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Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Contents Contents Document History ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Preface .......................................................................................................................................................... 7 Contacting Brocade Technical Support ................................................................................................
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Contents Miscellaneous Enhancements ........................................................................................................ 21 Deprecated software features ............................................................................................................ 22 Bottleneck Detection ...................................................................................................................... 22 Port Mirroring ..............................
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Contents Compatibility/interoperability ................................................................................................................ 34 Brocade Network Advisor Compatibility............................................................................................. 34 WebTools Compatibility ...................................................................................................................... 35 SMI Compatibility ....................
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes Document History Document History Version Summary of Changes Publication Date v1.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes Preface: Contacting Brocade Technical Support Preface Contacting Brocade Technical Support As a Brocade customer, you can contact Brocade Technical Support 24x7 online, by telephone, or by email. Brocade OEM customers contact their OEM/Solutions provider. To expedite your call, have the following information immediately available: 1.
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Fabric OS v8.0.1a Release Notes Overview Overview Fabric OS v8.0.1b is a patch release based on FOS v8.0.1a. All hardware platforms and features supported in FOS v8.0.1a are also supported in FOS v8.0.1b. Besides defect fixes, FOS v8.0.1b includes minor software changes and enhancements.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 What is New in This Release: Software features What is New in This Release Software features The following section lists new, modified, and deprecated software features for this release. Modified software features The following software features have been modified in this release. • • • • Web Tools system logs capture Switch Admin and Zone Admin configuration changes. Web Tools Ethernet IPSec policies disable IKE policy creation.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 What is New in FOS v8.0.1: Hardware What is New in FOS v8.0.1 Hardware The following section lists new hardware introduced with this release as well as hardware that are no longer supported with this release. New devices Product name Device Name Brocade X6-8 Director Gen 6 Fibre Channel 8-slot Director Product features Key features • • • • • Up to 384 ports at 32 Gbps 32 UltraScale ICLs equivalent to 128 32-Gbps ports 16.2 Tbps aggregate chassis bandwidth 1.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 What is New in FOS v8.0.1: Software features Deprecated hardware The following Brocade devices are no longer supported starting with this release. • 300, 5100, 5300, 7800, VA-40FC, Brocade Encryption Switch, DCX, DCX-4S • 5410, M5424, 5430, 5431, 5432, 5450, 5460, 5470, 5480, NC-5480 The following blades are no longer supported starting with this release. • FC8-16, FC8-32, FC8-48, FS8-18, FCOE10-24.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 What is New in FOS v8.0.1: Software features Monitor Gigabit Ethernet Ports FOS v8.0.1 adds the ability to monitor link layer error statistics for Gigabit Ethernet ports on extension platforms, which includes the Brocade 7840, FX8-24 blades, and SX6 blades. This monitoring provides advanced notification of Ethernet link layer problems that could result in performance degradation or disruption to the distance extension traffic.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 What is New in FOS v8.0.1: Software features MAPS platform dependent default policies FOS v8.0.1 changes MAPS default policies so that only rules applicable to a specific platform are included in the default policies for that platform. Please refer to the MAPS rules and groups altered in this release section of the Brocade Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Configuration Guide for detailed policy changes. Miscellaneous FOS v8.0.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 What is New in FOS v8.0.1: Software features Extension Non-disruptive Firmware Download on X6 FOS v8.0.1 supports non-disruptive firmware download for the FCIP extension traffic on the SX6 blades in an X6-8 or X6-4 director. Non-disruptive firmware download is performed in parallel on the maximum number of SX6 blades supported in a director. SX6 blades in different configuration modes, i.e., 10VE, 20VE, or hybrid, are supported with non-disruptive firmware download.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 What is New in FOS v8.0.1: Software features • Support LAN non-terminated TCP flow to allow control type TCP traffic from IP storage devices across the WAN. • Generate RASLog message (XTUN-3100 and 3101) when IP-Extension TCP connection count per DP is equal to and greater than 500. • Increase the maximum number of supported Traffic Control List (TCL) per DP from 128 to 256. Zoning FOS v8.0.1 provides the following enhancements to zoning.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 What is New in FOS v8.0.1: Software features Removal of “factory” Account FOS v8.0.1 removes the legacy “factory” default account. Removing this account does not have any impact on switch operational or administrative operation. Factory disabling of “root” Account The default switch “root” account is disabled on switches that have FOS v8.0.1 installed at the factory.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 What is New in FOS v8.0.1: Software features ClearLink Diagnostics (D_Port) FOS v8.0.1 supports D_Ports on Gen 6 platforms with 32 Gbps SFP and 4x32 Gbps QSFPs. • For 4x32 Gbps QSFPs, the electrical loopback and optical loopback tests are skipped. • D_Port tests on Gen 6 platforms support ISLs and device connections to third party HBAs.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 What is New in FOS v8.0.1: Software features portCfgEportCredit Command FOS v8.0.1 supports BB credit configuration range values from 5 to 160 for Gen 6 (G620 and X6) platforms. The range is unchanged for Gen 5 (16 Gbps) platforms. portStatsShow Command FOS v8.0.1 enhances the portStatsShow output to include Forward Error Correction (FEC) counter output. Counters are now displayed regardless of whether FEC is configured or a port is online.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 What is New in FOS v8.0.1: CLI Changes CLI Changes The following section lists new, modified, and deprecated commands for this release. New Commands The following commands are new in this release. • diagStatus • openSource • rootAccess Modified Commands Refer to the “Modified commands” section in the Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference supporting Fabric OS v8.0.1.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Software License Support: Optionally Licensed Software Software License Support Optionally Licensed Software Fabric OS 8.0.1 includes all basic switch and fabric support software, as well as optionally-licensed software enabled using license keys. Optionally-licensed features include: Brocade Ports on Demand — Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional SFP ports via license key upgrade. (Applies to select models of switches).
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Software License Support: Optionally Licensed Software 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 1 GbE or 10 GbE interfaces to provide a high bandwidth FCIP tunnel and failover resiliency.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Software License Support: Temporary License Support license on X6-4 enables the remaining eight UltraScale ICL QSFP ports on the director, which are QSFP port number 2, 3, 6, and 7 on each core blade. On a DCX8510-4, a single ICL POD license enables all 16 UltraScale ICL QSFP ports on the director. 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.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 • • • • • Software License Support: Temporary License Support FICON Management Server (CUP) Enterprise ICL license Fabric Vision license WAN Rate Upgrade 1 license WAN Rate Upgrade 2 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.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Hardware Support: Supported devices Hardware Support Supported devices The following devices are supported in this release: • • • • G620, X6-8, X6-4 6505, 6510, 6520, DCX8510-8, DCX8510-4 6543, 6545, 6546, 6547, 6548, M6505, 6558 7840 Supported blades DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 blade support Fabric OS v8.0.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Hardware Support: Supported power supplies Up to maximum of 4 blades of this type. Note: The QSFPs supported in FC16-64, part number 57-1000294-02, is also supported on X6 core blades with the condition that the port speed must be configured at fixed 16 Gbps. Otherwise, the optics will be faulted.
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Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Software Upgrades and Downgrades: Image filenames Software Upgrades and Downgrades Image filenames Download the following images from www.brocade.com. Image filename Description v8.0.1b.zip Fabric OS v8.0.1b for Windows v8.0.1b_tar.gz Fabric OS v8.0.1b for Linux v8.0.1b.md5 Fabric OS v8.0.1b Checksum v8.0.1b_all_mibs.tar.gz Fabric OS v8.0.1b MIBs v8.0.1b_releasenotes_v1.0.pdf Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Scalability Limitations and Restrictions Scalability All scalability limits are subject to change. Limits may be increased once further testing has been completed, even after the release of this version of the Fabric OS. For current scalability limits for Fabric OS, refer to the Brocade SAN Scalability Guidelines document, available at www.brocade.com.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Compatibility/interoperability WebTools Compatibility Fabric OS 8.0.1 is qualified and supported with Oracle Java version 8 update 77. Please refer to the “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 Fabric OS 8.0.1. If you want to manage a switch running Fabric OS 8.0.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Compatibility/interoperability 6558 FOS v8.0.1 or later 1 Brocade G620 FOS v8.0.0 or later Brocade X6-8/X6-4 FOS v8.0.1 or later Brocade X6-8/X6-4 with FC32-48 blade or SX6 blade FOS v8.0.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Important Notes Important Notes In-flight Encryption and Compression • Fabric OS 8.0.1 does not support in-flight encryption on Brocade G620 or X6 directors. The CLI command for port configuration for in-flight encryption is blocked in Fabric OS 8.0.1. • In-flight compression is supported in Fabric OS v8.0.1 on Brocade G620 and X6 directors. • In-flight encryption and compression are supported on 6510, 6520, and DCX 8510 platforms.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Important Notes Ethernet Management Interface • Enabling IPSec on management interface is not supported on Brocade G620 switches. The IPSecConfig command is blocked to prevent enabling the configuration. • The recommended interface speed configuration for a Brocade G620 is 1G auto-negotiate. If a G620 is configured for 10/100M Gbps forced-speed and fails to establish a link, Brocade recommends using a cross-over cable.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Important Notes • When a D_Port mode configuration mismatch between a fabric source switch and Analytics Monitoring Platform leads to a segmented analytic switch link, the source switch will display the segmented AE_Port as a segmented E_Port. This is tracked as defect 563489. • vTap and auto-discovered AF_Port do not support high availability.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Important Notes • After a configuredownload followed by switchenable, or a flow statistics reset on Brocade X6 and G620, MAPS may incorrectly reports VTAP IOPS > 250,000 violation. Flow Vision • Flow Vision supports only logical group names that begin with alphabetic characters. • Frame count statistics of a Flow Monitoring flow may stop incrementing after a statsclear command.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1b Defects Some defects listed in the following tables do not apply to the Brocade G620 or X6 platforms but were disclosed in a previous release. Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1b This section lists software defects with Critical, High, and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change as of August 31, 2016 in version 8.0.1b.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defect ID: Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1a DEFECT000596542 Technical Severity: Probability: High High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Fibre Channel Addressing Management Symptom: In a FICON environment, timeouts occur between the mainframe and the FICON CUP which causes lots of error messages to appear on the mainframe console.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1a Defect ID: DEFECT000576596 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS8.0.0 Probability: Technology: Medium RAS - Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability Symptom: When configremoveall all is issued, FFDC SNMP-1004 error is seen. Condition: The FFDC SNMP-1004 error occasionally can seen during a configremoveall.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1a Defect ID: DEFECT000590689 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security Reported In Release: FOS7.3.2 Probability: Technology: Medium Security Policies Symptom: When "seccertutil gencsr" is executed to generate CSR file, unneeded integer number is displayed between "Generating CSR, file name is:" and "Done." messages.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1a Defect ID: DEFECT000591922 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Probability: Technology: Medium FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP Symptom: Unable to modify an enabled TCL when max TCLs are active. Condition: Maximum number of TCLs configured and enabled on the system.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1a Defect ID: DEFECT000593549 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Probability: Technology: High FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP Symptom: SFP on GE port comes up as Laser_Flt Condition: This is seen on 10G tunable SFP.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1a Defect ID: DEFECT000595599 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Symptom: Probability: Technology: Medium Fibre Channel Routing When the port that is online at 32G goes offline because of link failure and comes back online, the port can form a separate trunk because of the FEC state mismatch with master port.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1a Defect ID: DEFECT000596027 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension Reported In Release: FOS7.4.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1a Defect ID: DEFECT000597572 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension Reported In Release: FOS7.1.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 This section lists software defects with Critical, High, and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change as of April 22, 2016 in version 8.0.1. Defect ID: DEFECT000471762 Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS7.2.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000524199 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision Symptom: There are no Tx counts on ingress F_Port for frame size and there are no Rx frame counts on the Egress on the same flow being monitored on the E_Port, when Flows are configured on the same ASIC chip.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000533422 Technical Severity: Low Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Traffic Management Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: Fibre Channel Routing Symptom: Fabric router switch may observe panic upon receiving invalid frame from edge switch. Condition: This happens when fabric router running FOS7.2.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000544678 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Configuration Fundamentals Symptom: The warning message for supportInfoClear CLI command needs more clarity and explicitness to better assist the user of this command.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000547835 Technical Severity: High Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Symptom: FOS does not generate MAPS-1010 RASLOG message if BNA fences the F_Port. Condition: It is applicable if the switch or fabric is monitored by BNA and port decommission is configured and enabled.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000550554 Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Traffic Management Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: FICON Symptom: With CUP Diagnostics and zOS HealthChecker, a port that reports a SlowDrain or Bottleneck Detected event, may persist in reporting this state, even though the condition has cleared.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000557644 Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Traffic Management Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: FICON Symptom: CUP fails to correctly establish new Reporting Logical Path after receiving Sel Reset Condition: It failed under following conditions during test: 1. FMS enabled. 2. Switch online to MVS 3.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000560593 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Technology Area: Fibre Channel Services Symptom: The parameter "switch.login.perSwitchMax" is not shown in configshow output. Condition: By design, when a key is not defined (that is, not yet configured by the user), system will display the default value for it.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000561049 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Security Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: Security Vulnerability Symptom: Configuration key corresponds to crypto key length may have invalid value 40 or 56. Condition: Crypto key length 40 and 56 are invalid and the same has been removed in v7.2.1.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000565355 Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision Symptom: The vtap flow would not mirror the frames to the AMP when the AE ports between the switch and AMP is toggled. Condition: AE port toggle would result in the scenario.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000566840 Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000567540 Technical Severity: High Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology Area: Configuration Fundamentals Symptom: System may encounter RASLog ERCP-1000, RAS-1000 during firmwaredownload.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000568377 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: Software Installation & Upgrade Symptom: Firmwaresync fails due to timeout when standby CP is running FOS 7.2 or older and active CP is running FOS 7.4. Condition: Occurs when active CP is running FOS 7.4 and standby CP is running FOS 7.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000569309 Technical Severity: High Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Symptom: MAPS mdd process terminates when running supportsave.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000570535 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Traffic Management Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Rate Limiting and Shaping Symptom: Though -ap option in aptpolicy command is removed from 7.3, user is still allowed to execute the command. Condition: This behavior is seen with all the platforms where aptpolicy command is supported.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000573081 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Traffic Management Reported In Release: FOS8.0.0 Technology Area: Port Bring-up Symptom: ITW and er_enc_out counters may increment in the thousands when port transitions from offline to online. This is expected behavior for the new GEN 6 ports.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000574253 Technical Severity: High Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Technology Area: SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol Symptom: Inconsistent enc_out stats between portstatsshow and SNMP may be encountered. Condition: This may occur under rare circumstance where top 32 bits of internal error counter is incremented.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000574943 Technical Severity: High Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Extension Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP Symptom: Host Discovery issues after FOS upgrade in an FCR backbone to edge configuration. Edge to edge configurations are not impacted.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000576355 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Technology Area: CLI - Command Line Interface Symptom: After answer "n" to "reboot" CLI, switch is left in disabled state. Condition: It happens on BR5481, "reboot" CLI cannot be cancelled. Recovery: Use switchenable to enable switch ports back.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000576960 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: Configuration Fundamentals Symptom: The Restore Factory Defaults command may fail midway and certain features like zoning config may not be set to default values.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000577604 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS8.0.0 Technology Area: Hardware Monitoring Symptom: ITW and er_enc_out counters may increment in the thousands when port transitions from offline to online. This is expected behavior for the new Condor4 chip.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000578360 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Extension Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology Area: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP Symptom: IPSec enabled extension tunnels on Brocade 7840 will not establish when utilizing VLAN tagged IP interfaces.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000580006 Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS8.0.0 Technology Area: Hardware Monitoring Symptom: The following RASLog error might be seen whenever a Power Supply FRU is plugged out of the system.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000580863 Technical Severity: High Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Traffic Management Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Technology Area: ISL - Inter-Switch Linking Symptom: After hafailover, hosts may lose paths to storage devices in the fabric. Condition: For this issue to occur, the following conditions must exist: 1.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000581775 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Traffic Management Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: FICON Symptom: Identical Node descriptors observed for two different physical ports. Condition: This may occur in a FICON environment, where duplicates node descriptors may be generated in a director with large port-counts.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000585430 Technical Severity: High Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS7.4.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000588368 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Traffic Management Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: Port Bring-up Symptom: Third party tape devices may have problems coming online. Condition: Port will experience error when connecting certain types of 3rd party tape devices with Brocade 16G platforms.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000590415 Technical Severity: High Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: Access Gateway Symptom: Discrepancy is seen between the outputs of CLI commands "ag --show" and "ag --mapshow" on AG switch. Condition: This may occur on AG switches in no policy mode.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed without code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Closed without code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 This section lists software defects with Critical, High, and Medium Technical Severity closed without a code change as of April 22, 2016 in version 8.0.1. Defect ID: DEFECT000495229 Technical Severity: High Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS7.2.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed without code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000543441 Technical Severity: Medium Reason Code: Feature/Function Not Probability: High Supported Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol Symptom: Customer would not be able to use SCP and SFTP Protocols for Firmwaredownload and Supportsave in SNMP Interface. The support is only provided for FTP.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed without code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000561694 Technical Severity: High Reason Code: Already Fixed in Probability: Medium Release Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision Symptom: The active CP gets rebooted due to software panic and stack frame is displayed on the console. Condition: Poweroff of the port blade consisting AE_Ports.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed without code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000567900 Technical Severity: Medium Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS8.0.0 Technology Area: Management GUI Symptom: The Hash type for authentication does not display correctly when fcap auth util is set.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed without code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000572227 Technical Severity: High Reason Code: Already Fixed in Probability: Low Release Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1_HIL Technology Area: Access Gateway Symptom: When a host and target are connected to the same AG switch and mapped to same N_Port, host may not see target.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed without code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000577380 Technical Severity: High Reason Code: Not Reproducible Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Traffic Management Reported In Release: FOS8.0.0 Technology Area: Fibre Channel Routing Symptom: User might see FCR routing issue which might cause frame drop, host or target can't be discovered. Condition: All the following conditions must be met to trigger this issue. 1.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Closed without code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000582539 Technical Severity: High Reason Code: Already Fixed in Probability: Low Release Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Traffic Management Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Technology Area: Fibre Channel Routing Symptom: After a link reset on an inter fabric link (IFL) or the trunk master of an IFL trunk on a Fibre Channel Router (FCR) switch, traffic through the IFL or IFL trunk is halted.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 This section lists open software defects with Critical, High, and Medium Technical Severity as of April 22, 2016 in version 8.0.1. Defect ID: DEFECT000463170 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.2.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000512746 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Technology Area: Flow Vision Symptom: A WWN-based flow will not be deactivated automatically, when the WWN of the generator port is changed using the command fapwwn. Condition: WWN of the generator port is changed using the command fapwwn.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000549417 Technical Severity: Low Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: Configuration Fundamentals Symptom: If dynamic port name is configured on the switch, any change in port name will not be handled by MAPS dynamic group for which "feature" is specified as port name.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000555276 Technical Severity: Low Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: Fibre Channel Services Symptom: CLI command "portcfgshow" options (-s/-i) for slot/index does not display the fillword field. Condition: CLI command "portcfgshow" does not display the fillword if input parameters are used.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000563298 Technical Severity: Low Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0_AMP Technology Area: Flow Vision Symptom: The output of "flow --show sys_mon_analytics -srcdev -dstdev " CLI does not display the metrics table for the specified single flow between the pair of source and destination devices.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000564334 Technical Severity: Low Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology Area: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Symptom: MAPS indicates the switch state is marginal if only one power supply unit is present on Brocade 6505. Condition: This is only applicable to Brocade 6505 switch. Workaround: This erroneous message may be ignored.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000567870 Technical Severity: High Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000570541 Technical Severity: High Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS8.0.0 Technology Area: Management GUI Symptom: Web Tools Switch Throughput Graph closes after error message “null Switch throughput graph will be closed” displays.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000573229 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Traffic Management Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology Area: TIZ - Traffic Isolation Zoning Symptom: Invalid TI zones constraints may affect traffic on other ports. Condition: This occurred when user created invalid TI zone configuration which did not include all member of the trunk group in the TI zone.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000576240 Technical Severity: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Probability: Low Technology: Security Technology Area: FIPS - Federal Information Processing Standards Symptom: CVE-2015-7575 TLS 1.2 Transcript Collision attacks against MD5 in key exchange protocol (SLOTH) Condition: Only cryptographic software using TLS 1.2 is affected.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000577772 Technical Severity: High Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology Area: Flow Vision Symptom: History data for the F_Port trunk master does not display in the Fabric Flow Dashboard.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000581219 Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology Area: SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol Symptom: SNMP get/getnext walk fails. Condition: When the SNMP access control list is configured with an invalid IP address Workaround: Remove the invalid IPaddress entry in the SNMP access control list.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000585585 Technical Severity: High Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology Area: D_Port - Diagnostic Port Symptom: Spinfab test may fail to run successfully on ports configured as D_Ports when attached to a Qlogic HBA. Functionality of the switch is not affected.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000587033 Technical Severity: High Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology Area: Configuration Fundamentals Symptom: A switch panic may be seen when spinfab is disrupted while in progress.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000590383 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Security Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Technology Area: Fabric Authentication Symptom: Certain devices are denied access to login to the switch when they have a DCC policy configured with proper WWNs. Condition: This may occur when either of the WWN words have the most significant bit set.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000590890 Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology Area: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Symptom: Maps CIR_UTIL violation may display large % value in configurations having 8 logical switches.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000591792 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology Area: Configuration Fundamentals Symptom: Executing the ethif CLI command displays error message "Error: ifModeSet - Permission denied" Condition: The ifModeset CLI is deprecated. There is no loss of functionality.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000592535 Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology Area: Configuration Fundamentals Symptom: Missing blocking message when performing a configdownload of a file from a different platform type. Condition: When issuing a configdownload using a file from platform of different type.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000592802 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology Area: D_Port - Diagnostic Port Symptom: porttest command fails on ports in a logical switch or base switch that are configured as D_Port.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Symptom: The security certificate DAYS_TO_EXPIRE rule violation will not be highlighted in Summary Report's Todays section instead, it will be highlighted in Last 7 days section even when the rule was violated today. Condition: The issue is observed due to dashboard backup is after the rule violation. Workaround: For security certificate DAYS_TO_EXPIRE rule violation, please refer RASLOG message.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000595186 Technical Severity: High Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Monitoring Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology Area: Flow Vision Symptom: With MAPS logical group as ingress port for vTap flow, portdisable/enable of a F_Port belonging to a MAPS group may result in halting of vTap-mirroring . Condition: 1. Maps logical group as ingress port for vTAP flow. 2.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000595586 Technical Severity: High Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Management Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology Area: Management GUI Symptom: Memory, equal to the size of the hash configured, lost during each authentication. Over a long period of time, system may become unstable and report memory leak issue. Condition: On switches having WebTools and BNA management sessions.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000596027 Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Extension Reported In Release: FOS7.4.
Fabric OS v8.0.1b Release Notes v1.0 Defects: Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000596527 Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology: Security Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology Area: Fabric Authentication Symptom: Port may become disabled after a firmware download from FOS v8.0.1 to FOS v7.4.x with port authentication set to DHCHAP Condition: Firmwaredownload from FOS v8.0.1 to FOS v7.4.
