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Chapter
3
Operations, Administration, and Maintenance
Table 16 lists the individual Brocade FastIron switches and the operations, administration, and
maintenance (OAM) features they support. These features are supported in the Layer 2, base Layer
3, edge Layer 3, and full Layer 3 software images, except where explicitly noted.
OAM Overview
For easy software image management, all Brocade devices support the download and upload of
software images between the flash modules on the devices and a Trivial File Transfer Protocol
(TFTP) server on the network.
Brocade devices have two flash memory modules:
TABLE 16 Supported operations, administration, and maintenance features
Feature FESX
FSX 800
FSX 1600
FWS FCX ICX 6610 ICX 6430
ICX 6450
Flash and boot code verification Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Flash image verification Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Software upgrade via CLI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Software upgrade via SNMP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Hitless management:
• Hitless switchover
• Hitless failover
• Hitless OS upgrade
Yes
(FSX 800
and FSX
1600 only)
No Yes (Hitless switchover and Hitless
failover only; Hitless OS upgrade is not
supported)
Refer to“Hitless stacking” on page 329
Hitless support:
• PBR
• GRE Tunnels
• IPv6 to IPv4 Tunnels
Yes
(FSX 800
and FSX
1600 only)
No Yes (PBR only) Yes (PBR
only)
No
Boot code synchronization for active and
redundant management modules
Yes No No No No
Software reboot Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Show boot preference Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Load and save configuration files Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
System reload scheduling Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Diagnostic error codes and remedies for
TFTP transfers
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IPv4 ping Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IPv4 traceroute Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes