Release Notes SevOne SDN Collector 6.8.0 Monitoring Solution

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Below please find the Release Notes for SevOne SDN Collector 6.8.0 Monitoring Solution. 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. Please use the latest version of your preferred (supported) browser.

Browser

Vendor Family
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Important: Please use the latest browser version for Chrome and Firefox.

Compatibility Matrix

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Version SevOne NMS / NMS REST API   Widget Version SOA Version SevOne Data Insight Collector Cisco ACI
  NMS REST API        
6.8.0 6.8.0 (T & S)
6.7.0 (T & S)
6.4.0 - 6.6.0 (S)
6.3.0 (S)
6.1.0 (S) 		2.1.47
2.1.46
2.1.43 - .45
2.1.42
2.1.40 		6.8.0 >= 6.8.0 6.8 (T & S)
6.7 (T & S)
6.6 (S) 		APIC
- 5.x (T & S)

ACI MSO
- v3.x (T & S)
Other Requirements           CPU: 2 or more
RAM: 4GB or more
HDD: 20GB or more
Docker: 18.06.1-ce or higher

Crontab, Logrotate

SevOne Data Insight

  • Please refer to Release Notes SevOne Data Insight for details.

SevOne NMS

  • An administrator-level account in SevOne NMS.

  • User name and password for the administrator-level account.

  • IP address of the PAS.

  • 20k (vPAS_20K) appliance (minimum requirement).

Collector Cisco ACI

  • APIC 5.x

  • ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) v3.x

  • An administrator-level account in the APIC and MSM. This is necessary in order for the SDN ACI Collector to communicate with the APIC REST API.

  • User name and password for the administrator-level account.

  • IP address of the APIC / MSM.

Any Linux Docker environment (running Linux containers) that can reach the target SevOne NMS and system(s) that can be polled by the network is acceptable.
SevOne NMS failover scenarios can be handled only when the collector is deployed on SevOne NMS appliance.

Useful Guides

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

SDN Guides

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  • SevOne SDN Collector Filter Alerts Using 'launch generate-fault-config' Option
  • SevOne SDN Collector Prerequisites & Common Questions
  • SevOne SDN Collector Set APIC User Account
  • SevOne SDN Collector Set Collector Using 'launch configure' Option
  • SevOne SDN Collector Set MSO User Account
  • SevOne SDN Collector Solution Data Insight Widgets User Guide
  • SevOne SDN Collector Solution Installation Guide
  • SevOne SDN Collector Solution Widgets for Data Insight Installation Guide
  • SevOne SDN Collector Upgrade Process Guide
  • SevOne SDN Collector Variables and Report Linking Usage Guide

SevOne Data Insight Guides

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  • Automated Rebuild (Customer) Instructions
  • SevOne Data Insight Pre-Installation Guide
  • SevOne Data Insight Installation Guide
  • SevOne Data Insight Migrate Operating System & Data 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

Recommendation

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If the SEVONE_API_PASSWORD changes, the collection will be stopped unless the settings.env and multi_site_config.json files are updated with the new password. The new configure option in the launch script provides the user with a command line interface to do the same.

Important: While using the SDN Collector 6.8.0 Monitoring Solution,
  • Do not rename devices or objects created by the Solution. This can potentially break data collection. Please use alternative name fields if a custom name is required.
  • Do not enable automatic DNS name resolution in SevOne NMS cluster. If enabled, it allows NMS to rename the devices based on the DNS record and break the data collection.

Known Issues

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This section lists issues that SevOne is aware of in SevOne SDN Collector 6.8.0 Monitoring Solution. 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.

  • ACI Switch Capacity widget has a few pre-set max values. For example, rather than using the APIC API max values, VRF's max value is 800 (400 for NorthStar model) and EPG's max value is 3960.
Component/s Key Known Issues
SDN Solution, SDN-Collection SC-14198 Platform: Value for the APIC status indicators is not appearing correctly when one of the APICs in the ACI Fabric is down.

1 issue