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Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.
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GA Release Notes v1.0
February 14, 2014
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Contents
Product Overview................................................................................................................................................... 4
Brocade Network Advisor Version 12.2.0 .............................................................................................................. 4
Key Feature Enhancements .................................................................................................................................... 4
Incremental Hardware/Firmware Support ............................................................................................................. 4
Migrations & Upgrades ............................................................................................................................................ 4
Operating Systems Supported ................................................................................................................................ 5
JRE Support .............................................................................................................................................................. 6
Device Platform & Hardware Support Requirements ............................................................................................ 6
Installing Network Advisor ..................................................................................................................................... 9
To install Network Advisor on Windows (Server) .................................................................................................. 10
To install Network Advisor on Linux (Server) ........................................................................................................ 10
To launch the Network Advisor Client ................................................................................................................... 10
Important SAN Notes ........................................................................................................................................... 11
Important IP Notes .............................................................................................................................................. 14
Common Issues for SAN and IP ........................................................................................................................... 15
Patch Installer troubleshooting ............................................................................................................................. 16
Performance Statistics Counters - Calculation Formulae ................................................................................... 17
SMI Agent ............................................................................................................................................................ 19
Logging for CIMOM ................................................................................................................................................ 19
Service Location Protocol (SLP) support .............................................................................................................. 20
Documentation Updates ..................................................................................................................................... 22
Enhancements (RFEs) in Network Advisor 12.2.0 ............................................................................................... 23
Defects ................................................................................................................................................................ 23
Open Defects in Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0 .............................................................................................. 23
Closed with Code Change in Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0 .......................................................................... 32
Closed without Code Change in Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0 ..................................................................... 40
Product Overview
Brocade Network Advisor greatly simplifies daily operations while improving the performance and reliability of
the overall Storage Area Network (SAN) and IP networking environment. Brocade Network Advisor unifies under
a single platform, full lifecycle network management for SAN, LAN and converged networks. Brocade Network
Advisor provides a consistent user experience, across the entire Brocade portfolio of switches, routers and
adapters. This network management tool offers flexible and proactive SAN/IP network performance analysis in
addition to IP network configuration change deployment and monitoring for compliance. Brocade Network
Advisor supports Fibre Channel SANs, including 16 Gbps platforms, Layer 2/3 IP networks (including those
running Brocade VCS Fabric technology), wireless networks, application delivery networks, and Multiprotocol
Label Switching (MPLS) networks for service providers.
Brocade Network Advisor can reduce operation expenditures and help organizations focus on strategic IT
initiatives by providing a common network management tool for provisioning, monitoring, reporting and
troubleshooting. Brocade Network Advisor provides customizable health and performance dashboards, with an
easy-to-use graphical user interface and comprehensive features that automate repetitive tasks. With Brocade
Network Advisor, storage and network administrators can proactively manage their SAN/IP network
environments to support non-stop networking. BNA also provides network administrators the ability to quickly
access network topology, health and performance data required to troubleshoot and remediate network
issues.
Brocade Network Advisor Version 12.2.0

Revision 12.2.0 of Brocade Network Advisor supports Network OS v4.1.0. Additionally, there is support for new
VDX hardware as listed below.
Key Feature Enhancements
Support for VCS Virtual Fabrics

Support for Virtual Routers
Support for NOS Access Gateway (AG)
NOS Trace route enhancements
NOS Fabric Watch events integration in Dashboard
Incremental Hardware/Firmware Support
Network OS v4.1.0
VDX6740T-1G
VDX 8770 Modules: 6X100G, 27X40G, 48X10G Base-T
2X10G Management Module for SX800 and SX1600 Chassis
vRouter 5400 v6.6
ICX6680, ICX7750-48C, ICX7750-29Q
Fast Iron firmware v8.0.1
Migrations & Upgrades

Network Advisor 12.0.X (12.0.0 12.0.4) and 12.1.X (12.1.0 12.1.5) running on the Linux and Windows
operating systems can be upgraded to Network Advisor 12.2.0.
Note 1: Enterprise and Professional Plus editions are not supported on 32-bit servers. To migrate Enterprise
and Professional editions to a 64-bit server, refer to Pre-migration requirements when migrating from one
server to another section of the Installation and Migration Guide.
Note 2: Direction migration from pre-12.0.x releases to 12.2.0 is not supported. Refer to Table 29 from
Installation and Migration Guide for migration paths from DCFM, INM and Network Advisor 12.2.X or earlier
releases.
Note 3: Refer to Table 31 from Installation and Migration Guide for SMI Agent only migration paths
Note 4: SAN users may add IP management to Network Advisor 12.2.0 for SAN+IP network management with
the procurement of the IP functionality. Also, IP users may add SAN management to Network Advisor 12.2.0 for
SAN+IP network management with the procurement of the SAN functionality.
Operating Systems Supported

Note: Below is the minimum required system physical memory for running Network Advisor 12.2.0 (server plus
one local client):
Professional Edition: 4GB (32-bit OS), 8GB (64-bit OS)

Pro-plus and Enterprise Editions (supported on 64-bit OS only):
o Small SAN fabric and/or small IP network: 8GB
o Any combination that includes a medium/large SAN fabric or a medium/large IP
network: 16GB
Operating Systems (64-bit) / Architecture (Supported for SAN, IP, and SAN+IP)
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter

Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 Standard, Datacenter
Windows 7 Enterprise
Windows 8 and 8.1 Enterprise
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Adv 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86)
Operating System (32-bit) / Architecture

Note: Only Network Advisor Professional Edition (SAN or IP) is supported on a 32-bit Operating System. Pro-Plus
and Enterprise Editions require a 64-bit Operating System for installation.
Windows 2008 Standard (x86)

Windows 7 Enterprise (x86)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Adv (x86) 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Oracle Enterprise Linux (x86) 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86)
Note: All the above Operating Systems are supported as Guest VMs on VMware ESXi 5.5, KVM (RedHat
Enterprise Linux 6.3/6.4 Adv) and Microsoft Hyper-V (Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012)
Browser Support
Internet Explorer 10
Firefox 23
JRE Support
Network Advisor version
JRE version supported
11.2.0
JRE 1.6u24
11.2.1
JRE 1.6u26
11.3.0, 12.0.0
JRE 1.6u33
12.0.1
JRE 1.7u11
12.0.2
JRE 1.7u17
11.2.2, 12.0.3, 12.1.0, 12.1.2, 12.1.3
JRE 1.7u25
12.0.4, 12.1.4, 12.1.5
JRE 1.7u45
12.2.0
JRE 1.7u51
Note: Web Tools launch from Network Advisor is also supported for the above combinations.
Device Platform & Hardware Support Requirements

The following table lists the versions of Brocade firmware supported in this release. Brocade recommends
using the latest firmware versions in order to get the greatest benefit from the network and network
management.
Operating System
Network OS v4.1.0
Network OS v4.0.0 & v4.0.1
Network OS v3.0.0, v3.0.0a, v3.0.0b,
v3.0.1, v3.0.1a
Network OS v2.11 , v2.1.1, v2.1.1a,
v2.1.1b, v2.1.2a
2.7.02x, 2.7.03x, 2.8.x, 2.9.x
Device Type
VDX 6740-T-1G, 6740, 6740T, 8770, 6710, 6720, 6730,

6746
VDX 6740, 6740T, 8770, 6710, 6720, 6730
VDX 8770, 6710, 6720, 6730, 2730
VDX 6710, 6720, 6730, 2730
BigIron RX
7.1.x, 7.2.x
7.1.x, 7.2.x, 7.3.x, 7.4.x
7.1.x, 7.2.x, 7.3.x, 7.4.x, 8.0.x
7.1.x, 7.2.x, 7.3.x, 7.4.x, 8.0.x
7.3.x, 7.4.x, 8.0.x
FastIron FGS, FGS-STK, FLS, FLS-STK, SuperX

FESX, FWS
FastIron CX, FCX-STK
FastIron SX,
FastIron ICX 6610
7.4.x, 8.0.x
FastIron ICX 6430, 6450, 7750-48C, 7750-29Q
7.5a
Brocade 6650
5.0.x , 5.1.x, 5.2.x, 5.3.x, 5.4.x, 5.5.x,

5.6.x
2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x
NetIron CES, CER, MLX, XMR, MLXe

Brocade 6910
Operating System
Device Type
12.1.x2, 12.2. x2, 12.3.x, 12.4, 12.5

10.2.01x , 11.0.x
4.1.x, 4.2.x, 7.3.x, 7.4.x, 8.0.x
4.3.1.0, WiNG 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
ServerIron ADX
ServerIron
TurboIron 24X
Wireless Controllers - RFS 4000, RFS 6000, RFS 7000
4.1.x , 4.1.01x
FastIron FES
Vyatta vRouter 5400
v6.6
Footnotes:
1 Network
212.1.0f
OS 2.0 is not supported.
and 12.2.1 are not supported.
Switch Type SAN Devices B-Series

FOS v5.0.x, v5.1.x, v5.2.x, v5.3.x,
Brocade 3250
v6.0.x. v6.1.x, v6.2.x, v6.3.x,
Brocade 4100
v6.4.x, v7.0.x, v7.1.x, v7.2.x
Brocade 75001
Brocade 200E
Brocade 49002
Brocade 50003
Brocade AP76004
Brocade 3005
Brocade 51005
Brocade 53005
Brocade 650513
Brocade 651012
Brocade 652014
Brocade 80009
Brocade 12000
Brocade 780010
Brocade VA40-FC
Brocade Encryption Switch7
Brocade 48000 with FC4-16, FC4-32 and FC4-482 blades
Brocade 48000 with FR4-18i1
Brocade 48000 with FC4-16IP2
Brocade 48000 with FC10-64
Brocade 48000 with FA4-18
Brocade DCX6 with FC8-16, FC8-32,FA4-18, and FC8-48 blades
Brocade DCX6 with FR4-18i blades
Brocade DCX with FC10-6 blades
Switch Type SAN Devices B-Series

Brocade DCX7 with FS8-18 blades
Brocade DCX10 with FCoE10-24 blades
Brocade DCX10 with FX8-24 blades
Brocade DCX-4S8 with FC8-16, FC8-32,FA4-18, FC8-48 and FC8-64
blades
Brocade DCX11 with FC8-64 blades
Brocade DCX-4S8 with FR4-18i blades
Brocade DCX-4S8 with FC10-6 blades
Brocade DCX-4S8 with FS8-18 blades
Brocade DCX-4S with FA4-18
Brocade DCX-4S10 with FCoE10-24 blades
Brocade DCX-4S10 with FX8-24 blades
Brocade DCX-4S11 with FC8-64 blades
Brocade DCX 8510-412 and DCX 8510-812
Brocade DCX 8510-412 and DCX 8510-812 with FC16-32 and FC1648 blades
Brocade DCX 8510-413 and DCX 8510-813 with FC8-32e and FC848e blades
FOS v5.2.x, v5.3.x, v6.0.x,

v6.1.x, v6.2.x v6.3.x,
v6.4.0,v7.0.x, v7.1.x, v7.2.x
Blade Type SAN Devices B-Series

Brocade 3014
Brocade 3016
Brocade 4020
Brocade 4016
Brocade 40241
Brocade 4018
Brocade 4012
Brocade 4424
Brocade 54102
Brocade 54502
Brocade 54602
Brocade 54242
Brocade 54702
Brocade 54802
Brocade M6505
Brocade 6547
Brocade 5430
Brocade 5431
Brocade 5432
Brocade 6546
Footnotes:
1 Requires
FOS v5.1.0 or higher
Requires FOS v5.2.0 or higher

FOS v5.2.1 or higher
4 Requires FOS v5.3.0 or higher
7 Requires FOS v6.1.1_enc or higher
9 Requires FOS v6.1.2_CEE or higher
10 Requires FOS v6.3.x or higher
13 Requires FOS v7.0.1
2
3 Requires
Adapters Types
1.1, 2.1.1.0, 2.0, 2.2, 3.0, 3.1,
3.2
Brocade 415,425,815,825
Brocade 8041
Brocade 1010,1020,10072
Brocade 17413
Brocade 18604
Brocade 18675
Footnotes:
1 Requires
v2.1.1.0 or higher
Requires v2.0 or higher
3 Requires v2.2 or higher
4 Requires v3.0 or higher
5 Requires v3.0.3 or higher
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Virtual Machine Management:

vCenter and ESXi Supported Versions
ESX
4.0, 4.1
ESXi
4.0, 5.0, 5.1
VCenter
4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1
Installing Network Advisor

Installation instructions are provided for the following operating systems:
Microsoft Windows
Linux
The Network Advisor Server runs as multiple services on Windows and multiple processes on Linux; and they
start automatically after installation.
To install Network Advisor on Windows (Server)

1.
2.
3.
4.
Download and extract the zip archive

Navigate to the Windows folder
Execute install.exe
Follow the instructions to complete the installation.
To install Network Advisor on Linux (Server)

1.
Download and extract the tar.gz archive
2.
Navigate to the Linux folder.
3.
Execute Install.bin from the File Manager window.
4.
Follow the instructions to complete the installation.
To launch the Network Advisor Client

-
To launch the Network Advisor Client on the same local machine as the Network Advisor Server,
launch the client as follows:
Windows: Select Start > Programs > Network Advisor 12.2.0 > Network Advisor 12.2.0
Windows:
Client can be launched via Desktop icon.
Launch command prompt and go to the location <Install location>/bin and type dcmclient
Linux:
Client can be launched via Desktop icon.
Launch terminal and go to the location <Install location>/bin and type sh dcmclient
Windows and Linux: Follow the below steps on launching the client from a web browser.
-
To launch the Network Advisor Client from a remote host, launch the client as follows:
Open a browser window and type the Network Advisor server hostname or IP address in the Address
field; for example:
https://NetworkAdvisorServerhost1.companyname.com/
https://192.x.y.z/
If when the Network Advisor server was installed, a Network Advisor web server HTTPS port number
was specified (instead of the default443); you must specify the port number after the hostname or IP
address. In the following examples, 8080 is the web server port number:
https:// NetworkAdvisorServerhost1.companyname.com:8080/
https://192.x.y.z:8080/
Please note that the required Client Oracle JRE version has now changed to 1.7.0_51. For remote clients, this
JRE needs to be installed prior to establishing a server connection.
Note 1 :
Launching element manager applications within Network Advisor Client is done using Java Web Start
technology. This requires the local systems web browser to be able to run Java web start applications. This
setting may have been turned off in the wake of recent Java zero-day vulnerabilities.
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To turn on Java content in the browser, please follow the below steps:
1. Launch Java Control Panel (refer to http://java.com/en/download/help/win_controlpanel.xml to
locate Java Control Panel application on Windows)
2. In the Java Control Panel, click on the Security tab.
3. Select the check box for Enable Java content in the browser. This will enable the Java plug-in in
the browser.
4. Click Apply. When the Windows User Account Control (UAC) dialog appears, allow permissions to
make the changes. Click OK in the Java Plug-in confirmation window.
5. Now launch Element Manager from BNA client.
Note 2 :
On a Windows server, if only Administrators have access to a drive, windows does not allow Postgres to
create some required directories and a result, migration from a previous version of Network Advisor to a
newer supported version fails. The following steps need to be followed to resolve the issue:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Make sure that the previous version of Network Advisor is up and running.
Right click on the drive where the new version of Network Advisor is intended to be installed (E.g. :D)
Navigate to the Security tab -> Edit -> Add
Add Authenticated Users and give full permission, click Ok
Now install the new version of Network Advisor and start the migration progress.
Important SAN Notes

1. Host based stand-alone SMI agents cannot manage products with Fabric OS v7.0 and above. It
requires use of the integrated SMI Agent with Brocade Network Advisor 12.1.0 and above.
2. Supported AG limits are the following: 64 bit OS - max of 200 AGs
3. Network Advisor cannot manage an ESXi 5.0 host due to a VMware issue (KB 2012672: SFCB CIMOM
on ESXi 5.0 is incompatible with JRE 1.6 U29 and later). The user is hence required to update to ESXi
5.0 update 1 or later to be able to manage the host in Network Advisor through the host adapter
discovery.
4. If you see the following error message Signature could not be validated during firmware download or
technical support data collection (Fabric OS and Network OS devices only) or configuration
backup/restore (Network OS devices only) using SCP/SFTP, then it could be due to a mismatch in the
signature key used in the ssh handshake between the switch and SCP/SFTP server. Try the following
cli command work-around to address the issue:
For Fabric OS devices

sw0:FID128:admin> sshutil delknownhost
IP Address/Hostname to be deleted: <IP Address of SSH server to be deleted>
For Network OS devices

Firmware version 3.0 and later
sw0# clear ssh-key <IP Address of SSH server to be deleted>
Firmware version 2.1.1b

sw0#execute-script sshdeleteknownhost
IP Address/Hostname to be deleted: <IP Address of SSH server to be deleted>
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If the above does not work, go to Server > Options > Software Configuration > FTP/SFTP/SCP, and
uncheck the SCP/SFTP option.
5. The Encryption Smart Card Driver is only supported for 32 bit Linux. It is not supported on 64 bit
Linux.
6. Firmware Download operation on Fabric OS switches fails via SCP/SFTP when trying to upgrade from
FOS v6.3.2b to v6.4.2b4. The workaround is to use the FTP option in BNA to perform the firmware
download operation.
7. Firmware Download operation on Fabric OS switches fails when trying to upgrade from FOS v6.4.2a to
v7.0.2c. The workaround is to use CLI for this operation.
8. Trying to move 200+ ports to a Logical Switch with Reset to Default option selected, results in
operation time-out.
9. During installation, if Network Advisor database initialization fails on windows Operating System, user
needs to verify access to the drive on which the installation is performed. If the user Administrator
alone has access to the drive, then required permissions should also be provided to Authenticated
Users and then continue with the installation.
10. There will be a delay in populating the Gige port details in the Network Advisor client if the server IP is
not registered on the switch to receive SNMP traps from the switch.
11. When the active and defined zone sets have identical zones which differ only by the case of their
names, user will get alerted that the active zone set is different from the defined configuration in the
zone database. The workaround is to edit the identical zone names (for such zones) in defined set, so
that after modification, both zone names are identical in active and defined zone sets.
12. After upgrading to Network Advisor 12.x from 11.x, SSL-based product communication will fail if the
devices have weak authentication certificates. The user will see a 4002 error on attempting to
discover such devices. Devices discovered prior to migration will not be manageable in Network
Advisor after migration. Java 1.7 used by BNA 12.x disables the use of certificates with weak
authentication. The certificates on such devices need to be updated to be compliant with JRE v1.7.
Please refer to the Secure Sockets Layer protocol section of FOS Admin guide for details on updating
certificates.
13. Receive Throughput measure is not updated in Flow Vision dialog.
14. D-port test fails for F-ports with the result as null in the report.
15. In Real Time performance graphs, percentage utilization will fluctuate between 0 100 if a single port
is selected. The workaround is to select more than one port while generating Real Time performance
graphs.
16. Network Advisor uses SNMPv3 by default to discover SAN products. If required, user can select the
Manual option in Discovery dialog and choose SNMPv1 for discovery.
17. Network Advisor uses SNMPv3 by default to discover SAN products. If required, user can select the
Manual option in Discovery dialog and choose SNMPv1 for discovery.
18. On FOS switches running firmware versions v7.2.0 and v7.2.1, if LSAN tags are added or removed
from CLI, the corresponding events are not received by Network Advisor in Master Log. As a result,
adaptive polling is not initiated and the changed tags are updated in Network Advisor after the next
polling cycle.
19. A delay of 5 to 7 minutes is seen when Web Tools is launched on a system (through Network Advisor
or directly in a web browser) where internet access is not available and the network does not return a
destination unreachable message. This issue occurs as Java tries to validate the SSL certificates with
external CAs. This problem can be avoided on such systems by modifying the below Java properties:
On Windows: C:\Users\<logged in
username>\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties
On Linux: home/< logged in user name>/.java/deployment/deployment.properties
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In the deployment.properties file, edit the below parameters and set them to false. If these parameters are
not present, add them and save the file. Then re-launch Web tools.
deployment.security.validation.ocsp = false
deployment.security.validation.crl = false
Display of Logical Switches

If you create Logical switches through the Logical Switch dialog box, the Logical switch displays under
undiscovered Logical Switch in the existing Logical Switches Panel. You have to rediscover the newly created
logical switch fabric, by going to the discovery dialog, and adding the IP address of the chassis using the add
dialog.
Destination columns are blank for Brocade Encryption Switch in top talkers dialog
When the Top Talkers dialog box is launched for the Brocade Encryption Switch, the columns Destination,
Destination port and Destination switch port are sometimes empty.
SSL connections using certificates with MD5 signatures

To avoid potential security vulnerabilities, Network Advisor versions 12.0 and later do not support SSL
connections using certificates with MD5 signatures. If Network Advisor is configured to use HTTPS instead of
HTTP when communicating with SAN switches, and the SAN switch has a certificate installed that is signed with
an MD5 algorithm, discovery of the switch fails with the following pop-up message: Authentication failure
during discovery operation: 4002.
The recommended solution is to replace the certificate on the network device with a certificate using the more
secure SHA signature. If that is not practical, the Network Advisor server configuration can be changed to
accept MD5 signatures. Note that accepting MD5 signatures may result in warnings from network security
scanning tools.
To accept MD5 signatures, edit the following text file:
On 32-bit Windows or Linux: <install-dir>/jre/lib/security/java.security
On 64-bit Windows or Linux: <install-dir>/jre64/lib/security/java.security
Remove MD5 from the following line near the end of the file:
jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=MD5, DES, 3DES, RC2
The modified line should appear as:
jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=DES, 3DES, RC2
The change will take effect the next time the Network Advisor server is restarted.
Reset Ports operation in Logical Switches dialog

Note 1: Reset ports to default operation is applicable only when the ports are moved from one Logical Switch
to another Logical Switch through the Right Arrow button i.e., from (Chassis ports Tree/Tree Table) LHS to
(Logical Switches Device Tree) RHS device tree.
It is not applicable when:
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Ports from a Logical Switch are moved to default Logical Switch through Left Arrow button,
i.e., from (Logical Switches Device Tree) RHS to (Chassis ports Tree/Tree Table) LHS.
When a Logical Switch is deleted - its ports will not be reset to default before moving to
Default Logical Switch before its deletion
Ports which are moved to the default logical switch can be reset to default, if they are moved from (Chassis
ports Tree/Tree Table) LHS to (Logical Switches Device Tree) RHS device tree.
Note 2: Reset ports to default operation will not clear FCIP configurations in the following scenarios:
In 7500 and FR4-18i, VE ports cannot be reset to default unless their corresponding GE ports
are cleared of their FCIP configurations.
In 7800 and FX8-24, GE ports cannot be reset to default unless their corresponding VE ports
are cleared of their FCIP configurations.
Important IP Notes
Miscellaneous Important Notes that Apply to IP Installations
1. Prior to v12.2.0 release, Network Advisor would attempt to discover IP products with default
community strings (public as read community and private as write community) without requiring
this to be configured in Global Settings tab of IP Discovery dialog. However, this could trigger login
attempts failure and could send alarms to Network Administrators if the write community string
configured on the device did not match Network Advisors default write community string (private).
To avoid this issue, starting Network Advisor v12.2.0 release, discovery process will not use
default write community string if it is not configured in Global Settings. User has to explicitly
configure Read-Write community strings in Add Device dialog or Global Settings dialog.
2. Adaptive polling turned off by default for all IP devices (even for migrated servers).
3. SNMP write credentials will not be populated by default for IOS devices.
4. Each IP product has a System max value that can be configured for various parameters, such as
ip-filter-sys for ACLs. Network Advisor deployments do not check whether the payload being
sent to the device has a number greater than the system-max value. In such deployment
scenarios, the deployment may report success even though the number was limited to the systemmax value. To ensure successful deployments, make sure the payload being sent is no greater
than System max value.
5. NOS device configuration backup will only be collected for the following cases:
In case of VCS cluster, Manual Discovery/Rediscovery of the cluster members
CLI manager configuration deployments
6. Syslog messages will not be received for the VDX 8770 that is configured with different IP
addresses for CPs
7. Simplified image upgrade is recommended for NI devices running 5.3 and above.
8. Fixed Form Factor switches running Network OS 4.0 are displayed with Product Type as Router
in Network Advisor, even when they do not have Layer 3 license.
9. When two ports of the same storage are connected to two VDX devices, only of the attached ports
is displayed in the Zoning dialog.
10. On NOS switches, Technical support data collection will fail, if System Time is not set on the
switch. The operation will be in progress for 10 to 20 minutes and eventually fail. Setting System
Time resolves this issue.
11. On VDX devices managed through in band IP address in Network Advisor, firmware download and
configuration backup operations fail.
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12. Cluster IP address does not fall back to the Physical IP address of the Principal node, when the
Virtual IP Address of the cluster is not reachable from Network Advisor.
13. In VLAN Topology view, RSPAN and TLS information associated with Virtual Fabrics is not
displayed. The VLAN Manager dialog displays this information.
IP Address and Detailed Reports

14. IP Management Ports will not be consistent with the CLI port naming conventions. These are
caused by SNMP index and port name inconsistencies. In some cases, Management ports will not
be displayed in the reports.
Boot, Monitor, Firmware Image Updates

1. Network Advisor does not support boot and firmware upgrade and downgrade for ADX devices
running 12.1 or above.
2. Firmware Image Update on FastIron devices using Configuration Wizard using "SCP only" or "SCP
then TFTP" results in the corruption of the flash to which image is pushed. Use CLI as
workaround.
3. Firmware Download to NetIron CES devices fails via SCP with the error message there is not
enough space on MP flash.
Common Issues for SAN and IP

Miscellaneous Important Notes that Apply to both SAN and IP Installations
1. 64 bit OS is required to run Network Advisor Professional-Plus and Enterprise Editions.
2. M Model switches are unsupported as Seed switch or member switch from Network Advisor 12.0.0.
3. Privileges related to SAN and IP features are prefixed with SAN and IP strings. After migration
from an older version, new privilege names will be displayed in the Role Management dialog with
these prefixes.
4. Network Advisor server startup and restart can take up to 10+ minutes to complete.
5. When configuring Brocade Network Advisor in SSL enable mode in application configuration wizard,
please ensure that both HTTP and HTTPS ports are free and available for Network Advisor. Currently
the application checks only if the HTTPS configured port is available and not the HTTP port.
6. To avoid excessive telnet/ssh login messages in the Network Advisor master log and event report, and
the device CLI console, disable lazy polling by un-checking the Enable lazy polling checkbox in IP
Discovery Global Settings > Preferences Dialog.
7. Starting 12.0, the number of client connections supported has increased to 25. Please refer to the
installation guide for the details. In addition to those details, the following database memory setting is
required:
1. The PostgreSQLs parameter shared_buffers memory allocation should be
increased to 1024MB. [This setting can be done by editing
<installation_directory>\data\databases\postgresql.conf file.]
Change following line: shared_buffers = 256MB
To: shared_buffers = 1024MB
2. Server needs to be restarted.
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8. In Linux 64 bit machines, connecting to the database through Open office using ODBC will not work.
Solution is to connect from Windows ODBC Client to the 64 bit Linux machine where Network Advisor
is running to view the Database tables.
9. If you are using the ODBC connection from a remote host to the database, after migrating to 12.0.X,
you will no longer be able to connect from the remote host. If you want to connect from the remote
host, please refer to the Configuring remote client access to the database section in the Installation
and Migration guide.
10. When attempting to install Network Advisor on a Linux Server, if the message Insert New Media is
displayed, the below command needs to be executed from a terminal:
ulimit n 2000
11. Technical Support data collection for discovered Products fails through an external Linux FTP server on
a Windows installation of Network advisor.
12. Client only application can be installed on a machine other than the server (without using a web
browser) by creating a client bundle on the server, then copying and installing that client on another
machine. Refer to Client only installation section of the Installation and Migration guide for details.
13. During installation on a Linux server, if user sets the password for Network Advisor database starting
with a $, installation of the application will fail.
Patch Installer troubleshooting

Patch installer may not launch if UAC is enabled on a Windows 7/8/2008/2008 R2/2012 Editions. User has
to first disable the UAC using the procedure provided in the Chapter G: Troubleshooting - Patch
troubleshooting Section of the User Manual and then launch the patch installer.
Domestic and International Modem based Call Home is no longer supported for
Brocade Call Home Centers in 12.0 and above
Alternatively, customers using Domestic or International Call Home Modem feature can reconfigure
their Call Home to utilize the Brocade Email option for continued Call Home notifications in the event
of a system problem. Please refer to the Call Home section of the Brocade Network Advisor User
Manual for more configuration details. Note that EFCM and DCFM customers will also be affected by
this change and need to reconfigure their call home to utilize the Brocade Email option for continued
Call Home notifications in the event of a system problem.
During migration, an option will be given to migrate the switches which are configured with these Call
Home centers to Brocade email call home. If you do not have any switches assigned to the Brocade
Domestic and Brocade International call centers, please select No in the config wizard when the
message is displayed.
Note: EMC and IBM Call Home Centers will continue to support Modem Call Home functionality.
Support Saves may take a long time with large databases

As databases grow larger from Event, sFlow, and Performance Collector data, the support save operation may
take a long time to run. Larger databases will promote longer support save operations. Make sure you have a
minimum of 20GB disk space for support save and backup operations.
Installation on Network Mounted Drives is not supported

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Installation onto a windows network mounted drive is not supported but install is allowed and DB fails
to start.
Client disconnects
Under heavy server load or degraded network links, there is a potential for Network Advisor client to
get disconnected from the server. Work around is to restart the client.
Cross-flavor Migration
Migrating same version of BNA (12.2.x) from OEM1 version to OEM2 version:
-
Partially uninstall the source BNA 12.2.x OEM1 version

Now install BNA 12.2.x OEM2 version
In the copy data and settings page, browse to the BNA 12.2.x OEM1 version and continue
with the migration.
Migrating BNA (pre-12.2.x) OEM1 version to BNA 12.2.x OEM2 version:

-
Install the source BNA pre-12.2.x OEM1 version

Now install BNA 12.2.x OEM2 version
In the copy data and settings page, browse to the BNA 12.2.x OEM1 version and continue
with the migration.
Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) Support

The supported and tested versions are listed below:
HP SIM Version
v6.2, v7.1
HP VCEM version
v6.2, v7.1
OA firmware
Onboard Administrator (OA) v2.41 or later
VC E-net module firmware(HP VC 8Gb 20Port FC Module &

HP VC 8Gb 24-Port FC Module)
v3.15
Hardware
HP BladeSystem c3000 or c7000
Servers
Proliant BL465c G7, Proliant BL460c G6
HBA
Brocade 804 8Gb FC HBA, Emulex LPe1205HP 8Gb FC HBA, QLogic QMH2562 8Gb FC HBA
Performance Statistics Counters - Calculation Formulae

For calculating the statistics for FC, GE, FCIP and TE port we use SNMP to query the respective OIDs,
mentioned below in the table.
For calculating the HBA and CNA statistics, we use the APIs provided by HCM. And for EE monitors we use HTTP
to get the TX, RX and CRC error values.
Polling interval for historical graph is 5 min and for real-time, it changes based on the granularity value
selected in the Real Time graph dialog.
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Counter Name
Type
Protocol
used
Source value
Formula
TX
FC
SNMP
.1.3.6.1.3.94.4.5.1.6
TX = (Delta value1 / (1000 * 1000)) /

(Polling interval2)
RX
FC
SNMP
.1.3.6.1.3.94.4.5.1.7
RX = (Delta value1 / (1000 * 1000)) /

(Polling interval2)
TX
GE
SNMP
.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.10
TX = (Delta value1 / (1000 * 1000)) /

(Polling interval2)
RX
GE
SNMP
.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.6
RX = (Delta value1 / (1000 * 1000)) /

(Polling interval2)
TX
FCIP
SNMP
.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.10
TX = (Delta value1 / (1000 * 1000)) /

(Polling interval2)
RX
FCIP
SNMP
.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.6
RX = (Delta value1 / (1000 * 1000)) /

(Polling interval2)
Uncompressed
Tx/Rx MB/sec
FCIP
SNMP
.1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.6
(Delta value1 / (1000 * 1000)) / (Polling

interval2)
TX
EE
Monitors
HTTP
PortRX (variable from the

return html file)
TX = (Delta value1 / (1000 * 1000)) /

(Polling interval2)
RX
EE
Monitors
HTTP
PortTX (variable from the

return html file)
RX = (Delta value1 / (1000 * 1000)) /

(Polling interval2)
TX
HBA, CNA
HCM API
NA
TX = (Delta value1 / (1000 * 1000)) /

(Polling interval2)
RX
HBA, CNA
HCM API
NA
RX = (Delta value1 / (1000 * 1000)) /

(Polling interval2)
TX
TE
SNMP
.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.6
TX = (Delta value1 / (1000 * 1000)) /

(Polling interval2)
RX
TE
SNMP
.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.10
RX = (Delta value1 / (1000 * 1000)) /

(Polling interval2)
TX% / RX%
FC, GE,
FCIP, HBA,
CNA
NA
NA
TX% / RX% FCIP N/A N/A TX% or RX%

= ((bytes transferred) / (maximum bytes
transmitted))*100
where maximum bytes transmitted =
tunnelspeed * 134217728
Note: Maximum bytes transmitted 1
Gbps
If utilization is less than 1, the value is
0.0.
TX% / RX% FC, GE, HBA, CNA N/A N/A
TX% or RX% = ((TX or RX) /((134217728
* port speed)* (polling interval2)))
TX% / RX% (Pre

6.4.1 Edison
release)
TE
NA
NA
TX% or RX% = ((TX or RX) /

((134217728 * 10)*( Polling interval2)))
* 100
If Utilization is less than 1 then the value
is it to 0.0
Cumulative
FCIP
.1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.4.1.1.4
Compression Ratio = current value/
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Compression Ratio
1000
Since for compression ratio we will take
the current compression ratio value
Receive EOF
TE
.1.3.6.1.2.1.16.1.1.1.5
Other Counters
Current
Compression Ratio
Receive EOF = Delta value1 / (1000 *

1000)
Other counters = Delta value1

FCIP
NA
NA
(ifHCInOctets + ifHCOutOctets) /
fcipExtendedLinkCompressedBytes.
1) Delta value1: is the difference of value retrieved between the two consecutive poling cycles.
2) Polling interval2 : duration between the two polling cycle in seconds
SMI Agent
1. For BNA that has more than 30K instances (2 MB zones), the CIMOM takes more memory to generate
CIM instances.
If user performs Enumerate Instances or Enumerate Instances Names and total number of size is
more than 2 MB for all managed fabrics, then CIM_ERROR_FAILED will be thrown as the "Total Zone
DB size is more than 2 MB. For such configuration, User need to use Association calls
Note: if the total zone DB is more than 1 MB/more than 10000 instances then user should change
the max jvm heap size to 2048MB to fetch the data without failure in 64 bit machine
2. SMI alert indication BRCD60 is not sent out to SMI clients if Fabric OS switches are discovered but
SNMP trap registration has failed. Ensure that Brocade Network Advisor server is successfully
registered for traps on all switches.
3. If DCB switches are running Fabric OS 6.3.x and 6.3.1_cee, VLAN/ACL deployment through SMI-A will
fail. It is required to upgrade the DCB Fabric OS to 6.4.x/6.3.1_dcb/7.0.X for VLAN/ACL deployment
support through SMI Agent.
Indications delivery depends on SAN Size and SNMP registration

The time to deliver the indication will vary based on Network Advisor SAN size selected during installation. If
large SAN size is selected, indication delivery time will be longer.
Provider classes may take more time to update the fabric changes if the switches managed in Network Advisor
are not SNMP registered. As this would cause a delay in indication delivery, all the switches managed in
Network Advisor should be SNMP registered
Logging for CIMOM

The default logging level is "INFO" in integrated Agent. To change the logging level to DEBUG, update the
"com.brocade" category value in cimom-log4j.xml file present in <Installation Dir>\conf folder.
The log file size and number of log files also can be changed by modifying the file rolling appender parameters
in this cimom-log4j.xml file.
Logging Level, File size and Number of Log files can be changed by modifying the following fields:"Log Level",
"File Size" and "Number of Files" from Configuration Tool through CIMOM tab.
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Service Location Protocol (SLP) support

The Management application SMI Agent uses Service Location Protocol (SLP) to allow applications to discover
the existence, location, and configuration of WBEM services in enterprise networks.
You do not need a WBEM client to use SLP discovery to find a WBEM Server; that is, SLP discovery might
already know about the location and capabilities of the WBEM Server to which it wants to send its requests. In
such environments, you do not need to start the SLP component of the Management application SMI Agent.
However, in a dynamically changing enterprise network environment, many WBEM clients might choose to use
SLP discovery to find the location and capabilities of other WBEM Servers. In such environments, start the SLP
component of the Management application SMI Agent to allow advertisement of its existence, location, and
capabilities.
SLP installation is optional and you can configure it during Management application configuration. Once
installed, SLP starts whenever the Management application SMI Agent starts.
Management SMI Agent SLP application support includes the following components:
slpd script starts the slpd platform
slpd program acts as a Service Agent (SA). A different slpd binary executable file exists for UNIX and
Windows systems.
slptool script starts the slptool platform-specific program
slptool program can be used to verify whether SLP is operating properly or not. A different slptool
exists for UNIX and Windows.
By default, the Management application SMI Agent is configured to advertise itself as a Service Agent (SA). The
advertised SLP template shows its location (IP address) and the WBEM Services it supports. The default
advertised WBEM services show the Management application SMI Agent:
accepts WBEM requests over HTTP without SSL on TCP port 5988
accepts WBEM requests over HTTPS using SSL on TCP port 5989
slptool commands
Use the following slptool commands to verify whether the SLP is operating properly.
slptool findsrvs service:service-agent

Use this command to verify that the Management application SMI Agent SLP service is properly
running as a Service Agent (SA).
Example output: service:service-agent://127.0.0.1,65535
slptool findsrvs service:wbem
Use this command to verify that the Management application SMI Agent SLP service is properly advertising its
WBEM services.
Example outputs:
service:wbem:https://10.0.1.3:5989,65535
service:wbem:http://10.0.1.3:5988,65535
This output shows the functionalities of Management application SMI Agent:
accepts WBEM requests over HTTP using SSL on TCP port 5989
accepts WBEM requests over HTTP without SSL on TCP port 5988
slptool findattrs service:wbem:http://IP_Address:Port
o Use this command to verify that Management application SMI Agent SLP service is properly
advertising its WBEM SLP template over the HTTP protocol.
o
Example input: slptool findattrs service:wbem:http://10.0.1.2:5988
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Note: Where IP_Address:Port is the IP address and port number that display when you use the
slptool findsrvs service:wbem command.
slptool findattrs service:wbem:https://IP_Address:Port

o Use this command to verify that the Management application SMI Agent SLP service is
properly advertising its WBEM SLP template over the HTTPS protocol.
o
Example input: slptool findattrs service:wbem:https://10.0.1.2:5989
Note: Where IP_Address:Port is the IP address and port number that display when you use
the slptool findsrvs service:wbem command.
SLP on UNIX systems

This section describes how to verify the SLP daemon on UNIX systems.
SLP file locations on UNIX systems:
SLP logManagement_Application/cimom /cfg/slp.log

SLP daemonManagement_Application/cimom /cfg/slp.conf
The SLP daemon can be reconfigured by modifying,
SLP registerManagement_Application/cimom /cfg/slp.reg
You can statically register an application that does not dynamically register with SLP using SLPAPIs by
modifying this file. For more information about these files, read the comments contained in them, or refer to
http://www.openslp.org/doc/html/UsersGuide/index.html
Verifying SLP service installation and operation on UNIX systems:
1. Open a command window.
2. Type % su root and press Enter to become the root user.
3. Type # Management_Application/cimom/bin/slptool findsrvs service:service-agent and press Enter to
verify the SLP service is running as a Service Agent (SA).
4. Type # < Management_Application >/cimom/bin/slptool findsrvs service:wbem and press Enter to
verify the SLP service is advertising its WBEM services.
5. Choose one of the following options to verify the SLP service is advertising the WBEM SLP template
over its configured client protocol adapters.
o
Type # Management_Application/cimom /bin/slptool findattrs

service:wbem:http://IP_Address:Port and press Enter.
Type # Management_Application/cimom /bin/slptool findattrs

service:wbem:https://IP_Address:Port and press Enter.
Note: Where IP_Address:Port is the IP address and port number that display when you use the slptool
findsrvs service:wbem command.
SLP on Windows systems

This section describes how to verify the SLP daemon on Windows systems.
SLP file locations:
SLP logManagement_Application\cimom \cfg\slp.log
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SLP daemonManagement_Application\cimom\cfg\slp.conf
The SLP daemon can be reconfigure the by modifying this file.
SLP registerManagement_Application\cimom\cfg\slp.reg
statically register an application that does not dynamically register with SLP using SLPAPIs by
modifying this file. For more information about these files, read the comments contained in them, or
refer to http://www.openslp.org/doc/html/UsersGuide/index.html
Verifying SLP service installation and operation on Windows systems:

1. Launch the Server Management Console from the Start menu.
2. Click Start to start the SLP service.
3. Open a command window.
4. Type cd c:\Management_Application\cimom \bin and press Enter to change to the directory where
slpd.bat is located.
5. Type > slptool findsrvs service:service-agent and press Enter to verify the SLP service is running as a
Service Agent.
6. Type > slptool findsrvs service:wbem and press Enter to verify the SLP service is advertising its WBEM
services.
7. Choose one of the following options to verify the SLP service is advertising the WBEM SLP template
over its configured client protocol adapters.
Type > slptool findattrs service:wbem:http://IP_Address:Port and press Enter.
Type > slptool findattrs service:wbem:https://IP_Address:Port and press Enter.

Note: Where IP_Address:Port is the IP address and port number that display when you use the
slptool findsrvs service:wbem command.
Enumeration issue with Brocade 8000 running on Fabric OS 6.3.x or lower

Enumeration instance fails for the following classes:
Brocade_EthernetPortLANEndPoint, Brocade_EthernetAdminDomainHostedLanEndPoint,
Brocade_EndpointOfNetworkPipe, Brocade_EthernetSwitchHostedLANEndPoint,
Brocade_InEthernetLogicalNetwork, Brocade_LANEndpoint, Brocade_PlatformHostedLANEndPoint
When Brocade Network Advisor manages a Brocade 8000 running on Fabric OS 6.3.x or lower, connected to
FDMI enabled CNA.
Instance class key property with special character

Getinstance operation fails if the key property value contains semicolon or non printable character.
FC port type value for imported HBAs

Brocade_topologyview.AntecedentFCPortType property value corresponding to the imported HBA is shown as Lport.
Documentation Updates
Network Advisor Installation and Migration guide refers to Professional Plus Trial license (Tables 1, 26 and
30). This license is no longer valid and reference to this license will be removed in the subsequent version of
Network advisor documentation.
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Enhancements (RFEs) in Network Advisor 12.2.0
Port Mirroring - Configure port mirroring through element manager dialog.

sFlow Configuration, Monitoring for the marked port/ports through element manager dialog.
Card level status should displayed in the element manager dialog.
Display SFP detailed status in the element manager.
Support reset of device counters in the MLX element manager.
Bill of Material (B0M) - Create Bill of Material (BoM) report for each managed network element. Power
supplies, fabrics and optics shall be visible in the device report.
Option to do a MR switchover when selecting a device in the MLX element manager.
Summary Stats per port and device (Ether stats support for Real-time/Historical graphs) should be
displayed in the element manager.
Option to Enable/Disable Ports /preferable also ports inside of an LAG in the element manager
Include Event description in the Email Subject for Notifications
Include the Port details in the Email and Master log event of the Psuedo Event
LSAN Zoning: Support for Configuring Alias
NOS 4.1 Support for NETCONF format change
Honor the Top-N threshold based on the port speed
New measures added for historical data collection for NOS Ethernet ports: Tx Power, Rx Power, Tx
Bias Current, Temperature, Wavelength & Voltage
Optionally publish the Historical Graph to the active dashboard
Support launching trace route for the VMs that are connected to VCS managed
Add Trace Route Launch menu item to VM node context menu on Device Tree, Search dialog ( Auto
complete search, IP address population)
Support for IP related performance statistics for VMs
Support for IP network connectivity for VMs
Defects
Open Defects in Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0
This section lists defects with High and Medium Technical Severity open in Network Advisor 12.2.0 as of 4:00
PM on Feb 13, 2014. While these defects are still formally open, they are unlikely to impede Brocade
customers in their deployment of Network Advisor 12.2.0 and have been deferred to a later release.
None of these defects have the requisite combination of probability and severity to cause significant concern
to Brocade customers. Note that when a workaround/recovery to an issue is available, it is provided;
otherwise, no recommended workaround is available at this time.
Defect ID: DEFECT000465401
Technical Severity: Medium
Probability: Medium
Product: Network Advisor
Technology: Fault Management
Reported In Release: Network Advisor12.1.0
Technology Area: Event Actions
Symptom: User cannot receive special handling events
Condition: Issue occurs when event action is configured with policy as frequency bound and action type as
special handling
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Probability: Low
Technology: Device Management
Technology Area: Device configurations
Symptom: Interface details are not shown correctly for Cisco device
Condition: Issue is seen only with Cisco 2950
Probability: High
Symptom: User will see incorrect error message when configuration backup fails
Condition: Issue occurs when super user password is not updated for the device in Network Advisor
Probability: Medium
Network
Advisor12.1.0
Reported In Release:
Symptom: AG to Switch Connection details are duplicated in Connection properties dialog
Condition: Issue occurs only when F-port trunk is enabled
Probability: Low
Symptom: User is not allowed collect the Support Save and perform config upload using FTP
Condition: This issue is observed when BNA is upgraded to 12.0.2
Probability: Medium
Technology: Monitoring
Technology Area: Dashboards
Symptom: Historical Graph options are not persisted on re-launching the Graph Options dialog
Condition: This issue is observed when multiple measures are selected from Graph Options
Probability: Medium
Technology Area: Zoning
Symptom: Logging might be blocked while Purge is in Progress
Condition: Issue might occur only when large data is being purged
Technical Severity: High
Probability: Medium
Symptom: Fabric Segments with the reason Zone Conflict when an alias is created with upper case WWN on
one switch and the same alias with lower case WWN on other switch using CLI.
Condition: Issue occurs only when trying to create the same alias with case sensitive character for WWN through
difference interfaces.
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Probability: Medium
Symptom: Warning icon and TI Zones are displayed incorrectly in the Active Zone Configuration tab .
Condition: Issue is observed only when activating the zone configuration with TI Zones from the CLI
Recovery: Activate the Zone configuration from the Zoning dialog
Probability: Medium
Symptom: Compare Zone DB dialog becomes non-responsive when comparing 1 MB Zone configurations with
more than 1000 nodes in the switches
Condition: This issue is observed when the user tries to compare two zone configurations with more than 1000
nodes
Probability: Medium
Technology Area: VLAN
Symptom: An interface cannot be configured with Untagged mode after removing the interface from the same
VLAN.
Condition: When the user tries to configure the Interface with untagged mode on a VLAN followed by removing
the interface from the same VLAN and again adding it to the same VLAN.
Probability: Medium
Technology: Partner Integration
Technology Area: SMI Agent
Symptom: User is not allowed to have the zone configurations when multiple users perform zone transactions at
the same time.
Condition: This issue is observed when more than 1 SMI-A Client is used at the same time
Probability: Medium
Attempting
to
re-sync
a
running-configuration
from VDX fails
Symptom:
Condition: This issue is observed for any config change on the VDX device
Probability: Medium
Symptom: All the other VLAN deployments will not be performed if the first deployment fails
Condition: This issue is observed when the user tries to deploy the configuration for tagged and untagged modes
for two different VLANs at a time.
Recovery: Remove the failing configuration from the batch and deploy other configurations
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Probability: Medium
Symptom: Changing the switch port mode from access to trunk or vice versa, removes the VLAN configuration
on the interface
Condition: Issue occurs only for VDX devices.
Recovery: Deploy the required configuration again for the interface
Probability: Medium
Technology: Other
Technology Area: Other
Symptom: User will not able to see updated PHV widget
Condition: Issue occurs when the client is launched for the first time after installation
Recovery: Re-launch the client
Probability: Medium
Technology: Other
Symptom: Members are not listed in the alias tree in Fabric Scope.
Condition: Issue occurs only for alias created from LSAN Scope and navigating to Fabric Scope
Recovery: Re-launch the Zoning dialog
Probability: Medium
Symptom: Re-sync backup fails for a cluster running NOS 4.0.0.
Condition: Issue occurs only on IPV6 with NOS 4.0.
Recovery: Manually initiate the save running configuration operation.
Probability: Medium
Technology: Security
Technology Area: Encryption (SAN)
Symptom: User will not be able to register key vault certificate other than Decru for the secondary key vault
Condition: This issue is observed only when the Secondary Key Vault
Probability: Medium
Symptom: Error Message is thrown when the user tries to search for the members present in one or more aliases
within the Alias in the LSAN Scope
Condition: This issue is observed when trying to search for members present within the aliases.
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Probability: Medium
Technology Area: SNMP Setup
Symptom: Brocade Network Advisor server entries are not getting deregistered in SNMP and Syslog table on
device when devices are deleted
Condition: Issue occurs only when Preferred IP address is changed to IPV6 from IPV4
Recovery: Manually delete server entries on the device
Probability: High
Technology Area: L2 ACL
Symptom: User cannot configure Inbound/Outbound L3 ACL Configuration for Virtual Interfaces
Condition: Issue is specific to Virtual Interfaces on Fast Iron products
Probability: High
Technology Area: L3 ACL (IP)
Symptom: Configuring ACL on a one Virtual Interface gets deployed to all the Virtual Interfaces
Condition: Issue is specific to Virtual Interfaces on Fast Iron products.
Probability: High
Symptom: User cannot configure IP address and subnet for Virtual Interfaces
Condition: Issue occurs only with Fast Iron SX series products
Probability: Medium
Symptom: Untagged ports from a default VLAN cannot be assigned (or) moved to any other VLANs
Condition: This issue is observed when the user tries to move the untagged interface/port from a default VLAN
to other VLANs
Probability: Low
Symptom: User is not allowed to commit all the configured LUNs
Condition: This issue is observed when the user tries to configure multiple LUNs simultaneously.
27

Probability: Medium
Symptom: Incorrect Status of Zones and Zone Configuration in the Zoning dialog
Condition: Issue is observed only when creating and activating the zone configuration from the CLI
Recovery: Create and Activate Zone and Zone Configuration from the BNA Zoning dialog
Probability: High
Technology: Other
Symptom: User is not allowed to view the Network Measures for Virtual Machines
Condition: Issue occurs only when the time range is set more than 1 day
Probability: High
Technology Area: View Management / Topology
Symptom: L2 Cloud is shown between the links in VLAN Topology
Condition: Issue occurs only when both LLDP and FDP are enabled
Probability: Medium
Technology Area: Reports
Symptom: Incorrect time periods are shown to the user in Reports.
Condition: This issue is observed when a weekly report is created on a timely basis using relative time periods
settings
Probability: Medium
Technology: Partner Integration
Technology Area: SMI Agent
Symptom: User cannot view all the instances of NPIV CIM_ActiveConnection
Condition: This issue occurs with NPIV connections
Probability: Low
Network
Advisor12.0.1
Technology Area: View Management / Topology
Symptom: FCIP Links toggle ON and OFF in topology
Condition: When the Links are configured with I/O running for more than three days the FCIP links toggle.
Recovery: Delete the Fabric and rediscover
Probability: Medium
Technology Area: Event Actions
Symptom: Change in unit set for Frequency will have the impact in triggering the Events
Condition: This issue is observed when the user tries to create an Event Action with Frequency bound
28

Probability: Medium
Technology Area: Encryption (SAN)
Symptom: CTC created for one of switch is not displayed in the disk LUN view dialog
Condition: This is a display issue in BNA which will be seen when two fabrics are connected to the same target
node
Summary: Master log does not show slot number for switch error message logs.
Symptom: User does not get slot number details from Master Log.
Feature: Technical Support
Function: USABILITY
Probability: High
Summary: Locale settings cause product configurations to appear without time stamp.
Symptom: User is unable to perform change tracking.
Workaround: Network Advisor server's default system locale should be set to English.
Feature: Change Manager (IP)
Function: CONFIGURATION REPOSITORY
Service Request ID: 1164268
Probability: Medium
Summary: Master log shows the event - 'Overall port status of the connectivity unit has changed' for the Access
gateway switches.
Symptom: Event does not give sufficient information to the user.
Feature: FAULT MANAGEMENT
Function: Master Log
Probability: Low
Summary: C3Discards, Encode Error Out measure values are not collected for VDX devices
Symptom: User does not get data for some of the Network OS measures.
Feature: Performance Management (IP)
Function: IP SNMP Monitoring - Collection
Probability: High
Summary: Date format set before upgrade causes product configurations in the Configuration Repository to
appear without a time stamp after upgrade.
Workaround: Network Advisor server's default system locale should be set to English
Feature: Change Manager
Probability: Medium
Summary: CIMOM server fails to start in LINUX after extending ulimit to 2000.
Symptom: CIMOM server does not start.
Feature: SMI Agent
Function: INSTALLER
Probability: Medium
29

Summary: After closing and re-opening Network Advisor client, the containers are empty and do not show hosts
or LUNs.
Symptom: User does not get host or LUN information from the contrainers.
Feature: Encryption
Function: CONFIGURATION
Probability: Medium
Summary: CPU utilization is about 50% on VDX switches when performing zoning operations with 100 KB
zone configuration.
Symptom: Switch experiences heavy CPU load while performing zoning operations.
Feature: ZONING
Function: Online Zoning
Probability: Medium
Summary: In properties sheet for VDX6730, SFP/port optics data is empty for FC ports.
Symptom: User cannot see the data for SFP/Port optics data for VDX FC ports.
Feature: REPORTS (IP)
Function: Wired Devices Report
Probability: High
Summary: Ports are not re-enabled and incorrect error message is shown when moving ports to default switch
Symptom: Port movement summary details doesn't provide enough information to the user
Feature: Virtual Fabrics
Function: USABILITY
Probability: High
Summary: In address finder dialog, Interface column is showing as Unknown for virtual interfaces of VDX
devices
Symptom: User cant get correct interface detail for VDX virtual interfaces
Feature: Address Finder
Function: USABILITY
Probability: Medium
Incorrect
data
is
displayed
in
the
'speed'
field
for a missing ISL link in connection properties dialog
Summary:
Symptom: User cant get the actual speed configured on ports
Feature: DISCOVERY
Function: USABILITY
Probability: Medium
Summary: Decommission operation never completes when any of the discovered CIMOM fails to respond for
decommission request
Symptom: Operation never completes and user unable to proceed with any more decommission request
Feature: Port Decommission
Function: F-port commission
Probability: Medium
30

Summary: Configuration backup is triggered for IPV6 enabled Logical Chassis even when credetials for the
switch in Network Advisor are incorrect after a password change.
Symptom: User is allowed to trigger backup with incorrect credentials.
Probability: Medium
Summary: Network Advisor Tehcnical Support data is not collected when a Linux SSH server is used as external
SCP server.
Symptom: Technical support data for Network Advisor is not collected.
Function: Support Save
Probability: Medium
Summary: Destination Fabrics column is shown empty when a LSAN Zone with online members present in the
Alias is activated
Symptom: User cannot see data in the 'Destination Fabrics' column in Zoning dialog.
Feature: ZONING
Function: LSAN Zoning Activation Dialog
Probability: Medium
Summary: % Utilization for a port is fluctuating between 0 and 100 in Real time graph
Symptom: User is not shown proper real time graph for a port
Feature: Performance Management
Function: RealTime Graph
Probability: Low
Summary: HIFC settings fail for logical fabrics with GE links in in cascaded FICON configuration.
Symptom: User cannot configure HIFC settings.
Feature: FICON
Function: Cascaded FICON Configuration
Probability: Medium
VE
ports
are
displayed
as
U-ports
in
device
tree.
Summary:
Symptom: Correct port type information for VE port is not displayed.
Feature: DISCOVERY
Function: USABILITY
Probability: Low
Summary: SAN User manual needs to be updated about the unsupported TPC version in "SSO support for IBM"
section.
Symptom: User manual does not capture information that SSO is not supported with TPC 5.1.1 or higher
versions.
Feature: HELP
Function: HELP
Probability: Medium
31

Summary: Both Gige and VE Links are shown in the Topology when Gige and VE ports are present in same
Logical chassis.
Symptom: When both shared and gige links are displayed in the topology, it is confusing to the user.
Workaround: Delete and rediscover the Fabric.
Feature: FCIP
Function: USABILITY
Probability: Medium
Summary: Trunk hierarchy is not shown in device tree for a DCX 8510-4 chassis.
Symptom: User does not see the trunk details.
Workaround: Install trunk license to get the ICL trunk details.
Feature: DISCOVERY
Function: SAN ISL Discovery
Probability: Medium
Summary: SIM Ports are displayed as FE ports in Logical Switches dialog
Symptom: User will be misguided by seeing SIM-port type as FE-port in Logical Switches Dialog.
Function: Partitioning Dialog
Probability: High
Summary: 'Status' in the properties sheet shows 6 PSUs and a MM module for VDX 6740 device
Symptom: Wrong status data is shown for VDX 6740
Feature: DISCOVERY (IP)
Function: IP Discovery Service
Network
Advisor12.1.0
Probability: High
Closed with Code Change in Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0

This section lists the defects closed with a code change in Network Advisor 12.2.0 as of 4:00 PM on
Feb 13, 2014.
Probability: Medium
Technology: Application Management
Network
Advisor12.1.2
Technology Area: Licensing
Closed In Release(s): Network Advisor12.2.0(Fixed)
Symptom: User will not be allowed to launch the Fabric Watch dialog and proceed with Fabric Watch
Configurations
Condition: This issue is observed when the user tries to launch the Fabric Watch dialog
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Probability: High
Symptom: User is not able to edit all the traps under "RAS Log Events" in the SNMP trap filter of the Trap
forwarding dialog.
Condition: This issue is observed when the user tries to create a Filter containing a Trap with Lower Case
Probability: Medium
Symptom: User is not allowed to forward Chassis level Traps
Condition: This issue is observed when the user creates a Filter with Chassis Level Traps/MIB's
Probability: Low
Network
Advisor12.1.4
Symptom: Hexa decimal value is not populated in the Zoning dialog and will have the impact on the sorting
Condition: This issue is observed when the user performs the sorting of FC Address column and moving Node
members to the Zones
Summary: DCFM performance issues.
Symptom: After several system upgrades involving data backups the DCFM application may hang and the user
could experience a decrease in performance
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Low
Function: USABILITY
Reported In Release: DCFM10.3.2
Technical Severity: Low
Error
message
is
displayed
even
though
Virtual
Fabric is successfully disabled
Summary:
Symptom: VF is successfully disabled, but error message "Failed to disable virtual fabric feature for chassis" gets
displayed
Workaround: Delete the logical switches and then able to disable the VF
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Low
Function: USABILITY
Summary: Software image update for ADX serverIron shows successful but, is actually not, when the Save to
Flash and Reload option is selected.
Symptom: User cannot upgrade images on ServerIron ADX if the Save to Flash and Reload option is selected.
Workaround: Push the image with the Persistence Properties selected as Don't Save to Flash or Reload
option
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Low
Feature: FIRMWARE MANAGEMENT (IP)
Function: USABILITY
33

zone configuration.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Feature: ZONING
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: High
Summary: CLI credentials configured in the user profile is sometimes not used by Network Advisor.
Symptom: Schedule backup fails.
Workaround: use manual config backup
Risk of Fix: High
Probability: Low
Feature: Configuration Management (IP)
Function: IP - Configuration Wizard
Risk of Fix: High
Probability: High
Function: USABILITY
devices
Risk of Fix: High
Probability: Medium
Function: USABILITY
Summary: Firmware download for Ironware OS devices failed with built in SCP server
Symptom: User cant do firmware download on Ironware devices with built in SCP server
Probability: Medium
Function: FIRMWARE DOWLOAD
34

Summary: STP/RSTP deployment fails on Default VLAN for ICX 6610-24.
Symptom: User cannot configure STP/RSTP on default VLAN.
Workaround: STP/RSTP can be enabled on non-default VLANs.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Low
Feature: VLAN Management
Function: STP
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: High
Function: USABILITY
Summary: Historical data is not collected for the product measures - CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization and
System Uptime
Symptom: User cannot see historical data for CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization and system uptime measures
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Low
Function: Data Collection Workers
Summary: Incorrect data is displayed in the 'speed' field for a missing ISL link in connection properties dialog
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Feature: DISCOVERY
Function: USABILITY
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Summary: Brocade 7800 is displayed with 'unknown' state icon.
Symptom: User does not see the actual state of the device.
Workaround: Run latest Fabric OS v7.2 on all switches of the fabric.
Risk of Fix: High
Probability: Low
Feature: DISCOVERY
Function: SAN Switch Discovery
35

Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Summary: Network Advisor Tehcnical Support data is not collected when a Linux SSH server is used as external
SCP server.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Locale
settings
cause
product
configurations
to
appear without time stamp.
Summary:
Risk of Fix: High
Probability: Medium
Summary: Master log shows the event - 'Overall portstatus of the connectivity unit has changed' for the Access
gateway switches.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Low
Summary: Warning icon is shown in the active zone configuration tab of Zoning dialog for FOS Edge after
activating the LSAN Zones with common names from all the Edge fabrics
Symptom: User will not be able to figure out why the warning message is shown in the active zone configuration
tab of Zoning dialog for FOS Edge fabric.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Low
Feature: ZONING
Function: Zoning Dialog
Summary: VM Alarms Widget does not honour global time scope in Dashboard.
Symptom: User cannot change time scope for VM Alarms widget.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Feature: VM Monitoring
Function: Dashboard Client
36

Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: High
Summary: Incorrect Port Utilization % is shown for 40G ports in Dashboard widget
Symptom: Wrong data is shown for 40G ports in Port Utilization widget
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: High
Feature: Dashboard
Function: Client
Summary: Destination Fabrics column is shown empty when a LSAN Zone with online members present in the
Alias is activated
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Feature: ZONING
Summary: Firmware download fails on NI CES using SCP
Symptom: User is not able to proceed with firmware download for NI CES through SCP
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: High
Summary: Tests are skipped on changing the link traffic test configurations for F-port connection for Diagnostics
Port Test.
Symptom: D-port diagnostics results are not available to the user.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Feature: Trouble Shooting & Diagnostics
Function: USABILITY
Summary: FEC value gets duplicated while running Diagnostics port test.
Symptom: Additional FEC values displayed are confusing to the user.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Function: USABILITY
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Low
37

Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Feature: FICON
Network
Advisor12.1.0
Summary: VE ports are displayed as U-ports in device tree.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Low
Feature: DISCOVERY
Function: USABILITY
Risk of Fix: High
Probability: Medium
section.
versions.
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Medium
HELP
Feature:
Function: HELP
Logical chassis.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP
Function: USABILITY
Risk of Fix: High
Probability: Medium
Feature: DISCOVERY
38

Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: High
Summary: SMI-A: EnumerateInstance and EnumerateInstanceNames instances counts do not match for
Brocade_NodeFCPort Class.
Symptom: User does not see exact NodeFCPort instances from EnumerateInstance and EnumerateInstanceNames
opearations.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Feature: SMI Agent
Function: FC HBA
'DEFAULT_QOS_WARN_MSG'
message
is
not displayed when attempting to download firmware
Summary:
to Fabric OS switches when Adaptive Networking License is not present on the switch.
Symptom: User does not see DEFAULT_QOS_WARN_MSG message when attempting to download firmware.
Workaround: NA
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Low
Feature: FIRMWARE MANAGEMENT
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Feature: SMI Agent
Function: INSTALLER
or LUNs.
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Medium
Feature: Encryption
Risk of Fix: High
Probability: High
39

Summary: VLAN deployment dialog does not launch for FastIron WS648.
Symptom: User cannot configure VLANs on FastIron WS648.
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: High
Feature: VLAN Manager (IP)
Function: USABILITY
Summary: Unable to select zone DB from drop down menu in Compare/Merge dialog
Symptom: Cannot select Zone DBs when trying to perform zone merge
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Feature: ZONING
Function: USABILITY
Summary: MLX discovery fails with PSQL exception.
Symptom: User is unable to discover the MLX router.
Risk of Fix: Low
Feature: MPLS Manager
Probability: Low
Function: ENHANCEMENT

Tagged
MCT
ports
are
shown
as
untagged
ports
for NetIron devices running firmware less than v5.4.
Summary:
Symptom: Incorrect tag mode is shown to the user.
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Function: VLAN Manager
Summary: On a 64-bit VM, user cannot restore a backup created by the same version of Network Advisor
running on a 32-bit VM.
Symptom: Client loses connection to the server frequently.
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: High
Feature: Backup and Restore
Function: Backup and Restore
Network
Advisor12.0.3
Closed without Code Change in Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0

This section lists the defects closed without a code change in Network Advisor 12.2.0 as of 4:00 PM on
Feb 13, 2014.
Reason Code: Low User Impact
Probability: High
Technical
Support
Feature:
Function: USABILITY
40

Summary: Locale settings cause product configurations to appear without time stamp.
Probability: Medium
Change
Manager
(IP)
Feature:
Summary: Master log shows the event - 'Overall portstatus of the connectivity unit has changed' for the Access
gateway switches.
Probability: Low
Reason Code: Code Freeze
Probability: High
User
is unable to perform change tracking.
Symptom:
Probability: Medium
Probability: Medium
Feature: SMI Agent
Function: INSTALLER
or LUNs.
Probability: Medium
Feature: Encryption
41

Summary: STP/RSTP deployment fails on Default VLAN for ICX 6610-24.
Symptom: User cannot configure STP/RSTP on default VLAN.
Workaround: STP/RSTP can be enabled on non-default VLANs.
Reason Code: Not Reproducible
Probability: Low
Function: STP
Summary: VM Alarms Widget does not honour global time scope in Dashboard.
Symptom: User cannot change time scope for VM Alarms widget.
Reason Code: Fixed
Probability: Medium
Feature: VM Monitoring
Function: Dashboard Client
Summary: Incorrect Port Utilization % is shown for 40G ports in Dashboard widget
Symptom: Wrong data is shown for 40G ports in Port Utilization widget
Reason Code: Fixed in Other Defect
Probability: High
Feature: Dashboard
Function: Client
Summary: Firmware download fails on NI CES using SCP
Symptom: User is not able to proceed with firmware download for NI CES through SCP
Reason Code: Fixed
Probability: High
Summary: Tests are skipped on changing the link traffic test configurations for F-port connection for
Diagnostics Port Test.
Symptom: D-port diagnostics results are not available to the user.
Reason Code: Fixed
Probability: Medium
Trouble
Shooting
&
Diagnostics
Feature:
Function: USABILITY
Summary: Unable to select zone DB from drop down menu in Compare/Merge dialog
Symptom: Cannot select Zone DBs when trying to perform zone merge
Reason Code: Fixed
Probability: Medium
Feature: ZONING
Function: USABILITY
Summary: On a 64-bit VM, user cannot restore a backup created by the same version of Network Advisor
running on a 32-bit VM.
Symptom: Client loses connection to the server frequently.
Reason Code: Fixed
Probability: High
Feature: Backup and Restore
Function: Backup and Restore
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zone configuration.
Probability: Medium
Feature: ZONING
Probability: High
Probability: High
Function: USABILITY
devices
Probability: Medium
Function: USABILITY
Network
Advisor12.0.0
Summary: Incorrect data is displayed in the 'speed' field for a missing ISL link in connection properties dialog
Probability: Medium
Feature: DISCOVERY
Function: USABILITY
Probability: Medium
43

Probability: Medium
Summary: Network Advisor Tehcnical Support data is not collected when a Linux SSH server is used as
external SCP server.
Probability: Medium
Destination
Fabrics
column
is
shown
empty
when a LSAN Zone with online members present in the
Summary:
Alias is activated
Probability: Medium
Feature: ZONING
Probability: Low
Probability: Medium
Feature: FICON
Summary: VE ports are displayed as U-ports in device tree.
Probability: Low
Feature: DISCOVERY
Function: USABILITY
44

section.
versions.
Probability: Medium
Feature: HELP
Function: HELP
Logical chassis.
Reason Code: Workaround Available
Probability: Medium
Feature: FCIP
Function: USABILITY
Probability: Medium
Feature: DISCOVERY
Probability: High
Network
Advisor12.1.0
Probability: High
Summary: DCFM performance issues.
Symptom: After several system upgrades involving data backups the DCFM application may hang and the user
could experience a decrease in performance
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release
Probability: Low
Function: USABILITY
Reported In Release: DCFM10.3.2
45

Summary: Software image update for ADX serverIron shows successful but, is actually not, when the Save to
Flash and Reload option is selected.
Symptom: User cannot upgrade images on ServerIron ADX if the Save to Flash and Reload option is selected.
Workaround: Push the image with the Persistence Properties selected as Don't Save to Flash or Reload
option
Reason Code: Insufficient Info
Probability: Low
Function: USABILITY
Summary: CLI credentials configured in the user profile is sometimes not used by Network Advisor.
Symptom: Schedule backup fails.
Workaround: use manual config backup
Reason Code: Design Limitation
Probability: Low
Feature: Configuration Management (IP)
Function: IP - Configuration Wizard
Summary: Firmware download for Ironware OS devices failed with built in SCP server
Symptom: User cant do firmware download on Ironware devices with built in SCP server
Probability: Medium
Summary: Historical data is not collected for the product measures - CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization and
System Uptime
Symptom: User cannot see historical data for CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization and system uptime measures
Reason Code: Already Fixed in Release
Probability: Low
Function: Data Collection Workers
Network
Advisor12.0.1
Summary: Brocade 7800 is displayed with 'unknown' state icon.
Symptom: User does not see the actual state of the device.
Workaround: Run latest Fabric OS v7.2 on all switches of the fabric.
Probability: Low
Feature: DISCOVERY
Function: SAN Switch Discovery
Summary: Warning icon is shown in the active zone configuration tab of Zoning dialog for FOS Edge after
activating the LSAN Zones with common names from all the Edge fabrics
Symptom: User will not be able to figure out why the warning message is shown in the active zone configuration
tab of Zoning dialog for FOS Edge fabric.
Reason Code: Fixed
Probability: Low
Feature: ZONING
Function: Zoning Dialog
46

Summary: FEC value gets duplicated while running Diagnostics port test.
Symptom: Additional FEC values displayed are confusing to the user.
Reason Code: Fixed
Probability: Medium
Function: USABILITY
Summary: SMI-A: EnumerateInstance and EnumerateInstanceNames instances counts do not match for
Brocade_NodeFCPort Class.
Symptom: User does not see exact NodeFCPort instances from EnumerateInstance and
EnumerateInstanceNames opearations.
Reason Code: Fixed
Probability: Medium
Feature: SMI Agent
Function: FC HBA
'DEFAULT_QOS_WARN_MSG'
message
is
not displayed when attempting to download firmware
Summary:
to Fabric OS switches when Adaptive Networking License is not present on the switch.
Symptom: User does not see DEFAULT_QOS_WARN_MSG message when attempting to download firmware.
Workaround: NA
Reason Code: Fixed
Probability: Low
Feature: FIRMWARE MANAGEMENT
Summary: VLAN deployment dialog does not launch for FastIron WS648.
Symptom: User cannot configure VLANs on FastIron WS648.
Reason Code: Fixed
Probability: High
Feature: VLAN Manager (IP)
Function: USABILITY
Summary: MLX discovery fails with PSQL exception.
Symptom: User is unable to discover the MLX router.
Reason Code: Fixed
Feature: MPLS Manager
Probability: Low
Function: ENHANCEMENT

Summary: Tagged MCT ports are shown as untagged ports for NetIron devices running firmware less than v5.4.
Symptom: Incorrect tag mode is shown to the user.
Reason Code: Fixed
Probability: Medium
Function: VLAN Manager
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Technical Severity: Low
Summary: Error message is displayed even though Virtual Fabric is successfully disabled
Symptom: VF is successfully disabled, but error message "Failed to disable virtual fabric feature for chassis"
gets displayed
Workaround: Delete the logical switches and then able to disable the VF
Reason Code: Will Not Fix
Probability: Low
Function: USABILITY
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Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0 GA Release Notes v1.0

Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0 GA Release Notes v1.0

Brocade Network Advisor Version 12.2.0

Key Feature Enhancements

Support for VCS Virtual Fabrics

Incremental Hardware/Firmware Support

Migrations & Upgrades

Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0 GA Release Notes v1.0

Operating Systems Supported

Professional Edition: 4GB (32-bit OS), 8GB (64-bit OS)

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter

Operating System (32-bit) / Architecture

Windows 2008 Standard (x86)

Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0 GA Release Notes v1.0

JRE version supported

11.2.2, 12.0.3, 12.1.0, 12.1.2, 12.1.3

12.0.4, 12.1.4, 12.1.5

Device Platform & Hardware Support Requirements

VDX 6740-T-1G, 6740, 6740T, 8770, 6710, 6720, 6730,

FastIron FGS, FGS-STK, FLS, FLS-STK, SuperX

FastIron ICX 6430, 6450, 7750-48C, 7750-29Q

5.0.x , 5.1.x, 5.2.x, 5.3.x, 5.4.x, 5.5.x,

NetIron CES, CER, MLX, XMR, MLXe

Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0 GA Release Notes v1.0

12.1.x2, 12.2. x2, 12.3.x, 12.4, 12.5

Vyatta vRouter 5400

OS 2.0 is not supported.

and 12.2.1 are not supported.

Switch Type SAN Devices B-Series

Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0 GA Release Notes v1.0

Switch Type SAN Devices B-Series

FOS v5.2.x, v5.3.x, v6.0.x,

Blade Type SAN Devices B-Series

FOS v5.1.0 or higher

Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0 GA Release Notes v1.0

Requires FOS v5.2.0 or higher

Virtual Machine Management:

4.0, 5.0, 5.1

4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1

Installing Network Advisor

Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0 GA Release Notes v1.0

To install Network Advisor on Windows (Server)

Download and extract the zip archive

To install Network Advisor on Linux (Server)

Download and extract the tar.gz archive

Navigate to the Linux folder.

Execute Install.bin from the File Manager window.

Follow the instructions to complete the installation.

To launch the Network Advisor Client

Client can be launched via Desktop icon.

Client can be launched via Desktop icon.

Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0 GA Release Notes v1.0

Important SAN Notes

For Fabric OS devices

For Network OS devices

Firmware version 2.1.1b

Brocade Network Advisor 12.2.0 GA Release Notes v1.0

Display of Logical Switches