Announcing InMon Traffic Sentinel 8.9.18
July 2023: InMon Traffic Sentinel 8.9.18 is now available for download. This is a free upgrade for customers who have purchased annual maintenance.
Previous release: 8.9
New features include:
- Search for node in map
- New downloads for platforms Debian 13 and Redhat/Alma/Rocky 10
- New protocol decodes for RoCEv2 and IBLR
- Lookup query fields in sqlite database files
- Updated MAC, ASN and country lookups, and Apache Tomcat version.
- For additional bugfix, performance and stability improvements, see Release Notes on customer portal.
New downloads for platforms Debian 13 and Redhat 10
Traffic Sentinel is now available on Debian 13 and Redhat/Rocky/Alma 10. Why use a newer OS? Staying up to date is important for security but can also improve performance and visibility. The newer Linux kernels will accept hints about disk read-ahead to make queries run faster, and when dropped packets are monitored by hsflowd> the helpful field Traffic Sentinel refers to as "Discard Reason Linux" will be populated.
Search for Node in Map
When viewing a topology map, a new search box allows you to rapidly pinpoint and zoom to a node or set of nodes whose labels match what you have typed. This makes larger maps easier to navigate and interpret. The same feature applies to user-generated maps.
New protocol decodes for RoCEv2 and IBLR
Traffic Sentinel will now decode and instrument the RoCEv2 protocol (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) and IBLR (Infiniband Local Routing) used in high performance computing and AI datacenter workloads.
Lookup query fields in sqlite database files
An sqlite database file under /usr/local/inmsf/data/sql/ can be used to provide enrichment lookups in queries. The query function sqlgetfield(file,sqlkey,key,sqlvalue,subvalue) is documented in the Advanced Scripting tutorial.