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NVIDIA NetQ 4.8 Release Notes

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4.8.0 Release Notes

Open Issues in 4.8.0

Issue ID Description Affects Fixed
3819364
When you attempt to delete a scheduled trace using the NetQ UI, the trace record is not deleted. 4.7.0-4.9.0 4.10.0-4.12.0
3782784
After performing a new NetQ cluster installation, some MLAG and EVPN NetQ validations might incorrectly report errors. To work around this issue, run the netq check mlag legacy and netq check evpn legacy commands instead of running a default streaming check. 4.8.0 4.9.0-4.12.0
3781503
When you upgrade a Cumulus Linux switch running the nslcd service with NetQ LCM, the nslcd service fails to start after the upgrade. To work around this issue, manually back up your nslcd configuration and restore it after the upgrade. 4.8.0 4.9.0-4.12.0
3761602
NetQ does not display queue histogram data for switches running Cumulus Linux 5.8.0 and NetQ agent version 4.8.0. To work around this issue, upgrade the NetQ agent package to 4.9.0. 4.8.0 4.9.0-4.12.0
3739222
The opta-check command does not properly validate if the required 16 CPU cores are present on the system for NetQ. The command only presents an error if there are fewer than 8 CPU cores detected. 4.2.0-4.8.0 4.9.0-4.12.0
3738840
When you upgrade a Cumulus Linux switch configured for TACACS authentication using NetQ LCM, the switch’s TACACS configuration is not restored after upgrade. 4.8.0-4.9.0 4.10.0-4.12.0
3688985
After upgrading a NetQ VM with LDAP authentication configured, adding a new LDAP user to NetQ fails with the error message “LDAP not enabled.” 4.8.0 4.9.0-4.12.0
3676723
When you use the NetQ agent on a Cumulus Linux switch to export gNMI data and there is a period of inactivity in the gNMI stream, the NetQ agent service might stop. To recover from this issue, restart the service with the netq config restart agent command. 4.7.0-4.8.0 4.9.0-4.12.0
3670180
The medium Validation Summary card might incorrectly display a failure or lack of data for the latest time interval. To work around this issue, expand the card to the largest view for an accurate representation of validation results. 4.8.0 4.9.0-4.12.0
3650422
The OPTA-on-switch service does not send agent data when the NetQ CLI is not configured. To work around this issue, configure the NetQ CLI on the switch. 4.8.0 4.9.0-4.12.0
3644644
When you perform an LCM upgrade of Cumulus Linux on a switch using the netq lcm upgrade cl-image CLI command, an error message of NetQ cloud token invalid is displayed though the upgrade completes successfully. This issue is not encountered when using the NetQ LCM UI to perform the upgrade. 4.8.0 4.9.0-4.12.0
3634648
The topology graph might show unexpected connections when devices in the topology do not have LLDP adjacencies. 4.8.0 4.9.0-4.12.0
3632378
After you upgrade your on-premises NetQ VM from version 4.7.0 to 4.8.0, NIC telemetry using the Prometheus adapter is not collected. To work around this issue, run the following commands on your NetQ VM:
sudo kubectl set image deployment/netq-prom-adapter netq-prom-adapter=docker-registry:5000/netq-prom-adapter:4.8.0
sudo kubectl set image deployment/netq-prom-adapter prometheus=docker-registry:5000/prometheus-v2.41.0:4.8.0
4.8.0 4.9.0-4.12.0
3613811
LCM operations using in-band management are unsupported on switches that use eth0 connected to an out-of-band network. To work around this issue, configure NetQ to use out-of-band management in the mgmt VRF on Cumulus Linux switches when interface eth0 is in use. 4.8.0-4.12.0
3549877
NetQ cloud deployments might unexpectedly display validation results for checks that did not run on any nodes. 4.6.0-4.8.0 4.9.0-4.12.0
3429528
EVPN and RoCE validation cards in the NetQ UI might not display data when Cumulus Linux switches are configured with high VNI scale. 4.6.0-4.8.0 4.9.0-4.12.0

Fixed Issues in 4.8.0

Issue ID Description Affects
3575935
When you upgrade to NetQ 4.7.0, configured premises names might get reset to the default name OPID0. 4.7.0
3575934
When you upgrade to NetQ 4.7.0, the password for the admin user is reset to the default password. 4.7.0
3555031
NetQ incorrectly reports a low health SSD event on SN5600 switches. To work around this issue, configure an event suppression rule for ssdutil messages from SN5600 switches in your network. 4.7.0
3530739
Queue histogram data received from switches might encounter a delay before appearing in the NetQ UI. 4.7.0