Brocade Fabric OS v7.2.1a Release Notes v1.0

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Defect ID:
DEFECT000472858
Technical Severity:
High
Summary:
A learning flow does not monitor all real flows on the egress port.
Symptom:
A learning flow, defined on an egress port with both generator and monitor features specified and also
has either srcdev or dstdev option as '*' will monitor less number of flows than actual number of flows
going through the egress port. This will only happen when the number of real flows exceeds 32.
Risk of Fix:
Low
Probability:
Medium
Feature:
Network Patroller
Function:
Flow monitor
Reported In Release:
FOS7.2.0
Defect ID:
DEFECT000472886
Technical Severity:
High
Summary:
FCIP FICON Tape Emulation not going into read pipelining due to synchronizing status bit set in 1st
command in chain
Symptom:
Slow FICON tape read performance due to long running restore/recall jobs
Risk of Fix:
Low
Probability:
Medium
Feature:
FOS Software
Function:
FCIP
Reported In Release:
FOS7.0.0
Service Request ID:
1219501
Defect ID:
DEFECT000473053
Technical Severity:
High
Summary:
Previously defined SIM port Flow Vision flows are retained after configdefault, configupload, and
configdownload operations
Symptom:
The previously defined flows reappeared when the uploaded default config file was down loaded and
made effective on the switch.
Risk of Fix:
Low
Probability:
Medium
Feature:
Network Patroller
Function:
Other
Reported In Release:
FOS7.2.0
Defect ID:
DEFECT000473063
Technical Severity:
High
Summary:
SIM ports stuck as G-port when changing a logical switch to a base switch
Symptom:
Ports that are configured as SIM ports in a logical switch are get stuck in an invalid state when the
logical switch is reconfigured as Base switch
Workaround:
Remove configured SIM ports before converting logical switch to base switch
Risk of Fix:
Low
Probability:
Medium
Feature:
Network Patroller
Function:
ASIC interfaces
Reported In Release:
FOS7.2.0
Defect ID:
DEFECT000473548
Technical Severity:
High
Summary:
When flows are monitored in MAPS, switch disable/enable or port enable/disable could trigger
unexpected MAPS RASLOGs
Symptom:
Unexpected MAPS RASLOGs with large values are triggered for the flows affected by port
enable/disable or switch enable/disable operations.
Risk of Fix:
Low
Probability:
High
Feature:
Advanced Monitoring Services
Function:
Flows
Reported In Release:
FOS7.2.0