Release Notes SevOne Data Insight 7.1.0

Below please find the Release Notes for SevOne Data Insight 7.1.0. 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

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 Family SevOne NMS
Google Chrome Tested, Supported, & Recommended
Mozilla Firefox Tested & Supported
Microsoft Edge 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

SevOne NMS
  • Version 7.0.1 or higher.
  • User name and password for the administrator-level account.
  • IP adddress of the PAS.
Helm 3.13.1
Kubernetes 1.28.10+k3s1 (for upgrades)
1.28.10+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 >=7.1.0
Kernel 4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10.x86_64
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
Note: The latest 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.

Once you have downloaded the package, unpack the fix / install / upgrade packs to obtain the required files.


  • signature-tools-2.0.3-build.1.tgz
  • signature-tools-2.0.3-build.1.tgz.sha256.txt
Build Files
Note: The latest 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 files.

Once you have downloaded the package, unpack the fix / install / upgrade packs to obtain the required files.

  • TAR - sdi-v7.1.0-build.184.tgz
  • CHECKSUM - sdi-v7.1.0-build.184.tgz.sha256.txt
  • OVA - sdi-v7.1.0-build.184.ova
  • QCOW2 - sdi-v7.1.0-build.184.qcow2
  • ISO - sdi-v7.1.0-build.184.iso
  • VHD - sdi-v7.1.0-build.184.vhd.gz

DEPLOYMENT RECOMMENDATION

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.

RESOLVED ISSUES

Key Resolved Issues
S1NPM-78357 Reports: Built-in Flow Reports are now available out-of-the-box (OOTB) for improved performance with aggregated FlowFalcon Views on SevOne NMS. For additional details, please refer to FlowFalcon Views on how to update the aggregated view definitions.
S1NPM-99733 Data Sources: Allows username / password when adding a new datasource.
S1NPM-99747 Performance Metrics Widget: Line visualization > table legend supports global report links for:
  • Device
  • Object
  • Indicator
S1NPM-111386 Platform: User must be on SevOne Data Insight 6.8.x or above to upgrade to SevOne Data Insight 7.1.x.
S1NPM-111639 Devices: Search by Column is not available for columns Alert Status, Discovery, and Poller.
S1NPM-111654 Devices: Devices: Device Summary is now supported from Devices; provides summary for the device selected..
S1NPM-112922 Flow Reports: For OOTB Flow reports,
  • Flow - Application Analysis - report provides you with an overview of the top AS numbers, country, application and application categories from NetFlow data that has been received and processed by IBM SevOne NPM.
  • Flow - Application Network Summary - report provides you with an overview of end user activity on the network using NetFlow data and infrastructure metrics received and processed by IBM SevOne NPM.
  • Flow - Top Apps and Categories - report provides you with an overview of the top application categories and applications from NetFlow data that has been received and processed by IBM SevOne NPM.
  • Flow - Top Apps and Categories Detail - report provides you with a detailed overview of the top application categories and applications from NetFlow data that has been received and processed by IBM SevOne NPM.
  • Flow - Top Countries and AS - report provides you with an overview of the top countries and AS numbers for NetFlow data that has been received and processed by IBM SevOne NPM.
  • Flow - Top Countries and AS Detail - report provides you with a detailed overview of the top countries and AS numbers for NetFlow data that has been received and processed by IBM SevOne NPM.
  • Flow Sankey Diagram - report provides you with an overview of end user activity in your network using a Sankey diagram.
  • Flow Workspace - report provides you with an overview of traffic in your etwork using different flow charts.
  • Interface Flow Details - report provides application insights into traffic activity.

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CVEs

The following CVEs have been addressed.

CVEs CVEs (continued)
CVE-2019-11250
CVE-2021-44716
CVE-2022-21698
CVE-2022-27664
CVE-2022-29526
CVE-2022-41717
CVE-2022-41723
CVE-2022-46146 		CVE-2023-39325
CVE-2023-44487
CVE-2023-45142
CVE-2023-45288
CVE-2024-6104
CVE-2024-21626
CVE-2024-24786
CVE-2024-37890

KNOWN ISSUES

This section lists issues that SevOne is aware of in the Data Insight 7.1.0 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-112547 / S1NPM-112715 SD-WAN Viptela: After successful upgrade from version 7.1.0 to 7.1.x, the Viptela Summary Report in GUI displays a SevOne Data Insight migration error as shown below.

viptelaDIMigrationError

Workaround: Please click on Try to load anyway to proceed with loading the report without any conflicts.
S1NPM-112547 / S1NPM-112731 SD-WAN Viptela: When installing / upgrading the collector, running the command below to import the OOTB reports during post-check, may trigger an error. This is an expected behavior.
sevone-cli playbook postcheck

Error:

TASK [reports : Check script response] *************************************************
****************************************************************************************
fatal: [sevonek8s]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "AUTHENTICATING CLIENT...\nFETCHING ALL DATASOURCES...\nSELECTED DATASOURCE: 'SevOne' WITH ADDRESS: 
'10.49.12.97'\nUPLOADING REPORTS...\nRESULTS\n----------\nSUCCESS: Indicator Summary Calendar View     \nSUCCESS: SDWAN Device Health Object Summary

Workaround: The OOTB reports are still imported, and the installation or upgrade during post-check will continue as expected without any conflicts.
Please refer to Viptela Collector - Deployment guides for details.
S1NPM-112926 When Solutions OOTB Reports are imported, the datasource in Variables is not picking the datasource that the imported OOTB Report contains. Report variable sets the datasource to the default value, SevOne.

Workaround: Select an imported OOTB Report. Let's assume it is set to datasource, WiFi (for example). Choose Variables in the upper-right corner to edit it. In Datasource field, you will see that it is set to the default datasource, SevOne; it should have been set to WiFi based on this example. Click the Datasource drop-down and the list will contain all the data sources available (including WiFi based on this example). Choose WiFi from the drop-down list and click Update button to assign the correct datasource to the report.

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