NVIDIA UFM Enterprise User Manual

Changes and New Features

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 (6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) Changes and New Features History.

XDR related features were delivered in Alpha level (XDR readiness only) and planned to be on Beta level by Nov 2024 release.

Feature

Description

UFM OS

Integrated with UFM Enterprise v6.19.15-5

Firmware

Integrated with firmware version XX.39.5172

MLNX_OFED Package

Upgraded the MLNX_OFED v23.10-7.1.8.0

Plugins Changes and New Features

Plugin

Version

Changes and New Features

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) REST-RDMA Plugin

1.0.0-33

N/A

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) NDT Plugin

1.1.1-17

N/A

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) UFM Telemetry Fluentd Streaming (TFS) Plugin

1.0.15-2

As of v1.0.15-2, the plugin pushes telemetry data to FluentD. A new flag has been introduced to enable or suppress this feature, with the default value set to true.

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) UFM Events Fluent Streaming (EFS) Plugin

1.0.0-6

N/A

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) UFM Bright Cluster Integration Plugin

1.0.0-3

N/A

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) UFM Cyber-AI Plugin

2.10.0-8

N/A

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) IB Link Resiliency Plugin

1.0.0-3

Introduced the new IB Resiliency plugin, merging ALM and PDR plugins.

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) ClusterMinder Plugin 

1.1.7

Introduced the following changes:

Switch:

  1. Support NVOS switches

  2. Add amBER data for cumulus switches

HOST DTS ad-hoc mode:

  1. Collect data for "GeneralInfo" and "FirmwareConfigInfo"

Data sources:

  1. Add option to add label while adding new data sources

  2. Add option to update existing data sources

  3. add option to multiple remove data sources

Global changes:

  1. Histogram export to excel file 

  2. Define Cluster Name via UI 

  3. Component view for group differences   

  4. Suspected error tab for all the services except DTS 

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) Sysinfo Plugin 

1.1.1

N/A

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) SNMP Plugin

1.0.0-3

N/A

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) Packet Level Monitoring Collector (PMC) Plugin

1.19.10

Bug Fixes:

  • High and critical severity vulnerability in waitress

  • Plugin's failure to start web server when PMC process fails to run

PDR Deterministic Plugin

1.0.5-2

As of UFM Enterprise v6.19.0, the PDR plugin will not be supported.

Autonomous Link Maintenance (ALM) Plugin

2.9.1-2

As of UFM Enterprise v6.19.0, the ALM plugin will not be supported.

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) GNMI-Telemetry Plugin

1.2.12-5

New Features:

  • Notification Trigger: A notification will only be generated if at least one of the subscribed counters changes when the flag include_all_data=true is set

  • Partition Format: The partition now supports only the format nvidia/ib/1/3/guid[guid=*]/port[port_number=*/amber/*

  • Strict Mode Control: A new flag, strict_collected_counters, defaults to false. This flag manages strict mode for multi-path requests. If set to true, an error will be returned indicating the path is illegal, and no subscription stream will be started. If set to false, a message will be logged, and the existing counters will be sent

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed issue with onchange subscription: The headers for the first message when subscribing to an onchange should be a string, not an array of strings

  • Fixed issue with incorrect plugin version returned by capabilities


(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) UFM Telemetry Manager (UTM) Plugin

1.19.4

Bug Fixes:

  • Issue with primary and secondary session IDs not being recognized by the plugin

  • Issue with switch port status not being updated

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) UFM Consumer Plugin

1.0.0-16

N/A

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) Fast-API Plugin

1.0.0-2

N/A

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) UFM Light Plugin

1.1.0-2

Improved Topology API
Aligned new timestamp format with Telemetry.

(6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) Key Performance Indexes (KPI) Plugin

1.0.7-1

New Features:

  1. Introduced security updates

  2. Integrated the link flapping logic to the KPI plugin as a new KPI

Tools (NVP) Plugin (6.19.15-5LTS-2024-U5) Tools (NVP) Plugin

2.0.0-4

Introduced a new plugin

 

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

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

Unsupported Functionalities/Features

The following are the unsupported functionality/features in UFM®-SDN Appliance:

  • UFM Appliance Gen1

  • NVIDIA Care (MCare) Integration

  • UFM on VM (UFM with remote fabric collector)

  • Logical server auditing

  • The UFM Multi-site portal feature is no longer supported. The Multi-Subnet feature can be used instead.

  • Removed the following fabric validation tests: CheckPortCounters & CheckEffectiveBER

  • As of UFM Enterprise v4.17.0, the ibdiagpath diagnostic utility is deprecated

  • The UFM Monitoring Mode is deprecated and is no longer supported as of UFM Enterprise version v4.13.0 (July release) and onwards

  • Logical Elements tab - Removed as of UFM Enterprise v4.11.0

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