I am happy to announce General Availability (GA) of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) v7.3. Above all, I would like to draw your attention to the major architectural improvement that we have implemented in this version: NCM and Core/NPM databases have been merged. This improvement:
- Considerably simplifies installation, upgrade, and maintenance;
- Represents one further step towards full integration with other Orion modules;
- Is a prerequisite to the following enhancements:
- Account limitations applied to NCM jobs.
- Core node management page is used to add/remove devices from NCM.
- Node sync is gone. (No more issues with NPM and NCM databases containing contradicting data.)
- Subviews are fully supported.
In addition to the database merge, we have implemented the following improvements:
- A completely new version of the Configuration Management page
- EoL/EoS feature enhancements
- Improved matching reliability for EoL/EoS.
- EoL/EoS data includes more information.
- Admins can clear transfers for other users.
- Better support of Huawei devices.
- Jobs Summary table can be sorted according to any column.
- SWISv3 support
More details can be found in Network Configuration Manager v7.3 is Now GA!.