Change Log

Welcome to the Change Log page. This page contains details of changes to Unified Assurance. Each release is dated, and new features are detailed as well as bug fixes.

Releases

6.0.2.0.0 - March 9, 2023

This release introduces Unified Assurance Flow Analytics.

Unified Assurance Flow Analytics is a complete solution to collect, analyze, and provide real-time visibility into whom and what are consuming network bandwidth.

Refer to Flow Analytics.

• Changes

  • [OCUA-1486] - [34605994] - Upgrade Elasticsearch Database, Kibana and MySQL Replication Data Importer to 7.17.8
  • [OCUA-3779] - Collection microservices should scale out and scale back based on workload
  • [OCUA-3826] - Add functionality to support Microservice Cross-Datacenter Redundancy
  • [OCUA-3966] - Add papouchProjekt certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4049] - Allow custom ports for LDAPS authentication type
  • [OCUA-4055] - Add Trap Forwarder microservice
  • [OCUA-4114] - Allow configurable client ServerID in Event Canal microservice
  • [OCUA-4277] - Add netScaler certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4278] - Add emerson certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10208] - Add rad certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10232] - Add juniperUni certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10250] - Add symmetricom certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10251] - Add sigma certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10326] - Add optical-metro certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10327] - Add citrix certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10328] - Add symbol certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10388] - Add crossbeamSystems certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10525] - Add stratacom certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10545] - [34843536] - Add UIs for microservices that are "Installed", a list of available "Helmcharts" which can then be deployed, and different "Workloads" states
  • [OCUA-10546] - Update APIs to support PHP 8
  • [OCUA-10547] - [34844709] - Assure1::SLM subroutines should specify a VertexType value to improve efficiency in CreateVertexTree calls
  • [OCUA-10564] - Update the Unified Assurance navigation in Kibana
  • [OCUA-10571] - [34857596] - Update Neo4j to 4.4.15
  • [OCUA-10573] - [34857673] - Re-implement "Log Checker" functionality
  • [OCUA-10579] - [34857773] - Update mavenir certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10589] - Unified Assurance should use high security TLS ciphers
  • [OCUA-10591] - Update Device Interface Types to align with IANAifType-MIB
  • [OCUA-10595] - Update MySQL EE to 8.0.31
  • [OCUA-10596] - Update Java SE to 11.0.18
  • [OCUA-10641] - Microservices "Installed" UI should have additional breakdown groups by namespace
  • [OCUA-10651] - Update Helm to 3.10.3
  • [OCUA-10680] - Update NodeJS to 16.19.0
  • [OCUA-10686] - Update Pulsar 3rd party library to address security issues
  • [OCUA-10692] - Update CPAN to 2.29 and Perl DBI to 1.643
  • [OCUA-10699] - [34955411] - Add endace fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10729] - Update Perl modules
  • [OCUA-10739] - Update Golang modules
  • [OCUA-10799] - Update NodeJS and JavaScript dependencies in Vision
  • [OCUA-10812] - Update JWT library in Graph Sink microservice
  • [OCUA-10813] - Update Kafka to 3.3.1
  • [OCUA-10956] - Update Unison to 2.53.0
  • [OCUA-10962] - Add PDUv1 conversion support in Trap Collector microservice
  • [OCUA-10995] - Update Influx binary to prevent segfaults
  • [OCUA-11009] - Metric Standard Thresholding Engine should fully process threshold violations when in a clustered failover type, and only read from the messaging bus for other threshold violation messages
  • [OCUA-11019] - Update golang to 1.19.5
  • [OCUA-11094] - Update 4th party Java libraries in Vision Gatekeeper

• Bugs

  • [OCUA-1875] - Event list tools and in-line event editing should work on events in different shards
  • [OCUA-2266] - Update Zone Validation in Cluster Control to allow the same zone in multiple clusters
  • [OCUA-2517] - Diagrams with "Autofit" enabled should properly scale vertically
  • [OCUA-2672] - Large diagrams should be displayed properly with "Auto Fit" enabled
  • [OCUA-2763] - Kibana UI should load in Safari browser
  • [OCUA-3537] - Using the topology "Device Overview" and "Network Details" tools should result in a properly displaying dashboard
  • [OCUA-3963] - Event list "View SLM" tool should work properly
  • [OCUA-4213] - [34863878] - Implement customization of event, performance, and availability state visibility for vertices in Topology Graph dashboard panels
  • [OCUA-4284] - Null character should be handled the same way by all Unified Assurance applications
  • [OCUA-4286] - Topology Gather Network Inventory should only try to create a neighbor if IPAddress is available
  • [OCUA-4287] - Metric Standard Thresholding Engine should handle influx query failures and should still properly clear violations
  • [OCUA-10255] - [34614891] - Tools using the Remote functionality should open the external site properly, Remote tools should work when opening in a New or the Same Tab
  • [OCUA-10343] - [34529681] - Unified Assurance should use high security TLS ciphers
  • [OCUA-10399] - Interfaces should be tucked away into the correct device in Topology Graph panels
  • [OCUA-10475] - Rebuild Apache Guacamole to remove security vulnerabilities
  • [OCUA-10476] - [34787540] - Update embedded Tomcat server in Apache Guacamole
  • [OCUA-10535] - Changing the zoom level using the mouse scroll wheel should be more consistent on Topology Graphs using the Geographical Map layout
  • [OCUA-10536] - Topology Graph vertex state calls should consistently be started correctly
  • [OCUA-10537] - Remote connections to devices should work properly with Apache Guacamole
  • [OCUA-10538] - Post to PollingAssignments API should work properly, and the Devices picker in the Polling Assignments UI should reset to Available when the page is submitted
  • [OCUA-10574] - [34857696] - Metric Standard Thresholding Engine should handle instances where there are no configured thresholds to check
  • [OCUA-10590] - Changing the time range in the "All Metrics" pop up from a topology graph should work properly
  • [OCUA-10599] - [34871460] - Events navigation "readStates" calls and events API reads should load data when an event filter is set to use a different shard
  • [OCUA-10602] - [34873005] - Telegraf should properly handle updates and recover gracefully
  • [OCUA-10603] - [34873017] - MergeView plugin should be included in codemirror
  • [OCUA-10609] - [34878185] - Analytics Wizard should properly access the API
  • [OCUA-10623] - Topology Graph dashboard panels using the Geographical Map layout should show vertices properly on the map in full screen mode
  • [OCUA-10634] - [34902006] - Elastic and Kibana should only update if the ElasticSearch database is writable
  • [OCUA-10636] - [34902029] - Improve Dashboard configuration UI user experience
  • [OCUA-10652] - [34918546] - Topology graphs should allow custom vertex icons and edge properties
  • [OCUA-10655] - Rules UI should be able to handle JSON formatting in files
  • [OCUA-10685] - Calling the API from Perl API library should work
  • [OCUA-10695] - Topology graphs using the "Geographic" view should show the tool menu when context-clicking on a vertex
  • [OCUA-10698] - Update "All Metrics Overview" and "Network Traffic" views to handle PHP8 empty data access violations when no data is present
  • [OCUA-10707] - [34961026] - Event, diagram and topology Tools should work without requiring placeholders
  • [OCUA-10709] - Event Lists with Shard 0 should properly sort aggregated data from each shard
  • [OCUA-10710] - [34961925] - Graph API should still return success even if no path is found with the provided inputs
  • [OCUA-10738] - Microservices UI Readme section should show correct data
  • [OCUA-10741] - [34975119] - SNMPv3 support for trap-collector microservice
  • [OCUA-10761] - Event list "Traceroute Device" tool should handle when the endpoint is down
  • [OCUA-10797] - [34986200] - Layout options on Graph Dashboard panel should function properly
  • [OCUA-10808] - [34993033] - Full screen view of the Graph Dashboard should work correctly
  • [OCUA-10959] - Upgrades from v5 to v6 should handle redundant servers, non-default installation directories and Metric or Graph only servers
  • [OCUA-10978] - Dashboards should support multiple metric "Graph" panels in a single dashboard properly
  • [OCUA-10984] - Dashboard layout should be preserved when adding panels from the cog configuration menu
  • [OCUA-10997] - Network Details dashboard panel should display IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  • [OCUA-10998] - [35023194] - Improve backend database query execution in dashboard Topology Graph panels
  • [OCUA-11000] - [35027527] - Kafka should create a local copy of telegraf-kafka.conf on install
  • [OCUA-11057] - [35063784] - Improve backend database query execution in SLM UI's
  • [OCUA-11058] - [35063980] - All Metrics Overview panel should show metrics with DisplayInstances
  • [OCUA-11063] - Edge API validation should accept EdgeTypeID as a string
  • [OCUA-11089] - Default Kibana dashboards should be created
  • [OCUA-11114] - clusterctl "create" should store Cluster Name in the RKE config file

6.0.1.0.0 - December 6, 2022

• Changes

  • [OCUA-1851] - Add custom icon library used in Universal Topology
  • [OCUA-1885] - Update prerequisites documentation adding NTP as a requirement on all servers
  • [OCUA-2043] - Add geographical map layout in Universal Topology
  • [OCUA-2514] - Add VMWare vCenter microservice
  • [OCUA-3124] - Create additional grafana dashboards for vendor services
  • [OCUA-3204] - Add Cisco Meraki microservice
  • [OCUA-3235] - Event Generic Agent should be able to query data from ElasticSearch
  • [OCUA-3581] - Add rules for FCOM Processor microservice to handle Syslog Collector microservice events
  • [OCUA-3582] - Add Syslog Collector microservice
  • [OCUA-3607] - Optimize Dashboards loading and simplify event handlings
  • [OCUA-3654] - Add Redis microservice, add Device and Topology warmup microservices to add data to Redis
  • [OCUA-3657] - Allow customizable source server hostname, port, and schema within Event Canal microservice
  • [OCUA-3681] - Add override support for FCOM Processor microservice
  • [OCUA-3718] - Add Netapps microservice
  • [OCUA-3736] - Add apc certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3744] - Add avaya certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3747] - Add netapp certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3832] - Add panduit certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3896] - Add microsoft certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3897] - Add fireeye certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3902] - Add scc certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3929] - Pulsar Tester microservice port should be configurable
  • [OCUA-3930] - Add vertical certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3931] - Add avocent certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3932] - Add grandjunction certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3933] - Add nortel certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3937] - Add mcafee certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3940] - Add mrv certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3941] - Add netIQEnterprise certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-3996] - Move ejnmobileipABmib fault Foundations support to a dedicated rules file, remove from ietf rules file
  • [OCUA-4003] - Add adtran certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4011] - Replace Universal Topology's display engine
  • [OCUA-4019] - Add nokia certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4021] - Add fortinet certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4022] - Add mikrotik certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4023] - Add onstream certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4025] - Add acornTop certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4026] - Add nec certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4030] - Add ironPort certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4031] - Add adcKentrox certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4033] - Add emc certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4038] - Add synchronous certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4052] - Update Puppeteer to 14.4.1
  • [OCUA-4058] - Vision should display additional entity information on devices
  • [OCUA-4059] - Improve geo-cone visibility when clicking a site in a dashboard in Vision
  • [OCUA-4099] - Add privileged port binding and node selection to Trap Collector microservice
  • [OCUA-4117] - Add packeteer certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4120] - Update Trap Collector microservice to use SendAsync
  • [OCUA-4122] - Add kafka adapter microservice
  • [OCUA-4125] - Degree sign in FCOM Summary fields should display properly in the UI if used in foundationrules
  • [OCUA-4126] - Add cloudgenix certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4131] - Add marconi certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4186] - Kafka should log to the $A1BASEDIR/logs directory
  • [OCUA-4189] - Update Go to 1.19.2
  • [OCUA-4215] - Update PHP to 8.1
  • [OCUA-4227] - Add clariion certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4235] - Add xedia certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4240] - Apache should use high security TLS ciphers
  • [OCUA-4247] - Add tandberg certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4248] - Add wipipe certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4249] - Add ad certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4250] - Add ods certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4251] - Add olicom certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4253] - Add vmware event collector microservice
  • [OCUA-4255] - Update CodeMirror to 5.65.5
  • [OCUA-4282] - Add apcon certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-4283] - Add redCreek certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10024] - Update fault Foundations support for newer revision of CISCO-RTTMON-MIB
  • [OCUA-10030] - Add f5 certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10031] - Add opengear certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10036] - Add sni TNS-MIB certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10044] - Add viptela certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10048] - Add panRoot (Palo Alto Networks) certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10082] - Add checkpoint certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10094] - Add gigamonSnmp certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10100] - Add hpe certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10108] - Add arista certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10198] - Add hp certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10202] - Add synernetics certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10203] - Add hitachi certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10209] - Add pdyn certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10214] - Add alteon certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10216] - Add a10 certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10219] - Add aptis certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10220] - Add extreme certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10235] - Add meraki certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10237] - Add shasta certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10238] - Add dec certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10242] - Add baytech certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10243] - Add chipcom certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10247] - Add riverstoneNetworks certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10249] - Add colubris certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10268] - Add nbase certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10270] - Add empire certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10272] - Add infoVista certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10273] - Add concord certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10274] - Add wellfleet certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10277] - Add arrowPoint certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10279] - Add exaltcommunications certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10311] - Add blueCoat certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10391] - Create upgrade path from Assure1 v5 to Unified Assurance v6
  • [OCUA-10412] - Update 3rd party dependencies in Supervised Event Correlator microservice
  • [OCUA-10417] - [34606430] - CreateSLM functions should specify VertexType and/or EdgeType when calling FindVertexProperty, FindVertexID, FindEdgeID, DeleteEdgeID and DeleteVertexID
  • [OCUA-10418] - [34606304] - Metric library function "FindMetricID" should detect and update stored Maximums
  • [OCUA-10422] - [34606331] - Add Relocate Metric Data Tool to help migrate Influx data between zones and shards
  • [OCUA-10484] - [34606312] - Add calixNetworks certified fault Foundations support
  • [OCUA-10498] - Update Kafka to 3.2.3
  • [OCUA-10499] - [34606299] - Add multitel certified fault Foundations support

• Bugs

  • [OCUA-827] - Combo boxes should be more consistent throughout the application
  • [OCUA-2596] - BrokerControl "ping" should work when directed to any Unified Assurance server that is part of the same installation
  • [OCUA-3050] - Tools that open a pop-up window should have a usable scroll-bar when displayed
  • [OCUA-3722] - Default service configuration for Event Pipe Aggregator should have the right path to LoadRules
  • [OCUA-3823] - Topology graph tools should pass placeholders to the destination link properly
  • [OCUA-3829] - Events listed in the "Symptom Events" tab should be expandable to see all of the fields
  • [OCUA-4024] - Topology API call to get nodeDetails should use the same availability, event, and metric threshold calls as the "Devices" navigation
  • [OCUA-4029] - "All Metrics Overview", "Device Group Availability", and "Top-N Metrics Table" dashboard panel configuration based on a Device Group should work properly
  • [OCUA-4036] - Event Canal microservice should use pulsar's SendAsync()
  • [OCUA-4088] - Dashboard panel export functionality should work for PDF and HTML formats
  • [OCUA-4098] - Setting a metric chart to automatically refresh should work properly
  • [OCUA-4127] - User group "Properties" calls to event filter groups "readForTree" should work properly
  • [OCUA-4130] - Supervised event "Correlations" pop-up in the event list should only open if a user has the correct permissions
  • [OCUA-4135] - In application threshold polling should properly support the "SendAllViolation" option
  • [OCUA-4148] - Vision addErrorLog API call should work properly when called
  • [OCUA-4151] - Fix issues preventing applications from being run via the UI
  • [OCUA-4154] - Vision API documentation should be accessible via ingress proxy
  • [OCUA-4155] - Mechanizations UI should work properly
  • [OCUA-4160] - Vision API configCheck endpoint should work properly
  • [OCUA-4181] - FCOM eval statements should be compatible with JavaScript and Perl
  • [OCUA-4182] - Trap Collector microservice should properly format resolved DNS names and not add a trailing period
  • [OCUA-4185] - Improve Syslog Collector microservice message processing
  • [OCUA-4188] - Update prerequisites documentation changing the filename used for firewalld & include the default port for the Event WebHook Aggregator on collection servers
  • [OCUA-4239] - Fix issues with links from Vision views to Unified Assurance UIs
  • [OCUA-4285] - All Metrics Overview dashboard panel should use system memory more efficiently
  • [OCUA-10025] - Add the SNMP-TLS-TM-MIB to the certified MIB repository
  • [OCUA-10415] - [34676724] - TL1 "Gateways" and "Elements" UIs should properly return results when using to Neo4j
  • [OCUA-10416] - [34606412] - Fix user authentication using LDAP to properly validate login credentials
  • [OCUA-10419] - [34606388] - View changes to columns in the event list should be maintained when data is refreshed
  • [OCUA-10420] - [34606287] - A slash in a group name should still then work properly when accessing items in a multi-tree UI
  • [OCUA-10421] - [34606318] - Broker control "Jobs" and "Services" UIs should limit the "Primary Service/Job" combo box to the already existing entries on the primary server, add decouple functionality to support other primary/redundant configurations
  • [OCUA-10480] - [34624187] - Cloning diagram Metric Widgets should be more efficient
  • [OCUA-10481] - [34684023] - Improve the user experience on the "Dashboards" UI when trying to change the panel area
  • [OCUA-10482] - [34783016] - Reports should support formats other than PDF
  • [OCUA-10483] - [34606288] - Kibana Event Analytics Dashboard reports should generate properly
  • [OCUA-10486] - [34606327] - Report Runner should work properly
  • [OCUA-10487] - [34606343] - Metric Standard Threshold Engine should be aware of data modifications that have been applied to Influx
  • [OCUA-10488] - [34606374] - Metric "Collections" UI should work when a large number of metrics are included in a policy
  • [OCUA-10489] - [34606380] - Improve Metric "readStates" API functionality
  • [OCUA-10490] - [34606419] - Adhoc Graph Dashboard should not error when filtering by "Edge" and "Property"
  • [OCUA-10491] - [34606436] - Metric Poller Discovery should update thresholds more efficiently
  • [OCUA-10500] - [34606395] - Add dependency for additional library needed to install MediaWiki in Unified Assurance on Centos 7.9

6.0.0.0.0 - August 1, 2022

The initial stable release of Unified Assurance v6. Refer to the "What is Unified Assurance" page for additional details.