Specifications

SPECTRUM Software Release Notice (SSRN)
For SPECTRUM 6.6 with Service Pack 5 CD release
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• Universe settings: Changes have been made to the default universe
settings to provide a cleaner modeling presentation. New Defaults: 1)
Create routers in this view only 2) Place LANs in this view only 3)
Create LANs.
• Loopback and Duplicate IP support: A change was made in SPECTRUM
to allow models to exist that have duplicate IP addresses. Some
networking technologies such as load balancers create identical IP
addresses across a range of devices. Also, users occasionally configure
the same loopback IP address across devices in order to simplify
connections for local management. SPECTRUM AutoDiscovery will now
be able to discover and model these unique environments.
• Live Pipes: The live pipes configuration intelligence was improved to
persist the port polling status even if the connection off that port is
removed and a new connection is modeled. Therefore, if the previous
connection to the port had a live pipe, future connections to that port
model will be live.
General Usability
• Modeling capabilities for Catalyst boards have been enhanced to allow
the modeling of multiple boards with the same serial number.
• AutoDiscovery will now perform a layer-three mapping of existing
device models as well as those that are being newly added by the
AutoDiscovery application.
• Users will now be able to open and delete multiple AutoDiscovery result
sets at once by using their mouse in conjunction with either the
“Control” or “Shift” keyboard buttons.
• Container-based AutoDiscovery can now populate containers of
customer-created model types derived from Network, LAN, and other
key container model types.
• All modeling information that is displayed during the AutoDiscovery
process will now be logged in the AutoDiscovery logs directory.
• Users will now have the ability to get an event after a router
reconfiguration event completes. This is helpful in initiating post-
reconfiguration scripts for model updating. In addition, if scripting is
used to reconfigure like models in a large environment, this provides
the user with visibility into which models failed to be reconfigured.