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FastIron Ethernet Switch Administration Guide 71
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Chapter
3
Operations, Administration, and Maintenance
Table 13 lists the individual Brocade FastIron switches and the operations, administration, and
maintenance (OAM) features they support. These features are supported in the Layer 2 and Layer 3
software images, except where explicitly noted.
This chapter contains the following sections:
•OAM Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
•Software versions installed and running on a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
•Image file types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
•Software upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
•Using SNMP to upgrade software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
TABLE 13 Supported operations, administration, and maintenance features
Feature FSX 800
FSX 1600
FCX ICX 6610 ICX 6430 ICX 6450
Flash and boot code verification Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Flash image verification Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Software upgrade via CLI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Software upgrade via SNMP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Hitless management:
• Hitless switchover
• Hitless failover
• Hitless OS upgrade
Yes (Hitless switchover and Hitless failover only; Hitless OS upgrade is
not supported)
Refer to “Hitless stacking” section in the FastIron Ethernet Switch
Stacking Configuration Guide
Hitless support:
• PBR
• GRE Tunnels
• IPv6 to IPv4 Tunnels
Yes Yes (PBR only) Yes (PBR
only)
No No
Boot code synchronization for active and
redundant management modules
YesNo NoNoNo
Software reboot Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Show boot preference Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Load and save configuration files Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
System reload scheduling Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Diagnostic error codes and remedies for
TFTP transfers
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IPv4 ping Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IPv4 traceroute Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Layer 3 hitless route purge Yes
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1. Third generation modules.
Yes Yes No Yes