What's New
This page summarizes new features and improvements for the NetQ 4.12 release. For a complete list of open and fixed issues, see the release notes.
What’s New in NetQ 4.12
NetQ 4.12.0 includes the following new features and improvements:
- New installation option that supports up to 1,000 switches
- New workbench with additional cards that you can add to your existing workbenches
- Compare interfaces and view counter data across links with the link health view (beta)
- View a switch’s BGP and EVPN session information from the full-screen switch dashboard
- New option to send all events to a notification channel as part of the channel setup process
- The topology view is now generally available
- The topology validation is now generally available
The following features have been removed or deprecated:
- On-switch OPTA
- SONiC OS support
- OSPF validations
- Monitoring for OSPF, configuration files, PTM, and installed software packages. NetQ will no longer collect information about or broadcast events for these categories.
Upgrade Paths
For deployments running:
- 4.11, 4.10.1: upgrade directly to NetQ 4.12
- 4.10.0 or earlier: back up your NetQ data and perform a new installation
Compatible Agent Versions
The NetQ 4.12 server is compatible with the NetQ 4.12 agent. You can install NetQ agents on switches and servers running:
- Cumulus Linux 5.0.0 or later (Spectrum switches)
- Ubuntu 22.04, 20.04
Release Considerations
- NetQ 4.12 is not backward compatible with previous NetQ agent versions. You must install NetQ agent version 4.12 after upgrading your NetQ server to 4.12.
- When you upgrade to NetQ 4.12, any pre-existing event and validation data will be lost.
- If you upgrade a NetQ server with scheduled OSPF validations, they might still appear in the UI but will display results from previous validations.
- Upgrading Cumulus Linux using lifecycle management is only supported on switches that have been configured using NVUE.