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Defect ID: DEFECT000300759
Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Addition of End-to-End Monitors through DCFM or CLI will fail after an HA Failover if
Monitors were installed on the switch before the failover.
Symptom: On a Condor 2 Platform, if the user has End-to-End Monitors installed and then performs an
HA Failover, he cannot further install any new Monitors on chips(s) other than on which
End-to-End Monitors were already configured prior to the Failover.
Workaround: Clear all existing End-to-End Monitors on the switch and try to re-install the required
monitors.
Feature: Performance Monitor
Function: EE monitor
Probability: High
Found in Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000301457
Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: With tape pipelining enabled, AIX host receiving connection timeout error
Symptom: AIX host gets a connection timeout error after the first write with tape pipelining enabled.
Workaround: Disable tape pipelining.
Feature: FCIP
Function: Emulation
Probability: High
Found in Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000301609
Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON FCIP: CHPID cable pull results in invalid FDPB and no way to recover device paths
Symptom: After cable pull of CHPID port, the FICON path block becomes invalid and the device paths
can no longer be recovered without a slotpoweroff/on of the FX8-24 or reboot of the switch.
Workaround: Reboot 7800 or FX8-24 slot to recover the FICON device connectivity.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Probability: Medium
Found in Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000301766
Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Host detects tape drive offline intermittently during backup
Symptom: The tape devices intermittently show "offline" condition to host. This is observed in setup
where some Physical Initiators do not register as FC4 type device and some do.
Feature: Data Security
Function: Disk Encryption
Probability: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.3.0
Service Request ID: 433655