General Availability Announcement: DX NetOps 20.2.7 Service Pack is now available!

[Jeremy Rossbach]

January 22, 2021

To:         DX NetOps Customers

From:     Broadcom DX NetOps Product Team

Subject: DX NetOps Performance Management, DX NetOps Spectrum, DX NetOps Virtual Network Assurance and Network Flow Analysis 20.2.7 Service Pack

On behalf of the Broadcom DX NetOps Product Team, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services.  As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of our DX NetOps Performance Management, DX NetOps Spectrum, DX NetOps Virtual Network Assurance and Network Flow Analysis 20.2.7 Service Pack.

We encourage you to review the product information page on the Support Portal and the Release Notes on the Tech Docs Portal.

You can download your copy of products online at https://support.broadcom.com/ where you can also utilize our case management system and connect with the support community. To install your product, follow the installation procedures for your product at https://techdocs.broadcom.com/.

Should you need any assistance in understanding these new features, or implementing this latest update, Broadcom Services and/or services partners can help. For more information about how these service experts can help you, contact your account representative. To connect, learn, and share with other customers, join and participate in our Communities at https://community.broadcom.com.

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Thank you again for your business.


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Jeremy Rossbach
Sr Product Marketing Manager, DX NetOps
Broadcom
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[Ray Cook]

Just upgraded to this version and we still have a problem with Flash. What do we need to do to be able to use the tool?

[Jeffrey Pinard]

Unfortunately, not all the NFA flash-based views have been replaced in Performance Center at this time.  20.2.7 does have everything that has been replaced from NFA in PC.

NFA team is still working on moving the remaining views to PC NFA Admin views.  Sorry, I don't have a timetable on when all will be replaced in PC.

In another thread, this was posted, about re-enabling flash until that is complete:

   There is a workaround modifying privacy and security settings in Flash, here you can find the admin guide ( Enterprise Enablement section ).
   This website explains how to enable Flash on Chrome after End of Life.
   Bear in mind that upgrading NFA and Performance Center Console is the only option recommended. Deploy the workaround at your own risk.

[Ray Cook]

One important feature that we need to be able to do is merge interfaces. We received a work around to do this via the API but that is very time consuming and could cause potential issues with the data. We get a lot of duplicate interfaces due to the roll out of SDWAN which makes it necessary to merge the interfaces and delete the old one. 

Bypassing the Flash EOL does not sound like a good option either so hopefully this feature will be included soon.

[Jeffrey Pinard]

Ray,

It appears 20.2.7 included the new NFA Admin page in PC for Merge Interfaces.

[David Nissel]

Along the same topic line, I have noticed that the quick filter functionality within this area is quirky at best. I have found several things to be true - a) unless you set the max to 1000, when you filter for something it does not return any results b) there seems to be some artificial limit in the amount of characters that you can put into the quick filter to actually get results c) when you put a smaller search criteria string in, you have to jump to the last page to find the results that you are likely looking for

[Jeffrey Pinard]

You are correct David.   

We have a defect that the NFA team is currently working on to fix the quick filter for the new NFA admin views.  It is only searching the first page via the quick filter instead of all pages retrieved.  Not sure the ETA on the fix.   I did pass along your description of problem.

[David Nissel]

Thank you for the info. Am assuming that will come out in a service pack and/or a hot patch? If hot patch, will it need to be requested? The biggest pain point right now is the seeming limitation on what you can throw in the quick filter (length) more so than having to pick "display 1000". SHould i put a ticket in for visibility?

[Jeffrey Pinard]

It will be in whatever the next service pack we release is, after it's been delivered.  According to Rally, it's on the current sprint to be worked, but not sure it's priority to be done for 20.2.8 due next month sometime.

No ticket is necessary, as we already have a couple cases attached to the defect.

[Jeffrey Pinard]

NFA 10.0.5+ is required for 20.2.7 Merge Interfaces UI to work.  It uses the new merge interfaces odata api in NFA.