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Release Notes
Product Name Versa Analytics 20.1.0
Release Date September 27, 2018
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Index of Release Notes

Release notes provide information about a specific release of Versa Analytics software.
This document provides feature descriptions, enhancements, and fixes contained in a
specific release. Known issues and limitations are listed separately.

Table of Contents
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Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................................... 2

1. Versa Analytics 20.1 General Reference ................................................................................................. 3

2. Versa Analytics 20.1 New Features/Enhancements ............................................................................... 4

New Database Support - Fusion ................................................................................................................. 4

FQDN support in remote collector configuration ....................................................................................... 4

Security reports .......................................................................................................................................... 5

Analytics GUI enhancements ...................................................................................................................... 6

3. Versa Analytics 20.1 Bug Fixes ................................................................................................................ 6

4. Known issues .......................................................................................................................................... 6

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1. Versa Analytics 20.1 General Reference

This section applies to all Versa Analytics 20.1 releases.
Product Documentation
The Product documentation for Versa Analytics can be accessed at this location:
https://docs.versa-networks.com
Software Upgrade Information
Please refer to the Versa Analytics Installation Guide for installing the Versa Analytics
software.
Instructions for upgrading Versa Analytics instances from 16.1R2[S*] to 20.1 version
1. Copy the appropriate binary package file to the Versa Analytics node
/home/versa/packages/ directory and make sure the file has +x execute
permission. Alternatively, you can use the below command to transfer the file
which will get copied to the above Analytics automatically.
versa@versa-Analytics> request system package fetch uri <URI>
2. Install the new software package from the CLI shell. For example:
Versa@versa-Analytics> request system package upgrade <.bin>
3. Check the status of the services on the shell
vsh status
4. If services are not started, issue the following command from the shell to start
the services
vsh start

From 16.1R2 S2.2, the search and analytics hosts are listed separately as follows

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After upgrade, ensure that search node IPs are listed under Search Hosts and analytics
node IPs are listed under Analytics Hosts.

Support
For all support queries, please send email to support@versa-networks.com or contact
Versa Networks’ Sales Account team.

2. Versa Analytics 20.1 New Features/Enhancements

Compatible with: 20.1/16.1R2 Versa FlexVNF software.

New Database Support - Fusion

For new deployments using 20.1, Versa analytics ISO/QCOW2/OVA images will install
new version of database. All the functionalities available in 16.1R* releases will still be
available. Additionally, Fusion helps in improving performance, scaling and stability of
the database compared to older versions. New monitoring tools has been added to
Versa analytics GUI to monitor health of the cluster.

Upgrading from 16.1R2 to 20.1 will not automatically migrate to Fusion database. It will
still use older version of the database. Upgrade to Fusion will require data migration
which will be automated in subsequent service releases.

FQDN support in remote collector configuration

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Versa Log Collector and Exporter process is a component of Versa Analytics Node
responsible for receiving the logs from various Versa FlexVNF devices, storing it locally
as well as streaming it to any 3rd party collectors. The 3rd party collector typically is a
server running some analytics/performance/fault monitoring software running on TCP
or UDP transport. To reach the 3rd party collector, we must configure remote collector
on each of the Versa Analytics Nodes. The remote collector destination was specified
using IP address only. Many customers running remote collector in cloud would prefer
to use FQDN instead of IP address. This functional specification describes changes
required to support FQDN.

Configuration enhancements for remote collector to support destination FQDN

[edit log-collector-exporter remote collectors]

rc1 {
+ destination-fqdn van1.versa-networks.com;
destination-port 20514;
source-address 10.40.24.43;
transport tcp;
template rt1;
}

Address resolved can be viewed using the show command

versa@van2-vm1> show log-collector-exporter remote collectors

connection
REMOTE
COLLECTOR CLIENT SERVER SERVER CONNECTION
NAME SOCKET ADDRESS PORT STATE
-----------------------------------------------------
rc1 25 10.40.24.43 20514 established
rc2 -1 10.40.24.34 20514 error

Security reports

• File filtering reports

File filtering reports can be found under Dashboard> Security> Threats hierarchy. These
reports will get populated if flexVNF is configured with security file filtering profiles with
logging enabled.

Detailed file filtering logs can be found under Logs> Threat Filtering > File tab.

• Identity reports

Device identification based on device type and model can be found under Dashboard>
Security > Identity hierarchy.

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• IP guard reports

Detailed IP guard logs can be found under Logs > Threat Detection > IP Guard tab.

Analytics GUI enhancements

• Code Minification

Javascript minification to improve performance during load.

• Breadcrumbs for navigation

Breadcrumbs instead of back button on screens to allow easier navigation of pages

during drilldowns.

• Top n option in dashboard summary reports

Ability to choose top n where n could be 5, 10, 15 or 20 in the top summary charts. In
earlier releases, only top 5 were shown.

• Analytics cluster status and health monitoring

Under Administration System status hierarchy, live cluster and ETL statistics and status
can be viewed.

3. Versa Analytics 20.1 Bug Fixes

The table below lists all the critical and major defects seen in older releases that were
fixed in this release.
All fixes till 16.1R2S5 are available in 20.1 release.

Bug ID Summary

Site removal page in analytics takes long time to load or timeout in

28794
scaled setup.

4. Known issues
None

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