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VM-Series and Panorama Plugins Release Notes

What’s New in VM-Series Plugin 3.0.3

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The VM-Series plugin 3.0.3 introduces these new features.

OCI CloudWatch Monitoring Configuration—You can configure OCI CloudWatch monitoring for VMs using GUI or CLI.
- On the VM GUI, go to DevicesVM-SeriesOCI, and enter a Monitoring Namespace name, check Enable Monitoring, and enter an Update Interval (min).
- On CLI, enter the following commands to configure OCI CloudWatch monitoring.
```
automation@auto-pavmqa-YhDAcArF# show | match oci
set deviceconfig plugins vm_series oci-monitoring name <namespace_name>
set deviceconfig plugins vm_series oci-monitoring enabled yes
set deviceconfig plugins vm_series oci-monitoring timeout <update_interval_time>
```
The namespace name must be unique, and should not contain spaces or special characters.
Publish Custom Metrics in the OCI Console—After you configure your VM-Series firewalls to publish metrics to an OCI CloudWatch namespace, the metrics appear as a time series graph or table in the OCI console under Metrics Explorer. VM-Series firewall collects and publishes the following custom metrics during every update interval.
- Dataplane CPU Utilization (%)
- Dataplane Packet Buffer Utilization (%)
- panSessionConnectionsPerSecond
- panSessionThroughputKbps
- panSessionThroughputPps
- Sessions Active
- Session Utilization (%)
- SSLProxyUtilization (%)