Dell Networking 7048 Release Note page 66

Summary User Impact
Password strength - Operator may become confused regarding switch
minimum characters not operations.
enforced
M8024-k OpenManage Operators using IE 8 may experience issues as
Web UI stack view follows:
display (1) Status LED does not glow to identify Master
(2) Member units do not show "DELL
PowerConnect M8024-k" model info
(3) Member units port display is missing
(4) LED label should be "Unit No." instead of
"Stack No." ?
(5) All Stack No. shown are as "01", instead of
"01", "02", "03", "04" etc.
(6) There are two "Slot 0" in display – confusing
Inline help for The inline help indicates that the command
"spanning-tree applies to a single port.
loopguard" is incorrect.
show interfaces Operator should be aware that the type is
advanced firmware reported incorrectly on this platform.
displays ports 1-20 as
10GBASE-T on 8024F
VLAN name config lost When upgrading from release 3.1.4.16 to 4.2.0.4
when upgrade from the VLAN names only will not be copied to the
3.1.5.16 to 4.2.x.x upgraded configuration. VLAN numbers are not
affected.
Web GUI sFlow Fails with an error - "Error! Failed to Set
configuration , receiver 'Receiver Owner' with ''
owner inconsistent with However, it is possible to save the same
CLI configuration (without receiver owner) via the
CLI.
Also, it is also not possible to add any polling
device or sampler configuration on the Web GUI
with this receiverIndex (seen in the show all
option) since an error is thrown stating "Receiver
Index is not configured".
Websense: Order of The order that the commands "switchport mode
switchport commands in general" and "switchport general allowed vlan"
running-config changed, are displayed in the running config has been
Impacts scripts changed so that now the "allowed" command is
first. This may cause problems with customer's
scripts that expect a certain order in the "show
running-config" output.
The "show dot1x The User Guide states that there is a "show dot1x
statistics" command statistics" command for displaying dot1x
within the User Guide is statistics on the switch when the actual command
actually "show dot1x for doing this is "show dot1x interface statistics".
interface statistics" This can be frustrating to the customer if he has
command from the CLI. referenced the User Guide to look up the
supposed correct command.
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Workaround
As is documented in the CLI Reference
Manual, the password strength minimums do
not become effective until the user has
configured a non-zero value for passwords
strength minimum character-classes. Please
refer to the documentation for passwords
strength minimum character-classes
Operators should consider using a browser
other than IE 8.
Operators should be aware that this global
CONFIG command applies to all ports.
Ignore the type in the display for this
command.
The user can cut the VLAN names and save
these off before the upgrade occurs and then
again reenter them after the upgrade.
Always configure the receiver owner when
using the Web interface.
None.
Use the "show dot1x interface statistics"
command.
System Firmware Version 5.1.0.1