Driver Support Document

Brocade Fibre Switches, OS version 6.x, 7.x & 8.x

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SYSOID MODEL OS VERSION
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.1 DCX-8510 7.0.2
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.1 6510 7.1
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.1 48000 6.4.1b
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.1 7840 8.1
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.32 4100 6.4.2
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.44 4900 6.3.0
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.62 DCX 6.4.1
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.64 5300 6.4.0, 7.1
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.66 5100 6.4.2b, 7.1
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.71 DS300B 6.4.2b
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.72 5480 6.4.2b
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.77 DCX-4S 7.0.1a
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.83 7800 7.2.0d
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.109 6510 7.2.0d
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.117 FC5022 7.4.0a
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.118 6500 7.2.0d
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.120 DCX8510-8 7.2.0d
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.133 6520 7.2.0d
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.3 5470 6.4.2

Driver Features Support Grid

Driver FeaturesAccess Methods
(X signifies feature support)CLISNMPTFTPCLI+TFTPSNMP+TFTPFTPCLI+FTPSNMP+FTPCLI+SFTPSCPCLI+SCPSNMP+SCPHTTP/HTTPS
X Driver Discovery release notes X X                      
X General Access release notes
(CLI protocols: telnet, ssh1, ssh2, console)
Supports SecurID
X           X       X    
Configuration
X Retrieve Running Configuration release notes X           X       X    
  Retrieve Startup Configuration                            
  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                        
  OSPF Neighbors                            
X Interfaces   X                        
X Modules and Inventory   X                        
  Flash Storage Space                            
  File System                            
X Uptime   X X                      
X ICMP Test   X                        
X Topology Parsing   X                        
  Duplex Parsing                            
  Enhanced VLAN Parsing  
Features
X Software Center               X       X    
  Software Image Synchronization                            
X Password Management release notes
(Can modify: 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                        
  ACL Parsing  
  ACL Provisioning                            
  VLAN Provisioning                            
  Configlet Parsing  
  QoS Parsing  
  VRF Parsing  
  Context Management                            

Retrieve Running Configuration

Release Notes

Configuration differences between CLI and Transport methods

Brocade devices can return a slightly different configuration when it is gathered by CLI vs the transport protocol method ["configupload"]. As a result, switching between the methods, either intentionally, or through failover in the transport protocol methods, can result in spurious configuration differences.

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Password Management

Release Notes

SNMP deployment has a fixed string set

Brocade Fibre Switch devices have a limited set of SNMP string slots, and do not offer a direct method to specify a new string. Because of this, the deployment of new or deletion of old strings is not supported; only the modification of existing strings. To change the SNMP string, delete one from either the RO or RW list, and then add a new string in its place.

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General Access

Release Notes

Extra support for drivers that use HTTP

This note applies only for drivers that use HTTP requests for driver functions. HTTP proxy operations are supported by setting the device access variable "http_proxy" to "ip:port", replacing with the IP and port values of the proxy server. SNI-requiring devices (e.g CloudGenix & Cisco Meraki) can be supported by using the device access variable "alternate_host" to contain the DNS name of the host. The host name will be used rather than the normal management IP address for all HTTP requests, effectively supporting SNI.

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Driver Discovery

Release Notes

More prompt causes an unexpected disconnection

Discovery tasks for Javascript drivers handle More prompts by using timeouts, which can cause problems with the third-party SSH client code, which interprets the timeout as a disconnection. There are two options to work around the problem. Setting the RCX option [<option name="Driver/Discovery/UsePollRead">true</option>] in site_options.rcx will effect the workaround for all affected devices. Alternatively, it could be applied to a single device by setting the device access variable "PollRead" to "true".

Wakeup Ctrl-U character can cause discovery to fail

Discovery tasks for Javascript drivers use wakeup characters are sent during device connection, to ensure that the device is responding. Normally, these characters do not echo to the console, but some devices may echo them. In this case, this causes the prompt detection phase to fail, which in turn can cause More prompts to not be handled properly, and discovery may fail. If these characters are echoed from the device [check the session log to see this], then set the device access variable "skip_ctrl_u" to skip the sending of the wakeup characters. Note that setting this option on a previously working device could cause discovery tasks to fail, but it only affects CLI discovery. SNMP discovery is unaffected.

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Syslog Triggering

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