Changes and New Features | NVIDIA UFM Enterprise User Manual

This section lists the new and changed features in this software version.

For an archive of changes and features from previous releases, please refer to Changes and New Features History.

Feature	Description
UFM Rollback	Added the ability to revert back to or reinstall a backed-up specific historical version of UFM including configuration. For more information, refer to UFM Rollback.
Setting UFM Configurations without requiring UFM restart	Added the ability to update UFM, OpenSM, and SHARP configurations without needing to restart UFM, as well as the option to modify parameters while UFM is running. This feature includes a list of OpenSM and gv.cfg configuration parameters that can be updated dynamically without requiring a UFM restart. For more information, refer to Setting UFM Configurations Without Requiring UFM Restart.
Deploying UFM Container / Podman as Non-Root User	Added an automated script to seamlessly install/uninstall UFM as a non-privileged user. Installing UFM as an Un-Privileged User .

Feature

Description

UFM Rollback

Added the ability to revert back to or reinstall a backed-up specific historical version of UFM including configuration. For more information, refer to UFM Rollback.

Setting UFM Configurations without requiring UFM restart

Added the ability to update UFM, OpenSM, and SHARP configurations without needing to restart UFM, as well as the option to modify parameters while UFM is running. This feature includes a list of OpenSM and gv.cfg configuration parameters that can be updated dynamically without requiring a UFM restart. For more information, refer to Setting UFM Configurations Without Requiring UFM Restart.

Deploying UFM Container / Podman as Non-Root User

Added an automated script to seamlessly install/uninstall UFM as a non-privileged user.

Installing UFM as an Un-Privileged User

The items listed in the table below apply to all UFM license types.

For bare metal installation of UFM, it is required to install MLNX_OFED 5.X (or newer) before the UFM installation.

Please make sure to use the UFM installation package that is compatible with your setup, as detailed in Bare Metal Deployment Requirements.

Unsupported Functionalities/Features

The following distributions are no longer supported in UFM:

RH7.0-RH7.7 / CentOS7.0-CentOS7.7
SLES12 / SLES 15
EulerOS2.2 / EulerOS2.3
Ubuntu18.04

Deprecated Features:

Mellanox Care (MCare) Integration
UFM on VM (UFM with remote fabric collector)
Logical server auditing
The UFM high availability script - /etc/init.d/ufmha - is no longer supported
The UFM Multi-site portal feature is no longer supported. The Multi-Subnet feature can be used instead
As of UFM Enterprise v6.19.0, the Autonomous Link Maintenance (ALM) and PDR Deterministic plugins are no longer supported.
The GRPC-Streamer plugin is deprecated.
As of UFM Enterprise v6.18.0, UFM Agent discovery will be disabled by default, and managed switches will be discovered in-band
As of UFM Enterprise v6.18.0, the ibdiagpath diagnostic utility is deprecated
As of UFM Enterprise version 6.14.0, UFM Monitoring Mode is deprecated and is no longer supported
As of UFM Enterprise v6.12.0, the Logical Elements tab is removed
Removed the following fabric validation tests: CheckPortCounters & CheckEffectiveBER

In order to continue working with /etc/init.d/ufmha options, use the same options using the /etc/init.d/ufmd script.

For example:

Instead of using /etc/init.d/ufmha model_restart, please use /etc/init.d/ufmd model_restart (on the primary UFM server)

Instead of using /etc/init.d/ufmha sharp_restart, please use /etc/init.d/ufmd sharp_restart (on the primary UFM server)
The same goes for any other option that was supported on the /etc/init.d/ufmha script

Last updated: February 27, 2025