NPM 2020.2.1 Release Notes
Release Date: August 25, 2020
These release notes describe the new features, improvements, and fixed issues in Network Performance Monitor 2020.2.1.
NPM 2020.2.1 is a service release. For more information, see documents for the full release:
- NPM 2020.2 System Requirements
- NPM 2020.2 Administrator Guide
- NPM 2020.2 Getting Started Guides - Part 1 - Get Started | Part 2 - Customize.
If you are looking for previous release notes for Network Performance Monitor, see Previous Version documentation.
LEARNING OPPORTUNITY: Tips and Tricks for upgrading to the latest version of NPM. Anyone upgrading to the newest version of NPM will benefit from this training.
These release notes provide the following details:
- New features and improvements in NPM
- Installation and upgrade
- Fixed issues
- End of life
- Deprecation notices
- Legal notices
New features and improvements in NPM
NPM 2020.2.1 offers the following improvements compared to previous releases of NPM:
- Interface availability data were migrated to use TimeSeries, thus improving the performance of the Orion Web Console.
NPM 2020.2.1 is an Orion Platform product, and runs on Orion Platform 2020.2.1. For details about new features in Orion Platform 2020.2.1, go to Orion Platform 2020.2.1 Release Notes.
Installation and upgrade
For information about installing Network Performance Monitor, see help for the SolarWinds Orion Installer.
Use the SolarWinds Orion Installer to upgrade your entire Orion deployment (all Orion Platform products and any scalability engines).
If you are upgrading from NPM 12.5 or later, you can upgrade your entire Orion deployment from the My Orion Deployment page (Settings > My Orion Deployment). Downloading the Orion Installer is no longer necessary.
For details, see Install or upgrade Orion Platform products.
Fixed issues
NPM 2020.2.1 fixes the following issues. See also Orion Platform 2020.2.1 Release Notes.
| Case Number | Description |
|---|---|
| 565523 | The issue when groups of NetPath objects created on an Additional Web server were not available in the Group Management on the main Orion Web Console was addressed. |
| 556990, 559706, 566493, 570675 | An issue where the Configuration wizard failed during the upgrade or migration was addressed. |
| 551667, 555214, 558927, 563290, 563912, 565153, 566929, 566970, 567299, 568091, 566171, 569830, 569883, 572102, 574042, 575121, 575776, 576333, 578673 | The Server error: 500 -error issue in Orion Web Console widgets was resolved. |
| 558263, 561684, 562093, 562486, 562517, 562910, 563148, 563973, 564046, 564560, 564822, 567716, 568528, 570096, 570456 | Database maintenance issues caused by duplicate key errors in interface tables were addressed. |
| 550902 | The issue where network wide charts were not loading was addressed. |
| 518221 | The issues with scheduling maintenance mode for Cisco ASA interfaces were addressed. |
| 496086 | The issue where remote access sessions were broken for nodes with duplicated sessions was addressed. |
| 496086, 498342 | The issue where ASA polling stopped after HA failover was addressed. |
| 457897 | The issue where the Universal Device Poller application could not handle too long OIDs was addressed. |
| 488168 | The issues where NPM was not displaying correct information for Motorola Wireless Access points was addressed. |
| 497813, 502062 | Issues with session index overflow on Cisco ASA devices that resulted in remote access sessions not added were resolved. |
| 501785 | Issues with importing pollers from THWACK were resolved. |
| 469843 | Logging for Cisco ASA platform status pollers was enhanced. |
| 470408 | Confusing error and warning messages on Edit Node pages were removed. |
| 456836 | Pools in F5 alerts have the same status icon as in the Orion Web Console. |
| 241511, 497627, 499256, 506867 | VPN connections on Cisco ASA support user names that are a number. |
| N/A | The All Alerts This Object Can Trigger widget supports child entities. |
| 117036, 429750 | The issue where MIB Browser did not respect node's polling engine was addressed. OID details for nodes polled by Additional Polling Engines display correctly in the MIB Browser. |
| N/A | A setting was implemented to limit the number of Meraki API calls per second and resolve issues when access points for Meraki networks are not polled. See Meraki network polling issues for more details. |
| 80832, 469145 | The issue where NetPath did not properly close the connection to the whois service and thus caused exhaustion of server TCP resources was addressed. |
| 513076 | The issue where simulating an alerting action for NetPath resulted in the Unable to select NetPath Object error was addressed. |
End of life
| Version | EOL Announcements | EOE Effective Dates | EOL Effective Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.2 | September 6, 2019: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on NPM version 12.2 should begin transitioning to the latest version of NPM. | December 6, 2019: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for NPM version 12.2 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. | December 6, 2020: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for NPM version 12.2. |
See the End of Life Policy for information about SolarWinds product lifecycle phases. For supported versions and EoL announcements for all SolarWinds products, see Currently supported software versions.
Deprecation notices
Deprecated platforms and features are still supported in the current release. However, they will be unsupported in a future release. Plan on upgrading deprecated platforms, and avoid using deprecated features. Customizations applied to a deprecated feature might not be migrated if a new feature replaces the deprecated one.
See Deprecation notices for Orion Platform 2020.2 to learn about currently deprecated features for the Platform, such as Orion Report Writer, or Network Atlas.
For information about supported versions of SolarWinds products, see Currently supported software versions.
Legal notices
© 2020 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
This document may not be reproduced by any means nor modified, decompiled, disassembled, published or distributed, in whole or in part, or translated to any electronic medium or other means without the prior written consent of SolarWinds. All right, title, and interest in and to the software, services, and documentation are and shall remain the exclusive property of SolarWinds, its affiliates, and/or its respective licensors.
SOLARWINDS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS, OR OTHER TERMS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, ON THE DOCUMENTATION, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION NONINFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN. IN NO EVENT SHALL SOLARWINDS, ITS SUPPLIERS, NOR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, WHETHER ARISING IN TORT, CONTRACT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF SOLARWINDS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
The SolarWinds, SolarWinds & Design, Orion, and THWACK trademarks are the exclusive property of SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC or its affiliates, are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. All other SolarWinds trademarks, service marks, and logos may be common law marks or are registered or pending registration. All other trademarks mentioned herein are used for identification purposes only and are trademarks of (and may be registered trademarks) of their respective companies.