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NPM 11.5RC

dfairles

It is in my portal. Is it in anyone else's? If so does anyone know where the release notes to documentation is?

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FormerMember

It's in mine too. I seem to recall I read somewhere in another post that 12.0 was re-branded as 11.5. I'm interested in the notes as well.

sja

Solarwinds don't send any release notes or any doc update with RC.

RC it's just the beginning of the end .....they can drop or add features between RC releases..

The GR is where you should expect all notes and doc you need...

dfairles

There is usually an install guide, a blog post or a forum post or something about it though.

I have gotten preliminary release note before.

Nothing this time for such a major release. I would like to know more before I install.

mr.e

Here's a copy of the email I received last week, which summarizes features and enhancements in v11.5 RC:

-Build wireless heat maps for Cisco wireless controllers and display them right in Orion:
- Visualize your signal coverage to find poor coverage areas, improve them, and prove good quality coverage.
Display wireless clients directly on the map to discover hot spots and help troubleshooting

Forecast Capacity: automatically forecast capacity to identify future capacity issues before they affect your users.

-Enable, disable, or adjust hardware health monitors for individual nodes.

-Manage Poller improvements:
- New or rare devices in your environment showing up as unknown? Configure NPM to automatically identify them based on SysOID.
- Populate CPU and RAM fields using custom OIDs.

-Monitor interface state and display it on a timeline; no more combing logs for interface UP/DOWN!

-Detect interface duplex mismatches throughout your environment like never before.

-Automated dependency mapping:

-Automatically suppress alerts from dependent objects and focus on the root cause

-New Alerting Engine
- Create alerts using new web-based condition builder
- Combine multiple object types in the same alert

-Mandatory Custom Properties
- Flag Custom Properties as mandatory to avoid provisioning oversight

-Automatic Geolocation on WorldMaps
- Based on SNMP location field, NPM will automatically place nodes on the World Map resource

dfairles

Thanks newkidd2,

Really great features.

Has anyone installed in production yet? Any issues?

I currently am running SAM 6.1.1, QoE 1.0, NCM 7.3.2, NPM 11.0.1, NTA 4.1.0, WPM 2.1.0, Toolset 11.0.1, UDT 3.2.0 and wondering if there would be any compatibility issues.

contactjt

I want too but before I can I need to know if it's stable with 30k nodes, EOC, and FOE.

jbiggley

If you want help installing this RC contact Rob Hock. There was an email that went out last week inviting participants in the beta test to install this with vendor support.

We are not going to install in production yet. We're waiting until the GA release but we are installing the RC in our dev environment to do some testing.

FormerMember

I have it running in my production environment and have only run into two issues:

1. Related to the move to web-based alerting engine. It gives and error and then links to the following, even though all alerts migrated;

All alerts we originally defined by Advanced or Basic Alert Manager (Win32 apps on your SolarWinds server). Since we introduced the new web-based alerting engine, we tried to migrate all previously defined alerts to web-based definition. Please see the list bellow to see whether some errors/warnings occurred during migration. The is also possibility that some previous definitions are not supported on the web yet, so there might be some skipped and still managed by previous Win32 alerting apps on your SolarWinds server.

2. In the admin section, the Integrate Orion with Customer Portal Account gives the following message: An unspecified integration error occured.

Other than that, all seems to be going well. We cannot test the new wifi tools, however. We have Avaya 8100 wireless with 300+ APs and that is not one of the supported platforms.

designerfx

My thoughts exactly, Jim Thompson . I'll be watching the thread for a couple weeks before considering this, but I am extremely happy to see this finally move forward into an RC.

dfairles

OK, I bit the bullet.

As far as 1. All migrated except anything that is alerting on APM

2. I get a connection error.

Still testing.

dfairles

Looks like the RC was pulled. Anyone else still have it?

What is going on rob.hock?

rob.hock

Apologies for any confusion. Because SAM RC has not been released (thus APM/SAM alerts not migrating) the intent was to only have NPM customers install the RC to avoid confusion. Unfortunately for a few hours some SAM customers were provisioned in the customer portal. This was revised this afternoon. In the interim, this is a supported config, existing SAM alerts still function, and can be modified via the Win32 applications. SAM RC is on the horizon.

Could you perhaps send me details on the connection error offline? rob.hock{at}solarwinds.com

wluther

We also installed the NPM 11.5 RC, having only a few issues.

Here is a link to my post 11.5RC installation findings...A few findings, after NPM 11.5 RC Upgrade...

I really wish that new global search feature was ready and released with this version... oh well... we shall continue to wait...

-Will