v6.0.0 Releasenotes v1.0

Brocade Fabric OS v6.0.
0
Release Notes v1.0
October 19, 2007
Document History
Document Title Summary of Changes Publication Date
Brocade Fabric OS v6.0.0 Release Notes v1.0 First release October 19, 2007
Copyright © 2001 - 2007 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Brocade, the Brocade B weave logo, Fabric OS, File Lifecycle Manager, MyView, Secure Fabric OS, Brocade, and StorageX are
registered trademarks and the Brocade B wing logo and Tapestry are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in
the United States and/or in other countries. FICON is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of, and are used to identify, products or
services of their respective owners.
Notice: The information in this document is provided “AS IS,” without warranty of any kind, including, without limitation, any
implied warranty of merchantability, noninfringement or fitness for a particular purpose. Disclosure of information in this
material in no way grants a recipient any rights under Brocade's patents, copyrights, trade secrets or other intellectual property
rights. Brocade reserves the right to make changes to this document at any time, without notice, and assumes no responsibility for
its use.
The authors and Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. shall have no liability or responsibility to any person or entity with
respect to any loss, cost, liability, or damages arising from the information contained in this book or the computer programs that
accompany it.
Notice: The product described by this document may contain “open source” software covered by the GNU General Public
License or other open source license agreements. To find-out which open source software is included in Brocade products, view
the licensing terms applicable to the open source software, and obtain a copy of the programming source code, please visit
http://www.brocade.com/support/oscd.
Export of technical data contained in this document may require an export license from the United States
Government
Fabric OS v6.0.0 Release Notes, v1.0 Page 2 of 122

Contents
Document History......................................................................................................................................................1
Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
New Feature Descriptions..........................................................................................................................................4
Optionally Licensed Software ...................................................................................................................................6
Licensed Software Bundled as Standard ...................................................................................................................7
Supported Switches ...................................................................................................................................................7
Standards Compliance ...............................................................................................................................................7
Technical Support......................................................................................................................................................7
Important Notes .........................................................................................................................................................8
Fabric OS Compatibility............................................................................................................................................8
Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades......................................................................................................................11
FICON Support........................................................................................................................................................13
Fabric OS.................................................................................................................................................................13
Others ..................................................................................................................................................................15
Fabric OS RFEs Implemented in This Release ...................................................................................... 20
Documentation Updates........................................................................................................................... 21
Brocade Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide (Publication Number 53-1000598-01).................................................21
Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.0.0 ...........................................................................................................................23
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.0.0 .......................................................................................................80
Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.0.0 ................................................................................................102

Overview
Brocade Fabric OS v6.0.0 supports the following new hardware platforms and blades:
• The Brocade® DCX Data Center Backbone Director, 384 ports at 8Gbit with 64 Inter Chassis
Links
• FC8-16 16-port 8Gb FC blade for both the DCX and the Brocade 48000 director
• FC8-32 32-port 8Gb FC blade for the DCX
• FC8-48 48-port 8Gb FC blade for the DCX
In addition to support for the new hardware platform and blades, there are numerous new features in
Fabric OS v6.0, including:
o New Security Features

1MB Security Database
Active Directory support (all platforms)
FIPS compliance (certification in progress with v6.0.0)
o New Adaptive Networking Features
Ingress Rate Limiting (8G capable ports in DCX or 48000)
Flow Based Prioritization (DCX)
o Traffic Isolation Zones
o FCIP
IPv6 support
VLAN Tagging (FR4-18i/7500)
o USB Support (DCX only)
o Inter Chassis Links or “ICLs” (DCX only)
o M-EOS Native Fabric Interoperability (Brocade 48000, 7500, 7600, 5000, 4900, 200E,
4012, 4016, 4018, 4020 and 4024)
o Enhancements to Access Gateway
Auto port configuration policy
Port Grouping and Preferred N_Port failover policy
Multiple fabric support
o TopTalkers (DCX, 48000, 5000, 4900, 4100 only)
New Feature Descriptions
Security Features:
• 1MB Security database- Fabric OS now supports a security database up to 1MB in size, four
times the previous 256KB database. This database, which is used to store DCC, SCC, and FCS
policies, can now accommodate ACL security settings for environments with up to approximately
14,000 attached devices. This is supported on all platforms other than 200E.
• Active Directory – Provides Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) client module
support in FOS for user authentication and authorization against Active Directory services in
corporate networks.
• FIPS Compliance – Fabric OS v6.0 introduces a new Federal Information Processing Standard
(FIPS) mode in FOS where only FIPS 140-2 compliant algorithms will be allowed. The
certification of the v6.0.0 code is in progress.
Adaptive Networking with QoS (licensed feature):

• Ingress Rate Limiting – This feature allows the ASIC to delay the return of BB credits to the
external device. By doing so, a user can limit the throughput on the ingress side of a port, thereby
removing potential congestion scenarios within a fabric caused by heavy bandwidth consumption
by low priority applications. Ingress rate limiting is only supported on F/FL ports, and is only
available only on 8G capable ports.
• Flow Based Prioritization – By exploiting the Virtual Channel (VC) capability in Brocade’s
advanced ASICs, a user can specify a specific priority for any existing zones. This new licensed
Quality of Service (QoS) capability, available on all 8G capable ports in the DCX, allocates the
largest portion of available bandwidth to high priority traffic and the smallest amount to low
priority traffic. SID/DID flow pairs not explicitly set as having high or low priority automatically
default to medium priority. Flow Based Prioritization can be configured by utilizing existing
zones, allowing the user to quickly establish priority for specific application flows within a fabric.
TopTalkers
The new TopTalkers feature, part of the optional Advanced Performance Monitoring license,
provides real-time information about the top ‘n’ bandwidth consuming flows passing through a
specific point in the network. TopTalkers can be enabled on individual Fx_ports.
Traffic Isolation Zones

Traffic Isolation Zones is a new capability that allows the user to isolate traffic assigned to ISLs
within the fabric. This provides the option to segregate some applications from others,
guaranteeing separate paths through the fabric.
FCIP
• FCIP IPv6 – With FOS v6.0, the individual FCIP tunnels can be configured as either IPv4 or
IPv6
• VLAN Tagging – Each FCIP tunnel has the option to specify whether VLAN tagging will be
supported, with a designated VLAN ID and L2 CoS (priority bits) specified at the time of
creation. All frames will be tagged according to IEEE 802.1Q and 802.1p specifications.
DCX
• Blades supported in DCX:
o FC8-16/32/48
o FR4-18i
o FC10-6
o FA4-18
• USB Support – The DCX chassis supports a USB port on the CP that can be used for various
serviceability functions. The USB port is designed to attach an optional USB storage device, and
will support downloading of new firmware images, collection of supportsave data, and
configdownload/upload.
• Inter Chassis Links – Also known as ICLs, these high bandwidth connections are supported on
the DCX and provide dedicated links between two chassis. Enabling the ICL capability requires
an optional license to be installed on each unit. When fully enabled, ICLs provide 1Tb of
bidirectional bandwidth, allowing more ports on the DCX to be designated for connections to
hosts and arrays.
M-EOS Interoperability

• M-EOS Native Fabric Mode support – Fabric OS v6.0 supports “interopmode 2”, which allows
a FOS-based switch to participate directly in M-EOS fabrics running in McDATA Fabric Mode.
Interopmode 2 is supported on the Brocade 48000 with 4G blades, 7500, 7600, 200e, 4900, 5000
and the 4012/4016/4018/4020/4024 embedded switches. 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 v6.0 supports “interopmode 3”, 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.
This capability is supported on the Brocade 48000 with 4G blades, 7500, 7600, 200e, 4900, 5000
and the 4012/4016/4018/4020/4024 embedded switches. M-EOS products in the fabric must be
operating with M-EOS v9.6.2 or later.
Access Gateway Enhancements:
• Auto Port Configuration (APC) Policy– Provides the ability to automatically discover port
types (host vs. fabric) and dynamically update the routing maps when a new connection is
detected. This policy is intended for a fully hands-off operation.
• Multi-Fabric Connectivity – Fabric OS v6.0 allows an AG enabled product to connect to
multiple fabrics. This is done through partitioning related host and fabric connections into
independently operated groups.
• Enhanced Path Failover – Customers can explicitly restrict N_Port failover to a group of
N_Ports (Port Grouping Policy) or to a single secondary path (Preferred N_Port).
Optionally Licensed Software

This Fabric OS release includes all basic switch and fabric support software, as well as the
following optionally licensed software that is enabled via license keys:
• Brocade Web Tools—Administration, configuration, and maintenance of fabric switches

and SANs (license provided on all products)
• Brocade Advanced Zoning—Division of a fabric into virtual private SANs (license
provided on all products)
• Brocade Ports on Demand—Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning

additional ports via license key upgrade (applies to some models of switches.)
• Brocade Extended Fabrics—Provides up to 500 km of switched 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.
• 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 new TopTalkers feature described in this document.

• FC-IP Services (For the FR4-18i and Brocade 7500) -- This license key will also include the FC
Fastwrite feature.
• Brocade Fabric Watch—Monitors mission-critical switch operations.
• FICON Management Server— Also known as “CUP” (Control Unit Port), enables host-control of
switches in Mainframe environments. (Available only on FICON-qualified products)
• ICLs, or Inter Chassis Links — Provide dedicated high-bandwidth links between two Brocade
Data Center Directors, 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)
• Adaptive Networking with QoS—This is a new feature in Fabric OS v6.0.0 providing a rich
framework of capability allowing a user to ensure high priority connections to 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.
Licensed Software Bundled as Standard

The following licensed software is bundled with the hardware and no additional purchase is
necessary:
• IPSec – IP Security (for the Brocade 7500 and FR4-18i blade in the Brocade 48000)
• NPIV – N-port ID Virtualization, allowing up to 256 virtual addresses per physical port
Supported Switches
Fabric OS v6.0.0 supports the Brocade 4012/4016/4018/4020/4024, 4100, 4900, 5000, 7500, 7600, 200E,
48000 and DCX.
Access Gateway is also supported by Fabric OS v6.0.0, and is supported on the following switches: the
Brocade 200E, 4012, 4016, 4018, 4020, and 4024.
Standards Compliance
This software conforms to the Fibre Channel Standards in a manner consistent with accepted
engineering practices and procedures. In certain cases, Brocade might add proprietary
supplemental functions to those specified in the standards. For a list of standards conformance,
visit the following Brocade Web site: http://www.brocade.com/sanstandards
Technical Support
Contact your switch supplier for hardware, firmware, and software support, including product repairs
and part ordering. To expedite 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 and corresponding bar code are 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—On the switch ID pull-out tab located inside the chassis on
the port side on the left
• Brocade 5000—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.
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 lists 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)
SilkWorm 3000, 3200, 3800 v3.2.1c
SilkWorm 12000 v5.0.x
SilkWorm 3014, 3016, 3250, 3850 and Brocade 3900, 24000 v5.1 and higher
Brocade 200E, 4100, 7500, 48000 v5.1.0 and higher
Brocade 4900 v5.2.0 and higher
Brocade 4012, 4016, 4018, 4020, 4024 v5.2.1 and higher
Brocade DCX v6.0.0 and higher
Secure Fabric OS (on any model) Not Supported in v6.0.0
Mi10k, M6140, ED-6064, ES-3232, ES-4300, ES-4400, ES-4500, ES-4700 M-EOS v9.6.2 2
(McDATA Fabric Mode and Open Fabric Mode) 1
McDATA SANRouters 1620 and 2640 Not Supported
Large Fabric Support
SilkWorm 12000 v5.0.x
SilkWorm 3014, 3016, 3250, 3850 and Brocade 3900, 24000 v5.1.0 and higher
Brocade 200E, 4100, 7500, 48000 v5.1.0 and higher
Brocade 4012, 4016, 4018, 4020, 4024 v5.2.1 and higher
Brocade DCX v6.0.0 and higher
Multi-Protocol Router interop
Brocade 7420 XPath v7.4.1
Brocade 7500 and FR4-18i blade v5.1.0 and higher

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.
2) It is highly recommended that M-EOS products operate with the most recent version of M-EOS
released and supported for interoperability.
Fabric OS v6.0.0 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the 48000 noted in the table
below.
48000 Blade Support matrix with chassis option 5
Port blade 16, 32 and 48-port 4Gbit blades (FC4- Supported with 5.3 and above with any mix and up
16, FC4-32, FC4-48), the 16-port 8Gbit blade to 8 of each. No restrictions around intermix. Also
(FC8-16), and the 6-port 10G FC blade (FC10-6) the 4Gbit blade only requires 2 PS, where 8 10G
blades will require 4 PS’s.
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 max of 4 blades
FC-IP/FC Router blade (FR4-18i) Up to a max 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 max of 2 blades of this type.

Fabric OS v6.0.0 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the DCX noted in the table below.
DCX Blade Support matrix
Port blade 16, 32 and 48-port 8Gbit blades (FC8- Supported with 6.0 and above with any mix and up
16, FC8-32, FC8-48) and the 6-port 10G FC to 8 of each. No restrictions around intermix.
blade (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 max 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 max of 2 blades of this type.
Note: the iSCSI FC4-16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX in Fabric OS v6.0.0.
Secure Fabric OS
Secure Fabric OS (SFOS) is not compatible with FOS v6.0.0. Customers that wish to use the security
features available in SFOS should upgrade to FOS v5.3.x, which includes all SFOS features as part of the
base FOS. For environments with SFOS installed on switches that cannot be upgraded to FOS v5.3 or
later, FC routing can be used to interoperate with FOS v6.0.0.
Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades
Upgrading to Fabric OS v6.0.0 is only allowed from Fabric OS v5.3.x. This is a change in policy from
prior releases, where “2-level” migrations were supported. The new policy to support only 1-level
migration has been implemented to provide 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 1-release 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.
SAS version requirements for FA4-18 and 7600:

SAS v3.1.0 is the supported SAS version for FOS v6.0.0.
• When upgrading from FOS V5.3 to V6.0 and SAS 3.0.0 to SAS 3.1.0, first upgrade FOS V5.3 to V6.0 and
then upgrade SAS from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0.
• When downgrading from FOS V6.0 to V5.3 and SAS 3.1.0 to SAS 3.0.0, First downgrade SAS from 3.1.0
to 3.0.0 and then downgrade FOS from V6.0 to V5.3.
Note: The Brocade 5000 switch running Fabric OS v5.2.1_NI may upgrade directly to Fabric OS v6.0.
The Fabric OS v5.3.x release does not support Native Interoperability.

Only products based on 4G and 8G capable ASICs are supported by Fabric OS v6.0. 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 v6.0, 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.
Upgrade considerations for meta-SANs or fabrics which contain both EOS and FOS platforms:
• Fibre Channel Routed fabrics (meta-SANs): It is recommended that upgrades be conducted in the
following order:
o Upgrade the backbone FCRs (Brocade 48000) to v6.0.0.
o Upgrade of edge EOS fabrics/switches to v9.6.2.
o Upgrade FOS edge switches to v6.0.0
• L2 Interoperability Fabrics: It is recommended that upgrades be conducted in the following order:
o Upgrade EOS fabrics/switches to v9.6.2.
o Upgrade FOS switches to v6.0.0
• For routed fabrics, upgrades from prior releases will be non-disruptive if all EX-Ports to M-EOS edge
fabrics are attached to Brocade 48000 directors with FR4-18i blade.
Products that cannot be upgraded to Fabric OS v6.0 or later:

• Brocade 3014, 3016, 3250, 3850, 3900, and 24000.
Products that can be upgraded to Fabric OS v6.0 or later:

• 4012/4016/4018/4020/4024, 4100, 4900, 5000, 7500, 7600, 200E and 48000.
Scalability of Fabric OS v6.0.0 is increased for the DCX. Due to the increased processing capability from
the new CPU in the DCX, 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. Other products running FOS 6.0 will retain the same fabric limits as FOS 5.3.x for non-routed
fabrics (i.e., L2 only, 56 domains and 2560-ports).
Routed scalability limits are noted in the table below.
Fibre Channel Routing Scalability

Max # edge fabrics per metaSAN 32
Max # edge fabrics per chassis 16
Max # switches per edge fabric (FOS) 26
Max # switches per edge fabric (M-EOS fabric) 161
Max # WWNs per edge fabric (M-EOS fabric) 8001
Max # imported devices per fabric (M-EOS fabric) 3001
Max # L2 switches per backbone fabric 12
Max # FCR’s per backbone fabric 12
Max # WWNs per edge fabric (FOS) 1200
Max # WWNs per backbone fabric 512
Max # imported devices per fabric 1000

Fibre Channel Routing Scalability
Max # LSAN device per metaSAN 10000
Max # LSAN zones per metaSAN 30002
Max # devices per LSAN zone 64
Max # hops between edge switches 12
EX_Ports per FCR (48K) 32
EX_Ports per FCR (Neptune) 64
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.
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 BB cannot run in interopmode 2 (McData Native Interop) or 3 (Open mode). It must be in
FOS native mode.
FICON Support
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.
Fabric OS
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 v6.0 is running on those switches.
• 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 fabric with
Flow based QoS.
• If trunks are used, there should be at least two flows per priority going through the trunk.
Otherwise, bandwidth allocation might not be prioritized proportionally.
• If an “Adaptive Networking” license is installed on a switch in a fabric without a DCX, a
“license db” error might occur. There is no functional impact and the message can be
ignored. This is not an issue with director-class products.

TopTalkers:
• When multiple F_Ports come up, the F_Port flow information displayed might not be
accurate. This will be resolved in a subsequent release.
Traffic Isolation:
• When configuring a TI zone with failover disabled, user needs to make sure that the E-ports of
the TI zone are corresponding to valid paths (use topologyshow CLI to verify this), otherwise,
route might be missing for ports in that TI zone.
FCR Backbone Fabric ID change:
• Modification of backbone fabric IDs with FC8 blades present on the DCX or 48k w/FR4-18i
requires the switch to be disabled.
• If there is more than one backbone, then the backbone fabric ID must be changed on all but
one backbone in order to keep the IDs unique
FCS Automatic Distribution
• When using the FCS Automatic Distribution feature in Fabric OS v6.0, all switches in the
fabric must be running a v6.0 or later. If any switches are running FOS v5.x or earlier, only
manual distribution can be used.
• FCS automatic distribution is supported in strict mode and tolerant mode.
Access Gateway Auto Detect mode in M-EOS fabrics
• 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.
New Brocade SFPs
• All 8Gb blades will function only with Brocade branded SFPs. There will be 8Gb and 4Gb
Brocade branded SFPs available to customers. Attempts to place non-Brocade branded SFPs
in 8Gb blades will cause the blade to display the SFP as invalid (mod_inv). Brocade branded
SFPs can be used in other products and will be recognized as Brocade branded SFPs.
DCX ICLs
• When connecting two Brocade DCX chassis, the universal connect of the ICLs is now from
upper to lower and they are color coded.
8G-to-4G blade LD links

• When connecting 8G capable long-distance ports to a 4G capable long-distance ports, the
maximum number of buffers supported is 250.

Others
The following are known issues in this release of Fabric OS.
Areas Description
Brocade 7500 • Brocade 7500 fans operate at the correct speed, that is, at maximum
on bootup. However, this initial speed may trigger an error message
that indicates that the speed is too high (“above threshold”). You can
disregard this message; the fan speed is adjusted to a nominal speed
shortly after bootup. This message is benevolent. The fan speed will
be adjusted to a nominal speed shortly after bootup.
Brocade DCX • Brocade DCX power supplies operate correctly; however, at initial
power on, a faulty message may be seen, followed by a healthy
message. You can disregard the faulty message; the power supply
sensor may initially fail but quickly transitions to a healthy status
shortly after power up.
• When Inter Chassis Links are used, some ports may have to be run at
4Gb to adjust for ICL cable tolerance.
Brocade 48000 • Before moving the slider UP on a Control Processor blade that is
being activated, observe that amber LED is not ON for the active CP
for at least 5 seconds and all LEDs are off on new inserted CP.
• In a core-edge design, when a fully populated 384-port Brocade
48000 (populated with 8 FC4-48 blades) is an edge switch in a large
SAN, it can experience high CPU utilization and may panic if it
becomes a principal switch. SAN design best practice recommends
deploying a high port-count switch as both core and principal switch
to reduce fabric stress and provide ease of management.

Areas Description
FC4-48 port • Configure command only gives a maximum login per port setting.
blade for the The command allows over 127, where ports for the FC4-48 blade will
Brocade 48000 honor that value as long as its share areas values are 127 or less.
• Before replacing FC4-32 blade with FC4-48 blade, restore ports 16 –
31 of the FC4-32 blade if these ports are used for port swapping.
Failure to do so will fault the FC4-48 blade. The only way to restore
back to original settings is to add the FC4-32 blade back in to the slot
and port swap the ports back to port’s default setting.
• FC4-48 ports should not belong to the zone or in an administrative
domain in which FICON devices are present.
• FC4-48 blade does not support loop. Private L_Ports will be shown
on these ports in switchShow, but will not participate in the fabric
• The porttest and spinfab commands on any platform will not work on
E_Ports connected to a FC4-48 port.
• In a core-edge design, making an edge 384-port Brocade 48000 the
principal switch causes high CPU utilization and may cause panics.
SAN design best practice recommends moving the reduction of fabric
stress and ease of management.
• The FC4-48 Fibre Channel port blade is not supported to connect to
the System z environments via FICON channels or via FCP zLinux on
System z. To use the Brocade 48000 director to attach to the System z
environment, please use the FC4-16 or FC4-32 Fibre Channel port
blades
• All zones involving the shared ports (domain, port or WWN) of an
FC4-48 blade would be treated as session based in ”interopmode 2”
fabric configuration.
FC10-6 Blade • Clear the long distance configurations from the FC10-6 ports prior to
replacing the FC10-6 with a 4 Gbps blade. If the configurations are
not cleared and you install a 4 Gbps blade, some ports may not come
online due to a buffer allocation issue. To resolve it, re-install the
FC10-6 blade and use portcfgdefault to clear the long distance
configuration on each of the 10 Gbps long distance ports.
• In rare instances POST/Systemverification failures have been
observed on the FC10-6.
FA4-18 • If a user wants to move an FA4-18 blade running FOS prior to
v5.3.0b from a 48000 to a DCX, it must initially go into slots 1-3 in
the DCX. After the blade is auto-leveled to FOS v6.0.0, they can be
placed in any slot.
FC4-16IP • Upon firmware download the FC4-16IP blade does not preserve
disabled GE ports in disabled state. If you wish to retain GE ports in a
disabled state across firmware download, you must configure them as
persistently disabled.

Areas Description
Fabric OS – CLI • This release does not support underscore (_) as part of the name for
commands dd and ddset in the iscsicfg command.
• The slotOff and slowOn commands are now obsolete; use
slotPowerOff and slotPowerOn instead. The
portLogPortShow command is also now obsolete.
• When performing a configdownload, you may receive a message
stating "configDownload not permitted.” An invalid parameter was
passed to the switch. The invalid parameter could be from a switch
security policy, such as the password policy, or the NTP server
address. This causes a partial configuration to be downloaded onto
the switch. For example, when an NTP server address is invalid,
configdownload fails and all data processed prior to the NTP server
address data had already been saved in the switch and cannot be
backed out. To fix the problem, correct the invalid parameter and re-
issue the configdownload command.
IPSec for FR4- • IPSec implementation details:
18i blade and o Pre-shared key
SW7500
o Main mode (IKE negotiation protocol)
o Tunnel mode in ESP (Encapsulating Security Payload)
• IPSec specific statistics not provided
• No NAT or IPv6 support
• Jumbo frames will not be supported on secure tunnels.
• ICMP redirect is not supported for IPSec-enabled tunnels.
• Only a single secure tunnel will be allowed on a port. Non-secure
tunnels will not be allowed on the same port as secure tunnels.
• Modify operations are not allowed on secure tunnels. To change the
configuration of a secure tunnel, you must first delete the tunnel and
then recreate it with the desired options.
• Only a single route is supported on an interface with a secure tunnel.
• An IPSec tunnel cannot be created using the same local IP address if
ipperf is active and using the same local IP address (source IP
address).
• Unidirectional supported throughput is ~104Mbytes/sec and
bidirectional supported throughput is ~90Mbytes/sec.
• An IPSec tunnel takes longer to come online than a non-IPSec tunnel.
• Fabric OS v6.0.0 does not support IPSec with VLAN Tagging.
• VLAN tagging support and IPSec support are mutually exclusive on a
per tunnel basis.

Areas Description
IPv6 FCIP • Fabric OS v6.0.0 does not support compression for IPv6 FCIP
Tunnels Tunnels
• Fabric OS v6.0.0 does not support IPSec for IPv6 tunnels.
Distance mode • Distance setting is not persistent. After a configuration uploads and
downloads, distance settings will be lost and the desired distance will
be shown as 0.
FC Routing • If a SilkWorm AP7420 is present in the backbone fabric, the
command “fosconfig - disable fcr” may take up to 8 minutes to
complete. If the AP7420 is replaced by a FR4-18i or Brocade 7500,
the command completes immediately.
• EX_Port trunking is not enabled by default.
• FCR switch does not support an edge fabric with one McDATA
switch set to ‘never principal’. The EX_Port connected to that edge
fabric will not come up.
• FCR switch does not support edge fabrics that consist of McDATA
switches with ‘domain ID offset’. The EX_Port connected to that
edge fabric may fail the RDI process and will not come up. EX_Port s
come up disabled (failed to init in time) if attached to a Native mode
switch running EOS 9.x that has non-default DID offset configured.
Diagnostics • All offline diagnostics commands should be used only when the
switch is disabled.
• POST can fail if new SFPs are added during POST. SFPs should only
be added while the switch is “online” or if the switch is powered off.
• When you use the diagnostic commands systemVerification and
diagSetBurnin, the switch or blade will fault when the burn-in error
log is full. Clear the burn-in log before running systemVerification
or diagSetBurnin.
• If there are ISLs present on the switch that are not used for routing
(due to them having higher linkcosts), disable the links before running
spinfab.
HA • If there is an already segmented port and backbone devices are
exported to an edge fabric, a build fabric / fabric reconfiguration can
occur after running haFailover. Ensure that there are no segmented
ports before upgrading firmware.
Fabric Merge • Do not try to merge fabrics with conflicting domain IDs over a
VE_Port. Before merging two fabrics over FC-IP with VE_Ports at
each end, it is recommended that all domain ID and zoning conflicts
are resolved.

Areas Description
Scalability • Support for Default Zoning policies have been added to
Fabric OS v5.1.0. Typically, when you issue the cfgDisable
command in a large fabric with thousands of devices, the
name server indicates to all hosts that they can communicate
with each other. To ensure that all devices in a fabric do not
see each other during a cfgDisable operation, you can
activate a Default Zone with policy set to “no access”. If
Default zoning policies are enabled, all cfgEnable/Disable
commands and zoning changes must be run from a switch in
the fabric running Fabric OS v5.1.0 or later.
• In large fabrics with more than 1,000 ports, it is recommended that

the MS Platform Database is disabled, it is also required that the
Platform DB be disabled before downgrading to previous versions of
Fabric OS. This can be done using the msPLMgmtDeactivate
command.
FRU insertion • FW_FRU_INSERTED message is displayed twice when a power

supply FRU is inserted and powered on. There is no functional
impact.
System boot • Not all Fabric OS services are available when the prompt becomes
available during boot up. Wait for all the services to come up before
using the switch or performing zoning actions.
Performance • If the user tries to save more than 512 monitors using the
Monitoring perfCfgSave command, some of the monitors may be lost.
Management – • If you are using a Fabric OS v4.x switch as an API or SMI-S
Proxy switches proxy to manage a switch running v5.1.0 or above, you must
be running Fabric OS v4.4.0d, as a minimum requirement.
FC Fast Write • Only WWN zone (including normal zone and FC Fast Write zone) is
supported on FC Fast Write enabled port.
• Only single device loop port is supported.
• NPIV (example Access gateway) port is not supported.
• FCR backbone devices are not supported. That is FC Fast Write
should not be enabled on backbone devices.
• FCR edge to edge support is limited by all the target devices on given
edge fabric that host talks to should be connected to a Brocade 7500
or FR4-18i in FC Fast Write mode. FC Fast Write should not be
enabled on ports when testing the remote mirror application.
• When a very high volume of traffic is being sent by host, FC Fast
Write IOs may time out and frame may be dropped.
• Within the context of FC Fast Write, L_Port is not supported.

Areas Description
iSCSI • Enterprise storage array targets may not show up consistently in the
disk management window of an iSCSI initiator when the same LUNs
are mapped to two different virtual targets (VTs). When the initiator
logs in to the VTs, the targets keep disappearing from the disk
management window. If the session to one of the VTs is
disconnected, the remaining VT appears and stabilizes in the disk
management window.
• Under certain conditions, hosts on an IP network may not be able to
issue a ping command to iSCSI gateway ports in another subnet. You
can work around this problem by issuing a ping command from the
iSCSI gateway port. The hosts will then be able to successfully issue
ping commands to the iSCSI gateway port.
• An IP network disconnection lasting five seconds or more may cause
COPA failure on the disconnected PC, which in turn may cause a loss
of connection to an enterprise storage array
• If traffic is run from hosts to certain targets with severe impairment
conditions in the IP network for hours at time, throughput to the
targets will drop, and may take up to 10 minutes to recover after the
impairment condition is removed. Note that this problem is highly
intermittent, and is unlikely to be seen in a customer environment. We
believe that this issue is the result of host/target interaction, and is not
the result of action on the iSCSI gateway.
• A Microsoft windows PC host was unable to discover enterprise
storage array LUNs. The Microsoft iSCSI initiator is able to discover
targets if the software is uninstalled and reinstalled without the MPIO
option.
Broadcast Zones • In Fabric OS v5.3.0, a zone with the name “broadcast” (case-
sensitive) is a special zone for setting up recipients of broadcast
packets. In Fabric OS versions earlier than v5.3.0, a zone named
“broadcast” does not have special significance. Therefore, you must
make sure that if a broadcast zone is configured, then the active and
standby CPs should be running the same Fabric OS version.
Otherwise an HA failover might change the zone configuration.
Refer to the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide for additional

information about broadcast zones.
Fabric OS RFEs Implemented in This Release

RFE Number Description
3746 include BB_credit zero counter in supportshow
3402 Add Port Number to Faulty Port Alert in Fabric Watch

RFE Number Description
3132 trapReg MIB variable is giving trap recipients details for SNMPv1 alone. It
has to be implemented also in SNMPv3
Documentation Updates
This section provides information on last-minute additions and corrections to the
documentation. The most recent Fabric OS V6.0.0 documentation manuals are available
on the Brocade Partner Network: http://partner.brocade.com/
Brocade Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide (Publication Number 53-1000598-01)
On page 351, in the section “Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation,” add the following items:
• Two N_Ports that have the same shared area cannot be configured in different TI zones. This
limitation does not apply to E_Ports that use the same shared area.
• Ports that are in different TI zones cannot communicate with each other if failover is disabled,
even if they are in the same (regular) zone.
On page 358, under the heading “Supported configurations for traffic prioritization,” add the following
item to the list of configuration rules:
• Traffic prioritization is enforced on the egress ports only, not on the ingress ports.
In chapter 4, Configuring Advanced Security, under the heading on Auth policy restrictions on page 105,
the following bullet should be added to the list of bullets:
• Configupload/download will not be supported for the following AUTH attributes: auth type,
hash type, group type.
In chapter 10, Using the FC-FC Routing Service, under the heading on Auth policy restrictions on page
105, the last bullet should be change to read:
• FC router interoperating with older FC routers (XPath v7.4.x and Fabric OS v5.1, v5.2, and
v5.3).
In chapter 10, Using the FC-FC Routing Service, Table 56 Hardware and firmware compatibility for
nonsecure fabrics on page 252, the listing for the Brocade Mi10K switch Brocade M-EOS should include
M-EOS 9.6.2.
In chapter 10, Using the FC-FC Routing Service, add the following footnote to Tables 57 and 58 for
support on Fabric OS v6.0 with M-EOSc and M-EOSn 9.2
EOS v9.2.0 is supported during migration to the supported version of EOS v9.6.2. It is
recommended that all switches in the edge fabric are running the same level of M-EOS firmware.

Man Pages
The following corrections were made in the Command Reference Manual but not into the man
pages. Update the man pages for the following commands as follows:
Portcfg:
“fctrace” should read “ftrace”
–v vlan_id,: in the statement “The following operands are required with VLAN Tagging”, the
“required” should be replaced with “optional”.
fciptunnel modify: -v vlan_id is not an option. The –p and/or -P are optional.
fciptunnel qosmap: when specifying the vc_num, option, either the –Q or –P or both must be
specified.
ficon config/delete -t 1|0: TIN/TUR should read TIN/TIR
ficon config/delete: correct parameter specific arguments as follows:
wrtMaxPipe => -a | --wrtMaxPipe
rdMaxPipe => -b | --rdMaxPipe
wrtMaxDevs =>-c |--wrtMaxDevs
rdMaxDevs => -g |--rdMaxDevs
wrtTimer => -e |--wrtTimer
wrtMaxchains => -n -wrtMaxchains
oxidBase => -o | --oxidBase
dbgFlags => -f | -dbgFlags
portCfgShow
The following statement should be removed from the –qosmap option; “In addition, a flag
indicate whether VC mapping is currently ON or OFF.”
PortCfgQos
--enable: The following statement should be removed: “qos is off by default and must be enabled
before rate limits can be set”
--setratelimit: The following statement should be removed: “valid values are from 1 to 8”. The
valid values at the end of the paragraph are the correct ones.

Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.0.0
This section lists defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity open in Fabric OS v6.0.0 as of
Tuesday, October 9, 9:36PM. While these defects are still formally “open,” they are unlikely to impede Brocade
customers in their deployment of Fabric OS v6.0.0 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.
.
Technical Summary of OPEN Defects in Fabric OS v6.0.0

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000202066 High Summary: FICON Frames being dropped across FCIP Link with
IPSec/Compression
Symptom: ABTs resulting in Interface Control Checks
Status: Returned
Probability: High
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O

Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000081639 High Summary: "FCPH err" was reported when trying to get info from
another switch in a single-switch fabric.
Symptom: Will see 'FCPH err......' messages.

Workaround: Changing Domin ID to 2 and rebooting switch will
eliminate these errors messages.
Customer Impact: Workaround Available
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: OS Services
Function: Linux Kernal

Service Request # : RQST00000056192

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000085897 High Summary: Lab testing shows dead link issue with Qlogic A6826A
HBA connected to Brocade 3900 running FOS v5.2.1.
Symptom: No link.
Customer Impact: Unlikely User Scenario
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: FC Services
Function: Other
DEFECT000086958 High Summary: setgbicmode, switchdisable/enable, spinsilk commands
cause panic and reboot on Brocade 200.
Symptom: Panic and reboot.

Customer Impact: User Error
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low

DEFECT000202155 High Summary: GE CRC Error 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.
Customer Impact: Stress-to-Fail Testing

Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000202860 High Summary: Upon issuing "hafailover" on the active CP, software
'verify' error seen on some occasions
Symptom: Customer might see a "verify" message on the console
Customer Impact: Cannot Reproduce
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: DCX Platform Services
Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
DEFECT000203050 High Summary: [stress-to-fail testing] ASSERT error seen after repeated
sequence of "remove a FC8-48 blade; reinsert it; wait 2 secs; failover"
Symptom: Customer might see an ASSERT message on the serial
console
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: ASIC Routing

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.
Symptom: The customer might see the IFLs toggle when
firmwareupgrade is performed on the Brocade 7500 and the edge
fabric is running EOS.
Customer Impact: Fix Not Verified
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon


Defect ID
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.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: FICON
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.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Zoning
DEFECT000203973 High Summary: In some rare scenarios, application hangs are noticed on
the Server when FCFW related actions are taken on the fabric
Symptom: Applications on the server may hang and required a server
reboot or power cycle.

Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Feature: FR4-18i Platform Services

Function: FR4-18i Blade FOS SW

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000204534 High Summary: After cfgclear 1 MB database zone from all the fabric
except one edge Brocade DCX, then switchenable that DCX followed
by cfgenable from that DCX failed with error Enable failed: Aca Was
Rejected: Remote Switch Busy, Retry in a few seconds"
Symptom: Customer might notice failure in zone propagation across
the whole fabric
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Zoning
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
SW7500 FCR backbone to the edge fabric
Symptom: During a downgrade from 6.0 to 5.3 on Brocade 7500
platform, customer might see a few dropped frames.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: Infrastructure
Function: High Availability

DEFECT000204790 High Summary: In some scenarios, updating Traffic Isolation zones
followed by cfgsave (on Brocade 7500) caused cfgsave to hang.
Symptom: While deleting Traffic Isolation zones, cfgsave might
hang.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: Platform Services
Function: Routing

Defect ID
Severity
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
Symptom: Fabric is segmented at the GbE link. VE ports drop into
and persist in the offline state
Workaround: Manually disable a VE port before attempting to
configure the FICON tunnel parameters.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP Port
DEFECT000204929 High Summary: With some specific HBAs, proxy devices disappear after
running IPFC traffic using IOMeter across single FCR
Symptom: Customer may see IPFC traffic disruption with specific
HBAs
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: FCR

DEFECT000204966 High Summary: Adding a Brocade 4900 with conflicting domain ID into
an EOS fabric caused a core switch to segment.
Symptom: Customer might notice a segmented fabric.
Workaround: Configure new switches to a domain ID not already

present in the fabric.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: Native Interop

Function: Fabric

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205147 High Summary: During stress testing, inconsistent fcr_xd domain causes
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.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
DEFECT000205169 High Summary: [stress-to-fail test] Brocade 7500 had kernel panic during
repeated fastboot stress test.
Symptom: While rebooting a Brocade 7500, a kernel panic was
observed.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low

Defect ID
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.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Routing
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
Symptom: All port blades are stuck in POST1 or POST2 state, and
the system is left in disabled state.
Workaround: Disable POST and power ccyle the chasssi.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: Diagnostics
Function: Post Diags

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205633 High Summary: LD ISL sometimes comes up in VC_RDY mode, not QoS
mode
Symptom: In some scenarios, QoS allocations are lost on LD ISLs.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Fabric
DEFECT000205663 High Summary: In some rare scenarios, 2nd FC4-16IP blade in 48000
comes up Faulty(76) with bld25, when both CPs are rebooted at the
same time with POST on.
Symptom: Customer might notice a faulty blade in the chassis.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: FC4-16IP Platform Services
Function: FC4-16IP Blade FOS SW

DEFECT000205664 High Summary: WT: When there are lots of faulty SFPs in the chassis,
switch explorer does not show the switch image
Symptom: WT:switch explorer does not show the switch image
Workaround: Remove the faulty SFPs in the chassis and relaunch
WT.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Fabric Watch

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205676 High Summary: [stress-to-fail test] During constant power-cycle test, one
of the switches paniced due to a memory allocation failure
Status: Deferred
DEFECT000205757 High Summary: IPFC communication stops after changing a domain ID of
the edge switch
Symptom: IPFC traffic might stop after changing domain ID of edge

switches

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
DEFECT000205772 High Summary: Proxy devices go offline / online in a dual BB IPFC
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
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Feature: FCR

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205786 High Summary: [stress-to-fail test] During repeated switchdisable/enable

test, DCX system (FCR backbone) got queue full error message
Symptom: Customer might see the switch reboot
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
DEFECT000205813 High Summary: When ports are segmented, two B-model fabrics are
shown connected to each other even though safe zoning state differs.
Symptom: Customer might not see the segmented ports in topology
view.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Zoning
DEFECT000205864 High Summary: In some cases, IO didn't resume after
bladedisable/bladeenable on DCX connecting to embedded switches
running AG mode are communicating across FCR.
Symptom: IO drop after bladedisable/bladeenable on DCX
connecting to embedded switches during AG mode.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Feature: FCR


Defect ID
Severity
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.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor
DEFECT000205904 High Summary: After creating a TI zone, nszonemember of a TI port
doesn't show all the members zoned with that port
Symptom: Customer might see missing members in nszonemember

output
Customer Impact: Usability Issue

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Zoning
DEFECT000205987 High Summary: [stress-to-fail test] During an overnight run of
systemverification, FA4-18 blade failed framerpathtest
Symptom: Customer might see a faulty blade in the chassis
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Other

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000068760 Medium Summary: Usability: AD0 allowed user to disable or enable VE ports
but prevented user from creating or deleting VE tunnels
Symptom: Customer will not be able to create and delete FCIP
tunnels in AD0.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Function: Admin Domain
DEFECT000075226 Medium Summary: Usability: Ctrl-C in legacy configdownload code is not
blocked during downloads
Symptom: If ctrl-c key is used to terminate from the configdownload;
depending on when this is done, it could result in an ill-defined switch
state.
Workaround: Most configdownloads are fast and will not be

interrupted by a user ctrl-c sequence. The window is also small in
which this can create problems. The workaround is to avoid use of
ctrl-c to interrupt this command.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Config Download

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000076596 Medium Summary: No warning message is given when a lsan zone with a
zone name larger than 58 characters is created in AD1 - AD254.
Symptom: When a LSAN zone is created in AD1-254 on edge fabric
with a name more than 58 characters, this LSAN won't be effective
and no message is displayed.
Workaround: Use LSAN zone names shorter than 58 characters in
ADs 1 to 254.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
DEFECT000077034 Medium Summary: SilkWorm 4024: Unwanted message displays when we try
to download a non-Access-Gateway configuration file in Access
Gateway mode.
Symptom: Message: "Warning:non-Access Gateway configuration
file cannot be downloaded on a Access Gateway platform . . .
configDownload not permitted."
Status: Deferred
Probability: High

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000079455 Medium Summary: SilkWorm 4020: The "Restore Factory Default"

operation leaves ports disabled if the Access Gateway mode is
enabled.
Symptom: The "Restore Factory Default" operation leaves ports
disabled if the Access Gateway mode is enabled.
Workaround: If the factory default configuration is with the Access
Gateway mode enabled, after performing the Restore Factory Defaults
operation, run the "ag --modedisable" command. After the reboot, run
"ag --modenable". If the factory default configuration is with the
Access Gateway mode not enabled, do the opposite, i.e., "ag --
modeenable" followed by "ag --modedisable".
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Other
DEFECT000082972 Medium Summary: "ficonshow rnid/rlir/lirr fabirc" FICON fabric related CLI
take more than 60seconds to start displaying the output from a telnet
session after a weekend of hafailover stress test.
Symptom: Customer may see longer response time to "ficonshow
rnid/rlir/lirr fabirc" FICON fabric CLI.
Workaround: "ficonshow RNID fabric " CLI takes more than 1 min
to print the output, since the switch on which CLI is running is not
able to get the RNID data from one switch. The "ficonshow RNID"
on all switches will be a better workaround for this problem.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Mgmt Server

Defect ID
Severity
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".
Symptom: Customer will see an EX port that is the missing edge
switch "name". In addition, fcrfabricshow will not display the edge
fabric
Workaround: FCR cannot be principal. It is a router. The edge fabric
should have a switch set to principal switch.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
DEFECT000084472 Medium Summary: SecurityAdmin role is not allowed to set Switch time from
FM
Symptom: SecurityAdmin role is not allowed to set Switch time from
FM
Workaround: securityadmin role user cannot set the time on the
switch through FM. CLI can be used to set the time on the switch or a
different higher privilege role can be used.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL
Function: RBAC

Defect ID
Severity
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
Symptom: May see [MFIC-1003] messages on rest of the switches
when a switch's IDID mode is currently OFF and we disable the
switch.
Customer Impact: Cosmetic Issue
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: FICON
DEFECT000085218 Medium Summary: Async error reporting events are lost if detected
immediately after switch boot
Symptom: Async may not be reported to the host if event happens
immediately after switch reboots.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Function: FICON
DEFECT000085803 Medium Summary: WT displays E-port support on internal port is not
consistent with CLI
Symptom: On WT "Port Administration Services" window shows E-

port is supported on embedded switches.

Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Feature: Undetermined
Function: Under Review

Defect ID
Severity
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.
Symptom: Configdownload if performed via FM downloads all the
disruptive parameters in the validation step where actual download is
expected to happen in the next step.
Workaround: This is only usability issue; may also use CLI for
configdownload.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
DEFECT000086046 Medium Summary: enable AG mode with connecting EX-Port does not log
errors in errlog on SW7500 or AG switch
Symptom: enable AG mode with connecting EX-Port does not
display any error on SW7500 or AG switch
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low

DEFECT000086348 Medium Summary: MISC SW_ILS usage concerns
Symptom: May see the unnecessary and harmless SW_ILS traffic
being sent to McData switches while in interop mode. The traffic will
contain rejects to MS commands (especially MS_GCAP CT) from
McData switches.
Status: Deferred
Reported in Release: FOS5.2.1_Ni

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000086404 Medium Summary: IOF: Under very rare conditions, 7500 switch hangs after
running several iterations (>20) of fastboot
Symptom: Sprint switches become completely inaccessible after
fastboot and sometimes after FWDL.
Workaround: Powercycle the 7500. Since the switch has already been
fastbooted, there is no traffic disruption
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
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.
Symptom: Switch does not respond to FDISC with duplicate PWWN
from different switch port.
Workaround: No workaround.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium


Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000200664 Medium Summary: Error message "Switch is not reachable '" and "Premature
EOF " exception thrown periodically from webtools
Symptom: Error message "Switch is not reachable '" and "Premature
EOF " exception thrown periodically from webtools
Workaround: Clicking OK on error message, Webtools session
remains alive.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP
Function: Other
DEFECT000201039 Medium Summary: When slotpoweron is run repeatedly, some ports on FC4-
16IP blades stayed disabled for minutes.
Symptom: Customer might notice disabled ports on the switch.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: FC4-16IP Blade Driver

DEFECT000201423 Medium Summary: Incorrect FRU Update date is received for
Brocade_Chassis class
Symptom: Incorrect information may be seen for FRU update

Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Other

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000201433 Medium Summary: While doing Config Download through FM, ts.*
parameters are not getting updated.
Symptom: Some time-server configuration might not be updated after
config-download
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Security
DEFECT000201501 Medium Summary: CAL call EnumerateSelectedInstances on Brocade_Node
returns only IPFC in the supportedFC4Types
Workaround: cosmetic issue
Status: Deferred
Function: Name Server

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.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Function: Switch Admin


Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000201879 Medium Summary: SetInstance call is failing for Brocade_Switch class.

Symptom: "PortLogEnable" and "RLSServiceEnabled' not able to set
from SMIA
Workaround: portlogenable/portlogdisable commands from CLI
Status: Deferred
Feature: Mgmt Embedded
Function: Other Services
DEFECT000202633 Medium Summary: After doing zeroization, the switch was left in faulty state.
Symptom: switch may get into faulty state during decommissioning

Workaround: Reboot the Brocade 7500 or slotpoweroff followed by
slotpoweron on chassis based system
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CP

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.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000202790 Medium Summary: Switch WWN servers monitor still display down when the
WWN card is plugged back in
Symptom: The switch status shows down even the WWN card is
functional.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000202950 Medium Summary: VE-port shows an 1200% utilization value
Symptom: A bogus value is displayed in current value and last value
of VE-port utilization.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium

DEFECT000203018 Medium Summary: SW4424: Zoning CLI "cfgsize" is blocked in backup FCS
switch.
Symptom: User will observe that zoning CLI "cfgsize" is blocked in
backup FCS switch.
Workaround: Can be run on FCS primary switch

Status: Deferred
Feature: Embedded
Function: FC SERVICE

Defect ID
Severity
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
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: ASIC Driver
DEFECT000203080 Medium Summary: WebTools' ZoneAdmin fails to display correct PID for
swapped ports
Symptom: WebTools' ZoneAdmin fails to display correct PID for
swapped ports
Workaround: Perform 2 refreshes with each refresh at least 30 secs
apart.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Zone Admin

DEFECT000203097 Medium Summary: In some scenarios, pathinfo might take a long time to get
the information.
Symptom: In some scenarios, pathinfo might take a long time to get
the information.
Workaround: Retry the pathinfo command.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low


Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000203116 Medium Summary: Configdownload, configdefault and configupload fails on

DCX with the error, "The security database is too large to fit in
flash.configDownload: aclImport() failed key =
D_Scc.SCC_POLICY. configDownload not permitted"
Symptom: In an unstable fabric, config commands might return an
error
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Security
DEFECT000203144 Medium Summary: 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.
Status: Deferred


DEFECT000203286 Medium Summary: Redundant SW_RSCNs sent from Brocade 5000 switch to
edge M-EOS switches in NI Mode.
Symptom: No visible symptoms to the customer.
Workaround: No real workaround needed because fabric stability is

not affected.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium

Function: NS

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000203357 Medium Summary: RLIR is not being generated to node when loss of
signal/synchronization occurs.
Symptom: Event is generated; however, NPort might not receive the
RLIR request
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Function: FICON
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.

Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Port
DEFECT000203455 Medium Summary: Lots of "can't open" messages during FWDL from v6.0.0
back to v5.2.1_ni
Symptom: Customer might notice error messages on the console
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Security

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000203650 Medium Summary: When converting a switch from FOS to AG, some residual
zoning database was left behind causing frame drops with AG mode.
Symptom: Inability to connect from server to target via the Access
Gateway
Workaround: ag --modedisable followed by ag --modenable.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: Access Gateway Services
Function: CLI
DEFECT000203704 Medium Summary: defzone is set to "all" and RSCN is suppressed, some
port(s) receive RSCN upon disabling (enable works fine)
Symptom: No visible symptom for customer

Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Other
DEFECT000203710 Medium Summary: PG policy (default for 6.0) does not get enabled after
firmware upgrade from v5.3.0 to v6.0.0
Symptom: Customer might notice incorrect policy settings after
upgrade.
Workaround: ag --policyenable pg
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Function: CLI

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000203786 Medium Summary: "QoS no license" error message prints incorrect slot/port
Symptom: When no license is present and the user sets rate limit, the
error message printed on the console has incorrect slot/port.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Feature: QOS
Function: Platform
DEFECT000203835 Medium Summary: No FABR-1029 Message ID post when fabric rebuilds in
McDATA Open mode (3)
Symptom: No FABR-1029 Message ID post in WebTools Fabric
Events log or console session when fabric rebuilds in McDATA Open
mode (3)
Workaround: None: cosmetic issue
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Open Mode

DEFECT000203872 Medium Summary: AG in auto detect mode does not successfully negotiate
N-Ports with a McDATA switch
Symptom: Customer will see G-Ports in place of the N-Ports when

connected to McDATA switches.
Workaround: Lock attached port as G_Port.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: CLI

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000203950 Medium Summary: The Webtools Backend nsinfo.htm page does not update
the timestamp in all instances.
Symptom: The timestamp in the [header of] backend nsinfo.htm page
does not update in all instances. As this timestamp is used FM server
to trigger data collection for nsinfo depending on whether the
timestamp has changed or not, failure in updating the timestamp
results in non-currency of data displayed in FM.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Other
DEFECT000203957 Medium Summary: IOCTL not allowed: cmd 0x40040911, pid 11347
(ficonshow) message seen on the console
Symptom: Customer might see error messages on the console
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low

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

Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: FICON

Defect ID
Severity
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)
Symptom: In incorrect IP addresses are given, it may be accepted
Workaround: Provide correct IP addresses when configuring
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - RPCD
Function: Other
DEFECT000204106 Medium Summary: Coordinated HotCode needs to handle cases where can't
send pause to all domains.
Symptom: firmwaredownload might be disruptive if the procedures
are not followed
Workaround: Perform firmware upgrade in fabric where all McDATA
switches have at least 9.6.2 or higher firmware version to prevent
possible data traffic disruption.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Fabric

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000204309 Medium Summary: Download is successful when Switch.domain_id_offset

parameter set to an invalid value.
Symptom: Might notice a successful download even though the data
in invalid.
Workaround: Don't manually edit your config files to contain bogus
data.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Open Mode
DEFECT000204337 Medium Summary: [stress-to-fail test] nsd killed during overnight iSCSI blade
slotpoweroff/on testing
Symptom: Customer might notice a CP failover.
Workaround: Unlikely user scenario

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
DEFECT000204381 Medium Summary: RBAC role "SecurityAdmin" is able to receive instances
on "Brocade_Platform" but the permission is "N" according to the
CIMToRBAC matrix.
Symptom: securityadmin role would be able to execute the MS

commands though it does not have RBAC permission.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium

Function: RBAC

Defect ID
Severity
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.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000204554 Medium Summary: Http daemon crashed on SW7500 switch and unable to
restart the daemon after reboot when wrong certificate is configured
on the switch.
Symptom: Customer might see connection issues with WebTools
Workaround: Delete any wrong certificate configured on the switch.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Other

DEFECT000204596 Medium Summary: After AG auto policy is enabled ports remain disabled
with "duplicate AL_PA" and "N-Port Login in progress"
Symptom: Customer's Hosts (F-Ports) will not login into the Access
Gateway attached fabric
Workaround: disable/enable the switch or reboot the switch

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low

Function: Daemon

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000204626 Medium Summary: Fujitsu E6000 Storage can't negotiate speed with Condor 2
products
Symptom: A Fujitsu E6000 storage port will not come online on an
8G port unless the customer hard sets the port speed to 2G.
Workaround: Hard set switch port speed to 2G.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Function: ASIC Port
DEFECT000204665 Medium Summary: bladebeacon command should fail for core blades and
switchshow command should not show beacon status for core blades
in DCX chassis
Symptom: Bladebeacon information for core blades might be
confusing as there are port LEDs on the core blades.
Workaround: Cosmetic issue and not impact on the functionality
Status: Deferred
Probability: High


Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000204680 Medium Summary: Even after deleting enabled DDset the DD members of
that particular ddset are still shown as enabled.
Symptom: the customer will have a wrong impression of the DD
being enabled even though there is no such field as "state" for DD
through CLI.
Workaround: CLI (iscsicfg --show dd) could be used as reference to
ignore the extra status info provided by GUI for DD group.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: iSCSI Support
DEFECT000204776 Medium Summary: agshow displays different number of AGs on switches in
the same fabric
Symptom: Customer will see disparity between AG display on

switches in the same fabric

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low

Function: CLI

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000204816 Medium Summary: CLI: portzoneshow shows "Enforcement as All" when

issued in an NI fabric switch
Symptom: Customers using the CLI command "portzoneshow" will
be confused by the response showing specific port zoning
enforcement as "All".
Workaround: Workaround is to use the more complex:
\fabos\cliexec\ns portshow
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Fabric
DEFECT000204836 Medium Summary: Blade status LED on slot-3 is blinking Yellow although
the blade is Enabled and Online. Corrected by slot power switch is
off/on.
Symptom: Customer might notice incorrect LED state on the blades.
Workaround: slotpoweroff/on of the blade will clear out the LED

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Sys-Control/EM

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.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Zoning

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000204853 Medium Summary: Traffic Isolation CLI should protect TI configuration from
sharing paths among TI zones, and sharing devices among TI zones
Workaround: Don't configure the same member in multiple TI zones.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Zoning
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

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
DEFECT000204968 Medium Summary: If a SW5000 in interopmode 2 is connected to a DCX in
interopmode 0, the port is faulted on the SW5000 instead of getting
segmented.
Symptom: The customer may get the wrong impression that the
cables or SFPs are faulty when in fact the 48-port blade does not
handle the interopmode correctly.
Workaround: None: cosmetic issue

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low

Function: Platform

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205039 Medium Summary: Changing Interop mode from mode-0 to mode-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
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Zoning
DEFECT000205041 Medium Summary: Changing interopmode 0 to 2 and back to 0 resulted in a
segmented fabric
Symptom: Customer might see a segmented fabric if changing switch
interop modes multiple times.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Fabric
DEFECT000205103 Medium Summary: Oops message seen in supportshow where there are faulty
FA4-18 blades in chassis
Symptom: supportsave command may panic during data collection if

an installed FA4-18 blade has a specific type of failure.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low


Defect ID
Severity
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.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: FCR
DEFECT000205138 Medium Summary: Port mirror setup fails on Brocade 5000 after reboot or
power cycle.
Symptom: Brocade 5000 Port mirroring no longer routes traffic

through mirror port after a switch reboot or power cycle.
Workaround: reinitialize the port-mirroring configuration after the

ports are online.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium

DEFECT000205176 Medium Summary: frureplace wwn command for DCX platform takes over 10
minutes to complete.
Symptom: The command takes longer than expected.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205184 Medium Summary: Web Tools - USB admin always displays firmware build
size incorrectly as 32768 bytes whereas CLI shows the actual size
Symptom: Web Tools – Discrepancy between what USB admin
shows and CLI.
Workaround: Use CLI "usbstorage --list"
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: USB Management
DEFECT000205191 Medium Summary: CRC errors mismatch between porterrshow and
portstatsshow output.
Symptom: CRC error mismatch.
Workaround: make sure to check BOTH cli for port errors

Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: ASIC Port

DEFECT000205237 Medium Summary: Management server command xF03 is rejected with
Platform name already exists
Symptom: FPorts unable to log in to Access Gateway

Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium

Function: Daemon

Defect ID
Severity
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)
Symptom: All of the customer's NPIV devices do not log in when
AL_PA 0x13 is set for the port.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Other
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.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Other

DEFECT000205338 Medium Summary: TopTalker fabricmode displays flows for devices that are
not in the same zone
Symptom: "perfttmon --show" may display device pairs that are not in
the same zone in fabric mode.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium


Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205342 Medium Summary: PortCamShow shows an additional entry after physically

removing a Def Zone node from an FOS switch
Symptom: PortCamEntry remains on the local fabric OS switch when
a node residing in the dafault zone is physically removed. The
portCamShow entry remains only on the local switch, the same entry
is removed from remote switches.
Workaround: Rebooting the switch under test always corrects the port
cam entries.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: NS
DEFECT000205388 Medium Summary: Security: secd crashed during stress testing
Symptom: May see "Detected unexpected termination of:

''[16]secd:0'RfP=955,RgP=955,DfP=0,died=1,rt=16158005,dt=35981,
to=50000,aJc=16106505,aJp=16089902,abiJc=-1230563988,abiJp=-
1230580588,aSeq=1036,kSeq=0,kJc=0,kJp=0,J=1612202
uSWD: Received Data Collection Notification"
Workaround: none; switch will reboot automatically and recover.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Security

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205398 Medium Summary: Security: Unable to create a DCC lockdown policy on an

Edge switch
Symptom: May not be able to create DCC lockdown policy on the
switch after configdownload that resulted in translate domain WWN
change.
Workaround: switchdisable followed by switchenable
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: ACL
DEFECT000205401 Medium Summary: [stress-to-fail test] Upon repeated rebooted of the SW7500
switch, Oops message seen on the console
Symptom: switch got oops during reboot process
Workaround: Switch will come back up again; switch has already
been rebooted, there is no traffic disruption
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low

DEFECT000205409 Medium Summary: Web GUI LSAN Fabric page not showing the brocade
edge switch if the edge switch is in McDATA interop mode.
Symptom: user will not be able to see the complete edge fabric list.
Workaround: Can use CLI "fcrfabricshow"
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: FCR ADMIN

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205457 Medium Summary: From a host connected to an entry switch cannot ping
another switch in the fabric via iPFC
Symptom: iPFC: Cannot "ping" the switch which is two hubs down
from the host
Workaround: Create a broadcast zone and a regular zone that include
the HBA.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Feature: IPV6
Function: Infrastructure
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)
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Fabric

DEFECT000205468 Medium Summary: Shortly after cfgdisable on an edge Brocade 48000, got a
raslogd core dump.
Symptom: May get a raslogd coredump

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: RAS
Function: RAS Log

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205477 Medium Summary: After an upgrade from v6.0.0_main_bld24 to v6.0.0_beta1

(same build different label) one of 24 VIs on 3 FC4-16IP blades failed
to PLOGI to the Name Server.
Symptom: VIs on FC4-16IP blades may fail to PLOGI to the Name
Server.
Workaround: Slotpoweroff/slotpoweron
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
DEFECT000205529 Medium Summary: Changing desired distance by issueing
"portcfglongdistance <slot/port> ld 1 <distance>" from lower WWN
switch often causes E-port to stuck at Unknown or send ECP failed
and Disabled.
Symptom: E-port may be stuck at Unknown or send ECP failed and
Disabled upon changing desired distance from lower WWN switch.
Workaround: portdisable followed by portenable

Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium


Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205546 Medium Summary: Software Verify Error is produced when issuing

cfgmcdtmode --enable def zone
Symptom: Issuing "cfgmcdtmode 2 --enable defaultzoning" on a
segmented switch whose default zone setting conflicts with the setting
on the fabric produces a Software Verify error.
Workaround: None needed- no impact to operations. Part of
recovering from user configuration error.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Zoning
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.
Symptom: May see VERIFY when EX ports are configured.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low


Defect ID
Severity
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.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: L2 Security
DEFECT000205555 Medium Summary: Fabric merge with with no policy (after a
configremoveall) does not distribute all databases.
Symptom: Fabric merge with with no policy (after a configremoveall)
does not distribute all databases.
Workaround: Steps to restore the fabric to normal state are:
1) secpolicycreate of the dummy policy
2) secpolicyactivate
3) secpolicydelete of the policy which is created
4) secpolicyactivate
Creation and deletion of all policies which are configured as fabwide
is required.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Function: ACL

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205556 Medium Summary: VE port state doesn't change from Healthy to Marginal
when its utilization is above/below the high/low boundary
Symptom: When VE port utilization is above the defined boundary or
below defined low boundary, the port status doesn't change from
Healthy to Marginal.
Workaround: none
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000205572 Medium Summary: iSCSI: the operational status shows "Not connected..."
forever if online peering GE port which had been disabled for a long
time
Symptom: If peer iSCSI GE port was disabled for a while (> 20

mintues), then comes back online again, the operational status shows
"Not connected to iSNS server" forever
Workaround: re-issue isnsccfg -set command.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Feature: iSCSI
Function: ISCSI ISNS
DEFECT000205596 Medium Summary: Port Based Routing with DLS ON does not balance load
when adding an ISL
Workaround: Not required: corner case and the routes will get
recovered after some CPU cycles without any manual intervention
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Routing
Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205616 Medium Summary: FCIP service should be disabled and all tunnels should go
offline after removing the FCIP license.
Symptom: Will see FCIP tunnels remain active even after removing
"High-Performance Extension over FCIP/FC" license
Workaround: Delete all FCIP configurations and then remove the
license.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP Port
DEFECT000205650 Medium Summary: On disabling the proxy switch (Fv 6.0 )no event received
at the SMIA agent side.
Symptom: If switch status is Marginal or Down, events are not
received on the SMIA agent.
Workaround: If the switch is in Healthy state, this problem would not
occur.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Other

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.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205680 Medium Summary: The linkIncidentMIB variable, the hex value of PID was
not being converted to decimal value correctly, when showing the
port Index for some ports
Symptom: May not display correct linkIncidentMIB variable value.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - SNMP
DEFECT000205687 Medium Summary: Unable to delete the last IP Interface in the table even
though it is not used for configuring any FCIP tunnel.
Symptom: May not be able to delete IP address configured for GE
ports on SW7500 or FR4-18i blades.
Workaround: CLI "portcfgdefault GEport"
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CLI

DEFECT000205697 Medium Summary: Support to persistently disable the GIGE port is not
available in Brocade_SwitchGigEPort CAL class
Symptom: Support to persistently disable the GIGE port is not

available via Web GUI.
Workaround: CLI command "portcfgpersistentdisable GEport"

Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Function: Other

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205701 Medium Summary: When trying to change interop mode, SW48000 returned
constant fabric-busy.
Symptom: Unable to change interopmode
Workaround: reboot switch - which user has to do anyways after
changing interop mode
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Fabric
DEFECT000205736 Medium Summary: portlist on TI zones should not accept WWN format - only
D,P should be accepted
Symptom: zone --create accepts WWN as an member of portlist
when creating TI zones.
The expected behavior is rejecting WWN as an member of portlist.
Workaround: while creating portlist on TI zones don't pass WWN
format
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Function: Zoning

Defect ID
Severity
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 peocess started without showing errors, resulted from
the test: bladedisable all port blades + hafailover
Symptom: Failover is delayed for about more than 10 minutes after
hafailover is issued, and sudden panic dumps are generated on the
standby side after sync peocess starts without showing errors.
Workaround: The system recovers after sometime by itself.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: High Availability
DEFECT000205788 Medium Summary: All WWN LEDs still light up after frureplace wwn
command is done with backing up WWN data in DCX chassis
Symptom: May see WWN LEDs still light up after frureplace wwn
command is done with backing up WWN data in DCX chassis.
Workaround: None: Cosmetic Issue

Status: Deferred
Probability: High

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)
Symptom: In ISL mode, customer might see slight degradation of
performance.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Function: ASIC Port
Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205896 Medium Summary: Changing configuration from an EX-Port/E-Port to E-

Port/E-Port lead to an unstable state where the old edge fabric is stuck
with RTWR retries.
Symptom: May see RTWR error messages along with unstable state.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Routing
DEFECT000205897 Medium Summary: Software Verify condition seen when default zone
disabled/enabled in some scenarios
Symptom: A 48K Director participating in a fabric will produce a
Software Verify Error when the default zone is disabled and then re-
enabled with no active (effective) zone configuration in place.
Workaround: Activate (Enable) a zone configuration prior to

conducting default zone operations.

Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium

Function: Zoning

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205925 Medium Summary: [stess-to-fail]: after overnight switchdisable/switchenable

may see "fun:rldd_enq_rcvr ln:292 enqueue LOG_5000
count=101316" and ffdc/LOG core file are generated.
Symptom: May see message "fun:rldd_enq_rcvr ln:292 enqueue
LOG_5000 count=101316 on the console" and ffdc/LOG core file
generated after overnight switchdisable followed by switchenable.
Workaround: reboot the switch
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
DEFECT000205928 Medium Summary: After creating 255 TI zones, zone --show from any switch
in the fabric except the one which the zones were created from show
"no TI zone configuration defined"
Symptom: After creating 255 TI zones, zone --show from any switch
in the fabric except the one which the zones were created from may
show "no TI zone configuration defined"
Workaround: The maximum TI zones to create without running into
this issue is 239 zones.
Status: Deferred
Probability: Medium
Function: Zoning

Defect ID
Severity
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
Symptom: On Chassis system, FIPS enable and reboot on results in
FIPS being disabled on the other CP when active CP is rebooted
before HA is synced.
Workaround: FIPS can be enabled again using the "fipscfg" CLI and
reboot only after CPs are in sync.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Function: Security
DEFECT000205935 Medium Summary: After creating 255 TI zones, zone --delete "zone_name"
gives invalid zone... error in delete
Symptom: May see "invalid zone... error in delete" when tried to
delete zone configuration using "zone --delete" when 255 TI zones
are created.
Workaround: n/a: cosmetic issue
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: Zoning

Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205937 Medium Summary: Under some scenarios FR4-18i blade may come up
Faulty(21) after both CPs is rebooted on DCX chassis
Symptom: FR4-18i blade come up Faulty(21) after both CPs is
rebooted on DCX chassis
Workaround: slotpoweroff <slot> followed by slotpoweron <slot>
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
Function: ASIC Other
DEFECT000205940 Medium Summary: In some scenarios, EX-port long distance mode change
from LD to LS on DCX causes VERIFY
Symptom: May see VERIFY when EX-port long distance mode
change from LD to LS on DCX .
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low

DEFECT000205965 Medium Summary: CP faulty 21 during FWDL from 6.0 -> 5.3.0b_rc_bld01
Symptom: firmwaredownload failed w/faulty CP
Workaround: Reboot the faulty CP

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low


Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205977 Medium Summary: [stress-to-fail] With 1 MB security database size enabled

may display wrong security error messages on both NPIV switches.
Symptom: With 1 MB security database size enabled, may see wrong
security error messages on NPIV switches.
Workaround: None; cosmetic issue
Status: Deferred
Probability: Low
DEFECT000205978 Medium Summary: Inserted a FC8-48 slot 12 into DCX and forced HA
failover to CP1; VERIFY was found in kernel mode:
comp:FSS<rte_ha_common [condor2_module]
Symptom: may see VERIFY: Failed expression: value
EGID_MAX_TABLES. comp:FSS<rte_ha_common
[condor2_module]

Status: Deferred
Probability: Low


Defect ID
Severity
DEFECT000205986 Medium Summary: F/W downgrade from FOS v6.x to v5.3.x should be
blocked in case of having VEX port configured for McDATA interop
modes.
Symptom: Customer may be able to downgrade to FOS v5.3.x with
VEX ports configured in McData Interop mode; VEX port will be
disabled on new firmware as the support has been add in FOS v6.0.
Workaround: Manually remove the VEX ports that are set to
McDATA Faric or Open modes.
Status: Deferred
Probability: High
Feature: FCR

Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.0.0
This section lists the defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change
in Fabric OS v6.0.0.
Technical
Defect ID Summary of CLOSED with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.0.0
Severity
DEFECT000204598 Critical Summary: iSCSI: connection redirection not functioning: enabled on

slot 10, after discovery login and sendtarget = all, only provides one
target portal.
Feature: iSCSI
Function: iSCSI Port
DEFECT000076856 High Summary: Brocade 7500 and FR4-18i may drop frames under hi-
stress bi-directional FCR traffic conditions.
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Port
Probability: Low
DEFECT000077136 High Summary: ipperf configurations are not getting cleared on executing
HA failover with ipperf running in parallel.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CP

DEFECT000077274 High Summary: CUP Port fails to come online on a SilkWorm 7500 due to
F-Rej to PLOGI to the CUP Port
Function: DR4-18i/7500 Blade Driver
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000077478 High Summary: Linux 2.6 iSCSI initiator is not able to discover a third-
party storage array.
Feature: iSCSI
Probability: Medium

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000077479 High Summary: iSCSI: Cannot fail back after performing a Path Failover
with certain third-party multi-pathing software. It works with iSCSI
GE ports, but not on FC.
Feature: iSCSI
Function: iSCSI Daemons
Probability: High
DEFECT000077483 High Summary: IOF: iSCSI - QLogic HBA Card not supported: using the
Alacritech SES1001T iSCSI Accelerator instead.
Feature: iSCSI
Function: Other

DEFECT000078877 High Summary: Host I/O fails during READ Buffer Compare when
injecting 1% packet loss on GigE link with Qlogic iSCSI 4052C
driver 2.1.3.8, fw 2.0.0.7.
Feature: iSCSI
Function: Other

DEFECT000080109 High Summary: Documented new CLI command: fcrlsanmatrix.

DEFECT000080864 High Summary: Multiple copies of SAK IRNDUP from one Host hang
with CE/DE/Busy status on a Brocade 7500.
Function: FICON
Probability: Low
DEFECT000080894 High Summary: supportsave with scp option is looking for user
authentication to transfer every file.

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000082405 High Summary: About 40 minutes after an overnight hafailover test

started, the traffic running from a Brocade 4100, thru an FC10-6 and
an FA4-16 to a Brocade AP7600 terminated.
Feature: FCR
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000083053 High Summary: I/O fails when rebooting active CP

DEFECT000083426 High Summary: Running in a fabric with a non-Brocade switch that does
not support the ESS command, the Brocade switch eventually runs
out of memory

DEFECT000083686 High Summary: Configdefault does not completely remove all the FCIP
tunnels and GigE IP address information.

DEFECT000084499 High Summary: Brocade 48000 with FOS v5.2.0a -- switch keeps
rebooting itself.

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000085292 High Summary: iswitchd panic when doing data migration using DMM
Probability: Low
DEFECT000085460 High Summary: FCR: SANtester traffic does not flow from EOS8 native
edge with redundant links to FOS edge: 4 devices per edge.
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Port
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000085997 High Summary: Weblinker died and was restarted due to memory leak.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: Web Tools EZ
Probability: Low
DEFECT000086754 High Summary: Stressful slot commands testing on a Brocade 48000
(large fabric): iswitchd hit an ASSERT and CP rebooted.
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000086791 High Summary: Autonegotiation does not bring the ports to the correct
maximum speed.
Probability: Low


Technical
Severity
DEFECT000086982 High Summary: I/O Ops failure due to incorrect CUP Port PDCM bit for
port 256 after firmwareupgrade from FOS v5.1.x to later releases.
Function: FICON
Probability: Low
DEFECT000087021 High Summary: Brocade 5000 switch CUP Port responds Busy to first
command issued and remains busy forever to Host.
Function: FICON
Probability: Low
DEFECT000087118 High Summary: During large fabric testing with several devices, and under
some rare conditions, while performing HotCodeLoad from FOS
v5.2.1b to v5.3 on Brocade 48000 a few frames were dropped.

Probability: Medium

DEFECT000087148 High Summary: Web Tools Access Gateway: can not create user accounts
due to error -- " AD permission conflict".
Function: Admin Domains

Probability: Medium
DEFECT000087178 High Summary: FR4-18i got faulty 21 due to chip init time out, after
slotpoweron and hafailover.
Function: FCIP ASIC SW
Probability: Medium

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000087300 High Summary: Under rare conditions (once in 20 attempts), POST failed
on FC10-6 with FOS v5.3.0_rel_bld47 and blade faulted with error
Faulty(51).
Function: Post Diags
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000087407 High Summary: Switch sometimes sends 4-byte payload RSCN frame
(minimum should be 8 bytes).

DEFECT000087409 High Summary: When 240 VIs and 2 VTs are created, not all of them
show up in the name server.
Feature: FA4-18 Platform Services

Probability: Low

DEFECT000087599 High Summary: Brocade 7500 EX_port to the Brocade M4700 switch, the
ISL does not come up until M4700 switch port is disabled/enabled.

DEFECT000087634 High Summary: Fabric Watch daemon panics while pulling data from
temperature sensors.
Feature: Software
Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000201842 High Summary: Brocade 48000 asserts after hafailover, switchdisable.

Feature: FCR
DEFECT000202025 High Summary: On a specific third-party mainframe, system
Poweron/Reset Chpids results in the FR4-18i failing to come online.
Function: FICON
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000202083 High Summary: Brocade 4900 constantly rebooting in third-party lab.

Probability: Medium

DEFECT000202110 High Summary: Brocade 4020 embedded blade does not support new third
party chassis type.
Feature: Embedded Platform
Function: Other
Probability: High
DEFECT000202539 High Summary: GID_Ft command rejected from the HBA with a message:
"FC4-type not registered."

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000202540 High Summary: Many SFP current and voltage error messages logged on a
Brocade 48000.
Probability: High
DEFECT000202786 High Summary: Some backplane ports of a Brocade 4024 blade do not
work well in a third-party chassis.
Feature: Embedded Platform
Function: Other
DEFECT000203000 High Summary: FCIP configuration functionality should be restored in
FOS v5.3.x Web Tools.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: FCIP
Probability: High

DEFECT000203130 High Summary: FICON/CUP hangs in the middle of a Channel Command
Word (CCW) chain.

Probability: High
DEFECT000203383 High Summary: GA_NXT returns VI PID and PWWN in FR mode.
Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000203438 High Summary: GPN_NN returns VI PID and PWWN in FR mode.

Probability: Medium
DEFECT000204020 High Summary: Cryptic and customer-unfriendly message about
downgrading a FOS v5.3.0 system to FOS v5.2 with an FC10-6 blade
present.
Function: Firmware Download

Probability: High
DEFECT000204082 High Summary: FCIP tunnel gets deleted when swapping the tunnel IDs of
two existing tunnels and one of the IDs fails to change.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: FCIP
Probability: Low
DEFECT000204440 High Summary: Memory leak in SAS CP daemon (scpd) during name
server (NS) queries.
Probability: Medium

DEFECT000057351 Medium Summary: Documentation updated regarding minicycle command in
systemverification.

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000058218 Medium Summary: Disabled E port is incorrectly displayed as In-Sync when

it is the ISL link between a Brocade 48000 and a SilkWorm 12000 or
Brocade 24000. When it is the ISL between the 48000 and 4100 or
200E, disabled E port is correctly displayed with No-sync state.
DEFECT000058251 Medium Summary: "snmpmibcapset" design change in FOS v4.4 has to be
documented.
Feature: Software
Function: Other
DEFECT000064093 Medium Summary: 'h' or 'history' command does not work as described in the
help pages

DEFECT000065606 Medium Summary: Update help pages for portcfgpersistentdisable and
portcfgpersistentenable to indicate that ports capable of routing are
persistently disabled by default
Probability: Low
DEFECT000065972 Medium Summary: portcfg CLI help has incorrect information regarding
"tunnel_id"
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCP CLI
DEFECT000076528 Medium Summary: cfgtransabort and ad --transabort commands are shown as
run when only one of them is executed by user; note that
cfgtransabort is an invalid operation in AD255 and similarly ad --
transabort is invalid in AD0-254.
Probability: Medium

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000076879 Medium Summary: AuditShow command does not work according to man
page description.
Feature: Command Reference
Function: Edit/Correction/New Content/Other
DEFECT000076929 Medium Summary: Kernel oops and failover occurred when powering off
FC4-16IP blade with slotpoweroff command

Probability: Low
DEFECT000077251 Medium Summary: Assert panic on Brocade FA4-18 routing code on Brocade
AP7600 platform.
Function: Other

DEFECT000078109 Medium Summary: configdownload exits with "segmentation fault" when
invalid value passed to parameter "Do you want to continue [y/n]:"

Probability: Low
DEFECT000078919 Medium Summary: Message "Committing Configuration.....Done" is not
displayed when commands fwalarmsfilterset and
switchstatuspolicyset are executed. As per the example given in the
help page, message should be displayed.

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000079564 Medium Summary: BLL-1000 message is confusing / incorrect.

Feature: Command Reference
Function: Correction
DEFECT000080110 Medium Summary: Please update help page of "authutil" with information on
new CLI options like authinit and policy.
Feature: Man Pages
Function: EDIT/CORRECTION/NEW
DEFECT000080291 Medium Summary: Help/man: Description for commands historyshow,
historymode, historylastshow for certain switches should be
altered/edited to contain only those switches' FRU names.
DEFECT000080362 Medium Summary: CP error on SilkWorm 12000 running Fabric OS v5.0.5b
results in kSWD error message.
Feature: Software

DEFECT000080537 Medium Summary: Help/man for portcfglongdistance should be edited to
include Brocade FC10-6 information.
DEFECT000082099 Medium Summary: "configremoveall; reboot" does not remove ACL database
from switch
Feature: Man Pages
Function: EDIT/CORRECTION/NEW

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000082134 Medium Summary: "sh: /fabos/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory" message

appears during the FWDL (HCL) downgrade from Fabric OS v5.3
internal build to v5.1 build on the Brocade 7500 BP console.
Probability: Low
DEFECT000082138 Medium Summary: Portshow should either show information regarding Xlate
domain or man page should be corrected.
Feature: Man Pages
Function: Edit/Correction/New

DEFECT000082210 Medium Summary: "fcrdisable/fcrenable" references should be removed from
"fcrconfigure" man page.
Feature: Man Pages
DEFECT000082220 Medium Summary: FCR: fcrlsanmatrix help page content updates needed.
Feature: Man Pages

DEFECT000082233 Medium Summary: IPFC: ping to broadcast address FAILS
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000082415 Medium Summary: "portshow" and "portcfgshow" help page changes to
support Fabric OS v5.3.0 additions.
Feature: Man Pages

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000083446 Medium Summary: Man page for hadump - Example in the help page does not
match the actual output of the command.
Feature: Man Pages
DEFECT000083837 Medium Summary: SNMP: GET swEventDescr fails. Error Indication in
response: There is no such variable name in this MIB. Errindex: 1
Feature: Software
Function: SNMP

DEFECT000084037 Medium Summary: MTU >1260 <1500 enabled IPIF FCIP configured on a
Brocade 7500/FR4-18i should not be blocked from downgrading from
Fabric OS v5.3 to v5.2.0b.
Function: FR4-18i Blade FOS SW

Probability: Low
DEFECT000084157 Medium Summary: Help page for iscsicfg-usernamedelete needs update to
show -deleteusername.
Feature: Man Pages

DEFECT000084620 Medium Summary: Remove information about long distance modes L0.5, L1
and L2 in help page of portcfgislmode
Feature: Man Pages
DEFECT000084646 Medium Summary: swAgtCmtyEntry is not accessible to any of the snmpv3
users existing on FOS.
Function: RBAC
Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000084761 Medium Summary: Running Fabric OS v5.2.1ni, a message regarding RTWR

max retries is logged to console after multiple E-Port disable/enables.
Probability: Low
DEFECT000084945 Medium Summary: Invoking LoginAsUser for the second time using a user
who has access to all AD's returns Access Denied (i.e., the return
value is 6).
Function: Other
Probability: High
DEFECT000085014 Medium Summary: Config upload button is disabled to zone admin role in
Web Tools.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: RBAC
Probability: Medium

DEFECT000085130 Medium Summary: RASLOG daemon only automatically restarts once.
Feature: RAS
Function: RAS Log
Probability: Medium

DEFECT000085192 Medium Summary: Not able to retrieve Device Accessibility Matrix for a
specific Zoning Configuration.
Feature: WebMgmt
Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000085412 Medium Summary: EZSwitch Setup refresh button does not work for "Display
Connection" window.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: Web Tools EZ
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000085512 Medium Summary: When SAS package is loaded and sattoold daemon is
running on a Brocade 7600 switch, enumerateInstanceNames on
Brocade_SwitchFCPort returns 18 object paths and
enumerateInstances returns 20 instances.

Function: SAS/FA4-18
Probability: Low

DEFECT000085721 Medium Summary: Notes in the Command Reference manual on "help
fastwritecfg" need update.
Feature: Man Pages
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000085901 Medium Summary: CAL deleteInstance of Brocade_Account on a default
account(factory) succeeded, and account was deleted.
Function: Other
Probability: Low
DEFECT000085904 Medium Summary: CAL createInstance of Brocade_Account Role property
accepts undefined role values.
Function: Other
Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000085979 Medium Summary: Security daemon is not verifying username or password

during account creation.
Function: Other
Probability: Low
DEFECT000085981 Medium Summary: Running supportsave in a loop on two Brocade 200E
switches, various "sh: /tmp files not found" messages were randomly
displayed during supportsave execution.
Feature: RAS
Function: FFDC/Supportsave
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000086015 Medium Summary: Fabric tree is not displayed consistently and properly in
Web Tools. It moves down and disappears in the window.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: Switch Explorer/Switch View
Probability: Low

DEFECT000086254 Medium Summary: SAS firmware upgrade of internal builds results in error
message: kSWD: Detected unexpected termination of: ''[3]bmd:0
'RfP=900,RgP=900,DfP=0,died=1.
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000086350 Medium Summary: Observed mismatch between actual behavior of CLI
reboot and what is in its help page.
Feature: Man Pages
Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000086388 Medium Summary: Numerous RAS error messages regarding warm reboot on
Brocade 24000.
Feature: RAS
Function: RAS Log
DEFECT000086682 Medium Summary: iSCSI_Usability: Cannot update Discovery Domain (DD)
name when adding DD.
Feature: WebMgmt

Probability: Low
DEFECT000086823 Medium Summary: iSCSI_WT: Cannot create or abort transaction in Web
Tools under certain extreme conditions.
Probability: Low
DEFECT000086929 Medium Summary: Trunking table is showing trunking data for a slot even
though that slot does not have any trunks configured.

Probability: Medium

DEFECT000086988 Medium Summary: Example for setting IPv6 address in the help page of
ipaddrset command needs update.
Feature: Man Pages

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000087007 Medium Summary: Discovery Domain does not show all the DD's that are
members of DDSET when configured from usability wizard.
Feature: WebMgmt
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000087024 Medium Summary: On the "Configure DD" screen, when adding a new
Discovery Domain (DD) and adding VT and VI, it also adds VT and
VI from the existing DD.
Feature: WebMgmt
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000087061 Medium Summary: In "Zoneadmin" role, when ADs are configured, "set
default mode" option (under zoning actions tab) should be disabled.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: Admin Domains
Probability: Medium

DEFECT000087084 Medium Summary: If an active ipv4 policy has "80 accepted; 80 denied; and
443 accepted," both http and https are disabled on the switch.

Probability: Low
DEFECT000087129 Medium Summary: On a Brocade 48000, Web Tools shows DHCP is on.
User can not change IP address from Web Tools since it blocks the
static IP address change when DHCP is enabled.
Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000087161 Medium Summary: Firmware upgrade on Brocade 7500 from Fabric OS

v5.1.1b to v5.3.0_rel_bld46 results in segmentation fault message.
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000087209 Medium Summary: During firmwaredownload process, creating an IP
interface while BP code is still loading may result in kernal panic.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP Port

Probability: Low
DEFECT000087292 Medium Summary: MIBS: Walk and Table View shows different outputs for
the same table
Function: Ports Admin
Probability: Low
DEFECT000087379 Medium Summary: NPIV failed to work after firmware is upgraded from pre-
FOS v5.1.0 to FOS v5.1.0 or higher. Downgrade and upgrade resolve
the problem.
Function: NPIV
Probability: Medium

DEFECT000087422 Medium Summary: Unexpected menu appears after "customize report" tab
selected in Fabric Watch from GUI
Feature: WebMgmt

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000087515 Medium Summary: Ports did not link up on a specific 3rd party host/HBA
after hosts were rebooted. Switch not ready for F or L ports
Feature: Software
Function: Operating System
DEFECT000201843 Medium Summary: Need a command to query aptpolicy of application blades.
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR CLI
DEFECT000201844 Medium Summary: Need to update help page for the new aptpolicy -ap
command
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR CLI

DEFECT000201845 Medium Summary: aptpolicy -ap command needs to validate command line
argument.
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR CLI

DEFECT000203523 Medium Summary: Web Tools: Fabric Events window cannot collect info
from other switches connected to the fabric.
Function: Other
DEFECT000203637 Medium Summary: Web Tools shows internal ports for embedded switch
supporting an E-Port, which is inconsistent with the CLI.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: Ports Admin

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000203655 Medium Summary: While configuring FCIP tunnel through FCIP wizard, the
"SAN connection" drop down menu shows only one option- SAN
extension. There should be two other options - "FCR Edge fabric" and
"FCR backbone fabric"
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: FCIP
Probability: High
DEFECT000204844 Medium Summary: Memory corruption identified with Brocade internal
development tools.
Probability: Low

Closed without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.0.0
This section lists defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity closed without a code change
in Fabric OS v6.0.0.
Technical
Defect ID Summary of CLOSED without Code Change in Fabric OS v6.0.0
Severity
DEFECT000061094 High Summary: Fabric Watch daemon panics with bad memory access and
memory leak.
Reason Code: Not Applicable
Probability: Low
DEFECT000065898 High Summary: Interop mode: Zoned died on the standby following
cfgclear and cfgsave.
Function: Zoning
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000072085 High Summary: Switch panicked when the switch was being configured to
Interop mode and domain id was changed at the same time.
Feature: Software
Function: Other
Probability: Low
DEFECT000077966 High Summary: On an already fully utilized trunking group, a newly added
slave port may not be ready to pass the first few frames right away.
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Function: Routing
Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000078694 High Summary: After continuous slotpoweroff/on, Brocade 48000 with an

AP blade panics.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Function: Fabric
Probability: Low
DEFECT000080404 High Summary: Webk daemon causes Brocade 24000 panic.
Feature: Software
Function: WebMgmt Backend

DEFECT000081356 High Summary: Starting SAK IRNDUP on a second switch in the fabric
causes the first switch to hang.
Function: FICON
Probability: Low
DEFECT000082629 High Summary: With interopmode set, a SilkWorm 3250 with FOS v5.3
fails to form a fabric with an Mi10K in Open mode.
Function: Fabric
Probability: High

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000082969 High Summary: Error when running command portcfgpersistentenable on

switch ports on a Brocade 4100 and FOS v5.0.3.
Feature: Software
DEFECT000083298 High Summary: CP blade failure on a SilkWorm 12000.
Feature: OTHER
Function: Other
DEFECT000084204 High Summary: Large fabric testing: HCL from Fabric OS v5.2.0b to
v5.3_bld26: only original standby CP upgraded to v5.3_bld26
because the original active CP got iswitchd error and panic.

Feature: FCR

DEFECT000084686 High Summary: SilkWorm 12000 CP fails and then performs warm
recovery running FOS v5.0.3.
Feature: Software

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000085220 High Summary: Under extremely rare circumstances, device entries may
be removed from Name Server db if one Access Gateway NPIV port
goes offline and devices try to come online through another NPIV
port.
Reason Code: Not a Defect
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000085464 High Summary: Host received PLOGI reject from device without reason
code. Brocade router switch did not alter frame payload.
Reason Code: Need More Info
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP-RAS
DEFECT000085600 High Summary: Performing continuous switchdisable/enable and
bladedisable/bladeenable operations on a large number of switches in
a large fabric may cause core principal switch to panic

Probability: Low
DEFECT000085842 High Summary: Large fabric testing: during firmware upgrade in Brocade
7500, observed environment monitor daemon (evmd) terminated and
switch performed panic, reboot.

Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000085923 High Summary: iSCSI: CP panic during stress testing (slotpoweroff) "P(2):
FUP notifyASSERT - Failed expression: !(bl->bl_cflags &
CTL_WARM_RESET),
file =
/vobs/projects/springboard/build/swbd42/fabos/src/sys/dev/blade/ibd/i
bd_blade.c, line = 556, kernel mode"
Probability: Low
DEFECT000086320 High Summary: An ISL between a Brocade 5000 running FOS v5.2.1ni
and another McData switch sends out two ELPs.
Function: Fabric

DEFECT000086323 High Summary: Large fabric testing: downgrading Brocade 48000 system
from FOS v5.3 down to FOS v5.2.1a, process failed because CPs are
not in sync after standby CP loaded with FOS v5.2.1a.
Function: Routing
DEFECT000086354 High Summary: Name server lost new devices after new switch was added
to the fabric.

Feature: Software


Technical
Severity
DEFECT000086559 High Summary: FICON RNID request sent to CUP port is rejected with a
code of x'01' on link init.
Function: FICON
Probability: High
DEFECT000086579 High Summary: Brocade 3900 and Brocade 4100 both run FOS v5.2.0a
during login failures/successes, both switches receive RAS messages.

Feature: RAS
Function: RAS Log

DEFECT000086716 High Summary: Name server daemon (nsd) coredump when bringing up
multiple virtual hosts/targets connections.


DEFECT000086899 High Summary: Large fabric stress testing: switchdisable/switchenable on
backbone fabric, with SNMP trap and FM running, iswitchd ran into
queue full, then asserted and terminated.
Feature: FCR

Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000087001 High Summary: iSCSI: After doing iscsicfg --commit all -f on the local
switch, and also switchdisable;switchenable on the remote switch, icp
daemon is killed by kSWD on the remote switch.
Feature: iSCSI
Function: iSCSI Daemons
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000087067 High Summary: Port blade 7 faulted: replaced the port blade and it faulted
again.
Feature: Software

DEFECT000087071 High Summary: If more than 119 devices are connected (say in an FC
loop) to a single port of a Brocade 200E switch, hard zoning (WWN
zoning) cannot be enforced.

Probability: High
DEFECT000087303 High Summary: Under extremely rare conditions, with 8 FCIP tunnels
between backbone and edge fabrics, after several fwupload/download
operations, cfgenable on edge Brocade 7500 took a long time to
complete.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP Port
Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000087543 High Summary: IOF: fail to update zone with error: Enable failed: Aca
Was Rejected: Remote Switch Busy, Retry in a few seconds
Function: Zoning
DEFECT000087562 High Summary: Cannot discover Brocade 48000 using EFCM Application.
Function: Other

DEFECT000087619 High Summary: Host received PLOGI reject from device without reason
code. Brocade router switch did not alter frame payload. Not enough
info from site to proceed.
Function: Other
DEFECT000202061 High Summary: A specific cfgenable error displays multiple zone names
and exceeds 128 characters, causing a panic.
Feature: Software
Function: Error Message


Technical
Severity
DEFECT000202504 High Summary: Configdownload with new timezone is not being

validated, nor applied completely: date uses old time zone, though
tstimezone shows new time zone.
Reason Code: Can Not Fix
Feature: Software
Function: Management Services
DEFECT000202526 High Summary: Brocade 200e using LD auto longdistance option (30km)
ISL port problem.


DEFECT000203059 High Summary: Issue with autonegotiation/ flow control

Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP Port

DEFECT000203368 High Summary: Not able to launch Web Tools after downgrading from
FOS v5.3.x build to v5.2.x build.

Function: Other
Probability: High

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000204265 High Summary: Brocade 48000 CP has to be replaced three times.

DEFECT000204303 High Summary: Switch panic during CPU idle loop. This does not impact
Brocade 12000 and 3900.

Probability: Low

DEFECT000064577 Medium Summary: Update the help page for interopmode

Probability: Medium
DEFECT000065740 Medium Summary: Help page for licenseadd (remove) could use information
about POD and FCIP license behaviors
Probability: Medium

DEFECT000069966 Medium Summary: Usability: firmwaredownload downgrades from Fabric OS
v5.2 do not offer automatic feature removal.
Probability: High

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000075120 Medium Summary: FSPF (Fabric Shortest Path First) daemon assert causes
switch panic and hafailover
Feature: Software
Probability: Low
DEFECT000076372 Medium Summary: Web Tools does not show the reason for configdownload.
CLI does show the reason.

Probability: Medium
DEFECT000077037 Medium Summary: The userrename command may be used to rename a user-
created user with "User" role to “admin” Brocade default user.
Function: Security
Probability: Low
DEFECT000078139 Medium Summary: McLogic switch and Brocade 24000 in interopmode does
not add McLogic ISL back into fabric.


Technical
Severity
DEFECT000078592 Medium Summary: Ports come up as "No_Sync Disabled (Switch not ready
for F or L port)" after rebooting switch
Probability: Low
DEFECT000078879 Medium Summary: Man/help page for ipaddrset has to be updated to reflect
the "ipv6" operands/parameters


DEFECT000078944 Medium Summary: Reboot after upgrade to Fabric OS v5.2.0a generates
message "llibipadm error: ipadm_library_main.c:1055 socket() failed
111. '

DEFECT000079003 Medium Summary: Help/Man page for CLI "portcfglongdistance" on
SW200E (Stealth) should be modified to show proper buffer
allocation and distance details as per the spec.


DEFECT000079107 Medium Summary: On a Brocade 200E "fanshow" command output does not
match help page information.

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000081560 Medium Summary: Timeouts between switch and CIMOM residing on Linux
server.
Function: RPCD
DEFECT000082260 Medium Summary: Even though the SNMP secure level is set to "authonly"
snmpv1 user is able to perform GETand SET on mibs.

Probability: Medium
DEFECT000082285 Medium Summary: With SNMP secure level set to "authonly,’ SNMPv3 user
with "no auth/no priv" protocol and snmpv1 user are able to receive
snmpv1 traps. With SNMP secure level set to "authpriv,’ SNMPv3
user with "auth/ priv" protocol is not able to receive traps.

Probability: Medium
DEFECT000082300 Medium Summary: FCR: fcrlsanmatrix --remove should validate FID pair:
when the FID pair does not exist, an error should be returned.
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR CLI

Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000082572 Medium Summary: When an invalid gateway is provided with the 'ipaddrset'
command the gateway is not verified.
Function: IP Admin
Probability: Low
DEFECT000082740 Medium Summary: WANtools show traffic loss if the traffic is running
accross VEX to VE link.

Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Probability: Low
DEFECT000082761 Medium Summary: Performance server service takes too long (~10 seconds)
to complete warm recovery.

Probability: Medium
DEFECT000083152 Medium Summary: FCR: enhancements suggested for fcrlsanmatrix --add 0 0
command.

Feature: FCR
Function: FCR CLI
Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000083941 Medium Summary: SyslogdFacility default parameter is "LOG_LOCAL1"

which is at odds with FOS v5.2.0 Command Reference Manual.
DEFECT000084144 Medium Summary: Changes needed in iSCSI Help: switchshow should be
switchshow -iscsi, and iscsitargetname should be removed, and
moved to iscsiswcfg.
Feature: iSCSI
Function: ISCSI CLI
DEFECT000084314 Medium Summary: Though port is up and working, error message displayed:
2007/03/21-10:20:23, [SWCH-1007], 5476,, WARNING,
VICFCB03, . . .


DEFECT000084745 Medium Summary: Setting ipaddress manually immediately after DHCP set,
causes error

Function: IP Admin
Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000085097 Medium Summary: Brocade 200e switch fcpd demon failure.

DEFECT000085141 Medium Summary: When iSCSI error recovery is set to 1 or 2, I/O error
messages result.
Feature: iSCSI
Function: ISCSI I/O

Probability: Low
DEFECT000085170 Medium Summary: Configremoveall (a root-only command) then
configdefault followed by reboot does not reset the FabricWatch
switch status policy params to default.

Probability: Medium
DEFECT000085389 Medium Summary: Web Tools Zone Admin window: user is able to select
McData default Zone and McData Safe Zone options, though the
options cannot be changed.
Feature: WebMgmt
Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000085688 Medium Summary: L-port with more than one device needs to be properly
handled in FCFastWrite mode.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP Port
Probability: Low
DEFECT000085695 Medium Summary: When system power was turned on, server did not
recognize a RAID device immediately.

Feature: Software

DEFECT000085720 Medium Summary: Reseat of standby CP on a Brocade 24000 caused a switch
reboot.

Feature: High Availability
Function: Other

DEFECT000085779 Medium Summary: IOF: portstatsclear on bloom based switches/blades does
not clear: Link_failure; Lr_in; Lr_out; Ols_in; Ols_out

Probability: Low

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000086178 Medium Summary: McData Mi10k not displaying correct IP address beyond 1
hop for Brocade edge switches.
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000086363 Medium Summary: McData I10k not displaying correct IP address beyond 1
hop for Brocade edge switches.

Function: Fabric
Probability: High
DEFECT000086531 Medium Summary: First Failure Data Capture occurs when a switch (with
insistentDID enabled and a duplicate DID) joins a fabric with McData
and Brocade switches in it.
Function: Other
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000086749 Medium Summary: Open - ISL does not come up between McData 4500 and
Brocade 24000 after the Port/Blade/Switch is disabled/enabled.
Function: Open Mode
Probability: Medium

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000086792 Medium Summary: An N-port attached to a third-party switch with NPIV

enabled comes up as "Disabled (NPIV not supported by Fabric port)."
Feature: Access Gateway
Function: Daemon
DEFECT000086805 Medium Summary: Slightly different error messages displayed when
activating Prohibit Dynamic Connectivity Mask (PDCM) while SAK
test program was running on CUP port.

Function: Other
Probability: Medium

DEFECT000087040 Medium Summary: iSCSI: VT may be marked as online when last lun
deletion occurred with result "Some of LUN maps specified don't
exist."
Feature: iSCSI

Probability: Low
DEFECT000087112 Medium Summary: After firmware download: “[RAS-1005], 72, FFDC,
WARNING, SilkWorm 4016, Software 'assert' error detected.”


Technical
Severity
DEFECT000087350 Medium Summary: Under very rare conditions, after merging Brocade 24000
into backbone and forcing hafailover, Storage Application Services
(SAS) daemon running on a Brocade 48000/FA4-18 blade was
terminated.
Function: Zoning
Probability: Medium
DEFECT000087470 Medium Summary: Replacement blade fault on Brocade 24000.
Feature: RAS
Function: FFDC

DEFECT000087498 Medium Summary: Firmwareupgrade from FOS v5.2.0b to v5.3.0 failed on
the FR4-18i port blade (timeout), while the active and standby CP's
upgraded successfully.

Probability: Medium
DEFECT000087575 Medium Summary: Brocade 4424 uploaded config with changes, but they do
not change the switch config.
Function: Other

Technical
Severity
DEFECT000087629 Medium Summary: Switch reboots due to watchdog software: INFO SYS-
BOOT, 4, Restart reason: watchdog.
Feature: Software
Function: VxWorks Kernal
DEFECT000201724 Medium Summary: Cluster node reboot triggers reset of four SilkWorm 3800
switches.

Feature: Software

DEFECT000202665 Medium Summary: Name Server daemon (nsd) dies during portdisable/enable
on trunk ports.

Feature: Software

DEFECT000204926 Medium Summary: Compact Flash becomes inaccessible. Error messages
similar to "end_request: I/O error" identifed during loop of diag
commands.

Probability: Low

v6.0.0 Releasenotes v1.0

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

v6.0.0 Releasenotes v1.0

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

v6.0.0 Releasenotes v1.0

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Brocade Fabric OS v6.0.

October 19, 2007

Document Title Summary of Changes Publication Date

Fabric OS v6.0.0 Release Notes, v1.0 Page 2 of 122

Fabric OS v6.0.0 Release Notes, v1.0 Page 3 of 122

o New Security Features

New Feature Descriptions

Adaptive Networking with QoS (licensed feature):

Fabric OS v6.0.0 Release Notes, v1.0 Page 4 of 122

Traffic Isolation Zones

Fabric OS v6.0.0 Release Notes, v1.0 Page 5 of 122

Access Gateway Enhancements:

Optionally Licensed Software

• Brocade Web Tools—Administration, configuration, and maintenance of fabric switches

• Brocade Ports on Demand—Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning

• Brocade Extended Fabrics—Provides up to 500 km of switched fabric connectivity over long

• Brocade Fabric Manager—Enables administration, configuration, and maintenance of fabric

• Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring—Enables performance monitoring of networked

Fabric OS v6.0.0 Release Notes, v1.0 Page 6 of 122

• Brocade Fabric Watch—Monitors mission-critical switch operations.

Licensed Software Bundled as Standard

The serial number label is located as follows:

3. World Wide Name (WWN)

SilkWorm 3000, 3200, 3800 v3.2.1c

SilkWorm 12000 v5.0.x

Brocade 200E, 4100, 7500, 48000 v5.1.0 and higher

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 7600 v5.3.0 and higher

Brocade DCX v6.0.0 and higher

Secure Fabric OS (on any model) Not Supported in v6.0.0

McDATA SANRouters 1620 and 2640 Not Supported

Large Fabric Support

SilkWorm 12000 v5.0.x

Brocade 200E, 4100, 7500, 48000 v5.1.0 and higher

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 7600 v5.3.0 and higher

Brocade DCX v6.0.0 and higher

Multi-Protocol Router interop

Brocade 7420 XPath v7.4.1

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

Fabric OS v6.0.0 Release Notes, v1.0 Page 9 of 122

48000 Blade Support matrix with chassis option 5

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

iSCSI blade (FC4-16IP) Up to a max of 4 blades

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

Fabric OS v6.0.0 Release Notes, v1.0 Page 10 of 122

DCX Blade Support matrix

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

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

Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades

SAS version requirements for FA4-18 and 7600:

Fabric OS v6.0.0 Release Notes, v1.0 Page 11 of 122

Products that cannot be upgraded to Fabric OS v6.0 or later:

Products that can be upgraded to Fabric OS v6.0 or later:

Routed scalability limits are noted in the table below.