Release Notes SevOne Data Insight 6.8.0

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Below please find the Release Notes for SevOne Data Insight 6.8.0. Please contact your Technical Account Manager (if applicable) or Systems Engineering Team or Support Team to discuss and plan the installation. Thank you for being a customer.

Browser Requirements

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Minimum Resolution: 1200x768 Browsers:

  • Modern, standards-compliant browser
  • JavaScript enabled
  • Pop-up blocker disabled for hostname/IP

The following browsers are supported in the current versions of SevOne. SevOne recommends use of the latest version of your preferred (supported) browser.

Vendor / Browser Version SevOne NMS 6.x
Google / Chrome >=121 Tested, Supported, & Recommended
Mozilla / Firefox >=122 Tested & Supported
Microsoft / Edge >=121 Supported (with limited testing performed

Tested = Complete UI regression testing completed prior to release of updates.
Supported = Developer-led testing and resolution of any customer reported defects. No complete UI regression test is performed.

Resources & Other Requirements

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SevOne NMS
  • Version 6.1.0 or higher.
  • User name and password for the administrator-level account.
  • IP adddress of the PAS.
Helm 3.13.1
Kubernetes 1.28.2+k3s1 (for upgrades)
1.28.2+k3s1 (for new provisioning)
Important: If the installed Kubernetes version in your setup is not supported by SevOne Data Insight you are provisioning, you will get an error message. Kubernetes must be upgraded prior to upgrading SevOne Data Insight.
SOA >=6.8.0
Kernel 4.18.0-513.9.1.el8
Nginx Helm Chart 4.7.3
Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
Data Insight ports Mandatory UI ports: 80 and 443
Data Insight uses port 80 to redirect any HTTP (80) requests to HTTPS (443).
VMware vSphere Client >=6.5
Signature Tools
  • signature-tools-<latest version>-build.<###>.tgz
  • signature-tools-<latest version>-build.<###>.tgz.sha256.txt

For example,

  • signature-tools-2.0.2-build.1.tgz
  • signature-tools-2.0.2-build.1.tgz.sha256.txt
Build Files
  • RPM: SevOne-soa-6.8.0-1.22.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • TAR: sdi-v6.8.0-build.<###>.tgz (for upgrades)
  • CHECKSUM: sdi-v6.8.0-build.<###>.tgz.sha256.txt
  • OVA: sdi-v6.8.0-build.<###>.ova (for new installs)
  • QCOW2: sdi-v6.8.0-build.<###>.qcow2.gz
  • ISO: sdi-v6.8.0-build.<###>.iso
  • VHD: sdi-v6.8.0-build.<###>.vhd.gz

    NOTE: Replace <###> with the latest build number.

Deployment Recommendation

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A single OVA image size (of 8 vCPU cores / 32 GB RAM / 250 GB HDD) is used for all production deployments where the environments are maintained for a long period of time or upgraded.

Note: Active users are individuals actually logged in to Data Insight. Concurrent Users are users currently running reports.
#Concurrent Users # Active Users # Production Nodes  
up to 80 800 1 Tested & Supported
up to 160 1600 2 or more Supported
up to 250 2500 3 or more Tested & Supported
(Tested with up to 400 concurrent users)
Note: These numbers may vary based on your environment. You can always add more nodes to suit your needs.
Warning: SevOne Data Insight depends on SevOne NMS to generate the reports. It is very important that resource names in SevOne NMS that are being used by SevOne Data Insight are NOT changed. Changing the resource names will break the reports that are dependent on them. Please refer to Known Issues section below related to migration from Id to Name-based resources in SevOne Data Insight.
Important: SevOne Data Insight deployed on IPv4 networks is compatible with SevOne NMS clusters running on Native IPv6 clusters.
Important: SevOne Data Insight does not support IPv6 or IPv6 dual stack environments.
Note: RADIUS is currently not supported due to REST API limitations.
Note: As of SevOne Data Insight 3.14, dex is deprecated from the Helm chart and will be completely removed from the future release.

Solutions

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Solutions include SDN Cisco ACI, SD-WAN, and WiFi/WLC.

from SevOne Data Insight version to SevOne Data Insight version  
3.x 6.8.x Solutions upgrade is not required.
1.x or 2.x 6.8.x Solutions upgrade is required.

Useful Guides

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From IBM's Documentation Portal (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sevone-npm), please refer to the following SevOne Data Insight guides for this release.

  • Automated Rebuild (Customer) Instructions
  • SevOne Data Insight Pre-Installation Guide
    • Added section Deploy Data Insight on IBM Cloud using Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Infrastructure.
  • SevOne Data Insight Installation Guide
  • SevOne Data Insight Upgrade Process Guide
  • SevOne Data Insight Administration Guide
  • SevOne Data Insight Troubleshooting / Debug / Tools Guide
  • SevOne Data Insight User Guide
  • SevOne Data Insight Appliance Insert
  • SevOne Data Insight GraphQL Guide
  • SevOne Data Insight Report Linking URL Specification Guide
  • SevOne NMS Port Number Requirements Guide (available under NMS > Deployment guides)

New Features / Enhancements

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  • Operating System migrated from CentOS 7 to RHEL 8.
    Important: Please refer to SevOne Data Insight Upgrade Process Guide > Pre-Upgrade Checklist > section Version Matrix for the version limitations before performing an installation or an upgrade.
  • Backup / Restore feature updated.

Known Issues

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This section lists issues that SevOne is aware of in the Data Insight 6.8.0 release. Most of these issues were discovered during quality assurance testing and are published here to provide you with information that may be relevant when you plan your update. This list does not include feature requests or low impact issues that do not affect functionality. If you have questions, comments, or concerns, please contact us.

Note: FYI
Due to the migration from Id to Name-based resources, if the user changes the device name in SevOne NMS, any report that had variables that were statically configure with that device name will not work. The same is true for objects that change the name as well.
  • If a SevOne Data Insight 2.2.x report is bookmarked on your browser, you will need to re-select the report variable selections and update the bookmark. Otherwise, it will not work with SevOne Data Insight 3.0 or higher.
  • Flow Widget: SevOne NMS requestd may take longer than expected to complete the report. Due to this, it is possible that the report may timeout after 15 minutes.
    Important: This happens when a lot of resources are selected for example, All Device Groups, aggregation is set to be very granular, and greater than a month's worth of data (4 weeks+) is being requested.
  • Report Linking only applies to report variables of the same type. For example, clicking on a device will only send a Device to device report variables. However, clicking on a Device will not affect a Flow Interface report variable.
  • Administer > Teams
    • When a user is added to a new team, you need to logout and login for the change to take effect.
    • For team membership, even if multiple datasources are added to a team, only users with the proper roleID of the authorization source will be available to the team. Teams cannot have members defined in multiple datasources.
Key Known Issues
SDI-13853 Alert Details Widget / Alert Summary Widget: When no resources are selected and from Linking tab, you have selected values for Clicking on report linking and have added report variable. Once the report variable has been applied and you click on linking value, widget returns an error.Workaround: When creating the Alert Details / Alert Summary widget, select the required resources.
SDI-13909 Performance Metrics Widget: From Analyze tab, when field Enable downsampling is enabled and from Charts tab, visualization Line, Area > Stack is enabled, the graphs are misleading for the newly added polling device objects.Workaround: From Analyze tab, disable field Enable downsampling for stacked line to display properly.
SDI-14140 Devices: Refreshing logout token on Device Manager page results in an authentication error and logs you out.

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