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Brocade Fabric OS v6.3.0

1. Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 15 of 161 Brocade 3200 3800 Not supported Brocade 3000 v3 2 1 167 Silkworm 3016 3250 3850 and Brocade 3900 4100 4900 24000 7500 7500E 5000 200E 48000 v5 3 2 2G and 4G platforms and v6 1 0e and later 4G platforms only Silkworm 12000 v5 0 x 7 Brocade 4012 4016 4018 4020 4024 4424 v5 3 1b v6 1 0e and later Brocade 5410 5480 5424 v6 2 0 Brocade 8000 v6 1 2 CEE or later Brocade 7800 DCX and DCX 4S with FCOE10 24 or FX8 24 blades v6 3 0 Brocade DCX 300 5100 5300 v6 1 0e and later f Brocade DCX 4S v6 2 0 Brocade DCX with FS8 18 blade s Brocade Encryption Switch v6 1 1_enc Brocade DCX DCX 4S 48000 with FA4 18 blade s Brocade 7600 v5 2 x or later DCX requires v6 0 x or later DCX 4S requires 6 2 x or later Mil0k M6140 ED 6064 ES 3232 ES 4300 ES 4400 ES 4500 ES 4700 McDATA Fabric Mode and Open Fabric Mode 4 M EOS v9 9 5 or later McDATA ED 5000 32 port FC director Not Supported Multi Protocol Router interop Brocade 7420 XPath v7 4 1 Brocade 7500 and FR4 181 blade v5 1 0 and higher McDATA SANRouters 1620 and 2640 Not Supported Table Notes All zoning and fabric operations performed in a fabric with products running older versions of FOS should be done via interfaces to products running the latest version of FOS
2. Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000241033 Technical Severity Medium Summary RLSServiceEnable property value is not modified after performing setInstance CAL Operation on class Brocade_Switch from Brocade SMIA Symptom None Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Function Other Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000241500 Technical Severity Medium Summary Subnet mask value 255 255 255 254 has been accepted by the GUI IP interface tab where the valid range for Subnet Mask field is 1 0 0 1 to 223 255 255 254 Symptom On accepting the subnet mask value 255 255 255 254 the customer will only be able to use one IP address and may create un necessary network issues Workaround Nil Feature WebMgmt Function iSCSI Support Reason Code Not a Defect Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000242569 Technical Severity Medium Summary Emulex Host Logs in as G port Workaround is to reboot FOS switch Symptom Host with Emulex HBA login as G port Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function PORT Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000243057 Technical Severity Medium Summary CP hafailover hit faulty 21 on Alpha unit Lance slot3 DCX101 after 15 hours test VADER 5010 S 5055 0 SLOT 3 CHASSIS CRITICAL HLDCX_101 Slot 3 OB1_5 RLDRAM initialization not done Symptom faulty blade with ove
3. Symptom When using specific tape application may see FFDC event getting triggered Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000242533 Technical Severity Medium Summary auditcfg does not generate RBAC permission denied messages Symptom The command auditcfg may not generate certain RBAC messages Feature RAS Function RAS Audit Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ea Defect ID DEFECT000242260 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 4016 puts out frequent warning messsages HIL 1505 that the temperature is above the threshold Symptom Switch puts out HIL 1505 WARNING messages though the temperature is well within the operational range Feature Embedded Platform Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 2 ed Defect ID DEFECT000242134 Technical Severity Medium Summary IROUNDUP failure when channel running local to DCX 4S CUP Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 118 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom Customers may see FICON related errors when running CUP Feature FICON Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe Se ee Defect ID DEFECT000242319 Technical Severity Medium Summary Need to add two more values for SNMP port state that includes validating 10 module is being validated and invalidModule 11 module is inval
4. Summary CLI Uplink ports are not getting removed from the Port Group when all Uplink Ports are removed from the VCM Edit SAN Fabric info window Symptom Uplink ports are not getting removed from the Port Group when all Uplink Ports are removed from the VCM Edit SAN Fabric info window Feature MCI Function UNDETERMINED Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 0_utah Defect ID DEFECT000250023 Technical Severity High Summary Utah panicked in two different switches during and after FirmwareDownload to the latest rc1 build Symptom 5481 switch crash Feature Access Gateway Services Function Daemon Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 0_utah Defect ID DEFECT000224460 Technical Severity High Summary Host may lose targets on edge AG in cascaded setup when failover from core AG to another core AG connected to different edge fabric switches Symptom Host would lose targets on edge in cascaded setup when F port is failed over from one N port connected on one core AG to another N port connected to another core AG Workaround Disable enable the N port Feature Access Gateway Services Function CLI Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0_emb Defect ID DEFECT000235482 Technical Severity High Summary Switch panic with Detected terminatio
5. Defect ID DEFECT000223155 Technical Severity High Summary As a result of creating a cryptoLUN a host can use a target even though they are not in the same zone Symptom Re direction zoning could enable acess to a target for which the initiator host is not zoned to When a frame redirect zone exists for a Host and Target and the Host is zoned with anything but not zoned with the Target it is possible for the Host to communicate with the redirected Target Workaround If a Host and Target are no longer zoned together then the user should also remove the associated container i e frame redirect zone for this Host Target pair This will prevent Host Target communication for this pair via the container i e redirection Feature FC Services Probability High Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000226389 Technical Severity High Summary FICUD panic and reboot on DCX occurs after executing host command to display the switch Symptom FICON daemon crash and followed by reboot Feature FC Services Function FICON Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 11 ees Defect ID DEFECT000225717 Technical Severity High Summary Applications that write to a LUN that is being rekeyed may see I O errors Symptom When arekeying operation is underway on a LUN applications that access that LUN may indicate errors when they write to that LUN Workaround When performing a rekeying operation on
6. Defect ID DEFECT000230202 Technical Severity Medium Summary Data miscompare during path failover in active passive array Symptom Application may report data miscompare errors during path failover in active passive array Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000206033 Technical Severity Medium Summary About the Severity Level on Fabric OS Message Reference Symptom Some message severity level in Fabric OS Message Reference is documented incorrectly Feature Tech Pubs Function FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 0 Defect ID DEFECT000236937 Technical Severity Medium Summary I O timeouts observed during first time re key of disk LUNs Symptom When many LUNs are hosted or enabled for encryption some LUNs are stuck in state Create new key state resulting in failing the host IO for the LUN I O timeouts Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 aa Defect ID DEFECT000238021 Technical Severity Medium Summary adding a tapepool commit cause hacluster failover even the container owner switch is still disabled Symptom adding a tapepool may result in a hacluster failover Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 RN Def
7. Defect ID DEFECT000262805 Technical Severity Medium Summary Ina large routed fabric configuration the command Supportsave may take up to 1 hour to complete on a DCX with 128 EX ports Symptom Supportsave in a large FCR configuration may take up to an hour to complete Feature RAS Function eee ers Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 61 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 This section lists the defects with Critical High and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change as of August 20 2009 in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000259050 Technical Severity Critical Summary FICON emulation failing Symptom MVS IOS444I error messages when trying to vary paths online to extended DASD devices Workaround deactivate all paths that utilize the same device ports and reactivate at the same time Disable FICON XRC emulation Feature Field Escalation Function FCIP Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 389217 Defect ID DEFECT000242682 Technical Severity High Summary Pending Merge VTs VIs disappear when rebooting the Brocde Encryption Switch that has all the physical connections to targets and initiators Symptom VIs VTs may disappear when rebooting the Brocde Encryption Switch Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 368783
8. Feature Embedded Function Platform Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0_uah ee Defect ID DEFECT000240056 Technical Severity High Summary Channel receiving RSCN with missing ports in payload after HPF key on or off Symptom RSCN transmitted by the switch does not transmit all the port IDs in the payload Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 fee Symptom Software verify errors and IFCCs seen during supportsave Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe o l Defect ID DEFECT000240955 Technical Severity High Summary Discovered that a stable working encryption group had split after a successful I O test run Symptom After successful DP test run may observe comm error on the group leader Feature Data Security Function Infrastructure Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 Z0 E U Defect ID DEFECT000242132 Technical Severity High Summary Detected termination of 0 weblinker fcg on DCX 4S Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 69 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom May see messages like KSWD 1002 5766 SLOT 41 FFDC CHASSIS WARNING Brocade_DCXA4S Detected termination of process 0 weblinker fcg 4837 on the console Feature FICON Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 eee Defect ID DEFECT000242065 Technical Severity High
9. Workaround We will get port up down event Feature Mgmt Embedded RPCD Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 eee SS Defect ID DEFECT000247639 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch responds to FIP FLOGI when SP bit is on and FP bit is off Symptom Incorrect FIP FLOGI response sent by switch Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE DRIVER Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 3 cee ga og Ca Defect ID DEFECT000248 100 Technical Severity Medium Summary Show interface switchport command is showing wrong value for acceptable frame type Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 46 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom Incorrect show interface switchport command output Feature CEE Protocol Function NSM Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 3_cee ir Defect ID DEFECT000248213 Technical Severity Medium Summary FIP FLOGI accepted when host supports only spma Symptom Incorrect FIP FLOGI request is accepted rather than rejected Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE DRIVER Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 3_cee ES Defect ID DEFECT000248324 Technical Severity Medium Summary WebTools Does Not Copy Effective Zone to Defined Zone DB During Configupload Symptom Defined Zone DB in WebTools will not be updated during configUpload Workaround Use CLI Feature WebMemt Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ti _ Defect ID DEFECT000248407 Technical Severity Medium Summary
10. replace the following sentence There is one common IP address for the hardware that is shared by all of the logical switches in the chassis With this the following paragraph You can use one common IP address for the hardware that is shared by all of the logical switches in the chassis and you can set up individual IPv4 addresses for each Virtual Fabric For a management host to manage a logical switch using the IPFC IP address it must be physically connected to the Virtual Fabric using an HBA On page 218 insert the following section before Configuring a logical switch to use XISLs Setting up IP addresses for a Virtual Fabric Note IPv6 is not supported on setting the IPFC interface for Virtual Fabrics 1 Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role 2 Enter the ipAddrSet ls command 3 Enter the network information in dotted decimal notation for the Ethernet IPv4 address with a CIDR prefix Example of setting an IP address for a logical switch in a Virtual Fabric with an FID of 123 in non interactive mode with the CIDR prefix Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 34 of 161 switch admin gt ipaddrset ls 123 add 11 1 2 4 24 Removing an IP addresses for a Virtual Fabric 1 Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role 2 Enter the ipAddrSet ls FID delete command switch admin gt ipaddrset ls 123 delete In chapter 18 Optimizing Fabric Behavior on page
11. DEFECT000237353 Technical Severity Medium Summary statsclear does not clear porterrshow statistic data for field link fail on FC10 6 blade Symptom link fail data field will not be cleared on running the statsclear command Feature FC10 6 Platform Services Function ASIC Driver Probability High Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 0 Eo o oS oO O Defect ID DEFECT000237760 Technical Severity Medium Summary Cyptocfg show tapepool all stat returns Operation failed the first time it s issued but displays valid output when immediately re issued Symptom Under some circumstances cryptocfg show tapepool all stat may return Operation failed Requested object doesn t exist Tapepool information would not be available Workaround Re issue the cli Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 be O o Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 127 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000232305 Technical Severity Medium Summary With virtual fabric enabled when no EE is present cryptocfg show localEE returns EE detection aborted IPC Failure Symptom Customer will observe that the CLI displays that the command is being ABORTED due to FAILURE however there is no failure The response from show localEE should indicate no EE present Workaround No Feature Data Security Function CLI Probabil
12. Defect ID DEFECT000237552 Technical Severity High Summary IPC message from module CALD to Management Server is dropped by Management server This causes CALD module to wait indefinitely Symptom User may experience problem with management application while traffic still passes without any problem Console will log cald queue full message Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 63 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 355965 Defect ID DEFECT000237786 Technical Severity High Summary Sometimes config file downloaded may cause the configdownload command to crash Symptom Customer may notice configdownload utility crash during the configuration download Workaround Disable the switch and then attempt configdownload Function Config Download Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 SS OSOS Defect ID DEFECT000237849 Technical Severity High Summary After changing FID on 5100 and then performing switchenable switchdisable observed ASSERT Symptom ASSERT may occur when changing FID of a switch doing swichenable immediately followed by switchdisable Workaround Do no disable a switch immediately after enabling if it s coming up with a new FID for the first time Wait for sometime at least 10 s before issuing switch disable
13. Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Function EVMD Reason Code Not a Defect Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000247595 Technical Severity Medium Summary SNMP System OID should be unique for 8000 Switch Symptom No unique system OID for Brocade 8000 switch Feature CEE FOS Function MAPS SFI Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 154 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Reason Code Not a Defect Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000247537 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade_SwitchFCPortStats CAL class is not returning instances for FCOE ports for Brocade SMIA project Symptom Customer will think that there is no option to measure the traffic of fcoe ports Feature CEE MANAGEABILITY Function CAL INTERFACE Reason Code Not a Defect Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000246747 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade Encryption Switch netinstall to 6 2 0b from 6 3 0 went faulty Symptom Brocade Encryption Switch becomes faulty Feature Data Security Function Platform Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245311 Technical Severity Medium Summary Zone commit SBP call needs to return different status if defzone is allaccess Symptom If defzone setting is set to allaccess and if the storage application attempts to commit an FR zone th
14. Features icies ots ict ioaccescleesnee octave cts teats genacenenseegacd eck ecvaceevdus ds panacea nae eateus egh ectngsusdeedecevauts ces t unsdesdadeneunslentes 8 Optionally Licensed SOftWALE ssssceseeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeneneeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesasseeeeeeeeeeeggaeseeaeaeseeeaaseeseeeeeeseeeenenesees 8 Temporary License Supports seri nno eee supesdee E E R a EEr ESEE OS 11 Universal Temporary License Support NeW eee eeeececesecesecesecesecsceeseceseceseessecsaesseeceecaeeeseceaeseaeeseeeeeeeenaees 11 Previously Licensed Software Now Part of Base FOS 0 0 00 cece eeceeeesecsseeseeeseeeseceseceseseeeseeeaeeeaeseaesnaeeseeeseeeneeeaees 11 Supported Switches isospinn Aanes ea aaaea a aa para aAa aa Oana aa Aa Aara AA O raia prar ea atigi 12 Standards Compliance ssceceeeeeccccceeececennnneeeeseeecenneeeeeeeeseeeseeeeee TE e ao Eaa ara e Aaaa EP eao EEOAE EE eaae de AETA KESE 12 Technical RT 1 1 A A E E T 12 Important Note cccii iii 14 DEPM Compatibility nn a diced scantntbeeaiesse a O fase E ts ante tee daee eee rss 14 EFCM and Fabric Manager Compatibility 000 eee ceceseceecesecesecceeseeeseeeseceaecsaesseecseceaeenaeseaeenaeeneeeeeeeenaees 15 WebTools Compatibility siccticsescavisevscasstesene vi eveaststay chavs EE EE EEN ONE E EORR EER EE 15 Fabric OS Compatibility 3s s65 278 a ob He A te ieee eA wd HE eA AL ab S 15 Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades eeeceeeeseeseeeseeeceeseeeseceseceaecsecceeeceseceseceaeca
15. Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe OOOOOOOO Ol Defect ID DEFECT000252666 Technical Severity High Summary Data Miscompare after Brocade Encryption Switch BES power cycle Symptom Data integrity not maintained during BES switch power cycle Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000258490 Technical Severity High Summary Out of Memory due to switch not timing out in telnetd processes Symptom Switch will run out of memory Workaround reboot the switch Feature Field Escalation Function OS Linux Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2 Service Request ID 387605 Defect ID DEFECT000259842 Technical Severity High Summary Transmitted Rate Received rates based on the Bytes Transmitted Bytes Received are greater than the peak rates RateTxPeakByte amp RateRxPeakByte Symptom Under certain conditions transmit receive rate may exceed their corresponding peak rates Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 ee a Defect ID DEFECT000243880 Technical Severity High Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 81 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary CP panic with FICUd crash occurred during supportsave operation Symptom FICUd crash and CP reboot Workaround This can be avoided by doing one of the follow
16. Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000246423 Technical Severity High Summary Taking the RKM down while rekeys are in progress causes one of the LUN gets stuck at state Not ready Key creation Symptom Crypto LUNs may go into Not Ready state during rekeying process if RKM KV goes down Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 aE Defect ID DEFECT000246318 Technical Severity High Summary SAK IRNDUP fails with Port Address Name miss compare on CUP Port x FE Symptom IO is stopped Feature FICON Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 74 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Found in Release FOS620_ SS SCSCSS J OOOO SES Defect ID DEFECT000245 162 Technical Severity High Summary Detected termination of process fabricd 4820 Symptom Creating LS may result in fabricd process getting terminated Feature FC Services Probability Medium er a of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000243349 Technical Severity High Summary Pending Merge Disconneting reconnecting the ISL on Brocade Encryption Switch while rekey in progress may result in new key creation failure Symptom Disconnecting reconnecting the ISL while rekey operations are in progress causes the rekey to hang LUN state shows Rekey ACK timeout Workaro
17. This is particularly important for Brocade 3XXX series switches that do not support zoning configuration for newer products Other M EOS models may participate in a fabric with FOS v6 3 but may not be directly attached via E_port to any products running FOS v6 3 The McDATA ED 5000 director may not participate in a mixed M EOS FOS fabric It is highly recommended that M EOS products operate with the most recent version of M EOS released and supported for interoperability M EOS 9 9 5 is the only version of code that has been fully qualified for interoperability with FOS v6 3 M EOS 9 7 2 is the minimum version of firmware Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 16 of 161 that is supported to interoperate with FOS 6 3 For support of frame redirection in McDATA Fabric Mode interopmode 2 M series products must use M EOS v9 8 or later For support of frame redirection in McDATA Open Fabric Mode interopmode 3 M series products must use M EOS v9 9 or later Only the ES 4400 ES 4700 M6140 and Mil0k may have devices directly attached that are having data encrypted or unencrypted When routing to an M EOS edge fabric using frame redirection the M EOS fabric must have a FOS based product in order to configure the frame redirection zone information in the edge fabric When directly attached to a Host or Target that is part of an encryption flow Products operating with FOS versions less than v5 3 1b or v6 1 0e may not
18. User has to execute the CLI command fcoelogincfg before using Web Tools to create the login groups Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Admin Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee _ OOS Defect ID DEFECT000244026 Technical Severity Medium Summary _ pertperfshow does not display decimal data if overall throughput exceeds 10Gbps Symptom For example the user will see the overall throughput as 11G instead of 11 6G Feature CEE FOS Function Platform Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee fee Defect ID DEFECT000238321 Technical Severity Medium Summary a switch restart causes random ICL E Ports to come up segmented Symptom After a chassis restart power cycle or reboot of both CPs one or more ICL E Ports will be segmented Workaround Port toggle when it gets segmented Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000243068 Technical Severity Medium Summary When running FCoE traffic debug_csock_read_header failures message displays Symptom The traffic is not affected but a message is displayed on the console Feature CEE MANAGEABILITY Function CLI Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 102 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Re a Defect ID DEFECT000243248 Technical Severity Medium Su
19. even after the release of Fabric OS For current scalability limits for Fabric OS refer to the Brocade Scalability Guidelines document available under the Technology and Architecture Resources section at http www brocade com compatibility Other Important Notes and Recommendations FCIP FCIP Trunking and High Bandwidth Brocade 7800 and FX8 24 e CIP connections are supported only between the Brocade 7800 FX8 24 and another 7800 FX8 24 FCIP tunnels are not supported between the 7800 FX8 24 and the previous generation Brocade 7500 FR4 18i platforms e When additional circuits and the network bandwidth provided by those circuits are added to an already active tunnel there is a short period of time where some frame loss can occur due to the process to re fresh the internal FC frame routing tables in the switch Therefore additional circuits should only be added during low I O periods utilizing the FCIP Tunnel being modified In addition if the circuit operation addition deletion to the tunnel increases decreases the total tunnel bandwidth an FCIP Tunnel VE port disable enable sequence should be performed after the addition deletion of the circuit This will allow the switch to adjust the internal routes to fully utilize the new bandwidth e Switching modes between 10G and 1G is disruptive for FCIP traffic e Keep alive timeout milliseconds Valid range is 500ms to 7 200 000ms inclusive Default value is 10000ms 10 seconds
20. 1 0 Page 52 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Feature High Availability Function HA infrastructure Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000258696 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch responds with advertisement to solicitaiton with SP bit on Symptom customer will see a response to a solicitation with SP bit on Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE DRIVER Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ae ee Defect ID DEFECT000258799 Technical Severity Medium Summary user may see bmd assert and failover if the FR4 181 is plugged in and plugged out too quickly Symptom bmd assert caused DCX 4S CP to failover Feature 4G Platform Services Function Sys Control Environment Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 in Release FOS6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000258991 Technical Severity Medium Summary Domain id in Fabricinfo GUI window and CLI are not same in the IM2 Symptom In IM2 the domain id with offset in Fabricinfo and in CLI are inconsistent Also the Offset in various pages FabricInfo jtml nsinfo html inconsistent in different offset modes Use CLI to view the correct domain offset Workaround use CLI to view the correct domain offset Feature FC Services Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Se a ee Defect ID DEFECT000259048 Technical Severity Medium Summary bladeenable all blades hafailover in a stress to fail test One of the LISLs in a logical sw
21. 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary FA4 18 scimitar blade not being able to fully initialize in DCX and switch panic when a supportsave is collected Symptom FA4 18 blade initialization failure and switch panic Feature Field Escalation Function Scimitar Sabre Layer 2 Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 382383 Defect ID DEFECT000203799 Technical Severity High Summary Load DCE software to a Saturn without a Marathon blade causes Saturn to hang Symptom Seen during early development stage of the product a customer can t see this failure Feature CEE Infrastructure Function HA Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000232584 Technical Severity High Summary NMI 6 2 NF DISL VE port may go down during overnight test if the tunnel bandwidth is very low lt lt LOMbps Symptom FCIP Tunnel failures when running over low bandwidth connections Low bandwidths are considered less than 20 Mbps bits per second Workaround Configure and procure at least 20 mega bits per second of usable network bandwidth for the FCIP tunnels Feature FCIP Function FCIP Port Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000242828 Technical Severity High Summary Cannot enable CUP on newly created Logical switches Symptom Unable to enable CUP on Base Fabr
22. 21 INFO switch_21 Inconsistent fabric rejecting transaction User will not be able perform any fabric wide operations until system recovers Workaround System will recover Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security other Probability Medium Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS6 Z0 e SF Defect ID DEFECT000237999 Technical Severity Medium Summary Setting the E Net portname on the Primary CP does not get copied over to the standby CP Symptom When configuring the E net ports on CP blades Using ipaddrset command The first option is to name the E net port If you are doing the Config from CP 0 then the E net ports get named Ex CPO E net portname 48k_Eth_0 and CP1 48k_Eth_1 Then complete all other IP stack info Now perform an HAFailover and log into CP 1 when you run the ipaddrshow command all of the IP config is transferred over except for the E net portname The work around is to run the ipaddrset command again from CP1 and add the E net portname but don t change any other IP stack info Feature Field Escalation Function High Availability Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237513 Technical Severity Medium Summary NPIV devices on a single port are spread across effective and McData default configurations only devices from default configuration can establish communication Symptom When NPIV devices from same port are spread across the effective cfg and McData def
23. 401 under the section General rules for TI zones add the following bullet after the first bullet e When an E_port is a member of a TI zone that E_port cannot have its indexed swapped with another port Brocade FICON Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001348 01 On page 1 replace the Port and Blade swapping paragraphs with the following paragraphs e Port swapping Redirects resources from a failed port to a healthy port The port address is moved to the swapped port so there is no need to change the mainframe I O Definition File IODF Port swapping is available for both FICON and open system environments Port swapping resolves situations in which the hardware has failed and the channel configurations cannot be changed quickly Port swapping has minimal or no impact on other switch features e Blade swapping Blade swapping allows you to swap an entire blade of the same type allowing you to perform a FRU replacement with minimal traffic disruption The behavior is the same as performing a port swap for each port on the card This feature is available for both FICON and open system environments Blade swapping resolves situations in which the hardware has failed and the channel configurations cannot be changed quickly Blade swapping has minimal or no impact on other switch features On page 2 replace the paragraph for the Data Center Fabric Manager DCFM with the following paragraph Data Center Fabric Manager is an optiona
24. 48 blade traffic was disrupted IM2 mode VF enabled but of VS configured Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function PORT Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 l Defect ID DEFECT000248257 Technical Severity High Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 149 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary Attached nodes incurred loss of sync during supportsave Symptom Attached nodes incur loss of sync during supportsave RASLOG messgaes are recorded 2009 04 03 03 32 39 695243 C2 5505 91 0 SLOT 6 CHASSIS WARNING BrocadeDCX_243 Function returned error 8 line 15425 OID 0x43110880 c2_route c line 15425 c Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function PORT Reason Code Not a Defect Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000240552 Technical Severity High Summary Switch panic when SAS script is run on Saber Script uses VI as physical initiator for the VT Symptom Was trying to run the script using xapp and when we run this script the switch panics CP in saber reboots and core file are generated Feature FA4 18 Function Platform Service Interface Reason Code Not a Defect Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245173 Technical Severity High Summary After upgrade on FIPS switch FCAP certificate is lost Symptom supportsave uploaded hq samba 1 sj_eng defects 245000 245173 Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Secur
25. Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235297 Technical Severity Medium Summary During stress test of deleting and creating DCC policies on LS a assert was observed on the console Symptom User will notice inconsistent secpolicyshow after running stress testing in the fabric Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security ACL Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 E F Defect ID DEFECT000233010 Technical Severity Medium Summary When FSPF database in edge fabric has an obsolete domain ID that duplicates to front domain for a newly merged switch front domain fails to form completely in the edge fabric Symptom FCR front domain does not join the edge fabric Workaround portdisable and portenable EX_Port Feature Legacy FCR 7500 FR4 18i Function FCR Daemon Probability Low Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 7 Defect ID DEFECT000236120 Technical Severity Medium Summary When using pathinfo in MetaSAN where the destination domain queried overlaps with intermediate hop domain output of this command is not accurate Symptom Reverse path display might include forward path hops Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Mgmt Server Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 EO a iiIiIiIiIi E Defect ID DEFECT000236275 Technical Severity Medium Summary Date cmd should be rejected on non Default LS Symptom When NTP is
26. Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID 361531 Defect ID DEFECT000241697 Technical Severity Medium Summary Need more info in configuration upload download process Symptom config download upload needs to be documented well Function Config Download Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000241770 Technical Severity Medium Summary Sfpshow displays incorrect values for current RX power and TX power Symptom SFP polling can hang when attempting to poll a disabled port during an hafailover RX and TX power and other values will no longer update for any port within the switch Workaround Toggle enable disable all disabled ports in order to restart SFP polling Feature Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Drivers Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 1 Service Request ID 362431 Defect ID DEFECT000242282 Technical Severity Medium Summary After user configured key ID without commit CAL doesn t return key ID value Symptom Prior to doing commit CAL doesn t return key ID value for configured key ID values Feature Data Security Function Infrastructure Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 as Defect ID DEFECT000242415 Technical Severity Medium Summary FFDC event and trace dump Toggel port during backup to STK 9840C using Netvault application
27. Feature CEE Infrastructure Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee pee A Defect ID DEFECT000245289 Technical Severity Medium Summary LISL is getting disabled due to a zone conflict when there is no conflict Symptom E_Port will segment due to zoning after bringing switch online Workaround Segmenting port when switch is brought online does not disrupt traffic As the tester noted it is easy to recover the ISL Feature FC Services Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Ena 9 eee Defect ID DEFECT000245894 Technical Severity Medium Summary vlan classifier config replay should not generate an error message at the interface level Symptom Error message appears after vlan classifier config replay Feature CEE Protocol Function NSM Probability High Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 45 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Found in Release FOSG 13 cee Defect ID DEFECT000246346 Technical Severity Medium Summary During stress testing after multiple VLAN configuration changes logins from the CNA are unsuccessful Symptom Multiple VLAN configuration changes result in FLOGI being ignored Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE Daemon Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 3_cee ee te ee Defect ID DEFECT000246767 Technical Severity Medium Summary The ipAdEntIfIndex values 1 3 6 1 2 1 4 20 1 2 must correspond to ifIndex values at 1 3 6 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 Symptom _icustomer may see
28. High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Se Defect ID DEFECT000239288 Technical Severity Medium Summary agd aborted due to glibc detected free invalid next size fast Symptom User may see AG daemon termination Feature Field Escalation Function Access Gateway Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 362289 Defect ID DEFECT000244394 Technical Severity Medium Summary DWDM link unable to sync up before port is enabled at correct speed Symptom Concurrent DCX reboots of both ends of a DWDM link cause the link to fail to come up Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000234512 Technical Severity Medium Summary Bad SFP triggered i2c access cause issues on port slot disaplay and cpu load on Brocade 48k Symptom no system control access to slot when perform slotshow Mod_val during sfpshow or may see i2c access message as EM 1029 7240 WARNING SilkWorm48000 Slot 4 a problem occurred accessing a device on the I2C bus 4 Operational status 10 not changed Feature Field Escalation Function EM Hil Sysctrl Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS5 3 0 fe e l Defect ID DEFECT000231094 Technical Severity Medium Summary cryptocfg show transshow when issued without any outstanding transactions displayed Operation failed with an incorrect
29. ID DEFECT000236325 Technical Severity Medium Summary Inappropriate error message from configuredownload in VF mode and LSAN zone tag LSAN matrix is not cleared when the config file contains no entry for them Symptom Inappropriate error message during configdownload configDownload not permitted Workaround Please ignore the error message and use CLI to clear LSAN tag and LSAN binding Feature 8G FCR Function FCR CLI Probability Low e a of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000236483 Technical Severity Medium Summary In one rare case zoneobjectrename command failed without reason Symptom zoneobjectrename command may fail without reason Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 pee Defect ID DEFECT000236797 Technical Severity Medium Summary Changing configuration using configure or configDownload when systemVerification is executed could lock out the systemVerification from being executed subsequently Symptom If user executes configdownload all or does any config change while the systemverification command is in progress it updates runtime information associated with systemverification in flash causing further systemverification calls from executing Workaround Do not update the configuration when systemVerification is running If user accidentally changes configuration when the command was executing use burninlevel 0 to recover from this situa
30. ID DEFECT00024601 1 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 5470 After set External Port Disable from MM and reboot the switch all external ports become enable again Symptom External ports become enabled after configuring them to be disabled through MM Feature Embedded Function Platform Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0_emb eee ee ee Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 107 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245170 Technical Severity Medium Summary lfcfg command shows incorrect data Symptom lfcfg on differnt switches shows different result due to lfcfg does not discard invlaid LS node Feature Logical Fabric Function Fabric Other Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 aaa e i Defect ID DEFECT000242630 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch Admin Policies which are not chosen are showned in confirmation page of ACL Policy configuration wizard Symptom Even after unchecked the policied it is showing in the confimation page Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Admin Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 fe Defect ID DEFECT000226734 Technical Severity Medium Summary When attempting to swap ports from the GUI the operation may fail due to HTTP 500 error Symptom Port Swap failing due to HTTP 500 error Workaround No Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Function Ports Admin Probability
31. Identifier Important Notes This section contains information that you should consider before you use this Fabric OS release DCFM Compatibility FOS v6 3 0 is fully compatible with Brocade s Data Center Fabric Manager DCFM v10 3 x management software DCFM is a comprehensive SAN management application that enables end to end management of Brocade Data Center Fabrics It is the next generation successor product to existing Brocade management products including Brocade Fabric Manager FM and Brocade Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager EFCM DCFM 10 3 is available in three editions e DCFM Professional a fabric management application that is ideally suited for small size businesses that need a light weight management product to manage their smaller fabrics It manages one FOS fabric at a time up to 1 000 switch ports and provides support for Brocade FC switches Brocade HBAs CNAs and Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE Converged Enhanced Ethernet CEE switches e DCFM Professional Plus a SAN management application designed for medium size businesses for managing up to 4 physical fabrics FOS M EOS and Mixed fabrics up to 2 560 switch ports It supports Brocade director products DCX 4S 48Ks etc FC switches Fibre Channel Over IP FCIP switches Fibre Channel Routing FCR switches Integrated Routing IR capabilities Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE Converged Enhanced Ethernet CEE switches and Brocade HBAs C
32. Medium Summary Switch Admin Security Policies Failed Cannot start a transaction error message is displayed when trying to delete the policies in open transaction Symptom Abort transaction warning message is not displayed and no option to abort the existing transaction and start the new transaction Workaround Abort transaction from CLI Feature WebMgmt Function Security Policies Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Sh S Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 47 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000248631 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 8000 switch send lldp system description name as Fibre Channel Switch Symptom Incorrect system description name sent by Brocade 8000 as response to LLDP advertise Feature CEE LAYER2 Function LLDP Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 3 cee ea ee Defect ID DEFECT000249984 Technical Severity Medium Summary Zoneadmin Bad zone config message is thrown in the status message window of the zone admin module when user creates and enables a zone configuration from non primary FCS switch Proper error message should be thrown in this case Symptom User may not come to know the reason for the error message bad zone config Workaround For refresh issue the Zone Admn dialog need to be relaunched Feature WebMgmt Function Zone Admin Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 aa Defect ID DEFECT000250294 Tech
33. Medium Summary EE monitor counter is not incrementing after firmware upgrade to 6 2 0 Symptom Customer may stop seeing updated EE monitor counters after firmware upgrade to 6 2 0 or HA Failover Workaround Delete and re install EE Monitors Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Probability High Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000220302 Technical Severity Medium Summary ISL monitor total transmit and number of destination domains monitored counters show 0 when traffic is running thru this ISL Symptom Issue perfmonitorshow class ISL lt port gt on CONDOR based switches the result shows total transmit count for this ISL 0 Number of destination domains monitored 0 when there are traffic running thru the ISL Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT000234893 Technical Severity Medium Summary SNMP The swNs Table does not list all the name server entries Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 126 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom swNs Table shows one less entry than the actual number of devices This is the first entry shown in nsallshow CLI command Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a ag Defect ID DEFECT000235668 Technical Severity Medium Su
34. OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238161 Technical Severity Medium Summary FOS FVT If a Read is Sent Busy Status and the Subsequent Seek is also Sent Busy Mis Compares To the Host Symptom Under some corner case scenarios users may see data miscompares Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a a Defect ID DEFECT000235166 Technical Severity Medium Summary Downloading config file between switches causes license lost Symptom If a config download file with licenses is used on a different switch the licenses on that switch will be overwritten with invalid licenses Workaround Do the following to back up licenses 1 Execute licenseshow command save the licenses into a file outside the switch 2 Then perform configdownload 3 Add the licenses saved in step one Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 lt 4 Defect ID DEFECT000235727 Technical Severity Medium Summary Inconsistent display of urouteshow trying to map to invalid FCR user port while topologyshow is not showing those routes Symptom Inconsistent route display of urouteshow and topologyshow for an invalid FCR port No functional impact i Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237198 Technical Severity Medium Summary FOS upgrade on Brocade 3016 to FOS v5 3 x leaves the switch in an unusable state Symptom Customer was upgrading Brocade 3016 from FOS v5 0 x to
35. Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 eo Defect ID DEFECT000241454 Technical Severity Medium Summary WEBLINKERFCGD core files after weekend SAK IRNDUP run on DCX 4S Customer may see Weblinker crash during SAK IRUNDUP on DCX 4S Symptom Found in Release FOS620 TCC Defect ID DEFECT000238433 Technical Severity Medium Summary Applications cannot distinguish between FA4 18 and Core blades on DCX using SNMP Need to add two new FRU classes coreblade and applicationblade class Symptom Applications cannot distinguish between FA4 18 and Core blades using SNMP Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function Switch Admin Probability High Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 0 aa Defect ID DEFECT000243885 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch panic in ficon enviormnet when blocking unblocking E Port due to RNID data count is incorrect Symptom Observe msd panic during RNID processing Feature FICON Function MS FICON Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ed Defect ID DEFECT000242209 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch Admin when user moves to a different tab without applying changes no warning is displayed Symptom Unsaved configurations will be lost and the user will need to re enter the data Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Admin Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee fe Defect ID DEFECT000240413 Technical
36. Request ID 366371 Defect ID DEFECT000242139 Technical Severity Medium Summary Ports were found disabled after enabling Virtual Fabric VF through DCFM on Brocade 5100 Symptom Some ports may be disabled after enabling VF through DCFM Feature FICON Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000247028 Technical Severity Medium Summary Fabric watch java lang illegalArgumentException Invalid logid error message box will appear when selecting Configuration report sub tab under Threshold configuration tab Symptom User cannot view the overall trait alarm and element configuration in configuration report panel Feature WebMgmt Function Fabric Watch Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cce foe Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 106 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245891 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port Movement from DCFM should be All or nothing behavior Symptom When attempting to move ports from DCFM some of the ports may be moved and others fail Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 feo Defect ID DEFECT000246459 Technical Severity Medium Summary SCPD computes incorrect FCR domain ID in McDATA Fabric Mode interopMode 2 Symptom In Inter op mode fabrics users may see incorrect FCR Domain ID values Feature FA4 18 Platform Services Func
37. Severity Medium Summary Performance Monitoring Error message is shown when launching SCSI Read Write on a LUN Per port graph Symptom The error message makes it so the user will not be able to see the SCSI Read write Graph Feature WebMgmt Function Performance Monitor Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 101 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000240677 Technical Severity Medium Summary Enabled minimum FOS support for DWDM SFP port media Symptom No visible symptom Enabled new SFP support Feature Pluto Platform Services Function SysCtrl EM Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Symptom Re key progress halts Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000243510 Technical Severity Medium Summary DCX configdownload simple upload download switch enabled complaining about FID 128 and will not download with switch enabled Symptom VF disabled after configupload configdownload Function Config Download Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe 2 2 Defect ID DEFECT000238062 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch Admin CEE NPE is shown in error message when user applies a new FCoE login group with Login management disabled Symptom User is not informed why the login group could not be created Workaround
38. Summary Fabric mode TT does not show all the flows when device port is disabled and enabled back after TT monitor installation Symptom When installing Fabricmode TT on an edge switch that has no F_Ports present if an F_Port subsequently comes online no flows are added on the edge switch Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000233248 Technical Severity High Summary If using WebTools to perform cfgsaveactivetodefined with a zone file close to the maximum size in an interop mode fabric with more than 20 switches the weblinker process may get terminated Symptom WebTools session gets invalidated Feature WebMgmt Function Zone Admin Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000234113 Technical Severity High Summary Ina mixed fabric of VF enabled and non VF switches a VF enabled switch may not be able to detect the FID conflict with the other VF enabled switch if there are non VF switches in the path interconnecting the VF enabled switches Symptom Logical switches with different FID may be allowed to participate in the same fabric Workaround Follow the raslog errors FABR 1044 or FABR 1043 displayed by switches in the fabric to identify the offending switch and resolve the FID conflict Feature FC Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0
39. Tapepipelining code on PI side does not close exchange upon a ELS RJT response to REC invalid oxid rxid combo Symptom Writing to tape would fail at random points along the write sequences device would stop getting write data Reading from tape would be unaffected Feature FCIP Function FCIP Performance Probability High Risk of Fix Low Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 78 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000227048 Technical Severity High Summary Detected unexpected termination of Remote Procedure Call RPC daemon Symptom RPC Daemon application will crash then will non disruptively restart The following error messages may be observed KSWD 1003 kSWD Detected unexpected termination of 13 rpcd 0 RAS 1001 First failure data capture FFDC event occurred SYSC 1004 Daemon rpcd restart successful Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 333775 Defect ID DEFECT000252179 Technical Severity High Summary Persisten IU pacing feature in 3rd party device trigger issues with tape emulation Symptom I O timeouts reported on 3rd party system with tape emulation Workaround Reset switches blade to recovery FICON connectivity after Tunnel failure Feature FCIP Function FCIP I O Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0
40. While doing first time encryption to a LUN with more than 1 initiator active at the same time rekey operations slowed signficantly Symptom Host applications can experience delays in the completion of their I O requests Workaround 1 Disable the target ports 2 Remove one initiator from the container 3 Start the rekey 4 Add the initiator back Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 eS S Defect ID DEFECT000240916 Technical Severity High Summary Fabric Change Event 161 is not delievered from FOS to Brocade SMIA if proxy Switch is disabled Symptom None Feature Mgmt Embedded RPCD Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 0 1 eae Defect ID DEFECT000240927 Technical Severity High Summary Data encryption backup jobs failing due to Brocade DCX crash and reboot when Top Talkers are enabled with Frame Redirection Symptom Encrypted tape backup job fails when Brocade DCX reboots Workaround Do not enable Top Talkers concurrently with functionality that is using frame redirection Feature FC Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 A Defect ID DEFECT000241101 Technical Severity High Summary In FCR fabric switch transmitting Eport traffic to F_Port with EOFni when there is no ISL placed lower than a Fport Symptom F_ Port runs out of credit and gots reset due to interswitch RSCN desingated to transl
41. Workaround Disable FC FastWrite feature with the failing storage device or port disable portenable host and device ports that are experiencing the failures Feature FCIP Function FCIP I O Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000219837 Technical Severity High Summary Lost Telnet connectivity to Brocade 5470 after firmware upgrade from bld 08 to bld 09 Symptom Found that after a firmware upgrade firmwaredownload sf and then a reboot the switch didnot respond to telnet After re seating the switch the telnet was resumed Similar behavior was seen in the earlier builds for Blazer3 and we see the same a Workaround Re seat the switch and telnet connectivity will be resumed Feature Embedded Function Platform Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0_emb Defect ID DEFECT000224587 Technical Severity High Summary Ina 9 switch fabric some class 3 frame drops occur Symptom Ina poorly designed fabric Customer may see some Class 3 frame drops The same symptom may happen when a fabric has atleast slow draining device such as or 2 Gbps target or host Workaround Follow the Brocade Fabric Design Guidelines and Best Practices Use traffic isolation zones feature to isolate the traffic to slow drain device Feature FOS Platform Services Function ASIC Driver Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Def
42. alarms on Brocade FS8 18 blades when the ambient temperature is 39C Feature System Controls EM Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 367201 Defect ID DEFECT000259723 Technical Severity Medium Summary port fence disabled ports that are running diagtest and triggered blade fault during blade POST Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 84 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom During blade insertion or switch power up Blade did not come on line with RASLOG from fabric watch FW 1510 620821 483341 SLOT 7 FID 128 INFO FOP Port 11 12 Invalid Words threshold exceeded Port 108 disabled thresh_agent c line 2394 Same message may conutinue to be reported on already faulted blades Workaround No Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000259816 Technical Severity Medium Summary Addressing mode NVP is not available in switch html page Symptom switch html will not show addressing mode Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 1 a Defect ID DEFECT000257346 Technical Severity Medium Summary Class 2 ACK is not forwarded from F_Port to N_Port in Access Gateway Symptom When the host transmits a PLOGI to the Name Server NS the NS responds with an ACK and then an ACC The AG forwards the ACC to
43. and not report failure Symptom Intelligent Blade Processor support data missing from supportsave without appropriate warning message during data collection Workaround Rerun the supportsave Feature RAS Function FFDC Supportsave Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000257654 Technical Severity High Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 40 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary VERIFY error message seen during repeated blade disable enable tests followed by HA failover Symptom The customer may see the harmless VERA error message Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function Routing p Probabili Lo Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000258016 Technical Severity High Summary Detected termination of Ifmd on standby CP while doing HCL on Edge DCX 4S Symptom Under certain contidions during hot code load lfmd on standby CP may terminated Feature Logical Fabric Function LFMD Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 E eee Defect ID DEFECT000258239 Technical Severity High Summary Web Tools shows Expiry Date as NA for Universal Time Slot Based licenses for 7800 and DCX with FX8 24 Symptom On the Web Tools GUI Expiry Date is shown as NA for Universal Time Slot Based licenses Workaround use licenseshow CLI command Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Ena ne Defect ID DEFECT000258760 Technical Severity High Summary FCoE VLAN Configuration restore is
44. are also supported on the Brocade 8000 and FCOE10 24 blade e TIEFE 802 1Qbb Priority based Flow Control e JEFE 802 1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection e TIEFE 802 1Qaz DCB Capability Exchange Protocol e FC BB 5 FCoE Rev 1 0 3 Technical Support Contact your switch supplier for hardware firmware and software support including product repairs and part ordering To expedite your call have the following information immediately available Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 12 of 161 1 General Information e Technical Support contract number if applicable e Switch model e Switch operating system version e Error numbers and messages received e supportSave command output e Detailed description of the problem including the switch or fabric behavior immediately following the problem and specific questions e Description of any troubleshooting steps already performed and the results e Serial console and Telnet session logs e Syslog message logs 2 Switch Serial Number The switch serial number is provided on the serial number label examples of which are shown FT here 00x005 4 E 9 FT00X0054E9 AYS8385E612 The serial number label is located as follows e Brocade 4100 4900 and 7500 7500E On the switch ID pull out tab located inside the chassis on the port side on the left e Brocade Encryption Switch 300 5000 5100 and 5300 On the switch ID pull out tab located on the bottom of the port s
45. blade Symptom The customer may see the Striker blade gets faulted due to boot failure Workaround Slotpoweroff on the faulty Striker balde Feature Striker Spike Platform Services Function BFOS Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Ooo ee Defect ID DEFECT000260687 Technical Severity Medium Summary CUP fails to respond to initial Selective Reset after Reset Allegiance is invoked from WebTools Symptom May cause an IFCC upon initial host connection attempt to CUP after RA has been invoked from WebTools Workaround Request succeeds upon retry by the host after operator or host program initaitive Feature FICON Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 C a E E Defect ID DEFECT000260702 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade_HBAFCPortStats CAL class allways returning empty response even if HBA is attached to the switch Symptom Brocade_HBAFCPortStats CAL queries don t return values for some queries Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 eed ee Defect ID DEFECT000260832 Technical Severity Medium Summary Unable to delete ACL in CLI Symptom Users are unable to delete ACL for a port channel Workaround Assign the ACL to an empty port channel Then remove the ACL from the port channel Then delete the ACL Feature CEE SYSTEM SERVICES Function ACL Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 La ey Defect ID DEFECT000260924 Technical Severity Medium Summary fabric mode
46. cause Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 108 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom Customer will observe an incorrect explanation regarding the failure of the transshow command A better msg would be to display no outstanding transactions and drop failure Feature Data Security Function CLI Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 eee Defect ID DEFECT000237767 Technical Severity Medium Summary Sequence of creating two TI zones not saving the change and then modifying the attributes with the zone add command results in misconfigured attributes that will cause software verify on remote switches when changes are commited Symptom Remote switchs will trigger software verify and the TI zone attributes will not be properly configured Workaround Other methods of creating TI Zones and modifying the definitions work seamlessly Its just this odd set of steps which produce the failing condition When creating multiple TI zones they should be saved before modifying the attributes Can clean up problem by using zone add to modify the attributes again after the save Can also delete and recreate TI zone Feature FC Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 0 i y Defect ID DEFECT000238916 Technical Severity Medium Summary Specific call to CEE library results in gradual memory leak Symptom Gradual loss of available memory Featur
47. creations and 150 deletions Symptom Zoned Crash and switch does not repond to Iscfg commands Feature Infrastructure Function LS create Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 rE Pee Defect ID DEFECT000261081 Technical Severity Medium Summary Zone admin Bad zone config error message is thrown when ICL ports displayed in the zone admin module are included in the TI zone while creating it for an IM2 logical switch Symptom When user icludes the ICL ports while creating TI zones for an IM2 switch bad zone config messsage is thrown in the status message window due to which user will not be able to sort out the cause of the message Workaround We should avoid taking ICL ports into account while creating TI zoes Feature WebMgmt Function Zone Admin Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000261116 Technical Severity Medium Summary On 4900 when HCL fwdl from 6 3 to 6 2 0g observe termination of raslogd process Symptom on 4900 when HCL fwdl from 6 3 to 6 2 0g may see Detected termination of raslogd Feature RAS Function LOG Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 pf Defect ID DEFECT000261 117 Technical Severity Medium Summary Prohibit Dynamic bit is not set in Port Descriptors when a port is prohibited only from itself Symptom Prohibit state reported to host applications incorrectly when a port is prohibited only from itself Feature FICON Probability High Found in Relea
48. ethernet connectivity goes down for about 5 seconds a BES in an hacluster encounters a VERIFY Failed expression and ffdc is generated Symptom FFDC and VERIFY error seen when HA cluster split and form again Feature Data Security Function HA Cluster Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 be a l Defect ID DEFECT000239822 Technical Severity Medium Summary supportsave USB interactive mode stores all files illegally in switch root directory instead of the USB device Symptom When using supportsave in interactive mode with a USB stick selected for storage the supportsave files are stored in the switch root directory and not the USB device This can also result in compact flash storage overflow Feature RAS Function FFDC Supportsave Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000239878 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port Admin Port Binding should disable Auto Mode when the port is part of a 256 area type that does not support auto mode Symptom Port Binding should disable Auto Mode when the port is part of a 256 area type that does not support auto mode Feature WebMgmt Function Ports Admin Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 UIIE Defect ID DEFECT000239710 Technical Severity Medium Summary Data miscompare seen when the data is written using a KV key and read using a cache key Symptom Data was read using t
49. failed over from peer Encryption Engine which was failed earlier before the earlier failed or powered off Encryption Engine comes back up online again to p Feature Data Security Function HA Cluster Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000226765 Technical Severity Medium Summary Stressing Brocade FS8 18 GE ports while re key is in progress resulted split in encyrption group Symptom Due to Network congestion on Management and Cluster Link User may see split condition of Cluster EG Workaround Recover from EG Split condition manually via steps provided in Admin Guide Feature Data Security Function HA Cluster Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc l Defect ID DEFECT000225615 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 137 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary After an Brocade FS8 18 blade is removed from DCX cryptocfg show groupmember all should not show EE for that slot Symptom Customer may see some un wanted information after removing the FS8 18 blade from the chassis Workaround User should ignore encryption information displayed for that slot Feature Data Security Function CLI Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000224600 Technical Severity Medium Summary The remova
50. failing on both CLI and DCFM Symptom FCoE device may not be able to login after reboot Workaround User need to save the running configuration to startup configuration Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE Daemon Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 es et a Defect ID DEFECT000259047 Technical Severity High Summary In some cases Supportsave on a DCX with FX8 24 blades may not collect complete support save data for some FCIP modules Symptom No impact to any of the functionlity some FCIP support information may not be complete Feature FCIP Function FCIP CLI Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Ooo eee Defect ID DEFECT000259648 Technical Severity High Summary Continuously running chassisdisable enable test for few hours causes termination of nsd Symptom Should not occur under normal maintenance operation resulted from stress to fail testing designed to push the limits of the switch and fabric to point of failure Feature FC Services Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 te Defect ID DEFECT000260375 Technical Severity High Summary Consistent packet loss seen on the secure tunnel Symptom The customer will see the pacjet is lost consustently when he she issues the portshow fciptunnel command with params or perf argument Found in Release FOS63 0 o o S d O Defect ID DEFECT000260475 Technical Severity High Summary Duplicate port RSCNs with Encryption based FR in FCR configurations Sy
51. groupcfg reports key vault is offline and does not display any other information Customer will see lack of connectivity to key archive at configuration time Workaround End user can view the certificates on RKM and Brocade Encryption Switch or DCX to determine if there is a mismatch Feature Data Security Function Key Vault Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_ene ee Defect ID DEFECT000226434 Technical Severity Medium Summary Symptom Re keying of LUNs for a VMware host are not completing successfully Re keying of LUNs for hosted OSes on VMware are not completing successfully due to one host holding a persistant reservation for LUN s Re key fails due to a reservation conflict Workaround Delete container that aborts rekey and re start rekey on the container that doesn t have any kind of reservation conflict Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_ene ee ee Defect ID DEFECT000226772 Technical Severity Medium Summary Symptom In a 4 node Cluster rekey doesn t resume after slot poweron In a 4 Node cluster configuration when the Encryption Blade which was a hosting rekey sessions was powered off and then later powered on the failed over rekey sessions may not resume Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_ene eoe Defect ID DEFECT000227544 Technica
52. if the ports are not not physically present in the switch Function Config Download Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000239541 Technical Severity High Summary FICUD and weblinker crash while running v6 2 0b_rc1_bld01 Symptom IO may get stopped until the switch comes back online Feature FICON Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 es Defect ID DEFECT000239839 Technical Severity High Summary Portcams s and NS zonemembership data are missing for hard zoned ports Symptom Lack of connectivity between hard zoned ports residing in common zones Feature FC Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 Z Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 66 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000239713 Technical Severity High Summary One of the mace switches stuck at Initialize EE after upgrading to 6 2 0 firmware Symptom Encryption function will not be enabled Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 364081 Defect ID DEFECT000239038 Technical Severity High Summary Software was not enforcing a mandatory switch disable before configuring the backbone Fabric ID Symptom Changing backbone Fabric ID is disruptive Enforce switchdisable before allow it Feature Field Escalation Function FCR Pro
53. in Release FOS63 0 do o oS S O Defect ID DEFECT000261678 Technical Severity Medium Summary Inconsistency in encryption HACluster status following an HA failover on a DCX 4S Symptom The container failover per fabric change ISL down or switch disable will be failed back after HA CP failover Workaround portenable ISL or switchenable to fix the fabric Found in Release FOS63 0 do o oo d O Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 60 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000261707 Technical Severity Medium Summary SNMP Observed memory leak in 6 3 when multiple simultaneous MIB WALK is performed Symptom Small memory leak may happen when multiple simultaneous MIB WALK query is performed Found in Release FOS63 0 o o d Defect ID DEFECT000261754 Technical Severity Medium Summary Observing ffdc data files during continuous interface flap Symptom _ interface flapping bad cable shows to many ras log messages Workaround shut down the port and replace the faulty cable and enable the port Feature CEE Infrastructure Function ANVIL DRIVER Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 aa Defect ID DEFECT000261978 Technical Severity Medium Summary Retransmit and Out of order counters in portshow fciptunnel output do not show correct values Symptom _ portshow fciptunnel dose not show correct counter value Feature FCIP Function FCIP CLI Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 fe ef
54. login with userid account under factory reset Workaround use admin account Feature Embedded Function Platform Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0_emb Le O e o oE O Defect ID DEFECT000247736 Technical Severity High Summary Able to create DCC policy for FCoE ports which in turn blanked off the port admin page Symptom Port admin is getting blanked after creating DCC policy for FCoE ports User is not able to manage the ports Workaround Delete the DCC policy for FCoE ports Found in Release FOS6 1 3 cee o d Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 39 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000248076 Technical Severity High Summary Port Admin Converge Hybrid mode option should be provided in Edit Configuration dialog for L2 mode Symptom No option to change to L2 interfaces to Hybrid Converged Feature WebMgmt Function Ports Admin Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 3 cee Se Defect ID DEFECT000248 140 Technical Severity High Summary Switch Admin Hybrid Converged interfaces are not listed under VLANs interface selection list Symptom User cannot add any converged Hybrid interfaces to a VLAN via Webtools Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Admin Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 3_cee a OS a Defect ID DEFECT000253104 Technical Severity High Summary TI zones will not work with port swapped E_ports Symptom TI zones will not work if the e_ports in the TI zone are
55. merge will go through Or 1 do a sw Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE Daemon Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 es ee ee Defect ID DEFECT000259966 Technical Severity Medium Summary Resources are shown to be available for TopTalker fabmode when the max are already used in other FIDs Symptom Incorrect resource information shown for fabmode TopTalker Workaround Execute perfresourceshow fabmodeRes on all logical partitions Feature Performance Monitor Function Top Talker Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 re eae Defect ID DEFECT000260208 Technical Severity Medium Summary Following a slotpoweroff and slotpoweron a FCOE10 24 user may see RASLOG messages until the blade is fully initialized Symptom RASLOG messages floods the console after slotpoweroff slotpower on FCOE10 24 blades The messages eventually stops after the blade gets fully initialized Feature Performance Monitor Function ASIC Stats Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 eS _ Defect ID DEFECT000260245 Technical Severity Medium Summary configdownload of 6 2 0 config file with max tested CTCs failed on 6 3 0 EG Symptom The configdownload fails when downloading 728 containers Workaround Do not download configuration with more than 700 containers Feature Data Security Function Infrastructure Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Se eee Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 55 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v
56. on the chassis These addresses allow access to the chassis more specifically the active CP of the chassis and not individual logical switches The IP addresses can also be assigned to each CP individually This allows for direct communication with a CP including the standby CP On the Brocade DCX and DCX 4S Backbones each CP has two management Ethernet ports on its front panel These two physical ports are bonded together to create a single logical Ethernet port and it is the logical Ethernet port to which IP addresses are assigned IPv4 addresses assigned to individual Virtual Fabrics are assigned to IP over FC network interfaces In Virtual Fabric environments a single chassis can be assigned to multiple fabrics each of which is logically distinct and separate from one another each IP over FC point of connection to a given chassis needs a separate IPv4 address and prefix in order to be accessible to a management host For more information on how to set up these IPFC addresses to your Virtual Fabric refer to chapter 10 Managing Virtual Fabrics In chapter 1 Performing Basic Configuration Tasks on page 8 remove the Example of setting an IP address for a Virtual Fabric in non interactive mode and add the following note For more information on setting up an IP address for a Virtual Fabric refer to chapter 10 Managing Virtual Fabrics In chapter 10 Managing Virtual Fabrics on page 205 under the section Management model for logical switches
57. one of the applications other important RASLOG messages useful to support personnel may be lost from the limited log space on each switch Feature WebMgmt Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 a tne nO Defect ID DEFECT000261275 Technical Severity High Summary Kernel panic observed in standby new active CP in edge Pluto when nsd terminated in active CP Symptom Will observe Kernel ASSERT in a dual CP system in a rare scenario When Active CP crashes or goes for a reboot amp the Standby becomes new Active CP by undergoing cold recovery instead of warm recovery and Kernel ASSERT might be observed not all times Feature Logical Fabric Function Kernel Driver Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ae ee Defect ID DEFECT000261385 Technical Severity High Summary in large fabric setup non disruptive upgrade from 6 2 0g to 6 3 0 caused the zoned crash on Brocade 5100 with more than 1M zone database Symptom non disruptive firmwaredownload from 6 2 0g to 6 3 40 may cause the zoned crash on Brocade 5100 with greater than 1M zone database Workaround Limit the zone data base size to 1M Feature FC Services Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 a A E Defect ID DEFECT000261726 Technical Severity High Summary In VF mode non Disruptive firmware download on a 5100 switch with more than 1MB zone DB across multiple logical switches may cause disruption Symptom Performing hot code load on 5100 with la
58. only supports up to four 1 Gig Circuits per VE FCIP Tunnel for the 1 gig interfaces A VE FCIP Tunnel created over the 10 Gig Interfaces will be limited to 10 circuits created using IPIFs on the same 10 GigE port and no more than 1G per circuit e As a recommended best practice the VE tunnel shouldn t be over subscribed eg 8G FC traffic over 5 00Mbps tunnel General guidelines are 2 1 subscription without compression and 4 1 with compression e Non disruptive firmware activation on FOS v6 3 will disrupt I O traffic on FCIP links e Fibre Channel Routing VEX is not supported on the Brocade FX8 24 blade but is supported on the Brocade 7800 e Differences between the Brocade 7800 FX8 24 platforms and previous generation 7500 FR4 18i platforms include o On the 7800 the GigE port does not directly correlate to a VE port o On the FX8 24 GigE ports 0 9 or 10GigE port 1 xgel correspond to VE ports 12 21 and 10 GigE port 0 xge0 corresponds to VE ports 22 31 o The CLI syntax for the 7800 FX8 24 varies from the 7500 FR4 18i Please refer to the Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference document for FOS v6 3 for details e Both ends of a tunnel must be identically configured for Compression FW and Tape pipeline options If a mismatch exists the tunnel will not be established and the TCP virtual connections will be removed e Under Traffic Isolation Zone configurations with fail over enabled Non TI zone traffic will use the dedicated
59. pAdEntIfIndex values wrong Feature Embedded Function MGMT BACKEND Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0_emb ee ee ee Defect ID DEFECT000246883 Technical Severity Medium Summary Pre FIP LOGO with Invalid WWNN non existent fabric device is accepted Symptom Incorrect device logout Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE DRIVER Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 3_cee eo ee Defect ID DEFECT000246947 Technical Severity Medium Summary In Large Routed envinorment The hosts from one edge fabric fail to see the targets from another edge fabric after introducing new switch in Backbone with 72 EX ports Symptom Customer may see host target communication failure for some period of time when new FCR switch is enabled in very large scale setup Feature 8G FCR Function FCR Daemon Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 aaa aa Defect ID DEFECT000247006 Technical Severity Medium Summary Scheduling across unicast and multicast traffic class not working properly Symptom multicast traffic not sent when mixed with unicast traffic Feature CEE SYSTEM SERVICES Function QOS Probability Low Found in Release FOSG 1 3_cee ee o Defect ID DEFECT000247391 Technical Severity Medium Summary Fabric Merge Segmentation indication Oxfe is not triggered when port enbled disabled in interopmode 2 for Brocade SMIA project Symptom No indication received Oxfe for fabric Merge Segmentation when E port goes online and offline
60. path if no other E or VE paths through the fabric exist or if the non Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 23 of 161 dedicated paths are not the shortest paths A higher bandwidth tunnel with multiple circuits will become shortest path compared to a single tunnel A VE VEX Tunnel and E EX FC port cannot connect to the same domain at the same time The Recommended Keep Alive Timeout must be the same on tunnel circuits on the switches on both sides of a link Brocade 7800 or FX8 24 cannot receive a ping from an external device for example Windows PC Latency measurements supported on FCIP Tunnels Tested limit under FOS v6 3 0 o 1GbE 200ms round trip time and 1 Loss o LOGbE 50ms round trip and 0 1 Loss Brocade 7800 supports Optical and Copper Media types on GEO and GE1 interfaces Copper Media type is default on GEO GE1 ports and does not support auto sense functions FCoE CEE Brocade 8000 and FCOE10 24 The Brocade 8000 balances the FCoE bandwidth across all six port groups each port group contains four ports To get optimum performance for FCoE traffic it is recommended that the user distribute server CNA connections across these six port groups Hot plugging a CP with firmware level less than FOS v6 3 0 into a DCX or DCX 4S with an active FCOE10 24 blade will result in the new standby CP not coming up Brocade recommends that Converged Mode be enabled on all interfaces connected to CNAs When operating i
61. port swapped Workaround E_ports cannot be swapped and be in a TI zone The fix if this issue happens is to unswap the E_port Feature FC Services Function FSPF Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 eee Defect ID DEFECT000254576 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade FR4 18i heartbeat dead causes reboot Symptom Processor on FR4 18i blade reboots while traffic is running over FCIP links May cause CP failover to take place only traffic on the FR4 18i blade is disrupted Feature Field Escalation Function FCIP Flipper ASIC Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 374539 Defect ID DEFECT000255320 Technical Severity High Summary Firmware restore from v6 3 0 to v6 2 0g may cause Ethernet connection to go down on Spirits 5100 in AG mode Symptom ethernet port goes down Workaround manually bring the ethernet port up Feature FIRMWARE DOWNLOAD Function Firmware Download Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 et Defect ID DEFECT000256466 Technical Severity High Summary NS GE_PT request from1320 devices per switch may get rejected Symptom Host may not show all devices entries greater than 1320 devices per switch This is an unlikely scenario in normal user operations Feature FC Services Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 i Se aa Defect ID DEFECT000256813 Technical Severity High Summary Under rare conditions supportSave may miss collecting supportsave data from BP
62. private key file corresponds to the kac public cert file on any node Host encrypted tape I O may fail to start when the Primary LKM of an LKM key vault cluster is down When the primary LKM is down key creation requests can be rejected by the secondary LKM NetApp is aware of this issue and is tracking it internally with their defect management tool The workaround in this case is to wait until the offline LKM comes back online and retry In an environment with a mixed FW version FOS 6 2 x 6 3 0 Encryption Group the IO link state reported for 6 2 x nodes is unreachable During a rolling upgrade from 6 2 0x release to 6 3 0 it is expected to see the IO link status reported as Unreachable when the cryptocfg show loc command is invoked However once all the nodes are upgraded to the 6 3 0 release then the show command will accurately reflect the status of the IO Link The IO link status while performing the rolling upgrade from 6 2 0 to 6 3 0 release can be ignored until all nodes have been upgraded to 6 3 0 Mace39 root gt cryptocfg show loc EE Slot 0 SP state Online Current Master KeylD 43 f1 bd dc 91 89 f2 f1 6a a1 48 89 7b d0 5f 59 Alternate Master KeyID 3a a4 5b 86 90 d5 69 26 29 78 f8 3b f9 b2 9c b9 HA Cluster Membership hac39_115 EE Attributes Link IP Addr 10 32 50 36 Link GW IP Addr 10 32 48 1 Link Net Mask 255 255 240 0 Link MAC Addr 00 05 1e 53 8a 86 Link MTU 1500 Link State UP Media Type DISK S
63. receive Port Fencing messages The state changes counter used by Fabric Watch in FOS v6 3 has been updated to ignore any toggling of F ports due to planned internal mechanisms such as throttling and trunking There are some FOS CLI commands such as portcfgspeed portCfgTrunkPort etc that implicitly disable enable ports after configuration Fabric Watch monitors state change for LISL ports though it is not being displayed in Fabric Watch CLI commands If a DCX with an 8 link ICL license is connected to a DCX with a 16 link license the DCX with the 16 link license will report enc_out errors The errors are harmless but will continue to increment These errors will not be reported if a DCX with a 16 link license is connected to a DCX 4S with only 8 link ICL ports Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 32 of 161 e If ICL ports are disabled on only one side of an ICL link the enabled side may see enc_out errors Extended Fabrics and R_RDY Flow Control Beginning with Fabric OS v5 1 Brocade supported the Extended Fabrics feature in conjunction with R_RDY flow control R_RDY flow control mode can be enabled via portCfgISLMode command R_RDY flow control mode that uses IDLE primitives does not support Brocade frame based Trunking for devices such as Time Division Multiplexor TDM In order to overcome this limitation and provide support for frame based Trunking with Extended Fabrics Fabric OS v6 2 0 and later has been enhanced to support in
64. the port mirroring feature has a limitation where all port mirror resources must stay within the same ASIC port group The resources are the configure mirror port Source Device and Destination Device or ISL if the Destination Device is located on another switch The ASIC port groups are 0 15 16 31 32 47 48 63 and 64 79 The routes will be broken if the port mirror resources are spread across multiple port groups Port Mirroring is not supported on the Brocade 7800 10G Interoperability 10G interop between FC10 6 and McDATA blades is not supported due to a HW limitation however the FC10 6 is supported in a chassis running in Interopmode 2 or 3 FC10 6 to FC10 6 connections only An FC10 6 blade will not synchronize with a McDATA 10G blade but will not negatively impact the system Port Fencing ICLs For Port Fencing once the trigger threshold is exceeded e g for ITWs or CRCs or LRs Fabric Watch will wait for approximately six seconds to see if the port is going offline If it is still online at the next poll cycle FW will fence the port Extensive testing has shown that ports that are in the process of going offline may exhibit bursts of errors Waiting the additional six seconds to check the port status helps prevent false positives and unnecessarily fencing a port e g during a server reboot When using the Port Fencing feature you must first run the fwalarmsfilterset command This command enables the port and allows you to
65. their targets when failover happened from 1 trunk group with primary ports to another trunk group with shared area ports on triton blade of dcx chassis Symptom When failover happened from 1 trunk to another trunk with shared area ports on Access Gateway 4424 both servers lost their targets Feature Access Gateway Services Function F Port Trunking Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 eo Defect ID DEFECT000243054 Technical Severity Medium Summary Web Tools shows no SFP details for CEE interfaces Symptom No data in Web Tools Port Admin window for SFPs for CEE interfaces Workaround Use the CLI interface Feature WebMgmt Function Web Tools EZ Probability High Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee COOS S S Defect ID DEFECT000244969 Technical Severity Medium Summary On Enabling LLDP status and assigning FCoE priority bits globally is not getting reflected in Port Admin window Symptom LLDP status and FCoE priority bit are not getting reflected properly which shows wrong values to the user Workaround No Feature CEE Infrastructure Function CEE CAL Library Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS61 2 ccc ee Defect ID DEFECT000245465 Technical Severity Medium Summary Confusing error message when copying a source configuration from a remote server Symptom Restoring a CEE configuration may not completely override the current CEE configuration even thou
66. to loopback port Symptom switch crash Feature Diagnostics Function Other Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000225513 Technical Severity High Summary Cold recovery on HA reboot in Brocade 5300 Symptom Cold recovery on HA reboot in tBrocade 5300 Feature CEE PLATFORM Function ENET SWITCH DRIVER Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 140 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000237340 Technical Severity High Summary NMI FS8 18 blade amp BES switch went into faulty 79 state during extensive rekey operations and Host IO activity on the LUNs Symptom When rekey operation is in progress for many LUNs the rekey process on BES or FS8 18 blade becomes inresponsive due to extensive rekey IO and Host IO activity for the LUN resulting FS8 18 Blade or BES getting faulted by Software WatchDog However if depl Feature Data Security Function Re key Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237413 Technical Severity High Summary FC FastWrite to a specific storage device causes I O to fail Symptom With FC FastWrite on host cannot write I O to disk array When FC FastWrite is off host is able to write I O to disk array We need to be able to write I O to disk array with FC FastWrite ON
67. tracedump r from active CP Feature RAS Function RAS Trace Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000227454 Technical Severity Medium Summary pkicert utility does not work reliably when logical switches are present Symptom The correct certificates are not generated and installed Workaround Install the certificates in non vf mode Once installed the switches then can be added to the LF Feature Mgmt Embedded RPCD Function VF Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238020 Technical Severity Medium Summary Long HCL fwdl time on Stealth between v6 2 0 builds sometimes observe frame drops Symptom If configured with maximum size zone configuration may experience frame drops during firmware updates Depending on how zones are configured Workaround Avoid using max zone configurations with stealth switch Feature FC Services Function Zoning Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 157 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237630 Technical Severity Medium Summary HCL from v6 1 0g to 6 2 0 takes 83 seconds on 4100 and caused frame drops Symptom when upgrading from 6 1 to 6 2 on 4100 customer will see the frame drop Workaround upgrade the connected switch to 6 2 first then upgrade this switch Fea
68. with M EOS based products All Brocade models that are supported by Fabric OS v6 3 0 support both interopmodes 2 and 3 with the exception of the Brocade 4100 and 8000 and DCX DCX 4S with one or more FCOE10 24 blades The following table specifies the support of various FOS features when operating in either interopmode 2 McDATA Fabric Mode or interopmode 3 Open Fabric Mode with Fabric OS v6 3 FOS Features supported in interopmode 0 FOS v6 3 IM Interopmode M2 M3 L2 FOS Hot Code Load Yes Yes Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 19 of 161 FOS Features supported in interopmode 0 FOS v6 3 IM Interopmode M2 M3 Frame Redirection over FCR Yes Yes FCR Fabric Binding route to M EOS fabric with Fabric binding Yes Yes nE ISL Trunking frame level Yes Yes Dynamic Path Selection DPS exchange based routing Yes Yes i FICON Management Server Cascading Yes No FICON MIHPTO Yes No Adaptive Networking QoS No No Adaptive Networking Ingress Rate Limiting No No APM TopTalkers No No E Secure Fabric OS NA NA al DPS Ye Yes NANA FC10 6 to FC10 6 ISL Yes Yes Virtual Fabrics Yes Yes Logical Fabric using LISLs XISLs in Base Fabric No No Port Fencing Yes Yes Bottleneck Detection Yes Yes Dynamic Load Sharing DLS port based routing Yes Yes Virtual Channels VC RDY Yes Yes ing Advanced Performance Monitoring APM No No z z J Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release No
69. 0 Page 150 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom Further zoning managment operations are not allowed but the user is notitied that a zone transaction is open The user can use configtransshow to display the zone transaction state and configtransabort to abort the open transaction Workaround Use configtransshow to display status of zoning transactions and configtransabort to abort the transaction Feature FC Services Function Zoning Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000229745 Technical Severity Medium Summary Security scan reported CERT vulnberability in OpenSSH Symptom Switch was subjected to a security scan by third party security appliance The following security vulnerability has been identified CVE 2004 0175 OpenSSH SCP Traversal Arbitrary File Overwrite This is a vulnerability that according to openSSH has bee Feature Field Escalation Function Security Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS5 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235079 Technical Severity Medium Summary Firmware download from 6 2 0 gt 6 1 0e caused MS Plat DB to clear was populated prior to downgrade Symptom Customer s Management Server Platform Database is cleared when downgrading Workaround Run switchdisable switchenable Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Mgmt Server Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release
70. 07595 Technical Severity Medium Summary Allowed to add a F_Port TT Monitor to mirror port however no counters display Symptom Customer is confused because they are allowed to add F_Port Monitor to a mirror port but then no counters display for that port Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000234617 Technical Severity Medium Summary Virtual nodes on the same switch port may not be able to communicate due to missing RSCNs and the CAM not be programmed This is not a likely scenario Symptom Virtual nodes operating on the same physical port are not able to communicate Workaround Toggle the physical port Feature FC Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 fs Defect ID DEFECT000236765 Technical Severity Medium Summary command portcfgdefault lt port gt performed on an internal Fport will convert that Fport into an NPort Symptom Running the command portcfgdefault lt port gt on an internal Fport on embedded platforms will convert that Fport into an NPort Workaround When the system is working well save that configuration somewhere so that it can be reapplied instead of relying on portcfgdefault Feature Embedded Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Driver Probability High Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a eS Defect ID DEFECT000235323 Technical Severity
71. 0x41d00 0x4 acc Lun 0 PIOxid 0x131 PTRxid and the tape drive is brought offline when labling a tape using TSM application Symptom When using specific tape applications in an encryption envrionment users may see error messages on the switch console Workaround Erase the media outside of mace and then continue on with label Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 Defect ID DEFECT000246694 Technical Severity Medium Summary NSM show message stats command is missing mark option Symptom show message stat command under cmsh is not showing mark option Feature CEE Protocol Function NSM Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000239404 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port Admin Cannot able to enable Fastwrite option for the specified port in 7500E Symptom FC Fastwrite option enable for 7500E through WebTool does not work Feature WebMgmt Function Ports Admin Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000241 157 Technical Severity Medium Summary Detail view of Webtools Name Server Information should be greyed out if no window will open Symptom Some of the buttons may not be greyed even if the clicking on the button will not open another window Feature WebMgmt Function WT Platform Support Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service
72. 3 BROCADE Brocade Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes v1 0 August 20 2009 Document History Document Title Summary of Changes Publication Date Brocade Fabric OS v6 3 0 GA Release Notes v1 0 Initial release August 20 2009 Copyright 2001 2009 Brocade Communications Systems Inc All Rights Reserved Brocade Fabric OS File Lifecycle Manager MyView and StorageX are registered trademarks and the Brocade B wing symbol DCX and SAN Health are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems Inc in the United States and or in other countries All other brands products or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of and are used to identify products or services of their respective owners Notice The information in this document is provided AS IS without warranty of any kind including without limitation any implied warranty of merchantability noninfringement or fitness for a particular purpose Disclosure of information in this material in no way grants a recipient any rights under Brocade s patents copyrights trade secrets or other intellectual property rights Brocade reserves the right to make changes to this document at any time without notice and assumes no responsibility for its use The authors and Brocade Communications Systems Inc shall have no liability or responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss cost liability or damages arising from th
73. 37397 Technical Severity Medium Summary When configdefault command entered portlog ptdbgdisable should get a default value Symptom _configdefault command entered portlog ptdbgdisable not showing up default value Feature Platform Services Function Sys Control Environment Monitor Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG LO er Defect ID DEFECT000239874 Technical Severity Medium Summary RFE Port Admin Port Bind should only require the middle 2 bytes since the error message says the last 2 must be 0x00 Symptom Port Bind should only require the middle 2 bytes since the error message says the last 2 must be 0x00 Feature WebMgmt Function Ports Admin Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fo OOO SOS Defect ID DEFECT000253060 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switches bouncing between reachable unreachable in edge fabric after change EX port trunk into E port trunk Symptom Fabric becomes unstable after cusotmer change EX trunk ports into E port Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 381303 Defect ID DEFECT000254283 Technical Severity Medium Summary Following a reboot of all nodes in an Encryption Group EG with current and pending rekeys single rekey session did not resume Symptom After manually issuing a re key operation on all LUNs rebooting all nodes at once can cause the re key at
74. 48000 director chassis Blades Type of 48K Blade 200 240 VAC Redundant configurations FC4 16 Port 2 power supplies FC4 32 Blade FC4 48 FC8 16 FC8 32 FC10 6 Port 4 power supplies FC8 48 Blade FR4 18i Intelligent 4 power supplies FC4 16IP Blade FA4 18 FS8 18 Intelligent NA FX8 24 Blade FCOE10 24 Fabric OS MIB Reference Publication Number 53 1001339 01 On page 164 under the heading swFCPortFlag 1 3 6 1 4 1 1588 2 1 1 1 6 2 1 38 the two bullet points must be replaced by the following v Physical 0 v Virtual 1 Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Publication Number 53 1001337 01 e On page 915 add the following note to the userRename command and associated man page This command is supported only on the Brocade 3016 and 4010 embedded platforms e On page 159 add the following text to the description of the cryptocfg add LUN parameter The maximum number of Tape LUNs that cab be added to a Initiator in a container is 8 e On Page 875 change the default value for polling from 10 to 120 seconds The same change should be accommodated in the sysmonitor help page Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 38 of 161 poll Specifies the polling interval in seconds Valid values are between 10 and 3600 seconds The default value is 120 seconds This operand is optional Defects Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 This section lists defects
75. 4915 Technical Severity Medium Summary Pathinfo command failure occurs when run on FOS 6 1 if the path traverses through FOS 6 2 x Symptom Pathinfo from 6 1 to 6 2 x fails with Destination Domain Unreachable Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Mgmt Server Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSE Z0 e Defect ID DEFECT000250749 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 8000 should be able to set enable password Symptom Incorrect documentation for Brocade 8000 on setting enable password Feature CEE MANAGEABILITY Function DOCUMENTATION Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Se Defect ID DEFECT000250438 Technical Severity Medium Summary When Quality of Service QoS is enabled by default not utilized performance of the SAN drops Disable QoS by default on 4G platforms 8G long distance and make portcfg values such as fill words trunk information persistent across upgrade downgrades Symptom QoS may automatically activate on an ISL after a bounce of the link This may cause an ISL link to be removed from a trunk group or it may cause a Long Distance link to fail Fillwords and porttrunk configuration are reset after upgrade to or download from FOS v6 2 Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2 fe Defect ID DEFECT000246007 Technical Severity Medium Summary Detected termination of 0 web
76. 49799 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade 8000 will have rolling reboot when deleting the active fcoe logincfg from conflicting logingroup database Symptom rolling rebooting switch Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE Daemon Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee ae OOO O O O l Defect ID DEFECT000246377 Technical Severity High Summary After rebooting one Brocade Encryption Switch BES of a HAC that has connectivity to the physical targets and initiators all the crypto targets are lost in the HAC cluster Symptom LUNs that were part of the lost crypto target containers are not available for crypto operations Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 77 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 S Defect ID DEFECT000243576 Technical Severity High Summary IPAD 5000 messages will error code 105 showing up on most platforms in AG fabrics Possible Memory Leak scenarios Symptom In AG mode some RASLOG message show up with error codes Feature Access Gateway Services Function Platform Other Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a aaa Defect ID DEFECT000248534 Technical Severity High Summary RLIR s with LOL is being generated on 8G channels during CEC IML Symptom During CEC IML of 8G channels RLIR s are being generated by switch Feat
77. 5604 Technical Severity High Summary Ringo test failed Medusa I O failed with I O halted due to read and write failed on all enc hosts but an L2 host Symptom IO lost Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245829 Technical Severity High Summary Licnese vanished on 5300 Symptom _ Installed licenses disappear after hareboot or firmwaredownload Feature License Function License Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000250615 Technical Severity High Summary Switch panic NSD core during max VT test Symptom SAS 3 3 0 bld 10 FOS 6 2 0c During max Vt creation switch got disconnected and observed core files in Panic NSD Feature FC Services Function Name Server Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000252595 Technical Severity High Summary End devices informaion is not shown in NsInfo html but Switch CLI show the connected end device details 10 32 149 178 Symptom End device information not presented in WebTool Workaround hareboot will recocver the problem Feature Field Escalation Function Management Embedded Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000240637 Technical Severity High Summary After running stress script for ACL Elara change valid E port
78. 6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245317 Technical Severity High Summary Rolling ASSERT PANIC on DCX with FS8 18 faulty when going from 6 1 2_bld10 to 6 2 0d_rce1_bld02 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 75 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom Firmware upgrade from 6 1 2 to 6 2 0 may fail to complete Feature 8G ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee See Symptom On a 48 port blade port swap may not work on ports 32 through 47 Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 OoOo OSOS Defect ID DEFECT000232995 Technical Severity High Summary VI to PT routes are deleted following portdisable enable on a Brocade FC4 48 blade Symptom VI is not able to login to Target following creation of FR zone and portdisable enable for the host port Feature Field Escalation Function FC Layer 2 Routing Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 0 1 Defect ID DEFECT000249448 Technical Severity High Summary Elara freezes with jumbo frame blast Symptom Sending larget blast of ethernet Jumbo frame may result in 8000 switch to freeze up Feature CEE LAYER2 Function LAG TRUNKING Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee pe OOOO O Defect ID DEFECT000248685 Technical Severity High Summary FDMI Database information not showing proper information after disabling the port in AG that is connected to HBA Symptom
79. 6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000260358 Technical Severity Medium Summary crypto container is not shown in active state after adding and remove luns Symptom User might lose container info if the num of LUNs is larger than 8 is specified via LUN range for tape LUN Workaround No Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee ye Defect ID DEFECT000260370 Technical Severity Medium Summary Under certain conditions after fcoe disable lt port gt followed by fcoe enable lt port gt the CNA port WWN appears on fcoe loginshow but may not appear in nsshow Symptom nsshow does not report FCoE device after fcoe port disable enable where as fcoe loginshow Workaround Customer can use fcoe loginshow to display the FCoE logins Feature FC Services Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ea ee Defect ID DEFECT000260405 Technical Severity Medium Summary Invalid CAL response for CAL class Brocade_SwitchFCPortStats while EnumerateSelectedInstances operation for virtual port Symptom Brocade_SwitchFCPortStats EnumerateSelectedInstances operation frequently used by customers if the virtual port has invalid CAL property haserror propert y sets to 1 So SMIAgent will not return the instances for the entire logical context Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 aaa a Defect ID DEFECT000260450 Technical Severity Medium Summary Porta
80. 92 Technical Severity Medium Summary Desired distance is editable for the long distance mode LO Normal initially when the page loads Symptom Initailly when the port configuration wizard opens in the specify FC parametrs page Long distance mode is LO Normal and desired distance is N A by default For the first time alone that desired distance is editable If we choose some other option in Long distance mode and chose LO Normal again now the desired distance becomes non editable Feature WebMgmt Function FCR Admin Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 _ OSSOS Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 131 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 This section lists defects with Critical High and Medium Technical Severity closed without a code change as of August 20 2009 in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000246775 Technical Severity High Summary Detected termination of process fabricd 4120 followed by software verify errors Symptom Brocade DCX is unresponsive Feature 8G Platform Services Function PID management Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000249407 Technical Severity High Summary Event manager daemon evmd standby CP segmentation fault occurs on Brocade DCX after upgrade to FOS v6 1 2 Symptom When CP7 is active CP Brocade DCX standby CP log evmd corefiles whenever there is a new listener register connecti
81. Blade FCOE10 24 Not supported Fabric OS v6 3 0 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the DCX DCX 4S noted in the following table Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 17 of 161 DCX DCX 4S Blade Support Matrix 16 32 and 48 port 8Gbit port blades FC8 16 Supported with FOS v6 0 and above with any mix FC8 32 FC8 48 and the 6 port 10G FC blade and up to 8 4 of each No restrictions around FC10 6 intermix Intelligent blade Up to a total of 8 4 intelligent blades See below for maximum supported limits of each blade FC IP FC Router blade FR4 18i Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type This can be extended under special circumstances but must be approved by Brocade s Product Team Up to 8 FR4 18i blades can be installed in a DCX if they are used only for FC Fastwrite or FCIP without routing Virtualization Application Blade FA4 18 Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type Encryption Blade FS8 18 Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type Extension Blade FX8 24 Up to a maximum of 2 blades of this type FCoE CEE Blade FCOE10 24 Up to a maximum of 2 blades of this type Cannot be used in a chassis with other intelligent blades can only be installed concurrently with FC8 XX and or FC10 6 blades Note the iSCSI FC4 16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX DCX 4S Power Supply Requirements for Blades in 48k and DCX DCX 4S Chassis Blades Typ
82. Brocade_Software Identity instance for remaining node is missing in Brocade SMIA Feature FC Services Function FDMI Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 OoOo OOS Defect ID DEFECT000248707 Technical Severity High Summary Host with Fibrechannel Fastwrite FCFW enabled has problems with port disable enable of HBA ports Symptom Server hangs after Brocade 7500 reboot Feature 4G ASIC Driver Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 0 eZ Defect ID DEFECT000248948 Technical Severity High Summary Rekey operation hangs as a result of failing over to the path that no longer has access to the physical target Symptom Rekey operation does not complete Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 A Defect ID DEFECT000249 164 Technical Severity High Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 76 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary Switch Kernel panics when performing VMware VMotion vport migration Symptom When using VMware vmotion under rare conditions switch may reset Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE DRIVER Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee ho 2 Defect ID DEFECT000248947 Technical Severity High Summary While rekey operations are in progress disrupting the IO sync link causes rekey operations to hang Symptom Affected re key operations will han
83. CR e Broadcast frame forwarding is not supported in an FCR fabric with a Brocade 8000 By default broadcast frame forwarding is disabled on the FC router If your edge fabric includes a Brocade 8000 do not enable broadcast frame forwarding on the FC router because this can degrade FCR performance when there is excessive broadcast traffic e With FC8 blades the switch must be disabled to change the backbone fabric ID e With routing and dual backbone fabrics the backbone fabric ID must be changed to keep the IDs unique FC Fastwrite e When an FC Fastwrite Initiator is moved to a port that doesn t have FC Fastwrite enabled I O will recover and revert to the slow path route non FC Fastwrite This is a behavioral change from FOS v6 2 x Traffic Isolation over FCR Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 30 of 161 All switches and Fibre Channel Routers both in edge and backbone fabrics must be running FOS v6 1 0 or later in order to support this feature In order for Traffic Isolation over FCR to function properly the associated TI zones in each fabric both edge fabrics and backbone fabric need to have failover ENABLED TI over FCR is only supported in edge to edge configurations There is no support for TI in backbone to edge routing configurations Integrated Routing To allow Hot Code Load on a Brocade 5100 when using Integrated Routing the edge switch connected to the 5100 must be running Fabric OS v6 1 or later code I
84. DCX Symptom CPU usage in Web Tools is showing high 70 80 when port configuration operation is performed on a large system Feature WebMgmt Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 pe Defect ID DEFECT000245846 Technical Severity Medium Summary FICON fcip block count mismatch on read emulation Symptom Tape repositioning may be incorrect when split status responses received to backspace block commands Feature FCIP Function FCIP I O Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245639 Technical Severity Medium Summary Unable to enable FMS Mode using webtools on a DCX 4S with a 48 port blade Symptom Customer may not be able to enable FMS mode although configuration is supported Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 G Defect ID DEFECT000243717 Technical Severity Medium Summary Node descriptors are not shown for M EOS switch in DCFM when using FOS switch as the seed switch Symptom The node descriptors are not shown for the Mil0k in DCFM when using FOS switch as the seed switch Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 105 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Ree Summary get error CHASSIS ERROR SYS FPGA error DECRYPT_DECOMPRESS_FAIL Cmd 0x932b6000 Myxid 0x6b3 PI PT
85. ES a ey eet Defect ID DEFECT000253188 Technical Severity Medium Summary SAL OPEN failing after firmware downgrade upgrade on Brocade 7600 Symptom SAL Open calls may fail during firmware upgrade Workaround Reboot the BP and SAL OPEN works fine Feature SCIMITAR SAS SERVICES Function SAL Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 0 aa 9 ee Defect ID DEFECT000253301 Technical Severity Medium Summary On activating deleting Ipfilter policy CAL XML error message may be thrown in webtools Symptom user may be able to activate delete ipfilter policy from webtools Workaround User has to make an additional rule in the WT to add the port 80 and IP address of the system from where the ipfilter policy configuration will be activated Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Se Defect ID DEFECT000253658 Technical Severity Medium Summary iSCSI Virtual target edit operation changing the lun and enabling CHAP makes the virtual target to disappear from the show Symptom Customer may see virtual target going offline after an edit operation from Webtool Workaround Use CLI iscsicfg show tgt v to display target state properly Feature WebMgmt Function iSCSI Support Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Service Request ID 384593 fi e e Defect ID DEFECT000253940 Technical Severity Medium Summary FWD core dumps after doing repeated hafailover Symptom The custome
86. Encryption Switches BES to go into faulty state Symptom While IOs and rekey are in progress continously disconnect reconnecting the ISLs in the HA environment causes the BES to go into faulty state Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 372889 Defect ID DEFECT000242951 Technical Severity High Summary Command fddcfg fabwideset and other security commands fails with RCS transaction error Symptom May see error message like Security Application returned Transaction Error 0x1500000b Feature FC Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000244987 Technical Severity High Summary With tape pipelining active the switch may return a good status without sending data Symptom Tape I O may fail with errors Feature FCIP Function FCIP I O Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 371297 Defect ID DEFECT000241221 Technical Severity High Summary DCX ASIC parity errors ICL CRC s and IFCC s on overnight workload Symptom I O timeouts Dropped frames Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 73 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function C2 ASIC driver Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 et SY Symptom FICON specific errors may show up on a host devices Probabi
87. FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237233 Technical Severity Medium Summary RFE User should be asked confirmation when clear counter cli is executed Symptom User confirmation not displayed when clear count command is issued on 8000 Feature CEE Protocol Function NSM Reason Code Not a Defect Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000228524 Technical Severity Medium Summary LISL bandwidth information is conflicting on the two logical switch ends Symptom Incorrect bandwidth information Feature Logical Fabric Function Kernel Driver Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000222981 Technical Severity Medium Summary Devices logging in to the fabric via a Core AG show up in the agshow output for both the Core AG and the Edge AG creating confusion as to which AG those devices actually belong to Symptom The agshow CLI output on the fabric shows that a device is connected to TWO interconnected AGs in a particular scenario as described in the Topology pdf file in the defect directory Feature Access Gateway Services Function CLI Reason Code Not a Defect Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 0_utah l Defect ID DEFECT000238480 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 151 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary No values are retrieved in MIB Browser for HA MIB tables when VF is enable
88. Fabric Watch but displayed in CLI Symptom The user won t be able to configure Fabric Watch VE ports event notifications by using Web Tools Workaround CLI can be used as the workaround Feature WebMgmt Function Web Tools EZ Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000255703 Technical Severity Medium Symptom B8000 sends FCP traffic to wrong CNA Found in Release FOSGI2cee lt oS Defect ID DEFECT000255828 Technical Severity Medium Summary EM computes total power usage using FRU headers instead of an internal power table This causes multiple AP blades such as FX8 24 and FCOE10 24 in a DCX 4S chassis to not power up when supplied with 120VAC power Symptom A DCX 4S supplied with only 120VAC power cannot reliably support two FX8 24 or two FCOE10 24 due to increased power consumption calculations made for those blades This results in multiple intelligent blades not able to power up The systems need to opera Feature System Controls EM Function DCX DCX 4S Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 eee ee ee Defect ID DEFECT000255905 Technical Severity Medium Summary In 50 switch fabric repeated switchdisable and switchenable operation may reult in SNMP process getting terminated on a core DCX Switch Symptom SNMPd termination and observe FFDC Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee A Defect ID DEFECT000256169 Technical S
89. Feature Logical Fabric Function Kernel Driver Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee rl Defect ID DEFECT000237564 Technical Severity High Summary HA cluster member node Brocade Encryption Switch BES faults as a result of slot powercycling its HA cluster peer FS8 18 Symptom Fault reported by Brocade Encryption Switch Workaround Reboot the BES Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee eee Defect ID DEFECT000235465 Technical Severity High Summary IPL file is not getting updated when a PDCM matrix is activated using Web Tools with Active Save Mode checked Symptom The active configuration and the IPL file would not match when the configuration file is activated using Web Tools with Active Save Mode checked Feature FICON Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 SF Defect ID DEFECT000237868 Technical Severity High Summary Fabric Watch failed to initialize on fully populated DCX Symptom During HA recovery management application reports switch health status as Marginal Down Traffic is not impacted but DCFM call home will not be initiated Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237420 Technical Severity High Summary Memory leak when querying connUnitPortFCId in Access Gateway A
90. From portcmd ping command allowed to communicate with two different networks Symptom Pings seem to work even if the specifiied ge port in the configuration is not online Workaround Disable all GE ports except the GE interface that you want to perform the ping over Found in Release FOS63 0 o o oo d Defect ID DEFECT000248441 Technical Severity Medium Summary After configdefault on a 300 switch unable to upload its configfile in IM2 post message Failed to clear defzone mode rc 1 err 0 msg Symptom Ona standalone 300 switch also seen on 5300 5000 48k when attempting to restore its config file after issuing a configdefault customer will receive error message Failed to clear defzone mode rc 1 err0 msg It is not until the switch is enabled Workaround After the configdefault is issued enable the switch then disable the switch and issue configdown this will complete the process successfully Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 S33 SS Defect ID DEFECT000248509 Technical Severity Medium Summary In Web Tools port admin window is displayed as blank when switch is in disabled state Symptom port admin window is displayed as blank when switch is in disabled state Workaround User can open the port admin before disabling the switch Feature WebMgmt Function Ports Admin Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 3_cee ee a ee Defect ID DEFECT000248510 Technical Severity
91. G mode and also when querying FeFeModuleName Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 64 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom Switch panic due to out of memory trigger during hafailover hareboot Workaround Avoid querying FeFeModuleName or connUnitPortFCId in AG mode MIB to avoid memory leak Feature Field Escalation Function Panic OOM Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 1 Service Request ID 348199 Defect ID DEFECT000226808 Technical Severity High Summary Occasionally during the firmware upgrade process the 1250 processor is still rebooting when the FCR routes are being processed resulting in missing FCR routes and an inability to route traffic across VEX ports Symptom I O running through VEX ports or devices imported exported via VEX ports will be dropped after firmware upgrade Feature Field Escalation Function FCIP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 0 0 O Defect ID DEFECT000235578 Technical Severity High Summary CUP Port present CU Busy on one path and never sending CU End to clear busy Symptom CUP can fail to send CUE when SAK is expecting it A Logical Path will quit sending chains if it does not receive a CUE when expecting it The CUP is still responsive but the host is waiting for the CUE Feature FICON Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 ES o OOO OOOO Defect ID DEFECT000238444 Technical S
92. G capable port e 7500E Upgrade For the Brocade 7500E only This license allows customers to upgrade a 4 port 2 FC ports and 2 GE ports 7500E base to a full 18 port 16 FC ports and 2 GE ports 7500 configuration and feature capability The upgraded 7500E includes the complete High Performance Extension license feature set e Encryption Performance Upgrade This license provides additional encryption processing power For the Brocade Encryption Switch or a DCX DCX 4S the Encryption Performance License can be installed to enable full encryption processing power on the BES or on all FS8 18 blades installed in the DCX DCX 4S chassis e DataFort Compatibility This license is required on the Brocade Encryption Switch DCX DCX 4S with FS8 18 blade s to read amp decrypt NetApp DataFort encrypted disk and tape LUNs DataFort Compatibility License is also required on the Brocade Encryption Switch or DCX DCX 4S Backbone with FS8 18 Encryption Blade s installed to write amp encrypt Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 9 of 161 the disk and tape LUNs in NetApp DataFort Mode Metadata amp Encryption Algorithm so that DataFort can read amp decrypt these LUNs DataFort Mode tape encryption and compression is supported beginning with the FOS v6 2 0 release Availability of the DataFort Compatibility license is limited contact your vendor for details e Server Application Optimization When deployed with Brocade Server Adapters
93. GISTER_BY_DIR ioctl failed applName bswd errno 1 fd 6 swd handle 1 Symptom CRITICAL error 5000s Feature Data Security Function Platform Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245434 Technical Severity Medium Summary RASLOG message missing for telnet or other IP access violation Symptom No functional issue and only the RASLOG message is missing Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security IP FILTER Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000249412 Technical Severity Medium Summary fw wildcard commnad causes kswd panic JPMC Case 13671547 rdch103f01 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 159 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom FWD crash and switch reboot when fwShow command is entered with wildcard option Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Fabric Watch Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID 377807 Defect ID DEFECT000252227 Technical Severity Medium Summary After reverting to factory defaults downlink ports are persistently disabled Symptom Downlink ports persistently disabled after reset to factory default on Brocade 5480 Feature Embedded Function Platform Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 0_utah Defect ID DEFECT000233329 Technical Severity Medium Summary VR Bind UnB
94. ID DEFECT000247602 Technical Severity Medium Summary Blades are not shown in when a slot is hot plugged in to a DCX DCX 4s Symptom When a slot is hot plugged its information will not appear on the GUI Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Function Ports Admin Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Doe OOO Summary With VF deleting a FID while in the FID leads to undesirable conditions The user is stuck in the FID and all commands run generate an error message Symptom In VF mode after deleting a FID system may get into undesirable state and commands run generate an error Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security login Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG Z0 lt J Defect ID DEFECT000249827 Technical Severity Medium Summary FOS still reports some FRU failures as link incidents on port OxFF Symptom FRU failures may be seen on a specific port in FICON environments Feature FICON Function MS FICON Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe oo OOO l Defect ID DEFECT000240647 Technical Severity Medium Summary After FCoE login FOS v6 1 2_cee does not filter packets with SRC MAC FCF MAC Symptom This benign behavior is noticed only with negative test cases Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE DRIVER Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000249865 Technical Severity Medium Summary Reboot of all 4 no
95. If FICON is configured the recommended value is 1000 ms 1 second otherwise the recommended value is the default of 10 seconds For impairment networks with 100ms latency and 0 5 packet loss keep alive time out should be configured as 30seconds If the local and remote circuit configurations Keep Alive Timeout values do not match the tunnel will use the lower of the two configured values e Software compression available on the 7800 modes 2 and 3 are not supported in FICON environments they are supported only in Open Systems environments Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 22 of 161 e Software compression mode 2 3 generally gives a better compression ratio but not the throughput bandwidth across all six GE ports Software compression is recommended for low throughput links and supports throughput up to 2Gbps across all 6 GE ports e Inorder to perform the following operations it is necessary to delete the FCIP configuration on the affected ports first o Switching modes between 1G 10G Dual o Moving VE GE port between logical switches e The FX8 24 supports three different operating modes 1 10 1GbE ports mode default 2 10 1GbE ports and 1 1OGbE port 3 2 10GbE ports Modes 2 and 3 require the slot based 10 GbE FCIP license e ARL Adaptive Rate Limiting is not supported on 10G tunnels e Pv6 IPSec Diffserv VLAN tagging and Inband Management are not supported on the Brocade 7800 or FX8 24 e FOS v6 3
96. Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0_utah So Defect ID DEFECT000243429 Technical Severity Medium Summary 5300 Removing any power supply FRU causes fans to speed up for a short period which is not expected Symptom When testing hot plug of power supplies on the 5300 platform the user can hear the fans increase in speed as an unexpected consequence of removing the power supply FRU There is no other symptom or related event log Feature System Controls EM Function Thor Spirit Tomahawk Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000240616 Technical Severity Medium Summary The SFP parameters are not returning for the ports which are under the logical switches other than the default logical switch Symptom In logical switch context SFP parameters are not returned Feature WebMgmt Function Other Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 100 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Ree Defect ID DEFECT000242561 Technical Severity Medium Summary _ptsupportshow all does not function properly Symptom The ptsupportshow all command is unable to determine the slots and ports to run the commands against on the switch Workaround Specify the slot number for which the command is directed For example ptsupportshow 1 all command to see all ports on blade 1 Feature FA4 18 Platform Services Function MISC
97. Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000244657 Technical Severity High Summary FabricInfo html does not show the correct principal switch if the principal switch is a EOS switch Symptom Not able to get the correct Principal switch of the fabric Not able to update SMI Agents regarding the same Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Function Other Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000241612 Technical Severity High Summary Unable to set the front domain id for the Ex Port using the CAL interface The FCR setup is disturbed Symptom Unable to set EX port front domain from webtools Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Function FCR Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000242891 Technical Severity High Summary Issued enableEE caused CVLC 1017 34 15 SLOT 9 FID 128 ERROR Nept74 Event Unrecoverable data decompression failure Then Detect CRC error with good EOF on C port 0 OID 0x43828000 Symptom Brocade Encryption Switch cannot decompress data previously compressed Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000243382 Technical Severity High Summary DCX 4S CP1 failed Invalid DMA ch pointer slot 8 faulted 21 holds FC8 48 blade Symptom DCX 4S CP1 failed Invalid DMA ch pointer slot 8 faulted 21 holds FC8
98. Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ete 2 ee Defect ID DEFECT000237838 Technical Severity Medium Summary FOS FVT Check Condition Not Propagated On Read to Physical Initiator PI Symptom Read commands are not sent to PI Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 0 Se IM Defect ID DEFECT000255834 Technical Severity High Summary FCIP tape pipelining does not propagate task retry identification TRI Symptom Tape commands that have TRI embedded in them may be rejected by the device Workaround Disable FCIP Tapepipelining Feature Field Escalation Function FCIP Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 368461 Defect ID DEFECT000237010 Technical Severity Medium Summary Several harmless messages gets generated when DCFM tries to discover a large fabric Symptom Multiple messages gets generated when DCFM tries to discover a large fabric SNMP 1005 242 SLOT 6 FID 128 INFO DCX_50 SNMP configuration attribute Trap Severity Level has changed from 0 to 4 messages Login to 10 32 233 50 10 32 233 45 10 32 233 54 10 32 Found in Release FOS620 OC O OSSOS Defect ID DEFECT000237404 Technical Severity Medium Summary During stress to fail testing of Cold Start Recovery on a switch with multiple Logical Switches the local Name Server misses some device entries Symptom Some device entr
99. NAs Enterprise class customers looking to manage departmental SANs can consider deploying this product as well e DCFM Enterprise a SAN management application designed for enterprise class customers for managing up to 24 physical fabrics and up to 9 000 switch ports DCFM Enterprise supports all the hardware platforms and features that DCFM Professional Plus supports and also adds support for the Brocade DCX Director product and Fiber Connectivity FICON capabilities Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 14 of 161 Existing EFCM v9 6 x 9 7 x and FM v5 4 5 5 customers are provided an easy migration path to DCFM Enterprise EFCM and Fabric Manager Compatibility With the introduction of DCFM both EFCM and Fabric Manager FM have been put into sustaining mode Consequently neither EFCM nor FM supports any new firmware features or new hardware platforms Brocade highly recommends that customers consider migrating from these products to DCFM Enterprise While EFCM and FM haven t been explicitly tested with FOS v6 3 existing features are expected to work without any issues WebTools Compatibility e FOS v6 3 is supported with JRE 1 6 0 Update 13 e Ifthe JRE v1 6 0 version is not at Update 13 the DCFM server client and B model Element Manager Web Tools Crashes on launch e WebTools Tunnel and TCP graphs only support Tooltips for the first enabled TCP connection graph Fabric OS Compatibility The following table lists the earlie
100. P Trunking and Adaptive Rate Limiting The FCIP Trunking feature allows multiple IP source and destination address pairs defined as FCIP Circuits via multiple 1GigE or 1OGbE interfaces to provide a high bandwidth FCIP tunnel and failover resiliency In addition each FCIP circuit supports four QoS classes Class F Hi Medium and Low Priority each as a TCP connection The Adaptive Rate Limiting feature provides a minimum bandwidth guarantee for each tunnel with full utilization of the available network bandwidth without impacting throughput performance under high traffic load This license is available on the 7800 and the DCX DCX 4S for the FX8 24 on an individual slot basis e 10GbE FCIP This new license enables the two 1OGbE ports on the FX8 24 With this license two additional operating modes in addition to 10 1GbE ports mode can be selected o 10 1GbE ports and 1 10GbE port or o 2 10GbE ports This license is available on the DCX DCX 4S for the FX8 24 on an individual slot basis e Advanced FICON Acceleration This new licensed feature uses specialized data management techniques and automated intelligence to accelerate FICON tape read and write and IBM Global Mirror data replication operations over distance while maintaining the integrity of command and acknowledgement sequences This license is available on the 7800 and the DCX DCX A4S for the FX8 24 on an individual slot basis Some models offer bundles that include 2 or more op
101. Previous build was v6 2 0c_rc1_bld06 Symptom FR4 18i blade in DCX chassis becomes faulty 51 Feature Diagnostics Function Post Diags Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000243377 Technical Severity Medium Summary fcRouting filter fails due to UNKNOWN state for ex ports in the uploaded config file Symptom Configdownload fails with the following error configDownload failed key fcRoute port 224 fabricld rc 1 Feature Legacy FCR 7500 FR4 18i Function FCR Port Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 148 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000240911 Technical Severity High Summary During scalability testing unable to save the zone config in a large fabric response and ACA rejected Symptom Error displayed Failed to save zone config zoning aborted Bad zone config Workaround Examine RAS logs for the switches in the fabric identify downlevel switches with a merge problem and resolve the issue Feature FC Services Function Zoning Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000247308 Technical Severity High Summary 48K hangs CU Busy running SAK IRNDUP Symptom switch does not respond to IRNDUP requests Feature FICON Function Ficud Reason Code Not a Defect Probability
102. Severity High Summary Encrypted LUN gets into internal Encryption Engine EE LUN State Disabled key not in sync as a result of rekeying and HAC DEK cluster failover and failback Symptom Encrypted LUN is not available for crypto operations Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a Ss Defect ID DEFECT000250753 Technical Severity High Summary As a result of I O and crypto operations three LUNs are in Key ID Unvailable state and one LUN indicates that inquiry failed Symptom Three LUNs on container showing Key ID Unavailable and one LUN showing inquiry failed These LUNs are fully functional with no issues on all other containers Workaround Reboot the Encryption Engine EE Feature Data Security Function Infrastructure Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 83 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Found in Release FOSG20 SS SCSS J O OOO SESS Defect ID DEFECT000252257 Technical Severity Medium Summary DMM used license can be reset after netinstall of FOS Symptom After clean installation of a firmware version in some cases user might not be able to install DMM license Feature UNDETERMINED Function UNDER REVIEW Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG fe eel Defect ID DEFECT000255461 Technical Severity Medium Summary 4024 AG may login to DCX with wrong
103. Summary FOS v6 2 0 does not provide Chassisinfo with snmpv1 without adding and configuring an snmpv3 user Symptom The first 6 objects in the system MIB are missing this corresponds to the error no such object entries in the Hi Track system table Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 365711 Defect ID DEFECT000242555 Technical Severity High Summary Missing FICON interrupt on DCX 4S Symptom CUP did not respond in time before channel timed out Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 OoOo OOS Defect ID DEFECT000235613 Technical Severity High Summary Memory leak found during E port processing Symptom An E_port constantly going on and off due to other conditions can lead to an out of memory condition Feature Field Escalation Function Panic OOM Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 346457 Defect ID DEFECT000242784 Technical Severity High Summary Calculation of TX port and Filter number can incorrectly corrupt the Filter Redirect RAM Symptom An internal recovery scheme can attempt to correct a valid Frame Redirection RAM Filter This will cause one existing filter to be corrupted potentially leading to misrouted frames This is a very rare failure but if encountered one of the filter entries will be corrupted Feature 8G ASIC Driver Functio
104. TT stops reporting flow after firmware upgrade Symptom TT flows not available after firmware upgrade Workaround Reinstall the TT after firmware upgrade Feature Performance Monitor Function Top Talker Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 pO Defect ID DEFECT000260994 Technical Severity Medium Summary Late response in EZManager while performing the custom zone operation with HBA and Target L port with 33 devices Symptom Late responseness observed in EZManager when performing the zone edit operation and also from changing the view from zone view to device connection display Workaround Zoning works but with high device or port count it can take a long time Feature WebMgmt Function Web Tools EZ Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee A Defect ID DEFECT000261038 Technical Severity Medium Summary On certain target devices Portshow displays None on PWWN field while nsshow and switch displays PWWN on the port Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 57 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom _ portshow display None on PWWN Workaround use nsshow or switch to get PWWN of the device Feature 8G Platform Services medon TOS Keme Dives FOS Kernel Drivers py ean Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000261058 Technical Severity Medium Summary Stress to Fail Testing zoned crashes after repeatedly deleting partitions and creating partitions for a total of about 150
105. The LUN will become disabled e Enable the LUN using cryptocfg enable LUN Modify the LUN policy from clear text to encrypt with enable_encexistingdata to enable the first time encryption and do commit This will clear the stale rekey metadata on the LUN and the LUN can be used again for encryption Method 2 1 Remove the LUN from Crypto Target Container and commit 2 Add the LUN back to the Crypto Target Container with LUN State clear text policy encrypt and enable_encexistingdata set for enabling the First Time Encryption and commit This will clear the stale rekey metadata on the LUN and the LUN can be used again for encryption e nCipher Thales key vault support troubleshooting tips o Regarding NCKA key vault KV communication with a Brocade encryption group the default communication port setting for the NCKA KV is 37208 however the Brocade encryption members and leader use 9000 so this needs to be reset on NCKA Additionally the following is a checklist of things to review if the initial attempt to connect to the KV fails Check physical and logical connection via a ping on port 9000 this should be the first check For the group leader node the kac client cert and the kv cert files are to be identical For group member nodes the kv file is to be the same as the kv file on the group leader node Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 28 of 161 Cross check to ensure the
106. UN go to Not ready Get key from archive state when Ethernet connection to primary key vault is broken Feature Data Security Function Key Vault Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Symptom Each LUN in the same DEK cluster may create a different key and lead to data curruption Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1 enc Pe S Defect ID DEFECT000234222 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 119 of 161 Summary Symptom Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Unable to de register primary key vault when both primary and secondary key valuts are registered Customer will not be able to de register the primary key vault KV when both primary amp secondary KVs are configured This requires customer to first deregister secondary KV and then deregister Failed Primary KV for replacing the failed primary KV This leads to Encryption Switches without any KVs for a short duration when both Primary and Secondary KV are deregistered leading to DEK operations failing for that duration Workaround De register the secondary KV first Feature Data Security Function Key Vault Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe Se Defect ID DEFECT000219288 Technical Severity Medium Summary Symptom When there is a mismatch between switch certificate and certificate present on key vault the status returned by cryptocfg show
107. Universal Temporary license keys have an expiration date upon which the license can no longer be installed on any unit Fabric E_port license Extended Fabric license Trunking license High Performance Extension license Advanced Performance Monitoring license Adaptive Networking license Fabric Watch license Integrated Routing license Server Application Optimization Advanced Extension license Advanced FICON Acceleration license 10GbE license Previously Licensed Software Now Part of Base FOS The following capabilities are included as part of the base FOS capability and no additional purchase or licensing is necessary e Advanced Zoning and WebTools licenses are no longer necessary beginning with FOS v6 1 These features are automatically enabled on all products running FOS v6 1 or later Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 11 of 161 Supported Switches Fabric OS v6 3 0 supports the Brocade 300 5410 5480 5424 5450 4100 4900 5000 5100 5300 7500 7500E 7600 48000 Brocade Encryption Switch BES DCX DCX 4S 8000 and the new 7800 All supported products are qualified for Native Connectivity in interopmodes 2 and 3 for deployment in M EOS fabrics with the exception of the Brocade 4100 and 8000 Access Gateway mode is also supported by Fabric OS v6 3 0 and is supported on the following switches the Brocade 300 5100 5480 5450 and M5424 Note that FOS v6 3 does NOT support the following platforms and cannot be loaded o
108. able the GE port Symptom I O not resumed after GE portdisable and portenable Workaround Portdisable and portenable the host port and restart I O from host Found in Release FOS6 3 0 do o o o oo d Defect ID DEFECT000261105 Technical Severity High Summary IFCC s when expanding TI zone HW trunk with exchange based routing Symptom traffic disruption when adding more trunk links Workaround Only have one trunk to a given destination Feature 8G Platform Services Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 E i ace er Defect ID DEFECT000261125 Technical Severity High Summary Ina large fabric with 50 switches firmware download HCL on DCX between two internal SQA builds timed out and failed on the standby CP Symptom Firmwaredown HCL got stuck after downloading on the standby CP Workaround Run firmwaredownload again Feature FIRMWARE DOWNLOAD Function Firmware Download Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 fe I Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 42 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000261231 Technical Severity High Summary RASLOG flood occurs with internal RASLOG with following weblinkerfcg message on multiple switches in fabric weblinkerfcg 1024 attempts to send message type 26 to invalid dest IPSIPC 1024 0 comm c line 453 comp weblinker Itime 2009 07 28 11 39 Symptom There is no direct customer symptom with this defect Due to excessive internal messages from
109. abric wide FCoE Login Management Configuration The merge logic is designed to modify the Login Group Name during merge when Login group names in participating configurations conflict with each other The current OUI of 00051E is being used by Brocade while assigning the WWNs to 8000s DCXs and DCXA4Ss which would make only the last 3 bytes as different for any two 8000s DCXs or DCXA4Ss Considering this assignment method the merge logic would rename the login group by including the last 3 bytes of WWN in the login group name so that they are unique in the merged configuration e For switches having different OUI indices from the 8 assigned to Brocade for ex 00051E and 006069 WWNs can differ in more than 3 bytes In this case after normal merge and a rename as per above described logic login group names can be the same for WWNs differing only in OUIs The merge logic would drop one of the Login Groups to satisfy the requirement to keep the Login Group Name unique in the fabric wide configuration e Ethernet switch services must be explicitly enabled using the command fosconfig enable ethsw before powering on an FCOE10 24 blade Failure to do so will cause the blade to be faulted fault 9 e In order to support non disruptive firmware upgrades on the DCX DCX 4S a new service ethsw is being introduced to enable Ethernet switching on FCOE10 24 in FOS v6 3 LAN switching is disabled by default in FOS v6 3 The user must explicit
110. ade to 6 3 0 SFP voltage may show incorrect values Workaround Executing the same command again to get the correct values Feature 8G Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Drivers Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee ss Defect ID DEFECT000262419 Technical Severity High Summary Under impairment network configuration with high compressible data may result in tunnel bounce Symptom FCIP tunnel may go up and down in an impairment network configuration with highly compressible data T O Workaround tunnel will come up after going down Feature FCIP Function FCP TCP IP Stack Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ei Defect ID DEFECT000262516 Technical Severity High Summary tunnel did not come up due to configuration mismatch for tape pipelining one side shows Write only and other side shows Write Read Symptom VE tunnel configuration not coming up Feature FCIP Function FCIP CLI Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000207431 Technical Severity Medium Summary Web Tools zone admin page may not automatically refresh when a zoning configuration is enabled from McDATA switch Symptom Web Tools zone admin page may not automatically refresh when there is a change in the zoning database Workaround Manually the user can refresh the zone admin page Feature WebMgmt Function Zone Admin Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 0 See SS ee Defect ID DEFECT000222339 Techn
111. alid speed level 9 and 11 Gbps is being accepted for port speed config Symptom Invalid speed level is being accepted for port speed config Feature CEE PLATFORM Function Blade Driver Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000236921 Technical Severity Medium Summary perfcfgsave followed by perfcfgrestore will not restore last EE Filter monitor Symptom The last EE or Filter monitor is not saved causing it not be restored Workaround Create an additional dummy Invalid SID DID monitor before performing perfCfgSave or reinstall the lost monitor Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000236973 Technical Severity Medium Summary During overnight Stress test observed software error message on console after deleting a logical switch Symptom Error messages are seen on the console and SMI applications may see erroneous data Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Function Other Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000240443 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 134 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary After a fosconfig enable vf followed by a fosconfig disable vf customer is unable to log in via telnet or seria
112. ary High 3600 Low 3150 Current value is 0 mV that is generated for every sfp on a blad Workaround Ignore messages they indicate no problem and have no side effect Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Fabric Watch Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000222711 Technical Severity Medium Summary Command ipaddrshow does not show the IP address of a blade that is seated in slot 12 of a Brocade DCX Symptom If customer issues ipaddrshow without the slot option and a blade that contains an ethernet port is seated in slot 12 then the ip address information for that blade is not shown Blades affected are the Brocade FA4 18 and FS8 18 Workaround Issue ipaddrshow slot 12 to get the information Feature OS Services Function IP Admin Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc l Defect ID DEFECT000226314 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 138 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary In certain cases such as when long distance mode is changed to LD on the edge side or when the ISL mode is configured after the long distance link segments the EX Port acting as an ISL in R_RDY mode can get stuck in Disabled state an FC router error Symptom The ISL attached to the EX Port is stuck in a Disabled state and will prevent it from routing data This hap
113. as NA in Web Tools Use the licenseshow command to display the correct expiration date Encryption Behavior When host clusters are deployed in an Encryption environment please note the following recommendations o If two EEs encryption engines are part of a HAC configure the host target pair such that they form a multipath from both EEs Avoid connecting both the host target pairs to the same EE This connectivity does not give full redundancy in case of EE failure resulting in HAC failover o Since quorum disk plays a vital role in keeping the cluster in sync please configure the quorum disk to be outside of the encryption environment During an online upgrade from FOS v6 2 0x to v6 3 0 it is expected to see the IO link status reported as Unreachable when the cryptocfg command is invoked However once all the nodes are upgraded to v6 3 0 the command will accurately reflect the status of the IO Link The IO link status should be disregarded during the code upgrade process Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 26 of 161 e The key_lifespan option has no effect for cryptocfg add LUN and only has an effect for cryptocfg create tapepool for tape pools declared encryption_format native For all other encryption cases a new key is generated each time a medium is rewound and block zero is written or overwritten For the same reason the Key Life field in the output of cryptocfg show con
114. ase FOS620 lt OC O O Defect ID DEFECT000247054 Technical Severity Medium Summary Supportsave may show parity errors on disabled ports Symptom Supportsave starting with FOS v6 1 2 has been updated to collect more data As data is read from disabled ports a parity error may be logged from those disabled and unused ports A switch that has been upgraded from a lower code level and never cold booted may show this problem No errors will be caused on enabled ports or after a disabled port is enabled Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 88 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Re Defect ID DEFECT000234810 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch Admin Merge status dialog should display the status and timestamp of last merge for FCoE Login Symptom User will not know the present status and the A for last merge of FCoE login Defect ID DEFECT000237765 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch panic in kernel while access an iu that has already timedout and freed Symptom Switch panic during a rare occurrence of a timed out exchange being accessed Feature Field Escalation Function Panic OOM Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 1 Service Request ID 359009 Defect ID DEFECT000210892 Technical Severity Medium Summary Hosts on Access Gateway 4424 lost
115. ason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245624 Technical Severity Medium Summary While in FIPS mode and gathering supportsave backup CP failed supportsave Symptom Standby CP fails to collect supportSave in FIPS mode Feature FC Services Function RCS Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000250616 Technical Severity Medium Summary _portcfgqos command not throwing any error for fcoe ports Symptom When configuring FC QOS on FCOE ports user may see error message Feature CEE FOS Function Platform Services Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000253085 Technical Severity Medium Summary cscn not flushing buffer after DPC crash Symptom After a DPC crash some debug information may not get cleared Feature FA4 18 Platform Services Function Blade FOS SW Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000253813 Technical Severity Medium Summary Back port fixes for diagshow and raslog message severity issues Symptom Users may see internal debug log messages Feature FA4 18 Platform Services Function MISC Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000244855 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch View HA Status Inaccura
116. ate domain from backbone switch is routed to lowest F ports by mistake Workaround Add an ISL on the user port lower than the lowest Fport on switch Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 68 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 366207 Defect ID DEFECT000239731 Technical Severity High Summary Multiple repetitions of port enable disable might result in a lost route in a Brocade 48000 configuration Symptom The plogi accept from the storage is lost and the storage device reports the error This possibility occurs only on the uppermost ports of the 48 port blades installed in a Brocade 48000 Feature Field Escalation Function FC Layer 2 Routing Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 361685 Defect ID DEFECT000240241 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade Encryption Switch BES goes to faulty state after upgrading to 6 2 0b_rcl_bld01 from 6 2 0 Symptom After firmwaredownload from 6 2 0 to a 6 2 0 patch build BES switch may go faulty Function Firmware Download Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 364969 Defect ID DEFECT000240582 Technical Severity High Summary NO Comm observed when remove HP VC switch from Bay 3 and installed in Bay 4 Symptom VCM shows No communication for 5481
117. ature FR4 18i Platform Services Function FCR ASIC SW Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000254470 Technical Severity Medium Summary Weblinker crash occured in mixed fabric Symptom Weblinker daemon crash Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Mgmt Server Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000247241 Technical Severity Medium Summary Intermittent timeouts in IBM tape lab using peer to peer configuration Symptom Interminttent timeout with Tape I O Feature FCIP Function FCIP I O Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000249352 Technical Severity Medium Summary LD trunking SRDF connectivity issue Symptom We have 300 switch connected to a 5300 switch both running 6 1 0f code This is a trunked long distant link The problem is they cannot bring up their SRDF application over this link All other switches work correctly with out issue it s only when the 5 Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function PORT Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000249045 Technical Severity Medium Summary When Blade becomes Faulty or slot powered ON OFF no event received for Brocade SMIA Symptom SMIA customer will not get events when slot is powered off or when blade state becomed faulty so that they won t be able to refresh the GUI
118. ault only PIDs from default zone are shown up via portcamshow instead of the PIDs in effective cfg Workaround Do not overlap effective and default zones on the same NPIV port following best practices guidelines Feature FC Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 III Defect ID DEFECT000237549 Technical Severity Medium Summary Access Gateways connected to EOSc in a mixed fabric FOS and EOS are not shown in DCFM Symptom Missing AG information in DCFM if AG is connected to EOS switch in mixed fabric Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Mgmt Server Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG LI OoOo OOS SOS Defect ID DEFECT000237591 Technical Severity Medium Summary Not able to add EE monitor on port after firmwareupgrade from 6 1 0c to 6 2 0 on 7500 Symptom After firmwareupgrade from 6 1 0c to 6 2 0 if customer adds EE monitors may see error message Invalid argument or Resource not available Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237869 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 112 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary nsinfo htm returns NPIV info as Physical if non VF switch is connected to VF enabled platform Symptom DCFM will show the device as physical device instead of npi
119. bMgmt Function Switch Admin Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ah Defect ID DEFECT000237509 Technical Severity Medium Summary FCAP works only in Non VF mode or VF mode with Default Switch Symptom When FCAP authentication is used along with SCC policy in a VF environment the E port on the non default switch will be disabled with security violation Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security authentication Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238526 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 115 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary Unexpected software call traceback error messages are being displayed on the console Symptom Console occasionally displays call traceback messages End of printout has Software Verify errors Feature Pluto Platform Services Function Platform Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee ed Defect ID DEFECT000239737 Technical Severity Medium Summary DCX standby CP may reboot due to ASSERT Failed expression new_snode NULL if the chassis have FC10 6 Symptom DCX standby CP may reboot due to ASSERT Failed expression new_snode NULL Feature 8G Platform Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 363539 Defect ID DEFECT000239733 Technical Severity Medium Summary When the
120. bability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG LO poe OOOO O Defect ID DEFECT000239969 Technical Severity High Summary Failover when LS trans incomplete Observed and Panic Ficud terminated detected when FID is created Symptom Initiating a HA failover before Logical Fabric related trasaction is completed may result in FICU process getting terminated Workaround Don t use logical switches Feature FICON Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 eee IIE Defect ID DEFECT000240277 Technical Severity High Summary ISMIC When a reset of a HP VC is done via the OA the vcfcadm_ user password is NOT generated as seen from the console log thereby causing a NO COMM on the VCM Symptom Sometimes when a RESET of a HP VC is done via the OA the vcfcadm_ passwor may not get generated Workaround Power off and Power on the Switch via OA will fix the problem But the above workaround didnot work on a different switch Feature Embedded Function Platform Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0_uah E Defect ID DEFECT000240247 Technical Severity High Summary Swapping Blades FC8 32 and FC8 48 in DCX 4S initializes both to a Faulty 51 state Symptom Physically swapping FC8 32 blade and FC8 48 blade in the same DCX 4S chassis is initializing both blades into a Faulty 51 state Workaround Workarounds 1 Slotpoweroff and slotpoweron always recovers the blade s 2 DCX 4S reboots also recover
121. beta release notes Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE Daemon Probability High Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 L3 cee eo es Defect ID DEFECT000249114 Technical Severity Medium Summary CUP needs to send an RSCN after coming back online after a cold boot Symptom Cascaded CUP connectivity is broken after a cold recovery event The cold events in this scenario are active CP reboot concurrent CP reboot fastboot and pwer cycle Feature FC Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 el Defect ID DEFECT000249419 Technical Severity Medium Summary WT FCoE connected devices tab sort order of Device WWN is incorrect Symptom When sorting by WWN in the FCoE connected devices tab the list seems to be sorted incorrectly Feature WebMgmt Function Ports Admin Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee ee Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 91 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245986 Technical Severity Medium Summary Ina FCR environment switch run out of memory when connected with EoS switches Symptom EoS switch sending continousely RRQ due to FOS switch did not handle RRQ with either accept reject The message holds in iswitchd queue trigger OOM kill of iswitchd and switch panic Feature Field Escalation Function Panic OOM Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 373769 Defect
122. c OS v6 3 0 is only allowed from Fabric OS v6 2 0 or later This policy to support only one level migration which began with FOS v6 0 0 provides more reliable and robust migrations for customers By having fewer major changes in internal databases configurations and subsystems the system is able to perform the upgrade more efficiently taking less time and ensuring a truly seamless and non disruptive process for the fabric The one release migration policy also reduces the large number of upgrade downgrade permutations that must be tested allowing Brocade to spend more effort ensuring the supported migration paths are thoroughly and completely verified All products supported by Fabric OS v6 2 X or v6 1 2_CEEx can be upgraded to Fabric OS v6 3 The following is a list of products that can be upgraded to Fabric OS v6 3 e 5424 5410 5480 4100 4900 5000 300 5100 5300 7500 7500E 7600 8000 48000 BES DCX 4S and DCX FOS does not support concurrent FC Routing EX_Ports and TopTalkers features If there are multiple node EGs encryption groups in a fabric please complete firmwaredownload on one node at a time before downloading on another node The Brocade 8000 does not support non disruptive hot code loads HCL When upgrading a Brocade 8000 from FOS v6 1 2_CEE or v6 1 2_CEE1 to v6 3 verify that the unit has both the FCoE and FC POD licenses installed Units missing these licenses that are upgraded to FOS v6 3 will lose functionali
123. cal Severity Medium Summary Brocade 5424 FC8 IOM traffic is interrupted during CMC failover event Symptom The CMC booting up from failover writes link tuning information to the IOM which inadvertently causes the IOM to suffer link issues Feature Embedded Platform Services Function Superhawk2 Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSE Z es Defect ID DEFECT000238430 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch panic when supportsave read invalid data on GE ports without FC Fastwrite enabled Symptom Unexpected switch panic This is a very rare case happened once and was unable to recreate with many rounds of supportsave Feature Field Escalation Function FCIP Flipper ASIC Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 361287 Defect ID DEFECT000237514 Technical Severity Medium Summary Firmware downgrade from FOS v6 2 0 to v6 1 0 sometimes causes an unresponsive console which requires a switch power cycle to recover Symptom Customer loses access to the console No functional impact After power cycling the switch the console access is back and firmwaredownload process completes properly Issue seen during downgrade from 6 2 gt 6 1 when firmwaredownload sb between 6 2 lt gt 6 1 with auto reboot enabled is done multiple times and mostly on Brocade 7500 switch Telnet sessions are still fully operational Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 98 of 161 Closed with C
124. cal switches at this time so this can still be enabled on unsupported LS pkicert 1 06 utility may cause evm errors so each new switch should be isolated from fabric in non vf mode to install new certificates For FIPS mode certificates need to be installed prior to FIPS activation For the DCX FICON CUP is not allowed with a 48 port blade in the Default Logical Switch DLS All ports on a 48 port blade must be assigned to a user defined Logical Switch to use them in a FICON CUP enabled switch If CUP is enabled in the DLS and any ports on a 48 port blade are assigned to the DLS all ports on that blade will be persistently disabled The DCX 4S is not supported for FICON Cascading in interopmode 2 or 3 for use in mixed fabrics with M EOS platforms Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 31 of 161 FL_Port Loop Support The FC8 48 blade supports attachment of loop devices in the DCX and DCX 4S Virtual Fabrics must be enabled on the chassis and loop devices may only be attached to ports on a 48 port blade assigned to a non Default Logical Switch operating with the default 10 bit addressing mode they may not be in the default Logical Switch A maximum of 144 ports may be used for connectivity to loop devices in a single Logical Switch within a chassis Loop devices continue to be supported when attached to ports on the FC8 16 FC8 32 FC4 16 and FC4 32 blades with no new restrictions Port Mirroring On the Brocade 5300
125. ce Customers may not see this issue Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE DRIVER Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 3 cee O I I I III Defect ID DEFECT000245999 Technical Severity Medium Summary Address configdownload problems Symptom This defect address serverial configdownload related problems With VF enabled configdownload choose all option ends with a core dump Configdownload a file from FOSv6 1 x configuration also ends up core dump Local WWN for FCIP was overrode by configdownload with WWN in the config file Found in Release FOS62 0 OSC SO Defect ID DEFECT000241092 Technical Severity Medium Summary Due to race condition daemons may panic during FID deletion and creating without significant time delay in between Symptom Swithc become irreponsive and dameon starts to panic such as Detect termination of msd 4811 duirng FID deletion and creating Feature 8G Platform Services Function Partition Management Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000230004 Technical Severity Medium Summary Cold failover within Port group for F_Port didn t happen on Access Gateway AG Symptom it was observed that cold failover within Port group for F_Port with configured N_Port offline didn t happen on embedded switch when another available Nport is brought online within the same port group Workaround portenable the F_Ports in question Found in Rele
126. ch Admin Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Lees a Saks a sl ee a Defect ID DEFECT000252385 Technical Severity Medium Summary Legacy GE port with Invalid SFP does not always show Mod_Inv sometimes it is No_Sync Symptom Invalid SFP shows No_Sync instead of Mod_Inv Feature Legacy FCIP 7500 FR4 18i Function FCIP CP Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 eee E Defect ID DEFECT000252698 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 7500 observed FFDC message for PLAT area when firmware upgrading from v6 2 0e to v6 3 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 48 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom Firmware upgrade from v6 2 to v6 3 on 7500 may fail Feature Legacy FCIP 7500 FR4 18i Function FCIP CP Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 eh O Oo Defect ID DEFECT000253047 Technical Severity Medium Summary Usability FOS diagnostics and POST do not illuminate any of the GEx ports Symptom New platforms do not flash the GEx LEDs during initialization Difficult to determine visually if there is any issue with the LEDs for these ports Found in Release FOS63 0 do o oS d O Defect ID DEFECT000253083 Technical Severity Medium Summary Slot 1 blade fault with reason 5 Symptom Hardware issue in which a port blade is faulted Workaround Slotpoweroff and slotpoweron clears the fault Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function C2 ASIC driver Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0
127. configured on the default switch the entire chassis s time will be synched to the NTP server If a non default logical switch has LOCL configured and user changes the date there this new date time set will be lost This is because in the next synchronization the time will be synched to that of the NTP server configured on the default switch Workaround Change date only on the default switch Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Time Server Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 Z0 CE Defect ID DEFECT000235769 Technical Severity Medium Summary Updating Flash Console Message is seen on all FOS Switches in Fabric during Configupload on Single FOS Switch in a IM2 fabric Symptom User will observe Updating Flash message on console on all FOS switches while performing configupload on switch when the fabric is in McDATA Fabric mode 2 There is no functional impact it is working as designed to support configdownload in IM2 Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 Eoo Defect ID DEFECT000208988 Technical Severity Medium Summary Block user from configuring QoS on FC10 6 blade Symptom portcfgqos sees configuration issue Feature FC10 6 Platform Services Function ASIC Driver Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 124 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Found in Release Osso OOO J OOS SS SES Defect
128. containers Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000239126 Technical Severity High Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 71 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary After encountering a rare error condition a switch director may fail to clear an interrupt resulting in a persistently high CPU load Symptom User might experience high CPU load and unexpected blade errors This could trigger a switch panic during a firmware upgrade hafailover The user may also observe SCSI timeout errors at the hosts Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 ee eee Defect ID DEFECT000241933 Technical Severity High Summary SNMP v3 user configuration reverts back to defaults after HAfailover Symptom When configuring SMNP v3 user configuration on any one of the user defined USM configuration sets and during HAfailover the SNMP configuration reverts back to default Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 367427 Defect ID DEFECT000242698 Technical Severity High Summary IFCC s when disabling trunks and having DPS enabled Symptom IO is stopped Feature FOS Platform Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 11 Defect ID DEFECT000239658 Technical Seve
129. ction Switch Admin Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 poe 2s 2 a Defect ID DEFECT000259593 Technical Severity Medium Summary VF Chassis role RBAC behavior mismatch in webtools and CLI for FCR enable disable Symptom FCR enable disable can be performed in CLI whereas webtools reports authorization error for certain admin roles Workaround Use CLI to enable disable FCR for the specific chassis roles of ZoneAdmin fabricAdmin etc Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 aa ee Defect ID DEFECT000259720 Technical Severity Medium Summary swfabricwatch trap not generated for FW 1133 1134 1135 threshhold reached logs on 8000 Symptom _ swfabricwatch trap not generated for corresponding threshhold reached LOG messages Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee aaa Se Defect ID DEFECT000259729 Technical Severity Medium Summary Unable to ReCreate Frame Redirect Zone After Disabling McDATA Default Zone Symptom Failure to create Frame Redirect Zone After Disabling McDATA Default Zone Workaround Clear the defined zone database and recreate the FR zone again Feature FC Services Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 er on Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 54 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000259855 Technical Severity Medium Summary When FCoE max login has been reached need to change debug l
130. d Symptom RTWRs after firmware upgrade followed by some disruptive actions actions Found in Release FOS63 0 o o o d O Defect ID DEFECT000261654 Technical Severity Medium Summary During non disruptive upgrade of two 6 3 0 development builds on 5300 switch Software verify error detected seen on console Symptom Software verify error when upgrading between two firmware versions Feature 8G Platform Services Function PID management Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 eee i Defect ID DEFECT000261661 Technical Severity Medium Summary BR 7500 non distruptive firmware upgrade from v6 2 0g to v6 3 0 causes the switch to go Faulty 21 Symptom May notice faulty 21 on non disruptive upgrade Feature Legacy FCIP 7500 FR4 18i Function FCIP CLI Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 La Defect ID DEFECT000261662 Technical Severity Medium Summary _ Stress to fail Circuit 0 shows InProg after changing 10G tunnel to compression enable in repeated manner Symptom FCIP circuits stay at In progress state after series for FCIP tunnel parameter changes Workaround slotpower off followed by slotpower on usually clear this problem Found in Release FOS63 0 o o o d Defect ID DEFECT000261663 Technical Severity Medium Summary Clean up printf ssnGet Unable to get WWN info sw 0 rc 5 Symptom following message may pop up to console while firmware committing ssnGet Unable to get WWN info sw 0 re 5 Found
131. d in DCX Symptom On DCX VF config No values are retrieved for HA MIB on MIB Browser Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function VF Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238458 Technical Severity Medium Summary IF MIB Mismatch in values for ifInMulticastPkts ifInBroadcastPkts ifOutBroadcastPkts between the mib browser and telnet output Symptom Difference in values for variables ifInMulticastPkts ifInBroadcastPkts ifOutBroadcastPkts in the mib browser and telnet output Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function Other Reason Code Not a Defect Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000230762 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port is not fenced after exceding threshold when time base is set to day Symptom Customer will see port getting fenced incorrectly after a delay of 1 hour when threshold is exceeded Workaround User can configure the timebase to other values like minute and hour Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Fabric Watch Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000239396 Technical Severity Medium Summary ifInOctet and ifOutOctet of interfaces displayed in MIB browser do not match with CLI output Symptom Incorrect values of if nOctet and ifOutOctet are displayed in MIB browser Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function Other Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Medium Found in Rel
132. d in Release FOS6 0 0 Service Request ID 357995 Defect ID DEFECT000232304 Technical Severity Medium Summary Master Key Restore from Keyvault fails when trying to use the second and consecutive passphrase Symptom Master Key Restore from Keyvault fails when trying to use the second and consecutive passphrase In other words if the customer backs up the same MK multiple times only the first backup using the first passphrase can be retreived from the key vault Feature Data Security Function Security Processor Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 160 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 161 of 161
133. d large zone database cfgenable is taking long time with FCIP links Symptom With large zone config in large fabric cfgenable will take long time for zone configuration enforcement Feature Striker Spike Platform Services Function Spike Platform Module Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Sh ee Defect ID DEFECT000259502 Technical Severity Medium Summary Stress to Fail Backend ports of FCOE10 24 blade fails to come up during system verification test Symptom faulty FCoE10 24 blade while running the system verification in loop Workaround reboot Feature CEE Infrastructure Function ANVIL DRIVER Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 eT Pee Defect ID DEFECT000259505 Technical Severity Medium Summary supportsave failed error message for non existent blade may be seen on DCX after FR4 18i blade is hot swapped with FX8 24 blade Symptom supportsave was successful but system tried to pull supportsave for non existent blade one already removed and printed the error message Workaround Reboot the Active CP Feature RAS Function RAS Log Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee A Defect ID DEFECT000259573 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch Admin Webtools is not allowing user to set and modify switch name with but CLI allows the same in FMS and non FMS mode Symptom WT will not allow user to set switch name with Workaround Cli can be used as a Work Around Feature WebMgmt Fun
134. dded Function MGMT BACKEND Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0_emb Defect ID DEFECT000239585 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch report is not opening for switches when it is launched from fire fox in Solaris 10 Symptom User will not be able to see the status report if he opens from Solaris 10 Workaround NO Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Explorer Switch View Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000239590 Technical Severity Medium Summary Web tools for other switches are not launched when it is launched from the fabric tree in Solaris 10 Symptom User willl not be able to launch web tools for other switches present in fabric tree in Solaris 10 Workaround To open the switch in the fabric directly from the firefox Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Explorer Switch View Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000242689 Technical Severity Medium Summary Corrupt frame recieved from remote domain is causing essd crash Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 147 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom ESS daemon crash due to corrupted frame received Feature FC Services Function ESS Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000242815 Technical Severity Medium Summary Upgrad
135. des in an Encryption Group EG with multiple rekeys pending resulted in new rekey sessions being unable to start Symptom Some of the pending new rekey sessions are unable to start Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Se OO Defect ID DEFECT000243925 Technical Severity Medium Summary IPFC address is shown instead of chasis IP address in SNMP Trap for Pluto switch Symptom Since SNMP trap is not coming for Chasis ip address we cant get any notification for Chasis IP like call home etc Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 92 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000248226 Technical Severity Medium Summary Required detailed error description while the port enable disable fails Symptom When port disable enable command fails will see brief message indicating failure Feature 8G Platform Services Function Partition Management Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000250031 Technical Severity Medium Summary man page on fcoelogingroup create xxx should replace allow all by allowall Symptom Help page reference for fcoelogingroup create xxx may not be up to date Feature Man Pages Function Edit Correction New Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee SS I IIIi Defect ID DEFECT00024
136. dium Summary internal routes are not being configured Symptom Customer observed FAILED Reason ROUTE_ABSENT in the RTE log Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID 372777 Defect ID DEFECT000236299 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port state mismatch on internal copper ports on Embedded platforms between switchshow and portcfgshow s PersistentDisable flag Symptom _ portcfgshow disable persistent disable state while port is enabled Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 346445 Defect ID DEFECT000245840 Technical Severity Medium Summary The Distribute Policy option is missing from the SCC and DCC tabs in web mgmt Symptom screenshot uploaded Feature WebMgmt Function ACL Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 aa ET Defect ID DEFECT000245609 Technical Severity Medium Summary Supportshow cli command output should complete without having to hit CR several times Symptom Supportshow output requires user intervention during output Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security authentication Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Symptom After GE port enable lun state may not get changed Found in Release FOS62 0 fee eee Defect ID DEFECT000235486 Technical Severity Mediu
137. dmin GUI Window After removing a blade other than FCoE10 24 from the chassis CEE tab disappears Symptom User cannot use CEE interfaces even though FCoE10 24 is present in the chassis after removing any other blade Workaround Close the existing port admin window and open a new port admin window Feature WebMgmt Function Ports Admin Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 fe ee Defect ID DEFECT000260538 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch Admin Trunking tab does not display the ICL s trunk Link where as CLI trunkshow shows even if license is not installed Symptom GUI will not show trunking information if trunking license is not installed Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Se e Symptom After config download license consumed shows as 0 for some of the slot based licenses Found in Release FOS63 0 o oo d O Defect ID DEFECT000260636 Technical Severity Medium Summary Frustatuschanged trap with frustatus as faulty is not generated when an FRU goes faulty Symptom Customer will not be informed with a trap when an FRU goes to Faulty state Workaround No Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 56 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 oe Defect ID DEFECT000260672 Technical Severity Medium Summary _ Stress to Fail For long running power cycle test once noticed faulty 21 on FX8 24
138. e Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 0 y Defect ID DEFECT000237866 Technical Severity Medium Summary Getting ms_ficon errors on console of core DCX in Mcdata NI after reboots Symptom After a switch reboot a customer may see FICON related error messages on switch console in inter op mode only Feature FICON Function MS FICON Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 eooo Defect ID DEFECT000238371 Technical Severity Medium Summary configdownload fails with Lsan tag download failed Duplicate tag lt tagname gt when enforce and speed tag names overlab Symptom If a customer does a configdownload to restore his lsan tags it fails if there is a enforce tag and speed tag with the same name overlap Workaround Use CLI to add the tag names back onto the FCR switch Feature 8G FCR Function FCR Daemon Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 E Defect ID DEFECT000237930 Technical Severity Medium Summary In IM2 mode FC address is shown without offset in switch html and portshow cli but shown with offset in switchshow Symptom Cosmetic issue where a user will see a different Port ID in WT DCFM Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 ee Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 109 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237798 Technical Seve
139. e Notes 1 0 Page 94 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000252945 Technical Severity Medium Summary lun state shows target offline after disconnect reconnected both initiator and target Symptom LUN state show invalid status Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fs SF Defect ID DEFECT000251170 Technical Severity Medium Summary Container s for hp4100 not ready for discoverLUN Symptom After completing crypto configuration some hosts may not be ready for Discover LUN operation Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Symptom Users may see CVLCd crash while creating containers Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 f 2 Defect ID DEFECT000253356 Technical Severity Medium Summary FOS 6 2 Radius Calling station ID 31 implementation is used for both device called by and workstation called from hostname IP address Symptom FOS 6 2 Radius Calling station ID 31 implementation is used for both device called by and workstation called from hostname IP address The radius calling station ID 31 should be used only for the hostname Ip address from where the requested is made workstation called from e g workstation and a second attribute CALLED station ID 30 should be used to identify the device that is called by the user device called by e g swi
140. e a Tomahawk from v6 2 0c_rc1_bld04 to v6 2 0c_rc1_bld05 returned cannot get shared lock on database Symptom FirmwareDownload fails between two internal builds of v6 2 0c Feature Infrastructure Function Firmware Download Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000242894 Technical Severity Medium Summary FOS AG Device not sending RPL to 110k Symptom 110k not able to recieve RPL from FOS Switch Feature Access Gateway Services Function Platform Other Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000242879 Technical Severity Medium Summary FC8 48 blade becomes faulty 51 upon stress testing w POST enabled on DCX 4S Symptom Customer may experience blade fault with reason 51 Feature Diagnostics Function Post Diags Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000243612 Technical Severity Medium Summary Create iSCSI Zone tab does not create the default iSCSI zone instead takes the old iSCSI zone information even 1f it is deleted Symptom ISCSI zone tab does not default tab Workaround CLI Feature WebMgmt Function iSCSI Support Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000243231 Technical Severity Medium Summary FR4 18i blade in DCX chassis got Faulty 51 after firmawaredownload of v6 2 0c_rc1_bld07
141. e fabric EOSn count matches FOS nameserver count Workaround No Feature FC Services Function FDMI Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000256657 Technical Severity High Summary FCIP VE port Fast recovery does not handle pure out of order packets Symptom A partial fast recovery will generate and retransmit from the head of queue This can cause multiple retransmissions and duplicate ACKs when only one is required Feature Field Escalation Function FCIP Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 383649 Defect ID DEFECT000252471 Technical Severity High Summary Firmwarecommit failed on Active CP with missing etc fabos skm IngrianNAE properties Symptom This problem is specific to BES and FS8 18 while upgrade to FOSv6 2 0c or later patches missing etc fabos skm IngrianNAE properties Firmware commit operation failed on active CP Primary filesystem is inconsistent Run firmwarerestore to restore the original firmware or contact your service provider for recovery 0x25 Workaround Execute the following commands on both Active and Standby CPs after the problem has occured cp etc fabos skm IngrianNAE properties template etc fabos skm IngrianN AE properties firmwarecommit Function Firmware Download Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 380429 Defect ID DEFECT000256968 Technical Severit
142. e 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 conVsupport oscd Export of technical data contained in this document may require an export license from the United States Government Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 2 of 161 Contents Document History ciiiiscivsnsce SadeidsseevteastaceidsaverseadecnteiasavdeasedecavasassvacseddacnCeaaesudaduadevevaatsauacduaders Gadasauseduadevacesaiannve 1 OV OR VIC E AATE O 5 New Feature Descriptions iiccsiitesctenctaacespeceseaestcaacervaaareneobecaceevadavecausdedeesvarsdageuccaueeeasdeTageuaceteaevavadagtuccdiaacbeinaade 6 FCIP EnhanCe ments rsisi neii rai shia oR E AANO E cv Ss ESE AENEA NEA cai elev R ESEE 6 FCR Enhancements asraon earn EE O S En E E E suedees E O E E Or LE EEE rK EE EEA TESS 7 Adaptive Networking Enhancements cceescessccesseeesnecesseeesneeesaeessneeesaecssaeeesaeessaeeeaecesneeeaeesaeeeaecesaesenaeeesaeeesaes 7 Enhanced Native Connectivity with MCDATA Product 0 ec eceeceeecceseeeseceseeesecececseeeaecnaecnaecseesseeeseeeseseaeseaeeaesaes 8 CEE F COE
143. e of 48K DCX DCX 4S DCX DCX 4S Comments Blade 200 240 VAC 110VAC 200 240 VAC Redundant Redundant Redundant configurations configurations configurations FC 4 16 FC Port Blade 2 Power Supplies R Power Supplies 2 Power Supplies Distribute the Power 4 32 FC 4 Supplies evenly to 2 48 FC 8 16 different AC connections FC 8 32 for redundancy FC10 6 FC Port Blade 4 Power Not Supported 2 Power Supplies 8 48 Supplies FR4 183 4 Power Not Supported 2 Power Supplies FC4 16IP Supplies Not Supported DCX 2 or 4 Power For DCX with three or Supplies more FS8 18 Blades FCOE10 24 2 2 220VAC Power Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 18 of 161 configurations configurations configurations Supplies are required for DCX 4S 2 Power ee er Supplies For DCX with one or two FS8 18 Blades 2 220VAC Power Supplies are required for redundancy For DCX 4S 2 220VAC Power Supplies provide redundant configuration with any number of FS8 18 Blades For both DCX and DCX 4S with FX8 18 blades 1 1 220VAC Power Supplies are required for redundancy Note the iSCSI FC4 16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX DCX 4S Blades Type of 48K DCX DCX 4S DCX DCX 4S Comments Blade 200 240 VAC 110VAC 200 240 VAC Redundant Redundant Redundant FOS Feature Compatibility in Native Connectivity Modes Some FOS features are not fully supported when operating in the native connectivity modes for deployment
144. e user to provide valid input Feature Data Security Function CLI Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ies See Defect ID DEFECT000238921 Technical Severity Medium Summary High Availability User is able to change the desired distance for long distance LO User should not be able to change the Desired distance if the Long distance value is LO It should always be N A for LO Symptom User should not be able to change the Desired distance if the Long distance value is LO It should always be N A for LO Feature WebMgmt Function High Availability Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237611 Technical Severity Medium Summary After firmware upgrade FC FastWrite traffic sometimes fails Symptom User will notice FC FastWrite traffic failure Feature FCIP Function FCIP Port Probability Medium Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS62 0 a ts Defect ID DEFECT000244898 Technical Severity Medium Summary A few VERIFY are dump out on BB DCX and FR4 18i EX port stuck without showing switch name of the edge fabric switch etc during edge switch firmwareupgrade Symptom VERIFY shown on BB switch Feature Legacy FCR 7500 FR4 18i Function FCR Port Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 E Defect ID DEFECT000245851 Technical Severity Medium Summary FMS mode should be blocked when a logical switch is i
145. ead Symptom Brocade FS8 18 will not be operational and will need to be recovered Crypto operations on faulted blade will stop Feature Data Security Function HA Cluster Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_ene eee Defect ID DEFECT000230885 Technical Severity Medium Summary Observed CRITICAL while switch was coming up after hareboot on Viking Symptom After HAReboot custmoers may see few RASLOG messages indicating Critical failure Feature CEE Infrastructure Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cce ss Symptom FCoE ports in switchshow output is too long Probability High Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cce aS Defect ID DEFECT000206760 Technical Severity Medium Summary If user selects authentication type as all in interop modes the default authentication type is still FCAP between FOS switches Symptom Authentication will fail between two FOS switches in interop mode if the authentication type is set to all FCAP requires PKI certificates and the PKI commands are currently blocked in interop modes Workaround csv file related changes are checked in by the CLI gatekeeper so resolving this TR Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 fee OOS SOS Defect ID DEFECT000231082 Technical Severity Medium Summary Fabric watch is allows setting of the Traits and Alarm configura
146. eared on Brocade 5120 units after power cycle Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 85 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom Running power cycles several times and confirmed the error message below The error message is as follows HIL 1610 27 WARNING Brocade5100 Fan PS unit not supplying power fan speeds not available Please ensure that the unit has power and the switch is on Workaround Ignore the warning it is innocuous when seen right at boot up time It results from a solitary spurious sensor reading that is below minimum Feature Field Escalation Function EM Hil Sysctrl Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID 390231 Defect ID DEFECT000260194 Technical Severity Medium Summary DCX High temperature and bad sensor reported on two DCX Symptom Temperature sensor reporting spurious solitary readings which leads to the CRITICAL HIL 1502 message without having first gone through the HIL 1501 warning Workaround Ignore isolated spurious High Temperature CRITICAL errors when not preceeded by warnings Feature Field Escalation Function EM Hil Sysctrl Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID 384655 Symptom From management application can t get F Port Trunk data CLI works Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 o Defect ID DEFECT000258565 Technical Severity Medium S
147. ease FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000239536 Technical Severity Medium Summary SNMP variable swFirmwareVersion return errors Symptom If we use HP openview or AdventNet Mib Browser to verify swFirmwareVersion we will get the errors return Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Other Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 0_utah Defect ID DEFECT000212823 Technical Severity Medium Summary Lost telnet connectivity to 5470 Blazer3 altogether after enabling and then disabling DHCP on the switch The MM is not handling the DHCP assignment properly Symptom Steps to reproduce 1 Thru the telnet window Turned on DHCP using the ipaddrset CLI command 2 Lost the telnet session 3 Thru the console turn off DHCP using the ipaddrset CLI command 4 Lost telnet connectivity to the switch forever Not able to Feature Embedded Function Platform Reason Code Not a Defect Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 0_emb Defect ID DEFECT000240176 Technical Severity Medium Summary Pre_Discovery DCX member crashed and its FS8 18 EE in Faulty state when mace GL rebooted Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 152 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom DCX switch crash and FS8 18 blade turns to faulty when the group leader node reboots in an Encryption Group Feature Data Security Function HA Cluster Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low
148. ease FOS6 2 0 Re Defect ID DEFECT000239264 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade 5410 HCL from FOS v6 2 0 to v6 2 0a causes internal Fports become No Sync and E Ports become In Sync Symptom On Non distruptive upgrade from FOS 6 2 0 to FOS 6 2 0a internal F ports will become No Sync and E ports will be in In Sync Feature FC Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 a aa Defect ID DEFECT000237993 Technical Severity High Summary Switchdisabling all switches in the fabric causing all 48K chassis switches Out of Memory Killed process 2337 iswitchd Symptom Ina large fabric with 50 switches when all the switches are disabled the 48000 switch in the fabric may see out of memory messages Feature 8G FCR Function FCR Daemon Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000238250 Technical Severity High Summary License problem observed after configdownload and QoS license was checked for 4G platforms at CLI Symptom License database can be corrupted after configdonwload and can not be added back 4G platform can disable QoS but cannot enable QoS without license Feature Field Escalation Function OS Infrastructure Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000239668 Technical Severity High Summary Unable to configure port s using configdownload Symptom Unable to configure ports using configdownload
149. ease Notes 1 0 Page 133 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237625 Technical Severity Medium Summary IO sync link is offlined when connecting to Ethernet port GE 1 Symptom When GEO link of IO sync link is offline during boot up and if only GE1 has cable connected whole IO sync link is down and results in failure to start the rekey or first time encryption operations Feature Data Security Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Service Request ID 358577 Defect ID DEFECT000236581 Technical Severity Medium Summary RTWR is seen on front domain created between base switch and logical switch via VEX VE connection Symptom Fabirc cannot form properly and results in RTWR retries Workaround portdisable enable to recover from this condition Feature FCIP Function FCIP ASIC SW Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000224631 Technical Severity Medium Summary Parent Defect 224586 CALD crash observed on a 48000 target switch with FOS 6 1 0b in a longevity test execution and consecutive login call failed Symptom In stress to fail scenario user may see CALD process termination Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Function Other Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237364 Technical Severity Medium Summary Inv
150. ecseesseecsseeaeceasceaeseeeeneeeseenaees 21 SAS Version Requirements for FA4 18 and Brocade 7600 0 eee eeceeeceeeceeceseeseeeseeeseeesecsaecesesseesaeeeaeeeaeenaeees 22 Scalability scos inen os devegas E E sed oleae TEE R sug EEG Ceuaig Sole dade ss seveued eudevtes peseubene tees 22 Other Important Notes and Recommendations 0 0 0 eceeceeeesceeseeeseseceeeeeseeeseceaecesecseeeseeeseeeseseaesssesseeseeeaeseaeeeaeens 22 Documentation Updates aah iraa eaaa a a Saa D Ea a aeaa aaar aaa a E seeeeeeseeengaseseeeeeeseesagsseceeeeeeseessaeseeeeeneeseeenas 34 Brocade Fabric OS Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001336 01 ccccccssscceseseeeeessneeeessseeeess 34 Brocade FICON Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001348 01 cceccscccesseecesssteeeeesneeeessteeeess 35 Blade and Filler Panel Replacement Procedure Publication No 53 0001305 02 00 eeeesceeesteceseeceeeeeeneeeeneeeees 36 Brocade 7800 Extension Switch Hardware Reference Manual Publication 53 1001350 01 eceeeseeeesseeees 36 Combined Power Supply and Fan Assembly Replacement Procedure Publication Number 53 1000856 02 36 Brocade DCX Backbone Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000685 10 ecesceceseeeees 36 Brocade DCX 4S Backbone Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1001191 05 eee 37 Brocade 48000 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000645 06 ccsccccsssseceeesteeesste
151. ect ID DEFECT000237634 Technical Severity Medium Summary Error message may be seen on console under heavy utilization of interface to key vault Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 129 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom Software VERIFY error may be seen on the Console of BES or DCX DCX 4S with FS8 18 blades when under heavy stress of key vault interface due to slow Key Vault response This error is harmless and key retrieval operations are retried upon timeout There is no loss of loss of encryption service Feature Data Security Function Key Vault Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000237702 Technical Severity Medium Re key starts and host IO is blocked on failover failback with mis matched time on EE nodes Symptom The re key is unexpected as it s prior to the expiration period and the host cannot read write to the LUN causing the host to mark the LUN offline The time out of sync is greater than the enable_rekey value I O is running to a multipathed LUN and there is a failover The I O continues on the failed over path and re key is correctly not started The LUN is then failed back to the original path I O halts as re key starts unexpectedly on this original path The host times out the I O The LUN does not re fail over to the alternate path and the host marks the LUN offline Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Low Risk of Fix
152. ect ID DEFECT000244257 Technical Severity Medium Summary After systemverification test failure incorrect message is printed in raslog Symptom POST tests failed messages are seen in raslog instead of System verification tests failed Feature Field Escalation Function Diagnostics Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 l Defect ID DEFECT000241472 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 141 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary ag show command may not show IP_addr of Fabric switch after swapping an N port from a switch to another switch port Symptom ag show doesn t show IP_addr of fabric switch that the AG is connected to when an NPort cable is removed from a one fabric switch to another After portdisable portenable the proper IP address will be displayed Feature Access Gateway Services Function CLI Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0_emb Defect ID DEFECT000238314 Technical Severity Medium Summary AG cold failover may not happen within the Port group when trunked N ports are first split into different PGs and then brought back into same PG Symptom AG 5450 cold failover may not happen within the Port group when an Nport is brought online after number of disruptive tests as part of negative testing The Nport is part of a trunk group the N ports are split into different port
153. ed Fault only observed when all port blades are 8G 48 port blades Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 97 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG LO ee Defect ID DEFECT000239082 Technical Severity Medium Summary Deleted offline inactive device using zone validate window in EZmanager is not replicated in CLI Symptom Zone changes from EZ manager is not getting reflected in CLI for offline inactive devices Feature WebMgmt Function Web Tools EZ Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 er Defect ID DEFECT000248920 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade Encryption Switch and FS8 18 does not support encrypted LUNs gt 2TB Symptom Would not be able to add disk LUNs larger than 2TB to any CTC Workaround No Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000242647 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch Admin Proper error message should pop up when disabling of FCoE in a VLAN fails Symptom User will not know why FCoE didnt get disabled for the particular VLAN Workaround User will have to view the switch events to know the reason for failure Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Admin Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee pe O Defect ID DEFECT000257554 Techni
154. edium Summary iSCSI sessions are not getting deleted when delete button is clicked from iSCSI initiator tab Symptom unable to delete the iSCSI sessions from GUI Workaround CLI can be used to delete the sessions or sessions can be terminated from the host Feature iSCSI Function ISCSI CLI Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000239785 Technical Severity Medium Summary Ina global configuration the appropriate error is not displayed when the system name is entered followed by spaces symbols amp and numerics Symptom Long property name error is displayed instead of appropriate warning not to use certain characters Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Admin Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000243398 Technical Severity Medium Summary rtedebug s p v fail on 48000 after hafailover due to Extraneous path to dst node inst 178 found in RTE and Extraneous path to dst node inst 186 found in RTE Symptom No functional impact from the extraneous path displayed in rtedebug Feature 4G Platform Services Function Routing Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000244243 Technical Severity Medium Summary FWDL repeatedly between v6 2 0 and v6 1 1_enc2 found switch and EE came back Online but found many errors BUSW 5005 0 CRITICAL BES_125 usWD SWD_IOCTL_RE
155. ee 6 1 standby CP reboot After the reboot it will be working fine and firmware upgrade will continue Workaround System will recover and no workaround is needed Feature Infrastructure Function HA Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000234865 Technical Severity Medium Summary On embedded platform 5424 occasionally internal ports connected to an 8G HBA set to N8 auto negotiates to a lower speed after rebooting Symptom On Brocade 5424 embedded platforms the speed negotiation may not succeed at 8G In that case the port will renegotiate to lower speeds which eventually may be successful Workaround Disable the affected port and re enable it Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function GE2 ASIC ports Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000230960 Technical Severity Medium Summary In Access Gateway AG cascading setup connected to Cisco fabric after failover has occurred on core AG NPIV F_Port doesn t display all the logins in switchshow output on core AG 5100 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 144 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom It was observed that in AG cascading setup connected to Cisco fabric with AG 5100 as core AG and 300 as edge AG after failover has occurred on core AG NPIV F_Port doesn t display all the logins in switchshow output on core AG 5 100 Workaround use por
156. eeess 38 Fabric OS MIB Reference Publication Number 53 1001339 O01 cceecsccccssssccesesseeeeesneeeesseeeessneeeeesseeesseteeeens 38 Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Publication Number 53 1001337 01 cccsccccssseceeeetteeeeesneeeessteeeess 38 DGPOCIS sc cciectensccdchicihusecanbiesadeaeuvancenacevahanetevacauadecahadetvetentcceahodersvantstaecstadetavetensdassdsaetesdcerddudedeausvsnnanauueteaace 39 Open Defects 1n Fabric OS V6 3 0 sis esse c cdeviscevegesdescacuanveussubsesedeviss etude EE N a iS NSE E a EA E i SEENE 39 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 3 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS V6 3 0 oe ecceccecesscesecesecesecesecseeeseesecesecssecesesseecseeeaeeeaecnaeseaeceeeseeeasennees 62 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS V6 3 0 ooo cece eeeeseceseesceeseceecesecsseseeecseesseceaeceaecaeeseeeaeeeaeeeaeseaesseeaes 132 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 4 of 161 Overview Brocade Fabric OS v6 3 0 supports the following new hardware platforms e Brocade FX8 24 Next Generation distance extension blade for the DCX and DCX 4S o Supports 12 FC ports operating at 1 2 4 8 Gbps 10 x 1GbE ports and 2 x 10 GbE ports GbE ports require 4Gb Brocade branded SFPs and 10GbE ports require 10GbE Brocade branded SFPs e Brocade 7800 Next Generation distance extension platform for FCIP applications o Supports 16 FC ports at 1 2 4 8 Gbps and 6 x 1GbE optical ports user can select either copper or optical i
157. een Brocade Encryption Switch in HA cluster while running online rekeying may cause data miscompare Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 368785 Defect ID DEFECT000243 152 Technical Severity High Summary Encryption group can t automatically recover after it is split into 2 different islands Symptom Encryption group fails to recover when splitted into two groups Feature Data Security Function HA Cluster Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 302186 Defect ID DEFECT000243280 Technical Severity High Summary Firmwaredownload failed on DCX Symptom In rare cases firmwaredownload on a DCX may not get completed Feature FICON Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fd Defect ID DEFECT000243229 Technical Severity High Summary Pending Merge Host throughput drops 75 when rekey is started Symptom Host throughput drops 75 when re key is started for a LUN Re key takes up to 40 times longer than offline re key with 1 3Gbps Host I O running Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability High Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee OOOSOSOSOSOSOS Sl Defect ID DEFECT000244009 Technical Severity High Summary All LUNs in a container are showing target offline Symptom Host will no longer have access to their LUNs through the crypto target
158. elerator for FICON This license enables unique FICON emulation support for IBM s Global Mirror formerly XRC application including Hitachi Data Systems HXRC and EMC s XRC as well as Tape Pipelining for all FICON tape and virtual tape systems to significantly improve XRC and tape backup recovery performance over virtually unlimited Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 8 of 161 distance for 7500 upgraded 7500E and FR4 18i e Brocade Fabric Watch Monitors mission critical switch operations Fabric Watch also includes Port Fencing capabilities e FICON Management Server Also known as CUP Control Unit Port enables host control of switches in Mainframe environments e ICL 16 link or Inter Chassis Links This license provides dedicated high bandwidth links between two Brocade DCX chassis without consuming valuable front end 8Gb ports Each chassis must have the 16 link ICL license installed in order to enable the full 16 link ICL connections Available on the DCX only previously known as simply the ICL License for DCX e ICL 8 Link or Inter Chassis Links This license activates all eight links on ICL ports on a DCX 4S chassis or half of the ICL bandwidth for each ICL port on the DCX platform by enabling only eight links out of the sixteen links available This allows users to purchase half the bandwidth of DCX ICL ports initially and upgrade with an additional 8 link license to utilize the full ICL ba
159. en new N_Ports are detected o Added option to disable Auto Rebalancing of logins when fewer F_Ports are detected o Added optional support for persistent ALPA assignment Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 5 of 161 o APC now auto detects connection to M series switch as N_Port connection e Encryption Platform Enhancements o System Card support Quorum card support for multi admin based authorization of sensitive operations Thales Encryption Manager for Storage key management support HP tape encryption support Support for multipath through a single EE encryption engine Support for Host Clustering Applications and VMware ESX Server Key vault Credentials support for SKM HA clustered key vault support for e NetApp LKM Appliances e HP SKM Appliances e EMC RSA RKM Appliances OO lt 0 OLOO e FICON Enhancements o Blade based port swaps e Native Connectivity Enhancements o Support layer2 connectivity to M EOSn 239 DID Open Fabric Mode fabrics o Support layer2 connectivity to M EOSn c fabrics using non default DID base offset in McDATA or Open Fabric Mode e I2 Ethernet Feature Enhancements for Brocade 8000 FCOE10 24 o 802 1x o FIP VLAN Discovery e Miscellaneous o Persistent WWN based PID assignment Fabric Watch support for CPU and Memory utilization Support for additional 3 chassis ICL connection topologies Support for new 8 link half bandwidth ICL license on DCX Audit logs generated for additional CLI DCFM security configurat
160. en the zone commit fails Feature SAS Function DPC MANAGEMENT Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245828 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade Encryption Switch BES Faulty after power cycle Symptom Brocade Encryption switch become faulty and ports disabled Feature Data Security Function Platform Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245 120 Technical Severity Medium Summary supportsave file names all start with unknown instead of the switchname Symptom all supportsave file names start with unknown instead of the switchname Feature RAS Function FFDC Supportsave Reason Code Not a Defect Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000236485 Technical Severity Medium Summary PathInfo return output does not follow FSPF TI routes from perspective of inquiring F_Port Symptom Using CLI pathinfo from an inquiring F_Port that is running traffic over a TI enforced FSPF route yields a return route which does not follow the TI defined route Pathinfo output might not match TI path Workaround No workaround needed this condition does not impact TI operation Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Mgmt Server Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 l Defect ID DEFECT000256966 Technical Severity High Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 155 of
161. es Feature WebMgmt Function WT Platform Support Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000232767 Technical Severity Medium Summary SNMP changes required to better support snmp mib Symptom Default snmpv3 sets different default values between FOS releases mibcapability option of snmpconfig cannot control ficon mib Feature Field Escalation Function SNMP Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Coo a Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 128 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000226178 Technical Severity Medium Summary Rare Instances of warm recovery failure during upgrade due to small timing window in library used by some services Symptom This would prevent the CP from coming fully up and online Workaround An additional reboot or hafailover Feature High Availability Function Director HA Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ed Defect ID DEFECT000234760 Technical Severity Medium Summary Fabstateshow log wrapping overwrites useful fabstate data on Brocade switch when interoping with McData switches Symptom In interop mode the fabstateshow log wraps in a very short time where without interop this log contains weeks and sometimes months of data Feature Field Escalation Function Fabric Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 _
162. essage appears in serial console when switchcfgspeed 2G or 4G is run Feature Embedded Function Platform Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0_emb fe Defect ID DEFECT000241581 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port statistics details are not getting refreshed for EX ports Symptom Port statistics information should be refreshed every 15 30 45 sec for all the ports But it is not happening for Ex ports Feature WebMgmt Function FCR Admin Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a aE Defect ID DEFECT000248644 Technical Severity Medium Summary Web Tools Switch Admin QoS User defined priority group 0 7 does not show up in the drop down for priority group id Symptom User cannot map user defined priority group to a Class of Services CoS Workaround Use CLI to map user defined priority group to a CoS Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Admin Probability High et a of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000244367 Technical Severity Medium S Summary BR300 returned to me the invalid value when I got swFCPortFlag MIB object from BR300 on SNMP manager Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 90 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom According to FOSv6 1 0 MIB Reference Manual 53 1000602 02 swFCPortFlag returns two value Those are virtual 0 and physical 1 However BR300 did not return to me the virtua
163. everity High Summary In B2E routed environment when user executes Pathinfo command in BB querying for xlate domain the switch may panic Symptom User may observe Detected termination of fspfd0 1013 1 after executing pathinfo command Feature FC Services Function FSPF Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe OoOO Defect ID DEFECT000237701 Technical Severity High Summary Observed kernel panic on a DCX in RTE module Symptom DCX will panic and hafailover during supportsave in rare occasions Feature Field Escalation Function FC Layer 2 Routing Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID 0 Defect ID DEFECT000239111 Technical Severity High Summary Switches leaking memory slowly over extended period while being managed by DCFM Symptom Switches will loose free memory slowly when being monitored by DCFM over an uninterrupted lengthy period of time Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function Switch Admin Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 e OOO Defect ID DEFECT000239029 Technical Severity High Summary 0 weblinker fcg 5101 during codeload from build 38 to RC1 Symptom May see weblinker process termination when doing firmware upgrade Feature WebMgmt Function Firmware Download Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 65 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Rel
164. everity Medium Summary F Port mode Top talker monitor and EE monitor may not show the counters reliably after the fid change Symptom TX RX counter values are not correct in Top Talker monitor and EE monitor are not correct after FID change Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 50 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Workaround Delete the monitors before FID change After the change add the filters back Feature Performance Monitor Function EE monitor Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 aan eee Defect ID DEFECT000256446 Technical Severity Medium Summary bottleneck state may be reported on a port after switch disable enable with no traffic running Symptom Incorrect bottleneck state detected after switchdisable enable Feature FC Services Function Bottleneck Management Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 pe ee Defect ID DEFECT000257274 Technical Severity Medium Summary Configdownload is successful with invalid SNMP v1 v3 trap recipients Symptom Invalid SNMP v1 v3 trap recipients configuration downloaded onto switch and SNMP trap will not be sent Workaround User could validate the IP address before setting as trap recipient Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 eS a ee ___ Defect ID DEFECT000257628 Technical Severity Medium Summary Able to set keyvault to NCKA nCipher Key Vault when the member node is on 6 2 0 Symptom Until BES is upgraded
165. expected Symptom Cannot perform HA Sync operation from WebTools Workaround Use hasyncstart from CLI Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 eS Defect ID DEFECT000235157 Technical Severity Medium Summary Public Private keys are not copied during HA failover Symptom When failover happens password less SCP cannot be used from the switch However SCP with passwords can be used Workaround Use SCP with passwords or if password less SCP is to be used generate a key pair for SSH outgoing authentication from the switch or The workaround was to do the following hadisable sshutil delprivkey sshutil delpubkeys haenable Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security other Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 0 pe Defect ID DEFECT000235184 Technical Severity Medium Summary Occasionally after a firmwaredownload or an HA failover on a chassis system users will notice a message on standby CP console cannot create symbolic link etc localtime to usr share zoneinfo Symptom This message is seen on STANDBY CP When the message is observed customer might notice that time zone on standby is different from what it is on active There will not be any impact on the switch functionality Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability Medium Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS62 0 fe l Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 123 of 161
166. fo Defect ID DEFECT000248 165 Technical Severity High Summary During stress test overnight run of rekey and ISL disable enable the test tool exited on write failure to encrypted LUNs Symptom During a stress test run of rekey ISL disable enable the test tool running on a host in the fabric due to write failure to three drives A second host writing to the same targets did not encounter this issue Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 pe l Defect ID DEFECT000236764 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade Encryption Switch BES goes to faulty state after test cycle that alternately reboots each BES in the configuration every 5 minutes Symptom BES goes to faulty state after the weekend run that alternately reboots each BES in the configuration every 5 minutes Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Service Request ID 356483 Defect ID DEFECT000247365 Technical Severity High Summary cp in slot 5 set defaulty Symptom A software fault on a 48K switch may result in CP to get faulted Feature Field Escalation Function OS Linux Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 1 Service Request ID 374435 Defect ID DEFECT000253 164 Technical Severity High Summary Mixing FibreChannel FastWrite FCFW and Non FCFW flows can cause deam entries to not be set correctly Symptom Whe
167. formation shown in DCFM Feature FC Services Function Fabric Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000222780 Technical Severity Medium Summary The WWN sent via SNMP when the port is segmented due to interopmode mismatch may be incorrect Symptom Incorrect WWN maybe returned for the connUnitLinkPortWwnY and because of that EFCM may showing wrong connection Workaround No Feature FC Services Function Fabric Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT000218672 Technical Severity Medium Summary ipc error and software verify error detected on M5424 running in switch mode when a new Admin Domain is created and an existing cfg is disabled in one of the existing AD Symptom When anew Admin Domain is added to an existing AD database error ipc failed 5 is detected and the new AD does not get added Feature Embedded Function FC Service Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0_emb Defect ID DEFECT000229982 Technical Severity Medium Summary Embedded Access Gateway AG switches F_Port doesn t get online after its configured N_Port with failbackdisable and preferred N_Port are online Symptom It was observed that on embedded AG switches F_Port doesn t become online after its configured N_Port with failbackdisable and preferred N_Port are online Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Note
168. forming non disruptive firmware upgrade Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237292 Technical Severity Medium Summary portloopbacktest failure with error DIAG TIMEOUT observed during SystemVerification test on an FC4 16IP SCSI blade Symptom FA4 16IP Blade fails SystemVerification Diagnostics with error code DIAG TIMEOUT Workaround slotPowerOff slotPowerOn the failing blade will recover to normal operation Feature Diagnostics Function Other Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000216874 Technical Severity Medium Summary NI EFCM Fabric Binding Activation Failure for 7600 in Mixed Fabric Symptom Unable to acrtivate fabric binding from EFCM or EWS for mixed fabric in interopmode 2 when 7600 is attached Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238019 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch routes class 2 ELS to a device from which it is excluded by hard zoning in a IM2 fabric when the device resides in the McDATA default zone Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 146 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom IFCC for ELS timeout when channel attempts class 2 connection to a device from which it i
169. g Fabric mode TopTalkers the flow values are not reliable Symptom Switching from EE or F_Port TT to Fabric mode TT will show inaccurate flow values Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Probability Low Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000240658 Technical Severity Medium Summary HA Failover on DCX caused Need to reboot the system for recovery reason System bring up timed out Symptom Customers switch reboots Workaround Need to mannually block unblock a E port to rebuild fabric Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS620 fe Defect ID DEFECT000243292 Technical Severity Medium Summary In Access gateway mode Port swap and Enable Disable NPIV option is enabled in Webtools Symptom Port swap and Enable Disable NPIV option will be enabled via UI Feature WebMgmt Function AG Support Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 an Defect ID DEFECT000243244 Technical Severity Medium Summary As DCFM polling LUNs the memory usage for weblinker is increased Symptom Memory consumption goes high Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 99 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Feature Data Security Function Infrastructure Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 pe Defect ID DEFECT000243402 Technical Severity Medium Summary FDMI fdmid cra
170. g and not make progress Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000246419 Technical Severity High Summary In an atypical test configuration system reboot observed on one of two Brocade 8000s configured as point to point FC connections Symptom After an fcoelogingroup was created on the first switch the feoelogingroup was not observed on the second switch Following the fcoelogincfg disable command the second system rebooted After proper reconfiguration this reboot is not reproducible Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE Daemon Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee pas Defect ID DEFECT000246149 Technical Severity High Summary Port Fencing E port Class Link Resets are not fencing Symptom RASLOG message will be presented indicating link resets are above threshold but the port will not have been fenced as expected Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Fabric Watch Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 _ Defect ID DEFECT000249647 Technical Severity High Summary There is a small timing window that devices might send PLOGI earlier than route is setup and cause PLOGI drop in single switch fabric Symptom Host cannot talk to target Feature 8G Platform Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 376065 Defect ID DEFECT0002
171. g requires the optional Advanced Extension license New Advanced Compression capabilities on the 7800 allow the FC data frames to be compressed on a per tunnel basis before they are sent over the tunnel as FCIP frames The FC command frames and all the frames that are generated from or destined for the control processor are not compressed even when compression is enabled on a tunnel The uncompressed and compressed packets and bytes are counted and maintained on a per tunnel basis The compression ratio can be found for a given polling interval by reading the number of compressed and uncompressed bytes The compression is performed by the hardware on a frame by frame basis and is performed on FC data frames in the ingress direction before they are encapsulated as FCIP frames New Adaptive Rate Limiting ARL on the FX8 24 and 7800 allows an FCIP tunnel connection to dynamically change the rate at which the tunnel transmits data through the TCP connection s ARL will use the information from the TCP connection s to determine and adjust the rate limit for the FCIP tunnel dynamically This allows FCIP connections to utilize the maximum available bandwidth ARL requires the optional Advanced Extension license FCR Enhancements EX Port trunking was initially introduced in the FOS v5 2 0 release However when a master EX Port within a trunk group goes offline a new area Master port needs to be selected this causes all slave EX Ports of that trunk gr
172. g up the RKM Appliance with BES or a DCX DCX 4S with FS8 18 blades is located in the Encryption Admin Guide Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 27 of 161 e Support for registering a 2nd RKM Appliance on BES FS8 18 is blocked If the RKM Appliances are clustered then the virtual IP address hosted by a 3rd party IP load balancer for the RKM Cluster must be registered on BES FS8 18 in the primary slot for Key Vault IP e With Windows and Veritas Volume Manager Veritas Dynamic Multipathing when LUN sizes less than 400MB are presented to BES for encryption a host panic may occur and this configuration is not supported for 6 2 release e HCL from FOS v6 2 x to v6 3 0 is supported Cryptographic operations and I O will be disrupted but other layer 2 traffic will not e Relative to the BES and a DCX with FS8 18 all nodes in the Encryption Group must be at the same firmware level of FOS v6 2 or v6 3 before starting a rekey or First Time Encryption operation Make sure that existing rekey or First Time Encryption operations complete before upgrading any of the encryption products in the Encryption Group Also make sure that the upgrade of all nodes in the Encryption Group to FOS v6 3 0 completes before starting a rekey or First Time Encryption operation e To cleanup the stale rekey information for the LUN follow one of the following two methods Method 1 e First modify the LUN policy from encrypt to cleartext and commit
173. gestion When bottleneck monitoring is enabled and a switch detects a condition where the offered load exceeds the rate at which the destination device Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 7 of 161 can accept frames a RAS LOG message can be generated and the administrator can view historic statistics logs for the port to investigate the problem This new capability is considered part of the Adaptive Networking feature set but does not require a license This feature is available on all 4G and 8G capable ports Enhanced Native Connectivity with McDATA Products FOS based platforms operating in Interopmode 3 may now participate in Mil0k fabrics using 239 DID mode Previously connecting to such fabrics could only be done via FCR FOS based platforms operating in either Interopmode 2 or 3 may now participate in M EOS fabrics using non default DID Base Offset settings CEE FCoE Features 802 1X defines a client server based authentication protocol for port access control It forbids unknown unauthorized clients from connecting to an Ethernet network through publicly accessible ports The authentication server component of the system authenticates each client device or host connected to an authentication enabled network port Until the client is authenticated 802 1X allows only the authentication protocol traffic EAPOL on the connected port After the authentication is successful the port is opened for all network traffic FIP VLAN Discover
174. gh the message displays Current system running configuration is updated Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 89 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Workaround Do clean up before downloading a new CEE configuration 1 In cmsh run write erase to clear startup config 2 Reboot switch by running reboot on FOS prompt 3 In cmsh use copy command to copy backup configuration into running config Feature CEE MANAGEABILITY Function CLI Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee fe See eee Defect ID DEFECT000247893 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port Auto Disable Ports outside of given range are being enabled Symptom ports may get enabled outside of the range given Workaround Enable and disable port auto disable for ports one at a time Feature 8G Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Drivers Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000248900 Technical Severity Medium Summary IPv6 Address dropped from ag show Symptom The IPv6 Address isn t shown by ag show Workaround switchdisable enable causes the IPv6 Address again to be presented Feature Access Gateway Services Function CLI Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 aa Defect ID DEFECT000246164 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 5470 switchcfgspeed 2G or 4G caused debug messages to display on serial console Symptom Debug m
175. groups and then brought Feature Access Gateway Services Function CLI Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0_emb Defect ID DEFECT000245181 Technical Severity Medium Summary PLOGI request dropped when DID is CUP Symptom CUP PLOGI will be dropped on switch customer may see discovery issue Feature FICON Function Ficud Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245832 Technical Severity Medium Summary 48000 panic with Out of Memory during supportsave Symptom During supportSave 48000 with FC4 16IP blade panic because out of memory Feature iSCSI Function FC4 16IP Blade Driver Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000246334 Technical Severity Medium Summary firmware upgrade from v6 1 2 to v6 2 0d_rc1_bld04 FR4 18i loaded but failed to commit partition and failed slot firmwaredownload Symptom FR4 18i fail to commit v6 2 0d internal build to secondary partition Feature Infrastructure Function Firmware Download Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238063 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch Admin When user disables Login Management the View details option does not function in the FCoE login group Symptom User cannot view the member details when Login Management is disabled Workaround Use the CLI command fc
176. h 3 or more FS8 18 FX8 24 Blade supplies blades 2 2 220 VAC power FCOE10 supplies are required for 24 DCX 4S 2 power redundancy supplies For DCX with 1 or 2 FS8 18 blades 2 220 VAC power supplies are required for redundancy Brocade DCX 4S Backbone Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1001191 05 On page 94 in the Power specifications section add the following after table 20 Power supply requirements for blades in the Brocade DCX 4S Backbone chassis Blades Type of DCX 4S DCX 4S Comments Blade 110 VAC 200 240 VAC Redundant Redundant configurations configurations FC4 16 Port 2 power supplies 2 power supplies FC4 32 Blade FC4 48 FC8 16 FC8 32 FC10 6 Port Not supported 2 power supplies FC8 48 Blade FR4 183 Intelligent Not supported 2 power supplies FC4 16IP Blade FA4 18 FS8 18 Intelligent Not supported DCX 2 or 4 power For DCX 4S 2 220 VAC power supplies FX8 24 Blade supplies are required for redundancy for any number FCOE10 of FS8 18 blades 24 DCX A4S 2 power supplies For DCX 4S with FS8 18 blades 1 220 VAC power supply is required for redundancy Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 37 of 161 Brocade 48000 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000645 06 On page 76 in the Power specifications section add the following after table 4 Power supply requirements for blades in the Brocade
177. he session timeout values Workaround Close the WT and Open again from DCFM Found in Release FOS63 0 o o oo d O Defect ID DEFECT000261476 Technical Severity Medium Summary supportsave shows duplicate cmds output for same LS switches Symptom Duplicate command output shown for the same Logical switch shown in supportSave Feature Logical Fabric Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 as eee Defect ID DEFECT000261499 Technical Severity Medium Summary When using DCFM Port Indexes in TI Zones which are greater than 255 get changed in ActiveTIZone but remains the same in Defined TI Zones Symptom When creating and activating TI zones from DCFM if the port indexes are greater than 255 they are not reflected in the defined zone DB Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 59 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Feature FC Services Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 i Defect ID DEFECT000261595 Technical Severity Medium Summary fcipLinkRemfcipEntityWWN of fcipLinkTable do not return the Remote WWN configured Symptom The user will not get the remote WWN configured for the fcip tunnel when queried through SNMP Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Se Sea Defect ID DEFECT000261640 Technical Severity Medium Summary After firmware upgrade on DCX from v6 2 0e to v6 3 0_betal followed by switchdisable policy change and enabling some links RTWRs were observe
178. he the DEK cache key Workaround Disable the DEK cache and always use the key vault Feature Data Security Function Security Processor Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG L1 enc il Defect ID DEFECT000233571 Technical Severity Medium Summary Overnight run of HAfailover test in large fabric caused a panic on DCX Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 116 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom Panic on DCX after HAFailover Feature OS Services Function IP Admin Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 i Sere eee Defect ID DEFECT000229774 Technical Severity Medium Summary Webtools displays Brocade M5424 incorrectly as Brocade M5440 Symptom Webtools show Brocade M5424 as Brocade M5440 Feature Embedded Function Webtools Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0_emb OoOo OSSOS Defect ID DEFECT000239346 Technical Severity Medium Summary QoS can be disabled on ports on 4G platforms but then it cannot later be reenabled to run QoS Symptom Ona Brocade 48000 running FOS v6 1 0 code without a QoS license present the QoS can be disabled but then cannot be reenabled Feature Field Escalation Function OS Infrastructure Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG LO as Defect ID DEFECT000240311 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port Admin Port Swap does not warn the user the ports will be di
179. ic with VFenabled Feature FICON Function Other Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000215610 Technical Severity Medium Summary compatibility issue with extender product connects as a B_Port Symptom Only partial zoning database is merged with neighbor Feature Field Escalation Function Fabric Services Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000211550 Technical Severity Medium Summary Under some scenarios portcmd ipperf displays incorrect delay time in the IPv4 environment Symptom portcmd ipperf displays incorrect delay time in the IPv4 environment Workaround Try IPv6 addresses for ipperf Feature FCIP Function FCIP CLI Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235595 Technical Severity Medium Summary When user issues hafailover with FC4 16IP in system under rare circumstance user will notice iSCSI port bouncing Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 156 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom Customer would see the iSCSI port bouncing from enabled to disabled repeatedly as the port is going through restart multiple times before it gets enabled Customer would observe similar RASLOG message repeatedly if this condition is hit 2008 10 31 15 34 Workaround Issue slotpoweroff followed by slotpoweroff of FC4 16IP blade to reco
180. ical Fabrics that include switches that are not Virtual Fabrics capable it is possible to have two Logical Switches with different FIDs in the same fabric connected via a VF incapable switch Extra caution should be used to verify the FIDs match for all switches in the same Logical Fabric In order to support non disruptive Hot Code Load on a Brocade 5100 with VF enabled the total zoning DB size for the entire chassis should not exceed 1MB A switch with Virtual Fabrics enabled may not participate in a fabric that is using Password Database distribution or Administrative Domains The Virtual Fabrics feature must be disabled prior to deploying in a fabric using these features Virtual Fabrics is not supported on Brocade 7800 VF dedicated ISLs are supported on FX8 24 blade XISLs are not supported On a Brocade 5100 with Virtual Fabrics enabled ports may be re initialized causing frame drops during a hot code load if the switch has a zoning database that is 1MB or larger in size To prevent this from occurring ensure the zoning DB is less than 1MB when activating new firmware Licensing Behavior When operating a switch with Fabric OS v6 3 some licenses may display as Unknown This is due to changes in licensing requirements for some features that no longer require a license key that may still be installed on a switch If a Universal temporary license is enabled for a slot based license feature the license expiration date displays
181. ical Severity Medium Summary The command cryptocfg show container all stat does not display a LUN s updated status when the underlying zoning has changed Symptom LUN status is not accurately displayed by cryptocfg show when changes are made to underlying zoning Workaround Remove the container in addition to the Host Target regular zone when VI PT communication is not desired Feature FC Services Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1enc es ee Defect ID DEFECT000222397 Technical Severity Medium Summary When Replicate configuration fails due to some of the parameters DCFM does not list them in the summary message Symptom DCFM summary message does not list the parameters failed to download Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc _ Defect ID DEFECT000237453 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 44 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary Chassisname is not updated in errshow log Symptom After chassisname changes errorshow log still shows the original chassis name Feature Field Escalation Function OS Infrastructure Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 ee se et Si mcs a ni ees Defect ID DEFECT000238383 Technical Severity Medium Summary Multicast data traffic is not forwarded out of snooping mrouter port Symptom Incorrect multicast data traffic forward Feature CEE Protocol Function IGMP Sn
182. id Symptom SNMP object swFCPortPhyState is getting invalid value 11 Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe ee Defect ID DEFECT000242961 Technical Severity Medium Summary WWN mapping for certain storage systems is incorrect Symptom With FOS v6 2 x Web Tools reports a device incorrectly Feature WebMgmt Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 369495 Defect ID DEFECT000242877 Technical Severity Medium Summary RTWR max retries exhausted on DCX 4S after stress test with POST enabled Symptom RTWR messages may show up after series fof stress tests Feature Legacy FCR 7500 FR4 18i Function FCR Port Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000254095 Technical Severity Medium Summary If rekey process are started when a physical target of the backup EE is offline failover to that backup EE might not be possible even that physical target is brought back online later on Symptom Failover to backup Encryption Engine will not work Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Eee Defect ID DEFECT000250477 Technical Severity Medium Summary Passive path LUN gets stuck in not ready Get key from archive state Symptom When running a test case that periodically downs the link to the key vault the L
183. ide of the switch e Brocade 7600 On the bottom of the chassis e Brocade 7800 On the pull out tab on the front left side of the chassis underneath the serial console and Ethernet connection and on the bottom of the switch in a well on the left side underneath looking from front e Brocade 8000 On the switch ID pull out tab located inside the chassis on the port side on the left and also on the bottom of the chassis e Brocade 48000 Inside the chassis next to the power supply bays e Brocade DCX Bottom right of the port side e Brocade DCX 4S Back upper left under the power supply 3 World Wide Name WWN Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 13 of 161 When the Virtual Fabric feature is enabled on a switch each logical switch has a unique switch WWN Use the wwn command to display the switch WWN If you cannot use the wwn command because the switch is inoperable you can get the primary WWN from the same place as the serial number except for the Brocade DCX DCX 4S For the Brocade DCX access the numbers on the WWN cards by removing the Brocade logo plate at the top of the non port side The WWN is printed on the LED side of both cards 4 License Identifier License ID There is only one License Identifier associated with a physical switch or director backbone chassis This License Identifier is required as part of the ordering process for new FOS licenses Use the licenseId command to display the License
184. ies in local NS database are not consistent across a fabric Workaround Perform switchdisable enable on the affected switches Feature FC Services Probability High Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 0 eet ee Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 130 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000244617 Technical Severity Medium Summary Same device WWN is visiable in more than 2 fabric using VF function and VT not getting imported Symptom AIX host is seen twice in 2 different fabric where as it is connected to only one fabric Feature SAS Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000247897 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port Auto Disable Wrong message when disabling port auto disable Symptom Wrong message when disabling port auto disable Feature 8G Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Drivers Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 eS Defect ID DEFECT000236813 Technical Severity Medium Summary After few hafailovers FC fast write I O times out and a few unexpected frame drops are seen on to 2 ports out of 7 8 ports running Symptom I O Errors on FCFW enabled paths Workaround Disable FCFW feature or limit the number of HA Failover sequences to times when IO is not active Feature FCIP Function FCIP Port Probability Medium Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS62 0 pase Defect ID DEFECT00024 14
185. ind NSM Client issues Symptom Incorrect VR Bind UnBind informaiton sent Feature CEE Protocol Function NSM Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_ cee Defect ID DEFECT000207322 Technical Severity Medium Summary Unable to activate a large Zone Set from Web Tools when Defined and Effective are close to 1Mb Symptom Large zone set activations fails from Web Tools but works in CLI for FOS only Fabric in Interop mode Workaround Use CLI interface to activate a zone set of size close to IMB Feature FC Services Function Zoning Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000207 126 Technical Severity Medium Summary Invalid IPv6 iproute automatically gets created while creating an IP route Symptom May see an Invalid IPv6 iproute when routes configured are displayed Workaround Ignore the route table entry displayed Feature FCIP Function FCIP CLI Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237250 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 7600 running FOS v6 0 0b reboot of DPC2 in a third party instance will cause loss of visibility to certain disks Symptom Reboot of DPC2 in a certain third party instance will cause hosts connected to that third party instance to lose visibility to its disks Feature Field Escalation Function Scimitar Sabre Layer 2 Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Foun
186. ing after enabling FMSMODE for the first time switchdisable switchenable hafailover hareboot reboot Feature FICON Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee E Defect ID DEFECT000246343 Technical Severity High Summary Name Server daemon nsd panic occurs after enabling frame redirection Symptom With Redirection RD zone present in the fabric a cfgsave will cause zoning to push the effective zone database to nsd and a cfgenable will cause the push to happen again If cfgenable follows a cfgsave too close it s possible the two database pushes step on each other and may trigger an nsd panic Workaround Delay executing a cfgenable after a cfgsave when there is frame RD zone Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 373073 Defect ID DEFECT000250790 Technical Severity High Summary RTWR error when going to translate domain Symptom Numerous RTWRs will be observed Configuration specific condition happens when switch to switch NS frames are intended for the LE domain but use any valid F E port vs using the LE port ID Frame will be dropped vs being accepted or rejected which results in repeated RTWR attempts Feature Field Escalation Function FCR Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 378469 Defect ID DEFECT000245512 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade 7500 VE port doesn t recove
187. ion events Last 256 audit entries are retained on switch or CP for viewing or clearing Universal Temporary license keys for select features Port Mirroring support with Virtual Fabrics and embedded switch platforms Support for SNMP Informs 0000000 0 New Feature Descriptions FCIP Enhancements e FC traffic can be transported over an IP network when the 1 GbE or 10 GbE ports are configured to support FCIP FOS v6 3 0 supports up to 20 FCIP tunnels on an FX8 24 blade and 8 FCIP tunnels on the 7800 The FCIP tunnels on the local and remote GbE ports act as the Virtual E Ports VE_Ports connecting the local and the remote fabrics Performance is optimized for FCP and FICON traffic using Batching Debatching operations on all data and command frames IUs Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 6 of 161 This prevents fragmentation of multiple 2112 size FC frames batch into smaller IP frames compared to single frame exchanges eg FC frame generators FCIP Trunking is a new feature available on the FX8 24 and 7800 that virtualizes two or more TCP connections as part of a single FCIP tunnel These connections called circuits will be explicitly configured to be part of an FCIP tunnel Their primary purpose is to increase the tunnel bandwidth and provide fail over paths in the event of a network failure The functionality of the FCIP trunking and the additional TCP connections is transparent to the applications using the FCIP tunnel FCIP Trunkin
188. is because in this mode only data Virtual Channels are available while QoS related virtual channels are not available When connecting to an extension device that does not support ARB primitives such as some TDM products the following configuration must be used portcfgqos disable lt port gt portcfgcreditrecovery disable lt port gt portCfgLongDistance lt port gt lt LDILD gt 0 lt distance gt The fabric parameter fabric ops mode longdistance is now deprecated and should not be used Miscellaneous e After issuing an hafailover command on a Brocade DCX DCX 4S or 48000 running FOS v6 3 the console log may generate continuous Unknown LSR type messages The switch must be rebooted to terminate these messages Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 33 of 161 Documentation Updates This section provides information on last minute additions and corrections to the documentation The most recent Fabric OS v6 3 0 documentation manuals are available on the Brocade Partner Network hittp partner brocade com Brocade Fabric OS Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001336 01 In chapter 1 Performing Basic Configuration Tasks on page 6 remove the paragraph appearing in Virtual Fabrics and the Ethernet interface and replace it with the following On the Brocade 48000 DCX and DCX 4S the single chassis IP address and subnet mask is assigned to the management Ethernet ports on the front panels of the CPs
189. isplayed incorrectly Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 122 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Found in Release FOSGLI SSC OoOo SSS SES Defect ID DEFECT000228809 Technical Severity Medium Backport code to address various SNMP related issues Symptom a The cpLastEvent Value will be shown incorrectly in the browser b The cpStatusChange trap is not sent to the trap recipients c There is incompatibility with client using older mibs pre FOS6 2 0 mib d swEndDevicelInvalidWrod mid returns bad words e SNMP displays incorrect index value for atTable ipTable and ipNetTodefia Table of MIB 2 f mib fails to compile on 3rd party SAN Management Software swPmgrEventType Found in Release FOS620 O OC OOOO Defect ID DEFECT000232956 Technical Severity Medium Summary User might observe a Name server related verify on console after firmware download followed by power cycle on 48000 Symptom Following verify message might be seen on console nsd verify if_id 0 failed expression if_is_valid switch_zone c line 441 Workaround No need for workaround Feature 8G Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Drivers Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000228944 Technical Severity Medium Summary Using WebTools s HA tab synchronize button and details button do not work as
190. itch may get disabled due to zone conflict Symptom The customer may see one of the lisls in a logical switch gets disabled due to zone conflict with the following warning messages on the CP console 2009 06 27 23 29 51 LFM 1005 197 SLOT 6 CHASSIS WARNING DCX Logical port 453 disabled with reason Workaround Issue Ifcfg lislenable to recover the disabled lisl Feature FC Services Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 a eS ae Defect ID DEFECT000259257 Technical Severity Medium Summary Stress to Fail Test Running chassisdisable chassisenable followed by hafailover continuously may result in VERIFY messages Symptom The customer may see VERIFY messages on the switch console will not cause any adverse impact to the switch Feature FC Services Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee SS Defect ID DEFECT000259300 Technical Severity Medium Summary frustatuschanged and fruhistory test traps are not sent for a user with role securityadmin though the two traps are enabled in mibcapability Symptom two traps are not sent when logged in as securityadmin user Workaround User can login via other user roles if need to receive these traps Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 SSS eee Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 53 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000259410 Technical Severity Medium Summary In large fabric config an
191. ity Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 E El Defect ID DEFECT000238031 Technical Severity Medium Summary A LUN with encryption mode cleartext and encryption format Bred Native fails to read DF_Compatible tape media Symptom When a tape containers LUN format is configured wtih encryption format native and encryption mode cleartext files from a DF_Comptaible tape media cannot be restored Workaround Configure the LUN with encryption mode encrypt amp encryption format DF_Compatible and restore the files from the tape media Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000234141 Technical Severity Medium Summary After repeatedly deleting and adding partitions creating a new partition resulted in an ASSERT at file bccb lib utils register c line 115 user mode and termination of ficud Symptom When attempting to create a logical switch the chassis will reboot due to an assert and panic Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 ae SS Symptom Switch reboot due to Fabric Watch crashed Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID 358685 Defect ID DEFECT000237516 Technical Severity Medium Summary Unable to clear Port Name from screen Edit CUP Port Connectivity Configuration Symptom From WebTools users may not be able to clear port nam
192. ity authentication Reason Code Not a Defect Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000244850 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade Encryption Switch running FOS v v6 2 0b does not auto negotiate to 2GB 3rd party pass thru switch Symptom Auto negotiation fails Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function C2 ASIC driver Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000239542 Technical Severity High Summary Unable to verify port capacity on Brocade 5481 switch by query SNMP variable fcFeModuleFxPortCapacity Symptom Cannot query SNMP variable fcFeModuleFxPortCapacity to verify port capacity on Brocade 5481 switch Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Other Reason Code Not a Defect Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 0_utah Defect ID DEFECT000248670 Technical Severity High Summary MS call RMGMT_SVR_REQUEST_1 GPL fails in mixed fabric for Brocade SMIA Project Symptom SMI Agent Login fails to the proxy connected to an Mi10k Feature Mgmt Embedded RPCD Function Other Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235092 Technical Severity Medium Summary In a corner case scenario with IM2 mixed fabric consisting of EOS and FOS switches executing cfgsave with zone database larger than EOS switch can accept will leave zone transaction open without notification Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1
193. ium Summary FOS CLI doesn t allow Port fencing policy addition for F_Port when there are no F_ports on the switch Symptom Customer will not be able to configure F_Port port fencing policy when switch doesn t have F ports Customer needs to explicitly configure F_Port port fencing policy only after bringing up F port on a switch Workaround A DCFM can be used to add the port fencing policy for F_Port B Existing FOS CLI can always be used to add port fencing policy after bringing up F_Port on a switch Adding port fencing policy for F_Port makes sense only when there are F ports on a switch and anyway the existing CLI behaviour takes care of this Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Fabric Watch Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 0 E Defect ID DEFECT000238345 Technical Severity Medium Summary Not getting gige ports while performing EnumerateAssociatedInstances on Brocade_LogicalSwitch Symptom GE port information are not returned while performing EnumerateAssociatedInstances Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 fee Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 113 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235429 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch doesn t commit after firmwareDownload fail as 0x23 time out Symptom Firmwareupgrade fails in a very small window when active CP did not wait for standby CP t
194. l 0 or physical 1 when I got swFCPortFlag MIB object from BR300 on SNMP manager Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID 369513 Defect ID DEFECT000249394 Technical Severity Medium Summary MAC learning flushing times are very slow on Brocade 8000 Switch Symptom Users may see slot MAC learning flushing times for Brocade 8000 Switch Feature CEE LAYER2 Function L2 SUBSYSTEM Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Be 2 si Defect ID DEFECT000247423 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch crashed on sending LOGO from Finisar LT Symptom Switch may crash when sending specific commands from traffic generator tools Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE DRIVER Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 3_cee Defect ID DEFECT000249 146 Technical Severity Medium Summary Virtual Fabrics 6 2 0c when XISL use is enabled base logical switch in switchshow shows Allow XISL Use as off open RFE 1249 Symptom The switchshow output for allowing XISL use in VF mode is misleading Feature Logical Fabric Function Platform Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 EE Defect ID DEFECT000247813 Technical Severity Medium Summary Modify fipcfg advintvl cli to reject non zero values for FKA interval Symptom Update severity development filed defect for external
195. l Severity Medium Summary Symptom When running active passive arrays with powerpath if a subset of the LUNs are trespassed I O does not properly fail over If a user creates encrypted LUNs for an array and hosts the active path for those LUNs through one Brocade Encryption Switch BES and then hosts the other path for those LUNs in a passive manner on another BES switch trespassing a subset of the LUNs from active to passive path may not work I Os that were running through the active path will not restart on the passive passive path Workaround Avoid trespassing LUNs using powerpath Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 1 1_enc ere Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 120 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000226860 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade FS8 18 blade went in to a faulty 79 state while running rekey operation in four node encryption group with 200 LUNs Symptom Customer may realize loss of encryption services from that blade Workaround Slotpoweroff and slotpower on the blade to recover Feature Data Security Function Platform Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000230287 Technical Severity Medium Summary During long running CP hafailover and slotpower cycle test one Brocade FS8 18 blade came up faulty indicating BM BC Heartbeat d
196. l of an encryption performance upgrade license is not prevented Symptom End user will be able to un install an encryption performance upgrade license without warning and without being prevented or prompted This could lead to unpredictable results for crypto traffic once the removal of the license is effective ie upon reboot Feature Data Security Function Platform Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000224474 Technical Severity Medium Summary After installing the encryption performance upgrade licence there is no prompt of the end user to reboot the switch to make the license effective Symptom End user may notice no improvement in crypto traffic performance after installing an encryption performance upgrade license on switches that are passing more than 32 or 64 Gbps of crypto traffic on the Brocade Encryption Switch BES or 48 Gbps of crypto Workaround Reboot the Brocade Encryption Switch or DCX Feature Data Security Function Platform Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000217309 Technical Severity Medium Summary When a DCX blade is powered off Fabric Watch displays unecessary warning message about SFP voltages Symptom When powering off a DCX blade Fabric Watch will display messages that read FW 1050 21 WARNING DCX_two Sfp Supply Voltage for port 12 0 is below low bound
197. l port to the Brocade DCX All accounts receive the error Cannot assign valid AD at the login session Symptom After running fosconfig enable vf and letting the switch reboot logged back in stepped through the configure command to validate the new options against the documentation nothing was changed Then ran fosconfig disable vf and let the switch reboo Workaround Don t change VF mode until dual CP chassis is in sync Function VF infrastructure Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 365207 Defect ID DEFECT000238597 Technical Severity Medium Summary SNMPd takes 90 CPU to access FA_v3_0 mib or femgmt object Symptom snmp deamond using high percentage of cpu Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function FCIP Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238210 Technical Severity Medium Summary Access Gateway N_port failover does not work when the HBA is brought on line and the mapped N_port is off line Symptom When the HBA initializes and its mapped N_Port is off line the HBA is not sent to another available N_port so it can do a fabric login FLOGI but rather waits for its mapped N_Port to become active Feature Field Escalation Function Access Gateway Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 345309 Defect ID DEFECT000241032 Tech
198. l software program that can be used to manage a fabric that supports FICON and FCP devices and traffic This is the recommended GUI management tool for all FICON environments For more information on DFCM refer to the manual appropriate for your version DCFM User s Manual DCFM User s Manual Professional Edition or DCFM User s Manual Enterprise Edition On page 2 under Platforms supporting FICON replace the first bullet with the following Brocade DCX and DCX 4S Backbones FC8 16 FC8 32 and FC8 48 port blades FR4 18i FCIP blade and FC10 6 10 Gbps port blade for ISL connections The FC8 48 on the Brocade DCX is only supported when Virtual Fabric is implemented On page 3 under Platforms supporting FICON section the following attention statement is no longer valid and needs to be deleted The FC4 48 and FC8 48 port blades are not supported for connecting to System z environments through FICON channels or through FCP zLinux on System z On page 3 under Platforms supporting FICON section the following replace the last paragraph of the section with the following paragraph In all switches and directors that have FICON devices attached or where FICON traffic will be carried the port based routing policy is required set aptPolicy option 1 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 35 of 161 Blade and Filler Panel Replacement Procedure Publication No 53 0001305 02 On page 5 put the following information after the FCOE1 24 b
199. linker fcg 1315 Symptom switch panic hafailover due weblinker cfg panic These panics were observed during overnight slot command script test when modify distribute ACL databse and during RNID response processing Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 pe Defect ID DEFECT000251516 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 93 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary LUN state became disabled with reason Key not in sync after 12 hour run of stress test KV link failure restore with online rekey Symptom Encryption LUN state becomes disabled Feature Data Security Function Key Vault Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 i E Defect ID DEFECT000245663 Technical Severity Medium Summary Devices attached to AG are not considered as Virtual Symptom DCFM weblinker report NPIV device as physical device Feature FC Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 EE oO oO Defect ID DEFECT000246123 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 5470 enclosureshow slotid display incorrect slot number when installed in BC E chassis Symptom slot number displayed with enclosureshow is not correct Feature Embedded Function Platform Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0_emb E Defect ID DEFECT000245009 Technical Severity Medium Summary Persistently di
200. lity High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee I I III Defect ID DEFECT000225799 Technical Severity High Summary Sshd allows admin login to execute root level Linux commands but not admin CLI commands Symptom Admin CLI commands executed using login admin via ssh through the FOS sshd daemon fail with error rbash lt admin level command gt command not found Workaround A workaround to facilitate execution of admin level CLI commands using ssh is to use syntax similar to ssh l admin 192 168 1 12 rbash login c switchshow Or if a command is needed that works on both older correctly operating FOS and the newer affected FOS ssh 1 admin 192 168 1 12 switchshow Il rbash login c switchshow Feature Field Escalation Probability Medium Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS5 3 1 Service Request ID 327181 Defect ID DEFECT000245996 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade Encryption Switch BES goes faulty as a result of alternately rebooting the two BES that have all the physical connectivities to the targets and initiators Symptom Faulty BES will not be available for crypto operations Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000246162 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade Encryption Switch went Faulty when starting traffic Symptom Loss of LUNs to the Host Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption
201. ly enable ethernet switch service to prevent FC traffic interruption using the command fosconfig enable ethsw e Upgrading from FOS v6 x to FOS v6 3 is non disruptive User can enable ethsw after upgrade without FC traffic interruption Upgrading the BR 8000 from FOS v6 1 2_cee to FOS v6 3 will disrupt the FC traffic e Upgrades from FOS 6 3 to future releases will be non disruptive to data traffic and will have behavior similar to a CP failover ethsw remains unchanged e Downgrade from FOS v6 3 to FOS v6 1 2_CEEx is disruptive if ethsw is enabled on FOS v6 3 e Downgrade from FOS v6 3 to FOS v6 1 2_CEEx is non disruptive if ethsw has never been enabled with FOS v6 3 e Connecting a Brocade 8000 to an FCR capable switch with fcrbcast config enabled will cause a storm of broadcast traffic resulting in termination of iswitchd e When rebooting a DCX or DCX 4S with an FCOE10 24 blade Qlogic CNA and LSAN zoning the switch will become very unresponsive for a period of time This is due to the CNA sending excessive MS queries to the switch Virtual Fabrics Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 25 of 161 On Virtual Fabrics capable platforms the Virtual Fabrics feature must be enabled in order to utilize the related capabilities including Logical Switches and Logical Fabrics On units that ship with FOS v6 3 installed the Virtual Fabrics feature is enabled by default on capable platforms When creating Log
202. m Summary Urouteshow will lag for several seconds at a time while displaying the route info Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 104 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom A 2 4 second lag may be noticed when running the CLI urouteshow This lag will be longer on products with larger port counts such as the DCX Feature Logical Fabric Function FSPF Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Care Defect ID DEFECT000245865 Technical Severity Medium Summary A LUN gets stuck in the Internal EE LUN State Read Only Internal metadata key is in RO state Symptom LUN will not be available for Host until the DiscoverLUN is issued Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245980 Technical Severity Medium Summary After changing to non FCS primary policy web client can still activate ACL policy Symptom enter vf_context 10 show adv mode sec policies select fcs move FCS switch apply amp activate select scc edit select a policy and delete another bug here all items disappear activate policy is applied even though switch is not FCS primary Feature WebMgmt Function ACL Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 CoO o Defect ID DEFECT000244615 Technical Severity Medium Summary Web Tools shows high CPU usage 80 when port configuration operation is performed in
203. mmary Fabric Watch The FRU status does not auto refresh after removal insertion of the FRU Symptom User will not know the current status of the FRU after removal insertion Workaround Close and re open Fabric Watch Feature WebMgmt Function Fabric Watch Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Symptom The MAC address of the ENode is not checked Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cce Cee lt lt lt lt y yz Defect ID DEFECT000245047 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switchname mismatch between GUI display and CLI Symptom The switchname displayed by DCFM and Web Tools could be different Feature 8G Platform Services Function PID management Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000244930 Technical Severity Medium Summary Issues with Brocade MIB objects with ifSpeed returns wrong value ifOutUcastPkts ipAdEntReasmMaxSize ipRouteAge ipRoutingDiscards snmpSilentDrops sampProxyDrops needs to be documented Symptom Brocade MIB object ifSpeed may return wrong value some missing objects from documentation Feature Tech Pubs Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 1 fee Defect ID DEFECT000236287 Technical Severity Medium Summary After cfgdefault and migration from IMO to IM2 all switches are setting idid bit in ESA when idid is not enabled Symptom All switches in the fabric segment wi
204. mmary IM2 Value other than 0 or in configdownload file will enable default zone I was expecting an error message Symptom Using a customer modified config file to enable default zoning under the Configuration session switch mcdtDefaultZone 1 will enable default zoning My understanding is that only if the parameter is set to 1 then would default zoning be enabled If an invalid parameter anything except 0 or 1 is set in the config file for this I would expect the error message configDownload Failed to set medtDefaultZone Workaround No Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 gs Defect ID DEFECT000227797 Technical Severity Medium Summary IP monitor shows number of SCSI frames after deleting a SCSI filter monitor and adding IP monitor on the same port Symptom User will see SCSI frame count even after deleting SCSI monitor and adding IP monitor Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237675 Technical Severity Medium Summary Onboard Administrator used to manage Brocade 5480 is not able to read the switchname Symptom TheOnboard Administrator will not display the switchname Workaround Switch name can be displayed from FOS CLI command switchname Feature Embedded Platform Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 Eoo l Defect ID
205. mptom Duplicate port RSCNs are detected to virtual initiators targets when a real initiator or targets change state disable enable This occurs when doing encryption over FCR Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 41 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Feature FC Services Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Ooo S E Defect ID DEFECT000260791 Technical Severity High Summary Port Fencing Cable pull insert may fence Ex ports via ITW s Symptom EX Port may get fenced after cable pull insert Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Fabric Watch Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 a re Symptom Custommer cannot monitor the pkt loss for VE ports Found in Release FOS63 0 o o S O Defect ID DEFECT000260934 Technical Severity High Summary Ina large fabric 55 switches with 6K ns entries when an edge switch merged the fabric observed the nsd crashed on other neigboring switches Symptom NS daemon crash during fabric merge Feature FC Services Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Ena nn eee Defect ID DEFECT000261027 Technical Severity High Summary 5000 switch got rebooted due to kernel panic Symptom Unexpected cold reboot of switch Feature 8G Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Drivers Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 La eT Defect ID DEFECT000261049 Technical Severity High Summary traffic across VE tunnel is not resumed after portdisable and porten
206. mptom From DCFM 10 1 1 13 when upgrading DCX from v6 1 1a to v6 2 0b GA I saw FFDC error Detected termination of pdmd 2676 HA out of sync and 2009 01 30 11 04 33 FSS 1007 946 SLOT 6 CHASSIS CRITICAL Neptune pdm Faulty Ethernet connection errors Workaround CPs were not in sync when I went down to v6 1 1a Did net install on DCX to v6 1 1a and upgrade to v6 2 0b GA Feature Data Security Function Infrastructure Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 0 a es Defect ID DEFECT000244983 Technical Severity High Summary Pending Merge Mace Faulty during reboot f test Symptom BES switch failes to become enabled after reboot Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000246916 Technical Severity High Summary SNMPd core file filled up the root file system on Brocade DCX 4S Symptom User will observe snmpd process being killed and error message Detected termination of process snmpd 4636 hasm_swd c line 168 comp insmod Itime 2009 03 08 20 20 07 011335 The panic will generate the core file that takes away space on the root file system Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 373285 Defect ID DEFECT000245 146 Technical Severity High Summary Continuously disconnect reconnecting the ISLs in the HA environment causes one of the Brocade
207. n C2 ASIC driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 eo l Defect ID DEFECT000239682 Technical Severity High Summary Passwords were reset to default on Brocade DCX upgrade from FOS v6 1 1_enc2 to v6 2 0 Symptom User unable to login Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security login Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 363533 Symptom Observed Kernel panic after configdefault on Brocade 48000 Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 70 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000243882 Technical Severity High Summary High CPU load occurs and no commands can be run after CALD allocated shared memory is not released by applications Symptom Switch runs out of shared memory and many of the CLI command do not run and return with message shmlInit shmget failed No space left on device Workaround Run hafailover Feature Field Escalation Function OS Infrastructure Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 369837 Defect ID DEFECT000242683 Technical Severity High Summary Pending Merge Repeatedly disconnect reconnecting the ISL links between the Brocade Encryption Switch in the HA cluster environment while rekey operations are in progress may cause data miscompare Symptom Disconnect reconnecting the ISL links betw
208. n 10 bit addressing Symptom When logical switch is in 10 bit addressing user is able to enable fmsmode Feature FICON Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS620 Coo Defect ID DEFECT000246147 Technical Severity Medium Summary TI Zone activation failed when pushing from DCFM to fabric with v6 2 0 and v6 1 2 Symptom Cannot TI Zone activation from DCFM Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 12 Eo OSSOS Defect ID DEFECT000246957 Technical Severity Medium Summary the drive is taken offline after container is failbacked Symptom After failback of a encryption container may notice a drive is taken offline Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 es Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 87 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000244126 Technical Severity Medium Summary If configdownload is performed via DCFM switch authentication failure may be seen Symptom Authentication failure for clients using HTTP service Workaround hafailover or hareboot Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Function User Admin Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 dl Defect ID DEFECT000247797 Technical Severity Medium Summary Add FIP version 0 handling per IBM requirments Symptom None defect was filed for a to be defined standards complian
209. n Converged Mode tagged traffic on the native VLAN of the switch interface is processed normally The host should be configured not to send VLAN tagged traffic on the switch s native VLAN The Converged Network Adapter CNA may lose connectivity to the Brocade 8000 FCOE 10 24 if the CNA interface is toggled repeatedly over time This issue is related to the CNA and rebooting the CNA restores connectivity Although the Brocade 8000 FCOE10 24 support the configuration of multiple CEE maps it is recommended to use only one CEE map on all interfaces connected to CNAs Additionally CEE maps are not recommended for use with non FCoE traffic QoS commands are recommended for interfaces carrying non FCoE traffic It is recommended that Spanning Tree Protocol and its variants be disabled on CEE interfaces that are connected to a server The Fabric Provided MAC Address FPMA and the Fibre Channel Identifier FCID assigned to a VN_Port cannot be associated with any single front end CEE port on which the FLOGI was received LLDP neighbor information may be released before the timer expires when DCBX is enabled on a CEE interface This occurs only when the CEE interface state changes from active to any other state When the DCBX is not enabled the neighbor information is not released until the Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 24 of 161 timer expires irrespective of the interface state e The FCoE Login Group Name should be unique in a f
210. n attempting to run a FCFW flow to a device port that already has Non FCFW flows running to it the FCFW flow appears to fail without seeing any kind of port filter counters incrementing indicating that FCFW frames were seen Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 79 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Ree Defect ID DEFECT000253986 Technical Severity High Summary I O can not resume when Jamming the status frame with IDLE with QOS enalbe Symptom If F port is in QOS mode link reset did not load the buffers correctly and I O can be disrupted Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function PORT Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee OE Defect ID DEFECT000256438 Technical Severity High Summary ZONEd panic and VERIFYs due to shmInit shmget failed No space left on device Symptom Customers may see a message shmlInit shmget failed No space left on device Workaround reboot the switch Feature Field Escalation Function Fabric Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 385415 Defect ID DEFECT000246020 Technical Severity High Summary Nameserver database counts do not match for FOS and EOSc switches in same fabric Symptom In IM2 mixed fabric with over 500 devices nameserver counts do not match for FOS and EOSc switches in the sam
211. n of nsd 4248 1 on console and the Active CP will failover Workaround No workaround needed the DCX CP fails over non disruptively and retains all configuration data Feature FC Services Function Name Server Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 aa Defect ID DEFECT000228340 Technical Severity Medium Summary 4G switch running at fixed 2G speed may not respond to FLOGI from HBA using auto speed negotiation Symptom Switch will not respond to a FLOGI with an ACC and just transmits an ELP when the port comes online Workaround Lock the port to fixed speed Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 335517 Defect ID DEFECT000234950 Technical Severity Medium Summary Detected termination of management server daemon during stress testing on DCX with 8 logical switches Symptom Ina chassis with MS platform services enabled with 8 Logical Switches issuing bladedisable followed by hafailover could result in termination of management server daemon Workaround Wait for system to stabilize after executing bladedisable and before issuing hafailover or disable MS platform services while performing stress testing Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Mgmt Server Probability Low Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 es o Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 110 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric
212. n of process iswitchd Symptom Switch panic with Detected termination of process iswitchd0 when PLOGI PDISC have in proper payload size Feature Legacy FCR 7500 FR4 18i1 Function Other Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000226638 Technical Severity Medium Summary Slot power off during rekeying followed by crypto target container deletion may cause future rekey sessions to not complete Symptom If the user performs the following steps 1 Powers off a FS8 18 blade that his hosting a crypto target that is undergoing rekeying 2 Deletes the container when the blade is powered off 3 Powers the blade back on again 4 Recreates the crypto target Feature Data Security Function Re key Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000231800 Technical Severity Medium Summary dotlx frames are not going out Symptom In stress to fail scenarios DOT1X frames may not go thru some ports Feature CEE 802 1X SECURITY Function AUTHD Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000236846 Technical Severity Medium Summary PVID not supported on lag Symptom PVID is not supported on LAG interfaces Feature CEE SYSTEM SERVICES Function SSM Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Fabric OS v6 3 0 Rel
213. n them though these switches may participate in the same fabric as other switches using FOS v6 3 e Brocade 200E e All 4G embedded switches including the 4012 4016 4018 4020 4024 4424 Please refer to the Supported Products and FOS Interoperability table for the versions of FOS code that must be used on these platforms to interoperate with FOS v6 3 The above noted 4G platforms will continue to be supported by FOS v6 2 x Standards Compliance This software conforms to the Fibre Channel Standards in a manner consistent with accepted engineering practices and procedures In certain cases Brocade might add proprietary supplemental functions to those specified in the standards For a list of FC standards conformance visit the following Brocade Web site http www brocade com sanstandards The Brocade 8000 and FCOE10 24 blade conform to the following Ethernet standards e TIEFE 802 1D Spanning Tree Protocol e IEFE 802 1s Multiple Spanning Tree e TIEFE 802 1w Rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol e IEFE 802 3ad Link Aggregation with LACP e IEFE 802 3ae 10G Ethernet e TIEFE 802 1Q VLAN Tagging e IEEE 802 1p Class of Service Prioritization and Tagging e TEEE 802 1v VLAN Classification by Protocol and Port e TIEFE 802 1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol LLDP e TIEFE 802 3x Flow Control Pause Frames The following draft versions of the Converged Enhanced Ethernet CEE and Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE Standards
214. ndwidth at a later time This license is also useful for environments that wish to create ICL connections between a DCX and a DCX 4S the latter of which cannot support more than 8 links on an ICL port Available on the DCX 4S and DCX platforms only This license replaces the original ICL license for the DCX 4S and is new for the DCX e Enhanced Group Management This license available only on the DCX DCX 4S and other 8G platforms enables full management of the device in a datacenter fabric with deeper element management functionality and greater management task aggregation throughout the environment This license is used in conjunction with Brocade s Data Center Fabric Manager DCFM application software e Adaptive Networking Adaptive Networking provides a rich framework of capability allowing a user to ensure high priority connections obtain the network resources necessary for optimum performance even in congested environments The QoS SID DID Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting features are the first components of this license and are fully available on all 8G platforms e Integrated Routing This license allows ports ina DCX DCX 4S 5300 5100 7800 or Brocade Encryption Switch to be configured as EX_ports or VEX_ports supporting Fibre Channel Routing This eliminates the need to add an FR4 18i blade or use the 7500 for FCR purposes and also provides double the bandwidth for each FCR connection when connected to another 8
215. nected to the edge fabric while being part of the same backbone the problem may happen intermittently Ferproxydev Feature 8G FCR Function FCR Daemon Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000239377 Technical Severity Medium Summary hardware address of fcO is different in CLI and MIB browser Symptom Hardware address of fcO is shown wrongly in MIB browser Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function Other Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000226587 Technical Severity Medium Summary ag show output on edge fabric switches doesn t display all trunked Nport members connected to 5481_AG Symptom it was observed that ag show output on edge fabric switches doesn t display all trunked Nport members connected to 5481_AG Feature Access Gateway Services Function Daemon Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0_emb Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 158 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000240021 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch View Speed LED on Standby CP is not glowing properly for a change in Ethernet speed Symptom Misleads the customer Workaround No Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Function Switch Admin Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000241509 Technical Severity M
216. nical Severity Medium Summary Switch did not indicate a warning when a PS FAN FRU was removed Symptom Brocade 5100 did not indicate the warning in spite of PS FAN FRU removal Feature WebMgmt Function Fabric Watch Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 363745 Defect ID DEFECT000239742 Technical Severity Medium Summary VCM VCM GUI has a malfunction with creating SNMPv1 Traps Symptom Creating SNMP v1 traps may result in a GUI error Workaround No Feature Access Gateway Function HPVCM Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 0_utah Defect ID DEFECT000234098 Technical Severity Medium Summary Enhancement request per FC PI 4 8G FC port shall use ARB FF Symptom To be fully compliant with the latest standard a new ARB FF protocol is required Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function C2 ASIC driver Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 l Defect ID DEFECT000234362 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 135 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary DCX kernel panic with set_reboot_reason reason Software Fault ASSERT vobs projects springboard build swbd62 fabos src sys lib fabos id_megr idlib c line 863 Symptom User may see a CP failover following a Linux kernal panic Feature 4G ASIC Driver Function Other Re
217. nical Severity Medium Summary Zone admin In a fabric on changing non primary FCS logical switch to primary and on launching zone admin from it TI zone link is in disabled state Because of this user unable to create TI zone from primary FCS logical switch through webtools Symptom User will not be able to create TI zones from primary FCS logical switch Workaround Close and relaunch the TI Zone Dialog Feature WebMgmt Function Security Policies Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 eS a Defect ID DEFECT000250576 Technical Severity Medium Summary 7800 and FX8 24 Usability switch beaconing is not applied to GE ethernet ports Symptom GE ports do not beacon on the FX8 24 or the 7800 Feature Striker Spike Platform Services Function Blade Driver Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Service Request ID 378361 aes Defect ID DEFECT000250989 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch view The activity LED for FS8 18 blade Gig E port is not shown in switch view Symptom Web Tools Switch View does not reflect hardware GigE port status Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function C2 ASIC driver Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ara ae Defect ID DEFECT00025 1934 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch Admin For 7500E IPSec policy feature needs to be disabled Symptom IPSec policy configuration is not disabled on 7500E Workaround Manually disable IPSec policy Feature WebMgmt Function Swit
218. nitialization are available on the member node after the power cycle This condition persists until th Workaround Avoid powering down all nodes in the Encryption Group or HA Cluster concurrently In cases where it can not be avoided bring the Group Leader Node online first before the other member nodes are brought back up If the group leader can not be brought back Feature Data Security Function HA Cluster Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000226793 Technical Severity Medium Summary 4 node LUN discovery fails if one of the lun out of 4 luns is tresspassed Symptom With 4 luns if one lun is tresspassed lun discovery with clear text container fails Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000226771 Technical Severity Medium Summary In a 4 node configuration when the Encryption Engine is hosting a failover container and the Engine is rebooted it fails to host the container back after a reboot Symptom In a 4node EG 2HAC config When one of the Encryption Engine hosting the Containers was powered off containers fail over to other Encryption Engine in HAC pair However if the surviving Encryption Engine in HAC gets rebooted or powered off and powered o Workaround Do not power off or reboot the surviving Encryption Engine in HA Cluster Pair which has devices
219. ntegrated Routing EX_Ports are only supported in the base switch on a switch with VF enabled Integrated Routing and TopTalkers Fabric Mode are not concurrently supported in FOS v6 3 To use Integrated Routing be sure to first disable Fabric Mode TopTalkers prior to configuring EX_Ports Native Connectivity FOS based platforms operating in interopmodes 2 or 3 should never be deployed in a fabric without at least one M series switch FOS switches in interopmode 3 McDATA Open Fabric Mode do not support configuration of zoning without an M series switch in the fabric When migrating from M series to B series switches all B series switches should be configured to interopmode 0 Brocade Native mode once the last M series switch has been removed from the fabric FCS Automatic Distribution FCAP FICON When using the FCS Automatic Distribution feature in Fabric OS v6 0 or later all switches in the fabric must be running FOS v6 0 or later If any switches are running FOS v5 x or earlier only manual distribution can be used FOS v6 0 or later will only allow FCS automatic distribution when in strict mode requiring only switches with FOS v6 0 or later Due to limitations with the certificates FCAP authentication cannot be supported on user defined logical switches FCAP will continue to function with existing certificates for non VF and the default logical switch of VF enabled switches Note authutil is not restricted from other logi
220. nterface on 2 ports GbE ports require 4Gb Brocade branded SFPs and 10GbE ports require 1OGbE Brocade branded SFPs e Brocade FCOE10 24 FCoE CEE blade for the DCX and DCX 4S o Supports 24 1OGbE CEE ports e Brocade 8000 FCoE CEE switch o Supports 24 1OGbE CEE ports and eight 1 2 4 8 Gbps FC ports o Initially supported by FOS v6 1 2_CEE the Brocade 8000 is now supported as part of the FOS v6 3 release In addition to support for the new hardware platforms and blades there are several new features in Fabric OS v6 3 0 including e FCIP Enhancements o FCIP Enhancements including enhanced compression FCIP trunking and adaptive rate limiting features for new extension platforms Note these features are only enabled on the new Brocade 7800 Extension Switch and the FX8 24 DCX Extension Blade platforms They are not available on the Brocade 7500 Extension Switch or the Brocade FR4 181 Extension Blade e FCR Enhancements o EX_Port Masterless Trunking o EX_Port QoS e Adaptive Networking Enhancements o Bottleneck Detection for F_Ports does not require Adaptive Networking license o QoS support for D I zone definitions in addition to WWN zone definitions e Access Gateway Features Enhancements o Adaptive Networking license supported on switches running in AG mode o Extend APC Auto Rebalancing support to port groups login balancing can optionally be enabled on individual port groups o Added option to disable Auto Rebalancing of logins wh
221. o timeout before recover it Workaround perform repair of the partition manually firmwarecommit f and then rerun firmwaredownload Feature Field Escalation Function Firmware Download Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID 351295 Defect ID DEFECT000238631 Technical Severity Medium Summary Appropriate message is not shown in the message box when the Details button in the Service tab of HA window is clicked Symptom Because of this defect customer will not come to know about the status of the stand by CP Feature WebMgmt Function High Availability Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238680 Technical Severity Medium Summary High Availability The error message thrown is not relevant or meaningful when the values for E_D_TOV and R_D_TOV in the Configure tab of Switch admin are changed Symptom Error message will be thrown to the user even if He She enters a valid value for E_D_TOV amp R_D_TOV Feature WebMgmt Function High Availability Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238795 Technical Severity Medium Summary Incorrect output from agshow command Symptom Agshow from different switches in the same fabric yield different output Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 0 Service Re
222. ode Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Workaround 1 Avoid using firmwaredownload sb i e avoid auto reboot Use firmwaredownload s and then do a manual reboot 2 Need to power cycle the switch The switch functions properly after power cycle with normal access to the telnet session Feature High Availability Function Switch hareboot HCL Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000244112 Technical Severity Medium Summary Rekeyed LUNs are in Not Ready Getting key from archive state when the key vault goes down and does not recover Symptom LUNs are stuck in the Not Ready Get key from archieve even after the key vault is brought back online LUNs can t be recovered even after removing and re adding them from to the target container Feature Data Security Function Key Vault Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 371327 Defect ID DEFECT000242728 Technical Severity Medium Summary Web Tools Zone Admin Add member button is always disabled Symptom Within the Add Ti Zone window the Add member button does not function Workaround User can add members with the Add other button Feature WebMgmt Function Zone Admin Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 f OOOO Defect ID DEFECT000236682 Technical Severity Medium Summary In non VF mode on DCX after removing other filters EE and F_Port TT and enablin
223. oelogincfg to create the login groups Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Admin Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee l Defect ID DEFECT000249388 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 142 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary Forwarding stops on disabling enabled RSTP spanning tree Symptom Forwarding stops on disabling enabled RSTP spanning tree Feature CEE Infrastructure Function IFM Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000250040 Technical Severity Medium Summary errdumpall aborted with segmentation fault Symptom _ errdumpall may be aborted with segmentation fault Feature CEE FOS Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000253865 Technical Severity Medium Summary FOS switch is not returning complete fabric information Symptom Incomplete fabric information returned to DCFM Feature FC Services Function Fabric Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000254951 Technical Severity Medium Summary FOS is a seed switch When the mixed fabric is discovered with Enable CLI option disabled in the EOSc switch which is connected to FOS seed switch It is getting discovered with wrong switch IP Symptom Incorrect switch IP address in
224. og to customer visible RASLOG to indicate FCoE login has been reached Symptom Customer may not know the reason for login reject in case FCoE login limit has been reached Feature CEE FCOE ioe FCOE DRIVER es Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000259924 Technical Severity Medium Summary FCoE login Configuration table is null error pops up on adding a group when fabric merge is in progress Symptom error message does not inform the user of the exact failure i e failed due to fabric merge progress Feature CEE MANAGEABILITY Function CAL INTERFACE Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 o A Defect ID DEFECT000259951 Technical Severity Medium Summary Detected termination of process 0 weblinker fcg 5110 Symptom Termination of Weblinker after enabling port fencing for all E ports and F ports on the SAN when using DCFM Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000259959 Technical Severity Medium Summary switch stuck in merge in progress even though there s no transaction Symptom FCoE Login management operations can t be performed unless the switch is disabled until then FCoE Fabric Merge is struck Workaround Workaround to come out of the deadlock 1 break the fabric by bringing down the ISL 2 both switches will merge and generation number will be rectified made consistent with configuration 3 Bring the ISL back up and
225. on to evmd This problems has been seen to occur from fabric manager Workaround Disable fabric manager use DCFM to manage fabric Feature FC Services Function ESS Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2 Service Request ID 377737 Defect ID DEFECT00025 1752 Technical Severity High Summary SNMPd panic restart due to segmentation fault Symptom SNMPd restart occurred due to Out Of Memory OOM condition and this was disruptive due to FSPF timeout with neighbor switch during OOM recovery Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 2 Defect ID DEFECT000237439 Technical Severity High Summary Rekey operation hangs when failback from the secondary node of the HA cluster Symptom Rekey operation with BES switch cannot resume after HA cluster failback Feature Data Security Function Re key Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Service Request ID 358561 Defect ID DEFECT000242567 Technical Severity High Summary evmd panic when disabling Virtual Fabric Symptom When a virtual fabric is enabled in rare cases user may see evmd process getting terminated Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security other Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000239659 Technical Severity High
226. ontinuously disables enables the ISL links to force failover failback between members of an HA cluster Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Service Request ID 359931 Defect ID DEFECT000261384 Technical Severity High Summary Firmware upgrade from v6 2 0g to v6 3 0_main_bld40 on one node at a time in a two node EG causes the node with v6 2 0g to fault CVLCD crashes Symptom Switch with version 6 2 0g in an EG becomes faulty when the other switch in the same EG is upgraded to an internal 6 3 build Feature Data Security Function Platform Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000236947 Technical Severity High Summary Need for synchronization between DCBX FCoE priorities with that of PFCs enabled Symptom FCoE priorities are not tied up with PFC Feature CEE LAYER2 Function LLDP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee aa Defect ID DEFECT000240058 Technical Severity High Summary FrustatusChanged trap and fruhistorytrap are not received when a slot is removed or inserted Symptom There are no traps generated Customer should be intimated with a trap if there is a fru failure or the slot is powered off or a fan disable operation takes place Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000245868 Technical
227. ooping Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 E Defect ID DEFECT000238570 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch Admin In Web Tools CEE tab configuration changes are not logged in the log window Symptom In Web Tools user will not see the CEE tab configuration changes in the log window Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Admin Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee E O O Defect ID DEFECT000240892 Technical Severity Medium Summary Ports having non default MTU values are allowed to aggregate to a port channel Symptom Once the port is taken out of LAG the user will have to put the MTU value back Feature CEE Protocol Function NSM Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 12_cee Se re l Defect ID DEFECT000241244 Technical Severity Medium Summary On cfgsave with TI zones not low cost and failover disabled CLI will hang with raslog RTWR timeout message Symptom CLI command hangs and RTWR timeout raslog messages appear Workaround Create TI zone with option failover enabled or specify the TI zone as the Low cost path Feature Embedded Function FC Service Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0_emb Od Defect ID DEFECT000241833 Technical Severity Medium Summary Web Tools does not launch in https mode after enabling FIPS mode in SUSE 10 Symptom If user enables FIPs in the switch Web Tools will not launch in SUSE10 Workaround Disable FIPs to launch Web Tools in https mode in SUSE10
228. oup to be disabled and brought online to select a new master EX Port The Masterless EX Port feature in FOS v6 3 0 uses the dynamic port binding capability first introduced in FOS v6 2 to reassign the trunk area from the old master port to the new master port On a master port offline condition one of the slave ports becomes the new master port and all the other slave ports stay online The new master port uses the old master port s area and the old master port gets a new and unused area This way the PID of the trunk does not change on master port offline FOS v6 0 first introduced new Adaptive Networking features including FC QoS allowing users to establish flow based prioritization of traffic traversing a SAN FOS v6 3 extends QoS over FC Routing FCR configurations allowing support of QoS for traffic flows originating in an edge fabric passing through the FC Backbone fabric and then out to a destination edge fabric Support of this feature requires configuration of both LSAN zones and QoS zones and requires the Adaptive Networking license be installed on switches in both the edge and backbone fabrics Adaptive Networking Enhancements If an administrator notices one or more applications running on the Datacenter Fabric is slowing down then he she can enable the new Bottleneck Detection feature on all suspected edge switches to which F ports are attached in order to determine if there are any slow draining devices that are causing network con
229. participate in a logical fabric that is using XISLs in the base fabric These platforms may not be directly attached to hosts or targets for encryption flows Fabric OS v6 3 0 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the 48000 platform noted in the following table 48000 Blade Support Matrix Port blade 16 32 and 48 port 4Gbit blades FC4 16 FC4 32 FC4 48 16 32 and 48 port 8Gbit blade FC8 16 FC8 32 FC8 48 and the 6 port 10G FC blade FC10 6 Supported with any mix and up to 8 of each No restrictions around intermix The 48000 must run Fabric OS v6 0 or later to support the FC8 16 port blade and Fabric OS v6 1 or later to support the FC8 32 and FC8 48 port blades Intelligent blade Up to a total of 4 Intelligent blades includes iSCSI FCIP FCR and Application blade FC4 16IP FR4 18i and FA4 18 respectively See below for intermix limitations exceptions and a max of each blade iSCSI blade FC4 16IP Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type FC IP FC Router blade FR4 18i Up to a maximum of 2 blades of this type This can be extended under special circumstances but must be approved by Brocade s Product Team Up to 8 FR4 18i blades can be installed if they are used only for FC Fastwrite or FCIP without routing Virtualization Application Blade FA4 18 Up to a maximum of 2 blades of this type Encryption Blade FS8 18 Extension Blade FX8 24 FCoE CEE
230. pens when ISL R_RDY mode is enabled in EX Port and ISL R_RDY mode is disabled in neighbor E Port and long distance parameters are different for EX Workaround Configure the neighbor E Port to the EX Port for ISL R_RDY mode as well which should cause the link to recover Configure same long distance parameters for the EX Port and E Port Feature FCR Function FCR Port Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000218356 Technical Severity Medium Summary Some special characters should not be accepted when user enters the encryption group name through the CLI Symptom When configuring an encryption group user is allowed to enter special chars amp l This will cause the name of their encryption group to be truncated after the first invalid character Workaround Avoid entering invalid characters in the encyrption group name Feature Data Security Function HA Cluster Reason Code Can Not Fix Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000226135 Technical Severity Medium Summary RFE All the config commands involving interface name should accept interface name with or without space Symptom Configuring interface name with space is not supported Feature CEE MANAGEABILITY Function CLI Reason Code Can Not Fix Probability eae a Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee Defect ID DEFECT000217628 Technical Severity Medi
231. ports ge0 ge5 These ports use SFP connectors and can be configured to use either copper or optical cables Under GbE port specifications in Appendix A it should be noted that the 1 GbE ports can take both copper and optical transceivers The 10 GbE ports are optical only Combined Power Supply and Fan Assembly Replacement Procedure Publication Number 53 1000856 02 On page 4 add the following to the end of the first paragraph For FOS releases 6 1 2 and later the combined power supply fan assembly LED shows flashing green when the unit is either powered off or unplugged Brocade DCX Backbone Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000685 10 On page 98 in the Power specifications section add the following after table 20 Power supply requirements for blades in the Brocade DCX Backbone chassis Blades Type of DCX DCX Comments Blade 110 VAC 200 240 VAC Redundant Redundant configurations configurations FC4 16 Port 2 power supplies 2 power supplies FC4 32 Blade FC4 48 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 36 of 161 Blades Type of DCX DCX Comments Blade 110 VAC 200 240 VAC Redundant Redundant configurations configurations FC8 16 FC8 32 FC10 6 Port Not supported 2 power supplies FC8 48 Blade FR4 183 Intelligent Not supported 2 power supplies FC4 16IP Blade FA4 18 FS8 18 Intelligent Not supported DCX 2 or 4 power For DCX wit
232. pwwn Symptom switchshow on the switch may display wrong PWWN Workaround reboot AG Feature Field Escalation Function Access Gateway Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 384107 Defect ID DEFECT000258583 Technical Severity Medium Summary OVMS init command is not correctly supported Symptom customer will see that OVMS init command cannot complete and OVMS cannot mount filesystem when it is encrypted Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 1 ee et Defect ID DEFECT000257986 Technical Severity Medium Summary In FOS 6 2 OID for connUnitType no longer returns the correct access gateway mode status Symptom Customer upgraded from FOS v6 1 1d to 6 2 0f Switch returns a different value for connUnitType in 6 2 0f Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 386337 Defect ID DEFECT000240705 Technical Severity Medium Summary system panic on stand by cp after a hafailover Symptom following a hafailover standby may result in reboot Feature 8G Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Drivers Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSE Z0 E Defect ID DEFECT000241777 Technical Severity Medium Summary Default Fabric Watch alarm value needs to be modified Symptom DCX reporting high temperature
233. quest ID 361555 Defect ID DEFECT000239147 Technical Severity Medium Summary Detected termination of zoned observed running repeated multiple zone updates for several hours in different FID s Symptom Zoned termination and switch reboot Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fee Defect ID DEFECT000239278 Technical Severity Medium Summary FICON FCIP Acceleration error FCCU LinkBusy from non Busy CU in ReadStates Symptom I O termination and may see a warning message like 01 07 09 15 38 15 IOSO711 091A F5 VSMK0944 MISSING CHANNEL AND DEVICE END Feature FCIP Function FCIP I O Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 aE Defect ID DEFECT000239139 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 114 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary Found 2 LUNs got disabled with Rekey done with failure after overnight manual_rekey finished CVLC 1001 775 57 SLOT 2 FID 128 Nept_74 Manual re key failed LUN SN Symptom _ rekey finished with 2 LUNs failed and became disabled Workaround re enable LUN Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee e Defect ID DEFECT000239344 Technical Severity Medium Summary With Safezoning disabled enabling defaultzoning via WT post concerning messages that Safezoning was disable and defaultzoning was enabled Symp
234. r after WAN issues Symptom Device connectivity across the FCIP link will be lost The credit information in the portshow of the FCIP tunnel will show a negative credit number a very large number of credits queued Feature Field Escalation Function FCIP Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 372699 Defect ID DEFECT000208039 Technical Severity High Summary Ina large fabric 50 switches simultaneously disabling and enabling all switches could result in some switches stuck in F2 unconfirmed state Symptom After disabling and enabling all switches simultaneously some switches still have domain unconfirmed and are stuck in F2 state Workaround Disable and enable the switches that are stuck in F2 domain ID not yet confirmed state independently Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 eS O O O O Defect ID DEFECT000236028 Technical Severity High Summary In some rare scenarios when HA Failover performed prior to Name Server being in sync RSCNs were delivered Symptom No visible impact to customer besideds extram RSCN was sent out Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 82 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 eee Defect ID DEFECT000237921 Technical Severity High Summary Test tool reports data corruption during an overnight run Symptom The test c
235. r may see fwd panic after failover Workaround Uninstall fabric watch license and reboot to disable fabric watch Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Fabric Watch Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee i et Defect ID DEFECT000254023 Technical Severity Medium Summary Crash in Anvil driver while repeated Slotpower on off of europa and port blades Symptom Customer may see a crash if repeated slot power on off is executed Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 49 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Feature CEE Infrastructure Function ANVIL DRIVER Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 D Defect ID DEFECT000254421 Technical Severity Medium Summary Need to block user from manually failback to EE when switch is disabled Symptom None Customer should not be invoking the failback EE operation manually when switch is disabled Workaround use nsshow command to check if target is online before manually failback EE Feature Data Security Function HA Cluster Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 pS Defect ID DEFECT000254640 Technical Severity Medium Summary BMD core file was generated during the overnight HA reboot test on Brocade 7800 with FCIP and regular traffic Symptom BMD crashed and core file generated Function ASP IOT Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 eee Defect ID DEFECT000255427 Technical Severity Medium Summary VE Port class tab is not displayed in Web Tools
236. rge zone DB may cause port initializing and results the frame drop Workaround In VF mode limit the zone DB on 5100 switch to less than 1MB on 5100 switch Feature FC Services Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee E E Defect ID DEFECT000262164 Technical Severity High Summary Under heavy traffic on 10G tunnel continous tunnel modification can cause traffic to halt Symptom FCIP I O traffic disruption during tunnel modification Workaround slot power off on the FX8 24 blade Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000262167 Technical Severity High Summary I O fails to across VE link when failover is done on a trunked EX port Symptom Medusa I O on a windows host connected to storage across a VE link timesout and stops when HDS TrueCopy I O is running across the same link Feature Striker Spike Platform Services Function VEX Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 a ee Defect ID DEFECT000262261 Technical Severity High Summary traffic cannot run across edge to edge topology when compression and fastwrite are enabled Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 43 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom I O traffic not able to run Feature FCIP Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee ee Defect ID DEFECT000262333 Technical Severity High Summary SFP power supply values are not displayed correctly after doing a non disruptive firmware upgrade to 6 3 Symptom After firmware upgr
237. rity High Summary reset factory default using the faceplate pinhole caused FFDC and VCM shows No Communication to the switch Symptom FFDC shown when reset to factory default on embedded platform 5481 Feature Embedded Function Platform Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0_wah fe Defect ID DEFECT000243959 Technical Severity High Summary Pending Megre During rekey operations continuously disconnect reconnect the ISL links between 2 cluster nodes causes one of the LUN to hang at LUN discovery state Symptom LUN may hang at LUN discovery state if ISL is continuously disconnected reconnected Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 371035 Defect ID DEFECT000244763 Technical Severity High Summary Pending merge Rekeying and toggling ISL to trigger HAC failover in 4 node dual fabric caused Lance slot3 DCX115 and Mace101 faulty BKSW 1003 HL_BES101 kSWD Detected unexpected termination of 4JCVLC Symptom faulty switches Feature Data Security Function HA Cluster Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 fe rl Defect ID DEFECT000241235 Technical Severity High Summary DCX upgrade from v6 1 1a to v6 2 0 GA hit FFDC then panic detected termination of process pdmd 2676 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 72 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Sy
238. rity Medium Summary ipaddrset command to set Lance GE ports IP address is non responsive Must reboot active CP to activate IP Symptom Following the removal or relocation move from one slot to another of an FS8 18 blade from the chassis any invocation of the ipaddrset CLI will appear to hang for a long period of time 10 minutes An IPAD 5000 raslog will be generated at the end of that time period Attempts to change IP addresses via ipaddrset or other management interfaces will likely fail Workaround The following should work Following any removal or relocation of an FS8 18 blade from any chassis slot do an hafailover to cause the standby CP to become active This should be done even if no change in chassis IP addresses is required as other problems could be otherwise encountered depending on network configuration Feature OS Services Function IP Admin Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000242074 Technical Severity Medium Summary Optimized SERDES setting for Brocade 5480 Symptom Improved performance Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function GE2 ASIC ports Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ed Defect ID DEFECT000236991 Technical Severity Medium Summary If TI zone operations are performed simultaneously on different switches active CP may failover due to termination of Name server module Symptom User might notice the message Detected terminatio
239. rnight run of CP hafailover Feature Data Security Function Platform Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000243094 Technical Severity Medium Summary fwdl should be blocked when switch is at faulty status to prevent unpredicted behavior Symptom Firmwaredownload continues after switch becomes faulty Feature Infrastructure Function Firmware Download Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000218382 Technical Severity Medium Summary User is not prompted when modifying a node WWN in an active encryption group and the actual modification of a node WWN is not prevented in an active encryption group Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 153 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Symptom Encryption group crypto operations scan be unpredictable when modifying a node WWN in an active encryption group Feature Data Security Function Infrastructure Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 I_ene er Defect ID DEFECT000225662 Technical Severity Medium Summary Moving FC FastWrite target from one switch to another can cause IO errors in FC FastWrite on that switch Symptom Failed IOs through a FC FW enabled fabric after moving device port from one switch to another in the fabric Workaround Quiesce IO to a device port before moving from one switch to a different switch Fe
240. robability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ea E Defect ID DEFECT000258207 Technical Severity Medium Summary Pathinfo should be blocked when TI zones are configured with failover disabled with exchange based routing Symptom Inconsistent path info may cause confusion Workaround use urouteshow to get the path information Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function MANAGEMENT SERVER Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 pe ee Symptom 4G Avago Sfp data is not shown on B7800 gige ports Found in Release FOS63 0 o oS S O Defect ID DEFECT000258330 Technical Severity Medium Summary EX Port Rejected Fabric Binding FCR 1077 for Edge Fabric in IM3 Symptom Fabric binding will not work in 239 domain mode in IM3 with FCR Found in Release FOS63 0 do o o oo d Defect ID DEFECT000258430 Technical Severity Medium Summary Stress to Fail System verification failed for AP Blade 2 and on second time system verification failed on blade 8 while running ACL test script Symptom Running system verification multiple times could cause Europa blade to fault Feature CEE PLATFORM Function Blade Driver Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 aaa 0 Defect ID DEFECT000258570 Technical Severity Medium Summary Stress to Fail Test After performing repeated slotpoweron port blades hafailover test under extreme conditions may cause standby CP to assert Symptom Standby CP reboot Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes
241. s 1 0 Page 143 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Workaround Portenable the F_Port in question Feature Access Gateway Services Function Daemon Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000211421 Technical Severity Medium Summary May see message Probing failed on F port when in interop mode 3 Symptom Message Probing failed on F port is seen Feature Native Interop Function Name Server Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235421 Technical Severity Medium Summary During overnigth stress testing ACL policy is not consistent across fabric even with fabwideset configured Symptom ACL policy may not be distributed across the fabric Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security ACL Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000236758 Technical Severity Medium Summary BES may be marked Faulty due to POST failure after repeated POST tests Symptom BES Faulty due to POST failure Workaround Manually reboot the switch should POST fail Feature Diagnostics Function Post Diags Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000236580 Technical Severity Medium Summary Standby CP rebooted unexpectedly during non disruptive firmware upgrade from v6 1 0 to v6 2 0 Symptom The customer will s
242. s excluded by zoning in a IM2 fabric when the device resides in the McDATA default zone Workaround Do not allow nodes which should be excluded from FICON nodes in the fabric to reside in McDATA default zone Feature FC Services Function Name Server Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238167 Technical Severity Medium Summary Broadcast frames at a high rate can cause unexpected termination of iswitchd Symptom The customer may see iswitch daemon termination when the Broadcast feature is turned on Workaround Turning the broadcast feature off solves the problem Feature 8G FCR Function FCR Daemon Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238856 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch View Pluto Switch Inserting Removing a blade into slot is not dynamically updated in Switch view Symptom Switch View Pluto Switch Switch view is not updated dynamically on Blade removal and insert Workaround launch the Webtols again Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Explorer Switch View Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000220037 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 5470 FFDC occurred while firmwaredownload from v6 1 0_emb_bld08 to v6 1 0_emb_bld09 Symptom FFDC occured on Brocade 5470 during firmwaredownload of two development builds Feature Embe
243. sabled Symptom Customer needs a warning message about the port state changes Workaround No Feature WebMgmt Function Ports Admin Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ft OSSOS Defect ID DEFECT000237050 Technical Severity Medium Summary If switches in an edge fabric have the Principal Priority set to non default values updating firmware on the FCR switch may result in fabric reconfiguration and momentary traffic disruption Symptom Fabric reconfiguration and or momentary traffic disruption seen in an edge fabric when the FCR is performing hot code activation Workaround Do not set the principal priority of switches in edge fabric to non default value in a routed MetaSANs Feature FC Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 eee O O O O O Defect ID DEFECT000240967 Technical Severity Medium Summary pending merge fail to recover data with error ERROR SYS FPGA timeout DECRYPT_DECOMPRESS_TIMEOUT Cmd 0x932b4000 Symptom Under corner case conditions users may see decryption failure Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG Z0 a OOOO Defect ID DEFECT000239422 Technical Severity Medium Summary FICON XRC times out on Brocade 7500 to DCX Symptom Specific third party drives not coming on line Feature FCIP Function FCIP I O Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 117 of 161 Closed with
244. sabled GE port on a Brocade FR4 18i blade becomes disabled after hafailover Symptom A GE port on a Brocade FR4 18i blade is persistently disabled After that hafailover is initiated Once the system comes up after failover the persistenly disabled GE port is in disabled state and not disabled persistent state Feature FCIP Function FCIP HA Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 OoOo OOS Defect ID DEFECT000249409 Technical Severity Medium Summary rcsd terminated on 5300 during a configDownload on all switches in the fabric Symptom During configdownload may see rcsd process termination Feature FC Services Function RCS Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 Sete Defect ID DEFECT000252901 Technical Severity Medium Summary key id sate shows key expired Allowing data append while key lifespan 0 minute Symptom key ID state may show key expired Allowing data append Feature Data Security Function Key Vault Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 eee ed Defect ID DEFECT000237521 Technical Severity Medium Summary Rekey operation is restarted but hung after all the Encryption Engines EEs in the encryption group are rebooted Symptom Rekey operation hangs after all EEs are rebooted Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Service Request ID 358763 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Releas
245. se FOS6 3 0 D ce Defect ID DEFECT000261 132 Technical Severity Medium Summary Ina large fabric with more than 56 switches edge DCX panic due to termination of msd during fabric reconfiguration Symptom Switch reboot Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function MANAGEMENT SERVER Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 fe a Defect ID DEFECT000261240 Technical Severity Medium Summary After running failover failback test for 10 hours FCoE10 24 hit faulty 21 Symptom faulty blade resulted from stree to fail testing Workaround slotpoweroff on Feature CEE PLATFORM Function Blade Driver Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 aa en Defect ID DEFECT000261261 Technical Severity Medium Summary VE port FWconfigure utilization is above 100 Symptom custommer will get the RAS log showing more then 100 utilization Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Fabric Watch Probability High Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 58 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Service Request ID 393779 ests Defect ID DEFECT000261286 Technical Severity Medium Summary stress to fail test The lis ports on a logical switch stuck may get stuck in G Port state after the test repeated switchdisable enable the logical switch follwoed by hafailover Symptom The lisl ports on the logical swith do not come up online stuck at G port state Workaround switchdisable enable the affected logical
246. shes when a brocade HBA with virtual ports is connected to a Saturn Symptom fdmid crashes and HA failover is happening Workaround Logout all the devices registered their HBA info and log them in after the fabric is stable Feature FC Services Function FDMI Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000243076 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 8000 firmware download hot code load shows no identifier in the HTML page Symptom Need an identifier NVP in the switch HTML page Feature CEE FOS Function MAPS SFI Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee a I Ull Defect ID DEFECT000237196 Technical Severity Medium Summary Unable to activate a new PDCM Matrix with Webtools Symptom When activating saved PDCM Matrix from Activate CUP Port Connectivity Configuration dialog in WebTools with Active Save Mode checked WebTools displays error Workaround Activate the same PDCM Matrix from WebTools with Active Save Mode checked from Edit CUP Port Connectivity Configuration window Feature FICON Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 e IIET El Defect ID DEFECT000239745 Technical Severity Medium Summary VCM don t have GUI capability to change SNMP read community configuration Symptom From VCM user cannot change SNMP read community configuration Feature Access Gateway Function HPVCM Probability Low Risk of Fix
247. should be configured only when the LUN is created Never modify the expiry date after configuring a LUN If you modify the expiry time after configuring the LUN the expiration date will not update properly e SKM is supported with Multiple Nodes and Dual SKM Key Vaults Two way certificate exchange is supported Please refer to the Encryption Admin Guide for configuration information If using dual SKMs on BES FS8 18 Encryption Group then these SKM Appliances must be clustered Failure to cluster will result in key creation failure Otherwise register only one SKM on the BES FS8 18 Encryption Group e When the tape key expires in the middle of write operation on the tape the key is used to append the data on the tape media When the backup application rewinds the media and starts writing to Block O again and if the key is expired then a new key is created and used henceforth The expired key thereafter is marked as read only and used only for restore of data from previously encrypted tapes e For dual LKM configuration on the Brocade Encryption Switch BES or a DCX DCX 4S with FS8 18 blades as the primary and secondary key vaults these LKM appliances must be clustered linked Failure to cluster will result in key creation failure Otherwise register only one LKM on the BES FS8 18 Encryption Group Please refer to the Encryption Admin Guide for configuration information e The RKM Appliance A1 6 SW v2 5 is supported The procedure for settin
248. st versions of Brocade software supported in this release that is the earliest supported software versions that interoperate Brocade recommends using the latest software versions to get the greatest benefit from the SAN When using the Virtual Fabrics feature it is highly recommended that all switches participating in a fabric with a logical switch use the latest firmware available for those switches All switches must be operating at minimum firmware levels noted in the FOS Interoperability table below When using any of Brocade s encryption platforms Brocade Encryption Switch or Brocade FS8 18 blade in a DCX or DCX 4S it is required that switches attached to hosts and targets or those that are part of the encryption flow be operating with minimum specified levels e 2Gb 4Gb platforms must operate with FOS v5 3 1b or later e 4Gb 8Gb platforms must operate with FOS v6 1 0e v6 1 1 or later 4Gb platforms may use v5 3 1b but are recommended to use the v6 x versions e M EOS platforms must operate with M EOS v9 8 0 or later for McDATA Fabric Mode interopmode 2 or M EOS 9 9 0 or later for Open Fabric Mode environments interopmode 3 For a list of the effective end of life dates for all versions of Fabric OS visit the following Brocade Web site http www brocade com support end_of_life jsp Supported Products and FOS Interoperability Brocade 2000 series switches Not supported end of support December 2007
249. switch lislenable should work Feature Logical Fabric Function LFMD Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 SS T E Defect ID DEFECT000261366 Technical Severity Medium Summary RTT counters are not displayed correctly on idle switch setup Symptom Under certain configuration RTT values are not displayed correctly for FCIP tunnels Workaround Execute ping on VE link to get correct RTT values Feature FCIP Function FCP TCP IP Stack Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee SS Defect ID DEFECT000261373 Technical Severity Medium Summary The crypto device container is not active after configdownload Symptom After configdownload new crypto device configuration is not pushed to blade Workaround Issue disableEE enableEE Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Probability High Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Pe a Defect ID DEFECT000261374 Technical Severity Medium Summary Ina large routed fabric frame loss observed when running HCL from v6 2 0g to v6 3 0 internal SQA build on 7500 w IMB db zone Symptom Frame loss may be observed during HCL Workaround No Feature 4G ASIC Driver Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ft ee Defect ID DEFECT000261440 Technical Severity Medium Summary WT session got expired before the session time out value and also OutOfMemoryError Exception thrown when launched from DCFM Symptom Users may see webtools session getting terminated before t
250. tainer all stat should always be ignored and the Key life field in cryptocfg show tapepool cfg is only significant for native encrypted pools e The Quorum Authentication feature requires a compatible DCFM release which supports this feature Note all nodes in the EG must be running FOS v6 3 0 for quorum authentication to be properly supported e Ina DCX or DCX 4S with FOS 6 3 0 and FS8 18 encryption blades installed you must set the quorum size to zero and disable the system card on the blade prior to downgrading to a FOS version earlier than FOS 6 3 0 e The System Card feature requires a compatible DCFM release which supports this feature Note all nodes in the EG must be running FOS v6 3 0 for system verification to be properly supported e The Brocade Encryption switch and FS8 18 blade do not support QoS When using encryption or Frame Redirection participating flows should not be included in QoS Zones e Brocade encryption devices can be configured for either disk or tape operation The ability to configure multiple Crypto Target Containers defining different media types on a single encryption engine Brocade Encryption Switch or FS8 18 Blade is not supported FS8 18 Encryption Blades can be configured to support different media types within a common DCX DCX A4S chassis e When using Brocade Native Mode in LKM installations manual rekey is highly recommended If auto rekey is desired the key expiry date
251. tch Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security RADIUS LDAP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 381133 Symptom LACP interop with Foundry FCS and FESX has error Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee pe Defect ID DEFECT000246733 Technical Severity Medium Summary Pre Discovery Containers did not failback after firmware download to 6 2 0 D patch build 6 Symptom after firmwaredownload the encryption containers may not fail back as expected Feature Data Security Function HA Cluster Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000247190 Technical Severity Medium Summary FVT DEK key on member node shows waiting for new key from peer after rekey Symptom After rekeying operations member node may not show correct status Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 95 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Feature Data Security Function Key Vault Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000253 137 Technical Severity Medium Summary fdmid terminated quietly after 2 2 Elara run for a week while no operations executed but light background FCoE FC traffic Symptom May see FDMId process termination on 8000 switch Feature CEE FOS Function FC Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee a a Defect ID DEFECT0002
252. te and Non Redundant Detail Service Status window shows confusing pop up message Symptom HA status messages from webtools windows may not be clear for the message Non Redundant Detail Service Status Workaround No Feature WebMgmt Function High Availability Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 2 Defect ID DEFECT000259452 Technical Severity Medium Summary FVT CRT FA4 18 Blade fault after DPC 0 crashes Symptom FA4 18 blade becomes faulty Feature UNDETERMINED Function UNDER REVIEW Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 136 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000225508 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port Base routing aptpolicy 1 may not balance the load across multiple ISLs Symptom With port based routing aptpolicy 1 on BES egress traffic is limited to a single port Feature FOS Platform Services Function Routing Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000227520 Technical Severity Medium Summary Encryption Group Member cannot join its encryption group after simultaneous power down of all members of encryption group Symptom If the user powers down all members of the encryption group and then only powers up a member node then no crypto operations or commands except node i
253. tempt to lock up and fail Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238151 Technical Severity Medium Summary verify fab_ha c line 5206 on 10G Adva link connect Symptom cp reboot Feature FC10 6 Platform Services Function High Availability Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 96 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000242607 Technical Severity Medium Summary Enable Inactive port tab in the EZmanager has to be disabled for the Brocade 8000 Symptom Since the Brocade 8000 does not require a license to enable the port by default all the ports are active Feature WebMgmt Function Web Tools EZ Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee ee ee Defect ID DEFECT000243749 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 300 not responding to Link Reset primitives correctly Symptom Devices may send an OLS and or link reset Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function C2 ASIC driver Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fee Defect ID DEFECT00025 1322 Technical Severity Medium Summary When a trunk master port is disabled fabric watch incorrectly sets the new trunk master s health to offline and remote side to faulty even though port is online Symptom Webtool dispaly problem without real functionalit
254. teroperability with these distance extension devices Fabric OS v6 3 0 allows Extended Fabrics E_ports to operate in VC_RDY mode using either ARB or IDLE primitives as fill words This allows frame based Trunking to be supported on Extended Fabrics E ports even when IDLE primitives are configured for these ports when operating in native VC_RDY mode Prior to this change frame based Trunking was supported only when ARB primitives were used in VC_RDY mode With Fabric OS v6 2 or later frame based Trunking is supported on Extended Fabrics E_ports regardless of whether IDLE or ARB primitives are used when operating in native VC_RDY mode Implementation The portcfglongdistance CLI parameter VC Translation Link Init is now overloaded to specify if the long distance link should use IDLE or ARB primitives By default vc_init is enabled If vc_init is enabled the long distance link will use ARB primitives If vc_init is disabled the link will use IDLE primitives Note Buffer to Buffer Credit Recovery feature is not supported on Extended Fabrics E_port when it is configured to use IDLE primitives The user must disable buffer to buffer credit recovery feature using the command portcfgcreditrecovery and specifying the disable option otherwise the link will continuously reset The Adaptive Networking SID DID Traffic Prioritization QoS feature is not supported on Extended Fabrics E_ports when IDLE primitives are configured on these ports This
255. tes 1 0 Page 20 of 161 indicates the feature is available but not officially tested or supported 1 Requires M EOS 9 7 or later for redirection between devices attached to FOS switches M EOS 9 8 for redirection between devices attached to M EOS switches M EOS 9 9 for use in McDATA Open Fabric Mode Supported M EOS platforms include M4400 M4700 M6140 and Mil0k 2 Only allowed between FOS based switches DPS is supported outbound from FOS based switches M EOS can provide reciprocal load balancing using OpenTrunking SCC policies only supported in conjunction with L2 Fabric Binding support Not supported in FOS 6 0 or later Mode 3 only qualified with M EOS switches Not on FCR Only supported locally within the FOS switch All routers EX_Ports must reside in a backbone fabric running in interopmode 0 only Only edge fabrics with devices imported to the backbone fabric or other edge fabrics may be operating in IM2 or IM3 10 To support Frame Redirection to an edge M EOS fabric there must be at least one FOS switch in the edge fabric to configure Frame Redirection Zones 11 Only Frame Redirection Zones may be configured on FOS platforms and sent to fabrics operating in McDATA Open Fabric Mode interopmode 3 M EOS 9 9 is required to support FR Zones in McDATA Open Fabric Mode gt NOO ONO Note FICON Cascaded CUP with M EOS and FOS qualified only on select platforms Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades Upgrading to Fabri
256. th QoS enabled while the remaining ports in the trunk group have QoS disabled e Fewer buffer credits being made available to normal E ports after a port toggle even when QoS is not being utilized e Unexpected change to fill word configuration on an Extended Fabrics E port after a port toggle If an Extended Fabrics E port is originally using IDLE primitives as fill words and if that port toggles the fill word configuration will be changed to use ARB primitives Note After upgrading to this firmware release if users want to enable the Adaptive Networking QoS feature on 4G platforms or on Extended Fabrics E ports on both 4G and 8G platforms they must do so explicitly through the available user interfaces e QoS is supported on AG switches with FOS 6 3 0 The fabric switches should be running 6 3 in order to support QoS If the fabric switch is 6 2 QoS must be disabled on either switch or AG Access Gateway e When running Adaptive Networking in AG mode note the following o QoS takes precedence over ingress rate limiting o Ingress Rate Limiting is not enforced on trunked ports FCR e IPFC over FCR is now disabled by default Switches that are upgraded to FOS v6 3 will retain their configuration settings for IPFC over FCR The change to the default configuration only applies to new units shipping with FOS v6 3 or units running v6 3 that are reset to a default configuration Use fcrbcast enable to explicitly enable IPFC over F
257. th an indication of Security Violation Examination of the fabric shows that all switches share identical FWCP and Security Policies and that all are configured with idid off Workaround Fabric can be merged by disabling the switches and setting idid mode in the switch configurations then bringing the switches online This option is applicable only in the event the user wishes to merge the switch to a fabric that also has idid set Feature FC Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fee OOS Defect ID DEFECT000245 126 Technical Severity Medium Summary syshutdown execution of command in current build yields only this is a unknown system string on session consoles Symptom sysshutdown command is not available Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 103 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Feature RAS Function FFDC Supportsave Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235257 Technical Severity Medium Summary Cannot use fwconfigure to view the information on internal F FL ports Copper Symptom When issuing fwconfigure command and selecting option 6 the following error message appears ERROR No threshold available Press lt Enter gt to return to previous menu Feature Embedded Function Platform Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0_emb dl Defect ID DEFECT000245 157 Technical Severity Me
258. the LUN it is recommended that the customer quiesce access to that LUN Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_ene Ea SA Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000223242 Technical Severity High Summary Rekey of LUNs hosted through active passive ports will not complete if started on the passive path Symptom When both paths of an active passive array are hosted on a single Brocade Encryption Switch the rekeying will not complete if the rekey operation is started on a passive path of the array Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc ee e Defect ID DEFECT000235922 Technical Severity High Summary With McData default zone enabled when numerious NPIV devices in the default zone come online at the same instant some devices were missing from portcam table Symptom Unable to communicate with a device in the default zone Workaround This is due to mulitiple devices login simultaneously So apply portdisable to all ports connected to the devices and apply portenable sequentially This will resolve the issue NPIV devices in IM2 default zone is not supported NPIV devices should be part of the active zone configuration Feature FC Services Function Name Server Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 De oo Defect ID DEFECT000234361 Technical Severity High
259. the blade s Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function C2 ASIC driver Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000236972 Technical Severity High Summary supportsave supportsave slot transfer failed for FS8 18 blade after FAULTY 79 code Symptom BP SS will not be collected Feature RAS Function FFDC Supportsave Probability Low Risk of Fix High Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 67 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000236118 Technical Severity High Summary 8Gb storage device failed to detect 8Gb speed when port was locked as a G_port Symptom Certain 8Gb storage arrays are connecting to Brocade 8Gb switches as 4Gb devices when the switch port is locked as a G_port Workaround Instead of relying on auto negotiation lock the switch port at 8Gb Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 354645 Defect ID DEFECT000238843 Technical Severity High Summary Invalid CAL Response for GetInstance operation on Brocade_Account CAL class in 48k from Brocade SMIA Project Symptom One of specific CAL query on a 48000 switch may return invalid response Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 eee O oo Defect ID DEFECT000241236 Technical Severity High Summary Pending Merge
260. the host which then responds with an ACK The ACK is never forwarded back to the NS which causes the NS to ABTS the exchange Defect ID DEFECT000221643 Technical Severity Medium Summary MS Platform dB is activated after warm recovery of firmwaredownload Symptom After upgrading from v5 2 0a to v5 3 0d the MS Platform dB was activated after the warm recovery of the CP which caused a segmentation due to the MS Platform dB being activated Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 324489 Defect ID DEFECT000207366 Technical Severity Medium Summary Inconsistencies seen for topologyshow and islshow bandwidth on 5300 and 300 switches Symptom ISLSHOW and TOPOLOGYSHOW ouput will be inconsistent Feature Platform Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 e Defect ID DEFECT000259936 Technical Severity Medium Summary FICON XRC Emulation error handling OOO Status Frames Symptom DASD CU reboots due to Link Busy loop caused by incorrect handling of the OOO DE status frame Workaround Option 1 Deactivate all paths that utilize the same device ports and reactivate at the same time Option 2 Disable FICON XRC emulation Feature FCIP Function FCIP I O Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fee Defect ID DEFECT000260383 Technical Severity Medium Summary HIL 1610 WARNING app
261. this license optimizes overall application performance for physical servers and virtual machines by extending virtual channels to the server infrastructure Application specific traffic flows can be configured prioritized and optimized throughout the entire data center infrastructure This license is not supported on the Brocade 8000 e FCoE This license enables Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE functionality on the Brocade 8000 Without the FCoE license the Brocade 8000 is a pure L2 Ethernet switch and will not allow FCoE bridging or FCF capabilities e 8000 FC Ports on Demand This new license enables all eight FC ports on the Brocade 8000 IMPORTANT NOTE Most Brocade 8000 units shipped with FOS v6 1 2_CEE1 did not ship with this license and need to have it installed prior to upgrading to FOS v6 3 0 Failure to do so will result in disabling of FC ports following the upgrade Please contact Brocade to obtain this license key e 7800 Port Upgrade This new license allows a Brocade 7800 to enable 16 FC ports instead of the base four ports and six GbE ports instead of the base two ports This license is also required to enable additional FCIP tunnels and also for advanced capabilities like tape read write pipelining A Brocade 7800 must have the Port Upgrade license installed to add FICON Management Sever CUP or Advanced Accelerator for FICON e Advanced Extension This new license enables two advanced extension features FCI
262. tion Feature Diagnostics Function Other Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 OoOo OOS Defect ID DEFECT000210143 Technical Severity Medium Summary Channel definition errors time out on QSA Response due to excessive link incidents Symptom Excessive link incidents caused by bad SFP cable can prevent proper channel response Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Mgmt Server Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 0 0 O Defect ID DEFECT000234548 Technical Severity Medium Summary The ifNumber does not match the number of entries in the ifTable for the logical switches with LISL Symptom The ifnumber and the number of entries in the if table do not match Feature Mgmnt Embedded SNMP Probability High Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 0 oe Defect ID DEFECT000235300 Technical Severity Medium Summary Newly created LS should inherit NTP server setting of Default LS Symptom If NTP server is configured on the default switch and user updates date time in non default logical switch context it will be overwritten by NTP server time Workaround Don t use date command in non default logical swtich Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Time Server Probability Medium Risk of Fix High Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 125 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Found in Release FOSG20_ S SCSS OSCOCSCOCSCCSCCST Defect ID DEFECT0002
263. tion MISC Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000243145 Technical Severity Medium Summary No external Ethernet port association for pre FIP FLOGI FDISC unicast frames Symptom If FCF unicast FLOGI FDISC frames are sent to the Brocade 8000 they are not associated with an external L2 TE port Feature CEE FCOE Function FCOE DRIVER Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee ee Se Defect ID DEFECT000247663 Technical Severity Medium Summary Observed frame drops and IFCCs with lossless feature Symptom Lossless DLS failed with dropped frame causing IFCC in presence of ICLs Feature 8G Platform Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000247642 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade Encyption Switch BES panic because KACd memory leak with multiple get key operation Symptom Under certain conditions memory leak on BES users may see termination of KACd process Feature Data Security Function Key Vault Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000247244 Technical Severity Medium Summary FR zones cannot be created when defzone is set to allaccess Symptom Redirect zone add will fail of defzone is set to allaccess Workaround Set defzone to noaccess Feature FC Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee See ets T Defect
264. tion even when no alarms are available for all of the classes in WebTools Symptom Inconsistency in the behavior of CLI and WebTools while configuring the Fabric Watch classes Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Function Fabric Watch Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS620 OoOo OOS Defect ID DEFECT000234690 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 121 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Summary The swFCPortTable displays the port statistical data for the logical port Symptom The port statistics data should not be available for the Logical Ports But some incorrect data is shown these in swFCPortTable Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 i Defect ID DEFECT000235544 Technical Severity Medium Summary FS8 18 turns faulty 21 after firmwaredownload and reboot of DCX Symptom FS8 18 will be faulty and is not available for fabric or crypto operations Workaround Slotpoweroff slotpoweron the blade or remove the blade and insert back Feature Data Security Function Security Processor Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ag OOOO Defect ID DEFECT000225320 Technical Severity Medium Summary Create 2 access list with 170 rules in each ACL and apply on 2 ports Statistics is not updated for one of the ACL Symptom In stress to fail scenarios after creating rules for ACLs statistics co
265. tionally licensed features These bundles are defined for each unique product and are outside the scope of this release note document Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 10 of 161 Temporary License Support The following licenses are available for 45 day temporary use with a maximum of two temporary licenses per feature and per switch 90 days maximum Fabric E_port license Extended Fabric license Trunking license High Performance Extension license Advanced Performance Monitoring license Adaptive Networking license Fabric Watch license Integrated Routing license Server Application Optimization support as a temporary license is new in FOS v6 3 Advanced Extension license support is new in FOS v6 3 Advanced FICON Acceleration license support is new in FOS v6 3 10GbE FCIP license support is new in FOS v6 3 Note Temporary Licenses for features available on a per slot basis enable the feature for any and all slots in the chassis Universal Temporary License Support New The following list of licenses are available as Universal Temporary licenses meaning the same license key can be installed on any switch running FOS v6 3 or later that supports the specific feature Universal Temporary license keys can only be installed once on a particular switch but can be applied to as many switches as desired Temporary use duration the length of time the feature will be enabled on a switch is provided with the license key All
266. to 6 3 0 Host will loose access to LUNs as NCKA nCipher Key Vault is only supported in 6 3 0 Workaround Upgrade all nodes to 6 3 0 in order to take advantage of NCKA KV nCipher Key Vault feature Feature Data Security Function CLI Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 aa e eee Defect ID DEFECT000257636 Technical Severity Medium Summary F Ports may not get evenly distributed when auto policy is enabled and automapbalance is enabled on F Port offline Symptom F Port may not be evenly distributed Workaround disable enable any online Nport or enable offline Nport Feature Access Gateway Services Function CLI Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 E Pe Defect ID DEFECT000257680 Technical Severity Medium Summary Zoning when ISL b w 2 switches is disabled and when safe zone is enabled for 1 switch other with safe zone disabled as well as zone db cleared on again enabling the ISL effective config is pushed even though there is no fabric formation b w them Symptom Even though two swithes are not in fabric zone configuration is pushed from one switch to another End up with segmented E_Port and merged effective configuration when do not have consistent setting for safe zone configuration Workaround Not needed User can either enable or disable Safe zoning on both switches Feature FC Services Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ooo eee Defect ID DEFECT000257729 Technical Severity Medium S
267. to v6 2 0 38 user is prompted with message not all domains are capable of supporting Coordinated HotCode load Do you want to bypass the checking of Coordinated HotCode Feature WebMgmt Function Firmware Download Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237138 Technical Severity Medium Summary If there is a fabric reconfiguration while switches are upgrading to 6 2 switches may report FDD violations and segment from the fabric Symptom During the firmware upgrade process E ports may become segmented due to an FDD Fabric Data Distribution conflict even though the Fabric Wide Disribution policies are the same Workaround portdisable enable should cause the E port to reestablish connection after the fabric becomes stable Alternatively the Fabric Wide Distribution policies could be disabled during the firmware upgrade to avoid unnecessary fabric disruption and then eable Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security ACL Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237191 Technical Severity Medium Summary Filter and EE monitors are lost if perfCfgSave is not executed after creation of monitors and before upgrading firmware to 6 2 0 on 7600 Symptom Filter and EE monitors are lost after firmware upgrade to 6 2 0 on 7600 Workaround If new monitors are created configuration needs to be saved using perfCfgSave before per
268. tom Customer could be confused by the message posted when enabling Defaultzoning via WebTools With Safezoning disabled when customer enables defaultzoning via WebTools a message is posted to the switch console log and in the WT Switch Event Log that The Interop Safe zoning mode is set to Disable The Interop Default Zone state is set to enabled Feature WebMgmt Function Zone Admin Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Se Se Defect ID DEFECT000236582 Technical Severity Medium Summary If second FDISC comes in before the switch responds to the first FDISC between the same pair of devices the Access Gateway daemon panics Symptom Access Gateway daemon panic triggers switch reboot Feature Field Escalation Function Access Gateway Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 354129 Defect ID DEFECT000239393 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port Admin Disabling FCFastWrite feature in 7500E shows a blank error message Symptom No warning message displayed when FC fastwrite feature is disabled on 7500E through WebTool Workaround No Feature WebMgmt Function Ports Admin Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 EO eO Defect ID DEFECT000239368 Technical Severity Medium Summary In Web Tools for Add operation in VLAN in CEE tab all created data is not added in the table Symptom The table does not display all of the added data Feature We
269. tributed out to other common zoned ports has the Event Qual field cleared to x00 in the payload Feature FC Services Function Name Server Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000229069 Technical Severity Medium Summary Getting CT invalid explanation while doing a switch enclosure call GENVATTR2 on a logical context Symptom SMI Application receives wrong error code Feature Mgmt Embedded RPCD Function Other Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237814 Technical Severity Medium Summary Add Member button is disabled while creating a new TI Zone when the switch is in VF mode Symptom In ADD TI Zone window customer cannot use the ADD Memeber button to add the members ports to the Zone members Workaround Add Other Port button can be used to add ports this is available in the ADD TI Zone window Feature WebMgmt Function Zone Admin Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 145 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238138 Technical Severity Medium Summary When downloading bld38 to DCX using WebTools received message not all domains are capable of supporting Coordinated HotCode load Symptom In an FCR configuration using WebTools when attempting to upgrade DCX from v6 1 0c
270. tshow port_number to see all the NPIV devices Feature Access Gateway Services Function CLI Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000236847 Technical Severity Medium Summary In rare circumstances a change to the TI zone failover policy will not be applied Symptom Traffic which does not belong to any TI defined zones is offloaded onto a TI link which carry a failover policy of enabled OK but also is offloaded onto a parallel TI link which carries a failover policy of disabled not OK Traffic which is not part o Workaround Workaround to change the failover policy is as follows deactivate the TI zone change the failover policy activate the TI zone Feature 8G Platform Services Function Routing Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238059 Technical Severity Medium Summary Build v6 2 0_main_bld38 SNMP BUG The swfabricwatchtrap traps are not received for fwconfigure changes Symptom _ swfabricwatchtrap is not received for fabric watch fwconfigure change Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function Other Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238324 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port Initiated Rscn sent outbound from switch has Event qual field cleared in Single PID config Symptom Port initiated RSCN which arrives at a switch port and then dis
271. ture OS Services Function Linux Kernal Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237710 Technical Severity Medium Summary perfftmon show dom wwn command returned SID DID entry not present in NS message when it is executed from 6 2 switch for remote domain of firmware version 6 1 or vice versa Symptom User might see a truncated output with the following message SID DID entry not present in NS User will encounter same behavior when the command is executed from pre6 2 switch and the remote domain is a 6 2 switch Workaround Login to the remote switch switch and execute the command Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238147 Technical Severity Medium Summary Can not load bredfcip mib and IF mib on AdventNet and HP Openview mib browsers Symptom unable to load fcip mib on AdventNet and HP Openview Browser Feature Embedded Function MGMT BACKEND Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 0_utah Defect ID DEFECT000236034 Technical Severity Medium Summary Output of command fcrproxydevshow with option a is sometimes inconsistent between the non VF FCR switches in the fabric Symptom If an edge fabric involved in B2E importing is connected to both non VF enabled and VF enabled FCR and another non VF enabled FCR is not con
272. ty following a restart or disabling of ports Note that when the FC POD license is installed on a unit with FOS v6 1 2 the licenseShow output will indicate that the license is not applicable on this platform This message can be ignored and will not appear once the unit has been upgraded to v6 3 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 21 of 161 If the 6 2 switch is in the fips mode and has only ldap authentication support and upgraded to 6 3 login will fail So if the 6 2 switch is in the fips mode customer should configure both Idap and local authentications before upgrading it to the 6 3 once the switch is up customer can login into the switch and import the certificate again If the switch is not in the fips mode customer can login into the switch with ldap after upgrading to the 6 3 and then import the certificate SAS Version Requirements for FA4 18 and Brocade 7600 SAS v3 4 0 is the supported SAS version for FOS v6 3 0 e When upgrading from FOS v6 2 to v6 3 0 and SAS 3 3 0 to SAS 3 4 0 first upgrade FOS v6 2 to v6 3 0 and then upgrade SAS from 3 3 0 to 3 4 0 When downgrading from FOS v6 3 0 to v6 2 and SAS 3 4 0 to SAS 3 3 0 first downgrade SAS from 3 4 0 to 3 3 0 and then downgrade FOS from v6 3 0 to v6 2 If the switch is downgraded to v6 2 prior to the SAS downgrade to v3 3 the switch will fault Scalability All scalability limits are subject to change Limits may be increased once further testing has been completed
273. ullet FCOE10 24 blade cannot coexist with other AP blades in either the DCX or DCX 4S chassis If hot plugged into a chassis with other AP blades the FCOE10 24 will be faulted and not powered on If the FCOE10 24 is already installed in the chassis before any other AP blade and the Ethernet service is installed any other AP blade will be faulted and not powered on if hot plugged AP blades include the following e FR4 18i e FA4 18 e FS8 18 e FX8 24 The same scenario applies if a DCX or DCX 4S is powered up If a FCOE10 24 is the first AP blade detected no other AP blade will be powered on Conversely if another AP blade is the first detected an FCOE10 24 in the chassis will not be powered on Port blades will be unaffected A maximum of two 2 FCOE10 24 blades can be installed in a DCX or DCX 4S chassis On page 5 put the following information after the FX8 24 bullet A maximum of two 2 FX8 24 blades can be installed in a DCX or DCX 4S chassis The 1 GbE ports can be configured with either optical or copper SFPs and cables The 10 GbE ports are optical only Brocade 7800 Extension Switch Hardware Reference Manual Publication 53 1001350 01 All references to GbE ports ge0 and gel copper or GbE ports ge0 and gel copper only should read GbE ports ge0 and gel fixed copper These ports with RJ45 connectors can be used only with copper cables References to GbE optical ports ge0 ge5 should read GbE SFP
274. um Summary Please provide option to create VLAN interfaces in ranges Symptom VLAN interface creation with range option is not supported Feature CEE MANAGEABILITY Function CLI Reason Code Can Not Fix Probability High Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee fess Defect ID DEFECT000228287 Technical Severity Medium Summary RPC call to delete an instance of Brocade_Platform fails on DCX 4S Symptom SMI Applicaton cannot delete Brocade_Platform object Feature Mgmt Embedded RPCD Function Ports Admin Reason Code Can Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000240391 Technical Severity Medium Summary TRCK 1004 messages aren t logged when configuration changes Symptom TRCK 1004 message is not generated when switch configuration changes Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Function EVMD Reason Code Can Not Fix Probability High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 363237 Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 139 of 161 Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245449 Technical Severity High Summary 48000 CP panic during overnight slot command test with ASSERT Failed expression table NULL file vobs fabos fabobj_mgr fabport c line 2096 kernel mode Symptom switch crash and reboot Feature 8G Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Drivers Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT00024
275. ummary Ina large fabric with 50 switches observed errors queue ns queue full miss 1 when enabling the config file cfgenable Symptom Observed errors queue ns queue full miss 1 when enabling the config file cfgenable Feature FC Services Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 51 of 161 Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000257790 Technical Severity Medium Summary ifDescr returns invalid slot based description for fcip tunnels configured in 7800 Symptom when the user configures more than 1 fcip tunnel in the 7800 switch the ifDescr returns invalid slot based desription Found in Release FOS63 0 o o oo d O Defect ID DEFECT000258090 Technical Severity Medium Summary Usability Tagged frames received by interface configured as access mode carrying untagged frames only causes confused FCoE behavior VN device Logged in to Namer Server Symptom TomCat only support converged mode on TE interface When TE configured as access mode untagged switch still allows CNA to LOGIN to FC Name Server this confuses customer Feature CEE LAYER2 Function L2 SUBSYSTEM Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 o A Defect ID DEFECT000258154 Technical Severity Medium Summary In 7800 Licenseremove command gets executed for slot based license which configured to blade slot Symptom Expected the license not to get removed when configured P
276. ummary On some of Elara boards DIAGPOST is failing due to loss of sync Symptom In pre GA versions of Brocade 8000 switch users may see POST failure Feature Diagnostics Function Post Diags Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee C Defect ID DEFECT000245810 Technical Severity Medium Summary Processor rebooted Software Fault ASSERT when frame size received is too big Symptom switch reboot hafailover with kernel assert in FCPH module Feature Field Escalation Function FCR Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 1 Service Request ID 373071 Defect ID DEFECT000223540 Technical Severity Medium Summary Need to support a command clear logging to clear all debug log messages accumulated Symptom In cmsh mode there is no CLI to clear internal debug log entries Workaround Go to FOS mode and issue an errclear command Feature CEE MANAGEABILITY Function CLI Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 1 2_cee eS Defect ID DEFECT000238013 Technical Severity Medium Summary Cli output consistency and input validation issues around key lifespan option of a LUN Symptom Adding a LUN to a container tape with a key lifespan of 1 day displays lifespan as 1440 minutes from cryptocfg show container all stat cli Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 86 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Workaround Input validation issues Requires th
277. und This fix was merged from v6 2 patch to v6 3 Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 370041 Defect ID DEFECT000246901 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade Encryption Switch BES shows Encryption Engine busy when continuously and repeatedly disable enable IO sync ports of the BES Symptom BES and Encryption Engine are not available for crypto operations Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 pepe Defect ID DEFECT000247176 Technical Severity High Summary Node descriptors are missing for Brocade DCX and DCX 4S Symptom Missing Node descriptors FICON RNID data Feature Pluto Platform Services Function Platform Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000247409 Technical Severity High Summary Tapepipelining code begins to randomly send only data frames in an exchange to tape drive Symptom Tape job fails Feature FCIP Function FCIP Performance Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 375305 Defect ID DEFECT000246908 Technical Severity High Summary Partitioned Brocade DCX 4S panic d after reset allegiance issued by multiple hosts Symptom FICUD terminates and switch reboots Feature FICON Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS
278. unters may not get updated Feature CEE SYSTEM SERVICES Function ACL Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cce fs Dd Defect ID DEFECT000235195 Technical Severity Medium Summary MAC access group is not removed even after executing no mac access group in the interface mode Symptom Customers may see MAC access group entries even after removing these entries from CLI Feature CEE SYSTEM SERVICES Function ACL Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2_cee fe Defect ID DEFECT000207213 Technical Severity Medium Summary In interop mode 2 with Default Zone enabled the user can activate only 2047 Zones per Zone Set Symptom Webtools and CLI appear to activate a zone set consisting of 2048 or more zones but actually it never does Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 sr Defect ID DEFECT000204038 Technical Severity Medium Summary Event for change in IDID state on neighboring switch not being posted to log Symptom Expected event for change in IDID state on neighboring switch not posted to local event log Feature FC Services Function FICON Probability Medium er a of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000220861 Technical Severity Medium Summary In connUnitLinkTable for the attribute connUnitLinkConnldY there is a mismatch between the PID displayed on the CLI and browser Symptom The PID value of the port is d
279. ure 8G ASIC Driver Function PORT Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS620 Defect ID DEFECT000250773 Technical Severity High Summary fail to label tape w error ERROR SYS Crypto tape receives service failure in tape_cmd_pre_execution_scsi_chk PI BLK size gt RBL 0x0 tape_util c line 5002 Symptom Back up application unable to label tape media with tape encryption Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 aa Defect ID DEFECT000246519 Technical Severity High Summary User entered FRU number via CLI is not being modified Symptom RNID data reporting same serial for two different logical switches Feature FICON Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fee Defect ID DEFECT00025 1984 Technical Severity High Summary Authentication is getting failed after 15 min if we configured external authentication like LDAP or Radius server Symptom If external authentication mechanism like LDAP or RADIUS server was configured in the switch After 15 20 user is not able to login using WT or webpage It reports invalid passowrd CLI works fine Once rebooted the swtich it is again working for 15 min then the same issue is occuring Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security login Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe ed Defect ID DEFECT000248901 Technical Severity High Summary
280. v device Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ag Defect ID DEFECT000238591 Technical Severity Medium Summary CP experienced a kenel panic Oops kernel access of bad area sig 11 1 Symptom Very rare corner case a port reset at the same time as an end to end plogi is being processed or during a plogi storm can lead to a kernel panic Oops kernel access of bad area sig 11 1 and sometimes cold recovery Feature Field Escalation Function FC Layer 2 Routing Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 361517 Defect ID DEFECT000238490 Technical Severity Medium Summary Fruclass in fru table and fruhistoryclass in fruhistorytable of HA MIB shows other 1 for CP slot instead of cp 4 for DCX and Pluto Symptom Misleading Fruclass in frutable and fruhistoryclass in fruhistorytable of HA MIB for DCX and Pluto Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238555 Technical Severity Medium Summary CPstatus change trap is not generated on issuing HA failover for 48k but the failover happens and the CP status change oid returns changed values Symptom CPstatus change trap is not generated during HA failover on 48K Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe I Io Defect ID DEFECT000236289 Technical Severity Med
281. v5 3 x and some units would not boot up afterword After login limited commands are available and switch fails cold recovery Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOSS 3 1 aa aa oO Defect ID DEFECT000237446 Technical Severity Medium Summary If user account on RADIUS server is set up with only Chassis level role as primary but it is not on the LF role list the user cannot login Symptom User cannot login Workaround Specify LF role list in the RADIUS server for the account Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security RADIUS LDAP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 el Defect ID DEFECT000238220 Technical Severity Medium Summary Missing Pause and Resume for EX port having 110K Edge Fabric in 239 Domain works for domain 209 238 Symptom Pause and Resume frames works for Domain IDs other than 239 Feature Legacy FCR 7500 FR4 181 Function FCR Daemon Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 111 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Found in Release FOS620 O J OoOO SS S SSS SES Defect ID DEFECT000237511 Technical Severity Medium Summary While performing security related fabric wide operations if fabric becomes unstable user might observe verify on standby Symptom User will observe the following RASLOG message on standby 2008 12 03 01 18 00 SEC 1317 912 SLOT 5 FID
282. ver Feature iSCSI Function ISCSI HA Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235695 Technical Severity Medium Summary Key retrieval failure for one path in active active configuration Symptom When the Keys are removed from Key Vault which is highly unlikely and local key cache is not removed from EEs the LUN may be struck in LUN Not Ready state due to Get Key Failure Workaround When the Keys are removed from the vault make sure that local key cache is also removed in the cluster Use ZeroizeEE operation to clear out local key cache and then host the LUNs Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235944 Technical Severity Medium Summary Attempt to setup keyvault type to SKM in mixed Gemini Orion EG configuration should be blocked Symptom 6 1 1_Enc does not support SKM vault Hence in a EG with mix of 6 2 0 and 6 1 1_Enc setting SKM vault type succeeds instead of failing Workaround Do not try to configure SKM Vault type if all nodes in EG are at 6 2 0 firmware level Feature Data Security Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee e Defect ID DEFECT000235974 Technical Severity Medium Summary Tracedumps are not being removed using the tracedump r command Symptom User can not run tracedump r from standby CP Workaround Run
283. with High or Medium Technical Severity open in Fabric OS v6 3 0 as of 8 00 PM on August 3 2009 While these defects are still formally open they are unlikely to impede Brocade customers in their deployment of Fabric OS v6 3 0 and have been deferred to a later release None of these defects have the requisite combination of probability and severity to cause significant concern to Brocade customers Note that when a workaround to an issue is available it is provided otherwise no recommended workaround is available at this time Defect ID DEFECT000240850 Technical Severity High Summary With SNMP severity set to 3 the DCX sends out traps when a core blade is inserted but not when it is removed Symptom Traps not sent out when a core blade is removed and SNMP severity set to 3 Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 361769 ee l Defect ID DEFECT000245 164 Technical Severity High Summary NPIV devices may are take too long to log into the name server when large number of NPIV devices login simultaneously Symptom NPIV traffic failed due to NPIV devices are taking too long to log into the name server Feature FC Services Function NPIV Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 12 ay Defect ID DEFECT000245976 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade 5470 Cannot login as USERID after reset to factory default from MM Symptom will not be able to
284. y High Summary Unable to launch Web tools on a DCX Symptom Switch name or port name should not impact launching of Web tools Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 80 of 161 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6 3 0 Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 385329 Defect ID DEFECT000259049 Technical Severity High Summary File SW_v5_8 mib has internal notation that it is Version v5 7 Symptom First line of MIB file doesn t match the file name descriptor Feature Field Escalation Function Management Embedded Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 387859 Defect ID DEFECT000254779 Technical Severity High Summary CALD memory leak led to switch panic fabric disruption Symptom While running management applications using SMI interface switch experienced Out Of Memory condition resulting in switch panic and restart Feature Field Escalation Function Panic OOM Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 376973 Defect ID DEFECT000246329 Technical Severity High Summary Detected termination of 0 weblinker fcg 2045 1 during deleting logical switches Symptom User will see weblinker termination message on the console weblinker should not crash under any circumstance Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Probability Medium Risk of Fix
285. y impact Port is on line and pass traffic fine Workaround New master incorrectly reported as offline or faulty after trunk master disable No workaround hafailover can be used as recovery Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2 Service Request ID 377701 Defect ID DEFECT000246504 Technical Severity Medium Summary CAL Response for Brocade_ISL CAL class is returning wrong port information in case of Edge to Backbone Device Sharing When TD is available in FCR fabric Symptom From management interface some queries may return incorrect port information Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Function FCR Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2 ee Symptom Admin account login on 7600 BP can remove directory Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 11 aa ET Defect ID DEFECT000248796 Technical Severity Medium Summary Console is not accessible on Brocade 5480 Symptom Users may not be able to access switch console on Brocade 5480 embedded switch Feature Embedded Platform Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 SA Defect ID DEFECT000246527 Technical Severity Medium Summary Blade fault observed with a Brocade 48000 chassis fully loaded with fully loaded 8G 48 port blades Symptom The 8G 48 port blade running in either slots 1 or 10 of a fully loaded Brocade 48000 chassis was fault
286. y protocol is supported with the following caveat the FIP VLAN DISCOVERY request must be received with either a priority only VLAN tag VLAN ID 0 or a VLAN tag with the VLAN ID FCoE VLAN FIP VLAN DISCOVERY request received with a valid VLAN ID in the tag not equal to the FCoE VLAN will be dropped The expected behavior is that the CNA will send a priority tagged FIP VLAN DISCOVERY request Optionally Licensed Software Optionally licensed features in Fabric OS v6 3 0 include Brocade Ports on Demand Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional ports via license key upgrade applies to select models of switches Brocade Extended Fabrics Provides greater than 10km of switched fabric connectivity at full bandwidth over long distances depending on platform this can be up to 3000km Brocade ISL Trunking Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one logical link for enhanced network performance and fault tolerance Also includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking on those products that support Access Gateway deployment Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring Enables performance monitoring of networked storage resources This license includes the TopTalkers feature High Performance Extension over FCIP FC formerly known as FC IP Services For the FR4 18i blade and Brocade 7500 This license key also includes the FC Fastwrite feature and IPsec capabilities Brocade Acc
287. ystem Card Label System Card CID Remote EE Reachability Node WWN Slot EE IP Addr EE State IO Link State 10 00 00 05 1e 53 77 80 0 10 32 53 107 EE STATE_ONLINE Non Reachable 10 00 00 05 1e 53 b7 ae 0 10 32 53 105 EE STATE ONLINE Non Reachable Adaptive Networking Flow Based QoS Prioritization When using QoS in a fabric with 4G ports or switches FOS v6 0 or later must be installed on all products in order to pass QoS info E_Ports from the DCX to other switches must come up AFTER 6 0 is running on those switches Flow based QoS is NOT supported on FC8 blades in the Brocade 48000 Any products that are not capable of operating with FOS 6 0 may NOT exist in a fabric with Flow based QoS Major problems will occur if previous generation 2G products exist in the fabric The resolution for defect 250438 included in this release changes the default behavior of the Adaptive Networking QoS feature upon firmware upgrade as follows o The default QoS behavior is changed to disabled on 4G platforms o The default QoS behavior is changed to disabled on Extended Fabrics E ports on both 4G and 8G platforms Fabric OS v6 3 0 Release Notes 1 0 Page 29 of 161 This change solves the following unexpected behaviors that occurred when the Adaptive Networking QoS feature was enabled by default in prior FOS releases e Splitting of a single trunk group into multiple trunk groups upon port toggle since the toggled ports come online wi

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