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1. 17 BIAICICUTEEERITIMEIBCREDTIILC MEE nm 18 Open Defects in Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 sseessessseseseeeeeeen eene enne eren trennen entrent intense nn 18 Closed with Code Change in Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 sssesssesseseeeeeneeen nennen nennen 21 Closed without Code Change in Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 sese 25 Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Product Overview Product Overview IT environments are increasingly standardizing operational processes and policies focusing on how to become more proactive in addressing system availability and performance with a view to reducing costs freeing up resources and accelerating the introduction of private and public cloud approaches to delivering services In doing so the network is increasingly becoming a focus area for both reduction in unexpected downtimes and ongoing operational costs as well as providing an opportunity to enable more IT and business agility 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 adap
2. Defect ID DEFECT0004 12654 Technical Severity Medium Summary User Documentation incorrectly states that SAN only Large configuration is not supported on 32 bit OS Reported In Release Nework Advisor 130 O OC Oo Defect ID DEFECT000412798 Technical Severity Medium Summary Changes to L2 links are not updated in topology view when devices are re discovered using profile based discovery ymptom Changes to L2 topology will not be reflected if the user performs profile based re discovery Workaround Updates happen immediately if user does a manual re discovery or after he has waited till the next asset collection Risk of Fix Medium Probability Low eature DISCOVERY IP Function IP Adaptive Discovery Service Reported In Release Network Advisor11 3 0 eee a ees Risk of Fix Medium Probability High Reported In Release NewworkAdvsor 4 lt 4 OOOOSOCSCSOS CC Defect ID DEFECT000421856 Technical Severity Medium ummary Network Advisor login through RADIUS requires two tries ymptom User will not be able to login in the first try with RADIUS authentication Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Reported In Release Network Advisor 4 SSCS Reported In Releaser Network Advisorl 1 21 Service Request ID _1027481 Defect ID DEFECT000429303 Technical Severity High ummary Master log description contains word FICON though its a non FI
3. Instance class key property with special character Getinstance operation fails if the key property value contains semicolon or non printable character Getinstance operation on Brocade_Ethernetport for Fabric OS 6 1 2_CEE Brocade_Ethernetport information could not be fetched through Getinstance operation if CEE switch runs on Fabric OS 6 1 2_CEE FC port type value for imported HBA s Brocade_topologyview AntecedentFCPortType property value corresponding to the imported HBA is shown as L port Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Defects Open Defects in Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 This section lists defects with High and Medium Technical Severity open in Network Advisor 12 0 0 as of 5 00 PM on December 18 2012 While these defects are still formally open they are unlikely to impede Brocade customers in their deployment of Network Advisor 12 0 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 DEFECT000363760 Technical Severity High Summary Failed to deploy Extended L3 ACL with protocol as IP and ICMP for FastIron Turbolron and Serverlron devices ymptom ACL configuration deployment fails for indicated configurations ea
4. 10 0 1 2 5988 o Note Where IP_Address Port is the IP address and port number that display when you use the slptool findsrvs service wbem command e Slptool findattrs service wbem https IP_Address Port o Use this command to verify that the Management application SMI Agent SLP service is properly advertising its WBEM SLP template over the HTTPS protocol o Example input slptool findattrs service wbem https 10 0 1 2 5989 o Note Where IP_Address Port is the IP address and port number that display when you use the slptool findsrvs service wbem command SLP on UNIX systems This section describes how to verify the SLP daemon on UNIX systems SLP file locations on UNIX systems e SLP log Management_Application cimom cfg slp log e SLP daemon Management_Application cimom cfg slp conf e The SLP daemon can be reconfigured by modifying SLP register Management_Application cimom cfg slp reg You can statically register an application that does not dynamically register with SLP using SLPAPIs by modifying this file For more information about these files read the comments contained in them or refer to http www openslp org doc html UsersGuide index html Verifying SLP service installation and operation on UNIX systems 1 Open a command window Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Type su root and press Enter to become the root user Type Management_Application cimom bin slptool findsrvs servi
5. Brocade DCX 1 with FC8 64 blades Brocade DCX AS 8 with FR4 18i blades Brocade DCX 4S8 with FC10 6 blades Brocade DCX 4S8 with FS8 18 blades Brocade DCX 4S with FA4 18 Brocade DCX 4S19 with FCoE10 24 blades Brocade DCX 4819 with FX8 24 blades Brocade DCX 4S11 with FC8 64 blades Brocade DCX 8510 412 and DCX 8510 812 Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Switch Type SAN Devices B Series Brocade DCX 8510 422 and DCX 8510 82 with FC16 32 and FC16 48 blades Brocade DCX 8510 423 and DCX 8510 81 with FC8 32e and FC8 48e blades Blade Type SAN Devices B Series FOS v5 2 x v5 3 x v6 0 x Brocade 3014 v6 1 x v6 2 x v6 3 x Brocade 3016 v6 4 0 v7 0 x v7 1 0 Brocade 4020 Brocade 4016 Brocade 40241 Brocade 4018 Brocade 4012 Brocade 4424 Brocade 5410 Brocade 54502 Brocade 54602 Brocade 54242 Brocade 54702 Brocade 54802 Footnotes 1 Requires FOS v5 1 0 or higher 3 Requires FOS v5 2 0 or higher Requires FOS v5 2 1 or higher Requires FOS v5 3 0 or higher Requires FOS v6 1 0 or higher Requires FOS v6 0 0 or higher Requires FOS v6 1 1_enc or higher Requires FOS v6 2 0 or higher 2 Requires FOS v6 1 2_CEE or higher Requires FOS v6 3 x or higher t Requires FOS v6 4 0 or higher a Requires FOS v7 0 0 or higher Requires FOS v7 0 1 Requires FOS v7 1 0 Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Adapters Typ
6. Probability Medium Feature Technical Support Function Support Save Reported In Release Network Advisor11 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000362778 Technical Severity Medium Summary Restore operation fails with Network Advisor supportSave which was captured when the database server was down ymptom User will not be able to restore the server with the captured supportsave Workaround Copy the contents of support save location Mdb to install location MataMatabases and restart the services Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low eature Backup and Restore Function Backup and Restore Reported In Release Network Advisor 112 C oC Oo Defect ID DEFECT000381680 Technical Severity Medium Summary Firmware downgrade from v7 0 1 to v6 4 2 is reported as success though the operation fails in the switch ymptom Unable to downgrade the firmware from 7 0 1 to 6 4 2 using Network Advisor Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Feature FIRMWARE MANAGEMENT Function FIRMWARE DOWLOAD Reported In Release Network Advisor11 2 1 occ Se eee te 2 2 Defect ID DEFECT000383883 Technical Severity Medium Summary Event action is not triggered for the corresponding port when SNMP trap is generated for FC Port Level events Reported In Release Network Advisor11 2 1 Ne es ee Defect ID DEFECT000420202 Technical Severity Medium ummary Historical Performance Graph gives message No da
7. SAN users may add IP management to Network Advisor 12 0 0 for SAN IP network management with the procurement of the IP functionality INM Migration IronView Network Manager INM needs to be upgraded to Network Advisor 11 0 x 11 0 0 11 0 2 then to Network Advisor 11 1 x 11 1 0 11 15 and finally to Network Advisor 12 0 0 INM 3 3 0x running on the Linux and Windows operating systems would need to upgrade to Network Advisor 11 0 x for IP INM 3 3 0x INM 3 3 0 3 3 01 3 3 01a 3 3 01b running on the Solaris platform must first migrate to a supported operating system and then perform the upgrade to Network Advisor 11 0 x for IP Upgrades from INM to Network Advisor 11 0 x for IP do require a new software license key Users should refer to the INM Migration Guide for a complete list of supported and unsupported data migrations and features IP users may add SAN management to Network Advisor 12 0 0 for SAN IP network management with the procurement additional features Users running INM 3 3 10c would need to migrate to Network Advisor 11 0 2a then to Network Advisor 11 1 x 11 1 0 11 1 5 and finally to Network Advisor 12 0 0 Operating Systems Supported Operating System architecture Installer Supported Package Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 x86 32 bit SAN only or IP only SMIA only i small medium Windows Server 2008 Standard x86 32 bit Windows XP Professional SP3 x86 32 bit Windows 7 Professional x86 32 bit Re
8. go to the location Install location gt bin and type sh dcmclient Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Windows and Linux Follow the below steps on launching the client from a web browser To launch the Network Advisor Client from a remote host launch the client as follows Open a browser window and type the Network Advisor server hostname or IP address in the Address field for example http NetworkAdvisorServerhost1 companyname com http 192 x y z If when the Network Advisor server was installed a Network Advisor web server port number was specified instead of the default 80 you must specify the port number after the hostname or IP address In the following examples 8080 is the web server port number http NetworkAdvisorServerhost1 companyname com 8080 http 192 x y z 8080 Please note that the required Client Oracle JRE version has now changed to 1 6 0 33 For remote clients this JRE needs to be installed prior to establishing a server connection Important SAN Notes 1 6 Host based stand alone SMI agents cannot manage products with Fabric OS v7 0 and above It requires use of the integrated SMI Agent with Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 While running diagnostic port test it is important to note that selecting more than one port from same switch blade and running diagnosis on them simultaneously might result in failure It is recommended to choose only one port at
9. 2 Launch in context for a remote Adapter might report client refresh update issues when there is high latency This is due to a known issue with JRE 1 7 Work around Use a remote client with JRE 1 7 update 10 Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 T The Encryption Smart Card Driver is only supported for 32 bit Linux It is not supported on 64 bit Linux Display of Logical Switches If you create Logical switches through the Logical Switch dialog box the Logical switch displays under undiscovered Logical Switch in the existing Logical Switches Panel You have to rediscover the newly created logical switch fabric by going to the discovery dialog and adding the IP address of the chassis using the add dialog Destination columns are blank for Brocade Encryption Switch in top talkers dialog When the Top Talkers dialog box is launched for the Brocade Encryption Switch the columns Destination Destination port and Destination switch port are sometimes empty Important IP Notes Miscellaneous Important Notes that Apply to IP Installations 1 VDX VCS Mgmt e f VDX switches were discovered as a third party device from IP tab in 11 1 x and if user migrates to 12 0 0 those products will be dropped after migration User can rediscover them from IP tab as needed e Adaptive trap based collection is not supported Manual re discovery and periodic discovery 10 min 30 min 60 min respectively for Small Medium Lar
10. 505 e Brocade 5430 Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Migrations amp Upgrades Network Advisor Upgrades Network Advisor 11 1 X 11 1 0 11 1 5 11 2 X 11 2 0 11 2 1 and 11 3 0 running on the Linux and Windows operating systems can be upgraded to Network Advisor 12 0 0 SAN users may add IP management to Network Advisor 12 0 0 for SAN IP network management with the procurement of the IP functionality Also IP users may add SAN management to Network Advisor 12 0 0 for SAN IP network management with the procurement of the SAN functionality Note Migrations from pre 12 0 0 to 12 0 0 require the pre 12 0 0 Network Advisor installation be running Partial and Network path Migrations are not supported from Pre 12 0 0 to 12 0 0 Please refer the User Manual section Migration data page and Configuring backup page for more details DCFM Migration DCFM 10 4 X running on the Linux and Windows operating systems can be upgraded to Network Advisor 11 1 X 11 1 0 11 1 5 for SAN first then upgrade to Network Advisor 12 0 0 DCFM 10 4 x running on the Solaris platform must first migrate to a supported operating system perform the upgrade to Network Advisor 11 1 X for SAN and then upgrade to Network Advisor 12 0 0 Prior versions of DCFM would need to be first upgraded to DCFM 10 4 X and then perform the upgrade as listed above Upgrades from DCFM to Network Advisor 12 0 0 for SAN do not require a new software license key
11. 7 5a Brocade 6650 5 0 x 5 1 x 5 2 x 5 3 x 5 4a b Netlron CES CER MLX XMR MLXe 2 02 10 2 1 0 x Brocade 6910 12 1 x2 12 2 x2 12 3 x 12 4 12 5 Serverlron ADX 10 2 01x 11 0 x Serverlron 4 1 x 4 2 x 7 3 x 7 4 x Turbolron 24X 4 3 1 0 WiNG 5 1 5 2 5 3 5 4 Wireless Controllers RFS 4000 RFS 6000 RFS 7000 4 1 x 4 1 01x Fastlron FES Footnotes 1 Network OS 2 0 is not supported 212 1 0f and 12 2 1 are not supported Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Switch Type SAN Devices B Series FOS v5 0 x v5 1 x v5 2 x v5 3 x v6 0 x v6 1 x v6 2 x v6 3 x v6 4 x v7 0 0 v7 0 1 v7 1 0 Brocade 3900 Brocade 3250 Brocade 3850 Brocade 4100 Brocade 75001 Brocade 200E Brocade 49002 Brocade 50002 Brocade AP76004 Brocade 3005 Brocade 51005 Brocade 53005 Brocade 650513 Brocade 651012 Brocade 652014 Brocade 80002 Brocade 12000 Brocade 24000 Brocade 780019 Brocade VA40 FC Brocade Encryption Switch Brocade 48000 with FC4 16 FC4 32 and FC4 482 blades Brocade 48000 with FRA 18i Brocade 48000 with FCA 16IP Brocade 48000 with FC10 64 Brocade 48000 with FA4 18 Brocade DCX with FC8 16 FC8 32 FA4 18 and FC8 48 blades Brocade DCX with FR4 18i blades Brocade DCX with FC10 6 blades Brocade DCX with FS8 18 blades Brocade DCX with FCoE10 24 blades Brocade DCX with FX8 24 blades Brocade DCX 4S8 with FC8 16 FC8 32 FA4 18 FC8 48 and FC8 64 blades
12. BROCADE Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 December 21 2012 Document History Document Title Summary of Changes Publication Date Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 GA Release Notes v1 0 Initial version Dec 21 2012 2012 Brocade Communications Systems Inc All Rights Reserved Brocade the B wing symbol Biglron DCFM DCX Fabric OS Fastlron lronView Netlron SAN Health Serverlron Turbolron and Wingspan are registered trademarks and Brocade Assurance Brocade NET Health Brocade One Extraordinary Networks MyBrocade VCS and VDX are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems Inc in the United States and or in other countries Other brands products or service names mentioned are or may be trademarks or service marks 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 The authors and Brocade Comm
13. CON device ymptom The user will be mislead as its not FICON device Risk of Fix Low S ooo Reported In Release Network Advisor11 2 0 Service Request ID 1084361 Summary The active Occupied VE ports are not displayed in the main Network Advisor display F9 View All Summary When VDX switch IP address becomes 0 0 0 0 Network Advisor is not able to delete the fabric from the discovery dialog ymptom Unable to delete or rediscover the NOS device with IP address 0 0 0 0 Risk of Fix Medium Probability Medium eature DISCOVERY Function IP Discovery Service Reported In Release Network Advisor11 3 0 Service Request ID 1107528 D DEFECT000431233 Technical Severity Medium ummary Incorrect switch name appears in the properties tab for a given port ymptom User will be mislead with incorrect switch name in properties tab Risk of Fix Medium eature Client Function Client Framework Reported In Release Network Advisor11 2 1 Service Request ID 1102067 Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Closed without Code Change in Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 This section lists the defects closed without a code change in Network Advisor 12 0 0 as of 5 00 PM on December 18 2012 Defect ID DEFECT000367236 Technical Severity High updated when MLX is running firmware 5 1c Feature FIRMWARE MANAGEMENT IP Function USABILITY Reported In Release NewokAdvkorll2O o o l
14. Cipher Vulnerabilities in Network Advisor security scan reports several weak and null ciphers ymptom Security scan finds several weak ciphers and a few null ciphers eature Encryption Function ENHANCEMENT ervice Request ID 738133 Reported In Release Network Advisor11 2 1 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000341007 Technical Severity Medium Summary ACL deployment status message reports success even though a portion of the access lists failed to get configured Symptom In case of large ACL deployments it may appear to be successful though on the device some of the access lists have not been configured Workaround Deploy ACLs in small batches eature Security Management Unified Function L3 ACL Configuration Reported In Release Network Advisor11 1 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000347553 Technical Severity Medium Summary Warning message is not displayed if a duplicate extended ACL is created and moved to ACL entries table in the Edit L3 ACL configuration dialog Symptom The ACL Entry already exists warning message will not be displayed for the first duplicate ACL that is created and moved to ACL entries table Workaround use CLI Feature Security Management Unified Function L3 ACL Configuration Reported In Release Network Advisor11 1 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000360568 Technical Severity Medium Summary Network Advisor failed to retrieve config with Error InvalidatedDeviceGlobalPasswordExceptio
15. ID 664659 Defect ID DEFECTO000369202 Technical Severity Medium Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Summary SAN discovery fails with an incorrect error message when user tries to discover an SSL enabled switch without enabling the SSL option in Network Advisor Symptom SAN discovery fails with the error message Authentication failure during discovery operation 403 Workaround Enable the SSL option in the Product Communication tab of the Option sdialog of Network Advisor Risk of Fix Medium Probability Medium Feature DISCOVERY Function SAN Switch Discovery Reported In Release Network Advisor11 1 3 ies ee Reported In Release Network Advisorll 11 Service Request ID 696609 Defect ID DEFECT000404274 Technical Severity Medium Summary The local LIC client logs when client is launched through the SMI A configuration tool are not collected when support save operation is triggered from Server Console Symptom User will not see any log information related to LIC through SMI A configuration tool in when technical support save collection is triggered from Server Console Workaround Manually copy client log file along with client supportsave which is generated at the time of LIC client launch Risk of Fix High Probability Low Feature Technical Support Function Support Save Reported In Release Network Advisorl1 1 1 o SE Defect ID DEFECT000405046 Technical Severity Medium Summ
16. a time from any given switch blade for running the diagnostic port test Firmware upgrade to Brocade 8000 platform using Brocade Network Advisor will be disruptive to I O on the Brocade 8000 platform Supported AG limits are the following 32 bit OS max of 40 AGs 64 bit OS max of 200 AGs Network Advisor cannot manage an ESXi 5 0 host due to a VMware issue KB 2012672 SFCB CIMOM on ESXi 5 0 is incompatible with JRE 1 6 U29 and later The user is hence required to update to ESXi 5 0 update 1 or later to be able to manage the host in Network Advisor through the host adapter discovery If you see the following error message Signature could not be validated during firmware download or technical support data collection Fabric OS and Network OS devices only or configuration backup restore Network OS devices only using SCP SFTP then it could be due to a mismatch in the signature key used in the ssh handshake between the switch and SCP SFTP server Try the following clicommand work around to address the issue e For Fabric OS devices sw0 FID128 admin gt sshutil delknownhost IP Address Hostname to be deleted lt IP Address of SSH server to be deleted gt e For Network OS devices Firmware version 3 0 and later swO clear ssh key IP Address of SSH server to be deleted gt e Firmware version 2 1 1b swO execute script sshdeleteknownhost IP Address Hostname to be deleted IP Address of SSH server to be deleted HCM version 3
17. ary Customizations made to columns in the Diagnostics Results Avg Round Trip Delay dialog of the L2 Traceroute dialog are not persisted Reported In Release Network Advisor 130 CS Defect ID DEFECT000406436 Technical Severity Medium Summary On NetIron MLX devices L3 ACL value is shown as 0 in port configuration dialog when ipv6 access list is assigned to ports Symptom When IPv6 L3 ACL is bound to any interface on a NetIron 5 4 device ACL value is shown as 0 Reported In Release NetworkAdvisol 30 OOS Defect ID DEFECT000409100 Technical Severity Medium Summary Cannot set port priority in excess of 240 for Serverlron ports when selected along with other non Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Serverlron IOS products ymptom User will not be able to configure port priority above 240 for Serverlron products Workaround Select ServerlIron products only and not other non Serverlron IOS products to set the port priority above 240 Risk of Fix Medium Probability Low eature VLAN Management Function STP Reported In Release Network Advisor11 3 0 MS se Defect ID DEFECT000412643 Technical Severity High Summary TRILL links are not displayed between Brocade 6730 running v2 1 1x and other NOS platforms if the ISLs are connected to the first eight or sixteen in the case of Brocade 6730 64 Ten GigB Ethernet ports Reported In Release Network Advisor 130
18. bolron devices ymptom The user will not be able to view the management port information in the Physical port Report eature DISCOVERY IP Function IP Discovery Dialog Reported In Release Network Advisor11 2 1 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECTO000388196 Technical Severity Medium ummary Loopback interfaces are not shown in Detailed reports for FESX ymptom In the detailed reports user cannot see the loopback interfaces configured eature DISCOVERY IP Function IP Discovery Service Reported In Release Network Advisor11 2 1 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000389083 Technical Severity Medium Symptom When user tries to deploy more than one boot option for the Boot Sequence Payload Configuration like Primary and TFTP the status returns Partially Failed Workaround use the default one Feature Configuration Management IP Function IP Configuration Wizard Reported In Release Network Advisor11 2 1 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000405034 Technical Severity Medium Feature FIRMWARE MANAGEMENT QP Function USABILITY Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Reported In Release Network Advisor1 1 3 0 Probability Low Closed with Code Change in Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 This section lists the defects closed with a code change in Network Advisor 12 0 0 as of 5 00 PM on December 18 2012 Defect ID DEFECT000311829 Technical Severity Medium Summary The port numbers ar
19. ce service agent and press Enter to verify the SLP service is running as a Service Agent SA Type lt Management_Application gt cimom bin slptool findsrvs service wbem and press Enter to verify the SLP service is advertising its WBEM services Choose one of the following options to verify the SLP service is advertising the WBEM SLP template over its configured client protocol adapters o Type Management_Application cimom bin slptool findattrs service wbem http IP Address Port and press Enter o Type Management Application cimom bin slptool findattrs service wbem https IP_Address Port and press Enter Note Where IP Address Port is the IP address and port number that display when you use the slptool findsrvs service wbem command SLP on Windows systems This section describes how to verify the SLP daemon on Windows systems SLP file locations SLP log Management_Application cimom cfg slp log SLP daemon Management_Application cimom cfg slp conf The SLP daemon can be reconfigure the by modifying this file SLP register Management_Application cimom cfg slp reg statically register an application that does not dynamically register with SLP using SLPAPIs by modifying this file For more information about these files read the comments contained in them or refer to http www openslp org doc html UsersGuide index html Verifying SLP service installation and operation on Windows systems 1 2 3 4 Launc
20. d Hat Enterprise Linux 6 1 Adv x86 32 bit Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 1 x86 32 bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 x86 32 bit VMware ESXi 5 0 KVM and Microsoft Hyper V Hyper V Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Guest VMs of All above Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Operating System architecture Installer Supported Package Windows Server 2008 R2 x86 64 bit Standard Data Center and SAN IP SAN Only IP Only Enterprise Editions SMIA Only Windows 7 Professional X86 64 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 1 Adv 64 bit VMware ESXi 5 0 KVM and Microsoft Hyper V Hyper V Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Guest VMs of All above Device Platform amp Hardware Support Requirements The following table lists the versions of Brocade firmware supported in this release Brocade recommends using the latest firmware versions in order to get the greatest benefit from the network and network management Operating System Device Type Network OS v3 0 0 v3 0 0a v3 0 0b VDX 8770 6710 6720 6730 v3 0 1 Network OS v2 11 v2 1 1 v2 1 1a VDX 6710 6720 6730 v2 1 1b Network OS v2 1 1 fuj VDX 2730 2 7 02x 2 7 03x 2 8 x 2 9 x Biglron RX 7 1 x 7 2 x Fastlron FGS FGS STK FLS FLS STK SuperX 7 1 x 7 2 x 7 3 x T 4 x Fastlron CX FCX STK FESX FWS 7 1 x 7 2 x 7 3 x 7 4 x Fastlron SX 7 3 x 7 4 x Fastlron ICX 6610 7 4 x Fastlron ICX 6430 6450
21. e overlapping to each other when Link Information Visibility is enabled in Options Dialog in L2 IP VLAN Topology for multiple connections and trunk connections eature Client Reported In Release Neiwork Advisor 00 o Oo Defect ID DEFECT000333304 Technical Severity Medium Summary In Network Objects view for a user with a dynamic product group AOR product is displayed under properties of static product group though it got removed from dynamic product group Symptom User is able to see the properties of a device through the static product group properties which has been removed from an AOR Reported In Release NewokAdvsorlliO O oO C OoOo Defect ID DEFECT000335755 Technical Severity Medium ummary Topology shows the loop device as imported even after removing the loop device from LSAN zone ymptom User will see the imported loop devices in topology even after removing them from LSAN Zone Reported In Release NeworkAdvisor 10 SSS Probability Low Reported In Release Network Advisor11 1 0 Ree eS Defect ID DEFECT000367907 Technical Severity Medium ummary Key vault generated by Network Advisor cannot be de registered from CLI ymptom When user tries to de register the keyvault from CLI operation fails Workaround Use double quotes around the label in CLI during deregistration Risk of Fix Low Reported In Release Network Advisorll 0 Service Request
22. ea oou Cc gn nane Ca Rao oma Cage aa apos e EVA a cava soe cRY 12 Miscellaneous Important Notes that Apply to both SAN and IP Installations eese 12 Patch Installer troubleshooting sers ener rrr enero mer rrr iare ridere raa verge nh d 13 IUE i em 13 Indications delivery depends on SAN Size and SNMP registration ccccccceeeseceeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeenseeeeeeseeeeeseaaes 14 Logging for CIMOM e i 14 Service Locatiori Protocol SEP S DDOYL ciorum ere trono dence ct ra eer dre eaae Va SEAE EEA DEEE TERN 14 SLP on UNIX SYSTEMS 2 iet edo e otra det ee Pato ee TERR ae aa Ree neni Seabee dcr eei eei EE EE EG 15 SEP ON WIRGOWSSYSLE MS A dee end Sexe era tare ener d fied cutee cesses tadacan du cwucecdent sert ea de etae dist Gera fr esee LIS Le sere cua ea E PRENNE 16 Enumeration issue with Brocade 8000 running on Fabric OS 6 3 x or lower 17 Instance class key property with special character eesssesesssesseeeseeeeee enne nenne nennen nnne en nennen entente 17 Getinstance operation on Brocade_Ethernetport for Fabric OS 6 1 2 CEE ooo eee cccesceeceeeceesesseeeeeeeeessssseeeees 17 FG port type value for imported HBA S eee t hor lavas deer as a aa E a eas Ra Ce ERR E eve os ee RARE 17 Brocade topologyview AntecedentFCPortType property value corresponding to the imported HBA is shown as L ep p
23. es 1 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 2 3 0 3 1 Brocade 415 425 815 825 3 2 Brocade 8041 Brocade 1010 1020 10072 Brocade 17418 Brocade 18604 Footnotes i Requires v2 1 1 0 or higher B Requires v2 0 or higher i Requires v2 2 or higher Requires v3 0 or higher Installing Network Advisor Installation instructions are provided for the following operating systems e Microsoft Windows e Linux The Network Advisor Server runs as multiple services on Windows and multiple processes on Linux and they start automatically after installation To install Network Advisor on Windows Server 1 Download and extract the zip archive 2 Navigate to the Windows folder 3 Execute install exe 4 Follow the instructions to complete the installation To install Network Advisor on Linux Server 1 Download and extract the tar gz archive 2 Navigate to the Linux folder 3 Execute nstall bin from the File Manager window 4 Follow the instructions to complete the installation To launch the Network Advisor Client Tolaunch the Network Advisor Client on the same local machine as the Network Advisor Server launch the client as follows Windows Select Start Programs Network Advisor 12 0 0 Network Advisor 12 0 0 Windows e Client can be launched via Desktop icon e Launch command prompt and go to the location Install location gt bin and type dcmclient Linux e Client can be launched via Desktop icon e Launch terminal and
24. ess and Detailed Reports IP Management Ports will not be consistent with the CLI port naming conventions These are caused by SNMP index and port name inconsistencies In some cases Management ports will not be displayed in the reports Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Boot Monitor Firmware Image Updates Network Advisor does not support boot and firmware upgrade and downgrade for ADX devices running 12 1 of 12 2 Configuration Wizard reports an unsuccessful Unified Image deployment when upgrading from 5 0 00b to 5 0 00d on MLX Devices and 05 0 00d to 05 1 00 Firmware Image Update on Fastlron devices using Configuration Wizard using SCP only or SCP then TFTP results in the corruption of the flash to which image is pushed Use CLI as workaround Firmware Image from a Turbolron device running v7 3 when backed up and deployed to same or another Turbolron device results in software image corruption on the device Firmware IP Deploying LP monitor image from Network Advisor is downloaded to LP boot location of Netlron MLX running 5 2 00b Common Issues for SAN and IP Miscellaneous Important Notes that Apply to both SAN and IP Installations 1 64 bit OS is required to run Network Advisor as a SAN IP Package 2 M Model switches are unsupported as Seed switch or member switch from 12 0 0 3 Privileges related to SAN and IP features are prefixed with SAN and IP strings After migration from an o
25. figured to advertise itself as a Service Agent SA The advertised SLP template shows its location IP address and the WBEM Services it supports The default advertised WBEM services show the Management application SMI Agent e accepts WBEM requests over HTTP without SSL on TCP port 5988 e accepts WBEM requests over HTTPS using SSL on TCP port 5989 Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 slptool commands Use the following slptool commands to verify whether the SLP is operating properly e Slptool findsrvs service service agent Use this command to verify that the Management application SMI Agent SLP service is properly running as a Service Agent SA Example output service service agent 127 0 0 1 65535 e Slptool findsrvs service wbem Use this command to verify that the Management application SMI Agent SLP service is properly advertising its WBEM services Example outputs service wbem https 10 0 1 3 5989 65535 service wbem http 10 0 1 3 5988 65535 This output shows the functionalities of Management application SMI Agent e accepts WBEM requests over HTTP using SSL on TCP port 5989 e accepts WBEM requests over HTTP without SSL on TCP port 5988 e Slptool findattrs service wbem http IP_Address Port o Use this command to verify that Management application SMI Agent SLP service is properly advertising its WBEM SLP template over the HTTP protocol o Example input slptool findattrs service wbem http
26. ge network sizes are supported e If NOS devices are managed using IPv6 addresses then Network Advisor is not able to process SNMP traps Work around is to manage the device via IPv4 2 Each IP product has a System max value that can be configured for various parameters such as ip filter sys for ACLs Network Advisor deployments do not check whether the payload being sent to the device has a number greater than the system max value In such deployment scenarios the deployment may report success even though the number was limited to the system max value To ensure successful deployments make sure the payload being sent is no greater than System max value 3 When discovering large MPLS networks with more than 2500 MPLS services VLL VPLS and 5000 LSPs the Network Advisor server requires a Windows 64 bit server with 6GB memory 4 Binding IPv6 ACL to a device port is not supported in 12 0 0 both read write Solution is to use CLI to bind the interface to the IPv6 ACL 5 NOS device configuration backup will only be collected for the following cases 1 Manual Discovery Rediscovery of the device in standalone mode 2 Incase of VCS cluster Manual Discovery Rediscovery of the cluster members 3 CLI manager configuration deployments 6 Syslog messages will not be received for the VDX 8770 that is configured with different IP addresses for CPs 7 Simplified image upgrade is recommended for NI devices running 5 3 and above IP Addr
27. h the Server Management Console from the Start menu Click Start to start the SLP service Open a command window Type cd c Management_Application cimom bin and press Enter to change to the directory where slpd bat is located Type gt slptool findsrvs service service agent and press Enter to verify the SLP service is running as a Service Agent Type gt slptool findsrvs service wbem and press Enter to verify the SLP service is advertising its WBEM services Choose one of the following options to verify the SLP service is advertising the WBEM SLP template over its configured client protocol adapters e Type gt slptool findattrs service wbem http IP_Address Port and press Enter e Type gt slptool findattrs service wbem https IP Address Port and press Enter Note Where IP Address Port is the IP address and port number that display when you use the slptool findsrvs service wbem command Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Enumeration issue with Brocade 8000 running on Fabric OS 6 3 x or lower Enumeration instance fails for the following classes Brocade_EthernetPortLANEndPoint Brocade_EthernetAdminDomainHostedLanEndPoint Brocade_EndpointOfNetworkPipe Brocade_EthernetSwitchHostedLANEndPoint Brocade_InEthernetLogicalNetwork Brocade_LANEndpoint Brocade_PlatformHostedLANEndPoint When Brocade Network Advisor manages a Brocade 8000 running on Fabric OS 6 3 x or lower connected to FDMI enabled CNA
28. i fe eves ch an ao a pa ROG ch aea ear o Sasubovndv sence 5 Device Platform amp Hardware Support Requirements eeesseessesseeseseeeeee enne enne nnne entrent 6 To install Network Advisor on Windows Server ssesssssesseseseeseseeeeee enne eren nn en nennen nennen nennen nennen 9 To install Network Advisor on Linux Server sessssssssesseseeeseseee enne enne entren en trennt nennen etnies nennen 9 To laurichithie Network Advisor Clients a sais eerta see reet reti ee pe d me ruere dea de ce ede teeta 9 Important SAN NOt8s 5 12 enero eere 10 Dis play of Logical Switches erui dante nnt Roter tr tint ieesenveteeysesdesnsiseceensaceadavsceeduvasiasdesentensesbsiesdauleceeneut instances 11 Destination columns are blank for Brocade Encryption Switch in top talkers dialog eessssss 11 Important IP NOLGS 15er A ceras snos cua eu Ere sa sue ERR e ETE ERES asc REF PET ER URP OR CER KN RR ER nS Scu E NN EE ER USE CREER rou Raised rRKi Re UE 11 Miscellaneous Important Notes that Apply to IP Installations eeeeeseseeeeseeseeeeee enne enne enne 11 IP Address and Detailed Reports ndi terrere rre cance lese eter tree ende eee 11 Boot Monitor Firmware Image Updates sssssssssesseseeeeeeeeenne enne en nnn nene n nennen nnne EE en nene senten innen 12 Common Issues for SAN and IB ecco crus co ree dee Cre eant me Cn aca C ra nne p
29. lder version new privilege names will be displayed in the Role Management dialog with these prefixes 4 Ifa custom AOR without any host included manually is assigned to a defined user all hosts are displayed in topology to that user But deleting updating hosts will not be reflected in topology for that user till the Client is restarted 5 Network Advisor server startup and restart can take up to 10 minutes to complete 6 Authentication Fall back authentication may not work when LDAP server running on Windows 2008 R2 is used as the primary authentication and local database is the secondary authentication This is because the error code returned is the same for both invalid credential and user not found 7 When configuring Brocade Network Advisor in SSL enable mode in application configuration wizard please ensure that both HTTP and HTTPS ports are free and available for Network Advisor Currently the application checks only if the HTTPS configured port is available and not the HTTP port 8 To avoid excessive telnet ssh login messages in the Network Advisor master log and event report and the device CLI console disable lazy polling by un checking the Enable lazy polling checkbox in IP Discovery Global Settings Preferences Dialog 9 Amessage indicating that the digital signature is expired will be displayed when launching a remote client from a server having a lesser JRE version than the JRE 1 7 update 9 10 In 12 0 the number
30. n Symptom Error occurs while saving configuration on Netlron or Fastlron devices configured with super user enabled and no snmp server pw check Workaround User has to update the correct super user password in Network Advisor Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Reported In Release Network Advisor11 1 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000363082 Technical Severity Medium ummary When user enables a TI zone and enables the new effective config TI zone with an invalid member is shown as deactivated ymptom Active TI zone is displayed as inactive in Zoning dialog eature ZONING Function TI Zones ervice Request ID 640381 Reported In Release DCFM10 4 0 Probability Medium Function FIRMWARE DOWLOAD Defect ID DEFECT000386594 Technical Severity Medium Summary Firmware download for the Fabric OS devices using external windows SCP server fails when the user name is configured as domain username Symptom When the user name is configured as domain username firmware download will fail with the windows based external SCP servers Workaround Use domain Q username instead of domain username for the SCP server Feature FIRMWARE MANAGEMENT Function FIRMWARE DOWLOAD Reported In Release Network Advisor11 2 1 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000386991 Technical Severity Medium Summary Management port information is missing in Physical Port realtime Report for the FastIron and Tur
31. nsure that Brocade Network Advisor server is successfully registered for traps on all switches 3 If DCB switches are running Fabric OS 6 3 x and 6 3 1 cee VLAN ACL deployment through SMI A will fail It is required to upgrade the DCB Fabric OS to 6 4 x 6 3 1_dcb 7 0 X for VLAN ACL deployment support through SMI Agent Indications delivery depends on SAN Size and SNMP registration The time to deliver the indication will vary based on Network Advisor SAN size selected during installation If large SAN size is selected indication delivery time will be longer Provider classes may take more time to update the fabric changes if the switches managed in Network Advisor are not SNMP registered As this would cause a delay in indication delivery all the switches managed in Network Advisor should be SNMP registered Logging for CIMOM The default logging level is INFO in integrated Agent To change the logging level to DEBUG update the com brocade category value in cimom log4j xml file present in Installation Dir Nconf folder The log file size and number of log files also can be changed by modifying the file rolling appender parameters in this cimom log4j xml file Logging Level File size and Number of Log files can be changed by modifying the following fields Log Level File Size and Number of Files from Configuration Tool through CIMOM tab Service Location Protocol SLP support The Management application SMI Agent uses Ser
32. of client connections supported has increased to 25 Please refer to the installation guide for the details In addition to those details the following database memory setting is required 1 The PostgreSQL s parameter shared buffers memory allocation should be increased to 1024MB This setting can be done by editing installation directory NdataNdatabases Wostgresgl conf file Change following line shared buffers 256MB To shared buffers 1024MB Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 2 Server needs to be restarted 11 In Linux while triggering the server support save if a space is given in the folder or filename the server support save will fail The workaround is to avoid the space in the folder or filename 12 During installation it is recommended to use the Hostname as the server IP configuration 13 In Linux 64 bit machines connecting to the database through Open office using ODBC will not work Solution is to connect from Windows ODBC Client to the 64 bit Linux machine where Network Advisor is running to view the Database tables Patch Installer troubleshooting Patch installer may not launch if UAC is enabled on a Windows 7 2008 2008R2 Editions User has to first disable the UAC using the procedure provided in the troubleshooting section of the User Manual and then launch the patch installer Brocade Domestic and International Call home centers are not supported in 12 0 Support Saves may
33. t O Defect ID DEFECT000404727 Technical Severity High Summary On Network Advisor installation with a small IP network size VLAN data collection does not happen Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Reported In Release NeworkAdvisor 30 Defect ID DEFECT000406410 Technical Severity High Reported In Release Network Advisor11 3 0 PO Will Not Fix eature Encryption Reported In Release DCFM10 4 2 Ne INE Defect ID DEFECT000344338 Technical Severity Medium Summary Dashboard event count was observed to be inconsistent and inaccurate for 10 million plus events for up to two hours after server restart ymptom After server restart Dashboard event count will be inaccurate but over time corrects itself Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium eature DISCOVERY IP Function ENHANCEMENT Network Advisor11 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000347318 Technical Severity Medium ummary EGM license is not getting updated for the Brocade 8470 device even after re discovering the device Symptom Device is restricted from collecting supportsave for a group of devices by showing the EGM license warning message Workaround The device without EGM license can alone be moved to the RHS of the technical support dialog Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 and we can take support save to that switch alone without moving any other switches in the RHS Reason Code Not Reproducible
34. ta points found for selection after upgrade ymptom Historical Performance data cannot be collected after upgrade Reason Code Not Applicable Probability Medium eature Performance Management Function Historical Graph Reported In Release Network Advisor11 1 4 Service Request ID 1033868 Defect ID DEFECT000422766 Technical Severity Medium Summary After upgrading from Network Advisor 11 1 1 to 11 1 4 Radius users can no longer log in ymptom Radius user will not be able to login into Network Advisor Reason Code Already Fixed in Release robability Medium eature RBAC unction User Management Reported In Release Network Advisor11 1 4 ervice Request ID 771959 1085042 Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012
35. take a long time with large databases As databases grow larger from Event sFlow and Performance Collector data the support save operation may take a long time to run Larger databases will promote longer support save operations Make sure you have a minimum of 20GB disk space for support save and backup operations Installation on Network Mounted Drives is not supported Installation onto a windows network mounted drive is not supported but install is allowed and DB fails to start Client disconnects Under heavy server load or degraded network links there is a potential for Network Advisor client to get disconnected from the server Work around is to restart the client SMI Agent 1 For BNA that has more than 3OK instances 2 MB zones the CIMOM takes more memory to generate CIM instances If user performs Enumerate Instances or Enumerate Instances Names and total number of size is more than 2 MB for all managed fabrics then CIM ERROR FAILED will thrown as the Total Zone DB size is more than 2 MB For such configuration User need to use Association calls Note if the total zone DB is more than 1 MB more than 10000 instances then user should change the max jvm heap size to 2048MB to fetch the data without failure in 64 bit machine Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 2 SMI alert indication BRCD6O is not sent out to SMI clients if Fabric OS switches are discovered but SNMP trap registration has failed E
36. ters Brocade Network Advisor Version 12 0 0 Revision 12 0 0 of Brocade Network Advisor offers significant enhancements to both flexible proactive SAN amp IP network performance analysis as well as improvements to IP network configuration change deployment and monitoring for compliance This is in addition to supporting new networking platforms and updated platform firmware versions Key Feature Enhancements e Performance Management Dashboards and Historical data Aging enhancements e Troubleshooting use case improvements in rapid navigation to identify problem areas e Microsoft SCOM 2012 Management Pack updates e Policy Monitor enhancements e VM statistics collection with VM Aware Monitoring including VCenter integration for IP statistics e SAN o Support for Secure FTP amp Secure Copy Protocol support in firmware management and Technical supportsave o Bottleneck detection enhancements o Increased scale per BNA instance o SMIA enhancements o SFP historical trending support o FICON Port Decommissioning o Boot LUN Zoning enhancements o Bulk port configuration for Adapters o D Port testing enhancements o Adapter reports e IP Networks o CLI Manager parameterization enhancements o IP Telemetry configuration support for Policy based Routing o VCS Licensing enhancements o Unified Access management support for campus wired and wireless e FOS 7 1 feature support Incremental Hardware Firmware Support e Brocade 6520 e Brocade M6
37. ture Security Management Unified Function L3 ACL Configuration Reported In Release Network Advisor1 1 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000431057 Technical Severity High Summary Zone aliases for a few storage devices are not displayed in the Topology view Symptom Zone aliases are not reported in the topology when navigating through different views Workaround Anyone of the below Workaround should help 1 Restart the client 2 Look at Zoning Dialog for the same 3 Look at Properties Dialog for the same eature Client Function Client Framework Service Request ID 1034977 Reported In Release Network Advisor11 1 4 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000412627 Technical Severity Medium NetlIron devices browser ils and an unable to connect message is seen on the web cature Web Element Manager Proxy IP UU ervice Request ID 757175 Reported In Release Network Advisor11 2 1 Probability Medium eature MPLS Manager eature DISCOVERY Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Reported In Release Network Advisor11 1 0 Probability Medium eature Change Manager IP Defect ID DEFECT000385949 Technical Severity Medium Summary SNTP deployment fails for NetIron and Biglron devices Symptom Network Advisor reports a partial failure when deploying SNTP config to NetIron and Biglron devices using Configuration Wizard Defect ID DEFECT000405317 Technical Severity Medium Summary Due to
38. unications Systems Inc shall have no liability or responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss cost liability or damages arising from the information contained in this book or the computer programs that accompany it Notice The product described by this document may contain open source software covered by the GNU General Public License or other open source license agreements To find out which open source software is included in Brocade products view the licensing terms applicable to the open source software and obtain a copy of the programming source code please visit http www brocade com support oscd Export of technical data contained in this document may require an export license from the United States Government Brocade Network Advisor 12 0 0 Release Notes v1 0 12 21 2012 Contents xe ls E 4 PrOdUCt OVEMVICW Mcr 4 Brocade Network Advisor Version 12 0 0 ccsssscceessseseessseeeeessseeeenseeeeeesseeeeeesseeeeeeseeeeeessaeeeesesaeeenseeeeeensseeeeeneeas 4 Key Feature maar ne t Aaka 4 Incremental Hardware Firmware Support eeeeeeeee esee esses eene eene nennen nnnm nnns snas hann nnn nass asas sans nnn n nass a assa nnn 4 Migrations amp Upgrades ueri rre meo reir ree Pe dee vies e rn e ez natin ce 5 Operating Systems Supported cesses ariii ni cite eir stes rro ror den ci ka
39. vice Location Protocol SLP to allow applications to discover the existence location and configuration of WBEM services in enterprise networks You do not need a WBEM client to use SLP discovery to find a WBEM Server that is SLP discovery might already know about the location and capabilities of the WBEM Server to which it wants to send its requests In such environments you do not need to start the SLP component of the Management application SMI Agent However in a dynamically changing enterprise network environment many WBEM clients might choose to use SLP discovery to find the location and capabilities of other WBEM Servers In such environments start the SLP component of the Management application SMI Agent to allow advertisement of its existence location and capabilities SLP installation is optional and you can configure it during Management application configuration Once installed SLP starts whenever the Management application SMI Agent starts Management SMI Agent SLP application support includes the following components e Slpd script starts the slpd platform e Slpd program acts as a Service Agent SA A different slpd binary executable file exists for UNIX and Windows systems e Slptool script starts the slptool platform specific program e Slptool program can be used to verify whether SLP is operating properly or not A different slptool exists for UNIX and Windows By default the Management application SMI Agent is con

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