Release summary

Release summary for IBM® Network Performance Insight®, Version 1.3.1.

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Description

IBM Network Performance Insight is the Performance Management extension of the IBM Netcool Operations Insight solution. Network Performance Insight is well-suited to monitor and troubleshoot the complex enterprise networks by providing contextualized insights through correlated SNMP, Flow, and IP SLA data sources.

Note: IBM Network Performance Insight is available for IBM Netcool Operations Insight entitled customers only.
Table 1. Release update
Version Type of Release Availability

1.3.1

 Availability of Network Performance Insight V1.3.1 June 2019
CAUTION:
Before you attempt an installation of Network Performance Insight, you’re advised to read these release notes. Failure to consult these Release Notes® might result in a corrupted, incomplete, or failed installation.

What's new in Network Performance Insight

New features and functions available with Network Performance Insight 1.3.1.

WiFi dashboards
The following new Network Performance Insight Dashboards are introduced:
  • WiFi Overview
  • WiFi Client Count
  • WiFi Interference and Noise Performance
These dashboards extend the integration coverage to Cisco Wireless Controller to provide visibility of WiFi network utilization and performance with the help of Co-Channel Interference (CCI) and Adjacent Channel Interference (ACI) metrics.

Metrics and formulas for these dashboards are provided with the help of wifi-health-cisco-1.0.0.jar Technology Pack.

Modernized user interface to visualize the Network Performance Insight Dashboards
The new user interface has the following advanced features:
  • Angular framework for Network Performance Insight Dashboards Engine

    Angular is a TypeScript-based open source front-end web application platform that has a single framework for all devices.

  • Dashboards can be visualized on multiple form-factors like Mobile and Tablet devices.
  • Data rendering speed is increased. Dashboard data is not stored in Derby database.
  • TimeZoom feature

    You can manage to visualize the time ranges of at the widget-level. This feature is applicable for NetFlow dashboards only.

Monitoring QoS with Class-Based Quality of Service (CBQoS) Technology Packs for Cisco, Juniper, and Huawei
In addition to NetFlow and IPSLA monitoring, Network Performance Insight Dashboards is extended to monitor CBQoS metrics on Cisco, Juniper, and Huawei devices. As more companies deploy VoIP and video conferencing, CBQoS is helpful to show how these applications are delivered across an infrastructure with defined policies. The metrics from the following technology packs provide the insight into the critical applications utilization for an organization:
  • network-qos-cisco-1.0.0.jar
  • network-qos-huawei-1.0.0.jar
  • network-qos-juniper-1.0.0.jar
New and updated technology packs
1.3.1 has new and updated technology packs that provide additional performance monitoring functions.

For more information, see Installing the Technology Packs.

Upgrade support
Upgrade is possible from Network Performance Insight 1.3.0 to 1.3.1.

For more information, see Upgrading.

Unsupported features
Some features from previous releases that are no longer supported are as follows:
  • System Administration > Preferences > User Preferences option are removed from Network Performance Insight Dashboards. Therefore, you cannot change the auto refresh time, CSV separator, and configure the look and feel of the exported dashboards.
  • Inventory schema tables are removed from the Storage Service and are now stored in Cassandra.
  • SNMP Discovery Service is no longer needed. Therefore, it is removed from the installation media.
Where, <hostname> is the host name of the Network Performance Insight node.

Supported network technology and devices

Functions that are supported by Network Performance Insight.
Table 2. Supported Network Performance Insight functions
Functions Value
Supported flow formats
  • Cisco NetFlow (V1, V5, and V9) and Flexible NetFlow
  • Juniper J-Flow (V5 and V9)
  • Huawei NetStream (V5 and V9)
  • Alcatel CFlow (V9)
  • IPFIX
IP SLA
  • Cisco
  • Huawei
  • Juniper
Class-Based QoS
  • Cisco
  • Huawei
  • Juniper
Supported Internet Protocol versions
  • IPv4
  • IPv6
    Note: The open source Hadoop is not compliant with IPv6. Therefore, IPv6 is not supported on Network Performance Insight servers network. But IPv6 is supported on monitored devices.
Supported flow transport protocols
  • UDP
  • SCTP
    Note: You must configure your SELinux to support the SCTP protocol.
Application Visibility and Control (AVC) supported Cisco devices
  • Cisco Aggregation Services Routers (ASR) 1000 Series, Cisco ISR 4000 Series
  • Cisco Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V, Cisco Integrated Service Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2)
Supported Cisco Wireless Controllers
  • Cisco 2504 Wireless Controller
  • Cisco 3504 Wireless Controller
  • Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller
  • Cisco 5760 Wireless LAN Controller
  • Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller
  • Cisco Catalyst 3850 24P Switch

Compatibility with Netcool Operations Insight

Integrated components and their supported versions in Netcool Operations Insight V1.6.

The following components from Netcool Operations Insight are required to work with Network Performance Insight:
  • Tivoli® Network Manager
  • Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus
  • Device Dashboard
  • Network Health Dashboard

For all the latest compatible versions of these components, see Product and component version matrix.

System requirements

The system requirements for the IBM Network Performance Insight installations.

For more information about system requirements for the IBM Network Performance Insight, Version 1.3.1, see Requirements.

See the detailed system requirements for Netcool Operations Insight from Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR) and search for IBM Netcool Operations Insight:

http://www-969.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity/index.html

Media content

Network Performance Insight consists of the following general media packages:
Important: IBM Network Performance Insight is referred to as IBM Netcool Operations Insight - Performance Management in the media and they both refer to the same product capability.
Table 3. Part numbers for Network Performance Insight 1.3.1
Component description Part no.
Netcool Operations Insight - Performance Management V1.3.1 Linux® Multilingual Base eAssembly CJ5N6EN
Netcool Operations Insight - Performance Management V1.3.1 Linux Multilingual CC29WML
Netcool Operations Insight - Performance Management Quick Start Guide V1.3.1 Multilingual CC29XML

For part numbers of other integrated IBM Netcool Operations Insight V1.6 components, see Product and component version matrix.

Installing Network Performance Insight

Simplified installation with the help of some installation scripts. For step-by-step installation instructions, see Installing and Configuring IBM Network Performance Insight.

Known issues

Provides the list of all current known problems and issues with IBM Network Performance Insight, Version 1.3.1.

For a list of known issues and resolutions for IBM Network Performance Insight, Version 1.3.1, see Known problems and solutions.

IBM Developer community

Connect, learn, and share with professionals and product support technical experts who provide their perspectives and expertise.

Use the developerWorks® community in the following ways:
  • Become involved with transparent development, an ongoing, open engagement between other users and developers of Network Performance Insight. You can access early designs, sprint demonstrations, product roadmap, and prerelease code.
  • Connect one-on-one with the experts to collaborate and network about Tivoli and the Network and Service Assurance community.
  • Read blogs to benefit from the expertise and experience of others.
  • Use wikis and forums to collaborate with the broader user community.

IBM Network Performance Insight community on developerWorks

Technical information PDF library

Link to the product documentation in PDF format for convenient printing.

Documentation in PDF format for Network Performance Insight is available from here:
PDF documents for download

Support

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