SYSTEM RELEASE NOTICE

System Release Notice

TimePictra ®
Release 10.6

TimePictra Synchronization Management System

Introduction
Thank you for choosing Microsemi Corporation as your solution provider for carrier-class
synchronization network management. TimePictra is a Web-based synchronization element
management system featuring a scalable, modular, multi-tier architecture that will grow and
evolve with the network. This document provides the latest information about TimePictra
Software. It details features, enhancements and known issues. In addition to this release notice,
the User Guide is provided in PDF and HTML Help formats to help you with the setup,
configuration, and operation of the system. See the TimePictra CD, and "Software Installation" on
page 15.

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Supported Network Element Firmware

The following table lists the versions of firmware that are supported by the TimePictra v10.6
software for Microsemi Network Elements (NE):

Device
Category Supported Device Type

n SSU2000 (6.0, 6.2, 6.3, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2)

n TimeHub (5.0, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2)
SSU
n 55400 (R3851D, 4119D)
(SSU/BITS)
n DCD V50x0x (Only Fault and Inventory)
n TSG 3800 (Only Fault and Inventory)

NODECLOCK
n TimeProvider 1100/1000 (1.05, 1.06)
(Node Clock)

n TimeSource 3000/3500 (NA) (1.06.06, 1.06.07, 1.06.10, 1.07.02, 1.07.06)

n TimeSource 3100/3600 (Intl) (1.06.04, 1.06.09, 1.06.11, 1.07.05)
n TimeSource 3050/3550 (1.0, 2.0)
PRS n TimeCesium 4400 – faults only
n 5071

Note: TimeCesium 4400 and 5071 require a Terminal server supporting TCP or SSH
connections.

PTPSERVER
(PTP Core n TimeProvider 5000 (1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, 3.1)
Server)

EDGESERVER
(PTP Edge n TimeProvider 2700 (1.1.19)
Server)

n XLI – alarms only

n SyncServer 250/300/350 – Alarms, Basic Status and Configuration Logical View (read-
GOVT (Sync
only)
Servers)
n SyncServer 650 - SNMP Traps, Partial alarm sync using CLI, Logical View Display using
CLI, Satellite Tracking using CLI, and Ethernet settings (view only) using CLI

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Device
Category Supported Device Type

n TimeProvider 100 – alarms only

n SNMP Proxy devices - Fault and Discovery
n IGM (1.x, 2.x) (Auto SNMP v2c Discovery with default factory credentials and SNMP v2c
Traps)

n TimeProvider 500
PTPCLIENT
(PTP Edge n TimeProvider 1500 (2.0.9)
Device)
Note: SNMP PTP KPI enabled clients like CISCO ARR901 and ALU 7705.

THIRDPARTY
(Third party n Third-party clients
Clients)

POE n Power Over Ethernet (Midspan 2.0)

IGM n IGM (2.0.3, 2.0.4)

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New Features
n IGM Auto Discovery and Provisioning
n IGM Support – Fault (SNMP Traps and Get Active Alarms), Logical View, Configuration
Policy, Ruleset, Download UPLOAD RPC, Firmware Upgrade, PTP Client List
n Radius – Auto Add Radius user
n Radius Administration - Configurable Radius Port, Timeout and retries
n SSU2000 – Capture SSU2000 LCP/CLI Login and Logout events, present in reports
n Globally control TimePictra Global Password length and valid characters
n SSU2000 24 Hrs phase data collection and present the performance plot in TIE option
n User Preferences – Option to display All, Faulty Client or None”
n Support to TimeProvider 2700 Client KPI collection – Forward and Reverse KPIs for Width,
FPP1 and FPP2
n TimeProvider 5000 3.1 support
n SyncServer 650 support – Forced Alarm Sync, Logical View, Satellite Tracking and Ethernet
settings (view only)
n TimeSource 3050/3550 – Ethernet Auto Negotiations support
n High Availability resync scheduler support

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License Features
Basic Software
The following features are included in the basic version of TimePictra 10.6 software:

n Web based multi-tier software architecture allowing remote access anywhere, any time
n Server platform and database agnostic design
n Comprehensive FCAPS management functions
n Geographical topology and domain navigation
n PDF printing of, Alarm, Event, Inventory, Activity Log and Transaction Log
n Dynamic Google Map
n SMTP Configuration
n IGM Configuration Policy creation
n Default Ruleset modification for IGM Configuration Policy
n Functions include:
- Fault Management
- Alarm Viewer
- Event History Viewer
- Fault Analysis
- Configuration Management
- Network Element Management
- Device Inventory Information Retrieval
- Performance Management: Live, 15 day’s historical data and Standard mask
- Performance Management: Plotting of historical performance data of Un-Available or
Un-Managed Network Elements
- Security Management
- Transaction Log
- Configuration Alignment
- Firmware Upgrade for SSU2000 2P and TimeProvider 5000 (without customization)

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Software Options
Performance Pack Option
The following features are included with Performance Pack option license in TimePictra 10.6
software:

n Live/History data plotting

n Up to 1 year historical performance data
n Mask Library (standard defined mask lib is part of Basic license)
n Auto Performance polling on 24 hour interval
n Microsemi PTP Client KPI monitoring (PTP Client license required)
n PTP Client sync flow monitoring (third-party PTP or PTP Client license required)
n Plotting up to 10 plots (live and history)
n PTP Client Grouping (with PTP Client license)
n Threshold Crossing alarms
n Apply Mask Libraries (GROUP license required)
n Performance data to flat file that can be used with TMA
n UTC Accuracy polling for every 5 minutes
n Supported network elements:
- SSU 2000 (Performance)
- TimeProvider 1000/1100 (Performance)
- TimeHub, 55400 - (Performance)
- TimeProvider 5000 (UTC Accuracy)
- TimeProvider 2700 (UTC Accuracy)
- Legacy TimeSource (Performance)

Security Pack Option

n HTTPS secure client and server communication
n Login customization
n RADIUS User administration
n IP Whitelist support
n GPS Jamming detection

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n Oracle database support

n TimePictra user random password over E-Mail
n Password Expiry E-Mails notification
n TimePictra Account locked or expired E-Mail notification
n Auto reset password for locked and expired users
n Scheduled E-Mail notification (with reports option)
n LDAP User administration

Group Pack Option

n Full customization on user and resource groups
n User preference settings
n Navigating tree drag and drop
n Customization of firmware upgrade
n E-Mail notification of Scheduled Firmware Upgrade status (With Security option)

Report Pack Option

n Various file formats (XML, PDF, HTML, CSV)
n Print report function
n User Based scheduled reports which includes below reports (With Security option)
- 24 Hrs outstanding alarms
- NEs added/discovered in last 24 Hrs
- NEs unavailable for more than 24 Hrs
- Summary of alarm quantity
- UTC accuracy histogram
- Firmware Mismatch (With Group Option)
- Client usage report
- Faulty clients for each GMs
- Percentage of TDM outputs
- POE Device consumption usage report
- TeMIP server outage (With TEMIP option)
- 24 Hrs Linux Resource Utilization
- PTP Client Stats and status data

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- PTP Clients Non Compliance report

- UN-Acknowledged Alarms report
- TimeProvider 5000 service load alarms for last 24 hours
- Dynamic Performance Reports

SNMP Northbound Option

n Active alarms and events forwarding
n SNMP v2c or v3 traps

TeMIP Northbound Option

n Active alarms and events forwarding (ASCII format)
n Topology details once per day to TeMIP server (ASCII and MD5 checksum files)
n Heartbeat to OSS system (TeMIP Server)
n Multiple TeMIP server support
n Alarm buffering
n Alarm acknowledge, Alarm un-acknowledge and Alarm get propagation to TeMIP server
n E-Mail notification about TeMIP server outage (With Security option)
n TeMIP Alarm filtering
n TeMIP secure socket connection using SSL/TLS

High Availability Option

n Data replication between Oracle to Oracle, MySQL to MySQL
n Manual data synchronization between Primary and Secondary
n Dashboard widget displays the High Availability status
n Manual data synchronization and switching over Primary to Secondary or vice versa from
Dashboard widget
n Auto data synchronization of secondary database during server startup or switchover
n E-Mail notification to security user when HA is not-in-sync (With Security option)
n Secondary TimePictra web server status on HA Dashboard
n Read-only HA widget to non sec user (with GROUP option) controlled by User preference

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Resolved Issues and Enhancements

This section lists issues that have been resolved as well as enhancements that have been made
in Version 10.6:

n 11382 – Post installation steps provided in 10.6 User Guide is not valid
n 11434 – Information about Oracle Database link requirement is not captured in User Guide
n 11435 - TimePictra using wrong user interface to check the secondary TimePictra server
status
n 11471 - PDF and HTML reports displaying delimiter comma for ID field when printing Alarm
Viewer, Event History Log and Activity log
n 11472 - Improvement in Transaction log with different view criteria similar to Activity Log
n 11509 - Not able to set or view 5MHz as SSU2000 input
n 11521 – Vulnerability reported on TimePictra 10.5 used (CVE-2015-5351)
n 11522 – After clock switch TimeProvider 5000 VLANs are not show

Known Issues
The following sections list current known issues related to TimePictra v10.1, v10.2, v10.3, v10.4,
v10.5, and v10.6.

Cautions
n In the absence of “hostname” in /etc/hosts, TimePictra SNMP NBI fails to register the SNMP
objects with TimePictra server.

Workaround: Add correct “hostname” in “/etc/hosts” file.

n Some of the functions available in TimePictra utilities are not applicable if the database is
configured remotely.

Workaround:
- Use command line utilities to start database, stop database, and create database.
- Use boot-up scripts to start, stop and check TimePictra Web server status.

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n Fail to upload Topology Background images and Firmware Files (MySQL specific) – If the
database is MySQL, TimePictra will fail to upload topology background images which are
larger than 1MB in size.

Workaround: Edit the file “/etc/my.cnf” and add “max_allowed_packet=16M” parameter,

and then restart the MySQL services.

n The Alarm/Event Filter window does not display properly on Google Chrome browser.

Workaround: Use Firefox browser for alarm/event filter option.

n TimePictra failed to receive SNMP Southbound traps and PTP 1588 management message
in case if RHEL is using IPv6 stack. By default IPv6 stack will be enabled on RHEL 7.x.

Workaround: Disable IPv6 stack and enable IPv4 on RHEL 7.0.

n TimePictra HA license loading fails if "Configure SSL" option of installer is used.

Workaround: Do not check the "Configure SSL" option during installer's "Database
Connectivity Details" phase.

n Catalina.out reporting "BROKEN PIPE" exceptions which was causing after migrating
Tomcat

Workaround: No action required as this error does not cause any problem. After checking
the tomcat source code found that one of the library is using logger message enabled
which printing the messages to catalina.out

n TimePictra switchover might fail if TimePictra is configured with HTTPs

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Workaround: From Client browser before accessing primary server, access secondary
and accept the secondary server certificate. Accessing secondary server will redirect the
page to use primary server. Once this procedure is used the switchover issue will be
resolved.

n Unable to access TimePictra on Internet Explorer 11

Workaround: Instead of accessing http://<TimePictra-Server-ip>:8080/EMS

use complete path, i.e. http://<TimePictra-Server-
IP>:8080/EMS/user/loadSecurityLoginPage.htm.

Previous Issues with Workarounds

n TimePictra switchover fails if TimePictra is configured with HTTPs and secondary server
URL is not accessed at all from the client browser.

Workaround:Do not check the "Configure SSL" option during installer's "Database
Connectivity Details" phase.
n TeMIP Alarm Forwarder - TimePictra does keep track of TeMIP messages forwarded to
multiple TeMIP server.

Workaround:None.
n Display loading time increases, based on the number of NEs and PTP clients. The left tree
may experience refresh delays for larger node counts due to the increase in data.

Workaround: Disable the display of PTP Clients which is available in user preference
window.
n 55400 NE Status details page – NE Status Details page (path: Fault -> NE Status – Status
Details) is blank and not displayed for certain 55400 configurations.

Workaround: for the RTRV-NETYPE-ALL subtab, the same information can be viewed
under the Inventory tab.
n SSU 2000 NTP client configuration – For legacy SSU2000 Communication Card, TimePictra
does not support NTP client provisioning and Broadcast mode provisioning .

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Workaround: Use “Pass through” feature in TimePictra.

n Performance Plotting – TDEV plot resolution is 1 ns; data values smaller than 1 ns are plotted
on the bottom edge of the plot.

Workaround: None.
n 66662: Timestamp from TimePictra will include an extra “.0” at the end of the time stamp. This
is due to third party tools used in the software. Although this has no impact on functionality,
time stamps will not look as expected.
n 67214: The TimePictra display may look differently between Web browsers, Internet
Explorer, Chrome or Firefox, based on the web browser implementations of HTML
standards.
n 67219: TimePictra does not allow users to view or configure 1PPS and 10M outputs for
TimeProvider 5000 v2.0. This is a device-related issue.
n 67437: Trapping user names consisting of only special characters results in failure.

Workaround: Trap user names must only use standard characters A-Z (upper or lower-
case) and numerical 0-9.
n Some graphical elements in the User Interface display as text fields on Firefox and Internet
Explorer web browsers.
n The Configuration Logical panel does not work properly on Internet Explorer 9 and lower
versions.

Workaround: Use Chrome or Firefox Web browser when performing configuration tasks.
n Changing the user permissions, like Domain, Resource Group, Module Permissions,
Configuration Policy Group, etc. does not reflect immediately on the logged-in user session.

Workaround: User has to re-login to TimePictra to get latest/modified permissions

n Sorting records using the sort option, does not work if a column has already been sorted. This
is due to a bug in third-party software.
n TimePictra does not delete the de-commissioned PTP clients on the network.

Workaround: Identify and remove the clients manually.

n MySQL Backup fails if residual files from a previous backup are present on file system.

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Workaround: Remove residual files before performing backups (located under

/tmp/data*.dat and
<product_installed_dir>/logs/TP10.dat).

Note: When prompted for "Authentication details" during backup operation, enter root and
its password

n TimePictra installation does not check for required software. The Web server will fail to start in
the absence of required software.

Workaround: Before starting the TimePictra Web server, make sure all required software
is installed on the server.
n TimePictra Web server will not start in absence of Oracle or MySQL boot-up scripts.

Workaround: Add Oracle or MySQL startup in boot-up script

n Align BC Position function will align the BC's and corresponding clients present in the
selected domain only. If the BC and client are in different domain, align BC does not work as
expected.

Workaround: Move BC to Client's domain.

Hardware and Software Requirements

Caution: To prevent possible system failures and slow response time, TimePictra
requires a dedicated machine that only runs the TimePictra application. Do not install
“third-party” applications, or tools on the machine that runs the TimePictra application.
This requirement is a mandatory part of the TimePictra support and maintenance
contract. TimePictra is a high-performance and highly complex, feature-rich network and
element management system. It requires all the resources (CPU, Memory, and Hard
Disk) of the machine in order to perform its functions.

Third-party applications, tools, or scripts may make it difficult for the Microsemi support labs to
effectively reproduce customer issues.

Do not install customer-developed scripts, Veritas, etc. or other third-party database

administration, monitoring, maintenance scripts on the machine, since TimePictra performs all
these tasks within the application.

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Hardware Requirement
The current version of TimePictra software requires a 64-bit PC server with the following
capability.

n Minimum 4 core 8 Thread 3 GHz Server

n Minimum 8 GB RAM
n Minimum 500 GB Disk mirrored with local DB

Operating System Requirements

n 64 Bit Red hat Linux 6.x or 7.x

Database Requirements
n Oracle 11g/12c standard edition with suggested latest patch
n MySQL 5.1.6x, 5.1.7x, 5.5.x, 5.6.x or Maria DB 5.x/10.x

Web-Based Client Requirements

n Firefox 8.0 (latest version)
n Chrome (latest version)
n Internet Explorer 11

Other Specific Requirements

n Linux 64 – Recommended configurations
- Max Thread should be set greater than 5000
- fs.file-max = 10000
n On Linux, “hosts” file should have a valid hostname entry
n If using Oracle database, assign secondary group "tpgroup" to "oracle" user
n JRE 1.6, 1.7 or 1.8

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n Iptable packages
n xterm and xauth packages
n Cron package (cronie)

Note: MSCC recommend to keep the Redhat OS up to date with the latest patches where
maintaining the security and minimizes vulnerabilities is a priority for the customer. The end
user of the system is responsible for the supplying and installing of these patches.

Recommended Software Requirements

n Telnet
n openssh client

Software Installation
Refer to the chapter entitled “Installation” in the TimePictra User’s Guide. Administrator-related
information is now included in the User’s Guide rather than in a separate document. You will need
the version of Adobe Acrobat Reader that is appropriate for your Operating System to view and
print these documents. If you don’t have Acrobat Reader already installed on your system, you
can install it from the CD or download it from Adobe’s Web site (http://www.adobe.com).

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Contacting Technical Support

If you encounter any difficulty installing the update or operating the product, contact Microsemi
Frequency and Time Division (FTD) Services and Support at:

North and South America

Microsemi, Inc.
Frequency and Time Division
3870 N 1st Street
San Jose, CA 95134-1702

Toll-free in North America: 888-367-7966, Option 1

Telephone: 408-428-7907
E-mail: ftd.support@microsemi.com
Internet: www.microsemi.com/ftdsupport

Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA):

Microsemi FTD Services and Support EMEA
Altlaufstrasse 42
85635 Hoehenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn
Germany

Telephone: +49 700 3288 6435

Fax: +49 8102 8961 533
E-mail: ftd.emeasupport@microsemi.com

ftd.emea_sales@microsemi.com

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South Asia
Suite A201, 2nd Floor,West Wing,
Wisma Consplant 2, No. 7,
Jalan SS16/1, 47500 Subang Jaya
Selangor, Malaysia

Toll-free in North America: 888-367-7966, Option 1

Telephone: 408-428-7907
E-mail: ftd.support@microsemi.com

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