Palladion Probe Enhancement

Performance enhancements were made to the Palladion Probe functionality. Release S-C[xz]6.3.9M1 simplifies the operation of software-based Palladion probes by enabling the transmission of IPFIX data to one or more Palladion Mediation Engines, possibly on different sub-nets. This enhancement requires a slight change in the ACLI hierarchy -- specifically, the removal of the network-interface parameter from the comm-monitor configuration object, and its transfer to the monitor-collector configuration object.

Consequently, users who are migrating from a previous S-C[xz]6.3.9 release to S-C[xz]6.3.9M1 must be aware of the following anomaly. After the upgrade, probes based/anchored on media interfaces revert to the default network-interface value of wancom0:0.

The following illustrates a pre-S-C[xz]6.3.9M1 configuration.

comm-monitor
       state                     enabled
       qos-enable                disabled
       sbc-grp-id                0
       tls-profile
       network-interface         M10:0
       monitor-collector
              address            172.16.29.102
              port               4739

The following illustrates the upgraded S-C[xz]6.3.9M1 configuration.

comm-monitor
       state                     enabled
       qos-enable                disabled
       sbc-grp-id                0
       tls-profile
       monitor-collector
              address            172.16.29.102
              port               4739
              network-interface  wancom0:0

Note:

Restoration of prior service requires a simple workaround, namely, the update of the network-interface parameter to its original value of M10:0.