Brocade Fabric OS v6.1.

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Release Notes v1.0

March 12, 2008

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Contents
Document History......................................................................................................................................................1
Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
New Feature Descriptions .......................................................................................................................... 5
Enhanced Connectivity with McDATA Products......................................................................................................5
Access Gateway Enhancements ................................................................................................................................5
Integrated Routing .....................................................................................................................................................6
Traffic Isolation Zones over FCR..............................................................................................................................6
Port Mirroring............................................................................................................................................................6
Temporary Licenses ..................................................................................................................................................6
Buffer Credit Recovery .............................................................................................................................................7
FCIP Performance Enhancements .............................................................................................................................7
Port Fencing...............................................................................................................................................................7
Other ..........................................................................................................................................................................7
Optionally Licensed Software.................................................................................................................... 7
Previously Licensed Software Now Part of Base FOS ..............................................................................................8
Supported Switches.................................................................................................................................... 8
Standards Compliance ............................................................................................................................... 8
Technical Support....................................................................................................................................... 9
Important Notes......................................................................................................................................... 10
Fabric OS Compatibility..........................................................................................................................................10
Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades......................................................................................................................14
Scalability ................................................................................................................................................................14
FICON Support........................................................................................................................................................16
Other Important Notes and Recommendations........................................................................................................16
Documentation Updates........................................................................................................................... 18
Brocade Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide (Publication Number 53-1000598-03).................................................18
Defects ....................................................................................................................................................... 19
Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0 ...........................................................................................................................19
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0 .......................................................................................................68
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0 ..................................................................................................91

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Overview
Brocade Fabric OS v6.1.0 supports the following new hardware platforms:

• Brocade 5300: 48 – 80 port 2U switch

o 8 Gbit/sec technology
o Ports On Demand scaling from 48 to 64 or 80 ports
o Supports Integrated Routing and Adaptive Networking with QoS
o Two hot-swappable, redundant power supply FRUs
o Three hot-swappable, redundant fan FRUs
o EZSwitchSetup support
o USB Port
o FICON, FICON Cascading and FICON Control Unit Port ready

• Brocade 5100: 24 – 40 1U port switch

o 8 Gbit/sec technology
o Ports On Demand scaling from 24 to 32 or 40 ports
o Supports Integrated Routing and Adaptive Networking with QoS
o Two hot-swappable, redundant integrated power supply/fan FRUs
o EZSwitchSetup support
o USB Port
o FICON, FICON Cascading and FICON Control Unit Port ready

• Brocade 300: 8 – 24 port 1U switch

o 8 Gbit/sec technology
o Ports On Demand scaling from 8 to 16 or 24 ports
o Supports Access Gateway
o Adaptive Networking with QoS
o EZSwitchSetup support
o USB Port

• Brocade 7500E: 4G Distance Extension product with 2FC and 2GigE ports

• Fabric OS v6.1 adds support on the 48000 platform for the following blades:
• FC8-32 32-port 8Gbit/sec FC blade
• FC8-48 48-port 8Gbit/sec FC blade

In addition to support for the new hardware platforms and blades, there are numerous new features in
Fabric OS v6.1, including:
• Enhanced connectivity with M-Series products
o Support for native connectivity modes on all 8G blades and platforms
o Traffic Isolation Zones in native connectivity modes
o Frame Redirection support in native connectivity modes
o FICON CUP Cascading
o E-port Authentication
o Enhanced scalability for Interopmode 3 (Open Fabric Mode)– support for 31 domains
and 2048 devices
o SANtegrity Fabric Binding in both Ineropmode 2 and Interopmode 3 including FCR
support
• Access Gateway enhancements
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 o Support on Brocade 300
o AG Trunking
o Advanced Device Security Policy
o 16-bit routing
• Integrated Routing, providing FCR support on 8G ports and blades
• Traffic Isolation Zones over FCR
• Port mirroring on 8Gbit platforms
• Temporary licenses for optional features
• Buffer credit recovery on all 8G platforms
• FCIP Performance enhancements
• Port Fencing support in Fabric Watch

New Feature Descriptions

Enhanced Connectivity with McDATA Products
• M-EOS Native Fabric Mode support – Fabric OS v6.1 supports “interopmode 2” on nearly all
4G and 8G FOS platforms, which allows a FOS-based switch to participate directly in M-EOS
fabrics running in McDATA Fabric Mode. M-EOS products in the fabric must be operating
with M-EOS v9.6.2 or later.

• M-EOS Open Fabric Mode support – Fabric OS v6.1 supports “interopmode 3” on nearly all
4G and 8G FOS platforms, which allows a FOS-based switch to participate directly in M-EOS
fabrics running in Open Fabric Mode. Interopmode 3 replaces the interopmode 1 capability
provided in earlier versions of Fabric OS. M-EOS products in the fabric must be operating with
M-EOS v9.6.2 or later. Interopmode 3 scalability limits have also been increased to match those
of interopmode 2.

• Traffic Isolation Zones supported in mixed fabrics in Interopmode 2– Fabric OS v6.1 allows
the Traffic Isolation Zones capability to be used in fabrics with M-Type products. The M-EOS
based products can also provide analogous capability through the use of Preferred Path
configurations.

• Frame Redirection -- Fabric OS v6.1 allows Frame Redirection to be used on FOS products that
are operating in either of the native connectivity modes (interopmode 2 or 3). This provides even
greater flexibility and support for environments that are interested in using the powerful Frame
Redirection capability.

Access Gateway Enhancements

• Access Gateway support is enabled on the Brocade 300.

• Trunking with Access Gateway enables frame distribution across a set of available paths linking
Access Gateway to an adjacent Switch. The adjacent switch to the Access Gateway has to be a
Brocade switch running FOS v6.1 or above version of the firmware. This feature also enhances
availability by enabling seamless fail-over of traffic from a failed N-port to other ports within a
trunk group. Trunking is an optionally licensed feature.

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 • Advanced Device Security Policy (ADS) extends the DCC policy to a switch module in Access
Gateway mode. DCC policy support enables a user to restrict N_port logins through an F_port of
an Access Gateway. User must provide a list of device Port WWNs for an F_Port in order to
enable those devices to login through that F_port. This policy is also supported for NPIV
connections on F_ports.

• 16 bit routing enhances interoperability of Access Gateway with Cisco fabrics. Note that this
capability is only applicable to 8G platforms..

Integrated Routing
This new licensed capability allows ports in a DCX, 5300, or 5100 to be configured as EX_ports
supporting Fibre Channel Routing. This eliminates the need to add an FR4-18i blade or use the 7500 for
FCR purposes, and also provides double the bandwidth for each FCR connection (when connected to
another 8G-capable port).

Traffic Isolation Zones over FCR

This enhancement enables traffic isolation across EX ports and VEX ports. This benefits applications like
Tape Pipelining and Fast Write that traverse VE ports where customers wish to control the exact path and
ports that are used.

Port Mirroring
Fabric OS v6.1 adds support for Port Mirroring to 8Gbit ports. The port mirroring feature mirrors traffic
in both directions between a source and destination ID pair to a single mirror port. The user may connect
a FC analyzer to this mirror port to capture all the mirrored traffic and perform troubleshooting or other
analysis.

Temporary Licenses
Fabric OS v6.1 introduces support for temporary licensing of select features. These licenses are intended
primarily to allow a customer to activate a feature quickly, in a situation where going through the
“regular” license ordering and procurement process may take too much time. These temporary licenses
may also facilitate customers who wish to evaluate a feature prior to making a decision to purchase the
license. Each temporary license is issued for a 45-day period, beginning when the temp license is issued.
A maximum of two 45-day licenses can be generated for a particular feature on a particular product.
In Fabric OS v6.1, the following features will support temporary licenses:
• Fabric (E_port) license
• Extended Fabric license
• Trunking license
• FCIP license
• Performance Monitoring license

Temporary licenses will be available for other optional features in later releases.
Please contact your switch vendor to obtain Temporary Licenses. Temporary licenses will be issued by
Brocade.

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Buffer Credit Recovery
FOS v6.1 implements credit recovery protocol as described in FC-FS standards. This feature is supported
only on E-ports and allows switches to automatically recover buffer credits that were accidentally “lost”
over time. Buffer credit recovery prevents link performance degradation that may otherwise occur due to
loss of credits over time.

FCIP Performance Enhancements

FOS v6.1 increases committed rate tunnel performance (utilization) when compressibility exceeds 2:1.
Previous FOS releases capped FC data rates to 2 times the committed rate of the FCIP tunnel. As a result,
as compression ratio increases beyond 2:1, FC throughput remains constant at 2 times the committed rate
and the link utilization decreases. FOS v6.1 now monitors compressibility, adjusts to more compressible
data, and works to fill the FCIP tunnel to the committed rate.

Port Fencing
FOS v6.1 includes new Port Fencing capabilities that can automatically isolate a port that is behaving
outside the bounds of a normal, expected operation. This enhances overall stability of the fabric in the
event of an isolated event that could otherwise cause a major disruption if left unattended. The Port
Fencing capability is included as part of the optionally licensed Fabric Watch feature.

Other
• FOS v6.1 includes enhancements to LDAP allowing Active Directory server roles to be mapped
to the various switch roles.
• Optional –m parameter for slotshow command to display Model Names for each blade installed in a DCX
or 48k chassis.
• Many automatic page breaks in CLI output for commands have been removed to better facilitate scripting.
• RASLOG entry when a switch detects a duplicate WWN has logged in.

Optionally Licensed Software

Optionally licensed features include:
• Brocade Ports on Demand — Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning
additional ports via license key upgrade (applies to select models of switches).
• Brocade Extended Fabrics — Provides up to 500km of switches fabric connectivity over long
distances.
• Brocade ISL Trunking — Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one
logical link for enhanced network performance and fault tolerance. Also includes Access
Gateway ISL Trunking on those products that support Access Gateway deployment.
• Brocade Fabric Manager — Enables administration, configuration, and maintenance of fabric
switches and SANs with host-based software.
• Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring — Enables performance monitoring of networked
storage resources. This license includes the TopTalkers feature.
• High Performance Extension over FCIP/FC (formerly known as “FC-IP Services”) (For the FR4-
18i blade and Brocade 7500) — This license key also includes the FC-Fastwrite feature and IPsec
capabilities.
• Brocade Fabric Watch — Monitors mission-critical switch operations. Fabric Watch now
includes new Port Fencing capabilities.
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 • FICON Management Server — Also known as “CUP” (Control Unit Port), enables host-control
of switches in Mainframe environments.
• ICLs, or Inter Chassis Links — Provide dedicated high-bandwidth links between two Brocade
DCX chassis, without consuming valuable front-end 8G ports. Each DCX must have the ICL
license installed in order to enable the ICL connections. (Available on the DCX only)

• Enhanced Group Management — This license, available only on the DCX and new 8G platforms,
enables full management of the device in a datacenter fabric with deeper element management
functionality and greater management task aggregation throughout the environment.

• Adaptive Networking — Adaptive Networking provides a rich framework of capability allowing

a user to ensure high priority connections obtain the bandwidth necessary for optimum
performance, even in congested environments. The QoS SID/DID Prioritization and Ingress rate
limiting features are the first components of this license option, and are fully available on all 8G
platforms.
• Integrated Routing — This new licensed capability, introduced in Fabric OS v6.1, allows ports in
a DCX, 5300, or 5100 to be configured as EX_ports supporting Fibre Channel Routing. This
eliminates the need to add an FR4-18i blade or use the 7500 for FCR purposes, and also provides
double the bandwidth for each FCR connection (when connected to another 8G-capable port).
• 7500E Upgrade (For the Brocade 7500E only) — This license allows customers to upgrade a 4-
port (2 FC ports and 2 GE ports) 7500E base to a full 18-port (16 FC ports and 2 GE ports) 7500
configuration and feature capability. The upgraded 7500E includes the complete High
Performance Extension license feature set.
Some models offer bundles that include 2 or more optionally licensed features. These bundles are defined
for each unique product, and are outside the scope of this release note document.

Previously Licensed Software Now Part of Base FOS

The following capabilities are included as part of the base FOS capability and no additional purchase
or licensing is necessary:
• Advanced Zoning and WebTools licenses are no longer necessary beginning with FOS v6.1.
These features are automatically enabled on all products running FOS v6.1 or later.

Supported Switches
Fabric OS v6.1 supports the Brocade 200E, 300, 4012/4016/4018/4020/4024/4424, 4100, 4900, 5000,
5100, 5300, 7500, 7600, 48000, and DCX. All supported products are qualified for Native Connectivity
in interopmodes 2 and 3 for deployment in M-EOS fabrics with the exception of the Brocade 4100.

Access Gateway is also supported by Fabric OS v6.1.0, and is supported on the following switches: the
Brocade 200E, 300, 4012, 4016, 4018, 4020, 4024 and 4424.

Standards Compliance

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

Technical Support
Contact your switch supplier for hardware, firmware, and software support, including product repairs
and part ordering. To expedite your call, have the following information immediately available:
1. General Information
• Technical Support contract number, if applicable
• Switch model
• Switch operating system version
• Error numbers and messages received
• supportSave command output
• Detailed description of the problem, including the switch or fabric behavior immediately
following the problem, and specific questions
• Description of any troubleshooting steps already performed and the results
• Serial console and Telnet session logs
• Syslog message logs
2. Switch Serial Number
The switch serial number is provided on the serial number label, as shown here.
FT00X0054E9
FT00X0054E9

The serial number label is located as follows:

• Brocade 200E—On the nonport side of the chassis
• Brocade 4100, 4900, and 7500/7500E—On the switch ID pull-out tab located inside the
chassis on the port side on the left
• Brocade 300, 5000, 5100, and 5300—On the switch ID pull-out tab located on the bottom of
the port side of the switch
• Brocade 7600—On the bottom of the chassis
• Brocade 48000 —Inside the chassis next to the power supply bays
• Brocade DCX—Bottom right of the port side.

3. World Wide Name (WWN)

Use the wwn command to display the switch WWN.
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 If you cannot use the wwn command because the switch is inoperable, you can get the
WWN from the same place as the serial number, except for the Brocade DCX. For the
Brocade DCX, access the numbers on the WWN cards by removing the Brocade logo
plate at the top of the non-port side. The WWN is printed on the LED side of both cards.

Important Notes
This section contains information that you should consider before you use this firmware
release.

Fabric OS Compatibility
The following table lists the earliest versions of Brocade software supported in this release, that
is, the earliest supported software versions that interoperate. Brocade recommends using the
latest software versions to get the greatest benefit from the SAN.
For a list of the effective end-of-life dates for all versions of Fabric OS, visit the following
Brocade Web site:
http://www.brocade.com/support/end_of_life.jsp

Supported Products and FOS Interoperability

Brocade 2000-series switches Not supported, end of support

(December 2007)

Brocade 3000, 3200, 3800 v3.2.1c

Silkworm 3014, 3016, 3250, 3850 and Brocade 3900, 4100, v5.1 and higher
24000, 7500, 4012, 200E, 48000

Silkworm 12000 v5.0.x

Brocade 4900 v5.2.0 and higher

Brocade 4012, 4016, 4018, 4020, 4024 v5.2.1 and higher

Brocade 5000 v5.2.1 and higher

Brocade 4424 v5.3.0_emb and higher

Brocade 7600 v5.3.0 and higher

Brocade DCX v6.0.0 and higher

Secure Fabric OS (on any model) Not Supported

Mi10k, M6140, ED-6064, ES-3232, ES-4300, ES-4400, ES-4500, M-EOS v9.6.2 2

ES-4700 (McDATA Fabric Mode and Open Fabric Mode) 1

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 McDATA ED-5000 32-port FC director Not Supported

Multi-Protocol Router interop

Brocade 7420 XPath v7.4.1

Brocade 7500 and FR4-18i blade v5.1.0 and higher

McDATA SANRouters 1620 and 2640 Not Supported

Notes:
1
Other M-EOS models may participate in a fabric with FOS v6.0.0, but may not be directly attached
via E_port to any products running FOS v6.0.0. The McDATA ED-5000 director may not participate
in a mixed M-EOS/FOS fabric.
2
It is highly recommended that M-EOS products operate with the most recent version of M-EOS
released and supported for interoperability. M-EOS 9.6.2 is the minimum version of firmware that
can be used to interoperate with FOS 6.0.0 or later. M-EOS 9.7 or later is recommended for optimum
fabric performance in a mixed FOS and M-EOS fabric.

Fabric OS v6.1.0 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the 48000 platform noted in the
table below.

48000 Blade Support Matrix

Port blade 16, 32 and 48-port 4Gbit blades (FC4- Supported with any mix and up to 8 of each. No
16, FC4-32, FC4-48), 16, 32 and 48-port 8Gbit restrictions around intermix. The 48000 must run
blade (FC8-16, FC8-32, FC8-48), and the 6-port Fabric OS v6.0 or later to support the FC8-16 port
10G FC blade (FC10-6) blade and Fabric OS v6.1 or later to support the
FC8-32 and FC8-48 port blades.

Intelligent blade Up to a total of 4 Intelligent blades (includes iSCSI,

FCIP/FCR and Application blade), FC4-16IP, FR4-
18i, and FA4-18 respectively. See below for
intermix limitations, exceptions, and a max of each
blade.

iSCSI blade (FC4-16IP) Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type

FC-IP/FC Router blade (FR4-18i) Up to a maximum of 2 blades of this type. This can
be extended under special circumstances but must
be approved by Brocade’s Product Team. Up to 8
FR4-18i blades can be installed if they are used only
for FC Fastwrite or FCIP without routing.

Virtualization/Application Blade (FA4-18) Up to a maximum of 2 blades of this type.

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Fabric OS v6.1.0 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the DCX noted in the table below.

DCX Blade Support Matrix

16-, 32- and 48-port 8Gbit port blades (FC8-16, Supported with FOS v6.0 and above with any mix
FC8-32, FC8-48) and the 6-port 10G FC blade and up to 8 of each. No restrictions around intermix.
(FC10-6)

Intelligent blade Up to a total of 8 Intelligent blades. See below for

maximum supported limits of each blade.

FC-IP/FC Router blade (FR4-18i) Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type. This can
be extended under special circumstances, but must
be approved by Brocade’s Product Team. Up to 8
FR4-18i blades can be installed if they are used only
for FC Fastwrite or FCIP without routing.

Virtualization/Application Blade (FA4-18) Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type.

Note: the iSCSI FC4-16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX.

Power Supply Requirements for Blades in 48k and DCX Chassis

Blades Type of blade 48K DCX Comments
FC 4-16, FC 4-32, Port Blade 2 Power 2 Power • Distribute the Power Supplies
FC 4-48, FC 8-16, Supplies Supplies evenly to 2 different AC
FC 8-32 connections for redundancy
FC10-6, FC 8-48 Port Blade 4 Power 2 Power • Power Supplies must be 220V
Supplies Supplies • Blades must meet minimum FOS
levels to operate in 48K/DCX
FR4-18i, FC4- Intelligent 4 Power 2 Power chassis (e.g. FC8-32 is not
16IP, FA4-18 Blade Supplies Supplies supported in 48K with FOS 6.0.x)

Note: the iSCSI FC4-16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX.

Secure Fabric OS
Secure Fabric OS (SFOS) is not compatible with FOS v6.1. Customers that wish to use the security
features available in SFOS should upgrade to FOS v5.3 or later version, which includes all SFOS features

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as part of the base FOS. For environments with SFOS installed on switches that cannot be upgraded to
FOS v5.3 or later version, FC routing can be used to interoperate with FOS v6.1.

FOS Feature Compatibility in Native Connectivity Modes

Some FOS features are not fully supported when operating in the native connectivity modes for
deployment with M-EOS based products. All Brocade models that are supported by Fabric OS v6.1.0
support both intermode 2 and 3 with the exception of the Brocade 4100.
The following table specifies the support of various FOS features when operating in either interopmode 2
(McDATA Fabric Mode) or interopmode 3 (Open Fabric Mode) with Fabric OS v6.1.

FOS Features (supported in interopmode 0) FOS v6.1

IM = Interopmode IM 2 IM 3
L2 FOS Hot Code Load Yes Yes
FOS Hot Code Load with FCR Yes Yes
Zone Activation Support Yes No
1
Traffic Isolation Zones Yes No
1
Frame Redirection (devices attached to FOS) Yes No
Frame Redirection (devices attached to M-EOS) No No
FCR Fabric Binding (route to M-EOS fabric with Fabric binding) Yes Yes
L2 Fabric Binding Yes No*
DCC policies No No
4
SCC policies Yes No*
E/Ex_Port Authentication Yes Yes
2 2
ISL Trunking (frame-level) Yes Yes
3 3
Dynamic Path Selection (DPS, exchange based routing) Yes Yes
Dynamic Load Sharing (DLS, port based routing) Yes Yes
2 2
Virtual Channels (VC RDY) Yes Yes
FICON Management Server (Cascading) Yes No*
FICON MIHPTO Yes No*
Full Scalability (to maximum M-EOS fabric limits) Yes Yes
Adaptive Networking: QoS No No
Adaptive Networking: Ingress Rate Limiting No* No*
Advanced Performance Monitoring (APM) No* No*
APM: TopTalkers No* No*
Admin Domains/Virtual Fabrics No No
6
Secure Fabric OS N/A N/A
Fabric Watch Yes Yes
Ports on Demand (POD) Yes Yes
NPIV Yes Yes
Timer Server function (NTP) No No
7
Open E_Port N/A N/A
Broadcast Zoning No No
FDMI No No
Remote Switch No No
Port Mirroring (8G port mirroring supported in FOS v6.1+) Yes Yes
8
Extended Fabrics Yes Yes

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 Alias Server No No
Platform Service No No
FCIP (VE_Ports) Yes Yes
9 9
IPFC (IP over FC) Yes Yes
M-EOS ALPA 0x13 configuration Yes Yes
VE to VEX Port Yes Yes
Integrated Routing Yes Yes
Domain Offset Support No No
Masterless F_PORT Trunking (AG connect to FOS switches only) Yes Yes
FC10-6-to-FC10-6 ISL Yes Yes
RASLOG Events on duplicate WWNs Yes Yes

* indicates the feature is available but not officially tested or supported

1. Feature requires M-EOS 9.7 or later.

2. Only allowed between FOS-based switches
3. DPS is supported outbound from FOS-based switches. (M-EOS can provide reciprocal load balancing using
OpenTrunking).
4. SCC policies only supported in conjunction with L2 Fabric Binding support
5. Fabric restriction (refer to FOS v5.2.1_NI release notes)
6. Not supported in FOS 6.0 or later
7. Mode 3 only qualified with M-EOS switches
8. Not on FCR
9. Only supported locally within the FOS switch

Note: FICON Cascaded CUP qualified only on select platforms.

Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades

Upgrading to Fabric OS v6.1.0 is only allowed from Fabric OS v6.0.0 or later. This policy to support only
one-level migration, which began with FOS v6.0.0, provides more reliable and robust migrations for
customers. By having fewer major changes in internal databases, configurations, and subsystems, the
system is able to perform the upgrade more efficiently, taking less time and ensuring a truly seamless and
non-disruptive process for the fabric. The new one-release migration policy also reduces the large number
of upgrade/downgrade permutations that must be tested, allowing Brocade to spend more effort ensuring
the supported migration paths are thoroughly and completely verified.

Only products based on 4G and 8G capable ASICs are supported by Fabric OS v6.1. Older products
utilizing previous generation 2G ASICs will remain on the FOS v5.x code stream. FOS v5.x is fully
compatible in fabrics with FOS v6.1, as well as for routing. The Brocade 12000 is not supported with
FOS v5.3.0; it remains supported only on FOS v5.0.x releases.

All products supported by Fabric OS v6.0 can be upgraded to Fabric OS v6.1.

Products that can be upgraded to Fabric OS v6.1:

• 4012/4016/4018/4020/4024/4424, 4100, 4900, 5000, 7500, 7600, 200E, 48000, and DCX.

Scalability
All scalability limits are subject to change. Limits may be increased once further testing has been
completed, even after the release of Fabric OS. For the most current scalability limits for Fabric OS,
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refer to the FOS Scalability Matrix document.
Scalability limits for Fabric OS v6.1.0 are essentially the same as those limits supported by FOS v6.0.
Fabrics of up to 6000 virtual or physical connections (WWNs logged into a single fabric) and 56 domains
(domain support is the same as on previous FOS releases) can be supported on DCX and 5300. Other
products running FOS v6.1 will retain the same fabric limits as FOS 5.3.x for non-routed fabrics (i.e., L2
only, 56 domains and 2560-ports).
When operating in Native Connectivity modes (interopmode 2 or 3), different scalability limits are
supported. For both interopmode 2 and 3, fabrics of up to 2048 virtual or physical connections (WWNs
logged into a single fabric) and 31 domains are supported. This is an increase from FOS 6.0 for
intermode 3, which only supported up to 800 connections and 15 domains in a fabric.
Supported FCR scalability limits have increased in a few areas, and some new limits are included to
reflect the new Integrated Routing support. Supported limits are noted in the following table (new
additions and changes are noted in bold).
Routed scalability limits are noted in the table below.

Fibre Channel Routing Scalability (Tested/Supported Limits)

Max # edge fabrics per metaSAN 48/48

Max # edge fabrics per chassis 16/16 (7500 & FR4-18i

in 48k or DCX)
24/32 (5100 & 5300)
24/48 (DCX)

Max # switches per edge fabric (FOS) 26/26

Max # switches per edge fabric (M-EOS fabric) 1 16/ 16

Max # WWNs per edge fabric (M-EOS fabric) 1 800/1500

Max # imported devices per fabric (M-EOS fabric) 1 300/1000

Max # L2 switches per backbone fabric 12/12

Max # FCR’s per backbone fabric 12/12

Max # WWNs per edge fabric (FOS) 1200/1500

Max # WWNs per backbone fabric 512/1024

Max # imported devices per fabric 1000/1000

Max # LSAN device per metaSAN 10000/10000

Max # LSAN zones per metaSAN 3000/30002

Max # devices per LSAN zone 64/64

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 Fibre Channel Routing Scalability (Tested/Supported Limits)
Max # hops between edge switches 12/12

EX_Ports per FCR (48K/DCX with FR4-18i) 32/32

EX_Ports per FCR (DCX with Integrated Routing) 64/64

EX_Ports per chassis with Integrated Routing 128/80/40 / 128/80/40

(DCX/5300/5100)

Table Notes:
1
M-EOS fabrics must be running M-EOS 9.6.2 firmware or later.
2
All BB FCRs with Fabric OS v6.0.0 and above. For M-EOS edge fabrics prior to v9.6 the limit is
1024 zones. For M-EOS edge fabrics operating with 9.6.x or later, the limit is 2048 zones.

Other Notes:
1) IPFC over FCR is only supported for edge to edge.
2) FC Fast Write is only supported for edge to edge.
3) The backbone cannot run in interopmode 2 (McDATA Native Interop) or 3 (Open mode). It
must be in FOS native mode.
4) All limits apply to Integrated Routing as well as FCR on 7500/FR4-18i unless otherwise noted.

FICON Support
FOS v6.1.0 provides full FICON CUP support in FOS/MEOS mixed fabrics operating in
Interop Mode 2. This support is available in fabrics with DCX, 5300, 5100, 6140 and
Mi10k.
FOS v6.1.0 also adds support for configuring the MIHPTO (Missing Interrupt Handler
Primary Timeout) value.
FOS v6.1.0 includes enhanced CUP statistics counters comparable to those supported in
M-EOS.
The FC4-48 and FC8-48 Fibre Channel port blades are not supported to connect to
System z environments via FICON channels or via FCP zLinux on System z. To attach
the Brocade 48000 or DCX to the System z environment, use an FC4-16, FC4-32, FC8-
16 or FC8-32 Fibre Channel port blade.

Other Important Notes and Recommendations

Adaptive Networking/Flow-Based QoS Prioritization:

• When using QoS in a fabric with 4G ports or switches, FOS v6.0 or later must be installed on
all products in order to pass QoS info. E_Ports from the DCX to other switches must come up
AFTER 6.0 is running on those switches.

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 • Flow based QoS is NOT supported on 8G blades in 48k
• Any products that are not capable of operating with FOS 6.0 may NOT exist in a fabric with
Flow based QoS. Major problems will occur if previous generation 2G products exist in the
fabric.
FCR Backbone Fabric ID change:
• With FC8 blades, the switch must be disabled to change the backbone fabric ID
• With routing and dual backbone fabrics, the backbone fabric ID must be changed to keep the
IDs unique.
Integrated Routing
• Ports 16-47 on the FC8-48 blade may not be used as Ex_Ports. Only ports 0-15 should be
used for FCR on the 48-port blade.

FCS Automatic Distribution

• When using the FCS Automatic Distribution feature in Fabric OS v6.0 or later, all switches in
the fabric must be running FOS v6.0 or later. If any switches are running FOS v5.x or earlier,
only manual distribution can be used.
• FOS v6.0 or later will only allow FCS automatic distribution when in strict mode, requiring
only switches with FOS v6.0 or later.
Access Gateway
• When in Access Gateway mode, the Automatic Port Configuration policy may not work
when attached to M-EOS switches. M-EOS ports should be set to G_port to prevent
problems with port type discovery.
• Ports 16-47 on the FC8-48 blade may not be used for AG F_Port Trunking connections.

10G Interoperability
• 10G interop between FC10-6 and McDATA blades is not supported due to a HW limitation,
however the FC10-6 is supported in a chassis running in Interopmode 2 or 3 (FC10-6 to
FC10-6 connections only). An FC10-6 blade will not synchronize with a McDATA 10G
blade but will not negatively impact the system.
Traffic Isolation over FCR
• All switches and Fibre Channel Routers both in edge and backbone fabrics must be running
FOS v6.1.0 in order to support this feature.
• It is essential to have “fail-over” policy ENABLED in all edge fabrics that are part of the
traffic isolation zones, in order for the proper functioning of Traffic Isolation over FCR.
FICON CUP Cascading
• All switches must be running FOS v6.1.0 in order to support this feature
Port Fencing
• The default settings for port fencing have very low thresholds, and may fence ports that
experience a small number of errors. It is recommended that these threshold values be
increased for use in production environments. Different platforms may require different

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 threshold settings for optimum behavior. Port Fencing is only available with the optional
Fabric Watch license.
Port Mirroring
• Proper behavior of Port Mirroring functionality requires that the entire frame path must
contain either only 8G ASICs or only 4G ASICs. If a frame path contains a mix of 8G and 4G
ASICs then this functionality will not work as intended.

Documentation Updates
This section provides information on last-minute additions and corrections to the
documentation. The most recent Fabric OS v6.1.0 documentation manuals are available
on the Brocade Partner Network: http://partner.brocade.com/

Brocade Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide (Publication Number 53-1000598-03)

On page 349, replace the NOTE in the middle of the page with the following:

NOTE: For TI over FCR, all switches in the backbone fabric and in the edge fabrics must be
running Fabric OS v6.1.0 or later.

On page 351, in the section “Limitations of TI zones over FC routers,” add the following bulleted item:

• For TI over FCR, failover must be enabled in the TI zones in the edge fabrics. The failover
mode for TI zones in the backbone fabric can be enabled or disabled.

On page 359, in step 2b, replace the sample commands with the following:

E1switch:admin> zone --create -t ti TI_Zone1 -p "4,8; 4,5, 1,-1; 6,-1"

E1switch:admin> zone --show
Defined TI zone configuration:
TI Zone Name: TI_Zone1
Port List: 4,8; 4,5; 1,-1; 6,-1
Status: Activated Failover: Enabled

On page 360, in step 3b, replace the sample commands with the following:

E2switch:admin> zone --create -t ti TI_Zone1 -p "9,2; 9,3; 9,6; 1,-1;

4,-1"
E2switch:admin> zone --show
Defined TI zone configuration:
TI Zone Name: TI_Zone1
Port List: 9,2; 9,3; 9,6; 1,-1; 4,-1
Status: Activated Failover: Enabled

On page 361, in step 4a, replace the sample commands with the following:

BB_DCX_1:admin> zone --create -t ti TI_Zone1 -p "1,9; 1,1; 2,4; 2,7;

10:00:00:00:00:08:00:00; 10:00:00:00:00:02:00:00;
10:00:00:00:00:03:00:00"
BB_DCX_1:admin> zone --show
Defined TI zone configuration:
TI Zone Name: TI_Zone1

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 Port List: 1,9; 1,1; 2,4; 2,7; 10:00:00:00:00:08:00:00;
10:00:00:00:00:02:00:00; 10:00:00:00:00:03:00:00
Status: Activated Failover: Enabled

On page 365, in the section “Supported configurations for traffic prioritization,” change the bulleted item
“To be assigned high or low priority…” to the following:

- To be assigned high or low priority, hosts and targets must be connected to one of the
following:
• Brocade 300
• Brocade 5100
• Brocade 5300
• FC8-16, FC8-32, or FC8-48 port blade in the Brocade DCX platform.

Defects
Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
This section lists defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity open in Fabric OS v6.1.0 as of
Thursday, March 6, at 12:41 pm. While these defects are still formally “open,” they are unlikely to impede Brocade
customers in their deployment of Fabric OS v6.1.0 and have been deferred to a later release.
None of these defects have the requisite combination of probability and severity to cause significant concern to
Brocade customers.
Note that when a workaround to an issue is available, it is provided; otherwise, no recommended workaround is
available at this time.

.
Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000208573 High Summary: Under rare conditions, Fabric mode TopTalker monitor does not
display correct flow values.
Symptom: Fabric mode TT monitor counters show 0 when traffic is running
thru the switch.
Probability: Medium
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000208578 High Summary: Attempting to configure port mirroring on a director with both 4G
and 8G blades, may result in a software Verify error
Symptom: When configuring a port mirror, a software verify error may be seen.
Probability: Low
Feature: Platform Services
Function: C2 ASIC driver
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000209343 High Summary: After running bladedisable/enable on one FC8-48 blade for 6 hours,
DCX panics
Symptom: May see DCX panic with "ASSERT - Failed expression: vfid <=
((0x709000-0x708000)/4), file = /../asic/condor2/c2_vf.c, line = 193, ...
Workaround: switch reboot; after panic switch comes back up.

Probability: Low
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: ASIC Driver

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000210703 High Summary: fcr matrix settings may not persist after hafailover on 48k
Symptom: Some settings of fcr matrix are missing after hafailover.
Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR HA
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211420 High Summary: Even after removing port mirroring configuration, the traffic is
mirrored.

Symptom: Even if no SID/DID pairs are configured for port mirroring, traffic
still flows on the mirror port.
Workaround: Disable the sid/did pair or disable the mirror port
Probability: High
Feature: Brocade 300 Platform Services
Function: ASIC Port
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000211609 High Summary: When disabling/enabling a port, port fencing disables the port
because invalid transmission words is exceeded
Symptom: Customer's port is disabled because of invalid transmission words
that occurred when the port is offline.

Probability: High
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Fabric Watch
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211697 High Summary: ag --show on AG-300 shows incorrect edge switch IP addr after a
Slave Port is swapped with an Nport outside of the trunk group.
Symptom: "ag --show" on AG-300 shows incorrect edge switch IP addr
Workaround: reboot the switch in order for ag --show cli to show correct output

Probability: High
Feature: Access Gateway Services
Function: CLI
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000212267 High Summary: Under rare conditions, DCX Panic during SAK IRNDUP due to
software watchdog detected unexpected termination ficud

Symptom: Interface Control Checks

Probability: Medium
Feature: RAS

Function: RAS Trace

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000204929 High Summary: With some specific HBAs, proxy devices disappear after running IP
over FC traffic across single FCR
Symptom: Customer may see IP over FC traffic disruption with specific HBAs
Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000205757 High Summary: IP over FC communication across FCR stops after changing a
domain ID of the edge switch
Symptom: IP over FC traffic might stop after changing domain ID of edge
switches

Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205772 High Summary: Proxy devices go offline / online in a dual BB, IP over FC
configuration without running any ping or I/O
Symptom: Customer may see proxy devices go offline / online after configuring
IPFC in a dual BB fabric
Probability: Medium
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000209907 High Summary: IP over FC Hosts may not be able to ping each other after the host
reboots.
Symptom: PCs were not able to ping each other using IP over FC after a host
reboot.
Workaround: Disable and enable the port to which the rebooted host is
connected
Probability: Low
Feature: Platform Services
Function: C2 ASIC driver
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000210625 High Summary: Repeated switchdisable/switchenable on core switches in edge
fabric, caused FC8-48 blade with EX_Ports in backbone DCX to fault.
Symptom: FC8-48 blade (with EX_Ports) in backbone DCX faulty.

Workaround: slotpoweroff/slotpoweron the faulted blade

Probability: Low
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: FOS Kernel Driver
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000211529 High Summary: Internal server ports on embedded platform: traffic stops due to
loss of buffer. credit.
Symptom: May see traffic stop on embedded platform when running in AG
mode.

Workaround: Reset the ports

Probability: Low
Feature: Embedded Platform Services
Function: ASIC Driver
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211888 High Summary: Under some rare conditions, user may observe Intermittant Channel
Timeouts running SAK to CUP Port
Symptom: Interface control checks
Probability: High
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000212287 High Summary: Missing some routing frames between members of a large default
zone

Symptom: Unreliable connectivity - timeouts and aborts due to frame drops

between initiators and targets.
Probability: High
Feature: Native Interop
Function: NS

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000212310 High Summary: Ports are left disabled on Power-up after port with large virtual-node
count comes online
Symptom: Ports remain disabled following switch power-up, after a port with a
large virtual node count comes online.
Workaround: enable ports that are left disabled from CLI
Probability: Low
Feature: Brocade 5100 Platform Servies
Function: Blade Driver
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000212379 High Summary: Configuration Download fails for Fabric Watch parameters from
DCFM
Symptom: FW parameter changes in NI mode requires switchdisable.
Workaround: Switchdisable, configure the FW parameters.
Probability: High
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Fabric Watch
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000212415 High Summary: User may need to change TI zone member in order to modify TI
Zone property (failover setting)
Symptom: Unable to modify TI zone property alone.
Workaround: Use configupload/download to change the TI zone. Or modify the
member and the property (failover disable/enable) together.
Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000212419 High Summary: WT: TI failover policy reverts back to disabled from enabled after
enabling the config
Symptom: TI failover policy is reverted back to disabled.
Workaround: Use cli to enable config or reenable the config after it is disabled

Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP
Function: Zone Admin
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000202155 High Summary: GigE port reports CRC Errors when Compression/ IPSec turned on
with FICON Traffic
Symptom: CRC Errors indicated but no channels errors recorded
Workaround: The work around is to disable IP Sec operations on the tunnel. It
also appears that reducing the committed bandwidth rate also reduces the
occurrences of reported CRC errors.
Probability: High
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000203433 High Summary: Long delays on Modify Block State command causes missing
interrupts with FICON devices
Symptom: Customer might see an MVS error message on the console.
Probability: Medium
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000203562 High Summary: Under stress testing, cfgsave takes a long time and fails to propagate
on 64 VE-VE FCIP tunnel 33 switch core-edge topology running I/O
Symptom: Zone transactions might take longer time to complete.

Workaround: Wait until FC traffic consuming the FCIP Tunnels is low and then
start the configuration push through the fabric (retry until it works).

Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP Port

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

DEFECT000204537 High Summary: In a 12 switch BB fabric with a 1MB zone db, some frame loss seen
when doing HCL from 6.0 to 5.3 with LSAN traffic from Brocade 7500 FCR
backbone to the edge fabric
Symptom: During a downgrade from FOS v6.0 to v5.3 on Brocade 7500
platform, customer might see a few dropped frames.
Probability: Low

Feature: Infrastructure
Function: High Availability
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205147 High Summary: During stress testing, rejecting an MS request causes a specific
storage device to panic.
Symptom: Inconsistent translate domain might cause some specific edge
devices to panic.
Workaround: Switchdisable/switchenable on the switch connected to the target
controller.
Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000205304 High Summary: Some devices stuck in Initializing state from fcrproxydevshow
output after disable/enable FCR switch backbone connected to McData Edge
(Fabric Mode)
Symptom: Some hosts might not see targets due to proxy devices not being
imported
Workaround: When multiple EX_Ports from the same FCR are connected to
multiple McData Edge switches, need to make sure there a least-cost-path
between McData switches.
Probability: Medium
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Routing
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205893 High Summary: On a system that has several hundred performance monitors, if all
counters are deleted and immediately followed by failover, an oops was seen in
some cases
Symptom: Customer might see the switch reboot if the specific sequence is
followed.
Probability: High
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206188 High Summary: During storage failover/failback test with IP over FC, traffic stops
and fails to recover in single and dual backbone configurations
Symptom: IP over FC traffic across FCR stops and does not recover.
Workaround: disable and enable both IP over FC devices

Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206238 High Summary: CUP Port stuck in Contingent Allegiance State after z9 Host IPL
Symptom: CUP Port busy and does not respond to hosts

Workaround: Reboot the switch

Probability: Medium
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000206858 High Summary: In certain situations, unable to disable a switch which is in
interopmode:2(McDATA Fabric mode), with FMS mode enabled.
Symptom: Unable to disable a switch which is in interopmode 2 (McDATA
Fabric mode), with FMS mode enabled. "switchDisable failed. FICON
Management server mode (fmsmode) is enabled, switch could be busy with
another command. Please try again later."
Workaround: Disable FMS mode and then do switchdisable
"ficoncupset fmsmode disable"
Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000207948 High Summary: With a switch in Interop Mode 2 or 3, the Zoning configuration is
not being included in configupload
Symptom: Zoning configuration is not restored when using configdownload to
restore previously backed-up switch configuration.
Probability: Low

Feature: Native Interop

Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000208039 High Summary: In a large fabric (50+ switches), a "switchdisable ; switchenable"
action on all switches may result in some switches stuck in F2 (unconfirmed)
state.
Symptom: after enabling all switches, some switches still have domain
unconfirmed and are stuck in "F2" state.
Workaround: Disable and enable the switches that are stuck in F2 (domain ID
not yet confirmed) state.
Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services

Function: Fabric
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000208808 High Summary: On highly impaired network, SRDF Link may bounce when a
committed rate of zero is used to configure an FCIP link
Symptom: Tunnel Failure or very poor performance after link retransmissions
when tunnel was configured with a committed rate of 0 (uncommitted). The
observation is when latency is > 190ms RTT or, packet loss is >= .1% and
latency is >= 50ms RTT.
Workaround: Use non zero committed rate for the tunnels.
Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP Performance
Service Request # : 245313
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000209078 High Summary: When resetting all the hosts on a blade or slotpoweroff/on a blade,
48000 CP reboots due to the Software Watchdog detecting unexpected
termination of the Name Server daemon.

Symptom: Switch or CP reboots due to software watchdog which detects an

unexpected termination of the Name Server daemon.

Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services
Function: Name Server
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000209397 High Summary: DHCHAP authentication fails with i10K attached to EX port with
valid SCC_POLICY and correct secrets.

Symptom: DHCHAP authentication fails on EX port and EX-Port is disabled.

Workaround: Disable DHCHAP autentication for i10K to FCR links.
Probability: Medium
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Security
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000209825 High Summary: HCL failure and VERIFY seen when updating firmware on a 5100
switch with EX ports

Symptom: May see verify messages when upgrading the FW on 5100.

Probability: Low
Feature: C2 EX Port
Function: FOS Kernel
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000209895 High Summary: FICON: If the switch name is set using the CLI and then read using
the Read Port Address Name x'B2' command to the CUP Port x'FE' it returns
the switch name with a x'7F' attach after the last character in the Switch Name.
Symptom: If the switch name is set using the CLI and then read using the Read
Port Address Name x'B2' command to the CUP Port x'FE' it returns the switch
name with a x'7F' attach after the last character in the Switch Name.
Probability: High
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000210386 High Summary: In some instances, HCL on pizza box switches in Interop Mode
requires using the -o option.
Symptom: Using CLI, cannot perform HCL without using the -o option. User
will see the this message during the firmwaredownload process: "Coordinated
HotCode Load failure. Firmware partitions are being restored. After restore
completes, retry the command or use the -o option to bypass the checking of
Coordinated HotCode Load."
Workaround: Use the -o option.
Probability: Low
Feature: Native Interop
Function: ESS

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000210701 High Summary: NameServer entries on a 4700 may not be accurate in regards to
devices on an attached access gateway

Symptom: AG ports from the AG are reflected on incorect ports from the 4700's
point of view. For example, AG ports are using area 16, but the 4700 shows
entries on port 17 as well as entries for other ports that should all be "hidden"
behind port/area 16.
Probability: Low
Feature: Native Interop
Function: NS
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211065 High Summary: Remote host RNID request for unavailable port receives F_RJT
0116 from DCX
Symptom: May see FRejects with incorrect reason on some error cases.

Workaround: none
Probability: High
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: ASIC Driver
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000211706 High Summary: IP over FC broadcast frames may not be forwarded across FCR after
several cfgenables
Symptom: After changing the effective cfg several times on an edge fabric,
IPFC host on that edge fabric cannot ping hosts on other edge fabrics.

Workaround: Disable and enable IP over FC hosts.

Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
Function: IPFC
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211786 High Summary: iswitchd panic seen on DCX and 5100 while running I/O and switch
disable/enable overnight
Symptom: switch panic (due to iswitchd) and reboots or fails over to standby
Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211789 High Summary: Under some rare conditions, DCX switch detects and posts fan fault
error messages

Symptom: Fan fault error messages

Workaround: reseat the blower
Probability: Low

Feature: DCX Platform Services

Function: Sys-Control/EM
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000211994 High Summary: AG: "ag --prefshow" shows same fport mapped to multiple preferred
N_ports
Symptom: may see an fport mapped to multiple preferred N_ports
Workaround: ag –prefdel on incorrect N_Ports will clear the wrong mapping
Probability: Low
Feature: Access Gateway Services
Function: CLI
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000212175 High Summary: Non-TI traffic may be routed to a TI EX-Port and could get dropped
at edge when edge TI zone in failover disabled mode
Symptom: No-TI traffic may experience frame loss when TI over FCR with
failover disabled is active.

Workaround: For TI zones that are spanning over the FCR, the TI Failover
mode in the edge fabrics should always be set to enable. The TI failover
disabled mode in the backbone can be set to enabled or disabled.
Probability: High
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000212509 Medium Summary: After HAReboot, "Probing failed" on F-port messages seen on the
Brocade 300, 5100, and 5300.

Symptom: Some device ports will not be able to complete login to the switch
after a firmware upgrade. The RASLOG will begin accumulating FCPD
WARNING messages in the log until the device gives up trying to login to the
switch.
Workaround: Affected switch needs to be power-cycled or rebooted.
Probability: Medium
Feature: Brocade 5300 Platform Services
Function: ASIC Port
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000203144 Medium Summary: F_Port Link initialization failure

Symptom: A trace shows the HBA issuing NOS (host is performing a boot loop
test) and the switch is not responding to NOS. It should issue OLS in response
but continues to send idles (appearing to stay in Active state) for the remainder
of the trace.
Probability: High
Feature: FOS Software
Function: ASIC Driver
Service Request # : RQST00000064340
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.1

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Severity
DEFECT000206347 Medium Summary: spinfab and porttest (diagnostics) are not supported on ICL ports
Symptom: spinfab and porttest failed on ICL ports with spinfab having error
DIAG PORTSTOPPED spinfab:spinfab, 0 nMegs, Pt5/17(113) Ch2/33 No
Longer Transmitting, FTX Counter Stuck at 9

Probability: High
Feature: Tech Pubs
Function: Guides
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211194 Medium Summary: Command fcrproxydevshow has not been modified to refelect TI
zones
Symptom: May not find that the command fcrproxydevshow is not reflecting
the state of their TI zones as expected.
Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR CLI
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211929 Medium Summary: 48000 with 8G blades may see Verify message following POST if
Top Talker monitors are installed.
Symptom: When TT filters are installed on a 48000 with 8G blades, a VERIFY
message "...'psd' Last syscall: 54 VERIFY - Failed expression: dom, file =..."
may be observed after the blade completes POST.

Workaround: None necessary since the Verify is harmless.

Probability: Medium
Feature: Platform Services
Function: C2 ASIC driver
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000212014 Medium Summary: Unexpected F_RJT's to FICON channels attempting connection to
DASD on 5100
Symptom: No externally visible symptom unless F_RJT for RNID persists
through 5 retries.
Probability: High

Feature: Platform Services

Function: Routing
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000207908 Medium Summary: Duplicated WWN was detected and message reported on the console
of DCX switch with AG connected
Symptom: When there is a failover of N_Ports on an AG, a duplicate WWN
warning message may be seen.

Probability: Low
Feature: Tech Pubs
Function: Release Notes
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000209119 Medium Summary: Power cycling a DCX with unsupported blades will also cause the
AP blades to fault.
Symptom: After power cycle, all AP blades are faulty along with the
unsupported blade.
Workaround: Removed the unsupported blades prior ro power cycle.
Probability: High
Feature: Tech Pubs
Function: Release Notes
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000202706 Medium Summary: S_ID for virtual nodes not cleared from port CAM upon explicit
LOGO
Symptom: There might not be any visible symptom to the customer.
Workaround: The extraneous CAM entries are cleared following a disable /
enable of the target port.

Probability: Medium
Feature: FC Services
Function: Name Server

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

DEFECT000205596 Medium Summary: Port Based Routing with DLS ON does not immediately balance
load when adding an ISL
Symptom: New ISL not being utilized
Workaround: Not required: corner case and the routes will get recovered after
some CPU cycles without any manual intervention
Probability: Low
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: Routing
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000205657 Medium Summary: USB port LED of DCX CP blade stays ON after HA failover
Symptom: USB port LED of DCX CP blade stays ON after HA failover.
Probability: High

Feature: OS Services
Function: Linux Kernal
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206045 Medium Summary: fcrfabricshow does not display IPv6 addresses from native and open
interop modes edge fabrics.
Symptom: Customer may not be able to see the IPv6 addresses from the edge
fabrics configured in native and open interop modes.

Workaround: Customer can go to the edge fabric to find the ip address.

Probability: High
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR CLI
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206126 Medium Summary: On 7600 observed the message "EXT3-fs error ..." and switch
reboots
Symptom: When the error condition "EXT3-fs error (device hda2):
ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory" is encountered, the swtich will reboot.
Probability: Low
Feature: OS Services
Function: Linux Kernal
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000207951 Medium Summary: Under rare conditions during blade initialization, user may see low
SFP input voltage error messages.
Symptom: During blade initialization, customer may see harmless warning
messages like: "2007/11/16-22:22:29, [FW-1050], 896,, WARNING,
DCX_TOP_256, Sfp Supply Voltage for port 3/0, is below low
boundary(High=3600, Low=3150). Current value is 0 mV."

Probability: Medium
Feature: Platform Services
Function: FOS Kernel Drivers

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000210234 Medium Summary: certain "...show" commands not allowed in AD0 when switch is
included in user defined AD
Symptom: Some show commands will not be allowed in AD0.
Workaround: Log into the AD which includes the switch to run the desired
show commands.
Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services
Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211408 Medium Summary: May observe I/O timeouts if FC fastwrite is enabled on all the four
ports in the port group and each port is capable of doing I/O at line rate.
Symptom: I/O timeouts in the FC fastwrite enabled ports.
Workaround: Not to push the limits.
Probability: High
Feature: Platform Services
Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211707 Medium Summary: In McData interop mode, devices may fail to see storage due to not
registering FC4 type.
Symptom: Host may fails to see storage device in NI mode.
Probability: Low

Feature: FC Services
Function: Name Server
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211930 Medium Summary: RTWR failure seen after HCL if another switch is disabled and
enabled during the HCL process.
Symptom: May see RTWR after FW upgrade when another switch is
disable/enabled.
Probability: Low
Feature: Routing
Function: Brocade 5300
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000212416 Medium Summary: SW_RSCN's for RSCN's generated by attached nodes are not being
handled in McDATA Mode
Symptom: RSCN's are not received for notifications generated by nodes in
common zones that are attached to remote domains.

Probability: High
Feature: FC Services
Function: Name Server
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000212421 Medium Summary: WebTools-Configdownload fails with modes 2 to 3, 3 to 0, 3 to 2
and doesn't clear zoning database for any configdownloads
Symptom: Configdownload from webtools in mode2 or mode3 is not working
as expected. Zone database is not cleared.
Workaround: Using CLI to perform the configdownload
Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP
Function: Switch Admin
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000212560 Medium Summary: No RSCN sent to QoS zone members if member is also in TI zone
with failover disabled
Symptom: No RSCN notification to host
Workaround: Use D,P zoning for TI devices. Which also implies no QoS
support for TI zone.

Probability: High
Feature: FC Services
Function: Name Server

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000201433 Medium Summary: Time Server configuration settings might not get updated if
downloading through Fabric Manager or WebTools.
Symptom: Some time-server configuration might not be updated after config-
download
Workaround: configdownload through CLI if config file has tsclockserver
parameter changes
Probability: Medium
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Security
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000201489 Medium Summary: Not getting SwitchID info in the GSWITCH4 call for phantom
domains.
Symptom: SMI response to GSWITCH4 call for phantom domains with have
incomplete data.

Probability: High
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000201534 Medium Summary: Error thrown on deleting IPv6 address and clearing all the SysLog
IP’s from WT.
Symptom: User will be misled stating that the SysLog IP have not been cleared,
but in reality it has been deleted.
Workaround: Do not clear off IPv6 and SysLog IP in the same operation.
Probability: High
Feature: RAS
Function: RAS Log
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000202674 Medium Summary: Configdownload fails when downloading the configuration having
only defined ADs
Symptom: Configdownload fails.
Probability: High
Feature: Embedded
Function: FC Service
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0_emb
DEFECT000203047 Medium Summary: Issuing portcamshow with NPIV (>250 devices) results in some
incorrect DID and SID entries
Symptom: No visible impact to customer other than incorrect portcamshow
output
Probability: Low
Feature: Platform Services
Function: ASIC Driver
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000203286 Medium Summary: Redundant SW_RSCNs sent from FOS to M-EOS switches in NI
Mode when FOS has a large number of logins on a single port.
Symptom: No visible symptoms to the customer.
Workaround: No real workaround needed because fabric stability is not
affected.
Probability: Low
Feature: Native Interop
Function: NS
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000203446 Medium Summary: Upon moving EX-Ports from one BB switch to another BB switch
(without changing the EX_Port FID), a mismatch of lsanzone database occurred
between BB switches
Symptom: Upon moving Ex-Port links to different switch in BB, I/O may be
lost.
Probability: High
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Port
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000203710 Medium Summary: PG policy (default for 6.x) does not get automatically enabled when
upgrading from a v5.3 or prior release.
Symptom: Customer might notice incorrect policy settings after upgrade.
Workaround: ag --policyenable pg

Probability: High
Feature: Access Gateway Services
Function: CLI
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204084 Medium Summary: WebTools Rename is not working for core blade when FICON CUP
is enabled on the switch
Symptom: WT Rename not working for core blades
Probability: Medium

Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000204158 Medium Summary: supportSave does not capture information from Standby CP.
Symptom: When capturing support information (supportSave), only the active
CP details are captured. To get the details of standby CP, an additional
supportSave must be issued directly on the standby CP.

Workaround: Open a telnet connection to standby and run supportsave CLI to

obtain support information on the standby.
Probability: High
Feature: RAS
Function: FFDC/Supportsave
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204400 Medium Summary: After bladedisable/enable of port blades and HAfailover on DCX,
found many WARNING messages
Symptom: WARNING ASIC error:
slot8 [BL-5215] Nept_200, ASIC error/fault message received for chip = 0,
OID:0x43811080, pen_chip.c

Probability: High
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: ASIC Other
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204514 Medium Summary: fwshow RX/TX performance displays ZERO on the port receiving
& transmitting full speed 8G traffic

Symptom: Customer might notice incorrect output from fwshow

Workaround: Use fwconfigure instead of fwshow to get this data.
Probability: Medium

Feature: Fabric Infrastructure

Function: Fabric Watch
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204836 Medium Summary: Blade status LED may blink yellow although the blade is Enabled
and Online in DCX chassis.

Symptom: Customer might notice incorrect LED state on the blade.

Workaround: slotpoweroff/slotpoweron of the blade with blinking LED
Probability: Low
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: Sys-Control/EM
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000204841 Medium Summary: In some specific configurations, when devices are re-assigned from
one AD to another, D/P zoning is not enforced
Symptom: Zoning not enforced, so an invalid configuration would appear to
customer to be fine.

Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204853 Medium Summary: Traffic Isolation zone CLI does not prevent sharing paths among TI
zones, and sharing devices among TI zones
Symptom: TI zone activation failures
Workaround: Don't configure the same member in multiple TI zones.

Probability: Medium
Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204882 Medium Summary: RBAC users created under the role "securityadmin" cannot view
Access Gateway configuration.

Symptom: User will observe that RBAC users created under role
"securityadmin" cannot view Access Gateway configuration.
Workaround: Use admin role.
Probability: High
Feature: Access Gateway Services

Function: CLI
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0_emb
DEFECT000204959 Medium Summary: In some scenarios, user defined VI is not getting removed from
Name server after un-registering the VI Objects
Symptom: Customer might notice stale entries in the name server

Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services
Function: Name Server
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000204966 Medium Summary: Adding a Brocade switch with conflicting domain ID into an EOS
fabric may cause another switch to segment.
Symptom: Customer might notice a segmented fabric.
Workaround: Configure new switches to a domain ID not already present in the
fabric.
Probability: Low
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Fabric
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205039 Medium Summary: Changing Interop mode from mode-0 to mode-2 or 3 and then back
to mode-0 leads to I/O failure following a cfgdisable and enable
Symptom: May see loss of device connectivity when changing switches interop
mode multiple times.
Workaround: Toggle the local zoned device on the 5000

Probability: Low
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Zoning

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

DEFECT000205113 Medium Summary: In some scenarios, when LSAN zones (that exceed the supported
limit) were propagated to an EOS native edge fabric, the zone set was
committed instead of rejecting the invalid zones.
Symptom: If propagating invalid zone configuration, customer might see that its
committed
Workaround: Remove the LSAN zones that FCR accepted which other EOS
switches rejected during zone activation.
Probability: Low

Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205237 Medium Summary: Management server command xF03 is rejected with Platform name
already exists

Symptom: FPorts unable to log in to Access Gateway

Probability: Medium
Feature: Access Gateway Services
Function: Daemon
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000205327 Medium Summary: With v5.3.0 FOS as proxy,ConfigUpload fails on v5.2.1b FOS
switch
Symptom: Customer might notice a configUpload failure
Workaround: User can directly login to the target switch and perform config
upload instead of doing it through proxy.
Probability: Medium
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - RPCD
Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205461 Medium Summary: Only medium priority flows are allowed between edge fabrics and
the rest are blocked
Symptom: QoS priorities are carried only within the edge fabric (and not across
the backbone)
Probability: Low

Feature: FC Services
Function: Fabric
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205552 Medium Summary: Config Download doesn't prevent downloading of strict-mode
policy in interop mode
Symptom: Able to install config file that sets the fabwidecfg SCC policy to
Strict after following steps:
1) Upload a config file from a Brocade switch (configupload)
2) Modify and the following parameter in the config file fdd.fabwidecfg:SCC:S
3) Download the modified config file to the switch (configdownload)
Workaround: Use EFCM full version for configuring an interop fabric.
Customer should not be configuring a B-model switch in interopmode using
configdownload.
Probability: Medium
Feature: Native Interop

Function: L2 Security
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000206093 Medium Summary: ISL between a 7500 in interopmode 3 (Open) and i10K in Open
Mode segments due to E-Port unknown
Symptom: May not be able to form a link between FOS Open Mode switch and
an i10K in Open Mode. Appears to be caused by zone conflict.

Workaround: Verfiy compatibility of all switch settings prior to merging

switches.
Probability: Low
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Open Mode
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206100 Medium Summary: In a dual BB configuration, host on EOS v9.6.2b4 edge switch may
not see devices imported from one BB.
Symptom: In dual BB configuration, an edge switch running EOS 9.6.2 build4
does not see all disks that are connected to only 1 BB
Workaround: Appears to be an RSCN timing issue. Toggling any of the
involved device ports should correct the issue.
Probability: Medium
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206159 Medium Summary: SNMP-1004 FFDC data get generated after the F/W downgrade
from FOS v6.0 to v5.3.0b.
Symptom: Customer may see SNMP-1004 FFDC core file get generated after
performing
the F/W downgrade.

Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP
Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206329 Medium Summary: Error message appears when configuring port speed on internal ports
on Brocade 4424 through Webtools even though port speed is set.
Symptom: When setting the port speed on an internal port through webtools, the
following error message appears: "Error: Failed to configure port 1. Server
returned HTTP response code: 500 for URL: http://10.32.181.5/cal.xml". Even
though there is an error, the port speed is still configured to the correct speed
that was set.
Probability: High
Feature: Embedded
Function: Platform
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0_emb
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Severity
DEFECT000206760 Medium Summary: If user selects authentication type as "all", in interop modes the
default authentication type is still FCAP between FOS switches.
Symptom: Authentication will fail between two FOS switches in interop mode
if the authentication type is set to "all". FCAP requires PKI certificates and the
PKI commands are currently blocked in interop modes.
Workaround: Set authentication type to DHCHAP
Probability: Low
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000206856 Medium Summary: Bogus core_file created and transferred after the first reboot after a
firmwaredownload
Symptom: Creation and transfer of a xxx.core_file.tar file to the FTP server that
could not be opened after a reboot operation.
Probability: Low
Feature: RAS
Function: FFDC/Supportsave
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000207091 Medium Summary: Configdownload fails on 48K with ficuImport() failed with rc = -18
Symptom: When the switch is in FMS mode, configdownload will return an
error.
Probability: High

Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000207126 Medium Summary: Invalid IPv6 iproute automatically gets created while creating an IP
route
Symptom: May see an Invalid IPv6 iproute when routes configured are
displayed
Workaround: Ignore the route table entry displayed.
Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CLI
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000207213 Medium Summary: In interop mode 2, with Default Zone enabled, only able to activate
2047 Zones per Zone Set
Symptom: Webtools and CLI appears to activate the 2048 zone - zone set, but
actually never does.

Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000207322 Medium Summary: Unable to activate a large Zone Set from Web Tools when Defined
and Effective are close to 1Mb.
Symptom: Large zone set activations fails from Web Tools, but works in CLI
for FOS only Fabric in Interop mode
Workaround: Use CLI
Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000207366 Medium Summary: Inconsistencies seen for topologyshow and islshow bandwidth on
5300 and 300 switches
Symptom: ISLSHOW and TOPOLOGYSHOW ouput will be inconsistent
Probability: Low
Feature: Routing
Function: Brocade 300
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000207386 Medium Summary: Via Webtools, It is possible to set the new password same as the last
one password.
Symptom: User is able to the previous password used via webtools. The correct
behavior is he should not be able to change to last 5 previous passwords.
Workaround: Use CLI to change the password.
Probability: Medium
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL
Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000207431 Medium Summary: Webtools: zone admin page may not automatically refresh, when a
zoning configuration is enabled from McDATA switch.
Symptom: Webtools zone admin page may not automatically refresh when there
is a change in the zoning database.

Workaround: User can manually refresh the page

Probability: High
Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000207432 Medium Summary: FA4-16 and FR4-18i blades in DCX chassiss may fail
sysverification tests
Symptom: FA4-16 or FR4-18i blade in DCX chassis failing system verification
test
Workaround: Rerun system verification

Probability: Low
Feature: Diagnostics
Function: Other

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000207478 Medium Summary: LIRR database has incorrect NPID / WWN associations for FLOGI
port and first NPIV registrant.

Symptom: RLIR's for virtual nodes may be directed to the wrong port. LIRR for
base port is missing from the database
Probability: High
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Mgmt Server

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000207483 Medium Summary: Inconsistency seen between portcfgqos and portcfgshow when
setratelimit is 4000 or 5000
Symptom: When user sets setratelimit using the portcfgqos command, then
checks the rate limit using the portcfgshow command, the values are not the
same for rates of 4000 and 5000.

Probability: Medium
Feature: QOS
Function: Platform
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000207551 Medium Summary: spinfab test fails on random ports
Symptom: spinfab failures seen on random ports with ERROR: DIAG
PORTSTOPPED spinfab:spinfab, 0 nMegs
Workaround: rerun test
Probability: Medium
Feature: Routing
Function: Legacy Platforms
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000207734 Medium Summary: Webtools: under some conditions suggested bandwidth for FCIP
tunnel may be lower than available
Symptom: Suggested bandwidth may be lower than actual via webtools wizard.
Workaround: Determine the real amount of bandwidth dedicated for the FCIP
connection via some other means (network admin).
Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CLI
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000207759 Medium Summary: Certain blade servers may not be able to access targets after an
NPIV failover between DCX and 48K if target is accesed across FCR
Symptom: hosts not able to access targets after NPIV failover between DCX
and 48K with targets accross FCR link if there is more than 1 ex-port attached
to the switches where the targets are logged in

Workaround: If only 1 ex-port is attached to the switches which contain the

targets in FID7 the npiv failover works in this setup
Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000207770 Medium Summary: In a large edge fabric, after repeated switch or trunking
disable/enable on the core switch, fabric rebuild may take several minutes to
complete.

Symptom: RTWR failures may be seen until the fabric rebuild completes.
Probability: Low
Feature: Routing
Function: DCX
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000208189 Medium Summary: Auditcfg not persistent through hareboot
Symptom: Audit log stops after hareboot.
Workaround: re-enter auditcfg parameters

Probability: Low
Feature: RAS
Function: RAS Audit
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000208199 Medium Summary: FICON Channel loops RRQ link exchange times out then receives
BA_ACC
Symptom: Channel slows way down
Probability: Medium

Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000208340 Medium Summary: A user can still issue certain commands after the current AD has
been deleted
Symptom: A user can perform unauthorized actions from a deleted AD
Probability: High
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: RBAC
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000208466 Medium Summary: If QoS and Diff Serv are enabled, some FCIP tunnels may not come
online in case of 8 to 1 fanin scenario
Symptom: Not all VE-ports are online. Not all FCIP tunnels are active. This will
happen if 8 tunnels on one end all connect to only one IP address on the other
end.

Workaround: portdisable/portenable on VE-port that is not active

Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP Port
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000208509 Medium Summary: FPort TopTalker monitor may display flows for NPIV ports with no
I/O
Symptom: Customer sees counters for ports with no I/O.
Workaround: None. Bogus values do get cleaned up after ~20-30 mins.
Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000208513 Medium Summary: fabric mode TT monitor counters show no flows when there are
ingress and egress traffic into the switch
Symptom: TT monitor counters show no flows when there are ingress and
egress traffic into the switch
Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000208527 Medium Summary: AG switch may give incorrect warning message about port licensing
for an F-port when trying to remap it to a different N-Port

Symptom: May see a warning like "Port x is not provisioned... Please run
switchshow command and see whether the port is licensed or not", when trying
to remap F-port to a different N-Port even though Full port license is installed.
Probability: Low

Feature: Access Gateway Services

Function: CLI
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000208673 Medium Summary: User not able to run diagsetburn (burnin test diagnostics) due to
"RBAC permission denied" error with admin and switchadmin role.
Symptom: "RBAC permission denied" error while trying to execute diagsetburn
command for burnin test with admin and switchadmin role.
Workaround: User can use other roles to run burnin test
Probability: High
Feature: Diagnostics
Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000208863 Medium Summary: In rare instances the Name Server DB out of sync between FOS and
EOS switches in interop mode 3.
Symptom: name server total device counts are off by one on some switches.
There is no nondisruptive way to get the brocade NS Database to re-sync

Workaround: after locating the device ID, disable and then enable that device.
Or restart the switch or restart the brocade switches that are out of sync.
Probability: Low
Feature: Native Interop
Function: NS
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000208875 Medium Summary: "seccertutil show <filename>" does not display the contents of
certificates with .cer extension
Symptom: Customer would not able to see the contents of the cert files
Workaround: Only LDAP certificates with .cer extension is supported. So use --
ldapcert option for importing .cer certificates.
Probability: High
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Security
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000208988 Medium Summary: Block user from configuring QoS on FC10-6 blade

Symptom: portcfgqos sees configuration issue.

Probability: Medium
Feature: FC10-6 Platform Services

Function: ASIC Driver

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000209031 Medium Summary: Event generated on successful login to a switch might display wrong
DNS name.
Symptom: Customer might see the wrong DNS name in the events table for
successful logins to the switch.
Probability: Medium

Feature: Fabric Infrastructure

Function: Security
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000209189 Medium Summary: Webtools: User will see Invalid warning during SAS firmware
download on a standalone Brocade 7600 in McData Open Fabric mode
Symptom: Customer may see warning message "Some domains might not
support Coordinated HCL" when attempted SAS download via webtools on
7600 in McData Open Fabric mode.
Workaround: Use CLI
Probability: High
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP
Function: Firmware Download
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000209219 Medium Summary: With a switch in Interop Mode 2 or 3, the iSCSI configuration is not
being included in configupload
Symptom: The iSCSI port configuration and database information will not be
included in the configuration file for a switch in interop mode 2 or 3
Probability: Low
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Platform
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000209326 Medium Summary: Fastboot causes unnecessary FFDC, ERROR, ..., libipadm:
em_AdmSwitchNameGet()
Symptom: On rare occasions, the fastboot command causes an FFDC message.
This is due to the timing of a daemon being stopped and another daemon
making a request to the stoped daemon.

Probability: High
Feature: OS Services
Function: IP Admin
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000209376 Medium Summary: In some instances of congestion in the Ethernet network , the
displayed VE port utilization value is incorrect.
Symptom: The VE port utilization value is zero, even though the traffic is
running over 218m on a 2G FCIP tunnel.
Workaround: use portperfshow command.
Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Fabric Watch
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000209617 Medium Summary: On embedded switch products, sfpshow will display error "Can not
read Serial Data" on internal ports that do not have server blades installed
Symptom: sfpshow displays "Can not read Serial Data!" on internal ports that
do not have server blades installed.

Probability: Medium
Feature: Embedded Platform Services
Function: Sys-Control/EM
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000209845 Medium Summary: In rare instances an IPFilter policy is displayed as being in both an
active & defined state.
Symptom: Normally, the IPFilter policy will only be displayed once with a state
of either active or defined. The end user may witness the same IPFilter policy
appears twice, once as active and once as defined.

Workaround: Clear the policy

Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: IP Filter
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000209892 Medium Summary: In a mixed fabric (FOS and EOS), Hosts might not be able to ping
each other.
Symptom: Host using IP over FC might not be able to Ping each other. This
appears to be limited to broadcast frames and not to other IP traffic.
Probability: Medium
Feature: Native Interop
Function: NS
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000209893 Medium Summary: Reject code '0B' response to a QSA frame causes channel definition
errors
Symptom: Specific mainframe channel logs show a link reject code of hex "0b"
in response to a QSA frame.
Workaround: The workaround for this issue was to block off a badly
misbehaving port that was generating a ton of bad traffic on a switch port which
was putting a lot of stress on the embedded port. Once this port was taken care
of, this problem was no longer seen.
Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000209897 Medium Summary: Able to add a zone alias defined as D,P to a QoS zone
Symptom: The zonecreate or zoneadd command is not able to validate the
contents of a zone alias. QoS zones do not support D,P members. So if the
alias is defined by D,P, then the cfgenable will fail.

Workaround: Use WWN for QoS zone, and alias.

Probability: Medium
Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000210021 Medium Summary: In some long distance setups, two adjacent ports set to Auto
Negotiate on a DCX fail to form a trunk at 4G.
Symptom: Two adjacent ports on a DCX fail to form a trunk at 4G
Workaround: Manally set the port speed to 4G on one of the DCX for both the
ports

Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services
Function: Fabric

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000210143 Medium Summary: Channel definition errors; time out on QSA Response due to
excessive link incidents.

Symptom: Excessive link incidents caused by bad SFP cable can prevent proper
channel response.
Workaround: Vary each channel online from the HMC. Disable any
misbehaving port. Enable Fabric Watch port fencing to disable misbehaving
ports.
Probability: Low

Feature: Fabric Infrastructure

Function: Mgmt Server
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000210186 Medium Summary: QoS E_Port on Brocade switch not able to connect to SAN Router
(Eclipse 2640)

Symptom: The ISL between the FOS switch and the Eclipse Router will fail to
initialize.

Workaround: Set E_Port non QoS.

Probability: Low
Feature: Native Interop

Function: Fabric
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
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Severity
DEFECT000210252 Medium Summary: FSSME failure on Brocade 48000 running FOS v5.3.0c.
Symptom: HA is not able to synchronize.
Probability: Low

Feature: FOS Software

Function: High Availability
Service Request # : 275955
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000210382 Medium Summary: A failed Pause frame (sent during firmwaredownload process in
Interop Modes 2 and 3), will cause a fabric rebuild.
Symptom: Traffic is disrupted and fabric rebuilds during a HCL on a Brocade
5100 if a sent Pause frame fails
Workaround: Use the -o option to over ride the cooperative HCL feature.
Probability: High
Feature: Native Interop
Function: ESS
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000210465 Medium Summary: CP faulty state alert does not have the details about CP/slot number

Symptom: The Fabric Watch alert message indicating a CP fault, does not
provide the CP or slot number.
Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Fabric Watch
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000210498 Medium Summary: User may see Cald crash while creating DCC policies on Brocade
4012 via SMIA
Symptom: SMIA may loose connection to 4012 due to Cald crash while
creating DCC policies on Brocade 4012. Seen only once only on 4012.
Workaround: Use CLI to create the DCC policies
Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL
Function: ACL
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000210545 Medium Summary: A turboramtest failure does not fully disable the port on a 5300.
Symptom: Links to faulty switch appear to be up/online.
Workaround: need to reboot faulty 5300

Probability: Low
Feature: Diagnostics
Function: Post Diags
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000210684 Medium Summary: WebTools: DCX Blade attention LEDs on the switch view gui
window do not turn amber when blade needs attention.
Symptom: The WebTools GUI LED for switchview on a DCX may not reflect
the correct color state for a failed blade . The attention LED is illuminated
appropriately on the blade view but not in the WebTools switchview.

Workaround: The attention LED is illuminated appropriately on the blade view

gui window.
Probability: High
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: Switch Explorer/Switch View

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000210769 Medium Summary: Error response for failure of ACL FabricLockdown is too generic.
Symptom: If a FabricLockdown fails, for example due to the resulting DB being
too large, the failure error is generic and gives no indication as to the reason for
the failure.
Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Security

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000210995 Medium Summary: N-Port between AG and Edge Switch (300) may stuck at "E-Port
Unknown" state
Symptom: After disabling and enabling multiple trunked links between an AG
and a Fabric switch, some N_Ports may get stuck in an E_Port Unknown state.
Workaround: Disabling and enabling the port on the Edge Switch will not bring
the port online. Need to disable and enable the port on the AG to bring the port
back online as an N-Port.
Probability: Low
Feature: Routing
Function: Brocade 300

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000210999 Medium Summary: In rare instances of F_Port trunk master changes, the F-Port Top
Talker monitor is not displaying correct counters.
Symptom: Customer is not seeing accurate numbers for F-Port Top Talker
monitor on an F_Port trunk.

Workaround: Toggling the F_Port trunk master

Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211054 Medium Summary: End to End monitor counter doesn't increment after
firmwaredownload if switch also has Top Talker monitors installed
Symptom: EE monitor counters are not incrementing after firmwaredownload
Workaround: restore monitors from flash or have either EE or TT monitor at the
time of hafailover

Probability: Medium
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000211066 Medium Summary: In rare instances when the external time server becomes
unreachable, the ErrorLog is flooded with TimeServer warning messsages

Symptom: Errorlog might be flooded with Time Server (TS) messages similar
to these:
..., [TS-1002], 269/267,, INFO, dcx_185, LOCL Clock Server used instead of
External: ...
... [TS-1006], 270/268,, INFO, dcx_185, Synchronizing time of day clock, ...

Workaround: Re-establish connectivity to the external clock server

Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211101 Medium Summary: After multiple successive fastboots of a DCX, there was a panic due
to the zone daemon dying
Symptom: DCX panic after multiple fastboots

Workaround: Fastbooting a single time works fine.

Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
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Severity
DEFECT000211256 Medium Summary: Switch could not apply the admin domain configuration changes
Symptom: The switch can't apply the admin domain configuration if there is an
inactive AD with an effective zone configuration.
Workaround: The problem is that there's an Inactive AD (ie. AD 2 in reported
case) with an effective zone configuration. cfgenable should have been rejected
if its AD is in Inactive state.
Workaround, do not enable a zone config for an inactive AD.
Probability: Low
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Fabric Services
Service Request # : 302711
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000211292 Medium Summary: SAS firmwaredownload will fail if a DNS name is used for ipv6
Host.
Symptom: Firmwaredownload command will fail if a DNS name is used for the
host instead of an IPv6 address.
Message that will be seen:
"Cannot download the firmware.
Failed to retrieve firmware."
Workaround: Use the IPv6 address instead of the DNS name.
Probability: High
Feature: Infrastructure
Function: Firmware Download
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211326 Medium Summary: When there are 48 IFLs to 1 edge fabric, it can take several minutes
to form the MetaSAN
Symptom: In a large configuration where we test the maximum of 48 IFLs to
one edge, the MetaSAN takes several minutes to form.
Probability: Medium

Feature: FCR
Function: C2_EX
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211421 Medium Summary: May see message "Probing failed on F-port" when in interop mode
3.

Symptom: Message "Probing failed on F-port" is seen.

Probability: Low
Feature: Native Interop
Function: NS
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
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Severity
DEFECT000211439 Medium Summary: tstimezone settings can not be changed/restored with
configdownload
Symptom: A message: "configDownload: Invalid Time Zone tz = ..." is seen
when attempting a configdownload.

Workaround: Workaround is to remove the ts.tz param in config file and then
download.
Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211449 Medium Summary: If a large number of EX_Ports are enabled at the same time,
occasionally some will fail due to incompatible flow control parameters.
Symptom: Sometimes EX_Ports fail to come up when they are first enabled. A
subsequent portenable will bring it online.
Workaround: port disable and enable the EX_Ports that failed.
Probability: Medium
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211503 Medium Summary: Incorrect error message when downloading a config file when in PG
policy mode.
Symptom: The config download looks successful (with a successful message)
but actually is not.
Workaround: Disable the switch before downloading the configuration.

Probability: Low
Feature: Access Gateway Services
Function: CLI

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000211510 Medium Summary: In some instances, portshow may display inaccurate port
authentication description/state after a CP failover.
Symptom: The portshow commands displays inaccurate port authentication
information.
Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Security
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000211511 Medium Summary: The fabric mode TopTalker monitors are missing some flows after
power cycling the switch
Symptom: After power cycle the DCX, some flows may not show up on fabric
mode TT monitor.

Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211520 Medium Summary: AG NPIV ports attached to 200e take approx 39 seconds before
failing over to 2nd path
Symptom: AG embedded NPIV ports are attached to a 200e, when reboot is
initiated on 200e, it takes approx 29 seconds before the NPIV ports failover to
secondary paths. I/O typically survives with the exception of having an I10k in
the same fabric, a fabric build with the expected long wait period for an f_port
to log in (17 seconds) can cause I/O timeout if HBA is settings is not greater
than 45 seconds.
Probability: High
Feature: FC Services
Function: NPIV

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000211537 Medium Summary: A mixed fabric (FOS and EOS) in McDATA Fabric mode having
more than 60 devices in the default zone will cause frames losses due to
er_zone_miss
Symptom: An interop fabric in McDATA Fabric mode having more than 60
devices in the default zone will cause frames losses due to er_zone_miss
Workaround: -- Disable the ISL's to the EOS switches (to completely segment
them out) and cfgdisble/cfgenable
Probability: Low

Feature: Native Interop

Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000211542 Medium Summary: The error message is cryptic when the interop fabric contains more
than 60 devices in the default zone and user tries cfgenable/cfgdisable.
Symptom: May see cryptic error like "Disable failed: Sfc Was Rejected:
Remote Switch Unable To Process" when interop fabric contains more than 60
devices in the default zone and a user tries cfgenable/cfgdisable.
Workaround: Try disabling the cfg from EFCM (EOS switch)
Probability: High
Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211550 Medium Summary: Under some scenarios "portcmd --ipperf" displays incorrect delay
time in the IPv4 environment.
Symptom: "portcmd --ipperf" displays incorrect delay time in the IPv4
environment.
Workaround: Try IPv6 addresses for ipperf
Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CLI
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211601 Medium Summary: Throughput of 1G IPSec FCIP tunnel degrades for uncompressible
data (1G+compression+IPSec).
Symptom: Performance degradation for IPSec FCIP tunnel with compression
enabled.
Probability: Low

Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP Performance
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211605 Medium Summary: After multiple N_Ports are taken offline/online, a retry may be
necessary to complete discovery.

Symptom: Disable and enable SANTester ports and some SANTester ports do
not get discovered. The failed ports are different with each occurrence.

Workaround: Press Enable Discovery button on the SANTester to rediscover

devices.
Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Port

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000211641 Medium Summary: Firmware upgrade from SMIA may fail on Brocade 5100 switch due
to RPC error
Symptom: Firmware download operation from SMIA may fail on Brocade 5100
due to RPC Error.

Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - RPCD
Function: Firmware Download
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211700 Medium Summary: In a large fabric setup, frames may be lost when enabling the trunk
slave link of an Ex trunk on 5100 switch
Symptom: May see transient frame drop when adding slave link to existing Ex
trunk.
Probability: Medium
Feature: FCR
Function: C2_EX
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211718 Medium Summary: AG: A customer can rename a port group as blank
Symptom: Customer may be able to rename a portgroup blank.

Workaround: Customer need to specify a name (that is not blank) when

creating a port group.

Probability: High
Feature: Access Gateway Services
Function: CLI
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211720 Medium Summary: AG:AG: On renaming a port group name to be blank from WT, the
port group is deleted.
Symptom: If portgroup is renamed as blank from webtools, the port group is
deleted.
Workaround: Specify a valid name for a port group
Probability: High
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: AG Support
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000211760 Medium Summary: 32-character switchname and chassisname extensions do not fully
display in RASLOG outputs such as errdump or supportsave output
Symptom: 32-character switchname and chassisname extensions do not fully
display in RASLOG outputs such as errdump. This only applies to Borcade
300, 5100 and 5300 switches.
Workaround: Use only 16-character switchname and chassisname fields if full
name display in the logs is required.
Probability: High
Feature: RAS
Function: RAS Log
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211784 Medium Summary: FFDC occurs when 16-31 char switch/chassis name is input on a
platform that only supports up to 15

Symptom: FFDC occurs in addition to the name being rejected when

configuring a switch or chassis name between 16-31 characters on a platform
that doesn't support the longer name.
Probability: High

Feature: System Controls/EM

Function: Legacy Platforms
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211795 Medium Summary: Enabling Trunk Slaves with QOS While Traffic is Running May
Cause Credit Loss
Symptom: When QOS enabled trunk slaves are added while traffic is running,
credits appear to be lost on the new trunk slave. If the master trunk is then
disabled or removed and all the available credits have been lost, traffic will stop.
Workaround: disable and enable the trunk ports again. Since this is a very rare
occurence, toggling the port should fix the problem
Probability: Low
Feature: Brocade 5100 Platform Servies

Function: ASIC Port

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Severity
DEFECT000211796 Medium Summary: Under some conditions N_Port Failover may not work when
swapping trunked and non-trunked N_Ports on an Access Gateway
Symptom: F_Ports may not correctly map to appropriate online N_Port.
Workaround: portdisable/portenable of F_Ports or switchdisable/switchenable
or reboot the switch.
Probability: Low
Feature: Access Gateway Services
Function: F Port Trunking
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211800 Medium Summary: Auto_ELP setting for Ex port is not restored by configdownload
Symptom: If user disable auto_elp mode, after config upload and download,
auto_elp mode is reset to default.
Workaround: use auto_elp mode.
Probability: High
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211900 Medium Summary: Excessive high temperature and fan warnings could be seen on some
5100 switches.
Symptom: Excessive high temperature warnings could be seen on some 5100
switches and could also see switch status change to marginal. ...WARNING,
Brocade5100, High temperature (36 C), fan speed increasing per environmental
specifications.
Workaround: increase cooling or relocate switch to cooler location.
Be sure switch is installed with proper spacing above and below the switch.
Probability: Low
Feature: System Controls/EM
Function: Brocade 5100
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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DEFECT000211933 Medium Summary: POST (portloopback test) intermittently fails on 7500 and FR4-18i
Symptom: portloopback test as part of POST failure on 7500 and FR4-18i with
error "Portloopback test failed with"ERROR: DIAG INITSTATUS
portloopbacktest:ExtLB, pass 1,Pt"

Workaround: Rerun diags by rebooting the switch or powering on the slot with
FR4-18i blade.
Probability: Low
Feature: Diagnostics
Function: Post Diags
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211980 Medium Summary: GUI: FCIP tunnel FICON parameters are not properly initialized
when FCIP tunnel FICON parameters are configured through CAL
Symptom: Incorrect FCIP tunnel FICON parameters when FICON parameters
are configured through web interface.
Workaround: Use CLI
Probability: High
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL
Function: FCIP
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000211988 Medium Summary: Zone Transaction appears to succeed in SMIA when the transaction
was aborted by web GUI.
Symptom: SMIA indicates a successful zone transaction even though it failed
due to the transaction being aborted by another interface.
Probability: Low

Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000212008 Medium Summary: EE monitor counters are not incrementing after uninstalled fabric
mode TT

Symptom: When the switch get into the state, EE monitor counters are not
incrementing any more.

Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000212099 Medium Summary: Port address from 'switchshow' does not include offset used for
Interop mode 2
Symptom: switchshow doesn't include offset in NI mode
Workaround: User needs to add 0x60 offset to the portaddr field from the
switchshow commands to derive the proper port address.
Probability: High
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Platform
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000212106 Medium Summary: CRC Errors did not match between portstatsshow and porterrshow
Symptom: CRC errors using porterrshow may show 0 crc. Using portstatsshow
reveals that the value may be incorrect (ie. the port may have CRC errors).
Workaround: Use portstatsshow to determine whether there are CRC errors on a
link.

Probability: Medium
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: ASIC Driver

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000212286 Medium Summary: If EE monitors are restored from flash on a switch that has Top
Talker monitors, there is no warning or error and the filters will not function
properly.
Symptom: After rebooting the switch, the Top Talker monitors are gone,
replaced by EE monitors. A reboot of the switch will cause any EE monitors to
be restored from flash (if they exist). So, if the user saves EE monitors to flash,
then deletes the EE monitors to setup Top Talker monitors, but leaves the EE
monitors in flash, a reboot of the switch will cause EE monitors to be restored
from flash. The existence of the EE monitors will cause the Top Talker monitor
installation recovery to fail. However, there is no warning or other message.

Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000212290 Medium Summary: With Top Talker Fabric mode installed elsewhere in the fabric, EE
monitor counter is not incrementing after switch disable and enable or hareboot
Symptom: EE monitor counter is not incrementing after switch disable and
enable. However, if user restore the EE monitors from the FLASH, all EE
monitor counters work correctly
Workaround: Save EE monitors to Flash before doing a switchdisable/enable.
Probability: High
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000212304 Medium Summary: Extra CAM entries could exist on 300 when Frame Redirection is
used and VI/VT offline/online
Symptom: Extra CAM entries exist on 300 after AP7600 went offline/online.
Workaround: Execute portdisable/portenable on the affected Host or Target port
and CAM entries are updated correctly.
Probability: High
Feature: FC Services
Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000212324 Medium Summary: VE tunnel is stuck in "In Progress" state even though the fabric is
formed correctly
Symptom: Tunnel does not come up, but fabrics appear to be merged when
there were no active routes to the 7500.
Workaround: portdisable/portenable on VE port.

Probability: Low
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CP

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000212424 Medium Summary: Legacy zone commands can be used to modify TI zones.
Symptom: Customer might see that the defined path for ti_zone is no longer
used for devices/ISL's in the zone.
Workaround: For special zones, recommend using the "zone" CLI command.
Other legacy zoning commands (e.g., zonedelete, zoneadd, etc.) should not be
used to modify special zones (i.e., TI zones and Frame Redirect zones).
Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000212509 Medium Summary: After HAReboot, "Probing failed" on F-port messages seen on the
Brocade 300, 5100, and 5300.
Symptom: Some device ports will not be able to complete login to the switch
after a firmware upgrade. The RASLOG will begin accumulating FCPD
WARNING messages in the log until the device gives up trying to login to the
switch.
Workaround: Affected switch needs to be power-cycled or rebooted.
Probability: Medium
Feature: Brocade 5300 Platform Services
Function: ASIC Port
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000212422 Medium Summary: When a switch is being rebooted, a port might occasionally be stuck
in the G-Port state.

Symptom: Portdisable and portenable cannot fix/recover the port: a reboot of

the switch fixes the problem.
Workaround: Switch reboot is a viable workaround since the problem only
occurs when the switch is being rebooted.

Probability: Low
Feature: Brocade 300 Platform Services
Function: ASIC Port

Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
This section lists the defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change
as of Thursday, March 6, at 12:41 pm in Fabric OS v6.1.0.

Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000086791 High Summary: Autonegotiation with specific HBAs does not bring the ports to the
correct maximum speed.
Feature: Platform Services
Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000060904
Reported in Release: FOS5.1.0
DEFECT000200564 High Summary: Compatibility error message is displayed when a user tries to
perform a firmware download of SAS in the FOS v6.0 branch

Feature: Infrastructure
Function: SAS/SA FWDL
Probability: High

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000202429 High Summary: An FC Analyzer trace shows an FCR port is receiving periodic RRQ
and ABTS frames.
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000203218 High Summary: HAReboot on Brocade 7500 switch (with the edge fabric is an EOS
fabric) results in port bouncing due to no BB credits.

Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000203297 High Summary: After switchdisable and switchenable all FCR switches, from the
edge fabric translate domain are missing
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Port
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000203740 High Summary: Unable to access CUP Port on local or cascaded switch through
Neptune.
Feature: Platform Services

Function: ASIC Driver

Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000203973 High Summary: In some rare scenarios, application hangs are noticed on the Server
when FCFW related actions are taken on the fabric

Feature: FR4-18i Platform Services

Function: FR4-18i Blade FOS SW
Probability: High

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204108 High Summary: Management server daemon (msd) panic on switch during fabric
bring up.
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure

Function: Mgmt Server

Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204795 High Summary: In a FICON configuration, VE port persists in offline state after link
down when GbE link is routed through a network switch
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP Port
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000205107 High Summary: Unable to establish connectivity between HBA and Storage.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: FCR

Probability: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000066272
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000205250 High Summary: CP failover on a Brocade 48000.
Feature: Software
Function: Operating System

Risk of Fix: Low

Service Request # : RQST00000066371
Reported in Release: FOS5.0.1
DEFECT000205481 High Summary: FCFW devices: I/O fails on the backbone fabric.

Feature: FR4-18i Platform Services

Function: FR4-18i Blade FOS SW
Probability: Low

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205633 High Summary: LD ISL sometimes comes up in VC_RDY mode, not QoS mode

Feature: FC Services
Function: Fabric
Probability: Medium

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205676 High Summary: [stress-to-fail test] During constant power-cycle test, one of the
switches paniced due to a memory allocation failure
Feature: OS Services
Function: Linux Kernal

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000205793 High Summary: Request change to parameters passed to Java running on the PC.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Management Embedded

Risk of Fix: Low

Service Request # : RQST00000066855
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000205813 High Summary: When ports are segmented, two B-model fabrics are shown
connected to each other even though safe zoning state differs.
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Zoning
Probability: Medium

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205869 High Summary: Subneted FCIP port sends MAC level broadcast instead of the
routers MAC.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: FCIP

Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000067177
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.0
DEFECT000206064 High Summary: In some cases, frame loss is observed during normal FICON I/O.
Feature: DCX Platform Services

Function: ASIC Zoning

Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206090 High Summary: TopTalkers counters are inaccurate when enabled on more than one
Fx_port at a time.
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000206223 High Summary: Top Talker F-port monitor is broken, only one F-port can be
monitored at one switch, same test case passed on Beta frame.
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206381 High Summary: FICON Emulation Error running to STK/SUN tape drives.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Probability: High

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206400 High Summary: Inter DPC messages are getting dropped on AP7600.
Feature: Platform Services

Function: Routing
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000206451 High Summary: Brocade 4018 and 4020: Compact Flash usage is above the 85%
threshold with Fabric OS v6.0.0.
Feature: Diagnostics
Function: Other

Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206541 High Summary: An "ipfilter --transabort" command running in one telnet session can
be aborted from another telnet session.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Fabric Services
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000068040
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000206542 High Summary: Cannot set "Portlog events enable" accurately.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: RAS Logging / Tracing

Risk of Fix: Low

Service Request # : RQST00000068285
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000206628 High Summary: The Brocade DCX may ASSERT in a specific test scenario while
running a particular FICON test program (SAK IRNDUP).
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Probability: Medium

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206657 High Summary: Brocade 4024 power-on-self-test (POST) failure on chassis power
on.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: EM / Hil / Sysctrl

Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000068438
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.1
DEFECT000206684 High Summary: In interop mode, an F_Port connected into a shared area of a 48-port
blade in a Brocade DCX will not show up in the distributed name server.
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Other

Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206694 High Summary: Domain reassignment leads to incorrect frame addressing (domain
offset)
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Other
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000206705 High Summary: Brocade 4424: Switch panics and FFDC files generated after
repeated testing of hot plug.
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0_emb
DEFECT000206819 High Summary: Flooding of an unknown inter-switch FDMI command from another
vendor's switch is causing the switch to crash.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Fabric Services
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000068767
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.2
DEFECT000206930 High Summary: Brocade DCX port blades are re-initialized during supportsave.

Feature: DCX Platform Services

Function: Sys-Control/EM
Probability: High

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206999 High Summary: 2Gig Channels fail to come online from T-Rexx mainframe to a
128-port Brocade 48000.
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000207154 High Summary: Occasional kernel panic during reboot in AG setup.
Feature: Embedded
Function: Platform
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0_emb

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000207192 High Summary: Under very rare conditions, and in a configuration where there are
multiple paths configured to reach multiple devices, some paths were observed
not coming online.
Feature: FC Services

Function: RTWR
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000207473 High Summary: During fastwrite, a 3rd party device drops a status frame due to data
alignment.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: FCIP

Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : 130559
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000207609 High Summary: HaFailover not working after upgrading firmware from Fabric OS
v5.0 to v5.2.0a using firmrwaredownload -s on each CP.

Feature: FOS Software

Function: Fabric Services
Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS5.2.0

DEFECT000207622 High Summary: Heart beat missing being reported by CP - Standby CP reboots
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure

Function: Other
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000207815 High Summary: FICON Virtual Tape Pipelining does not function correctly with
specific tape devices.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000207822 High Summary: Blade fault does not result in LIRR and async status.
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON

Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000207969 High Summary: Firmware upgrade on Brocade 200e to Fabric OS v6.0.0 will cause
the switch to report marginal state.
Feature: Infrastructure
Function: Firmware Download
Probability: High

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000208038 High Summary: CUP Set Offline inline command not presenting status before going
offline
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON

Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000075226 Medium Summary: Usability: Ctrl-C in legacy configdownload code is not blocked
during downloads

Feature: FC Services
Function: Config Download
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.0
DEFECT000077865 Medium Summary: Switch faults if Management Server Domain is invalid, limited
commands available.
Feature: Software
Function: FICON

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS5.0.2

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000080831 Medium Summary: Brocade 4020 hits a software ASSERT and cannot complete boot
sequence.
Feature: Software
Function: Other
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.0.5
DEFECT000084850 Medium Summary: When a switch's IDID mode is currently OFF and we disable the
switch, the rest of the switches in the fabric get a premature duplicate message
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON

Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000085218 Medium Summary: Async error reporting events are lost if detected immediately after
switch boot
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000086002 Medium Summary: FM: Configdownload actually downloads all the disruptive
parameters in the Validation step in FM, when the switch is in a disabled state.
Feature: Infrastructure
Function: Config Download

Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000086348 Medium Summary: Unnecessary and harmless SW_ILS traffic (rejects to MS
commands) being sent to McData switches while in interop mode.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Native / Open Mode
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000060547
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.1_Ni

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000087238 Medium Summary: If a device tries to login to an NPIV port using a port WWN, which
is already used by another device that has already logged in, the switch simply
drops the new login (FDISC) request instead of rejecting it.
Feature: Platform Services

Function: FOS Kernel Drivers

Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000201423 Medium Summary: Incorrect FRU Update date is received for Brocade_Chassis class
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL
Function: Other

Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000201879 Medium Summary: SetInstance call is failing for Brocade_Switch class.
Feature: Mgmt Embedded

Function: Other Services

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000202532 Medium Summary: Problem attempting to lock a port as an L-port and configure the
duplex mode using the CLI.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: ASIC Driver
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000064082
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000203115 Medium Summary: Inconsistent support for switch service tag between CLI & Web
Tools

Feature: Embedded
Function: Webtools
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0_emb
DEFECT000203447 Medium Summary: Port_scn removes logical paths from wrong port.
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Probability: Low

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000203835 Medium Summary: No FABR-1029 Message ID post when fabric rebuilds in McDATA
Open mode (3)
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Open Mode
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000203957 Medium Summary: IOCTL not allowed: cmd 0x40040911, pid 11347 (ficonshow)
message seen on the console
Feature: Platform Services

Function: FOS Kernel Drivers

Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204092 Medium Summary: Validation of IP address to SetProperty/SetInstance for
CommunityInfoSet on Brocade_Switch class is not present on higher version
(5.3,6.0)
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP
Function: Other

Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204106 Medium Summary: Coordinated HotCode needs to handle cases where can't send pause
to all domains.
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Fabric
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204337 Medium Summary: [stress-to-fail test] nsd killed during overnight iSCSI blade
slotpoweroff/on testing
Feature: FC Services
Function: Name Server
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000204665 Medium Summary: bladebeacon command should fail for core blades and switchshow
command should not show beacon status for core blades in DCX chassis
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204680 Medium Summary: Even after deleting enabled DDset the DD members of that
particular ddset are still shown as enabled.
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL

Function: iSCSI Support

Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204816 Medium Summary: CLI: portzoneshow shows "Enforcement as All" when issued in an
NI fabric switch

Feature: Native Interop

Function: Fabric
Probability: Medium

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

DEFECT000205103 Medium Summary: Oops message seen in supportshow where there are faulty FA4-18
blades in chassis
Feature: Platform Services
Function: ASIC Driver

Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205176 Medium Summary: frureplace wwn command for DCX platform takes over 10 minutes
to complete.
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: Sys-Control/EM
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000205184 Medium Summary: Web Tools - USB admin always displays firmware build size
incorrectly as 32768 bytes whereas CLI shows the actual size
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL
Function: USB Management
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205191 Medium Summary: CRC errors mismatch between porterrshow and portstatsshow
output.
Feature: DCX Platform Services

Function: ASIC Port

Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205287 Medium Summary: ALPA Configuration and NPIV: Attaching a device with 236 or
more NPIV devices causes FDISC rejects (when AL_PA 0x13 mode is
configured)
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Other
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

DEFECT000205342 Medium Summary: PortCamShow shows an additional entry after physically removing a
Def Zone node from an FOS switch
Feature: Native Interop
Function: NS

Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205401 Medium Summary: [stress-to-fail test] Upon repeated rebooted of the Brocade 7500
switch, ExternalInput Oops message seen on the console
Feature: OS Services
Function: Linux Kernal
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000205409 Medium Summary: Web GUI LSAN Fabric page not showing the brocade edge switch
if the edge switch is in McDATA interop mode.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: FCR Admin
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205413 Medium Summary: FCIP testing with tape pipelining enabled results in failures
Feature: FOS Software
Function: FCR
Probability: Low

Service Request # : RQST00000066445

Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000205468 Medium Summary: Shortly after cfgdisable on an edge Brocade 48000, got a raslogd
core dump.
Feature: RAS
Function: RAS Log

Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205529 Medium Summary: Changing desired distance by issuing "portcfglongdistance
<slot/port> ld 1 <distance>" from lower WWN switch often causes E-port to
stuck at Unknown or send ECP failed and Disabled.
Feature: Platform Services
Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205546 Medium Summary: Software Verify Error is produced when issuing cfgmcdtmode --
enable def zone
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Zoning
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000205548 Medium Summary: With EX ports configured observed VERIFY on performing
hafailover - Failed expression: 0, c2_debug.c, line = 7896 Call back trace:Trace:
bfe4241c <asic_valid_data+0x624/0x7a4 [condor2_module]> when EX ports
exist.
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205650 Medium Summary: On disabling the proxy switch (FOS v6.0 ), no event received on the
SMIA agent side.
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - RPCD
Function: Other
Probability: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

DEFECT000205783 Medium Summary: When HA sync was stopped, a Brocade 24000 did not output the
FW-1433 message.

Feature: FOS Software

Function: Management Services
Risk of Fix: Low

Service Request # : RQST00000067065

Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000205796 Medium Summary: MFT Fabric - Retrieving GFABRIC information times out when
there are more than 3 McData switches in fabric
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - RPCD

Function: Other
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205849 Medium Summary: For ISL_RDY mode, transmit credit is max'd out at 250. It works
okay if required buffer is less than 250 (ie. 250km at 2G)
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: ASIC Port
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000205857 Medium Summary: Fastwrite with tape pipeline, switch sent improper frame caused tape
job to fail.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: FCIP
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000066902
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000205897 Medium Summary: Software Verify condition seen when default zone disabled/enabled
in some scenarios
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Zoning
Probability: Medium

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206014 Medium Summary: For Tapepipelining the FCP RSP does not come from Fabric
Feature: FOS Software

Function: FCIP
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000067060
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000206018 Medium Summary: supportshow does not include portcfgvexport data for VEX ports.
Feature: RAS

Function: Other
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.0
DEFECT000206120 Medium Summary: "Configuration Failed" error message appears after selecting a
proper interop mode after first selecting an improper Interop mode for the first
time.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: FCR Admin
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000206146 Medium Summary: In some cases where an FCIP address is on a different subnet, a
MAC level broadcast is sent instead of the router's MAC.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCP TCP/IP Stack
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.0
DEFECT000206220 Medium Summary: Hot plug Core Blade with POST on, the blade comes up Faulty(51)
due to turbo RAM test failure.
Feature: Diagnostics

Function: Post Diags

Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206239 Medium Summary: Web Tools enable config option cannot configure the maximum
supported number of zones (2047).
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: Zone Admin
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206244 Medium Summary: Editing IPv6 prefix length from Web Tools does not work.
Feature: WebMgmt

Function: FCIP
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206252 Medium Summary: Description of SupportSave on man page conflicts with that of the
Command Reference Manual.
Feature: Tech Pubs
Function: MANPAGES
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000067475
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000206323 Medium Summary: portcfgqos - fix errors in --enable and --setratelimit options
Feature: Man Pages
Function: Edit/Correct

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206407 Medium Summary: cfgdisable fails on Brocade 7500 running in XRC configuration.
Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206444 Medium Summary: switchshow portspeed info in Command Reference Manual needs
correction.
Feature: Man Pages
Function: Edit/Correct

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206454 Medium Summary: FIPS related changes required in response to a FIPS audit.

Feature: Mgmt Embedded

Function: Other Services
Probability: High

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206511 Medium Summary: portcfg Man page needs update to match FOS v6.0.0 Command
Reference Manual.
Feature: Man Pages
Function: Edit/Correct

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206520 Medium Summary: SRDFA suspends in a fast-write environment
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Probability: Low

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000206525 Medium Summary: A device disappears after server reboot in a FICON environment.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Fabric Services

Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000067612
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.1
DEFECT000206553 Medium Summary: FC4-48 blade drops frame on Brocade 48000 on ports that are
routed through director ports above 256.
Feature: Platform Services
Function: ASIC Driver

Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.1
DEFECT000206681 Medium Summary: Update the description of the default password policy in the Error
Message Manual.
Feature: Message Reference
Function: Other
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000068363
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206900 Medium Summary: IBM FICON Qual. portcmd ipperf CLI not returning correct values
for jumbo frames on gigE ports
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CLI

Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000207092 Medium Summary: IBM FICON Qual. The FW message needs to specify the blade
number when a port blade faults in the DCX.
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Fabric Watch
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000207135 Medium Summary: porttest not working
Feature: Diagnostics
Function: Other

Risk of Fix: Low

Service Request # : RQST00000068652
Reported in Release: FOS5.1.0
DEFECT000207209 Medium Summary: Using an internal test I/O card, the Virtual Private Database is
inaccessible on a Brocade 4424.
Feature: Embedded
Function: Platform
Risk of Fix: Low

Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0_emb

DEFECT000207333 Medium Summary: Request to change command syntax of portbuffershow in the
Command Reference Manual to match the contents of Help for that command.

Feature: FC Services
Function: Other
Risk of Fix: Low

Service Request # : 129729

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000207422 Medium Summary: Need to add a delay to the PLOGI ACCept for all well known
addresses.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: ASIC Driver
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.0
DEFECT000207480 Medium Summary: Operator-disabled ports are displayed as marginal under specific
conditions.
Feature: DCX Platform Services

Function: ASIC Port

Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000207579 Medium Summary: firmwaredownload pre-install script fails to detect that QOS links
are active prior to a downgrade.
Feature: FC Services
Function: Fabric
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000207624 Medium Summary: Phantom power supply faults logged against the Brocade DCX.
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: Sys-Control/EM
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : 134131
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000208128 Medium Summary: Power supply status incorrectly identified as marginal when power
supplies are in certain slots.
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: Sys-Control/EM

Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000208472 Medium Summary: The switch status is shown as Healthy with one core blade even
when the policy is set to show as marginal on removal/failure of a core blade.

Feature: Fabric Infrastructure

Function: Fabric Watch
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000208637 Medium Summary: FICON Tape Pipelining with specific tape devices results in block
count mismatch errors.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000208981 Medium Summary: A Brocade DCX might erroneously report a failed attempt at
reading a temperature sensor as -1 celsius.
Feature: Platform Services
Function: Sys-Control/EM
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000209996 Medium Summary: On an FR4-48 with FMS enabled, duplicate port names for some
ports that share the same address.
Feature: FOS Software

Function: ASIC Driver

Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : 246965
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.0
DEFECT000210144 Medium Summary: SSH Demon (sshd) does not start automatically on the BP.
Feature: FA4-18 Platform Services
Function: Blade FOS SW
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000210370 Medium Summary: IFCCs caused by incorrect positioning for FICON Read Tape
Pipelining
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000210377 Medium Summary: Management server GMAL command is being rejected with reason
5 "Logical Busy"
Feature: FC Services
Function: Mgmt Server
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.1

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000210383 Medium Summary: FCIP Compression enhanced to take advantage of higher
compression rates.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP Port
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0

This section lists defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity closed without a code change
as of Thursday, March 6, at 12:41 pm in Fabric OS v6.1.0.

Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000082754 High Summary: 3rd party system sends incorrect broadcast format and Brocade
24000 forwards it.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: Software
Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000057230

Reported in Release: FOS5.0.3

DEFECT000085897 High Summary: During receive buffer overflow, 2Gb/sec switch cannot bring back
third party device port for over 30 seconds.

Reason Code: Not a Defect

Feature: FOS Software
Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000059174
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.1

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000086000 High Summary: Disruptive parameters are not downloaded on the switch from FM,
as FM does not disable and reboot the switch.
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: Infrastructure
Function: Firmware Download
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000086958 High Summary: setgbicmode, switchdisable/enable, spinsilk commands cause panic
and reboot on Brocade 200e.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix

Feature: OS Services
Function: Linux Kernal
Probability: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000061250
Reported in Release: FOS5.1.0
DEFECT000204063 High Summary: Message queue handling problem.
Reason Code: Not Applicable

Feature: Software
Function: High Availability
Service Request # : RQST00000064918
Reported in Release: FOS5.0.5
DEFECT000204766 High Summary: CIMOM times out frequently.
Reason Code: Not Applicable

Feature: Software
Function: API Switch Side
Reported in Release: FOS5.0.5
DEFECT000204790 High Summary: In some scenarios, updating Traffic Isolation zones followed by
cfgsave (on Brocade 7500) caused cfgsave to hang.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release
Feature: Platform Services
Function: Routing
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000205239 High Summary: Processor reboot: Unknown ; Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig:
5.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Management Services
Service Request # : RQST00000066369
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000205512 High Summary: In AG setup, after switchdisable, F-ports failover to the other switch
shows no device.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release

Feature: FC Services
Function: Name Server
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000205613 High Summary: After power cycle, all port blades in a DCX chassis are stuck in the
POST1 and POST2 state, and the system is left in disabled state, resulted from
the test: power cycle 2 DCX chassis interconnected by 2 ICLs
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: Diagnostics
Function: Post Diags
Probability: Low

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

DEFECT000205658 High Summary: Channel Timeouts running SAK Excite
Reason Code: Not a Defect

Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205663 High Summary: In some rare scenarios, 2nd FC4-16IP blade in Brocade 48000
comes up Faulty(76) with bld25, when both CPs are rebooted at the same time
with POST on.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: FC4-16IP Platform Services
Function: FC4-16IP Blade FOS SW
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000205721 High Summary: Switch provides incorrect output from perfmonitorshow
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: FOS Software

Function: Management Services

Probability: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000065098
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.2
DEFECT000205987 High Summary: [stress-to-fail test] During an overnight run of systemverification,
FA4-18 blade failed framerpathtest
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: Diagnostics

Function: Other
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206153 High Summary: [SCAL-MPR] Top Talker: perfttmon (fabricmode) on 6.x core-edge
fabric==> psd0: RTWR from core DCX to edge 48K, at the end perfttmon
shows only data for DCX but not on any other switches in the fabric
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure

Function: Advanced Performance Monitor

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206210 High Summary: During testing on the large scalbility fabric, upgrading -sf from one
internal build of FOS v6.0 to another on Brocade 7500: during boot up, switch
panic'd with zoned error.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: FC Services

Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206229 High Summary: Brocade 200E: essd, ffdc,zoned crash noticed while upgrading from
early build of FOS v5.3.1 to early build of v6.0.0.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: FC Services

Function: Zoning
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000206235 High Summary: After 3 hrs of continuous failover stress test, switch panics.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: DCX Platform Services

Function: FOS Kernel Drivers

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206293 High Summary: FCFW host on the BB switch can see its intended target on the Edge
but cannot do I/O to it.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release

Feature: FC Services
Function: Name Server
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206299 High Summary: During testing on the large Scalability fabric, an FCR Hot Code
Load from FOS v5.3.0b to early version of v6.0: some frames were dropped
during the time BP was rebooting with the new firmware.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: Platform Services
Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: Medium

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

DEFECT000206303 High Summary: TI zoning configuration not honored after bandwidth reallocation on
FCIP tunnel makes path available
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release
Feature: FC Services

Function: Zoning
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206321 High Summary: GFABRIC call is failing on scability fabric , LoginAsUser failed on
SMIA
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - RPCD
Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000206466 High Summary: FA4-18 BP cannot sustain burst of messages on two remote
connections via Ethernet interface.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: OS Services
Function: Linux Kernal
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000206501 High Summary: CUP fails to come online
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: FOS Software
Function: FICON

Service Request # : RQST00000067794

Reported in Release: FOS5.2.0
DEFECT000206655 High Summary: Performance issue with MPR blade in Brocade 48000 when there
are long distance links in multiple paths.
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: FOS Software

Function: FCR
Service Request # : RQST00000068448
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.1
DEFECT000207071 High Summary: Intermittent switch panics during normal operation of Brocade 3900,
3250 and 3850 platforms on FOS v5.3.0x.

Reason Code: Not Applicable

Feature: FOS Software
Function: OS: Linux
Probability: Medium
Service Request # : RQST00000069005
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000207807 High Summary: Out of memory condition in an internal data structure causes switch
panic.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Panic / OOM
Service Request # : 144947

Reported in Release: FOS5.2.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000208020 High Summary: On 2G platforms, hafailover then portdisable/portenable of E-ports
causes port blade fault with tx parity error
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: FOS Software
Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: Low
Service Request # : 130111
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000208907 High Summary: Rebooting switch while traffic running caused: Panic ASSERT -
Failed expression: svec.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: FOS Software
Function: ASIC Driver

Service Request # : 245527

Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000209261 High Summary: 48 port blade in Slot 1 of DCX failed during connectivity testing.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible

Feature: Platform Services

Function: Sys-Control/EM
Service Request # : 246443
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000209359 High Summary: Standby CP faulty 21 on HCL from FOS v6.0.0b to v5.3.0d.
Reason Code: Not Applicable

Feature: Infrastructure
Function: Firmware Download
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000210797 High Summary: DukeM switch ( Qlogic switch) receiving incorrect response to MS
GE_PT from a Brocade 5000 (FOS v6.0.0).
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: FC Services
Function: Name Server
Service Request # : RQST00000068876
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000210877 High Summary: FVT (Pre-SWAT) Transparent Mode WWNs are Not Presented to
the PI/PTs
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: Disk Encryption
Function: ASIC Other
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.1_enc
DEFECT000210908 High Summary: Link drops when FLOGI is received before the port comes online.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: FOS Software
Function: FC Layer 2 Routing

Service Request # : 302653

Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000068760 Medium Summary: Usability: AD0 allowed user to disable or enable VE ports but
prevented user from creating or deleting VE tunnels
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: FC Services

Function: Admin Domain

Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.0
DEFECT000077034 Medium Summary: SilkWorm 4024: Unwanted message displays when we try to
download a non-Access-Gateway configuration file in Access Gateway mode.

Reason Code: Will Not Fix

Feature: FC Services
Function: Config Download
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.1
DEFECT000079455 Medium Summary: SilkWorm 4020: The "Restore Factory Default" operation leaves
ports disabled if the Access Gateway mode is enabled.
Reason Code: Can Not Fix
Feature: OS Services

Function: Other
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.1

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000082972 Medium Summary: "ficonshow rnid/rlir/lirr fabirc" FICON fabric related CLI takes
more than 60 seconds to start displaying the output from a telnet session after a
weekend of hafailover stress test.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix

Feature: FC Services
Function: Mgmt Server
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000084066 Medium Summary: McDATA Edge fabric is not recognized by FCR preventing any
importing of lsans due to McData switch set to "never be principal".
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: FCR

Function: FCR Daemon

Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000084187 Medium Summary: WebTools after PID-2 change creates erroneous reading in Zone
Admin/Alias Member list.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Web Management
Probability: Medium
Service Request # : RQST00000057688
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.0
DEFECT000084472 Medium Summary: SecurityAdmin role is not allowed to set Switch time from FM
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL
Function: RBAC

Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000086046 Medium Summary: enable AG mode with connecting EX-Port does not log errors in
errlog on SW7500 or AG switch
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: Undetermined

Function: Under Review

Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.2
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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000200664 Medium Summary: Error message "Switch is not reachable '" and "Premature EOF "
exception thrown periodically from Web Tools.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP
Function: Other
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000201039 Medium Summary: When slotpoweron is run repeatedly, some ports on FC4-16IP
blades stayed disabled for minutes.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix

Feature: FC4-16IP Platform Services

Function: FC4-16IP Blade Driver
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000202633 Medium Summary: After performing zeroization (decomissioning), Brocade 7500 was
left in faulty state.

Reason Code: Will Not Fix

Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CP

Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000202790 Medium Summary: Switch WWN server's monitor still displays down state when the
WWN card is plugged back in.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix

Feature: Fabric Infrastructure

Function: Fabric Watch
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000202855 Medium Summary: connUnitSnsEntry table and connUnitSnsMaxEntry do not match
with AD configuration
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0_emb

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 Defect ID Technical Summary of Defects Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.1.0
Severity
DEFECT000202950 Medium Summary: VE-port shows an 1200% utilization value
Reason Code: Can Not Fix
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure

Function: Fabric Watch

Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000203018 Medium Summary: Brocade 4424: Zoning CLI "cfgsize" is blocked in backup FCS
switch.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: Embedded
Function: FC Service

Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0_emb

DEFECT000203080 Medium Summary: WebTools' ZoneAdmin fails to display correct PID for swapped
ports

Reason Code: Will Not Fix

Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP
Function: Zone Admin

Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000203276 Medium Summary: Access Gateway mode enable fails if any transaction buffer (Zoning
or AD) is present.
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: Access Gateway Services
Function: Daemon
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0_emb
DEFECT000203455 Medium Summary: Many "can't open" messages during FWDL from FOS v6.0.0 back
to v5.2.1_ni.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Security
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000203482 Medium Summary: Only a portion of config file will be downloaded if a user tries to
download a different config DB on to the switch.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: Embedded
Function: FC Service
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0_emb
DEFECT000203650 Medium Summary: When converting a switch from FOS to AG, some residual zoning
database was left behind causing frame drops with AG mode.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release
Feature: Access Gateway Services

Function: CLI
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000203685 Medium Summary: Expected traps (fruhistoryTrap) are not sent by the Brocade 48000
switch.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: FOS Software
Function: SNMP
Probability: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000064947
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.1
DEFECT000203704 Medium Summary: defzone is set to "all" and RSCN is suppressed, some port(s) receive
RSCN upon disabling (enable works fine)
Reason Code: Will Not Fix

Feature: FC Services
Function: Other
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000203786 Medium Summary: "QoS no license" error message prints incorrect slot/port
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: QOS
Function: Platform
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000203872 Medium Summary: AG in auto detect mode does not successfully negotiate N-Ports
with a McDATA switch
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release
Feature: Access Gateway Services
Function: CLI
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000203950 Medium Summary: The Web Tools Backend nsinfo.htm page does not update the
timestamp in all instances.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible

Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP

Function: Other
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204010 Medium Summary: HBA firmware downgrade through FM is failing
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: FC Services
Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204381 Medium Summary: RBAC role "SecurityAdmin" is able to receive instances on
"Brocade_Platform" but the permission is "N" according to the CIMToRBAC
matrix.
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - RPCD

Function: RBAC
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204554 Medium Summary: Http daemon crashed on Brocade 7500 switch: unable to restart the
daemon after reboot when wrong certificate is configured on the switch.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP
Function: Other
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000204626 Medium Summary: Fujitsu E6000 Storage cannot autonegotiate speed on 8G ports.
Reason Code: Can Not Fix
Feature: DCX Platform Services

Function: ASIC Port

Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000204660 Medium Summary: Web Tools issues reported on FOS v5.3.x when using https.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP

Function: Firmware Download

Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000204785 Medium Summary: Unable to configure an ip address on a vlan other than vlan 1

Reason Code: Not Applicable

Feature: DCE-Protocol
Function: NSM

Reported in Release: FOS Future

DEFECT000204955 Medium Summary: Ports are coming up as N-port after config download (AG-configure
file) when switch is in enable mode.
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: Access Gateway Services

Function: Daemon
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0_emb
DEFECT000205023 Medium Summary: supportsave: seeing intermittent "tar-related" failure messages
during supportsave loop
Reason Code: Not a Defect

Feature: RAS
Function: FFDC/Supportsave
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000205199 Medium Summary: Web Tools does not use the correct speed reference when displaying
Ethernet speed.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Management Embedded
Probability: High
Service Request # : RQST00000066328
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000205338 Medium Summary: TopTalker fabricmode displays flows for devices that are not in the
same zone
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor

Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205398 Medium Summary: Security: Unable to create a DCC lockdown policy on an Edge
switch
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure

Function: ACL
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205457 Medium Summary: From a host connected to an entry switch cannot ping another switch
in the fabric via iPFC

Reason Code: Not Reproducible

Feature: IPV6
Function: Infrastructure
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000205477 Medium Summary: After an upgrade from one internal build to another (same build
different label) one of 24 VIs on 3 FC4-16IP blades failed to PLOGI to the
Name Server.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix

Feature: FC4-16IP Platform Services

Function: FC4-16IP Blade Driver
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205556 Medium Summary: VE port state doesn't change from Healthy to Marginal when its
utilization is above/below the high/low boundary
Reason Code: Can Not Fix
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure

Function: Fabric Watch

Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205572 Medium Summary: iSCSI: the operational status shows "Not connected..." forever if
online peering GE port which had been disabled for a long time
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: iSCSI
Function: ISCSI ISNS
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205608 Medium Summary: Brocade 4024: On chassis, portcfgshow command shows internal
ports supporting trunking.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: Embedded Platform

Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000205616 Medium Summary: FCIP service should be disabled and all tunnels should go offline
after removing the FCIP license.
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: FCIP

Function: FCIP Port

Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000205687 Medium Summary: Unable to delete the last IP Interface in the table even though it is
not used for configuring any FCIP tunnel.
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CLI
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205697 Medium Summary: Support to persistently disable the GIGE port is not available in
Brocade_SwitchGigEPort CAL class
Reason Code: Not a Defect

Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL

Function: Other
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205701 Medium Summary: When trying to change interop mode, Brocade 48000 returned
constant fabric-busy.

Reason Code: Not Reproducible

Feature: Native Interop
Function: Fabric

Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205736 Medium Summary: portlist on TI zones should not accept WWN format - only D,P
should be accepted
Reason Code: Not a Defect

Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205758 Medium Summary: Failover was delayed for about 18 minutes after hafailover was
issued, and sudden panic dumps were generated on the standby side after sync
process started without showing errors, resulted from the test: bladedisable all
port blades + hafailover.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: Infrastructure
Function: High Availability
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
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Severity
DEFECT000205788 Medium Summary: All WWN LEDs still light up after frureplace wwn command has
finished backing up WWN data in DCX chassis
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: Sys-Control/EM
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205845 Medium Summary: Scimitar faulty 51 due to failed POST
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: FA4-18 Platform Services
Function: FOS Kernel Drivers

Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0

DEFECT000205932 Medium Summary: Security: FIPS enable and reboot on chassis system resulted in FIPS
being disabled on the other CP when active CP is rebooted before HA is synced

Reason Code: Not a Defect

Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Security

Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205940 Medium Summary: In some scenarios, EX-port long distance mode change from LD to
LS on Brocade DCX causes VERIFY
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: Platform Services
Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000205959 Medium Summary: Parent defect : TR000205100 Setting property
Brocade_FCSwitchSettings.preferreddomainid doesn't set the property
consistently.
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL
Function: FCR
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000205999 Medium Summary: The Fabric Events window does not display events if logging into
WebTools via https. Fixed in FOS v6.0.
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Management Embedded
Service Request # : RQST00000067182
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000206037 Medium Summary: "VERIFY - Failed expression: status == 0" seen after supportsave
completed (Brocade 4100).
Reason Code: Not Reproducible

Feature: Platform Services

Function: Sys-Control/EM
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206068 Medium Summary: Not able to configure IPV6 secure tunnel
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CLI
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206077 Medium Summary: SilkWorm 3800's panic with memory loss.

Reason Code: Not Applicable

Feature: Software
Function: Operating System

Service Request # : RQST00000067322

Reported in Release: FOS3.2.1
DEFECT000206135 Medium Summary: Bogus FabricWatch messages observed on the active CP console
only during supportsave.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure

Function: Fabric Watch

Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000206189 Medium Summary: Security: During FIPS enable, disabling root account did not work
correctly.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Security
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206191 Medium Summary: Brocade 4900 ran out of memory and rebooted approximately every
6 hours with error message.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: FC Services

Function: Name Server

Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206225 Medium Summary: After creating FCIP tunnels sequentially using SMI-A the remote
procedure call daemon crashes.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - RPCD
Function: FCIP
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206226 Medium Summary: Failure to delete FCIP tunnels intermittently if the deletion is
performed sequentially.

Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release

Feature: Mgmt Embedded - RPCD
Function: FCIP
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206298 Medium Summary: Second FR4-18i blade in Brocade 48000 comes up Faulty(71) after
both CPs are rebooted at the same time after firmwaredownload -sf.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: Infrastructure
Function: Firmware Download
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000206349 Medium Summary: Switch panic can occur when many servers reboot at the same time
with a certain type of HBA that does not cut off light during bootup. This
applies to 2Gbit platforms only.
Reason Code: Not Applicable

Feature: FOS Software

Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: Low
Service Request # : RQST00000067860
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000206385 Medium Summary: Long events are not displayed completely in the Trap Description on
MIB Browsers.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: RAS
Function: RAS Log
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206464 Medium Summary: Brocade 4424: Internal ports should not be allowed to be configured
as N4.
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: Embedded
Function: Platform
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0_emb
DEFECT000206486 Medium Summary: Ingress rate limiting on a FICON device does not limit the I/O to the
configured value
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: QOS

Function: Platform
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206547 Medium Summary: Not able to add 96-bit license after upgrading from Fabric OS v5.3
to v6.0.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: License
Probability: High

Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0

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Severity
DEFECT000206634 Medium Summary: POST & system verification internal stress programs should not be
available.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: Diagnostics
Function: Post Diags
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000206696 Medium Summary: Configdownload from mode0 to mode 2 or 3 is not clearing the zone
database.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix

Feature: Native Interop

Function: Other
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206701 Medium Summary: Changing insistent domainID does not broadcast on other brocade
switches in fabric
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: Native Interop
Function: Fabric
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206720 Medium Summary: Changing defzone state from CLI causes a hanging zone transaction
Reason Code: Not a Defect

Feature: Native Interop

Function: Other
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000206842 Medium Summary: "no mtu" command is not working on switchport
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: DCE-Infrastructure
Function: IFM
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS Newton

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Severity
DEFECT000207542 Medium Summary: Tracking MS fix from FOS v6.0 branch to v5.3 maintenance branch.
Covered by separate defect.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: FC Services
Function: Mgmt Server
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000207639 Medium Summary: Enhance FOS v5.3.1 to better support in future releases the
automatic FCS policy distribution feature.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure

Function: Security
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000209079 Medium Summary: nsd panic with 2 duplicated wwpn online

Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release

Feature: FOS Software
Function: Fabric Services

Service Request # : 245629

Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000209287 Medium Summary: SetInstance operation on Brocade_Txn fails to commit IP filter
policy change
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL
Function: Security Policies
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000209495 Medium Summary: Lost user id/password after firmware upgrade.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Firmware Download

Service Request # : 246641

Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0

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Severity
DEFECT000209589 Medium Summary: FC6-10 blade faulty on Brocade DCX reboot (FOS v6.0.0).
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Feature: Undetermined

Function: Under Review

Service Request # : 246455
Reported in Release: FOS6.0.0
DEFECT000210251 Medium Summary: CP's out of sync after Firmwareupgrade from Fabric OS v5.2.0b to
v5.3.0c.
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release
Feature: FOS Software
Function: SNMP

Service Request # : 275955

Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000210588 Medium Summary: FirmwareDownload does not retry when an ftp server fails.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix

Feature: FOS Software

Function: Firmware Download
Service Request # : 302001
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000211284 Medium Summary: File system downgrade to FOS v5.3.0 vulnerable to error:
ext3_new_inode no space.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Feature: OS Services

Function: Linux Kernal

Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000211767 Medium Summary: ACC for REC is not properly translating the ORIG_N_PORT_ID.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix

Feature: FOS Software

Function: FCR
Probability: High
Service Request # : 303631
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0

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