Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Close with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.4.1

Fabric OS v6.4.1 Release Notes v1.0

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Defect ID: DEFECT000304922

Technical Severity: High

Summary: Compact flash failure handling needs enhanced to detect and proactively trigger an

hafailover when a bad flash part is detected.

Symptom: Compact flash can sometimes fail silently, so customer only sees critical daemon failures,

which then trigger a failover. Occasionally no failure is seen at all when this happens, the
switch will continue running but does not produce any logs.

Feature: Field Escalation

Function: OS: Infrastructure

Probability: Low

Found in Release: FOS6.2.1

Service Request ID: 434659

Defect ID: DEFECT000312516

Technical Severity: High

Summary: Weblinker processes terminate (core dump) and then restart when management app

(DCFM, etc.) queries Top Talker information using CAL requests over HTTP.

Symptom: Weblinker processes terminate and then restart when querying Top Talker information from

the switch.

Feature: Field Escalation

Function: ASIC Driver

Probability: Low

Found in Release: FOS6.3.1

Service Request ID: 445261

Defect ID: DEFECT000313195

Technical Severity: High

Summary: Due to a residual setting left over in the firmware, if Top Talkers is enabled / disabled, and

devices PLOGI in to unknown type ports, class 3 frame rejects are continuously forwarded
to the CPU causing slow performance.

Symptom: Host ports can experience slow performance after enabling and then disabling Top Talker.

This is accompanied by class 3 frame rejects showing in the portlogdump.

Feature: 8G ASIC Driver

Function: C2 ASIC driver

Probability: Low

Found in Release: FOS6.3.1

Defect ID: DEFECT000262707

Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Core file size not checked when being generated by several system processes, causing the

core files to exceed size of the Compact Flash (CF) and corrupt FOS system files.

Symptom: Switch will not reboot due to corrupted FOS system files.

Feature: Field Escalation

Function: OS: Linux

Probability: Low

Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

Where Else Fixed: FOS6.3.2

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