Analytics Director 20.12.00R000 Release Notes

About Analytics Director Release Notes

This document describes new features, known limitations, and other pertinent release information for the latest release of Analytics Director.

Note

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About Release 20.12.00R000

Analytics Director 20.12.00R000 is available for fresh installation. This release contains new features and resolved issues.

Analytics Director 20.12.00R000 is the current build; previous releases are no longer available for new installations.

ATTENTION

This release includes all bug fixes implemented in previous releases.

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Problems or Questions

For problems or questions, contact the Global Support Assistance Center:

Ribbon Support Portal: https://ribboncommunications.com/services/ribbon-support-portal

Voice: +1-833-RIBBON1 (1-833-742-2661)

About Analytics Director

Analytics Director is a support tool for automating the installation of Ribbon Analytics, and also for generating the Configuration Drives (iso files) required for upgrade and manual installation of Ribbon Analytics.

Analytics Director Life Cycle

Analytics Director uses the agile development and delivery methodology. Agile deployment and delivery are based on continuous development with test and regression occurring every month. This methodology does not allow for the backporting of fixes. Rather, fixes are provided in the next build based upon identification and validation availability.

The naming of each build uses <year.month> identification (for example, 19.12, 20.01). A build each month is not guaranteed. During each regression cycle, the quality of the build is assessed and a determination is made about whether to release the build.

Interoperability

Analytics Director 20.12.00R000 is compatible with the following releases of Ribbon Analytics:

Ribbon Analytics 20.12.00R000

Note

If you are upgrading to Ribbon Analytics 20.04 from an earlier version, you must use Analytics Director 20.10 or earlier to generate the Config Drives for performing the offline upgrade of Ribbon Analytics.

Hardware and Software Requirements

For information about Analytics Director requirements, refer to the individual installation procedures at Installing Analytics Director.

Installing Analytics Director

Analytics Director is hosted on a Ribbon server or can be installed on a server in your network. To install Analytics Director, perform the appropriate procedure below, ensuring you use the analytics_director.V20.12.00R000 qcow2 or ova file for KVM or VMware installations, respectively.

Analytics Director 20.12.00R000 is available for fresh installation only; it cannot be upgraded from previous versions.

Analytics Director 20.12.00R000 Checksum and ID Details

The Analytics Director 20.12.00R000 AMI image ID is ami-041037bfac0063b84 (us-east-1).

Contact Ribbon support to get AMI IDs for other regions.

The installation files have the following checksums:

Table : Checksums

Checksum	Deliverable
7575a3b26ad3e2b25b376cf22e6cd7af	analytics_director.V20.12.00R000.ova
8ad34c72bba47d9fd4f8d16ac8050dee	analytics_director.V20.12.00R000.qcow2

New Features

The following table lists and describes the new features in this release.

Table : New Features

Issue ID	Feature	Description
VIGIL-14987	Installation through UI and support for installation on VMware	Analytics Director now supports automated installation of Ribbon Analytics using the Analytics Director UI. Additionally, the Analytics Director UI supports installation of VMware in addition to KVM. For information on using the Analytics Director UI to install Ribbon Analytics, refer to Installing on KVM or VMware Using Analytics Director.

Resolved Issues

The following table describes the resolved customer issues for this release. Workaround information is provided where available to allow you to bypass or work around issues until the upgrade to 20.12.00R000 is complete.

The following Severity 2, 3, and 4 issues are resolved in this release:

Table : Resolved Issues

Issue ID

Severity

Problem Description

Resolution

VIGIL-19875

4

Uploading an existing Config Drive in 20.10 causes the configuration to reset to the defaults

Problem Description: In Analytics Director 20.10, when a Ribbon Analytics 20.04 configuration file was uploaded, all values were reset to the defaults.

Root Cause: The button for uploaded an existing configuration was present in the UI, but was not functional, so although it appeared that the UI form was populating from the existing file, it was actually populating with default values.

Fix Description: The UI is updated with the functionality to load the values from an existing configuration file.

Test Steps: In Analytics Director, upload an existing 20.04 configuration file and verify that the field contains the correct values.

Workaround: Manually create the configuration file in the UI instead of uploading the old configuration file.

Legend:

Severity	Description
1	Highest
2	High
3	Medium
4	Low

Known Issues

The following Severity 2, 3, and 4 issues exist in this release.

Table : Known Issues

Issue ID

Severity

Problem Description

Workaround

VIGIL-20237

2

Installed systems cannot be edited

When an existing installed system is modified, the UI indicates the changes have been saved successfully, but the changes are not saved.

Impact: Existing systems cannot be edited, and there is no UI indication that the changes were not saved.

Delete the existing system and re-create it using the updated settings.