Brocade Fabric OS Documentation Updates - Supporting Fabric OS v6.4.x (53-1002063-09, August 2012)

16 Fabric OS Documentation Updates

53-1002063-09

perfUserMonitor

The perfUserMonitor valueList parameter must be entered in hexadecimal format. Decimal values are

not permitted. Update the parameter description and example as follows:

OPERAND valueList Specifies up to four values that need to be captured from the frame contents. The

ValueList values must be in hexadecimal notation.

SOFx frames are considered special cases. The Offset is specified as 0x0,

valueList values are specified with:

0 SOFf

1 SOFc1

2 OFi1

3 SOFn1

4 SOFi2

5 SOFn2

6 SOFi3

7 OFn3

EXAMPLE To add a filter-based monitor for all Extended Link Service requests (R_CTL=0x22 and TYPE=0x01) to a

port:

switch:admin> perfaddusermonitor 1/4 "4, 0xff, 0x22; 0x12, 0xff, 0x01"

User monitor #0 added

As a special case, to add a filter-based monitor for SOFi3 on a port:

switch:admin> perfaddusermonitor 1/4 "0, 0xff, 6"

User monitor #1 added

switchName

A switch name can include up to 30 characters on all platforms running Fabric OS v.6.2.0 or later. On the

Brocade 300, 5100, 5300, and 5410 platforms running earlier firmware versions, the switch name can be

up to 31 characters long. On all other pre-Fabric OS v6.2.0 platforms, the name is limited to 15

characters.

When you configure a switch name with 31 characters on a switch running Fabric OS v 6.1 and upgrade

from v6.1.X to v 6.2, the login prompt and switchShow command may still show 31 characters. This

inconsistency is harmless and does not cause memory corruption. To resolve the inconsistency, you can

take one of the following actions:

• Reboot the system after upgrade from v6.1.X to v 6.2. Wait for the switch to reboot and log in

after the switch has come back up. The switch name will show only 30 characters.

• Do a firmware upgrade from v6.2 to 6.3. This upgrade involves a reboot. Wait for the switch to

reboot and log in after the switch has come back up. The switch name will show only 30

characters.

The behavior of the switchName command in Fabric OS v 6.4 is the same as in v6.3. Since you cannot

upgrade directly to from v6.1.x to v6.4, the issue of switch name inconsistency is not applicable to Fabric

OS v6.4.