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Skylight sensor control Release Notes 22.12.2
- 04 Nov 2024
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Skylight sensor control Release Notes 22.12.2
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These release notes cover the requirements, new features, and changes for this release of the Skylight sensor: control firmware version 22.12.2. Please read all the notes prior to installing this firmware version.
Requirements
This firmware version applies to the following products from Accedian:
| Product Name | Product ID | Firmware Name | Image or Firmware File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skylight sensor: control | sensor control-1000 | VCX_22.12.2 | VCX_22.12.2_25456_VMWare.ova |
| Skylight sensor: control | sensor control-1000 | VCX_22.12.2 | VCX_22.12.2_25456_KVM.tar.bz2 |
| Skylight sensor: control | sensor control-1000 | VCX_22.12.2 | VCX_22.12.2_25456_SingleDiskVMWare.ova |
| Skylight sensor: control | sensor control-1000 | VCX_22.12.2 | VCX_22.12.2_25456_SingleDiskKVM.tar.bz2 |
| Skylight sensor: control | sensor control-1000 | VCX_22.12.2 | VCX_22.12.2_25456.afl |
Note: This firmware release includes the images needed to deploy the Skylight sensor: control using a KVM or VMware Hypervisor, as well as the .afl upgrade file that is typically part of a Skylight sensor: control release.
Skylight sensor: control 22.12.2 requires Skylight orchestrator 20.05 as its minimum. Customers using SD Vision must first upgrade to Skylight orchestrator 20.05 before upgrading to Skylight sensor: control 20.05.
Important Notes
Skylight sensor: control upgrades
In Skylight sensor: control 22.12.2, any module upgrades from firmware versions previous to VCX 2.2 FWSuite (FWSUITE_VCX_2.2_10190) have been blocked, in order to protect against a potential complete loss of connectivity/functionality that cannot be recovered. In order to upgrade a module from an older FWSuite version, an older version of Skylight sensor: control must be used to first upgrade the module to FWSUITE_VCX_2.2_10190:
| Release | Files |
|---|---|
| Skylight sensor: control 22.12.2 | VCX_22.12.2_25456 FWSUITE_VCX_22.12.1_15935 |
| Skylight sensor: control 22.12.1 | VCX_22.12.1_25331 FWSUITE_VCX_22.12.1_15935 |
| Skylight sensor: control 22.12 | VCX_22.12_25242 FWSUITE_VCX_22.12_15927 |
| Skylight sensor: control 22.06.1 | VCX_22.06.1_25015 FWSUITE_VCX_ 22.06_15926 |
| Skylight sensor: control 22.06 | VCX_22.06.0_24886 FWSUITE_VCX_ 22.06_15926 |
| Skylight sensor: control 21.12 | VCX_21.12.0_24458 FWSUITE_VCX_21.12_15916 |
| Skylight sensor: control 20.11.1 | VCX_20.11.1_23836 FWSUITE_VCX_20.11.1_15890 |
| Skylight sensor: control 20.11 | VCX_20.11_23687 FWSUITE_VCX_20.11_15890 |
| Skylight sensor: control 20.05 | FWSUITE_VCX_20.05.0_22954 |
| Skylight sensor: control 19.12 | FWSUITE_VCX_19.12_15659 |
| Skylight sensor: control 19.07 | FWSUITE_VCX_19.07_15467 |
| VCX 2.7 | FWSUITE_VCX_2.7_15346 |
| VCX 2.6.0.1 | FWSUITE_VCX_2.6.0.1_15306 |
| VCX 2.6 | FWSUITE_VCX_2.6_15213 |
| VCX 2.5.0.2 | FWSUITE_VCX_2.5_15076 |
| VCX 2.5 | FWSUITE_VCX_2.5._15076 |
| VCX 2.4 | FWSUITE_VCX_2.4_11337 |
| VCX 2.3 | FWSUITE_VCX_2.3_10553 |
| VCX 2.2 | FWSUITE_VCX_2.2_10190 |
Skylight sensor: control upgrade consideration
Upgrading the Skylight sensor: control firmware version does not automatically upgrade the module firmware suite.
As of Skylight sensor: control 22.12, you can use modules that have older firmware suite versions with the current release. For Skylight sensor: control 22.12, the supported module firmware suite starts with version 19.12.
CAUTION: The upgrade process was hardened in VCX 2.7. Under specific circumstance the module upgrade can still fail. This happens if the module management is lost and the module performs an automatic rollback. The module can brick if the power is lost in a critical short time period. This was seen in a lab environment only and never reported by a customer.
Before doing the upgrade, it is recommended to enable Extra Reconnection Delay with the previous release (refer to the Skylight sensor: control User Manual, section 4.3, “Adding Remote Devices” for more details on how to enable Extra Reconnection Delay).
The downgrade is still executed using the previous software that still has the update process deficiencies. The downgrade can still cause remote devices to fail and should be avoided at the exception of VCX 2.5.0.2 and VCX 2.6.0.1 for which the downgrade is supported without issue.
It is not recommended to change any other module configuration when operating with a different firmware version. Changing the configuration could result in unknown behavior. A factory reset using AMD could be required in some cases. In a future release, the Skylight sensor: control software will prevent changing configuration for modules running a different firmware version.
For cases where all modules cannot be upgraded at the same time, it is recommended to run different Skylight sensor: control instances with different software versions. Modules to be upgraded should be moved between Skylight sensor: controls.
When downgrading Skylight sensor: control software, the modules firmware version shall also be downgraded. The downgrade process shall follow these steps in order to successfully downgrade Skylight sensor: control software and modules firmware. Note that downgrades are not recommended (see CAUTION above).
CAUTION: The downgrade is still executed using the previous software that still has the update process deficiencies. The downgrade can still cause remote devices to fail and should be avoided.
Before doing the downgrade, it is recommended to enable Extra Reconnection Delay with the previous release (refer to the Skylight sensor: control User Manual, section 4.3, “Adding Remote Devices” for more details on how to enable Extra Reconnection Delay).
Scenario 1: downgrade using Skylight sensor: control rollback
- The modules firmware must be downgraded first using the newest Skylight sensor: control software.
- Perform Skylight sensor: control rollback.
Scenario 2: downgrade using a different Skylight sensor: control instance
- The modules firmware must be downgraded first using the newest Skylight sensor: control software.
- Delete modules from the newest Skylight sensor: control instance.
- Discover the modules using the older Skylight sensor: control instances.
Firmware Version 22.12.2_25456 (2023-08-30)
New Features and Enhancements
None.
Addressed Issues
The following issues have been corrected in this release:
Licensing alarms in syslog for Skylight sensor: control 22.06
Continuous alarms pertaining to licensing appear in syslog when upgrading to Skylight sensor: control version 22.06.
This issue has been fixed.
Password with “#” character causing error message in y1564 report transfer
When a Y1564 transfer report is done via CLI, and the password or username of the destination has the special character “#”, the transfer fails with an error message.
This issue has been fixed.
RFC-2544 test suite step size configuration error on Nano 10G
When configuring an RFC-2544 test suite for a Nano 10G, using 5000 Mbps as the frame loss step size displays an error indicating that the value must be a multiple of 0.125.
This issue has been fixed.
No alarm when PORT-LOCAL-2 link is down
No alarm, syslog message, or configured SNMP trap is generated when the PORT-LOCAL-2 port link is down.
This issue has been fixed.
Multiple retries when running an RFC-2544 test suite
Multiple retries occur when running an RFC-2544 test suite between two Nanos, causing it to pass at a lower frame size.
This issue has been fixed.
System capabilities
The Skylight sensor: control offers the following system capabilities:
| Feature | Maximum | Changes in Skylight sensor: control 22.12.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Remote Device | ||
| Remote devices configured and supported | 1500 | |
| Remote device ports | 6000 | |
| Interfaces, remote devices | 3000 | |
| Discovery | ||
| Discovery instances | 500 | |
| Discovered remote devices | 2000 | |
| Skylight sensor: control Local Port & Interface | ||
| Local ports (typically referred to as LOCAL-xyz) | 10 (including the Management port) | |
| Skylight sensor: control local route | 4092 | |
| Interfaces, local ports | 100 | |
| CFM | ||
| Number of modules supporting CFM MEP session | 500 | |
| CFM MEP session per second generation module | 8 | |
| CFM Maximum number of Remote MEP | 99 | |
| CFM MEP smallest interval | 1 second | |
| Number of CFM MEP per Skylight sensor: control | 4000 | |
| Number of Packet loss per Skylight sensor: control | 4000 | |
| Number of Packet loss per second generation module | 8 | |
| Number of DMM session per Skylight sensor: control | 4000 | |
| Number of DMM session per second generation module | 8 | |
| DMM smallest interval | 1 second | |
| Number of SLM session per Skylight sensor: control | 4000 | |
| Number of SLM session per Skylight sensor: control | 4000 | |
| Number of SLM session per second generation module | 8 | |
| SLM smallest interval | 100 ms | |
| SAT | ||
| SAT Traffic Generation configuration (up to four flows) | 1000 | |
| SAT Traffic Generation execution (up to four flows) | 500 | |
| SAT Test Suites in the system (one test suite per device) | 500 | |
| Y.1564 (8 flows) | 500 (tested 4) | |
| SAT reports | 500 | |
| TWAMP reflection instances (module) | 1500 | |
| TWAMP reflection, stateful per module | 16 | Policies and traffic filters per remote device, TWAMP reflection, stateful per module, and Flowmeter flows supported per remote port use a shared pool of resources. For SFP compute 10G, do not max out TWAMP reflection, stateful per module, and Flowmeter flows supported per remote port to allow for Policies and traffic filters per remote device. |
| DMM reflection instances (module) | 1500 | |
| Loopback reflection per remote device | 2 | |
| Flowmeter | ||
| Flowmeter flows supported per remote port | 28 per device | Policies and traffic filters per remote device, TWAMP reflection, stateful per module, and Flowmeter flows supported per remote port use a shared pool of resources. For SFP compute 10G, do not max out TWAMP reflection, stateful per module, and Flowmeter flows supported per remote port to allow for Policies and traffic filters per remote device. |
| Flowmeter flows supported per Skylight sensor: control instance | 4000 | |
| Flow broker | ||
| Flow broker Analyzers | 100 | |
| Flow broker Analyzers in an Analyzer set | 4 | |
| Flow broker rules per Skylight sensor: control | 1000 | |
| Flow broker capture bandwidth per 1G module | 300 Mbps with 1 ms RTT 50 Mbps with 20 ms RTT | |
| Flow broker capture bandwidth per 1G SFP compute | 300 Mbps with 1 ms RTT 50 Mbps with 20 ms RTT | |
| Flow broker capture bandwidth per 10G module | 700 Mbps with 1 ms RTT 100 Mbps with 8 ms RTT | |
| Flow broker capture bandwidth per 10G SFP compute | Not supported | |
| Flow broker capture bandwidth per Skylight element: FSX | 100 Mbps with 1 ms RTT | |
| Flow broker ERSPAN streaming bandwidth | 200 Mbps | |
| Flow broker PCAP streaming bandwidth | 150 Mbps using SCP 500 Mbps using FTP | |
| Flow broker Port Streaming bandwidth | 150 Mbps | |
| Flow Probes | ||
| PM Accuracy direct actuation (i350) | 50 us | |
| NFV PM Accuracy | 15 us | |
| PM Accuracy with SR-IOV | 500 µs for P99 | |
| Skylight sensor: control Actuator maximum number of probes | 4000 | |
| Skylight sensor: control Actuator maximum number of packets per second (receive and transmit) | 80 K in TX and 80 K in RX | |
| Maximum number of probe reflection | 4000 | |
| Maximum number of probes per module | 2000 | |
| Maximum number of packets per second (receive and transmit) per module | 40 K in TX and 40K in RX with 128 bytes frame | |
| PPS accuracy | ± 1.0 % | |
| NFV TWAMP support | Yes | |
| NFV ETH-DM support | Yes | |
| NFV UDP Echo support | Yes | |
| NFV ICMP Echo support | Yes | |
| NFV ETH-VSP support | Yes | |
| NFV ETH-LB support | Yes | |
| NFV CFM maximum number of PPS | E-Line 500 remote device per Skylight sensor: control. E-LAN 100 remote device per Skylight sensor: control. CFM instances: E-LAN : 1 MEP (each 99 RMEP) per RD 1 SLM per MEP per RD 1 DMM per MEP per RD. Tx: 11 pps, RX: 111 pps per RD CFM instances: E-LINE : 8 MEP per Module 6 SLM@10pps for 1 MEP per Module 8 DMM@1pps for 1 MEP per Module Tx: 76 pps, Rx: 76 pps per Module | |
| NFV Tunnel | ||
| Packet loss requirement | 10^-6 | |
| NFV Tunnel bandwidth | 42 Mbps for NFV TWAMP deployment 84 Mbps for Reduced NFV PM footprint deployment | |
| RTT requirement | Validated with RTT between 5 ms and 50 ms | |
| Virtual-Connection | ||
| VCE with IP domain enabled | 500 | |
| VCE without IP domain | 50000 | |
| Number of VCEs route | 2500 | |
| VCA | 30000 | |
| Synchronization | ||
| ARTS | 500 | |
| PTP TC layer-2 | Yes (Ant2, Ant 10G, Nano2 Copper and Nano2 Optical) | |
| SyncE | Yes (Ant2, Nano2 Copper and Nano2 Optical) | |
| No (Ant 10G) | ||
| PTP OC for module | NA | |
| Service Creation | ||
| Policies and traffic filters per remote device | 10 for second generation 2 for SFP compute 10G | Policies and traffic filters per remote device, TWAMP reflection, stateful per module, and Flowmeter flows supported per remote port use a shared pool of resources. For SFP compute 10G, do not max out TWAMP reflection, stateful per module, and Flowmeter flows supported per remote port to allow for Policies and traffic filters per remote device. |
| Bandwidth Regulator per second generation module | 16 | |
| Bandwidth Regulator per Skylight sensor: control | 24000 | |
| PCP CoS mapping per port | 1 | |
| CoS mapping per Skylight sensor: control | 50 | |
| DSCP CoS mapping per port | 1 | |
| Alarms | ||
| Number of trap alarm per second | 1000 | |
| Users | ||
| Local users | 15 | |
| User groups | 8 | |
| Sessions | ||
| CLI sessions | 5 | |
| WEB UI sessions | 15 | |
| Total maximum sessions | 20 | |
| Supported Filters | ||
| Layer-2 filter | 6500 | |
| Ipv4 filter | 6500 | |
| Ipv6 filter | 6500 | |
| Total maximum sessions | 19500 |
Skylight sensor: control 22.12.2 Lifecycle
This section lists the planned lifecycle dates of this software release. See the table below outlining the following milestones:
| Milestone | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| General Availability | Date where the product is available for general field deployment for both new installations and upgrades. | 2023-08-30 |
| End of Security Support | Date where security patches will no longer be delivered for this release. Any correctives for security defects required after this date will be delivered using the next major release of the software. | Next Major Release |
| Last Time Buy / Last Time Ship | Date where this release can no longer be purchased from Accedian. | 2025-08-30 |
| End of Product Support | Date where functional patches will no longer be delivered for this release. Any correctives for functional defects required after this date will be delivered using the next major release of the software. | 2025-08-30 |
| End of Technical Support | Date where technical assistance is no longer available from the Accedian Technical Assistance Center for this release. | 2028-08-30 |
For lifecycle dates of previous Skylight sensor control releases and module firmware suites, refer to the release notes for that specific release.
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