The Adapter for Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM EMS provides the following new features:

  • VMware Smart Assurance Adapter for Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM EMS is now supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.6. The base installer name is setup-ASAM-3_5_0_0-linux64.bin.

    Note:

    There is one installer for RHEL 6.9/6.10, RHEL 7.5, and RHEL 7.6 . The VMware Smart Assurance Adapter for Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM EMS Version 3.4.0.X Patch Readme provides more information.

  • Support for Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) EMS server version 17.9 is available on adapters 3.3.0.1 and higher. Supported versions of the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service SAM EMS server are 17.9 to 19.6.

  • Support for Alcatel-Lucent 7250 switches

    • Discover and monitor Alcatel-Lucent 7250 switch physical components.

    • Discover and monitor Alcatel-Lucent 7250 VPLS elements in unqualified mode.

    • Discover and monitor Alcatel-Lucent 7250 VPLS elements in qualified mode (including discovery of VLANs at the VPLS endpoint).

    • Discover and monitor Alcatel-Lucent 7250 switch VLAN elements in VLAN mode.

    • Associate VLANs on the 7250 switches with VPLS on other devices (7450s, 7750s, and so on).

    • Create Cables for 7250 switches when physical links are manually configured in the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM.

    • Create NetworkConnections for 7250 switches when 30-bit or 31-bit subnets are used on a 7250.

      Note:

      Although some 7250 switches support OSPF, the 5620 SAM EMS does not retrieve OSPF information from the 7250 devices. As a result, the Adapter cannot build Cables or NetworkConnections based on the OSPF neighbors. Additionally, 7250 switches do not support LLDP. As a result, NetworkConnections can only be built for 7250s when 30-bit or 31-bit subnets are used on a 7250.

  • Support for Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch, including the following:

    • Discover and monitor Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch physical components.

    • Discover and monitor Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch VLAN elements in TLS mode.

    • Discover and monitor Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch VLAN elements in BTV mode.

    • Associate VLANs on the OmniSwitches with VPLS on other devices (7450s, 7750s, and so on.)

    • Create Cables via interfaces between OmniSwitches when physical links are manually configured in the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM.

    • Create Cables between OmniSwitches when LLDP is configured in the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM that builds the physical links.

    • Create Cables between OmniSwitches and non-Omni devices when LLDP is supported and enabled in those non-Omni devices. Since 5620 SAM EMS Release 7.0/R1, LLDP is supported in 7450s, 7750s, and 7710s.

  • Support for Alcatel-Lucent 7210 SAS-E, including the following:

    • Discover and monitor Alcatel-Lucent 7210 switch physical components.

    • Create Cables for 7210 switches when physical links are manually configured in the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM.

    • Create NetworkConnections for 7210 switches when 30-bit or 31-bit subnets are used on a 7210

  • Support for 7210-SAS-Sx Satellite device discovery on 7750 SRs.
  • Support for CMG-a8 devices.
  • Support for VPRN IPsec interfaces.

  • The Adapter for Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM EMS interoperates with VMware Smart Assurance IP Manager Versions 9.4.2 through 10.1.0. When deploying new versions of both products, you now need to add the IP domain as a source to MPLS, NPM, and MCAST domains if they are included in your network. “Configuring the Adapter Deployment” provides more information.