Today, the team is excited to introduce version 6.8 of IBM SevOne NPM. Designed for modern networks, SevOne NPM provides application-centric, network observability to help NetOps spot, address, and prevent network performance issues for both on-premises and cloud networks. 

SevOne NPM can help clients boost network performance and improve user application experience by proactively monitoring multivendor networks, and turn insights into action across enterprise, communication, and managed service provider environments.

In this release, we have evolved architecturally, replacing CentOS with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). This change increases and extends supportability while improving security.

Also in this release, we have expanded our physical deployment flexibility. Users can bring their own hardware for physical deployments as long as the minimum resource requirements are met based on the appliance model being deployed. The hardware must be compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8. This allows use cases such as refreshing physical or virtual hardware, migration from physical to virtual appliances, and deployment on Dell or non-Dell hardware.

Improvements have been made to Device Mover performance to facilitate faster physical to virtual moves, load balancing of peers, and other maintenance activities including file system migrations.

Note that some of our SD-WAN solution widgets and WIFI heatmap widget have been depreciated, all of which are replaced with other reports.  If in use, users should begin to use the standard widgets provided in SevOne Data Insight standard.

To benefit from these updates, contact your account manager, tech sales, or customer care team to upgrade to the latest release. For a comprehensive overview of all the features of v6.8, consult the release notes. 

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