New In This Release

ExtremeCloud Orchestrator 3.5.0 introduces the following features and resolves issues through defect fixes. For information about XCO deployment, refer to the ExtremeCloud Orchestrator Deployment Guide, 3.5.0 .

Note

Note

In release 3.2.0 and later, Extreme Fabric Automation (EFA) is referred to as ExtremeCloud Orchestrator (XCO). The terms EFA and XCO refer to the same product and are used interchangeably.
Table 1. Features and Improvements
Feature Description
Enable or Disable Flooding for IP DHCP Relay Added a new topic "Enable or Disable Flooding for IP DHCP Relay" that describes the procedure for enabling or disabling flooding for IP DHCP relay.

For more information, refer to the ExtremeCloud Orchestrator CLI Administration Guide, 3.5.0 .

Enable or Disable Suppress ARP and Neighbor Discovery (ND) Added a new topic "Enable or Disable Suppress ARP and Neighbor Discovery (ND)" that describes the procedure for enabling or disabling suppress ARP and neighbor discovery.

For more information, refer to the ExtremeCloud Orchestrator CLI Administration Guide, 3.5.0 .

Firmware upgrade status Added new topics "Firmware Upgrade Status", "User Action Fabric-Wide Firmware=Download (FWDL) History", and "Runtime (Operational) Status-based History" that describe fetching the fabric-wide firmware upgrade status using the CLI.

For more information, refer to the ExtremeCloud Orchestrator CLI Administration Guide, 3.5.0 .

License service
  • Updated the topic "XCO License Service Management" with information on setting alerts on license expiry and deleting licenses.
  • Added a new topic "Delete a License" that describes procedure to delete a license.
  • Added a new topic "License Expiry Alert" that describes alerts when a license is expired.
  • Updated the topic "Inventory of Alerts" with License Alerts Inventory table.
  • Added a new topic "License Alerts" that describes alerts on License.

For more information, refer to the ExtremeCloud Orchestrator CLI Administration Guide, 3.5.0 .

Additional SNMP Notification Event support from SLX
  • Modified the topic "Set Threshold Monitor Options" that describes procedure to set threshold monitor options.
  • Added a new topic "Additional Threshold Monitor Types" that describes additional threshold monitor entities.
  • Added a new topic "Re-worked Threshold Monitor Parameters" that describes threshold monitor parameters in XCO 3.5.0.
  • Added a new topic "CLI Migration" that describes which threshold Monitor settings will be migrated from the previous XCO releases.
  • Modified the topic "Unset Threshold Monitor Options" that describes procedure to unset threshold monitor options.
  • Modified the topic "Display Threshold Monitor Settings" that describes procedure to show threshold monitor settings.

For more information, refer to the ExtremeCloud Orchestrator CLI Administration Guide, 3.5.0 .

Password expiry notification enhancement
  • Added a new topic "SLX Password Expiry Notification" which describes the process for configuring password expiry notification.
  • Updated the topic "Inventory of Alerts" the Password Expiry Alerts Inventory table.
  • Updated the topic "Alarm Inventory" with password expiration alarm.

For more information, refer to the ExtremeCloud Orchestrator CLI Administration Guide, 3.5.0 .

Galera certificate Updated the topics "XCO Certificates" and "Galera Certificate" with the Galera certificate details.

For more information, refer to the ExtremeCloud Orchestrator CLI Administration Guide, 3.5.0 .

OVA DNS update Updated the topic "Post OVA Install Procedure for Fabric and Visibility" with OVA DNS updates.

For more information, refer to the ExtremeCloud Orchestrator Deployment Guide, 3.5.0 .

CoreDNS forwarding Added the topic "Avoiding CrashLoopBackOff State for CoreDNS" that describes enabling CoreDNS forwarding to avoid CrashLoopBackOff state.

For more information, refer to the ExtremeCloud Orchestrator Deployment Guide, 3.5.0 .

UI updates
  • Bulk Edit Ports
  • Bi-directional Match Rule Configuration
  • Firmware History
  • 400G Line Card Support for 9920 Devices

For more information, refer to the ExtremeCloud Orchestrator GUI Administration Guide, 3.5.0 .

For other additional information, see Defects Closed with Code Changes.