Bug Severity Levels
Known defects, or bugs, have a severity level that indicates the priority of the defect. These release notes include the following bug types:
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All severity level 1 or 2 bugs
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Significant severity level 3 bugs
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All customer-found bugs except severity level 6 enhancement requests
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Severity Level |
Description |
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1 Catastrophic |
Reasonably common circumstances cause the entire system to fail, or a major subsystem to stop working, or other devices on the network to be disrupted. No workarounds exist. |
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2 Severe |
Important functions are unusable and workarounds do not exist. Other functions and the rest of the network is operating normally. |
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3 Moderate |
Failures occur in unusual circumstances, or minor features do not work at all, or other failures occur but low-impact workarounds exist. This is the highest level for documentation bugs. |
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4 Minor |
Failures occur under very unusual circumstances, but operation essentially recovers without intervention. Users do not need to install any workarounds and performance impact is tolerable. |
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5 Cosmetic |
Defects do not cause any detrimental effect on system functionality. |
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6 Enhancement |
Requests for new functionality or feature improvements. |
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