Cisco Tetration Release Notes
Release 3.5.1.37
This document describes bug fixes and any behavior changes for the Cisco Tetration software patch release 3.5.1.37.
This patch is associated with the Tetration software major release 3.5.1.17. Details of the major release, including feature and enhancement descriptions, can be found here - https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/workload_security/tetration-analytics/sw/release-notes/cta_rn_3_5_1_17.html.
Release Notes are sometimes updated with new information about restrictions and caveats. See the following website for the most recent version of this document:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/security/tetration/products-release-notes-list.html
The following table shows the online change history for this document.
Date |
Description |
Jan 24, 2022 |
Release 3.5.1.37 became available. |
Contents
This document includes the following sections:
■ Caveats
This section lists the new and changed features in this release and includes the following topics:
■ No new software features are in this patch release
Enhancements
■ No new software enhancements are in this patch release
Changes in Behavior
■ No new behavior changes are in this patch release
This section contains lists of open and resolved caveats, as well as known behaviors.
The following table lists the open caveats in this release. Click a bug ID to access Cisco’s Bug Search Tool to see additional information about that bug.
Description |
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Kubernetes daemonset agent uninstall requires jq utility |
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(Static Enforcement) Pausing enforcement policy update is not supported in the federation setup in the current release. |
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Kubernetes traffic from the host network to cluster ip services escapes Tetration policies. |
Resolved Caveats
The following table lists the resolved caveats in this release. Click a bug ID to access Cisco’s Bug Search Tool to see additional information about that bug.
Table 3 Resolved Caveats
Bug ID |
Description
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FabricPath is not displayed correctly in scenario with two ACI fabric connected to Tetration Cluster |
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NET Vulnerabilities wrongly queried, eventually causing the FP in Tetration for Server 2008 R2 |
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ASA/FTD Data Ingest Connector: ADM is not able to consume TCP flows from ASA connector |
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Inbound WFP filters can block subsequent ports in some policies in older Windows releases |
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agent installation script cannot install 3.5(1.x) agent packages on Windows host |
■ See the release notes for Cisco Tetration software major release 3.5.1.17 at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/workload_security/tetration-analytics/sw/release-notes/cta_rn_3_5_1_17.html.
Compatibility Information
The software agents in the 3.5.1.37 release support the following operating systems (virtual machines and bare-metal servers) for micro segmentation (deep visibility and enforcement):
■ Linux:
● Amazon Linux 2
● CentOS-6.x: 6.1 to 6.10
● CentOS-7.x: 7.0 to 7.9
● CentOS-8.x: 8.0 to 8.4
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux-6.x: 6.1 to 6.10
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux-7.x: 7.0 to 7.9
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux-8.x: 8.0 to 8.4
● Oracle Linux Server-6.x: 6.1 to 6.10
● Oracle Linux Server-7.x: 7.0 to 7.9
● Oracle Linux Server-8.x: 8.0 to 8.4
● SUSE Linux-11.x: 11.2 to 11.4
● SUSE Linux-12.x: 12.0 to 12.5
● SUSE Linux-15.x: 15.0 to 15.2
● Ubuntu-14.04
● Ubuntu-16.04
● Ubuntu-18.04
● Ubuntu-20.04
■ Linux on IBM Z:
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux-7.x: 7.3 to 7.9
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux-8.x: 8.2 to 8.4
● SUSE Linux-11.x: 11.4
● SUSE Linux-12.x: 12.4 to 12.5
● SUSE Linux-15.x: 15.0 to 15.2
■ Windows Server (64-bit):
● Windows Server 2008R2 Datacenter
● Windows Server 2008R2 Enterprise
● Windows Server 2008R2 Essentials
● Windows Server 2008R2 Standard
● Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
● Windows Server 2012 Enterprise
● Windows Server 2012 Essentials
● Windows Server 2012 Standard
● Windows Server 2012R2 Datacenter
● Windows Server 2012R2 Enterprise
● Windows Server 2012R2 Essentials
● Windows Server 2012R2 Standard
● Windows Server 2016 Standard
● Windows Server 2016 Essentials
● Windows Server 2016 Datacenter
● Windows Server 2019 Standard
● Windows Server 2019 Essentials
● Windows Server 2019 Datacenter
■ Windows VDI desktop Client:
● Microsoft Windows 8.1
● Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro
● Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise
● Microsoft Windows 10
● Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
● Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise
● Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB
■ IBM AIX operating system:
● AIX version 7.1
● AIX version 7.2
■ Container host OS version for policy enforcement:
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux Release 7.1 to 7.7
● CentOS Release 7.1 to 7.7
● Ubuntu-16.04
The 3.5.1.37 release supports the following operating systems for deep visibility use cases only:
● Windows VDI desktop Client:
● Microsoft Windows 7
● Microsoft Windows 7 Pro
● Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise
The 3.5.1.37 release supports the following operating systems for the universal visibility agent:
● Windows Server (32-bit and 64-bit where deep visibility agent is not available)
● AIX 6.1 (PPC)
The 3.5.1.37 release no longer support the following operating systems for any software agent:
· Red Hat Enterprise Linux Release 5.x
· CentOS Release 5.x
· AIX 5.3 (PPC)
· Solaris 11 on x86 (64-bit)
· Microsoft Windows 8
The 3.5.1.37 release supports the following Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches in NX-OS and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode:
Table 4 Supported Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in NX-OS and ACI Mode
Product line |
Platform |
Minimum Software release |
Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switches (NX-OS mode) |
Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX, 93108TC-EX, and 93180LC-EX |
Cisco NX-OS Release 9.2.1 and later |
Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX, 93108TC-FX, and 9348GC-FXP |
Cisco NX-OS Release 9.2.1 and later |
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Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 |
Cisco NX-OS Release 9.2.1 and later |
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Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switches (ACI mode) |
Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX, 93108TC-EX, and 93180LC-EX |
Cisco ACI Release 3.1(1i) and later |
Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX, 93108TC-FX |
Cisco ACI Release 3.1(1i) and later |
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Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP |
Cisco ACI Release 3.1(1i) and later |
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Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 |
Cisco ACI Release 3.2 and later |
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Cisco Nexus 9500 series switches with N9K-X9736C-FX linecards only |
Cisco ACI Release 3.1(1i) and later |
■ See the release notes for Cisco Tetration software major release 3.5.1.17 at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/workload_security/tetration-analytics/sw/release-notes/cta_rn_3_5_1_17.html.
Verified Scalability Limits
The following tables provide the scalability limits for Cisco Tetration (39-RU), Cisco Tetration-M (8-RU), and Cisco
Tetration-V:
Table 5 Scalability Limits for Cisco Tetration (39-RU)
Configurable Option |
Scale |
Number of workloads |
Up to 25,000 (VM or bare-metal) |
Flow features per second |
Up to 2 Million |
Number of hardware agent enabled Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches |
Up to 100 |
Note: Supported scale will always be based on whichever parameter reaches the limit first
Table 6 Scalability Limits for Cisco Tetration-M (8-RU)
Configurable Option |
Scale |
Number of workloads |
Up to 5,000 (VM or bare-metal) |
Flow features per second |
Up to 500,000 |
Number of hardware agent enabled Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches |
Up to 100 |
Note: Supported scale will always be based on whichever parameter reaches the limit first
Table 7 Scalability Limits for Cisco Tetration Virtual (VMware ESXi)
Configurable Option |
Scale |
Number of workloads |
Up to 1,000 (VM or bare-metal) |
Flow features per second |
Up to 70,000 |
Number of hardware agent enabled Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches |
Not supported |
Note: Supported scale will always be based on whichever parameter reaches the limit first.
The Cisco Tetration Analytics documentation can be accessed from the following websites:
Tetration Analytics Platform Datasheet: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/data-center-analytics/tetration-analytics/datasheet-c78-737256.html
General Documentation: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/security/tetration/tsd-products-support-series-home.html
The documentation includes installation information and release notes.
Table 8 Installation Documentation
Document |
Description |
Cisco Tetration Cluster Hardware |
Describes the physical configuration, site preparation, and cabling of a single- and dual-rack installation for Cisco Tetration (39-RU) platform and Cisco Tetration-M (8-RU). |
Cisco Tetration Virtual Appliance Deployment Guide |
Describes the deployment of Tetration virtual appliance. |
Document Link:
NOTE: As a best practice, it’s always recommended to patch your cluster to latest available patch version before performing a major version upgrade. |
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Latest Threat Data Sources |
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