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Dell SmartFabric OS10 Release Notes

This document describes the new and changed features, restrictions, resolved issues, and known issues in the Dell SmartFabric
OS10 Release 10.5.6.3.
Current Release Version: 10.5.6.3
Release Date: 2024-05-20
Previous Release Version: 10.5.6.2
The information in this document is applicable to all the switches listed in the Supported hardware section.
For documentation about the Dell open network install environment (ONIE)-enabled hardware switches, see Dell Networking.

Document revision history

Table 1. Revision history
Revision Date Description
A00 2024–05-20 10.5.6.3 Release—Added a new feature to the New and changed in 10.5.6.3 section.

Supported hardware
The current release is supported on the following:
● Dell PowerSwitches
○ S3048-ON
○ S4048-ON, S4048T-ON
○ S4112F-ON, S4112T-ON
○ S4128F-ON, S4128T-ON
○ S4148F-ON, S4148FE-ON, S4148T-ON, S4148U-ON
○ S4248FB-ON, S4248FBL-ON
○ S5232F-ON, S5248F-ON, S5296F-ON
○ S5212F–ON, S5224F–ON
○ S5448F–ON
○ S6010-ON
○ Z9100-ON
○ Z9264F-ON
○ Z9332F-ON
○ N3248TE-ON
○ Z9432F-ON
○ N3224F-ON
○ E3224F-ON
○ Z9664F-ON
NOTE: For SFS supported hardware details, see Dell Networking Support & Interoperability Matrix.

Related documentation
This section lists the documentation that is related to 10.5.6.3.
● Dell SmartFabric OS10 User Guide

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● Dell SmartFabric OS10 Installation, Upgrade, and Downgrade Guide
For OS10 documents, see Dell SmartFabric OS10 Documentation page

New and changed in 10.5.6.3

The following feature has been introduced in this release.

Table 2. New and changed features

Issue ID Functional Area Description
Cable and Optics Add support for 200G QSFP56- Added support for the 200G QSFP56-SR4 Dell version optic on
SR4 optic Z9432F-ON, Z9664F-ON, and S5448F-ON platforms for switch-to-
switch validation and CX6 NIC card.

SupportAssist deprecation
CloudIQ Collector has replaced the SupportAssist method of onboarding and collecting data for PowerSwitch systems starting
April 17, 2023. Dell Technologies recommends the CloudIQ Collector as the preferred method of onboarding PowerSwitch
systems to CloudIQ.
CloudIQ Collector is supported on PowerSwitch systems running 10.5.3.0 or later. Dell Technologies has ended providing support
for defect and security remediation in SupportAssist since August 2023. Customers are advised to migrate to CloudIQ Collector
as soon as possible.

Known Software Behavior - OS10

NOTE: The software behaviors that are mentioned here are applicable to OS10.5.6.3.

Flow control configuration

● If a flow control change is performed on an autonegotiation enabled port, the port flaps once for the change to take effect.
● If a DAC (25G/40G/50G/100G/200G/400G) is connected to a switch, autonegotiation is enabled by default.

OS10 boot up
● The admin user will only be available approximately 180 seconds (or >3 minutes) after boot, as this user is created only once
the OS10 configuration is fully loaded. If not disabled, the system user linuxadmin can log in to a switch, completing its
reboot process.
● If you configure syslog using the FQDN, the FQDN to IP address translation only occurs at the time of configuration or
switch reload, not on a regular basis based on DNS timers.

OS10 upgrades
● If you see the below issue for any of the user accounts, you should delete the SNMP user configurations before upgrading to
10.5.6.3 or later and then reconfigure the SNMP user accounts after the upgrade.
○ When a user is assigned to two groups, snmpwalk returns the error "Unknown user name" after a reload.
● When upgrading from 10.5.0 to 10.5.2 or later, the upgrade goes through the ONIE install process and displays an ONIE
update log. This does not indicate an upgrade failure. Do not interrupt the upgrade process as it proceeds automatically.
● Upgrading OS10 nodes in SmartFabric mode from Release 10.5.3.1 or earlier to Release 10.5.3.2 or later:
NOTE: The following procedure is not applicable if the OS10 switch is already running Release 10.5.3.2 or later software,
or if the switch is in Full Switch mode. Use the show switch-operating-mode command to check the switch
mode.

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 Before you upgrade the fabric, you must run the following curl command on each of the leaf nodes in the deployment. Run
this command on the leaf nodes one after another continuously. You can run this command in any one of the following ways:
○ Run this command from a remote server using the leaf node's management IP address if the node is reachable:

login-chn-02:/swt_scripts_repo/feature/SFS> curl -i -k -H "Accept: application/json" -H

"Content-Type: application/json" -u REST_USER:admin -d '{"nvo-evpn:evpn":{"disable-rt-asn":true}}' -X
PATCH https://10.10.72.184/restconf/data/nvo-evpn:evpn
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Server: nginx
Date: Thu, 04 July 2023 06:44:47 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
login-chn-02:/swt_scripts_repo/feature/SFS>

where 10.10.72.184 is the management IP address of the leaf node.

○ If you have not configured a management IP address or if the node is not reachable, log in to the leaf node through the
console and enter the following command using the loopback address:

LEAF1# system "sudo -i"

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type. #3) With
great power comes great responsibility.
[sudo] password for admin:
root@POD3-LEAF1:~#
root@POD3-LEAF1:~# curl -i -k -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -u
REST_USER:admin -d '{"nvo-evpn:evpn":{"disable-rt-asn":true}}' -X PATCH https://127.0.0.1/restconf/
data/nvo-evpn:evpn
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Server: nginx
Date: Thu, 04 July 2023 06:40:15 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
LEAF1:~#

○ You can also use any API tool such as Postman on the leaf nodes.
NOTE:

Without running the curl command on the leaf nodes, if you upgrade from Release 10.5.3.1 or earlier to Release
10.5.3.2 or later, traffic loss for about 5 to 7 minutes is observed.

Known hardware behavior in 10.5.6.3

Fan LED
● On an OS10 S3048-ON switch with reverse airflow:
○ When all fans are operational, the Fan LED is solid amber.
○ When a fan fails, the Fan LED is blinking amber.
● On an OS10 S3048-ON switch with normal airflow:
○ When all fans are operational, the Fan LED is solid green.
○ When a fan fails, the Fan LED is blinking green.

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PSU
● If the PSU fan is inactive for more than 15 seconds, the PSU goes into a latched shutdown state and remain in the same
state until the AC power cable is removed and reinserted.

Resolved issues in 10.5.6.3

The following high severity issues have been resolved in this release.
None.

Resolved issues in previous releases

The following issues were resolved in earlier 10.5.6 releases.

Table 3. Previous resolved issues

Issue ID Resolved in Description
AR-44146 10.5.6.2 The system crashes due to corrupted memory accessed through the
internal BCM LinkScan thread.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the S5248F-ON switches.

AR-44105 10.5.6.2 The HW Watchdog service is not running by default in the system.
AR-44053 10.5.6.2 With DOM enabled, false RX and TX alerts may occur for 1G and 10G
optics. The DOM alerts might not clear when the fault-condition is
cleared.
AR-44107 10.5.6.2 When enabling feature fip-snooping, an error "Policy table
init failed" is displayed.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the S5232F-ON switches.

AR-44129 10.5.6.2 The OS10 software is configuring the system's LED control register
to blink at 1Hz with amber and green, even though the device is
stable and there are no alarms present.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the Z9332F-ON switches.

AR-44130 10.5.6.2 When setting up a Layer 2 uplink, new Media Type options are
listed as Ethernet and Ethernet - No Spanning Tree. The lack
of additional information for these options leads to uncertainty in
understanding when to use each option.
AR-43685 10.5.6.1 The OID value for BGPPeerAdminStatus is displaying an incorrect
value, indicating "halted" even when the BGP peer is established,
instead of showing "running" as expected.
AR-43465 10.5.6.1 After upgrading N3248TE-ON switch from any version to 10.5.5.5
or 10.5.6.0 the ethernet ports 1/1/53-1/1/54 are not seen in the
interface list.
NOTE: This only happens during upgrade with a non-default
startup-configuration.

AR-43872 10.5.6.1 Link flap occurs when the interface, configured with a non-default
MTU, is also set up as part of a VLT configuration.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the Z9432F-ON switches.

AR-43865 10.5.6.1 Unable to remove snmp trap configuration using the no snmp-
server enable traps config command.

AR-43841 10.5.6.1 Ansible is unable to parse certain keywords from the output.

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Table 3. Previous resolved issues (continued)
Issue ID Resolved in Description
AR-43386 10.5.6.1 SSH does not work for a non-default VRF.
AR-43480 10.5.6.1 In the LLDP neighbor information, the remote system and remote
port values are displayed in encoded format instead of their actual
values.
AR-43397 10.5.6.1 When the clear ip route command is run or the far end tunnel
device underlay path is flapped having scaled GRE tunnel configured
with 64 tunnels and more than eight ECMP paths per group in
overlay and underlay, it leads to a crash.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the S52xx series switches.

AR-43907 10.5.6.1 When you enable the DOM feature and reboot
the switch, a false positive alarm message
"EQM_MEDIA_VOLTAGE_HIGH_WARNING" is displayed.
AR-43665 10.5.6.1 The 40G AOC 3M cable is recognized as 4x10G AOC 3M cable due
to same Dell F10 encoding string used.
AR-43950 10.5.6.1 When the OTM (tracking) with IP reachability option is enabled, it
leads to high CPU usage.
AR-43709 10.5.6.1 When a user connects the 400G optics to port 9 of switch, the link
will not come up due to a TxFIR setting issue.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the Z9664F-ON switches.

AR-43881 10.5.6.1 When SNMP is configured with ACL, it will take more time to reload
based on the number of rules present in the ACL.
AR-43976 10.5.6.1 When the snmp-server view is configured with the OID 1.3.6.1
and set it as "included", traps do not generate.
AR-43958 10.5.6.1 When the BIOS is upgraded to version 3.33.0.1-8, the switch sends a
coldstart trap instead of a warmstart trap when rebooting using the
reboot command.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the S41xx series switches.

AR-43930 10.5.6.1 The Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) configuration for remote
logging server is not working in the non-default and management
AR-42284 VRFs.
AR-43974 10.5.6.1 A VRRP checksum error is sometimes observed when Dell switches
are connected to Cisco routers.
AR-43977 10.5.6.1 A crash occurs in xSTP when there is a continuous flap of ICL in the
VLT secondary node.
AR-42547 10.5.6.1 There is a memory leak in the dn_eqm process when querying with
the SNMP OID DELLEMC-OS10-CHASSIS-MIB.
AR-43253 10.5.6.0 When the username for a TACACS user contains the special
character '\', the switch becomes unresponsive and gets stuck in
the loading state.
AR-43287 10.5.6.0 When a user tries to configure a clear-text password for BGP
neighbor using REST conf, an error "peer config" is displayed.
AR-43205 10.5.6.0 The 400GB ports sometimes remain down after a reload when a 1m
400G Molex DAC cable from a third party is used.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the S5448F-ON and Z9432F-
ON switches.

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Table 3. Previous resolved issues (continued)
Issue ID Resolved in Description
AR-43664 10.5.6.0 When the switch is upgraded from 10.5.2.x to 10.5.5.x, all
configurations are getting lost due to the lack of support for
uppercase VLAN names in 10.5.5.x.
AR-43411 10.5.6.0 When an existing sysadmin user is removed from the device, the
other admin users with the sysadmin role become unable to log in to
the system.
AR-43322 10.5.6.0 The MAC entry in the kernel is incorrectly updated when a control
plane packet with a source MAC that matches one of the MACs
learned and synchronized over VLTi is received on another local
interface.
AR-43354 10.5.6.0 Configuring FEC on an unpopulated port fails with an error-message
"failed to configure FEC".
AR-43547 10.5.6.0 When the switch receives a big route update, it can suffer from
memory depletion, leading to a system crash.
AR-43605 10.5.6.0 The SNMPv3 traps do not work when multiple trap modules are
configured for a single host.
AR-42844 10.5.6.0 Some devices that run on DC power occasionally display PSU and
FAN false alarms that appear at random and then disappear within a
brief time.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the S5232F-ON switch.

AR-43241 10.5.6.0 The LED status for the 10GBase-T RJ45 port is displaying "Solid
Green" instead of "Solid Yellow".
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the S4128T-ON switch.

AR-43372 10.5.6.0 When the device is up and running, and you insert the PSU and run
the show inventory and show system commands, the output
displays incomplete PSU EEPROM information.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the Z9232-ON, S5448-ON, and
Z9664-ON switches.

AR-43570 10.5.6.0 If you fan-out interface Ethernet 1/1/32 into quad ports (4x10G or
4x25G), traffic on 1/1/33 and 1/1/34 can be impacted and does not
work as expected.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the S5232F-ON switch.

AR-43167 10.5.6.0 The system fails due to an incorrectly configured directly connected
address as a tunnel destination.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the S41xx and S52xx series
switches.

AR-43129 10.5.6.0 The traceroute feature does not work with the UDP protocol.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the Z9432F-ON switch.

AR-43308 10.5.6.0 When a switch has numerous port VLAN configurations, it takes
longer to reboot than expected.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on the S5448F and Z9432F
switches.

AR-43197 10.5.6.0 When using 40G-BIDI optics along with the Digital Optical
Monitoring (DOM) feature enabled, it causes port flapping and
critical alarms .

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Known issues in 10.5.6.3
The following high severity issues remain unresolved in this release.

Table 4. Known issues

Issue ID Functional Area Description Workaround or Resolution
AR-43541 BCM: HSDK Unable to capture egress packets N/A
from a mirroring port when an ingress
ACL is applied to any port.
NOTE: This issue is only seen on
the S41xx series switches.

AR-42370 Filesystem File transfer operations over the SCP Performing the SCP file transfer from
and SFTP protocols fail using the the Linux shell of OS10 works.
OS10 cli when the peer server uses
OpenSSH 8.8 and above.
AR-43713 SFS-GUI Despite a successful download from N/A
the Serviceability tab in the SFS
GUI, an unwanted error message
" Get Events Error: Http failure
response for getAll: 404 Not Found"
is displayed.

Installation
WARNING: When upgrading from OS10.4.3.x to OS10.5.x.x, ensure that all pre-requisites are met before starting the
multi-step upgrade process.
For complete installation and upgrade information using the ONIE installer, follow the instructions in the Dell SmartFabric OS10
Installation, Upgrade, and Downgrade Guide.
See Dell SmartFabric OS10 Documentation page to download this guide.

Support resources
The Dell support site provides a range of documents and tools to assist you with effectively using Dell devices. Through the
support site you can obtain technical information regarding Dell products, access software upgrades and patches, download
available management software, and manage your open cases. The Dell support site provides integrated, secure access to these
services.
To access the Dell support site, go to Dell Support. Sign in with a previously created account or create a new account. To
display information in your language, scroll down to the bottom of the page and select your country from the drop-down menu.
● To obtain product-specific information, enter the 7-character service tag or 11-digit express service code of your switch and
click Submit.
To view the service tag or express service code, pull out the luggage tag on the chassis or enter the show chassis
command from the CLI.
● To submit service requests or to contact technical support by phone or chat, click Contact Us, then click Technical
Support.
To access product documentation and resources that might be helpful to configure and troubleshoot the OS10 Networking
operating system, see the Dell Networking OS10 Info Hub.
To search for drivers and downloads, see Dell Support.
To participate in Dell community blogs and forums, see Dell Community.

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Notes, cautions, and warnings

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the
problem.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death.

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