Deployment Guide

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Gen 4 platform (8-Gpbs) Gen 5 platform (16-Gbps)
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What's new in this document
This document includes new and modified information for the Fabric OS 7.3.0 release.
The following content has been removed from this book and moved to other books:
• Removed the chapter "Installing and Maintaining Firmware". The information in this chapter is now
in the Fabric OS Upgrade Guide.
• Removed the chapter "Administering Licensing". The information in this chapter is now in the Fabric
OS Software Licensing Guide.
• Removed the chapter "FIPS Support". The information in this chapter is now in the Fabric OS FIPS
Configuration Guide.
The following content is new or significantly revised for this release of this document:
• Added support for the Brocade 7840 Extension Switch and the FC16-64 port blade.
• Added Using fosexec to run commands on remote switches or domains on page 43.
• Added note that Frame discards can be logged as audit messages using the Fabric OS syslog
facility to the chapter Routing Traffic on page 99.
• Added Enabling Frame Viewer on page 110.
• Updated Buffer-to-Buffer Credits and Credit Recovery on page 117 with the Brocade 7840 and the
FC16-64 port blade information.
• Updated the supported OpenSSH version, in the section Secure Shell protocol on page 175.
• Updated snmpconfig --set snmpv3 command output to indicate AES-256 support, in the section
Configuring SNMPv3 user/traps on page 197.
• Removed AP policy section from the chapter Configuring Security Policies on page 209.
• Added zone merging scenarios tables to the section Zone merging scenarios on page 331.
• Added description of support for two new discard frame types, destination unreachable (DU) and
un-routable (UNRTBL), to Frame Viewer (Frame Discard Log) to the Bottleneck Detection on page
389 chapter.
• Added description of the -type option to the framelog -–enable and --disable command so that the
type of discard frame to be enabled or disabled can be specified. This applies to Gen 5 platforms
only. (In the chapter Bottleneck Detection on page 389.)
• Added information on setting lossless DLS to the chapter Routing Traffic on page 99.
• Updated the following sections for FCAP support:
‐ Authentication and key generation for encryption and compression on page 411
‐ Configuring and enabling authentication for in-flight encryption on page 415
• Added dynamic and on-demand D_Port modes information to the chapter Diagnostic Port on page
421.
• Added the section Base device logout on page 442.
• Added information about setting the FID alias, in the section Assigning alias names to fabric IDs on
page 546.
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