HP Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Traffic Software Release Notes

for the Windows® and Linux operating systems

Software version: 9.20 (Patch 1)

Publication date: November, 2012

This document is an overview of the changes made to the HP Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Traffic Software (NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic). It contains important information that is not included in books or Help. You can find information about the following in this document:

What's New in This Release?
Enhancements
Installation Notes
Uninstallation Notes
Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds
Documentation Updates
Support
Legal Notices

What's New in This Release?

The NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic contains new features, feature enhancements, and other changes.

9.20 (Patch 1)

New Features

The NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic 9.20 (Patch 1) contains the following new features:

Changes

Subnet details are not available on NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic reports by default. Source Subnet Address and Destination Subnet Address options are available in the Grouping By list. However, the subnet address is shown on the report as 0.0.0.0/0. To be able to view subnet details on NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic reports, you must perform additional configuration steps. For detailed instructions, see the topic Enabling Subnet Information in Traffic Reports in the HP Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Traffic Software Deployment Guide.

9.20

The NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic contains these new features:

Enhancements

The NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic contains these enhancements:

Installation Notes

The NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic 9.20 (Patch 1) installation requirements, as well as instructions for installing the patch are documented in the patch text file, which is available in the text format with the downloadable patch. Before installing NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic 9.20 (Patch 1), see the Installation Notes section in the HP Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Traffic Software 9.20 Release Notes.

Support Matrix

You can find the Support Matrix for this product that lists all software and hardware requirements at this location: HP Support matrices.

Note: Most of the support areas require that you register as an HP Passport user and sign in. Many also require an active support contract. To find more information about support access levels, go to: Access levels.

To register for an HP Passport ID, go to: HP Passport Registration

Uninstallation Notes

Uninstallation of the NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic (Patch 1) does not remove newly introduced report (Top N Table report) from the NPS Console. After uninstalling the NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic (Patch 1), do not use this report.

Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds

NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic 9.20 (Patch 1) release contains certain unresolved problems, some limitations, and there are workaround to help solve certain problems.

PROBLEM:

When you configure the Top N Application Inclusion List or Thresholds, the nmstrafficfilterappmaptool.ovpl script does not support the import option.

WORKAROUND:

Unconfigure the Top N Application Inclusion List or Thresholds manually.

PROBLEM:

The low default value of 'Flush Record Limit" for Master Collector results in creation of multiple NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics data files.

WORKAROUND:

The Master Collector now writes 100K records in each file. It will write data every 5 minutes if less than 100K records were processed in the last 5 minutes.

PROBLEM:

When you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, the scrolling feature of the browser may not work occasionally for the views under the Traffic Analysis workspace.

WORKAROUND:

Refresh the browser.

PROBLEM:

When you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, tabs may occasionally disappear from the NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic Configuration console.

WORKAROUND:

Refresh the browser.

PROBLEM:

The Save & New feature does not work when you launch the Configure Traffic Threshold action from the Actions menu in the NNMi console.

WORKAROUND:

Configure new thresholds by using the threshold configuration form in the NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic Configuration Console.

PROBLEM:

Performance panels are not loaded successfully after minimizing and maximizing Analysis panes of the NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic views.

WORKAROUND:

Refresh the performance panel

PROBLEM:

After launching a report directly from the Actions > Traffic Reports menu, if you try to open another report, the following error appears:

Expression parsing error

WORKAROUND:

Clear topology filter selections and open the report again.

PROBLEM:

In a high availability (HA) cluster setup, while configuring the NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic as an add-on product of NNMi, the following error messages appear after you run the nnmhaconfigure.ovpl command:

ERROR: Configuring add-on product TRAFFIC.
ERROR: Registering add-on product TRAFFIC with NNM.

WORKAROUND:

Ignore these errors.

PROBLEM:

A null-pointer exception occurs when you try to configure a Leaf Collector to use a high port value (higher than 10000).

WORKAROUND:

Configure the Leaf Collector to use a different port.

PROBLEM:

When you filter the NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic reports based on the source port, the source port values are displayed as "0" in the report. If you drill down to view further detail from the source port value, NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic displays an empty report.

WORKAROUND:

None. The support for source port based reporting is stopped with the NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic version 9.10.

Documentation Updates

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Legal Notices

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Acknowledgements

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation.
(http://www.apache.org)

This product includes software developed by the Indiana University Extreme! Lab.
(http://www.extreme.indiana.edu)

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