WAN Assurance Plugin 3.6 Release Notes

Release 3.6.4

Release Date: Nov 5, 2022

WAN-1463 CPU and memory reporting causes a spike in CPU usage:

Resolution: Devised a more efficient collection scheme to minimize the CPU impact when collecting the CPU and memory data.

Release Date: Oct 18, 2022

WAN-1403 Optimize the amount of memory used by the plugin:

Resolution: The number of telegraf instances were consolidated to reduce the overall memory footprint of the plugin.
WAN-1391 High CPU usage during peer path stat collection:

Resolution: Optimized the peer path data collection on HA routers with large number of peer paths.
WAN-1307 The FPM and BFD stats for dynamic interface were not reported consistently:

Resolution: The FPM and BFD metric samples for the dynamic interfaces are combined before sending to the MIST cloud.

Release Date: Sep 29, 2022

The peer path stats now report the router hop count and the IP address for the peer path as seen by the neighbor.

WAN-1338 The show mist command shows stale connection status:

Resolution: The connection status is correctly updated after auth changes and reconnects.
WAN-1320 The wan assurance telegraf instances are restarted too frequently:

Resolution: The telegraf instances are no longer restarted on disconnect.
WAN-1322 Control CPU usage incorrectly includes the data core usage:

Resolution: The control plane CPU utilization excludes the data core usage sent to the MIST cloud.
I95-47776 The tank instance for cloud-intel-agent fails to start on certain systems:

Resolution: The tank instance for CIA handles the startup failures more gracefully.

Release Date: Sep 14, 2022

When IDP is enabled on the router, the security events are reported to the MIST cloud.