diff --git a/jjb/defaults.yaml b/jjb/defaults.yaml
index a4cc292..bfc9f8f 100644
--- a/jjb/defaults.yaml
+++ b/jjb/defaults.yaml
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
     modern-branches-regexp: '^(master|cord-7.0|cord-6.1|cord-6.0|seba-1.0|voltha-2.3|voltha-2.4)$'
     platform-branches-regexp: '^(master|cord-7.0|cord-6.1)$'
     seba-branches-regexp: '^(master|cord-7.0|seba-1.0)$'
-    kind-voltha-regexp: '^(voltha-2.6)$'
+    kind-voltha-regexp: '^(voltha-2.7)$'
 
     # matchs all project repos
     all-projects-regexp: '.*'
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
 
     # matching repos that should be version tagged by the version-tag job
     # (basically the same as imagebuilder projects + helm charts + tools
-    version-tag-projects-regexp: '^(?!aether)(xos.*|.*helm-charts|automation-tools|cord-tester|chameleon|rcord|mcord|ecord|acordion|addressmanager|epc-service|exampleservice|fabric.*|globalxos|hippie-oss|hss_db|hypercache|internetemulator|kubernetes-service|monitoring|olt-service|onos-service|openstack|progran|sdn-controller|simpleexampleservice|templateservice|vEE|vEG|vBBU|venb|vHSS|vMME|vnaas|vPGWC|vPGWU|vrouter|vsg|vsg-hw|vSGW|vSM|vspgwc|vspgwu|vtn-service|vtr|.*-workflow-driver|ves-agent|voltha-bbsim|openolt|sadis-server|kafka-topic-exporter|pyvoltha||plyxproto|voltha-protos|alpine-grpc-base|cordctl|voltha-go|voltha-onos|device-management|cord-workflow.*|voltha-system-tests|openairinterface|omec-.*|bbsim|omci-sim|ponsim|pppoe.*|voltha-api-server|aaa|config|dhcpl2relay|igmp|igmpproxy|kafka-onos|mcast|olt|sadis|vtn|voltha-.*-adapter.*|voltha-lib-go|voltha-python-base|voltha-docker-tools|mn-stratum-siab|ofagent.*|bng|voltctl|openolt-scale-tester|nem-ondemand-proxy|multifabric|openolt-test|omci-lib-go|kind-voltha|voltha-docs|mac-learning|goloxi|device-management-interface|bbsim-sadis-server|olttopology|opendm-agent)$'
+    version-tag-projects-regexp: '^(?!aether)(xos.*|.*helm-charts|automation-tools|cord-tester|chameleon|rcord|mcord|ecord|acordion|addressmanager|epc-service|exampleservice|fabric.*|globalxos|hippie-oss|hss_db|hypercache|internetemulator|kubernetes-service|monitoring|olt-service|onos-service|openstack|progran|sdn-controller|simpleexampleservice|templateservice|vEE|vEG|vBBU|venb|vHSS|vMME|vnaas|vPGWC|vPGWU|vrouter|vsg|vsg-hw|vSGW|vSM|vspgwc|vspgwu|vtn-service|vtr|.*-workflow-driver|ves-agent|voltha-bbsim|openolt|sadis-server|kafka-topic-exporter|pyvoltha||plyxproto|voltha-protos|alpine-grpc-base|cordctl|voltha-go|voltha-onos|device-management|cord-workflow.*|voltha-system-tests|openairinterface|omec-.*|bbsim|omci-sim|ponsim|pppoe.*|voltha-api-server|aaa|config|dhcpl2relay|igmp|igmpproxy|kafka-onos|mcast|olt|sadis|vtn|voltha-.*-adapter.*|voltha-lib-go|voltha-python-base|voltha-docker-tools|mn-stratum-siab|ofagent.*|bng|voltctl|openolt-scale-tester|nem-ondemand-proxy|multifabric|openolt-test|omci-lib-go|kind-voltha|voltha-docs|mac-learning|goloxi|device-management-interface|bbsim-sadis-server|olttopology|opendm-agent|opendevice-manager)$'
 
     # List of all repos that contribute to the CORD guide
     cord-guide-projects-regexp: '^(att-workflow-driver|cord-tester|cordctl|exampleservice|fabric|fabric-crossconnect|hippie-oss|kubernetes-service|olt-service|onos-service|openolt|openstack|rcord|simpleexampleservice|vrouter|vtn-service|xos|xos-gui|xos-tosca)$'
diff --git a/jjb/pipeline/voltha/master/voltha-scale-test.groovy b/jjb/pipeline/voltha/master/voltha-scale-test.groovy
index df6b369..9f4cd86 100644
--- a/jjb/pipeline/voltha/master/voltha-scale-test.groovy
+++ b/jjb/pipeline/voltha/master/voltha-scale-test.groovy
@@ -361,6 +361,7 @@
           # sshpass -e ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 30115 karaf@127.0.0.1 log:set DEBUG org.onosproject.mcast
           # sshpass -e ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 30115 karaf@127.0.0.1 log:set DEBUG org.opencord.igmpproxy
           # sshpass -e ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 30115 karaf@127.0.0.1 log:set DEBUG org.opencord.olt
+          sshpass -e ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 30115 karaf@127.0.0.1 log:set DEBUG org.onosproject.net.flowobjective.impl.FlowObjectiveManager
 
           kubectl exec \$(kubectl get pods | grep -E "bbsim[0-9]" | awk 'NR==1{print \$1}') -- bbsimctl log ${logLevel.toLowerCase()} false
 
@@ -368,6 +369,7 @@
           sshpass -e ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 30115 karaf@127.0.0.1 cfg set org.onosproject.provider.of.flow.impl.OpenFlowRuleProvider flowPollFrequency ${onosStatInterval}
           sshpass -e ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 30115 karaf@127.0.0.1 cfg set org.onosproject.provider.of.device.impl.OpenFlowDeviceProvider portStatsPollFrequency ${onosStatInterval}
           sshpass -e ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 30115 karaf@127.0.0.1 cfg set org.onosproject.provider.of.group.impl.OpenFlowGroupProvider groupPollInterval ${onosGroupInterval}
+          sshpass -e ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 30115 karaf@127.0.0.1 cfg set org.onosproject.net.flowobjective.impl.FlowObjectiveManager numThreads ${flowObjWorkerThreads}
 
           if [ ${withFlows} = false ]; then
             sshpass -e ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 30115 karaf@127.0.0.1 app deactivate org.opencord.olt
@@ -668,8 +670,13 @@
         printf '%s\n' $(kubectl get pods -l app=onos-classic -o=jsonpath="{.items[*]['metadata.name']}") | xargs --no-run-if-empty -I# bash -c "kubectl cp #:${karafHome}/data/log/karaf.log $LOG_FOLDER/#.log" || true
 
         # get ONOS cfg from the 3 nodes
-        printf '%s\n' $(kubectl get pods -l app=onos-classic -o=jsonpath="{.items[*]['metadata.name']}") | xargs --no-run-if-empty -I# bash -c "kubectl exec -it # -- ${karafHome}/bin/client cfg get > $LOG_FOLDER/#.cfg" || true
+        # kubectl exec -t voltha-infra-onos-classic-0 -- sh /root/onos/apache-karaf-4.2.9/bin/client cfg get > ~/voltha-infra-onos-classic-0-cfg.txt || true
+        # kubectl exec -t voltha-infra-onos-classic-1 -- sh /root/onos/apache-karaf-4.2.9/bin/client cfg get > ~/voltha-infra-onos-classic-1-cfg.txt || true
+        # kubectl exec -t voltha-infra-onos-classic-2 -- sh /root/onos/apache-karaf-4.2.9/bin/client cfg get > ~/voltha-infra-onos-classic-2-cfg.txt || true
 
+        # kubectl exec -t voltha-infra-onos-classic-0 -- sh /root/onos/apache-karaf-4.2.9/bin/client obj-next-ids > ~/voltha-infra-onos-classic-0-next-objs.txt || true
+        # kubectl exec -t voltha-infra-onos-classic-1 -- sh /root/onos/apache-karaf-4.2.9/bin/client obj-next-ids > ~/voltha-infra-onos-classic-1-next-objs.txt || true
+        # kubectl exec -t voltha-infra-onos-classic-2 -- sh /root/onos/apache-karaf-4.2.9/bin/client obj-next-ids > ~/voltha-infra-onos-classic-2-next-objs.txt || true
 
         # get radius logs out of the container
         kubectl cp $(kubectl get pods -l app=radius --no-headers  | awk '{print $1}'):/var/log/freeradius/radius.log $LOG_FOLDER/radius.log || true
diff --git a/jjb/pipeline/voltha/voltha-2.7/software-upgrades.groovy b/jjb/pipeline/voltha/voltha-2.7/software-upgrades.groovy
index 811d642..e9623d6 100644
--- a/jjb/pipeline/voltha/voltha-2.7/software-upgrades.groovy
+++ b/jjb/pipeline/voltha/voltha-2.7/software-upgrades.groovy
@@ -23,9 +23,7 @@
 def test_software_upgrade(name) {
   stage('Deploy Voltha - '+ name) {
       def extraHelmFlags = "${extraHelmFlags} --set global.log_level=DEBUG,onu=1,pon=1 --set onos-classic.replicas=3,onos-classic.atomix.replicas=3 "
-      if ("${name}" == "onos-app-upgrade") {
-          extraHelmFlags = extraHelmFlags + "--set global.image_tag=master "
-      }
+
       extraHelmFlags = extraHelmFlags + """ --set voltha.services.controller[0].service=voltha-infra-onos-classic-0.voltha-infra-onos-classic-hs.infra.svc \
       --set voltha.services.controller[0].port=6653 \
       --set voltha.services.controller[0].address=voltha-infra-onos-classic-0.voltha-infra-onos-classic-hs.infra.svc:6653 \
@@ -42,10 +40,11 @@
          split = onosImg.split(':')
         extraHelmFlags = extraHelmFlags + "--set onos-classic.image.repository=" + split[0] +",onos-classic.image.tag=" + split[1] + " "
       }
-      def localCharts = false
+
       // Currently only testing with ATT workflow
       // TODO: Support for other workflows
-      volthaDeploy([workflow: "att", extraHelmFlags: extraHelmFlags, localCharts: localCharts])
+      // NOTE localCharts is set to "true" so that we use the locally cloned version of the chart (set to voltha-2.7)
+      volthaDeploy([workflow: "att", extraHelmFlags: extraHelmFlags, localCharts: true])
       // start logging
       sh """
       rm -rf $WORKSPACE/${name} || true
diff --git a/jjb/verify/opendevice-manager.yaml b/jjb/verify/opendevice-manager.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ed0715
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jjb/verify/opendevice-manager.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+---
+# verification jobs for 'opendevice-manager' repo
+
+- project:
+    name: opendevice-manager
+    project: '{name}'
+
+    jobs:
+      - 'verify-opendevice-manager-jobs':
+          branch-regexp: '{all-branches-regexp}'
+
+- job-group:
+    name: 'verify-opendevice-manager-jobs'
+    jobs:
+      - 'verify-licensed'
+      - 'tag-collision-reject'
+      - 'make-unit-test':
+          build-node: 'ubuntu16.04-basebuild-2c-4g'
+          unit-test-targets: 'test'
+          # opendm-agent uses gtest which outputs in xunit format
+          junit-allow-empty-results: true
+          xunit-skip-if-no-test-files: false
diff --git a/jjb/voltha-scale.yaml b/jjb/voltha-scale.yaml
index 0b56630..0777d6d 100644
--- a/jjb/voltha-scale.yaml
+++ b/jjb/voltha-scale.yaml
@@ -535,6 +535,11 @@
           description: 'How often ONOS should poll for groups'
 
       - string:
+          name: flowObjWorkerThreads
+          default: '{flowObjWorkerThreads}'
+          description: 'How many threads are used by the FlowObjectiveManager worker pool'
+
+      - string:
           name: bbsimImg
           default: '{bbsimImg}'
           description: 'Custom image selection for BBSIM (repo:tag)'
@@ -691,6 +696,7 @@
     extraHelmFlags: ''
     onosStatInterval: 5
     onosGroupInterval: 1
+    flowObjWorkerThreads: 12
     volthaSystemTestsChange: ''
     volthaHelmChartsChange: ''
     kindVolthaChange: ''
@@ -794,6 +800,7 @@
     extraHelmFlags: ''
     onosStatInterval: 5
     onosGroupInterval: 1
+    flowObjWorkerThreads: 12
     volthaSystemTestsChange: ''
     volthaHelmChartsChange: ''
     kindVolthaChange: ''