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 6.14.2
Cable and Transceivers Burning	UFM supports second-source cable transceivers burn.
Module REST API	Added HW revision field in GET module REST API response.
Telemetry	Added support for the MRCS register read in UFM Telemetry.
UFM Reports	UFM Daily report will be disabled by default after upgrade or clean installation.
Rev 6.14.0
UFM Upgrade	Added support for in-service upgrade procedure for UFM HA. Refer to the following sections: Upgrading UFM on Bare Metal - High Availability Upgrade Upgrading UFM Container in High Availability Mode
User Authorization	Added support for user-defined roles based on REST APIs subsets. Refer to Rest Roles Access Control.
User Authentication	Added support for user authentication based on Azure Active Directory. Refer to Azure AD Authentication.
Plugins Management	Added support for loading UFM plugin to both master and standby nodes in case of UFM HA deployment. Refer to Plugin Management.
Unhealthy Ports Policy Management	Added support for unhealthy ports policy management via UFM Web UI. Refer to Health Policy Management.
REST over RDMA Plugin	Added support for remote ibdiagnet authentication. Refer to rest-rdma Plugin.
SHARP Reservation	Added support for synchronous SHARP reservation REST API (in addition to the existing asynchronous REST API). Refer to the NVIDIA SHARP REST API.
Secondary Telemetry	Added support for secondary telemetry running by default upon UFM startup, fetching NVIDIA Amber counters. Refer to Secondary Telemetry.
Secondary Telemetry	Added support for down ports telemetry. Refer to Secondary Telemetry.
PCI Analysis	Added support for PCI analysis as part of UFM Fabric Analysis Report (added new events for degraded hosts PCI devices). Refer to Appendix - Supported Port Counters and Events.
UFM System Dump	Added human readable time to the dmsg de-message output as part of UFM system dump.
Factory Reset	Added support for UFM Factory Reset. Refer to Appendix - UFM Factory Reset.
Rev 6.13.0
Network Fast Recovery	Added the ability to automatically isolate a malfunctioning switch port as detected by the switch. Refer to Enabling Network Fast Recovery
Multi-Subnet UFM	Added support for multiple UFM instances, wherein multiple instances are aggregated, managed and controlled by a centralized UFM instance. Refer to Multi-Subnet UFM.
Switch ASIC Failure Detection	Added support for a new indication (UFM event) that identifies a failure of a specific switch ASIC. Refer to Configuring Partial Switch ASIC Failure Events.
UFM High-Availability Enhancements	Added support for configuring high-availability with dual-link connections to improve the high-availability robustness.
Automatic Switch Grouping	Added support for enabling automatic grouping of 1U switches by UFM, as per a pre-defined user-configured mapping. Refer to Appendix - Switch Grouping.
SHARP Trees APIs	Incorporated support for a new UFM REST API that presents the current active SHARP trees. Refer to NVIDIA SHARP Resource Allocation REST API.
SHARP Reservation APIs	Added support for SHARP Reservation API enhancements. Refer to NVIDIA SHARP Resource Allocation REST API.
Operating System Update support	Implemented functionality to support the installation and upgrade of a standalone UFM after the upgrade of operating system packages (e.g., using yum update/apt upgrade). Furthermore, upgrading operating system packages will not impact a standalone UFM installation.
Email Time-Zone Settings	Added the ability to configure time-zone settings for UFM email notifications, ensuring that sent events or daily reports align with the configured time zone. Refer to Email.
Switch Connectivity Failure Indication	Incorporated support for a new UFM event indication that identifies failed communication with a specified managed switch. Appendix - Supported Port Counters and Events
Dynamic Telemetry	Added APIs that enable the creation and management of UFM Telemetry instances, allowing users to select desired counters and ports as per their requirements. Refer to UFM Dynamic Telemetry Instances REST API.
TFS (Telemetry Fluent Streaming) Plugin	Added support for UFM telemetry data streaming from multiple endpoints to Fluent Bit. Refer to Telemetry to Fluent Streaming (TFS) Plugin REST API.
TFS (Telemetry Fluent Streaming) Plugin	Added support for enabling white/black counters lists within the TFS Plugin. Refer to Telemetry to Fluent Streaming (TFS) Plugin REST API.
DTS (DPU Telemetry) Plugin	Added support for displaying DPUs data within the UFM Web UI. Refer to DTS Plugin.
Cyber-AI Plugin	Added support for displaying Cyber-AI software within the UFM Web UI. Refer to UFM Cyber-AI Plugin.
Packet Mirroring Collector (PMC) Plugin	Added the Packet Mirroring Collector (PMC) plugin that allows users to catch and collect mirrored pFRN and congestion notifications from switches for enhanced real-time network visibility. Refer to Packet Mirroring Collector (PMC) Plugin.
SNMP Traps Listener Plugin	Added the capability to enable registration and monitoring of SNMP traps from managed switches, in addition to updating UFM with the relevant trap information. Refer to SNMP Plugin.
Bright Cluster Integration Plugin	Added support for integration of data from Bright Cluster Manager (BCM) into UFM, providing a more comprehensive network perspective. Refer to UFM Bright Cluster Integration Plugin.
UFM System Dump	UFM System Dump collection enhancement. Refer to UFM System Dump Tab.
Expanding Non-Blocking Fabric (NDT Plugin extension)	Added a feature that facilitates seamless expansion of the IB fabric, ensuring uninterrupted functionality and optimal performance throughout the fabric. Refer to NDT Format – Merger.
PDR (Packet Drop Rate) Plugin	Added a new functionality that enables automatic detection and isolation of port failures through monitoring of PDR (Packet Drop Rate), BER (Bit Error Rate), and high cable temperatures. Refer to PDR Deterministic Plugin.
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