NPM 2024.2 release notes
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These release notes contain a description of features and functionality that SolarWinds intends to deliver in the next generally available release. However, SolarWinds reserves the right to remove, or otherwise elect not to deliver, such features and functionality from the final generally available release, and this is not a commitment of delivery.
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Here's what's new in Network Performance Monitor 2024.2.
Network Performance Monitor runs on the SolarWinds Platform.
Learn more
- See the NPM 2024.2 system requirements.
- For information about working with NPM, see the NPM 2024.2 Administrator Guide.
New features and improvements in NPM
Network Performance Monitor 2024.2 includes the new features in version 2024.2 of the SolarWinds Platform. For more information, see the SolarWinds Platform 2024.2 Release Notes.
Support for Aruba wireless access points
Add Aruba Central wireless access points for monitoring and use the following insights to secure efficient wireless network management:
- Wireless network strength: keep track of the overall count of access points deployed in your network, monitor the number of connected users, or detect and manage unauthorized access points by evaluating the signal strength.
- Wireless network utilization: observe the CPU load on access points, memory usage, data transmitted from access points to connected devices, storage space availability, or client data transmission patterns.
- Wireless network traffic: Measure data received by device connected to the network and assess the traffic load on access points.
Support for Aruba Silver Peak SD-WAN
Add Aruba SD-WAN orchestrator nodes for monitoring and pair the Aruba orchestrator with edge nodes. Monitor the inventory, such as orchestrators, sites, or edge routers, SLA classes/profiles, interfaces, tunnels, applications/SLA paths. Observe the SD-WAN performance by monitoring SLA, such as jitter, latency, or packet loss.
Aruba SD-WAN monitoring uses API-based polling.
Other improvements
- Topology calculation process was updated to improve performance.
- You can poll VeloCloud traffic interface data using a private MIB
Fixes
For information about new features and fixes in the SolarWinds Platform, see the SolarWinds Platform 2024.2 Release Notes.
| Case number | Description |
|---|---|
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01490187, 01398440 |
The Collector service no longer reports errors related to SwitchStack UNIQUE KEY constraints, similar to:
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01516014, 01429174 |
The automatic refresh of an expired API key for Palo Alto devices has been handled. |
| 01526717, 01572246 |
Interface traffic for VeloCloud Networks is polled correctly. The common MIB2 ifHCxxoctets counters do not work consistently for VeloCloud Edge devices when the device is configured as an HA (high availability) pair and its current state is StandBy. To overcome this issue, SolarWinds implemented a custom VeloCloud interface traffic data SNMP poller for getting OutTotalBytes/InTotalBytes counters from a private VeloCloud MIB. |
| 01565234 |
When retrieving information about Meraki SD-WAN tunnels, all VPN statuses for an organization are retrieved, even when there are more than 300. |
| 01560284, 01574209, 01579279 |
A new MAC property for Device Studio Node Details pollers allows specification of the data source (OID) for MAC address collection. With this change, custom node detail pollers that were created in 2023.4 or earlier work correctly, and you can set the MAC data source for them. |
| N/A |
Empty DNS field in the
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| 01553385 |
In Centralized Settings, the new setting
Use this setting to temporarily stop requests if the NetPath_Networks table is filled during BGP polling and you see errors such as:
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N/A |
The Wireless Heat Map editor displays the owner information correctly. |
| 01507418 |
Wireless heat map generation no longer fails when some access points return invalid data. The heat map generates, but problematic access points are ignored. |
| 01532793 |
The performance of SD-WAN charts on the SD-WAN Orchestrator Details view has been improved. |
| 01502197 |
If a custom property has a NULL value for some nodes and an empty string for other nodes, polling with a Universal Device Poller (UnDP) and then sorting by the custom property no longer returns an error message. |
| 01509390, 01559294 |
When you edit a group, saving the Add & Remove SolarWinds Platform Objects page without making any changes no longer removes any existing objects. |
| 01478476 |
Detection of L3 Next Hop connections for VPN tunnels has been improved. Previously, having a full L3 Interface-to-Interface connection required that both nodes reported valid Next Hop addresses for each other. Now, only one node needs to report the connection. This default behavior can be changed with the advanced configuration option |
| 00465823, 01472478 |
A server without an IP address does not cause the List of Virtual Servers widget to display an exception. |
| 01492998 |
SolarWinds IP address and port pollers no longer return misleading results for Meraki appliance models that have a fallback cellular uplink. |
| 01443956 |
Queries associated with the Duplex Mismatch alert have been tuned to improve the performance of the SolarWinds Platform Web Console. |
| 01040126, 01155575 |
If one IP address has more than RemoteSystemName in LLDP data, inaccurate connections are no longer reported in the topology table. |
Installation or upgrade
For new SolarWinds Platform deployments, download the installation file from the NPM product page on https://www.solarwinds.com or from the Customer Portal. For more information, see Get the installer.
To activate NPM in an existing SolarWinds Platform deployment, use the License Manager.
For upgrades, go to Settings > My Deployment to initiate the upgrade. The SolarWinds Installer upgrades your entire deployment (all SolarWinds Platform products and any scalability engines).
For more information, see the SolarWinds Platform Product Installation and Upgrade Guide.
For supported upgrade paths to 2024.2, see Upgrade an existing deployment.
End of life
| Version | EoL announcement | EoE effective date | EoL effective date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022.3 | February 6, 2024: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on NPM version 2022.3 should begin transitioning to the latest version of NPM. | March 7, 2024: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for NPM version 2022.3 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. | March 7, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for NPM version 2022.3. |
See the End of Life Policy for information about SolarWinds product life cycle phases. To see EoL dates for earlier NPM versions, see NPM release history.
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