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Fabric OS v7.0.2 Release Notes v1.0 

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Defect ID: 

DEFECT000393131 

Technical Severity: 

Medium 

Summary: 

BR5300 goes to faulty after portloopback tetsing 

Symptom: 

Customer performed portloopbacktest repeatedly on FOS v7.0.1 and v7.0.1a in a loop script, this 
repeated test was "PASSED" a few times and then switch changed to faulty status.  This affects 
BR5300 only. 

Workaround:  

avoid running portloopbacktest in loop. 

Risk of Fix: 

Medium 

Feature:  

FOS Software 

Probability: 

Low 

Function:  

Diagnostics 

Reported In Release: 

FOS7.0.1 

Service Request ID:   

716189,714819 

 

 

Defect ID: 

DEFECT000394217 

Technical Severity: 

Medium 

Summary: 

Onboard Administrator is not reporting correct IP address for BR5480 after FWDL to v6.4.x when 
using DHCP 

Symptom: 

After upgrading embedded Brocade SAN switch to FOS v6.4.0 and above,  the management IP 
address is shown as 0.0.3.0 

Workaround:  

Reboot switch after firmwaredownload 

Risk of Fix: 

Low 

Feature:  

Embedded Platform Services 

Probability: 

High 

Function:  

Bulova 

Reported In Release: 

FOS6.4.2 

Service Request ID:    

 

 

Defect ID: 

DEFECT000394917 

Technical Severity: 

Medium 

Summary: 

Slow CLI  response time running FOS v7.x 

Symptom: 

User may notice the slowness when run a script with many commands; individual command response 
time is  still within second. 

Risk of Fix: 

Low 

Feature:  

FOS Software 

Probability: 

Medium 

Function:  

OS: Linux 

Reported In Release: 

FOS7.0.0 

Service Request ID:   

721373 

 

 

Defect ID: 

DEFECT000395226 

Technical Severity: 

High 

Summary: 

BR8510 standby CP panics after running systemverification when it is fully populated with FC8-64 
port blades. 

Symptom: 

BR8510 standby CP panics during diagnostics. 

Workaround:  

Remove one of the fully populated FC8-64 port blade, system verification passes without any 
issue. 

Risk of Fix: 

Medium 

Feature:  

FOS Software 

Probability: 

High 

Function:  

Diagnostics 

Reported In Release: 

FOS7.0.1 

Service Request ID:   

721805 

 

 

Defect ID: 

DEFECT000395418 

Technical Severity: 

Medium 

Summary: 

FICON Emulation incorrectly generating LBY in response to unsolicited status from an alias device 

Symptom: 

An abort sequence detected (IFCC) on the host console after unsolicited status was received from an 
Alias Device Address. 

Risk of Fix: 

Low 

Feature:  

FCIP 

Probability: 

Medium 

Function:  

Emulation 

Reported In Release: 

FOS7.0.0 

 

 

Summary of Contents for Fabric OS v7.0.2

Page 1: ...nt History Document History Document History Document History Document Title Document Title Document Title Document Title Summary of Changes Summary of Changes Summary of Changes Summary of Changes Pu...

Page 2: ...pment feature or service offered or to be offered by Brocade Brocade reserves the right to make changes to this document at any time without notice and assumes no responsibility for its use This infor...

Page 3: ...FOS Migration Considerations 13 TSBs Critical Issues to Consider Prior to Installing This FOS Release 13 TSB Issues Outstanding in FOS v7 0 2 13 TSB Issues Resolved in FOS v7 0 2 13 Recommended Migrat...

Page 4: ...Defects 33 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7 0 2 33 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7 0 1b 53 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7 0 1a GA March 15 2012 58 Open Defects in Fabric OS v7...

Page 5: ...cal switches o Prior to FOS v7 0 2 in Virtual Fabrics enabled environment an entire ICL port which includes four individual ports as part of a single QSFP has to be associated with a single logical sw...

Page 6: ...ver This feature requires servers to be using Brocade HBAs Adapters Please consult Brocade HBA Adapter driver documentation and Release Notes to confirm minimum requirements for this feature For Broca...

Page 7: ...elease Notes v1 0 Page 7 of 99 both the adapter and the switch For additional information please consult the Brocade Adapter Release Notes for firmware version 3 1 or later and the Brocade Adapter Adm...

Page 8: ...ocade Accelerator for FI Brocade Accelerator for FICON CON CON CON This license enables unique FICON emulation support for IBM s Global Mirror formerly XRC application including Hitachi Data Systems H...

Page 9: ...orts FC16 FC16 FC16 FC16 xx xx xx xx Enables 10G FC capability on an FC16 xx blade in a slot that has this license Brocade 6510 Brocade 6510 Brocade 6510 Brocade 6510 Enables 10G FC capability on the...

Page 10: ...two temporary licenses and a single Universal license on a unit Universal Temporary license keys can only be installed once on a particular switch but can be applied to as many switches as desired Te...

Page 11: ...llowing information immediately available 1 1 1 1 General Information General Information General Information General Information Technical Support contract number if applicable Switch model Switch op...

Page 12: ...que switch WWN Use the wwn wwn wwn wwn command to display the switch WWN If you cannot use the wwn wwn wwn wwn command because the switch is inoperable you can get the primary WWN from the same place...

Page 13: ...from FOS v7 0 Any 8G or 16G platforms running any FOS v7 0 0x or FOS v7 0 1x release can be non disruptively upgraded to FOS v7 0 2 Migrating Migrating Migrating Migrating from FOS v6 4 x from FOS v6...

Page 14: ...isruptive Disruptive Disruptive upgrades to Fabric OS 7 0 2 are allowed and supported from FOS 6 3 up to a two level migration using the optional s parameter with the firmwaredownload command If there...

Page 15: ...epartmental SANs for managing up to four physical or virtual fabrics FOS M EOS and Mixed fabrics and up to 2 560 switch ports It supports Brocade backbone and director products DCX 8510 4 DCX 4S 48Ks...

Page 16: ...ity Supported Products and FOS Interoperability Supported Products and FOS Interoperability Supported Products and FOS Interoperability Brocade 2000 series switches Not supported end of support Decemb...

Page 17: ...attached to hosts or targets for encryption flows 4 McDATA 1620 and 2640 SANRouters should not be used with FOS based routing FCR for connections to the same edge fabric 5 FA4 18 is not supported in...

Page 18: ...s Product Team Up to 8 FR4 18i blades can be installed in a DCX if they are used only for FCIP without routing Note Note Note Note FR4 18i cannot coexist with FX8 24 in FOS v7 0 or later FR4 18i does...

Page 19: ...10 6 Not supported Intelligent blade Up to a total of 8 4 intelligent blades See below for maximum supported limits of each blade FCIP FC Router blade FR4 18i Not supported Virtualization Application...

Page 20: ...er Supplies evenly to 2 different AC connections for redundancy FR4 18i Intelligent Blade Not Supported 2 Power Supplies FS8 18 FX8 24 FCOE10 24 Intelligent Blade Not Supported DCX 2 or 4 Power Suppli...

Page 21: ...10 DCX 8510 DCX 8510 8 8 8 8 200 200 200 200 240 VAC 240 VAC 240 VAC 240 VAC Redundant Redundant Redundant Redundant configurations configurations configurations configurations Comments Comments Comme...

Page 22: ...t Redundant Redundant Redundant configurations configurations configurations configurations Comments Comments Comments Comments 336 8Gb ports QSFP ICLs FC8 48E Maximum of seven FC8 48E blades with one...

Page 23: ...r supplies Any combination of 8Gb or 16 Gb ports and intelligent blades with QSFP ICLs FC16 32 FC16 48 FC8 32E FC8 48E FC8 64 FS8 18 FX8 24 Intelligent Blade Combination Not Supported 2 Power Supplies...

Page 24: ...ySecure hosting NetApp s LKM SSKM is supported for data encryption operations with FOS v7 0 1 or later Use of SSKM with the Brocade encryption solution is only supported for SSKM operating in PVM mode...

Page 25: ...tion cases a new key is generated each time a medium is rewound and block zero is written or overwritten For the same reason the Key Life field in the output of cryptocfg show container all stat shoul...

Page 26: ...Tape Pool encryption policy specification On Windows Systems HP Data Protector can be used with tape pool encryption specification only if the following pool label options are used Pick from Barcode...

Page 27: ...rohibited it is not supported Configuring Brocade 8000 in the TI ETI Zone path is not recommended and will result in undefined behavior Ethernet L2 traffic with xSTP Hello timer set to less than or eq...

Page 28: ...group name conflict the merge logic would rename the login group by including the last three bytes of the switch WWN in the login group name As long as the OUI of the switch WWNs are identical this me...

Page 29: ...cted Mi10K Directors operating with firmware prior to M EOSn v9 9 5 may experience repeated system faults when attached as an FCR edge switch to a Brocade 7800 EX Port To avoid this ensure that the Mi...

Page 30: ...64 79 The routes will be broken if the port mirror resources are spread across multiple port groups Port Mirroring is not supported on the Brocade 7800 Port Statistics On Condor3 based 16G FC ports th...

Page 31: ...a scenario where a switch with a zone alias WWN member with upper case characters saved on the switch with pre FOS v6 2 0 code is merged with a switch with the same alias member WWN in lower case char...

Page 32: ...er 0000000000000000 16_Gbps Transceiver 0000000000000000 16_Gbps Transceiver 0000000000000000 16_Gbps Transceiver 0000000000000000 16_Gbps id id id id It is recommended that for directors with more th...

Page 33: ...OS5 3 0 Service Request ID 443043 Defect ID DEFECT000334584 Technical Severity Medium Summary FDISC ACC is not being properly translated on AG Symptom When booting up 3rd party virtualization platform...

Page 34: ...Probability High Function Other Reported In Release FOS7 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000364382 Technical Severity Medium Summary Executing CMSH through telnet or SSH causes switch panic Symptom Telnet or SSH...

Page 35: ...ve when AG mode is enabled but CLI no longer works Symptom Customer enabled track changes using trackchangesset 1 when switch was in native mode When switch mode is changed from native to AG track cha...

Page 36: ...ice Request ID FromPM Defect ID DEFECT000378374 Technical Severity Medium Summary F_Port trunk area configuration may be lost in switches when upgrading to FOS 6 4 x Symptom If there were F_Port trunk...

Page 37: ...y Reported In Release FOS6 4 2 Service Request ID 691443 Defect ID DEFECT000381210 Technical Severity High Summary Disk Controller warm start processing causing multiple IFCCs Symptom Multiple IFCCs o...

Page 38: ...Release FOS6 4 1 Service Request ID 694909 Defect ID DEFECT000381736 Technical Severity Critical Summary switch domain changed and the change was not synced into configuration DB Symptom After fabric...

Page 39: ...9 8d FOS does not have direct interface to expose this vulnerability Risk of Fix Low Feature Security Vulnerability Probability Low Function OpenSSL Reported In Release FOS7 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000383...

Page 40: ...elease FOS6 4 2 Service Request ID 699169 Defect ID DEFECT000385058 Technical Severity Medium Summary POST failure with FOS 16G blade with misleading test name Symptom 16G blade fails turboramtest as...

Page 41: ...cal Severity Medium Summary FICON Printer Emulation enabled encounters DP Panic with 3900 type printers Symptom FCIP Complex DP reset FCIP Tunnel failure on the peer side Risk of Fix Low Feature FCIP...

Page 42: ...G ASIC Driver Probability Medium Function ASIC Driver Reported In Release FOS7 0 1 Defect ID DEFECT000388283 Technical Severity Medium Summary zoned caused switch panic Symptom During rename zone add...

Page 43: ...User can verify the certificate details Issuer Validity Subject by clicking More information in dialog Once user selects the checkbox Always trust content and click on Run button warning message will...

Page 44: ...enerated a core file twice then failed to restart Risk of Fix Low Feature FOS Software Probability Low Function SNMP Reported In Release FOS7 0 0 Service Request ID 714615 Defect ID DEFECT000391201 Te...

Page 45: ...ease FOS6 4 2 Service Request ID Defect ID DEFECT000394917 Technical Severity Medium Summary Slow CLI response time running FOS v7 x Symptom User may notice the slowness when run a script with many co...

Page 46: ...ery time for a new cable Risk of Fix Low Feature Infrastructure Probability High Function Other Reported In Release FOS6 4 0 Defect ID DEFECT000396826 Technical Severity Medium Summary Performance dow...

Page 47: ...v7 0 1a Symptom statsclear Invalid slot number 0 detected in chassis system Please use slot option or setslot command to provide a valid slot Workaround Use slotstatsclear command Risk of Fix Low Feat...

Page 48: ...d and also deprecated the same Risk of Fix Low Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Low Function Other Reported In Release FOS7 0 1 Service Request ID 730439 Defect ID DEFECT000399592 Technical Seve...

Page 49: ...y is not there Risk of Fix Low Feature Diagnostics Probability Low Function Post Diags Reported In Release FOS6 4 2 Service Request ID 733915 Defect ID DEFECT000402384 Technical Severity Medium Summar...

Page 50: ...et has multiple values in the value list the counts are inaccurate Risk of Fix Low Feature FOS Software Probability Low Function ASIC Driver Reported In Release FOS7 0 1 Service Request ID 738843 Defe...

Page 51: ...Performance Monitor Probability Low Function Frame Monitor Reported In Release FOS7 0 1 Service Request ID 734875 Defect ID DEFECT000408554 Technical Severity High Summary D Port link becoming alterna...

Page 52: ...0 Symptom Hardware tool shows serdes is still on and generate signals on ports without POD license cause EMI issue Workaround Run portdisable CLI on ports without POD license Risk of Fix Low Feature 8...

Page 53: ...appear Customer cannot configure zoning through BNA Web Tools for HBA port Workaround Use CLI to manually configure zoning Feature Access Gateway Services Function Platform Other Probability High Fou...

Page 54: ...ere Else Fixed FOS6 4 3 Defect ID DEFECT000387601 Technical Severity Medium Summary Embedded platform with internal CU port turned into G Port Symptom This server lost access to the devices when inter...

Page 55: ...n a loop script this repeated test was PASSED a few times and then switch changed to faulty status This affects BR5300 only Workaround avoid running portloopbacktest in loop Feature Field Escalation F...

Page 56: ...ither start a multiple CCW tape write job more than 1 CCW in the write chain or a tape read job This will automatically correct the peer side pool state information Feature Field Escalation Function F...

Page 57: ...nd in Release FOS7 0 1 Service Request ID 724111 Defect ID DEFECT000399874 Technical Severity Medium Summary FOS 7 0 1 isn t getting FR4 18i portshow fciptunnel output in supportsave Symptom Supoports...

Page 58: ...m start processing causing multiple IFCCs Symptom Multiple IFCCs occur after warm start processing completed on a FICON Disk Controller the number of IFCCs can cause XRC suspends Workaround Disable em...

Page 59: ...NPIV ports are rejected with reason 0x05 Logical Busy Host cannot see device if it does not retry the request Feature Field Escalation Function Fabric Services Probability High Found in Release FOS7...

Page 60: ...6 2 x v6 3 x to FOS v6 4 x Feature Field Escalation Function Fabric Services Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 4 2 Service Request ID 689353 Defect ID DEFECT000380162 Technical Severity Medium Sum...

Page 61: ...es show busy status being returned after SCSI command SRDF does not understand busy status and thinks busy good status Workaround Disable emulation Feature Field Escalation Function FCIP Probability M...

Page 62: ...set FCIP Tunnel failure on the peer side Feature FCIP Function Emulation Probability High Found in Release FOS7 0 1 Defect ID DEFECT000387371 Technical Severity Medium Summary Replication application...

Page 63: ...gdefault on a VE port that has TPerf running Feature FCIP Function FCIP Port Probability Low Found in Release FOS7 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000355346 Technical Severity High Summary Replacing a failed FX8...

Page 64: ...D Port tests may result in software verify error Symptom User sees the following software verify error message after manually stopping D Port tests VERIFY Failed expression SM_SUCCESS dp_return Worka...

Page 65: ...m and then configure port channel path cost standard Feature CEE LAYER2 Function STP Probability Medium Found in Release FOS7 0 1 Defect ID DEFECT000373589 Technical Severity Medium Summary The error...

Page 66: ...ure 8G FCR Function Other Probability High Found in Release FOS7 0 1 Defect ID DEFECT000378573 Technical Severity Medium Summary CEE FCoE MSTP instance cost is not changing after configuring the spann...

Page 67: ...or 8 of 8510 4 Symptom User sees failure message when running portloopbacktest BLADE ID 0x60 in slot 7 reset mode 5 condor3_fpl_lli_ns_status 3518 slot 7 chip 0 asic port 24 has LOS peerSlot 1 null as...

Page 68: ...ly to be triggered on 8G switch directors Note FOS 6 4 2 had improvement and additional change is back ported from FOS7 0 0GA to FOS6 4 2b in this area to throttle further FOS 6 3 2e pulled in the sam...

Page 69: ...ice type should be tape found disk Feature Field Escalation Function Encryption Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 4 0 Service Request ID 585157 Where Else Fixed FOS6 4 2 a Defect ID DEFECT00034866...

Page 70: ...d Fabric license for this operation On the 6510 pizza box for 10G ports from CLI you cannot configure anything but the default Extended Fabric modes without an Extended Fabric license present On DCX85...

Page 71: ...ge for front port partial credit loss on an EX Port Symptom Customer will be unaware if EX_Ports are leaking credit Feature 8G FCR Function FCR Daemon Probability Low Found in Release FOS7 0 0 Defect...

Page 72: ...equest ID 653815 Defect ID DEFECT000364137 Technical Severity High Summary FabricWatch Port Class is not monitoring ICL ports E Port Class monitors are monitoring ICL ports Symptom ICL Ports will not...

Page 73: ...verity High Summary QSFP port status is not refreshed in WebTools port admin window Symptom Insertion Removal of QSFP is not reflected in Port Admin window Workaround Refresh or close and re open Port...

Page 74: ...ield Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 2 Service Request ID 672599 Defect ID DEFECT000370943 Technical Severity High Summary Network scanning application causing...

Page 75: ...e Fixed FOS7 0 0 GA FOS6 4 1 b Defect ID DEFECT000335811 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 5450 switches crashed when latest version of enclosure management SW was used Symptom Brocade 5450 pl...

Page 76: ...attempts to re start TPERF they will get a message indicating that a TPERF session is already in progress Feature FCIP Function FCIP CLI Probability Low Found in Release FOS7 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT0003...

Page 77: ...xed FOS6 4 2 b GA Defect ID DEFECT000349008 Technical Severity Medium Summary DP panicked after modifying metric on FCIP Circuit using a crossport with IPSec enabled Symptom After modifying the metric...

Page 78: ...ce Request ID Defect Origin is Cus Where Else Fixed FOS6 4 2 b GA Defect ID DEFECT000354900 Technical Severity Medium Summary Severity level for SCN 1002 is set to Warning instead of Error Symptom SCN...

Page 79: ...mtrace Feature Infrastructure Function Other Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 4 2 Defect ID DEFECT000358765 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switchshow displayed the GigE port of BR7500 FR4 18i...

Page 80: ...um Summary Parity error detected on FCOE switch during supportsave collection Symptom Switch might fault during supportsave when non significant parity errors were detected This only impacts FCOE swit...

Page 81: ...gher Workaround Locked to fixed speed Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function C2 ASIC driver Probability Medium Found in Release FOS7 0 1 Defect ID DEFECT000370040 Technical Severity Medium Summary Getting No...

Page 82: ...Feature Field Escalation Function Web Management Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID sr676355 Defect ID DEFECT000371823 Technical Severity Medium Summary EZ Manager does not a...

Page 83: ...mptom ICL Ports will not report any threshold warnings and will not be fenced for Port Class attributes Feature FABRIC WATCH Function PORT FENCING Probability High Found in Release FOS7 0 0 Defect ID...

Page 84: ...CT000365075 Technical Severity High Summary QSFP ICL ports are being fenced due to excessive state changes even though current high threshold value is not exceeded Symptom QSFP ICL links are getting f...

Page 85: ...00365735 Technical Severity Medium Summary In Extended Fabric sub tab shows the port speed as 0 for ports configured as N16 Symptom Configured N16 port speed is not displayed as N16 in the port speed...

Page 86: ...FOS6 4 2 a Defect ID DEFECT000341971 Technical Severity High Summary Loop attached device loses secondary disk path after port disable enable Symptom Secondary paths will not appear in the output from...

Page 87: ...stop and disable enable the port Feature FC Services Function D port Probability Low Found in Release FOS7 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000354980 Technical Severity High Summary FIPS Firmwaredownload signatur...

Page 88: ...re 8G ASIC Driver Function Other Probability Low Found in Release FOS7 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000357780 Technical Severity High Summary Excessive encoding out errors on Brocade 300 ISL ports running at 8...

Page 89: ...Probability Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 2 Service Request ID 641021 Defect ID DEFECT000359493 Technical Severity High Summary If FX8 24 blades are swapped the Inband Mgmt configuration is not prop...

Page 90: ...BNA Symptom Certain storage devices may log in with an unknown FC4 type This will result in BNA incorrectly displaying the device as an initiator Feature FC Services Function FCP Probability Low Found...

Page 91: ...dium Summary WebTools When attempting to upgrade a switch in IM2 IM3 to FOS v7 0 fail message should direct user to Interoperability tab to change switch to Brocade Native Fabric Mode Symptom When upg...

Page 92: ...e Request ID 635015 Defect ID DEFECT000357707 Technical Severity Medium Summary FICON XRC processing is not correctly reporting RRS Sequence Validation failures via 0x0F52 command reject in all cases...

Page 93: ...e FOS7 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000360329 Technical Severity Medium Summary FSPF error message FSPF returned count_size 4 rc 5 due to MSd call in FICON mode Symptom FSPF error message appears out as soon a...

Page 94: ...te data frames F_CTL priority bit disabled once frames are carried over FCIP links with FastWrite enabled Feature FCIP Function Emulation Probability Medium Found in Release FOS7 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT0...

Page 95: ...es Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Found in Release FOS6 3 1 Service Request ID 451697 Where Else Fixed FOS7 0 0 GA Defect ID DEFECT000345259 Technical Severity High Summary FC8 64 blade set to F...

Page 96: ...g channel timeout Symptom IFCC CREJ Code of 00 until the implementation is completed in the patch branch and the CCW is enabled Until then it is responded to as an Invalid CCW Command Feature FICON Fu...

Page 97: ...chnical Severity High Summary FICON Persistent state is not set in Portcfg when port is blocked in the IPL file Symptom Ports are not blocked following switch POR despite being blocked in the IPL file...

Page 98: ...eneck on man page bottleneckmon cfgcredittools intport recover off onLrOnly onLrThresh Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Found in Release FOS7 0 0 Defect ID DEFECT000343519 T...

Page 99: ...the standby CP of a DCX 8510 8 with max LS creation and fully populated EX Ports after a long period of time with I O running Symptom pdmd memory usage may increase on the standby CP of 8510 8 with ma...

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