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The features listed below were added to DPOD. The document's icon conventions are listed at the bottom.

New Features 1.0.15.1

Important security fixes.

New Features 1.0.15.0

Improved User Experience

  • Custom roles may be used to limit user access to product views (Gateway / API-C).

  • Custom roles may be used to allow users of any role to edit report and alerts.

  • Reports and alerts are displayed per product view to easily distinguish between API Connect and DataPower Gateway services.

  • All tables now support the new context menu which allows easier filtering and copy.

  • Quick setup modal after installation/upgrade allows choosing the default product view and theme.

API Connect Integration

  • API Connect Analytics Offload may be used to send payload and request/response headers to DPOD.

  • When activating API Connect Analytics Offload, payload and HTTP headers are displayed per transaction and are available for filtering.

  • Expert Mode provides access to the data that was captured from API Connect Analytics Offload with the ability to create custom dashboards.

  • Cleaner view of the assembly flow (toggle between primary policies and all policies).

Performance

  • Support for enhanced Syslog log target performance introduced in DataPower Gateway firmware.

New Features 1.0.14.0

Improved User Experience

  • Many filters (including device, domain, service, API name, product, etc.) support wildcards (*) for matching.

  • Filters across the system support operators (including reports and alerts).

  • A new context menu in main tables (transactions, early failing, raw messages, etc.) allows easier filtering and copy.

  • Custom dashboards may be used as the home page.

  • Some widgets that could not be added to custom dashboards, such as Transactions List, are now supported.

  • CSV export size has been increased to 2,500 records instead of 1,000.

  • Any alert and report can now be duplicated, no matter if they arrive out-of-the-box or created from scratch.

API Connect Integration

  • Provider organization and consumer organization can be used in custom roles to limit user access.

  • Many filters have been added to API Connect dashboards, including provider organization, HTTP response code, HTTP method, elapsed time, request/response size, etc.

  • Added Top Consumers table in Recent Activity dashboard.

  • Status column in API Connect Transactions page was replaced by HTTP response code column.

  • Transaction error analysis now detects some more common error scenarios with APIC v10.

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  • The deprecated Extended Transaction functionality, which required instrumentation of the processing policy, and was replaced in 1.0.8.0 by a non-intrusive alternative, has been removed.

New Features 1.0.13.0

Improved User Experience

  • Quickly move to next and previous transactions from the transaction page.

  • Home page under User Preferences has many more options.

API Connect Integration

  • (thumbs up) Added support for Web Socket Upgrade policy (requires gateway firmware 10.0.2+).

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  • Added support for RHEL 8.3 (non-appliance installation only).

New Features 1.0.12.0

Improved User Experience

  • Added filter operators, such as "Equal", "Not Equal", "Greater Than" and "Lower Than" to all dashboards.

  • Improved Time filter - add previous and next time period buttons, add new options and allow to manually edit custom time.

  • New Report: Service Request/Response Size Stats.

  • Gateways table is now sorted by name.

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  • Show amount of raw messages over time.

  • Show total amount of raw messages grouped by message codes.

API Connect Integration

  • APIC transactions status is solely determined by their front-end response code.

Improved User Experience

  • New user preference to enable dependency between device, domain and service filters.

  • New Alert: API Error Message Count Alert.

  • New Alert: Trans. Over 30 sec by Service Name Alert.

  • New Alert: Unavailable Devices Alert.

  • New Report: Top Transactions Count per Interval.

  • New Report: Top Documents Count per Interval.

  • New Report: Top Documents Count per Agent per Interval.

  • New Report: Service Latency Report - Extended.

  • New Report: Service and URI Total Transactions Report.

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Important security fixes.

New Features 1.0.10.0

API Connect Integration

  • Support for DataPower API Gateway.

  • Extended transactions page now shows API Connect transactions (when extended transactions are enabled).

  • Reworked API Connect transaction drill-down page to show more accurate transaction flow and latency information.

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  • Improved integration with LDAP to allow more flexibility and simplicity in the LDAP registry configuration.

Improved User Experience

  • New report - latency statistics grouped by gateway/domain/service.

  • Reports and Alerts - Support TLSv1.2 for SMTP with STARTTLS.

  • New gateway information panel.

  • New internal alert on misconfigured DPOD log targets.

  • Better support for IDG 2018 SOMA error messages.

  • Speed up Failed Objects sampling to make alerts more reliable.

  • API Connect API Policies dashboard is now sorted by API Name and Policy Name.

  • API Connect URI and URL calls dashboards can now be filtered by API attributes.

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  • Most of the system's admin functionality, such as stopping or starting services, is available through a new web console.

Improved User Experience

  • New dashboard showing stats of gateway's MQ objects, such as Active and Idle connections.

  • Added a new alert and a system health metric for MQ Connections Utilization.

  • Added a new alert for monitoring services that did not run in the last X minutes.

  • Added a new alert for API Connect transactions that ended with a specific error code or with an error.

  • Added a new Transactions Latency Statistics report.

  • Added support for Sync and Firmware upgrade for IDG 2018.x firmwares.

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  • DPOD now supports monitoring transactions in the default domain.

Improved User Experience

  • When removing a monitored device from DPOD - all DPOD's log targets can be removed from the monitored device.

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Request and Response Size (requires firmware 7.6.0.8+ or 7.7.1.2+)

  • In the Transactions list page, results can be filtered using request and response size of the transactions.

  • Request and response sizes are displayed in the transaction details page.

  • Response size has been added to Activity Distribution dashboard.

Improved User Experience

  • Yesterday, Last Week and Last Month added to the time filter.

  • Raw messages can now be filtered by From/To B2B Partner Profiles.

  • Reports and alerts queries can have named parameters.

  • New reports: average service latency, average request size and services above specific elapsed time.

  • New alert: message code threshold.

  • Backup, Sync and Firmware upgrade plans can now be canceled before they start to execute.

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  • An overall health overview for all gateways according to user defined metrics.

  • Drill-down to view the device's health in the last 60 minutes.

Non-Intrusive Extended Transactions ((thumbs up) requires firmware 7.7.1.1+)

  • Extended Transactions, which are transactions that span more than one monitored devices/services, are now being tracked in a non-intrusive way over HTTP protocol, without the need for processing policy instrumentation.

  • The pre v1.0.8, intrusive Extended Transaction functionality will be deprecated in the near future.

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  • Support for API Connect version 2018.2.5 compatibility mode.

  • New DPOD Roles to allow and revoke access to API Connect field such as API Name, Space and Plan names.

  • API Connect views can now be set as the default system view.

  • Service URL/URI Calls dashboards are now available in API Connect view.

Performance and History

  • User can choose between supporting more TPS but gathering less data per transaction, or collecting more data and supporting less TPS. This option is available during log target setup.

APM Integration

  • Providing a publisher to Splunk with a Splunk application as a reference implementation for the integration (requires firmware 7.7.1+).

  • Publishing more analytical data fields.

  • Simplify setup of implementing APM integration.

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  • Publish DPOD developer edition image in Docker Hub.

Improved User Experience

  • All dashboards can be exported to a CSV file.

  • Domain filter now support asterisk wildcard.

  • New REST API to create WS-M subscriptions.

  • Device Resources page now shows Ethernet Interfaces statistics.

  • New alert on more than 5 API Connect APIs with latency above X ms.

  • Provide retry functionality for failed publishing via SMTP or syslog of alerts, internal health and maintenance jobs.

  • Admins can use a new page to delete transactions logs that are stored in DPOD.

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  • Added the ability to monitor transactions information on appliance with Tenants.

  • Resource monitoring and appliance maintenance are not available for tenants.

API Connect Integration

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Improved User Experience

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  • DPOD now provides a new dashboard that provides statistics pertaining to service URIs. These statistics include the number of invocations and min/max/avg latency in addition to the Service API (URL) Dashboard

Improved User Experience

  • Users can now save favorite filter combinations and use them in subsequent sessions.

  • A new free text search field was added to the Transactions List page and Raw Messages Page where the user may enter a single value that will be searched across various data fields.

  • Service filter now supports auto completion.

  • All applicable filters support multi-select of values.

  • Users can now change the size of the series (number of values) that is displayed in charts of type "top N".

  • A recent notifications panel was added to The Navigation Bar. It displays the recent UI notifications for the user (not persisted).

  • A new "Share" button added. It allows sharing the current page (including filters, transaction ID etc.) by copying/pasting the current URL or by sending it via email

  • Time range filters now provides more options: last 10 minutes, start of day, start of week, this month.

  • Consistent behavior across pages of zoom into a transaction or use its value as a filter criteria.

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  • From time to time, DPOD customers may be required to install a new DPOD installation while preserving the data already collected. for example:

    • Customer deployed DPOD Appliance mode at version v1.0.0 with CentOS 6.7 and now requires to migrate to CentOS 7.2 introduced at version v1.0.2+.

    • Customer deployed DPOD on a virtual server but load increased and now requires a physical server.

    • Customer deployed DPOD Appliance mode but wants to migrate to Non-Appliance mode (RHEL) to better comply with their organization security requirements and standards.

  • New procedure and tools were introduced to support customers with migration of an existing DPOD Store data to a new DPOD installation in each of the scenarios above.

New Features 1.0.5.0

API Connect Integration

DPOD now has new capabilities when coupled with API Connect v5.0.7.2+ (API-C) and DPOD

  • Display a dedicated transaction list with only API-C transactions

  • Filter by API-C fields (e.g. API name, API version, catalog, HTTP method, API urls and a dozen more fields)

  • Calculate and display latency graphs for each policy execution inside an API (including custom policies)

  • Provide both API-C and DataPower views of the same transaction, and the ability to switch between them

  • A new dashboard of APIs and the date they were last executed in the system.

  • API payloads may now be captured

  • Automatically run setup DPOD log targets for each new API-C domain created. (This requires enablement in the monitored device configuration). Further configuration based on domain name prefix is available.

(red star) To activate API-C integration, perform (from the Web Console) a re-configuration of all your log targets in the DataPower that runs the API-C domain. You can also use the auto-setup feature to handle API-C domains created in the future.

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(red star) To activate Side Call Analysis on DPOD run re-configuration of all your log targets in the DataPower that runs the API-C domain.

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