What's new
Review the new and updated drivers in this release. The Drivers 22 release contains a number of new enhancements (RFEs), and more comprehensive SSH cipher support. Update the device driver to determine if any current issues are resolved by installing the latest driver.
Installation changes from Drivers 21 to Drivers 22
Drivers 22 contains the following two packages:
- Filename:
ITNCM_Drivers22_Installers.zip. Part number: M04GMEN - Filename:
ITNCM_Autodiscovery-6.6.0.zip. Part number: M04TXEN
The ITNCM_Drivers22_Installers.zip package contains all the individual
drivers, which are segregated by vendor, type, model, and operating system. Inside this
package are various vendor folders, each of which contains sub-folders for all supported
types. Each type folder contains sub-folders for model, and each model folder contains
drivers for all supported operating systems for that model.
The ITNCM_Autodiscovery-6.6.0.zip package contains the latest version of
autodiscovery.
Drivers 22 requires Netcool Configuration Manager FP16 or above, to maintain Log4j version compatibility between Netcool Configuration Manager Core and Drivers.
You can not combine any drivers from an older version with drivers from Drivers 22 due to a Log4j version conflict. All drivers need to be upgraded to Drivers 22.
New drivers
| Part number | Description |
|---|---|
| M04GMEN | IBM Netcool Configuration Manager Drivers 22 V6.4 Multiplatform English |
| M04TXEN | IBM Netcool Configuration Manager Autodiscovery Driver 22 V6.6 Multiplatform English |
New RFEs
This release contains the RFEs listed in the following table.
| RFE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| 122060 | Driver type is shown incorrectly for OLT; currently showing as DSLAM for OLT devices and Vendor as Alcatel instead of Nokia. |
| 123973 | Cisco Catalyst L3 Switch C9300 and C9500 48UXM: new driver for ITNCM. |
| 132445 | Driver request for Viptela vEdge network devices. |
| 132886 | New driver request for Alcatel Switch 7210 version 9.0. |
| 134539 | Update MindTerm Library from v3.4 to v4.1.6 in ITNCM. |
| 136867 | Driver for Cisco Catalyst 9500 series switch. |
| 137459 | Juniper SRX modeled as Router instead of Firewall. |
| 138200 | Request for new VTMOS Support - Juniper Switch EX JunOS 19.* [Non-netconf/YANG enabled]. |
| 138206 | Request for new VTMOS Support - Juniper Firewall SRX JunOS 19.* [Non-netconf/YANG enabled]. |
| 138211 | Request for new VTMOS Support - Juniper Router MX JunOS 18.* [Non-netconf/YANG enabled]. |
| 138212 | Request for new VTMOS Support - Juniper Router MX JunOS 19.* [Non-netconf/YANG enabled]. |
| 138946 | Driver for the CheckPoint firewall appliance R77. |
| 140148 | SmartModel driver for Cisco IE 3000 series 15.x and 12.x. |
| 140149 | SmartModel driver for Cisco IE 2000 series 15.x. |
| 144369 | Alcatel Switch 7450 OS 16.x driver required. |
| 144370 | Alcatel DSLAM 7302*,7330*,7360*,7362*,7363*,7367*,7368* OS 6.2.02 driver required. |
| 144585 | Alcatel Switch 7210 OS 20 driver required. |
| 144586 | Alcatel Switch 7750 OS 20 driver required. |
| 144814 | SmartModel Driver for Cisco N7k/N9k NXOS 9.x. |
| 146400 | Request for ITNCM Device Driver for Huawei NE40E V800R010C10SPC500. |
| 147476 | Request for ITNCM Device Driver for Huawei/OLT/MA5800/100R019C10. |
| 151092 | Smart Model Driver for Cisco 9000 series switches to add support for IOS 17.*. |
| 151095 | Smart model Support for ISR router to support IOS 17.*. |
| Request for new VTMOS Support - Juniper Switch QFX JunOs 19.* [Non-netconf/YANG enabled]. | |
| Request for new VTMOS Support - Juniper Firewall SRX JunOS 20* [Non-netconf/YANG enabled]. | |
| Request for new VTMOS Support - Juniper Switch EX JunOs 20.* [Non-netconf/YANG enabled]. | |
| Request for new VTMOS Support - Juniper Router MX JunOS 20.* [Non-netconf/YANG enabled]. | |
| Request for new VTMOS Support - Juniper Switch QFX JunOs 20.* [Non-netconf/YANG enabled]. | |
| Request for new VTMOS Support - Juniper Firewall SRX JunOS 21* [Non-netconf/YANG enabled]. | |
| Request for new VTMOS Support - Juniper Switch EX JunOs 21.* [Non-netconf/YANG enabled]. |
New features
- New Driver naming format
- The naming convention for drivers has been modified to include the integration type. The integration type can be Standard, Smartmodel or yang. New naming format : VendorTypeModelOSIntegration type.bin
- Java Support
- All drivers in this release are built on Java 8. Refer to the installation prerequisites in Installing for more information.
- SSH Ciphers addition
- Support for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) GCM mode with 128-bit key (aes128-gcm@openssh.com) and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) GCM mode with 256-bit key (aes256-gcm@openssh.com) is added in this release. Drivers 22 does not support the chacha20 cipher.
- Apache Log4j vulnerability
- Apache Log4j has been updated from 1.2.x to 2.17.1. Restriction:
Drivers 22 requires Netcool Configuration Manager FP16 or above, to maintain Log4j version compatibility between Netcool Configuration Manager Core and Drivers.
You can not combine any drivers from an older version with drivers from Drivers 22 due to a Log4j version conflict. All drivers need to be upgraded to Drivers 22.
- Yang model-based drivers
- Drivers 22 contains some drivers that are based upon Yang models. These drivers cannot be installed with their non-Yang counterparts because the model and OS supported lists overlap. These drivers include the Juniper SRX v18.0, Juniper MX v17.0, and Juniper MX v18.0.