Changelog

Features

• Alarm handling - alarms can now be acknowledged, assigned to a person and suppressed, so a team can split the work instead of everyone watching the same list
  • Acknowledge one alarm or a whole selection. Acknowledging assigns it to you if nobody owns it yet, and stops the repeat reminders while the alarm stays open. The first notification always goes out.
  • Assign, reassign or unassign an alarm, with an "Assign to me" shortcut and an "Assigned to me" chip in the toolbar for the alarms you own
  • Suppress only the current occurrence, or the alarm and every re-occurrence of the same condition on the same device and port until a date you choose. Useful when a visit is already scheduled and you do not want the noise until then.
  • Unsuppressing puts the alarm back in the state it had before. A Suppressions view lists everything still silenced, so nothing stays muted by accident.
  • Filter by assignee, by acknowledged or unacknowledged, and by handling state. Bulk actions apply to every eligible alarm and tell you what was skipped, so one closed alarm does not block the rest.
  • How an alarm is handled is kept separate from its lifecycle, so acknowledging one never hides the fact that the fault is still live

• Per-port alarm history - the device Alarms view now has an Entity filter. Pick a single port and you get its full down and up history over a date range, with the time each alarm opened and closed.

• IP addresses on port interfaces - the port tables now have an IP address column. Addresses are collected on routed physical ports, bridge interfaces and LAGs, not only on VLAN interfaces, so L3 switches and routers show what is really configured on their interfaces.

• Custom speed on ports and VLAN interfaces - where a device reports the wrong interface speed, none at all, or you need to add a custom shaper, you can now set the real one yourself, and NetSense uses it everywhere it matters
  • The configured speed is shown as the port, VLAN or interface speed
  • Port utilization and the total utilization of the device are calculated from it, so one device can mix custom speeds and reported ones
  • Utilization threshold alarms and the utilization color on the topology map follow the same value

Enhancements

• ONU reboot status is now verified and reported - until now a reboot only confirmed that the OLT accepted the command. NetSense now confirms the ONU actually restarted, from its uptime where the platform exposes it and from syslog events otherwise
• The OLT page loads faster. The OLT table no longer pulls every ONU of every OLT to render, and it skips data for columns that are not on screen.
• Assigning an ONU on the GPS map is now ordered for you. Splitters are grouped by hierarchy level, quaternary through primary, then sorted by distance from the ONU within each level, nearest first. Full splitters stay visible but disabled, and the closest usable one is badged so the grouping cannot hide a nearer option. The splitter panel orders its assignable ONUs the same way.
• Splitters on the ONU GPS map may now share a name. A duplicate label no longer blocks creation, since splitters are already told apart by their PON port, type and ID.
• The "agent down" banner now appears on every page instead of only the dashboard, so a dead agent is visible wherever you are working
• Cisco Small Business switches (SG300, SG350, SF300) now report CPU load, and temperature on the models that carry a sensor

Integrations

• OLTs
  • FibRSol FS-8XG-L3
  • FibRSol FS-4GE-L3
  • FibRSol FS-8G-2X-GPON
• Switches
  • Optilink OP-MEN 95612

Bugfixes

• Fixed: BDCOM and Optilink switches on newer firmware listed only a fraction of their ports. Access ports reported under a different interface type were dropped, taking their port descriptions and optical readings with them.
• Fixed: port data was not stored for devices reporting a port description longer than the database allowed, which stopped the whole batch of port reports for that device

Features

• Redesigned ONU view - the ONU page now opens on a PON Topology strip that traces the full path from OLT and PON port, through every splitter tier, down to the ONU, with the optical distance of each hop
  • Advanced view is used automatically wherever splitter topology is mapped; a simple view is shown when the passive plant is not recorded
  • Peer health compares the ONU against its neighbours at each hop - status and Rx power spread for the PON port and for every splitter in the chain
  • Optical thresholds show each current reading (Rx, Tx, attenuation, temperature, voltage, bias current) against its acceptable range
  • Historical graphs moved to a separate tab to keep the overview readable

• Common dashboard across all device types, now the default view - a single All Devices tab that summarises OLTs, switches, BNGs and servers together instead of one overview per device type
  • Network availability, what needs attention right now, device counts by type, and infrastructure totals - ports up, ONUs online, live agents and open alarms
  • Offline devices broken down by how long they have been down, alongside syslog volume for the last 24 hours
  • Ports and health by device type - port status, temperature, CPU and port utilization for each type side by side
  • Open alarms by severity with a 24-hour timeline, the top alarm types and the newest alarms
  • Metrics overview, ONU health (status, Rx power, down events, temperature) and an inventory breakdown by manufacturer

• BNG session traffic - active subscriber sessions now carry their own traffic, both as history and as a live view
  • Per-session bandwidth in bits/s and packets per second, derived from the BNG's own counters
  • Live traffic streams the selected session at a polling interval you choose, from 5 to 30 seconds
  • History follows the subscriber rather than the session ID, so a graph survives reconnects and session changes; the MAC address is used where the BNG reports no username
  • Collected on Huawei, MikroTik (PPPoE and hotspot queues) and Nokia 7750 BNGs

• ONU search now matches partial serial numbers, MAC addresses and descriptions - searching a vendor prefix such as ALCL, or just the last few characters of a MAC, returns every matching ONU instead of requiring the full value

Enhancements

• Huawei NE40E-X8A supported as a BNG - optical ports now report voltage and bias current alongside Rx, Tx and temperature, copper and optical ports are told apart, and BNG polling templates are kept separate from switch templates
• Nokia SR OS polling gaps closed on the 7750 SR and 7250 IXR after a live audit
  • IPoE subscriber usernames are now collected - previously only PPPoE sessions reported a username, leaving IPoE deployments blank
  • 100G QSFP28 ports are no longer optically blind: per-lane Rx, Tx and bias current are read from the connector port, along with temperature and voltage
  • Firmware and hardware versions are now populated from the system description, which SR OS reports instead of the standard entity table
  • The 7750 BNG now collects optical readings, memory load and chassis temperature

Integrations

• Switches
  • D-Link DGS-1510

Features

• BNG Sessions - NetSense polls information about the active subscriber base on the BNGs and visualize subscriber details along with sessions overview
  • Active subscriber sessions - time series chart
  • Sessions count per VLAN - a snapshot of the data from each polling
  • Active sessions deviation - tracking the current count vs the last count and shows if subscriber count is up or down per VLAN
  • Subscriber details table - shows username, connection type, VLAN, IP address, MAC, duration

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Missing “OLT Splitter Edit” permission for custom roles on UI
• Fixed: Search by ONU description (within OLT) works only for custom description

Integrations

• OLTs
  • HSGQ-XE08R OLT

Features

• Sound and highlight on new alarms in the Alarms panel - all newly fired alarms now produce a sound and are highlighted in the Alarms panel. The sound can be turned off.

• OLT Insights tab - flapping ONUs
  New insights tab will provide useful and actionable information about the OLTs and switches. First available insight is flapping ONUs.
  There are 2 metrics: Flapping ONUs count in the last 3 min. and flapping count in the last 24 hours

Enhancements

• ONU GPS Map Enhancement - UX improvements and function to add OLT location from the OLT table or OLT details page
  • Fixed the pasted GPS coordinates visibility
  • Fixed the pasted GPS coordinate auto-split
  • Fixed visibility and search of ONUs when no other elements are present on the map
  • New, improved algorithm for smart ONU-to-Splitter mapping (shows the nearest splitter to the ONUs and nearest ONUs to the splitter based on GPS data and splitter type)
  • OLT GPS location mapping from the OLT list table or OLT details page

• Traffic rate formatting: 3 significant digits everywhere (shared formatter)
  Rule: always exactly 3 significant digits, unit chosen so the value falls in 1-999
  • value < 10 -> 2 decimals 3.62 Gbps
  • value < 100 -> 1 decimal 47.3 Mbps
  • value >= 100 -> 0 decimals 475 Mbps
• New Link styles in the Topology MAPs - You can now control and configure the link style (color, width and type)
  • Colors - no change there - full palette of colors
  • Width - Dynamic (default, depending on the link capacity), small, medium or large
  • Type - solid line, dashed line or dotted line
  • As usual, the configuration of the links is available from the “Legend” menu (left bottom) and it is applied per MAP

• Table columns customization: bulk select all / clear - now each table in NetSense has buttons to select all fields or to reset to default selection

• Reboot ONUs functionality now available in ONU tables on ONU selection

• Custom dashboard default refresh rate changed to 5 min. (previous - 1 mi.)

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Optilink OP-944 OLTs won’t update PON ports on polling randomly
• Fixed: Clicking the "x" button to clear current selection of devices/alarms, does not clear entries after a filter is applied

Integrations

• Switches
  • Optilink OP-MEN 95612F
• OLTs
  • Alphion AOLT7108

Integrations

• OLTs
  • HiOSO HA7304 EPON OLT
  • PPC PPC8G420 - fixed PON port enumeration when port description is availabe
• Switches
  • Fixed LAG speed aggregation on Edgecore ECS5520

Features

• ONU GPS MAP - When GPS coordinates for the ONUs are available, it will position them on a geo map.
  On the sam map you can add splitters, associate ONUs with them and this way to have an exact representation of the physical last-mile network.
  How this will help?
  It would increase the speed of network-related issues and blast radius estimation. With the visual representation you can tell with one look whether the issue is related to a single ONU, a splitter or entire PON port.
  Additional information about the ONUs is available as well, such as down reason, Rx power when out of normal range and many more. Filters on the right side bar panel could help customizing the view you need in seconds.
  

Enhancements

• Partial PON Port Down alarm - an enhanced version of the alarm definition takes into account the time since the ONUs are down. You can now filter down reasons and configure time interval (10 min. or 30 min.) since the ONUs should be down in order to trigger an alarm.
  This way you will make sure that the partial pon down alarm has been triggered on the ONUs that have recently gone down and will discard the ones that are down since yesterday or 2 weeks ago.

• UI enhancements across many elements such as pop-ups, buttons, menus, etc. The result is better looking NetSense and smoother performance (renders better in the browser)

Integrations

• Switches
  • Arista EOS
• OLTs
  • Optilink OP-GOLT 72408E OLT - Added new parameters (Uplink and ONUs optical performance, power supply status)
  • ZTE C320 - enhanced polling

Bugfixes

• Port names for Optilink OP-EOLT 97084P and OP-EOLT 97168P OLTs

Integrations

• ZTE OLT, models C300, C320 and C610

Features

• Visual indication when Syslog is missing or stopped working for a device - a special icon next to the syslog tab shows it status and details are provided via a tooltip

• Auto-heal orphaned links (in links menu and maps) if participating port is deleted by inactivity - if a port is deleted from NetSense and then added again it would have new ID - this would create a discrepancy in the links it is member of and on the respective Topology Maps. This case has been addressed now.

Enhancements

• Topology MAPs now show down links count

• Search and filter links by “Provider” and “External ID” - finding the link you need was never been easier

• New data columns available in device lists:
  • Port status breakdown
  • Traffic IN/OUT sparky chart
  • Utilization sparky chart
  • CPU, Memory, Temp info

• LAG members are presented hierarchically under their respective LAGs

• Optimized device → port charts: Added custom refresh interval, polished charts refresh

• Added a device details and port description for the charts source of links in the topology maps

• Voltage and Current Bias on switch optical ports are being collected and visualized

• MikroTik EoIP tunnel interfaces are now visualized
• Added a port “previous speed” parameter in alarm rules so alarms for interface speed can be created

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Device delete button doesn’t appear if hostname is leghty

Integrations

• OLTs
  • VSOL V1600GS and V1600GT models
  • Netlink EPON (V1600D)
  • PPC PPC8G420
  • C-DATA FD1608S
  • Optilink OP-EOLT 97084P and OP-EOLT 97168P
• Switches
  • Raisecom RAX721

Enhancements

• Updated UI and data in all “Ports” sections: OLT/Switch/BNG/Server
  • Spark area charts for traffic and utilization
  • Added information about errors and discards
  • Updated visualization for the IN/OUT last values

• Draggable in/out traffic metrics on network map links - A perfect match to the flexible link, draggable in/out traffic balloons gives the ability to optimize information visualization on the map; Especially useful in very congested maps with a lot of links

• Enhanced UI/UX on Port details view and port single parameter multi-view
  • Page refresh is disabled by default
  • Auto-refresh interval can be set from the presets drop-down menu in the upper right corner

• Updated Node consumption report - now it includes BNG and Server ports

Enhancements

• Enhanced OLT Polling - introducing polling queue for the OLTs to make the polling more efficient. There are high-priority, normal and low-priority queues which will ensure optimized polling, less stress cpu-heavy SNMP operations and enhanced device stability
• New server parameters - now NetSense provides even more useful information about Linux servers
  • OS description
  • CPU architecture
  • Disk IOPs
  • Last rebooted at

Integrations

• Optilink OP-GOLT 72408E OLT

Features

• New Alarm Relay - Slack
  With this integration and less than 5 min. setup you can configure alarms delivery on slack via Webhooks.

Enhancements

• Added missing parameters to Cisco ASR, Nexus and C4948 integrations
• OLT Poller optimization - added OID caching for some walk operations which don’t change often and don’t return counters - this will speed-up the polling of those devices and reduce the SNMP queries

Bugfixes

• Fixed: False-positive alarms for server CPU/Memory/Disk

Features

• Offline ONUs MAC address removal from OLT - ONUs deleted by NetSense housekeeping (inactive more than 14 days) trigger a delete of their MAC address entry from the OLT if NetSense management module is enabled
• Device polling statistics - a Poller tab in each device shows how the device performs in terms of polling duration and quality compared to the model average. There are charts for visual understanding and details in table format for deeper analysis

Enhacements

• Added Netbox-NetSense synchronization for Virtual Machines

Integrations

• Cisco ASR 1K
• Cisco Nexus 9K
• Cisco Catalyst 4948

Features

• Added ONT bandwidth and packet capture on Huawei OLT models

Enhancements

• Improved calculation of the total traffic utilization on devices - this will provide more accurate data
• Improved UI of the custom dashboard
  • Added interface description
  • optimized visualization on the 3 and 4 chart grid
• Changed OIDs for errors and discards capture on Mikrotik
• Added CPU names in Server - CPU view

Features

• Custom dashboard - now you can create custom dashboards with bandwidth charts in NetSense - a useful feature if you need a constant monitoring over a specific set of ports, vlans, links or aggregated traffic on an entire device. Charts can be organized into sections for convenience.

• ONU polling queue - each ONU polling requests now is being processed from a queue which optimize the load over the OLTs caused by frequent polling, especially triggered by ONU registration events

Enhancements

• Improved responsiveness on the alarms widget in the dashboard
• Removed shared tooltip between different ports

Bugfixes

• Fixed: ONU data discrepancy caused by case insensitive match
• Fixed: Last data point in charts sometimes shows zero
• Fixed: NetSense UI - not loaded proper .js files on update

Enhanements

• Updated BDCOM OLT integration to include
  • ONT optical parameters
  • Syslog parsing
• ONT list can now be sorted by downtime in the Mobile view

Features

• BNGs and Servers now has mobile view

Enhancements

• Offline ONUs and ONU Rx Power distribution are now visible on the main OLT list

• OLT Polling optimization (if during a polling the OLT response timeouts - polling will be terminated

Bugfixes

• Fixed: SFP Rx/Tx power on Juniper QFX5120-32C-AFO
• Fixed: Servers Memory and Disk name visualization

Integrations

• Improved BDCOM OLT Integration

Features

• Linux Server Monitoring: New type of devices - linux servers are now supported in NetSense.

In order to be able to monitor it, you should configure SNMP agent on the server.

The monitoring now includes:

• CPU - Average and separate core
• Memory - Physical and Virtual
• Temperature
• Disks - All mount points found on the server
• Network - all network interfaces
• Syslog - if configured

Alerts for all parameters are available.

• Node Consumption report - you can check in real time how many ONUs OLTs, Switches, BNGs and ports you have in Netsense.
  • Each ONU, PON port or switch port is considered node and a subject to billing
  • There is a direct link to a price calculator which would show a price prognosis based on the current node consumption

Integrations

• BDCOM OLT, models
  • P36XX, EPON
  • GP3600, GPON
• Antriksh (BDCOM Chip)
  • A1978-A08, GPON

Features

• OLT VLAN Interfaces are being visualized in NetSense and performance parameters such as status, assigned IP addresses, traffic, packets, etc. are collected and visualized

Enhancements

• VSOL OLT polling template has been fine-tuned for better performance
• Network MAP capacity visualization and coloring
  • New default color (black/purple stripes) for links which speed is undetermined and utilization cannot be calculated

Enhancements

• Improved SNMP queries batching in polling
• Added a visual indicator for links on the MAPs which does not report speed and utilization cannot be calculated.
  Such links are colored in purple/black and have a tooltip indicating that speed cannot be determined
  

Features

• New Dashboard and OLT overview widget for Offline ONUs breakdown by time and reason
  This view gives a holistic understanding about the reason why the ONUs are down and for how long

Enhancements

• Support for Netbox version 4.5

Features

• OLT ports “enable” and “disable” operations

• Bulk upload of devices in NetSense
  • Navigate to Inventory - devices
  • Click on “Upload devices” button
  • Download the template
  • Fill and upload
• Added Unicast, Multicast and Broadcast packets on switch ports

• Added OLT VLAN Interfaces

• Search by ONU Description on Mobile

Enhancements

• Device and Down Port events are visualized in the Network MAP link tooltip as annotations
• Optimized device availability widget - visualized the total availability and uptime for each time slot
• Optimized and more informational message for empty dashboard

Bugfixes

• Fixed: ONU reboot operation for Optilink 9702 fails sometimes

Features

• Chart annotations - they give immediate information for the identified gaps in the charts, saving further digging and troubleshooting:
  • Device down annotation: If a device was down for a certain period of time, the gap in the charts will have a red background and a detailed description in a tooltip
    

• Port DOWN annotation: if a port was down for a certain period of time, the gap in the charts will have a yellow background and appropriate description in tooltip
  

• Bulk ONU reboot from OLT device page/ onus tab - if you want to reboot multiple ONUs at once, you can select them in the UI and use the action “Reboot ONUs”. It doesn’t matter if they are connected to the same OLT.
  

• ONU packets are being visualized and stored in TS format - a good addition to the traffic capture and visualization
  

Enhancements

• BREAKING CHANGE: SNMP Counters for Huawei switches have been changed to use IF-MIB OIDs instead of Huawei’s own enterprise OIDs.
  If anybody has experience unusual spikes or dips in the traffic, please contact us to advice what configuration must be deployed on the switches with the issues.
• Errors and discards on the interfaces are visualized per second instead of deltas
• Power-related PSU has been renamed to PWR for clarity
• ONU details and Port details pages were redesigned - the new design match the OLT/Switch/BNG Overview page which is simplified and with bigger charts
• Left-click-drag-to-zoom in all charts on web view
• Entity information has been added to Alarm reports
• Charts bandwidth colors have been changed to Yellow and Dark Blue for better contrast
  

• Network MAP enhancements
  • Smoother zoom in/out
  • Headless view (Fullscreen)
  • Manual ordering of the MAPs in the sidebar menu - currently they are ordered by date of creation
  • Added 500 ms delay for the tooltip (traffic chart) pop-up when hovering over a link
  • New batch of custom node icons
    

• MAP versions diff
  

• Add nodes with right click; Add link to/from a node with right click
  

Integrations

• Cisco SG350-28 switch

Features

• ONT traffic statistics - NetSense is now able to capture traffic statistics on the PON interface of the ONTs (on the supported OLT models)

• Live traffic statistics are also implemented with 3 different interval options - 20, 40 and 60 seconds

Features

• Port availability widget in the detailed port view - a visual representation of the availability of a port, similar to OLT/Switch/BNG availability; There are charts for last 24 hours, last 7 days and last 30 days
  

• Limit the logging in NetSense by IP address or subnet - this enhances security posture and give you more control

Enhancements

• We have changed the ONU down reasons for more clarity;
  • Dying Gasp → Power Off
  • Optical Fault → Optical Loss

• Enhanced capture of the actual ONU down reason for the supported OLT models with SNMP; In case that ONU down reason has been missed from Syslog, NetSense uses SNMP to determine the real reason for the ONU offline status - giving more clarity to the users and enhances troubleshooting
• Added traffic utilization information in Switches - Ports table

• Added information about VLAN interfaces /IP sub interfaces in EdgeCore and UfiSpace switch models (OcNOS)

Integrations

• The following ZyXel switch models have been integrated:
  • ES3500-8PD
  • GS2210-8
  • MES3500-24F
  • MGS3520-28
  • MGS3750-28F
  • XGS4600-32F

Enhancements

• Improved authentication flow on login - NetSense now detects if SSO is enabled and suggest all available login options

Enhancements

• Redesigned view of the Switch, OLT and BNG Interface - the new look has bigger device health and performance charts, more intuitive widgets and optimized interface providing the user with a holistic understanding about overall device state
  

• Stacked ports visualization on Huawei S6720 Switch

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Parameters in alarm messages are rounded up to the second decimal

Features

• Dynamic Topology MAP
  Static/Manual MAPs have their charm as they are well structured, beautiful and visualize exactly what you want to see.
  But a dynamic topology map can give you a very detailed understanding about a network segment status without spending time upfront to draw it.
  A very useful feature, especially in large networks.

Main features:

• Dynamically connect devices by using the NetSense knowledge about the links (depends on the manual link creation between devices)
• All features from the manual/static maps are available (capacity utilization, device and link status, live traffic, sidebar controls, etc.)
• Highlight a link - by left-click on it - it will highlight the link and the connected devices
• Highlight a device and its links - left-click on any device with highlight it and all associated links
• Highlight the source device - the device that the topology has built from
• Re-arrange devices position - especially useful in large topologies where you want to see the big picture with more clarity (note that the device positions won’t persist on the map and after switching tabs - the topology will be re-generated)

Enhancements

• Manual/static MAP - the following improvements have been developed for the manual/static maps
  • Highlight a link or device and its links - the same new features we introduce in the dynamic topology maps are ported to the manual maps as well
  • Restore a deleted map - it is hard to accidentally delete a manual map, but if it happens, the option to restore a deleted map is available.
    All deleted maps will persist its last version if needed to be restored.
    

• OLT IP has been included in the common ONU table
  

Integrations

• Huawei NetEngine 8000 M1A router
• Huawei NE05-SQ router

Features

• NetSense now supports new device type - BNG (BRAS) - if a device has been added as BNG it will appear in its dedicated side menu - BNGs with separate polling and specific BNG integration to fetch user-related data as well as device performance data.
  Alarms for the BNG system parameters and port parameters are also available.

• ONT “Last down” timestamp added as a column in the ONT tables - the data and the visual down reason (different icons for each down reason) can give immediate understanding when and why an ONT is down

• Port actions on Mobile app
  • Fetch live traffic
  • Fetch Rx/Tx on optical ports

• Links and circuits are now synchronized from Netbox to NetSense (one-way) - they can be used in Manual/Static and Dynamic MAPs

Enhancements

• Improved ONT search interface - now you can search and filter ONTs by MAC address, serial number, OLT hostname or IP or ONT description

• Port actions button has been added to the port details screen

• Network MAP
  • Replaced text "O"/"I" labels with ArrowBigUp/ArrowBigDown icons
  • Zero-traffic threshold: only links with exactly 0 traffic show as "no traffic" - any traffic above 0 now falls into the next threshold range
  • Added [HH:MM:SS] timestamp to device status change and capacity change messages
  • Improved Network MAP visibility on the device hostnames and traffic balloons

Bugfixes

• Fixed: QoE calculation discrepancy
• Fixed: Model filter in inventory view
• Fixed: Ufispace switches stop reporting traffic after an enormous spike
• Fixed: Rules that used =! were applied to the first option only

Features

• Power Supply (PSU) status monitoring and alerting on supported OLT models
  PSU status for models with two or more units is visualized in the upper right corner of the OLT details - next to the Actions button

• Alarms for servers and other “Generic devices”
  Servers and other generic devices which are not switch/router or OLT are located in “Others” tab of NetSense. Currently, status, packet loss and latency can be configured as alert parameters for those devices.

Enhancements

• Network MAP feature was updated with the following features:
  • Flexible links
    Now you can draw links in whatever shape you need - not as a straight line only. This way the manual maps could become a lot more beautiful and easy to comprehend.
    

• Animated links/nodes status or parameters change
  When a node or changes its status (or link capacity), it will be blinking 3 times, attracting the user’s attention to the updated object
• Notification messages and sound alerts on object change
  All object status changes are logged and displayed in a stacked messages in the bottom right corner
  

• Additional options for notifications and sound alarms management in the side control panel
  

• New flow to permanently delete maps
  Additional step requires to type delete:<map_name> to confirm delete operation
  

• Added actions on link right click
  • Open Point A or Point Z port details (shows all port charts)
  • Live traffic on the Point A port
  • Live traffic in new tab on the Point A port
• Other visual enhancements
  • When a device is down - all links connected to it will color with the default color for down link - very easy to show the impact
  • ⬆️ and ⬇️ traffic indicators in the capacity balloons are changed to I and O (In/Out)
  • Improved tooltip on link hover - it is bigger and shows Point A/Z Device → Port → Description

• Added option to delete ONUs with “Unknown” status
  They will be auto-deleted in 7 days but now you have the option to delete them on the spot
• Redesigned NetSense sidebar menu
  The sidebar menu is with adjustable size and has icons in collapsed mode
  

Integrations

HotFix

• Fixed: Proper handling of Rx power reported as 0 mW in Huawei S6720
• Fixed: Properly fetch and visualize ONT-related params (Rx, Tx. Temp) on DBC GPOLT-3602-2TE-B OLT model

Enhancements

• CPU/Memory utilization and Temp on Huawei OLT models are now being fetched and visualized

Features

• Port Actions - a new actions menu give access to the following actions on the ports:

• Port Live traffic - network engineers often need to see live traffic on the interface in real time. Whether if they do traffic migration or investigate other issue, interface live traffic monitoring is critical for the success of the task.
  Port live traffic comes in two flavors: you can open it right away or you can open it in separate tab (when you need to monitor multiple interfaces simultaneously)

• Fetch Rx/Tx - optical parameters are a critical component for the interface health. When rectifying a network issue, field engineers or remote teams need information in real time. Often waiting for the optical parameters to update with the regular device polling cycle is too slow - this is why we have developed the feature to fetch the interface optical parameters in real time - for field or desk teams.

• Port view - a new, detailed visual representation of all port parameters
  • Detailed interface statistics

• Compare parameter between all interfaces

Enhancements

• Alert level values for SFP parameters are also captured and added as alarm parameters
• Compare values from the same field type in alarms:
  Example: you can now compare the current Rx power on an interface with one of its thresholds (Low/Hi Warn/Alert) and this way create alerts based on dynamic values, instead of using static thresholds
• Custom parameters in alarm definitions - you can define your own parameters as thresholds for alarm triggering by using the existing parameters and applying functions on them.
  Example: If we extend the example for Rx power to threshold comparison, we could define custom parameter for rxpower_threshold - 2 and have even lower dynamic threshold to compare with

• Added voltage and biasCurrent as a measured parameters for PON ports and ONTs

Bugfixes

• Genexis Mars OLT uptime and syslog discrepancy
• Minor fixes related to Network topology maps

Integrations

• Huawei CE5850-48T4S2Q-EI

Features

• Flapping Port Detection and Alerting: This feature monitors syslog messages to track Port Up/Down transitions over 1, 3, or 5-minute intervals. It offers flexible alarm configurations, allowing you to trigger alerts based on specific flap counts within your chosen timeframe (minimum 1 minute).

• Device Links: Manage your internal and external links directly within NetSense and replace manual spreadsheets. More importantly, all links created in NetSense are integrated into the Network Maps for seamless topology creation. This data-driven approach paves the way for upcoming automated mapping features based on your link information.

• Device SNMP Location: The sysLocation configured on a device is now retrieved and displayed in both the device details and the device list. Users can also filter the device list based on these sysLocation values.

• Alarms Keep-Alive - is a feature configurable in each alarm definition that prevents an alarm from closing, regardless of its real state. At the end of the configured keep-alive time, NetSense checks if the alert is still active; if it is, the timer expires. If the alert is no longer active, it is closed.

Enhancements

• Network Topology Map - it features several new updates and enhancements:
  • Labels: A new element used to add text notations to any object on the map.
  • Link Metrics: New balloons for link capacity, upload, and download provide detailed information on capacity and current utilization.
  • Sidebar Controls: Provides quick, one-click control over map visibility settings.
  • Node Search: Use Ctrl+F (or Cmd+F on macOS) to search for nodes by hostname or IP address; the map will automatically focus on the selected device.
  • Interactive Icons: Hovering over error or discard icons displays a chart showing current values and historical data.
  • Context Menu: Right-clicking a link allows you to open a dedicated link view for editing or detailed analysis.
  • View Persistence: Includes map zoom level persistence and a "fit-to-screen" option.
  • UI Improvements: Various small enhancements to the user interface.

Integrations

• Juniper EX series
• Cisco 9500 and 9600 series