Ixia So ware Release Notes

Ixia Fabric Controller Centralized Manager 7.1 (Dec 2018)

Part No. 913-2090-01 Rev ZC
About This Release
Upgrading to IFC Centralized Manager 7.1
Browser Compa bility
How to Report Problems
Release Contents
What's New in IFC Centralized Manager
Known Issues List
Resolved Defects List

About This Release

IFC Centralized Manager 7.1 includes support for IMSI Whitelist Manager (regular user func onality), LLDP for standalone NPBs and third party devices,
improved High Availability mechanism and ISIP1 device support.

Previous Release Notes

Please visit the IFC Centralized Manager support web page for more informa on of the previous release notes.

Upgrading to IFC Centralized Manager 7.1

Upgrade IFC Centralized Manager through the Client UI using the .img file

To upgrade IFC Centralized Manager with an image file:

1. Download the latest IFC Centralized Manager image, IFC_Centralized_Manager_7_1_0_428.img from the Ixia Customer Portal to your PC.

2. Enter into the browser URL, the IP address of the IFC Centralized Manager device you want to upgrade.

3. Enter your username and password and ensure you are accessing the correct host.

4. Click Login.

5. From the top right Gear bu on select Ixia Fabric Controller upgrade. The Upgrade Ixia Fabric Controller box appears.

6. Click Browse and navigate to the folder where you downloaded the .img file.

7. Select the image file and click Open. This downloads the .img to your PC.

8. Click Con nue. This transfers the .img file to the IFC Centralized Manager device.

9. Click OK. This installs the update and will restart the device. A message appears sta ng that the connec on to the server was lost.

10. Click OK.

11. Enter the IFC Centralized Manager IP into a browser URL again.

12. Log into IFC Centralized Manager.

Upgrade IFC Centralized Manager through CLI using the .sh file

To upgrade using the command line, use the shell script, IFC_Centralized_Manager_7_1_0_428.sh.

1. Copy the shell script to the IFC Centralized Manager home directory (/opt/netop cs or /usr/local/netop cs).

2. Log in as root to the IFC Centralized Manager machine.

3. Go to the IFC Centralized Manager home directory.

cd /opt/netoptics or
 cd /usr/local/netoptics

4. Issue the following command to make the shell script executable:

chmod +x IFC_Centralized_Manager_7_1_0_428.sh

5. Issue the following command to shut down IFC Centralized Manager:

a. (CentOS 6) ./indigo_pro_server stop

b. (CentOS 7) systemctl stop indigo_pro_server

6. Run the shell script using the following command:

./ IFC_Centralized_Manager_7_1_0_428.sh

7. Issue the following command to start up IFC Centralized Manager:

a. (CentOS 6) ./indigo_pro_server start

b. (CentOS 7) systemctl start indigo_pro_server

8. Check to ensure that the server is running:

./indigo_pro_server status

9. If the server is not running, issue the following command to restart the server.

a. (CentOS 6) ./indigo_pro_server restart

b. (CentOS 7) systemctl restart indigo_pro_server

Browser Compa bility

Firefox Chrome
57.1 and higher 60.0.3112 and higher

How to Report Problems

Ixia headquarters

26601 W. Agoura Road

Calabasas, California 91302, USA

Web Address: www.ixiacom.com/contact/info

Phone: 1-877-367-4942 - Toll-frree North America
Phone: 1-818-871-1800 - Outside North America
Fax: 1-818-871-1805

Global Support

Email: support@ixiacom.com
Phone: 1-818-595-2599

Asia Pacific Customer Support

Email: support-asiapac@ixiacom.com
Phone: +91-80-4939-6410

Europe, Middle East, and Africa Customer Support

Email: support-emea@ixiacom.com
Phone: +40-21-301-5699

India Customer Support

Email: support-india@ixiacom.com
Phone: +91-80-4939-6410

Japan Customer Support

Email: support-japan@ixiacom.com
Phone: +81-3-5326-1980

China Customer Support

Email: support-china@ixiacom.com
Phone: 400-898-0598 (Greater China region)
Phone: +86-10-5732-3932 (Hong Kong customers)

Korea Office Support

Email: support-korea@ixiacom.com
Phone: +82-2-3461-0095

Singapore Office Support

Email: support-asiapac@ixiacom.com
Phone: +656-494-8910

Release Contents
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What's New in IFC Centralized Manager

IFC Centralized Manager 7.1 New Features

Feature Descrip on
- show physical links between IFC-managed NPBs in the topology
LLDP for standalone
- show connected third party devices and links in the topology with
NPBs and third party
details in the tool p
devices
- discriminate between expired and current LLDP-discovered links
- sync FTP files between master and slave
HA improvements
- faster sync mechanism
- ISIP1 basic support: device discovery and availability status
- ISIP1 events and alarms
ISIP1 support
- ISIP1 scheduled task for so ware upgrade
- ISIP1 sta s cs
 Feature Descrip on
IMSI Whitelist
- manage a per-user IMSI whitelist
Manager phase 1
- push IMSI list to managed GSCs
(regular user
- automa c delete expired IMSIs from managed GSCs
func onality)

Known Issues List

GSC Whitelist Manager

Bug
Notes
Number
IMSI whitelist will not be automa cally pushed on a device that has been
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deleted and rediscovered.
If selec ng 500K IMSI entries, IFC CM web page becomes unresponsive; for
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the opera on to finish successfully, user should select the wait op on.
Whitelist manager regular users with IMSIs in their IMSI table cannot be
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deleted in release 7.1.

High Availability

Bug
Notes
Number
TLS keystore is not replicated. TLS keystore is specific to the host that
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generated it and it cannot be applied on other host.

Licenses

Bug
Notes
Number
1497950 Default license has an expira on date of 3 months.
On IFC CMs hosted on highly used hypervisors, when installing a license, it
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may not be applied un l a manual restart of the IFC CM machine is done.

Scheduled tasks

Bug
Notes
Number
1494903 Device IP is missing from task log when running an export events task.

Upgrade

Bug
Notes
Number
Some mes, on upgrading image, Administra on page is no longer available;
1496248
restar ng IFC CM machine will fix the problem.

Resolved Defects List

(None)

Bug
Notes
Number
SSH Client was updated to newer version for security reasons(CVE-2008-
1496200
5161).

Discovery

Bug
Notes
Number
1480624 Fixed an issue where web API pooling mechanism was filling up Vision devices
logs.
1497313 Removed web API tunnel requests which were filling up NTO 7433 (GSC) logs.

Generic Scripts

Bug
Notes
Number
1499278 Fixed an issue where Python 3.6 failed to install due to a missing library.

Scheduled Tasks

Bug
Notes
Number
Fixed an issue where Export Events Report task could be run, even if device
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was deleted.