Skylight Solution Release 23.11 and 23.12

Skylight performance analytics

Skylight performance analytics 23.11 introduces the following features and enhancements:

• Real-time metrics reporting: Avoid delays and expedite troubleshooting workflows
• Native support for Cisco MDT data: Limited availablility of a new MDT ingestion capability which will reduce professional service engagement requirements
• Roadrunner polling High Availability: Avoid missing polling intervals

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Skylight orchestrator

Skylight orchestrator 23.12 includes:

• Discovery trigger for remote devices: Added discovery trigger support for SFP Compute and modules, for both configuration jobs and flow profiles
• Trigger flow executor on discovery of a Skylight element: added support for triggering a flow profile executor on discovery of a Skylight performance element
• Flex SAT Flow Template: Added ability to create, edit, and delete Y.1564 tests from Skylight orchestrator via flow template
• Support for Flex 25: Added Flex 25 support for Discovery, Commissioning, Inventory, and Alarms
• Export and transfer support for executors: An Executor Export tab has been implemented in the Commission page. This tab is used to enable export and configure transfer settings
• Consumption-based model for Licensing: Removed feature licenses and added a consumption-based model for licensing.
• Red Hat Docker environment: The Red Hat operating system can deploy a Skylight orchestrator Docker container. Previously, Ubuntu operating system was the exclusive option.

Notable deprecations from Skylight orchestrator:

• XML export interface: This interface has been deprecated
• Charting deprecation: PM and Usage visualizations are no longer possible

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Skylight sensor: agent

Skylight sensor: agents 23.11 introduces the following features and enhancements:

• Trace and throuput test scheduling support: Schedule trace and throughput tests via API and through the UI
• Agent actuate now supports defining MOS codec parameters individually per session.communicated to the Skylight Gateway for exposure to upstream orchestration tools via RESTConf
• Updated sessionId rules: can now contain both numbers, letters, underscore, dash and dot. The regular expression describing the new rule is: ^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]*$
• Lowercase and uppercase string support: Agent metadata now allows both lowercase and uppercase strings.

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Skylight sensor: capture

Skylight sensor: capture 23.11 introduces the following features and enhancements:

• SaaS application database: The sensor capture now contains a database of common SaaS application definitions that is updated every major release
• New configuration parameter "vmagent": Health-monitoring of the capture sensors have been added for troubleshooting purposes.

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Skylight Interceptor

Skylight Interceptor 23.11 introduces the following features and enhancements:

• DSL rules feed: Added Accedian-curated DSL rules, manage DSL detections for all deployments simultaneously
• Alert cluster view: Introduced a different way of viewing incidents
• Honeypot enhancements: Added support for arm64 arch to support small form factor boards such as Raspberry Pi
• Allowlist enhancements: Add condition values from an alert, view a list of existing allowlist rules for a detection, use time condition templates, instant navigation to the detection page.

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