Changes and New Features History

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

Feature	Description
Rev 6.12.0
Managed Switches - Sysinfo Mechanism	Added the ability to save switches inventory data into JSON format files and present the latest fetched switches data upon UFM start-up. The saved switches data is available UFM upon system dump. Refer to Appendix - Managed Switches Configuration Info Persistency
REST over RDMA Plugin	Introduced security improvements (allowed read-only options in remote ibdiagnet) and added support for Telemetry API. Refer to rest-rdma Plugin.
Events and Notifications	Added support for indicating potential switch ASIC failure by detecting a defined percentage of unhealthy switch ports. Refer to Additional Configuration (Optional)
SHARP AM Multi-Port	Added support for detecting IB fabric interface failure and automatic failover to an alternative active port in SHARP Aggregation Manager (AM). Refer to Multi-port SM
UFM System Dump	Added support for downloading the generated UFM system dump. Refer to UFM System Dump Tab
UFM REST API	Added support for adding or removing hosts to Partition key (PKey) assignments (when adding/removing hosts, all the related host GUIDs are assigned to/removed from the PKey). Refer to Add Host REST API
UFM REST API	UFM System Dump Improvements including Creating New System Dump API
UFM SLURM Integration	Enhanced UFM SLURM integration; allow flexible configuration of PKey and SHARP resources usage. Refer to Appendix - UFM SLURM Integration
UFM HA	Improved UFM HA configuration by setting UFM HA nodes using IP addresses only (removed the need of using hostnames and sync interface names). Refer to Configuring UFM Docker in HA Mode and Installing UFM Server Software for High Availability
Managed Switch Operations	Added support for persistent enablement/disablement of managed switches ports. Refer to Ports Window
UFM SDK	Created a script to get TopX data by category. Refer to UFM Aggregation TopX README.md file
Proxy Authentication	Added option to delegate authentication to a proxy. Refer to Delegate Authentication to a Proxy
UFM Initial Settings	Removed the requirement to set the IPoIB address to the main IB interface used by UFM/SM (gv.cfg → fabric_interface)
Port auto-isolation	Symbol BER warning does not trigger port auto-isolation, only symbol BER error
MFT Package	Integrated with MFT version 4.23.0-104
Rev 6.11.0
UFM Discovery and Device Management	InBand autosicovery of switchs' IP addresses using `ibdiagnet` Discovering the device's PSID and FW version using `ibdiagnet` by default instead of using an SM vendor plugin
CPU Affinity	Enabling the user to control CPU affinity of UFM's major processes
gRPC API	Added support for streaming UFM REST API data over gRPC as part of new UFM plugin. Refer to GRPC-Streamer Plugin
Telemetry	Added support for flexible counters infrastructure (ability to change counter sets that are sampled by the UFM) Updated the set of available counters for Telemetry (removed General counters from default view: Row BER, Effective BER and Device Temperature. Now available through the secondary telemetry instance). Refer to Secondary Telemetry
EFS UFM Plugin	Added support for streaming UFM events data to FluentD destination as part of a new UFM plugin. Refer to UFM Telemetry FluentD Streaming (TFS) Plugin
General UI Enhancements	• Displayed columns of all tables are persistent per user, with the option to restore defaults. Refer to Displayed Columns • Improved look and feel in Network Map. Refer to Network Map • Added Reveal Uptime to the general tab in the devices information tabs. Refer to Device General Tab
High Availability Deployment	Added support for joining a new UFM device into the HA pair without stopping the UFM HA (in case of a secondary UFM node permanent failure). For more information, refer to Installing UFM Server Software for High Availability Changed UFM HA package installation command parameters. For more information, refer to Installing UFM Server Software for High Availability
REST APIs	Added support for PKey filtering for default session data. Refer to Get Default Monitoring Session Data by PKey Filtering.
	Added support for filtering session data by groups. Refer to Monitoring Sessions REST API.
	Added support for resting all unhealthy ports at once. Refer to Mark All Unhealthy Ports as Healthy at Once
	Added support for presenting system uptime in UFM REST API. Refer to Systems REST API.
Deployment Installation	UFM installation is now based on Conda-4.12 (or newer) for python3.9 environment and third party packages deployments.
NVIDIA SHARP Software	Updated NVIDIA SHARP software version to v3.1.1.
UFM Logical Elements	UFM Logical Elements (Environments, Logical Servers, Networks) views are deprecated and will no longer be available starting from UFM v6.12.0 (January 2023 release)
Rev 6.10.0
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
Rev 6.9.0
NDR Support	Full E2E NDR including ConnectX-7 HCAs Family (Discovery and Monitoring)
Cable FW burn	Add support for multiple switches with multiple FW images burning
Events	Add support for monitoring and alerting on cable transceiver temperatures over threshold
	Improve SM traps handling (offloading SM traps handling to a separated process)
	Add option for setting events persistency (keeping max last X events) for showing upon UFM startup
	Add option for consolidating similar events on the UFM Web UI Events Log View
SHARP	Add support for failover to secondary bond port in case of IB interface failure
	Add option to override SHARP `smx_sock_interface` based on UFM `fabric_interface` (gv.cfg)
	Add option to set SHARP AM `ib_port_guid` based on UFM `fabric_interface` (gv.cfg)
SM	Add support for tracking SM configuration changes (configuration history)
SM	Add support for pkey assignment validation (for user defined pkey assignment only)
Client Certificate Authentication	Add support for client certificate authentication
Client Certificate Authentication	Add option to push bootstrap certificate to the UFM via REST API
Configuration Migration (backup / restore)	Add option to migrate UFM configuration from bare metal UFM to a docker container based UFM
MFT Integration Enhancement	Add support for MFT based operation (FW burning, cable info) while `m_key`/`vs_key` are configured on SM
Logging	Adding option to configure UFM log folder location
UFM Health	Add option for users to add customized health tests based on scripts (Python / Bash)
Web UI Enhancements	Add support for user defined modular UFM dashboard views (based on available list of pre-defined panels)
	Add support for UFM dashboard timeline (for viewing historical dashboard views)
	Enhance the dashboard inventory view for showing elements (HCAs, Switches, Cables, Gateways, Routers) by version
	Add support for user defined modular UFM telemetry persistent dashboard (Telemetry View)
	Adding option for viewing Web client data based on local client time or UFM server time
	Add option to select UFM look and feel between dark mode and light mode (default is light mode)
	Add support for hierarchical view when presenting the network map elements.
	Add option for selecting the displayed columns for all data tables.
	Add option for exporting all table data into CSV (not only the current displayed page data)
	Improved view of the ports table (port name, speed and width)
	Add option to show disabled/down ports
	Add support for Web UI usage statistics collection
	Add option for sending test email
Telemetry	Add support for updating Telemetry package within installed UFM Enterprise.
UFM Plugins	Add support for running UFM plugins within UFM docker container
UFM Plugins	Add support for AHX monitoring plugin
Supported OSs	Add support for installing UFM on Ubuntu18 (Standalone and High availability modes)
	Add support for installing UFM on CentOS 7.9/Redhat7.9
	Add support for installing UFM on FAIR OS 22.03
Rev 6.8
UFM Telemetry	Changed the Telemetry infrastructure from UFM Telemetry docker container to UFM Telemetry bare metal
	Performance improvements for supporting telemetry on large scale fabrics (up to 216,000 ports fabric)
	Live sessions enhancements – adding support for multiple telemetry sessions based on one UFM Telemetry instance
	Add support for collecting historical telemetry (all fabric ports counters) by default
Unhealthy Ports	Add option (configurable) for automatically Isolating ports which were detected with high BER
	Add option to present unhealthy port table by the connection type (switch-switch or switch-host).
	Add option to mark selected device as unhealthy
UFM Plugins – REST over RDMA	Add support for REST API over RDMA plugin (allowing execution of UFM REST API requests over the InfiniBand fabric)
UFM Plugins – REST over RDMA	Add ability to run Linux command line command, including ibdiagnet, over rdma
UFM Plugins – NDT	Add support for NDT (CSV formatted topology) comparison with UFM fabric detected topology
Fabric Validation Tests	Add context menu options for selected results of fabric validation tests based of UFM model objects (Devices and Ports).
	Add support for Socket-direct mode reporting (Inventory)
	Add support for SHARP Aggregation Manager health tests
	Add support for Tree Topology Analysis support in UFM
Events Policy	Add new category for Events Policy – Security
	Add new UFM events indicating Pkey assignment of guids and removal of guids from Pkey
	Add new UFM events which are triggered when duplicated node or port GUIDs are detected in the fabric
	Add new event for indicating switch down reported by SM
UFM SDK	Add option to get topology via UFM REST API and stream it out to an external destination
Virtualization	Add option to assign selected virtual ports to a specified PKEY (via UFM Web UI)
Cable Information	Showing Link grade in Cable info
Network Map	Add support for network map topology persistency on server side.
UFM Web UI	Add option to copy and paste tables content ( GUIDS and LIDS ) via UFM Web UI
UFM Authentication	Add support for token based authentication
UFM Slurm Integration	Add several UFM-SLURM Integration Improvements
UFM Docker container	Several docker Enhancement mainly for improving the deployment procedure
SM Configuration	Setting AR (Adaptive Routing) Up Down as the default routing configuration in UFM / SM ( for new UFM installations )
UFM REST API	Add Support for CloudX API in UFM for OpenStack integration and allow auto provisioning of the InfiniBand fabric
NDR support	Add support for discovering and monitoring Nvidia NDR switches.
Installation	Updated UFM installation to run without docker dependencies (docker service is no longer required for the UFM installation)
Supported OSs	Add support for installing UFM on CentOS 8 stream, kernel 5.4
UFM High Availability	Add support for independent high availability package (based on Pacemaker and DRBD) which server as the basis for UFM containers high availability deployment