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1. 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 encryption group name Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Data Security Probability Medium Function HA Cluster Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc o Defect ID DEFECT00021 8366 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 5481 switch allows disablement of AG mode Symptom Brocade 5481 switch allows disablement of AG mode Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Access Gateway Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function CU Defect ID DEFECT00021 8532 Technical Severity Medium Summary Jenoye the current checks in ns code for fss_release stage Reason Code Not Applicable Feature 7 Software Reported In Release FOS2 6 2 Function E Name Server Defect ID DEFECT00021 8644 Technical Severity Medium Summary Overnight tests slotpoweroff on Brocade DCX resulted in FA4 1 8 faulty 21 CDR 5813 S1 C0 Chip Fault Halted disables condor chip OID 0x43110080 EM 1034 4568 ERROR hlamNeptune Slot 1 set to faulty Symptom FA4 18 faulty 21 with slotpoweroff on tests Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 162 of 167 Reason Code Will Not Fix Feature DCX Platform Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function ASIC Driver Defect ID DEFECT000218717 Technical Severity Medium Summary After switchdisab
2. 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 Feature Access Gateway Services Function Daemon Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000230762 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port is not fenced after exceeding 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000230905 Technical Severity Medium Summary CAL response does not return any value for the property Version of class Brocade_Blade Symptom The version field from SMI application will not be shown correctly Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Function Other Reported 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 does
3. Summary ICON tape Write Acceleration sent UC status to channel twice for one UC from device side Workaround Resubmit failed jobs Risk of Fix Low Feature FCIP Probability Medium Function FCIP I O Defect ID DEFECT00023 1952 Technical Severity High Summary Various tape creation or restore process issues found with FICON tape Symptom Unexpected errors encountered during Tape Cancel and Selective Reset processing Risk of Fix Low Feature CIP Probability High Function FCIP I O Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT000232629 Technical Severity High Summary Initiator does not log into target several hours into ISL failover stress test that forces host path failover Symptom After running stress test where ISL to BES is disabled and re enabled repeatedly in a fabric where a host has a dual path connection to its target the host will indicate that the path to the Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 119 of 167 target is down Risk of Fix Low Feature Data Security Probability Medium Function Disk Encryption Defect ID DEFECT000233465 Technical Severity Medium Summary Trying to enable a LUN on a member node fails stating Specified target not hosted by local node Symptom Attempts to enable a disabled member node hosted LUN are unsuccessful and with fail with message Specified target not hosted by local node Risk of Fix Low Feature Mgmt E
4. Access Gateway Services Function CLI Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000235 157 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 Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security other Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235 166 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 Feature License Function License Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 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 ust share zoneinfo Symptom This message is seen on STANDBY CP
5. Intermittent Software Verify Assert psd0 during portDisable Enable when port Mirroring is in effect Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature Platform Services Probability Medium Function ASIC Driver Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 a DEFECT000216335 Technical Severity Medium FPort traffic encounters timeouts when deleting a Port Mirror Definition IOD turned on Traffic flowing out a production FPort that is being mirrored on another port will encounter traffic timeouts after deleting the mirror definition if In Order Delivery is enabled Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 159 of 167 Workaround Unsure of a workaround Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Platform Services Probability Medium Function Routing Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000216473 Technical Severity Medium Summary Th Switch Admin Extended Fabric tab while trying to configure Long Distance for internal ports after exceeding buffer limit wrong message is displayed Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Probability Medium Function Switch Admin Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT000216651 Technical Severity Medium Summary Configupload fails on Brocade DCX Symptom Unable to get a successful configupload from a DCX Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Infrastructure Probability High Function Config Download Reported In Release FOS6 1 0
6. Backup applications supported for tape encryption with the 6 2 release include o Veritas NetBackup 6 5 o EMC Networker 7 4 o HP Data Protector 6 0 Please contact your vendor regarding the use of other backup applications Optionally Licensed Software Optionally licensed features in Fabric OS v6 2 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 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 7 of 167 bandwidth over long distances depending on platform this can be up to 3000km e 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 e Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring Enables performance monitoring of networked storage resources This license includes the TopTalkers feature e 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 e Brocade Accelerator for FICON This license enables unique FICON emulation support for IBM s Global Mirror form
7. On page 351 in the section Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation add the following items Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 25 of 167 e Two N_Ports that have the same shared area cannot be configured in different TI zones This limitation does not apply to E_Ports that use the same shared area e Ports that are in different TI zones cannot communicate with each other if failover is disabled even if they are in the same regular zone For example the following figure shows two hosts and three targets in two TI zones Assume that Host 1 Host 2 Target 1 Target 2 and Target 3 are also included in a regular zone Zone A Even though the hosts and targets are all in the same zone if failover is disabled on the TI zones traffic from Host 1 is isolated to the dashed line and Host 1 cannot communicate with Target 2 Likewise traffic from Host 2 is isolated to the dotted line and Host 2 cannot communicate with Target 1 Host 1 can communicate with Target 3 however because even though N_Port 3 is ina different TI zone than Host 1 Host 1 and Target 3 are connected to the same switch with no E_Ports between In chapter 16 Using the FC FC Routing Service under the section Supported Configurations on page 428 add the following note after the last paragraph In configurations with two backbones connected to the same edge fabric routing is not supported between edge fabrics that are not directly attached
8. Symptom Swtich did not output the FW 1435 message for switch status change causing a contributing factor to compact flash usage capacity being out of range Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FOS Software Probability High Function Management Services Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 322215 Defect ID DEFECT000220959 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Technical Severity Medium Page 164 of 167 When invalid SFP is inserted in GigE Mod_Inv until reboot Summary v6 1 0b on Brocade DCX Symptom v6 1 0b on Brocade DCX Reason Code Not Reproducible Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000222790 Symptom functioning Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT000221926 Summary When setting the FCS policy with the Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability High Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT0002221 13 Summary configuration Symptom User may not receive Email alerts Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT000222682 port switchshow State displays as No_Sync instead of Customer does not realize that they have an invalid SFP and wonders why the GigE port is not Feature FOS Platform Services p FOS Kernel Drivers Function Technical Severity Medium the submitting WWN should be the first in t
9. Defect ID DEFECT000216779 Technical Severity Medium Summary Frame drop seen when TI over FCR traffic goes via E Port on port 0 Symptom When utilizing TI over FCR feature one may see frame drops if port 0 is configured as an E Port in the TI zone Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature Routing Probability Medium Function Legacy Platforms Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 DEFECT000217051 Technical Severity Medium Webtools hangs while changing port speed from long distance to normal Customer was unable to change the port speed from long distance to normal webtools was launched from FM During this process fabric MGR locked up and would not complete the task Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature WebMgmt Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 160 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000217577 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port is not fencing on first 1001 CRC errors CRCs errors is received Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000217624 Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT000217695 4G under port admin Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Detect ID DEFECT000217995 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Symptom Customer s port does not fence on first 1001 CRC errors Port does fenc
10. Medium FICON Device Level Ack Emulation Processing error DvcAck emulation processing in FICON XRC and FICON Tape emulation logic can incorrectly generate a DvcAck when not appropriate Low Feature FCIP Medium Function FCIP I O DEFECT000222711 Technical Severity Medium Command ipaddrshow does not show the IP address of a blade that is seated in slot 12 of a Brocade DCX Tf 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 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 111 of 167 Risk of Fix Low Feature OS Services Probability Medium Function IP Admin Defect ID DEFECT000223099 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 7500E firmwaredownload fails without upgrade license Symptom Brocade 7500E firmwaredownload fails without upgrade license Risk of Fix Low Feature FCIP Probability High Function FCIP CLI 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 starte
11. ssssssesssessessesrestssrsrtsrestestestestesrststestestestentestestsrsestestestestesreerset 19 Doc m ntation Updates issie iiaa AENEA ERAEN AR aAA EEA N a TAAA A A 24 Brocade Fabric OS Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001185 01 ccc eccssceeeesseceeesteeeeseteeeens 24 Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Publication Number 53 1001186 01 c cccccssceesesseeeeeeteeeessteeeees 27 Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide Publication Number 53 1001187 01 oo eee 28 Access Gateway Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001189 01 eee eeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeseeeeneeeeneeeeee 28 Brocade DCX Backbone Hardware Reference Manual Publication Numbers 53 1000685 01 through 05 29 Brocade DCX 4S Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1001191 O01 ceeeeeeesteeeeeteeeees 29 Brocade 5100 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000854 02 ccccccessccesssseeeessneeeessteeeees 29 Brocade 7500 Extension Switches Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000026 04 29 Brocade 48000 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 0000645 05 cccsscccsssseceessseeeeseteeeess 30 Brocade SilkWorm 200E Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 0000633 03 cc ccccsseeees 30 Brocade SilkWorm Multiprotocol Router Model AP7420 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 LOOOV T9201 oss ates es Sask Nhs Stal ee a Men otek tad va
12. Access Gateway AG switch may give incorrect warning message about port licensing for an F May see a warning like Port x is not provisioned Please run switchshow command and see Channel definition errors time out on QSA Response due to excessive link incidents LIRR database has incorrect NPID WWN associations for FLOGI port and first NPIV registrant port when trying to remap it to a different N Port whether the port is licensed or not when trying to remap F port to a different N Port even though Full port license is installed Symptom Excessive link incidents caused by bad SFP cable can prevent proper channel response Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 40 of 167 Workaround Vary each channel online from the HMC Disable any misbehaving port Enable Fabric Watch port fencing to disable misbehaving ports Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Mgmt Server Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000210892 Technical Severity Medium Summary Hosts on Access Gateway 4424 lost 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 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 Reported In Release FOS
13. Access Gateway Services Probability Low Function F Port Trunking Defect ID DEFECT000211800 Technical Severity Medium Summary Auto_ELP setting for Ex port is not restored by configdownload Symptom If user disable auto_elp mode after config upload and download auto_elp mode is reset to default Workaround use auto_elp mode Risk of Fix Low Feature FCR Probability High Function FCR Daemon Defect ID DEFECT000211888 Technical Severity High Summary When running stressful IRNDUP to CUP tests user may observe Intermittent Channel Timeouts Symptom Interface control checks are displayed Risk of Fix Low Feature FC Services Probability High Function FICON Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Detect ID DEFECT000211900 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 85 of 167 Summary Symptom Workaround Risk of Fix Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Warnings of excessive high temperature could be seen on some Brocade 5100 switches Excessive high temperature warnings could be seen on some Brocade 5100 switches Could also see switch status change to marginal WARNING Brocade5100 High temperature 36 C fan speed increasing per environmental specifications Increase cooling or relocate switch to cooler location Be sure switch is installed with proper spacing above and below the switch
14. Already Fixed in Release Feature Routing Probability High Function DCX Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000212884 Technical Severity High Summary CP replacement fails to resolve CP FAULTY 21 issues failure is with port blade Symptom slotshow reveals FAULTY 21 status for CP blade and BLL 1000 messages display slot 6 port 53 as a faulty port Workaround In this instance run bladeportmap slot 6 was able to map slot 6 port 53 to slot8 port9 Reason Code Will Not Fix Feature FOS Software Service Request ID 305965 Function FC Layer 2 Routing Reported In Release FOSS 2 1 Defect ID DEFECT000212946 Technical Severity High Summary After running non disruptive I O overnight the 300 is scrolling messages about iscsi support Symptom Supportsave has been uploaded Hq samba 1 sj_eng defects Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function ISCSI MIB SUPPORT Defect ID DEFECT000214336 Technical Severity High Summary FCR observed frame drop when using shared area EX_Ports Symptom When traffic flows through an EX_Port that is a shared area port on the FC8 48 blade some frame drop is observed Workaround Do not use shared area ports as EX_Ports Reason Code Not a Defect Feature FCR Probability High Function Integrated Routing Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 13
15. Ax mode for speed negotiation reports as being invalid When running the portcfgspeed command with the ax option on a switch running FOS v6 1 x Error Invalid speed level is returned Reason Code Not Applicable Feature FOS Software Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function ASIC Driver Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 167 of 167
16. Defect ID In some rare scenarios when HA Failover performed prior to Name Server being in sync RSCNs were delivered No visible impact to customer FC Services Feature Function Name Server Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 35 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000236580 Technical Severity High Summary Standby CP rebooted unexpectedly during non disruptive firmware upgrade from v6 1 0 to v6 2 0 Symptom The customer will see 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000236713 Technical Severity High Summary The mibcapability option of snmpconfig could not control some FICON MIBs Feature FOS Software Function Management Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID 351727 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low 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
17. High Under rare conditions fabric mode TopTalker monitor does not display correct flow values Fabric mode TT monitor counters show 0 when traffic is running thru the switch Low Feature Fabric Infrastructure Medium Function Advanced Performance Monitor DEFECT000208578 Technical Severity High Attempting to configure port mirroring on a director with both 4G and 8G blades may result in a software Verify error When configuring a port mirror a software verify error may be seen Low Feature Platform Services Tow Function C2 ASIC driver Defect ID DEFECT000208863 Technical Severity Medium Summary In rare instances the Name Server DB out of sync between FOS and EOS switches in interop mode 3 Symptom N ame server total device counts are off by one on some switches There is no nondisruptive way to get the brocade NS Database to re sync Workaround After locating the device ID disable and then enable that device Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 77 of 167 Or restart the switch or restart the brocade switches that are out of sync Risk of Fix Low Feature Native Interop Probability Low Function Name Server Defect ID DEFECT000208875 Technical Severity Medium Summary Seccertutil show lt filename gt does not display the contents of certificates with cer extension Symptom Customer would not able to see the contents of the cert files Workaround Only LDAP certificat
18. Management Server may observe this PLOGI being rejected because routing tables have not yet been established Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FOS Software Probability Low Function Fabric Services Reported In Release FOSS 2 1 Service Request ID RQST00000067612 Defect ID DEFECT000206553 Technical Severity Medium Summary FC4 48 blade drops frame on Brocade 48000 on ports that are routed through director ports above 256 Symptom When performance filters are installed on a port before its port type is known later when the port is enabled as an ISL frames can be dropped Workaround portdisable portenable the stuck E_ports trunks Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Platform Services Probability Low Function ASIC Driver Reported In Release FOSS 2 1 Defect ID DEFECT000206630 Technical Severity Medium Summary Incorrect GID_FT response from Name Server caused host to log errors during HBA IOP reset Symptom Multi HBA host going through a HBA IOP reset when the host does its GID_FT request it gets a response back for the other HBA though that HBA did not register for FC4 Type Subsequent PLOGI PRLI sequence to the none FC4 type HBA is rejected and error logged on host Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FOS Software Probability Low Function Fabric Services Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID RQST00000068396 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release
19. Medium The error message is cryptic when the interop fabric contains more than 60 devices in the default zone and user tries cfgenable cfgdisable May see cryptic error like Disable failed Sfc Was Rejected Remote Switch Unable To Process when interop fabric contains more than 60 devices in the default zone and a user tries cfgenable cfgdisable Feature FC Services When disabling enabling a port port fencing disables the port because the allowable number of invalid transmission words is exceeded Page 83 of 167 Symptom Port is disabled because of invalid transmission words that occurred when the port was offline Risk of Fix Low Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability High Function Fabric Watch Defect ID DEFECT00021 1697 Technical Severity High Summary Ag show on a Brocade 300 shows incorrect edge switch IP address after a slave port is swapped with an N port outside of the trunk group Symptom ag show on a Brocade 300 shows incorrect edge switch IP address Workaround Reboot the switch ag show cli will show the correct output Risk of Fix Medium Feature Access Gateway Services Probability High Function CLI Defect ID DEFECT000211760 Technical Severity Medium Summary 32 character switchname and chassisname extensions do not fully display in RASLOG outputs such as errdump or supportsave output Symptom 32 character switchname and chassisname extensions do not fully disp
20. Modular hot swappable field replaceable units FRUs bullet e Two power supplies are required at all times in a fully populated 48000 chassis Brocade SilkWorm 200E Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 0000633 03 Table 3 2 System Status LED Patterns During Normal Operation has the incorrect behavior listed in row three Instead of reading Slow flashing green it should read Flashing amber green Under Regulatory Compliance in Product Specifications Appendix A add the following statement Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 30 of 167 Power Cords Japan Denan 5 ARTO RI Pe HOw ee Aalc IEH LU Zev Ut Oak a PISA aC ew LEAS KLAN UCHREHSH ZORREN SIVTCWSbEOCT RUCTHOKREBCHARIC HERA LZRVY CS TERY KEOCRBO IRA amp Zz AMMABHYVET Attention Never use the power cord packed with your equipment for other products Brocade SilkWorm Multiprotocol Router Model AP7420 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000179 01 Under Regulatory Compliance in Specifications and Regulatory Compliance Appendix A add the following statement Power Cords Japan Denan tE RN OBRRA Feo EC HR IEH LZR St OD aR a BISA cee LL TEAS K LeAMELCRHSH CORSHD HB SIVCWSbOCT RUCHORE CHRlC EFA LZRVY CS TERY KE CRB OIA amp Ze ARNBHOIES Attention Never use the power cord packed with your equipment for other products Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 31 of 167 Br
21. Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function FCR CLI Defect ID DEFECT000209031 Technical Severity Medium Summary Event generated on successful login to a switch might display wrong DNS name Symptom Customer might see the wrong DNS name in the events table for successful logins to the switch Reason Code Will Not Fix Feature OS Services Probability Medium Function IP Admin Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 a DEFECT000209219 Technical Severity Medium With a switch in InteropMode 2 or 3 the iSCSI configuration is not being included in configupload The iSCSI port configuration and database information will not be included in the configuration file for a switch in interop mode 2 or 3 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 146 of 167 Reason Code Will Not Fix Feature iSCSI Probability Low Function ISCSI CLI Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000209303 Technical Severity Medium Summary CAL call on Brocade_Chassis doest return serialnumber amp PartNumber for a switch Reason Code Not Applicable Feature Mgmt Embedded Reported In Release FOSS 1 1 Function CAL Defect ID DEFECT000209589 Technical Severity Medium Summary FC6 10 blade faulty on Brocade DCX reboot FOS v6 0 0 Symptom Blade shows as faulty Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature FOS Software Service Request ID 246455 Function Diagnostics Reported In Release F
22. daemon being stopped and another daemon making a request to the stoped daemon Risk of Fix Low Feature OS Services Probability High Function IP Admin Defect ID DEFECT000209376 Technical Severity Medium Summary In some instances of congestion in the Ethernet network the displayed VE port utilization value is incorrect Symptom The VE port utilization value is zero even though the traffic is running over 218m on a 2G FCIP tunnel Workaround Use portperfshow command Risk of Fix Low Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability Low Function Fabric Watch Defect ID DEFECT000209893 Technical Severity Medium Summary Reject code 0B response to a QSA frame causes channel definition errors Symptom Specific mainframe channel logs show a link reject code of hex 0b in response to a QSA frame Workaround The workaround for this issue was to block off a badly misbehaving port that was generating a ton of bad traffic on a switch port which was putting a lot of stress on the embedded port Once this port was taken care of this problem was no longer seen Risk of Fix Medium Feature FC Services Probability Low Function FICON Defect ID DEFECT000209895 Technical Severity High Summary When the switch name is set using CLI and then read using the Read Port Address Name x B2 command to the CUP Port x FE it returns the switch name with a x 7F attach after the last character in the Switch Name Symptom
23. 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 5 of 167 e Brocade HBA feature support o Beacon adjacent switch port from HCM o Fabric based boot LUN discovery o QoS nameserver support allowing query for QoS zone information o Support for FC Ping e Miscellaneous o FC ping support between switches ping switch WWN Provide path information via CLI Frame Redirection support in interopmode 3 McDATA Open Fabric Mode Support for M EOSn s 239 Domain ID mode via FCR in interopmode 3 System wide RASLOG Port Auto Disable support Ethernet Port Bonding for management ports New CLI command to configure F_Port receive buffer credits 0000000 New Feature Descriptions Virtual Fabrics Virtual Fabrics VF is a new capability supported on the Brocade DCX DCX 4S 5300 and 5100 switches Once enabled VF allows the user to divide a single physical chassis or switch into multiple logical switches by assigning individual ports to a logical switch Each of these logical switches is managed as a completely independent layer 2 Fibre Channel switch and can be deployed in independent fabrics known as logical fabrics VF also allows the user to create a special logical switch known as the base switch used for connectivity to other base switches and also as a backbone fabric for Fibre Channel Routing Individual logical fabrics may utilize this shared base fabric for connectivity to other switches providing efficient use of resources by sharing common ISL and
24. DEFECT000212267 Technical Severity High Under rare conditions a Brocade DCX panics during SAK IRNDUP when the software watchdog detects an unexpected termination of the FICON CUP daemon ficud Tnterface Control Checks Tow Feature FC Services Medium Function FICON DEFECT000212415 Technical Severity High User may need to change TI zone member in order to modify TI Zone property failover setting Unable to modify TI zone property alone Use configupload download to change the TI zone Or modify the member and the property failover disable enable together Low Feature FC Services Low Function Zoning DEFECT000212416 Technical Severity Medium SW_RSCN s for RSCNs generated by attached nodes are not being handled in McDATA Mode RSCNs are not received for notifications generated by nodes in common zones that are attached to remote domains Medium Feature FC Services High Function Name Server Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 87 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Risk of Fix Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Workaround Probability Reported In Release DEFECT000212424 Technical Severity Medium Legacy zone commands can be used to modify TI zones Customer might see that the defined path for ti_zone is no longer used for devices ISLs in the zone Low Feature FC Services Low Function Zoning lease FOSOIO DEFECT000212509 Technical
25. DEFECT000235308 Technical Severity Medium Authspec parameters were not modified after configdownload User won t be able to download authentication specific parameter using configdownload Use CLI to configure AAA for LDAP Fabric Infrastructure Function Security RADIUS LDAP DEFECT000235323 Technical Severity Medium EE monitor counter is not incrementing after firmware upgrade to 6 2 0 EE monitor counter is not updated after firmware upgrade to 6 2 0 or HA Failover Delete and re install EE Monitors Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Page 55 of 167 Feature Access Gateway Services Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235421 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235486 Feature Logical Fabric Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235544 Feature Data Security Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235595 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Technical Severity Medium Summary During overnight 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 Summary Urouteshow will lag for several seconds at a time while displaying the route info Symptom A 2 4 second lag may be noticed when running the CLI urouteshow This lag will
26. Embedded HTTP Probability Medium Function Zone Admin Defect ID DEFECT000221664 Technical Severity High Summary Kernel Panic on Brocade 5480 after firmwaredownload Symptom Brocade 5480 in AG mode running FOS v6 1 0_emb After performing firmwaredownload and during reboot after firmware has downloaded to 2nd partition the kernel panics and switch keeps on rebooting Risk of Fix Low Feature Embedded Reported In Release FOS 6 1 0_8e Function Platform Defect ID DEFECT000221847 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade 5410 panics after F Port trunking was enabled on 2 NPIV F Ports connecting an Brocade 5424 AG Symptom Brocade 5410 was used as an edge switch for Brocade 5424 AG connecting on NPIV F Ports 7 amp 8 Brocade 5410 panics and keeps on rebooting after F Port trunking was enabled on NPIV F Ports 7 amp 8 Risk of Fix Low Feature Embedded Reported In Release FOS 6 1 0_8e Function Platform Defect ID DEFECT000221849 Technical Severity Medium Summary Conversion of uwatt to dbm for GE ports Tx Rx values shown in webtools are incorrect Risk of Fix Low Feature WebMemt Probability Medium Function FCIP Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT000221907 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 5100 FRU faulty status is not recovered correctly Symptom Customer saw that FRU faulty status is not recovered even after connect to the correct power so
27. Function Config Download Summary Symptom Workaround Disable the switch and then attempt configdownload Feature Infrastructure Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000206033 Summary Feature Tech Pubs Service Request ID RQST00000067419 Reported In Release FOSS 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000206760 Summary FCAP between FOS switches Symptom About the Severity Level on Fabric OS Technical Severity Medium Message Reference Function FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION Technical Severity Medium If user selects authentication type as all in interop modes the default authentication type is still 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 Set authentication type to DHCHAP Feature Fabric Infrastructure Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000207126 Summary Symptom Workaround Ignore the route table entry displayed Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Invalid IPv6 iproute automatically gets created while creating an IP route May see an Invalid IPv6 iproute when routes configured are displayed Function Security Probability Low Technical Severity Medium Page 38 of 167 Feature FCIP Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000207213 Summ
28. High Technical Severity High Summary Inter DPC messages are getting dropped on Brocade AP7600 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 122 of 167 Symptom Rangelock requests to volume on other DPC are timing out When send the requests from dpcO to dpcl it works but not the other direction due to missing routes This impacts Brocade AP7600 platform only Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Platform Services Probability Medium Function Routing Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000206657 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade 4024 power on self test POST failure on chassis power on Symptom An unexpected interrupt during POST caused POST to fail and the switch to fault Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FOS Software Probability Low Function EM Hil Sysctrl Reported In Release FOS5 2 1 Service Request ID RQST00000068438 Defect ID DEFECT000206705 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade 4424 Switch panics and FFDC files generated after repeated testing of hot plug Symptom This occurs during repeated hotplug testing Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Embedded Reported In Release FOSS 3 0_emb Function 5 Platform Defect ID DEFECT000206819 Technical Severity High Summary Flooding of an unknown inter switch FDMI command from another vendor s switch is causing the switch to
29. Unit paths to be activated with DPR Mode Symptom Unable to activate a mixture of CHPIDs through the Brocade 7500 FR4 18i and Edge USD X extension equipment Risk of Fix Low Feature FCIP Probability Medium Function FCIP I O Defect ID DEFECT000219702 Technical Severity High Summary FMS stuck busy condition caused host MASTER START PENDING upon bringing switch online to mainframe operating system Symptom The FICON mainframe host incurred MASTER START PENDING conditions upon attempting to vary a Brocade 5100 switch online to the 2nd and 3rd of 3 LPARs each utilizing 4 channel paths Risk of Fix Tow Feature FC Services Probability Medium Function FICON Defect ID DEFECT000219944 Technical Severity Medium Summary CP card of Brocade 48000 is set to FAULTY 51 Symptom CP blade will be set to FAULTY if the following operations are carried out 1 The HaFailover command is executed from CP1 2 CP1 is turned off after HaFailover completion 3 CP1 is removed and inserted 4 CP1 is turned on Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 105 of 167 CPI will fail in initialization Then it is not possible to go in the state of HA frequency of occurrence The test was executed 4 times and this phenomenon occurred one times other CP card was restored by reboot Risk of Fix Low Feature Diagnostics Probability Low Function Post Diags Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Servic
30. allows the devices to see each other Risk of Fix Low Feature FC Services Probability Medium Function Name Server Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT00022868 1 Technical Severity Medium Summary CRC error observed between BROCADE 5100 and Brocade 5 300 with a particular SFP type Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 117 of 167 Symptom When connected Brocade 5300 and 5100 CRC errors on trunk ports were observed Risk of Fix Low Feature FOS Software Probability Low Function ASIC Driver Defect ID DEFECT000229390 Technical Severity High Summary Fibre Channel FastWrite path does not recover after restoring DWDM connection Symptom One of two paths fail after one minute on a specific tape storage device with a DWDM 50KM link after cable pull and insertion test Risk of Fix Low Feature FR4 18i Platform Services Probability Low Function FR4 18i Blade FOS SW Defect ID DEFECT000230657 Technical Severity Medium Summary Console security feature causes process failure Symptom Console security feature causes process failure Risk of Fix Medium Feature UNDETERMINED Reported In Release FOS 6 1 0_del Function UNDER REVIEW Defect ID DEFECT000230676 Technical Severity Medium Summary Failover during rekey of 200 LUNs results in error message CVLC 1017 1770 143 ERROR dcx101 Event Unrecoverable error Symptom CVLC 1017 error mess
31. and then download Low Feature Fabric Infrastructure Defect ID DEFECT000211449 Technical Severity Medium Summary If a large number of EX_Ports are enabled at the same time occasionally some will fail due to incompatible flow control parameters Symptom Sometimes EX_Ports fail to come up when they are first enabled A subsequent portenable will bring it online Workaround Portdisable and enable the EX_Ports that failed Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 82 of 167 Risk of Fix Probability Summary Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Risk of Fix Low Probability High Function Zoning Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000211609 Technical Severity High Low Feature FCR Medium Function FCR Daemon lease FOS610 DEFECT000211510 Technical Severity Medium In some instances portshow may display inaccurate port authentication description state after a CP failover The portshow commands displays inaccurate port authentication information Fabric Infrastructure Low Feature Low Function Security lease FOS6OI1O DEFECT00021 1529 Technical Severity High Internal server ports on embedded platform traffic may stop due to loss of buffer credit May see traffic stop on embedded platform when running in AG mode Embedded Platform Services Low Feature Medium Function ASIC Driver lease FOS6LO DD DEFECT000211542 Technical Severity
32. be longer on products with larger port counts such as the DCX Summary When user issues hafailover with FC4 16IP in system under rare circumstance user will notice Defect ID DEFECT000235335 Technical Severity Medium Summary Firmware downgrade upgrade from v6 2 0 to v6 1 0 on Access Gateway will erase WWPN set in the ADS WWPN list for a certain F_Ports Symptom Firmware downgrade upgrade from v6 2 0 to v6 1 0 on Access Gateway will erase WWPN set in the ADS WWPN list for some F_Ports Workaround Restore ADS policies after firmware upgrade downgrade Function CLI Technical Severity Medium Function FSPF Probability Medium 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 Function Security Processor Probability Low Technical Severity Medium Page 56 of 167 iSCSI port bouncing 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 44 BL 1035 194 SLOT 6 CHASSIS INFO Silkworm48000 Slot 7 iSCSI port 2 Initialization completed Workaround Issue s
33. correct the connection with Key Vault or replace the failed SKM and re register deregister failed SKM entry and register the new SKM entry on the Brocade Encryption Switch or FS8 18 blade Users are expected to make sure that the replaced new SKM key vault is in sync with Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 19 of 167 the rest of the SKM units in Cluster in terms of Keys Database user manually syncs the Key Database from existing SKM Key Vault in Cluster to new or replacing SKM Key Vault using SKM Admin Guide Provided Key Synchronization methods 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 0 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 NOT be clustered linked e The RKM Appliance A1 6 SW v2 2 is supported The procedure for setting up the RKM Appliance with BES or a DCX DCX 4S with FS8 18 blades is located in the Encryption Admin Guide e With Windows and Veritas Volume Manager Veritas Dynamic Multipathing when LUN sizes less than 400MB are presented to BES
34. crash Symptom Daemon was killed due to out of memory Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FOS Software Probability Low Function Fabric Services Reported In Release FOS5 2 2 Service Request ID RQST00000068767 DEFECT000206858 Technical Severity High Tn certain situations unable to disable a switch which is in interopmode 2 McDATA Fabric mode with FMS mode enabled Unable to disable a switch which is in interopmode 2 McDATA Fabric mode with FMS mode enabled switchDisable failed FICON Management server mode fmsmode is enabled switch could be busy with another command Please try again later Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 123 of 167 Workaround Disable FMS mode and then do switchdisable ficoncupset fmsmode disable Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature FC Services Probability Low Function FICON Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000207473 Technical Severity High Summary During fastwrite a 3rd party device drops a status frame due to data alignment Symptom A specific 3rd party device drops a frame that is not 8 byte aligned during fastwrite The data frame is sent correctly only that the 3rd party device does not like the alignment Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FOS Software Probability Low Function FCIP Reported In Release FOSS 3 0 Service Request ID 130559 Defect ID DEFECT000207485 Technica
35. disabled from Web Tools This happens when you do the following 1 Open the Fabric Watch configuration window 2 Check the SNMP Trap checkbox in the Above row This change in WebTools disables Port Fencing If this happens you must re enable the Port Fencing bit from the command line interface 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 has been enhanced to support interoperability with these distance extension devices Fabric OS v6 2 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 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 23 of 167 frame based Trunking is supported on Extended Fabrics E_ports regardless of whether IDLE or ARB primitiv
36. failover policy of disabled not OK Traffic which is not part of any TI definitions should never offload onto a TI defined path which has a failover policy of DisAllowed 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 63 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000236859 Technical Severity Medium Summary FA4 18 blade went Faulty after issuing hafailover command due to internal connection failure Symptom hafailover under rare circumstances can cause blade to fault Workaround slotPowerOff slotPowerOn the failing blade will recover normal operation Feature FA4 18 Platform Services Function Blade FOS SW Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000236879 Technical Severity Medium Summary Advanced performance tuning option for FCR traffic on a FR 18i blade may get reset to default after hafailover followed by failback Symptom aptpolicy option for FR4 18i may revert back to defaults after hafailover followed by hafailback Workaround Reconfigure aptpolicy for FR4 18i if the changes are lost after CP failover Feature 8G Platform Services Function Routing Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000236921 Technical Severit
37. for encryption a host panic may occur and this configuration is not supported for 6 2 release e HCL from FOS v6 1 1_enc to v6 2 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 0 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 2 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 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 enabli
38. for the request is set to an E_Port hosting an EOSc switch Workaround One can workaround the problem by setting MIHPTO to a value higher than minute then forcing the channels defined to the CUP to log back into the switch so that the FICON host will read the new value prior to allowing z OS to resume sending Read Neighbor Node ID requests to FMS Reason Code Not Applicable Feature Fabric Infrastructure Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function 4 Mgmt Server Defect ID DEFECT000219700 Technical Severity High Summary DE never returned to host for split status on Read Neighbor Node ID for link to M6140 Symptom FICON host incurs a timeout IFCC after sending Read Neighbor Node ID request to FOS CUP when Interface ID for the request is set to an E_Port hosting an M EOS switch Reason Code Not a Defect Feature FC Services Probability Medium Function FICON Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 DEFECT000220138 Technical Severity High Summary FMS unresponsive to all i o requests after Selective Reset while DE status pending and RMF was polling the CUP Operator display messages as follows TEF196I IOSO711 1002 8E MASTER MISSING CHANNEL AND DEVICE END IOS152E DEVICE 1002 BOXED BY SUBCHANNEL RECOVERY DEVICE STATE UNKNOWN TEF2811 1002 NOW OFFLINE DEVICE IS BOXED Workaround There is no workaround to avoid the error condition itself Connectivity to the CUP in the case where
39. multiple logical fabrics e FCR and FCIP Enhancements o FCIP SCSI Read Tape Pipelining Enhancements to SoTCP LSAN Tagging Support Pathinfo over MetaSAN Use FSPF cost in FCR backbone fabric to find shortest path to edge fabric In band management link over FCIP connections for the Brocade 7500 TCP Byte Streaming for FCIP connections used with WAN optimization hardware Improved FCIP statistics support including TCP connection history high water mark information and connection snapshot capability e Support temporary licenses for Adaptive Networking Integrated Routing and Fabric Watch e Security Enhancements o IPv6 Auto configuration o IPSec with IPv6 for management port o Configurable switch wide policy requiring authentication of all HBAs o RADIUS enhancements allowing password expiration and source IP address information o LDAP enhancement allowing for alternate domain UPN o IPv6 certified for JITC Approved Product List e FICON Enhancements o RNID support for CUP o New FC addressing modes for support with Virtual Fabrics o Support for FC8 48 blade with VF enabled DCX DCX 4S for FICON environments e Access Gateway Enhancements o AG mode supported on Brocade 5100 e Encryption Enhancements o Data Encryption support in Virtual Fabrics environments o Support for Tape encryption and compression o Key Management support for HP s SKM o Support for up to four FS8 18 Encryption blades in a single DCX or DCX 4S chassis 000000 0 Fabric OS v6 2
40. powered off using slotpoweroff Workaround Ignore messages they indicate no problem and have no side effect Risk of Fix Low Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability High Function Fabric Watch Defect ID DEFECT000217329 Technical Severity High Summary The EnumerateSelectedInstances CAL call on Brocade_ISL returns a port which is not present in GFABRIC MS call Risk of Fix Medium Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Function Other Defect ID DEFECT000217364 Technical Severity Medium Summary FICON Tape Write Pipelining does not function with converter Symptom TFC connected tape devices do not function through the FCIP tunnel if FICON tape Pipelining is enabled Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 99 of 167 Risk of Fix Probability Workaround Low Medium Feature FCIP Function FCIP I O DEFECT000217657 In configure tab under switch admin tab than the threshold the error message displays the wrong range of values to be entered Low Medium DEFECT000217682 Integrated Routing with multiple ports in an EX_Port trunk may not properly send an entire exchange on the same link End user may see I O errors due to out of order frames Disable trunking on Brocade DCX and Brocade 300 5100 and 5300 EX_Ports Tow High lease FOS610O DEFECT000217743 Sort does not work on Accessible Devices
41. time period Attempts to change IP addresses via ipaddrset or other management interfaces will likely fail 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 OS Services Function IP Admin Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High DEFECT0002378 14 Technical Severity Medium Add Member button is disabled while creating a new TI Zone when the switch is in VF mode Tn ADD TI Zone window customer cannot use the ADD Member button to add the members ports to the Zone members Add Other Port button can be used to add ports this is available in the ADD TI Zone window WebMgmt Function Zone Admin FOS6 2 0 Probability High Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 0 DEFECT000203562 Technical Severity High Zone transactions might take longer time to complete Wait until fabric is not saturated to push configs around Under stress testing cfgsave takes a long time and fails to propagate on 64 VE VE FCIP tunnel 33 switch core edge topology running I O Tow Feature FCIP Medium Function FCIP Port Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 74 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Risk of Fix Reported In R
42. to the same backbone Routing over multiple backbones is a multi hop topology and is not allowed In chapter 20 Configuring and Monitoring FCIP Extension Services under the heading Constraints for FC Fastwrite on page 540 the following bullet should be added to the list of bullets e Connecting E_Ports to ports already configured for FC Fastwrite is not supported On page 420 in the section QoS zones replace the last paragraph on the page the paragraph starting with A QoS zone has a special name with the following A QoS zone has a special name to differentiate it from a regular zone The format of the QoS zone name is as follows For high priority QOSHid_xxxxx For low priority QOSLid_xxxxx Where id is a flow identifier that designates a specific virtual channel for the traffic flow and xxxxx is the user defined portion of the name For example the following are valid QoS zone names QOSH3_HighPriorityTraffic QOSL1_LowPriorityZone The switch automatically sets the priority for the host target pairs specified in the zones based on the priority level H or L in the zone name The flow id allows you to have control over the VC assignment and control over balancing the flows throughout the fabric The id is from 1 5 for high priority traffic which corresponds to VCs 10 14 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 26 of 167 For low priority traffic the id is from 1 2 which corre
43. upgrade the connected switch to 6 2 first then upgrade this switch Feature OS Services Function Linux Kernal Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237634 Technical Severity Medium Summary Error message may be seen on console under heavy utilization of interface to key vault 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Detect ID DEFECT000237675 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 71 of 167 Summary Onboard Administrator used to manage Brocade 5480 is not able to read the switchname Symptom The Onboard Administrator will not display the switchname Workaround Switch name can be displayed from FOS CLI command switchname Feature Embedded Platform Services Function Bulova Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000237702 Technical Severity Medium Summary Symptom Re key starts and host IO is blocked on failover failback with mis matched time on EE nodes The re key is unexpected as it s prior to the expiration period and the host cannot read write to the L
44. via the container i e redirection Feature FC Services Function Zoning Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Probability High 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 unable to route traffic across VEX ports Symptom T O running through VEX ports or devices imported exported via VEX ports will be dropped after firmware upgrade Workaround Disable amp enable all VEX ports Feature FOS Software Function FCIP Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Probability Medium Detect ID DEFECT000233248 Technical Severity High Summary If using Webtools to perform cfgsaveactivetodefined with a zone file close to the maximum size Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 33 of 167 in an interop mode fabric with more than 20 switches the weblinker process may get terminated Symptom Webtools session gets invalidated Workaround Use cfgsaveactivetodefined from CLI Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Function Zone Admin Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000234113 Technical Severity High Summary In a 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 switche
45. working as expected Zone database is not cleared Using CLI to perform the configdownload Workaround Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Infrastructure Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 154 of 167 Low Probability Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECTO0002 12512 Summary enabled Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability High Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECTO0002 12523 Summary Symptom Reason Code Not Reproducible Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECTO0002 12529 Summary Symptom this Reason Code Not Applicable Probability High Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECTO0002 12577 Reason Code Not Reproducible Reported In Release FOS5 3 1 DEFECT000212647 Function Config Download FOS v6 1 switches are not rejecting ti_zone changes from FOS v5 3 1 switch when saved or Webd and snmpd seems to have been killed by out of memory condition Webd and snmpd seems to have been killed by out of memory condition Technical Severity Medium The aaconfig command help text needs to be corrected for LDAP mode LDAP cannot be configured while FIPS in enabled but online help text does not clearly state Function Edit Correct Technical Severity Medium ConfigUpload operation returns a file which has unrecognizable characters Technical Severity Medium Feature F
46. your call have the following information immediately available 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 as shown here FTOOX0054E9 FTOOX0054E9 The serial number label is located as follows e Brocade 200E On the nonport side of the chassis 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 side of the switch e Brocade 7600 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 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 10 of 167 When the Virtual Fabric feature is enabled on a switch each logical switch has a unique switch WWN Use the wwn co
47. zone Feature FC Services Function Zoning Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000237794 Technical Severity Medium Summary Firmwaredownload ina 4 node EG without first failing over target to other node caused some LUNs to be inaccessible Symptom In a 4 node EG if one performs a firmware download on a node without first failing the targets hosted on that node to it s HA cluster peer then some LUNs may become inaccessible Workaround Failover the Host IO to another BES FS8 18 in the cluster before firmware upgrade to avoid this problem If you do not follow this procedure and get into this state issue cryptocfg discoverLUN lt container_name gt to rediscover the LUN and make it accessible Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 73 of 167 Summary Symptom Workaround Feature Defect ID Workaround Feature Reported In Release Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000237798 Technical Severity Medium ipaddrset command to set Lance GE ports IP address is non responsive Must reboot active CP to activate IP 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
48. 000236308 Technical Severity Medium Summary After AG N Port experiences repeated failover failbacks on 4024 connected to McData Switch in interopmode 2 fabric internal F port state may become No_Sync Symptom Internal F port becomes No_Sync after ports on N port fails over and I O fails The I O resumes after a delay of about 9 minutes Workaround Wait until I O resumes or Reboot the host Feature Embedded Platform Services Function ASIC Driver Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect 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 and configdownload doesn t clear LSAN zone tag and LSAN binding entries if the config file has none Workaround Please ignore the error message and use CLI to clear LSAN tag and LSAN binding Feature 8G FCR Function FCR CLI Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000236392 Technical Severity Medium Summary Disable enable the port to an FCR exported encrypted target in VF enabled SAN may make cause host to fail re discovery Symptom After a sequence of host port disable enable target port disable enable and slotpower off on host might not be able to discover target This happens only in following cases FS8 18 blade in Default sw
49. 000237544 Technical Severity Medium Summary When using D I zoning with NPIV devices name sever takes longer to process logins Symptom NPIV devices take longer to login This won t affect functionality or normal fabric behavior Feature 4G Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Drivers Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000237549 Technical Severity Medium Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 When Auto policy is enable the switch may fail to recognize a virtualized port as an F_Port and Portdisable portenable the impacted server port Access Gateway Services Function CLI High Availability Function Switch hareboot HCL DEFECT000237535 Technical Severity Medium 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 On a standalone 300 switch when attempting to restore its config file after issuing a configdefault customer will receive error message Failed to clear defzone mode re 1 err0 msg It is not until the switch is enabled and then disabled can the config file be restored After the configdefault enable the switch and then disable the switch to restore the config file Infrastructure Function Config Download Access Gateways connected to EOSc in a mixed fabric FOS and EOS are not shown in DCFM Access Gateways connected to EOSc in a mixed fabric FOS and EOS are not shown in DC
50. 0e and later f Brocade DCX 4S v6 2 0 Brocade DCX with FS8 18 blade s Brocade Encryption Switch v6 1 1_enc Secure Fabric OS on any model Not Supported 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 7 2 or later McDATA ED 5000 32 port FC director Not Supported Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 12 of 167 Multi Protocol Router interop Brocade 7420 XPath v7 4 1 Brocade 7500 and FR4 18i blade v5 1 0 and higher McDATA SANRouters 1620 and 2640 M EOSi v5 1 2 7 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 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 2 but may not be directly attached via E_port to any products running FOS v6 2 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 7 2 is the minimum version of firmware that is fully qualified to interoperate with FOS 6 2 or later For support of frame redirection in MCDATA Fabric Mode inte
51. 1 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000214817 Technical Severity High Summary All PLOGI frames to Cascaded CUP Ports ar F REJ code x 0104 Symptom Unable to vary online all cascaded CUP Ports Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FC Services Probability High Function Fabric Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000214913 Technical Severity High Summary Edge switch Brocade DCX CPs continuously panic after failover due to an assert and the fabric reports zone segmentation when running in a SAS application environment Symptom When running a 3rd party SAS application and binding a target attached to a DCX with a host attached to another switch in the fabric all the ISLs on the DCX segment encounter a zone conflict Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FOS Software Probability Medium Function EM Hil Sysctrl Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Service Request ID 310455 Defect ID DEFECT000215488 Technical Severity High Summary Switch level RSCN is causing the backup CP to fault in interopmode 2 Symptom Backup CP faults Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature N ative Interop Probability High Function N ame Server Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000216104 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade AP 7600 stays in a panic loop due to corrupted memory being accessed after zone configuration change with VI and VT Sy
52. 140 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 12 Supported via FC Routing only All routers in the backbone must be running FOS v6 2 pa o O Note FICON Cascaded CUP with M EOS and FOS qualified only on select platforms Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades Upgrading to Fabric OS v6 2 0 is only allowed from Fabric OS v6 1 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 subsy
53. 1534 Technical Severity Medium Summary Error thrown on deleting IPv6 address and clearing all the SysLog IP s from WT Symptom User will be misled stating that the SysLog IP have not been cleared but in reality it has been deleted Workaround Do not clear off IPv6 and SysLog IP in the same operation Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature RAS Probability High Function RAS Log Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 m Defect ID DEFECT000201902 Technical Severity Medium Summary ag show displays incorrect firmware version Symptom User will observe that ag show CLI displays incorrect firmware version Workaround PROBLEM_AREA_ FIXED Other Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 137 of 167 ROOT_CAUSE Bug Fix Reason Code Not a Defect Reported In Release FOS5 3 0_emb Defect ID DEFECT000203047 Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000203446 Symptom Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability High Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000203447 not coming on line Already Fixed in Release Probability Low Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 DEFECT000203710 v5 3 or prior release Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 TESTS lt not required multiple lines allowed enter below gt Tested by downloading the firmware with name v5 3 1_dvr_dell_superhawk_05 Feature UNDETERMINED Technical Severity Mediu
54. 3 BROCADE Brocade Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 January 15 2009 Document History Document Title Summary of Changes Publication Date Brocade Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Second release updated defect table for defect 218976 January 15 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
55. 3 blade is not supported by the target firmware Please use slotshow to find out which slot it is in and remove it first DCX 4S is not supported by the target firmware Please try to download another firmware Access Gateway Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001189 01 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 28 of 167 The entry for the brocade 5100 in Table 11 Access Gateway Default F_Port to N_Port Mapping on page 55 should read as follows F_Ports are ports 0 31 and N_Ports are ports 32 39 Brocade DCX Backbone Hardware Reference Manual Publication Numbers 53 1000685 01 through 05 All references to the FC4 16IP blade iSCSI blade should be ignored The DCX Backbone does NOT support the FC4 16IP Brocade DCX 4S Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1001191 01 The entry for step 8 on page 65 should be deleted When you pull the WWN card out by the pull tab step 7 it unplugs directly from the backplane The entry for step 2 on page 66 should read as follows 2 Hold the card by the pull tab and plug the card into the backplane Use the Philips screwdriver and the captive screw to attach the WWN card to the chassis Brocade 5100 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000854 02 Table 1 on page 19 describes LED operation for the power supply Following is an addition to this table LED Name LED Color Status of Hardware Recommended Action Power Supply Status
56. 6 1 0 Probability High 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 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT00021 1550 Technical Severity Medium Summary Under some scenarios portcmd ipperf displays incorrect delay time in the IPv4 environment Symptom portemd ipperf displays incorrect delay time in the IPv4 environment Workaround Try IPv6 addresses for ipperf Feature FCIP Function FCIP CLI Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000215610 Technical Severity Medium compatibility issue with extender product connects as a B_Port Only partial zoning database is merged with neighbor Feature FOS Software Function Fabric Services Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 41 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000216874 Technical Severity Medium Summary NI EFCM Fabric Binding Activation Failure for 7600 in Mixed Fabric Symptom Unable to activate fabric binding from EFCM or EWS for mixed fabric in interopmode 2 when 7600 is attached Feature Native Interop Function L2 Security Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000218672 Technical Severity Medium Summary ipc error and sof
57. 67 INFO dcx_185 LOCL Clock Server used instead of External TS 1006 270 268 INFO dcx_185 Synchronizing time of day clock Workaround Re establish connectivity to the external clock server Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability Low Function Other Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT00021 1087 Technical Severity Medium Summary Portdisable portenable on the other end of ISL does not change buffer limited status Symptom E port is still showing buffer limited even if buffer is not limited anymore Reason Code Will Not Fix Feature QOS Probability Medium Function Others Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT00021 1292 Technical Severity Medium Summary SAS firmwaredownload will fail if a DNS name is used for ipv6 Host Symptom Firmwaredownload command will fail if a DNS name is used for the host instead of an IPv6 address Message that will be seen Cannot download the firmware Failed to retrieve firmware Workaround Use the IPv6 address instead of the DNS name Reason Code Will Not Fix Feature Infrastructure Probability High Function Firmware Download Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000211326 Technical Severity Medium Summary When there are 48 IFLs to 1 edge fabric it can take several minutes to form the MetaSAN Symptom In a large configuration where we test the maximum of 4
58. 8 IFLs to one edge the MetaSAN takes several minutes to form Reason Code Will Not Fix Feature FCR Probability Medium Function Integrated Routing Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 150 of 167 Summary Sometimes user may observe spinfab diag test failure on E ports Symptom Spinfab diagnostic failure with error ERROR DIAG PORTSTOPPED spinfab spinfab 0 nMegs Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Diagnostics Probability Low Function Other Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 _ Defect ID DEFECT00021 1520 Technical Severity Medium Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Access Gateway Services Probability High Function Daemon Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT00021 1605 Technical Severity Medium Summary After multiple N_Ports are taken offline online a retry may be necessary to complete discovery Symptom Disable and enable ports and some ports do not get discovered The failed ports are different with each occurrence Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature FCR Probability Low Function FCR Port Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 D Defect ID DEFECT00021 1641 Technical Severity Medium Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Mgmt Embedded RPCD Probability DEFECT000211429 Technical Severity Medium AG NPIV ports attached to Brocade 200e take approx 39 seconds before failing over to 2nd AG embedded N
59. Brocade 7600 observed the message EXT3 fs error and switch reboots When the error condition EXT3 fs error device hda2 ext3_readdir bad entry in directory Technical Severity Medium SNMP 1004 FFDC data get generated after the F W downgrade from FOS v6 0 to v5 3 0b Customer may see SNMP 1004 FFDC core file get generated after performing Function Other Function Open Mode Technical Severity Medium Toggling any of the involved device ports should Feature FCR Technical Severity Medium Feature OS Services Function Linux Kernal Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Technical Severity Medium Third party hardware suspends in a fast write environment Third party hardware suspends in a fast write environment suspends fairly consistently during a batch window The configuration is Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 fairly unique which has a full Gig E per interface with Page 142 of 167 link latencies at around 30 ms round trip The problem occurs when there are more the 768 outstanding fast write I O s for third party hardware Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FCIP Probability Low Function FCIP T O Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000206525 Technical Severity Medium Summary A device disappears after server reboot in a FICON environment Symptom FICON host sending a PLOGI directly to a device immediately after registering with the
60. C Services Function Zoning Technical Severity Medium Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function Other Feature Man Pages Feature Infrastructure Function o Config Download Technical Severity Medium Discarded Frames Due to Zone Mismatch for Mirror Target on Brocade 7600 Discarded Class 3 frames for Mirror Target Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 155 of 167 Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature Native Interop Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function Zoning Defect ID DEFECT000212830 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switchdisable switchenable on two core switches caused edge switch panicked due to ASSERT Failed Expression 0 file ns_impl c Symptom Switchdisable switchenable on two core switches cause edge switch panicked due to ASSERT Failed Expression 0 file ns_impl c Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature FC Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function N ame Server Defect ID DEFECT000212969 Technical Severity Medium Summary Toggling of VEX VE link belonging to a TI over FCR zone caused route to not be setup correctly Symptom Toggling of VEX VE port links belonging to a TI over FCR zone may lead to routes not getting setup correctly Workaround Delete and re install the same TI over FCR zones will remedy the issue Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Routing Probability High Functio
61. CON channel returns LBY for Device End Symptom FICON host incurs an IFCC for missing CE DE status I O operation to the CUP does not complete Risk of Fix Low Feature FC Services Probability Medium Function FICON Defect ID DEFECT000219509 Technical Severity High Summary FICON CUP reports incorrect Director Size Code in Basic Sense and Sense ID data for Brocade 5100 and 5300 switches Symptom File write operations are rejected by the Director with Unit Check status Sense Data returned for the reject indicates that the host attempted to transfer the configuration file with the Director Size Code set to the wrong value for the machine Risk of Fix Low Feature FC Services Probability High Function FICON Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000219650 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 104 of 167 Summary Portcfgspeed command on 8G FC platforms are accepting invalid port speed 5 Symptom Switches accept invalid port speed 5 and set the speed to 8G Speed will be set to 8 for that port Workaround Do not provide a value of 5 to the portcfgspeed command Speed will be set to 8 If that is not desired re submit the command with the proper port speed Risk of Fix Medium Feature FOS Platform Services Probability Medium Function ASIC Driver Defect ID DEFECT000219669 Technical Severity Medium Summary XRC Emulation allows FICON Disk Control
62. Code Already Fixed in Release Feature N ative Interop Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function g Other Defect ID DEFECT000214108 Technical Severity Medium Symptom When default zoning is enable there are messages in the 7600 console of enforcement changes to session based hard zoning for all ports in range 16 31 Reason Code Not Applicable Feature N ative Interop Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function Zoning Events log But the ESS 1004 event The resume message is rejected by the domain x message is posted to both logs Both events are posted to the 48k console log These events are posted on all pizza boxes in WT Not a Defect Feature FC Services Temporary frame loss detected following haFailover on the edge Brocade 48000 when TI over FCR zones are active Brocade 7600 Console Displays Zoning Enforcement Changes for Ports 16 31 When in Interopmode 2 Default Zoning DEFECT000214277 Technical Severity Medium It doesn t appear that authentication will failover from FCAP to DHCHAP Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 157 of 167 Symptom Support save and console uploaded to Hq samba 1 sj_eng defects Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Fabric Infrastructure Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function Security Defect ID DEFECT000214394 Technical Severity Medium Summary SNMP does not provide any means to distinguish between Brocade 7500 and 7500E Symptom Cus
63. DEFECT000221293 Technical Severity High Summary Zoned crashes after Brocade DCX power cycle and zone transaction aborted Symptom Traffic disruption occurs Risk of Fix Medium Feature Platform Services Probability Medium Function C2 ASIC driver Defect ID DEFECT000221369 Technical Severity Medium Summary SMIA does not have information about SFP GBIC type for a port Symptom SMIA does not show whether a port is Copper backplane or SFP user type Workaround The embedded platforms have well know user server ports which is documented in the user manuals Risk of Fix Low Feature Embedded Probability High Function MGMT BACKEND Defect ID DEFECT000221532 Technical Severity Medium Summary The tag field of the node identifier command returned contains the port number on which the command was received instead of the tag field of the device on the other end of the link Symptom The port number of the port on which the command was received will be returned Risk of Fix Low Feature FC Services Probability Low Function FICON Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000221659 Technical Severity Medium Summary Gzoneinfo htm is returning empty zone information on fabric with FOS v6 1 1 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 108 of 167 Symptom Gzoneinfo htm is returning empty zone information on fabric with FOS v6 1 1 Workaround reboot the switch Risk of Fix Low Feature Mgmt
64. DEFECT000230020 Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000232220 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Symptom Observe stale value for Current and RXPower for sfps The value does not change till a sfp reseat or switch is rebooted powercycled Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FOS Software Probability Low Function FC Layer 2 Routing Reported In Release FOS5 3 1 Service Request ID 321955 Defect ID DEFECT000224679 Technical Severity Medium When WebTools session must be killed in Task Manager Technical Severity Medium Customer cannot manage older 3rd party switches in NAT environment Service Request ID 323465 Technical Severity Medium Data miscompare seen while running online rekey on a total of 22 luns across 3 arrays Data miscompare seen while running online rekey on a total of 22 luns across 3 arrays Feature WebMemt WT Platform Support Function environment Feature FOS Software Function Web Management Feature Data Security Function Re key Technical Medium Page 166 of 167 Severity Summary The Pathinfo through CAL consumes more than 10 minutes of time and finally throws an Error as No Response Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Function Other DEFECT000235878 Technical Severity Medium
65. FM Fabric Infrastructure Function Mgmt Server DEFECT000237563 Technical Severity Medium Brocade 5480 in Access Gateway mode with auto policy enabled an internal port with a server running third party port virtualization may come up as an N_Port should be an F_Port the nodes will not be able to complete fabric login Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 70 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT00023759 1 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 Not able to add EE monitor on port 1 on sw7500 after firmwareupgrade from 6 1 0c to 6 2 0 Workaround None This only happens on port of the 7500 Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT00023761 1 Technical Severity Medium Summary After firmware upgrade FC FastWrite traffic sometimes fails Symptom User will notice FC FastWrite traffic failure Workaround Switchdisable swtichenable will recover FC FastWrite traffic Feature FCIP Function FCIP Port Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium 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
66. Fabric reconfiguration and or momentary traffic disruption seen in an edge fabric when the FCR is performing hot code activation Do not set the principal priority of switches in edge fabric to non default value in a routed MetaSANs Feature FC Services Function Fabric Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 65 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High 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 Distribution 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 enabled after the fabric is stable Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security ACL Reported 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 Workar
67. Flashing green Power supply failure Replace power supply Brocade 7500 Extension Switches Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000026 04 Table 4 on page 25 describes LED operation for the Fibre Channel ports Following is an addition to this table that describes operation of the two GbE ports Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 29 of 167 LED Name LED Color Status of Hardware Recommended Action Port Status No light No signal or light carrier Verify the unit power media or cable LED is on and check the detected SFP and cable No SFP installed or Install or replace SFP faulty SFP Steady green An SFP is installed and No action required functioning and the link is up Flashing green Activity on port No action required Steady amber SFP is installed but not No action required connected or the link is not up Brocade 48000 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 0000645 05 A fully populated Brocade 48000 with eight FC8 32 or eight FC8 16 port blades does not have enough power with only one power supply It is recommended that the 48000 be configured with four power supplies in this scenario The blades will not power down or fail to power up unless three power supplies fail A fully populated 48000 will continue to operate properly with two power supplies The Hardware Components section on page 2 should include the following sub bullet beneath the
68. High Ports are left disabled on Power up after port with large virtual node count comes online Ports remain disabled following switch power up after a port with a large virtual node count enable ports that are left disabled from CLI Not Reproducible Low Function Blade Driver DEFECT000212620 l Not Reproducible zone in failover disabled mode always be set to enable The TI failover disabled mode in the backbone can be set to enabled or disabled Platform Services comes online Feature Brocade 5100 Platform Services FOS6 1 0 Technical Severity High FFDC and core dump after some problems with configdownload Support save of both CPs have been uploaded Hq samba 1 sj_eng defects Feature Infrastructure Page 129 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function Config Download Defect ID DEFECT000212625 Technical Severity High Summary Switch panic due to management server daemon msd running out of memory Symptom When there is an application request GPPN on a device connected to multiple switches the customer might see continuous rtwr messages on a pair of switches directed at each other from the msd RTWR 1003 INFO msd0 RTWR retry 48 to domain 152 iu_data 1000000 RTWR Maxretries exhausted 0x30 0x8 0x65 0x0 0x41d on multipath switches It could lead to a switch panic when memory is exhausted Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FOS Softwar
69. ICL connections among multiple logical fabrics The Virtual Fabrics feature is part of the base Fabric OS and does not require a license Virtual Fabrics is fully compatible with legacy Brocade products as well as M series switches and directors FCR and FCIP Enhancements FCIP SCSI Read Tape Pipelining Anticipates host read operations and buffers data to reduce latency from the FCIP WAN LSAN Tagging Provides special behavior for designated LSAN zones using either a new speed tag or enforce tag The enforce tag allows individual FCRs to be configured to only import devices in specific LSAN zones increasing scalability The speed tag allows designated targets to remain imported allowing sensitive hosts to discover targets much faster This is useful when performing boot over LSAN operations SoTCP Enhancements Improved network congestion management in Slow Start Mode helps to prevent host I O from timing out Support Pathinfo over MetaSAN Pathinfo command has been enhanced to provide path information across routed fabrics especially useful when troubleshooting connectivity problems across routed fabrics Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 6 of 167 Use FSPF cost in FCR backbone fabric Uses most efficient route to reach a destination fabric preventing the use of an FCIP link when an ISL is available In band management link over FCIP connections for the Brocade 7500 Allows a management station t
70. ID DEFECT000237509 Technical Severity Medium FCAP works only in Non VF mode or VF mode with Default Switch 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 Use DHCHAP authentication instead of FCAP Workaround Fabric Infrastructure Feature Function Security authentication Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 68 of 167 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 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT0002375 13 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 default only PIDs from default zone are s
71. ID 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 in a DCX DCX 4S 5300 5100 or Brocade Encryption Switch to be configured as EX_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 8G 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 A4S chassis Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 8 of 167 e DataFort Compatibility This license is required on the Brocade Encryption Switch DCX DCX A4S with FS8 18 blade s to read amp decrypt NetApp DataFort encrypted Disk LUNs DataFort Compatibility License is also required on the Brocade Encryption Switch or DCX DCX 4S Ba
72. If the switch name is set using the CLI and then read using the Read Port Address Name x B2 command to the CUP Port x FE it returns the switch name with a x 7F attach after the last character in the Switch Name Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 79 of 167 Risk of Fix Probability Workaround Risk of Fix Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Detect ID DEFECT000210684 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Low Feature FC Services High Function FICON DEFECT000210382 Technical Severity Medium A failed Pause frame sent during firmwaredownload process in Interop Modes 2 and 3 will cause a fabric rebuild Traffic is disrupted and fabric rebuilds during a HCL on switches in interop mode 2 and 3 Use the o option to over ride the cooperative HCL feature Low Feature Native Interop Medium Function ESS DEFECT000210386 Technical Severity High In some instances HCL on Brocade 5100 switch in Interop Mode requires using the o option Using CLI cannot perform HCL without using the o option User will see the this message during the firmwaredownload process Coordinated HotCode Load failure Firmware partitions are being restored After restore completes retry the command or use the o option to bypass the checking of Coordinated HotCode Load Use the o option Low Feature Native Interop Tow Function ESS DEFECT000210545 Technical Severity Medium A turboramtest failure does n
73. Low Feature System Controls EM Low Function Brocade 5100 DEFECT000211933 Technical Severity Medium POST portloopback test intermittently fails on Brocade 7500 and FR4 18i Portloopback test as part of POST failure on Brocade 7500 and FR4 18i with error Portloopback test failed with ERROR DIAG INITSTATUS portloopbacktest ExtLB pass 1 Pt Rerun diags by rebooting the switch or powering on the slot with FR4 18i blade High Feature Diagnostics Low Function Post Diags DEFECT000211988 Technical Severity Medium Zone Transaction appears to succeed in SMIA when the transaction was aborted by web GUI SMIA indicates a successful zone transaction even though it failed due to the transaction being aborted by another interface Low Feature FC Services Low Function Zoning DEFECT000212099 Technical Severity Medium Port address from switchshow does not include offset used for Interop mode 2 switchshow doesn t include offset in NI mode Low Feature Native Interop Td Page 86 of 167 High Function Platform DEFECT000212106 Technical Severity Medium CRC Errors did not match between portstatsshow and porterrshow CRC errors using porterrshow may show 0 crc Using portstatsshow reveals that the value may be incorrect i e the port may have CRC errors Use portstatsshow to determine whether there are CRC errors on a link Low Feature DCX Platform Services Medium Function ASIC Driver
74. Mgmt Embedded CAL Function Other Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT00023699 1 Technical Severity Medium Summary Symptom Workaround If TI zone operations are performed simultaneously on different switches active CP may failover due to termination of Name server module User might notice the message Detected termination of nsd 4248 1 on console and the Active CP will failover No workaround needed the DCX CP fails over non disruptively and retains all configuration data Feature FC Services Function Name Server Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000237010 Technical Severity Medium Summary Symptom Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function Other Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000237050 Technical Severity Medium Summary Symptom Workaround Several harmless messages gets generated when DCFM tries to discover a large fabric 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 1 has changed from 0 to 4 messages Login to 10 32 233 50 10 32 233 45 10 32 233 54 10 32 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
75. NMP Function Other Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000228944 Technical Severity Medium Summary Using WebTools s HA tab synchronize button and details button do not work as expected Symptom Cannot perform HA Sync operation from WebTools Workaround Use hasyncstart from CLI Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Function Other Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000229069 Technical Severity Medium Getting CT invalid explanation while doing a switch enclosure call GENVATTR2 on a logical context SMI Application receives wrong error code Feature Mgmt Embedded RPCD Function Other Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 46 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000229170 Technical Severity Medium Summary F port may not get disabled when their configured N port which is offline is moved to a different PG and F port was originally online via other N port in the original PG Symptom F ports does not get disabled as expected Workaround Manually disable the F port Feature Access Gateway Services Function CLI Reported In Release FOS6 1 0_emb Defect ID DEFECT000229745 Technical Severity Medium Summary Security scan reported CERT vulnerability in OpenSSH Symptom Switch was subjected to a security scan by third party security appliance The following security vulnerability ha
76. Notes v2 0 Page 143 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000206634 Technical Severity Medium Summary POST amp system verification internal stress programs should not be available Symptom POST amp system verification should not run any stress tests that are solely intended for engineering design verification Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Diagnostics Probability Low Function Post Diags Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000207759 Technical Severity Medium Summary Certain blade servers may not be able to access targets after an NPIV failover between Brocade DCX and 48000 if target is accessed across FCR Symptom Hosts not able to access targets after NPIV failover between Brocade DCX and 48000 with targets across FCR link if there is more than ex port attached to the switches where the targets are logged in Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature FCR Probability Low Function FCR Daemon Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000207770 Technical Severity Medium Summary In a large edge fabric after repeated switch or trunking disable enable on the core switch fabric rebuild may take several minutes to complete Symptom RTWR failures may be seen until the fabric rebuild completes Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature Routing Probability Low Function DCX Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 DEFECT000207912 Technical Severity Medium Summary B
77. OS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000209617 Technical Severity Medium Summary On embedded switch products sfpshow will display error Can not read Serial Data on internal ports that do not have server blades installed Symptom sfpshow displays Can not read Serial Data on internal ports that do not have server blades installed Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature Embedded Platform Services Probability Medium Function Sys Control Environment Monitor Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 E Defect ID DEFECT000209708 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 5410 8Gb ISL invalid Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Embedded Platform Services Probability Medium Function GE2 ASIC ports Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Detect ID DEFECT000209892 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 147 of 167 Summary Th a mixed fabric FOS and M EOS to form a trunk at 4G Symptom Workaround Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000210144 sshd does not automatically restart Run sshd manually Already Fixed in Release Medium Probability Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000210223 Reason Code Not a Defect Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Detect ID DEFECT000210234 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Host using IP over FC might not be able to Ping each other
78. PIV ports are attached to a 200e when reboot is initiated on 200e it takes Firmware upgrade from SMIA may fail on Brocade 5100 switch due to RPC error Firmware download operation from SMIA may fail on Brocade 5100 due to RPC Error path approx 29 seconds before the NPIV ports failover to secondary paths I O typically survives with the exception of having an I10k in the same fabric a fabric build with the expected long wait period for an f_port to log in 17 seconds can cause I O timeout if HBA is settings is not greater than 45 seconds Low Function Firmware Download Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 151 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000211661 Technical Severity Medium Summary DMM License gets added but throws error Symptom DMM License gets added but throws error and mutual exclusion of TB and WWN license fails Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature SCIMITAR SAS SERVICES Probability Medium Function SAS TOOL SUPPORT Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT00021 1700 Technical Severity Medium Summary Th a large fabric setup frames may be lost when enabling the trunk slave link of an Ex trunk on Brocade 5100 switch Symptom May see transient frame drop when adding slave link to existing Ex trunk Reason Code Can Not Fix Feature Q EX Port Probability Medium Function ASIC Driver Reported In R
79. S v6 1 0g or earlier the CPs do not fully synchronize until both the new active and new standby CPs are running 6 2 This is normal behavior and the firmware upgrade is still not disruptive FOS v6 2 does not support concurrent FC Routing EX_Ports and TopTalkers features Upgrading to FOS v6 2 requires that one of these features be disabled first The Brocade Encryption Switch and DCX with one or more FS8 18 blades may not be downgraded below FOS v6 1 1_enc The Brocade Encryption Switch and DCX with one or more FS8 18 blades may not be downgraded below FOS v6 2 0 if HP SKM Key Vault is configured Doing so will result in loss of encryption services in HP SKM environments When Tape Encryption is configured on BES or DCX DCX 4S with FS8 18 blade downgrading to v6 1 1_enc will result in loss of Tape Encryption Services 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 SAS Version Requirements for FA4 18 and Brocade 7600 SAS v3 3 0 is the supported SAS version for FOS v6 2 0 e When upgrading from FOS v6 1 to v6 2 and SAS 3 2 0 to SAS 3 30 first upgrade FOS v6 1 to v6 2 and then upgrade SAS from 3 2 0 to 3 3 0 e When downgrading from FOS v6 2 to v6 1 and SAS 3 3 0 to SAS 3 2 0 first downgrade SAS from 3 3 0 to 3 2 0 and then downgrade FOS from v6 2 to v6 1 Scalability All scalability limits are subject to change Limits may be
80. S6 2 0 Probability High Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 51 of 167 Defect ID Summary 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 Function VF Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000234728 Technical Severity Medium Summary Symptom Feature Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID Summary Symptom Feature Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID Summary Symptom Workaround Feature Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 DEFECT000234690 Technical Severity Medium Failover triggered on AG connected to multiple VF fabrics through FCR causes hosts on AG to It was observed that failover triggered on AG 5480 connected to multiple VF fabrics through 8G FCR Function Other DEFECT000234760 Technical Severity Medium Fabstateshow log wrapping overwrites useful fabstate data on Brocade switch when interop with The problem is in interop mode the fabstateshow log wraps in a very short time where without FOS Software Function Fabric Services The swFCPortTable displays the port statistical data for the logical port lose targets FCR causes hosts to lose targets mcdata interop this log contains weeks and sometimes months of data DEFECT000234865 Technical Severity Medium On embedded platf
81. Severity Medium After hareboot Probing failed on F port messages may be seen on the Brocade 300 5100 and 5300 Some device ports will not be able to complete login to the switch after a firmware upgrade Low Feature Brocade 5300 Platform Services High Function ASIC Port lease FOSO1O DEFECT000212535 Technical Severity Medium Brocade 7500 panicked after TI zone activation Brocade 7500 panicked after TI zone activation Low Feature FCR l FOS6 1 0 Function FCR Port DEFECT000212536 Technical Severity Medium Brocade FR4 18i faulted after overnight stress testing If the customer forces a failover while the port blades are being powered on an FR4 18i blade may be faulted Do not configure an FCIP Tunnel FR4 18i Platform Services Low Feature Low Function FR4 18i Blade FOS SW FOS6 1 0 Page 88 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000212613 Technical Severity High Summary Received error message with high temperature 89 on edge Brocade DCX in fabric Symptom Issue only observed once and received critical message HIL 1502 Risk of Fix High Feature DCX Platform Services Function Sys Control Environment Monitor Defect ID DEFECT000212630 Technical Severity Medium Summary The portcfgnpivport CLI command will not toggle trunked slave ports if the user disables NPIV configuration on that port Symptom Any AG port that corresponds to the NPIV F port will not be di
82. TSS CLINK Devices Symptom Less than expected performance during the copy phase for VTSS to VTSS copies Risk of Fix Low Feature CIP Probability Medium Function FCIP I O Defect ID DEFECT000224474 Technical Severity Medium Summary After installing the encryption performance upgrade license 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 traffic on the FS8 18 within DCX Workaround Reboot the Brocade Encryption Switch or DCX Risk of Fix Medium Feature Data Security Probability High Function Platform Defect ID DEFECT000224572 Technical Severity High Summary Web Tools zoning breaks when 3rd party storage virtualization appliance changed to standby mode Symptom Customer will see Web Tools hangs at the initialization done when trying to launch zoning from the web interface User won t be able to launch zoning from any switch in fabric Once the 3rd party storage virtualization appliance was placed back in ssi cf mode the problem goes away Workaround Change the 3rd party storage virtualization appliance to standby cf mode Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 113 of 167 Risk of Fix Probabil
83. This appears to be limited to Symptom broadcast frames and not to other IP traffic Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Medium Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000210021 In some long distance setups two adjacent ports set to Auto Negotiate on a Brocade DCX fail Two adjacent ports on a DCX fail to form a trunk at 4G Manually set the port speed to 4G on one of the DCX for both the ports SSH Demon sshd does not start automatically on FA4 18 FC4 32 Blade in a Brocade 48000 running POST Diag with Diag POST disabled With POST Diags disabled a slotPowerOff slotPowerOn test case was run After slotPowerOn the Diags were observed to be running on the Brocade FC4 32 Hosts might not be able to ping each other Feature Native Interop Function Name Server Technical Severity Medium Feature FC Services Function Fabric Technical Severity Medium Feature FA4 1 8 Platform Services Function Blade FOS SW Technical Severity Medium Feature Diagnostics Function Technical Severity Medium Page 148 of 167 Post Diags Summary Symptom Probability Workaround Reason Code Reported In Release Reason Code Reported In Release Reason Code Reported In Release Certain show commands not allowed in ADO when switch is included in user defined AD Some show commands will not be allowed in ADO Log into the AD which
84. UN 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000237710 Technical Severity Medium Summary Symptom Workaround Feature Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID 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 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 Login to the remote switch and execute the command Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor DEFECT000237759 Technical Severity Medium After slotpoweroff on an FS8 18 blade some VI PT routes are invalid causing containers not to come back online Symptom Containers do not come back online aft
85. 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 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 54 of 167 Feature Defect ID Summary Symptom Workaround Feature Defect ID Summary Symptom Workaround Feature Defect ID Summary Symptom Workaround Feature Defect ID Summary Symptom Workaround Feature Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric Infrastructure Function Time Server Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium DEFECT000235297 Technical Severity Medium During stress test of deleting and creating DCC policies on LS a assert was observed on the console User will notice inconsistent secpolicyshow after running stress testing in the fabric Failover or reboot the system Fabric Infrastructure Function Security ACL DEFECT000235300 Technical Severity Medium Newly created LS should inherit NTP server setting of Default LS 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 Don t use date command in non default logical switch Fabric Infrastructure Function Time Server
86. a Defect ID DEFECT000208808 Technical Severity High On highly impaired network third party hardware link may bounce when a committed rate of zero is used to configure an FCIP link Tunnel Failure or very poor performance after link retransmissions when tunnel was configured with a committed rate of 0 uncommitted The observation is when latency is gt 190ms RTT or packet loss is gt 1 and latency is gt 50ms RTT Use non zero committed rate for the tunnels Workaround Reason Code Will Not Fix Feature FOS Software Probability Low Function FCIP Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Service Request ID 245313 Defect ID DEFECT000209214 Technical Severity High Summary Continuous panic reboot observed on Brocade 48000 after inserting a Brocade FR4 18i blade Symptom Could result in continuous SW ASSERT loop Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FCR Reported In Release FOS5 3 1 Function E IPFC FCR DEFECT000209343 Technical Severity High After repeatedly running bladedisable enable on one FC8 48 blade for 6 hours a Brocade DCX panics Page 125 of 167 Symptom May see DCX panic with ASSERT Failed expression vfid lt 0x709000 0x708000 4 file asic condor2 c2_vf c line 193 Workaround After the switch comes back up reboot the switch Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature DCX Platform Services Probabili
87. abling all switches simultaneously some switches still have domain unconfirmed and are stuck in F2 state Disable and enable the switches that are stuck in F2 domain ID not yet confirmed state independently Workaround FC Services Function Fabric Feature Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Probability Low Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 32 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000222780 Technical Severity High 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 Feature FC Services Function Fabric Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Probability Medium 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 access 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
88. age gets generated however there is no I O re key or data miscompare error Risk of Fix Low Feature Data Security Probability Low Function Re key Defect ID DEFECT00023 1420 Technical Severity Medium Summary PORT RSCNs are sent to DPC VIs amp VTs every time when the configuration changes which is unrelated to VT VI This affects any application that uses frame redirect zoning Symptom Unexpected disruption on VI or VT when cfgenable unrelated devices zone change Risk of Fix Low Feature FOS Software Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 118 of 167 Probability High Function Fabric Services Defect ID DEFECT00023 1674 Technical Severity Medium Summary Inconsistent specification of LUN configuration can end up with multiple paths to the LUN each using different DEKs Symptom Potential corruption of data as 2 different keys might be used to access the same LUN Workaround Before enabling the LUN on a Path Crypto Target Container which was disabled make sure that LUN is not already enabled on another path Crypto Target Container First delete the LUN which was in disabled state and add back the LUN to that Crypto Target Container with same policies as for other path of the LUN Risk of Fix Medium Feature Data Security Probability Medium Function Disk Encryption Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Service Request ID 343565 Defect ID DEFECT00023 1925 Technical Severity Medium
89. al fabric at a time up to 1 000 ports and DCFM Enterprise that is designed for enterprise class customers and showcases unparalleled performance and scalability 24 physical fabrics up to 9 000 switch ports DCFM Enterprise configures and manages Brocade DCX Backbones along with Brocade directors routers switches and HBAs It also supports Brocade fabric based encryption capabilities for data at rest Existing EFCM v9 6 and higher and FM v5 4 and higher customers are provided an easy migration path to DCFM Enterprise EFCM Compatibility EFCM v9 7 4 is the minimum version of Brocade management software that should be used to manage Brocade switches deployed with FOS v6 2 EFCM v9 7 4 cannot manage the DCX 4S or platforms with the Virtual Fabrics feature enabled For more information on migrating from previous versions of EFCM to EFCM v9 7 4 refer to the EFCM v9 7 4 Release Notes documentation Fabric OS Compatibility The following table lists the earliest versions of Brocade software supported in this release that is the earliest supported software versions that interoperate Brocade recommends using the latest software versions to get the greatest benefit from the SAN Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 11 of 167 When using the new 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 opera
90. alue for aptpolicy should read VF and the switch type is All The following error should be corrected in the man page for the configure command e The man page currently states about the Allow XISL use parameter On the Brocade 5100 or 5300 default switch the feature is disabled by default default value yes e The description should be corrected to read On the Brocade 5100 or 5300 default switch the feature is disabled by default default value no e Note that the corresponding description in the Command Reference page 107 is correct Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide Publication Number 53 1001187 01 On page 47 in the Preinstallation Messages section append the first paragraph and following courier text with the following additional information The blocking cases except the new cases specific to Fabric OS v6 2 0 can be removed The blocking cases are not accumulative from version to version Downgrade is not allowed because VF is enabled Please run lscfg config and lscfg delete commands to remove the non default LS first then run fosconfig disable vf to disable VF before proceeding Downgrade is not allowed because AG is enabled Please run ag modedisable command to disable AG mode before proceeding Non disruptive firmwaredownload is not supported when downgrading to 6 1 Please use firmwaredownload s to download the 6 1 firmware The FS8 18 type 4
91. and 5100 while running T O and switch disable enable Switch panic due to iswitchd and reboots or fails over to standby Already Fixed in Release Low Function FCR Daemon Reported In Release FR4 18i Router Blade in Brocade 48000 port Brocade 300 Platform Services cannot ping hosts on other edge fabrics Feature FCR overnight Feature FCR FOS6 1 0 Detect ID DEFECT00021 1994 Technical Severity High Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 128 of 167 Summary Symptom Workaround Reason Code Probability Reported In Release Workaround Reason Code Probability Reported In Release Reason Code Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 AG ag prefshow shows same fport mapped to multiple preferred N_ports may see an fport mapped to multiple preferred N_ports ag prefdel on incorrect N_Ports will clear the wrong mapping Not Reproducible Feature Access Gateway Services Low Function CLI 2 Fosolo DEFECT000212175 Technical Severity High Non TI traffic may be routed to a TI EX Port and could get dropped at edge when edge TI No TI traffic may experience frame loss when TI over FCR with failover disabled is active For TI zones that are spanning over the FCR the TI Failover mode in the edge fabrics should Will Not Fix Feature High Function ASIC Driver e Foolo DEFECT000212310 Technical Severity
92. and loading the FA4 18 in slot 10 example The blade is finally faulted by the new active CP as Faulty 21 Workaround Any FA4 18 blade supplied by the factory at FOS v5 3 0a or earlier MUST be installed in Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 158 of 167 slots 1 or 2 initially already noted in release notes Reason Code Can Not Fix Feature FA4 1 8 Platform Services Probability High Function Blade FOS SW Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000215612 Technical Severity Medium Summary Cfgenable on FOS v6 1 0 intermittently fails with Brocade 3800 in fabric Symptom zoning configuration change will work but the enable will fail Reason Code Not a Defect Feature FOS Software Probability Medium Function Fabric Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000215784 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade DCX message seen on port blade Probing failed on L port 36 ALPA xx and other ports Symptom 7 Probing failed type messages can be seen on the serial console of the DCX in some circumstances that are not yet well defined This results in ports that fail to login to the switch Reason Code Not a Defect Feature DCX Platform Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function ASIC Driver Defect ID DEFECT000216064 Technical Severity Medium Summary Intermittent Software Verify assert when conducting portDisable Enable amp Port Mirroring Symptom
93. 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 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 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 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 36 of 167 problem Console will log cald queue full message Feature FOS Software Function Management Services Service Request ID 355965 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000237564 Technical Severity High Summary HA cluster member node BES faults as a result of slot powercycling its HA cluster peer FS8 18 Symptom BES is faulted Workaround Reboot the BES Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237595 Technical Severity High Summary firmwaredownload of v6 2 0 pre GA image and reboot of all nodes caused 1 BES in 4 node EG to be faulted Symptom In a scalable environment firmware download may cause BES to
94. ary Set Symptom never does Feature FC Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000207322 Summary 1Mb Symptom Interop mode Workaround Feature FC Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000207366 Summary Symptom Feature Platform Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000207431 Summary enabled from McDATA switch Symptom database Workaround Feature Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Tn interop mode 2 with Default Zone enabled the user can activate only 2047 Zones per Zone Webtools and CLI appear to activate a zone set consisting of 2048 or more zones but actually it Inconsistencies seen for topologyshow and islshow bandwidth on 5300 and 300 switches ISLSHOW and TOPOLOGYSHOW output will be inconsistent Webtools zone admin page may not automatically refresh when a zoning configuration is Webtools zone admin page may not automatically refresh when there is a change in the zoning User can manually refresh the page FC Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function FCIP CLI Probability Low Technical Severity Medium Function Zoning Probability Low Technical Severity Medium Unable to activate a large Zone Set from Web Tools when Defined and Effective are close to Large zone set activations fails from Web Tools but works in CLI for FOS only Fabric in Use CLI int
95. backbone does not change the preferred route path Symptom After running test case Rerouting Occurs When Link Cost In A Path Changes when changing the cost using fcrRouterPortCost command the traffic does not flow through the Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 127 of 167 Workaround Reason Code Workaround Reason Code Probability Workaround Reason Code Probability path with the lowest cost The problem occurred on both the Brocade 7500 switch and the N A traffic will continue but appears to flow on randomly selected route Will Not Fix Reported In Release Feature FCR FOSS 3 1 Function IPFC FCR DEFECT00021 1420 Technical Severity High After removing port mirroring configuration the traffic is mirrored Even if no SID DID pairs are configured for port mirroring traffic still flows on the mirror Disable the sid did pair or disable the mirror port Not Reproducible Reported In Release Feature High Function ASIC Port e Foslo DEFECT000211706 Technical Severity High IP over FC broadcast frames may not be forwarded across FCR after several cfgenables After changing the effective cfg several times on an edge fabric IPFC host on that edge fabric Disable and enable IP over FC hosts Reported In Release Not Reproducible Low Function IPFC FOosOlo DEFECT000211786 Technical Severity High Tswitchd panic seen on Brocade DCX
96. between all the available Out Ports after ISLs to adjacent switches are removed when using Port Based Routing with DLS ON Workaround Perform switchdisable and switchenable to force a rebalance of the routes Probability Low Feature Routing Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function DCX Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 97 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT0002168 14 Technical Severity Medium Summary On a Brocade 5300 the system status LED does not flash amber green when a power supply is faulted Symptom Instead of flashing amber green it remains a steady green Risk of Fix Low Feature System Controls EM Probability High Function Brocade 5300 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 312559 Defect ID DEFECT000217066 Technical Severity Medium Summary User with admin role in some AD is able to add another user with admin role in AD as ALL Risk of Fix Low Feature WebMemt Probability Medium Function Switch Admin Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT000217122 Technical Severity Medium Summary Reset to default button is grayed out always in SCSI vs IP traffic setup window Risk of Fix Low Feature WebMgmt Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Function Performance Monitor Defect ID DEFECT000217171 Technical Severity Medium Summary USB Admin is not in sync with CLI when launched It shows the correct info only when we click refresh
97. button Symptom USB Admin is not in sync with CLI when launched It shows the correct info only when we click refresh button Risk of Fix Low Feature WebMemt Probability Medium Function USB Management Defect ID DEFECT00021725 1 Technical Severity High Summary N ame Server database is being set with incorrect WWN s for NPIV nodes when port ALPA 0x13 Symptom Virtual nodes cannot connect to targets in the fabric Workaround Port ALPA must be set to default value of 0x00 for ports hosting NPIV nodes Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 98 of 167 Risk of Fix Low Feature FC Services Probability High Function Name Server Defect ID DEFECT000217257 Technical Severity High Summary Potential timeouts and aborts during Device Discovery and CU busy processing when using FICON XRC Emulation Symptom Interface control checks or Channel detected timeout messages on MVS console Risk of Fix Low Feature FCIP Probability High Function FCIP I O Defect ID DEFECT000217309 Technical Severity Medium Summary When a DCX blade is powered off Fabric Watch displays unnecessary 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 boundary High 3600 Low 3150 Current value is 0 mV that is generated for every sfp on a blade that is
98. ckbone with FS8 18 Encryption Blade s installed to write amp encrypt the Disk LUNs in NetApp DataFort Mode Metadata amp Encryption Algorithm so that DataFort can read amp decrypt these disk LUNs DataFort Mode tape encryption and compression is supported beginning with the FOS v6 2 release Availability of the DataFort Compatibility license is limited contact your vendor for details e Server Application Optimization This new license introduced with FOS v6 2 when deployed with Brocade Server Adapters 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 Some models offer bundles that include 2 or more optionally licensed features These bundles are defined for each unique product and are outside the scope of this release note document Temporary License Support The following licenses are available for 45 day temporary use with a maximum of two temporary license 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 support is new in FOS v6 2 Fabric Watch license support is new in FOS v6 2 Integrated Routing license support is new in FOS v6 2 Previou
99. cost liability or damages arising from the information contained in this book or the computer programs that accompany it Notice The product described by this document may contain open source software covered by the GNU General Public License or other open source license agreements To find out which open source software is included in Brocade products view the licensing terms applicable to the open source software and obtain a copy of the programming source code please visit http www brocade conVsupport oscd Export of technical data contained in this document may require an export license from the United States Government Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 2 of 167 Contents Doctime nt m ELAKO A EA EE EAE T sia dug E Sones nde cea ea A Sea gcdt eas E N A 1 OVER VIO Wait a a tanto stun sesetaeevouctancctechsdevsvatswateset daveuulavacusestteerunctvatesatvcqucestersceesetantes 5 New Feature DeSCriptions csccscscsciiesnennenensennsennenneniesaeneeneeneenenneneenenaeneeseesennesnensenenaenaenannnenenans 6 Martial ADCS kosmon tinun vs vouees savevad sentation seve ded daueveude A E oaveusa dou saueds aca dntgseducecateveuts dou leupescenacabeatessades 6 FCR and FCIP Enhancement nere ropa re T E AG As Sa ee ee tees 6 Enhanced Native Connectivity with MCDATA Products 00 ec eceecesceesceeseceseeeseccecseeeaecnaecsecseecseesseecseseaeseaeeaeeaes 7 Securty Enhancements so os ice vos oc haes hies ces gesvesonct tene
100. cted by attached M EOS switch Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 92 of 167 Symptom HCL on switch will sometimes continues even when a sent Pause frame is rejected by another switch in the fabric Risk of Fix Low Feature Native Interop Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function ESS Defect ID DEFECT000213619 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 7500E restrictions fails to allow creation of FCIP TUNNEL numbers greater than zero Symptom An error is reported if the user attempts to assign a tunnel numbers that is greater than zero Risk of Fix Low Feature CIP Probability Medium Function FCIP CLI Defect ID DEFECT000213804 Technical Severity High Summary N_Port on Edge_AG_200E_PG got disabled with reason code Initiator target connected to N Port Symptom 1 Nport on EdgeAG_200E_81 connecting to CoreAG_300_automatically and that NPort got disabled on Edge AG with reason code Initiator target connected to N Port although on the core AG 300_autopolicy its corresponding NPIV F_Port is detected as an FPort portcfgnport 0 Risk of Fix Low Feature Access Gateway Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function Daemon Defect ID DEFECT000213971 Technical Severity Medium Summary Firmware download of Fabric OS v6 1 0 is allowed on an embedded blade that should not allow it Symptom Fabric OS v6 1 0 can be downloaded to a Brocade 5410 Risk of Fix Low Feature Infrastruct
101. d on a passive path of the array Risk of Fix Low Feature Data Security Probability Medium Function Re key Defect ID DEFECT000223415 Technical Severity Medium Summary Remove check to prevent downgrade of 7500E to FOS v6 1 0 code level Symptom Remove check to prevent downgrade of 7500E to FOS v6 1 0 code level Risk of Fix Low Feature FCIP Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Function FCIP CLI Defect ID DEFECT000223419 Technical Severity Medium Summary Wave Length column in port optics dialog is currently blank User does not view any value for the Wave Length column in port optics dialog Risk of Fix Low Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Function Other Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 112 of 167 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 Risk of Fix Medium Feature Access Gateway Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0_emb Function CLI Defect ID DEFECT000224471 Technical Severity Medium Summary FICON Write Pipelining not working with Sun V
102. dditional CDB length is selected Incorrect command data length may be computed Tow Feature FCIP Low Function FCIP I O lease FOSOOO DEFECT000218398 Technical Severity Medium Unable to activate zone set in Interopmode 2 fabric while there is an ISL connected between a Brocade 3012 and 4100 switches The ISL between the two switches has some sort of link level problem that is causing the Zone merge requests to timeout Low Feature FC Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function Zoning Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 102 of 167 Symptom Brocade 4900 running in McDATA Native Mode security violation message was reported on Port 66 although there are only 64 ports on a 4900 Risk of Fix Low Feature Platform Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function FOS Kernel Drivers Defect ID DEFECT000218579 Technical Severity High Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function C2 ASIC driver Workaround Risk of Fix Probability Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID Summary FRI T not returned for unroutable class 2 PLOGI Don t use port 0 for an ISL Low High DEFECT000218542 Technical Severity Medium Security Violation Console Message reported on un existing porti on a Brocade 4900 interopmode 2 with no security policy set FOS does not send RSCN for CUP disable enable in NI mode 2 ICON host not notified when FOS CUP becomes enabled must r
103. ditions and corrections to the documentation The most recent Fabric OS v6 2 0 documentation manuals are available on the Brocade Partner Network http partner brocade com Brocade Fabric OS Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001185 01 In chapter 4 Configuring Advanced Security on page 146 under the heading Example of an End to End Transport Tunnel mode replace the word BRCD7500 with Remote Host and replace steps 1 through 9 with the following Secure traffic between two systems using AH protection with MDS and configure IKE with pre shared keys The two systems are a switch BROCADE300 IPv4 address 10 33 74 13 and an external host 10 33 69 132 1 On the system console log in to the switch as Admin and enable IPsec switch admin gt ipsecconfig enable 2 Create an IPsec SA policy named AHO1 which uses AH protection with MDS switch admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ips sa t AH01 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 24 of 167 p ah auth hmac_md5 3 Create an IPsec proposal IPSEC AH to use AHO1 as SA switch admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ips sa proposal t IPSEC AH sa AHO1 4 Configure the SA proposals lifetime in time units switch admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ips sa proposal t IPSEC AH lttime 280000 sa AHO1 5 Import the pre shared key file for example ipseckey psk using the secCertUtil command 6 Configure an IKE policy for the remote peer switc
104. dress configuration Reason Code Can Not Fix Feature Embedded Platform Services Probability Medium Function Sys Control Environment Monitor Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 DEFECT000208523 Technical Severity Medium Fabric mode TT monitor doesn t recalculates the new flows on the edge switches when topology changes Multiple switches fabric on mesh topology if the topology from mesh to edge to core topology changes by removing 2 edge switches connection then the fabric mode TT monitor Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 145 of 167 doesn t recalculates the new flows on the edge switches Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000208673 Technical Severity Medium Summary User not able to run diagsetburn burn in test diagnostics due to RBAC permission denied error with admin and switchadmin role Symptom RBAC permission denied error while trying to execute diagsetburn command for burnin test with admin and switchadmin role Workaround User can use other roles to run burnin test Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Diagnostics Probability High Function Other Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000208879 Technical Severity Medium Summary ferlsanmatrix cli usability Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FCR
105. e Probability Low Function Management Services Reported In Release FOSS 2 0 Service Request ID 306893 Defect ID DEFECT000212627 Technical Severity High Summary Slots in Brocade 48000 and DCX went faulty and islshow shows panic Symptom Slots in Brocade 48000 and DCX went faulty and islshow shows panic Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature Platform Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function ASIC Driver Defect ID DEFECT000212849 Technical Severity High Summary RTWR on edge switch Symptom May see RTWRs on an edge switch and loss of traffic when VE Port belonging to a TI over FCR zone is toggled Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature Platform Services Probability Medium Function FOS Kernel Drivers Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 o DEFECT000212853 Technical Severity High After running a firmware upgrade on an attached FOS switch the Brocade 48000 took an FFDC Symptom YO did not seem to be affected but this did cause a failover Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Fabric Infrastructure Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function Security Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 130 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000212865 Technical Severity High Summary FICON channels in TI zones with failover disabled have no CUP connectivity Symptom FICON channels operating in TI zones with failover disabled cannot connect to local or remote CUP ports Reason Code
106. e Request ID 321673 Defect ID DEFECT000220003 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 300 5100 and 5300 systems when normal fan activity is interrupted the high RPM fan rate cycle time takes 1 hour Symptom If the fans go to high speed either because a fan failed became overheated or in the case of the 5100 and 5300 was removed there is a built in delay before they go back to normal speed after the fault condition has been rectified Risk of Fix Low Feature System Controls EM Function Brocade 300 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 322097 Defect ID DEFECT000220176 Technical Severity Medium Summary RLS request from FICON host receives LS_RJT 031F in Interopmode 2 Symptom Switch fails to return link error status block lesb to FICON host Risk of Fix Low Feature Platform Services Probability High Function FOS Kernel Drivers Defect ID DEFECT000220311 Technical Severity High Summary FMS Mode enable failed due to insufficient frame filtering resources on some ports Symptom FMS cannot be enabled Risk of Fix Low Feature Platform Services Probability Medium Function C2 ASIC driver Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 106 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Risk of Fix DEFECT000220313 Technical Severity High Brocade DCX blades fault after resetting a server with 32 HBAs Blade is faulted Power cycle the slot Set port speed to anything ot
107. e if another 1001 Function Ports Admin Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Fabric Watch Technical Severity Medium Summary The number of events displayed on the browser is more than 1024 Symptom Customer will view more events than expected Workaround SW MIB swEventTable Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function Other Technical Severity Medium Summary RPC call fails ji Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Mgmt Embedded RPCD Probability Medium Function Ports Admin Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000217809 Technical Severity Medium Summary Th Access gateway mode U ports in auto negotiate speed mode are showing speed as 1G 2G Feature WebMegmt Function AG Support Technical Severity Medium Page 161 of 167 Summary In interopmode name server database is not updated when remote devices attached to a 3rd party switch comes on line Symptom Host cannot see devices attached to 3rd party switches Reason Code Not Applicable Feature FOS Software Probability High Function Native Open Mode Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT00021 8356 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
108. ed In Release FOS6 1 0 T Defect ID DEFECT00021 1920 Technical Severity Medium Summary Core blade on DCX is faulty 69 after firmwaredownload to bld26 and power cycled Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature DCX Platform Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function ASIC Driver No warning message seen on 8G platforms when attempting to install fabric mode TT with EE monitors already installed When EE monitors are already present on the switch and user tries to install fabric mode TT there is no message saying Cannot install Fabric Mode Top Talker because EE monitor is already present on DCX Spirit and switch 5000 And fabric mode TT is not installed either Enabling Trunk Slaves with QOS While Traffic is Running May Cause Credit Loss When QOS enabled trunk slaves are added while traffic is running credits appear to be lost on the new trunk slave If the master trunk is then disabled or removed and all the available credits have been lost traffic will stop disable and enable the trunk ports again Since this is a very rare occurrence toggling the port should fix the problem Will Not Fix Feature Brocade 5100 Platform Services Defect ID DEFECT000212120 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 153 of 167 Summary On rare occasions some ports on a Brocade 5100 do not display all flows for F_Port TopTalker monitor Symptom Customer does not see acc
109. edium Summary Unable to de register primary key vault when both primary and secondary key vaults are registered Symptom 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low 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 Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function VF Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000234617 Technical Severity Medium 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 Virtual nodes operating on the same physical port are not able to communicate Workaround Toggle the physical port FC Services Function Name Server Feature Reported In Release FO
110. elease FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT00021 1718 Technical Severity Medium Summary AG A customer can rename a port group as blank Symptom Customer may be able to rename a portgroup blank Workaround Avoid using empty strings when renaming a port group Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Access Gateway Services Probability High Function CLI Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000211720 Technical Severity Medium Summary After renaming a port group name to blank from Web Tools the port group is deleted Symptom Tf a port group is renamed to blank from Web Tools the port group is deleted Workaround Specify a valid name for a port group Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature WebMgmt Probability High Function AG Support Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 152 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Workaround Defect ID DEFECT000211749 Technical Severity Medium Summary Successive ACL operations on Dual domain switch fails Reason Code Nota Defect Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 Function Other Defect ID DEFECT000211768 Technical Severity Medium Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability Low Function Advanced Performance Monitor Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000211795 Technical Severity Medium Reason Code Probability Low Function ASIC Port Report
111. elease FOS6 0 0 DEFECT000204966 Technical Severity Medium Adding a Brocade switch with conflicting domain ID into an EOS fabric may cause another switch to segment Customer might notice a segmented fabric Should check the domain Id before adding a switch to any fabric Low Feature Native Interop Low Function Fabric DEFECT000205657 Technical Severity Medium USB port LED of DCX CP blade stays ON after HA failover USB port LED of DCX CP blade stays ON after HA failover Tow Feature OS Services High Function Linux Kernal DEFECT000206238 Technical Severity High CUP Port stuck in Contingent Allegiance State after z9 Host IPL CUP Port busy and does not respond to hosts Reboot the switch Hin o Features FC Services Medium Function FICON DEFECT000206347 Technical Severity Medium Spinfab and porttest diagnostics are not supported on ICL ports Spinfab and porttest failed on ICL ports with spinfab having error DIAG PORTSTOPPED spinfab spinfab 0 nMegs Pt5 17 113 Ch2 33 No Longer Transmitting FTX Counter Stuck at 9 Tow Feature Tech Pubs Probability High Function Guides Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 75 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 DEFECT000206856 Technical Severity Medium Bogus core_file created and transferred after the first reboot after a firmwaredownload Creation and transfer of a xxx core_file tar file to the FTP se
112. ely upon I O and recovery timeouts to detect loss of connection FICON host does not receive initiative to reconnect to FOS CUP when FMS becomes enabled Low Feature FC Services High Function FICON DEFECT000218786 Technical Severity High Channel ack_1 to Control Unit ACC is being F_RJT d after successful RNID IFCC during device connection attempt Feature Platform Services DEFECT000218883 Technical Severity High Feature Platform Services Function c2 ASIC driver DEFECT000218976 FICON host recovery of remote paths to local CUP cannot complete after routes are cleared on Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 103 of 167 ingress E_Port of local switch Symptom FICON host cannot recover remote connectivity to local CUP after local switch leaves and subsequently rejoins fabric Workaround Force remote channels offline and then online to reinitiate fabric login so that local E_Port routes to CUP will be reprogrammed Risk of Fix Low Feature Platform Services Probability High Function Routing Reported In Release FOS6 1 0b Defect ID DEFECT000219147 Technical Severity High Summary ASSERT Failed expression sts st_byte running SAK IRNDUP to Brocade DCX Symptom Missing CE DE status Risk of Fix Low Feature FC Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function FICON Defect ID DEFECT000219492 Technical Severity High Summary FMS does not retry status after FI
113. er power cycle of Encryption blade Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 72 of 167 Workaround Power cycle the blade again Feature 4G Platform Services Function Routing Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low 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 committed Symptom Remote switches 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 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
114. erface to activate a zone set of size close to 1 MB Function Zoning Probability Low Technical Severity Medium Function Routing Probability Low Technical Severity Medium Function Zoning Probability High Page 39 of 167 Defect ID Summary Symptom RLIR s for virtual nodes may be directed to the wrong port LIRR for base port is missing from the database Feature FC Services Function FICON Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000207595 Technical Severity Medium Summary 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 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000208527 Technical Severity Medium Summary Symptom Feature Access Gateway Services Function CLI Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Probability Low 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 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000210143 Technical Severity Medium Summary DEFECT000207478 Technical Severity Medium Allowed to add a F_Port TT Monitor to mirror port however no counters display
115. erly 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 distance for 7500 upgraded 7500E and FR4 18i e Brocade Fabric Watch Monitors mission critical switch operations Fabric Watch now includes new Port Fencing capabilities e FICON Management Server Also known as CUP Control Unit Port enables host control of switches in Mainframe environments e ICLs or Inter Chassis Links Provide dedicated high bandwidth links between two Brocade DCX or DCX 4S chassis without consuming valuable front end 8G ports Each DCX DCX 4S must have the ICL license installed in order to enable the ICL connections Available on the DCX DCX A4S only 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 S
116. es High Function Zoning DEFECT000212675 Technical Severity High No F_RJT s being returned for class 2 frames that are not routable according to a QOS TI configuration The FICON channel will continue to try the connection via the channel path that experienced the timeout request rather than trying another channel path Low Feature Platform Services High Function C2 ASIC driver DEFECT000212737 Technical Severity Medium Brocade FR4 18i blade failed to do blade firmwaredownload Incomplete firmwaredownload for Brocade FR4 181 blade Perform slot power off slot power on the blade that timed out Low Feature Infrastructure High Function Firmware Download DEFECT000212746 Technical Severity High Switch reboots when IFL is enabled After an HAfailover on Fabric OS v5 3 x with no EX ports enabled if the APT policy is enabled before the EX_Ports are enabled the switch may panic when the IFL is added Low Feature FOS Software Function FCR Defect ID DEFECT000212752 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 90 of 167 Summary Frame drop observed after creating a TI zone with failover enabled in the backbone fabric TI over FCR Symptom Frame drop observed after creating a TI zone with failover enabled in the backbone fabric TI over FCR Risk of Fix Low Feature Platform Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Func
117. es 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 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 Documentation Updates This section provides information on last minute ad
118. es with cer extension is supported So use ldapcert option for importing cer certificates Risk of Fix Low Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability High Function Security Defect ID DEFECT000209078 Technical Severity High Summary When resetting all the hosts on a blade or slotpoweroff on a blade Brocade 48000 CP reboots due to the Software Watchdog detecting unexpected termination of the Name Server daemon Symptom Switch or CP reboots due to software watchdog which detects an unexpected termination of the Name Server daemon Risk of Fix Medium Feature FC Services Probability Low Function Name Server Defect ID DEFECT000209189 Technical Severity Medium Webtools User will see Invalid warning during SAS firmware download on a standalone Brocade 7600 in McDATA Open Fabric mode Symptom Customer may see warning message Some domains might not support Coordinated HCL when attempted SAS download via webtools on 7600 in McData Open Fabric mode Workaround Use CLI Risk of Fix Feature WebMgmt High Probability Function Firmware Download Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 78 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000209326 Technical Severity Medium Summary Fastboot causes unnecessary FFDC ERROR libipadm em_AdmSwitchNameGet Symptom On rare occasions the fastboot command causes an FFDC message This is due to the timing of a
119. ete the firmwaredownload process Slot power on the Function Routing Technical Severity Medium Page 67 of 167 Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security other Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High 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 entries in local NS database are not consistent across a fabric Workaround Perform switchdisable enable on the affected switches Feature FC Services Function Fabric Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect
120. everity Medium Summary WebTools SwitchView Service Ethernet on CP Blades does not show activity when active network is attached and functional Symptom Cosmetic issue service Ethernet Port is not showing LED activity on GUI Workaround No workaround IP Bonding is by default enabled on DCX Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Admin Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000235092 Technical Severity Medium 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 Further zoning management operations are not allowed but the user is notified that a zone transaction is open The user can use configtransshow to display the zone transaction state and configtransabort to abort the open transaction Use configtransshow to display status of zoning transactions and configtransabort to abort the transaction Workaround FC Services Feature Function Zoning Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 53 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000235 130 Technical Severity Medium Summary agshow command displays a port twice Symptom The agshow command displays a port from an Access Gateway twice Workaround Telnet or ssh directly to the Access Gateway and run the ag show command Feature
121. fault If BES switches are deployed in an HA cluster HAC there will not be any loss of service as LUNs containers will be picked up hosted by HAC peer If deployed in DEK cluster host MPIO will trigger failover to other BES switch in DEK cluster and hence there will not be any loss of service Workaround Reboot faulted switch Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237596 Technical Severity High Summary HCL caused HBA to loose paths on a 5300 with Linux AS 4 or 5 with certain HBA Symptom Vendor specific application will show the HBA as offline after HCL on connected switch Workaround Configure the HBA link as point to point this issue will not happen Feature FC10 6 Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Drivers Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237701 Technical Severity High Summary Observed kernel panic on a DCX in RTE module Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 37 of 167 Symptom Feature FOS Software Service Request ID SR359167 Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT000237786 Very rarely a DCX will panic and hafailover during supportsave Function FC Layer 2 Routing Probability Low Technical Severity High Sometimes config file downloaded may cause the configdownload command to crash Customer may notice configdownload utility crash during the configuration download
122. fect ID DEFECT000209964 Technical Severity High Summary Syslog destination registration through Fabric Manager fails in a large fabric Symptom Syslog destination registration fails in a large fabric for certain switches when discovered in FM Workaround Set syslog IP addresses via WebTools or CLI Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Low Function Other Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 o Defect ID DEFECT000210701 Technical Severity High Summary NameServer entries on a Brocade M4700 may not be accurate in regards to devices on an attached access gateway Symptom AG ports from the AG are reflected on incorrect ports from the Brocade M4700 s point of view For example AG ports are using area 16 but the M4700 shows entries on port 17 as well as entries for other ports that should all be hidden behind port area 16 Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature N ative Interop Probability Low Function Name Server Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000211065 Technical Severity High Summary Remote host RNID request for unavailable port receives F RJT 0116 from DCX Symptom May see FRejects with incorrect reason on some error cases Reason Code Will Not Fix Feature DCX Platform Services Probability High Function ASIC Driver Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000211286 Technical Severity High Summary Changing fcrRouterPortCost on Ex ports in the
123. from the FLASH by issuing perfcfgrestore All EE monitor counters will be properly updated Risk of Fix Low Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability Medium Function Advanced Performance Monitor Defect ID DEFECT000215600 Technical Severity Medium Summary Failed Brocade FA4 18 blade can cause rtedebug s p v command in supportshow to consistently panic the CP during supportsave Symptom A Brocade FA4 18 blade that is v5 3 0a or lower will not come up properly in a DCX in high slot numbers known defect In addition any attempt to collect support information using supportsave will result in CP failover due to kernel panic that occurs during the supportsave operation Risk of Fix Low Feature DCX Platform Services Probability Low Function Routing Defect ID DEFECT000215614 Technical Severity Medium Summary Static Routing Does Not Affect Dynamic Routes with DLS ON on Supported Platforms Symptom Load balancing will not occur when ports with static routes are added on supported platforms Brocade switches 4100 200E 5000 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 95 of 167 Risk of Fix Workaround Risk of Fix Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000216622 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Low Feature Routing Low Function Legacy Platforms Defect ID DEFECT000215635 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 5300 fan module can be marked faulty afte
124. gement and Cluster Link User may see split condition of Cluster EG Recover from EG Split condition manually via steps provided in Admin Guide Low Feature Data Security Low Function HA Cluster SS Page 116 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000226793 Technical Severity Medium Summary 4 node LUN discovery fails if one of the lun out of 4 luns is trespassed Symptom With 4 luns if one lun is trespassed lun discovery with clear text container fails Risk of Fix Low Feature Data Security Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Function Disk Encryption Defect ID DEFECT000227322 Technical Severity High Summary 3rd party application paths fails when FC FastWrite is enabled with bi directional traffic Symptom 3rd party application path fails The user needs disable FC FastWrite to recover Observed out of order frames or dropped frames with FC FastWrite enabled Risk of Fix Low Feature FC Services Probability Medium Function Other Defect ID DEFECT000227978 Technical Severity Medium Summary J ava running out of memory in Web Tools Symptom Web Tools application gets very sluggish Risk of Fix Low Feature WebMemt Probability High Function Other Defect ID DEFECT000228106 Technical Severity High Summary No RSCN sent for physical device offline online Symptom Devices cannot see each other even though both are online Workaround switchdisable enable of the 7500
125. h admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ike t IKEO1 remote 10 33 69 132 id 10 33 74 13 remoteid 10 33 69 132 enc 3des_cbc hash hmac_md5 prf hmac_md5 auth psk dh modp1024 psk ipseckey psk NOTE IKE version v option needs to be set to 1 IKEv1 if remote peer is Windows XP 2K Host Windows XP 2K does not support IKEv2 7 Create an IPsec transform named TRANSFORMO to use transport mode to protect traffic identified for IPsec protection and use IKEO1 as key management policy switch admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ips transform t TRANSFORMO1 mode transport sa proposal IPSEC AH action protect ike IKE01 8 Create traffic selectors to select the outbound and inbound traffic that needs to be protected switch admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ips selector t SELECTOR OUT d out 1 10 33 74 13 r 10 33 69 132 transform TRANSFORMO1 switch admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ips selector t SELECTOR IN d in 1 10 33 69 132 r 10 33 74 13 transform TRANSFORMO1 9 Verify the IPSec SAs created with IKE using the ipsecConfig show manual sa a command 10 Perform the equivalent steps on the remote peer to complete the IPsec configuration Refer to your server administration guide for instructions On page 150 in Table 41 the row for IPSec applies to FCIP IPSec For IPSec Ethernet only MDS is blocked in FIPS mode DH group 1 is FIPS compliant and is not blocked
126. he list Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security Technical Severity Medium Brocade 48000 getting an error message when trying to send a test mail in Email alert Feature WebMgmt Function Fabric Watch Technical Severity Medium Fabric watch failed to initialize after failover during a firmwaredownload from FOS v6 1 0 to Fabric watch failed to initialize after failover during a firmwaredownload from FOS v6 1 0 to Feature DCX Platform Services Function Sys Control Environment Monitor Service Request ID 326833 Technical Severity Medium Switch shows excessive TRCK 1004 logs though there is no change to the configuration Symptom TRCK 1004 is logged every 64 seconds in raslog when clock server is configured to local or external clock server list is empty Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 165 of 167 Reason Code Probability Reported In Release FOS Software Already Fixed in Release Feature High Function Management Services FOSS 3 0 Service Request ID 328735 DEFECT000223744 Technical Severity Medium The value of sfpshow no longer updates after hafailover Summary Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability High Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT000226608 Summary Webtools does not work well in NAT Symptom Reason Code Not Applicable Probability Low Reported In Release FOS5 3 1 Defect ID
127. hen 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 situation Feature Diagnostics Function Other Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT0002368 13 Technical Severity Medium Summary After few hafailovers FC fast write I O times out and a few unexpected frame drops are seen on 1 to 2 ports out of 7 8 ports running Symptom YO 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000236847 Technical Severity Medium In rare circumstances a change to the TI zone failover policy will not be applied 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
128. her than autonegotiate Low Feature FOS Platform Services Medium Function FOS Kernel Drivers DEFECT000220464 Technical Severity Medium Fast Write configuration not properly installed after repeated back to back cable pull and re inserts Symptom FC interface WCHK1 error message received Risk of Fix Low Feature FC Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function N ame Server Defect ID DEFECT000220474 Technical Severity High Out of Order frames delivered to DCX via FICON channel from Brocade 5100 attached to a storage device DASD IFCC s incurred on channel interface Low Feature Platform Services High Function C2 ASIC driver DEFECT000220891 Technical Severity Medium CAL exception Non Secure tunnel can not be configured on the same port as IP sec enabled tunnels come When trying to configure an IP Sec tunnel on a switch which already had Non secure tunnels in it Tow Feature FCIP Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function FCIP CLI Defect ID DEFECT000221271 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Technical Severity Medium Page 107 of 167 Summary Fastwrite will attempt to configure even on a Brocade FR4 18i blade that has failed to initialize successfully Symptom A bad blade installed into a good system could cause the system to assert and reboot Risk of Fix Medium Feature FOS Software Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 Function FC Layer 2 Routing Defect ID
129. hin 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 a switch with the Virtual Fabrics feature enabled 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 When the port fencing feature is enabled for ITW or CRC errors the first set of errors detected on an active link that meet the custom high threshold level set by the user or the default threshold level is always ignored to account for expected link transition errors The port is only disabled upon detection of a second set of errors i e the next time the user set threshold level or default threshold level is reached This prevents a port from being disabled due to normal link transition behaviors When using the Port Fencing feature you must first run the fwalarmsfilterset command This command enables the port and allows you to receive Port Fencing messages Port Fencing can be inadvertently
130. hown 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 Function Name Server Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT0002375 14 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 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 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 69 of 167 Feature Defect ID Summary Symptom Workaround Feature Summary Symptom Feature Defect ID Summary Symptom Workaround Feature Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT
131. ic For the Brocade 4100 and 5000 if all of the ports are E_Ports and the switch is upgraded to Fabric OS v6 2 0 the buffers on the E_Ports are changed to utilize the QoS model If the switch is rebooted 28 of 32 ports will come up in QoS mode the last four ports will come up in buffer limited mode Workarounds include disabling long distance configuration for these ports or explicitly disabling QoS on other ports freeing up buffers for the last four ports All FCR switches need to be running FOS v6 2 in order to support M EOS 239 Domain Mode on the i10K FCR Backbone Fabric ID changes With FC8 blades the switch must be disabled to change the backbone fabric ID With routing and dual backbone fabrics the backbone fabric ID must be changed to keep the IDs unique Traffic Isolation over FCR 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 edge and backbone need to have failover ENABLED 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 The Brocade 5100 does not support Hot Code Load from FOS 6 1 0 to 6 2 in a dual backbone configuration with a routed connection to an M EOS product Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Note
132. ic OS v6 2 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 Encryption Behavior 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 When using Brocade Native Mode in LKM installations manual rekey is highly recommended If auto rekey is desired the key expiry date 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 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 The Brocade Encryption Switch and FS8 18 blade support registration of only one HPSKM Key Vault for FOS v6 2 0 Multiple HPSKMs Key Vaults can be clustered at the SKM server level Registering of a second SKM key vault is not blocked When the registered key vault connection goes down or the registered key vault is down users are expected to either
133. ic OS v6 2 0 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the 48000 platform noted in the following table Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 13 of 167 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 Fabric OS v6 2 0 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the DCX DCX 4S noted in the following table DCX DCX 4S Blade Support Matrix 16 32 and 48
134. 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000233007 Technical Severity Medium Summary Missing information from agshow name Symptom Issued agshow name AG_name in 5300 the output did not include F port and N port information Workaround User can connect to the Access gateway directly instead of getting the information through fabric Feature Access Gateway Services Function CLI Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High 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 181 Function FCR Daemon Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 50 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000233571 Technical Severity Medium Summary Overnight run of HAfailover test in large fabric caused a panic on DCX Symptom Panic on DCX after HAFailover Feature OS Services Function IP Admin Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000234222 Technical Severity M
135. ill Not Fix Probability Medium Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000205893 Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability High Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Detect ID DEFECT000206400 Feature FC Services Function FICON Summary In a 12 switch BB fabric with a 1MB zone db some frame loss seen when doing HCL from 6 0 to 5 3 with LSAN traffic from Brocade 7500 FCR backbone to the edge fabric Symptom During a downgrade from FOS v6 0 to v5 3 on Brocade 7500 platform customer might see a Feature Infrastructure Function High Availability Summary Some devices stuck in Initializing state from fcrproxydevshow output after disable enable FCR switch backbone connected to McData Edge Fabric Mode Symptom Some hosts might not see targets due to proxy devices not being imported Workaround When multiple EX_Ports from the same FCR are connected to multiple McData Edge switches need to make sure there a least cost path between McData switches Feature Native Interop Function Routing Technical Severity High Summary On a system that has several hundred performance monitors if all counters are deleted and immediately followed by failover an oops was seen in some cases Symptom Customer might see the switch reboot if the specific sequence is followed Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Technical Severity High Technical Severity
136. includes the switch to run the desired show commands Will Not Fix FC Services Feature Low Function i Other FOS6 1 0 a DEFECT000210377 Technical Severity Medium Management server GMAL command is being rejected with reason 5 Logical Busy Error message returned Already Fixed in Release Feature FC Services FOSS 3 1 Function p Mgmt Server DEFECT000210704 Technical Severity Medium Brocade 5410 Trunking should not be enabled on internal ports Oand 11 Brocade 5410 Trunking should not be enabled on internal ports 0 and 11 Already Fixed in Release Feature Embedded Platform Services FOS6 1 0 Function o Sys Control Environment Monitor DEFECT000210999 Technical Severity Medium In rare instances of F_Port trunk master changes the F Port Top Talker monitor is not displaying correct counters Customer is not seeing accurate numbers for F Port Top Talker monitor on an F_Port trunk Delete and add the F port top talker again Fabric Infrastructure Already Fixed in Release Feature Tow Function Advanced Performance Monitor FOS6 1 0 DEFECT000211066 Technical Severity Medium In rare instances when the external time server becomes unreachable the ErrorLog is flooded with TimeServer warning messages Symptom Errorlog might be flooded with Time Server TS messages similar to these Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 149 of 167 eae TS 1002 269 2
137. increased once further testing has been completed even after the release of Fabric OS For current scalability limits for Fabric OS refer to the Brocade Scalability Guidelines document available under the Technology and Architecture Resources section at http www brocade com compatibility Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 18 of 167 FICON Support The DCX 4S is not supported for FICON Cascading in interopmode 2 or 3 for use in mixed fabrics with M EOS platforms Other Important Notes and Recommendations Virtual Fabrics On Virtual Fabrics capable platforms the Virtual Fabrics feature must be enabled after upgrading to FOSv6 2 in order to utilize the related capabilities including Logical Switches and Logical Fabrics On units that ship with FOS v6 2 or later installed the Virtual Fabrics feature is enabled by default on capable platforms When creating Logical Fabrics that include switches that are not Virtual Fabrics capable it is possible to have two Logical Switches with different FIDs in the same fabric Extra caution should be used to verify the FIDs match for all switches in the same Logical Fabric The aptpolicy can be configured per logical switch The Admin Guide indicates it is a chassis level setting 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 Licensing Behavior When operating a switch with Fabr
138. it is lost may be restored on dual CP platforms by forcing an hafailover Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 135 of 167 Probability Probability Detect ID DEFECT000234726 Encrypted EVA XL LUNS do not present to Windows host via device manager but present Summary Reason Code Not Reproducible Reported In Release Feature Medium Function FICON FOS6 1 0 a DEFECT000221963 Technical Severity High Agshow on edge switches doesn t update correct information from Brocade 5481 AG it was observed that agshow output on edge switches connecting Brocade 5481 doesn t get Reason Code Not Applicable Reported In Release DEFECT000224587 Th a 9 switch fabric some class 3 frame drops occur In a poorly designed fabric Customer may see some Class 3 frame drops The same symptom Follow the Brocade Fabric Design Guidelines and Best Practices Use traffic isolation zones Workaround Reason Code Not Reproducible Reported In Release Feature Low Function ASIC Driver es FOosll DEFECT000226593 Technical Severity High Evind panic occurs when upgrading from FOS v5 1 x to FOS v5 3 x After upgrading 1 CP if the other CP hasn t being upgraded and there happens to be another Workaround Make sure both the CPs are upgraded together Reason Code Not Applicable Feature FOS Software Probability Low Function Management Services Reported In Release FOSS 3 0 FC Ser
139. itch Host and target are in separate Logical switch Default and logical switches are connected through FCR EX Ports via Base Switch The above issue is seen only with current Brocade HBA firmware The above issue is seen only when Host Port is disabled enabled in case of Emulex HBA However the problem is not seen when target port is disabled enabled Workaround Disable and Enable the host port to force re discovery Or Have Host and Target in the Default switch where FS8 18 Blade belongs Feature Data Security Function HA Cluster Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 60 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000236479 Technical Severity Medium Summary Tape statistics are not being reset as a result of the start of a new transaction Symptom Will see the counters as cumulative for the tape session rather than a new value for each tape media Feature Data Security Function Tape Encryption Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000236483 Technical Severity Medium Summary In one rare case zoneobjectrename command failed without reason Symptom zoneobjectrename command may fail without reason Workaround Command works on retry Feature FC Services Function Zoning Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000236485 Technical Severity Medium Summary PathInfo return output does not foll
140. ity Risk of Fix Low Feature Access Gateway Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function F Port Trunking Defect ID DEFECT000224997 Technical Severity Medium Summary Audit Log ZONE 3001 not generated when a member is added to TI Zone Symptom Three issues with reference to audit log is being identified in TI Zones Risk of Fix Low Feature FC Services Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Function Zoning Defect ID DEFECT000225615 Technical Severity Medium Medium Medium Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Low Feature WebMemt High Function Zone Admin DEFECT000224600 Technical Severity Medium The removal of an encryption performance upgrade license is not prevented 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 i e upon reboot Low Feature Data Security Low Function Platform DEFECT000224715 Technical Severity High After configuring Brocade 300 AG so that F Port Trunking works and then performing portdisable on N Ports and then hareboot the Brocade 300 AG caused unexpected termination of AGD After an Brocade FS8 18 blade is removed from DCX cryptocfg show groupmember all should not show EE for that slot Customer may see some un wanted informati
141. ization Graph launches with all ports in graph if we try launching by removing all ports from the edit Switch Throughput Utilization dialog Low Feature WebMgmt Medium Function Performance Monitor DEFECT000218307 Technical Severity High CUP Asynchronous Error Reporting Location not being set by default Mainframe host does not receive notification of switch events for which Asynchronous Error Reports should be generated unless a reporting path has been explicitly set by the host Low Feature FC Services Probability High Function FICON Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 101 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Risk of Fix Reported In Release DEFECT000218368 Technical Severity Medium AG N_port connected to embedded switch in inter op mode 2 could not restart traffic after switchdisable enable followed by configupload download Unable to restart traffic Low Feature Access Gateway Services High Function CLI lease FOS6 1 0_emb o DEFECT000218370 Technical Severity High All ports come up Disabled Persistent after FMS mode is set while switch is offline All ports are set Disabled Persistent after enabling FMS while switch is disabled then bringing the switch online Low Feature FC Services High Function FICON lease FOS61O DEFECT000218388 Technical Severity Medium Fast Write could obtain incorrect FCP command data length if the optional a
142. k to recover Feature FCR Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000226434 Summary Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Re keying of LUNs for a VMware host are not completing successfully DEFECT000225662 Technical Severity Medium Moving FC FastWrite target from one switch to another can cause IO errors in FC FastWrite on Failed IOs through a FC FW enabled fabric after moving device port from one switch to another Quiesce IO to a device port before moving from one switch to a different switch Function FCR ASIC SW Probability Medium Technical Severity Medium Rare Instances of warm recovery failure during upgrade due to small timing window in library This would prevent the CP from coming fully up and online Function Director HA Technical Severity Medium 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 The ISL attached to the EX Port is stuck in a Disabled state and will prevent it from routing data This happens 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 Port and E Port Configure the neighbor E Port to the EX Port for ISL R_RDY mode as well which should Configure same lo
143. l Severity High Summary Fide SNMP trace dump seen Symptom Fide SNMP trace dump seen Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FOS Software Function SNMP Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 130401 Defect ID DEFECT000207557 Technical Severity High Summary ISL Segmentation occurs in a mixed fabric Symptom Fabric is unstable due to ISL segmentation Workaround Blocking amp Unblocking a port from Mil0k brings up the ISL but again the ISL gets segmented Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability High Function Mgmt Server Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 a DEFECT000207943 Technical Severity High Essd core dump not long after Brocade 48000 switch is enabled Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 124 of 167 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Switch will panic due to Assert and essd core dump Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature FC Services Probability Low Function ESS Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 o Defect ID DEFECT000208396 Technical Severity High Summary System clock drifts on FA4 48 board and a Brocade AP7600 Symptom BP clock can drift about 14 minutes a day It can cause switch supportsave data out of SYNC on two platforms AP7600 and FA4 48 Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature OS Services Probability Medium Function Linux Kernal Reported In Release FOS6 1 0
144. l iad bath od uate stags E iad ale 31 Brocade Mil0K Director Installation and Service Manual Publication Number 53 1000711 01 eee 32 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 3 of 167 DINE CHS Aenne EEE ES SEEE E E Dees EEE EE EE EE EEEE EE EE E EE EEE E ENE 32 Open Defects In Fabric OS V62 Orr an e ER E E E E EE ety ease Abbett oda E 32 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 0 sesssessessessessrsresresresresrestssrsrrsresrestesrsnresrsrtntestestesresresrsetet 74 Closed without Code Change Defects in Fabric OS V6 2 0 ec eceeceeceeseceseeeeseeecseeeseceseceseceeeeseeeseesaeeeaeessesaeaes 121 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 4 of 167 Overview Brocade Fabric OS v6 2 0 supports the following new hardware platforms e Brocade DCX 4S 192 port backbone o 192 ports 8 Gbit sec technology in a 8Uchassis with horizontal slots o Supports FC8 16 FC8 32 and FC8 48 Fibre Channel port blades o Supports all special purpose blades available for DCX o Supports ICL connectivity to other DCX 4S or DCX chassis In addition to support for the new hardware platforms and blades there are numerous new features in Fabric OS v6 2 including e Virtual Fabrics o Full VF feature support on DCX DCX 4S 5300 5100 o Single physical chassis can be subdivided into two or more logical switches creating a logical fabric with other switches o Per port assignment of ports to logical switches o Shared ISLs provide connectivity for
145. lar FCIP ex port configuration Symptom Unable to reap performance benefits with fastwrite on an FCIP ex port configuration Workaround Disable FCR routing and Ex ports and merge the fabric into one large fabric Risk of Fix Low Feature FCIP Probability High Function FCIP Performance Defect ID DEFECT000213290 Technical Severity Medium Summary Under Port Base Routing topologyshow always shows None for the In Port field on a Brocade 300 and 5100 Symptom Under Port Base Routing the In Port field may appear to be None for all Out Ports despite the presence of F Ports devices on the switch Topologyshow cannot be used to determine routing paths under Port Based Routing Workaround Use urouteshow to view the Out Port selected for a particular In Port to a domain when using Port Based Routing Risk of Fix Low Feature Routing Probability Medium Function Brocade 300 Defect ID DEFECT000213410 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 7500E restrictions bypassed via configupload edit configdownload reboot Symptom Configuration limitation checks could be bypassed by uploading a config editing the files and then downloading the configurations back to the system Risk of Fix Low Feature FCIP Probability Medium Function FCIP CLI Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Detect ID DEFECT000213515 Technical Severity High Summary HCL on switch continues if sent Pause frame is reje
146. lay in RASLOG outputs such as errdump This only applies to Brocade 300 5100 and 5300 switches Workaround Use only 16 character switchname and chassisname fields if full name display in the logs is required Risk of Fix Low Feature RAS Probability High Function RAS Log Defect ID DEFECT000211784 Technical Severity Medium FEDC occurs when 16 31 char switch chassis name is input on a platform that only supports up to 15 Symptom FFDC occurs in addition to the name being rejected when configuring a switch or chassis name between 16 31 characters on a platform that doesn t support the longer name Feature System Controls EM Function Legacy Platforms Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 84 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000211789 Technical Severity High Summary I2C response failure and subsequent reset will occasionally result in DCX fan fault errors Symptom Fan fault error messages Risk of Fix Low Feature DCX Platform Services Probability Low Function Sys Control Environment Monitor Defect ID DEFECT000211796 Technical Severity Medium Summary Under some conditions N_Port Failover may not work when swapping trunked and non trunked N_Ports on an Access Gateway Symptom F_Ports may not correctly map to appropriate online N_Port Workaround _ portdisable portenable of F_Ports or switchdisable switchenable or reboot the switch Risk of Fix Low Feature
147. le and enable with Brocade 5100 ports stay at Switch not ready for F or L ports for a few minutes Symptom A device port 0 and a switch port 1 are connected to Brocade 5100 A switchdisable switchenable command is executed by Brocade 5100 Even if a switch is set to enable it does not react to Flogi immediately A switch will require time until login from a device is successful Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature FC Services Function FSPF Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 310921 Defect ID DEFECT000218780 Technical Severity Medium Summary Orphaned supportsave processes accumulate lead to OOM panic Symptom cP panic failover due to low resources Workaround Disable FM call home auto supportsave or adjust switch status policy so that frequently occurring events do not trigger call home Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FOS Software Probability Medium Function Management Services Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 314719 Defect ID DEFECT000218932 Technical Severity Medium Summary Manage LSAN Fabric in LSAN Fabrics tab in FCR is not launching the particular switch Symptom Manage LSAN Fabric in LSAN Fabrics tab in FCR is not launching the particular switch Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature WebMgmt Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Function p Other Defect ID DEFECT000218961 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port d
148. lotpoweroff followed by slotpoweroff of FC4 16IP blade to recover Feature iSCSI Function ISCSI HA Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000235704 Technical Severity Medium Summary Link Beaconing no longer functions after swapping ports on the switch Symptom Link Beaconing no longer functions after swapping ports on the switch Workaround Clear the beaconing before the port swap and enable beaconing after the port swap Feature 8G Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Drivers Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 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 Feature FC Services Function FSPF Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium 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 Workaround No user action is required it is
149. m Issuing portcamshow with NPIV gt 250 devices results in some incorrect DID and SID entries No visible impact to customer other than incorrect portcamshow output Feature Platform Services Function ASIC Driver Technical Severity Medium Upon moving EX Ports from one BB switch to another BB switch without changing the EX_Port FID a mismatch of lsanzone database occurred between BB switches Upon moving Ex Port links to different switch in BB I O may be lost Feature FCR Function FCR Port Technical Severity Medium Port_scn removes logical paths from wrong port Port_scn for one port removes logical path for another port by mistake resulting in some paths Feature FC Services Function FICON Technical Severity Medium PG policy default for 6 x does not get automatically enabled when upgrading from a FOS UNDER REVIEW Function Page 138 of 167 Workaround ag policyenable pg Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability High Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000204084 Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Medium Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000204400 Detect ID DEFECT000204836 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Symptom Customer might notice incorrect policy settings after upgrade Feature Access Gateway Services Function CLI Technical Severity Medium Summary WebTools Rename is not working fo
150. mbedded CAL Probability Medium Function Mace Defect ID DEFECT000234112 Technical Severity High Summary In an active passive configuration 3rd party storage array automatic rekey invoked after LUN being trespassed may result in two different KeyIDs for the same LUN Symptom In an active passive storage array 3rd party storage array after a defined LUN is trespassed a manual rekey results in two different Key IDs for the LUN that s made available from two different paths Risk of Fix Low Feature Data Security Probability Medium Function Disk Encryption Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Service Request ID 341137 Defect ID DEFECT000234320 Technical Severity Medium Summary Configdownload fails for fdd parameters from FOS v6 1 1 to v6 2 0 through CAL Risk of Fix Low Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Defect ID DEFECT000234374 Technical Severity High Summary First time encryption of LUNs failed with error LUN state Disabled Re key ack timeout Risk of Fix Low Feature Data Security Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Function Disk Encryption Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 120 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000235448 Technical Severity Medium Summary With default zoning set to All Access ACK frame with FC_type Extended Link can be dropped Symptom Race condition may cause frame drop Risk of Fix Low Feature FOS Software Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Function ASIC Drive
151. me for more than 24 characters through CLI in FMS mode Feature FC Services Function FICON Technical Severity High Summary F Ports on Brocade 300 AG cannot login and become G Ports Symptom Fport14 and Fport15 connected on Edge AG After enabled FLOGI on San Tester Ports Fport14 and Fport15 could not log in They became G Ports However when doing portshow on NPIV FPort of the Core_AG pwwn of Fport14 and Fport15 on Feature Access Gateway Services Function Brocade 300 Technical Severity Medium Page 94 of 167 Summary Occasionally LD port get into lock up state that causes portGetVCCredits get failed and the ISL will segmented with LD incomp although portcfgshow shows both sides of ISL config are the same Symptom Occasionally LD port get into lock up state that causes portGetVCCredits get failed and the ISL will segmented with LD incomp although portcfgshow shows both sides of ISL config are the same Workaround To recover reset with portcfgdefault portcfgqos Risk of Fix Medium Feature Brocade 5300 Platform Services Probability Low Function ASIC Port Defect ID DEFECT000214886 Technical Severity Medium Summary EE monitor counters may not get updated after performing switchdisable switchenble or reboot Symptom After adding EE monitors if user performs a switchdisable switchenable or a reboot all EE monitors are not properly updated Workaround Retrieve all EE monitors
152. mmand 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 Identifier Important Notes This section contains information that you should consider before you use this Fabric OS release DCFM Compatibility FOS v6 2 is fully compatible with Brocade s Data Center Fabric Manager DCFM v10 1 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 product and the successor to existing Brocade management products including Brocade Fabric Manager FM and Brocade Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager EFCM DCFM is available in two versions DCFM Professional an application bundled with Brocade switches that is ideally suited for small and medium size businesses that need a light weight management product to manage their smaller fabrics one physic
153. mmary Ipfilter Audit log SEC 3035 3036 3037 message properties generating log without the appropriate key word Symptom IP filter command generates the log but it does not contain the keyword AUDIT Risk of Fix Low Feature FOS Software Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Function Management Services Defect ID DEFECT000222239 Technical Severity High Summary AG trunks are not formed correctly when connected to an embedded switch Symptom Trunking groups will not form correctly when attempting to set up trunking configuration to an embedded switch from a switch in Access Gateway mode Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 110 of 167 Risk of Fix Probability Low Feature Embedded High Function FC Service DEFECT000222317 Technical Severity Medium Tape Selective Reset error due to incorrect handling of Early End Synchronization status J ob is failing due to a selective reset after read pipelining incorrectly processed a status frame as a chain breaking status event during a GVRESTOR job Law Feature FCIP Medium Function FCIP VO Defect ID DEFECT000222352 Technical Severity Medium Summary Fport prefers to multiple Nports Symptom It was observed that an Fport prefers to all of the Nports in the same Group Risk of Fix Low Feature Access Gateway Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0_utah Function CLI Defect ID DEFECT000222441 Technical Severity
154. mptom Brocade AP 7600 panics with message glibc detected malloc memory corruption on console during frame redirection zone configuration update Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FC Services Probability Medium Function Name Server Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 132 of 167 Symptom Expected the pathinfo 125 5 5 CLI command will reflect the dedicated path Observed that after the TI zone was created the pathinfo command did not reflect the TI zone Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Routing Probability High Function Legacy Platforms Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 aar Defect ID DEFECT000217385 Technical Severity High Summary After fast boot of Brocade DCX found FR4 18i blade in faulty state Symptom Brocade FR4 18i faulty76 error Reason Code Not Applicable Feature FR4 18i Platform Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function FR4 18i Blade FOS SW Defect ID DEFECT0002175 19 Technical Severity High Summary HCL from FOS v6 1 0a to v6 1 0a on Brocade DCX didn t complete and took a panic Symptom Traffic disruption occurs Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature Platform Services Probability Medium Function Sys Control Environment Monitor Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 _ Detect ID DEFECT000217540 Symptom Customer s port is disabled because of invalid transmission words that occurred when the port
155. mwaredownload c to bypass compatibility check Risk of Fix Low Feature OS Services Probability Medium Function Firmware Download Defect ID DEFECT000211101 Technical Severity Medium Summary After multiple successive fastboots of a Brocade DCX there was a panic due to the zone daemon dying Symptom Brocade DCX panic after multiple fastboots Workaround Fastbooting a single time works fine Risk of Fix High Feature FC Services Probability Low Function Zoning Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 81 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 DEFECT000211115 Technical Severity Medium FICON PTP VTS Selective Resets and Aborted sequences caused by incorrect entry into FICON tape read pipelining IFCCs or Interface Timeouts reported at the FICON Channel interface Low Feature FCIP Low Function FCIP I O DEFECT000211313 Technical Severity Medium Ex port fails to come online after downgrading firmware from FOS v6 x to v5 3 under certain conditions This will happen if there is no Ex port on the switch before downloading Low Feature FOS Software Tow Function FCR Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 301927 DEFECT000211439 Technical Severity Medium Tstimezone settings can not be changed restored with configdownload A message configDownload Invalid Time Zone tz is seen when attempting a configdownload Workaround is to remove the ts tz param in config file
156. n t display all the logins in switchshow output on core AG 5100 Symptom Tt 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 portshow port_number to see all the NPIV devices Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 48 of 167 Feature Access Gateway Services Function CLI Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT00023 1082 Technical Severity Medium Summary Fabric watch is allows setting of the Traits and Alarm configuration 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000231094 Technical Severity Medium Summary cryptocfg show transshow when issued without any outstanding transactions displayed Operation failed with an incorrect cause 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000231428 Technical Seve
157. n DCX Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000213429 Technical Severity Medium Summary FOS switch licensing can be bypassed by using configs from other licensed switches Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability High Function License Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 DEFECT000213432 Technical Severity Medium Dual CP Brocade 48000 HCL s option ESS 1002 Pause reject message not posted in WebTools Dual CP 48k HCL s option Pause reject mechanism active Pause reject message not posted in WebTools During HCL on 48K if a Pause frame is rejected by an EOS switch the ESS 1002 event the pause message is rejected by the domain x is not posted to the Switch Events log or Fabric Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 156 of 167 Reason Code Probability Low Function ESS Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000213435 Technical Severity Medium Symptom Hafailover on an edge switch may cause a small frame drop if TI over FCR zones are in force Reason Code Can Not Fix Feature Platform Services Probability Medium Function ASIC Driver Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000213800 Technical Severity Medium Summary After switching over to open mode from McDATA mode Brocade 4900 received FFDC Symptom After switching over to open mode from McDATA mode Brocade 4900 received FFDC Reason
158. nd 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 Workaround None If single Logical Path there is no problem but with Multiple Logical Path it may drop a CUE Feature FICON Function Ficud Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235896 Technical Severity High Summary Customer allowed to issue a reset allegiance from Webtools Symptom Will observe a traffic disruption after reset allegiance Feature FOS Software Function Web Management Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000235922 Technical Severity High Summary With McData default zone enabled when numerous 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 multiple 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 DEFECT000236028 Technical Severity High
159. ng distance parameters for the EX Port and E Port Function FCR Port Probability Low Technical Severity Medium Page 44 of 167 Symptom Re keying of LUNs for hosted OS on VMware are not completing successfully due to one host holding a persistent 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 Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000226734 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port Swap failing due to HTTP 500 error Symptom Port Swap failing due to HTTP 500 error Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Function Ports Admin Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000227223 Technical Severity Medium Summary After swapping FS8 18 amp FC8 32 blades POST failed on FC8 32 blade and come up Faulty 51 Symptom POST fail on FC8 32 and blade comes up Faulty 51 when it is plugged into FS8 18 slot Workaround Slotpoweroff lt slot gt slotpoweron lt slot gt will recover Feature Diagnostics Function Post Diags Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000227454 Technical Severity Medium Summary pkicert utility does not work reliably when logical switches are present Symptom The correct certificates are not genera
160. ng 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 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 20 of 167 A new LUN state is being introduced Disabled Key not in sync This new state indicates re keying was started on a remote EE but the local EE is not capable of starting re key because it does not have the KeyID which was used by the remote EE in re keying i e newest key returned from key vault does not match with the KeyID used by remote EE User needs to use cryptocfg discoverLUN lt Container Name gt interface to re enable the LUN only after the keys are synced between two key vaults properly Frame Redirection In v6 2 Frame Redirection zoning is not allowed with Default Zoning all access in IMO and default zone in IM2 This was allowed in prior releases There is no SW enforcement to block the upgrade Adaptive Networking Flow Based QoS Prioritization FCR 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 fabr
161. ning Selective Resets after CmdRetry to No Op Sequence or LBY FICON Tape job failures with IOSO00 missing device end messages on MVS console Workaround Disable FICON Tape Write Pipelining Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 115 of 167 Risk of Fix Probability Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Low Feature FCIP High Function FCIP I O Defect ID DEFECT000226389 Technical Severity High Summary Ficud panic and reboot on DCX occurs after executing host command to display the switch Risk of Fix Low Feature FC Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Function FICON Defect ID DEFECT000226646 Technical Severity High On manual failback of containers first time encryption of LUNs did not resume and rekey state remains in Cluster Sync state Rekey sessions may not resume on failback of container Low Feature Data Security Medium Function Re key DEFECT000226693 Technical Severity Medium The event description from swEventTraps related to RLIR events is not well formatted In FICON environment raslog MS 1009 has the switch port Id displayed in an unfriendly format Low Feature Fabric Infrastructure Low Function Mgmt Server DEFECT000226765 Technical Severity Medium Stressing Brocade FS8 18 GE ports while re key is in progress resulted split in encryption group Due to Network congestion on Mana
162. nload Defect ID DEFECT000217717 Technical Severity High Summary CUP returns LS_RJT 1106 no paths to host requests after logical paths are established Symptom Channel path cannot establish connectivity to FOS CUP Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature FC Services Probability High Function FICON Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 DEFECT000218123 Technical Severity High Loss of Light followed by Loss of Signal on a mainframe port causes port to be fenced Customer s port is disabled because of invalid transmission words that occurred when the port was not active Feature Fabric Infrastructure Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function Fabric Watch Already Fixed in Release Reason Code Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 134 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000218740 Technical Severity High Summary Staging error occurs while enabling fabric binding on mixed fabric in InteropMode 2 and 3 Symptom Staging error occurs while enabling fabric binding on mixed fabric in InteropMode 2 and 3 Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Native Interop Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function L2 Security Defect ID DEFECT000219390 Technical Severity High Summary DE to FICON host is withheld for 60 seconds after P_RJT is returned for Read Neighbor Node ID command for E_Port link Symptom FICON host incurs a timeout IFCC after sending Read Neighbor Node ID request to FOS CUP when Interface ID
163. o communicate with a remote 7500 through the GE ports This allows a single management station located on the WAN side of the 7500 to communicate with the management interface on the CP for management tasks such as firmwaredownloads snmp polling snmp traps trouble shooting and configuration Enhanced Native Connectivity with McDATA Products Frame Redirection Fabric OS v6 2 and M EOS v9 9 now support Frame Redirection in McDATA Open Fabric Mode interopmode 3 fabrics Frame Redirection zones must be created and activated from FOS platforms FCR Support for M EOSn 239 DID mode FOS platforms now support EX_Port connections to McDATA Open Fabric Mode Mi10ks using the 239 DID setting Security Enhancements IPv6 Auto configuration Configurable stateless IPv6 auto configuration support IPSec with IPv6 Supports greater security for management ports by providing configurable security policies for IPv4 6 addresses Switch wide policy requiring HBA authentication New configurable switch wide setting requires the FC SP bit to be set in FLOGL If bit is not set the FLOGI is rejected and the port will be disabled RADIUS Enhancements New warning for RADIUS login allows users to configure how many days in advance they should be notified of password expiration LDAP Enhancements Added ability to provide an alternate UPN userPrincipalName to domain authentication Encryption Enhancements Tape Encryption and Compression
164. ocade Mil0K Director Installation and Service Manual Publication Number 53 1000711 01 Step 10 on page 2 13 should be the following Change the IP address subnet mask and gateway address as directed by the customer To change the addresses type the following and press Enter system ip address xxx xxXx XXX XXX yyy yyy yyy yyy ZZZ ZZZ ZZL 1ZL The IP address is xxx xxx xxx xxx the subnet mask is yyy yyy yyy yyy and the gateway address iS ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ where the octets xxx yyy and zzz are decimals from zero through 255 If an address is to remain unchanged type the current address in the respective field Defects Open Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 0 This section lists defects with Critical High and Medium Technical Severity open in Fabric OS v6 2 0 as of 11 10 08 While these defects are still formally open they are unlikely to impede Brocade customers in their deployment of Fabric OS v6 2 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 DEFECT000208039 Technical Severity High In a large fabric 50 switches simultaneously disabling and enabling all switches could result in some switches stuck in F2 unconfirmed state After disabling and en
165. of 167 Summary Enhance supportsave to remove error messages and add new commands Symptom Seeing unexpected tar command error messages during CORE file processing and need to enhance supportsave to add fciptunnel per params and poortcfgvexport data for VEX ports Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature RAS Probability Low Function FFDC Supportsave Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 E Defect ID DEFECT000205552 Technical Severity Medium Summary Config Download doesn t prevent downloading of strict mode policy in interop mode Symptom Able to install config file that sets the fabwidecfg SCC policy to Strict after following steps 1 Upload a config file from a Brocade switch configupload 2 Modify and the following parameter in the config file fdd fabwidecfg SCC S 3 Download the modified config file to the switch configdownload Workaround Use EFCM full version for configuring an interop fabric Customer should not be configuring a B model switch in interopmode using configdownload Reason Code Will Not Fix Feature Native Interop Probability Medium Function L2 Security Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000205857 Technical Severity Medium Summary Fastwrite with tape pipeline switch sent improper frame caused tape job to fail Symptom Using TapePipelining feature with a slow responding tape device the tape job fails and initiator lose access to the ta
166. omain routes are missing Symptom Host cannot see storage Port is missing domain routes Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Routing Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 163 of 167 Probability Medium Function Legacy Platforms Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 314899 Defect ID DEFECT000219033 Technical Severity Medium Summary Supportsave collection need to provide progress indication Reason Code Not a Defect Feature RAS Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function FFDC Supportsave Defect ID DEFECT000219101 Technical Severity Medium Unable to set IPv6 address and SNMP Access Host to 1 64 while IPFilter policy gets created with same ip Symptom Customer will not be able to set the IPv6 address of the switch to 1 64 or add that IP in the SNMP Access Host list Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Probability Medium Function Switch Admin Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT000219458 Technical Severity Medium Summary After HA failover the switch is not relaunching in AD255 Symptom After HA failover the switch is not relaunching when it is in AD255 Reason Code Not Applicable Feature WebMgmt Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Function High Availability Defect ID DEFECT000220634 Technical Severity Medium Summary Swtich did not output the FW 1435 message when Compact Flash capacity was out of range
167. on VF enabled FCR is not connected to the edge fabric while being part of the same backbone the problem may happen intermittently Ferproxydevshow continues to work properly and the system operates properly None Ferproxydevshow continues to work properly and the system operates properly 8G FCR Function FCR Daemon DEFECT000236093 Technical Severity Medium In large configurations sometimes Fabric mode TT misses some top flows Symptom Fabric mode TT doesn t show all top flows when there are few hundreds devices in the fabric Not observed all the times Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 58 of 167 Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium 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 When using pathinfo in MetaSAN where the destination domain queried overlaps with intermediate hop domain output of this command is not accurate Reverse path display might include forward path hops Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Mgmt Server Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 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 S
168. on after removing the FS8 18 blade from the chassis User should ignore encryption information displayed for that slot Feature Data Security Function CLI Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 114 of 167 Workaround Risk of Fix DEFECT000225690 Technical Severity Medium Topologyshow cannot show the In ports mapped to Out port in port based routing policy Cannot use topologyshow in port based routing Low Feature FOS Platform Services Medium Function Routing DEFECT000225717 Technical Severity High Applications that write to a LUN that is being rekeyed may see 1O errors When a rekeying operation is underway on a LUN applications that access that LUN may indicate errors when they write to that LUN When performing a rekeying operation on the LUN it is recommended that the customer quiesce access to that LUN Low Feature Data Security Medium Function Re key DEFECT000226000 Technical Severity Medium TCP RX Window advertisement can be much smaller than the actual size of the RX Window When an application request with max RX window size is larger than the largest TCP advertised RX window size 33M a very small window size is being advertised The end result is poor performance Reduce committed rate on the FCIP tunnel until the RX window is less than 33 MB Low Feature FCIP Low Function FCP TCP IP Stack DEFECT000226061 Technical Severity High ICON Tape Write Pipeli
169. orkaround FC10 6 blade s 8G Platform Services Feature Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237344 Summary SCP should be allowed Symptom Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Customer was upgrading Brocade 3016 from FOS v5 0 x to v5 3 x and some units would not boot up afterword After login limited commands are available and switch fails cold recovery 7600 running 6 0 0b reboot of DPC2 in a third party instance will cause loss of visibility to Reboot of DPC2 in a certain third party instance will cause hosts connected to that third party Tf a switch is in FIPS mode the FTP protocol is still allowed for seccertutil and sshutil Only FTP can be used in FIPS mode with seccertutil and sshutil Function Other Probability Medium Technical Severity Medium Function Scimitar Sabre Layer 2 Service Request ID 357995 Technical Severity Medium portloopbacktest failure with error DIAG TIMEOUT observed during SystemVerification test FA4 161P Blade fails SystemVerification Diagnostics with error code DIAG TIMEOUT slotPowerOff slotPowerOn the failing blade will recover to normal operation Function Other Technical Severity Medium When upgrading a switch with an FC10 6 blade from v6 1 to v6 2 the standby CP may go into a When the standby CP reboots after downloading the v6 2 it gets stuck in a rolling reboot Slot poweroff the FC10 6 blade s Compl
170. orm 5424 occasionally internal ports connected to an 8G HBA set to N8 auto negotiates to a lower speed after rebooting 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 Disable the affected port and re enable it 8G ASIC Driver Function GE2 ASIC ports Detect ID DEFECT000234893 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 52 of 167 Summary SNMP The swNs Table does not list all the name server entries 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 Function Name Server Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000234950 Technical Severity Medium Summary Detected termination of management server daemon during stress testing on DCX with 8 logical switches Symptom Th a 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000235040 Technical S
171. ort Login in progress After switch disable enable operation in the cascaded environment F port may become disabled with error Disabled N Port Login in progress Workaround Use command portenable to enable the port in disabled state Feature Access Gateway Services Function Platform Other Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT00023675 8 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000236765 Technical Severity Medium Summary Symptom Workaround Feature command portcfgdefault lt port gt performed on an internal Fport will convert that Fport into an NPort Running the command portcfgdefault lt port gt on an internal Fport on embedded platforms will convert that Fport into an NPort When the system is working well save that configuration somewhere so that it can be reapplied instead of relying on portcfgdefault Embedded Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Driver Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High Detect ID DEFECT000236797 Technical Severity Medium Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 62 of 167 Summary Changing configuration using configure or configDownload w
172. ot fully disable the port on a Brocade 5300 Links to faulty switch appear to be up online Need to reboot faulty 5300 Low Feature Diagnostics Low Function Post Diags Technical Severity Medium Page 80 of 167 Summary Web Tools DCX Blade attention LEDs on the switch view GUI window do not turn amber when blade needs attention Symptom The Web Tools GUI LED for switchview on a DCX may not reflect the correct color state for a failed blade The attention LED is illuminated appropriately on the blade view but not in the Web Tools switchview Risk of Fix Low Feature WebMemt Probability High Function Switch Explorer Switch View Defect ID DEFECT000210995 Technical Severity Medium Summary N Port between AG and Edge Switch 300 may stuck at E Port Unknown state Symptom After disabling and enabling multiple trunked links between an AG and a Fabric switch some N_Ports may get stuck in an E_Port Unknown state Workaround Disabling and enabling the port on the Edge Switch will not bring the port online Need to disable and enable the port on the AG to bring the port back online as an N Port Risk of Fix Medium Feature Routing Probability Low Function Brocade 300 Defect ID DEFECT00021 1062 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade 7600 giving an erroneous FWDL incompatibility error message Symptom Not able to load firmware to a Brocade 7600 running FOS v5 3 1 Workaround fir
173. ot supported in 48K with FOS 6 0 x FS8 18 Intelligent NA DCX 4 Power DCX requires 2 2 Power Blade Supplies Supplies for redundancy in a mix of 4xFS8 18 and 4xOther Intelligent Blades For DCX 4S DCX 4S 2 2 Power Supplies provide Power Supplies redundant configuration with 4xFS8 18 Blades Note the iSCSI FC4 16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX DCX 4S Secure Fabric OS Secure Fabric OS SFOS is not compatible with FOS v6 2 Customers that wish to use the security features available in SFOS should upgrade to FOS v5 3 or later version which includes all SFOS features as part of the base FOS For environments with SFOS installed on switches that cannot be upgraded to FOS v5 3 or later version FC routing can be used to interoperate with FOS v6 2 FOS Feature Compatibility in Native Connectivity Modes Some FOS features are not fully supported when operating in the native connectivity modes for deployment with M EOS based products All Brocade models that are supported by Fabric OS v6 2 0 support both intermode 2 and 3 with the exception of the Brocade 4100 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 2 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 15 of 167 FOS Features supported in interopmode 0 FOS v6 2 IM Interopmode IM 2 IM 3 L2 FOS Hot Code Load Yes Yes FOS Hot Code Load with FCR Ye
174. ound If new monitors are created configuration needs to be saved using perfCfgSave before performing non disruptive firmware upgrade Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237 196 Technical Severity Medium Summary Unable to activate anew 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 Function Ficud Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000237 198 Technical Severity Medium Summary FOS upgrade on certain Brocade 3016 to v5 3 x leaves the switch in an unusable state Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 66 of 167 Symptom Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Reported In Release FOS5 3 1 Defect ID DEFECT000237250 Summary certain disks Symptom instance to lose visibility to its disks FOS Software Feature Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237292 Summary on an FC4 16IP iSCSI blade Symptom Workaround Feature Diagnostics Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000237341 Summary rolling reboot Symptom W
175. outers or two FC4 18i blades is configured should read The IP network connection between two 7500 routers or two FR4 18i blades is configured On page 787 systemVerification command and associated man page the following should be changed Test target all switches in a system Should read a switch or a chassis The fru type parameter is invalid and should not be used The first note in the Notes section should read The switch must be offline for this command to run If Virtual Fabrics are enabled on the switch run chassisDisable to take all Logical Switches offline The third note in the Notes section should read On platforms that include a security processor you must disable the security processor by running cryptocfg disableEE slot before running systemVerification You must re enable the security processor with the cryptocfg enablEE slot command once system verification is complete Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 27 of 167 e The following note should be added to the Notes section Do not perform any configuration changes such as configUpload or configDownload while the systemVerification test is in progress On page 853 The permission table in the command availability chapter Appendix A for the aptpolicy command incorrectly states that the command requires chassis permissions This is not the case as this command is executed on a per logical switch basis The context v
176. ow 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000236595 Technical Severity Medium During high availability stress test ESS Crash detected on 200E 5100 and DCX 4S Chassis systems will failover after ESS crash Single CP system will reboot after ESS crash Feature FC Services Function ESS Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 61 of 167 Defect ID Summary DEFECT000236682 Technical Severity Medium In non VF mode on DCX after removing other filters EE and F_Port TT and enabling 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Defect ID DEFECT000236696 Technical Severity Medium Summary Symptom Switch disable enable multi edge AG in complex cascaded setup may cause F Port of 5100 edge AG became Disabled N P
177. pe drive due to tape application abruptly end Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature FOS Software Probability Low Function FCIP Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID RQST00000066902 DEFECT000206093 Technical Severity Medium ISL between a Brocade 7500 in interopmode 3 Open and Brocade Mil0K in Open Mode segments due to E Port unknown May not be able to form a link between FOS Open Mode switch and an Brocade Mil0K in Open Mode Appears to be caused by zone conflict Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature Native Interop Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 141 of 167 Low Probability Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000206 100 from one BB are connected to only 1 BB Appears to be an RSCN timing issue correct the issue Will Not Fix Reason Code Probability Medium Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000206126 Symptom is encountered the swtich will reboot Reason Code Not a Defect Probability Low Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000206159 Summary Symptom the F W downgrade Reason Code Not Reproducible Probability Low FOS6 0 0 DEFECT000206520 Th a dual BB configuration host on M EOS v9 6 2 edge switch may not see devices imported In dual BB configuration an edge switch running EOS 9 6 2 build4 does not see all disks that Function FCR Daemon On
178. port 8Gbit port blades FC8 16 FC8 32 FC8 48 and the 6 port 10G FC blade FC10 6 Supported with FOS v6 0 and above with any mix and up to 8 4 of each No restrictions around intermix Intelligent blade Up to a total of 8 4 intelligent blades See below for maximum supported limits of each blade 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 Note the iSCSI FC4 16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX DCX 4S Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 14 of 167 Power Supply Requirements for Blades in 48k and DCX DCX 4S Chassis Blades Type of 48K DCX DCX 4S_ Comments blade FC 4 16 FC 4 32 Port Blade 2 Power 2 Power e Distribute the Power Supplies FC 4 48 FC 8 16 Supplies Supplies evenly to 2 different AC FC 8 32 connections for redundancy FC10 6 FC 8 48 PortBlade 4Power 2 Power Sy A ONE RUDS Dee Supplies e Blades must meet minimum FOS levels to operate in 48K DCX FR4 181 FC4 Intelligent 4 Power 2 Power DCX A4S chassis e g FC8 32 is 16IP FA4 18 Blade Supplies Supplies n
179. r Closed without Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000077221 Technical Severity High Summary A benign warning message is displayed after Firmwaredownload clean up script runs on the switch Symptom Warning message displayed Reason Code Can Not Fix Feature Software Service Request ID RQST00000053012 Function Firmware Download Reported In Release FOS5 0 5 a Defect ID DEFECT000202155 Technical Severity High Summary GigE port reports CRC Errors when Compression IPSec turned on with FICON Traffic Symptom CRC Errors indicated but no channels errors recorded Workaround The work around is to disable IP Sec operations on the tunnel It also appears that reducing the committed bandwidth rate also reduces the occurrences of reported CRC errors Reason Code Can Not Fix Feature FCIP Probability High Function FCIP I O Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 DEFECT000203433 Technical Severity High Long delays on Modify Block State command causes missing interrupts with FICON devices Customer might see an MVS error message on the console Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 121 of 167 Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Probability Medium Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000204537 few dropped frames Reason Code Will Not Fix Probability Low Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000205304 Reason Code W
180. r core blade when FICON CUP is enabled on the switch Symptom WT Rename not working for core blades Feature FC Services Function FICON Technical Severity Medium Summary After bladedisable enable of port blades and HAfailover on Brocade DCX found many WARNING messages Symptom WARNING ASIC error slot8 BL 5215 Nept_200 ASIC error fault message received for chip 0 OID 0x4381 1080 pen_chip c Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature DCX Platform Services Probability High Function ASIC Other Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT0002045 14 Technical Severity Medium Summary Fwshow RX TX performance displays ZERO on the port receiving amp transmitting full speed 8G traffic Symptom Customer might notice incorrect output from fwshow Workaround Use fwconfigure instead of fwshow to get this data Reason Code Not Applicable Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability Medium Function Fabric Watch Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 o Technical Severity Medium Page 139 of 167 Summary After running diagnostics that report failure the LED may be left in an incorrect state Symptom Blade status LED may blink yellow although the blade is Enabled and Online Workaround slotpoweroff slotpoweron of the blade with blinking LED Reason Code Will Not Fix Feature DCX Platform Services Probability Low Function Sys Control Environment Monitor Repor
181. r multiple and repeated removals reinsertions Symptom Fan module will remain faulty until reboot or power cycle Workaround Reboot or power cycle Risk of Fix Low Feature System Controls EM Probability High Function Brocade 5300 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 311495 Defect ID DEFECT000215783 Technical Severity High gzoneinfo htm page returns empty data when CLI actually shows defined eff cfg zone info for fabric When customer manages the fabrics through Manageability Applications Webtools or DCFM that does zoning through HTTP they will not see the existing zones or zone cfgs resulting in confusion whereas the data is actually there on switch Do any other HTTP post operation from DCFM and then you see both the old data as well as the newly pushed zone info I ve also seen rebooting the switch helps sometimes but not always Low Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Medium Function Zone Admin DEFECT000216520 Technical Severity Medium Third party storage center application does not survive in an FCIP network with 1 packet loss and 100 ms network latency Application aborts timeouts Low Feature FCIP Medium Function FCIP RAS Technical Severity High Page 96 of 167 Summary Traffic Isolation failover policy reverts back to disabled from enabled after changing the port membership list Symptom Web Tools failover policy reverting to disabled when por
182. rity Medium Summary Portperfshow on 4G platforms is sometimes inaccurate Symptom Traffic rate displayed on a 4G platform sometimes does not match traffic rate on the platform this is connected to Workaround HA Reboot Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function ASIC Stats Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000232305 Technical Severity Medium With virtual fabric enabled when no EE is present cryptocfg show localEE returns EE detection aborted IPC Failure 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 Data Security Function CLI Feature Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 49 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000232767 Technical Severity Medium Summary snmpConfig default snmpv3 sets defaults differently between 5 3 x and 6 1 1 Symptom snmpContfig default snmpv3 sets different default settings between 5 3 x and 6 1 1 Workaround Reboot Feature FOS Software Function SNMP Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 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
183. rocade 5410 ports not in the same trunk Symptom Port not trunked Feature Embedded Platform Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function GE2 ASIC ports Not Reproducible Reason Code Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 144 of 167 Defect ID DEFECT000207955 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 5410 5480 5470 switches not able to add filter monitors Symptom Brocade 5410 5480 5470 switches not able to add filter monitors Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Embedded Platform Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function Sys Control Environment Monitor Defect ID DEFECT000208 189 Technical Severity Medium Summary Auditefg not persistent through hareboot Symptom Audit log stops after hareboot Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature RAS Probability Low Function RAS Audit Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000208340 Technical Severity Medium Summary A user can still issue certain commands after the current AD has been deleted Symptom A user can perform unauthorized actions from a deleted AD Reason Code Can Not Fix Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability High Function RBAC Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000208412 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 5410 embedded switch does not configure default IP addresses correctly Symptom Customer will see unexpected default IP ad
184. ropmode 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 participate in a logical fabric that is using XISLs in the base fabric For Multi Protocol router interop FOS based switches deployed in M EOS fabrics should not be directly connected via ISLs to the M1620 M2640 products but rather attached to other M EOSc n switches and directors M6140s 4700s Mil0ks etc running in McDATA Fabric Mode Interopmode 2 McDATA Open Fabric Mode Interopmode 3 are not supported SMcDATA SANRouters 1620 and 2640 should not be used with XPath or FOS based routing FCR for connections to the same edge fabric These platforms may not be directly attached to hosts or targets for encryption flows M series SANRouters 1620 2640 may not participate in a fabric that has encryption services from a Brocade Encryption Switch or FS8 18 Encryption blade Fabr
185. rver that could not be opened after a reboot operation Medium Feature RAS Low Function FEDC Supportsave DEFECT000207432 Technical Severity Medium FA4 16 and FR4 18i blades in DCX chassis may fail sysverification tests FA4 16 or FR4 18i blade in DCX chassis failing system verification test Rerun system verification High Feature Diagnostics Low Function Other DEFECT000207948 Technical Severity High With a switch in Interop Mode 2 or 3 the Zoning configuration is not being included in configupload Zoning configuration is not restored when using configdownload to restore previously backed up switch configuration Low Feature Native Interop Low Function Zoning DEFECT000208 199 Technical Severity Medium FICON Channel continuously sends RRQ frames for approximately 20 seconds before aborting Channel slows significantly Low Feature FC Services Low Function FCP Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 76 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 DEFECT000208466 Technical Severity Medium If QoS and Diff Serv are enabled some FCIP tunnels may not come online in the case of an 8 to 1 fan in scenario Not all VE ports are online Not all FCIP tunnels are active This will happen if 8 tunnels on one end all connect to only one IP address on the other end Port disable enable the VE Port Low Feature FCIP Low Function FCIP Port DEFECT000208573 Technical Severity
186. s 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 Function Fabric Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000234361 Technical Severity High 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 Workaround If Fabric topology changes user may need to uninstall and reinstall fabricmode TT Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 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 Function Ficud Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Detect ID DEFECT000235578 Technical Severity High Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 34 of 167 Summary CUP Port present CU Busy on one path a
187. s v2 0 Page 21 of 167 Integrated Routing EX_Ports are only supported in the base switch on a switch with VF enabled To test Integrated Routing functionality disable the VF feature fosconfig disable vf first Integrated Routing and TopTalkers are not concurrently supported in FOS v6 2 To use Integrated Routing be sure to first disable TopTalkers prior to configuring EX_Ports Access Gateway When in Access Gateway mode the Automatic Port Configuration policy may not work when attached to M EOS switches M EOS ports should be set to G_port to prevent problems with port type discovery FCS Automatic Distribution FIPS LDAP 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 FIPS mode should not be enabled on the Brocade 200E If FIPS is enabled the 200E will not boot When using LDAP downgrades from FOS v6 2 to prior releases requires user intervention Authentication must be set to local and back to LDAP in order to continue using LDAP authentication Due to limitations with the certificates FCAP authentication cannot be supported on user defined logical switches FCAP will continue to function with exis
188. s Yes Zone Activation Support Yes Yes Traffic Isolation Zones Yes No z 5 e 7 _1 Frame Redirection devices attached to FOS Yes Yes p A E 7 1 Frame Redirection devices attached to M EOS Yes Yes Frame Redirection over FCR Yes Yes FCR Fabric Binding route to M EOS fabric with Fabric binding Yes Yes ing ing imis L2 Fabric Binding Yes No DCC policies No No SCC policies Yes No E Ex_Port Authentication Yes Yes C YON omoa O OOOO e e Eo OWN Timer Severfunefon NTP YN Pores Pom S Port Mirroring Yes Yes M EOS ALPA 0x13 configuration Yes Yes Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 16 of 167 ISL Trunking frame level Yes Yes Full Scalability to maximum M EOS fabric limits Yes Yes FOS Features supported in interopmode 0 FOS v6 2 IM Interopmode IM 2 IM 3 Domain Offset Support No No 239 Domain Support available on Mi10k only N A Yes Masterless F_PORT Trunking AG connect to FOS switches only Yes Yes FC10 6 to FC10 6 ISL Yes Yes RASLOG Events on duplicate WWNs Yes Yes Virtual Fabrics Yes Yes Logical Fabric using LISLs XISLs in Base Fabric No No 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 M6
189. s been identified CVE 2004 0175 OpenSSH SCP Traversal Arbitrary File Overwrite This is a vulnerability that according to openSSH has been fixed in OpenSSH 3 9 The version of ssh in the latest FOS is OpenSSH_3 8 1p1 Feature FOS Software Function Security Reported In Release FOS5 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000229943 Technical Severity Medium Summary In rare circumstances of large zone changes user might observe Name server verify on console after zone enforcement changes to session based Symptom The customer may see the following VERIFY error on the console of the new active CP VERIFY Failed expression iu gt iu_phy_did 0 Il Gu gt iu_phy_sid 0 Workaround No work around is necessary as the verify has no other impact Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function C2 ASIC driver Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium 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 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 47 of 167 Workaround Portenable the F_Port in question Feature Access Gateway Services Function Daemon Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium
190. s vos os Gen a suteuuch E E ede aus E O E E E 7 Encryption Enhancement st eteri arie a E EN sau entnsecuds So ong ces veces E S sei AENA EN E 7 Optionally Licensed SOFtWALEC u ssccseeecccecsesceeneneeeneneeneneeesceeensaaeeeneaegeaeeesaeesneeeeasaeeseseesasnaeeneeseasaeeeseeeeneeaense 7 Temporary License A OT ssh hs Sa eae ete ak a hs eA eee ea 9 Previously Licensed Software Now Part of Base FOS 0 00 cc eececeeccescceseeeseeeseceneceeecsecesecnaecesecseesseesseeeseseaessaeseaeaes 9 SUPPOMled SWIHCHOS sia aane eaa a e ea eara aaea aa Sae aeaa aaee ua cvee densities a a aaea aaaea 9 Standards COMPIMANCE AE E A AE E E E E AE 10 TECHNICAL SUP POUT E E E E E E E E E A 10 Important NOS siz cases cceeczes cpenccepeceractseqeecenensuctteeyatectpevectenequnecedensuctenepaucceperecacesepeuecedersudteseyatecesevaeatenesenect 11 DCFM Compatibility sarrons sna ths Bek iieed hoes cies E E NR sees yeh obs 11 EFEM Compatibility ser e Aitken ote ct ie etek Rode evdenste ie spate E a A Seah ede haga 11 Fabric OS Compatibility sii ccc cise a na a a Sie tate ei tales Ha eeesiati adits a E Eais 11 Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades anieri ederrian eeror iers seirian kaei de ei ee eide a a 17 SAS Version Requirements for FA4 18 and Brocade 7600 0 eee eeceeeeeseceeceeececeeeeeseeeseceaeessesseeseeeaesnaeenaeens 18 Scalability secs a ache es E N N E A E S 18 FICON Support enso aoa a e aa a e a a 19 Other Important Notes and Recommendations
191. sabled until the slave port is toggled Workaround The user must manually toggle enable disable the slave port to complete the operation Risk of Fix Low Feature Access Gateway Services Probability High Function F Port Trunking Defect ID DEFECT000212657 Technical Severity Medium Summary Faulted 51 core blade due to POST failure resulted from overnight power cycle test Symptom With POST enabled on a DCX system the user may see a faulted port blade with the following error message after power cycle of this system 2008 03 10 04 38 15 EM 2003 15 ERROR SilkWorm88000 Slot 5 has failed the POST tests FRU is being faulted Workaround Disable the diagnostic POST then slotpoweroff on the faulted core blade Risk of Fix High Feature Diagnostics Probability Low Function Post Diags Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Detect ID DEFECT000212673 Technical Severity High Summary After attempting cfgdisable on a system in native interopmode and with default zoning set to all Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 89 of 167 Symptom Risk of Fix Risk of Fix Reported In Release FOSS 3 0 Service Request ID 306889 access and a large zoneset of at least 460 devices the switch became faulty Switch unexpectedly segments from fabric CLI indicates that all ports are disabled and that switch is faulty Portenable requests from CLI fail to bring ports online Low Feature FC Servic
192. screen of name server Columns do not sort in the Accessible Devices window of the name server of Webtools Low High lease FOS610 DEFECT000217750 Seccertutil gencsr is not accepted in non interactive mode if parameter has a space in it Seccertutil gencsr results in an error Use the interactive mode to generate the csr file Risk of Fix Low Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Technical Severity Medium if value entered in R_A_TOV and E_D_TOV is more Feature WebMgmt Function Switch Admin Technical Severity High Feature FCR Function Integrated Routing Technical Severity Medium Feature WebMgmt Function Name Server Technical Severity Medium Feature Fabric Infrastructure Page 100 of 167 Probability Risk of Fix Risk of Fix Low Feature Diagnostics Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function Other Defect ID DEFECT000218208 Technical Severity High High Function Security DEFECT000217982 Technical Severity Medium TPAD FFDC error occurred after reboot of 200e supportsave uploaded Hq samba 1 sj_eng defects Brocade 5300 license s disappeared and user is not able to re install them No license key s are present and switch can not be used Traffic stops Clean Install Low Feature Fabric Infrastructure High Function License DEFECT000218288 Technical Severity Medium Switch Throughput Util
193. sly 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 Supported Switches Fabric OS v6 2 supports the Brocade 200E 300 4012 4016 4018 4020 4024 4424 54 10 5480 5424 4100 4900 5000 5100 5300 7500 7600 48000 Brocade Encryption Switch BES and DCX DCX 4S 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 Access Gateway is also supported by Fabric OS v6 2 0 and is supported on the following switches the Brocade 200E 300 5100 4012 4016 4018 4020 4024 4424 5480 and 5424 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 9 of 167 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 standards conformance visit the following Brocade Web site http www brocade com sanstandards Technical Support Contact your switch supplier for hardware firmware and software support including product repairs and part ordering To expedite
194. sponds to VCs 8 and 9 The id is optional if it is not specified the virtual channels are allocated using a round robin scheme On page 424 in the section Setting traffic prioritization replace step 2 with the following 2 Enter the zoneCreate command The format varies depending on whether you want high or low priority traffic e For high priority traffic use the following syntax zonecreate QOSHid_zonename member member e For low priority use the following syntax zonecreate QOSLid_zonename member member where id A flow identifier that indicates a specific virtual channel to which the traffic is assigned This value is from 1 5 for high priority traffic and from 1 2 for low priority traffic zonename The user defined part of the name of the zone to be created member A member or list of members to be added to the zone A zone member must be specified using WWN only Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Publication Number 53 1001186 01 On page 89 efgDefault command and associated man page The new chassis parameter introduced in this release is currently unavailable When you execute configdefault chassis in the root or admin role a permission denied message is displayed Use the all parameter instead On page 543 portCfg command and associated man page the following should be changed Under the ipf parameter the sentence The IP network connection between two 7500 r
195. stems 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 1 0 or v6 1 1 can be upgraded to Fabric OS v6 2 The following is a list of products that can be upgraded to Fabric OS v6 2 e 4012 4016 4018 4020 4024 4424 5424 5410 5480 4100 4900 5000 7500 7600 200E 48000 BES and DCX The DCX 4S may not be downgraded from FOS v6 2 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 17 of 167 All downgrades from FOS v6 2 require a restart and are disruptive to traffic Platforms supporting Virtual Fabrics must have the feature disabled prior to downgrading below v6 2 If you perform a firmware downgrade from Fabric OS v6 2 0 to v6 1 x on enterprise class platforms do not select the auto reboot option when prompted the default is no auto reboot Both of the CPs must be downgraded first and then rebooted at the same time to avoid 6 1 6 2 synchronization issues To ensure non disruptive Hot Code Load HCL neighbor switches should be operating with FOS v6 2 prior to loading FOS v6 2 on the following platforms 4012 4016 4018 4020 4024 4100 200E When upgrading to FOS v6 2 from FO
196. t members are modified Risk of Fix Low Feature FC Services Probability Medium Function Zoning Defect ID DEFECT000216685 Technical Severity High Summary Hareboot on Brocade 7500 FC fastwrite enabled switch causes the system to panic with Oops kernel access of bad area sig 11 1 Symptom Hareboot on Brocade 7500 FC fastwrite enabled switch causes the system to panic with Oops kernel access of bad area sig 11 1 Risk of Fix law Feature Platform Services Probability High Function ASIC Driver Defect ID DEFECT000216741 Technical Severity High Summary Fabric Mode TT displays redundant flows with different values for the same SID DID pair on the core switches when there are redundant trunk groups to the same edge domain Symptom Fabric Mode TT displays redundant flows with different values for the same SID DID pair on the core switches when there are redundant trunk groups to the same edge domain And fabric mode TT misses some flows on the edge switches when there are redundant trunk groups to the same edge switch Risk of Fix Low Feature Fabric Infrastructure Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function Advanced Performance Monitor Defect ID DEFECT000216750 Technical Severity Medium DLS ON does not rebalance when ISLs to a different switch is removed on Brocade DCX and 5300 Summary Symptom Topologyshow and urouteshow will indicate that the In Ports are not balanced
197. ted In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000205039 Technical Severity Medium Changing Interop mode from mode 0 to mode 2 or 3 and then back to mode 0 leads to I O Symptom May see loss of device connectivity when changing switches interop mode multiple times Workaround Toggle the local zoned device on the 5000 Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature N ative Interop Probability Low Function Zoning Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT00020504 I Technical Severity Medium Summary Changing interopmode 0 to 2 and back to 0 resulted in a segmented fabric Symptom Customer might see a segmented fabric if changing switch interop modes multiple times Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature N ative Interop Probability Low Function Fabric Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 m Defect ID DEFECT000205413 Technical Severity Medium FCIP testing with tape pipelining enabled results in failures Traffic stops during testing when a host flood the switch with NS query such as GSPN due to the query response was not passed back to the host on backbone switch through FCR router Already Fixed in Release Low Function FCR failure following a cfgdisable and enable Feature FOS Software Reported In Release FOS5S 3 0 Detect ID DEFECT000205542 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Service Request ID RQST00000066445 Technical Severity Medium Page 140
198. ted 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium 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 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 45 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High 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 Feature FOS Software Function ASIC Driver Service Request ID 335517 Reported In Release FOS5 3 0 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000228809 Technical Severity Medium Summary The cpLastEvent value is shown incorrectly on the browser and the hashow attribute shows the incorrect value for fixed port switches Symptom a The cpLastEvent Value will be shown incorrectly in the browser b The cpStatusChange trap is not sent to the trap recipients Feature Mgmt Embedded S
199. tform dB was activated after the warm recovery of the CP which caused a segmentation due to the MS Platform dB being activated Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 42 of 167 Feature FOS Software Function Management Services Reported In Release FOSS 3 0 Service Request ID 324489 Defect ID DEFECT000222339 Technical Severity Medium Summary The command cryptocfg show container all stat does not display a LUNs 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 Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000222875 Technical Severity Medium Summary Manual re keying of a LUN fails with Unknown Error when a re key is already pending Symptom When a manual re key is initiated for LUN that already has a re key operation pending the command will fail with an unknown error message It is correct that the command fails but the failure does not indicate that the failure is due to already having a pending rekey session for that LUN Workaround Use cryptocfg show rekey lt crypto target container name gt lt LUN_Num gt lt Initiator PWWN gt to display and monitor re key status of the LUN If a re key is in progress re issue the re key command once the current re key session ends Feature Data Security F
200. ting 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 Brocade 3000 3200 3800 v3 2 1c 1 Silkworm 3014 3016 3250 3850 and Brocade 3900 4100 4900 24000 7500 7500E 7600 5000 200E 48000 v5 3 1b 2G and 4G platforms and v6 1 0e and later 4G platforms only Silkworm 12000 v5 0 x Brocade 4012 4016 4018 4020 4024 4424 v5 3 1b v6 1 0e and later Brocade 5410 5480 5424 v6 2 0 Brocade DCX 300 5100 5300 v6 1
201. ting certificates for non VF and the default logical switch of VF enabled switches Note authutil is not restricted from other logical 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 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 PDCM changes configured via WebTools must be activated with the edit window if the Active Saved mode is enabled Please refer to Defects 237196 and 235465 for more information and work around procedures When RSCNS are sent out on behalf of the CUP for switchname changes in interopmode 2 the mainframe channels will interpret those RSCNs as though a path or paths may have gone down This will force the channel s into a form of recovery whereby they send TINs to the CUP to verify the logical paths that are still established to the CUP This will result in mainframe console messages indicating that this type of recovery has occurred Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 22 of 167 Port Mirroring On the Brocade 5300 the port mirroring feature has a limitation where all port mirror resources must stay wit
202. tion ASIC Driver Defect ID DEFECT000212769 Technical Severity High Summary Hard Zoning disabled when ports toggle Symptom Unexpected connections between channels and devices in FICON environments which are excluded according to the effective zoning cfg Risk of Fix High Feature DCX Platform Services Probability High Function FOS Kernel Driver Defect ID DEFECT000212846 Technical Severity Medium Summary Pathinfo doesn t match urouteshow and rtedebug Symptom Inconsistent debug info causing confusion Feature Routing Defect ID DEFECT000212968 Technical Severity Medium Summary Sensors show incorrect command output in fully loaded Brocade DCX Symptom On a Brocade DCX fully loaded with 8 FC8 48 port blades sensors show output of blank or 1 Risk of Fix Low Feature FOS Software Function OS Infrastructure Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Service Request ID 307775 Defect ID DEFECT000213172 Technical Severity High Summary Update to VC assignment scheme within core ASIC management structure Symptom No impact to existing fabrics update made for improved interoperability with a future release Risk of Fix Low Feature FOS Platform Services Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 91 of 167 Probability Low Function C2 ASIC driver Defect ID DEFECT000213198 Technical Severity Medium Summary Fastwrite performance issue with a particu
203. tomer will not be able to determine whether the Brocade 7500 switch they have is in 7500 mode or in 7500E mode on referring to SNMP MIB Browsers Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Function Other Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECTO000214645 Technical Severity Medium Summary Ag prefshow on edge_AG shown Fports have the same mapped Nport and preferred Nport Symptom Ag prefshow on edge_AG shown Fports have the same mapped Nport and preferred Nport Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Access Gateway Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function Daemon Defect ID DEFECT000214777 Technical Severity Medium Summary Security admin role user is not allowed to reboot the switch Symptom Security admin role user is not allowed to reboot the switch Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Function 7 Switch Admin Defect ID DEFECT000215118 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade FA4 18 blade at FOS v5 3 0a or less causes CP failover and Faulty 21 in Brocade DCX Symptom Brocade FA4 18 blade supplied with version FOS v5 3 0a is not supported in Brocade DCX initially in other than slot 1 or 2 After firmware upgrade it can be moved to other slots known limitation with v5 3 0a However the active CP does an unexpected failover when powering up
204. tware 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 a new 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 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0_emb 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 Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Defect ID DEFECT000220861 Technical Severity Medium Summary Th 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 displayed incorrectly Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function Other Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Probability Medium 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 Pla
205. ty Low Function ASIC Driver Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000209359 Technical Severity High Summary Standby CP faulty 21 on HCL from FOS v6 0 0b to v5 3 0 Symptom CP faulty and traffic interrupted Reason Code Not Applicable Feature Infrastructure Reported In Release FOS6 0 0 Function Firmware Download Defect ID DEFECT000209776 Technical Severity High Summary HCL HAReboot on Brocade 5100 switch may fail cold start causing dropped IO Symptom Dropped IO as a result of firmwaredownload Reason Code Not Applicable Feature Platform Services Probability Low Function FOS Kernel Drivers Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000209825 Technical Severity High HCL failure and VERIFY seen when updating firmware on a Brocade 5100 switch with EX ports Symptom May see verify messages when upgrading the FW on Brocade 5100 Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature c2 EX Port Probability Low Function FOS Kernel Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 l Defect ID DEFECT000209840 Technical Severity High Slow security sync dump caused HCL to be disruptive on Brocade DCX Traffic interrupted during HCL from FOS v6 1 0 to FOS v6 0 0b on Brocade DCX Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Fabric Infrastructure Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 126 of 167 Probability Low Function Security Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 De
206. unction Re key Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT00022298 1 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 Reported In Release FOS6 1 0_utah Probability High 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 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 43 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Probability Medium Defect ID Summary that switch Symptom in the fabric Workaround Feature FR4 1 8i Platform Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000226178 Summary used by some services Symptom Workaround An additional reboot or hafailover Feature High Availability Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000226314 Summary Symptom Workaround cause the lin
207. urate flows on some ports Reason Code Not Applicable Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability Low Function Advanced Performance Monitor Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000212275 Technical Severity Medium Summary The Prohibit feature in the PDCM matrix does not seem function once activated Symptom May not be able to utilize the prohibit feature of the PDCM matrix to block traffic selectively Workaround Use block feature instead of prohibit Reason Code Not a Defect Feature FC Services Probability Medium Function FICON Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000212304 Technical Severity Medium Summary Extra CAM entries could exist on Brocade 300 when Frame Redirection is used and VI VT offline online Symptom This behavior is seen only when features from a future release are activated CAM table entries would prevent communication from host to target after the 7600 switch goes offline Workaround Execute portdisable portenable on the affected Host or Target port and CAM entries are updated correctly Reason Code Not a Defect Feature FC Services Probability High Function Name Server Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 DEFECT000212421 Technical Severity Medium WebTools Configdownload fails with modes 2 to 3 3 to 0 3 to 2 and doesn t clear zoning database for any configdownloads Configdownload from webtools in mode2 or mode3 is not
208. urce when once it operated with single power source Workaround Turn on the power switch as soon as possible after inserting a fan power supply unit into the Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 109 of 167 system Risk of Fix Low Feature Brocade 5100 Platform Services Probability Medium Function Sys Control Environment Monitor Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 326227 Defect ID DEFECT000221919 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 7600 HCL requests the O Option Immediately before the FWDL appears complete Symptom HCL on Brocade 7600 fails and requests the O option immediately before FWDL appears complete Workaround Use the O option during HCL on Brocade 7600 which is disruptive Risk of Fix Low Feature FC Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Function Other Defect ID DEFECT000222045 Technical Severity Medium Summary Third party array responds to ADISC with LOGO only over router fabric S_ID does not match N_ID Symptom Over routed fabric vendor HBAs do not get LUNs from third party arrays HBA gets LOGO from array Workaround For McDATA mode edge fabric only McDATA switches have to be connected directly to FCR The work around is valid as long as we have only McData switches directly connected to Ex Ports Risk of Fix Medium Feature FCR Reported In Release FOS6 1 1 Function FCR Port Defect ID DEFECT000222114 Technical Severity Medium Su
209. ure Probability High Function Firmware Download Defect ID DEFECT000214091 Technical Severity Medium Summary Fabric Rebuild during 5100 HCL when 1 of 2 Backbones connect to a M6140 director Symptom Fabric Rebuild during 5100 HCL when 1 of 2 Backbones connect to a M6140 director Risk of Fix iow Feature FCR Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function FCR HA Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 93 of 167 Risk of Fix Low Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000214163 console will disconnect Defect ID DEFECT000214402 Risk of Fix Low Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000214505 Edge_AG shown up Risk of Fix Low Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Detect ID DEFECT000214882 Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000214113 Technical Severity Medium Summary FCIP FICON feature can be enabled on restricted Brocade 7500E via configdownload Symptom FICON acceleration license checking could be defeated with a procedure of uploading configurations editing files then downloading the files Feature FCIP Function FCIP CLI Technical Severity High Summary If Turboramtest is performed the Telnet console will disconnect Symptom If turboramtest is performed by Brocade 5300 running FOS v6 1 0 the telnet Feature Diagnostics Function Other Service Request ID 309263 Technical Severity Medium Summary Incorrect error when changed switchna
210. vices updated right away when Brocade 5481 is already stabilized meaning Fports and Nports are online and stabled on AG Feature Access Gateway Services FOS6 1 0_utah Function CLI Technical Severity High may happen when a fabric has at least slow draining device such as 1 or 2 Gbps target or host feature to isolate the traffic to slow drain device FOS Platform Services evmd listening events occur there is a possibility for the switch to panic Technical Severity High fine without encryption Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 136 of 167 Reason Code Will Not Fix Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Reported In Release FOS6 1 1_enc Defect ID DEFECT000079995 Technical Severity Medium Summary SSH does not present password if key is not accepted Symptom This is a request for an enhancement Reason Code Will Not Fix Feature Software Function Security Reported In Release FOS4 4 0 Service Request ID RQST00000055755 Defect ID DEFECT00008083 1 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 4020 hits a software ASSERT and cannot complete boot sequence Symptom Switch gets into a boot loop and cannot be recovered with power cycle This applies to Brocade 4020 platform only Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Software Reported In Release FOS5 0 5 Function p Other Defect ID DEFECT00020
211. was offline Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Fabric Infrastructure Probability High Function Fabric Watch Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000216679 Technical Severity High DEFECT000216515 Technical Severity High Ports are being disabled by Port Fencing when dropping light on mainframe port in FICON environment Unable to send traffic via a dedicated path between two switches when TI zones are enabled with Failover enabled Technical Severity High Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 133 of 167 Summary CP faults when the number of zone pairs in the fabric exceeds the supported limit Symptom CP faults causing IFCCs Reason Code Already Fixed in Release Feature Platform Services Probability High Function C2 ASIC driver Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000217559 Technical Severity High Summary CP faulting with VERIFYs and Oops from switch driver Symptom Brocade DCX CP panics causing IFCCs Reason Code Not Reproducible Feature DCX Platform Services Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function FOS Kernel Driver Defect ID DEFECT000217616 Technical Severity High Summary Firmwaredownload fails with reason System in Redundant state even though the HA state is fine on the switch Reason Code Not a Defect Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Reported In Release FOS6 1 0 Function Firmware Dow
212. working as designed Feature FC Services Function Zoning Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 57 of 167 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID Summary Symptom Workaround Feature Summary Symptom Workaround Feature Defect ID Summary Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 DEFECT000235771 Technical Severity Medium In IM2 mode when merging a mixed fabric user might observe the message MS Warning The fabric is segmented due to an unstable MS Platform Service Tn IM2 mode when merging a mixed fabric user might observe the message MS Warning The fabric is segmented due to an unstable MS Platform Service Ensure that MS Platform services is disabled before merging Fabric Infrastructure Function Mgmt Server 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 tracedump r from active CP Feature RAS Function RAS Trace Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Medium Defect ID DEFECT000236034 Technical Severity Medium Output of command fcrproxydevshow with option a is sometimes inconsistent between the non VF FCR switches in the fabric If an edge fabric involved in B2E importing is connected to both non VF enabled and VF enabled FCR and another n
213. y 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 Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000236937 Technical Severity Medium T O timeouts observed during first time re key of disk LUNs 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 Enable fewer LUNs for encryption at a time Also add the LUNs as clear text to CTC to begin and let host IO continue in clear text format Selectively modify the LUNs few at a time to encrypt and once earlier selected LUNs become encryption enabled modify next batch of LUNs for encryption Workaround Data Security Feature Function Re key Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability Low Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 64 of 167 Defect ID Summary DEFECT000236973 Technical Severity Medium 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
214. ymptom All switches in the fabric segment with 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 Function Fabric Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Probability High Defect ID DEFECT000236289 Technical Severity Medium 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 behavior takes care of this Fabric OS v6 2 0 Release Notes v2 0 Page 59 of 167 Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Fabric Watch Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT

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