Release Notes

Fabric OS v7.2.0a Release Notes v1.0 Page 11 of 93
 FOS v7.2 allows buffer credit assignment even for “normal distance” (regular) E_ports
 The portCfgEportCredits CLI introduced in FOS v7.2 allows users to perform fine grained
performance tuning on normal E_ports by allowing users to specify buffer credits.
 In FOS v7.2, the portaddess CLI has been enhanced to display an address as user bound when a user
has explicitly bound an address to a port.
 FOS v7.2 introduces a new CLI “creditrecovmode” to configure backend link credit loss recovery
options
 Existing credit loss recovery options of the bottleneckmon CLI continue to be supported in
FOS v7.2 but will be removed from FOS v7.3.
 Simplifies the bottleneckmon CLI.
 FOS v7.2 allows users to provide a reason string when disabling a port via portdisable or
portcfgpersistentdisable CLIs – helps to track the user intention for disabling a particular port.
 FOS v7.2 introduces new RASlogs (FSPF-1013, FSPF-1014) and new CLI outputs in fabricshow and
topologyshow to indicate when the maximum paths (16) to a remote domain are exceeded.