Dell Brocade 5100 Brocade Fabric OS v7.3.0a Release Notes v2.0 - Page 9

two latency severity levels and provide intuitive reporting in MAPS dashboard under a new Fabric Performance Impact category. Monitor FCIP statistics FOS v7.3 supports new monitoring elements (RTT, Jitter) in the FCIP circuit group, adds a FCIP tunnel group to monitor tunnel state change and throughput, adds 4 FCIP tunnel QoS groups to monitor throughput and packet loss for each QoS priority. These new monitoring elements and groups are included in MAPS pre-defined policies and supported only on Brocade 7840. Monitor fabric scalability limit FOS v7.3 supports new monitoring elements in the switch group to monitor them against the fabric scalability limits supported by Brocade. These elements include number of device connections in a layer2 fabric, number of imported devices in a metaSAN, number of FCRs in a backbone fabric, and zoning database size. These new monitoring elements are included in MAPS pre-defined policies. Monitor ClearLink Diagnostic (D_Port) ports FOS v7.3 supports new monitoring elements for port error statistics (CRC, ITW, PE, LF, and LOSS_SYNC) in a new D_Port logical group to monitor D_Port tests so that the test results can be determined by thresholds in the MAPS rules. These new monitoring elements and groups are included in MAPS pre-defined policies. Monitor Ethernet management port FOS v7.3 supports monitoring Ethernet management port state in a new Ethernet port group to generate alerts if states for Ethernet management ports are changed. These new monitoring elements and group are included in MAPS pre-defined policies. Monitor Flow Vision learning flows FOS v7.3 supports importing and monitoring of learning flows created through Flow Vision in MAPS. Administrators can use this capability to configure thresholds and alerts for application flows without knowing the source or destination device identities in advance. Support Port Decommissioning as an action FOS v7.3 supports port decommissioning as an action that can be triggered by MAPS rules. With port decommissioning, ports can be gracefully shutdown in the event of violations without I/O interruption. FOS v7.3 supports port decommissioning on E_Port natively through MAPS. For port decommissioning on F_Port, Brocade Network Advisor 12.3 is required. Support dynamic group based on user defined pattern FOS v7.3 introduces dynamic group to enhance logic group definition for port objects. Administrators can create custom groups whose membership dynamically changes based on user defined port identity traits. Support port group augmentation FOS v7.3 implements port group augmentation to pre-defined groups and dynamic groups so that administrators can make small adjustments to group memberships without having to create a new group. Usability enhancements FOS v7.3 has a number of usability enhancements to MAPS. These include:  Change mapssam CLI to display system CPU, memory, and flash usage.  Change mapsrule and logicalgroup CLIs to make deletion of rules and groups easier.  Add a new option to mapsConfig CLI to send test emails to validate email configuration. Flow Vision Enhancements FOS v7.3 has a number of important Flow Vision enhancements to the Flow Monitor, Flow Generator, and Flow Mirror functionalities. Flow Monitor enhancements Fabric OS v7.3.0a Release Notes v2.0 Page 9 of 55