Release Notes SevOne NMS 7.1.3

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Below please find the Release Notes for SevOne NMS 7.1.3. 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: *** IMPORTANT - please read ***
If your SevOne NMS appliance is on SevOne NMS 7.1.3 and you are connected to your SevOne NMS appliance using the Graphical User Interface, you can click on ? in the upper-right corner to view the documentation for the page you are on in SevOne NMS.

At present, ? is taking you to SevOne NPM IBM Documentation's test environment instead of the published environment. The test environment pages are up-to-date. To fix this issue and view the published documentation, here is a workaround.
  1. SSH into your SevOne NMS virtual machine and log in as support or root user. 
    
ssh support@<SevOne NMS appliance IP address or hostname>

    OR 

    
ssh root@<SevOne NMS appliance IP address or hostname>
  2. Execute the following commands. 
    
sed -i 's/ibmdocs-test.dcs.ibm.com/www.ibm.com/' /etc/sevone/nms.yaml

nms

sed -i 's#$MANUAL_BASEURL#https://ibm.com/docs/en/sevone-npm/#' /config/php-fpm.conf && supervisorctl restart php-fpm

Published documentation for SevOne NPM 7.1.x can also be accessed directly from SevOne NPM 7.1.x.

Note: If you have a WiFi solution in your environment and want to upgrade to SevOne NMS 7.1.x, please upgrade to SevOne NMS 7.1.3 directly.
Important: Guides & Release Notes

From IBM's Documentation Portal (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sevone-npm), please refer to SevOne NMS guides and release notes under IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) version 7.1 for details.

Release Notes SevOne NMS 7.1.0 contains the compatibility matrix, containers, important notices, third-party packages, planning & preparation, deprecated / removed features & functions, known issues, and other details that apply to SevOne NMS 7.1.x release.

For a list of issues resolved in SevOne NMS 7.1.x, please refer to each 7.1.x release notes for details.

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 Family SevOne NMS 7.1.x
Google Chrome Tested & Supported
Mozilla Firefox Tested & Supported
Microsoft Edge Tested & Supported (with limited testing performed)
Apple Safari Supported

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.

NOTE: Please use the latest browser version of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari.

Resolved Issues

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Important: In addition to the issue(s) mentioned below, please refer to each SevOne NMS 7.1.x release notes prior to this release for the list of all issues resolved.
Important: When performing an upgrade to SevOne NMS 7.1.3, signature tools must be on the latest versions. For example, 2.0.3.
  • S1NPM-113495:
    • A peer cannot be removed from the cluster if it has devices on it.
    • A peer cannot be removed from the cluster if it has an HSA. You must remove the HSA from the peer first before removing the peer.
    • Secondary appliances cannot be removed from the cluster unless they are in passive state.
  • S1NPM-113708: Addresses CVE-2024-45337.
  • S1NPM-113879: When buffer is full, SevOne Data Publisher logs an error message that it is unable to send data as the buffer is full.
  • S1NPM-114229: Flow report with IPv4 keys now display valid graphs.
  • S1NPM-114364: Kernel has been updated to kernel-4.18.0-553.37.1.el8_10.x86_64.
  • S1NPM-114372: IP address check between NMS data and SNMP walk data is now aligned and continuous discovery of WiFi access points no longer happens.
Important: For new installs / upgrades,
the latest TAR and CHECKSUM 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.
  • for upgrades, v7.1.3-build20250211-092352-2541fe8d.tar.gz and v7.1.3-build20250211-092352-2541fe8d.tar.gz.sha256.txt
  • for downgrades, v7.1.3-to-v7.1.2-build20250211-092352-2541fe8d.tar.gz and v7.1.3-to-v7.1.2-build20250211-092352-2541fe8d.tar.gz.sha256.txt

Upgrade from SevOne NMS 7.0.1+ (Command Line Interface)
  • Copy the upgrade file and checksum to /data/upgrade (make the directory, if not already created).
  • Execute the following commands to perform an upgrade. 
    
cd /data/upgrade

sudo podman exec -it nms-nms-nms SevOne-validate-image -i \
/data/upgrade/v7.1.3-build20250211-092352-2541fe8d.tar.gz -s \
/data/upgrade/v7.1.3-build20250211-092352-2541fe8d.tar.gz.sha256.txt

sudo tar -xzf v7.1.3-build20250211-092352-2541fe8d.tar.gz

cd /data/upgrade/ansible

sudo ./upgrade.sh

Upgrade from SevOne NMS 7.0.1+ (GUI Installer)
Please refer to SevOne NMS Upgrade Process Guide for details.


Downgrade to SevOne NMS 7.1.2 (Command Line Interface)
  • Copy the downgrade files to /data/upgrade (make the directory, if not already created).
  • Execute the following commands to perform an downgrade. 
    
cd /data/upgrade

sudo podman exec -it nms-nms-nms SevOne-validate-image -i \
/data/upgrade/v7.1.3-to-v7.1.2-build20250211-092352-2541fe8d.tar.gz -s \
/data/upgrade/v7.1.3-to-v7.1.2-build20250211-092352-2541fe8d.tar.gz.sha256.txt

sudo tar -xvf v7.1.3-to-v7.1.2-build20250211-092352-2541fe8d.tar.gz

cd ansible

sudo ./reverse.sh