Ughh, upgrades, maintenance, risk of downtime, out of hours work and pulling all-nighters or even weekends when your wife and kids start wondering who that strange man is that sometimes shows his face through the back-door. But what made you decide to do the upgrades on your OS, firmware, applications etc.
Release notes and upgrades. Decision time. Read More »
As I\’ve written before some features in FOS 7.3 and older have been superseded by new tools such as MAPS and FlowVision. On of those is also Advanced Performance Monitor which let you set up monitoring points in the fabric to identify traffic patterns.
Upgrade to FOS 7.4.x fails due to APM performance monitors Read More »
I ran into this in my lab when upgrading a switch which caused a fabric-segmentation and obviously the release notes of a previous version show: Other Important Notes and Recommendations Management Server Platform Capability support changes in FOS v6.4 FOS v6.4 no longer automatically enables the Management Server (MS) Platform capability when a switch attempts
Upgrade FOS leads to fabric segmentation. Read More »
