Extreme Fabric Automation 2.4.0 provides several new features and improvements.
Feature | Description |
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EFA as an SNMP trap receiver | A new service, gosnmp-service, enables EFA to persist trap subscribers, receive SNMP traps, and forward the traps to subscribers. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Administration Guide, 2.4.0 . |
OpenStack integration enhancements | This release offers numerous improvements, including the following:
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Centralized routing | With centralized routing, routing configuration is performed only on border leaf pairs. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Administration Guide, 2.4.0 . |
Multiple management IP networks | You can create multiple IP subnets for support of EFA on all of the subnets. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Administration Guide, 2.4.0 and the Extreme Fabric Automation Deployment Guide, 2.4.0 . |
Certificate expiration notifications | If a device certificate is within 30 days of expiration, an event is generated. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Administration Guide, 2.4.0 . |
New IPv6 Neighbor Discovery options for the efa tenant epg create and efa tenant epg update commands |
New options for configuring MTU, router advertisement, prefix
lifetimes, and configuration type:
For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 2.4.0 . |
New ctag option for the efa tenant epg create and efa tenant epg update commands |
Use the --ctag-description option to assign a unique description for a ctag. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 2.4.0 . |
New minimum links option for the efa tenant po create and efa tenant po update commands |
Use the --min-link-count option to specify the least number of links that need to be operationally up to declare the port channel as operationally up. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 2.4.0 . |
New anycast operations for the efa tenant epg create and efa tenant epg update commands |
With two new operations (anycast-ip-add and
anycast-ip-delete) you can add or delete anycast
addresses using the following options:
For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 2.4.0 . |
New graceful restart toggle for the efa tenant vrf create and efa tenant vrf update commands |
You can set the --graceful-restart option to true or false to enable or deactivate the functionality. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 2.4.0 . |
Workarounds for event synchronization and event handling issues | For more information about these workarounds, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Administration Guide, 2.4.0 . |
Support for upgrade from EFA 2.3.x to any later version of EFA | For more information, see EFA Installation and Upgrade. |
RBAC service in active-standby mode | In previous releases, the RBAC service was in active-active mode. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Deployment Guide, 2.4.0 . |
REST API changes for backup, restore, and supportsave |
For more information, see the set of API guides on the Extreme Fabric Automation documentation web page. |
The output of the efa system restore command now shows you the backup tar files you can choose from | For more information, see the "Backup and Restore the EFA Database" topic in the Extreme Fabric Automation Administration Guide, 2.4.0 . |
New REST API for deleting individual backup and supportsave files |
Usage: efa system cleanup <flags> Flags:
For more information, see the set of API guides on the Extreme Fabric Automation documentation web page. |