Changes and New Features

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

Warning

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

Warning

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

Feature	Description
System health enhancements	Add support for the periodic fabric health report, and reflected the ports' results in UFM's dashboard
UFM Plugins Management	Add support for plugin management via UFM web UI
UFM Extended Status	Add support for showing UFM's current processes status (via shell script) Added REST API for exposing UFM readiness
Failover to Other Ports	Add support for SM and UFM Telemetry failover to other ports on the local machine
UFM Appliance Upgrade	Added a set of REST APIs for supporting the UFM Appliance upgrade
Configuration Audit	Add support for tracking changes made in major UFM configuration files (UFM, SM, SHARP, Telemetry)
UFM Plugins	Add support for new SDK plugins
Telemetry	Add support for statistics processing based on UFM telemetry csv format
UFM High Availability Installation	UFM high availability installation has changed and it is now based on an independent high availability package which should be deployed in addition to the UFM Enterprise standalone package. for further details about the new UFM high availability installation, please refer to - Installing UFM Server Software for High Availability

Warning

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
Mellanox Care (MCare) Integration
UFM on VM (UFM with remote fabric collector)
Logical server auditing
UFM high availability script - /etc/init.d/ufmha - is no longer supported.

Warning

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