Driver Support Document

Extreme switches, Summit series, SummitStack, Software version XOS 11.x, 12.x (OBSOLETE, PLEASE REDISCOVER)

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SYSOID MODEL OS VERSION
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1916.2.71 X450a-24tdc 11.5.0.10
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1916.2.76 X450a-48t 12.0.3, 12.3.3.6
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1916.2.79 X450e-48p 11.6.1.9
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1916.2.93 X250e-24t (3-Stack) 12.0.1.11

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Driver FeaturesAccess Methods
(X signifies feature support)CLISNMPTFTPCLI+TFTPSNMP+TFTPFTPCLI+FTPSNMP+FTPCLI+SFTPSCPCLI+SCPSNMP+SCPHTTP/HTTPS
X Driver Discovery   X X                      
X General Access release notes
(CLI protocols: telnet, console)
X     X                  
Configuration
X Retrieve Running Configuration   X     X                  
X Retrieve Startup Configuration   X                        
  Retrieve Binary Configuration                            
X Device information parsing  
X Enhanced Layer2 Basic IP information parsing  
X Configuration Deployment to Running   X     X                  
  Configuration Deployment to Startup                            
  Binary Configuration Deployment                            
Diagnostics
X Routing Table   X                        
X OSPF Neighbors   X                        
X Interfaces   X                        
X Modules and Inventory release notes X                        
  Flash Storage Space                            
X File System   X                        
X Uptime     X                      
X ICMP Test release notes X                        
X Topology Parsing   X                        
  Duplex Parsing                            
  Enhanced VLAN Parsing  
Features
X Software Center release notes       X                  
  Software Image Synchronization release notes                          
X Password Management release notes
(Can modify: full username, full password, read-only community strings, read/write community strings)
X                        
X Syslog Configuration and Change Detection   Syslog patterns X                        
X Custom Scripts and Diagnostics  
Bulk deploy available
X                        
X ACL Parsing  
X ACL Provisioning release notes X                        
  VLAN Provisioning                            
  Configlet Parsing  
  QoS Parsing  
  VRF Parsing  
  Context Management                            

General Access

Release Notes

SSH not supported

The Extreme XOS can be enhanced with a module to support SSH2. However, responses to SSH2 connections are not always the same. As a result, SSH2 connections fail 70% of the time. Because of this inconsistent behavior, SSH is not Supported on Extreme switches.

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ACL Parsing

Release Notes

Using the same name for different ACLs results in incorrect ACL content

Although Extreme switches permit two, different ACLs with the same name, the driver cannot make the distinction between them. As a result, if two different ACLs share the same name, the information for both ACLs is parsed as a single ACL.

NAS will not delete ACL zones unless there are no ACLs using the ACL zone

Deleting an ACL zone requires the deletion of all ACLs that use that zone. The driver will only delete an ACL zone if all ACLs using that zone have been removed.

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Software Center

Release Notes

Software updates

During software updates, some commands are executed after a delay, while others are not executed at all or return errors. The CLI should not be used during software updates.

New software images overwrite previous software images

Newly uploaded software images will overwrite previous software images from the memory slot on which they were uploaded.

Updating Device Software

During the software update process, if a software image is uploaded to an active partition on an Extreme switch, the Update Device Software task will reboot the device even if the "Reboot device after deploying software" option is unchecked. As a result, if you upload software to a device with more than one software image in the same Update Device Software task, the task will fail.

Configuration commands shuffled and reformatted during deployment

After you deploy a configuration, it is common for Extreme devices to shuffle or change the format of commands in the configuration file. Afterwards, it appears that numerous lines were added, removed or modified when comparing configurations. You must inspect the configuration manually to determine which commands were moved and which were actually changed by the deploy task.

Ensure two blank lines follow banner when deploying configuration

Extreme devices support multi-line banners. Two blank lines following a banner definition indicate that the banner is complete. If there are less than two blank lines following the banner, the Extreme will interpret the remainder of the configuration as part of the banner. It is important to ensure that these blank lines are always in the correct place, and not to insert in-line comments in a manner that might disrupt this.

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Password Management

Release Notes

Changing user name via Password Management will delete previous account

The limited access username and password in Password Mangement relate to a "user" account on Extreme devices. Similarly the full access username and password relate to an "admin" account. If you change the name of either of these accounts, the existing account will be deleted to ensure that old usernames do not remain on the device as a "back door".

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ICMP Test

Release Notes

Ping results vary in number of attempts

Extreme devices run the ping test until manually cancelled. NAS handles this by initiating the ping test, waiting five seconds, then interrupting the test and capturing the results. A typical ping test will therefore show the results of between two and eight cycles.

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Modules and Inventory

Release Notes

Extreme Summit 200 and 400 series do not support hardware information diagnostic

The Extreme Summit 200 and 400 series devices do not support the commands used by the hardware information diagnostic, and attempts to run this diagnostic against these devices will result in a failure.

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Syslog Triggering

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