Release Notes

Fabric OS v7.2.1e Release Notes v1.0 Page 48 of 82
Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.2.1b
This sections lists the defects with Critical, High, and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change as
of July 15, 2014, in Fabric OS v7.2.1b.
Defect ID:
DEFECT000401075
Technical Severity:
High
Probability:
Medium
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Security
Reported In Release:
FOS7.0.1
Technology Area:
Fabric Authentication
Symptom:
Weblinker crashes and cannot be restarted
Condition:
When one of the radius server is not responding for reasons such as port 1813 is blocked by network
firewall, then next available server to authenticate the radius user triggers a NULL pointer access.
Workaround:
Unblocking the accounting port (default port 1813) is the workaround in case of accounting fails
due to firewall.
Defect ID:
DEFECT000432406
Technical Severity:
High
Probability:
Medium
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Monitoring/RAS
Reported In Release:
FOS6.4.2
Technology Area:
Logging
Symptom:
Customer observes multiple supportsave processes on switch without actively initiating a recent
supportsave. These processes consume memory and may lead to switch panic when an additional
supportsave is initiated.
Condition:
Hung supportsave processes left on switch.
Workaround:
Kill stale supportsave PIDs
Recovery:
After switch panic, no further recovery is needed.
Defect ID:
DEFECT000445731
Technical Severity:
Medium
Probability:
Low
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Traffic Management
Reported In Release:
FOS7.0.2
Technology Area:
BB Credits
Symptom:
IO traffic could not be restarted after FCIP Tunnel recovered from keep-alive Timeout.
Condition:
Enhanced code to perform Link Reset to recover lost credit for FX8-
24 blade. This could happen when
there was link level error such as loss of sync.
Recovery:
Reset FX8-24 or connected core blade reporting the problem.
Defect ID:
DEFECT000455322
Technical Severity:
Medium
Probability:
Medium
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Monitoring/RAS
Reported In Release:
FOS7.0.2
Technology Area:
Fabric Watch
Symptom:
An unexpectedly large number of threshold crossing "above high boundary" Fabric Watch messages
may be seen.
Condition:
This may be seen during portdisable or portenable.