTable Yes This table is enhanced version of ifTable.

ifTestTable No Not supported.

ifStackTable No Not supported.

ifRcvAddressTable No Not supported.

FCIP-MGMT-MIB

Table Name Is Supported Description

fcipEntityInstanceTable Yes This table contains the information related to FCIP entities.

fcipLinkErrorsTable No Not supported.

fcipLinkTable Yes This table contains the information about link of FCIP entities.

fcipTcpConnTable No Not supported.

ifRcvAddressTable No Not supported.

MIB Objects

fcipExtendedLinkTable

This table contains statistical information about FCIP tunnel compression, retransmission, packet loss, and latency details.

MIB Object and OID Description

fcipExtendedLinkIfIndex

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.1

The ifIndex value of the virtual interface corresponding to the FCIP

tunnels running over TCP/IP.

fcipExtendedLinkTcpRetransmits

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.2 The number of retransmitted packets.

fcipExtendedLinkTcpDroppedPackets The number of dropped packets.

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MIB Object and OID Description

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.3

fcipExtendedLinkTcpSmoothedRTT

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.4

The round trip time (latency) in milliseconds for a transfer over an

FCIP tunnel.

fcipExtendedLinkCompressionRatio

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.5

The ratio between compressed bytes and raw bytes over an FCIP

tunnel.

fcipExtendedLinkRawBytes

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.6 The total number of raw bytes sent or received.

fcipExtendedLinkCompressedBytes

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.7

The total number of compressed bytes received over an FCIP

tunnel.

fcipExtendedLinkConnectedCount

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.8 The total number of TCP session connections.

fcipExtendedLinkRtxRtxTO

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.9 A counter containing retransmit packets due to timeout.

fcipExtendedLinkRtxDupAck

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.10

A counter containing retransmit packets due to duplicate

acknowledgement.

fcipExtendedLinkDupAck

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.11 A counter containing duplicate acknowledgement packets.

fcipExtendedLinkRtt

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.12 The round trip time in milliseconds.

fcipExtendedLinkOoo

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.13 A counter containing TCP out-of-order.

fcipExtendedLinkSlowStarts

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.14 A counter containing slow starts.

fcipConnStatsTable

This table contains statistical information about FCIP circuit and connection compression, retransmission, packet loss, and latency details. For Brocade 7840 platform this table shows only circuit stats.

MIB Object and OID Description

xfcipEntityId

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.2.1.1 The FCIP entity identifier.

xfcipLinkIfIndex

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.2.1.2

The ifIndex value of the virtual interface corresponding to the FCIP

Link running over TCP/IP.

xfcipLinkIndex

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.2.1.3

An arbitrary integer that uniquely identifies one FCIP link within an

FCIP entity.

xfcipExtendedLinkTcpRetransmits The number of retransmitted packets.

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MIB Object and OID Description

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.2.1.4

xfcipExtendedLinkTcpDroppedPackets

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.2.1.5 The number of dropped packets.

xfcipExtendedLinkTcpSmoothedRTT

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.2.1.7 The round trip time (latency) in milliseconds.

xfcipExtendedLinkCompressionRatio

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.2.1.6 The compression ratio of the link.

xfcipExtendedLinkRawBytes

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.2.1.8 The total number of raw bytes sent or received.

xfcipExtendedLinkCompressedBytes

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.2.1.9 The total number of compressed bytes sent or received.

ifTable

This table contains the statistics of switch interfaces including FCIP tunnels.

MIB Object and OID Description

ifIndex

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1 The interface index.

ifDesc

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2 The description of the interface.

ifType

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.3 The media type.

ifMtu

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.4 The largest size packet that can be transmitted.

ifSpeed

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.5 The interface speed in Mbps.

ifPhysAddress

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.6 The physical address of the interface.

ifAdminStatus

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.7 The admin status of the interface

ifOperStatus

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.8 The operational status of the interface.

ifLastChange

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.9 The operational state time.

ifInOctets The number of received bytes.

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MIB Object and OID Description

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10

ifInUcastPkts

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.11 The number of received unicast packets.

ifInNUcastPkts

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.12

This object is deprecated in favour of ifInMulticastPkts and

ifInBroadcastPkts.

ifInDiscards

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.13 The number of discarded packets.

IfInErrors

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.14 The number of received packets having errors.

ifInUnknownProtos

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.15

The number of received packets having unknown or unsupported

protocols.

ifOutOctets

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.16 The number of transmitted bytes.

ifOutUcastPkts

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.17 The number of transmitted unicast packets.

ifOutNUcastPkts

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.18

This object is deprecated in favour of ifOutMulticastPkts and

ifOutBroadcastPkts.

ifOutDiscards

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.19 The number of discarded outgoing packets.

ifOutErrors

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.20

The number of outgoing packets not transmitted because packet

has error.

ifOutQLen

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.21 The length of outgoing packets.

ifSpecific

.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.22 This object is deprecated.

ifXTable

This table is enhance version of ifTable.

MIB Object and OID Description

ifName

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.1 The interface name.

ifInMulticastPkts

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.2 The number of received multicast packets.

ifInBroadcastPkts The number of received broadcast packets.

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MIB Object and OID Description

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.3

ifOutMulticastPkts

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.4 The number of transmitted multicast packets.

fOutBroadcastPkts

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.5 The number of transmitted broadcast packets.

ifHCInOctets

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.6 The number of received bytes in 64 bits format.

ifHCInUcastPkts

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.7 The number of received unicast packets in 64 bits format.

ifHCInMulticastPkts

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.8 The number of received multicast packets in 64 bits format.

fHCInBroadcastPkts

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.9 The number of received broadcast packets in 64 bits format.

ifHCOutOctets

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.10 The number of transmitted bytes in 64 bits format.

ifHCOutUcastPkts

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.11 The number of transmitted unicast packets in 64 bits format.

ifHCOutMulticastPkts

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.12 The number of transmitted multicast packets in 64 bits format.

ifHCOutBroadcastPkts

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.13 The number of transmitted broadcast packets in 64 bits format.

ifLinkUpDownTrapEnable

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.14

Indicates if linkUp/linkDown traps must be generated for this

interface.

ifHighSpeed

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.15 The interface speed in Mbps.

ifPromiscuousMode

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.16 Indicates if it accepts all the packets on the media. Value must be 2.

ifConnectorPresent

.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.17

This object has the value 'true(1)' if the interface sublayer has a

physical connector and the value false(2)' otherwise.

fcipEntityInstanceTable

This table contains information related to FCIP entities.

MIB Object and OID Description

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MIB Object and OID Description

fcipEntityId

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.4.1.1 The entity identifier.

fcipEntityName

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.4.1.2 The entity name.

fcipEntityAddressType

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.4.1.3 The address type and it can be ipv4, ipv6, etc.,

fcipEntityAddress

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.4.1.4 The address of the entity.

fcipEntityTcpConnPort

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.4.1.5 The connection port number.

fcipEntitySeqNumWrap

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.4.1.6 The sequence number.

fcipEntityPHBSupport

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.4.1.7 Not supported.

fcipEntityStatus

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.4.1.8 The entity status and it is always active.

fcipLinkTable

This table contains information about link of FCIP entities.

MIB Object and OID Description

fcipLinkIndex

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.5.1.1 The ifIndex of ifTable.

fcipLinkIfIndex

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.5.1.2

The ifIndex value of the virtual interface corresponding to the FCIP

Link running over TCP/IP.

fcipLinkCost

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.5.1.3 The link cost.

fcipLinkLocalFcipEntityMode

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.5.1.4 The entity mode and it is always eport.

fcipLinkLocalFcipEntityAddressType

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.5.1.5 The address type.

fcipLinkLocalFcipEntityAddress

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.5.1.6 The entity address.

fcipLinkRemFcipEntityId

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.5.1.7 The remote entity identifier.

fcipLinkRemFcipEntityAddressType

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.5.1.8 The remote entity address type.

fcipLinkRemFcipEntityAddress The remote entity address.

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MIB Object and OID Description

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.5.1.9

fcipLinkStatus

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.5.1.10 The link status and it is always active.

fcipLinkCreateTime

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.5.1.11 Not supported.

fcipTcpConnTable

This table contains TCP connection information about the link.

MIB Object and OID Description

fcipTcpConnLocalPort

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.6.1.1 The TCP connection local port.

fcipTcpConnRemPort

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.6.1.2 The TCP connection remote port.

fcipTcpConnRWSize

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.6.1.3 The windows size.

fcipTcpConnMSS

1.3.6.1.2.1.224.1.1.6.1.4 The segment size.

Modified MIBs

The following changes have been made to the SW.mib:

The “swBrcdBitObjVal” MIB object is newly added.

MIB Object and OID Description

swBrcdBitObjVal

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.1.1.37

The MIB object will have object value for each change mentioned in

swBrcdGenericTrap. It will be empty for the events which do not have

any values.

The “swFCPortPrevType” MIB object is updated to include D_Port option.

Updated Traps

The swBrcdGenericTrap in SW.mib is updated to include two new variables (swBrcdBitObjVal and swVfId).

Trap name and OID Variables Description

swBrcdGenericTrap

1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.1.0.14

swBrcdTrapBitMask

swBrcdBitObjVal

swVfId

This trap is sent for one of the following

events:

fabric change

device change

FAPWWN change

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FDMI events

Routing Policy change

Diagnostics Port Configuration Change

Polling status

This trap is enabled by default.

NOTE: This trap is for internal use.

The following BD traps are updated to include a new variable “slotPort” to display port number in slot/port

format:

bdTrap

bdClearTrap

Deprecated/Obsoleted MIBs

The following MIB objects/traps in SW.mib are deprecated:

swTrackChangesInfo

swTelnetShellAdmStatus

swTrackChangesTrap

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Blade Support

Fabric OS v7.3 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.

FC10-6 Not supported on FOS v7.1 or later

Intelligent blade Up to a total of 8/4 intelligent blades. See below for

maximum supported limits of each blade.

Virtualization/Application Blade (FA4-18) Not supported on FOS v7.0 or later

FCIP/FC Router blade (FR4-18i) Not supported on FOS v7.1 or later

Encryption Blade (FS8-18) Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type.

Extension Blade (FX8-24) Up to a max of 4 blades of this type.

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, FC16-64, FC8-32E, FC8-48E Not supported

Table 1 Blade Support Matrix for DCX and DCX-4S with FOS v7.3

Note: The iSCSI FC4-16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX/DCX-4S.

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Fabric OS v7.3 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the DCX 8510-8 and DCX 8510-4 noted in

the table below.

DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 Blade Support Matrix

FC16-32, FC16-48 16G FC blades FOS v7.0 or later.

FC16-64 blade2 FOS v7.3 or later.

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, FC8-48E1 FOS v7.0.1 or later.

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.

Extension Blade (FX8-24) Up to a max of 4 blades of this type.

FCoE/L2 CEE blade FCOE10-24 Supported at slot 1 position only on DCX 8510-8 with

FOS v7.3.0. Supported in the same chassis with FC16-

32 and FC8-32E blades only. Not supported with any

other port blades or intelligent blades in the same

chassis. Not supported in DCX 8510-4 chassis.

Table 2 Blade Support Matrix for DCX 8510-8 and DCX 8510-4 with FOS v7.3

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

2. 8510 core blade QSFPs, part numbers 57-1000267-01 and 57-0000090-01, are not

supported in FC16-64. However, the QSFP supported in FC16-64, part number 57-

1000294-01, is also supported on 8510 core 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,

FC16-64, 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), FC16-64

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,

FC16-64, 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

FC16-48 Port Blade Not Supported 4 Power

Supplies

200-240VAC:

For DCX 8510-8, four

(2+2)1

220V AC Power

Supplies are required

384 16Gb ports +

QSFP ICLs

FC16-64 Port Blade 4 Power Supplies 2 Power

Supplies

200-240VAC: 1+1

Power Supplies

110VAC: 2+21

Power Supplies

384 8Gb ports +

QSFP ICLs

FC8-48E Port Blade 4 Power Supplies 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

Dependent on

configuration.

Requires power

calculation for

specific

configuration

2 or 4 Power

Supplies,

depending on

configuration

For DCX 8510-8, four

(2+2)1

220V AC Power

Supplies are required

when any special

purpose blade are

installed

512 16Gb ports FC16-64 Port Blade 4 Power Supplies 4 Power

Supplies2

200-240VAC:

For DCX 8510-8, four

(2+2)1

220V AC Power

Supplies are required

512 16Gb ports +

QSFP ICLs

FC16-64 Port Blade 4 Power Supplies 4 Power

Supplies

200-240VAC:

For DCX 8510-8, four

(2+2)1

220V AC Power

Supplies are required

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, which will prevent Fabric Watch from generating notifications when the

switch enters the marginal state due to missing power supplies

2. Power supply requirements for a 512 port configuration without the use of ICLs will be reduced to two (1+1) in a

future 7.3.0x patch release.

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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,

FC16-64,

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

Note: Please note that most content in this section is primarily applicable to FOS v7.2.1a firmware and has not

been completely updated for FOS v7.3.0. Contents of this section may or may not be entirely applicable to FOS

v7.3.0 firmware.

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.

When FOS is upgraded from v7.1.x to v7.2.0 or later:

If the Adaptive Networking license was NOT installed in v7.1.x, all ports will have QOS disabled

following the firmware upgrade and links will come up in normal mode.

If the Adaptive Networking license was installed in v7.1.x, there will be no change in port QOS

mode following the upgrade.

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If the remote port supports QOS and QOS is not explicitly disabled on the local or

remote port, the link will come up in QOS mode.

Otherwise, the link will come up in normal mode.

If FOS v7.2 or later is factory installed (or net installed), Adaptive Networking features are always

available. This matches the behavior of the Brocade 6520 and all products shipping with prior

versions of FOS and with the Adaptive Networking license factory installed.

Ports will come up in AE mode by default

If the remote port supports QOS and is not explicitly disabled, the link will come up in QOS

mode. Otherwise, the link will come up in normal mode.

Access Gateway

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:

Log in to http://my.brocade.com

Go to Documentation > Tech Notes.

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

The 16Gb QSFP optics used in FC16-64 blade do not support electrical loopback and optical loopback

tests. Support is limited to:

o Link traffic tests across the 16Gb QSFPs

o Roundtrip link latency measurements

o Link distance measurements for links that are longer than 100 meter

Edge Hold Time

Edge Hold Time (EHT) default settings for FOS v7.x have changed from those in some FOS v6.4.x

releases. The following table shows the Default EHT value based on different FOS release levels

originally installed at the factory:

Factory Installed Version of FOS Default EHT Value

FOS v7.X 220 ms

FOS v6.4.3x 500 ms

FOS v6.4.2x 500 ms

FOS v6.4.1x 220 ms

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FOS v6.4.0x 500 ms

Any version prior to FOS v6.4.0 500 ms

Gen 5 platforms and blades are capable of setting an EHT value on an individual port basis. On 8G

platforms EHT is set on an ASIC-wide basis, meaning all ports on a common ASIC will have the same

EHT setting. Extra care should be given when configuring EHT on 8G platforms or Gen 5 platforms

with 8G blades to ensure E_Ports are configured with an appropriate Hold Time setting.

When using Virtual Fabrics and creating a new Logical Switch when running FOS v7.1.0 or later, the

default EHT setting for the new Logical Switch will be the FOS default value of 220ms. However, with

FOS v7.1.0 and later, each Logical Switch can be configured with a unique EHT setting that is

independent of other Logical Switches and the Default Switch. Any Gen 5 ports (Condor3 based)

assigned to that Logical Switch will be configured with that Logical Switch’s EHT setting. Any 8G ports

(Condor2 based) will continue to share the EHT value configured for the Default Switch.

For more information on EHT behaviors and recommendations, refer to the Brocade SAN Fabric

Resiliency Best Practices v2.0 document available on www.brocade.com.

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

SSKM operating in PVM mode. Please see SSKM documentation for operating in PVM mode for

details. Operation in HVM mode is not supported

RASlog SPC-3005 with error 34 may be seen if the link key used by a BES/FS8-18 is re-

established. Please refer to the LKM/SSKM Encryption Admin Guide for the workaround.

Also, please ensure that two (2) SSKM’s are present in the deployment for workaround to be

performed. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hot Code Load from FOS v7.2.x to FOS v7.3 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

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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.

FOS7.2 and later supports KMIP key vault type for Thales e-Security Key Authority SW v4.0.0 KMIP

servers. Please refer to the KMIP Encryption Admin Guide for more details.

Replication feature from Thales e-Security Key Authority KMIP server is not supported with

BES/FS8-18.

In FOS 7.1.0 or later 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.

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. Use of a workaround procedure is required in order to configure encryption in a VMFS

5 environment. Please refer to Brocade Tech Note “Deployment Options for VMware VMFS-5 with

Brocade Encryption” for details.

XIV storage arrays that have been upgraded to firmware 11.2x or later required to support encryption

on thin provisioned LUNs will report all XIV data LUNs as TP=Yes.

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 v7.2.0 or later, if the new FCIP Circuit Group feature is configured on any

FCIP Circuits, a downgrade operation to pre-FOS v7.2.0 will be blocked until the feature is

removed from the FCIP configuration(s).

FCIP (Brocade 7840)

Brocade 7840 does not support FCIP connection to Brocade 7800 or FX8-24.

FOS v7.3.0 does not support non-disruptive firmware download in one-to-many sites

configuration.

FOS v7.3.0 does not support concurrent non-disruptive firmware download.

FOS v7.3.0 does not support non-disruptive firmware download on the 20VE Mode.

FOS v7.3.0 does not support 10G speed on the 24 16G FC ports on Brocade 7840.

FOS v7.3.0 does not support VEX port on Brocade 7840.

FOS v7.3.0 does not support base switch on Brocade 7840.

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FOS v7.3.0 does not support credit recovery on BI ports on Brocade 7840.

Running offline diagnostic tests results in FCIP tunnels down. Reboot the switch after offline

diagnostic tests to recover the tunnels.

FCoE/DCB/CEE (FCOE10-24)

When upgrading a 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.

Ethernet L2 traffic with xSTP Hello timer set to less than or equal to 3 seconds may experience

momentary traffic disruption during HA failover.

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.

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 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 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.

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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.

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.

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 FCOE10-24 can handle 169 small FCoE frames in bursts. If you are using the 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.

FOS v7.3 adds the support of FCOE10-24 blade in DCX 8510-8 chassis with following limitations:

o Only one FCOE10-24 blade is supported at the fixed slot 1 position. Inserting the blade into

other slot positions, however, will not fault the blade.

o An FCOE10-24 blade can co-exist with FC16-32 and FC8-32E blades only in a DCX 8510-8

chassis.

o Only supports FCoE direct attach.

o Layer2 Ethernet traffic is not supported.

o If an FCoE10-24 blade is inserted into a DCX 8510-8 chassis, it is required to reboot the

chassis or slot poweroff/poweron core blades. A chassis reboot or slot poweroff/poweron

core blades must also be performed if the FCoE10-24 blade is removed and replaced with

another blade type.

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.

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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 with all DWDM links. Hence FEC may need to be disabled

on Condor3 ports when using DWDM links with some vendors by using portCfgFec command. Failure

to disable FEC on these DWDM links may result in link failure during port bring up. Refer to the

Brocade Fabric OS 7.x Compatibility Matrix for supported DWDM equipment and restrictions on FEC

use.

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, FC16-64, FC8-32E, FC8-48E, Brocade 6510, Brocade

6505, Brocade 6520, or Brocade 7840.

The FC8-48 and FC8-64 blade support attachment of loop devices.

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.

Flow Vision

Users must not specify well known FC addresses, domain controller addresses or CUP Port ID (in FMS

mode) for either the source or the destination device field while defining flows.

Flow Vision does not support port swap. Users must not create flows on ports that are already

swapped and users must not swap the ports on which the flows are currently defined.

After a HA reboot, a flow generator flow can be created if the source or the destination port is F-Port.

But traffic will not be initiated. Toggling the port will enforce the restriction again to simulated ports.

Flow Monitor does not support flows with defined LUN parameters on ingress ports on 8G platforms.

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.

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Platform running FOS v7.1 or later does not support EX port configuration in Interopmode 2 or

Interopmode 3.

Device sharing between a switch running FOS v7.1 or later 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.

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.

ISL R_RDY mode is not supported in a base switch with FOS version 7.0 or higher.

WebTools

WebTools since FOS v7.1.0 has a “SupportSave” interface. It only collects, however, information

specifics to WebTools. It does not contain the same information as collected by supportSave initiated

through CLI or Brocade Network Advisor.

When launching WebTools on a computer without Internet access, it could take up to 5 minutes to

complete because the certificate revocation check performed for the WebTools application takes time

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to timeout. Users can turn off the certification revocation check on the Java control panel as a

workaround.

FOS v7.3.0 is qualified and supported with Oracle JRE 1.7.0 update 60. When launching Web tools

directly using the browser for FOS 7.3.0, ensure that Oracle JRE update 1.7u60 is installed in that

machine. WebTools can be launched from the local client of Brocade Network Advisor installed on

Windows OS. Launching WebTools from local client of Brocade Network Advisor installed on Linux OS

will fail due to the expiration check with JRE 1.7 update 51. As a workaround for this issue on Linux,

please do the following changes in the Brocade Network Advisor installed computer.

1. Add following lines in <User Home>/.java/deployment/deployment.properties file

deployment.expiration.check.enabled=false

For example, if the user is root then the absolute path of this file is as below

/root/.java/deployment/deployment.properties

2. Launch the java control panel using below command and click on Ok button

<Network Advisor Home>\jre\bin\jcontrol

Please refer to Brocade Network Advisor release notes for more details.

In addition, users must check the “Enable Java content in the browser” box under the Security tab of

Java Control Console to allow launching WebTools from BNA server clients.

Zoning

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.

Miscellaneous

Users must also keep the RADIUS accounting port (Authentication Port+1) open in the firewall

to ensure proper working of the RADIUS authentication.

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 chassisShow 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

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chassisshow command has a “Power Usage (Watts):” field that shows the actual power

consumed in real-time on 16G blades.

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.

The Brocade Network Advisor seed switch should always have the highest FOS version used in

the fabric.

For login authentication through RADIUS, Brocade switch should be able to reach RADIUS

servers through TCP authentication port (default 1812) and accounting port (default 1813).

Both of these ports must be kept open in any firewall settings.

When a firmware upgrade on a Brocade 6510 switch initiated through Brocade Network

Advisor results with “failed to enforce new iptable rules” error message, the switch could be

inaccessible via SSH and/or Telnet. Activating (from console) a new policy with rules of

default active policy will restore access to the switch.

Firmware downgrade from FOS v7.3.0 with one or more ports enabled with the Flow

Generator feature as a SIM port will be blocked. The SIM ports configuration must first be

disabled.

Firmware upgrade to FOS v7.3.0 with one or more ports enabled with the Flow Generator

feature as a SIM port will be blocked. The SIM ports configuration must first be disabled.

FOS v7.3.0 includes a fix for defect 492340 where users may see frame drops on the back-

end edge and core ports with FS8-18 and FX8-24 blades in DCX 8510 chassis. This fix will

only take effect after the affected blades are powered off and on. After the fix takes effect, a

new credit allocation model leads to fewer credits available for long distance ports. If there

are long distance port configurations that have used up all the credits prior to applying this fix,

some long distance ports may experience degraded performance.

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Defects

Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.3.0

This section lists defects with High or Medium Technical Severity open in Fabric OS v7.3.0 as of 12:00 PM on

June 27, 2014. While these defects are still formally open they are unlikely to impede Brocade customers in

their deployment of Fabric OS v7.3.0 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: DEFECT000449902

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: WebTools and Brocade Network Advisory do not prompt user to place switch offline/online when

changing the port configuration policy change in Access Gateway.

Condition: When changing the port configuration policy between Auto policy and Port Group, WebTools and

Brocade Network Advisor do not prompt user to place switch offline then online.

Workaround: Manually place the switch offline then online when change the Access Gateway port configuration

policy for updates to take effect.

Defect ID: DEFECT000453829

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Routing

Symptom: Traffic could be extra slow with BufOpMode enabled

Condition: For the FC8-32 and FC8-48 port blade, routing from an E-Port to an F-Port on the same ASIC

Workaround: slotpoweroff then slotpoweron.

Defect ID: DEFECT000460726

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Login prompt displays error message "Max remote sessions for login" and unable to login through

telnet or ssh.

Condition: Some sessions failed to clear the entry in the logging registry on exit.

Recovery: 1) Verify using “who” and “w” command that the problematic users are listed only in who

2) From root, issue cat /dev/null > /var/run/utmp – [This command clear all the utmp file

entries]

3) Close all the login sessions and open it again

Defect ID: DEFECT000470634

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Monitor

Symptom: A static and a learning flow cannot monitor the same traffic at two ports on the same chip.

Condition: A static and a learning flow created on same chip where the traffic on the static flow is a subflow for

the learning flow.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000471762

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Monitor

Symptom: Two bi-directional flows monitoring a common subset of traffic doesn't monitor the frame and byte

parameters for one of the flows.

Condition: Two bi-directional (option -bidir) flows on the same chip monitoring a common subset of traffic and

with one of the device parameters (srcdev or dstdev) not specified.

Defect ID: DEFECT000477905

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: Monitoring and Alerting Policy

Suite (MAPS)

Symptom: MAPS don't show all the rules present in the policy

Condition: When user creates more than recommended number of rules per policy, MAPS will not show all the

rules present in the policy. The recommend maximum supported number is 200 rules per policy.

Workaround: User MAPS pre-define rules.

Defect ID: DEFECT000479904

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Technology Area: Firmware upload/download

Symptom: Firmware Migration might result in a switch panic due to a weblinker termination

Condition: In rare cases, a firmware download might cause a weblinker termination followed by a panic

Recovery: In chassis base system reboot the standby CP. In a pizza box, reboot the switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000483437

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: On Web Tools, the cascaded switch Icon in Fabric Tree gets greyed out and the pop up shows the

status as "Unmonitored".

Condition: This issue occurs when a switch is running FOS version v7.2.0 or higher while the remote switch is

running FOS version v7.1.x or lower, and one of switches has VF enabled while the other switch has

VF disabled. This issue will not occur if all switches are running FOS version v7.2.0 or higher,

regardless of whether VF is enabled or disabled.

Workaround: Run same FOS version on all switches in the fabric.

Defect ID: DEFECT000484766

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: Port persistent disable feature doesnt work for GE ports on FX8-24 across any reboot or hareboot

operations,

Condition: GE ports on FX8-24 are not persistently disabled across a reboot, hareboot, or firware download

operations.

Recovery: Use FOS CLI to manually disable GE ports

Defect ID: DEFECT000484991

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

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Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0_hit Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: Webtools displays internal ports without server blades as blinking amber LED

Condition: When the internal ports are not connected to server blades.

Recovery: Cosmtic issue where WebTools should not display color LED if server blade is not installed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000485217

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Fabric Authentication

Symptom: On the 7840 platform, if the bannerSet message is 1022 character or more, the CLI hangs.

Banner less than 1020 can be set without any issue.

Condition: For 7840 platform only and if bannerSet message size is greater than 1021 characters

Workaround: Use a banner size less than 1021 characters

Recovery: < ctrl-c> is required to exit bannerSet

Defect ID: DEFECT000487388

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Generator

Symptom: Some flow generator flows may get deactivated due to system limitations. As a result, they will not

generate frames. The deactivation reason is not available in the flow status output.

Condition: A generator flow may get deactivated automatically for the following known reasons:

1. PID/WWN is not available locally and they might have changed on local system (due to domain

change).

2. A blade is replaced by another blade that may not have capability of generating frames.

3. Source ID and Destination ID is same.

4. All 39 VCs are currently used by existing flows and no more flows can be created for the same

port.

5. A real devices connected to the port.

6. The flow generator is not being supported by new port type.

Defect ID: DEFECT000488667

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Monitor

Symptom: LUN Flow monitors on DCX/DCX-4S ingress port shows zero count.

Condition: When user installs a LUN flow monitor on the ingress port of DCX/DCX-4S, counters will always

show zero count.

Workaround: User can install LUN flow monitor on egress port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000489154

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: SNMP get/walk against a IPaddresstable (OID1.3.6.1.2.1.4.34) return IP address in ASCII code

format. for example

48.49.48.46.48.51.50.46.48.48.48.46.48.52.49 for 010.032.000.041

Condition: SNMP applications that query IPAddresstable are affected.

Workaround: Convert ASCII code into characters.

Defect ID: DEFECT000491910

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Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: SNMP query connUnitPortStatCountBBCreditZero or portstats64show could display an expected

large value for tim64_txcrd_z in a very brief time

Condition: This issue will be seen when there is a slowness in fabric either due to a slow drainer connected to a

F-Port or the E-Port due to back pressure.

Workaround: Customer could use portstatsshow command to get the correct per VC x_cred_zero counter value.

Defect ID: DEFECT000492786

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Customer can change the "thresh.env" and "thresh.res" (chassis settings) from the Logical Switch

even if the user does not have chassis wide permissions.

Condition: An account(admin/root) on a specific logical switch with chassis role user are allowed to change the

chassis wide parameters when fwsettocustom and fwsettodefault are used.

Defect ID: DEFECT000493407

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: SNMPv2, SNMPv3 & MIBs

Symptom: By default FOS SNMP will allow SNMP v1/v3 SET operation.

Condition: FOS SNMP write access is enabled by default.

Workaround: User have to use snmpconfig –set seclevel command to change the security level to "no access" in

order to block SNMP SET option.

Defect ID: DEFECT000494270

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Fabric Authentication

Symptom: Customer might see the devices reported as unauthorized when they try to login to the switch even

when DCC policy is configured properly. Sometimes when the secpolicy is activated, some of the

ports might bounce.

Condition: The WWN that starts with "80" has the most possibility to hit this issue and might be seen when the

device WWNs starts with "C0", "50", "20", or "10".

Workaround: Avoiding the higher WWN starts with > 80 from DCC policy would resolve the issue.

Defect ID: DEFECT000497464

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: 8G port blade displays auto max speed 16G when previous port blade was 16G and had auto max

speed configured.

Condition: A 16G port blade configured with auto max speed or 16G is blade swapped with an 8G blade.

Workaround: Modify the port configuration to auto speed negotiate on the 16G port blade before blade swap

with an 8 G port blade/

Recovery: Modify the port configuration to a supported speed using portcfgspeed CLI or reset the port to default

auto speed negotiation (ASN) using portcfgdefault CLI.

Defect ID: DEFECT000497518

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

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Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: F-port comes online and remains as G-port, on FC16-64

Condition: CP failover during switch disable/enable or slotpoweroff/on on a 8510 platform with 8G hosts

attached.

Workaround: Change speed to fixed 8G using portcfgspeed or change configuration to not allow E-port

capability using portcfgeport.

Recovery: Disable and then re-enable host port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000498330

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Diagnostic Port (D_Port)

Symptom: Increase in er_unroutable and er_other_discard counts in port statistics on the local D-Port when the

switch at the remote end of the link is rebooted or HA rebooted.

Condition: When a link which has static D-Port configured between two switches and the switch at one end of

the link is rebooted or HA fail over is done.

Defect ID: DEFECT000498502

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Generator

Symptom: When user creates a WWN flow with a SID/DID and also creates a PID flow with same SID/DID

while the DID is offline, both the flows would be activated but not enforced. These flows would be

duplicate of one another.

Condition: User creates a WWN flow and a PID flow with same resultant SID/DID.

Defect ID: DEFECT000498723

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Port Log

Symptom: Portperfshow does not display traffic for E-Port while portdportesting is running.

Condition: When portdporttest is running on ports.

Workaround: Don't run portperfshow when a portdporttest is running.

Defect ID: DEFECT000499177

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Some hosts from an edge fabric may fail to discover the LUNs in another edge fabric.

Condition: After doing a switchdisable of all the switches in the edge fabric and doing simultaneous

switchenable of the disabled switches.

Recovery: Toggle the port, host and target. If condition persists, switchdisable/enable the switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000499566

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Generator

Symptom: The 'flow --delete all' command will deactivate all the predefined flows in the system.

Condition: The 'flow --delete all' command will delete all the user defined flows after a confirmation but also has

the side effect of deactivating all predefined flows.

Workaround: Individually delete user defined flows instead of using --delete all.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000499809

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: In a chassis with large scale of EX-ports, user may occasionally see Weblinker subsystem restart.

Condition: If there are large scale of EX-ports configured in chassis, user may see Weblinker restart due to

timeout. However this is a very rarely to happen.

Defect ID: DEFECT000499816

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: CT commands do not appear to be forwarded to Name Server from FCoE device

Condition: When attempting to bring an FCoE CNA online, the CNA is unable to discover any storage.

Defect ID: DEFECT000500085

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: NTP - Network Time Protocol

Symptom: Switches in the fabric are unable to communicate with the NTP server.

Condition: When the BR5647 is insert into the embedded chassis or when the chassis CMM is rebooted, the

CMM will push the NTP network configuration for internal communication to external fabric wide.

Recovery: Reconfigure NTP address in any other non-embedded switch in the fabric.

Defect ID: DEFECT000500362

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Customer may see QOS High/Low priority enabled ports default to Medium priority after hareboot on

switches.

Condition: The priority change will occur while processing sync dump, if Special Zones (RD or TI) are present

in the database along with QOS Zone.

Workaround: To recover the correct priority, execute the cfgsave and cfgenable commands. If the priority is not

restored, execute the cfgdisable and cfgclear commands, and then re-create the same zone

configuration and enable zone configuration. If both steps fail, reboot the switch to recover the

correct priority.

Defect ID: DEFECT000500423

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: FICON

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: FICON CUP

Symptom: Routing Queries issued through MVS may not return the correct set fabric paths for the identified

SID/DID pair when DBR is used.

Port metrics for all E-Port PDB's returned for a Diagnostic Query may exhibit information that is

unrelated to the specified SID/DID pair.

Condition: 1. FMS enabled

2. FICON . MVS environment, with switch managed by host

3. DBR Routing Policy configured in the fabric.

Defect ID: DEFECT000500567

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

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Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Routing

Symptom: Customer may see traffic disruption if ICL connections are not symmetric when 8G edge blade is

present.

Condition: When 8G edge port blade is present and ICL connections are not symmetric (which is a recommended

use case).

Workaround: Avoid configuring asymmetric ICL connections.

Recovery: Reconfigure the ICL connection as symmetrical.

Defect ID: DEFECT000500959

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Framelog does not log unroutable frames.

Condition: When there are unrouteable frames during the HA failover recovery period.

Recovery: Unroutable frames will log after the system is in sync again

Defect ID: DEFECT000501004

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Generator

Symptom: portperfshow continues to display flow generator traffic running when flows were deactivated.

Condition: HA failover following a series of activate/deactivate of a flow repeatedly, then deactivate the flow

after HA failover.

Recovery: Activate and deactivate the flow again.

Defect ID: DEFECT000502340

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Generator

Symptom: It's possible to create and activate a WWN based generator flow on an E-port which is neither a

source nor destination device and will generate frames.

Condition: Creation of generator flow on an E-port with either source or destination device different from the

ingress or egress port. For a generator flow, if both source device and ingress port are specified, then

they should point to the same port. Similarly for destination device and egress port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000502603

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: If “supportsave” command is executed through remote fosexec command, before completion of

previously executed “supportsave” command then user may not get the message “supportSave is

already running from another connection, please retry later” from all the domains (in case of “all”

option ) or on the specific domain, where the command is in progress. Instead “Command is

initiated.” message will be displayed.

Condition: If user tries to issue “supportsave” through remote fosexec command, while the same command is

already in progress, it will not display the expected error message from "supportsave" command.

Defect ID: DEFECT000503071

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Extended Fabrics

Symptom: FICON Channel(s) takes IFCCs (Interface Control Checks) during init when two parallel 10Gb

tunnels are present.

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Condition: Two 8510-8 Logical Switches joined into a Logical Fabric with Base Fabrics (XISL) FCIP tunnels.

The tunnel Configuration are parallel 10Gb tunnels with a single circuits and no emulation.

Workaround: Use only 1 FCIP tunnel in the Base Fabric or E-Port ISL links in the Base Fabric.

Recovery: Disable one of the FCIP tunnels, leaving just one tunnel available.

Defect ID: DEFECT000503761

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: SNMPv2, SNMPv3 & MIBs

Symptom: SNMP-v3 get/set request will fail with decryption error while SNMP-v3 user privacy protocol set to

AES256.

Condition: If user configure SNMP-v3 with privacy protocol set to AES256, SNMP-v3 get/set request will fail.

Workaround: User have to use other SNMP privacy protocols like DES and AES128 for SNMP-v3 account.

Recovery: user have to use snmpconfig --default snmpv3 to default the SNMP-v3 configuration and reconfigure

it again.

Defect ID: DEFECT000503823

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: APM - Advanced Performance

Monitoring

Symptom: Fabric mode toptalker may not display actual toptalking flows if more than 1024 sid-did pairs are

zoned with devices in the local switch.

Condition: More than 1024 sid-did pairs are zoned for devices in local switch

Workaround: Reduce the number of zone sid-did pairs

Defect ID: DEFECT000503900

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Generator

Symptom: Firmware downgrade to pre-FOS7.3.0 releases will fail with "simport enabled" message, when a slot

with SIM port is powered off or empty.

Condition: The issue will happen only when a slot having SIM ports is empty or powered off and firmware

downgrade is initiated.

Workaround: If possible, remove SIM port configurations before blade removal or powering down.

Recovery: Reinsert or power-on the blade and remove the SIM port configurations.

Defect ID: DEFECT000504585

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: SNMPv2, SNMPv3 & MIBs

Symptom: Slowness in SNMP polling and performance data collection.

Condition: Seen in rare cases when APM is enabled.

Defect ID: DEFECT000504635

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Fabric Authentication

Symptom: In trunked FCR edge to backbone link (E-Port to EX-Port), new hash type in authentication does not

display new hash type in portshow output when toggle the link(E-port) after changing the HASH.

Condition: In a trunked E-port link, new master port does not show the proper authentication details when we

toggle the current master E-Port link alone instead of whole trunk ports.

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Workaround: Toggle all ports in the trunk group at the same time.

Defect ID: DEFECT000505510

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Monitoring and Alerting Policy

Suite (MAPS)

Symptom: MAPS don't allow user to delete bad rules.

Condition: When user creates more than recommended number of rules per policy, MAPS will not show all the

rules present in the policy and will not allow bad rules to be deleted. The recommend maximum

supported number is 200 rules per policy.

Workaround: User MAPS pre-define rules.

Defect ID: DEFECT000505940

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Ambigous eError message when removing 7840 WAN Rate Upgrade 2 license using WebTools and

there IP interface configured.

Condition: When the 7840 has IP interfaces configured on GE ports and the WAN Rate Upgrade 2 license is

removed through WebTools

Workaround: Correct error message displays in FOS CLI when removing the WAN Rate Upgrade 2 license and

IP interfaces are configured.

Defect ID: DEFECT000507007

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Generator

Symptom: User may only see 256 sub-flows when the predefined flow "sys_gen_all_simports" is activated in

512 port chassis and activation of the predefined flow may result in high CPU usage.

Condition: When user activates the predefined flow "sys_gen_all_simports".

Defect ID: DEFECT000507065

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Virtualization

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Access Gateway

Symptom: AIX Host I/O will timeout when doing an N Port failover on two separate switch paths.

Condition: Performing a Nport failover to a different switch and there is an AIX host connected.

Recovery: Restart the traffic.

Defect ID: DEFECT000507871

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Frame Viewer

Symptom: If framelog is disabled before HAFailover, then after HAFailover framelog will get enabled

Condition: The defect will be hit only if the following sequence happens:

1. Install new firmware

2. Change framelog config using framelog --disable

3. HAFailover

After HAFailover completes, framelog will show enabled and disabling or changing framelog

configuration will not be effective

Recovery: Recovery is to do a HAFailover again and restore framelog configuration to default (enabled)

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Defect ID: DEFECT000508628

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Fabric Authentication

Symptom: 7840 does not authenticate to RSA server configured for factor authentication for RADIUS.

Condition: 7840 does not responds to RADIUS Access-Challenge packet

Recovery: Not Applicable.

Defect ID: DEFECT000508975

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: When enabling Message of the Day (MOTD) on Fabric OS after upgrading from FOS Versions v6.x

to v7.x , the MOTD is not displayed for the SSH session.

Condition: This happens when switch starts at Fabric OS V6.x, and is then upgraded to v7.x FOS Versions where

MOTD exists.

Defect ID: DEFECT000509006

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: E-Port disabled after enabling TTS FEC on an existing online E-Port.

Condition: After enabling TTS FEC on an existing online E-Port.

Recovery: Disable FEC TTS configuration on the E-Port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000509850

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: Unable to view the current updated FCIP details after clicking Refresh Now Option.

Condition: Changes to the FCIP tunnels in the 7840 platform are not updated in the WebTools views.

Workaround: Navigate to another tab and return to see the updated values of FCIP Tunnel.

Defect ID: DEFECT000509898

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Switchshow and portcfgshow displays ports configuration as "Auto Negotiate" when configured as

fixed speed after firmeare download to FOS 7.3.0

Condition: After a firmware download to FOS v7.3.0 from previous release, switchshow and portcfgshow

displays port configuration as auto negotiate when configured as fixed speed. The actual link speed is

the configured speed.

Recovery: Perform a hareboot or hafailvoer after the firmware download to FOS v7.3.0.

Defect ID: DEFECT000510291

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: 7840 FCIP tunnel or circuit bounces as well as C3 frame discard when running flow generator traffic

across FCIP tunnels

Condition: Running flow generator traffic over FCIP using small frames (<2kB). Running flow generator traffic

at a rate that is higher than the available bandwidth over the FCIP tunnel.

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Workaround: Run a flow generator session that utilizes full FC frame sizes (2kB) and that also does not over

commit the FCIP tunnel.

Recovery: Flow Generator will started and proceeded to run over 1 of the tunnels.

Defect ID: DEFECT000510618

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: supportShow

Symptom: When supportsave is invoked from BNA the following raslog is seen on the switch.

[SS-1001], 525, SLOT 7 | CHASSIS, WARNING, DCX_155, supportSave's upload operation to host

IP address 10.38.162.10 aborted.

This indicates that a specific support module file transfer was not complete and failed.

Condition: [SS-1001], 525, SLOT 7 | CHASSIS, WARNING, DCX_155, supportSave's upload operation to host

IP address 10.38.162.10 aborted.

The above raslog is seen only when there is a network issue while transferring support files frlom the

switch to the remote host. SupportSave would continue to transfer the remaning support files to the

remote host.

Workaround: Verify all arguments provided with supportsave.

This could also be because of an intermittent network issue. Supportsave can be retried to collect

the data tat was not transferred.

Recovery: Verify all arguments passed with supportsave and check network connectivity to the remote host.

Retry Supportsave

Defect ID: DEFECT000510974

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: FCR commands will fail or print irrelevant information, when executed through fosexec command in

a non-base switch fabric.

Condition: If user tries to execute FCR commands with fosexec, they may not work as expected, because FCR

commands are only supported in base switch fabric.

Defect ID: DEFECT000511095

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: When running bi-directional flow generator traffic over an FCIP tunnel, the throughput is unevenly

weighted

Condition: When running bi-directional flow generator traffic over an FCIP tunnel.

Workaround: Run flow generator traffic in one direction at a time.

Defect ID: DEFECT000511519

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: Third party "sanlun" application does not display LUNs after being encrypted.

Condition: When a LUN is added as "encrypted" LUN to a container, third party "sanlun" application does not

display the LUNs. LUNs added as “cleartext” does not exhibit this behavior.

Defect ID: DEFECT000511719

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Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: Unable to view HA status of the 7840 FCIP tunnel from WebTools to determine if firmware

download will be disruptive.

Condition: WebTools does not display the HA status of a 7840 FCIP tunnel prior to firmware download

Workaround: View the 7840 FCIP tunnel HA status from FOS CLI

Defect ID: DEFECT000511843

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Mirroring

Symptom: The “No of Mirrored Frames” counter may not be equal to the sum of “No of RX Mirrored Frames”

counter “and “No of TX Mirrored Frames” counter, when a mirror port is specified in a flow

definition.

Condition: The condition is seen after the "No of Mirrored Frames" counter overflows.

Defect ID: DEFECT000512293

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Ethernet Interface

Symptom: For 7840 platform, the management link doesn't come up when eth0 (Magament inteface) speed and

duplex is forced to 100Mbps/Half-duplex and rolling error message seen on console.

Condition: When the 7840 platform eth0 is configured to 100Mbps half duplex.

Workaround: Use speed of 100Mbps/Full-duplex instead of 100Mbps/Half-duplex.

Defect ID: DEFECT000512507

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Routing

Symptom: Observed performance issue on FX8-24 when there are exactly two equal bandwidth FCIP tunnels.

Condition: Only applicable when there are two incoming paths (E-ports, trunks, EX-ports) on a given FX8-24 or

BR7800 ASIC Chip.

Workaround: Use one or greater than two incoming path to FX8-24 and 7800 or configure one of the link with a

slight lower bandwidth.

Defect ID: DEFECT000512534

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Monitor

Symptom: A FCR fabric flow does not monitor, when SFID and DFID of the flow are on the same ASIC chip.

Condition: User creates a monitor flow on a FCR backbone E-port using SFID and DFID options, where the

SFID and DFID are on the same ASIC chip.

Workaround: Workaround is to create a flow with both SID, DID wildcards, and SFID, DFID wildcards.

Example:

flow --creat fmon -fea mon -ingrport 20 -srcdev '*' -dstdev '*' -sfid '*' -dfid '*'

Defect ID: DEFECT000512746

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Monitor

Symptom: A WWN based flow will not be deactivated automatically, when the WWN of the generator port is

changed using the command 'fapwwn".

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Condition: WWN of the generator port is changed using the command 'fapwwn'.

Recovery: Deactivate and activate the flow manually.

Defect ID: DEFECT000512866

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Monitoring and Alerting Policy

Suite (MAPS)

Symptom: Customer could see MAPS alert related to SLOT, PS, FAN, WWN etc. during HA failover.

Condition: During HAfailover and firmwaredownload, MAPS rule "BLADE_STATE==OUT" is triggered for

an empty slot and FRU Health "Out of Range" violation logged happened.

Recovery: There is no functionality error. User can ignore these alters.

Defect ID: DEFECT000513327

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: FCIP Circuit will bounce due to Keep Alive Timeout.

Condition: Customer is running bi-directional, hi-traffic load using large block sizes (512kB or greater) running

over a network with 250ms delay and hitting 1% packet loss.

Recovery: This is self recovers via circuit bounce.

Defect ID: DEFECT000513450

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: FCOE device doesn't login after portcfgdefault

Condition: After portcfgdefault, the VF-Port comes up as FCoE enabled, but the device doesn't login into the

switch.

Recovery: Toggling of the VF-Port by executing fcoe --disable/enable <port #> will allow the device to login

Defect ID: DEFECT000513542

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: The "switchUptime" command executed via remote fosexec command (with --domain option) returns

error message "error opening /etc/fabos/datefile".

Condition: When remote domain is a logical switch that has no physical ports, the "switchUptime" command will

not working through fosexec.

Defect ID: DEFECT000513644

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Lossless DLS

Symptom: Some parallel, equal cost paths may initially be unused for routing traffic to remote domains more

than one hop away. The paths may be utilized for traffic to intermediate domains along the path but

may be missing for a later domain. For those specific domains, the paths will not show up in any of

the reports or CLIs that show routing data for those specific domains. (Examples include

topologyShow, uRouteShow, director diagnostics for FICON, and others.)

When the problem corrects itself , the customer's traffic may experience re-routes as the switch adjust

routes to start using the previously missing paths. The correction of the problem to include the

missing paths happens automatically within a time window of 30 minutes from when the problem

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happened. Many of cases where this happens should be corrected much sooner. When a re-route

occurs, out of order frames are always a possibility for mutli-hop routes. In this case, since the

reroutes happen at a later time than a cust

Condition: The switches must have Lossless DLS enabled. Then, the problem can happen when parallel paths to

an existing domain are added due to a new domain joining the fabric. For example: a diamond

topology where one of the points of diamond is offline and being brought back online.

Workaround: The switches will automatically correct the problem within 30 minutes.

If the customer wants to control when the reroute happens, they could bounce one of the missing

ISLs and this will cause FSPF to correct the problem. (Note: if the ISL is a trunk, all members of

the trunk must be bounced to generate the necessary events.)

Adding a new ISL that does not join an existing trunk group will also generates the necessary

events to fix the problem.

Defect ID: DEFECT000513776

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Name Server (NS) queue full condition leads to NS out of sync with local/remote devices and the

device connectivity info will become inconsistent.

Condition: When a new switch, which is in AllAccess mode and has local attached deviced, joins a large fabric

consisting of a large number of devices (> 1000) and a large zone configuration (around 1MB)

enabled, there is a possibility that the customer may see NS queue full condition. This happens due to

Name Server discovery occurring before the existing fabric's zone configuration getting merged

across to the new switch.

Workaround: There are a couple workarounds for such a scenario and they are part of best-practices strategy for

large fabrics.

1. When connecting a new switch to a fabric, put it in NoAccess mode. This will avoid the

momentary transition to AllAccess and resultant RSCN storm to the fabric.

2. If connecting a new switch in AllAccess mode, take all devices connected to that switch offline

to prevent RSCN storm.

Recovery: Reboot the switch to recover from the error condition.

Defect ID: DEFECT000514203

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: The 7840 console output shows many XTUN 1997 messages during I/O.

Condition: An active FCIP Tunnel with a lossy or busy network.

Recovery: No impact to IO

Defect ID: DEFECT000514554

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: VE Port offline and then online after circuit modifications change the overall tunnel bandwidth.

Condition: 1) The new Path MTU discovery feature is enabled on a circuit's IP pair

2) The tunnel has been up for more than 5 minutes

3) and the tunnel bandwidth is modified (a circuit data rate has been modified).

Workaround: Ensure data is not running, or first disable the VE Port, change bandwdith, then re-enable the VE

port. If the VE port was not disabled, a VE offline and then online event will occur.

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Recovery: The tunnel will automatically recover.

Defect ID: DEFECT000514741

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: FFDC is observed for log drop message. The FFDC message is harmless in functionality, it is only

for internal purpose to find out which message gets dropped.

Condition: There could be many internal raslog messages that overrun the raslog queue, thus the message is seen

Recovery: no action needed when this happens.

Defect ID: DEFECT000515227

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: After HA reboot, customer will not be able to see the enforced authentication details information in

EX-port.

Condition: HA reboot the swtich with authentication configured on EX-port.

Workaround: Customer can find the authentication detail information on the Edge fabric E-port which is

connected to the EX-port with authentication configured.

Defect ID: DEFECT000515787

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: The CLI command 'portshow fciptunnel --reset' does not reset the connected count field properly in

the FCIP tunnel statistics, and so it may show an invalid count after this command is issued.

Condition: Issue may occur when the 'portshow fciptunnel --reset' command is issued to reset the FCIP tunnel

counters.

Workaround: Avoid using the '--reset' option with the portshow fciptunnel command.

Defect ID: DEFECT000516255

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: Any replication devices using ELS (PRLI) and ELS _ACC frames as heartbeat during the replication

might have potential traffic disrupted when doing non-disruptive firmwaredownload in FCR

configuration.

Condition: It happens only when Replication devices on the edge fabric to 7840 through EX port.

And Replication devices must use ELS (PRLI) and ELS_ACC as heart beat for every few seconds.

The windows for heartbeat loss is 3 mins. If Replication device can not recovered, it will stop traffic.

Defect ID: DEFECT000516934

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Equipment Status

Symptom: FC16-64 DC power consumption is set to 160W but needs to be lowered to its actual maximum.

Condition: FC16-64 is inserted in a 8510-8 or 8510-4 chassis, slotshow -p will display DC power consumption as

160W.

Defect ID: DEFECT000406288 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Customer is not able to login with webtools or BNA with Radius.

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Symptom: Radius server blocked cusotmer login with “Radius” only configuration, running commands with

double quotes worked: aaaconfig --authspec "radius:local"

Workaround: need to modify the control flag to SUFFICIENT in the pam configuration files login.radius ,

login.tacplus and login.adldap.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: FOS Software Function: Security

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 742937

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

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: System Security Function: TACACS+

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000420903 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Graphic for external management port is lit with no connection for 6547 switch.

Symptom: when RJ45 cable is removed from the switch faceplate, Webtools still shows external management

port with solid green LED.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0_pha

Defect ID: DEFECT000455926 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Devices outside of fail-over disabled TI zone will have portcam entries if there is an alternative path,

other than the TI zone, to reach the device in remote switch

Symptom: Devices that are excluded from connectivity to each other in accordance with the TIZ configuration,

are visible to each other in the Name Server. Devices will get the details of the zoned devices and

PLOGIs sent to these devices will be dropped, sent to Non TI zoned devices

Risk of Fix: High Probability: Low

Feature: FC Services Function: Name Server

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000463170 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: ipsecconfig command may hang the command line

Symptom: ipsecconfig --disable command may hang and not work properly. Subsequent disable/re-enables may

fail.

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium

Feature: OS Services Function: IP Admin

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000468595 Technical Severity: High

Summary: SNMP did not restore all SNMPv1 and accesscontrol settings with configdownload

Symptom: Trap receipient and accesscontrol keys will not be restored on configdownload.

Workaround: Use the snmpconfig command to configure the settings.

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low

Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

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This section lists the defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change as of

June 27, 2014 in Fabric OS v7.3.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000361971

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: F-Port was logged out of switch due to laser fault during media access.

Condition: This is an unlikely situation that may be encountered under heavy CPU load and rare timing race

condition. i2c read of smart data has been enhanced to address this for impacted CPU type.

Defect ID: DEFECT000415126

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: User may see "Maximum number of rules created" when editing inactive policies (adding or removing

rules from policies)

Condition: It happens when the maximum number of ipfilter policies are present

Workaround: Reduce the number of ipfilter policies.

Defect ID: DEFECT000427692

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: False alarm reported about FAN with FW-1006 raslog in heavy CPU utilization switches :

2012/10/28-18:45:42, [FW-1006], 67128, SLOT 6 | FID 128, WARNING, , Env Fan 2, is below low

boundary(High=3400, Low=1600). Current value is 0 RPM.

Condition: Under heavy CPU utilization switch reported false alarm about the fan with FW-1006 raslog.

Workaround: Issue will not be seen if switch CPU utilization is less.

Defect ID: DEFECT000432406

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Technology Area: Logging

Symptom: Customer observes multiple supportsave processes on switch without actively initiating a recent

supportsave. These processes consume memory and may lead to switch panic when an additional

supportsave is initiated.

Condition: Hung supportsave processes left on switch.

Workaround: Kill stale supportsave PIDs

Recovery: After switch panic, no further recovery is needed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000433534

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: An inappropriate Fabric Watch error and SNMP Trap(swFabricWatchTrap) is generated

Condition: FW-1403 is recorded when the value for any area crosses its low threshold from below to inrange

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Defect ID: DEFECT000440429

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Password for community string is unmasked (n the clear) in show snmpv1 for user level role.

Condition: When the string is set / changed the information appears in RASLOG and in show snmpv1.

Defect ID: DEFECT000442978

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0_blv Technology Area: Platform Services

Symptom: Embedded switch BR6458's internal copper port may be stuck at No_Sync after its peer server blade is

reseated.

Condition: A reseat of the server blade is required.

Workaround: A gentle reseat of the server blade did not recreate the issue.

Recovery: A gentle reseat of the server blade.

Defect ID: DEFECT000445731

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: BB Credits

Symptom: IO traffic could not be restarted after FCIP Tunnel recovered from keep-alive Timeout.

Condition: Enhanced code to perform Link Reset to recover lost credit for FX8-24 blade. This could happen when

there was link level error such as loss of sync.

Recovery: Reset FX8-24 or connected core blade reporting the problem.

Defect ID: DEFECT000453711

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Fabric Authentication

Symptom: Following certificate deletion, the certificate file size is truncated to zero, causing reboot loop on

standby CP with weblinker panic. Console logs message with:

SSLCertificateFile: file '/etc/fabos/certs/sw0/x.x.x.x.crt' does not exist or is empty.

Condition: Delete certificate from the non-default VF context using seccertutil CLI command.

Recovery: Remove the zero sized certificate file on standby CP. Active CP will sync the new file.

Defect ID: DEFECT000454580

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Technology Area: Fabric Authentication

Symptom: On director, with SSL configured on Active CP, a newly inserted Standby CP may panic.

On switch, hot code load may result in cold recovery due to CP Panic if Time Server becomes

unreachable during hareboot.

Condition: On Directors, a new/replacement standby CP may panic upon insertion.

This may happen if:

1. The clock on the new standby CP is configured to a later time than on the active CP and

2. Weblinker is auto restarted to pick up a configuration change such as SSL configured on the

active CP, but not configured on the new standby CP.

On Switches, hareboot may result in cold recovery, due to CP Panic, if Time Server becomes

unreachable during hareboot and the internal clock is configured to an earlier time than the Time Server

clock.

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Workaround: For director CP replacement case:

Perform hadisabled before inserting standby CP. Then login to standby CP, change the date/time

on standby CP to earlier than on the active CP using the command "/bin/date" and then execute

haEnable.

For Switch hot code case:

Configure the switch to use local time (instead of NTP) and then revert back to NTP upon successful

completion of warm recovery.

Recovery: No action required. Previous switch reboot will fix the issue.

Defect ID: DEFECT000454926

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: On Brocade 300, observed CRC errors on 8G ISL ports when there are 4G ports in the same chip in a

specific customer configuration.

Condition: Problems stems from 4G data and 8G ISLs are run in physically adjacent ports.

Workaround: Physically separating 4G and 8G channels on the system,

Defect ID: DEFECT000455170

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: On a switch without license, while changing the date using "date" command will display: "No licenses

installed." Even though date properly updated by the command.

Condition: Executing "date" command in a switch without license will throw message "No licenses installed".

Defect ID: DEFECT000455322

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: An unexpectedly large number of threshold crossing "above high boundary" Fabric Watch messages

may be seen.

Condition: This may be seen during port diable / port enable.

Defect ID: DEFECT000455678

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: switch porterrshow displays excessive 'enc out' errors when ports are disabled/enabled. These error

counts, following portenable CLI command, may be spurious / inaccurate.

Condition: This may be observed following the execution of CLI commands portdisable/portenable

Defect ID: DEFECT000458552

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Technology Area: Port Log

Symptom: Log entry in the portlogdump doesn’t align properly with the rest of the columns.

Condition: Zone entry not aligned properly between port , cmd and argument/payload value.

Defect ID: DEFECT000460977

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

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Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: User can't execute switchcfgtrunk CLI in AG mode.

It gives following error while executing the CLI:

Error: This command is not supported in AG mode

Condition: switchcfgtrunkport CLI is blocked in AG mode through RBAC permission check.

Workaround: Trunking can be disabled or enabled on the ports in AG using portcfgtrunkport CLI.

Recovery: Ports will be recovered from this state using portcfgtrunkport CLI.

Defect ID: DEFECT000461189

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: User will not be able to launch web tools using Google chrome browser.

Condition: This happens when using the latest Java update revision 45 or 51.

Defect ID: DEFECT000461267

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Other

Defect ID: DEFECT000461699

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: CVLC might crash during host login to VT or crypto configuration change.

Condition: Issue will only be seen on Brocade Encryption Switch or FS8-18 blade. Only with higher ITL count

configuration, when crypto config change is done through “cryptocfg –commit” command, CVLC

might crash due to a race condition between host login and internal command timeout.

Defect ID: DEFECT000461765

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Logging

Symptom: RASLOG "LOG-1000" that is used to report a repeating previous RASLOG message, does not match

up to any previous error messages shown in raslog.

Condition: This non-correlating LOG-1000 may be seen when RAS-3005 raslogs are encountered.

RAS-3005 is ear-marked as an audit log and flagged to not display on the console as well as in

errdumpall.

As such the reference to previous command in LOG-1000 appears to not correlate when RAS-3005 is

generated into the audit log.

Defect ID: DEFECT000462091

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: ipfilter behavior varies depending on IPFC configuration

Condition: Seen when performing these steps

1. Set the ipfilter.

2. Try to login from another ip address that is not allowed via telnet, ssh, and http.

3. Hit errdump.

Defect ID: DEFECT000462116

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Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: Platform Services

Symptom: After director reboot, CPs lost heartbeat and active CP was reset. Standby CP panicked while taking

over the Active role.

Condition: Port blade hardware failure may trigger loss of heartbeat (between two CPs).

Recovery: Switch is recovered after reboot; replace bad port blade to prevent re-occurrence.

Defect ID: DEFECT000462242

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS6.3.2 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: For Chassis and LF user role as "user", config commands(configshow/configdownload/configupload)

trigger "RBAC permission denied." in interactive mode, where as these work as expected in non-

interactive mode

Condition: This "RBAC permissions denied" is encountered for these commands only for the "user" role in

interactive mode.

Workaround: Use command line invocation instead of the interactive mode.

Defect ID: DEFECT000463819

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: FC-FC routing

Symptom: Class 2 GPN_FT queries may fail with excessive targets (127 targets) in the fabric.

Condition: Occurs if any class 2 query response spans more than one FC frame and the end to end credit is unable

to accommodate the response

Workaround: Reduce the number of devices zoned together so that the number of FC frames responded by the

switch for a name server query does not exceed the credit configured at the device.

Else, increase the end-to-end credit configured at the device side to prevent failure in name server

query.

Recovery: Increase the credits configured at the device side.

Defect ID: DEFECT000464775

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: PortThConfig and ThConfig commands are appending the newly added actions whereas sysmonitor is

replacing the existing action set with the new action.

Condition: This is a discrepancy in handling newly added options between CLI command sysmonitor and CLI

commands PortThConfig and ThConfig.

Defect ID: DEFECT000465422

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Diagnostic Port (D_Port)

Symptom: When enable D-port test through BNA, for F-port to HBA links in automatic mode, failure reason code

is not shown correctly in case of test failure.

Condition: Occurs when enable D-port Test for F-port to HBA links in Automatic mode, through BNA only.

Workaround: Enable D-port Test through CLI to display the appropriate Failure Reasons.

Defect ID: DEFECT000465730

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

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Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Routing

Symptom: In FICON environment, port blades may not fault for IFCCs when there are low level ASIC parity

errors

Condition: IFCCs due to low leve ASIC parity errors

Defect ID: DEFECT000465879

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite

(MAPS)

Symptom: Invalid reporting of MAPS 16G SFP rules for optice when its neighbor E- Port transitions online.

Condition: Transistion a 16Gb E-Port offline/online will cause the port at the other of the link to trigger MAPS 16G

SFP rule violations

Defect ID: DEFECT000466071

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Logging

Symptom: Observed verify error from name server daemon on an idle switch: "VERIFY - Failed expression: 0, file

= ns.c, line = 5834...". Too many verifies can trigger a switch panic.

Condition: When device sent PLOGI with invalid SID/DID, such as SID of 0.

Workaround: Disable the port connecting to the device sending invalid SID.

Defect ID: DEFECT000466131

Technical Severity: Low Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: FW-1440 about empty slot is generated at hafailover

Condition: Fru state may be incorrectly updated in Logical Switch

Workaround: Message can be ignored.

Defect ID: DEFECT000466240

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: NTP - Network Time Protocol

Symptom: Switch reboots when using the tsclockserver command to set NTP with a DNS name longer than 32

characters

Condition: tsclockserver command accepts list of NTP server address and switch reboot occurs when the NTP

address with more than 32 characters is located at any position other than last in input NTP server

address list.

Workaround: Use IP address(IPV4) or DNS name with less than 32 characters to configure tsclockserver.

Recovery: Switch will recover after reboot.

Defect ID: DEFECT000466833

Technical Severity: High

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Technology Area: FC-FC routing

Symptom: A 3rd party vendor device using 0x0000 as RXID instead of the standard default 0xffff cannot

communicate with switch.

Condition: If a vendor device uses 0x0000 as RXID of the frame instead of 0xffff during the initialization of

exchange the frames will be rejected.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000466943

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Routing

Defect ID: DEFECT000467051

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: switchstatuspolicy shows incorrect port count which may impact the accuracy of switch status

Condition: switchstatuspolicy incorrectly accounts for logical ports into the total physical port count.

Defect ID: DEFECT000467183

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: End-to-end Performance Monitoring

Symptom: CLI command perfmonitorclear does not clear end-to-end counters.

Also after invoking “perfmonitorclear”, the CLI command "thconfig --show ee -current" shows counter

values to have erroneously incremented / changed.

Condition: This issue is observed on end-to-end counters upon executing the CLI command perfmonitorclear.

Defect ID: DEFECT000467263

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Frame Monitoring

Symptom: The fwd daemon may crash and result in a switch panic while repeatedly performing addition and

deletion of frame monitors.

Condition: This may be encountered when frame monitor deletion coincides with fabric watch polls (that occurs

periodically every 6 sec) to get the threshold values.

Defect ID: DEFECT000467584

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: Configdownload fails to update the thmonitor settings(Advanced SFP monitoring settings)

Condition: This may be seen in platforms which support thmonitor command (or platforms supporting 10G and

16G SFPs and 16G QSFPs)

Workaround: use the thmonitor CLI command to enable/disable advance sfp monitoring.

Defect ID: DEFECT000467589

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: SNMPv2, SNMPv3 & MIBs

Symptom: User cannot configure "community 1" with snmpconfig --set command

Condition: This is seen only in the Brocade 5460 (Kestrel) embedded switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000467681

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Management Server

Symptom: Blade server displays incorrect Firmware Version in IOM module after switch hotplug

Condition: After firmware download from v7.0.1_sh to 7.2.0, the IOM B1 module continues to dispaly 7.0.1_sh

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Defect ID: DEFECT000467843

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: End-to-end Performance Monitoring

Symptom: The TX counter remains at "0x0000000100000000" after clears stats of EE performance monitors.

Condition: No special condition is required: When EE monitor counters(TX/RX) are cleared on a port, 1 in top

value of EE monitor counters(Tx/Rx) are not cleared. There is no functional impact.

Defect ID: DEFECT000467900

Technical Severity: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: SNMPv2, SNMPv3 & MIBs

Symptom: swTrunkMaster OID shows the master port value as "0" in SNMP query response

Condition: This happens only in VF environment and the port presented above the master port belongs to another

FID.

Defect ID: DEFECT000467965

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: Seed switch with lower versions (pre-v7.2.0) of Webtools, will incorrectly display switches running

MAPS as "blue" and unknown.

Condition: A fabric having seed switch running FOS version lower than V7.2.0 and checking for Switch Health in

Webtools

Defect ID: DEFECT000468458

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: FC-FC routing

Symptom: FCR may indicate the error message "switch not ready for ex-ports" in switchshow.

Condition: Repeated disruptive operation in blade/slot which is having E-Port and EX-Port in the FCR core switch

may result in the error message "switch not ready for ex-ports" in switchshow output.

Recovery: Toggle the affected Ex-ports.

Defect ID: DEFECT000468549

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: FC-FC routing

Symptom: 3rd party cluster application fails after device gets name server query rejected with reason

NSRJT_EXPL_NO_PORTID.

Condition: This is a timing issue that occurs rarely for a node device that sends back to back FLOGIs within a short

time span on the same port.

Workaround: Disable and enable ports manually to complete site swap.

Recovery: Toggle affected ports.

Defect ID: DEFECT000469325

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: Error message “Unable to delete threshold” is displayed while disabling the custom created filter

monitors (fmmonitor) using the CLI command “thconfig --pause”

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Condition: A delay in response when process the fabric watch cli command.

Defect ID: DEFECT000469351

Technical Severity: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: CLI command "linkcost" displays column titles ("Port Cost") only when logical switch contains "port 0"

in it.

Condition: The column title is not seen when logical switch does not contain port 0 in it.

Defect ID: DEFECT000469481

Technical Severity: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: After issuing a configdefault -all and a subsequent reboot, the DomainID of LS does not return to

default value.

Condition: This issue occurs on executing configdefault -all

Workaround: User can execute configdefault in all logical switches instead of configdefault -all

Recovery: Execute configcommit in all logical switches

Defect ID: DEFECT000469507

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: Tape backup jobs on encrypted tape may fail.

Condition: Issue will be seen on Brocade Encryption Switch or FS8-18 blade with hosts and targets that doesn’t

support SRR/FCP_CONF and tape pipelining is enabled for the tape LUN.

Workaround: Disable tape pipelining for tape LUNs corresponding to targets/CTC which don’t support

SRR/FCP_CONF.

Defect ID: DEFECT000469915

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Technology Area: Platform Services

Symptom: CLI nscamshow reported "state is unknown" for Port IDs of remote switches, and impacted devices

cannot communicate with each other.

Condition: This may occur in a setup with Long distance E port due to a rare name server query frame time out

condition.

Recovery: hafailover to recover.

Defect ID: DEFECT000470033

Technical Severity: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: In switchshow output the status field is not properly aligned for the LISL ports display entries (where it

is shifted slightly to the right).

Condition: Cosmetic issue in switchshow display when LISL ports are present.

Defect ID: DEFECT000470123

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Virtualization

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: Access Gateway

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Symptom: Immediately after a port bounce with AG or while running “agshow” CLI command, Brocade Network

Advisor seed switch may panic.

Condition: Following a bounce of the port connecting AG to the switch, before fabric management server and

name server data bases have stabilized, polling from Brocade Network Advisor may cause seed switch

to panic. Likewise, running agshow on switch may also cause the switch to panic. The timing window

for triggering the panic is very small.

Workaround: Do not poll switch immediately following disruptive events.

Defect ID: DEFECT000470193

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: When registering new KV connection with type TEKA, secondary KV returns error "Key archival fails

on keyvault" State shows as connected.

Condition: May be encountered when registering new KV connection with type TEKA

Workaround: 1.Dereg Primary KV.

2.cryptocfg --show -groupcfg

3.Rereg the Primary KV.

Defect ID: DEFECT000470487

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: Erroneous FW-1190 error messages seen on different VEX tunnels:

Event: , VEXport#3/16,Packet Loss, is above high boundary(High=100, Low=0). Current value is 1176

Percentage(%).

Severity: Warning

Condition: When using Fabric Watch and SNMP, etc to monitor a switch, E-port pktloss raslog, VE-port and E-

port pktloss trap can be misleading.

Defect ID: DEFECT000470811

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Diagnostic Port (D_Port)

Symptom: The D_Port test results report incorrect cable distance for SFPs that don’t support E_WRAP and

O_WRAP such as ICL ports.

Condition: This may be encountered only when D_Port test is run on SFPs that don’t support E_WRAP and

O_WRAP. Following SFPs don’t support E/O_WRAP:

- 10G FC SFPs

- ICL ports

- QSFPs

- 8G LWL/ELWL SFPs

Workaround: Do not run D_Port tests on the above ports

Defect ID: DEFECT000471135

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Trunking

Symptom: RTWR-1003 RASLOG messages: Loss of connectivity.

Condition: This is a rare occurrence that may be encountered when both E-ports of a 2-E-port trunk go offline

during hafailover/hareboot.

Recovery: Disable both ports in the 2-E-port trunk, then enable them again.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000471232

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: When attempting CLI command cryptocfg --commit, the following failure scenario may be encountered

cryptocfg --commit

Operation failed: An outstanding transaction in EG

cryptocfg --transshow

The operation completed successfully.

Active transaction ID is: 5166 and the owner is: CLI

cryptocfg --transabort 5166

Operation failed: Cannot abort the transaction while commit in progress

Condition: This is a race condition that may be encountered when running 2 scripts that attempt commit after each

operation

Workaround: HAreboot of GL node

Defect ID: DEFECT000471333

Technical Severity: Critical Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: FC-FC routing

Symptom: Switch goes into a rolling reboot. After rolling reboot is stopped by RRD, any subsequent command is

responded to with "fabos not yet initialized". Further investigation revealed that certain Vendor Version

Level (VVL) bits, in the device FLogi message, were set unexpectedly.

Condition: This may be observed while 3rd party vendor performs firmware upgrade.

Workaround: Keep the port(s) connected to the conflicting device in a disabled state or reboot the conflicting

device(s). 3rd party vendor has also released new firmware to correct the Flogi bits setting. Please

contact support to obtain details.

Recovery: Disable switch port(s) connected to device(s) in question and reboot to bring up the switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000471614

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: FC-FC routing

Symptom: FCP SCSI command are forwarded to CPU and dropped on 16G platform.

Condition: This may occur in a very small time window in FCR setup, where a large number of devices come on

line at the same time with session based zoning.

Recovery: In most cases, SCSI level retry will succeed; Otherwise, toggle ports.

Defect ID: DEFECT000471772

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: After issuing cfgsave, there may be a time delay before cfgsave confirmation message is displayed.

During the time delay, CPU load may be high on zoning.

Condition: The issue may occur if the zone database is large.

Recovery: The operation completes by itself without intervention.

Defect ID: DEFECT000472121

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: SCSI errors are logged on host during an encrypted tape backup.

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Condition: GCS_ID query from host with Virtual Target PID is responded with 0x0 (No class of Service) from

Name Server.

Recovery: No recovery is needed. Tape backup is actually completed but host logs errors without impacting the

backup itself.

Defect ID: DEFECT000472563

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Technology Area: Management Server

Symptom: After rebooting a host, a subsequent GA_NXT may be rejected by the switch causing path fail for host

storage.

Condition: This is a rare timing issue were a partial registration to the name server may cause a failure of the get

next query.

Defect ID: DEFECT000472904

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: FC-FC routing

Symptom: 16G ASIC signal equalizer (DFE) running at 8G may drift due to IDLE fill words received resulting in

CRC errors and server tapes not accessible after reboot

Condition: This may be encountered when 16G ASIC speed negotiates or is locked at 8G

Defect ID: DEFECT000473087

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: FC-FC routing

Symptom: Customer could see different symptoms, such as:

1. RTWR error due to frame drop on 16G FCR

2. Fabric domains are inconsistent between fabric module and routing module, which cause Fport

cannot come online.

Condition: If non-trunked EX-port is configured, when remote side of the EX-port goes down (i.e E-port disabled),

in a multiple 16G FCR Backbone-to-Edge configuration, iswitchd will not remove the LE domain. It

will retain the LE domain even though its proxies are removed. During this time, all the domain

controller frames to the LE domain are dropped. This does not impact 4G/8G FCR switches. However,

SCN is not sent and could impact fabric rebuild.

Defect ID: DEFECT000473144

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: The "fmmonitor" CLI command is able to change the time base on each filters. However, "thconfig"

CLI command is unable to change the time base of each filters and displays "Timebase not supported by

this class".

Condition: Always seen while configuring time base for filters using "thconfig".

Workaround: fmmonitor can be used in place of thconfig for timebase configuration for filter class.

Recovery: fmmonitor can be used in place of thconfig for timebase configuration for filter class.

Defect ID: DEFECT000473289

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Routing

Symptom: RTWR-1003 RAS logs.

Condition: This problem may occur from the following sequence:

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1. One switch is connected off a loop topology

2. The loop topology is physically changed to a linear topology

3. One of the switches that was in the loop undergoes an hareboot

Recovery: Bounce an ISL connecting the switch originally outside the loop topology.

Defect ID: DEFECT000473439

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Generator

Symptom: Trying to create a duplicate Flow results in an incorrect error message.

Condition: Set up flow "try" to be a duplicate of flow 'jigar' except for using PID instead of WWN. This should

show as a duplicate and not allow it. Instead, it is showing as having reached the maximum limit. No

other flows are active.

Defect ID: DEFECT000473752

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: portaddress --show command when executed from Default Switch will display the details of the ports

present in other logical switches too.

Condition: Applicable only for VF enabled switches with no impact to the functionality.

Defect ID: DEFECT000473848

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: SNMPv2, SNMPv3 & MIBs

Symptom: authPrivSecret default keys are not being set by the CLI command snmpconfig --default snmpv1

Condition: This will be encountered when attempting to set the default setting using the CLI command snmpconfig

--default snmpv1

Workaround: set the default values manually using snmpconfig --set snmpv1

Defect ID: DEFECT000473940

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Routing

Symptom: After upgrading from v6.4.3b to v7.0.2c several ports observed C2-1013 (Duplicate rte_tbl_select

detected!) messages.

Condition: The C2-1013 messages are harmless and might be seen after an firmware download from FOS v6.4.3b

to v7.0.2c

Defect ID: DEFECT000474101

Technical Severity: Critical Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: supportShow

Symptom: In a virtual fabric environment, a logical port stuck in an invalid/incomplete state triggered a switch

panic during a switchshow/supportsave

Condition: On a rare condition, in a VF environment, if a port is not indexed correctly, subsequent data collection

will result in a panic.

Defect ID: DEFECT000474392

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

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Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: In a BES environment with CTC, hosts may lose access to LUNs temporarily.

Condition: Issue will be seen on Brocade Encryption Switch or FS8-18 blade when BES/FS8-18 acting as an N

port device, aborted the PLOGI in advance.

Defect ID: DEFECT000474459

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: SNMPv2, SNMPv3 & MIBs

Symptom: SNMP test traps are not received with "snmptraps --send" command when the switch is in AG mode.

Condition: Impact AG switches running FOS version below v7.x.

Defect ID: DEFECT000474697

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: Host lost access to some paths of LUNs intermittently during encryption change commits.

Condition: In encryption environment (BES/FS8-18), with higher ITL count configured, hosts configured with

CTC may lose access to some paths of LUNs temporarily while committing the crypto configuration

changes.

Defect ID: DEFECT000474833

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: FCIP Fastwrite

Symptom: Job failures after check condition from tape device (the next I/O is incorrectly responded to with a

deferred error check condition status).

Condition: If a tape device is accessed via a non-OSTP (Open Systems Tape Pipelining) tunnel and it returns a

check condition to an I/O, FCIP FW processing would incorrectly generate a second check condition

status to the next I/O for that tape device.

Workaround: Enable OSTP on the FCIP FW enabled tunnels if there are also Tape devices accessed via the tunnel.

Defect ID: DEFECT000475035

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: BES becomes non-responsive and host paths are lost after BES replacement.

Condition: Issue will be seen only in BES/FS8-18 after execution of “cryptocfg –replace” command on the group

leader.

Defect ID: DEFECT000475036

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: CLI command "apploginhistory --show" indicates webtools connection after webtools is closed

Condition: Close webtools and run CLI command "apploginhistory --show"

Workaround: Use the normal exit to exit to close webtools session.

i.e. On Webtools select Manage --> Exit

Do not click "X" to close webtools session.

Defect ID: DEFECT000475084

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

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Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: spinfab fails with various symptoms, such as:

- Test port goes into G_Port state,

- Hard-Flt status, or

- CRC error reported.

Condition: This happens with LS E port with nframe=0 option.

Defect ID: DEFECT000475264

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: Fabric Authentication

Symptom: After password expiration, excessive login failures may trigger repeated secd panics in switches with

multiple logical switches.

Condition: This happens when password expires in a setup with large number of logical switches or customer

triggers multiple security violations with very high frequency via scan tools.

Workaround: Disconnect the management Ethernet cable.

Recovery: Stop security scanning tool and fix any security violation until upgrade to a code release with fix.

Defect ID: DEFECT000475320

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision: Flow Mirroring

Symptom: Unable to reset a flow mirror when wrap is disabled.

Condition: When the flow mirror wrap is disabled, flow values incorrect after a reset.

Defect ID: DEFECT000475645

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: End-to-end Performance Monitoring

Symptom: Updated End-to-End monitor shows previous data.

Condition: After removing and replacing an EE monitor (with the SID and DID reversed) the data from the original

EE monitor is shown instead of zeros.

Defect ID: DEFECT000476212

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: Restore from encrypted tape may fail with I/O errors.

Condition: With more than one initiator configured in a tape container and tape pipelining enabled for the LUN, a

new login from a different host to virtual target may cause the on-going tape restore operation (with

another host) to fail.

Workaround: Disable tape pipelining for tape LUNs corresponding to targets/CTC where more than one host is

configured.

Defect ID: DEFECT000476595

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: In a heavy I/O environment, tape mounts are rejected for LTO drives on encryption blade.

Condition: In an encryption environment (BES/FS8-18), while heavy tape I/Os or a rekey is running, host may

experience failures in doing I/O to the tape drive LUNs configured in that Encryption Engine or lose

access to the encrypted Disk LUNs.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000476762

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: User will see the unwanted warning messages in java console while launching WT

Condition: When a server uses a later revision of JAVA update JRE1.7u45 and JRE1.7u51.

Defect ID: DEFECT000477009

Technical Severity: Critical Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Virtualization

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0_pha Technology Area: Access Gateway

Symptom: A host connected to a NPIV port on an Access Gateway has multiple virtual clients. Only the physical

HBA is able to login. The virtual client logins are rejected.

Condition: The issue occurs under the following conditions:

1. F-ports have never bounced since upgrading to a FOS version with the Persistent ALPA feature.

2. The Persistent ALPA feature is enabled for the first time.

3. Virtual clients login without first bouncing the Access Gateway port where the host is connected.

Workaround: Disable all F-ports on the Access Gateway before trying to login virtual clients.

Recovery: Disable _all_ the affected F-ports, then enable all the affected ports. To determine which ports are

affected, run this command on all F-ports:

ag --printalpamap <F-port_number>

If the CLI comes back with _Hash Table is empty_, then the port is affected.

Defect ID: DEFECT000477188

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: Platform Services

Symptom: During hafailover operation, switch reinitializes a port blade due to a false indication of a power (low

voltage) issue.

Condition: An i2c contention during an i2c read/write operation on FC8-48 or FC8-32 port blade, immediately

following an hafailover, forces an i2c reset for the corresponding blade.

Recovery: No further recovery is necessary, data path re-route is already initiated and the FRU re-initialized to

remedy the situation.

Defect ID: DEFECT000477596

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: When launching WebTools, a user might see error response "Chassis is not ready for management".

Also Brocade Network Advisory might not be able to manage the switch.

Condition: When switches are managed by Webtools and or Brocade Network Advisor.

Recovery: A switch reboot

Defect ID: DEFECT000477706

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: Following an hafailover DNS configuration may be lost, resulting in Fabric Watch email failure.

Condition: This may be encountered when DNS settings are changed using dnsconfig, followed by an hafailover

Workaround: configure the relay host IP address manually to work around the issue

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Defect ID: DEFECT000477795

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: Users will not be able to see the current data for SFP diagnostics.

Condition: SFP tab on webtools not display the current data even after selecting “Refresh Now” option.

Workaround: Use CLI sfpshow

Defect ID: DEFECT000477834

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: OSTP - Open Systems Tape Pipelining

Symptom: In an FCIP tunnel using OSTP, tape server reports intermittent missing block errors.

Condition: During error recovery for FC CRC errors, OSTP may incorrectly send frames out of order.

Defect ID: DEFECT000477854

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: ICLs - Inter-chassis Links

Symptom: CRC with good EOF errors are reported on multiple ICL ports in DCX

Condition: This issue is seen rarely on DCX platforms

Defect ID: DEFECT000477917

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Technology Area: Routing

Symptom: Spinfab fails across TI Zone when link cost is higher than that of normal E-ports.

Condition: Testing ports bounced after link cost was changed to a higher than normal traffic E-ports between the

same two domains.

Workaround: Change the link cost without bouncing the port.

Recovery: Set the link cost of testing port to the same as other online E-ports during spinfab test.

Defect ID: DEFECT000477948

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Platform Services

Symptom: Toggling autoneg on a disabled ge port followed by reenabling it, may sometimes result in other ge

ports going to 'no sync' state.

Condition: This may occur upon executing the following sequence of commands :

1. portdisable <ge port>

2. portcfg autoneg <ge port> --disable

3. portcfg autoneg <ge port> --enable

4. portenable <ge port>

Then note that a different ge port may go to 'No_Sync' status -

Workaround: Use only portdisable/portenable.

Defect ID: DEFECT000478505

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Encryption

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Symptom: During tape backups on an encrypted tape LUN, switch or blade might become faulty with message

“BM-BC heartbeat dead. Sending blade fault”.

Condition: Issue may be seen during continuous backup of uncompressible data to encrypted tape.

Defect ID: DEFECT000478551

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: For percentage unit, "portthconfig" CLI accepts value larger than 100 for TU area for fop-port

configuration.

Condition: Always seen while configuring TU area for fop-port class

Workaround: Use the values 0-100 for TU area when unit is percentage.

Recovery: Reconfigure value to be less than 100.

Defect ID: DEFECT000479426

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: Logging

Symptom: Rasadmin --show -all output does not show default/current severity.

Condition: This is an issue with this specific command rasadmin --show

Defect ID: DEFECT000479882

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: FICON

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: FICON emulation

Symptom: Host reported IFCCs due to aborted FICON RRS/Device Level Exception/LACK Sequence

Condition: If a FICON Disk controller returns a device level exception frame to a read record set CCW command

chain, the IFCCs will occur.

Workaround: Disable XRC Emulation on the FCIP Tunnel

Recovery: The mainframe will automatically recover from this error.

Defect ID: DEFECT000480007

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: On reboot, sometimes the aptpolicy for a base switch does not reflect the configured value.

Condition: Occurs after updating aptpolicy of a base switch is updated, followed by a reboot

Workaround: Use the hafailover command instead of reboot.

Recovery: Run the 'aptpolicy' command on the base switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000480452

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: IPv6 addressing

Symptom: Switch does not take IPv6 address from CMM on BR6547.

Condition: This is encountered only on embedded switches

Defect ID: DEFECT000480765

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: “Application Blocked by Security Settings” is displayed and fails to launch EZ Manager

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Condition: This issue will be seen only with older JRE updates (40 and below).

Workaround: Use latest JRE

Defect ID: DEFECT000481038

Technical Severity: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Audit Log

Symptom: The audit.cfg.class config key changes from the configured value to "1,2,3,4,5,6,7" after multiple

reboots

Condition: This is a timing issue and as such may happen with any configuration of audit.cfg.class.

Workaround: Use “auditcfg –class <value> “ to reconfigure the classes properly

Defect ID: DEFECT000481199

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: With JRE 1.7.0 update 45, users will see a warning message when WebTools is launched through

HTTPS and will not be able to launch WebTools from Brocade Network Advisor versions prior to

v12.1.4.

Condition: Web Tools will be blocked when it is launched through a version of Brocade Network Advisor prior to

12.1.4 on a system running JRE 1.7u45.

Web Tools will encounter error messages when it is launched directly through HTTPs on a system

running JRE 1.7u45.

Workaround: Launch Web Tools through Brocade Network Advisor running version 12.1.4 or higher.

Recovery: JRE must be downgraded to 1.7u25.

Defect ID: DEFECT000481291

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: After HAfailover of Group leader, member node is deleted from Encryption Group.

Condition: On Chassis based encryption environment (FS8-18), when CP IPs are modified after changing the

chassis IP, subsequent HAfailover of group leader will result in deletion of member node from

Encryption group.

Recovery: Reboot both the CPs of DCX (whose IP was changed) simultaneously.

Defect ID: DEFECT000481530

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Compact flash image upgrade does not happen without cold boot of BP blade.

Condition: In an unlikely event, where FX8-24 needs a compact flash image upgrade on its BP blade processor, the

new image won't be effective until a cold boot of BP blade.

Defect ID: DEFECT000481951

Technical Severity: High

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: FC-FC routing

Symptom: Encountered IO errors when decommissioning an ISL.

Condition: On 8G switch, in VF environment, If an E_port uses logical port 14 and there are other E_ports to the

same domain, and when all other E_ports except logical port 14 are decommissioned, logical port 14

traffic is disrupted.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000482076

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0_blv Technology Area: Licensing

Symptom: While downloading firmware to 16G embedded switches using BNA 12.1.1, after a successful update of

the first switch, an EGM license missing error is reported when attempting firmwaredownload on the

second 16G embedded switch.

Condition: Occurs if firmwaredownload is executed on a group of 16G embedded switch using BNA version

12.1.1.

Workaround: From BNA, use individual switch operations instead of a group. Upgrade switches individually to a

FOS release with a fix for this issue, then subsequent group operation will work.

Defect ID: DEFECT000482106

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: FICON

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: FICON CUP

Symptom: Fbusy encountered when trying to bring up CUP connections following FCIP tunnel bounces.

Condition: This may be seen only on FICON switches when attempting to bring up CUP connection after an FCIP

tunnel is bounced.

Defect ID: DEFECT000482227

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: 'portdecom' command on a port displays "Error: Request failed due to the local port not being in a ready

state" message

Condition: Occurs when 'portdecom' command runs on a trunk slave port that is connected to port index zero (0) on

one end of the link and it is disabled already.

Workaround: Do not issue 'portdecom" command on a disabled port

Recovery: The trunk slave needs to be brought back online and then disabled by either 1) unplugging/plugging

back in the cable for the slave port, or 2) using the 'portdisable' command on the slave port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000482629

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Web tools switch view not correctly showing LED status for disabled ports.

Condition: Issue applicable in all platforms

Defect ID: DEFECT000483216

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: portdisable operation will cause enc_out and bad_os errors that might give false alarm about the link

health.

Condition: A small time window between portdisable CLI run on switch and when speed negotiation stops.

Defect ID: DEFECT000483272

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

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Symptom: Management applications may not recognize switches with new OUIs.

Condition: Switches shipped with new OUIs 00-14-38, A0-D3-C1, and 88-94-71

Defect ID: DEFECT000483878

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Ethernet Interface

Symptom: In rare cases switch may panic with Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] during bootup.

Condition: This occurs only when TX reset on Ethernet interface during Ethernet port initialization that had a lots

of RX parity errors.

Defect ID: DEFECT000484327

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: FC-FC routing

Symptom: Switch panic after name server detected duplicated WWPN with raslog:

2013/10/22-02:26:59, [NS-1012], 147485, SLOT 6 | FID 128, WARNING, , Detected duplicate WWPN

[] - devices removed with PID 0x3ce701 and 0x3ce80

Condition: This may occur when

1. There is physically duplicated WWPN in the environment, or

2. An interleaved offline and online sequence between two different NPIV ports may trigger a false

duplicate WWPN detection.

Workaround: Remove physically duplicate WWPN devices if any exist.

Recovery: If there is no physically duplicate WWPN devices, switch recovers itself after panic.

Defect ID: DEFECT000484414

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Virtualization

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Access Gateway

Symptom: Under rare conditions, Access Gateway(AG) entries stay in management server (MS) database even

after removing them from the fabric.

FOS firmware is expected to remove these stale entries during execution of agshow CLI command.

However, due to a timing issue the stale entries may not be removed from the database when agshow

CLI command is run.

Condition: This may be observed on a switch running firmware version higher than v7.0.

Defect ID: DEFECT000484425

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Technology Area: Brocade Network Advisor

Symptom: The CLI error log on the switch may report that HTTP server and weblinker processes cannot be started

(WEBD-1008). Consequently BNA will not be able to manage the switch. Memory utilization of kacd

process may report in excess of 57% of available memory.

Condition: This may be encountered only on the Brocade Encryption Switch.

Workaround: 1. Disable kvdiag

2. Configure BNA as large SAN

Defect ID: DEFECT000484798

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: If switch reboots after executing the CLI command fwSetToCustom, the chassis environmental and

resource levels return from "Custom(value 2)" to "Default(value 1)". All the levels in the logical switch

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stay at "Custom(value 2)".

Condition: This is seen when switch reboots after executing the CLI command fwSetToCustom

Workaround: Do a configcommit from default switch before rebooting the switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000485708

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Virtualization

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3_dcb Technology Area: NPIV

Symptom: 3rd party application fails when connected to a BR8470 FCoE switch running FOS v6.4.3_dcb in

Access Gateway mode. Device re-FDISC on one of its logins is incorrectly rejected by the Access

Gateway.

Condition: This issue occurs under the following conditions:

1. Switch is in Access Gateway mode

2. Device has already logged into a NPIV port on Access Gateway

3. NPIV device has also already logged in (with FDISC) to the same port

4. NPIV device logs in again (with FDISC) on the same port

Recovery: Bounce (offline, then online) the Access Gateway port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000485968

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: Fabric Authentication

Symptom: Unable to authenticate with TACACS server when setting up new Brocade switches.

Condition: The issue will be hit if the TACACS+ Server Software converts the attribute to lower case and sends it

to the switch.

So far, this behavior has been encountered with TACACS+ server software (tacacs.net - version

1.2.2.0).

Defect ID: DEFECT000486042

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: "dlsshow" command does not always reflect the current lossless setting/status.

Condition: This lossless status is not explicitly stated in the dlsshow output when lossless is disabled.

Workaround: if dlsshow does not reflect that lossless is enabled then impute that lossless is disabled.

Defect ID: DEFECT000486638

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: FICON

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: FICON CUP

Symptom: The following issue is observed often and leads to disruptive Ficon operations:

"KSWD-1002 termination of process ficud".

Condition: This may occur when there are more than 8 trunk groups in a fabric configuration.

Defect ID: DEFECT000487235

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Virtualization

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: Access Gateway

Symptom: Hosts are not able to login to the Access Gateway after the Access Gateway is rebooted.

Condition: The problem occurs under these conditions:

- No Access Gateway policies are enabled -- i.e. neither Port Group policy nor Auto Policy

- Access Gateway is rebooted

- One or more N-ports do not come online after reboot

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Workaround: Insure all N-ports come online after an Access Gateway reboot.

Recovery: Either bring all required N-ports online or re-map the currently offline F-ports to the online N-port(s).

Defect ID: DEFECT000487250

Technical Severity: High

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: Platform Services

Symptom: Host cannot connect to storage and CLI nsshow for a FC4 type device is missing FC4 type: “FC4s:fcp”

Condition: A timing condition is observed when a device sends 2 consecutive FLOGIs without an explicit logout

in between.

Recovery: Reboot device or issue portdisable and portenable on the switch port

Defect ID: DEFECT000487271

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: Brocade Network Advisor

Symptom: Unable to create flow with Flow Mirror feature through BNA with FOS v7.2.0x

Condition: This happens in a race condition when the non-default switch goes to active prior to the default switch

in an VF environment after a cold boot or hafailover.

Workaround: The FOS CLI can be used to successfully create the flow.

Recovery: User can attempt to restart the flow. If it still fails and user has to use BNA to create flow, upgrade to a

FOS code revision with the fix.

Defect ID: DEFECT000487956

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: supportShow

Symptom: DID LUN entries are taking a lot of time to get printed. This leads to timeout for FPGA module, during

supportsave collection.

Condition: timeout during supportsave collection

Defect ID: DEFECT000488202

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: IPsec

Symptom: FCIP Circuit bounces due to replay checks when running IPSec with unidirectional traffic from the

lower order IP address to the higher IP address on the circuit.

Condition: This issue may occur only when traffic is always flowing from the lower order IP address to the higher

order IP address on an FCIP circuit.

Workaround: Run traffic from the higher order IP address to the lower order IP address on the FCIP circuit.

Defect ID: DEFECT000488602

Technical Severity: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: Port Admin does not get refreshed on Web Tools and continues to show prior / stale information

Condition: This may be seen when doing port admin on WebTools

Defect ID: DEFECT000488790

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Routing

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Symptom: If a customer has more than 8 paths (E-ports and/or E-port trunks) between two switches or if the paths

are of unequal bandwidth, then those paths may not have ports evenly distributed across them, as seen

in topologyshow.

Condition: This occurs under the following conditions:

- When there are more than 8 E-ports/Eport Trunks between two switches.

- When the E-ports/E-port Trunks between two switches are not the same bandwidth.

Workaround: Remove the conditions causing the problem:

1. Make all E-ports/E-port trunks be the same bandwidth.

2. If after doing 1) there are still more than 8 paths, then equally increase the bandwidth on the other

E-ports/E-port Trunks by reducing the number of them. Again, the bandwidth must be equal.

Recovery: Same as the Workaround.

Defect ID: DEFECT000489552

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: I/O to encrypted tape LUNs halted unexpectedly.

Condition: When multiple tape handles got queued up which eventually prevented the processing of new

commands from hosts.

Recovery: Deleting and re-creating the CTC's

Defect ID: DEFECT000489686

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: Disk to disk backups from site to site are failing. Multiple internal ports on FX8-24 appear to have

persistent -3 credit on data VC.

Condition: A rare FPGA issue, that loops back a buffer before filling it with new FC data frames, may cause VC

credit depletion.

Recovery: Power-off/on the slot with this problem.

Defect ID: DEFECT000489829

Technical Severity: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: End-to-end Performance Monitoring

Symptom: RX /Tx performance values higher than 100% on a couple of ports.

Condition: These may be seen only when link goes down and comes back up.

Defect ID: DEFECT000490533

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Extended Fabrics

Symptom: FDR (Fast Dump Restore) disk copy MVS jobs fail with zHPF mode enabled.

Condition: This may occur when zHPF mode is enabled and I/Os include a large number of frames in a FC

sequence

Workaround: Disable zHPF mode on the connected mainframes.

Recovery: No recovery exists besides restarting the job with zHPF mode disabled

Defect ID: DEFECT000490548

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Technology Area: BB Credits

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Symptom: Detect CRC error with good EOF on C-port(0) and on C-port(8); This could trigger buffer credit loss on

these ports.

Condition: It happens with Slot 2 port 0 and port 8 of a DCX4s with FC8-48 port cards installed in slot 2.

Recovery: Manually tune both the port card port and the core blade ports with different values.

Defect ID: DEFECT000490564

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: User may experience failures on BES encryption switch in diagnostic tests such as POST Turboramtest.

Condition: This may happen during stress testing with repeated power resets on BES.

Defect ID: DEFECT000490754

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: BB Credits

Symptom: Switch ports connected to storage controller become unresponsive.

Condition: This rare condition may occur with Fabric Loop (FL) port after many resets.

The port may get into "Port failed due to busy buffer stuck error" state.

Recovery: Reboot switch to recover; portdisable/port enable does not recover.

Defect ID: DEFECT000490979

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: FC-FC routing

Symptom: FCR LSAN devices are stuck in initializing state

Condition: This may occur when using BR7800s or FX8-24 in a VEX-VE configuration and when WWN

read/write failed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000491049

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Extended Fabrics

Symptom: When WAN-side-failover-cable-pulls are performed with ISL-Inflight-Encryption “on”, OLS counters

are incremented.

Condition: When ISL-Inflight-Encryption is turned "on" and the WAN cable is pulled, there is a possibility of

frames getting dropped, which may result in credits not being returned, leading to a Link Reset.

Defect ID: DEFECT000491192

Technical Severity: Critical Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Routing

Symptom: FOSv7.2.0, 7.2.0a, 7.2.0b, 7.2.0c, 7.2.1 with user defined logical switch, hosts may be unable to reach

targets due to frames being corrupted or traffic flow may appear to stop.

Condition: This happens with customer configuration parameter “Custom.index" of 1,2,3,5, when user creates a

logical switch and then moves ports with non-default configuration to it. This can happen for both

FOSv7.1.x to FOSv7.2.x upgrade and with freshly installed FOSv7.2.x switches.

This does not happen with “Custom.index” of 0 or 4

Workaround: Do not create or modify logical switch until upgrade to a code revision with fix.

Recovery: Upgrade to a FOS release with the fix (v7.2.0d) will recover and also prevent future occurrence.

Downgrading from FOS 7.2.1 to a release with the fix (v7.2.0d) will not correct the problem and v7.2.0d

must be downloaded a second time after initial downgrade to v7.2.0d. Upgrade FOS7.2.1 to a future

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7.2.1a will address the problem. If a code upgrade is not possible, please use CLI "portcfgdefault" on

each port and then cold boot switch to recover.

Defect ID: DEFECT000491841

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Lossless DLS

Symptom: When F-port trunking is enabled, portdecom on the E-port may fail with "invalid remote port type"

Condition: This portdecom failure on the E-port may be encountered when F-port trunking is enabled.

Workaround: Disable F-port trunking, then portdecom will work.

Defect ID: DEFECT000492224

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Data path lost after recovery of faulty slots or hafailover: Zone type is not set for some devices.

Condition: This is a rare race condition that may cause inconsistency between zoning software and ASIC hardware

state during zone CAM programming.

Recovery: Ports must be bounced to recovery from the inconsistent port software/hardware zone type state, .

Defect ID: DEFECT000492340

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: BB Credits

Symptom: User may notice frame drops on the back end edge and core ports with FS8-18 and FX8-24 in the

chassis.

Condition: This may be seen when FS8-18 and FX8-24 blades are used in a 8510-4 or 8510-8 chassis.

Recovery: Upgrade code with fix and perform a power cycle of port blade to have the new credit buffer allocation

scheme to take effect.

Defect ID: DEFECT000492704

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Technology Area: FC-FC routing

Symptom: "CRC error with good EOF" errors detected and may cause credit loss.

Condition: This may be seen on DCX-4S:

1. With FC8-64 blades installed in

- Slot 7 ports 155, 76 or

- Slot 2 port 154.

2. Core blade 3/19,3/26, 6/70

Recovery: Auto Tuning/Manual Tuning

Defect ID: DEFECT000492732

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Technology Area: Platform Services

Symptom: After auto tuning FC8-64 in DCX-4s, the blade may be faulted.

Condition: When auto-tuning is run on FC8-64 blade in a DCX-4s, some values attempted can cause this blade or

peer core blade to fault.

.

Workaround: Use manual tune

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Defect ID: DEFECT000492849

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: FCIP link became unstable after some run time and reported the following XTUN messages:

2014/02/03-09:50:40, [XTUN-1008], 12759, CHASSIS, WARNING, , FCIP Control block memory

usage slot=0 DP=1 Allocated=5209344 Free=196117248 Total=201326592.

2014/02/03-09:50:41, [XTUN-1001], 12760, FID 128, ERROR, , FCIP Tunnel 16 Memory allocation

failed tracker 1/247.

Condition: On switch running with FOS 7.2.0b/c and FOS7.2.1, resource is lost when processing periodic vendor

unique message ELS-PRLI coming from a disk mirroring application every 5 seconds.

Defect ID: DEFECT000492854

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: FC-FC routing

Symptom: Following a planned device outage, many ports are displayed as “FC Disabled (Port Throttled)”. Ports

do not come online for a long time.

Condition: This may occur when a large number of devices with laser on but cannot complete link initialization

with a switch. It typically occurs during device power cycle, upgrade, or running diagnostics.

Workaround: Stage the number of devices coming online at the same time.

Recovery: Disable the devices that cannot come online to give other ports a chance.

Defect ID: DEFECT000492856

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: Switch ran out of shared memory.

Condition: Application using “shmget” fails and reports no space left on device and number of shared memory

segment became zero. This happen when there is IPC timeout between daemons using IPC for

communication.

Defect ID: DEFECT000493752

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: FICON

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: FICON CUP

Symptom: When there is a Remote CUP, with traffic flowing across 7800 IP links, CUP can become unresponsive.

Condition: When FICON CUP receives an ELP (Est Logical Path) and that Logical Path already exists, treat the LP

as a System Reset for that Logical Path.

Defect ID: DEFECT000494570

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Firmware upload/download

Symptom: Upgrading to FOS7.2.0c (which contains a fix for defect 491192) with pre-existing user-defined logical

switches may lead to fabric wide performance issue or hosts not being able to see targets after a slot

offline event .

Condition: On FOS 7.2.0c, this affects Fabric IDs that do NOT contain a digit of 0, 1, 2, or 5; such as FID 3 or FID

4. FID 35 would not be affected as it contains the digit 5.

Workaround: Do not create or modify logical switches, or bounce ports until upgrading to a code revision with fix.

Recovery: Upgrade to a FOS release with the fix (v7.2.0d) will recover and also prevent future occurrence.

Downgrading from FOS 7.2.1 to a release with the fix (v7.2.0d) will not correct the problem and v7.2.0d

must be downloaded a second time after initial downgrade to v7.2.0d. Upgrade FOS7.2.1 to a future

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7.2.1a will address the problem. If a code upgrade is not possible, please use CLI "portcfgdefault" on

each port and then cold boot switch to recover.

Defect ID: DEFECT000496527

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: Unable to run traffic on low bandwidth FCIP tunnel. Customer sees application suspends.

Condition: This may be encountered on low bandwidth FCIP tunnels

Workaround: If possible, increase the FCIP Circuit minimum data rate.

Defect ID: DEFECT000499895

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: Uncompressed throughput on the 10GE FCIP complex drops to about 52M/Sec and never recovers.

Condition: If some TCP connections had byte flow control indicated and others had PDU flow indicated, this could

lead to a TX stall in FCIP Tunnel processing.

Workaround: Start and stop FCIP Tunnel traffic.

Defect ID: DEFECT000500250

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: FWtrap is not generated for "Power on hours" area for 16G LWL SFP when thresholds cross

boundaries.

Condition: This impacts 16GLWL trap only

Defect ID: DEFECT000500532

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: On BR6547, Firmware status is shown incorrectly in firmwareImageinfo object.

Condition: FirmwareStatus is shown as "inACtive", even though firmware is active.

Defect ID: DEFECT000501917

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: Encryption

Symptom: In encryption environment with BES/FS8-18, switch or blade became faulty during initial discovery of

target.

Condition: It may happen after EE became online and during initial discovery of targets, if the target returns error

for slow path commands(REPORT_LUN/INQUIRY).

.

Defect ID: DEFECT000501919

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Diagnostic Port (D_Port)

Symptom: D-Port test PASSED with errors on D-Port Responder side.

Condition: After electrical or optical loopback test, stats are not cleared in responder.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000502591

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Routing

Symptom: On a switch that had pre-FOS v7.1 installed before, upgrade the switch to FOS v7.1 or later, host lost

access to storage with missing route.

Condition: If there is a port bounces during hareboot/hafailover (or as part of firmwaredownload), switches could

see this problem.

Workaround: Upgrade to a release containing defect 459831 fix (FOS v7.1.1a, v7.1.2, v7.2.0). If a later release is

needed, then upgrade must be done to a release with the fix to this defect in it.

Recovery: Port bounce alone may not fully recover. Need a slotpoweroff/on on impacted port blade or cold boot on

a switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000502779

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: As a result of firmware download or hareboot on 7840, a software verify error may result along with

first failure data capture (FFDC) event occurring.

Condition: Firmware download or hareboot on 7840.

Recovery: Powercycle or reboot the 7840.

Defect ID: DEFECT000503299

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: After FOS upgrade, CLI "swithchsow" reports multiple ports in disabled state with reason as "Not

ready for F or L ports", "Switch not ready for EX_Ports"

Condition: Occasionally, switch finds inconsistency in domain count and E-port count during HAfailover/hareboot

when there is VEX-EX ports in the configuration.

Recovery: Trigger fabric rebuild by executing "fabricprincipal -f". Manual fabric rebuild by taken offline ALL

E_port/Trunks, then re-enable them or switch disable/enable.

Defect ID: DEFECT000507534

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: APM - Advanced Performance

Monitoring

Symptom: MAPS can generate false alert about JITTER or RTT violation. Here is sample output for RTT

violation:

Port/Cir 25/0, Condition=ALL_CIRCUITS(RTT>20), Current Value:[RTT,54 Milliseconds],

RuleName=defALL_CIRCUITS_RTT_20, Dashboard Category=FCIP Health.

Condition: 7840 with FCIP tunnels and/or circuits configured and MAPS enabled.

Workaround: Ignore these alerts or delete the rules from the active policy and re-activate the policy.

Defect ID: DEFECT000507783

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Switch panics and reboots during logical switch creation with ports move followed by

chassisdisable/enable.

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Condition: Logical switch creation with ports move followed by chassisdisable/enable, may cause 7840 to panic

and reboot.

Defect ID: DEFECT000508529

Technical Severity: Critical Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: Trunking

Symptom: High deskew values on 16G trunk ports are contributing to high fabric latency.

Condition: It occurs during trunk forming with 16G ports. Sometimes the impact is not observed until after a

hafailover/hareboot. trunkshow shows huge deskew value difference between links in a single trunk.

Example of an actual trunkshow output of a high latency fabric:

trunkshow :

1: 0-> 0 xxx deskew 1517 MASTER

1-> 1 xxx deskew 15

Recovery: port disable and enable links in the trunk one by one: portdisable link1, portenabel link1; portdisable

link2; portenable link2

Defect ID: DEFECT000509406

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: 7840 sensor monitoring is triggering false environmental monitoring and Fabric Watch over-

temperature alarms.

Condition: Default switchstatuspolicyset Temperatures settings are in effect for 7840 (Down 2, Marginal 1).

Workaround: Use MAPS for 7840 environmental monitoring or make an adjustment to the default

switchstatuspolicyset Temperatures settings. Set both Down and Marginal to 0.

Defect ID: DEFECT000509438

Technical Severity: High

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: A 7840 may panic after enabling diagpost followed by reboot

Condition: 7840 with FCIP tunnels may panic after enabling diagpost followed by a switch reboot

Defect ID: DEFECT000509458

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: XTUN-1997 errors and FTrace Buffer errors on 7840 when running emulated IO and Compression

Condition: When running IO across a 7840 FCIP Tunnel that has FastWrite and Tape Pipeling configured, errors

may be seen on the target side as a result of out of order delivery.

Workaround: Remove compression configuration from the 7840 FCIP Tunnel that has FastWrite and TapePipeling

Defect ID: DEFECT000509832

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Repeated executions of offline diagnostic tests on 7840 may leave switch in non-operational state

Condition: Disable the 7840 (chassisdisable) and run offline diagnostics like portloobacktest or turboramtest

repeatedly in a loop.

Recovery: Powercycle the 7840

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Defect ID: DEFECT000510025

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Top Talker Monitors

Symptom: User cannot enable fabric mode Top Talker on Brocade 7840 switch if FCR is enabled.

Condition: In a FCR fabric.

Defect ID: DEFECT000510303

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: FCIP

Symptom: 7840 fails to recognize 1GE SX and lx (10KM) having a serial number that starts with "TAA"

Condition: 1GE part numbers 33210-100 and 33211-100 whose serial number starts with "TAA" are not available

for use in 7840.

Workaround: Use 1GE part numbers 33210-100 and 33211-100 whose serial numbers starts with "TDF". Fix is

available in the next build if SFP starting with "TDF" cannot be found.

Defect ID: DEFECT000513920

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Security

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Fabric Authentication

Symptom: CVE-2014-0224: OpenSSL before 0.9.8za, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0m, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1h does not

properly restrict processing of ChangeCipherSpec messages, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers

to trigger use of a zero-length master key in certain OpenSSL-to-OpenSSL communications, and

consequently hijack sessions or obtain sensitive information, via a crafted TLS handshake, aka the

"CCS Injection" vulnerability.

Condition: FOS switches that are not running LDAP or RADIUS with PEAP-MSCHAPv2 for authentication are

not running OpenSSL client mode and are not at risk. To be at risk:

• The FOS product must be running authentication using LDAP or RADIUS with PEAP-MSCHAPv2

protocols.

• The OpenSSL server must also be running with a version of OpenSSL that contains this vulnerability

(1.0.1 or 1.0.2-beta1)

Workaround: For users requiring LDAP or RADIUS with PEAP-MSCHAPv2 for authentication, upgrading the

OpenSSL server to a version of OpenSSL that does not contain this vulnerability will prevent

exposure.

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.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000338871 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: List of eports in the RNID database doesn't get updated when mvg from one port to another

Symptom: Entries may be missing when executing "ficonshow rnid"

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High

Feature: FICON Function: MS-FICON

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000349576 Technical Severity: Medium

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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: Display of this wrong confirmation message by Web Tools may mislead the user.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: WebMgmt Function: AG Support

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0

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

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: Security Vulnerability Function: OpenSSL

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 718989

Defect ID: DEFECT000401075 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Brocade Network Advisor access fails due to Weblinker continuously resetting during radius

authentication.

Symptom: Weblinker crashes

Workaround: Unblocking the accounting port (default port 1813) is the workaround in case of accounting fails

due to firewall.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 734093,1277435

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.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: Security Vulnerability Function: OpenSSH

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000418226 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: configdownload does not restore the MAPS relay host IP

Symptom: maps email config not restored after a configdownload

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High

Feature: Advanced Monitoring Services Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000418837 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Detected termination of essd:1806 during nondisruptive firmware download

Symptom: nondisruptive firmare download failure caused by Detected Termination of essd:1806

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low

Feature: FC Services Function: ESS

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Service Request ID: ,1123356

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".

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Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000423640 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Upgrade the flash card driver to a newer version.

Symptom: On rare occasions excessive writing to an old flash card may cause it to no longer be accessible

during switch bootup.

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low

Feature: Embedded Platform Services Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3_dcb Service Request ID: ,1162762

Defect ID: DEFECT000425097 Technical Severity: Low

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.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: RAS Function: FFDC/Supportsave

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Service Request ID: ,1260185

Defect ID: DEFECT000428793 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Status LED of the blade turns amber during portloopbacktest on core blade

Symptom: Incorret status of Core blade LED during portloopbacktest

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High

Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Service Request ID: 1104360

Defect ID: DEFECT000429545 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: fcping --help does not show -vc and -errstats

Symptom: fcping --help missing options -vc and -errstats.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High

Feature: Fabric Diagnostics Function: Superping

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000431011 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Multiple LUN's lost access during login time

Symptom: Access to multiple LUNs drop at virtually the same time. There is a discrepancy in the nameserver

where the ports are not registered but the portstatus shows the device as being logged in.

Workaround: Do not to connect the device on shared area port of the switch if that device did not register its

information with Name server.

If connecting the device to a shared area port on the switch, enable name server registration from

device side.

Risk of Fix: High Probability: Medium

Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 1109341,1167915

Defect ID: DEFECT000435100 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: SNMPCONFIG is inconsistent on ISCSI settings

Symptom: Disable ISCSI-mibcapability in FOSv6.3 and then upgraded to FOSv6.4, when the new firmware

comes up, ISCSI- MIB is in disabled state and ISCSI-TRAPS are in enabled state.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: FOS Software Function: SNMP

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Reported In Release: FOS6.3.0 Service Request ID: 1124455

Defect ID: DEFECT000439660 Technical Severity: High

Summary: BNA will show the chassis as discoverable but logical switch not found

Symptom: Changing the default switch fid may result in a situation where the chassis is discoverable but the

logical switch is not found.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: System Security Function: User Defined Roles

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000447256 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Kernel panics after repeated FIP v1 FLOGI failures on 8000 switch.

Symptom: On an 8000 switch, a kernel panic following FIP v1 FLOGI failures may be seen.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: CEE-FCOE Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Service Request ID: 1149227

Defect ID: DEFECT000448581 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Port Rename, F-Port BB Credit & NPIV Max Login dialogs still persist even after the connection is

timed out and allows user to configure the values.

Symptom: User is erroneously allowed to configure the values even after the connection times out.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: WebMgmt Function: Ports Admin

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000450457 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: ipfilter does not block access to port 80

Symptom: When using ipfilter to block port 80, port 80 is still accessible. When connecting to the switch,

"Interface disabled" and "This Interface (x.x.x.x) has been disabled by the adminstrator." is presented

to the user.

Workaround: As root, you could manually perform the following, but it will not be retained across reboots or

failovers,

iptables -L tcp0 <---used to verify rule position

iptables -D tcp0 2

iptables -L tcp0 <---used to verify rule position

iptables -D tcp0 2

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High

Feature: FOS Software Function: OS: Ethernet/Mgt Interface

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 1152370,1252553

Defect ID: DEFECT000451699 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: After disabling Static D-Port from the switch side, the device port comes up as a G-Port.

Symptom: Device port comes up as a G-Port after disabling Static D-Port from the switch side

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low

Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000452801 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Switch unable to process commands

Symptom: The Switch becomes unmanageable and will not accept FOS commands, including 'Reboot'.

The only way to recover is to power cycle the switch.

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Workaround: Nonw

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Embedded

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000453837 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Host lost access to fabric via access gateway

Symptom: Device not logged into fabric when connected to access gateway that missing an index number for

trunked connection.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: F Port Trunking

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000459833 Technical Severity: High

Summary: IO abandons a trunk when a slave port is disabled and there are multiple trunk groups that exist

Symptom: Less available paths when slave port is disabled in a trunk group and there are multiple trunk groups

that exist

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low

Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: Routing

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000460453 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: "Can not find platform: 117" and "client: connect: Connection refused" messages occurred during

boot up

Symptom: Error messages are displayed on embedded platform console during boot up and do not affect any

functionality.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High

Feature: Embedded Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Driver

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000463913 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Kernel panic occurs when running multiple supportShow commands in several logical switches

Symptom: The switch experienced a kernel panic after running the supportShow command on multiple logical

switches simultaneously on the switch.

Workaround: Avoid running multiple supportshow from the different sessions.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Service Request ID: 1187706

Defect ID: DEFECT000464450 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: "sleep:invalid Chassis Role" message is displayed while running supportsave under user role

Symptom: The supportsave comman completes successfully even though "sleep:invalid Chassis Role" message is

displayed in the output.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: RAS Function: FFDC/Supportsave

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000464907 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Both 5481s on same chassis have multiple panics at same time with Oops: Exception in kernel mode,

sig: 5 [#1]

Symptom: Lost both paths in same HP chassis multiple times since March

Risk of Fix: Low

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Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM

Reported In Release: FOS6.1.0_utah Service Request ID: 1192317

Defect ID: DEFECT000465611 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: All the four ICL ports in a QSFP should automatically get disabled and enabled during EX port

configuration.

Symptom: Inconsistent behavior as Webtools supports automatic disabling enabling during Ex port

configuration.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: WebMgmt Function: Ports Admin

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000465802 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Webtools does not allow the configuration of the "Signal Loss" area for ports

Symptom: Customer is unable to see “signal loss” area stats via Webtools while the same can be seen from CLI

Workaround: Nonw

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: FOS Software Function: Web Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Service Request ID: 1190629

Defect ID: DEFECT000466078 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Webtool shows a fabric watch license not installed error message while MAPs is enabled

Symptom: When MAPs is enabled from CLI, selecting Webtools -->Configure-->Fabric Watch opens the Fabric

Watch page with an error message "Fabric Watch is not licensed".

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: WebMgmt Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000466750 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: In Switch Events and Switch information tab, the last updated time shows the Host time instead of

showing the Switch time.

Symptom: Misleading last updated time in Switch Events and Switch Information tab.

Workaround: NA

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: WebMgmt Function: Switch Explorer/Switch View

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000466777 Technical Severity: High

Summary: OpenSSL 0.9.8d vulnerable to CVE-2011-3389

Symptom: CVE-2011-3389 can be exploited when the CBC encryption mode is used and is irrespective if the

role is either client or server of TLS session.

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: High

Feature: Security Vulnerability Function: OpenSSL

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0_pha

Defect ID: DEFECT000467418 Technical Severity: High

Summary: SNMP is returning Same values for 60 second when only one port is polled for real time statistics.

Symptom: User will see the unexpected plotting in the performance graphs. Since polling is returning a new

value for the port every 60 seconds.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

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Defect ID: DEFECT000467760 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Disabled port is not getting enabled after binding a port address.

Symptom: Port is disabled after binding a port address.

Workaround: Enable the port manually

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: WebMgmt Function: Ports Admin

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000468006 Technical Severity: High

Summary: fmmonitor set to 4294967296 (0x100000000) after switchdisable/enable

Symptom: fmmonitor may be set to 4294967296 (0x100000000) after switchdisable/enable instead of 0.

Workaround: Retry the disable/enable.

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low

Feature: Performance Monitor Function: Frame Monitor

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000468007 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Host discovery issues via Ex ports on ICL in multi chassis configuration

Symptom: Host may not see all target LUNs in a topology using multi-chassis EX ports on ICL configuration

Workaround: Portdisable enable switch ports for affected devices.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: FC Services Function: Name Server

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000468152 Technical Severity: High

Summary: after zone change nszonemember missing members and ports show HARD_PORT dhp bit set: 1

Symptom: A zoning change (removal) was made from the core switch at which time the name server stopped

responding, causing outages on the hosts.

Risk of Fix: Low

Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Service Request ID: 1202661,1249899,7610

Defect ID: DEFECT000468188 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Observed MDD kept crashing when a DS was set persistently disabled

Symptom: User may see MDD hit rolling crashing when the switch is configure VF mode and the DS switch is

set disable persistently with MAPS enabled.

Risk of Fix: High Probability: Low

Feature: Advanced Monitoring Services Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000468413 Technical Severity: High

Summary: firmwaredownload -s on standby CP produces protocol failure in circuit setup messages on the

console

Symptom: Firmware download on the standby CP takes a long time to reach Y/N prompt and several "poll:

protocol failure in circuit setup" console messages resulted.

Workaround: Use firmwaredownload without the -s option.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: Striker/Spike Platform Services Function: VEX

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000468455 Technical Severity: High

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Summary: QoS allowed ASIC buffer pool to become over allocated

Symptom: Portbuffershow indicated a negative value in the remaining buffers after QoS was enabled on an

extended distance link

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: ASIC Driver

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000468562 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Portperfshow -x displays 0 for throughput data on chassis that has traffic

Symptom: Portperfshow -x displays 0 for traffic throughput on chassis while Portperfshow shows traffic running

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Service Request ID: ,1196938

Defect ID: DEFECT000468777 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: portcfgpersistentdisable -r does not persist the reason on reboot of a 7800

Symptom: port reason does not persist across a reboot on a 7800 switch when portcfgpersistentdisable -r is

configured

Workaround: Nonw

Risk of Fix: High Probability: Medium

Feature: 8G Platform Services Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000468795 Technical Severity: High

Summary: FCIP FICON XRC Emulation Abort after Selective Reset Errors

Symptom: If FICON XRC Emulation receives a Selective Reset for a device that is currently in Stacked Status

State, the Selective Reset is incorrectly responded to by emulation processing leading to an abort

sequence from the channel for the Selective Reset Exchange.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 1205859

Defect ID: DEFECT000470185 Technical Severity: High

Summary: portcfgfillword's passive option does not work

Symptom: The passive option in portCfgFillWord does not work. When issuing: "portcfgfillword <slot/port> 3

passive". The fillword immediately takes effect on the port, regardless of port speed.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Function: C2 ASIC driver

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Service Request ID: ,1190443

Defect ID: DEFECT000471723 Technical Severity: High

Summary: FLOGI ACC not being sentfrom switch in AG mode during N_Port offline/online

Symptom: redundant HBA port fails to come online when N_Port is offline/online

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: FOS Software Function: Access Gateway

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0_pha Service Request ID: 1208458

Defect ID: DEFECT000471755 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Flow monitor does not work on internal ports on embedded platforms in access gateway mode

Symptom: Flow monitor is not supported on internal ports of access gateway embedded platforms.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High

Feature: Network Patroller Function: ASIC interfaces

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Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000471823 Technical Severity: High

Summary: FICON Tape Write Emulation control variables go negative causing limited tape performance

Symptom: Write Emulation Counters go negative causing limited performance. FICON Tape window sizes are

never increased from a pipeline of 1 (1 chain).

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 1212822

Defect ID: DEFECT000472367 Technical Severity: High

Summary: An EX-Port goes into Mod_Invariant state after the switch disable/enable of a core backbone switch

Symptom: When a customer performs a switch disable enable, on of the EX-Ports gets into the Mod_Invariant

state with Speed Mismatch/Incompatible sfp reason

Risk of Fix: Low

Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Service Request ID: ,1235215

Defect ID: DEFECT000472649 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Web Tools launch issue on Embedded FOS switches

Symptom: When using web tools to connect to admin domains error message "error loading fabric tree. null"

displays

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: FOS Software Function: Web Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Service Request ID: 1206388

Defect ID: DEFECT000472858 Technical Severity: High

Summary: FLOW - A multi-feature learning flow defined with both genrator and monitor as feature options and

srcdev "*" specified, monitors only 6 out of 57 real flows on the egress port.

Symptom: A learing flow definition with boih generotor and monitor features specified on an egress port with

srcdev or dstdev as '*' will monitor less number of flows than real flows through the port, only when

the number of real flows exceed 32.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High

Feature: Network Patroller Function: Infrastructure

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000472886 Technical Severity: High

Summary: FCIP FICON Tape Emulation not going into read pipelining due to synchronizing status bit set in 1st

command in chain

Symptom: Slow FICON tape read performance due to long running restore/recall jobs

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 1219501

Defect ID: DEFECT000473053 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Configupload after Configdefault retains old simport configuration in uploaded config

Symptom: Configupload after Configdefault retains old simport configuration in uploaded config. The flow

definitions existing in the system before configdefault, will reapper if the uploaded file is down loaded

onto a switch.

Workaround: NA

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High

Feature: Network Patroller Function: Other

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Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000473063 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Changing a FID/LS to base fabric should check for the presence of SIM ports, otherwise they get

stuck as G-ports, etc.

Symptom: Ports that are configured as SIM ports in a FID get stuck in an invalid state, if the switch is

reconfigured to become the Base FID (an invalid state for SIM ports).

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High

Feature: Network Patroller Function: ASIC interfaces

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000473548 Technical Severity: High

Summary: When flows are monitored in MAPS, switch disable/enable or port enable/disable could trigger

unexpected MAPS RASLOGs

Symptom: Unexpected MAPS RASLOGs with large values are triggered for the flows affected by port

enable/disable or switch enable/disable operations.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High

Feature: Advanced Monitoring Services Function: Flows

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000473948 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Creating MAPS policy failed with generic error message 'failed to create policy'

Symptom: The MAPS policy create failed returning a generic error 'failed to create policy' with no reason why it

failed.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000474234 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Multiple aborted FICON sequences after processing emulated attention in zOS third party remote

mirror

Symptom: Third party remote mirror does successfully configure but FICN-1062 and FICN-1063 RASLOG

messages and associated XTUN-1999 FTRACE messages and zOS IOS000 errors are recorded in

SYSLOG

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: FCIP Function: FCIP-RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Service Request ID: 1226196

Defect ID: DEFECT000474717 Technical Severity: High

Summary: DASD Warmstart processing causes inoperative CHPIDs through an XRC Emulation enabled FCIP

Tunnel

Symptom: IOS001E devAddr,INOPERATIVE PATH on CHPID after DASD controller warmstart

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: FCIP Function: Emulation

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000475599 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: mapssam --show does not show port type of N_port trunks for FOS switch ports attached to access

gateway

Symptom: mapssam --show does not correctly show port type of N_port trunks

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: Advanced Monitoring Services Function: Other

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Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000477049 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: 2872 FOS7.2.0/7.2.0a -- Cannot sort some columns in nameserver section of switch's GUI (Web

Tools)

Symptom: Cannot sort some columns in nameserver section of switch's GUI (Web Tools)

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High

Feature: WebMgmt Function: Name Server

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

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This section lists defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity closed without a code change as of

June 27, 2014 in Fabric OS v7.3.0.

Defect ID: DEFECT000411138

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: DCX family could experience a hafailover during core blade failure.

Condition: In an unlikely event of handling hardware error interrupts on core blade, CP paniced due to race

condition attempting to bring core blade down gracefully.

Defect ID: DEFECT000433200

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: Under rare condition Weblinker/HTTPD are terminated and restarted but still cannot service the HTTP

requests. All subsequent Webtools/BNA requests encounter the error "Chassis is not ready for

management".

Note:

This fix does not fully resolve this issue but it provides a non-disruptive workaround for the interim

period. With this fix customer may workaround/recover from this condition with hafailover/hareboot, or

may contact support for manual HTTPD restart workaround.

This issue is fully resolved via Defect 477596 fix in FOS 7.0.2e/7.1.1b/v7.1.2/7.2.1.

Condition: This may be encountered on very rare occasions when switches are managed by Webtools/Brocade

Network Advisor.

Workaround: NONE without this fix. Use reboot to recover.

Defect ID: DEFECT000450265

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Virtualization

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Technology Area: NPIV

Symptom: Switch panic after name server detected duplicated WWPN with raslog:

2013/10/22-02:26:59, [NS-1012], 147485, SLOT 6 | FID 128, WARNING, , Detected duplicate WWPN

[] - devices removed with PID 0x3ce701 and 0x3ce80

Condition: This may occur when

1. There is physically duplicated WWPN in the environment, or

2. An interleaved offline and online sequence between two different NPIV ports may trigger a false

duplicate WWPN detection.

Workaround: Remove physically duplicate WWPN devices if any exist.

Recovery: If there is no physically duplicate WWPN devices, switch recovers itself after panic.

Defect ID: DEFECT000461162

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Fabric Watch

Symptom: Executing “thconfig” CLI command to set high threshold and low threshold in one command line reults

in the message: “Internal API failed..."

Condition: This is seen for all configurations and platforms when attempting to set both thresholds in the same CLI

command invocation.

Workaround: Configure high threshold and low threshold independently via separate invocation of the CLI

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command.

Defect ID: DEFECT000467204

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0_pha Technology Area: SNMPv2, SNMPv3 & MIBs

Symptom: SNMPV3 user entries are not cleared when CMM executes restore default.

Condition: Applicable only for embedded BR6547 platform

Workaround: Default to snmpv3 configuration with "snmpconfig --default snmpv3" command.

Defect ID: DEFECT000468898

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Technology Area: Routing

Symptom: On an idle switch customer may see iswitch queue full messages and termination of iswitchd after some

time, when rebooting some another switch in the backbone fabric.

Condition: rebooting other switches in the backbone fabric may lead to this condition on an apparently idle switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000469484

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: Parameters appears in default and base switches but not in logical switches after running CLI

"configdefault -all"

Condition: Observed when executing "configdefault -all" in Virtual fabric environment.

Workaround: Run "configdefault" in each logical switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000479046

Technical Severity: Critical Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: FICON

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Technology Area: FICON emulation

Symptom: Customer observed frequent suspends in XRC emulation environment.

Condition: When there is immediate command retry, XRC Emulation may not correctly handle Immediate Retry

Status.

Defect ID: DEFECT000483593

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Monitoring/RAS

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Technology Area: Frame Monitoring

Symptom: After running fmconfig --show, Switch panics in psd and reboots .

Condition: This may occur after upgrading the switch from FOS v6.3.x (with Filter Monitor installed) to v6.4.x

and then running the CLI command fmconfig --show

Workaround: Remove filter monitor before upgrading the switch from v6.3.x to v6.4.x

Recovery: Reboot the switch

Defect ID: DEFECT000488383

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: Un-configured feature, D-port DWDM is enabled on ports, as seen via portcfgshow "D-Port over

DWDM: ON".

Condition: Upgrade FOS v6.x to FOS v7.x, some ports could have D-port DWDM set

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Workaround: There is no effect if the port is not configured as D-port. Use CLI" portcfgdport --disable -dwdm

slot/port" to disable it on D-port.

Recovery: Same as workaround.

Defect ID: DEFECT000495636

Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Traffic Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0 Technology Area: Buffer Credit Recovery

Symptom: Switch panic during CP blade replacement.

Condition: On a very congested switch with lots of BE link resets, the event of bringing down a CP blade may

cause a panic condition during the blade shutdown procedure.

Defect ID: DEFECT000496941

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: If a16G SFP is accidentally plugged into a 8G blade, instead of getting a Mod_Inv error, it allows

devices to log in, but throws a tremendous amount of enc out errors.

Condition: 16G SFP is mistakenly plugged into 8G blade

Workaround: Use an 8G SFP

Defect ID: DEFECT000498907

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.2 Technology Area: Web Tools

Symptom: After resetting switch to factory defaults with AMM Web interface on BR5470, switch goes through a

limited cycle of rolling reboots.

Condition: Happens when using AMM Web Interface to reset switch back to Factory defaults.

Defect ID: DEFECT000499433

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: FC16-64 blade ports set to do automatic speed negotiation may come online at lower speed.

Condition: FC16-64 blade ports set to do automatic speed negotiation may come online at lower speed, after

bladedisable/enable actions were given.

Workaround: Set the port to fixed speed by using portcfgspeed.

Recovery: Disable then enable the affected port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000500759

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: Other

Symptom: CRC with Good EOF errors observed on FC8-64 in BR8150.

Condition: Port blade FC8-64 is installed in BR8150 slot 2

Workaround: Manually tune S2/P34 to 0x195DA1DD

Recovery: Manually tune serdes value for S2/P34 to 0x195DA1DD

Defect ID: DEFECT000503689

Technical Severity: High

Product: FOS Technology: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Other

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Symptom: FCOE device cannot login after swapping to another port in the same blade

Condition: Cable swap from one FCoE10-24 port to another port on the same blade.

Recovery: Perform shut / no shut on affected port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000505359

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology Area: CLI

Symptom: Switch panics intermittently after Supportsave command is started.

Condition: This may occur when supportsave is issued with 4G blades in switch.

Recovery: Switch recovers on its own.

Defect ID: DEFECT000509704

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: FOS Technology: Distance

Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Extended Fabrics

Symptom: 7840 may fault as a result of HCL (hot code load).

Condition: Hot code load performed on 7840

Workaround: Disruptive firmware download

Recovery: Power cycle the 7840

Defect ID: DEFECT000260636 Technical Severity: Low

Summary: Frustatuschanged trap with frustatus as faulty is not generated when an FRU goes faulty.

Symptom: frustatus change trap not seen for this kind of failure.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS6.3.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000279240 Technical Severity: Low

Summary: SNMP: BD-MIB: bdNumofEntries do not match with the entries in bdStatsTable

Symptom: bdNumofentries will not match with the bdStatsTable output when user queries bdStats Group.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.0

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.

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium

Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Embedded

Reported In Release: FOS6.1.1 Service Request ID: 435501

Defect ID: DEFECT000413006 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Fabric watch is showing Tx utilization 20% less than the actual value

Symptom: Inaccurate reporting of Tx/Rx Utilization value by FabricWatch

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium

Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Services

Reported In Release: FOS6.3.1 Service Request ID: 733499

Defect ID: DEFECT000413620 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Zone daemon panic during zoning change.

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Symptom: During testing, running zone transaction script on multiple switches at the same time, zone could

panic and cause CP failover to occur.

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low

Feature: FOS Software Function: Panic / OOM

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2 Service Request ID: 751709

Defect ID: DEFECT000417153 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Webtools should not allow "Auto" option in "Port Admin-->Edit Configuration"

Symptom: Unable to change internal port speed back to 4G or 2G option after option "Auto" is selected initially

in the "Port Admin-->Edit Configuration"

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: WebMgmt Function: Ports Admin

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1_hue

Defect ID: DEFECT000417778 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Set a tftp file uri to ibmFodAction get ibmFodStatus as 10(userAuthenticationFailed)

Symptom: When trying to inventory fod keys, we set a tftp file uri to ibmFodAction.

But we get ibmFodStatus as 10(userAuthenticationFailed). Which means authentication failed.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0_pha

Defect ID: DEFECT000424424 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Two devices over Routed VE/VEX fabric cannot estabish logical paths

Symptom: Observed that the translate domain over VE/VEX ports is not in fabricshow and some hosts cannot

communicates to targets.

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low

Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 1096157

Defect ID: DEFECT000426301 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Inherited FID is retained even if the VF enabled switch moved out of the fabric.

Symptom: Merging a new VF enabled switch(with different FID) to an existing VF disabled fabric fails with E

port segment reason of “FID conflict”

Risk of Fix: High Probability: Low

Feature: FOS Software Function: Virtual Fabric

Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 1101582 -- 1101547

Defect ID: DEFECT000429437 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Support for SNMP swFabricWatchTrap for 16Gbps SFP Power On Hours not in sw.mib

Symptom: Support for SNMP swFabricWatchTrap for 16Gbps SFP Power On Hours not in sw.mib

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: FOS Software Function: SNMP

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Service Request ID: 1094555

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.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Feature: 8G FCR Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0

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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

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium

Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: PORT FENCING

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000431143 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Porttest on L-port results FAIL with ErrorCode: 1

Symptom: Based on FOS command reference manual v7.0.1 page 867, porttest should support L_Port, but failed:

"This command supports E_Ports, F_Ports (must support ELS Echo), L_Port, and N->N loopback

ports.

-listtype porttype

Specifies the type of ports on which to run portTest. Valid values for porttype

include the following:

-2

All L_Ports."

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium

Feature: Diagnostics Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1_hut

Defect ID: DEFECT000436246 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Signature validation failed - When /root/.ssh/known_host.txt caches old ssh-key in it.

Symptom: Unable to perform following operations from BNA/CLI

1.Fimware Download,

2.Technical Support collection

3.NOS - Configuration Upload/Downlaod

Workaround: Delete cached entry from "Known_host.txt".

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium

Feature: System Security Function: SSH

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000443325 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Unable to set default values for the first time in Extended Fabrics tab.

Symptom: User will not be able to set back to default values on the first try.

Workaround: Issue the command again.

Risk of Fix: High Probability: Medium

Feature: WebMgmt Function: Switch Admin

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000446956 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Port status is marginal with no reason

Symptom: Port status is marginal without reason is seen when connected to DWDM configured for 300 Km of

distance. Problem is not seen when distance is configured to 100 Km

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium

Feature: FABRIC WATCH Function: CLI

Reported In Release: FOS7.1.0

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Defect ID: DEFECT000447147 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: D-Port test results incorrectly shows manual mode from the Access Gateway then HBA configured

for D-Port was rebooted

Symptom: Access Gateway D-Port test results incorrectly shows manual mode when the HBA configured for D-

Port was rebooted. Results should display automatic mode.

Probability: Medium

Feature: Fabric Services Function: D-port

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000451887 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Many frame drops and unroutable frames after a slotpoweroff slotpoweron the CR16 core blade

Symptom: user may see the many frame drops due to unroutable after slotpower on the CR16 core blade.

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium

Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: Routing

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000452546 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: MAPS doesn’t count faulty blade as "FRU Health" Category in mapsdb

Symptom: If MAPS starts monitoring after the blade is faulted, the faulty Blade is not being counted under "FRU

Health" Category in mapsdb

Risk of Fix: High Probability: Medium

Feature: Advanced Monitoring Services Function: Dashboard

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000453088 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: perfcleareemonitor will sometimes not clear upper 32 bits of ee monitor counter

Symptom: perfcleareemonitor may occasionally not clear upper 32 bits of ee monitor counter.

Workaround: run "perfcleareemonitor " again

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium

Feature: Performance Monitor Function: EE monitor

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000459843 Technical Severity: High

Summary: All supportsaves have module timeouts and take more than 55 minutes to complete in Port Throttling

case.

Symptom: All supportsaves have module timeouts and take more than 55 minutes to complete in Port Throttling

case.

Workaround: Workaround is to use the CLI supportsave -t 2 option.

Risk of Fix: High Probability: Medium

Feature: 16G Platform Services Function: FOS Kernel Drivers

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000461016 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: When moving Xge ports between Logical Switches the Xge ports will not enable after a portenable in

the new Logical Switch.

Symptom: After moving an enabled XGE port from LS to a different LS, the XGE port remains disabled after

port enable in the new switch.

Workaround: Either issue the portdisable command for the xge port before moving the port to a different LS or

once you have moved the ports to the different LS issue a switch disable/switch enable sequence to

enable the xge port.

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low

Feature: Striker/Spike Platform Services Function: Spike Platform Module

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Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000465666 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Master log port unit connectivity status change event description does not provide enough information

to proceed

Symptom: The error message "The overall portstatus of the connectivity unit has changed" is shown for TOP

every 10 minutes

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium

Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000465776 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: FX8-24 blade goes in faulty(51) state on rebooting both CPs of DCX+ simultaneously

Symptom: FX8-24 may fault with reason code 51.

Workaround: Disable POST and reboot both CPs.

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium

Feature: Striker/Spike Platform Services Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000466587 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Reboot of core switch may result in EX-Ports stuck in "Switch not ready for EX_Ports" state

Symptom: EX_Ports may get stuck in "Switch not ready for EX_Ports" status for a period of time when a core

switch in a backbone is rebooted

Workaround: Disable and enable the E-ports on the core switch.

Risk of Fix: High Probability: Low

Feature: 8G FCR Function: FCR Port

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000466678 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: MAPS commands inconsistent behavior during the intermediate state where active has v7.2.0 and

standby has v7.1.0 running when doing a single CP firmware downgrade

Symptom: During single CP firmware downgrade from v7.2.0 to v7.10, when the firmware on standby CP is

downgraded, rebooted to 7.1 and before it is brought up as active CP, MAPS CLI commands behave

inconsistently in this time window. some commands work as expected and others fail with error

saying MAPS is disabled.

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Feature: Advanced Monitoring Services Function: Other

Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0