DELL S50V User Manual

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The kernel is the central component of an operating system that manages system processors and 
memory allocation and makes these facilities available to applications. A kernel core dump is the 
contents of the memory in use by the kernel at the time of an exception.
An application core dump is the contents of the memory allocated to a failed application at the time of 
an exception.
System Log
Event messages provide system administrators diagnostics and auditing information. FTOS sends event 
messages to the internal buffer, all terminal lines, the console, and optionally to a syslog server. For more 
information on event messages and configurable options, see 
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Hot-lock Behavior
FTOS Hot-lock features allow you to append and delete their corresponding CAM entries dynamically 
without disrupting traffic. Existing entries are simply are shuffled to accommodate new entries.
FTOS offers the following Hot-lock features:
Hot-lock IP ACLs (supported on E-Series, C-Series, and S-Series) allow you to append rules to and 
delete rules from an Access Control List that is already written to CAM. This behavior is enabled by 
default and is available for both standard and extended ACLs on ingress and egress. For information 
on configuring ACLs, see 
Hot-lock PBR (supported on E-Series only) allows you to append rules to and delete rules from a 
redirect list that is already written to CAM without disrupting traffic. This behavior is enabled by 
default. For information on configuring Policy-based Routing, see 
Warm Upgrade
 is supported on platform 
e
Warm software upgrades use warm failover, which means that FTOS reboots the secondary RPM and all 
line cards and SFMs. The chassis remains online during the upgrade, but forwarding is interrupted, as 
shown in 
FTOS supports warm software upgrades under two conditions:
between consecutive feature releases where only the second digit differs between the running FTOS 
version number and the upgrade version number. For example, and upgrade from FTOS version 
7.6.1.0 to 7.7.1.0 is warm.
between two consecutive maintenance releases of the same feature release. For example, upgrading 
from 7.7.1.0 to 7.7.1.1 is warm.