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Cisco is continuously enhancing the product with every release and this section covers a brief description of key features and enhancements that were added. It also includes links to detailed documentation, where available.

New Features for Cisco Smart PHY and Cisco Operations Hub 22.2.1

There are no new software features for Cisco Smart PHY and Cisco Operations Hub 22.2.1.


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We highly recommend that you upgrade to Cisco Smart PHY 22.2.1.


New Features for Cisco Smart PHY and Cisco Operations Hub 22.2

Feature Description

Infrastructure Improvements

Support for Open Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Multiple LDAP Servers

Cisco Operations Hub supports LDAP compatible directory servers, including Open LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory (AD). As an administrator, you can enable LDAP authentication and provide access to other users. You can add multiple LDAP servers for LDAP authentication.

Cluster Health Monitoring

Cisco Operations Hub supports viewing and monitoring of the cluster health using the alert management feature. An alert is raised when there is an issue and you can take necessary action based on the severity of the alert. You can view the cluster health information using the Kubernetes Cluster Health dashboard.

Feature Description

Operational Enhancements

TAC Debug Package

You can create TAC debug package for a cluster. The collected information helps the TAC team to debug and troubleshoot the issue at the earliest.

IPv6 Dual Stack on support on external cluster interfaces

Support that is extended to configure IPv6 dual stack key configuration key parameters on an external cluster interface.

Flexibility to automatically redirect HTTP to HTTPS requests during login

A new Day-0 deployment option that enables Administrators to automatically redirect requests received over HTTP to HTTPS in Cisco Operations hub.

Feature Description

New Modern Smart PHY UI

Modernized and refreshed User Interface

Refer the following sections for more information on the refreshed UI:

URL Navigation Changes

URL paths were updated to match the page names used in the new UI.

For more information:

Dark Theme

Support for dark appearance theme.

Feature Description

RPD Provisioning Enhancements

Service Definition Enhancement

  • Introduction of Service Definition version to track the Service Definition changes. The versioning helps to identify the RPDs running specific versions of a Service Definition.

  • Forced Config Push features enables your to edit Service Definition and push service impacting change to RPD(s) through a Force Config push option. Smart PHY deletes and readds the RPDs automatically.

RF Power Adjust Profile Enhancement

You can disable one or more RF Power Adjust Profiles that are assigned in the Service Definition, while creating or editing an RPD Association and apply a new RF Power Adjust Profile.

Multi Core Atomic Provisioning

  • Atomic transactions when multiple cores are involved.

  • Automatic rollback on transaction failure.

Feature Description

Smart PHY Upgrade

Support for Cisco Smart PHY In-Place Software Upgrade

You can perform in-place upgrade on Cisco Smart PHY. Use it to update your existing your existing installation to the new version of Cisco Smart PHY, retaining your existing configuration.

Feature Description

cBR-8 Reconciliation

cBR-8 Configuration Reconciliation

You can now detect the configuration mismatches between the cBR-8 router and Smart PHY cluster. This helps in reconciling the configuration between both the entities so that the configuration set are in sync with each other and eliminates the need of reprovisioning of RPDs effectively and saves time.