Release Notes SevOne Data Insight 8.0.0

Below please find the Release Notes for SevOne Data Insight 8.0.0 (Release Date: July 24, 2025). 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 (for NMS or Kubernetes or Redis) contains master] AND/OR
  • [its output contains master]], it means leader or control plane.

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

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 (latest) Tested, Supported, & Recommended
Mozilla Firefox (latest) Tested & Supported
Microsoft Edge (latest) 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

Version Compatibility

SevOne Data Insight and SevOne NMS are compatible when they are within + / - 1 major version of each other. However, for the best experience and to ensure full feature availability and optimal performance, we strongly recommend keeping both Data Insight and NMS on the same version. When the versions do not match, some features may be limited or may not function as expected.

You must have the following for NMS:
  • User name and password for the administrator-level account.
  • IP adddress of the PAS.
Helm v3.13.1
Kubernetes v1.32.2+k3s1 (for upgrades / 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.
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) >=8.0.0
Kernel 4.18.0-553.60.1.el8_10.x86_64
Nginx Helm Chart 4.10.1
Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.10 (Ootpa)
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-v8.0.0-build.455.tgz
  • CHECKSUM - sdi-v8.0.0-build.455.tgz.sha256.txt
  • OVA - sdi-v8.0.0-build.455.ova
  • QCOW2 - sdi-v8.0.0-build.455.qcow2
  • ISO - sdi-v8.0.0-build.455.iso
  • VHD - sdi-v8.0.0-build.455.vhd.gz-part-1, sdi-v8.0.0-build.455.vhd.gz-part-2

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.

New Features & Enhancements

  • Widgets: Along with SevOne Data Insight Core widgets, SD-DC (Software Designed Data Center) and Wi-Fi widgets are now available from SevOne Data Insight.
  • Flow Widget: Allows creation of Simple and Compound filters under tab Filters.
  • Policies: Can create new policies and add trigger / clear conditions, edit existing policies, has filtering capability to find policies based on the filters set.
  • Data Sources: Based on the datasource selected, provides capability to view your cluster status and its peer details.
  • Several user interface enhancements made to improve usability.
  • Streamlined administration and improved operational efficiency.

Resolved Issues

Important: It is strongly recommended to run the external security scans such as Nessus, Snyk, or similar on the latest available patch for this release to verify whether the vulnerability has been addressed. If upgrading the production environment is not currently possible, these scans can still be performed in a lab or test environment.
Key Resolved Issues
S1NPM-113434 SDN Widgets: All SD-DC (Software Designed Data Center) widgets are now available from SevOne Data Insight.
S1NPM-113788 Performance Metrics Widget: The Calendar Heatmap visualization displays the value labels when the widget is sized appropriately.
S1NPM-113853 Performance Metrics Widget: As expected, the Line visualization accurately represents the timespan corresponding to the selected timezone.
S1NPM-114005 Platform: Failure messages in the GQL logs, which were possibly due to Prometheus authentication issues, have now been resolved.
S1NPM-114130 Flow Widget: Allows creation of Simple and Compound filters under tab Filters.
S1NPM-114315 Performance Metrics: Support added for metadata report linking and global report linking in Performance Metrics table legends.
S1NPM-114493 TopN Widget: TopN - TopN chained widget gets data as expected.
S1NPM-114507 Export PDF: Scheduled email PDF delivery completes when a report contains the Flow Widget data with App Profile containing logos on Table visualization or any other visualization (such as, Pie ChartBar Chart, or Line Chart) where LEGEND is set to Table. Flow OOTB reports and the migrated Flow Widget reports scheduled for delivery in Table visualization and for other visualizations where LEGEND is set to Table are successfully exported.
S1NPM-114762 WiFi Widgets: All WiFi widgets are now available from SevOne Data Insight.
S1NPM-114911 Platform: Can successfully load out-of-the-box (OOTB) reports from SevOne Data Insight graphical user interface.
S1NPM-114935 Flow Widget: Subnet selector displays the subnets; scroll to the end to load the next set of subnets successfully.
S1NPM-115062 Platform: When following a report link from Device Summary, the variables on the target clear once the data is loaded. This has now been resolved.
S1NPM-116043 Device Summary: System Uptime retrieves the units from the API response and displays it correctly.
S1NPM-116862

VeloCloud: When upgrading SevOne Data Insight version 7.2.x to 8.0.x, adding the VeloCloud datasource now allows the VeloCloud SDWAN Site Summary reports and their corresponding widgets to load as expected.

14 issues

Known Issues

This section lists issues that SevOne is aware of in the Data Insight 8.0.0 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-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-114222 WiFi: Sometimes the Number of Clients shown in the Clients Summary by Access Point does not match the values in the heatmap or in the Client Summary included in the report generated by the WiFi Signal Quality widget.
S1NPM-116917 Report Linking: Data does not populate in the linked report.
S1NPM-116999 ACI Tenant Object Report: Incorrect data is displayed in the fault page.
S1NPM-117000 Widgets: Incorrect indicators are displayed for a few OOTB ACI Reports.

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