Release Notes SevOne Data Insight 7.0.0

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Below please find the Release Notes for SevOne Data Insight 7.0.0. 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.


Note: Terminology usage...

In SevOne Data Insight guides if there is,

  • [any reference to master] OR
  • [[if a CLI command contains master] AND/OR
  • [its output contains master]],
    it means leader.

And, if there is any reference to slave, it means follower.

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 >=7.0.0
Kernel 4.18.0-513.18.1.el8_9.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.<latest>.tgz
  • signature-tools-<latest version>-build.<latest>.tgz.sha256.txt

For example,

  • signature-tools-2.0.3-build.1.tgz
  • signature-tools-2.0.3-build.1.tgz.sha256.txt
Build Files RPM: SevOne-soa-7.0.0-1.5.el8.x86_64.rpm

Important: The latest TAR (for upgrades and downgrades), CHECKSUM, OVA, QCOW2, ISO, and VHD files can be downloaded from IBM Passport Advantage (https://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/pao_download_software.html) via Passport Advantage Online. However, if you are on a legacy / flexible SevOne contract and do not have access to IBM Passport Advantage but have an active Support contract, please contact SevOne Support Team for the file.

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.

New Features / Enhancements

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Platform:
  • New Stash feature provides you with a means to copy visualizations from Reports and Instant Graphs into a staging area called the Stash. Using the new Stash feature, build your exploration/investigation story by adding visualizations to a new or existing report.
  • New Instant Graphs workspace outside of standard report for ad-hoc multi-variant analysis that can quickly find and select sets of resources, pivot the resources across multiple charts for easier visual analysis, and provide features like time-over-time and baseline standard deviation.
  • Improvements to Metadata Widget for easier resource selection, expanded the Metadata attributes to display, added the capability to chain to and from the metadata widget from an expanded set of widgets.

Resolved Issues

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Key Resolved Issues
S1NPM-78057 Alerts: Count over threshold triggers at N events.
S1NPM-78067 FlowFalcon: The system now recognizes certain IBM enterprise fields related to Kubernetes (pods, nodes, and namespaces).
S1NPM-78182 Platform: After upgrading SevOne Data Insight, OOTB reports will be automatically updated.
S1NPM-78342 Platform: Added support for chaining from the Topology widget to the Metadata widget.
S1NPM-78346 Topology Widget: Clicking the link now reveals the following information in the report.
  • Start and end devices
  • Object(s) associated with the link
  • Protocol defining the link
S1NPM-78347 Topology Widget: Tagging feature added; links and nodes can be shown or hidden based on tags.
S1NPM-78349 / S1NPM-78350 Alerts: Allows filtering based on policy and severity.
S1NPM-78360 Maps: Adds indicator types to link labels.
S1NPM-78387 Chaining: Metadata Widget can be chained from the following widgets.
  • Maps
  • Performance Metrics
  • TopN
S1NPM-99981 Platform: React upgraded to version React 18.
S1NPM-100111 Metadata Widget: In the report, the column formerly named Status has been renamed to Alert Status. This change has also been verified in older reports containing the metadata widget.
S1NPM-100113 Maps: A new checkbox Show Indicator Value has been added under the Style > section CANVAS STYLE. This feature allows the display of metric values for indicators on link labels.
S1NPM-100142 Maps: Can autoscale before clustering.
S1NPM-100147 Platform: A curated list of items has been implemented for the Service Profile report variable.
S1NPM-100149 Platform: Redirect API has been enhanced to support device and object metadata.
S1NPM-100150 Platform: A permanent deletion banner has been added to the Trash (reports) folder.
S1NPM-100166 Platform: Report Manager now shows friendly user names in the following format. 
<Given Name> <Surname> (Username)
S1NPM-100170 Group Metrics Widget: If a widget is filtered with a device group variable, it displays the selected device group. If both parent and child device groups are selected, the widget will display both.
S1NPM-100183 Platform: In the Report Manager > Report Settings section, the Report owner field now shows friendly user names in the following format. 
<Given Name> <Surname> (Username)
S1NPM-100187 Platform: Column reordering is enabled by default for all widgets.
S1NPM-100189 Topology Widget: Under Widgets Settings > Chart tab, a new section Alert Options has been added with the following options:
  1. Color nodes by Alert Status - This option, enabled by default, allows coloring nodes based on the SevOne Alert Status.
    • Use Halo - Display a halo around nodes. (Disabled if Color Nodes by Alert Status is disabled)
    • Display Alert Count in Nodes - Show alert count within nodes. (Disabled if Color Nodes by Alert Status is disabled)
  2. Color links by Alert Status - This option, enabled by default, allows coloring links based on SevOne Alert Status.
When Color Nodes by Alerts is enabled, the focal device will be highlighted with a pulsing effect.
S1NPM-100214 Platform: SevOne Data Insight now supports deployment in air-gapped environments.
S1NPM-109147 Platform: Allows PDF Reports that take longer than 30 seconds (default), to print.

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Known Issues

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This section lists issues that SevOne is aware of in the Data Insight 7.0.0 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
S1NPM-100050 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.
S1NPM-100058 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.
S1NPM-100087 Devices: Refreshing logout token on Device Manager page results in an authentication error and logs you out.
S1NPM-110440 Instant Graphs: Displays indicator values as 0 instead of n/a when there is no data.

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