Brocade Fabric OS v6.4.3f Release Notes v1.0

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Quick Look
Fabric OS (FOS) v6.4.3f is a patch release based on FOS v6.4.3. All hardware platforms and features
supported in FOS v6.4.3 are also supported in FOS v6.4.3f.
In addition to the fixes listed in the defect tables at the end of this document, FOS v6.4.3f also includes
support for the features introduced in FOS v6.4.3.
Overview
Resolution of Important Defects
FOS v6.4.3f includes fixes for the following important defects:
 DEFECT000479046
Customer observed frequent suspends in XRC emulation environment.
 DEFECT000481199
With JRE 1.7.0 update 45, users will see a warning message when WebTools is launched through
HTTPS and will not be able to launch WebTools from Network Advisor with prior to v12.1.4 Network
advisor revisions.
 DEFECT000461189
Unable to launch web tools using Google chrome browser and IE11 with Java update 45 or 51.
 DEFECT000492704
"CRC error with good EOF" detected and may cause credit loss..
Features & Support
In addition to fixes for defects, the new features introduced in FOS v6.4.3 are also supported in FOS v6.4.3f.
For your convenience, the new features that were introduced in FOS v6.4.3 are listed below.
 Bottleneck detection enhancements - Decoupling of latency and congestion alerts
Prior to FOS v6.4.3 when users enabled bottleneck alerts, it would enable alerting for both congestion
and latency bottleneck conditions. Starting with FOS v6.4.3 users can choose to enable alerts only for
latency bottleneck while not enabling alerts for congestion bottleneck or vice versa. Users still have
the option to enable alerts for both congestion and latency bottleneck conditions.
 Longer port name support
Starting from FOS v6.4.3 users can assign longer port names up to 128 characters. Pre-FOS v6.4.3
releases restricted port name length to 32 characters.
 SFTP support
FOS supports SFTP starting from FOS v6.4.2b. This provides users with an option to securely transfer
files during firmwaredownload, configupload, configdownload, supportsave and supportftp operations.
Optionally Licensed Software
Optionally licensed features in Fabric OS v6.4.3 include:
 Brocade Ports on Demand — Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional
ports via license key upgrade (applies to select models of switches).