Figure 2-1.

Dell Connectrix® B-Series

Fabric OS
Version 8.2.3d

Release Notes
Rev 15

May 22, 2023

These release notes contain supplemental information about this release of Fabric OS.
Topics include:
 Revision History ..................................................................................................... 2
 Product description ............................................................................................... 3
 New hardware support........................................................................................... 3
 Security Vulnerability Fixes .................................................................................... 4
 Supported switches ............................................................................................... 4
 Fixed Problems ...................................................................................................... 6
 Environment and system requirements................................................................... 8
 Known problems and limitations ........................................................................... 23
 Documentation ................................................................................................... 118
 Software media, organization, and files ............................................................... 118
 Installation .......................................................................................................... 118
 Troubleshooting and getting help ........................................................................ 118
Revision History

Revision History
The following table represents the revision history of this document that Dell has
published.

Table 1 Revision History (page 1 of 2)

Version Date Description
8.2.3d Rev 15 May 22, 2023 Patch release
8.2.3c1 Rev 14 Nov. 08, 2022 Patch release
8.2.3c Rev 13 Aug. 15, 2022 Patch release
8.2.3b Rev 12 Jan. 24, 2022 Patch release
8.2.2c6 Rev 11 Sept. 7, 2021 Patch release
8.2.2d4 Rev 10 Sept. 7, 2021 Patch release
8.2.3a Rev 09 July 12, 2021 Patch release
8.2.3 Rev 08 Mar. 15, 2021 Maintenance
release
8.2.2d Rev 07 Oct. 26, 2020 Patch release
8.2.2c Rev 06 Sept. 7, 2020 Patch release
8.2.2b Rev 05 Mar. 30, 2020 Patch release
8.2.2a Rev 04 Jan. 20, 2020 Patch release
8.2.2 Rev 03 Oct. 28, 2019 Maintenance
release
8.2.1e Rev 06 Sept. 14, 2020 Patch release
8.2.1d Rev 05 Feb. 10, 2020 Patch release
8.2.1c Rev 02 July 29, 2019 Patch release
8.2.1a Rev 01 Jan. 14, 2019 Major release
8.2.0b Rev 02 June 4, 2018 Patch release
8.2.0a Rev 01 April 9, 2018 Major release
8.1.2j Rev 11 Jan. 20, 2020 Patch release
8.1.2h Rev 10 Aug. 12, 2019 Patch release
8.1.2g Rev 09 July 1, 2019 Patch release
8.1.2f Rev 08 Oct. 29, 2018 Patch release
8.1.2d Rev 07 June 18, 2018 Patch release
8.1.2b Rev 06 Apr. 23, 2018 Patch release
8.1.2a Rev 05 Dec. 18, 2017 Patch release
8.1.1a Rev 04 Oct. 16, 2017 Patch release
8.1.1 Rev 01 Apr. 4, 2017 New release
8.1.0c Rev 03 Oct. 11, 2017 Patch release
8.1.0a Rev 02 July 10, 2017 New release
8.1.0a Rev 01 Apr. 16, 2017 Major release

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 Product description

Table 1 Revision History (page 2 of 2)

Version Date Description
8.0.2f Rev 11 Oct. 29, 2018 Patch release
8.0.2d Rev 10 Jan.8, 2018 Patch release
8.0.2c Rev 07 Apr. 23, 2018 Patch release
8.0.2b Rev 05 May 29, 2017 Patch release
8.0.2b Rev 09 June 26, 2017 Patch release
8.0.1b Rev 08 July 10, 2019 Patch release
8.0.1b Rev 06 Nov. 16, 2017 Patch release
8.0.1b Rev 04 May 29, 2017 Patch release
8.0.1b Rev 03 Aug. 19, 2016 Patch release
8.0.1a Rev 02 Aug. 15, 2016 Major release
8.0.0 Rev 01 Apr. 11, 2016 Major release

Product description
Fabric OS v8.2.3d is a patch release based on Fabric OS v8.2.3c/c1.
All Gen 5 hardware platforms and features supported in FOS v8.2.3 are also supported
in FOS v8.2.3d including patch releases of 8.2.2 (8.2.2a, 8.2.2b, 8.2.2c, and 8.2.2d).
Gen 6 platforms are supported through FOS v8.2.3c. FOS v8.2.3d contains minor
enhancements and fixes for the defects listed at the end of this document.

Note: Target Releases are the recommended firmware versions to deploy because they
are built upon mature and stable code streams with the most recently resolved
defects. The latest Target Releases for Connectrix Directors and Switches can be
found in the Connectrix section at
https://dell.com/support/docu39695_Target-Revisions-and-Adoption-Rates.pdf?lang
uage=en_US

New hardware support

No new hardware supported with this release.

Software Features
System Security
FOS v8.2.3d includes the following enhancements and support updates:
 Support single bind for LDAP login
The following Microsoft LDAP versions are supported:
 Windows Server 2019, schema 88 -with certificate support
 Windows Server 2022, schema 88 -with certificate support
Support for previous versions of Microsoft LDAP is deprecated in FOS v8.2.3d.

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Security Vulnerability Fixes

Resolution of Important Defects

This release provides the following important defect fixes:
 FOS-840370 Firmware upgrade failed due to time-out from a busy standby CP; HA
lost sync after cald panic with a large sized core file and high compact flash usage.
 FOS-841163 User can't perform firmware download on the switch from SANNav.
 FOS-845216 User may encounter an unexpected sudden system reboot.
 FOS-845750 Support for non-disruptive EX port link cost changes.

Security Vulnerability Fixes

This section lists the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that have been
addressed. Each CVE is identified by the CVE ID number. For the latest security
vulnerabilities disclosures, please visit Brocade Security Advisories web page at
https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/security-advisories

Brocade Fabric OS version 8.2.3d

CVE-2022-33186
A vulnerability in Brocade Fabric OS software v9.1.1, v9.0.1e, v8.2.3c, v7.4.2j, and
earlier versions could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute (on a
Brocade Fabric OS) switch commands capable of modifying zoning, disabling the
switch, disabling ports and modifying the switch IP address.
The following vulnerability fixes were also made:
 CVE-2023-31426
 CVE-2022-0778
 CVE-2018-7738
 CVE-2021-39275
 CVE-2018-0739
 CVE-2022-24448
 CVE-2020-36557
 CVE-2020-36558
 CVE-2018-14404

Supported switches
Fabric OS v8.2.3d supports the DS-6505B, MP-7840B,DS-6510B, DS-6520B,
ED-DCX8510-8B, ED-DCX8510-4B.
Fabric OS v8.2.3d does NOT support the following platforms and cannot be loaded on
them, though the switches listed below may participate in the same fabric as the
DS-6505B, DS-6510B, DS-6520B, ED-DCX8510-8B, ED-DCX8510-4B, MP-7840B
using v8.2.3d:

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 MP-7800B
 DS-300B
 DS-6620B
 DS-6610B
 DS-6630B
 MP-7810B
 ED-DCX6-4B
 ED-DCX6-8B
For the versions of FOS codes that must be used on these platforms to interoperate
with FOS v8.2.3d, refer to the Dell Support Matrix at:
https://elabnavigator.dell.com/eln/modernHomeSSM, and then select the
Stand-Alone Switch link under Connectivity.

Support clarification
Dell may not support all of the functionality of FOS v8.2.3d or the operating
environment. References to specific configurations, functionality, and capabilities of
FOS v8.2.3d should not be interpreted to imply that Dell endorses or will support them.
The only configurations, features, and functionality that Dell will support are
documented in the Dell Support Matrix (ESM) and the Dell Networked Storage
Topology Guide.
At the time of publication, the following configurations, functionality, and capabilities
of FOS OS v8.2.3d are not supported by Dell:
 IPv6 with FC-IP
 FCoE support on the PB-DCX6-64P32G blade

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Fixed Problems

Fixed Problems
This section contains fixed problems for the following versions of Fabric OS:
 “Closed in v8.2.3d” on page 6
When a workaround to an issue is available, it is provided. Otherwise, no recommended
workaround is available at this time.

Closed in v8.2.3d
This section lists software defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity
closed with code change as of April 17, 2023 in Version 8.2.3d.

Closed with Code Changes in 8.2.3d

Table 1 Defects closed in 8.2.3d

Defect ID Description

FOS-806174 Duplicate member are allowed for a peer zone via GUI and CLI by different alias; However, switch loss HA
sync after user created alias with same member.

FOS-810478 Switch HA out of sync in VF configuration.

FOS-824498 MAPS test email defaulted "From address" to [email protected]

on some switches and rejected by postmaster.

FOS-827306 Repeated XTUN-1997 RASLOGs generated in an Extension configuration through a 7810, 7840 or SX6 blade
that may or may not be associated with a VE port down event. The specific trigger is: ttmh0933|tifa1243|
timer [1] reset error

FOS-829100 Path unstable when zone miss counter increases but the cam entries are verified to be good. Plogi ack , abts
frames are dropped.

FOS-832909 FCR (iSwitchd) uses RSCNs to convey incremental updates to the device directory. When an RSCN fails to
be delivered, the Name Server database can become out of sync across routed fabrics.

FOS-838584 Weblinker termination due to segmentation fault.

FOS-839810 User may see repeated logging of an internal firmwaredownload raslog messages.

FOS-840370 Firmwareupgrade failed due to time-out from a busy standby CP; HA lost sync after cald panic with a large
sized core file and high compact flash usage.

FOS-841163 User can't perform firmware download on the switch from SANNav.

FOS-841254 Unexpected reboot or failover after running out of memory.

FOS-843422 UCS Server FLOGI is being held. Issue doesn't disappear when server is shutdown. Server cannot see paths
through this adapter, can only see storage through other Fabric.

FOS-843463 Getting Alerts for HTTPS SW certificate triggered DAYS_TO_EXPIRE rule - defCHASSISCERT_VALIDITY.

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Table 1 Defects closed in 8.2.3d

FOS-844074 Detected termination of process snmpd.

FOS-845216 User may encounter an unexpected sudden system reboot

FOS-845750 Support for non-disruptive EX port link cost changes.

FOS-846479 Weblinker restart on switch.

FOS-847045 Switch panic is observed when a timer is added before the same exact timer expires.

FOS-847171 G610 switch state is set to faulty after switchdisable/switchenable. G610:admin> switchshow ...
switchType:170.2 switchState:Faulty switchMode:Native switchRole:Faulty ...

FOS-847308 Brocade 7840 may encounter kernel panic due to OOM, with tunnels failing to come online after reboot

FOS-848567 WWN is missing in the oid when run snmpgetnext command to connUnitPortTable.

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Environment and system requirements

Environment and system requirements

This section lists information you should consider before you use this firmware version.

Optionally licensed software

Fabric OS v8.2.3d includes all basic switch and fabric support software, as well as
optionally licensed software that is enabled via license keys.
Optionally licensed features supported in FOS v8.2.3d include:
 Ports on Demand—Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning
additional ports via license key upgrade. (Applies to select models of switches).
 Q-Flex Ports on Demand - Allows customers to further scale the fabric and
increase flexibility by provisioning additional 4x32G QSFP ports via license key
upgrade. Applies to Connectrix DS-6620B only.
 Extended Fabrics—Provides greater than 10km of switched fabric connectivity at
full bandwidth over long distances (depending on platform this can be up to
3000km).
 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.
 Fabric Vision —Enables support for MAPS (Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite),
Flow Vision, and ClearLink (D_Port) when connecting to non-Brocade devices.
MAPS enables rules-based monitoring and alerting capabilities, provides
comprehensive dashboards to quickly troubleshoot problems in Brocade SAN
environments. Flow Vision enables host to LUN flow monitoring, application flow
mirroring for non-disruptive capture and deeper analysis, and test traffic flow
generation function for SAN infrastructure validation. D_Port to non-Brocade
devices support allows extensive diagnostic testing of links to devices other than
Brocade switches and adapters.

Note: On the Connectrix DS-6620B, DS-6630B, ED-DCX6-8, and ED-DCX6-4

platforms, this license enables the use of IO Insight capability. The license itself
will be identified as "Fabric Vision and IO Insight" license on these platforms.

 FICON Management Server — Also known as "CUP" (Control Unit Port), this
enables host control of switches in mainframe environments.
 Integrated Routing —This license allows any Fibre Channel port in a
ED-DCX-8510-8B, ED-DCX-8510-4B, Connectrix DS-6510B, DS-6520B,
MP-7840B, or DS-6620B to be configured as an EX_Port supporting Fibre Channel
Routing. This eliminates the need to add an FR4-18i blade for FCR purposes, and
also provides either quadruple or octuple the bandwidth for each FCR connection
(when connected to another 16Gbs or 32Gbs-capable port).
 Integrated Routing Ports on Demand – This license allows any Fibre Channel
port in a ED-DCX6-8B or ED-DCX6-4B to be configured as an EX_Port supporting
Fibre Channel Routing. The maximum number of EX_Ports supported per platform

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is provided in the license. This eliminates the need to add an FR4-18i blade for FCR
purposes, and also provides octuple the bandwidth for each FCR connection
(when connected to another 32Gbs-capable port).
 Advanced Extension - This license enables two advanced extension features: FCIP
Trunking and Adaptive Rate Limiting. The FCIP Trunking feature allows multiple IP
source and destination address pairs (defined as FCIP Circuits) via multiple 1 GbE
or 10 GbE interfaces to provide a high bandwidth FCIP tunnel and failover
resiliency. In addition, each FCIP circuit supports four QoS classes (Class-F, High,
Medium and Low Priority), each as a TCP connection. The Adaptive Rate Limiting
feature provides a minimum bandwidth guarantee for each tunnel with full
utilization of the available network bandwidth without impacting throughput
performance under high traffic load. This license is available on the
ED-DCX-8510-8B/ED-DCX-8510-4B for the FX8-24 on an individual slot basis.
 10GbE FCIP/10G Fibre Channel—This license enables the two 10GbE ports on
the FX8-24 and/or the 10G FC capability on FC16-xx blade ports supported on
ED-DCX-8510 platforms except for the FC16-64 blade. On the DS-6510B,
DS-6520B this license enables 10G FC ports. This license is not applicable to the
Connectrix MP-7840B, Connectrix DS-6620, or ED-DCX6 platforms.
 On FX8-24:
With this license installed and assigned to a slot with an FX8-24 blade, two
additional operating modes (in addition to 10x1GbE ports mode) can be
selected:
– 10x1GbE ports and 1x10GbE port, or
– 2x10GbE ports
 On FC16-xx:
Enables 10G FC capability on an FC16-xx blade in a slot that has this license.
 On DS-6510B, DS-6520B:
Enables 10G FC capability on DS-6510B and DS-6520B switches.
This license is available on the ED-DCX-8510-8B and ED-DCX-8510-4B on an
individual slot basis.
 Advanced FICON Acceleration - This licensed feature uses specialized data
management techniques and automated intelligence to accelerate FICON tape
read and write and IBM Global Mirror data replication operations over distance,
while maintaining the integrity of command and acknowledgment sequences. This
license is available on the MP-7840 and the ED-DCX-8510-8B and
ED-DCX-8510-4B for the FX8-24 on an individual slot basis.
 ICL POD License—This license activates ICL ports on ED-DCX-8510 or ED-DCX6
platform core blades. An ICL license must be installed on the Director platforms at
both ends of the ICL connection.
 On ED-DCX-8510-8B and ED-DCX6-8: The 1st ICL POD license enables 16
(half of the total) UltraScale ICL QSFP ports on ED-DCX-8510-8B or
ED-DCX6-8 Directors, enabling eight ICL ports on each core blade. These are
QSFP port number 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 on ED-DCX-8510-8B; while on
ED-DCX6-8, the QSFP port numbers are 0, 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, and 11. The 2nd ICL

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POD license enables the remaining 16 UltraScale ICL QSFP ports on the
Directors. These are QSFP port number 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 on each
core blade of ED-DCX-8510-8B; while on ED-DCX6-8, these are QSFP port
number 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, and 15 on each core blade.
Note that the trunk boundaries are different between CR32-8 core blades on
ED-DCX6-8 and CR16-8 core blades on ED-DCX-8510-8B.
 On Connectrix ED-DCX-8510-4B and ED-DCX6-4B: ICL POD licenses are
different between ED-DCX6-4B and ED-DCX-8510-4B Directors. On an
ED-DCX6-4B, the 1st ICL POD license enables eight (half of the total)
UltraScale ICL QSFP ports on the Director, enabling four ICL ports on each
core blade, which are QSFP port number 0, 1, 4, and 5. The 2nd ICL POD license
on ED-DCX6-4B enables the remaining eight UltraScale ICL QSFP ports on the
Director, which are QSFP port number 2, 3, 6, and 7 on each core blade. On a
ED-DCX-8510-4B, a single ICL POD license enables all 16 UltraScale ICL QSFP
ports on the Director. On Connectrix ED-DCX-8510-4B and ED-DCX6-4B: ICL
POD licenses are different between ED-DCX6-4B and ED-DCX-8510-4B
Directors. On an ED-DCX6-4B, the 1st ICL POD license enables eight (half of
the total) UltraScale ICL QSFP ports on the Director, enabling four ICL ports on
each core blade, which are QSFP port number 0, 1, 4, and 5. The 2nd ICL POD
license on ED-DCX6-4B enables the remaining eight UltraScale ICL QSFP ports
on the Director, which are QSFP port number 2, 3, 6, and 7 on each core blade.
On a ED-DCX-8510-4B, a single ICL POD license enables all 16 UltraScale ICL
QSFP ports on the Director.
 Enterprise ICL (EICL) License —The EICL license is required on a ED-DCX-8510
chassis when that chassis is connected to four or more ED-DCX-8510 chassis via
ICLs. This license is not applicable to ED-DCX6 Directors.
This license requirement does not depend upon the total number of ED-DCX-8510
chassis that exist in a fabric, but only on the number of other chassis connected to
a ED-DCX-8510 via ICLs. This license is recognized/displayed when operating with
FOS v7.0.1 and enforced by FOS v7.1.0 or later.

Note: The EICL license supports a maximum of nine (9) ED-DCX-8510 chassis
connected in a full mesh topology or up to twelve (12) ED-DCX-8510 chassis
connected in a core-edge topology. Refer to the Connectrix SAN Scalability
Guidelines document for additional information.

 WAN Rate Upgrade 1 License—The WAN Rate Upgrade 1 license provides the
additional WAN throughput up to 10 Gbps on a MP-7840B. The base configuration
for a MP-7840B without this license provides WAN throughput up to 5 Gbps.
 WAN Rate Upgrade 2 License - The WAN Rate Upgrade 2 license provides
unlimited WAN throughput (up to the hardware limit) on a MP-7840B. WAN Rate
Upgrade 2 licenses also enable the use of two 40GbE ports on a MP-7840B. The
40GbE ports cannot be configured without the WAN Rate Upgrade 2 license. A
WAN Rate Upgrade 1 license must be installed on a MP-7840B before a WAN Rate
Upgrade 2 license is installed. A WAN Rate Upgrade 1 license cannot be removed
before the WAN Rate Upgrade 2 license has been removed.

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Note: The WAN Rate Upgrade 1 and WAN Rate Upgrade 2 licenses apply only to
MP-7840B platforms. They control the aggregate bandwidth for all tunnels on that
MP-7840B. The entire capacity controlled by the licenses can be assigned to a
single tunnel, or a portion of the capacity can be assigned to multiple tunnels. The
total bandwidth aggregated for all tunnels should not exceed the limits established
by the licenses.

 Extension Upgrade License – The Extension Upgrade license is available on the

Brocade 7810, enabling additional ports, capacity, and features that provide the
following: 12 32Gb/s FC ports, 6 10Gb/s Ethernet ports, 4 tunnels, 6 circuits per
tunnel, 2.5Gb/s WAN throughput, Fabric Vision, Extension Trunking, Brocade ISL
Trunking, Integrated Routing Ports on Demand, and Brocade Extended Fabrics.
This license is shown as a combination of existing FOS licenses that enable the
above capabilities and features.

Note: FOS v8.2.2b and later supports 6 10Gb/s Ethernet ports in base
configuration of Brocade MP-7810. 10 Gb/s Ethernet ports can be enabled without
the Extension Upgrade license.

Licensed software as standard

The following licensed software is available with the hardware and no additional
purchase is necessary:
 Web Tools-Administration, configuration, and maintenance of fabric switches and
SANs
 Advanced Zoning-Division of a fabric into virtual private SANs

Important notes
This section contains information that you should consider before you use Fabric OS
v8.2.3d.

CMCNE compatibility
CMCNE 14.4.5 is required to manage switches running FOS v8.2.3d.

CMDCE compatibility
CMDCE 10.x is not qualified or supported for management of 8G or 16G hardware
platforms operating with FOS v8.1x and later firmware versions. You must first
upgrade CMDCE to CMCNE 14.4.5 if you are planning to upgrade devices to v8.2.2 or
later.

Web Tools compatibility

FOS v8.2.3d is qualified and supported with Oracle Java version 8 update 202.

Note: Microsoft Edge version 79 and later (Chromium-based) is not supported with
Web Tools.

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CloudIQ
FOS 8.2.1a is the minimum version of FOS required to support CloudIQ.

SANnav Management Portal Compatibility

The SANnav Management Portal 2.0.x supports managing SAN switches running
Fabric OS up to v8.2.2x. Compatibility with FOS versions can be found in the SANnav
Management Portal 2.0.x Release Notes. FOS v8.2.2a and later require FOS EULA
acceptance during firmware migration. The SANnav Management Portal 2.0.x does not
support firmware migration from FOS v8.2.2a and later to any FOS version. Use the
SANnav 2.1 Management Portal 2.1.x for firmware migration. Alternatively, use
WebTools or the CLI in FOS v8.2.2a or later for firmware migration.

SMI Compatability
It is important to note that host SMI-S agents cannot be used to manage switches
running Fabric OS 8.2.3d. If you want to manage a switch running Fabric OS 8.2.3d
using the SMI-S interface, you must use the CMCNE integrated SMI agent.

SNMP Support
Fabric OS 8.2.3d documents the supported MIBs in the Brocade Fabric OS MIB
Reference Manual. For information about SNMP support in Fabric OS software and
how to use MIBs, refer to the Brocade Fabric OS Administration Guide for Fabric OS
8.2.2.

Blade Support
Fabric OS v8.2.3d software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the
ED-DCX-8510-8B noted in Table 2.

Table 2 Blade support matrix for ED-DCX-8510-8B and ED-DCX-8510-4B with FOS v8.2.3d

ED-DCX-8510-8B/ED-DCX-8510-4B Blade Support Matrix

FC16-32, FC16-48 16G FC blades FOS v7.0 or later

FC16-64 blade FOS v7.3 or later.

FC8-64 64 port 8Gbit port blade Not supported

FC8-32E, FC8-48E Not supported

FCIP/FC Router blade (FR4-18i) Not supported on FOS v8.1.0c or later

Virtualization/Application Blade (FA4-18) Not supported on FOS v8.1.0c or later

Encryption Blade (FS8-18) Not supported

Extension Blade (FX8-24) FOS v7.0 or later.

Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type.

FCoE/L2 CEE blade FCOE10-24 Not supported

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Table 3 Blade Support Matrix for ED-DCX6-8B and ED-DCX6-4B with FOS v8.2.3d

Fabric OS v8.2.3d software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the ED-DCX6-8B and ED-DCX6-4B
noted in Table 3.

ED-DCX6-8B/ED-DCX6-4B Blade Support Matrix

FC32-48 32G FC blade FOS v8.0.1a or later

SX6 Gen 6 Distance Extension Blade FOS v8.0.1a or later.

Up to maximum of 4 blades of this type.

FOS 8.2.0 or later

FC32-64 32G FC/FCoE blade A maximum of 2 blades of this type is supported when
four SX6 blades are present in the same DCX6-8B
chassis

Note: E_port connections on FC16-64 blade have the following restriction: connecting
a QSFP port between a FC16-64 blade and an ICL QSFP port on a core blade is not
supported.

Note: The QSFPs supported in FC16-64 is also supported on ED-DCX6 core blades
with the condition that the port speed must be configured at fixed 16 Gbps. Otherwise,
the optics will be faulted.

Table 4 Power Supply Requirements for ED-DCX6-8B

Dell does not support ED-DCX6-8B directors connected to a 110 VAC power source.

Power Supply Requirements for Blades in ED-DCX6-8B

Blades Type of ED-DCX6-8B Comments

Blade @200-240 VAC
(Redundant
configurations)

FC32-48 Port Blade 2 Power Supplies Distribute the Power Supplies evenly to 2
different AC connections for redundancy.
FC32-48 Port Blade 3 or 4 Power Supplies
(2+1 or 2+2
redundancy)

FC32-48 Port Blade 3 or 4 Power Supplies

FC32-64 Extension (2+1 or 2+2 redundancy
PB-DCX6-SX6 Blade

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Table 5 Power supply requirement for ED-DCX6-4B

Dell does not support ED-DCX6-4B directors connected to a 110 VAC power source.

Power Supply Requirement for Blades in ED-DCX6-4B

Blades Type of ED-DCX6-4B Configured

Blade @200-240 VAC Number of Ports
(Redundant
configurations)

FC32-48 Port Blade 2 Power Supplies Any combination of 32 Gbps ports and Extension
FC32-64 Extension (1+1 redundancy) blades with QSFP ICLs
PB-DCX6-SX6 Blade

Table 6 Power Supply Requirements for ED-DCX8510-8B (page 1 of 2)

Dell does not support the ED-DCX8510-8B director connected to a 110 VAC power source.

Typical Power Supply Requirements Guidelines for Blades in ED-DCX8510-8B (For specific
calculation of power with different blade combinations, please refer to Appendix A: Power
Specifications in the Brocade DCX 8510-B Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)

ED-DCX 8510-8B
@200-240 VAC
Configured (Redundant
Number of Ports Blades Type of Blade configurations) Comments

Any combination FC16-32, FC16-64 Port Blade 2 Power Supplies 200-240VAC: 1+1
of 8Gb or 16Gb Power Supplies
ports with QSFP
ICLs

256 16Gb ports + FC16-32, FC16-48 Port Blade 2 Power Supplies 200-240VAC: 1+1
QSFP ICLs (Maximum of fully Power Supplies
populated FC16-32 Max 8 FC16-32 port
blades) blades
FC16-64, FC16-64

192 16Gb Ports & FC16-32, Port / Intelligent 2 Power Supplies 200-240VAC: 1+1
max 2 intelligent FC16-48, Blade Power Supplies
blades (FX8-24 FX8-24,FC16-64 Max four FC16-48
/FS8-18/combinat port blades and max
ion) with QSFP 2 Intelligent blades
ICLs

512 16Gb ports + FC16-64 Port Blade 2 Power Supplies 200-240VAC: 1+1
QSFP ICLs Power Supplies

336 16Gb ports + FC16-48 Port Blade 2 Power Supplies 200-240VAC: 1+1
QSFP ICLs (Maximum of Power Supplies
seven FC16-48 Max 7 FC16-48 port
blades, with one blades
empty port blade
slot)

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Table 6 Power Supply Requirements for ED-DCX8510-8B (page 2 of 2)

Dell does not support the ED-DCX8510-8B director connected to a 110 VAC power source.

Typical Power Supply Requirements Guidelines for Blades in ED-DCX8510-8B (For specific
calculation of power with different blade combinations, please refer to Appendix A: Power
Specifications in the Brocade DCX 8510-B Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)

ED-DCX 8510-8B
@200-240 VAC
Configured (Redundant
Number of Ports Blades Type of Blade configurations) Comments

512 16Gb ports FC16-64 Port Blade 2 Power Supplies 200-240VAC: 1+1
Power Supplies

384 16Gb ports + FC16-48 Port Blade 4 Power Supplies 200-240VAC:

QSFP ICLs For ED-DCX
8510-8B, four (2+2)
220V AC Power
Supplies are required

384 8Gb ports + FC16-64 Port Blade 2 Power Supplies 200-240VAC:

QSFP ICLs For ED-DCX
8510-8B, four (2+2)
220V AC Power
Supplies are required

Any combination FC16-32, FC16-48, Intelligent Blade 4 Power Supplies For ED-DCX
of 8Gb or 16Gb FX8-24 /Combination 8510-8B, four (2+2)
ports and 220V AC Power
intelligent blades Supplies are required
with QSFP ICLs when any special
purpose blade are
installed

Table 7 Power Supply Requirements for ED-DCX8510-4B

Dell does not support the ED-DCX8510-4B director connected to a 110 VAC power source.

Typical Power Supply Requirements Guidelines for Blades in ED-DCX8510-4B

(For specific calculation of power draw with different blade combinations, please refer to Appendix
A: Power Specifications in the Brocade DCX 8510-4 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)

Configured Blades Type of Blade ED-DCX8510-4 Comments

Number of Ports B
@200-240 VAC
(Redundant
configurations)

96 ports max with FC16-32, Port Blade 2 Power 1+1 redundancy with
QSFP ICLs Supplies 200-240 VAC power
supplies

Any combination FC16-32, Intelligent Blade 2 Power 200-240VAC: 1+1 Power

of 8Gb or 16 Gb FC16-48, /Combination Supplies Supplies
ports and FC16-64,
intelligent blades FX8-24
with QSFP ICLs

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Scalability
Refer to the Dell Support Matrix (ESM) for more information regarding the currently
supported envelope. The Dell Support Matrix is available through E-Lab
Interoperability Navigator at
http://elabnavigator.dell.com, under the PDFs and Guides tab.

Important Notes
FCoE
The following topologies for FCoE on the FC32-64 are not supported with
FOS v8.2.3d.
 Cisco UCS server directly connected to the FC32-64 without a Fabric Interconnect
module.
 Cisco UCS server with a Fabric Interconnect module connected to the FC32-64 via
a Nexus 5000 series switch in between. Neither running FCoE NPV mode nor L2
switching mode on the Nexus 5000 is supported.

FC-NVMe
 FOS 8.1.0 or later is required to support FC-NVMe devices.
 FOS 8.2.1 or earlier does not support FC-NVMe over FCR configurations. FOS
8.2.3d supports FC-NVMe in edge fabric to edge fabric over FCR configuration.

In-flight Encryption and Compression

 FOS 8.2.3d supports in-flight encryption & compression on Connectrix DS-6510B,
DS-6520B, ED-DCX 8510B, DS-6620B, DS-6630B, and FC32-48 port blade.
In-flight encryption or compression on the Brocade DS-6620 and DS-6630 is
supported with FOS 8.2.0a or later.
 To enable in-flight encryption on DS-6620B, SFP port 44 - 47 must be disabled. If
port 44 - 47 have been configured for in-flight compression with FOS v8.1.x or
earlier, firmware upgrade to FOS v8.2.0 or later will be blocked until in-flight
compression is moved to other ports in the switch.
 FOS 8.2.2 or later is required to support trunking for encryption ports on the
FC32-48 port blade.
 Firmware upgrade to FOS v8.2.2 or later with encryption ports enabled on
FC32-48 blade is nondisruptive.

VM Insight
 VM Insight is supported on Connectrix DS-6610B, DS-6620B, DS-6630B, and
ED-DCX6 running FOS v8.1.0 and later.
Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 Fibre Channel platforms supports frames with the
optional FC Application Header for VM Insight to pass through. Connectrix
MP-7840B and SX6 running FOS v8.1.0 supports the Application Header in FCP
emulating tunnel. FCP emulating tunnel or FICON emulation are not supported in
other extension platforms or earlier firmware. Non-emulating tunnel on extension
platforms supports pass through of Application Header.

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 VM Insight is not supported across FCR but frames with Application Header may
traverse through FCR.
 FOS v8.2.0 supports VM performance metrics in flows on ingress F_Port only.
Connectrix DS-6620B and DS-6610B supports FC metrics. Connectrix ED-DCX6
Directors supports both FC and SCSI IO metrics.
 Legacy static flow does not monitor SCSI IOPS statistics for frames with
Application Header.
 Duplicate sub-flow entries are displayed after a switch HA failover or multiple
restart of VM traffic without clearing status. The workaround is to use "flow
--reset sys_mon_all_vms" command reset.
 FOS v8.2.3d does not support VM Insight for FC-NVMe traffics.

ClearLink Diagnostics (D_Port)

 Fabric OS 8.2.x supports D_Port tests between two Connectrix switches and
between Connectrix B-Series switches and Gen 5 (16 Gbps) and Gen 6 (32 Gbps)
Fibre Channel Adapters from QLogic and Emulex. Following are specific adapter
models and driver versions tested by Brocade with Fabric OS v8.2.3d for
ClearLink.1

Emulex 16G Emulex 32G QLogic 16G QLogic 32G

Adapter Adapter Adapter Adapter

Adapter Model LPe16002B-M6 LPe32002-M2 QLE2672 QLE2742

Adapter 11.4.204.20 11.4.142.23 v8.05.44 v8.05.44

Firmware

Adapter Driver 11.4.142.23 11.4.204.8 STOR Miniport STOR Miniport

9.1.17.21 9.1.17.21

1 Adapter firmware or driver versions that are later than the ones listed in the table may not work.

 The D_Port long duration test can only be run on one port at a time.
 Long-duration electrical loopback tests are not supported.
 D_Port test on 4x32GFC breakout QSFP optics (p/n 57-1000351-01) and 128GFC
non-breakout QSFP (part number 57-1000331-01) have the following restrictions:
 D_Port for these modules in X6 ICL ports are supported without electric or
optical loopback tests
 D_Port on any user port connected by a QSFP requires all 4 user ports within
the same QSFP to be in D_Port mode
 D_Port test requires all user ports in a QSFP to be in the same logical switch
 Dynamic or On-Demand D_Port is not supported on the user ports in these
modules

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 If D_Port test between a Brocade switch and an Emulex adapter is stopped shortly
after the test has started, the adapter firmware may display "No FC Cables
connecting the port to switch". The workaround is to restart D_Port test to
completion.

Forward Error Correction (FEC)

 FEC is mandatory with Gen 6 Fibre Channel operating at 32 Gbps. This means that
the portcfgfec command only applies to ports running at 16 Gbps or 10 Gbps.
 FEC capability is not supported with all DWDM links. This means that FEC may
need to be disabled on 16 Gbps or 10 Gbps ports when using DWDM links with
some vendors. This is done using the portcfgfec command. Failure to disable FEC
on these DWDM links may result in link failure during port bring up. For supported
DWDM equipment, please refer to the Distance Solution table of the Dell Support
Matrix.
 Access Gateway
The 32G links with 4x32G QSFP ports (port 48-port 63) do not have default
mappings. These ports will be disabled by default when a Connectrix DS-6620B is
enabled for Access Gateway mode or the configuration set to default.
 Attempts to remove failover port mapping from N-Port number 0 on an Access
Gateway fails. This problem does not exist on other N-Port numbers.

Ingress Rate Limiting

 Fabric OS 8.1.0 does not support ingress rate limiting on Connectrix Gen 6
DS-6610B, DS-6620B, DS-6630B or ED-DCX6 platforms.

Ethernet Management Interface

 The recommended interface speed configuration for a Brocade DS-6620B is 1G
auto-negotiate. If a DS-6620B is configured for 10/100M Gb/s forced-speed and
fails to establish a link, use a cross-over cable.
 If a Brocade switch management interface is running at 10 Mb/s, certain FOS
operations such as firmwaredownload may fail.
 The 10Gb/s management interface on CPX6 blades is not supported.
 The 10 Gbps management interface on CPX6 blades is not supported.
 Half-duplex mode for the ED-DCX6 Director and MP-7840B is not supported and is
blocked.
 External default route to the private IPv4 Class B network of 172.16.0.0/16 is
unreachable over the management interface due to the existence of a more
specific route from an internal Virtual Fabric ID address of 172.16.0.61/16 for FID
128. The solution is to delete the external default route or change it to a more
specific address. The Virtual Fabric address will no longer block management
access to the IPv4 Class B address range of 172.16.0.0/16.

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Extension
 IP Extension (IPEXT) between a Connectrix MP-7840B and a SX6 blade is
supported only if the MP-7840B is running FOS v8.0.1 or later. FCIP extension
between a Connectrix MP-7840B with FOS v7.4 and a SX6 blade with FOS v8.0.1 or
later is supported. The following table documents the combinations.

Site1 Site1 Site2

Switch/Blade Firmware Switch/Blade Site2 Firmware Supported

MP-7840B 8.0.1 or later 7840 7.4.x or later Both FCIP and IPEXT traffic

SX6 8.0.1 or later 7840 7.4.x FCIP traffic but not IPEXT
traffic

SX6 8.0.1 or later 7840 8.0.1 or later Both FCIP and IPEXT traffic

SX6 8.0.1 or later SX6 8.0.1 or later Both FCIP and IPEXT traffic

 It is recommended that administrators do not configure the HA VE pair (VE16,

VE26), (VE17, VE27), (VE18, VE28), etc. where each VE in the pair is in a different
LS with different traffic policy (port based routing and exchange based routing).
The workaround is to configure different HA VE pairs such as (VE16, VE27), (VE17,
VE26), etc. when putting each VE pair in different LS with different traffic policy.
 When Non-Terminate TCP (NT-TCP) is enabled on Traffic Control Lists (TCLs) and
a firmware downgrade to FOS v7.4.1d is attempted on Connectrix MP-7840B, the
downgrade will be blocked. Users must remove NT-TCP from the TCLs with
NT-TCP enabled in order to downgrade the firmware. After firmware is
downgraded to FOS v7.4.1d, users can re-enable the NT-TCP flag.
 Non-disruptive firmware download for IP extension supports non-disruption to IP
traffic for all terminate TCP connections. UDP and non-terminate TCP traffic may
be disrupted during HCL.
 When downgrading from FOS v8.1.0a to an earlier release during HCL, the
following message may be seen. This message can be ignored and has no
functional impact.
[ESM-1100], 343, SLOT 1 FID 128, WARNING, switch0,
esm_cfg_ip.c:2226 Could not get PMTU info from cfgdb

 FOS v8.2.0 does not support dynamic LAG (LACP) on Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports.
 If a MP-7840B or DCX6 director with SX6 blade in non-VF is assigned with a fabric
ID other than 128, the backend ports on 7840 and SX6 during heavy traffic load
may encounter credit loss, which can result in traffic disruption over the VE ports.
This is tracked as Defect 660208.

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Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform

 FOS v8.2.0 and later supports vTap on Connectrix Gen 5 and Gen 6 platforms to be
monitored by the Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform. The supported
Connectrix B-Series platforms include: DS-6510B, DS-6505B, DS-6520B,
ED-DCX-8510, DS-6630B, DS-6620B, DS-6610B, ED-DCX6.
 vTap is not supported on QSFP ports (port 96 - 127) on Brocade DS-6630B with
Virtual Fabric (VF) mode.
It is supported in non-VF mode only.
 If QSFP ports (port 96 - 127) on a Brocade G630 switch are part of the
sys_analytics_vtap flow definition, the mirrored frames from these QSFP ports
will be discarded for some duration after an HAreboot or after a
sys_analytics_vtap flow de-activation.
 Analytics Switch Link (ASL) connection is not supported on QSFP ports (port 96 -
127) on Connectrix DS-6630B. Enabling ASL on these ports will segment the link.
 vTap and auto-discovered AF_Ports do not support high availability. In the event
that an AF_Port is re-discovered by a fabric switch after a domain change on the
attached Analytics Monitoring Platform and followed by an hafailover or hareboot
of the fabric switch, the remote AF_Port information would be stale and vTap flows
cannot be activated. In this case, use one of the following workarounds:
 Manually configure the AF_Port after hafailover or hareboot
 Disable and then enable the AF_Port on the Analytics Monitoring Platform
 Deactivate vTap flow before firmware download, hafailover, or hareboot and
activate vTap flow again.
 vTap and CS_CTL are mutually exclusive on a fabric switch. If CS_CTL is enabled
on one port, the entire switch cannot enable vTap. An F_Port trunk supporting
CS_CTL must have all ports in the trunk group enabling CS_CTL. Similarly, in order
to enable vTap, all ports in an F_Port trunk must have CS_CTL disabled. In
addition, the master port of a trunk should remain the same between CS_CTL
enable and disable. If this sequence is not followed, vTap may remain active even
after CS_CTL is enabled on an F_Port, or the error message "Disable QoS zones
error" may be observed when enabling vTap. A suggested method is to use the
following sequence:
 When enabling CS_CTL mode, enable on all slave ports, followed by enabling
on the master port, noted as port M.
 When disabling CS_CTL mode, disable all active ports in the trunk, except the
master port M. Disable CS_CTL mode on port M. Enable all ports in the trunk
followed by disabling CS_CTL mode on the remaining ports.
 When CS_CTL is enabled on a port without any connection, after reboot and
disabling CS_CTL, vTap cannot be enabled. The workaround is to enable the
port as a SIM port after disabling CS_CTL, then toggle the port and remove the
SIM port configuration.
 vTap and in-flight encryption or compression compatibility is supported only on the
following platforms: Connectrix ED-DCX-8510, ED-DCX6, DS-6620B, DS-6630B,
and DS-6520B. On ED-DCX8510 and DS-6520B platforms, the chassis

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configuration "vTap and Encryption/Compression Coexistence Mode" must be

enabled when ports with vTap enabled and ports with in-flight encryption or
compression enabled belong to the same ASICs. Please refer to the hardware
installation guides of these platforms for port to ASIC mapping boundary.
 When "vTap and Encryption/Compression Coexistence Mode" is enabled, the total
IOPS on the same ASIC chip is limited to 250,000. If the IOPS exceeds the limit,
the vTap flow will be deactivated.
 When "vTap and Encryption/Compression Coexistence Mode" is enabled, the
effective default zone access mode must not be "All Access".
 Running flow --show sys_analytics_vtap command when vTap and QoS High
compatibility mode is enabled but vTap flow is not active may display incorrect the
message: "Enable vTap and QoS High Priority Zone Compatibility Mode to active
vTap flow. Please use the configurechassis command to enable this compatibility
mode." This is tracked as defect 604429
 After a configuredownload followed by switchenable, or a flow statistics reset on
Connectrix DCX6 and DS-6620B, MAPS may incorrectly reports VTAP IOPS >
250,000 violation.
 AMPOS 2.2.0 or later is required to support FC32-64 blades. Users should upgrade
Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform to AMPOS 2.2.0 or later before adding
PB-DCX6-64P32G blades to ED-DCX6.

Flow Vision
 Flow Vision supports only logical group names that begin with alphabetic
characters.
 Frame count statistics of a Flow Monitoring flow may stop incrementing after a
statsclear command. To work around the problem, users may run the
slotstatsclear command. To recover from such condition, users should run the
following steps:
1. Disable all flows in the logical switch.
2. Delete the problem flow.
3. Create a new flow to replace the problem flow.
4. Activate the new replacement flow.
5. Verify the new replacement flow.
6. Enable all other flows.
 IO Insight metrics are supported on ingress and egress ports on Connectrix
ED-DCX6 and on egress ports on Connectrix DS-6620B and DS-6630B switches.
They are not supported on Connectrix DS-6610B switches.
 Activating a Flow Monitoring flow on an egress port on Connectrix DS-6610B with
-frametype parameter may encounter resource not available error.

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 FC-NVMe flow IO Insight metrics are supported with Flow Monitoring flow on an a
port defined on Connectrix DS-6630B and PB-DCX6-64P32G blade only. Users
must use the -nsid parameter with the flow --create command to monitor
FC-NVMe flows. Either a valid Name Space ID (NSID) need to used or the keyword
"all" used to select all valid NSIDs.
 When a flow is created with the -frametype parameter, FC-NVMe traffics included
in the metrics for the following SCSI frame types: SCSI, SCSITur, SCSIXferrdy,
and SCSIGoodStatus.
 Flow Mirroring is not supported on QSFP ports (port 96 - 127) on Connectrix
DS-6630B with Virtual Fabric (VF) mode. It is supported in non-VF mode only.
 Mirror port is not supported on QSFP ports (port 96 - 127) on Connectrix
DS-6630B. Enabling mirror port on these ports will disable the ports.
 If a flow is imported to MAPS and configured with incorrectly configured flow
metrics thresholds, high frequency violation of the thresholds may result in very
slow display of the RASLOG alerts for the violations.

FICON
For FICON-qualified releases, please refer to the "Additional Considerations for FICON
Environments" section of the Appendix for details and notes on deployment in FICON
environments. (This appendix is only included for releases that have completed FICON
qualification).
MAPS
MAPS monitoring of UCS server login does not support the FENCE action even though
the mapsrule command does not block the configuration.

Miscellaneous
 If the ambient temperature is above the recommended operational limit, the power
supply units may shut down, in particular when the ambient temperature is above
62C degree for Connectrix ED-DCX6 Directors. This will result in the switch being
shut down without any warning. Please refer to the DS-6620B Hardware
Installation Guide and the ED-DCX6-8/ED-DCX6-4 Hardware Installation Guides
for the recommended ambient temperature limits for the switches.
 After a Power Supply unit is removed from a Connectrix DS-6620B, the
historyshow command may miss the entries for this FRU removal or insertion
event. In addition, the RASLog ERROR message EM- 1028 may be logged when
the Power Supply is removed. This condition can be corrected by a power-cycle of
the switch.
 After running offline diagnostics mode 1 on QSFP ports, a Connectrix DS-6620B
must be rebooted before operational use.
 All links in an ICL QSFP connection on an ED-DCX6 Director must be configured to
the same speed using the portcfgspeed command from one of the following
supported list: 16 Gbps, 32 Gbps, or ASN.

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 When zoning database size exceeds the maximum supported limit, 2MB for
directors and 1MB for fixed port switches, firmware upgrade from FOS v8.0.x to
FOS v8.1.0a or later may be blocked. Users should run cfgSize command to make
sure the "Zone DB max size" is not exceeded.
 ASN is not supported with 4x32GFC breakout optics (p/n 57-1000351-01) for ICL
of X6 connecting to a 4x16GFC in an ICL of DCX8510. The speed must be set to
16Gbps or 32 Gbps fixed.
 Connecting 4x32GFC breakout optics (p/n 57-1000351-01) to 32Gbps SFP peer
ports on Gen 6 platforms, ports may auto negotiate to 16Gbps after switchdisable
and switchenable on the Gen 6 platforms with 32Gbps SFP ports. The Gen 6
platforms with 32Gbps SFPs should be upgraded to FOS v8.2.0 and later or FOS
v8.1.2b or later to avoid this issue. This issue is more likely to occur when the Gen 6
platforms with 32Gbps SFPs are X6 directors.
 Connectrix DS-6620B LEDs illuminate amber and green during power up.
 Running portloopbacktest lb_mode 1 on Connectrix DS-6630B with FOS v8.2.0 is
not supported and may result in corruption of the attached 32G SFP optics. The
corrupted SFP optics must be replaced as a result. FOS v8.2.0a and later on
DS-6630B is required to run this test.
 Running portloopbacktest -lb_mode 1 -enetmode --slot # -uports # to Ethernet
ports on PB-DCX6-64P32G will always result in failure in FOS v8.2.0a (Defect
649124). Please avoid running this test on Ethernet ports until this issue is fixed.
 A Connectrix DCX6 director that has connections to Access Gateway (AG) should
avoid upgrade to FOS v8.2.0. Otherwise, some FOS service modules on the
standby CP may terminate unexpectedly. The DCX6 director should be upgraded
to FOS v8.2.0a or later instead.

Standards compliance
This software conforms to the Fibre Channel Standards in a manner
consistent with accepted engineering practices and procedures. In
certain cases, Connectrix might add proprietary supplemental
functions to those specified in the standards. For a list of FC
standards conformance, visit the following Brocade Web site:
http://www.brocade.com/sanstandards

Known problems and limitations

Replication solutions
The MP-7810B is currently NOT supported with XtremIO replication and RecoverPoint
for Virtual Machines due to resource restrictions with the MP-7810B. Please refer to
the WAN Optimization table in the Dell Support Matrix for replication products tested
and supported by E-Lab.

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Isilon SyncIQ replication is supported with the MP-7810B when the worker’s count is
controlled to stay within the MP-7810B limits. For more details, please refer to the KB
article:
https://emcservice--c.visualforce.com/apex/KB_BreakFix_clone?id=kA23a000000G
C2x

Adding additional power supplies to an ED-DCX8510-8B

By default, the ED-DCX8510-8B director ships with two power
supplies. If you are installing two new power supplies in a
ED-DCX8510-8B chassis to bring the total of power supplies up to
four, you should change the switchstatuspolicy settings for
PowerSupplies to the following in order to enable the call home
feature if one power supply goes down:

s witch.
s tatus .
policy.
PowerSupplies .
down = 1
s witch.
s tatus .
policy.
PowerSupplies .
marginal = 0

For more details on executing the switchStatusPolicyShow and

switchStatusPolicySet commands, please refer to the Brocade Fabric
a. OS Command Reference Manual.

Note: Dell does not support ED-DCX8510-8B/ED-DCX8510-4B directors connected to

a 110 VAC power source.

All tape drives and libraries

For all B Series switches and blades that do not support L_ports, all tape drives must
be configured to allow point-to-point (or F_Port) logins.

QuickLoop
QuickLoop is not supported on the Dell Connectrix B series switches running 4.x or
higher firmware in either its original hub emulation mode, or in Fabric Assist mode. This
means that direct attachment of private hosts to Connectrix B series switches is not
supported.

Encryption
The following are currently unsupported with the Connectrix ES-5832B encryption
switch and the PB-DCX-16EB encryption blade:
 McData edge switches that carry data
 AG Mode for the ES-5832B is not supported
 Encryption of the following protocols:
 FICON
 iSCSI

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 FCIP
 Encryption with the following Dell products:
 Invista
 Mirrorview
 The following are restrictions and limitations for the ES-5832B encryption switch
and the PB-DCX-16EB encryption blade:
 Dell Symmetrix Storage Arrays
 Dell Symmetrix DMX-3, DMX-4, VMAX
Restrictions:
– User must decide if the SPC-2 bit needs to be enabled/disabled. Changing
this bit after the LUNs are encrypted will result in a different serial number
that could potentially cause data corruption or encrypted LUNs to be
disabled.
– SPC-2 and OS2007 bits cannot be both enabled. This will cause data
corruption in a multipathing environment.
– All Symmetrix directors that host the same LUNs in a multipathing
environment must have the same director bit settings.
 Thin provisioning is not supported in the Connectrix B-Series encryption
environments.
 VMware VAAI commands and VMware 5.x VMFS5. See the Encryption section on
page 24 for more information.

FCIP
IPv6 and VLAN tagging are currently not supported.
Using the Switch Admin Port tab in Web Tools and un-checking F-Port and E-Port.
Please refer to the Dell Connectrix B Series Fabric OS Web Tools Administrator's
Guide for more information.

Port swapping
Swapped ports do not get saved as part of a config upload. In addition, when Fabric
Watch detects errors on swapped ports, the wrong area number will be reported.

Tape pipelining
When connecting a tape device on the backend of a CDL over FCIP, the core and edge
ports must be configured as VE_Ports to allow a merged fabric.
If you do not want the fabric to merge (VE_Port to VEX_Port), you must turn tape
pipelining off.

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Firmware upgrades and downgrades

The following switches can be upgraded to Fabric OS v8.2.3d:
 DS-6505B
 DS-6510B
 DS-6520B
 ED-DCX8510-4B
 ED-DCX8510-8B
 MP-7840B

Platform Specific Downloads

This release of FOS is available for entitled equipment download in Platform Specific
Download (PSD) form. FOS PSD releases provide a smaller version of the FOS image
that can only be loaded on a single hardware platform, consisting ofa single switch
model or group of switch models. These FOS PSD images enable much faster
download and file transfer times since they are between 65-90% smaller in size than
traditional full FOS images.
Unlike traditional FOS release images that can be installed on any supported Brocade
switch and director, FOS PSD images must be downloaded separately for each
platform that the FOS release will be used on. The full list of unique FOS PSD images
available for this release and the models that each PSD image supports is noted in
section “Image Filenames”.

Using FOS PSDs

FOS PSD images are generally used in the same manner as traditional full FOS release
images.
Once loaded onto a switch, the FOS image running is identical to what would be in use
if a traditional full image was usedfor the installation. Issuing a firmwareshow command
on a switch will display only the FOS version level, with no indication of whether the
code was loaded from a FOS PSD image or a full FOS image.

Loading FOS PSDs via FOS Command Line

Installing a FOS PSD image on a switch is performed in the same manner as using a
traditional full FOS image. If a FOSPSD image is loaded on an incorrect switch model
(for example, attempting to load a FOS PSD image for a Gen 6 entry level switch on a
Gen 6 Director), the following error message displays:
Cannot download the reques ted firmware becaus e the firmware
does n' t s upport this platform.Pleas e enter another firmware.

Loading FOS PSDs via Brocade SANnav Management Portal

Brocade SANnav Management Portal version 2.1.1 or earlier does not support FOS
PSD images. However, FOS PSD images are supported with SANnav 2.1.1.3 and later
releases. SANnav 2.1.1.3 and later can both host and install FOS PSD images onto
Brocade switches.

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Image Filenames
Table 8 Image Files for Fabric OS v8.2.3d

Image Filename Description

v8.2.3d.md5 Fabric OS v8.2.3d Checksum

v8.2.3d_all_mibs.tar.gz Fabric OS v8.2.3d MIBs

v8.2.3d_EXT.tar.gz Fabric OS v8.2.3d for Linux to install on MP-7840 platforms

v8.2.3d_EXT.zip Fabric OS v8.2.3d for Windows to install on MP-7840

platforms

v8.2.3d_G5_ENTRY.tar.gz Fabric OS v8.2.3d for Linux to install on DS-6505B platform

v8.2.3d_G5_ENTRY.zip Fabric OS v8.2.3d for Windows to install on DS-6505B

platform

v8.2.3d_G5_MID.tar.gz Fabric OS v8.2.3d for Linux to install on DS-6510B platform

v8.2.3d_G5_MID.zip Fabric OS v8.2.3d for Windows to install on DS-6510B

platform

v8.2.3d_G5_ENTP.tar.gz Fabric OS v8.2.3d for Linux to install on DS-6520B platform

v8.2.3d_G5_ENTP.zip Fabric OS v8.2.3d for Windows to install on DS-6520B

platform

v8.2.3d_G5_DIR.tar.gz Fabric OS v8.2.3d for Linux to install on ED-DCX-8510-8B,

ED-DCX-8510-4B platforms

v8.2.3d_G5_DIR.zip Fabric OS v8.2.3d for Windows to install on

ED-DCX-8510-8B, ED-DCX-8510-4B platforms

v8.2.3d_releasenotes_v1.0.p Fabric OS v8.2.3d Release Notes

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Recommended migration paths to FOS v8.2.3d

Migrating from FOS v8.0.x

Any Brocade platform and supported blades in the DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 Blade
Support table and the X6-8/X6-4 Blade Support table running any FOS 8.0 firmware
must be upgraded to FOS 8.1.x firmware before it can be non-disruptively upgraded to
FOS 8.2.3d.
Disruptive upgrades to Fabric OS 8.2.3d are allowed and are supported from FOS 8.0.x
(up to a two-level migration) using the optional -s parameter with the
firmwaredownload command.

Migrating from FOS v8.1.x

Any Connectrix B-Series platform running any FOS v8.1.0a or later can be
non-disruptively upgraded to FOS v8.2.3d.

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Migration from FOS 8.2.x

Any Brocade platform running FOS 8.2.0 or later can be non-disruptively upgraded to
FOS 8.2.3d.

Note: Non-disruptive firmware upgrade from FOS v8.1.0 to FOS v8.2.3d on DS-6610B
is not supported.

Note: Any firmware activation on a ED-DCX8510-8B or ED-DCX8510-4B with an

FX8-24 blade installed will disrupt I/O traffic on the FCIP links.

Note: Firmware downgrades from FOS 8.2.3d to FOS 8.2.0x or earlier versions on the
DS-6610B or DS-6505B are not allowed.

Note: On any Brocade SAN switch platform running FOS v8.2.2b or later, firmware
upgrade or downgrade must acknowledge and accept EULA before firmware can
installation.

Note: Firmware downgrade from FOS 9.0.0a and 9.0.0b to FOS 8.2.3d is not allowed. A
workaround is to upgrade to FOS 9.0.1a first then to downgrade to FOS 8.2.3d. There is
no such limitation on upgrade.

Note: :On a DS-6620B switch with the switchShow command displaying

“switchType” field identified as 162.5, firmware downgrades from FOS 8.2.1a to earlier
versions are not allowed.

Note: Firmware upgrade to FOS 8.2.2 or later will fail if the network interface is set to
half-dulex. You need to change the network interface settings to full duplex using
command "ethif --set" before you initiate the upgrade on the supported switches.

Note: If you loose network connection after changing the network interface to full
duplex, check your uplink if it supports the full duplex mode.

Outstanding defects in v8.2.3d

The following defects are outstanding in Fabric OS v8.2.3d. However, they are unlikely
to impede you in your deployment of Fabric OS v8.2.3d.

Newly Open Defects

Defects open in the current baseline and that are being published for the first time in a
Brocade document (either these Open/Closed Reports or Release Notes.) These open
customer- and Brocade-found defects have been validated. Each month the contents
of this defect table will be replaced by the new month's newly open defects.

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Previously Open
The defects listed in this section titled Previously Open provide a cumulative list of
open defects relevant to the current baseline.

Newly Open Defects

This section lists defects opened against the Fabric OS v8.x code base.

Defect ID: FOS-841478

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.3a Technology: Fibre Channel Services
Symptom: Duplicate PWWN detection resulted in disruption to the existing FICON CHPID.
Device logs into a FICON switch with a PWWN that matches the PWWN of
Condition: another device on the same switch.
Workaround: Avoid intentionally logging in devices with duplicate PWWNs.
Recovery: Remove devices with duplicate PWWNs and bounce the original devices.

Defect ID: FOS-840909

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1c Technology: Fibre Channel Addressing
FCPH-1003 reports duplicate port WWN with a port that does not have the same
Symptom: port WWN.
This is encountered when many devices are requesting 8-bit area and two such
Condition: devices come online at the same time vying for the last available 8-bit area.
Workaround: Bring devices up one at a time, in a staggered order.
Recovery: Re-enable any ports that were disabled.

Defect ID: FOS-840768

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
FOS8.2.3a RAS - Reliability,
Availability, and
Reported In Release: Technology: Serviceability
Symptom: Switch panic when trace module has memory corruptions.
Switch panic when trace module has memory corruptions, and module ID is out
Condition: of range .

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Defect ID: FOS-840717

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
FOS8.2.3b SNMP - Simple Network
Reported In Release: Technology: Management Protocol
Symptom: High CPU usage reported on snmp daemon.
When application query ConnUnit Port table via snmp interface on Gen5
Condition: platforms.

Previously Open Defects

This section lists defects previously reported as open against the Fabric OS v8.x code
base in the open defect report.

Defect ID: FOS-839346

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1d Technology: Routing
Symptom: Path loss experienced after FOS upgrade on Access Gateway
The Path loss occurs when F-port trunk slave on AG is disabled and followed by
Condition: an hareboot.
Recovery: Bounce the affected host/target devices.

Defect ID: FOS-839186

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: System
Reported In Release: FOS9.2.0 Technology: Web Tools
User may encounter failures in config change operations (e.g. portcfg ftrace
Symptom: 3/24 del etc)
This occurs if such config operations are performed within a minute of any
operation (e.g. install / remove / modify HTTP certificates etc) that forces a
Condition: restart of the weblinker
Do not make any config changes (e.g portcfg ftrace 3/24 del, etc) for one minute
after any operation (e.g. install / remove / modify HTTP certificates etc) that
Workaround: entails a restart of the weblinker

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Defect ID: FOS-838514

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
FOS8.2.3a1 FCIP - Fibre Channel
Reported In Release: Technology: over IP
7840, 7810 or SX6 blade encounters DP Linux out of Memory causing IO
Symptom: disruption
FCIP Tunnel down events after many (>> 25,000) FTRACE triggers as indicated
Condition: by XTUN-1997 RASLOGs.

Defect ID: FOS-838213

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS9.1.0b Technology: FCIP
Feature Disable Failure during eHCL resulting in IO disruption after ELS-REC
Symptom: sequence failure when VE port is an XISL.
When an FCP/SCSI error recovery sequence is handled for an ITL on a VE-XISL
Condition: that has FW/OSTP enabled.

Defect ID: FOS-837837

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Other
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.2d4 Technology: Other
Symptom: Performance stats for VE ports are not present in connunitportstat table
Condition: This is observed when using snmpget/snmpwalk to gather VE port stats.

Defect ID: FOS-837755

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS9.1.0b Technology: Name Server / Zoning
Symptom: Stale CAM entries are present on the ports, which were disabled.
When a port is disabled, the CAM entries on the port are not deleted except for
Condition: the Loopback CAM pair.
Recovery: Poweroff the slot or reboot the switch to recover from this incorrect state.

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Defect ID: FOS-837583

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
FOS8.2.3a1 SNMP - Simple Network
Reported In Release: Technology: Management Protocol
SNMP daemon leaks memory and causes switch to hafailover/hareboot/panic
Symptom: when switch runs out of memory.
Condition: Memory leak is observed from SNMP get request for connUnitSNStable objects.

Defect ID: FOS-837280

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS9.0.1c Technology: Port Bring-up
Symptom: Boot over SAN device cannot boot up after upgrade code.
Condition: Boot over SAN over specific options on 32G switches running FOS8.2.3b,
FOS9.0.1c, FOS9.1.0 and FOS9.1.0a.
Recovery: Retry boot over SAN.

Defect ID: FOS-837183

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.2d Technology: MAPS - Monitoring
and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: TX rules for ISL ports do not get triggered for MAPS custom policy that
includes both RX and TX rules for the ISL ports.
Condition: This is specific to Gen 5 stats collection where the stats on the tx
utilization is NOT reported back to maps correctly.

Defect ID: FOS-836944

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2k3 Technology: Software Installation
& Upgrade
Symptom: Cannot firmwaredownload PSD package via SANNAV on some platforms.
Condition: Impacts FOs8.0.2f1, FOS8.1.2k2 and FOS8.1.2k3 only, FOS8.2.x and
FOS9.x do not have this problem.
Workaround: Use CLI.

Defect ID: FOS-836573

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

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Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension

Reported In Release: FOS8.2.3a Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel
over IP
Symptom: FICN_1062 and FICN_1063 RASLOGs every 1.5 seconds on FICON
Emulation enabled FCIP Tunnel
Condition: XRC FICON Emulation enabled tunnel. If a device presents Attn status that
is Idle Status Accepted at the remote site, but then fails to be presented
at the host side, and the device re-presents the Attn status when the host
side is still in progress, then the second and subsequent Attn status
presentations from the device side will be aborted by the device.

Defect ID: FOS-836506

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.3a1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel
over IP
Symptom: Periodic XTUN-1997 triggers when running FICON and FCP/SCSI flows
over an FCIP Tunnel Port Based or Device Based Routing configuration.
The XTUN-1997 triggers are for Keepalive timeouts on the medium
priority circuits.
Condition: FCIP Tunnel with FCP/SCSI flows in a non-EBR logical switch. There are
times when an FCP/SCSI flow uses the control VTN between the switches.
This causes a KATO on the H/M/L active connections.

Defect ID: FOS-836265

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.3a Technology: Fibre Channel Services
Symptom: During code upgrade from FOS v8.2.1x to FOS v8.2.3x, FOS cannot
completely be brought up due to cald core dumps. User observes the
switch hanging.
Condition: Issue is seen when ESRS is configured and call home alert is triggered
before cald is initialized completely.
Workaround: Issue won't be seen without ESRS configuration. Users can bring up the
switch by removing these "cal.esrs" entries from the configuration file.

Defect ID: FOS-836219

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: System
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1c Technology: Optics
Symptom: CLI "sfpshow -all" did not display complete output and the polling of
smart SFP data stopped. It reported an very old "Last poll time:"

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Condition: When SFP is plugged into a disabled port or SFP on disabled port is
reseated.
Workaround: Run sfpshow -f to reactive smart data polling.

Defect ID: FOS-836043

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.2b Technology: CLI
Symptom: DCX8510 returning chassis S/N when being queried for brocade-chassis
info via REST, when WWN 1 S/N was previously returned and used for
entitlement.
Condition: When REST URL brocade-chassis/chassis URL is being used.
Workaround: Use CLI chassisshow to get WWN 1 serial number, or upgrade to a FOS
version with fix and use the new leaf "entitlement-serial-number" via
REST.

Defect ID: FOS-836031

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.3a Technology: Fibre Channel Services
Symptom: Switch panic after FDMI daemon terminated.
Condition: FDMI terminated after memory overrun during GPAT processing. This
release addressed some port attribute length issues and also added
enhancements to address and fix corruption around port attribute
queries.

Defect ID: FOS-835791

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.3a Technology: Platform Services
Symptom: Individual ports, that were previously disabled, are enabled while running
CLI command switchcfgpersistentenable
Condition: This is seen with CLI command switchcfgpersistentenable when the
switch persistent state is already enabled and the switch is already online.
Recovery: Re-disable the enabled ports.

Defect ID: FOS-835154

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.2d Technology: Name Server / Zoning
Symptom: Dual CP reboot following some zoning changes performed via HTTP.
Condition: Panic occurs when multiple switches are performing configuration
changes by webtools at the same time. This issue is more likely when one
of the configuration changes fails.

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Defect ID: FOS-834868

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Firmware
upload/download
Symptom: firwareactivation CLI fails with SULB-1043, after staging a firmware
upgrade/downgrade: 2021/09/22-14:58:50:367354, [SULB-1043],
76469/35239, SLOT 1 | CHASSIS, INFO, , Firmwareactivate command
failed.
Condition: There is a timing condition that may be seen intermittently on an X6
chassis, if/when the firmwareactivate CLI context process falls behind of
HA context process. The fix is only effective for future upgrades. If the
upgrade "from release" is without this fix, the issue may still exist.
Recovery:

Defect ID: FOS-834163

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: None Technology: FCIP
Symptom: Extension tunnel on 7810, 7840 or SX6 blade will not come online in a NAT
(Network Address Translation) enabled WAN environment.
Condition: When an extension circuit is configured to run over a WAN path that utilizes
NAT, the circuit will not establish.

Defect ID: FOS-833940

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: None Technology: SNMP - Simple Network
Management Protocol
Symptom: SNMP panic resulted in director out of HA sync
Condition: After using 3rd parity monitoring tool which sends a SNMPGET request with
an invalid Fibre Channel port index. This could happenen with FOS8.2.3 or
later, FOS9.0.1 or later, FOSv7.4.2h or later and the following CCEs: v8.2.2d4,
v8.2.2c6, v8.2.1e1, v8.2.1c5.

Defect ID: FOS-833935

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.3a Technology: AAA - Authentication,
Authorization, and
Accounting
Symptom: Encountered Weblinker posting raslog RAS-1004 with VERIFYs
Condition: This issue is seen on switches running FOS8.2.3a with LDAP configuration
during LDAP login from management application.

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Defect ID: FOS-833550

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.2c Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel
over IP
Symptom: 7800 CP may encounter kernel panic when the DP generates a large number
of XTUN-1006 events per second.
Condition: During FC Egress timeouts from the FCIP DP, the current implementation
does not limit the number of XTUN-1006 RASLOGs that can be generated per
second. When a severe event occurs where many FCIP FC Tx Timeouts occur
(an error case == something else is wrong), the FCIP DP will generate enough
XTUIN-1006 RASLOGs to consume all CP memory resulting in the kernel
panic.
Workaround: Fix the broken device that is causing the FCIP TX timeouts.

Defect ID: FOS-832476

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.2h Technology: SNMPv2, SNMPv3 &
MIBs
Symptom: Unable to block ports using snmptraps --block command in VF
Condition: This occurs when logical switches are created and then deleted in a
random manner, leaving holes in the list of valid FID's.
Recovery: Please move port to default logical switch before blocking the SNMP traps
for particular port using "snmptraps --block" command. And then move
the port back to original logical switch after blocking the port is
successful.

Defect ID: FOS-831881

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring/RAS
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.2h Technology: Monitoring and
Alerting Policy Suite
(MAPS)
Symptom: snmpV2 MIBS does not show any output when VF ID is set in the context
Condition: The behavior is a result of the VF registration for the contexts not being
implemented for snmpV2 tables.

Defect ID: FOS-830052

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: System
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1c Technology: CLI

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Symptom: Port initialization interop issues with a certain SFP, when connecting to a
specific 3rd device. This may result in some ports showing errors and
some going into no_sync, port_Flt state.
Condition: This is seen with specific vendor SFP and resolved via a new CLI
"sfpprogram" enhancement to adjust port optics setting for interop. The
new CLI syntax is as follows: sfpprogram port|port-range

Defect ID: FOS-829594

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: FICON
Reported In Release: FOS9.0.1b Technology: FICON
Symptom: Issuing a switchenable when the switch is already enabled may lead to I/O
disruption
Condition: Running switchenable when the switch is already enabled and has LISLs.
Workaround: Check if the switch is enabled first before running switchenable.
Recovery: The bounced LISL comes back up on its own.

Defect ID: FOS-829441

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.2d Technology: WAN Performance
Analysis Tools
Symptom: "XTUN-1001 : memory allocation error" messages in RASLOG after using FCIP
SLA or manual WTOOL functionality.
Condition: DRAM2 memory allocation failures after WTOOL DRAM2 leak gets too
severe. Leak occurs during WTOOL session deletion.
Workaround: reboot.
Recovery: Upgrade to code with WTOOL DRAM2 leak fix.

Defect ID: FOS-828899

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel
over IP
Symptom: DP Panic after upgrading to FOS8.2.1 through FOS8.2.2d while running
FICON XRC traffic over XRC Emulation enabled FCIP Tunnel.
Condition: When processing back to back Command Retry Status and Device End
status frames for an XRC Read Record Set chain.

Defect ID: FOS-828208

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Other
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: Other
Symptom: Webtools hardware view does not show the Led status correctly for ports
50, 51 and 117 .

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Condition: This issue is observed only for Brocade G630 switch and isolated to
webtools only. CLI correctly shows the ports as online.

Defect ID: FOS-827719

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.3 Technology: SNMP - Simple
Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: CORE and FFDC are generated on newly active CP after a dual CP
firmwaredownload.
Condition: This is a very rare occurrence triggered by a hard to reproduce timing
issue hit when EM module cannot present the blade list information to
snmp daemon in a timely manner when the newly downloaded CP takes
over the active CP role.

Defect ID: FOS-827718

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.3 Technology: High Availability
Symptom: Standby CP may remain at down level firmware version after a concurrent
dual CP firmware upgrade failure
Condition: This may be seen as a consequence of a deamon termination on the
active during warm recovery, leading to an ha sync failure and panic on
the standby CP.

Defect ID: FOS-827342

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: System
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1c Technology: CLI
Symptom: Switch reports class-3-discards value as 4294967295 after clearing port
stats.
Condition: After run CLI portstatsclear.

Defect ID: FOS-826750

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Other
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.2c Technology: Other
Symptom: SNMP incorrectly reporting uptime of 497 days due to deprecation of
switchuptime CLI command
Condition: This is a rare occurrence and may be encountered upon: a) performing a
firmwarecleaninstall, or b) When a new switch is first installed with
FOS8.2.2x

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Defect ID: FOS-826256

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.2c Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel
over IP
Symptom: FX8-24 logging repeated circuit offline/online events until a hang.
Condition: After FX8-24 blade takes a panic with an invalid memory accessing
Recovery: Reboot of the FX8-24 blade on one or both sides

Defect ID: FOS-826163

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: System
Reported In Release: FOS9.0.0b Technology: Component
Symptom: Fanshow/sensorshow shows "Below minimum" instead of "Faulty".
Condition: This is seen upon removal and reinsertion of PS with integrated FAN. And
also during disruptive testing of the FAN by deliberate insertion of an
object to stop the FAN.

Defect ID: FOS-825690

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2 Technology: Platform Services
Symptom: The chassis management module can't show the FOS version.
Condition: This only impact Brocade6546 platform.

Defect ID: FOS-825441

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: None Technology: Licensing
Symptom: After hareboot or reboot, POD license is not activated.
Condition: POD factory-installed licenses are not activated. Only a small set of G648
are impacted and no other platforms are impacted.
Recovery: Reinstall factory-installed licenses after every reboot or hareboot.

Defect ID: FOS-825388

Technical Severity: Critical Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.2c Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel
over IP
Symptom: FCIP Tunnel up, but all I/O stops flowing over the tunnel and application
timeouts
Condition: FCIP tunnel in FCR configuration has a slow leak of end to end stream
credits. When the credits are exhausted, all IO is halted.
Workaround: Bounce the VE port(s)

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Defect ID: FOS-822104

Technical Severity: Critical Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel
over IP
Symptom: User may experience FCIP ingress traffic stopped due to no more internal
credits available and associated C3-1014/C3-1015 RASLOG messages on a
7840 platform or C4-1014/C4-1015 RASLOG messages in a chassis with an
SX6 blade. In the case of an SX6 blade, the blade will be faulted after
multiple attempts to recover internal credits.
Condition: This stems from a timing issue during either tunnel disable or tunnel
down processing where credits from FCIP back to FTNL aren't sent. This
leads to permanent flow control on the peer side and the credit loss on
the peer side FC ingress side.

Defect ID: FOS-821689

Technical Severity: Critical Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Virtualization
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1c Technology: NPIV - N-Port ID
Virtualization
Symptom: Customer unable to access storage after ISL is enabled.
Condition: This is seen when the device sends FLOGI with VVL key of BRCD, VVL bit
and NPIV bit set and VVL version of 0 (zero), followed by FLOGI with no
VVL bit set.
Workaround: Disable D-port functionality on the device, or use a 32G device instead.

Defect ID: FOS-821073

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring/RAS
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1d Technology: Monitoring and
Alerting Policy Suite
(MAPS)
Symptom: Customers may encounter: 1. Specific 3rd party devices flood the switch with
GID_PN requests, leading to delays and impact monitoring applications. 2.
Maps put out alert about Tx Power of SFP being 0.
Condition: The flood of GID_PN only happens on switches that have QSFP, QSFPP,
QSFP28(YTA) and running FOS v8.1.2g/later, v8.2.1c/later and v8.2.2/later.
Maps alert can happen on any SFP type and any release.

Defect ID: FOS-820194

Technical Severity: Critical Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management

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Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1c Technology: FSPF - Fabric Shortest

Path First
Symptom: FSPF daemon crashes and causes failover.
Condition: This occurs when EX-port trunk is coming online.
Workaround: Enable the EX-port trunk only when the switch is not busy, to avoid this
rare timing issue.
Recovery: The failover does automatically recover the trunk.

Defect ID: FOS-819887

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1d Technology: Analytics Monitoring
Symptom: BSL uploads may not show any ports stats in file fibrechannel-stats-db
Condition: This may occur with any Time zone change or system date change (using
CLI command date) or any NTP server sync that results in drift greater
than 30 seconds.
Workaround: Any Time zone change or system date change ( using date command )
must be accompanied by system reboot for the BSL data to be properly
interpreted right.

Defect ID: FOS-819695

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1c Technology: MAPS - Monitoring
and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: From BNA, when the user adds the rule HA_SYNC with operator ge, g, for
the active policy, the system does not generate an error as would be
expected.
Condition: This occurs with BNA, when adding the rule HA_SYNC with operator ge, g

Defect ID: FOS-819210

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2j Technology: High Availability
Symptom: Customer may observe cold recovery on fixed-port switches during FOS
firmware upgrade, resulting in traffic disruption

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Condition: This may be seen only on fixed-port switches following an upgrade to

FOS8.1.2j or later and FOS8.2.1d or later. Once on FOS8.1.2j and
FOS8.2.1d, an hareboot from a daemon panic or CLI may trigger a cold
recovery again. This stems from a small timing window during ha warm
recovery on fix-port switches and does not occur with every warm
recovery. Directors are not impacted by this issue and fixed-port switch
running FOS 8.2.2 and above are not impacted.

Defect ID: FOS-819122

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0a Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel
over IP
Symptom: Extension device may hit out memory condition signified by the following
RAS Log: XTUN-1001 FTNL Tunnel 24 Memory allocation failed tracker
3/831. The extension device may also encounter DP panics once memory
is depleted.
Condition: Varying a FICON chipid offline when running through an extension device
with FICON emulation enabled. In addition, this can be hit when hitting
exception cases while running an HCL FOS upgrade. This issue is more
pronounced in a large device configuration.

Defect ID: FOS-818669

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2d Technology: MAPS - Monitoring
and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: CLI command devicelogin --show output may reflect some ports missing
from the CLI output.
Condition: This may occur with UCS device ports with a base address ending in 0x40
0x80 or 0xc0.
Workaround: change addressing around to have these devices on ports with
AL_PA=0x00.

Defect ID: FOS-818055

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1c Technology: High Availability

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Symptom: Director cold recovery after standby CP reports hasmd panic and active
CP reports pdmd panic. If user was performing lscfg, it may fail with
raslog [PMGR-1006], 204690/5858, SLOT 1 | CHASSIS, WARNING, ,
Attempt to move port(s) -1 on slot -1 to switch failed.
Condition: Occasionally, invalid PORTMAP range in VF config files caused memory
corruption on X6 directors after upgrade from FOS8.1.x to FOS8.2.x.
Recovery: 1. configupload -vf 2. Manually modify the uploaded VF config file to NOT
contain ranges that have port numbers between 1800 and 3399. 3.
configdownload -vf (Use the modified VF config file) 4. An automatic
cold reboot will occur.

Defect ID: FOS-817829

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Virtualization
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: Virtual Fabrics
Symptom: Switch reboot after execute "lscfg --delete" command to deleting a logical
switch.
Condition: A race condition happened while executing “lscfg –delete ” and
“agshow” command at the same time. CLI agshow accessed memory just
being freed by lscfg.
Workaround: Run “lscfg –delete ” and “agshow” commands two minutes apart.

Defect ID: FOS-817718

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1d Technology: FCIP
Symptom: Detected termination of process esmd during non-disruptive firmware
migration from v8.2.1d to v8.1.2d.
Condition: This was encountered during a downgrade from v8.2.1d on BR 7840
switch

Defect ID: FOS-817564

Technical Severity: Critical Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2a Technology: Fibre Channel Services
Symptom: Kernel Panics/cold recoveries encountered in core switches, following
exchanges getting timedout.
Condition: This is seen when End device sends out-of-order mal-formed multi-frame
Common Transport sequence destined for the Name Server that appears
to be a single-frame sequence and a multi-frame sequence with the same
sequence ID. Other Name Server destined frames are being received at
the same time.
Workaround: Disable the offending end devices.

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Recovery: The switch recovers after the cold boot.

Defect ID: FOS-817272

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1c Technology: MAPS - Monitoring
and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: After MAPS changes, MAPS daemon (mdd) encountered a panic which it
could not recover from and HA sync was lost.
Condition: During normal operation, a rare race condition led to process deadlock.

Defect ID: FOS-816973

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: SNMP - Simple
Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: Historical graph values for TX/RX are all zeros. Real-time graph values
are accurately displayed.
Condition: When displaying historical graph values for TX/RX, the historical display
may show all zeros when monitoring on GEN 6 platforms. Happens only
when monitoring for historical graph values (Real-Time graph values for
TX/RX have no issue). Issue is only seen when monitoring from BNA
14.4.4 or BNA 14.4.5. Issue is not seen with older versions of BNA or with
SANnav.
Workaround: Use an older version of BNA to display historical graph values for TX/RX.
Recovery: Rarely seen on GEN 5 platforms, but will recover on next historical display
request.

Defect ID: FOS-816740

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: ISL - Inter-Switch
Linking
Symptom: LISLs offline following upgrade from from FOS8.0.x to
FOS8.1.x-->FOS8.2.x
Condition: This occurs due to stale lisl ports in code being carried over from FOS8.0.x
FOS8.2.x

Defect ID: FOS-816300

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management

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Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1c Technology: SNMP - Simple

Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: SNMP-Get ipNetToMediaIfIndex returns "lo" on X6 and "chassis" on
DCX8510. Both should return "eth0".
Condition: Issue will be seen upon querying ipNetToMediaIfIndex.

Defect ID: FOS-816274

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Fibre Channel Services
Symptom: When viewing the deviceloign --show output, fabric interconnect devices
may not join the existing members of a group.
Condition: Specific third party devices connected to ports that have area 0xff in the
Port Address.
Workaround: Move the connection to a port without 0xff area.
Recovery: Move the connection to a port without 0xff area.

Defect ID: FOS-816025

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Virtualization
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: NPIV - N-Port ID
Virtualization
Symptom: Standby CP encountering Out Of Memory (OOM) reboot on task esmd
Condition: Devices logging in and out of F-ports multiple times per second.
Workaround: Reduce the login/logout frequency of devices.

Defect ID: FOS-816023

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel
over IP
Symptom: FX8-24 with XRC Emulation Enabled, DP panic encountered.
Condition: FX8-24 FCIP configuration with FICON Emulation enabled for XRC traffic
and then system reset occurs with IO active.
Defect ID: FOS-815828
Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2j Technology: SSH - Secure Shell
Symptom: When changing templates and performing hafailover the SSH config is not
replicated to the standby CP
Condition: this occurs on the director class dual CP system

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Defect ID: FOS-815352

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Extended Fabrics
Symptom: IPEX LAN TCP connection will report failed in the application.
Condition: When there is packet loss on the LAN with Jumbo frames enabled, the
LAN TCP receive process may stall causing LAN TCP connections to
timeout.

Defect ID: FOS-815218

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2a Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel
over IP
Symptom: FCIP DP panics
Condition: After aborts have been processed on a FICON Emulation enabled tunnel
when end device re-used an exchange.
Recovery: It recovers after panic.

Defect ID: FOS-815150

Technical Severity: Low Probability: High
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Access Gateway
Symptom: AG default mapping is incorrectly set for Brocade 6547 switch
Condition: This is seen when enabling AG mode, the F-port-to-N-port mapping is
incorrect.
Recovery: Manually unmap the wrong ports from N-port 0 and then map the correct
ports to N-port 0. Also, the unmapped ports may need to be converted to
N-ports (portcfgnport) and have mapping applied to them.

Defect ID: FOS-814505

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: System
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1c Technology: CLI
Symptom: Remove sensitive information from clihistory command.
Condition: This is seen when a CLI is executed in command line mode with sensitive
information provided in-line.
Workaround: Run the CLI in interactive mode to avoid the capture of sensitive data in
clihistory .

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Defect ID: FOS-814484

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1c Technology: User Accounts &
Passwords
Symptom: Creating a user account with an uppercase password causes the login to
fail.
Condition: Create user account in uppercase as below: >userconfig --add USERID -r
admin -d "Default Admin" -p PASSW0RD Account USERID has been
successfully added. login: USERID PASSWORD: (PASSW0RD) LOGIN
INCORRECT
Workaround: Lower case password works

Defect ID: FOS-813983

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2a4 Technology: SSH - Secure Shell
Symptom: Customer is unable to issue remote command call such as configshow
command via SSH after code upgrade
Condition: This is seen only after code upgrade from 7.4.2a1 to 8.1.2a4

Defect ID: FOS-813918

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.2c Technology: CLI - Command Line
Interface
Symptom: Customer may encounter CP reboot from kernel panic, resulting in switch
disabled with both Core Blades faulted.
Condition: This is encountered when an invalid logical port is provided to the debug
command db x/y.

Defect ID: FOS-812603

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: MAPS - Monitoring
and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: MAPS MISSING_SFP monitors on a Logical Switch (LS) but may not action
for their own LS and instead alert the violation on Default Switch
Condition: This is seen when multiple logical switches are created and MISSING_SFP
monitoring is activated in DS and at least 1 LS.

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Defect ID: FOS-812496

Technical Severity: Low Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: CLI
Symptom: The CLI command configure --default leads to a segmentation fault
Condition: This stems from a bug in the validation of the parameters when CLI
command configure --default is invoked.

Defect ID: FOS-812165

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: High Availability
Symptom: MXG610 may experience an unexpected reboot
Condition: Memory leak in one of the deamons leads to unexpected reboot on
MXG610

Defect ID: FOS-811375

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2f Technology: FCIP
Symptom: If a ficon circuit is created even though keepalive becomes 1000 due to it
being ficon. portcfgshow fcipcircuit 24 0 still shows 6000.
Condition: This only occurs on a circuit created with ficon enabled. Any circuit
created without ficon, modified later to be ficon, or ficon circuit changed
to a different keepalive value and back to 1000 will not have this display
issue.

Defect ID: FOS-811053

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Fibre Channel Services
Symptom: Support new OUI 38:BA:B0 that will be used on future platforms.
Condition: This is a new development to add support for the new OUI

Defect ID: FOS-810689

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: FCIP
Symptom: During code upgrade on Brocade 7840 switch, it went to Faulty with SLOT
0 DP 0 Hard Faults.
Condition: This happened when DP eUSB card mount timed out.

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Defect ID: FOS-810471

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.2c Technology: Zoning
Symptom: Users may encounter a situation where servers may lose connectivity
Condition: This may occur with session based zoning when the logical port in use is
greater than 31.

Defect ID: FOS-809983

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.2c Technology: FCIP
Symptom: Customer may encounter "a tape write errors has occurred" on OSTP
enabled tunnel on 7800, when appending to LTO8 tape drives.
Condition: OSTP Enabled tunnel on 7800, FX8-24 or 7840 (SX6 in later FOS levels)
when appending to an LTO8 tape. This issue does not occur with LTO5
tape drives.
Workaround: Disable Open Systems Tape Pipelining feature on FCIP tunnel.

Defect ID: FOS-809514

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring/RAS
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.2c Technology: End-to-end
Performance
Monitoring
Symptom: User may encounter cold reboot, along with mdd termination, during
MAPS rule creation with an invalid timebase.
Condition: This may occur during MAPS rule creation with an invalid timebase on
FOS versions v8.0.2x and lower.

Defect ID: FOS-809487

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2d Technology: Access Gateway
Symptom: Some of the Linux servers in different enclosures may run into Path
Failures due to missing dual paths. The F-Port Status may show N-Port
offline for the F-Port Logs
Condition: Access Gateway running v8.1.2 or any patch thereof and disable all ports
in the F-port trunk (N-ports on the Access Gateway) and enable them
again.
Workaround: Same as recovery
Recovery: Manually enable the disabled F-ports.

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Defect ID: FOS-809445

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring
and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: MAPS custom policy along with customized MAPS rules may be lost and
set to default.
Condition: This is seen upon unquarantine action being triggered by MAPS post
supportsave collection.

Defect ID: FOS-809358

Technical Severity: Low Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: MAPS - Monitoring
and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: Customer may encounter HA out of sync resulting from mdd termination.
Condition: This may be seen when running scripts that perform mail server
configuration.

Defect ID: FOS-809147

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: D-Port - Diagnostic
Port
Symptom: User may encounter CP reboot when running the CLI command
portdporttest --clear all
Condition: This occurs when running portdporttest command, and accompanied by
the message - Error: comm error between CLI and fabricd

Defect ID: FOS-809097

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2f Technology: Web Tools
Symptom: User may encounter "NetworkConfig: doGet Failed" on BNA, followed by
weblinker restart on the director.
Condition: This occurs with BNA 14.4.4 and Brocade 8510-4 at 8.1.2g when viewing
Network information tab for the director from the Element Manager >
Admin option.

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Defect ID: FOS-808614

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: MAPS - Monitoring
and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: User may encounter AE ports to the Brocade Analytics Monitoring
Platform fenced by FOS
Condition: This stems from the workaround to prevent the latency introduced due to
ISL route change.

Defect ID: FOS-808302

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: CLI - Command Line
Interface
Symptom: Duplicated logical groups can be created in MAPS environment
Condition: This occurs when creating the same group_name (with
different/capitalized case) using the CLI command: logicalgroup [--create
| --delete] group_name <options>

Defect ID: FOS-808249

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2a Technology: MAPS - Monitoring
and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: User may encounter Event Code Description:
RuleName=defCHASSISHA_SYNC_0, Condition=CHASSIS(HA_SYNC==0),
Obj:Chassis [ HA_SYNC,0] has contributed to switch status MARGINAL
Condition: This stems from a memory leak issue.

Defect ID: FOS-808171

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.2c Technology: Hardware Monitoring
Symptom: User may encounter asic error on core blade resulting in Disk errors on
the Servers/VMs
Condition: This may be seen in the event that the core blade asic hardware goes
faulty. That needs to be monitored for threshold crossing detection and
faulting the blade to isolate the problem

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Defect ID: FOS-808168

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: Web Tools
Symptom: Webtools session may timeout and lead to weblinker termination.
Condition: This may occur if the WebTools session is left open for an extended
period and then an Application Supportsave is attempted via WT .

Defect ID: FOS-808167

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: Spectre
Symptom: User Deleted a logical fabric in SANnav and that led to CP Panic
Condition: This is a rare incident caused by a kernel corruption bug.

Defect ID: FOS-808166

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: Web Tools
Symptom: User may encounter WT session time out before the set threshold 2 hour
period.
Condition: This may occur when the WT session is open and the switch is busy on
zone merge or other operation. WT sessions times out instead of getting
switch busy message.

Defect ID: FOS-808120

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Other
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: Other
Symptom: errdumpall may show ERROR C4-1002 "Port xx chip failed due to an
internal error." for all isl ports.
Condition: This is accompanied by FFDC C4-5352 "Port detected busy buffer stuck
error. Port initialization will be retried" resulting from buffer loss.

Defect ID: FOS-808114

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2 Technology: Hardware Monitoring
Symptom: SNMP cannot get the slot temp information,
Condition: This is encountered due to a timing issue between Environment Monitor
(EM) and SNMP

Defect ID: FOS-808099

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Technical Severity: High Probability: null

Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: AAA - Authentication,
Authorization, and
Accounting
Symptom: Unable to login as radius user with peap-mschapv2 protocol
Condition: This is encountered upon importing the radius CA certificate and
attempting to login as radius user.

Defect ID: FOS-808098

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: Security Policies
Symptom: FCAP import fails with the error "Error: key usage does not include
certificate signing"
Condition: This is encountered with the switch in strict mode.

Defect ID: FOS-808084

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Other
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: Other
Symptom: Disabling the trunk master of an EX-Port Trunk on a Brocade 8510-8
resulted in routing issues for Edge to Edge fabric traffic
Condition: This may be encountered in a non-VF BackBone environment.

Defect ID: FOS-808083

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Virtualization
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: Virtual Fabrics
Symptom: Hafailover results in the port with port address zero being disabled.
Condition: FMS mode must be enabled in the logical switch. A base fabric must be
operational in the switch. The logical switch must have Allow XISL
enabled in the configure CLI command. One of the following conditions
would have needed to occur since the last hafailover: - A chassisreboot or
power cycle - Enabling Allow XISL in the configure CLI command - Adding
a new domain to the base fabric - Removing and then re-adding an
existing domain in the base fabric
Recovery: Enable the port with port address zero after hafailover

Defect ID: FOS-808082

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: Hardware Monitoring
Symptom: User may encounter error EM-1226 "Slot # is being powered off as it was
detected as faulty during previous INIT."

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Condition: This was observed after unplugging all power cords from the chassis and
plugging them back after a few minutes.

Defect ID: FOS-808069

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2b Technology: FCIP
Symptom: SAN Traffic from Edge Fabrics to Brocade X6-4 (i.e routed datacentre
backbone) was delayed by high number of buffer credit zero counters.
Condition: This was encountered when Brocade 8510-4 switches using FX8-24 router
blades were replaced with Brocade X6-4 switches with SX-6 router
blades.

Defect ID: FOS-807921

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: CLI - Command Line
Interface
Symptom: Spinfab failed on E-ports connected to HTA and HMA QSFP and spinfab
got passed after configuring the E-port to D-Port
Condition: This is seen when running the CLI command "spinfab -ports 6/8-15"

Defect ID: FOS-807918

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: Web Tools
Symptom: When creating an lsan Peer zone using Webtools one of the members
that was added as Peer Member prior to enabling the configuration gets
added to the Principal member list after performing a config enable using
WT
Condition: This is encountered upon creating an lsan Peer zone using Webtools with
duplicate non-alias peer zones that result in peer zone members in the
principle zone

Defect ID: FOS-807916

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: FC-FC routing
Symptom: E2E devices may be found stuck in initializing state
Condition: This may be encountered after toggling one of the core switch in the edge
fabric

Defect ID: FOS-807908

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Technical Severity: High Probability: Low

Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: CLI - Command Line
Interface
Symptom: Static to dynamic Dport on Brocade HBA failed due to EL failure on the
remote end (HBA)
Condition: This is seen when: a. Issue portdisable 18;portcfgdport --enable
18;portenable 18 on port connected to Brocade HBA b. Issue
portdporttest --show 18 to check the results

Defect ID: FOS-807834

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: Firmware
upload/download
Symptom: Non-disruptive migration may not complete and switch may become
unusable
Condition: In a rare case, on pizza boxes, during non-disruptive firmwaredownload
HASM may go to stuck state due to missing updates from FSS, during HCL.
Recovery: Reboot the switch to recover from this state where hasm state is stuck
and firmwaredownload in-progress message is shown for very long time.

Defect ID: FOS-807822

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: Fibre Channel Services
Symptom: Observed termination of appsrvrd
Condition: This is seen after non-disruptive upgrade using CLI, followed by issuing
"mapsdb --clear all" and "sddquarantine --clear all". appserverd
termination is seen a few minutes later.

Defect ID: FOS-807821

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: System
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: CLI
Symptom: When running portloopbacktest on multiple ports, a link bounce on one
port during test will cause subsequent ports to also fail.
Condition: This is an issue with portloopbacktest in mode 1 on multiple ports

Defect ID: FOS-807808

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Other

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Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2g Technology: Other

Symptom: User encountered NS (nsallshow) database mismatch on Brocade X6-8
director chassis.
Condition: This was seen after a disruptive migration, leading to missing devices that
are part of E2E zone.

Defect ID: FOS-807804

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: FCIP
Symptom: The active CP may panic, leading to HA failover after issuing the CLI
command 'lacp --default'. And the command itself is not executed.
Condition: This may occur when attempting to: 1. Delete all portchannels with a
single command 2. Downgrade to FOS release older than v8.2.0. in an
environment with a mix of portchannels created in the default switch
(extension_dynamic_lag, extension_static_lag and fcoe_dynamic_lag).

Defect ID: FOS-807802

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: Platform Services
Symptom: User may encounter cald termination logged on console while stop
monitoring the switch from SANnav
Condition: This may occur if switch is un-monitored from SANnav.

Defect ID: FOS-807757

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: Web Tools
Symptom: After creating new peer zone or modifying existing peer zone, all peer
zones are removed from effective zone configuration.
Condition: This is encountered when creating new peer zone or modifying existing
peer zone in FOS8.2.1b release.

Defect ID: FOS-807740

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: Firmware
upload/download
Symptom: Firmwaredownload may fail with error messages “Firmware download
failed on standby CP - Unable to update the package list file. (0x3f)” and
”cmd:/bin/cp /tmp/fwdl-2149/release.plist
/mnt/var/images/SWBD165/plist >/dev/null 2>&1 failed ret = 1”
Condition: This is a rare occurrence resulting from a failure in system copy command
at that instant. It works as expected upon retry.

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Recovery: Retry firmwaredownload to resolve the issue.

Defect ID: FOS-807708

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: SNMPv2, SNMPv3 &
MIBs
Symptom: Two different swTelnetTable objects are found to be defined in FOS8.2.1a
SW-MIB.
Condition: This is generally a benign issue but may confuse and cause issues with
some MIB compilers.

Defect ID: FOS-807634

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: AAA - Authentication,
Authorization, and
Accounting
Symptom: IPV6 with peap-mschapv2 is not a supported combination. However IPv6
radius configuration is being successfully added with peap-mschapv2
protocol using REST.
Condition: This seen when IPv6 radius configuration is being added with
peap-mschapv2 protocol

Defect ID: FOS-807452

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: SSH - Secure Shell
Symptom: User may fail to login using SSH and the SSH connection is closed.
Condition: This may be encountered on Brocade 7840 when over 215 user
configurations are added using CLI command "userconfig --add" Users
configured past 215 iterations encounter this symptom.

Defect ID: FOS-807118

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: Firmware
upload/download
Symptom: User may observe a fwdl core on Brocade G610 switch
Condition: This may be seen while performing firmwaredownload

Defect ID: FOS-807113

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management

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Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: FC-FC routing

Symptom: User may observe several instances of the following VERIFY message
while taking supportsave. VERIFY - Failed expression: 0, file = ........
src/sys/dev/asic/condor4/c4_act.c, line = 958, kernel mode args =
19, 4294967295, 46, 0, 0
Condition: This occurs on Brocade G610 when the Front end Encryption enabled port
goes offline during HA or ports 44-47 goes offline, resource might not be
recovered appropriately and user will see a VERIFY
Workaround: Please disable/enable the Front end Encryption enabled port.

Defect ID: FOS-807112

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Other
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: Other
Symptom: User may encounter Weblinker crash upon issuing "supportlink --send"
Condition: This may be seen on a switch that somehow gets into a state where it
appears to have 2 base switches available on the fabric.

Defect ID: FOS-807030

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: Platform Services
Symptom: Performing vulnerability scans (Qualys) leads to high CPU load and
Multiple config and secnotify processes are showing as consuming all
memory.
Condition: This is encountered when vulnerability scans are being performed

Defect ID: FOS-807015

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1b Technology: Flow Vision
Symptom: MAPS rules do not trigger on NVME flow for the IO fields IO_RD_BYTES &
IO_WR_BYTES.
Condition: This is encountered only for IO_RD_BYTES & IO_WR_BYTES.

Defect ID: FOS-806993

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: FICON
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2a Technology: FICON CUP
Symptom: During hafailover portion of code upgrade, ficud terminates.
Condition: FMS Mode must be enabled in the logical switch. The logical switch must
have more than 32 trunk master E_Ports. This problem is more likely to
occur in FOS8.1.0 or later, as the FMS processing added ICLs to its trunk
master list in later releases.
Workaround: Disable ports to lower trunk masters count to 32, or Disable FMS mode.

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Defect ID: FOS-806944

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2f Technology: FC-FC routing
Symptom: Out-of-order frames experienced on end devices, even in a non-long
distance environment.
Condition: After a switch reboot or slot power cycle, with high traffic.
Recovery: Power cycle the core blades, one at a time.

Defect ID: FOS-806903

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Firmware
upload/download
Symptom: Pre v8.2.1b FOS releases do not permit a downgrade to v8.1.x FOS
versions on Brocade 6505 and Brocade G610 platforms.
Condition: This is an enhancement request to permit downgrade from FOS versions
v8.2.1b and above to special "v8.1.x Test Only" versions of FOS with
limitations on license configuration for Brocade 6505 and Brocade G610
platforms.

Defect ID: FOS-806679

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring/RAS
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2 Technology: Logging
Symptom: CP reboot with "Reset" as reason code, resulting in incomplete kernel
panic dump.
Condition: When kernel core dump needs to happen on FOS v8.x, hardware
watchdog timeout triggers CP reset.

Defect ID: FOS-806334

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Security Policies
Symptom: User sees the error message "mv: '/etc/syslog-ng/ca.d/ca.pem' and
'/etc/syslog-ng/ca.d/ca.pem' are the same file" when importing a
certificate named ca.pem.
Condition: This is encountered only when importing a certificate named ca.pem.
This results from a conflict in the naming convention that needs to be
fixed

Defect ID: FOS-806192

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Technical Severity: High Probability: null

Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2d Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel
over IP
Symptom: User may experience FCIP disk traffic disruption.
Condition: This may occur due to datapath FPGA getting into a bad state
Recovery: Reboot the switch for recovery.

Defect ID: FOS-805954

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2d Technology: Platform Services
Symptom: User may see Raslog EM-1010 - Data Processor (DP1) offline on Brocade
SX6 Blade or Brocade 7840.
Condition: This may be encountered while running supportsave that triggers by an
Out of Memory condition.

Defect ID: FOS-805605

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: Access Gateway
Symptom: User may see software verify error while disabling F-Port Trunk.
Condition: When disabling F-Port Trunk on switch having Access Gateway
connected.

Defect ID: FOS-805578

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: Webtools doesn't report correct port stats and the 'Clear Counters'
button doesn't clear stats on all the ports.
Condition: This issue is not reproduced consistently. There is no LISL port that exists
in the switch LS. Reported using an X6-8 chassis.

Defect ID: FOS-805531

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring/RAS
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: Audit Log
Symptom: Observed raslogd core file on B7810 extension switch during
non-disruptive upgrade to v8.2.1a_rc1_bld08
Condition: If the secured syslog entries are enabled and if the syslog CA certificate
validation failed to mismatched fields, then the raslogd will cause core
files.
Workaround: The syslog CA certificates should not contain mismatched fields. If the
certificate has mismatched fields then secure syslog has to be disabled to
avoid raslogd crash.

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Defect ID: FOS-805527

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: Firmware
upload/download
Symptom: The standby CP encountered "Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11
[#1]" after firmware download on GEN6 Chassis that includes all packages
loaded and hafailover.
Condition: Occurs during the firmware upgrade or hafailover. This is a rare
occurrence due to warm memory corruption.

Defect ID: FOS-805512

Technical Severity: High Probability: null
Product: Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1a Technology: Security Policies
Symptom: "ALL_DCC_POLICY" may result in a secd termination.
Condition: When attempting to create a lockdown DCC policy with invalid name
"ALL_DCC_POLICY"

Defect ID: FOS-804126

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line
Interface
Symptom: GE speed mismatch between 'switchshow' output and 'portcfgge --show'
output. Also unable to change port speed to 1G or issue 'portcfgdefault'.
Configuration replay errors seen during switch bootup and if the port is
configured as a LAN 10G port, it may come up as a WAN port after a
reboot
Condition: On 7810, if GE port speed is set to 10G on any GE port and reboot is
performed after a time based license has expired
Workaround: Install a valid license prior to rebooting the switch.

Defect ID: FOS-804650

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Virtual Fabrics
Symptom: Software verify will be seen for each port that is attempted to be moved
between partitions.
Condition: Issue observed when moving FC32-64 blades between Logical partitions.

Defect ID: FOS-804616

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

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Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management

Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line
Interface
Symptom: Software VERIFY error when WWN based Persistent PID is configured
Condition: When there is a WWN based Persistent PID feature is configured on the
switch,software VERIFY error maybe seen in the following cases:
a. With no WWN entries bound with the PID and if a reboot/hareboot is
issued on the switch
b. Last bounded entry is attempted for removal using "wwnaddress
--unbind"
Workaround At least one WWN based Persistent PID entry could be bound to avoid the
VERIFY

Defect ID: FOS-804155

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Flow Vision
Symptom: Non disruptive upgrade to 8.2.1 may fail on a chassis with
sys_mon_all_vms monitoring flow.
Condition: Observed when non disruptive upgrade is issued on a chassis where
sys_mon_all_vms monitoring flow is active.
Workaround Deactivate sys_mon_all_vms before upgrade using "flow --deact
sys_mon_all_vms" CLI and activate the predefined flow (flow --act
sys_mon_all_vms) after upgrade is complete.

Defect ID: FOS-804745

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Configuration
Fundamentals
Symptom: Ras Log [C3-1021]"Encryption Compression Block error" and IFL link will
not come online when enabling ISL_RDY mode and Encryption on IFL links
Condition: An Ex-Port to E-Port link (IFL) will flap continuously, when both Encryption
and ISL_RDY mode are enabled on the Ex-Port. The port will not come
online.

Defect ID: FOS-804224

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: FCIP
Symptom: Observed ESM-1101 during a SX6 blade slotpower off with one of the
following:
esm_cfg_sys.c:1586 esm_portcfg_clear() failed rc:176
esm_slot.c:1603 failed to release GE:10/ge2 rc:176

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Condition: ESM-1101 event can occur during a slotpoweroff of an SX6 blade

Defect ID: FOS-804203

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Virtualization
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Virtual Fabrics
Symptom: System panic may occur, although rarely, while collecting supportsave on
a GEN6 chassis systems
Condition: Supportsave collection operation may trigger the system panic

Defect ID: FOS-804058

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2a Technology: HW Monitoring
Symptom: porterrshow does not display TX frames on FC8-64 blade
Condition: This only applies to 8G platforms.

Defect ID: FOS-804173

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: SNMP V2, SNMP V3
&MIBs
Symptom: SNMP trap, swDeviceStatusTrap, is generated with "Logout" reason code
instead of Login.
Condition: The issue is observed when the QSFP port connected to a device is
enabled.

Defect ID: FOS-804694

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Firmware
upload/download
Symptom: The standby CP firmware doesn't sync with the active CP firmware
version when CPs have different firmware versions.
Condition: If Auto firmwaresync is set from active and firmwaredownload is
performed on the standby CP, and when reboot/hafailover is issued, the
firmwaresync will not be triggered.
Workaround: Issue the firmwaresync command manually if firmware sync is required.
Recovery: Issuing the firmwaresync manually will cause the firmware to be in sync
with the active CP.

Defect ID: FOS-804296

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management

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Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Configuration

Fundamentals
Symptom: CLI command configdefault on a X6-8 and X6-4 chassis base switch, that
has encrypted links, pass without warning the user to remove the
encrypted links before the operation
Condition: CLI command configdefault should be blocked when encrypted port is
configured on FC32-48 blade, otherwise results in resource unallocated
error.
Workaround Remove the encryption configuration from the FC32-48 port before
attempting the configdefault operation

Defect ID: FOS-804103

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Flow Vision
Symptom: Failure to remove SIM port blocks attempt to remove expired flow vision
license.
Condition: This symptom is observed only when flow generator flow is active
Workaround Remove SIM port using "flow --ctrlcfg simport -disable".
Recovery Remove SIM port using "flow --ctrlcfg simport -disable".

Defect ID: FOS-804069

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Software Installatiion
& Upgrade
Symptom: System-description attribute of "lldp --show" command incorrectly
displays FOS 8.2.1 version
Condition: Issue may be observed after non-disruptive downgrade from FOS v8.2.1
to v8.2.0 firmware version.
Workaround Before firmware downgrade, system-description attribute can be
modified to display correct firmware version using "lldp --config -sysdesc
<string>" command.
Recovery After firmware downgrade, system-description attribute can be modified
to display correct firmware version using "lldp --config -sysdesc <string>"
command.

Defect ID: FOS-804072

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: WebTools displays incorrect property members for peerzones
Condition: When peerzone is empty after removing peerzone alias using WebTools
Workaround Ensure that the peerzone is not empty after removing the alias. The issue
does not occur if member exist in the peer zone after alias removal.

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Defect ID: FOS-804124

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: WAN Performance
Analysis Tools
Symptom: Unable to enable a WAN Tool session
Condition: When configured WAN Tool sessions exceed the supported limits while
all sessions are in a disabled state results in the inability to enable WAN
Tool session in this state.
Workaround Keep the number of configured WAN Tool sessions for a DP within the
supported limit.
Recovery Delete WAN Tool sessions on a DP to within the supported amount. Then
attempt to enable the session in question..

Defect ID: FOS-804131

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.1 Technology: WAN Performance
Analysis Tools
Symptom: portcmd --wtool stop-all error message isn't clear that its only intended
for Automated WAN Tool sessions
Condition: When attempting to stop User WAN Tool sessions with portcmd --wtool
stop -all command
Workaround Use "portcmd --wtool <wt-id> stop" command to stop User WAN Tool
sessions

Defect ID: DEFECT000624549

Technical Severity: Low Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line
Interface
Symptom: supportsave does not include the output form CLI command "seccertutil
show -all"
Condition: This command encounters permissions issue and consequently this
operation output is not reflected in supportsave

Defect ID: DEFECT000624549

Technical Severity: Low Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line
Interface
Symptom: supportsave does not include the output form CLI command "seccertutil
show -all"

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Condition: This command encounters permissions issue and consequently this

operation output is not reflected in supportsave

Defect ID: DEFECT000658034

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Configuration
Fundamentals
Symptom: When performing a PATCH operation, the switch will not accept any
uint32 value for <payload>
Condition: This is due to File brocade-fibrechannel-diagnostics.yang leaf <payload>
missing range and pattern definitions.

Defect ID: DEFECT000658525

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.2 Technology: FCIP Tunnel
Management
Symptom: BNA 14.2.1 appears to successfully complete a firmware migration but
the firmware on the switch remains unchanged.
Condition: This is encountered only in the presence of an SX6 blade in a chassis.

Defect ID: DEFECT000636695

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Fibre Channel Routing
Symptom: No traffic is traversing on two shared area ports.
Condition: Very rare and very difficult to reproduce.
Recovery: Disable both ports. Then enable both ports.

Defect ID: DEFECT000653676

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Flow Vision

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Symptom: Flow monitor monitors stats only on the current active master port of the
trunk group. However flows created on the member of EX port trunk
group doesn't show stats after the port transitions into new master port
of the trunk group.
E.g:
Port 34 and 35 are members of EX-port trunk group.
flow --create kp6i -ingrport 34 -srcdev "020a00" -dstdev "caf001" -fea
mon (Slave port)
flow --create kp7i -ingrport 35 -srcdev "020a00" -dstdev "caf001" -fea
mon (Master port)
kp6i is not showing stats after port 35 goes offline and port 34 becomes
new master.
Condition: Flow vision is used to monitor flows on an EX port trunk group on an edge
fabric.
Workaround: 1. Deactivate all the flows defined in the trunk group.
2. Activate the flow on new master port.
e.g:
1. flow --deact kp6i;flow --deact kp7i
2. flow --act kp6i
Recovery: 1. Deactivate all the flows defined in the trunk group.
2. Activate the flow on new master port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000654656

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: Extended Fabrics
Symptom: Performance over FCIP tunnel may not be optimal in PBR or DBR
topologies.
Condition: When running FICON traffic over an FCIP Tunnel in non-EBR routing
modes

Defect ID: DEFECT000654801

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: D-Port - Diagnostic
Port
Symptom: when core blade is removed/inserted, user may observe hafailover on
chassis.
Condition: when core blade is removed/inserted and if On-demand D-Port is
configured on switch configuration, D-Port test will be started on all ports
in the blade. while running test, manually if user tries to stop the test and
exit from the D-Port mode rarely users may see Hafailover on chassis.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000655108

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.3.2 Technology: Buffer Credit
Management
Symptom: Customer seeing the long distance LS buffer settings get lost following
reboot of 7800 switch
Condition: Configuring the long distance mode on 7800 switch port and then reboot
of the box may exhibit the issue on a very rare occasion.
Recovery: Customer may reconfigure the long distance configuration again on the
switch port

Defect ID: DEFECT000655567

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: D-Port - Diagnostic
Port
Symptom: With 4x32GFC breakout QSFP optics p/n 57-1000351-01 (E-port
connection) when initiated D-Port test on a single port the test gets
passed but it fails 1 out of 10 times (approximate) on one port with
protocol error when the test is initiated on 4 ports simultaneously
Condition: In 4x32GFC breakout QSFP optics p/n 57-1000351-01 (E-port connection)
user will see D-Port test failure in 1 out of 10 times (approximate) on one
port with protocol error when the test is initiated on 4 ports
simultaneously
Workaround: Toggle the port on both sides of the link and restart the D-Port test.
Recovery: Toggle the port on both sides of the link and restart the D-Port test.

Defect ID: DEFECT000655837

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: High Availability
Symptom: Customer may encounter hafailver turn into a cold recovery
Condition: This may result from a voltage not in range reading from the voltage
sensor logged via the raslog message HIL-5010

Defect ID: DEFECT000655984

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.1 Technology: SNMP - Simple
Network Management
Protocol

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Symptom: MIB capabilities newly configured after upgrading to the build 7.4 and
above will get disabled when the switch downgraded to firmware version
7.3 or below.
Condition: 1. User customising the MIB capability
2. User did mib capability changes in the v7.4.0 or above and
downgrading it to v7.3.0 or below
Workaround: Reconfigure the MIB capabilities after firmware downgrade.

Defect ID: DEFECT000656244

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: SNMP - Simple
Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: For a configure F-port trunk, snmpwalk query for
'swFCPortName'/'swFCPortSpecifier? SNMP objects number of entries
returned will be one extra compared to number of physical ports present
in that logical context.
Similarly when the XISL is enabled and snmpwalk query for
`swFCPortSpecifier? object returns the extra entry.
Condition: F-Port trunk or XISL feature configured and enabled on the switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000656322

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: ISL - Inter-Switch
Linking
Symptom: The ISL takes long time to come online when connected between 32G
QSFP pn 57-1000351-01 and Fixed speed 16G QSFP or SFP. The
swtchshow output displays AN for longtime.
Condition: This issue occurs after the 32G QSFP pn 57-1000351-01 optic was
introduced.

Defect ID: DEFECT000656353

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Configuration
Fundamentals
Symptom: Switch panic during platform boot up
Condition: During multiple switch reboot or hareboots may hit this issue.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000656436

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Configuration
Fundamentals
Symptom: CLI portpeerbeacon is not supported on ETH port.
Condition: When enabling portpeerbeacon on ETH port, there is no information to
displayed.
Workaround: User can use "portbeacon" on Eth port to get the information.

Defect ID: DEFECT000656513

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Fibre Channel Services
Symptom: CLI command cfgsize displays a lower value of the Chassis-wide
committed zone DB size. This may result in the switch allowing zone
configurations the exceeds the maximum size supported by the chassis.
Condition: This defect has been seen on GEN6 chassis' when the following steps are
done.
1. Download new firmware and reboot the switch (or) Reboot the
standby CP,
2. Download new firmware again and reboot the switch (or) an HA
failover.
The issue requires multiple Logical Switches to be configured.
Recovery: Run CLI cfgenable to enable the zoning configuration which is already
enabled.

Defect ID: DEFECT000656544

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Zoning
Symptom: User may notice intermittent loss of peer zones from effective
configuration when making zoning configuration through Webtools
Condition: This issue may occur when user modifies peer zone by adding members
to principle list or member list and activates through Webtools

Defect ID: DEFECT000656544

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Zoning
Symptom: User may notice intermittent loss of peer zones from effective
configuration when making zoning configuration through Webtools
Condition: This issue may occur when user modifies peer zone by adding members
to principle list or member list and activates through Webtools

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Defect ID: DEFECT000656635

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Configuration
Fundamentals
Symptom: Zone merge can take a long time to complete and the zoned process
consumes high CPU usage.
Condition: During a fabric merge, if the zone configuration has many TI zones (15 to
25 TI zones), then the zone merge will take more time to complete.
Workaround: Remove unwanted TI zones from the configuration.
Recovery: Stop the zone merge by disabling the fabric link.

Defect ID: DEFECT000656694

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: CSCTL warning dialog does not allow user to reboot the switch though it
has "Yes" option in the same WebTools dialog
Condition: Seen when user configures CSCTL mode 0 switch using WebTools

Defect ID: DEFECT000656847

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring
and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: The monitoring and alerting system notification on BNA shows alerting
for IP_EXTN_FLOW with an incorrect DP number for chassis environment.
Condition: SX6 blade with IP Extension traffic with MAPS monitoring enabled
chassis.
Workaround: The RASLOG events captured on BNA displays the correct format of the
DP.

Defect ID: DEFECT000656859

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Virtual Fabrics
Symptom: Detected termination of process fcoed may be observed
Condition: In scalable environment having multiple FCoE enodes, when config
upload/download is done. Also with FC32-64 blade Ethernet port
movement across logical switches without much time gap, fcoed process
termination may be observed.
Workaround: Provide sufficient time delay between Ethernet port movement and
configuration download operations.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000656861

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Port Bring-up
Symptom: In some cases, error displays interface does not have eth port ready
during FCOE provisioning on Ethernet port
Condition: During FCoE port provisioning on eth port
Recovery: Convert the Ethernet port to FC port and back to Ethernet port using flex
port cli (portcfgflexport).

Defect ID: DEFECT000656972

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Configuration
Fundamentals
Symptom: Proxy FCoE devices are successfully imported into the FCR backbone but
device type does not display it as FCoE devices.
Condition: When FCoE devices connected to an Edge Fabric are imported into the
FCR backbone switch, if user use nsshow to view imported FCoE device,
the display of "FCoE" field will be empty.

Defect ID: DEFECT000656992

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Configuration
Fundamentals
Symptom: FCoE configuration for FC32-64 blade may still be preserved after
swapping with a FC32-48 blade.
Condition: If the FC32-64 blade upper range ports (e.g. ports 48-64) have been
configured as FCoE ports, the FCoE configuration on these upper range
ports will not be cleared after swapping with a FC32-48 blade
Workaround: Remove the FCoE configuration for the FC32-64 blade before removing
the blade.

Defect ID: DEFECT000657074

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: CLI - Command Line
Interface
Symptom: Error message "ERROR: UID change error:-1: Command may face
permission issues on proceeding further" is printed, when portchannel
and lldp related commands are executed with admin user on 7840
Condition: execution of portchannel and lldp CLI
Recovery: The error messages are harmless and does not impact functionality

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Defect ID: DEFECT000657091

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Port Bring-up
Symptom: 32G QSFP pn 57-1000351-01 may negotiate to 32G when connected to
another 32G QSFP pn 57-100031-01 that is configure for fixed 16G.
Condition: multiple portdisable/enable on the auto-negotiate side

Defect ID: DEFECT000657173

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Configuration
Fundamentals
Symptom: In Peer zone, property members will be displayed without the verbose
option.
Condition: If a WWN without colon is given as principal peer zone member, then the
given WWN is consider as an alias. Also we might not have an entry for
that alias. If a Non-existing alias is given as only principal member of the
peer zone, then due to zoning logic failure, property members will be
displayed without the verbose option.
Workaround: Provide colons at appropriate places for WWN zone members.
Recovery: Provide colons at appropriate places for WWN zone members.

Defect ID: DEFECT000657573

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: LDAP - Lightweight
Directory Access
Protocol
Symptom: After a firmware migration downgrade from v8.2.0 to v8.0.0, login will be
blocked with LDAP message displayed
Condition: Applicable to platforms that support v8.0.0
Workaround: Unconfigure the AAA server and then perform the firmware migration
downgrade

Defect ID: DEFECT000657764

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.1 Technology: Fastwrite
Symptom: XTUN-1001 RASLOGs being generated incorrectly

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Condition: During initial FCP/SCSI PRLI processing with Fast Write enabled on the
FCIP tunnel, if a command is received at about the same time as the PRLI
ELS Accept, the XTUN-1001 may be generated. This is due to logic that
re-initializes all existing ITN objects. The RASLOG should not be generated
in this case.

Defect ID: DEFECT000645782

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.1 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: E_Port Credits column does not exist on Web Tools.
Condition: Problem observed when using Web Tools.
Workaround: Use CLI "portCfgEPortCredits".

Defect ID: DEFECT000650701

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line
Interface
Symptom: Director class switches limit chassis name to 15 characters while fixed
port switches can support 31 characters.
Condition: CLI command "chassisname" cannot change switch name to greater than
15 characters on directors.

Defect ID: DEFECT000651983

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line
Interface
Symptom: User will see an inconsistency between mapsrule 'man' page and help
ouput from the cli command "mapsrule --help".
Condition: This is an inconsistency seen with maps man page on mapsrules.

Defect ID: DEFECT000653363

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.3.2 Technology: Hardware Monitoring
Symptom: Switch may encounter "Software Fault"/"Kernel Panic" triggered by too
many memory parity interrupts from the 16G ASIC encryption block
Condition: Memory parity errors are rare. This panic may occur on a 16G switch, if
memory parity errors are encountered when ASIC encryption is not
enabled.
Recovery: Usually recovers after a panic. If it persists, please replace blade.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000653466

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: SNMP - Simple
Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: If a swDeviceStatus trap is generated from a port on the default switch,
the swDeviceStatusTrap OID 'tail number' is inconsistent
Condition: This may occur when a port on the default switch generates a
swDeviceStatus trap.

Defect ID: DEFECT000653651

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: SNMP - Simple
Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: User may encounter a very slow response to the CLI command
snmpbulkwalk.
Condition: This may occur when attempting snmpbulkwalk of ifdec table.

Defect ID: DEFECT000654435

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: User Accounts &
Passwords
Symptom: User defined Roles creation/deletion takes a long time and interface
becomes unresponsive.
Condition: Occurs while running CLI command "roleconfig".

Defect ID: DEFECT000654575

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.1 Technology: Software Installation
& Upgrade
Symptom: FOS Message Reference manual for 8.1.x shows "<printf>" instead of the
valid description/text:
Condition: This is seen for raslog descriptions for C3-1001 and C4-1001 error
messages

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Defect ID: DEFECT000654814

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: CLI - Command Line
Interface
Symptom: Observed memory leak in fdmid.
Condition: Occurs while running a switch reboot loop stress test.

Defect ID: DEFECT000655246

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Fibre Channel Routing
Symptom: The user may observe minor overall performance degradation following a
core blade down/up event on Gen6 SAN directors. However, if ICL
connections are present, user may encounter connection failure between
devices.
Condition: This may occur when a core blade is re-seated, replaced, or power cycled,
on a Brocade Gen6 SAN director with FC32-48 blade, that has previously
been upgraded/downgraded between FOS8.0.x and FOS8.1.x, some
backend routes between the core and FC32-48 blade may be adversely
impacted
Workaround: - No action is needed if the director was never
upgraded/downgraded between FOS v8.0.x and v8.1.x.
- If the director was previously upgraded/downgraded between
FOS8.0.x and FOS8.1.x, then a cold reboot will fully clear the condition
and user will not encounter this consequence again as long as it is not
subsequently upgraded/downgraded across FOS8.0.x and FOS8.1.x.
Recovery: If the impacted director switch has been through previous
upgrade/downgrade between FOS8.0.x and FOS8.1.x, then first cold
reboot the switch to remedy the impacted routes and then upgrade to
FOS8.1.2. Otherwise just upgrade to FOS8.1.2

Defect ID: DEFECT000653066

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel
over IP
Symptom: User may be unable to bring up IPEXT traffic on Brocade 7840
Condition: This may occur on Brocade 7840 with WAN, LAN, and Maintenance Port
in same subnet

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Defect ID: DEFECT000639880

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: RAS - Reliability,
Availability, and
Serviceability
Symptom: Raslog messages prior to switch power cycle disappeared.
Condition: It happens after a switch power cycle, or sometime a panic. It seems to
occur more with FOSv7.4.x;

Defect ID: DEFECT000653341

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line
Interface
Symptom: snmp.*.default parameter are not written in config file by "snmpconfig
--default snmpv3"
Condition: SNMP parameter such as snmp.usmUserPaswdEncFlag.default:0 appears
only after configupload/configdownload. not after snmpconfig
--default.snmpv3

Defect ID: DEFECT000653349

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.1 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring
and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: When using Ror, modifying the following parameters of the base rule is
not blocked:
? Monitoring system
? Timebase
? Severity
? Repeat count
Condition: When using maps CLI changing the time base to hour, and severity to
warning. In both cases it gave the warning regarding the rule being
monitored by other rules, but it took the changes when re-enabled the
policy.

Defect ID: DEFECT000651962

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring

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Reported In Release: FOS8.1.1 Technology: RAS - Reliability,

Availability, and
Serviceability
Symptom: Unclear raslog message description in RAS-1003 on Gen5 platforms.
Condition: When taking supportsave and specifying ftp parameters as user:
anonymous, and password: BLANK, it reports:
[RAS-1003], 479, CHASSIS, ERROR, , Trace dump was not transferred due
to supportftp setting is conflict with cfgload attribute

Defect ID: DEFECT000652508

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: D-Port - Diagnostic
Port
Symptom: Physical Layer errors / issues (crc errors, link resets, etc...) may be
encountered
Condition: These may be observed on certain type of 16G SWL optics that have gone
through Dport testing.
Recovery: No action needed for port never gone through D-port testing.
For port has gone through D-port testing, after upgrade the code release
with fix, run:
portdisable <port>
portdporttest --reset -module <port>
portenable <port>

Defect ID: DEFECT000653185

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: FICON
Symptom: Out of memory (OOM) is observed in FICON setup followed by switch
panic.
Condition: This may occur when the neighbor switches are rebooted repeatedly.
CUP ports do not free the memory used for handling domain unreachable
ioctl.

Defect ID: DEFECT000649808

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel
over IP

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Symptom: Extension Tunnel state indicated as HA-Offline even though all HA tunnels
display as online in portshow fciptunnel -ch output.
Condition: This is seen after a prior FCIP HCL upgrade completed with errors that
resulted in VE recovery to complete the upgrade.
Recovery: Contact support to determine if there is a work around. There are some
cases that can be recovered without a switch reboot.

Defect ID: DEFECT000651738

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Port Bring-up
Symptom: CRC with good EOF error may be observed.
Condition: These errors may be encountered on FC8-64 port blade in 8510-8 chassis
only.

Defect ID: DEFECT000652170

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Inband Management
Symptom: EVMd panic while deleting a logical switch.
Condition: The may occur when user deletes a logical switch while a zone
transaction is still in progress.

Defect ID: DEFECT000608997

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
CP panic may be encountered with some daemons (fcoed, raslogd, vsd etc ) termination,
Symptom: followed be a warm recovery.
Condition: This occurs after executing setdbg CLI command such as 'setdbg SNMP 3' command.

Defect ID: DEFECT000632433

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol
Symptom: LDAP user role mapped to user created switch defined role results in failed access in shell.
Condition: This may be seen following an upgrade to FOS7.4.1d or higher.

Defect ID: DEFECT000635891

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: User is unable to access Brocade switch when using Webtools.

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Condition: This is encountered when the user attempts to access the switch via 'IPv6 link local address' in
Webtools.

Defect ID: DEFECT000643020

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: SNMP - Simple Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: During firmware upgrade, snmpd terminates, resulting in disruptive upgrade.
Condition: This is a corner case situation encountered when system goes for a reboot from upgrade and
there is already a request in queue to be processed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000643020

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: SNMP - Simple Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: During firmware upgrade, snmpd terminates, resulting in disruptive upgrade.
Condition: This is a corner case situation encountered when system goes for a reboot from upgrade and
there is already a request in queue to be processed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000643278

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: Changing the IP address of eth0 may lead to loss of management access to the switch.
Condition: This is encountered when IPFC addresses are set.

Defect ID: DEFECT000643566

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: In webtools after the user has enables an active zone configuration and successfully saves it to
the switch, zone config tab may indicate:
effective zone config: none
Condition: This is a cosmetic issue in webtools zone config tab display, with no functional impact.

Defect ID: DEFECT000644778

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: User Accounts & Passwords
Symptom: User may encounter multiple panics of secd following a distribution of the password database.
Condition: This is seen when distributing password due to a memory leak.

Defect ID: DEFECT000645904

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium

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Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management

Reported In Release: FOS7.4.2 Technology: High Availability
Symptom: After HA (hafailover/hareboot), the ports are online in switchshow, but internal states still have
these ports marked offline. Thus routes are not programmed on these ports.
Condition: This happens when there is a single port failed HArecover with RASLOG, [SWCH-1031], , SLOT 7
| FID 128, WARNING,, Port 0 recovery failed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000645941

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: When an E port cable is disconnected, the MAPS object of that port may sometimes show as
"Online-Port"
Condition: This is encountered in MAPS during debounce handling of a port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000646305

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: SNMP - Simple Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: MAPS traps become enabled, from a previously disabled setting following a firmware upgrade.
Condition: This occurs after upgrade from FOS 8.0.x to higher FOS versions.

Defect ID: DEFECT000646323

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: CLI command "portshow 0" reflect "FAA" as inactive, even when FAA is enabled for the port.
Condition: This is a cosmetic discrepancy, that appears in the output of only "portshow 0", with no
functional impact.

Defect ID: DEFECT000646427

Technical Severity: Low Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: User may observe a constant stream of the following raslog message:
[MAPS-1003], 58409, FID 128, WARNING,, SFP 34, Condition=ALL_OTHER_SFP(CURRENT>=50),
Current Value:[CURRENT,50 mAmps],
Condition: These MAPS Messages are triggered by ELWL SFP type 57-1000262-01 when plugged into the
switch at Default Config.

Defect ID: DEFECT000646733

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP
Symptom: FCIP devices tunnel/circuits may go in and out of degraded state.

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Condition: This is observed when routers are replaced and in this situation the padded bytes are left with
random values.

Defect ID: DEFECT000647935

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Port Bring-up
Symptom: User does not see any warning raslog message generated when the maximum configured NPIV
login limit (defined by the command portcfgnpivport --setloginlimit <slot/port>) is exceeded.
Condition: SWCH-1045 and SWCH-1046 raslogs messages are now added to warn user when max NPIV
login limit is reached/exceeded.
Workaround: Rely on the MAPS notifications.

Defect ID: DEFECT000648606

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.3.2 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP
Symptom: BLS-5024 DP Panic occurs after Tunnel Down event.
Condition: When an FCIP Tunnel fails with pending FCIP Batches in progress, there is a chance that tunnel
down processing could incorrectly free system buffers that should still be in use.

Defect ID: DEFECT000649143

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.1.2 Technology: Port Bring-up
Symptom: Gen 6 switches do not display "Disabled (Port Throttled)" per switchshow.
Condition: Issue happens on Gen 6 platforms only. Unstable ports may not be throttled. But it won't affect
switch performance because Auto-Speed-Negotiation is not CPU intensive on Gen 6 platforms.

Defect ID: DEFECT000649898

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: ISL - Inter-Switch Linking
Symptom: "Fabric unstable" may be observed along with LISL going offline/online.
Condition: This may be encountered when a parallel upgrade of all switches in the fabric is performed using
BNA.
Workaround: Do not perform parallel upgrade when there are fixed port switches in the fabric.

Defect ID: DEFECT000650052

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.2.0 Technology: Virtual Fabrics
Symptom: Switch panics after mdd terminates.
Condition: Create and delete LS in a loop, eventually mdd panics after running out of file descriptors.

Defect ID: DEFECT000650244

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension

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Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP

Symptom: Automated WAN Tool session without a timeout value configured remains in a Passed state
after configured Run Time completes.
Condition: This issue is caused by the Automated WAN Tool session failing to notify the remote peer that
the local Automated WAN Tool session has completed.
Workaround: Manually stop the Automated WAN Tool session using the 'portcmd --wtool <WT-ID> stop'
command

Defect ID: DEFECT000650268

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.1 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: Mapsrule create RoR (Rule on Rule) "-value" parameter accepts negative values.
Condition: For example, Run: mapsrule --createRoR test_ror_CRC_3 -monitor test_CRC -timebase hour -op
g -value -100 -action raslog
is accepted.

Defect ID: DEFECT000650786

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology: RAS - Reliability, Availability, and
Serviceability
Symptom: Enhancement code to generate RASlog alert to warn users that BE er_crc can be caused by
upstream parity errors.
Condition: After a short burst of FDS parity error observed on a blade, large number of crc errors is
observed on peer blade back-end port.
Recovery: Power-down/replace the FDS parity blades.

Defect ID: DEFECT000650786

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology: RAS - Reliability, Availability, and
Serviceability
Symptom: Enhancement code to generate RASlog alert to warn users that BE er_crc can be caused by
upstream parity errors.
Condition: After a short burst of FDS parity error observed on a blade, large number of crc errors is
observed on peer blade back-end port.
Recovery: Power-down/replace the FDS parity blades.

Defect ID: DEFECT000651598

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Hardware Monitoring
Symptom: User may encounter both core blades moved to faulty state and switch becoming disabled.
Condition: This happens when both core blades run into a faulty state simultaneously. The fix will only fault
one core at anytime.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000626203

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: RAS - Reliability, Availability, and
Serviceability
Symptom: The documentation of the action and cause field of RASLOG message RAS-1003 is inaccurate.
Condition: This inaccurate message is encountered for the cfgload process, when SCP protocol and autoftp
are selected, but the password is empty (length 0).

Defect ID: DEFECT000633855

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: SNMP - Simple Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: The "swFCPortSpecifier" output in "swDeviceStatusTrap" does not correctly reflect the actual
port number
Condition: This is encountered when using logical switches.

Defect ID: DEFECT000636851

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: MAPS CHASSISBAD_TEMP alert is not triggered on Brocade G620 switch
Condition: This is observed on Brocade Gen 6 G620 switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000642778

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: 'last 7 days' portion of the output from "mapsdb --show all" command may reflect altered in
the output of ""mapsdb --show details - day xxx" "
Condition: The alteration to the 'last 7 days' output occurs after "mapsdb --show details - day xxx"
command is executed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000643662

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: User may be unable to configure IPv6 gateway with gateway's Global Address and also unable to
ping/ssh to Brocade Switch after configuring the IPv6 gateway address with the gateway's Link
Local address.
Condition: This is encountered when user configures IPV6 gateway address.
Workaround: Add static ipv6 IP as route first and then add the same as default route to resolve this issue.

Defect ID: DEFECT000643888

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High

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Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management

Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Configuration Fundamentals
Symptom: Training/Debug messages are seen when portloopback test is executed on Brocade G610
switch.
Condition: This is observed when portloopback test is run on Brocade G610 switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000645402

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: SNMP - Simple Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: Termination of snmpd daemon causing ha out of sync.
Condition: This results from an SNMP request with invalid port number.

Defect ID: DEFECT000646248

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: "Inherited FID" is not shown in the Switch info panel in webtools
Condition: This is encountered in a LS enabled setting.

Defect ID: DEFECT000646307

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.1 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: Launching Webtools may lead to failure from SSL Handshake alert of "unrecognized_name".
Condition: This may be encountered with HTTPS & Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN).

Defect ID: DEFECT000646833

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Fibre Channel Services
Symptom: During detach/Attach of Host to Brocade switch running 8.1.x, the PLOGI fails to complete.
Condition: This is encountered under use of Common Transport IU (CT_IU) Extended Frame Header.

Defect ID: DEFECT000647090

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: FICON Channel and device nodes are not listed as members in the MAPS "logicalgroup --show"
CLI output under ALL_OTHER_F_PORTS as expected.
Condition: This is encountered under the following conditions:
1. In Secure FICON fabric, with FICON channels and devices logged into the switch.
2. MAPS (mdd) daemon is restarted (HCL, hafailover, reboot, hareboot, power-cycle, or mdd
panic/restart)
Workaround: The nodes are correctly added back to the ALL_OTHER_F_PORTS logical group when the
switch ports to which they are attached are disabled/enabled, or the modes are otherwise
forced to log back into the fabric.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000647333

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: When user attempts to clone RoR rules, the CLI command returns "Specified group does not
exist."
Condition: This is encountered when user attempts to clone MAPS RoR rules via the "mapsrule --clone" CLI.

Defect ID: DEFECT000648243

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP
Symptom: Panic may occur after getting error: "XTUN-1001 "FTNL Tunnel 16 Memory allocation failed
tracker 3/" and potential BLS-5024".
Condition: When 7800 or FX8-24 DP FCIP Control Block memory pool is empty or does not have large
enough buffers to allocate a control block.

Defect ID: DEFECT000631036

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: CLI Command 'slotstatsclear -s' does not work as specified with respect to the default value for
slot number.
Condition: This may be encountered for CLI command slotstatsclear on all platforms

Defect ID: DEFECT000637820

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: MAPS permits setting quiet time below minimum supported rate "EHT_MGMT_PORT_STATE"
monitor.
Condition: This may be encountered on all platforms

Defect ID: DEFECT000639154

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: Setting extremely long (>31,000+ years) quiet time values, in MAPs leads to incorrect error
message being displayed, and quiet time is only set to around 68 years.
Condition: This is seen on all platforms and stems from improper validation of the user supplied value
against the maximum limit.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000640021

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Software Installation & Upgrade
Symptom: auditcfg class state settings may not be retained after FOS upgrade. And all auditcfg classes may
revert to enabled after upgrade.
Condition: This may be encountered on all platforms following a first upgrade from factory install or net
install.

Defect ID: DEFECT000642851

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: D-Port - Diagnostic Port
Symptom: dporttest "nframes" parameter does not match the rx and tx counters in porterrshow output:
Condition: This may be encountered on Gen6 platforms

Defect ID: DEFECT000643776

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Security Policies
Symptom: Switch running FOS v8.x panics when distributing password in a fabric with a mixed FOS versions
of FOS7.1 or lower and FOS v8.x
Condition: Run "distribute -p PWD –d <switch-list>" command on a switch running FOS v7.1 or earlier to
distribute password database to a switch running FOS v8.x. The switch running FOS v8.x will
panic while processing data received from earlier revision FOS. Mixed fabric releases with FOS
v7.2/7.3 and 8.0.1 or later are not impacted.
Workaround: Run the command from switches with the highest revision FOS, or upgrade the
target/receiving switches to FOS v8.1.1a or later versions which has the fix.

Defect ID: DEFECT000622233

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Port Bring-up
Symptom: Customer may see many CRC errors and CRC_geof in porterrshow for the embedded HBA doing
boot-over-SAN.
Condition: While performing boot-over-SAN with certain embedded HBAs, it incorrectly sends the Idle
fillword during link init phase.
Recovery: Upgrade code with fix and configure port with "portcfgnondfe --force_disable port#"

Defect ID: DEFECT000633099

Technical Severity: Low Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: Using the SSH syntax "ssh admin@<ip address> <cli command>" in LS specific context,
generates the output for the default switch.
Condition: This is encountered on all platforms

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Defect ID: DEFECT000637464

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Virtual Fabrics
Symptom: User may encounter "Port X: portCfgPersistentEnable is successful But the port cannot be
enabled." when attempting enable port with portcfgpersistentenable.
Condition: This is a very rare, corner case occurrence that may be encountered after moving a port to a
logical switch and performing a portcfgpersistentenable on the port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000637928

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: AAA - Authentication, Authorization,
and Accounting
Symptom: CLI command passwddefault results in the following error message ""Error: Invalid option
specified, see the usage."" even though passwords are successfully set to default.
Condition: This is seen on all platforms when CLI command passwddefault is run. It is caused by an RBAC
permission issue.

Defect ID: DEFECT000638134

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: AAA - Authentication, Authorization,
and Accounting
Symptom: 16G platforms output 'rbash: SHLVL: readonly variable' error when user issues login command
on admin/user privilege.
Condition: On 16G switches, issue login via admin/user privilege:
sw0:FID128:admin> login
rbash: SHLVL: readonly variable <---------------

sw0:FID128:user> login
rbash: SHLVL: readonly variable <---------------

Root works as expected:

sw0:FID128:root> login

32G was fixed in FOS v8.0.2a

Defect ID: DEFECT000639785

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.1 Technology: Flow Vision

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Symptom: On an AMP monitoring 20,000 flows, the customer may face following error while executing
<flow --show sys_mon_analytics>.

AMP1_114156:FID5:admin> flow --show sys_mon_analytics

User defined Monitor flows are active on the chassis/LS: __¥0?‡Œ. Deactivate User defined
Monitor flows to proceed
Condition: Executing <flow --show sys_mon_analytics> with 20,000 learned flows.
Recovery: 1. Retry the flow CLI command after 30 seconds
2. flow --reset sys_mon_analytics

Defect ID: DEFECT000642431

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.1 Technology: Analytics Monitoring
Symptom: Harmless RASLOG indicating analytics message not forwarded is seen during reboot of AMP box
.
Condition: Raslog 1730* seen on console when AMP is initializing.

1730 [CRIT] {0x5d1ea2d0} SE NOT ONLINE. Analytics message not forwarded

Defect ID: DEFECT000643334

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP
Symptom: XTUN-1000 RASLOGs and other issues (potentially BLS-5024 DP Panic).
Condition: After running for a long period of time in an FCIP FCR configuration, the DP WQE buffer pool is
depleted (2.5 million are lost in 70 days in a large FCR configuration (>> 10,000 imported SID/DID
pairs). The pool is initialized with 7.5 million WQE buffers. So it would take about 210 days to
consume the entire pool.
Workaround: Reboot the blade/switch before 210 days have passed in a large FCIP FCR configuration.

Defect ID: DEFECT000607751

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: Port health in "portshow" CLI is inaccurate on EX-port.
Condition: Port health/state is not getting updated after EX-Port disable and enable.

Defect ID: DEFECT000632526

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: After a TI zone is deleted, the routing selected by the deleted TI zone may still stay in effect.
Condition: This may be encountered as a function of specific topology.

Defect ID: DEFECT000634964

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management

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Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Access Gateway

Symptom: Switch panic after a long up time in AG environment.
Condition: Small memory leak when running agshow CLI or BNA polling AG information in the background.

Defect ID: DEFECT000635739

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: High Availability
Symptom: CP encountered kernel panic (Detected termination of mdd) during a firmware downgrade from
FOS v8.1.0x to FOS v8.0.x.
Condition: This may occur on a switch running FOS v8.1.0x with an empty MAPS policy before the
downgrade. Pre-FOS v8.1.0 downgrade is not impacted. The panic is addressed in FOSv8.0.2b
and v7.4.2, but a subsequent migration to an un-fixed FOS v8.0.1x or v7.x will cause the MDD
panic again.

This will be fixed in FOSv8.1.0b so migrations from FOS v8.1.0b down will not be affected.
Workaround: Add a Rule to the MAPS Policy so it is not empty to avoid this panic.

Defect ID: DEFECT000635804

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: Loading MAPS policies and rules causes high memory utilization.
Condition: It can happen when BNA polls Advance Monitors System (AMS) group. In addition, memory can
be exhausted within a few minutes during Maps policy load when there is NPIV device port
range configured in MAPS dflt_aggressive_policy.
Workaround: Avoid to use port range in Maps policy configuration.
Recovery: hafailover when memory is extremely low.

Defect ID: DEFECT000637431

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP
Symptom: IO Errors on FCIP FICON Extended devices
Condition: After FICON Emulation Device Discovery sequence is completed on a FICON emulation enabled
tunnel, if the sequence that was issued after FICON Device Discovery receives a non-address
specific status in response, the emulation generated status accept will include an OXID of 0xFFFF
and the device will abort the status exchange.

Defect ID: DEFECT000623276

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Port Bring-up

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Symptom: Following an upgrade N_Ports encounter “ELP Drop - non F-Port ELP in AG mode” in the fabric
log and log subsequent AG-1039 messages on both N_Ports. F_Ports on AG then appear to be
disabled.
Condition: This is seen on Access Gateway. May occur following port offline/online or switchdisable/enable
without any delay on AG platforms during hareboot.
Workaround: Enable all F_Ports that encountered being disabled.

Defect ID: DEFECT000631314

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Fibre Channel Services
Symptom: When a device comes online and logs in, it is unable to communicate to other devices on the
same switch.
Condition: This occurs when device logs in with conflicting VVL (Vendor Version Level) version information.
Workaround: Download latest driver for the device.
Recovery: Download latest driver for the device.

Defect ID: DEFECT000632217

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology: RAS - Reliability, Availability, and
Serviceability
Symptom: Switch panic or cold boot during firmwareupgrade.
Condition: In rare condition during hot code load, if there is a mismatch in switch internal data and any
online user port media speed settings, the switch will panic when upgrade to FOS v7.3.1e,
v7.3.2a, v7.4.1c, and v8.0.1 or later on these code streams. Director upgrade could be cold boot.
Workaround: portdisable/enable speed mismatch ports before upgrade.

Defect ID: DEFECT000633179

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: Webtools tooltip does not display the CRC errors incremented in the given polling interval,
instead it displays the counter value itself.
Condition: This is applicable for all FOS platforms.

Defect ID: DEFECT000633432

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: L port is listed in "Port Admin" tab and also in "FC Port Configuration Wirzard" when user clicks
'Actions and Edit" in General tab
Condition: Fabric OS version 8.0 and above supports only 16G/32G Products which do not support
L-Port(loop port)

Defect ID: DEFECT000633848

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface

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Symptom: Help page for CLI command passwdcfg needs update to the -charset value section.
Condition: This is applicable only for the help page for the passwdcfg CLI command.

Defect ID: DEFECT000633978

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP
Symptom: IO Errors on FCIP FICON Extended devices
Condition: When performing control unit maintenance on a FCIP FICON emulation extended device, short
CU busy status is not correctly passed to the channel causing IO timeout IFCC.

Defect ID: DEFECT000634005

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: There is a discrepancy between the documentation and the actual CLI for MAPS policy creation
on max policy name length.
Condition: This is seen when attempting to create a maps policy with policy name length of 32 characters.

Defect ID: DEFECT000614911

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: RAS - Reliability, Availability, and
Serviceability
Symptom: Switch may go into rolling reboot with the following console message:
"The Hardware Clock does not contain a valid time, so we cannot set the System Time from it.
Unable to set system clock."
Condition: This may occur under a rare circumstance where the hardware clock goes faulty or corrupted.

Defect ID: DEFECT000624498

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Fibre Channel Services
Symptom: After zoning change, standby CP on all directors in the fabric go into rolling reboots.
Condition: When user tries to commit more than 1MB zone in a mixed fabric from a director switch the
commit will fail. Then if user tries to expunge the big zone config and enable another small cfg
the standby CP of the director switch might crash.
Workaround: Disable the zone config and enable another small zone config.
Recovery: Disable the zone config.

Defect ID: DEFECT000625172

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: sysshutdown command does not work under admin login. Returns shutdown: must be root
Condition: Run sysshutdown command under admin login with FOS7.4.1e.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000626610

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP
Symptom: DP went down and impacted FCIP traffic.
Condition: Internal back pressure on FX8-24/BR7800 caused DP stuck. Monitor such condition and fault the
blade if it happens; Also added enhancement to dump more register contents for IP extension
platforms.

Defect ID: DEFECT000627826

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: Chassis Role:user allows sysShutDown command
Condition: User account is allowed to execute the 'sysshutdown’ command when the role of the the chassis
level user is configured.

Defect ID: DEFECT000628482

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: Log into switch with multiple telnet sessions and then issue 'killtelnet', the switch fails to remove
the killed session immediately from the "List of Sessions" table
Condition: Running the CLI on FOS v8.0.x
Workaround: Hit the enter key again before the killed session is gone from the list.

Defect ID: DEFECT000629422

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Technology: Access Gateway
Symptom: The standby CP goes into rolling reboot with MSD panic after receiving dump from the Active CP.
Condition: This issue will be observed when Invalid entry (Node Name or IP address is missing) exists for
one of connected AG switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000630618

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: RAS - Reliability, Availability, and
Serviceability
Symptom: Enhance code to track PCI address of blade that caused CPs reboot.
Condition: This is rarely seen in director class products when there is a bad blade in the system or when the
blade is improperly seated.
Recovery: Reseat/replace identified blade.

Defect ID: DEFECT000632469

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Fastwrite
Symptom: Standard processing of ELS PRLI causes open pending exchanges to be cleaned up. This will
cause timeouts for all pending IOs

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Condition: With an application that uses ELS PRLI Sequences with Image Pair established over an FX8-24 or
7800 FCIP Tunnel.

Defect ID: DEFECT000632724

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Virtual Fabrics
Symptom: Switch may suffer a “lfmd” daemon termination and kernel panic
Condition: Run “Chassisdisable” CLI on a system with many logical switches.

Defect ID: DEFECT000619888

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Flow Vision
Symptom: CLI command "flow --show <flow_name>" may displays impossibly high number (4.29G) after
statsclear or slotstatsclear
Condition: This results from a software bug in managing the counter wrap around condition and may be
seen intermittently after statsclear or slotstatsclear

Defect ID: DEFECT000619917

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: SNMP - Simple Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: CLI command "snmpconfig --set mibcapability" may not properly update the value of
snmpMibCap.
Condition: The improper value of snmpMidCap may be seen following configdownload in FOSv7.4.x or
later, snmp.mibCap.

Defect ID: DEFECT000620811

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: Name server data is not populated on the device side after the firmware upgrade. Also FICON
RNID data disappears after firmware upgrade.
Condition: One of the following upgrade scenarios on a Brocade 7800 switch:
- 7.3.x to 7.4.1x.
- v7.2.x to v7.3.x.
- v7.1.x to v7.2.x.
- v7.0.x to v7.1.x.
Workaround: Bounce storage ports.
Recovery: Bounce the storage ports.

Defect ID: DEFECT000622430

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: User Accounts & Passwords
Symptom: Login failure is observed for LDAP users.
Condition: This issue is seen when LDAP user tries to login to switch using username without domain name.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000626833

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Software Installation & Upgrade
Symptom: The IFL will not come up stating reason as "Analytics mode not supported" on EX_Port.
Condition: In a Backbone-to-Edge topology if QoS is enabled both on the EX_Port and E_Port, this issue may
be observed intermittently after a portdisable and portenable of EX_Port.
Workaround: Disable QoS configuration on the EX-Port.
Recovery: Toggle the EX_Port (or) disable QoS configuration on EX_Port and then enable the port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000626893

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Configuration Fundamentals
Symptom: CLI command "configure" permits configuration of rpcd attributes, even though rpcd has been
deprecated in FOS 8.0.1.
Condition: This is seen while executing the configure CLI command in FOS 8.0.1 and subsequent FOS
versions.

Defect ID: DEFECT000626948

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Flow Vision
Symptom: After a change in the Fabric ID (FID) of the Logical Switch (LS), the sys_analytics_vtap flow
doesn't mirror frames.
Condition: This issue happens when user modify the FID without performing a switchdisable prior to the
FID changed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000627130

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Fibre Channel Services
Symptom: The user may observe VERIFY and not allowed to do a non-disruptive firmware upgrade to v8.1.0
or HA fail over standby system, when zone DB size is close to the max zone DB size for a
particular LS (logical switch).
Workaround: User can reduce the zone DB size on LS and then perform the operation.

Defect ID: DEFECT000627207

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Inband Management
Symptom: The IOCTL error message is reported when eth0 or eth3 interface is down.
Condition: When user set eth0 or eth3 interface to down state, the following error log message is displayed
ioctl(ETHTOOL_GSET) failed 19
/fabos/cliexec/ifmodeshow: [: : integer expression expected

Defect ID: DEFECT000627440

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Technical Severity: High Probability: High

Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: An error message "“Failed to change the password” is reported when use EZSwitch setup to
change the password on G610.
Condition: Cannot use EZSwitch setup to change password on G610.

Defect ID: DEFECT000627462

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: Configuration Fundamentals
Symptom: The uploaded configuration file might be missing the zoning.tizonefilter and will not be
downloaded to the switch.
Condition: The upload config file is missing the "zoning.tizonefilter " key
Recovery: Manually set the setting for ti filtering after config download.

Defect ID: DEFECT000627493

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology: Port Bring-up
Symptom: When creating a port map on an Access Gateway, an F-Port that is not part of the configured
port map will be allowed to come online.
Condition: An Access Gateway switch with no policy defined can see this symptom under any condition that
causes all of the N-ports go offline (eg. Cold reboot, switchdisable and then switchenable,
portdisable all N-ports and then portenable all N-ports.
Recovery: Portdisable and then portenable the F-ports which are not part of the configured port map.

Defect ID: DEFECT000627504

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: MAPS triggers Latency Impact rules with a value >100%
Condition: If on F-ports which exhibit repeated slow drain behavior over a long period (in terms of multiple
days), MAPS Latency Impact RAS message will report the amount of impact value > 100%.

Defect ID: DEFECT000627572

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Flow Vision
Symptom: The first frametype ingress flow works fine and it gives the error when the second frametype
ingress flow is created.
Condition: Generally 2 frame type monitor flows are allowed on ingress port. If the first frame type flow has
no srcdev and dstdev defined, then the second frame type flow is allowed. If the first frame type
flow is defined with srcdev and dstdev, then second frame type flow does not work.

Defect ID: DEFECT000627586

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring

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Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Flow Vision

Symptom: Currently user can filter sys_mon_all_vms flow with option "srceid and srcd", but the user
cannot filter based on only srceid option.
Condition: The user can filter particular VM from sys_mon_all_vms flow based on srceid and srcd. This
means specific VM on particular PID. It will not allow the user to filter only particular VM
registered in all PIDs.

Defect ID: DEFECT000627608

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Configuration Fundamentals
Symptom: User cannot see the 7840 and X6-8 License details of the port in Web Tools even the License
detail is available in CLI.
Condition: 7840 and X6-8 ports License detail cannot show in Web Tools.
7840 40G ports with WAN rate upgrade 2 shows License as NA in PortAdmin->Gige
Ports->General Tab. X6-8 shows Licensed as "No" in PortAdmin->Gige Ports->General Tab.
Actual License details are correctly available in Switch Admin->License tab.

Defect ID: DEFECT000627679

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: SNMP trap generated by MAPS for a flow that triggered a rule does not identify the flow that
triggered the rule - i.e. it does not have "SID,DID & Rx port" information
Condition: This issue is observed only for VM Insight flow with the where the flow definition has "*" for the
destination device (DID).

Defect ID: DEFECT000627794

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Flow Vision
Symptom: In rare occasions, flows with fixed SFID/DFID may not work and stats may not be shown.
Condition: This issue is not specific to backbone E-port alone. It is generic issue seen when a flow with fixed
SFID/DFID is installed.
Recovery: The flow can be recovered by deactivating and activating it.

Defect ID: DEFECT000628050

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Configuration Fundamentals
Symptom: A harmless VERIFY error message may occur on a ISL link during encryption process.
Condition: A VERIFY error related to a file operation may occur when CLI and Brocade Network Advisor are
accessing the same switch at the same time.

Defect ID: DEFECT000628051

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP

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Symptom: When there are multiple IPsec policies in different logical switches that all need editing for FWDL
to a lower version, the preinstall script only shows one logical switch at a time per execution.
Once that LS is corrected, then it will show the policies from other logical switches that need
editing for FWDL. This is inconsistent from the tunnel behavior which shows all offending
tunnels regardless of logical switch.
Condition: This will occur if there are multiple IPsec policies in different logical switches that all need
updates for the FWDL to a previous version to succeed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000628163

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: SNMP - Simple Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: Snmptraps --show in FOS v8.0.2 lists T11-FC-ZONE-SERVER-MIB twice.
Condition: This will be seen on all platforms running FOS v8.0.2.

Defect ID: DEFECT000628189

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: SSH - Secure Shell
Symptom: SSH connection to G610 switch will occasionally fail.
Condition: Sometime SSH connection with public key (password less login) may fail to login to G610 switch.
This condition is rarely to happen.
Workaround: Disconnect and establish the connection again.

Defect ID: DEFECT000628444

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Flow Vision
Symptom: There is a spike difference seen in RD1RespTime measure when BNA polls within short period of
time.
Condition: The difference in previous and current RD1RespTime measure is calculated in each polling cycle
in BNA application. There is a difference seen in this measure when BNA polled frequently.
Workaround: Increase the polling interval in BNA.

Defect ID: DEFECT000628484

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Flow Vision
Symptom: IOS statistics are not reported on fully qualified flow for SX6 Extension Blade.
Condition: The issue happens only when creating a flow monitor with both srcdev and dstdev specified on
the SX6 Extension blade.
Workaround: When creating a flow on SX6 Extension blade, define the flow with either srcdev or dstdev.

Defect ID: DEFECT000628518

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Virtual Fabrics
Symptom: "Port not bounded to Address in FICON Switch" error will be shown to the user when ports are
moved to FICON LS.

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Condition: When ports are moved to FICON LS before binding their addresses, user may observe these
ports are not enabled and error message will be displayed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000609452

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: Switch time set back to 1970/01/01 after a zone CLI is run, in addition, sometimes, pdm queue
full is reported.
Condition: This issue is seen when disable TDZ (portcfgtdz -disable *) on all ports of the switch. Issue is NOT
seen if disable only a few ports.

Defect ID: DEFECT000618094

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: D-Port - Diagnostic Port
Symptom: Spinfab command will return FAILED status when run on Analytics (AE) E-ports connected to
AMP switches.
Condition: Occurs when spinfab is run against AE E-ports.

Defect ID: DEFECT000619717

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: SNMP - Simple Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: Customer may not be able to set Forwarding from notforwarding using snmp browser.
***** SNMP SET-RESPONSE START *****
Error: Wrong value
Error index: 1
1: ipForwarding.0 (INTEGER) forwarding(1)
***** SNMP SET-RESPONSE END *****
Condition: Observed while changing switch mode from Forwarding from notforwarding.

Defect ID: DEFECT000619946

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: HTTP/HTTPS
Symptom: BNA will return "UNKNOWN ERROR" during password reset attempt if old and new passwords
are identical.
Condition: Observed during password reset attempt in BNA.

Defect ID: DEFECT000620319

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: IPsec - IP Security

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Symptom: Internal message and command usage seen when executing ipsecconfig command on Mgmt
interface;

/bin/cat: /var/run/iked.pid: No such file or directory

kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l [sigspec]
Condition: Observed when configuring IPSec on management interface.

Defect ID: DEFECT000620664

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: TIZ - Traffic Isolation Zoning
Symptom: New ports assigned to an existing TI Zone is not effective until a port bounce.
Condition: This is seen with FOS v8.0.x. On pre-FOS 8.0.x, the ports are treated as TI zone members
immediately.
Recovery: Bounce port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000621521

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: The numbers of STATE_CHG in "mapsdb --show all" increase on ports with no POD license and
with no device connected to them.
Condition: This will be seen on all platform that has POD ports.

Defect ID: DEFECT000622092

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Hardware Monitoring
Symptom: "Baud Rate" in "sfpshow" with 32G SFP is expected to be shown as "280" not "255".
Condition: Run Sfpshow CLI on 32G sfp.

Defect ID: DEFECT000622718

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP
Symptom: Trace Route for the FOS FCIP extension platforms may fail in Brocade Network Advisor.
Condition: When attempting trace route from Brocade Network Advisor.

Defect ID: DEFECT000622898

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology: Encryption
Symptom: LUN discovery fails until a cfgenable is run on encryption platforms
Condition: When number of RD zones present in the fabric is large.

Defect ID: DEFECT000623559

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP

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Symptom: FCIP tunnels, with IPsec configured, may go offline due to continuous authentication tag errors.
Condition: When IPsec tunnels are configured between switches running different levels of FOS releases.

Defect ID: DEFECT000623773

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Access Gateway
Symptom: System reload might happen when issuing CLI command 'fosexec --ag all' multiple times.
Condition: When executing 'fosexec --ag all <cli>' command many times in a switch having many AG devices
Workaround: Instead of providing '-all' option, use individual ag names
Ex: fosexec --ag all -> fosexec --ag "<ag name1>, <ag name2>"

Defect ID: DEFECT000623930

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Access Gateway
Symptom: Stale entries visible in FDMI show on core access gateway.
Condition: In this case FDMI data base entries are not cleared in core access gateway switch after disabling
edge access gateway switch in cascaded AG topology.

Defect ID: DEFECT000624170

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Access Gateway
Symptom: Host fails to discover targets after fabric switch and core Access Gateway are reboot.
Condition: After rebooting core Access Gateway and the connected fabric switch, host on edge AG may not
discover target in the fabric.
Recovery: Issue a switch disable/enable on core Access Gateway will recover from the issue

Defect ID: DEFECT000624435

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: AAA - Authentication, Authorization,
and Accounting
Symptom: Customer observing display issue related to ldapcfg --show command after AMP upgrade from
1.5.0 to 2.0.0. Extra null entries being listed in output.
Condition: Upgrade the switch from pre 2.0.0 with ldap mapping configured to 2.0.0 or higher version hit
this.
This is applicable to downgrade from 2.0.0 or higher to pre 2.0.0.
Workaround: remove the /etc/fabos/ldap.map file before upgrade/downgrade between pre 2.0.0 to 2.0.0
higher version and vice versa.
Recovery: Removing the /etc/fabos/ldap.map file and creating mappings again will recover from this issue.

Defect ID: DEFECT000624603

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Traffic Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: FICON

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Symptom: Interface Control Checks (IFCC's) may be logged against the CUP when the host executes a Write
command with a large data transfer
Condition: In a two-switch cascaded configuration having a single 8G E-port with default credit configured.
Host executes a Write command with a large data transfer.

Defect ID: DEFECT000625105

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: Web Tools port errror details tab for GigE ports displays errors, e.g. Collision, Dribbling, and Run
Time, that are not applicable for GigE ports.
Condition: All GigE supported platforms, e.g. FX8-24 blade , 7840 switch, and SX6 blade

Defect ID: DEFECT000625249

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: RAS - Reliability, Availability, and
Serviceability
Symptom: Executing femdump CLI in non-interactive mode as admin or user login, a permission denied
message displays "/bin/rm: cannot unlink `/fabos/link_sbin/lscfg_test': Permission denied"
Condition: When logged in as admin or user, and issuing femdump cli command.
Workaround: There is no functionality impact. The femdump proceeds to collect the traces.

Defect ID: DEFECT000625537

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: SNMP - Simple Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: : In swFCPortScn trap,VE-Port is displaying as E-Port for swFCPortBrcdType varbind.
Condition: while sending the swFCPortScn trap
Workaround: Correct object is listed as VE port in MIB walk, but a state change of the VE port will generate
the invalid port type. After Trap is generated the correct information is available for query.

Defect ID: DEFECT000625550

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: SNMP - Simple Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: The SNMP MIB object “swFCPortOpStatus” value may be “unknown” for the Flow Gen SIM Ports
Condition: This issue would only exist if Flow Gen ports are defined and snmpwalk on the SNMP MIB object
“swFCPortOpStatus” is performed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000625584

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology: Security Vulnerability
Symptom: CVE-2016-5195(Dirty Cow): Unprivileged local users could gain write access to otherwise
read-only memory mappings, and thus increase their privileges on the system.

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Condition: This can only be exploited by someone who has access to the switch already and it is limited to
G620 and BR7840 platforms
Workaround: Protecting against unauthorized logins.

Defect ID: DEFECT000625698

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: RAS - Reliability, Availability, and
Serviceability
Symptom: D-Port tests may report failures if ran in parallel on all port of a QSFP.
Condition: Running simultaneous D-Port tests on multiple ports.
Workaround: Rerun tests on individual ports of QSFP.

Defect ID: DEFECT000625758

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: In Chassis switches, if there is (are) any faulty SFP's, then after HA failover MAPS tirggers SFP_IN
alert followed by SFP_FAULTY.
Condition: Switch needs to have unsupported SFPs plugged in.

Defect ID: DEFECT000625780

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Flow Vision
Symptom: User may see stats even when the traffic is not running when a flow is created to monitor traffic
for a particular LUN without associating it to a host or target,
Condition: User is interested to monitor traffic to a particular LUN.
Workaround: Create flow with source and / or destination device and LUN to monitor stats for a particular
LUN.

flow -create flow_1 --srcdev 0xAABBCC --dstdev 0xDDCCEE --lun 10 -feat mon -ingr 3/0
flow -create flow_1 --dstdev 0xDDCCEE --lun 10 -feat mon -egr 3/1

Defect ID: DEFECT000625879

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: HTTP/HTTPS
Symptom: The self-signed certificate details would not be displayed in the output for the “seccertmgmt
show -all” command.
Condition: For self-signed certificate, the seccertmgmt command output will show as “empty”.

Defect ID: DEFECT000626101

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite

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Symptom: Though MAPS allows user to configure minimum toggle timeout as 2 seconds, but it uses 5
seconds as the minimum for the toggle action
Condition: This is the default behavior.

Defect ID: DEFECT000626366

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: High Availability
Symptom: System crash when reboot both CPs at the same time.
Condition: Occasionally use may observe system crash happened, if user simultaneously reboot of both the
CPs with POST Diagnostics enabled.

Defect ID: DEFECT000626367

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: IPsec - IP Security
Symptom: Preshared key length for IPSec policies is allowed to be less than 32 bytes when in FIPS mode.
Condition: Since there is no length check enforcement in Preshared key length, user can configure IPSec
policy with Preshared key less than 32 bytes when in FIPS mode. There is no functionality issue
with Preshared key less than 32 bytes.
Workaround: Modify the IPSec policy to use a Preshared key length greater than or equal to 32 bytes.

Defect ID: DEFECT000626447

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: D-Port test fail.
The failure reason: PCS BLOCK ERROR
Condition: Stats Clear will not clear the PCS errors. It is cleared while reading the stats. Since it is Clear On
Read. This causes the D-Port fails with the reason "PCS BLOCK ERROR"

Defect ID: DEFECT000626676

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: High Availability
Symptom: During HA event (hareboot, hafailover, non-disruptive FWDL, etc) on a 7840 or SX6, high CPU
usage can be seen and ESM-1100 Warnings can be seen with thread timeouts. Can also cause
disruptive firmware migration during extension HCL.
Condition: If the tunnel description field has a semi-colon character in it, 7840 and SX6 HA event and
extension HCL does not work.
Workaround: Modify the tunnel description field to remove the semi-colon.

Defect ID: DEFECT000626791

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: D-Port - Diagnostic Port
Symptom: D_Port long duration optical loopback test fails for the 32G port, when executed with
"portdporttest --start -nframes <no_of_frames> <port>" option.

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Condition: The D_Port test may fail, when the "portdporttest --start" command is executed with "-nframes"
option having an argument value of 40 or more (I.e. to specify 40 million or more frames for the
test).
Workaround: Instead of specifying the number of frames, the D_Port test time can be specified using the
"-time" option with the "portdporttest --start" command to run the test for long duration.

Defect ID: DEFECT000627044

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: User Accounts & Passwords
Symptom: Downgrading to 7.4.2 from 8.1.0. Output of userconfig will display factory accounts twice. This is
display issue.
Condition: If user log into switch using factory account and executes "userconfig --show -a", user will see
factory account info displayed twice.

Defect ID: DEFECT000609437

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Inband Management
Symptom: 3rd party management chassis shows previous static IP address instead of address assigned by
DHCP server.
Condition: It impacts 3rd party management chassis with embedded switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000610619

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Hardware Monitoring
Symptom: G620 has 3 fans in each PSU. Incorrect fan speed and status are observed when any of the fan in
G620's PSU is stopped.
Condition: This issue is seen on stopping any of the fan in G620.

Defect ID: DEFECT000615643

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Access Gateway
Symptom: WWN may show as logged in with CLI command switchshow, but portshow shows no WWN
logged in.
Condition: This may occur with Access Gateway ports without traffic impact.

Defect ID: DEFECT000617788

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Configuration Fundamentals
Symptom: Encountered configDownload failure with an error message : Generic Error- Process function of
configdownload failed for filter "snmp".

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Condition: This is encountered only, in the following scenario:

1) Block ports using snmptraps block command.
2) Unblock using snmptraps unblock port ALL.
3) Execute configupload.
4) Execute configdownload.

Defect ID: DEFECT000619258

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: 'reseterror' option in 'ethif' CLI cannot be issued on a G620 switch.
Condition: This issue is seen while executing the command 'ethif --reseterror eth0' on G620.

Defect ID: DEFECT000619351

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: Password distribute command is no longer functional.
Condition: This issue is seen in FOS v7.4.1d with CLI" distribute -p "PWD" -d "*""

Defect ID: DEFECT000619818

Technical Severity: Low Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: fosConfig command does not work
Condition: this occurs on all platforms due to fosconfig command not having the matching camelcase
command for "fosConfig"
Workaround: use fosconfig instead.

Defect ID: DEFECT000620268

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: FCIP Tunnel Management
Symptom: During upgrade of BR7840s with Virtual Fabric enabled, the tunnels never fully came back up. It
showed "empty" and "incomplete".
Condition: Uninitialized data contains invalid values which cause the tunnel configuration to not be applied
after an HA event.
Recovery: Back down to pre-FOSv7.4.x version and reboot.

Defect ID: DEFECT000620517

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Software Installation & Upgrade
Symptom: CLI fpgaupgrade does not work. Error message requests user to disable FOS.
Condition: This occurs when the command is executed on 32G platforms.

Defect ID: DEFECT000620551

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP

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Symptom: Multiple XTUN-1997 per day with minimal zOS reported IFCCs on extended CHPIDs.
Condition: Invalid FTRACE trigger (should not be a trigger) occurs when FCIP is processing ELS-RDP SOFi2
sequences on a FICON Emulation enabled FCIP Tunnel. The receipt of a BA-ACC will generate the
XTUN-1997 message and trigger a trace buffer on BR7840.

Defect ID: DEFECT000621064

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Configuration Fundamentals
Symptom: Inconsistency in the value of snmp.mibCap.FCMGMT-MIB between default and manual
configurations.
Condition: This is applicable to all FOS platforms running >= FOS7.4.x.

Defect ID: DEFECT000621079

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: Port Admin view within webtools may show "Advanced mode and not Basic as was expected.
Condition: This may occur with the following steps:
- Set view of menu bar on webtools at the "Advanced" mode.
- Close web browser(webtools's session).
- Open your web browser again and start Web Tools.
- Change view of Port Admin tab to "Basic" mode.
- Click "Switch View" tab. And, please click the FC port in the G620 switch view.
Port Admin view is now in "Advanced mode (as in first step)" not Basic as was expected.

Defect ID: DEFECT000621079

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: Port Admin view within webtools may show "Advanced mode and not Basic as was expected.
Condition: This may occur with the following steps:
- Set view of menu bar on webtools at the "Advanced" mode.
- Close web browser(webtools's session).
- Open your web browser again and start Web Tools.
- Change view of Port Admin tab to "Basic" mode.
- Click "Switch View" tab. And, please click the FC port in the G620 switch view.
Port Admin view is now in "Advanced mode (as in first step)" not Basic as was expected.

Defect ID: DEFECT000621111

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.3.2 Technology: High Availability
Symptom: After Out of memory (OOM) is detected, the switch may encounter panic when hareboot is
attempted to recover from OOM.
Condition: This may occur under intense file activities, especially on FC Router switches, when greater than
70% of total memory is moved to cache pool by Linux.
Recovery: Manual hareboot when free memory is at 15% of total memory.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000621163

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: RAS - Reliability, Availability, and
Serviceability
Symptom: Customer noticed the corrupt of audit class configuration:
sw0:admin> configshow | grep audit
audit.cfg.class:1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,1010, <<< Strange value "1010,".
Condition: Observed after firmwaredownload to FOS v7.4.1d and FOS v8.0.1x.

Defect ID: DEFECT000621636

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: In zone admin dialog, the zone configuration will not list the members for the peer zone.
Condition: This is applicable only for the cloned peer zone configuration.

Defect ID: DEFECT000598592

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Technology: FCIP Tunnel Management
Symptom: Application traffic is disrupted without recovery after credit loss on internal trunk between C2
and FPGA/FCIP block. Enhance code to allow user configure for faulting FX8-24 in this condition.
Condition: When there are any kind of FPGA internal or DP errors resulted in credit not returned back to
the FC block on FX8-24.
Recovery: Slotpoweroff/Slotpoweron FX8-24 blade under this condition.

Defect ID: DEFECT000609360

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: AAA - Authentication, Authorization,
and Accounting
Symptom: SSH connection to Brocade 7840 fails intermittently.
Condition: This is a rare corner case occurrence on Brocade 7840.

Defect ID: DEFECT000609360

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: AAA - Authentication, Authorization,
and Accounting
Symptom: SSH connection to Brocade 7840 fails intermittently.
Condition: This is a rare corner case occurrence on Brocade 7840.

Defect ID: DEFECT000615004

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Encryption

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Symptom: FFDC and software verify error occurs when running cryptocfg --initnode command from BES
CLI.
Condition: This would happen only on BES switches running FOS v7.4.1d release.

Defect ID: DEFECT000615272

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: Output of "mapsrule --help" is incomplete.
Condition: Run "mapsrule --help" CLI.

Defect ID: DEFECT000615557

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology: High Availability
Symptom: DCX 8510 and DCX 8510-4S may report faulty fans falsely.
Condition: This occurs under heavy CPU load situation.
Recovery: Re-seat the impacted FAN FRU.

Defect ID: DEFECT000616486

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: SSH - Secure Shell
Symptom: Unable to authenticate an SSH session after importing public key to switch.
Condition: This is encountered by admin level users on a switch running Fabric OS v7.4.1d.

Defect ID: DEFECT000616690

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: NTP - Network Time Protocol
Symptom: After running CLI "tstimezone --old -6" to change the time to GMT -6, CLI date will show it as
GMT+6.
Condition: Run "tstimezone --old" option.

Defect ID: DEFECT000616781

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.3.2 Technology: High Availability
Symptom: CPs may drop HA sync after Network Patroller daemon (NPD) panic during firmware upgrade.
Condition: This may be encountered during firmware upgrade on systems with multiple Logical Switches,
and each LS has some ports with csctl_mode enabled.
Recovery: Reboot active CP in a maintenance window.

Defect ID: DEFECT000616852

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: Port state of LISL ports in switchshow output is misaligned.
Condition: This behavior is seen only for LISL ports.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000617706

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: When executing the "-m 32" operand of the portcfgspeed command, the speed of portcfgshow
is displayed as "??".
Condition: This will be seen in all 32G platform running FOS 8.0.0 and 8.0.1.

Defect ID: DEFECT000618464

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: The Maps daemon (MDD) panicked and did not restart on active CP. As a result the director lost
HA SYNC.
Condition: This happened when standby CP was in and out of faulty state very frequently, and HA could not
be recovered even after standby CP replacement.
Recovery: Reboot active CP in a maintenance window.

Defect ID: DEFECT000618708

Technical Severity: Low Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: User Accounts & Passwords
Symptom: When logging in to a user defined account with user defined role, access to udrole directory runs
into the error "No directory /fabos/users/udrole!".
Condition: This is encountered when a user defined user with user defined role is created.

Defect ID: DEFECT000581254

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: SNMP - Simple Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: User wont be able to change mibcapability i.e Action to enable or disable a MIB/TRAP fails.
Condition: This issue in seen on all platforms with FOS v7.4 and above when the user tries modifying
mibcapability.

Defect ID: DEFECT000583512

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology: Management GUI
Symptom: The switch Administration dialog uses Bandwidth and provides no clue if it is uni-directional or
bi-directional bandwidth.
Condition: The Switch Administration dialog in WebTools doesn't provide details if the bandwidth is
uni-directional (Tx or Rx) or bi-directional(Tx + Rx) bandwidth similar to command line interface.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000594259

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: False MAPS alerts reported for SFP RX/TX Power as value is 0.
Condition: This is applicable to all platforms and it happens when i2c access is temperately not available.

Defect ID: DEFECT000601910

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: SNMP - Simple Network Management
Protocol
Symptom: User wont be able to receive HA traps even after enabling the mibcapability.
Condition: This issue is seen in all the platform upgraded to FOS v7.4.x or later from lower versions with
MIB capability disabled.

Defect ID: DEFECT000602632

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology: Software Installation & Upgrade
Symptom: Active and standby CP failed to gain HA sync during HCL.
Condition: Rare timing condition caused ipadmin daemon to start up late during firmware upgrade in
director class products.
Recovery: Reboot of active CP is need to recover.

Defect ID: DEFECT000602632

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Technology: Software Installation & Upgrade
Symptom: Active and standby CP failed to gain HA sync during HCL.
Condition: Rare timing condition caused ipadmin daemon to start up late during firmware upgrade in
director class products.
Recovery: Reboot of active CP is need to recover.

Defect ID: DEFECT000603339

Technical Severity: Low Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: The description of swMemUsage/swmemUsageLimit in sw.Mib provides total memory
conflicting with MIB description where it shows "memory usage limit"
Condition: Applicable to all platforms that runs MAPS.

Defect ID: DEFECT000604960

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite

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Symptom: Switch state remains in CRITICAL even when all the switch status contributing parameters
change from critical to marginal state.
Condition: This behaviour is seen in all platforms with FOS version 8.x

Defect ID: DEFECT000604974

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS7.3.2 Technology: HTTP/HTTPS
Symptom: After upgrade to FOS v7.3.2 the customer get an error message when attempting to add a new
commonCA.pem file using the seccertutil command.
Condition: This issue hit only on FOSv7.3.2 as this is side effect of fix done for the Defect 564450. This
defect does not impact FOS7.x and FOS 8.x running in field.
Workaround: Import certificates in non-interactive mode will get succeed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000605149

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology: Hardware Monitoring
Symptom: MAPS ‘dflt_base_policy’ will not warn the user when 1 of its 2 PS is missing or faulty
Condition: On Brocade switches such as Brocade7800 and 5300 where FANS and Power Supplies are
separate units and when PS fails with FOS v7.4 or later.
Workaround: This problem can be worked around with FV license until switch can be upgraded.

Defect ID: DEFECT000605149

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Technology: Hardware Monitoring
Symptom: MAPS ‘dflt_base_policy’ will not warn the user when 1 of its 2 PS is missing or faulty
Condition: On Brocade switches such as Brocade7800 and 5300 where FANS and Power Supplies are
separate units and when PS fails with FOS v7.4 or later.
Workaround: This problem can be worked around with FV license until switch can be upgraded.

Defect ID: DEFECT000605207

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Hardware Monitoring
Symptom: Increase in memory utilization which could potentially lead to OOM.
Condition: Applicable to all platforms run FOS7.4.x and above when the switch is being discovered and
undiscovered by BNA continuously/periodically. Many Kmsghandler process are shown on the
switch when this happens.

Defect ID: DEFECT000605295

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Technology: High Availability
Symptom: Observed ports went offline and online on 8G pizza box during hareboot or firmwaredownload.
Condition: This happens on 8G switches when there is class3 timeout frame during hareboot
Workaround: Remove conditions that could cause class3 timeout frame drop, such as slow drain device,
before a hareboot happens.

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Defect ID: DEFECT000605295

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Technology: High Availability
Symptom: Observed ports went offline and online on 8G pizza box during hareboot or firmwaredownload.
Condition: This happens on 8G switches when there is class3 timeout frame during hareboot
Workaround: Remove conditions that could cause class3 timeout frame drop, such as slow drain device,
before a hareboot happens.

Defect ID: DEFECT000605414

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Software Installation & Upgrade
Symptom: firmwaredownload using SCP protocol may fail with reason such as:
Cannot download the requested firmware because the firmware doesn't support this platform.
Condition: This firmwaredownload failure is encountered when using SCP and the network in use is slow or
error prone.
Workaround: 1. investigate and fix possible network issue.
2. use firmwaredownload with FTP or
3. retry firmwaredownload with SCP.
Recovery: use firmwaredownload with FTP or retry firmwaredownload using SCP

Defect ID: DEFECT000606375

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Hardware Monitoring
Symptom: The LED color during a portloopback test on 32G switch will flash Green.
Condition: This defect is applicable to 32G platforms running loopback test.

Defect ID: DEFECT000606375

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Hardware Monitoring
Symptom: The LED color during a portloopback test on 32G switch will flash Green.
Condition: This defect is applicable to 32G platforms running loopback test.

Defect ID: DEFECT000607159

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: Configuration Fundamentals
Symptom: CP paniced when blades were PORed and initializing.
Condition: Race condition while power-cycle the blade running turboram diag test.
Workaround: Avoid power-cycle the blade while diag test is not completed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000607971

Technical Severity: High Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP
Symptom: TSM gets ANR9999D CheckPosition - Position error volume writing to tape.

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Condition: On an FCIP OSTP enabled Tunnel, if there are FC sequence errors, there are cases when OSTP
will not attempt sequence recovery (ELS-REC and FC4 SSR processing). In those cases, there will
be a tape creation or recall error.

Defect ID: DEFECT000608551

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: When the ports are added to a logical group using dynamic definition, the members of the group
won't be removed though their names are changed through portcfgdefault.
Condition: This issue is seen when the ports are added to a logical group through dynamic definition and
their names are changed on portcfgdefault.

Defect ID: DEFECT000608726

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Configuration Fundamentals
Symptom: No expected error message observed during EX_ports configuration.
Condition: When one or more ICL ports that belongs to same QSPF group present in non-base switch,
configuring EX_port results in no error being displayed.
Recovery: All ICL ports belonging to the same QSFP group should be in base switch in order to configure
EX_port.

Defect ID: DEFECT000609380

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.2 Technology: Access Gateway
Symptom: CLI 'agshow' output on one of the edge switch doesn't display ipv6 address of AG switch it is
connected to.
Condition: When AG mode switch is connected to two switches and set ipv6 address on AG, one switch will
show ipv6 info while the other does not.
Workaround: On the AG connected to switch not showing IPv6 address, disable all the N-ports together,
then enable them.

Defect ID: DEFECT000609479

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: AAA - Authentication, Authorization,
and Accounting
Symptom: "charset" option in passwdcfg is not properly checked.
Condition: Perform passwdcfg --set -charset and passwdcfg --set -minlength, but minlenth is not verified
with error message.

Defect ID: DEFECT000609504

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: HTTP/HTTPS

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Symptom: Customer will see the message:/fabos/sbin/configSslNoti: /fabos/libexec/rpcdcfghandler: No

such file or directorywhen configuring SSL certificate file name via the "configure" command.
Condition: It happens when ssl attribute is configured/changed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000609504

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: HTTP/HTTPS
Symptom: Customer will see the message:/fabos/sbin/configSslNoti: /fabos/libexec/rpcdcfghandler: No
such file or directorywhen configuring SSL certificate file name via the "configure" command.
Condition: It happens when ssl attribute is configured/changed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000609546

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Fabric Authentication
Symptom: Error message in output of executing `seccertutil import` and `seccertutil export` with
interactive mode. The message shows "stty: invalid argument `/bin/echo' Try `stty --help' for
more information.".
And in executing these commands, input password is displayed.
Condition: Issuing seccertutil import/export command.

Defect ID: DEFECT000610053

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: High Availability
Symptom: Switch went into rolling reboot after load a config file with a MAPs policy rule >= 40 characters.
Condition: A MAPs policy rule Name from previous version got downloaded to a switch with version higher
than FOSv7.4.0
Workaround: Remove the MAPs policy rule with >=40 rule length before download.
Recovery: Contact TAC to assist with stop switch from rolling reboot: swap boot partition or
firmwarecleaninstall can be used to bring the switch back.

Defect ID: DEFECT000610657

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: Hardware Monitoring
Symptom: Tempshow command would display sensor index even without -detail option.
Condition: This issue is observed on executing tempshow command.

Defect ID: DEFECT000611046

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP
Symptom: BR7840 went into switch bring up timeout reboot loop.
.
Condition: When use ipfilter to block access to TCP port 514. This seesm to impact BR7840 only.
ipfilter –show
7 any tcp 514 deny

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Workaround: Remove TCP port 514 from ipfilter block list to bring up switch.

Defect ID: DEFECT000611430

Technical Severity: High Probability: Low
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: Configuration Fundamentals
Symptom: New Log file will be created to capture the logs from Switch and Zone admin tab.
Condition: Applicable to all switches

Defect ID: DEFECT000611715

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Monitoring
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: MAPS - Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite
Symptom: User is not allowed to create MAPS group with the supported MAX of 32 characters.
Condition: This issue is seen while create MAPS group via CLI with 32 characters.
Workaround: BNA will allow 32 chars in a group name.

Defect ID: DEFECT000612205

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: IPsec - IP Security
Symptom: In IKE policy tab in WebTools, Add and Edit button are enabled. They needs to be disabled.
Condition: Applicable to all switch types.

Defect ID: DEFECT000612205

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Security
Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Technology: IPsec - IP Security
Symptom: In IKE policy tab in WebTools, Add and Edit button are enabled. They needs to be disabled.
Condition: Applicable to all switch types.

Defect ID: DEFECT000612616

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: CLI - Command Line Interface
Symptom: Request enhancement that using -f | - force options to bypass prompt for following CLIs:
cfgsave, cfgenable, cfgdisable
Condition: Run CLI cfgsave, cfgenable, cfgdisable

Defect ID: DEFECT000613801

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP
Symptom: Frequent XTUN-1997 messages logged on BR7840
Condition: Problem occurs on a BR7840 FCIP Tunnel that has Fast Write and/or Fast Write and OSTP
enabled when certain ELS Sequences are received from a Target.

Defect ID: DEFECT000613801

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: Medium

Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension

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Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Technology: FCIP - Fibre Channel over IP

Symptom: Frequent XTUN-1997 messages logged on BR7840
Condition: Problem occurs on a BR7840 FCIP Tunnel that has Fast Write and/or Fast Write and OSTP
enabled when certain ELS Sequences are received from a Target.

Defect ID: DEFECT000613818

Technical Severity: Medium Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Management
Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Technology: Fibre Channel Services
Symptom: Large accumulation of CRC errors over time on FC8-64 cards in DCX+ and DCX-4S+ switch.
Usually these errors manifest as CRC with Good EOF.
Condition: Error conditions only occur on some customer configurations, but generally occur with high BE
traffic loads on DCX+ and DCX-4S+ when FC8-64 cards are installed.

Defect ID: DEFECT000614009

Technical Severity: High Probability: High
Product: Brocade Fabric OS Technology Group: Extension
Reported In Release: FOS8.1.0 Technology: FCIP Tunnel Management
Symptom: User is blocked from configuring 20VE mode with message stating 'Tunnel X maximum
comm-rate too high'.
Condition: This will occur when user attempts to enter 20VE mode with a tunnel configured with aggregate
maximum comm-rate greater than 10Gbps.
Workaround: Use the portcfg fcipcircuit command to lower the aggregate bandwidth of all circuits under
the tunnel to at or below 10Gbps. Then switch the mode to 20VE mode. Once in 20VE mode,
use the portcfg fcipcircuit command again to increase the circuit bandwidths to the desired
values.

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Documentation
Documentation related to the use of Fabric OS v8.2.3d can be found on Dell Online
Support at: https://dell.com/support.

Note: From Fabric OS 6.3.0b onwards, Dell is no longer customizing the Brocade
documentation for various reasons. Dell will instead post the same Brocade versions of
the documentation that Brocade posts. To determine what is supported by Dell as it
may not match what is stated in the Brocade documentation, please refer to the
Release notes or the Dell Support Matrix at:
https://elabnavigator.dell.com/eln/modernHomeSSM, then select the Stand-Alone
Switch link under Connectivity.

Software media, organization, and files

For information on related software environment and system requirements refer to the
Dell Support Matrix available through the E-Lab Interoperability Navigator at select
the Stand-Alone Switch link under Connectivity.

Installation
Installation of Dell Connectrix Enterprise Directors and Departmental Switches is
coordinated through Dell Global Services or through your local Dell office.

Troubleshooting and getting help

Dell support, product, and licensing information can be obtained as follows.
Product information: — For documentation, release notes, software updates, or for
information about Dell products, and service, Dell Online Support at:
https://dell.com/support.
For Dell product licensing, go to the Dell Online Support website at
https://dell.com/support under Service Center > Get and Manage Licenses >
Connectrix.
Technical support — For technical support, go to Dell Customer Service or the Service
Center on Dell Online Support at https://dell.com/support. To open a service request
you must have a valid support agreement. Please contact your Dell sales
representative for details about obtaining a valid support agreement or to answer any
questions about your account.

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