Document History ....................................................................................................................................... 1

Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 8

Enhancements and Resolution of Important Defects ........................................................................................... 8

FOS v7.4.1 Additional Hardware Platform Support ............................................................................................... 8

FOS v7.4.1 New Features & Support...................................................................................................................... 8

FOS v7.4 Obsoleted FOS Features ............................................................................................................ 9

FOS v7.4 New Feature Descriptions ....................................................................................................... 10

New Hardware Support ......................................................................................................................................... 10

IP Extension features for Brocade 7840 .............................................................................................................. 10

Support System Configuration for IP Extension ............................................................................................... 10

Support GE Port Configuration for IP Extension ............................................................................................... 10

Tunnel configuration for IP Extension ............................................................................................................... 10

Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL) ............................................................................................................................. 10

TCP/IP Features ................................................................................................................................................. 10

Traffic Control List .............................................................................................................................................. 11

FCIP Enhancements to Brocade 7840 ................................................................................................................. 11

Base Switch Support for 7840 ......................................................................................................................... 11

FCIP Hot Code Load (HCL) ................................................................................................................................. 11

Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) Enhancements.............................................................................. 11

Monitoring without Fabric Vision license .......................................................................................................... 11

Monitor NPIV device login limits ....................................................................................................................... 11

Monitor backend ports ...................................................................................................................................... 11

Monitor FCIP circuit QoS .................................................................................................................................... 12

Monitor FCIP circuit RTT and jitter on 7800 and FX8-24 ................................................................................ 12

Fabric Performance Impact monitoring enhancement.................................................................................... 12

Slow drain device quarantine action for Fabric Performance Impact monitoring ......................................... 12

Port toggle action for Fabric Performance Impact monitoring ........................................................................ 12

FICON notification action ................................................................................................................................... 12

Alert quiet time support ..................................................................................................................................... 12

Usability enhancements .................................................................................................................................... 12

Flow Vision Enhancements ................................................................................................................................... 12

All F_Port Flow Monitoring ................................................................................................................................. 12

Scalability Improvement .................................................................................................................................... 13

Identify All Devices in a Flow ............................................................................................................................. 13

Fabric Flow Dashboard ...................................................................................................................................... 13

ClearLink Diagnostic (D_Port) Enhancements ..................................................................................................... 13

Link Power (dB) Loss Calculation...................................................................................................................... 13

Fabric OS 7.4.1a Release Notes v3.0

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