What's New
What's New contains a list of features and functionalities introduced in recent releases.
GigaVUE 6.3.xx Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
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Cloud |
SSL Decrypt Application Passive SSL Decryption is now supported on GigaVUE V Series Nodes. SSL Decrypt application delivers decrypted traffic to out-of-band tools that can then detect threats entering the network. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a cryptographic protocol that adds security to TCP/IP communications such as Web browsing and email. With this functionality you can also view your application's live statistics, session summary, session details and service statistics. This application is supported on the following platforms:
On VMware NSX-T specifically, however, an issue with out-of-order packets due to queuing causes performance degradation and you are advised not to deploy the solution. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite
GigaVUE V Series Applications Guide |
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Custom Certificate for GigaVUE V Series Nodes and G-vTAP Controllers GigaVUE V Series Node, GigaVUE V Series Proxy, and G-vTAP Controllers have default self-signed certificates installed. The communication between GigaVUE-FM and the fabric components happens in a secure way using these default self-signed certificates, however you can also install custom certificates like SSL/TLS certificate on GigaVUE V Series Nodes, GigaVUE V Series Proxy, or G-vTAP Controllers. |
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Cloud Overview Page Enhancements The overview page is a central location to view and monitor all the monitoring sessions in a single place. You can now view the traffic rate and the aggregate summary of volume usage. |
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GigaVUE V Series Node L2 Address Timeout Enhancement GigaVUE V Series Node sends IPv6 router solicitation every 30 seconds that announces MAC address of the GigaVUE V Series Node to the L2 network. |
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GCB Traffic Health Monitoring
In GigaVUE-FM you can view alarms, manage one or more alarms, filter alarms, drill down to alarm source, etc. While configuring, GigaVUE-FM allows setting the threshold conditions so that alarms are raised by the GCB node when those threshold conditions are met. |
Gigamon Containerized Broker Guide
Gigamon Containerized Broker Guide |
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FMHA and GCB GCB supports the GigaVUE‑FM High Availability (FMHA) feature. For GCB to make use of high availability feature of GigaVUE‑FM you must configure the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of the GigaVUE‑FM. In a standalone GigaVUE‑FM, the GCB uses the FQDN name of the GigaVUE‑FM (if configured). If the FQDN is not configured or if the GCB fails to resolve to an IP address., it uses the legacy method of using the configured IP address. For more details on the GigaVUE-FM High Availability configuration, refer to GigaVUE Administration Guide. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Administration Guide Gigamon Containerized Broker Guide |
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Embedded |
Flex Inline: Network LAG - CDP/LLDP Inline Network Pair Affinity This feature allows the CDP, LLDP packets to remain on the correct Inline Network Pair when the Inline Network Pair is part of an Inline Network LAG. |
Fabric Management
GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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IP Address Rewrite You can now control or modify the destination IP and source IP address of incoming traffic and deliver it to the tools according to the flow mapping configurations. |
Fabric Management
GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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Severity Level of Port Down Log You can now specify the minimum severity of certain port log messages. Currently, the port link up/down logs are supported. |
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E-Tag Based Clustering Clustering can now be configured based on E-Tags on GigaVUE-HC1-Plus. You can select E-Tag based stacking mode to enable this feature. |
Fabric Management
GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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Better Filter Rules and a Higher Capture Limit for PCAP With the new filter rules, you can more accurately capture the network traffic you need, while the increased capture limit allows for longer capture sessions without interruption. |
Fabric Management
GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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Configure Contiguous Broken Ports This feature aims to display the ports and sub-ports in the specified range. |
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Support ARP/NDP for Tools in the Local Network over GigaSmart Tunnel Encapsulation If the tools with GigaSmart Tunnel Encapsulation belong to the local network. You can now resolve ARP/NDP for those tools to direct traffic to it. |
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GigaVUE FM Core |
Support for Incomplete LDAP Authentication Attempts in the GigaVUE-FM Audit Log To enable better troubleshooting, GigaVUE-FM will display error codes for all failed LDAP authentication attempts. For authentication failures alone, a custom description and error code will be displayed. For all other codes, refer to the GigaVUE-FM Administration guide for more details. This process will aid in troubleshooting LDAP issues that occur in normal ongoing production operations. |
Fabric Management
GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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Lock-Unlock Authentication Configuration for Locally Authenticated Users The lock-unlock authentication feature prevents unauthorized user access and limits the number of login attempts, thereby controlling the number of brute-force password attacks. With this feature, when locally authenticated users try to login to GigaVUE-FM, and if the login fails after a defined number of failed password attempts, the user account is locked. Only an admin user can unlock the user account. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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rSyslog Configuration for TLS Logging You can now configure tls logging for sending the audit log and syslog packets to a remote server such as rSyslog server. To enable TLS logging, you must perform specific configurations in the rSyslog server. |
Fabric Management
GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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Orchestrated Upgrade of Devices from GigaVUE-FM You can now perform orchestrated upgrade of devices from the GigaVUE-FM GUI which provides a number of advantages. The upgrade process is split into multiple stages providing more control for the users to manage the processes as required: With orchestrated upgrade you can:
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Fabric Management
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End to End Tunnel Monitoring Support for Hybrid Series Tunnels The Tunnel Monitoring feature is enhanced as follows:
Note: For this release:
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Fabric Management
GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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FHA Performance Optimization To optimize the performance of GigaVUE-FM, the data listed in the control filters in Fabric Health Analytics (FHA) dashboards is now fetched from fminventory index instead of fmstats index. Note: With this enhancement, you cannot fetch and view the details of devices that are no longer managed by GigaVUE-FM. You can disable this behavior by logging in to the shell prompt of GigaVUE-FM and enable the required legacy attribute. Restart Fabric Health Analytics services for the change to take effect. |
Fabric Management
GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Modify Auto-Logout Time (Enhancement) You can now configure the auto logout time in GigaVUE-FM with the following values:
On upgrading to software version 6.3.00, the default value of 30 minutes will be retained. For new installation of GigaVUE-FM, the default value is configured as 10 minutes. |
Fabric Management
GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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GigaSMART |
Tool Early Inspect This feature enhances the current inline SSL behavior by allowing the inline tool to examine the decrypted data before connecting to the server. If Tool Early Inspect is enabled, the inline tool will be able to validate the data and make sure that only valid connections are sent to the server. This feature will only be supported in the inbound deployment modules. |
Fabric Management
GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Slicing and Masking in Application Filtering Intelligence on V Series You can combine Slicing and Masking applications with Application Filtering Intelligence (AFI) on a V Series node. Using the slicing and masking parameters, you can slice or mask or slice and mask the filtered traffic before sending them to the destination tunnel end point. |
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AMI attributes for Key Performance KPIs Round Trip Time (RTT) For Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI), this feature now supports the export of minimum, maximum, and mean values of the RTT attributes for specific protocols such as http, icmp, icmp6, ssh, tcp, telnet, and wsp. TCP Loss Count This attribute computes the consecutive missing bytes per flow. For Application Metadata Intelligence, this feature now supports the export of loss count as an aggregate of loss byte values at each export interval. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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AMI and AFI Performance Improvement for GTP-U traffic on HC Series The fastmode option is introduced as part of the performance improvement. Enabling this mode improves the performance but limits some of the attributes that can be exported for the applications. This mode can be used to improve the performance if those attributes are not needed. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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5G-SBI Flow Exporter or Improved logging for SBI application In 5G-SBI application, the V Series node can log the following details to CSV files:
These log files help you to understand the records or traffic efficiently. The files are named as per the date and time in which the files were created. When the number of files and its size grows, the application automatically detects the old files and delete them. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Hardware
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Support Unidirectional Simplex Links You can enable forcelinkup on network port simplex links across all platforms that support 40G, 100G, and 400G links. |
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BPS-HC1-D25A24 The BPS-HC1-D25A24 module is now supported on GigaVUE‑HC1-Plus. It provides a Bypass Combo Module with two SX/SR (50/125μm multimode) inline network port pairs and four regular SFP+ port cages. |
Hardware
GigaVUE-HC1-Plus Hardware Installation Guide |
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Mobility |
5G Standalone UPN Session Persistence and Overlap Mode Stateful Session Recovery Mobility Applications require stateful session recovery to persist their data between node reboots and connection failures. This feature extends the stateful session recovery support available in the GTP application to the Standalone UPN application for 5G. Overlap Mode - The overlap mode allows the sending of multiple copies of a packet to various tools (one copy per tool set). This feature extends the overlap mode support available in GTP mobility application to Standalone UPN application for 5G. |
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GigaVUE 6.2.xx Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
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Next generation G-vTAP is a lightweight solution that acquires traffic from Virtual Machines and in-turn improves the performance of the G-vTAP Agent mirroring capability. The solution has a prefiltering capability at the tap level that reduces the traffic flow from the agent to V Series node and in-turn reduces the V Series load. Next generation G-vTAP Agent gets activated only on Linux system with a Kernel version above 5.4. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS GigaVUE Cloud Suite for OpenStack Guide GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure Guide GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Third Party Orchestration |
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Use of Virtual machines as targets for VMware ESXi When creating maps for VMware ESXi in GigaVUE-FM, you can now select virtual machines as targets. You can view and filter the list of virtual machines available. You can also select the Network Adapters associated with each Virtual Machine. |
GigaVUE V Series GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide |
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Cloud Overview Page The overview page is a central location to view and monitor all the monitoring sessions in a single place. You can use this overview page to spot issues which will help in troubleshooting, or perform basic actions like view, edit, clone, and delete. This page provides a quick overview of basic statistics, V Series Alarms, Connection Status and Volume Usage vs Allowance and a table to summarize the active monitoring sessions details. |
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Support for Tapping Traffic from VLAN-Backed NSX Segments You can now monitor traffic from the virtual machines deployed in the VLAN-Backed NSX Segments in VMware NSX-T. |
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Universal Container Tap (UCT): Traffic Policy Statistics
Rules are configured in the UCT to either forward the traffic to a Tunnel or drop the flow of the traffic. In the Policies page, along with the UCT policy and its rules, you can also view the aggregated statistics of all the source selectors which are part of the policy. The activities of the rules are reflected by the statistics counters. The statistics counters show how the policy statistics is directly cor-related to the policy and its rules configured through the GigaVUE-FM. |
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IPv6 support for GCB
The egress tunnel supports IPv4 and IPv6 address in Gigamon Containerized Broker (GCB). |
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Support for Traffic Pre-filter in AWS If you want to filter the traffic, then you can create a traffic mirror filter on AWS and add rules to determine the traffic that is mirrored. This traffic mirror filter acts as a pre-filter and pass only the filtered traffic to the GigaVUE V Series Nodes. You can apply filters at two levels:
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Support for Gateway Load Balancer and Network Load balancer in Application Intelligence Solution Application Intelligence solution supports Gateway Load Balancer and Network Load balancer with VPC mirroring as the Traffic Acquisition Method. |
GigaVUE V Series
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Virtual Small Form Factor You can now monitor traffic in the branch office or the remote location using the GigaVUE-FM in the headquarters. Using a host hardware which has the VMware ESXi host deployed in it , you can deploy the GigaVUE V Series Nodes in it from the branch office and monitor it using the GigaVUE-FM in the Central location. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Third Party Orchestration GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Third Party Orchestration |
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Embedded |
User Configurable Tag Protocol Identifier (TPID) for VLAN Tagging With this feature you can now specify the Tag Protocol Identifier (TPID) for VLAN tagging while configuring the port depending on your requirements for the Inline/OOB tool. This includes the following TPID options
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Fabric Management Configure Flexible Inline Flows GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Support for Resilient Inline Arrangement and Inline SSL in GigaVUE‑HC1-Plus The purpose of this feature is to Support for Resilient Inline Arrangement and Inline SSL in GigaVUE‑HC1-Plus |
Fabric Management Resilient Inline Arrangement with GigaSMART Flex Inline Solution GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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GigaVUE FM Core |
Disk Space Monitoring With the disk space monitoring feature, notification banners are displayed in the GigaVUE-FM GUI when disk space usage level exceeds a specific threshold limit thus alerting users immediately about the critical disk usage levels. Disk usage levels in all three partitions (/config, /var, /) of GigaVUE-FM is now monitored.
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Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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AMI Tool Templates The following new AMI tool templates are introduced in Application Metadata Intelligence. These tool templates are applicable for both physical and virtual devices.:
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Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Support for IPv6 Clustering You can configure the cluster topologies and perform cluster- related operations using IPv6 stacking. With this enhancement You can now:
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Fabric Management Support for IPv6 Based Clustering GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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GigaSMART |
NetFlow License Check and Configuration Enablement in Application Intelligence On Gen3, NetFlow solution is provided by the Application Intelligence solution. This feature enables using the Application Intelligence solution for NetFlow configuration. The NetFlow app is supported from the App Intel solution by abstracting the device level implementation. The GigaVUE-FM GUI will display NetFlow as a new GSOP application when the NetFlow license is installed on the node. Here you can configure NetFlow with the pre-defined V5 template or V9 attributes. |
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HC1 Gen3 iSSL with HSM and HC3 Gen3 iSSL with HSM The purpose of this feature is to provide the capability for inline-SSL feature to work with HSM (Hardware Security Module) hardware. Some enterprises where security is paramount use nCipher HSM to keep the sensitive information such as private keys safe. For the deployments that involves HSM, changes need to be done for how the keys are used during session establishment for inline-ssl feature.
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Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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L3 Tools Support For HC1-Plus The L3 tools support is now available for GigaVUE-HC1-Plus. |
Fabric Management Configure Inline SSL Decryption Using GigaVUE‑FM GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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User-Defined Application Signature Support in Application Intelligence This feature improves customer experience by giving the ability to classify the applications that are not classified automatically by the DPI engine. The http, https, tcp, and, udp applications can be identified and named by using this feature. This feature is supported for both V series and H series. |
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Uboot Update Notification for Gen 3 GS Card in Standalone Mode This feature blocks you from executing CLI commands when uboot update is in progress. You will get the following notification during bootup or card configuration. % GS Card uboot upgrade is happening. Cannot execute CLI command now You cannot execute any CLI command until the uboot update is complete or until a timer of 15 minutes expires |
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iSSL Active /Standby Failover Improvement The following CLI commands is added to clear the session table entries: condition add PortRxPktLow param portId <port connected to active firewall> param thresh <minimum packet count> action add InlineSslFlushAll where InlineSslFlushAll action is used for clearing the session table entries. |
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Support for IPv6 iSSL Decryption IPV6 iSSL decryption functionality is now supported for Generation 3 devices. |
Fabric Management Configure Flexible Inline SSL Decryption Solution GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Hardware |
PRT-HC1-X12 Module A new line card PRT-HC1-X12 module provides a total 120Gb of connectivity with line rate on-board switching across twelve 10Gb/1Gb SFP/SFP+ ports. When two PRT-HC1-X12 modules are installed in the node, the GigaVUE-HC1-Plus provides twenty-four 10Gb/1Gb ports. |
Hardware GigaVUE-HC1-Plus Hardware Installation Guide |
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GigaVUE‑HC1 X-Port to Support 10/100M Speed The X ports of the GigaVUE-HC1 Base Chassis and PRT-HC1-Q04X08 module offer 10M/100M speed when 1 G copper optics are utilized. |
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GigaVUE‑HC1-PlusOptics Qualification GigaVUE‑HC1-Plus supports optics from this release, version 6.2.00. |
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GigaVUE‑TA25EOptics Qualification
GigaVUE‑TA25E supports optics from this release, version 6.2.00. |
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Dual Rate 100/40G AOC Optics
CBL-505/510/550 Dual rate 100/40G AOC optics is now supported. |
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Licenses |
GigaVUE-OS and GigaVUE-OS Module Licenses GigaVUE-OS and GigaVUE-OS Module licenses can now be activated from the GigaVUE-FM GUI. Activation of licenses from GUI is applicable only for the GigaVUE HC Series devices and devices must be running software version 6.2.00 Appropriate banner notifications are displayed when the licenses expire.
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The following new guides are released:
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GigaVUE 6.1.xx Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
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Traffic Health Monitoring GigaVUE-FM allows you to monitor the traffic health status of the entire monitoring session and also the individual GigaVUE V Series Nodes for which monitoring session is configured. Traffic health monitoring focuses on identifying any discrepancies (packet drop or overflow etc) in the traffic flow. When any such discrepancies are identified, GigaVUE-FM propagates the health status to corresponding monitoring session. |
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Header Stripping Application Header Stripping application efficiently examines the packets for specified headers like GTP, ISL, ERSPAN, MPLS, MPLS+VLAN, VLAN, VN-Tag, VXLAN, FM6000Ts, and generic and removes them before sending the packet to the appropriate security and analysis tools. Each packet is examined for the packet forwarding addition and it also ensured that the headers are removed from the packet before sending the packet to the tools. |
GigaVUE V Series Applications Guide |
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5G-Service Based Interface Application
5G-Service Based Interface (SBI) Application synthesizes the HTTP2 transactions with proper L2, L3, and L4 headers from the JSON encoded data that it receives from the UDP-GRE or VXLAN ingress TEPs (Tunnel End Point). Once the headers are synthesized and a complete HTTP2 transaction is formed, the packets are sent to the egress TEP and then sent to the physical or virtual probes. The feature is supported on the following platforms:
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OVS Mirroring - IPv6 support
GigaVUE-FM supports mirror configuration using IPv6 which creates IPv6 tunnel to V Series node. |
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OVS Mirroring - SmartNIC offload From this release, OVS Mirroring is supported in Hardware offload. |
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UCT: Bi-directional Rules In UCT, the source selector taps the traffic in both directions. |
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UCT: Source Selector In UCT, the source selector supports the following addtional filter rules:
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UCT: Inventory Discovery In UCT, while creating a monitoring domain, there are following options to upload the inventory information:
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Support for Gateway Load Balancers in AWS
You can now configure gateway load balancer endpoint as a target and the mirrored traffic can be forwarded from any subnet, AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), or account in a highly scalable and operationally efficient manner to a GigaVUE V Series Node. The gateway load balancer endpoints are deployed in your subnets which contain the workloads. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS–GigaVUE V Series 2 Configure a Gateway Load Balancer on GigaVUE Cloud Suite in AWS GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS–GigaVUE V Series 2 Guide |
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Support for Third Party Orchestration
You can now configure GigaVUE Fabric Components like G-vTAP Controllers, G-vTAP Agents, and V Series Nodes using an external orchestrator. The deployed components will be available under Third Party Orchestration monitoring domain. |
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Support to Configure AMI/AFI using Third Party Orchestration
You can use your own orchestration system to deploy GigaVUE V Series Nodes and then use GigaVUE‑FM to configure advanced features like Application Intelligence, Application Metadata Intelligence, and Application Filtering Intelligence |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Third Party Orchestration GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Third Party Orchestration |
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Support for V Series 2 on GCP using Third Party Orchestration
You can now configure GigaVUE Fabric Components like G-vTAP Controllers, G-vTAP Agents, and V Series Nodes using Google Cloud Platform. The deployed fabric components can be monitored from GigaVUE-FM for traffic acquisition. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Third Party Orchestration Configure GigaVUE Fabric Components in GCP GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Third Party Orchestration |
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Support for V Series 2 on Nutanix using Third Party Orchestration
You can now configure GigaVUE Fabric Components like G-vTAP Controllers, G-vTAP Agents, and V Series Nodes using Nutanix Prism Central and also monitor the traffic in Nutanix VPC. The deployed fabric components can be monitored from GigaVUE-FM for traffic acquisition. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Third Party Orchestration Configure GigaVUE Fabric Components in Nutanix GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Third Party Orchestration |
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Support for V Series 2 on Nutanix This feature is replacing the existing GigaVUE-VMwith V Series 2 node for better efficiency and accessibility on Nutanix environment. You can use Dedup and Load balancing applications in Monitoring Sessions |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix Guide |
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New Fabric Components Version for 6.1.00
Fabric Components like G-vTAP Controllers, G-vTAP Agents, GigaVUE V Series Nodes, and GigaVUE V Series Proxy's version are now streamlined and they are in line with the GigaVUE-FM version. GigaVUE-FM version - 6.1.00 G-vTAP Controller - 6.1.00 G-vTAP Agent - 6.1.00 GigaVUE V Series Node - 6.1.00 GigaVUE V Series Proxy - 6.1.00 |
GigaVUE‑FM Version Compatibility Matrix GigaVUE V Series Quick Start Guide |
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GigaVUE FM Core |
Manage Not-Reachable Nodes GigaVUE-FM can now manage the nodes that are not reachable by the cluster leader. The member nodes occasionally will not be reachable by the cluster leader if they have been deleted intentionally using CLI or if they are not-reachable due to power outage, crash or other similar reasons. GigaVUE-FM manages the not-reachable member nodes as part of the cluster and does not remove the nodes from the cluster, that is, GigaVUE-FM manages the not-reachable nodes in faulty/offline state. This allows easy management of the not-reachable nodes, especially in large deployment scenarios You can view the clusters with not-reachable nodes in the Physical Nodes page and in the Chassis page. |
Fabric Management Export Data to External Data Server GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Traffic Drop Identification GigaVUE-FM periodically collects statistical data of the physical and logical resources from the devices. It is possible to detect significant traffic drop of a component using this historical data. The Traffic Drop Identification feature is implemented to detect the traffic drop at the decapsulation side of the tunnel. With this feature, you can create Alert Policies that binds the conditions and the resources required to identify the traffic drop. For software version 6.1.00, this feature is applicable for tunnel traffic drop identification. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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End-to-End Tunnel Monitoring The Tunnel Monitoring page provides a unified view of both ends of the tunnels created across the devices managed by GigaVUE-FM. GigaVUE-FM uses a tunnel discovery mechanism to identify the tunnels created across the managed nodes and clusters. The identified tunnels are logically grouped based on a specific grouping criteria and listed in the Tunnel Monitoring page. You can view the tunnel logical group statistics and also the health status of the components participating in the tunnel. You can also identify the traffic drop at the tunnels using the Traffic Drop Identification feature. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Improved Data Retention with Data Rollup With Data Rollup feature, GigaVUE-FM allows you to collect, summarize and display historical data for a period of 120 days with hourly granularity. Data Rollup is applicable only for Ports for this release. Rollup is enabled by default. Note: On upgrading to software version 6.1.00, ensure to increase the disk space for data rollup. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE-FM Statistics and Data Roll-up GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Upload Images in GigaVUE-FM When upgrading GigaVUE-FM from the UI, you can upload only up to three images. If you try to upload a fourth image file, GigaVUE-FM removes the image file that was uploaded first based on timestamp and allows the fourth image file to upload successfully. |
Fabric Management Upgrade GigaVUE-FM from the UI GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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GigaSMART |
Export Application Metadata Intelligence output in JSON format to Kafka
You can now use the Application Metadata Exporter (AMX) application to export AMI output in JSON format to Kafka. The AMX application converts the output from Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) which is in CEF format into JSON format and sends it to Kafka. |
GigaVUE V Series Applications Guide |
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SCTP Protocol support for Application Filtering Intelligence GigaSMART Application Filtering Intelligence (AFI) feature matches network flows using rules configured on second-level map and forwards matching flow sessions to a chassis tool port and/or the next GigaSMART application in the chain. From 6.1 release, AFI supports sessions based on Layer4 protocol SCTP and all the protocols that run on top of SCTP. SCTP support for AFI is available on the following platforms:
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Add source device and interface details to Netflow You can collect details on the switch management interface details discovery through network discovery and export the same using NetFlow feature. You can collect IPv4 or IPv6 switch management interface address by including additional collects in their configuration. This feature is currently supported in Generation 2 Legacy netflow CDP or LLDP process. |
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GTP Rotational Sampling FM Stats You will have the ability to select the flow sampling type as "default" or "rotational", configure the timer, and the offset values during the creation and edition of Mobility solution. |
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ISSL Qualification for HC1-Plus The SSL decryption for inline and out-of-band tools is now supported on GigaVUE-HC1-Plus. |
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TLS decryption offload for Layer 3 tools This feature focuses on a new approach in GigaSMART to offload TLS decryption from Layer 3 inline-tools performing NAT / PAT (Network Address Translation / Port Address Translation) on the traffic passing through them. The GigaSMART engine would maintain two separate sessions towards the client and server-side to achieve this. |
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Grace Period Behavior Gigamon offers a uniform grace period of 45 days from the day the license expires. During the grace period:
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GigaVUE 6.0 Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
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New GigaVUE‑TA25E Device The GigaVUE‑TA25E is the latest member of the GigaVUE TA Series. It has a fixed module that supports ports of provides 48 25Gb/10Gb/1Gb ports ( x1...x48) and 8 100Gb/40Gb ports (c1..c8).
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New GigaVUE‑TA200E Device The GigaVUE‑TA200E is the latest member of the GigaVUE TA Series. It has a fixed module that supports 64 100Gb/40 Gb ports.
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Increase or Decrease Nodes in a Cluster for VMware NSX-T You can increase or decrease the number of V Series nodes in an existing monitoring domain when using Cluster-based deployments. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite Configure GigaVUE V Series Nodes for VMware NSX-T GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide |
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Volume-Based Licensing Modifications The following details are newly added to the Volume-based licensing scheme:
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Support for Sharing the Same Host across Different Monitoring Domains in VMware You can deploy multiple GigaVUE V Series Nodes from VMware NSX-T monitoring domain and one V Series node from VMware ESXi monitoring domain on the same host. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite Sharing the Same Host across Different Monitoring Domains Configure GigaVUE V Series Nodes for VMware NSX-T GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide |
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Universal Container Tap Universal Container Tap (UCT) is the new GigaVUE container tap that provides network traffic acquisition for containerized environments. Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, VMware Tanzu, Red Hat OpenShift, and native Kubernetes are the platforms supported for UCT. |
Universal Container Tap Universal Container Tap Guide |
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GigaVUE-VM to GigaVUE V Series Migration in VMware ESXi and NSX-V You can now migrate your GigaVUE-VM visibility solution to GigaVUE V Series visibility solution on VMware ESXi and NSX-V. Following are the two primary scenarios for GigaVUE V Series migration in GigaVUE-FM and in a GigaVUE-FM HA arrangement:
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GigaVUE V Series Migration GigaVUE V Series Migration Guide |
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GCB Packet Reordering You can now use the packet reordering feature in your GCB solution to improve tool effectiveness. GCB waits for the pending packets from the requests and reorders the received packets to complete the transactions. |
Gigamon Containerized Broker Gigamon Containerized Broker Guide |
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Export Application Metadata Intelligence output in JSON format You can now use the Observability Gateway (OGW) application to export AMI output in JSON format. The OGW application converts the output from Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) which is in CEF format into JSON format and sends it to cloud tools. |
Fabric Management Application Intelligence—Application Metadata Exporter GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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E-Tag Based Clustering Enhancements The below enhancements have been introduced in E-Tag based clustering such as:
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Export Data to External Data Server GigaVUE-FM allows you to export statistical data from GigaVUE-FM to an external data server for analysis and visualization. The following data is exported from GigaVUE-FM (including the tags associated with the ports and maps) to an external data server:
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Fabric Management Export Data to External Data Server GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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GigaStream Imbalance Notification With the GigaStream imbalance notification functionality, the port statistics of the member ports in a GigaStream are validated to determine if traffic distribution across the ports is within the allowed threshold limit based on a threshold value configured. If traffic distribution is not within the allowed variance limit, the GigaVUE HC series and TA series devices generate SNMP traps that are sent to GigaVUE-FM based on which GigaStream imbalance alarms are triggered. SNMP traps are generated in the devices based on the following conditions:
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Fabric Management GigaStream Imbalance Notification GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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Fabric Health Analytics - Map Traffic Statistics The Fabric Health Analytics feature in GigaVUE‑FM is enhanced with the new Map Traffic Statistics dashboard that displays statistics about traffic that has passed/dropped through the fabric to the destination(s).
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Topology Visualization The Topology page in GigaVUE-FM UI is enhanced as follows:
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IP Resolver (Supporting Multiple Dynamic NIC) The IP Resolver page now allows you configure DNS server for more than one interface. This page has the following tabs:
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Supported Applications on Gen3 HC3 In SMT-HC3- C08 cards, the following GigaSMART applications are supported:
Supported Applications on Gen3 HC1 In SMT-HC1- S cards, the following GigaSMART applications are supported:
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Vport Chaining within the same GigaSMART Group The transit-level maps support Application Filtering Intelligence (AFI) and Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) GigaSMART operations in SMT-HC0-Q02X08 of HC2P, SMT-HC3-C05 of HC3v2, HC1-X12G4 of HC1 with native, SMT-HC3-C08, and SMT-HC1-S cards. |
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GigaSMART GTP Rotational Sampling GTP Rotational Sampling samples GTP sessions by IMSI number, using a rotating or sliding IMSI range, that rotates automatically on a configurable interval, without disrupting the treatment of existing sessions. It rotates through the entire pool of subscribers over time, such that all subscribers can be sampled in over time
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New GigaVUE-HC1-PLUS The GigaVUE-HC1- PLUS is the latest member of the GigaVUE HC Series. It has a fixed module that supports ports of 4 x 100G/40 G, 8x25G, 10G, and 1G connectivity in a 1RU form factor. It supports Flex-inline in unprotected ports with 100G/40G/10G/25G/10G/ speed. PRT-HC1-Q04, SMT-HC1-S, BPS-HC1-D25A60 and BPS-HC1-D35C60 modules are supported in GigaVUE-HC1-PLUS chassis. Note: Only Legacy PRT-HC1-Q04X08 and SMT-HC1-S modules are supported on GigaVUE-HC1-PLUS. The following features will not be supported with this release on GigaVUE-HC1-PLUS:
Refer to GigaVUE-OS Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix to view supported optics. |
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New QSB 522 Transciever 100G/40G Dual Rate BiDi Transceiver Optic SKU QSB-522 is now supported. |
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GigaVUE 5.16.00 Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
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Proper handling of multiple AWS accounts in single deployment You can now monitor multiple AWS accounts or VPCs in a GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS monitoring domain. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS–GigaVUE V Series 2 Guide |
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Proper handling of multiple Azure subscriptions in single deployment You can now monitor multiple Azure subscriptions or tenants in a GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure monitoring domain. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure–GigaVUE V Series 2 Guide |
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OpenStack OVS Mirroring support for VLAN Trunk Port You can now use both access port and VLAN trunk port for the Open vSwitch (OVS) Mirroring on GigaVUE Cloud Suite for OpenStack. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for OpenStack GigaVUE Cloud Suite for OpenStack–GigaVUE V Series 2 Guide |
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GCB Transaction Logging You can now choose to create GCB transaction log files to determine the failed transactions. For each HTTPS POST message from Pcapper to GCB, the GCB creates a transaction record. The transaction record is logged to a transaction log file in the GCB pod or to the Kubernetes logging stdout stream. |
Gigamon Containerized Broker Gigamon Containerized Broker Guide |
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Cloud Health Monitoring GigaVUE-FM allows you to monitor the configuration health status of the entire monitoring session and also the individual fabric components for which monitoring session is configured. This feature provides detailed information about the configuration and deployment status of the deployed monitoring session. |
Fabric Management Cloud Health Monitoring - Configuration Health Monitoring GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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GigaVUE-FM HA on VMware NSX-T GigaVUE-FM HA can be deployed in VMware ESXi and managed in VMware NSX-T Manager to provide uninterrupted services to the customers. You must configure external IP address while forming the HA cluster. |
Fabric Management Configure GigaVUE‑FM High Availability in VMware NSX-T Manager GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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GigaVUE‑FM as image server for VMware NSX-T You can now upload your V Series Node image files into GigaVUE‑FM. Instead of using an external server to upload your image files you can now directly upload your OVA files into GigaVUE‑FM. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite Upload GigaVUE V Series Node Image into GigaVUE-FM GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide |
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Flexible Inline Arrangement is now supported in GigaVUE-TA25 Flexible Inline arrangement functionality is now supported in GigaVUE-TA25. Due to the absence of BPS module and GigaSMART card Physical Bypass and Inline SSL functionality will not be supported. The Inline Bypass Solution (Classic) is not supported in GigaVUE-TA25. |
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E-Tag Based Clustering Clustering can now be configured based on E-Tags on GigaVUE-HC Series and GigaVUE-TA Series. You can select E-Tag based stacking mode to enable this feature. |
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Configure PCAP from GigaVUE-FM You can now configure Packet Capture (PCAP) from GigaVUE-FM. The port type used for packet capture can be tool, network, hybrid, inline or inline network. Packet capture functionality is now extended for the following:
Packet Capture configuration is available from the Ports page. Refer to the GigaVUE-FM User's Guide for details. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Delta Reports GigaVUE-FM provides support for generating delta reports for Flow Filtering reports. Delta reports display statistical data for a specific time interval from the current time. Use delta reports to troubleshoot the flow filtering behavior across two different timestamps. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Enhancements to Alarms Page - Alarm Drill down Few of the alarms listed in the alarms page are now configured with hyperlinks to the source that triggered the alarm thus providing a quick view of the alarm resource and the reason for failure. The source-ID field of the following alarm types are configured as hyperlinks which when clicked opens the quick view of the resource or navigates to the respective resource pages:
The following new alarms are generated in GigaVUE‑FM when the device is unreachable or when the report is not generated:
The child alarm Health Indeterminable is triggered along with the parent alarms and will be listed as a correlated alarm. |
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Fabric Health Analytics The Fabric Health Analytics feature in GigaVUE‑FM is enhanced with new dashboards and reports.
Fabric Asset Inventory: Displays inventory details of the devices managed by GigaVUE-FM and consists of the following data tables:
Fabric Health Dashboard now consists of two separate dashboards that display both metric and gauge visualizations.
The new Fabric Asset Inventory Report is added to the existing Reports list. Click on each of the items in the Report to navigate to the Discover page and to download the data tables in CSV format. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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FIPS 140-2 Compliance in GigaVUE-FM GigaVUE-FM is now compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), a US government standard for security requirements of cryptographic modules. You can enable FIPS from the Preferences page in GigaVUE-FM. Once enabled, you cannot disable it. You can also create a FIPS enabled HA group. Refer to the GigaVUE Administration Guide for details |
Fabric Management FIPS 140-2 Compliance in GigaVUE-FM GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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Allow for disable of AMI CEF multi-collect This feature enables the multi-collect of attributes within a given Metadata Store cache which means that if a configured attributes is seen in multiple packets within the same flow, each of these information is collected. By default, when a new cache is created, multi-collect is enabled. When upgraded from an older release, the multi-collect option is enabled. |
Fabric Management Guide Create Metadata Intelligence by Editing Monitoring Session from Dashboard |
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Advance-hash in Application Metadata Intelligence This feature configures metadata cache advance-hash for encapsulated flows . This feature improves the efficiency of scheduling the distribution of encapsulated flows. It also improves the distribution of flows in service provider deployment cases. By default, when a new cache is created, advance hash is enabled. When upgraded from an older release, the advance hash is enabled. |
Fabric Management Guide Create Metadata Intelligence by Editing Monitoring Session from Dashboard |
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AMI TEID Export on HC3 Gen3 In SMT-HC3-C08 cards, GigaSMART Application Metadata Intelligence supports the following packet attributes:
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Supported Applications on Gen3 HC3 In SMT-HC3- C08 cards, the following GigaSMART applications are supported:
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Vport Chaining within the same GigaSMART Group The transit-level maps supports multiple GigaSMART operations in SMT-HC0-Q02X08 of HC2P, SMT-HC3-C05 of HC3v2, HC1-X12G4 of HC1 with native, SMT-HC3-C08, and SMT-HC1-S cards.
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GTP JSON GTP Correlation engine can export records for each subscriber session. It only requires the GTP-C data to be input into the engine, and exports data in a streaming JSON format. This includes data such as subscriber ID, device ID, cell ID, session setup timestamp, and more. This data is used by metadata-ingestion tools.
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Documentation |
GigaVUE-FM Hardware Appliance Guide for GFM-HW1-FM010 and GFM-HW1-FM001-HW This guide includes implementation information needed to get started with the GigaVUE-FM Hardware Appliance optimized module (GFM-HW1-FM001-HW) as a new, upgrading, or migrating customer.
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GigaVUE TA Series Hardware Installation Guide The GigaVUE TA Series Hardware Installation Guide is broken down and divided into the following guides:
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GigaVUE 5.15.00 Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
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Support for V Series Node deployment using VMware NSX-T Manager You can now deploy V Series Nodes through VMware NSX-T Manager. The deployed V Series Node can be monitored from GigaVUE-FM for traffic acquisition, processing and forwarding. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware Create Monitoring Domain for VMware NSX-T GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide |
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Supported GigaSMART operations on Microsoft Azure GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure support the following GigaSMART Application Intelligence operations.
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Embedded |
Supported GigaSMART features on the 400G Link Traffic Aggregator The GigaVUE-TA400 product consists of a 1RU, rack-mountable, 32 x 400G QSFP-DD/QSFP28/QSFP+ ports, dual hot-pluggable AC/DC power supplies, seven hot swappable fan modules, a serial console port, and a 10M/100M/1G management port. The following features are supported in 5.15 release such as :
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Flow Ops Report Page Display Enhancement The GigaSMART Report page now displays the report type, GigaSMART Group and the Pattern selected for generating the FlowOps report in the header pane with the time stamp of when the report was generated. |
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Flow Filtering Reports Usability Enhancement GigaSMART Flow Filtering reports can now be generated as a single page. The links provided at the top of the report allows you to instantly navigate to the various sections in the report, thus eliminating excessive scrolling. The export button allows you to export the report in excel format with data captured in separate sheets for the different sections of the report. |
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API: /elasticUtils API The /elasticUtils API URL is now public and is available in the GigaVUE-FM swagger. |
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GigaVUE-FM Hardware Appliance Guide for GFM-HW1-FM010
This guide includes implementation information needed to get started with the GigaVUE-FM Hardware Appliance as a new, upgrading, or migrating customer. |
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Command Line Summary This document summarizes the commands available in the command-line interface for the GigaVUE HC Series nodes. Commands are listed in alphabetical order with a summary of their syntax. |
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GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS The GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS Quick Start Guide is deprecated, and its contents are merged into the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS Guide which is restructured and divided into the following two guides:
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Customer Orchestration of Traffic Acquisition for Azure You can now configure GigaVUE Cloud Suite components like G-vTAP Controllers, G-vTAP Agents, and V Series Nodes through an external orchestrator like Azure Portal. The deployed fabric components can be monitored from GigaVUE-FM for traffic acquisition, processing and forwarding. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure Configure GigaVUE Fabric Components in Azure GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure Guide |
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GCB Log Level Settings With the GCB Log Level Setting, you can change the log level, modify the GCB log file size, and add miscellaneous log configuration messages for better logging and troubleshooting. |
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Geneve decapsulation for AWS You can now choose the Geneve application from the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS Monitoring Session canvas to acquire and strip Geneve headers. To route the traffic through the third-party network appliances seamlessly, the AWS gateway load balancer adds Geneve header to packets as they enter the VPC and strip these headers as the traffic leaves the VPC back into the servers. The third-party network appliances are expected to process traffic with these Geneve headers. When the GigaVUE-FM acquires the customer traffic, the packets are encapsulated in tunnels that are terminated in V Series nodes. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS Add Applications to Monitoring Session GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS Guide |
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Cloud AMI/AFI Enhancements You can now deploy multiple GigaVUE V Series nodes in a solution and use V Series Node API Proxy Server (VPS) to scale and manage multiple V Series nodes. |
Resources for Configuring Solutions on GigaVUE V Series Nodes GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Red Hat certification of GCB on OpenShift The GCB images are now "Red Hat Certified" for Red Hat OpenShift platform. |
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Supports AWS Outposts GigaVUE-FM now supports AWS Outposts. AWS Outposts is an on-premises extension of the AWS infrastructure, which allows you to make direct calls direct to AWS services (e.g., S3, EC2) from this solution. |
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Flexible Inline Arrangement is now supported in GigaVUE-TA200 Flexible Inline arrangement functionality is now supported in GigaVUE-TA200. Due to the absence of BPS module and GigaSMART card Physical Bypass and Inline SSL functionality will not be supported. The Inline Bypass Solution(Classic)incompatibility remains same in GigaVUE-TA200.
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Support Flexible Inline for Clustered GigaVUE HC Series Nodes The GigaVUE HC Series nodes that can be now clustered with Flexible Inline solution for the following Flexible Inline features: Resilient Inline Arrangement Network Link Aggregation Group (LAG) Asymmetrical Hashing |
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Single Tag vs Double Tag VLAN mode for GigaVUE-TA25 GigaVUE-TA25 can now configure the VLAN tag mode to be single tag or double tag at the chassis level. Single tagged mode will be the preferred mode of operation when the deployment environment needs the visibility of just untagged and single-tagged packets.
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Fabric Health Analytics enhancements: New system dashboards and corresponding visualizations have been added:
Ability to navigate from FHA Alarms and Events dashboards to GigaVUE-FM Alarms and Events pages (with filters applied). |
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Fabric Health Analytics for Cloud enhancements: New system dashboards and corresponding visualizations have been added:
Enhancement to existing dashboards with the addition of Aggregate Summary panel
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GigaVUE‑FM Virtual Inventory Statistics and Cloud Applications Dashboard Dashboards for Volume-based Licenses Usage GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Dynamic Increase in GigaVUE-FM HA Instances Until software version 5.13.00, GigaVUE-FM High Availability group was restricted to one active GigaVUE-FM instance and two standby GigaVUE-FM instances providing a scaled and resilient environment. As GigaVUE-FM is scaled up to manage many number of devices, higher computing and memory resources are required for the following reasons:
Therefore, the number of Elastic Search instances has to be increased in the HA group for scalable performance of the various features in GigaVUE-FM. GigaVUE-FM now allows you to add more than three GigaVUE-FM instances to the HA group. You can add any number of instances to the HA group as required. |
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Alarm Suppression GigaVUE- FM allows you to suppress alarms that are raised during maintenance operation of a specific resource, cluster or node. You can suppress an alarm or alarms for a specific period or indefinitely by:
You can also configure auto-suppression of alarms for certain GigaVUE-FM triggered operations on device such as Configuration Restore, Device Reboot, Image Upgrade on a cluster or node., and Cluster Creation Operations. |
GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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Support SNMP Traps for GigaVUE-FM Alerts GigaVUE-FM sends SNMP v2c/v3 Trap notification for the GigaVUE-FM events such as Image Upgrade Status, Backup operation Status, etc., to the configured SNMP trap receivers. |
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Optimized Elephant Flow processing for AFI Application Filtering Intelligence detects and handles the elephant flows in the traffic. The feature is supported on the following GigaSMART modules:
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Supported Applications on Gen3 HC3 GigaSMART The following GigaSMART applications are supported on the new SMT-HC3- C08 module:
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New Gen3 HC3 GigaSMART Module The SMT-HC3-C08 module is the 3rd generation GigaVUE-HC3 GigaSMART module. This module is compatible only with Control Card version 2 (CCv2) and has two GigaSMART engines which have increased performance over the SMT-HC3-C05 module |
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New 400G Link Traffic Aggregator The GigaVUE-TA400 product consists of a 1RU, rack-mountable, 32 x 400G QSFP-DD/QSFP28/QSFP+ ports, dual hot-pluggable AC/DC power supplies, seven hot swappable fan modules, a serial console port, and a 10M/100M/1G management port. The following features are not supported in 5.14 release such as :
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Inclusive Language Initiative Gigamon is adopting inclusive language standards and is in the process of updating all of our content to remove exclusionary language wherever it exists, whether that be in Gigamon products and documentation, public-facing marketing materials, or internal communications. As we make these changes, we will announce updates to our terminology in our release notes and product documentation. For more information, refer to Inclusive Language Initiative. |
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Inline Bypass Solution (Classic) The Inline Bypass Solution (Classic) feature documentation will now be available only in earlier documents. Refer to Inline Bypass Solutions in GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide v5.13 or earlier. |
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GigaVUE 5.13 Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
New Features in 6.0.98 |
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V Series 2 on Azure This feature is replacing the existing V Series 1 node with V Series 2 node environments with optional V Series Proxy for better efficiency and accessibility on Azure platforms. With the V Series 2 based solution, you can create ingress tunnels, use public IP address types, and use all the V Series 2 supported GigaSMART applications in Monitoring Sessions. |
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OVS Mirroring for V Series 2 on OpenStack Now you can only select OVS Mirroring as your Traffic Acquisition Method for both OVS Mirroring and OVS Mirroring + DPDK. GigaVUE-FM can now auto detect and select the OVS Mirroring type required. |
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Service Identification on GCB In the Service mesh and HTTPS/2 supported platform, the Pcapper sends HTTPS/2 requests to GCB. On receiving the HTTPS/2 request from Pcapper, GCB applies the rules configured in GigaVUE-FM and forwards the filtered traffic to Tools or V Series 2 Nodes through L2GRE or VXLAN tunnels. These IP addresses of the Pcapper HTTPS/2 packets are temporary and the services running in multiple Kubernetes clusters can have same IP address. To correlate these ephemeral and same IP addresses, the GigaVUE-FM maps these ephemeral IP addresses with the corresponding source and destination CSV mapping files received from the Service Mesh and HTTPS/2 Supported platform and converts them to the external IPv6 addresses. |
Gigamon Containerized Broker for Service Mesh and HTTPS/2 Support with Metadata:
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Dashboards for Cloud Statistics and Volume Based Licensing This enhancement introduces the following dashboards and the associated visualizations:
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Supported GigaSMART operations on AWS, OpenStack and VMware GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS and GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware support the following GigaSMART Application Intelligence operations in GigaVUE-FM version 5.13.00:
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Embedded | Enhanced Security
SHA1 support has been removed in 5.13.xx to improve security. Refer to Addendum in the Release Notes v5.13.xx for details. |
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Fabric Health Analytics BETA With Fabric Health Analytics, you can view the operational and health status of the various physical and virtual resources through the dashboards and visualizations. With this functionality you can:
The following new dashboards have been introduced:
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Topology Visualization Beta The Topology Visualization Beta page allows you to create tagged layout topology. For smaller deployments, GigaVUE-FM creates Smart Layout Topology.This feature is enhanced as follows:
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Bulk Tagging GigaVUE‑FM allows you to instantaneously,
Use the Import and Export Tags as Resources options in the Tags page to upload a CSV file containing the required fields. |
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Email Notifications The Email Notifications functionality is enhanced such that:
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GigaVUE-FM UI Reorg The GigaVUE‑FM GUI is enhanced as follows:
Note: Save Config option is removed from the top navigation bar and moved under the Chassis option
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Rule-level Tagging You can now associate tags to map rules. Each rule within a map can be associated with different tags Ids and tag values. This is applicable for both flow maps and fabric maps. The Map Statistics dashboard includes visualizations that allows you to view the statistics of the flow of traffic at the rule level. |
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GigaVUE‑FM Scale Enhancements Provides a reliable and stable environment for managing a large number of physical devices (up to 3000 devices) without any impact to the performance. The following changes are included as part of this release:
Note: Support for VIP in GigaVUE‑FM High Availability cluster is deprecated from software version 5.13.00. If there is VIP configured in GigaVUE‑FM < release 5.13.00, it will be continued after the upgrade. You will only be able to delete the existing VIP from software version 5.13. You cannot add or update the VIP.
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The GigaVUE-FM GUI is enhanced as follows:
These event-related updates will automatically get reflected in the respective pages. You can also use the Refresh button to view the Near-Real Time updates. |
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GigaSMART mobility session and flow filtering dashboards display flow filtering summary reports and statistics pertaining to the mobility solutions on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly interval. |
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Passive SSL Decryption with HSM Support on SMT-HC1-S (Early Access) The Generation 3 GigaSMART card (SMT-HC1-S), now supports Entrust nShield Hardware Security Module(HSM) integrated with Passive SSL decryption. Note: Early Access is a pre-GA feature status indicating it is not recommended for production networks. The functionality has been tested. Little to no system testing has been performed, however, and performance/scale data is not yet available. Preliminary documentation is available.
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MAC Address Rewrite A user can now control or modify the Destination MAC and source MAC address of incoming traffic packets and deliver it to the tools according to the flow mapping configurations. |
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Support Flexible Inline for Clustered GigaVUE HC Series Nodes The GigaVUE HC Series nodes can now be clustered with Flexible Inline solution for the configuration path. The traffic path is limited to a single node such that all inline network and tool ports should reside in the same node. The Flexible Inline features that can be configured are as follows:
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Flexibility to Configure the PTP VLAN Range The PTP VLAN ID range has been increased to 2-4000. Hover on the help icon to identify the available VLAN ID resouce. |
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Documentation |
The GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware Guide is now split into two separate guides:
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Inclusive Language Initiative Gigamon is adopting inclusive language standards and is in the process of updating all of our content to remove exclusionary language wherever it exists, whether that be in Gigamon products and documentation, public-facing marketing materials, or internal communications. As we make these changes, we will announce updates to our terminology in our release notes and product documentation. For more information, refer to Inclusive Language Initiative. |
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GigaVUE 5.12 Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
New in 5.12 Documentation
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GigaVUE Software v5.11.00 offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the following new capabilities.
New in 5.11 Documentation
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