Version 10.3

Version 10.3.9

Released: 2020-05-21

New features

• Added security enhancements following latest security best practices
• Improved Probe stability during TLS traffic processing

Issues fixed

• Fixed drill-down functionality on IP addresses in TOP statistics (7630509)
• Fixed Internal Server Error when using More Info button on Top Source Autonomous Systems widget (7629963)
• Added logging of Profile and Channel name changes during system updates (7629302)
• Removed internal Profile and Channel names display after Profile deletion (7629761)
• Fixed Profile saving when accessing Flowmon from different time zones (7629478)

Version 10.3.8

Released: 2020-05-05

New features

• Several security enhancements following latest security best practices
• Active devices now allow setting a key identifier from MAC address to IP address, User ID, or a combination of MAC/IP with User ID
• Data Retention Module is now supported in Distributed Architecture

Issues fixed

• Fixed report chapter creation for users with limited write access in FMC (7629199)
• Fixed profile start time limitation to All sources start time (7629851)
• Implemented mechanism preventing network timeout during complex data queries (7627220)
• Fixed TOP chapter based on NAT DST IP (7630036)
• Fixed UI access issues when using a certificate chain for HTTPS
• Fixed IXIA IxFlow compatibility issue caused by large padding of flow packets (7628950)
• Analysis outputs can now be aggregated by NEL extensions - NAT SRC/DST IP and NAT DST port (7629893)
• Fixed non-responsive tab issue in the browser when editing the profile (7630157)
• Improved tables with fixed width in PDF reports to adapt to PDF document width (7629434)
• Fixed TOP chapters based on IP conversations aggregated by SRC/DST mask (7629434)
• Graphs with channels displayed above and below x-axis using "Max as an aggregation function" no longer hide data below x-axis (7627642)
• Updated health-checking script to reflect new disk partition layout (7629569)
• IP conversation widgets now show data when using SRC/DST port or SRC/DST mask aggregation (7629281)
• Configuration templates now show “All sources” as parent profile for non-admin roles (7629746)
• Configuration template import no longer shows success state when missing imported chapters (7629794)

Version 10.3.7

Released: 2020-02-27

Issues fixed

• Fixed issue preventing user from creating a chapter defined by specific compound filter (7628848)
• Fixed software raid failure after the upgrade (7629018)

Version 10.3.6

Released: 2020-02-17

Issues fixed

• Addressed incompatibility issue with Flowmon DDoS Defender 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 causing collector failure. The system now prevents the update if the Flowmon DDoS Defender version is lower than 5.0.2.

Version 10.3.5

Released: 2020-02-13

New features

• Support for RADIUS authentication IPFIX fields from Gigamon devices has been added.

Issues fixed

• 7627543: Fixed an issue causing missing country flags in TOP statistics at Flowmon Dashboard.

• 7628369: Flowmon Dashboard now shows DNS translated data for IP conversation widgets.

• 7628637: Fixed an issue causing missing charts in Analysis for 1min and 30sec profiles.

• 7628664: Fixed an issue causing a line break in AS names in PDF reports with TOP statistics on AS names.

• 7628127: Advanced flow forwarding has been improved to support filtering on VLAN tags.

• 7627352: LDAP settings now support encrypted passwords.

• 7623089: Extended logging for Samba backup procedure for better troubleshooting.

• 7620149: Samba backup procedure failure now preserves a backup metadata file.

• 7620149: Samba backup failure notification has been modified in case of "Permission denied" error to better instruct user when troubleshooting.

• 7628049: REST-API now support a filter validation in alerts definition to prevent from invalid inputs.

• 7628577: Flowmon Probe now exports SNMP output interface field in NetFlow v9.

• 7628378: Support for Hyper-V Generation 2 has been added.

• 7626249: Fixed an issue causing reaching of maximal number of open files limit.

• UUID conversion mechanism in Reports has been fixed to show FMC chapters in converted reports.

Version 10.3.4

Date: 2020-01-27

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Important information

• Flowmon Rest API was updated, please read the Flowmon REST API 10.03.00 guide for more details.

• Proper functionality of Flowmon 10.3.0 or higher cannot be guaranteed on appliances purchased before 08/2012 (appliances based on Intel Platform). On these appliances the update won't be performed.

• APM widgets are not compatible with the new Flowmon Dashboard.

• In DA mode, the listening port mode TCP/TLS is not working. Please use TCP or UDP instead.

Issues fixed

• An issue causing failure during bootup in EFI mode has been fixed.

Version 10.3.3

Date: 2020-01-14

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Important information

• Flowmon Rest API was updated, please read the Flowmon REST API 10.03.00 guide for more details.

• Proper functionality of Flowmon 10.3.0 or higher cannot be guaranteed on appliances purchased before 08/2012 (appliances based on Intel Platform). On these appliances the update won't be performed.

• APM widgets are not compatible with the new Flowmon Dashboard.

• In DA mode, the listening port mode TCP/TLS is not working. Please use TCP or UDP instead.

Issues fixed

• 7626697: When creating a TOP N report chapter based on parameter "Any interface", the chapter now appears properly in reports.

• 7626808: Src and Dst port are now visible in the dashboard widget based on IP conversations.

• 7627113: An issue in the edit profile form causing the inability to save the form in distributed deployments has been fixed.

• When setting an alert with multiple e-mail recipients, a comma followed by space (a@b.cd, e@f.gh) as a delimiter is now supported.

• Country flags are now visible in Dashboard widgets for top country statistics.

• 7625168: Flowmon Probe now supports multiple handshake messages within one TLS header when providing TLS IPFIX extensions.

• 7628127: When using advanced flow forwarding, multiple line VLAN filters are now supported.

• 7627220: Long-running requests in distributed deployments are prevented from time-out.

• 7628115: An issue causing failure during log files rotation has been fixed.

• 7627358: An issue causing AWS virtual appliance to create too many sessions has been fixed.

• 7627327: An issue causing 10G management interfaces to not loading after kernel update has been fixed.

• 7627238: When creating a new profile through REST API, "start time" now respects the user-defined time zone.

• 7627347: REST API now supports creating alert for a profile with an assigned group.

• 7620088: Creating and modifying reports via REST API supports now setting options "send via e-mail" or "send to samba storage".

• 7627633: REST API now supports to disable channel in profile.

Version 10.3.2

Date: 2019-11-12

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Important information

• Flowmon Rest API was updated, please read the Flowmon REST API 10.03.00 guide for more details.

• Proper functionality of Flowmon 10.3.0 or higher cannot be guaranteed on appliances purchased before 08/2012 (appliances based on Intel Platform). On these appliances the update won't be performed.

• APM widgets are not compatible with the new Flowmon Dashboard.

• In DA mode, the listening port mode TCP/TLS is not working. Please use TCP or UDP instead.

What's New

• Probe is able to export flow data via Syslog to specific destination. CLI configuration only.

Issues fixed

• 7625731: Fixed issue with LDAP user or company names containing comma.

• 7625927: Monitoring ports page is now displayed only if some monitoring port is licensed.

• Fixed automatic update packages downloading.

Version 10.3.1

Date: 2019-09-24

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Important information

• Flowmon Rest API was updated, please read the Flowmon REST API 10.03.00 guide for more details.

• Proper functionality of Flowmon 10.3.0 or higher cannot be guaranteed on appliances purchased before 08/2012 (appliances based on Intel Platform). On these appliances the update won't be performed.

• APM widgets are not compatible with the new Flowmon Dashboard.

• In DA mode, the listening port mode TCP/TLS is not working. Please use TCP or UDP instead.

Issues fixed

• Fixed issue with failing upgrade of Amazon AWS appliances.

• Fixed issue which prevented data storage migration procedure to start.

Version 10.3.0

Date: 2019-08-30

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Important information

• Flowmon Rest API was updated, please read the Flowmon REST API 10.03.00 guide for more details.

• Due to update of Kernel and system packages the upgrade process can take significantly longer (up to 45 minutes).

• Proper functionality of Flowmon 10.3.0 or higher cannot be guaranteed on appliances purchased before 08/2012 (appliances based on Intel Platform). On these appliances the update won't be performed.

• APM widgets are not compatible with the new Flowmon Dashboard.

• In DA mode, the listening port mode TCP/TLS is not working. Please use TCP or UDP instead.

What's New

• Configuration templates were added to Flowmon Configuration Center

• Configuration templates allow to simply add pre-configured views on the network performance, cloud applications and others

• Configuration template consists of a set of profile, report chapters, reports, widgets and dashboards, these objects are automatically created as the template is applied

• Templates are available through Flowmon update portal (services.flowmon.com)

• Several improvements of the Flowmon Dashboard were made:

• Dashboard improvements:

• It is possible to select from 3 different size layouts of the Dashboard - Normal, Compact and Condensed

• Dashboard tabs have better separation

• Newly added widget is automatically resized to match the data and also automatically finds the best position on the Dashboard

• Widget visualization improvements:

• Charts can be resized vertically

• Charts can be hidden from the widget

• Pie charts have better colors

• Table columns are resizable

• Time series chart can be displayed as normal or stacked chart

• It is possible to select whether the chart axis will be linear or logarithmic

• It is possible to select whether to display show/hide percentage in the table.

• Default column width and chart size for the widget can be set with the Set default widget option.

• New methods that allows to manage users and roles were added to Flowmon's REST API.

• System Overview in Flowmon Configuration Center now allows to display the state of the HW RAID of the appliance.

• Support for TLS 1.3 monitoring was added and the following fields were updated:

• TLS Setup Time

• TLS Server Version

• TLS Cipher Suite

• TLS Client Version

• TLS Client Key Length

• TLS Cipher Suites

• TLS Extension Types

• Distributed Architecture: SNMP connection setting is now a Source group setting.

• Distributed Architecture: Queries for long time periods are now faster.

• Deletion of multiple channels and profiles is now faster.

• NBAR2 dictionary was updated.

• Kernel was updated to 3.10.0-957.21.3

• PHP was updated to 7.2.

Issues fixed

MTU setting of the Monitoring Port is now respected.

7623074: Distributed Architecture: Fixed issue with reports recalculation.

7622256: Fixed issue with incorrectly displayed HTTPD warnings in the log files.

Known issues

Distributed Architecture: Report recomputation is not propagated to slave units in a proxy group. This does not include standalone slaves. This issue will be fixed in the next upcoming bugfix release.