Release Notes SevOne NMS 7.2.2

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Below please find the Release Notes for SevOne NMS 7.2.2. 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: If you have a WiFi solution in your environment and want to upgrade to SevOne NMS 7.2.x, please upgrade to SevOne NMS 7.2.2 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 7.2 for details.

Release Notes SevOne NMS 7.2.0 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 7.2.x release.

For a list of issues resolved in SevOne NMS 7.2.x, please refer to each 7.2.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 7.2.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 7.2.x release notes prior to this release for the list of all issues resolved.
Important: When performing an upgrade to SevOne NMS 7.2.2, signature tools must be on the latest versions. For example, 2.0.3.
  • S1NPM-111909: During MustGather collection if the file is larger than 200MB, it will not collect the file and skip it. An error message is logged during the execution.
  • S1NPM-112604: Alertmailer can now send 10000+ alert mails without abruptly cutting them off.
  • S1NPM-114504: WiFi: Access Point metadata for WLC shows the secondary WLC when primary WLC is down.
  • S1NPM-114545 / S1NPM-115620: SevOne-trapd can now process traps with high CPU.
  • S1NPM-114741: For newly created Selfmon devices, ICMP and Process Pollers are enabled.
  • S1NPM-114821: max_connections for MariaDB has been updated to 2048.
  • S1NPM-114983: TopN correctly returns the results when filters are applied.
  • S1NPM-114493 / S1NPM-115022: Data Insight gets the data in TopN > TopN chained widget scenario.
  • S1NPM-115054: SDB: Addressed GO-2025-3553/CVE-2025-30204.
  • S1NPM-115084: Can now handle the upgrade edge-case where the replication was mistakenly started. has already started.
  • S1NPM-115109: Allows user to specify host name used when connecting to SMTP server.
  • S1NPM-115171: After adding a SDN device and performing an upgrade, log rotation works as expected.
  • S1NPM-115183: During an upgrade, snmpd service is stopped when cleaning obsolete packages from the host.
  • S1NPM-115210: During MustGather collection, compressed and log rotated files are not collected.
  • S1NPM-115259: Post-upgrade, prometheus/collectors pods are started on passive appliances.
  • S1NPM-115280: ACI physical interface creates ingrErrPkts crcLast and ingrErrPkts discardLast.
  • S1NPM-115330: When running the MustGather script, crontab permissions are not changed to 777 which caused many periodic scripts to stop running regularly.
  • S1NPM-115340: SDN: VM device details are displayed in Device Group and Device Type pages.
  • S1NPM-115372: SDN collector updated to skip non-yaml files in /config/SDN directory.
  • S1NPM-115379: SDN logs are now generated in /var/log/SDN.
  • S1NPM-115396: Object Type Manager - allows right-click on Object Types.
  • S1NPM-115445: SDN: 100MB size constraint added to logrotate.
  • S1NPM-115498: SDN:
    • Log file is truncated and not deleted
    • Compressed file is generated
    • Rotation count is set to 5
    • No Rotation occurs because of notifempty
    • Behavior when log is missing: No error occurs because of missingok.
    • Log gets rotated when size or maxsize is exceeded
    • Files older than the value set for maxage get deleted
  • S1NPM-115768: Object Group rules work as expected.
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, v7.2.2-build20250512-104708-e693a22d.tar.gz and v7.2.2-build20250512-104708-e693a22d.tar.gz.sha256.txt
  • for downgrades, v7.2.2-to-v7.2.1-build20250512-104708-e693a22d.tar.gz and v7.2.2-to-v7.2.1-build20250512-104708-e693a22d.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/v7.2.2-build20250512-104708-e693a22d.tar.gz -s \
/data/upgrade/v7.2.2-build20250512-104708-e693a22d.tar.gz.sha256.txt

sudo tar -xzf v7.2.2-build20250512-104708-e693a22d.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 7.2.1 (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/v7.2.2-to-v7.2.1-build20250512-104708-e693a22d.tar.gz -s \
/data/upgrade/v7.2.2-to-v7.2.1-build20250512-104708-e693a22d.tar.gz.sha256.txt

sudo tar -xvf v7.2.2-to-v7.2.1-build20250512-104708-e693a22d.tar.gz

cd ansible

sudo ./reverse.sh