Changes and New Features

UFM Reports Enhancements

Added an option for excluding unhealthy ports from UFM reports based on ibdiagnet (for example: Fabric Health report, Fabric Validation tests). For more information, refer to Configuring Unhealthy Ports. 

Telemetry Enhancements

Added support for Egress Queue depth indications (as part of UFM secondary telemetry instance). For more information, refer to Exposing Performance Histogram Counters.

Added support for Extended Port VL Xmit Time Congestion counters (as part of UFM secondary telemetry instance).

UFM Events

Added the ability to update thresholds, severities, and durations (TTL) for selected UFM Events. 

Added a new UFM event for indicating asymmetric Adaptive Routing (based on SM trap). For more information, refer to Appendix - Supported Port Counters and Events.

Topology Changes Reports Enhancements

Enhanced the topology change indication from the Master topology and enabled a quick drill-down to the associated topology change report. For more information, refer to Topology Compare Tab and Events & Alarms.

Multi-Subnet UFM

Added support for running UFM Fabric validation tests from UFM Multi-Subnet consumers. For more information, refer to Multi-Subnet UFM.

UFM System Dump Analyser

Introduced an internal debugging tool for more efficient analysis of UFM system dumps.

MLNX_OFED Package Upgrade

Upgraded the MLNX_OFED version to v23.10-3.2.2.0.

Firmware Upgrade

Upgraded ConnectX-6 HCA FW version to v20.39.3560.

Plugins

REST-RDMA Plugin

Added support for client certificate authentication when communicating between the client and the REST over RDMA plugin server.

UFM Light Plugin

Added support for UFM Light Plugin to create a reduced UFM model and deliver high-performance REST API.

Key Performance Indexes (KPI) Plugin

Added support for the KPI plugin which periodically collects telemetry metrics and topology data from one or multiple UFM Telemetry and UFM clusters to calculate high-level Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

ClusterMinder Plugin 

Added support for the ClusterMind plugin which collects telemetry data from multiple data sources and aggreats, streams and visualizes the backend.

Packet Mirroring Collector (PMC) Plugin

Added the option to collect PHY link-down event indications through fast-recovery notification channels.

REST APIs

UFM-Forge Integration

Added support for setting SM resource limitation. For more information, refer to the Physical-Virtual GUID Mapping REST API.

SHARP Jobs Performance Analysis

Added a new REST API which expose SHARP Job statistics data. For more information, refer to NVIDIA SHARP REST API

UFM Logging

Added caller (IP Address) and duration logging info for all REST API calls.

UFM Version API Enhancements

Added a REST API to retrieve the versions of major UFM components and enabled plugins.