Release Notes

Before you install or upgrade AmpCon-DC, read this topic to get a quick overview of what is added, changed, improved, or deprecated in each release.

AmpCon-DC 2.1.0

New Features

The following features are added to AmpCon-DC 2.1.0:

• Supports automatic discovery of topology

• Supports telemetry to display real-time data from modules (optical or electrical) and switches including port status, port packet stats, and classification information of port packets

• Supports event alarming

• Supports monitoring of Intelligent Lossless Network, Priority-based Flow Control (PFC), and Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)

• Supports importing PicOS-V switches to AmpCon-DC

Improvements

The following improvements are added to AmpCon-DC 2.1.0:

• The following improvements are added for automation with Ansible playbooks:

  • Supports pre-testing of Ansible playbooks

  • Supports importing third-party devices with a host name and a port number and SSH key validation

  • Supports connectivity test of devices

  • Adds descriptions to Ansible playbook functions in the AmpCon-DC UI

• Previously, Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) supports only deploying white-box switches. Now ZTP also supports deploying integrated hardware and software switches.