Dell Brocade 5100 Brocade Fabric OS v7.3.0a Release Notes v2.0 - Page 10

FOS v7.3 extends the learning capability to Flow Monitor on E_Port and Ex_Port. FOS v7.3 also supports Flow Monitor for static and learning flows on XISL ports and backbone E_Port. These enhancements allow administrators to apply Flow Monitor function at all point of interests in most supported SAN topologies. Flow Mirror enhancements FOS v7.3 introduces Local Flow Mirror to mirror application flows to a mirror port on the same local switch where the flows are defined. This feature enables administrators to attach external analyzers to the mirror port to capture all frames belonging to the flows for deep analysis. FOS v7.3 enhance Flow Mirror to mirror flows originated from switch CPU and egress on a port, to mirror flows on either ingress or egress on F_Port and F_Port trunks. FOS v7.3 adds the support of combination of -frametype and -ingrport keywords and combination of -frametype and -bidir keywords in flow definition for Flow Mirror. Flow Generator enhancements FOS v7.3 introduces a system pre-defined flow sys_gen_all_simports for Flow Generator to generate test traffic from every SIM port in a switch to all the other SIM ports. This allows administrators to fully stress test a switch before deployment. Miscellaneous Flow Vision enhancements FOS v7.3 supports duplicated flow definition to be created but not activated in a switch. Administrators can create flows with the same parameters but for different Flow Vision functions. FOS v7.3 increases the maximum number of flows on fixed port switches to 128 user-defined flows and 128 sub flows and on backbone switches to 512 user-defined flows and 512 sub flows. ClearLink Diagnostic (D_Port) Enhancements FOS v7.3 implements following important D_Port feature enhancements. D_Port and MAPS Integration FOS v7.3 integrate D_Port test with MAPS threshold based monitoring. Administrators can use this ability to automatically monitor D_Port tests and determine D_Port test success or failure base on threshold settings within MAPS. Dynamic D_Port and On-demand D_Port FOS v7.3 implements dynamic D_Port and on-demand D_Port modes on ISLs. With these modes, administrators can configure D_Port test to be run automatically on ISLs after switch enable, slot enable, or port persistent enable. D_Port Provision FOS v7.3 implements D_Port provision list to be configured by CLI command portcfgdport (via --provision option). Ports on the pre-provisioned list do not need to be disabled before being configured as D_Port. portCfgDport Show Result FOS v7.3 enhances the D_Port test result displayed by portCfgDport command (via --show option) to clearly identify loopback connection type or remote port index. Port LED Display D_Port Result FOS v7.3 implements visually display D_Port test failure by flashing yellow on the port LED. D_Port on FC16-64 Blade QSFPs FOS v7.3 implements D_Port test on the FC compliant QSFPs for FC16-64 blade. Electrical loopback and optical loopback tests are not supported on these QSFPs. Only link saturation test and link distance and latency measurements are performed. Fabric OS v7.3.0a Release Notes v2.0 Page 10 of 55