Skylight Solution Release 22.07

With the 22.07 release of the Skylight Solution, we have incorporated ​many features and enhancements to some of our solution components. This article helps centralize, by individual component category, all the latest information in one convenient place.

To learn even more, links to respective product Release Notes have also been included.

Skylight performance analytics

Skylight performance analytics 22.07 introduces the following features and enhancements:

• HTTP/2, FTP and more new capture protocols: Available across monitoring, troubleshooting and alerting use cases.
• Alert Drill Down Improvements: Provides better, faster ways to go from performance alert to possible root cause.
• Circuit Modeling: Although not ready for general availability, great progress is being made towards the goal of allowing you to create your own model to glue performance metrics from multiple sources together, and provide that much requested abstracted/stitched view.

See the full Release Notes here to get a more in-depth look at what's been added.

Skylight orchestrator

Skylight orchestrator 22.07 introduces the following features and enhancements:

• Skylight Flex 100 Inventory Management: Skylight orchestrator is capable of managing Skylight Flex 100.
• Skylight Flex 100 Discovery using Zero Touch Provisioning: Discovery mechanisms are implemented so that Skylight Flex 100 can advertise to an inventory node. Skylight Flex 100 allows initial connectivity by Skylight orchestrator using a username and password mechanism similar to existing NIDs.
• Skylight Flex 100 CLI Provisioning Script: Skylight Flex 100 CLI script execution at the simplest level is possible.
• Removed Support for SDMGR and SDACT elements: Support for SDMGR and SDACT families for managed elements has been removed from Skylight orchestrator.
• Deprecated HTTP Basic Authentication for all NBAPI / Web Service: The use of basic authentication for the NBAPI/Web Services has been deprecated. Instead, cookies must be used.
• RADIUS Timeout Raised to 60 Seconds: When using RADIUS with two-factor authentication, the maximum timeout value has increased from 10 seconds to 60 seconds. After 60 seconds, the system considers that the RADIUS server request has timed out.

See the full Release Notes here.

Skylight sensor: agents

Skylight sensor: agents 22.07 introduces the following features and enhancements:

• New agent "transfer" for http(s)/ftp service testing
• throughput agent now supporting TCP "reflection"
• Helm charts for kubernetes deployment

See the full Release Notes here.

Skylight sensor: capture

Skylight sensor: capture 22.07 introduces the following features and enhancements:

• 10 new protocols added to capture parsing

See the full Release Notes here.