Release notes, Paragon Active Assurance software version 3.3.0

Introduction

General notes

  • Please note that not all features of Paragon Active Assurance are available to every customer; rather, availability is dependent on what product or service has been purchased.

New and changed features

Collection of Junos RPM measurements

Paragon Active Assurance is now able to collect Junos RPM (TCP, UDP, ICMP, and HTTP) measurement results from Juniper routers and switches running Junos. As in the case of Junos TWAMP introduced earlier, the Test Agent connects to the Juniper device via NETCONF, evaluates errored second criteria, and reports all data back to Control Center.

Netflix Speedtest

Test Agents in this release can download Netflix test segments over HTTPS from one or several OCAs (Open Connect Appliances). The bandwidth is measured in the course of download or upload to OCA URLs provided by api.fast.com servers and compared to errored second thresholds.

The Netflix Speedtest plugin is available on both Test Agent Application and Test Agent Appliance.

Production-ready TimescaleDB

TimescaleDB, introduced as a tech preview in Paragon Active Assurance 3.1.0, is now offered as a production-ready feature. Please note that TimescaleDB is still by default disabled.

Configurable criterion for Unavailable Seconds (UAS)

A period of Unavailable Seconds (UAS) is triggered by a number of consecutive severely errored seconds (SES). Until now, that number has been fixed at 10. In this release, the SES count threshold has been made configurable for the TWAMP task.

UDP loopback over IPv6

The UDP loopback task now supports IPv6 as well as IPv4.

Automated backup and restore

New ncc CLI commands have been implemented for taking a backup of a Paragon Active Assurance Control Center and for restoring such a system from backup. This simplifies backup and restore procedures.

Deprecated features

None

Known issues

Please refer to the version of these release notes found at https://www.juniper.net/documentation/product/en_US/paragon-active-assurance.

Resolved issues

Please refer to the version of these release notes found at https://www.juniper.net/documentation/product/en_US/paragon-active-assurance.