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Review the new and updated drivers in this release. This release contains a number of new enhancements (RFEs). Update the device driver to determine if any current issues are resolved by installing the latest driver.

New drivers

This release contains the following new and updated drivers.

Table 1. Drivers in this release
Part number Description
M0N2LEN

IBM Netcool Configuration Manager Drivers 27 V6.4 Multiplatform English

This 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.
M0N2MEN

IBM Netcool Configuration Manager Autodiscovery Drivers 27 V6.6 Multiplatform English

This package contains the latest version of autodiscovery.
Restriction:

From Drivers 27 onwards there is no longer support for config.version.FEATURE-FIND-BEGIN=Software (config.version.FEATURE-FIND-END=), parameters in the version section of both SSH-based access type and file-based access type device scripts for all VTMOS.

Restriction:

Drivers 22 and above requires Netcool Configuration Manager FP16 or above, to maintain Log4j version compatibility between Netcool Configuration Manager Core and Drivers.

You cannot 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 at least Drivers 22.

New features

The following new features have been implemented in this release.

RFEs

This release contains the RFEs listed in the following table.

Table 2. RFEs in this release
RFE ID Description
TNCNM-I-166 SmartModel driver for Cisco 900 and 900J Series Integrated Services routers.
TNCNM-I-169 SmartModel driver for Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series.

Defect fixes

This release contains fixes for the following defects.

Table 3. Defect fixes in this release
RFE ID Description
DT391109 Netcool Configuration Manager 6.4.2.20/Drivers Pack 26 - Config Sync for Nexus 9K with OS 7.X stuck on getting keyed config.
DT395741 Customer's network device supports ssh-ed25519 HostKeyAlgorithm are not importing or discovered in NCM.