Metro Automation Engine Release Notes

Release v2.4.3

add support for new cloud-init version for 5.3.2
add support for upgrade to version 5.3.2
add suppport for non-root usernames for VSD upgrade
add support for NuageX deployment type
add support for branding the VSD GUI
add NSG bootstrap via activation link
add VSD license expiration check
update OpenStack Compute and Plugin integration, remove need to specify vsd_ip in myoscs, add handler to restart Neutron-server, reduce time to restart Neutron-server by adding tasks to Neutron-integration idempotent, make vsd-osc-integration equivalent to os-vsd-osc-integration, move stopping of Neutron services to the vrs-oscompute-integration role, change nuage_plugin.ini to be configured to use VSD FQDN
improve integration with OpenStack controller, primarily by speeding up lab-installs of Nuage and OpenStack
add ability to customize passwords for VSD programs and services
add playbook to copy qcow2 files before predeploy step, add checks in predeploy step for qcow2 existence if skipCopyImages is set

fix inconsistency in the way VMs were shutdown during upgrade
update dns zones with values from build_vars.yml and solve the firewalld issue from dns-deploy/task/main.yaml file
support custom group setting on ansible.log file
support doing MD5 checks of user input files in locations other than the current directory
removed redundant check for netaddr package
fix username for vmware-vm_shell commands in vsd-predeploy
fix username for executing monit_waitfor_service task in vstat-vsd-health
fix uri task in vstat-health to execute on localhost