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Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx
for Cisco IOS Release 12.1(10)EV2Determining the Software Version
New Features in Release 12.1(10)EV2
Obtaining Technical Assistance
Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx
for Cisco IOS Release 12.1(10)EV2
This document describes caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.1(10)EV2 for the Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx.
Date: September 30, 2002
Text Part Number: OL-3404-01
Contents
This document includes the following information:
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Caveats
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Introduction
The Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx is an optical transport platform that employs DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) technology. With the Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx, users can take advantage of the availability of dark fiber to build a common infrastructure that supports data, SANs (storage area networks), and TDM (time-division multiplexing) traffic. The system uses an enhanced chassis with front fiber-optic cable access for optical interconnections between transponders and optical mux/demux modules. For more information about DWDM technology and applications, refer to the Introduction to DWDM Technology publication and the Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx Planning Guide.
System Requirements
This section describes the system requirements for Cisco IOS Release 12.1(10)EV and includes the following sections:
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Memory Requirements
The DRAM memory configuration is 128 MB, which is the default for the Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx.
Hardware Supported
Table 1 lists the hardware components supported on the Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx and the minimum software version required. See the "Determining the Software Version" section for information on determining your software version.
Determining the Software Version
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To determine the version of Cisco IOS software currently running on a Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx system, log in to the system and enter the show version EXEC command.
Upgrading the System Image
To ensure proper system functioning, follow the system image upgrading procedure described in the Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx Software Upgrade Guide.
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Caution
Feature Set Table
The Cisco IOS Release software is packaged in feature sets (also called software images) depending on the platform. Each feature set contains a specific set of Cisco IOS software features. Table 2 lists the Cisco IOS software feature sets available for the Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx.
Table 2 Feature Sets Supported by the Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx
Gigabit Ethernet
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Fast Ethernet
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Ethernet
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ATM OC-3/STM-1, OC-12/STM-4, and OC-48/STM-16
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POS3
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Fibre Channel (1 Gbps)
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Fibre Channel (2 Gbps)
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FDDI4
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ESCON5 SM (200 Mbps)
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FICON6 (800 Mbps)
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Token Ring
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SNMP
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CiscoView
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Cisco Transport Manager
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CDP7
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IP packets
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OSCP8
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APS9 protocol packets
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Point-to-point
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Hubbed ring
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Meshed ring
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Sysplex
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GDPS10
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Unidirectional path switching
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Bidirectional path switching
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CDL over 10-GE
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1 SONET = Synchronous Optical Networking
2 SDH = Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
3 POS = Packet over SONET
4 FDDI = Fiber Distributed Data Interface
5 ESCON = Enterprise Systems Connection
6 FICON = Fiber Connection
7 CDP = Cisco Discovery Protocol
8 OSCP = Optical Supervisory Channel Protocol
9 APS = Automatic Protection Switching
10 GDPS = Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex
New and Changed Information
This section lists new features that appear in Cisco IOS Release 12.1.
New Features in Release 12.1(10)EV2
The following new features are available for the Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx in Cisco IOS Release 12.1(10)EV2:
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Caveats
This section lists the caveats and corrected caveats for each release. Use Table 3 to determine the status of a particular caveat. In the tables, "C" indicates a corrected caveat, and "O" indicates an open caveat.
Table 3 Caveat Matrix for the Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx
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C
O
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C
O
C
C
O
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O
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O
C
C
C
C
C
O
C
C
O
C
C
O
C
C
O
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C
C
C
C
O
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O
O
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O
This section describes the caveats in the Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx.
Symptom: When there is a constant stream of loss of sync alarms, a port fail notification is not generated.
Although both signal failure and signal degrade thresholds are applied, only signal degrade is observed. The signal failure threshold is monitored by hardware registers. When the signal failure threshold is exceeded, the hardware normally generates a port fail notification. Because the loss of sync alarms are constant, the threshold exceeded cannot generate a port fail notification. The signal degrade is reported because it is monitored by software and does not need any notifications from hardware.
Workaround: Disable and reenable monitoring once with the no monitor/monitor enable command sequence to generate the port fail notification.
Symptom: The SRC reprogram for the standby processor card fails.
Workaround: Run the SRC reprogram on the active processor card, enable the processor switchover after switchover, and then run the SRC reprogram on the new active processor card. Remove and reinsert the processor card for the new FPGA to become effective.
Symptom: Loss of signal might occur before SD (signal degrade) and SF (signal failure) thresholds are exceeded and traffic may still continue to pass transparently.
The loss of signal detection is taken from the OE (optical to electrical) conversion subsystem, which is different from the source of the SD and SF counters. The loss of light sensitivity is a characteristic of the OE conversion unit, and it may vary from unit to unit but is always < -30dBm.
Workaround: None.
Symptom: When the Rx port fiber is removed from the transponder module, ingress alarms are reported and cleared repeatedly. The alarm should not clear and the alarm should be reported only once.
Workaround: None
Symptom: Processor card gets into a nonresponsive state.
Workaround: None
Symptom: Processor card gets into a nonresponsive state for an extended interval, during which time the active standby LEDs may not indicate the correct active standby state.
Workaround: If the processor card has not been reset by the redundant processor card, the nonresponsive processor card can be removed and re-inserted in the chassis. This may cause a brief hit to data traffic, but the redundant processor card should take over and bring the system back up.
Symptom: The encapsulation fastethernet command fails on multimode transponders. The clock rate 100000 command succeeds but then pings over the signal fail intermittently.
Workaround: None.
Symptom: The show interface command output for a wave interface displays an "up" state but the Signal Quality shows loss of sync.
Workaround: None.
Symptom: CiscoView might display a different receive LED status on transponders from what is actually seen on the device.
Workaround: None.
Symptom: Client transmit enabled upon insertion disrupts y-cable clients.
Workaround: Remove client transmit fiber (y-cable leg) from the standby transponder before reinserting. Connect it back a few seconds after re-insertion of the standby transponder.
Symptom: The first time you OIR the OSC linecard, the card is brought into the admindown state.
Workaround: Enter the no shutdown command when the interface recovers.
Symptom: The processor card gets stuck in a nonresponsive state waiting for the console UART TxReady to get set. Normally a watchdog timeout will force recovery, but in some instances the Standby processor card does not recover on its own.
Workaround: Remove and replace the standby processor card.
Symptom: Under some situations the erratas of the system controller used on the processor card (GT64120A) can cause:
— A software forced crash due to memory ECC errors
— A bus error exception
— Corruption of data
Workaround: None
Symptom: Processor card becomes nonresponsive and does not respond to an NMI.
Workaround: Update processor card image to version 1.25 or higher.
Symptom: Under some circumstances single bit ECC errors occur and are corrected by the system controller, but are not recorded. Therefore, the user is unaware of these occurances.
Workaround: None.
Symptom: If a Downlink Client interface is configured for CDL but is connected to a non-CDL device, the CDL message channel is down.
Workaround: Ensure Downlink Client interface is configured correctly.
Symptom: Unknown vendor type for Wavepassthru interface in Entity MIB.
Workaround: None.
Symptom: In a configuration where a Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx has 10-GE downlinks to two Cisco ONS 15530 systems, the tengigethernetphy interface is administratively shut down and the ESCON ports associated with the first Cisco ONS 15530 are also downed. However, the ESCON ports connected to the second Cisco ONS 15530 are still up.
Workaround: Down the tengigethernetphy interface associated with the second Cisco ONS 15530.
Symptom: Configuring both line and trunk side loopback on the 10-GE trunk card affects the Traffic flow.
Workaround: Reconfigure the 10-GE trunk card with loopback on only line or trunk side, not both. OIR the 10-GE card to restore traffic.
Symptom: CDL hec counters are displayed in the show interface tengigethernetphy when CDL is disabled.
Workaround: None.
Symptom: Traffic is disrupted on bootup and switchover when the client side of the 10-GE trunk card has CDL disabled and both the client side and the trunk side are configured for cdl force hop
Workaround: Use the no cdl defect-indication force hop command on the client side.
Limitations and Restrictions
This section provides limitations and restrictions for Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx hardware and software.
Transponder Modules
This section contains limitiations and restrictions that apply to transponder modules.
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Data errors or link-down conditions for 2-Gbps Fibre Channel might occur on single-mode transponders when used with certain client laser sources. Transmitters in some client GBIC and SFP transceiver units might send large overshoots in optical power with signal bit transitions, causing momentary overload conditions on the transponder client side receiver. The average transmitted power level from the GBIC does not violate the overload specification of the transponder client side receiver, so a power meter does not detect the overload.
The workaround is to attenuate the signal from the client equipment to a recommended level of -12 dBm when transmitting 2-Gbps Fibre Channel services.
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Related Documentation
Refer to the following documents for more information about the Cisco ONS 15540 ESPx:
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