MetroAE Release v5.5.0

Release info

• MetroAE Version 5.5.0
• Nuage Release Alignment 20.10.R1
• Date of Release 21-August-2023

Release Contents

Feature Enhancements

• Add support for multiple external interfaces in NUH (METROAE-670)

Resolved Issues

• Fix DNS restart issue for TPM server HA deployment (METROAE-668)
• Update/Renew VSD ejabberd license for 20.10.Rx version (METROAE-669)
• VSC R13 installation fails due to ssh hardening (METROAE-672)
• Fix SD-WAN Portal standalone deployment (METROAE-667)
• VSTATs(ES) upgrade fails while checking for ES version after the upgrade is complete (METROAE-671)

MetroAE Release v5.4.0

Metro Automation Engine Release Notes

Release info

• MetroAE Version 5.4.0
• Nuage Release Alignment 20.10.R1
• Date of Release 22-December-2022

Release Contents

Feature Enhancements

• Add Support for TPM server Deployment (METROAE-461)
• Add lowercase proxy env support (METROAE-662)
• Remove {{ }} from when clauses in metro (METROAE-643)

Resolved Issues

• Update the DevOps Website (devops.nuagenetworks.net) with the latest MetroAE container information (METROAE-627)
• Fix internal network option for NUH deployment on OpenStack (METROAE-663)
• Update the title for nsg_template_name to reflect the correct description (METROAE-501)

MetroAE Release v5.3.0

Metro Automation Engine Release Notes

Release info

• MetroAE Version 5.3.0
• Nuage Release Alignment 20.10.R1
• Date of Release 05-September-2022

Release Contents

Feature Enhancements

• Add support for VSD upgrade to 20.10.R9 (METROAE-652)
• Add support for VSTAT(ES) upgrade to 20.10.R8 (METROAE-659)
• Allow users to shut down VMs (METROAE-629)
• Add support for VSC CPU, memory health check (METROAE-657)
• Enhance VSD health check report for CPU and memory (METROAE-656)

Resolved Issues

• Update Documentation about SELinux and supported components (METROAE-660)
• Investigate stats-out ES Upgrade from 20.10.R5 to 20.10.R7 (METROAE-608)
• Fixed package 'Six' issue (METROAE-658)

v5.2.0

Metro Automation Engine Release Notes

Release info

• MetroAE Version 5.2.0
• Nuage Release Alignment 20.10.R1
• Date of Release 04-July-2022

Release Contents

Feature Enhancements

• Improve the logging and status check for tls mode (METROAE-646)
• Deploy SD-WAN Portal on OpenStack (METROAE-462)
• Support GRCN SD-WAN portal install for Openstack (METROAE-595)
• Support trunking between vsc control port and its underlay ports in OpenStack (METROAE-653)
• Provide option to create custom password for vstat root user (METROAE-650)
• Added Memory and CPU Usage check of VSD health (METROAE-645)

Resolved Issues

• Included data nodes in NUH (METROAE-648)
• Run stats collection script in additional 3 data nodes (METROAE-649)
• Add ability to deploy Portal without GRCN (METROAE-654)

MetroAE Release v5.1.0

Release info

• MetroAE Version 5.1.0
• Nuage Release Alignment 20.10
• Date of Release 29-April-2022

Release Contents

Feature Enhancements

• Add Geo-Redundant Control Node (GRCN) on SD-WAN Portal (METROAE-555)
• Added ability to list installed plugins (METROAE-366)
• Added support for volume for ES nodes in OpenStack (METROAE-460)
• Added support for addition of additional ES data nodes to existing stats-out deployment (METROAE-440)
• Added support for NUH deployment in OpenStack environment (METROAE-463)
• Add support for container-relative paths. More information can be found in CHANGES_IN_V5.md (METROAE-610)
• Added support for changing root user's password (METROAE-593)

Resolved Issues

• Fix the error caused by multiple installation of branding on VSD (METROAE-604)
• MetroAE logging enhancements (METROAE-475)
• Delete the files leftover by metro on VSD's /tmp directory (METROAE-609)
• Added the VSPCA field in the installer settings for sdwan portal (METROAE-550)
• Allow for a custom config file during VSC Upgrade (METROAE-485)
• NUH changes for stats-out (METROAE-620)
• Updated deprecated settings in ansible.cfg (METROAE-602)
• Fix NSGv deployment when bootstrap method is None
• Removed the option to validate environment in Wizard (METROAE-635)
• Updated MetroAE to use External Interface Name when building the external_interface list in the nuh template (METROAE-632)
• Fixed custom username and password for VSC in installation (METROAE-531)
• NUH stats out sets stats out proxy as elasticsearch proxy (METROAE-599)
• Fixed set tls mode require optionally (METROAE-536)
• Added support for multiple VLANs in NUH config (METROAE-513)

MetroAE Release v5.0.0

Release Info

• MetroAE Version 5.0.0
• Nuage Release Alignment 20.10
• Date of Release 4-February-2022

Release Contents

What's New

• MetroAE now requires Ansible 3.4.0 and Python 3
• There is a new container mode of operation, replacing the existing container
• Detailed procedure for migrating from MetroAE v4.6.x to MetroAE v5.0.0 can be found in CHANGES_IN_V5.md

Feature Enhancements

• Predeploy NSGV without vsd license file (METROAE-497)
• Added support for hardening Elasticsearch nodes (METROAE-486)
• Allow custom configuration of RAM, CPU and Memory for VSD and VSTAT (METROAE-477)
• Run VSD Database pre-upgrade checks (METROAE-428)
• Support NFS server config using MetroAE(METROAE-557)
• Webfilter should optionally use HTTP Proxy (METROAE-493)
• Add support for encrypting credentials in Excel spreadsheet (METROAE-552)
• Add Ansible 3.4.0 support (METROAE-344)
• Allow installing/renewal of VSTAT(ES) licenses during install, upgrade and standalone (METROAE-591)

Resolved Issues

• Check for ejabberd license expiry (METROAE-505)
• Added support install of SD-WAN portal without the SMTP address(METROAE-492)
• Fixed yum lock timeout issue when installing packages in KVM (METROAE-507)
• Replacing known_hosts module mgmt_ip to hostname (METROAE-481)
• Remove unnecessary debug lines from vsc-health (MetroAE-541)
• Fixing vsd-destroy to destroy old and new VMs (METROAE-504)
• Fix MetroAE errors while deploying using SSH Proxy (MetroAE-574)
• Fixed Check passwordless ssh from metro host to hypervisors and components ( METROAE-520)
• Added ES servers to NUH GUI ( METROAE-491)
• Fix NUH install on 20.10.R5 (METROAE-490)
• Fixing message issue for docker pull(METROAE-527)
• Install NUH optionally without DNS entry (METROAE-375)
• Add procedure for NUH copy certificates if installed before VSD(METROAE-559)
• Create NUH users and certs for NSG bootstrapping (METROAE-487)
• Enhance check to accept both access_port_name and access_ports variables being undefined (METROAE-585)
• VSTAT VSS UI should be set for all VSTATS (METROAE-580)
• Remove Old MetroAE container support (METROAE-564)
• Fix MetroAE VSD in-place upgrades for custom credentials (METROAE-586)
• Make changes into documentation for supporting ansible version upgrade and new container(METROAE-588)
• Document where credentials are used(METROAE-532)
• Fix MetroAE inplace upgrade from 20.10.R6.1 to 20.10.R6.3(METROAE-590)
• On applying branding to the VSD jboss restart should happen serially (METROAE-597)
• Clean up temporary ISO file on VSD after mounting (METROAE-598)

MetroAE Release 4.6.2

Resolved Issues

• Allow installing/renewal of VSTAT(ES) licenses during install, upgrade and standalone (METROAE-591)
• Fix MetroAE VSD in-place upgrades for custom credentials (METROAE-586)

Patch Release

Resolved Issues

• Install NUH without VSD on VCenter (METROAE-523)
• Upgrade VSTATS if VSD GUI password has changed (METROAE-533)
• Apply VSD license during upgrade (MetroAE-528)

Multiple Feature Release

Release info

• MetroAE Version 4.6.0
• Nuage Release Alignment 20.10
• Date of Release 16-September-2021

Release Contents

Feature Enhancements

• Allow custom configuration of RAM, CPU and Memory for VCenter (METROAE-433)
• Added support for extra ES disk on vmware (METROAE-341)
• Add Support for Single-Step VSD Stats-out Upgrade and Patch (METROAE-470)
• Added support for different disk provisioning type for VSD and VSTAT (METROAE-453)
• Added support for blocking iptables VSC entries during upgrade (METROAE-427)
• Add support for BGP interface for VSC (METROAE-484)
• Added support for deploying NUH in VMware - requires Ansible 2.9.7 or greater and NUH version 20.10.5 or newer (METROAE-435)
• Added documentation for starting VSD with interfaces disabled on vCenter
• Added support for multiple webfilters deployment (METROAE-458)
• Added support for mounting an extra disk on VSTAT in a VMware environment (METROAE-480)
• Added support for destroying NUH in VMware (METROAE-506)

Resolved Issues

• Added playbook and menu option to run security hardening on VSD after the VSD installation (METROAE-328)
• Added playbook for portal deployment, this is deployemnt in an already created VMs for portal (METROAE-273)
• Fixed NSG package Unzipped Twice (METROAE-415)
• Added ansible reset connection to fix VSC connectivity issues
• Fix openstack ssl connection error (METROAE-425)
• Add option to skip disable stats collection during VSTAT Upgrade (METROAE-430)
• For VSD upgrade check for 3 tar.gz files and not 3 files
• Removed unnecessary debug lines (METROAE-455)
• Added a task to check existence of vsd migration script during upgrade (METROAE-306)
• Fixed issue with installing required libvirt libraries on target host (METROAE-447)
• VSD inplace upgrade should unmount the ISO after upgrade (METROAE-449)
• Fix stats out upgrade for hardened Stats-out VSD nodes (METROAE-450)
• Fix VSD Standby nodes inplace upgrade (METROAE-452)
• Added fix for DNS destroy uses inventory_hostname instead of vmname(METROAE-405)
• Removed nuagex support (METROAE-467)
• Apply VSD Branding only for primary VSDs(METROAE-471)
• Upgraded ansible version and packages to remove depandabot alerts (METROAE-401)
• Fixed Upgrade with Custom VSD GUI password(METROAE-454)
• Apply VSD Custom Branding for patch upgrades(METROAE-469)
• Fixed validate certs in vsd-deploy for OpenStack(METRO-464)
• Removed failure_report_path from vsc-health and group_vars/all(METROAE-483)
• Removed redundant known_hosts in vsc-health & vsd-health(METROAE-482)
• Fixed incorrect smtp.user and smtp.port specifications for portal(METROAE-496)
• Fixed VSTAT VSC health check to look for correct VSDs when using stats out configuration
• Reset vsd_sa_or_ha internal flag to sa before doing stats out VSDs upgrade
• Removed multiple standalone VSC upgrade feature (METROAE-418)
• Removed redundant checks in VSTAT health(METROAE-508)
• Allow VSD Decoupling to finish before check status(METROAE-522)
• Removed redundant debug statements in VSTAT health (METROAE-517)
• Removed redundant debug statements in vstat-destroy (METROAE-518)
• Removed redundant debug statements in vsd-services-stop (METROAE-519)

Patch for stats-out upgrades

Fixes a bug that causes MetroAE inplace (patch) upgrade to skip standby VSD nodes.

Metro Automation Engine Release Notes

Release info

• MetroAE Version 4.5.1
• Nuage Release Alignment 20.10.R5
• Date of Release 27-July-2021

Release Contents

Feature Enhancements

• None

Resolved Issues

• Fix VSD Standby nodes inplace upgrade (METROAE-452)