NQE Updates for 25.1.0

Released: 2025-01-21

We are happy to announce the following enhancements to NQE as part of release 25.1.0.

See also the full release notes for Forward Enterprise version 25.1.0.

What’s New

• endpoints of type NetworkEndpoint is now a field of Network.
• peerDeviceName and peerVrf are now fields of BgpNeighbor.
• isIPv4 is now a function.
• isIPv6 is now a function.
• The fromTo function now has an overload that accepts two values of type IpAddress.
• A value of type IpAddress can be inverted via -.

Improvements

• The field uptime of System is now populated for the OS value ARUBA_CX_SWITCH.
• The Command with CommandType value CONFIG was modified for the OS value F5 by adding 13 additional commands among various cases in the Outputs of a Device.
• The Command with CommandType value F5_AFM_CONFIG was modified for the OS value F5 by adding 3 additional commands among various cases in the Outputs of a Device.

Deprecations

Some fields and functions are deprecated and will be removed in a future major release.

Fields

• CloudAccount:

  • publicUnallocatedIps

• Cve:

  • criteria
  • description
  • severity

• Ethernet:

  • negotiatedPortSpeed

• ExternalSources:

  • cliSources
  • snmpSources

• System:

  • uptimeSeconds

• VpcData:

  • cloudType

Functions

• The built-in functions blockDiff_alpha1, blockMatches_alpha1, and hasBlockMatch_alpha1 are deprecated. They will be removed in a major release. For each function, use the version without the _alpha1 suffix instead.