Tag :: DMF-8.8.0

When configuring the MAC address of a switch, CLI commands and REST endpoints will accept a MAC address formatted as three groups of four hexadecimal digits separated by periods (e.g. 1122.3344.5566) in addition to the already accepted form of six hexadecimal digit pairs separated by colons (e.g. 11:22:33:44:55:66). 

In a typical CloudVision-DMF integration deployment, CloudVision Portal (CVP) deploys alongside the DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF). The DMF Controller communicates with CVP to retrieve its managed device inventory and configures port mirroring sessions on any CVP-managed production devices that are Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS) switches.

This feature supports configuring more than one L3 delivery interface over the same subnet using the same gateway.

This document describes the updates to the DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF) 8.8 release verified scale and performance numbers. Verified scale values for “DCA-DM-RN760” and “DCA-DM-RN760L” Recorder Nodes.

The hardware support update details newly supported hardware and other changes in the DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF) release 8.8.0.

The DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF) allows the integration and monitoring of virtual machines in a VMware NSX fabric deployed in a vSphere environment. The DMF Controller communicates with NSX to retrieve its managed inventory and configures port mirroring sessions for selected virtual machines managed by the NSX fabric.

If any two policies use the same filter interface and the same priority, then an additional dynamic policy will be created to ensure the delivery of packets matching both of the original policies. There is a limit on how many overlap policies can be created and it is configurable with a range between 0 to 10 with a default value of 4. Currently, we exclude policies configured as inactive in the overlap policy limit calculation. With this new feature, we exclude policies that have an expired duration from the overlap policies limit calculation.

DMF 8.5 introduced a newly designed Create Policy configuration workflow, replacing the former workflow page.

Using the show switch <switch name/all> interface details or show switch <switch name/all> interface <interface name> details commands in the CLI will now include a Description column, which provides the configured description (if any) for the corresponding interface. This is a CLI-only change.

DMF version 8.8.0 introduces a redesigned workflow for Interface Groups in the DMF UI. An interface group is a collection of one or more filter or delivery interfaces, making it more convenient to create a policy. Users won't need to specify each individual interface to which the policy will apply.

This feature keeps the configured hostname for a managed appliance and the actual hostname on the managed appliance aligned. Before this change, the configured hostname for a managed appliance on the controller and the actual hostname on the managed appliance could be different.

The Recorder Node (RN) supports being managed by CloudVision (CV) on-prem starting DMF 8.7.0. This feature extends support to CVaaS starting DMF 8.8.0. Recorder Node was not supported with CVaaS before 8.8.0 because of an RN requirement to store the query results file in CV while archiving the query results. However, this was not permitted on CVaaS as these files might contain data that cannot be stored in a cloud service. This feature supports CVaaS by allowing the RN to store query result files.

This document provides a comprehensive overview of the redesigned Alerts page, detailing its features and how to use them to monitor and manage Fabric health effectively. The new design improves clarity, usability, and the efficiency of alert management.

The feature exposes metrics and health status of storage devices on controllers and all managed nodes, but not switches. Metrics and health status are updated every minute and exposed through the Telemetry collector

This feature adds support for the following IPFIX keys TCP Source Port, TCP Destination Port, UDP Source Port, UDP Destination Port

This document describes a new feature of Arista Analytics that can process sFlow^® records containing IP packets encapsulated in additional protocol headers.

Often, there is a need to accept IPFIX/NFv9 and NFv5 traffic arriving at ports other than the standard 4739 and 2055 ports, respectively. To address this need, DMF allows the following non-standard ports to forward traffic to their standard ports on the physical IP of the Analytics Node (AN) and the cluster's Virtual IP (VIP).

The Arista Service Node (SN) provides specialized packet processing within the DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF), which is not easily accomplished within the CPU on a switch.  The SN provides a packet processing pipeline tied to a physical interface, reading packets and writing results from the same interface.