New Features v1.0.5
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Maintenance Plan | MNTR-654 MNTR-693/5 MNTR-714 MNTR-737 MNTR-743/5/7 MNTR-762/3 | Add backup plan (secure backup, domain / device export) Requires firmware 7.1+ |
Maintenance Plan  - Sync | MNTR-664 MNTR-693/5 MNTR-714 MNTR-732/7/9 MNTR-740/1/2/4/5/7 MNTR-762/3/8 MNTR-774/6 MNTR-753 | Add synchronization plan to synchronize device / domain configuration. Requires firmware 7.1+ |
| API-C integration | MNTR-665/7 MNTR-711/2/3 MNTR-758/9 MNTR-601 MNTR-705/7 MNTR-785/9 MNTR-792 | Add special view to search and analyze a transaction across two different perspectives, both adjusted to API-C or DataPower terms and metrics Requires API-C v5.0.7.1+ |
| UI - Side Call Analysis | MNTR-52 MNTR-662 MNTR-724 | Add detailed and summary views of latency inside a transaction when calls are done to WMQ, DB, LDAP or HTTP with openUrl . Requires firmware 7.6+ |
| UI -B2B | MNTR-463 | Add filter to search logs by message id or partner id |
| UI - APIs | MNTR-661 MNTR-719 | Add new activity Dashboard per service URL / APIs. Users can view number of invocations and response time per URLs or only by service name |
| Logical Transaction | MNTR-734 MNTR-790 MNTR-624 | Aggregate most of a transaction's information into a single flat record that can be used to save space, provide more history, export to an external analytics platform or integrate with other existing APM products Requires firmware 7.6+ |
| APM Integration | MNTR-779 | Export each logical transaction as a syslog record to support integrations with Enterprise APMs or Cloud based alert systems Requires firmware 7.6+ |
| Install | MNTR-587 MNTR-749 | Add environment name and Nodes screen to manage node in order to assist multi nodes installation. All agents will use the node host/ip. |
Alerts  | MNTR-780 | Alerts are now fully supported (after being introduced in v1.0.2 as tech preview). New Alert added when a DP service has an error (as defined in DPOD: direction=error and severity=error exist in a transaction) |
| UI - Error Analysis | MNTR-191 | Add about a dozen built-in common recommendations to assist with SSL issues in transactions. |
| Devops | MNTR-601 MNTR-704 MNTR-754 | Support automation of new domains configuration in DPOD by setting a name prefix. |
| DR | MNTR-721 MNTR-761 MNTR-782 MNTR-657 | Add support to Active/Standby mode with no history. Introduce 4 APIs and a step by step scenario procedure. Suitable for customers that can not replicate storage or do not have an Active / Passive software solution. |
| Reports | MNTR-778 | New reports that export all sampled configurations per service |
| WS-M | MNTR-629 | Add a new Dashboard for each WS-M Agent that shows statistics for dropped WS-M events. Requires firmware 7.5.2.4+ |
Technology Preview -includes new components that are NOT within support yet and might be deprecated in the near future .
Become Supported - includes existing components / features that are now within support.
Deprecated - feature that is going to be removed from the product (or support) in the near feature
Fix List
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Performance / Security | MNTR-403 MNTR-649 | Upgraded ES to 2.4.4 Upgraded TomEE to 1.7.4 |
| Performance | MNTR-660 MNTR-659 MNTR-699 MNTR-733 | Removed Optimizer script introduced in (1.0.4) and implemented all its improvements as built inside the new ISO file / upgrade procedure. |
| Install | MNTR-432 MNTR-447 MNTR-668 MNTR-696 MNTR-727 MNTR-751 | Developer Edition - version data is incorrect 1.02 ISO generated wrong string in version.txt installation failure for Non Appliance if kibana is not installed |
| Security | MNTR-658 | When LDAP is enabled, built-in roles shouldn't display users and groups |
| Security | MNTR-708 | LDAP not working with custom group attribute |
| Install | MNTR-723 | License generation failed |
| Performance | MNTR-750 | Under high load some syslog events might have a wrong time causing some transactions to stay in "In Process" state- CRITICAL |
| Install | MNTR-340 | Different active MQ installations used the same path to persist messages |
| Alerts | MNTR-466 | Minor UI defects |
| UI | MNTR-510 | An MPGW transaction with invalid json request might not appear in the UI |
| UI | MNTR-511 | Transaction not listed when message rejected by filter which is the first action |
| Config Sample | MNTR-490 | Added a new filter (object type) to "enabled but down dashboard" |
| UI | MNTR-725 | When a login is required again, the user is not directed to the same page they were on |
| UI | MNTR-729 | Notify users to run removal scripts (as mentioned in documentation) to complete the removal of a monitored device from DPOD. |
| Alerts / Reports | MNTR-748 MNTR-755 | Syslog / Email sender was not thread safe and caused unwanted behavior under load |
| UI | MNTR-769 | Filter out Internal transactions (transactions the are lower than 1000 or like "webapi-internal") from the Transaction List panel. These transactions will be counted as transactions in dashboards |
| UI | MNTR-224 | When a transaction failed on backend connection add the BE URL to the Error analysis summary. |
Known Issues
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Release Notes DPOD v1.0.4
New Features
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Alerts | MNTR-589 MNTR-599 MNTR-598 | Add new alert based on any Gateway syslog error code. Error code can be edited by user. Add new alerts to notify when 1000 transaction in the last 10 min ean with open probes. Add new alert to notify on Certificate that are going to be expired in the next 30 days and are already expired in the last 7 days - Daily alerts |
| HA | MNTR-586 MNTR-584 | Add documentation to describe HA deployment options - See documentation. Change IP address for all registered DataPower Gateways' Log Target created by DPOD to send information to secondary DPOD installation. |
| Management | MNTR-118 | DPOD installation configure with built-in user repository allows its users to change their own passwords. |
Internal Health Alerts | MNTR-537 MNTR-633 MNTR-645 MNTR-641 | Add internal health alert component. For more details read here. |
| Performance | MNTR-539 MNTR-578 MNTR-580 MNTR-581 MNTR-583 | Improve DPOD performance to support up to 1500 TPS in one single dedicated server with specific HW configuration as described in Hardware and Software Requirements. To reach this level of capacity a special step is required when an Optimizer script must run after install. |
| B2B | MNTR-556 | Show AS2 FSH in down objects but enabled Dashboards. |
| Install | MNTR-568 MNTR-553 MNTR-475 | Support Docker containers for Developer Edition only. |
| Presale | MNTR-596 | Providing Sizing tool to run in customer device and gather statistics |
| Security | MNTR-590 MNTR-533 MNTR-612 MNTR-606 | Provide assisting script to configure LDAP - LDAP Configuration Script. |
| WS-M Agent | MNTR-636 | Limit payload capture size when collected by DP Gateway (default to 10MB) - requires firmware 7.5.2.4 |
| UI | MNTR-557 | Add a new API to add a monitored device to DPOD to assist integrate DPOD in a DevOps implementation. |
Fix List
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Performance | MNTR-577 MNTR-567 MNTR-534 MNTR-526 MNTR-535 MNTR-583 | Store performance improvements |
| HA | MNTR-585 | Sync Store and DB with new Attached Gateway after move from Primary to Secondary DPOD installation in Active/Passive Scenario |
UI | MNTR-625 MNTR-635 | Transaction with callable rule invocation might appear several times on Transaction List screen. Requires firmware 7.5.2.4 |
| UI | MNTR-89 | Add last /first buttons to transaction list (limited to 10K results). |
| Performance | MNTR-438 | Static / Cache data was flushed under load causing temporary data loss |
| UI | MNTR-284 | Filter internal DPOD keep alive message from Raw messages panels |
| Performance / Security | MNTR-252 MNTR-210 | DPOD was upgraded to be compiled and run with Java 8 u121 |
| Restart Analysis | MNTR-494 | On an unexpected device restart the down time displayed is too long |
UI | MNTR-189 | Extended Latency tab moved to transaction page to support customer's with small resolution screens |
| UI | MNTR-297 | Add validation of IPv4/IPv6 format to monitored device host and log target source address properties . |
| WS-M Agents | MNTR-528 | Bind a WS-M agent to a domain was persisted. |
| Performance | MNTR-540 | Static data on an index should be persist once index is no longer active. |
| Store Retention | MNTR-569 MNTR-639 MNTR-562 MNTR-613 | Provide script to adjust store size after a change of capacity was performed to /data filesystem |
| Performance / Agents | MNTR-591 MNTR-593 MNTR-594 MNTR-567 | Add cache to parsing patterns. Improved performance and logging for Interceptor. Improve logging to identify bottlenecks as they occurred. |
| UI | MNTR-572 | Prevent Extended transaction to be configure on API-C domains |
| UI | MNTR-619 MNTR-199 | Trim filters such device , domain to enhance user experience |
Security UI | MNTR-294 | Prevent deletion of the last user with administrative rights. |
| Performance | MNTR-622 | Under high load some syslogs events might have a wrong time causing some transactions to stay in "In Process" state- CRITICAL |
| Performance / Agents | MNTR-623 MNTR-617 MNTR-632 | Improve records order in Raw Messages inside a single Transaction screen based on a microsecond precision. Requires firmware 7.5.2.4 |
| Security | MNTR-628 | Add LDAP password encryption. |
| Sample Config | MNTR-630 | Increase Object's Name size limit to support B2B object with long names. |
| UI | MNTR-482 | MPGW HTTP GET transaction not displayed when "Process Messages Whose Body Is Empty" is off. Requires firmware 7.5.2.4 |
| Alerts | MNTR-428 | After executing an alert, the execution history record was not fully complete in Store. |
| Reports | MNTR-157 | When the report has 0.0 - the value is left aligned in the cell |
| WS-M Agent | MNTR-527 MNTR-618 | Fail processing WSM Payload with two backend-message elements |
| Install | MNTR-460 | Fix documentation on how to add a second network card to DPOD as described at Scenario 2 : All-In-One with two network interfaces |
| UI | MNTR-456 MNTR-254 | Improve error messages Improve logs |
| Install | MNTR-524 MNTR-536 | Create REST API for registering WSM and SYSLOG agents. Add automation support for multi server topology. |
| UI / Agents | MNTR-5 MNTR-621 | Transactions starting with MQ were not always displayed in Transaction lists. |
| Install | MNTR-547 | Add documentation on how change the default agents port in AIO installation |
| Syslog Agents | MNTR-637 MNTR-641 | When system reach its Store throughput capacity all new syslog request were blocked causing dropped events on Gateway syslog targets. Now this events will be discarded and an new counter and dashboard is added for each agents to manage this dropped events scenario. |
| Install | MNTR-325 MNTR-532 MNTR-561 MNTR-544 | Improve must gather and process diagnostics |
Known Issues
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Release Notes DPOD v1.0.3
New Features
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
UI | MNTR-67 | Allow non-admin users with an explicit custom role to start a WS-M subscription for a limited amount of time from the investigate menu. |
| Sample Config | MNTR-369 | Added support for collecting service configuration data about B2B Gateway, B2B Partners and Partner Destination. |
| UI | MNTR-260 | Added "request URL" to Transaction screen for REST/HTTP services. |
UI / Reports | MNTR-188 MNTR-517 | Provide Kibana 4.5.1 for user custom queries. Available from Internal Health . |
| Sample Config | MNTR-474 MNTR-501 | Service change audit will show changes for all service attributes. Show configuration details of all the front-side handlers for MPGW services . |
| UI | MNTR-467 | New dashboard to show all DataPower objects that are enabled but in op. state down. |
| Alerts | MNTR-493 | Add a 4th alert type - "LIST" that sends an alert if a query result is in a predefined user list (whitelist or blacklist). |
Fix List
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alerts | MNTR-417 | Removed usage of alert internal id in the REST API. |
| UI | MNTR-367 | In the Transaction details page - the payload tab should be focused if it's the only tab. |
General | MNTR-465 | Connect to ES as transport client failed. |
| Must gather | MNTR-447 MNTR-476 | Add timeouts to store stats requests. Add version_history.txt file to must gather. |
| Install | MNTR-160 | Add scripts to assist with product removal from DataPower Gateway. |
| UI | MNTR-471 | Service with loopback shows as IN PROCESS in Transactions page. |
| Performance | MNTR-472 MNTR-484 | Performance issue to get min/max of dates of documents in the store - CRITICAL. |
| Documentation | MNTR-480 MNTR-475 | Update doc regarding MPGW WSM payload capture. Add to documentation kernel parameters best practice. |
Reports | MNTR-481 | Sending reports using SMTP failed to some MS Exchange customers. |
| Security | MNTR-474-3 | Upgrade reports using SMTP to work by default with TLS. Existing customer will require to change port. Backward compatibility will require manual steps. |
| Install | MNTR-492 | System startup failed in some cases and require manual restarting - CRITICAL. |
| UI | MNTR-495 | XMLFirewall services don't show in Transactions Page. |
| Internal Health | MNTR-497 | Under heavy load rolling an index can cause 1-4 seconds delay in data streaming. |
| Install | MNTR-498 | Initial size allocation for transaction in store is small due to OS function response changes. |
| Reports | MNTR-500 | Add default reports directory. |
| UI | MNTR-502 | Cannot add monitored device that is configured to use TLSv1.2 in XML Management Interface. |
Security Performance | MNTR-504 | Upgrade all components to java 8u101. |
| Sample Config | MNTR-352 | Add URI field to the service configuration table. |
| Sample Config | MNTR-326 | Show the service user comments in the service configuration page. |
Release Notes DPOD v1.0.2
New Features
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
UI / Security | MNTR-261 | Add ability to restrict logins of a user with admin privilege to specific IP / subnet |
| UI | MNTR-197 | Add global transaction id to filters in the Raw messages and Extended transactions screens. |
| Analytics | MNTR-6 | Add a new dashboard that shows reboots/reloads of devices / domains and some other characteristics of the event. |
UI Sample Config | MNTR-296 | Add support for SSLProxy and TCPProxy Objects. |
| Internal Health | MNTR-178 | New Internal Health Dashboard Provides information about Store Performance |
| UI | MNTR-336 | DPOD Administrator is prevented from creating duplicate WS-M subscriptions. |
| Install | MNTR-333 | Add a minimal configuration option to Standard Edition requiring only 16GB of Memory |
| WS-M Agent | MNTR-272 | Capture JSON Payload from WS-M Events. (Requires IDG firmware 7.5.2) |
| Install | MNTR-229 | Add Support to install the product in a Non Appliance mode on a Pre-installed fresh CentOS 7.2.0 / RHEL 7.2.0 (Current limitation: This can be achieved for the with a fresh install only. The upgrade procedure will not upgrade OS level) |
| New Alerts components | MNTR-9 MNTR-386 | Technology Preview - provide alerts on Gateway's resources issues , Gateway's Objects in operational state down and system errors observed. Alerts can be pushed by syslog or emails but can also be pulled via REST APIs. |
| Custom Log as Logical Transaction | MNTR-16 | Technology Preview - allow to send custom one record sysloc in a defined format that will be presented in some dashboards and supports customer own business name for service, custom partner identification and other custom fields. |
Technology Preview includes new components that are NOT within support yet and might be deprecated in the near future .
Fix List
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| UI | MNTR-370 | Add an alert to the user before invoking Extended Transaction configuration about its intrusive nature |
| UI | MNTR-48 | Devices filter does not contain recently-added devices. Fix most common situations of known bug MNTR-175 |
REPORTS UI | MNTR-24 | Trim inputs fields across UI screens. |
| Internal Health | MNTR-301 | Enhance product must gather. |
| Reports | MNTR-155 | Add a header to all reports that includes all the report's filters. |
| Reports | MNTR-154 | Report headers will now contain actual time range instead of relational (e.g last hour) Change this to have the actual range. |
| Reports | MNTR-316 | Clean internal sort values from reports |
| UI | MNTR-336 | WS-M subscription can be created only once from DPOD Web Console. |
UI Reports Sample Config | MNTR-334 | Provided workaround to issues that stopped UI, Reports, and other components from restarting, throwing an XADUPID Exception. |
| Sample Config | MNTR-309 | Long configuration sampling caused timeouts. Increased default timeout to 90 minutes. |
| Internal Health | MNTR-241 | Store HeapDump directed to directory /log to avoid using up the Store. |
| Internal Health | MNTR-257 | Stop all services from the CLI may create issues with pid files left behind. |
New Features
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| UI | MNTR-200 | Added support to disable/enable log targets. Used to disconnect DPOD for planned outages or uninstall procedure of a Device from DPOD |
| Install | MNTR-204 | Reduce system requirements for Dev ISO to 1 Disk 15GB , 3.5 GB Mem |
| Reports | MNTR-223 MNTR-233 | Add system parameter to disable SMTP authentication when sending reports by e-mail. Add system parameter to disable SMTP TLS/SSL when sending reports by e-mail |
| Presale | MNTR-222 | Generate syslog and WS-M data for presale demonstration |
| UI | MNTR-136, MNTR-258 | Provide new Dashboard to let the administrator detect missing data in situations where syslogs or WSM events are dropped. |
| UI | MNTR-266 | Expose WSM subscription parameters as system parameters |
| B2B | MNTR-303 | Transactions screen now supports presenting of B2B transactions. |
| Reports | MNTR-157 | Allowing users to add a dictionary for ES terms translation to be used as headers , e.g. for value "{"doc_count":"# Results", "key": "Service Name on DP"}". |
Fix List
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Security | MNTR-213 | Improve HTTP protocol security |
| Install | MNTR-209 MNTR-249 | IDG prerequisites changes: Remove prerequisites for IDGs with firmware V7.x to enable the "SOAP Configuration Management v2004" and " SOAP management URI" in IDG WebGUI in XML Management Interface. Recommended IDG fix - http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IT14028 |
| CLI | MNTR-215 MNTR-232 MNTR-239 MNTR-247 MNTR-251 | Must gather script ignores destination directory and improve versioning information |
| UI | MNTR-203 | Check in the UI that the difference between server time and browser time (GMT) is not greater than 10 minutes |
| UI | MNTR-216 | Improved finding the correct time zone of the browser |
| WSM Agent | MNTR-246 MNTR-237 | Bad grammar XML caused infinite parsing loop |
| UI | MNTR-230 | When user adds a new IDG in DPOD, validate that device name does not contain spaces |
| UI | MNTR-226 | Improve system messages during IDG setup issues in DPOD UI |
| Config Sample | MNTR-232 | Change audit record doesn't always display |
| Security | MNTR-206 | Add confirmation of password for SOMA requests credentials |
| Install | MNTR-172 | Improve documentation for uninstall procedure |
| Install | MNTR-253 MNTR-256 | Clarify ISO Edition: Light (Developer) Edition vs. Production (All-In-One) Edition, Clarify before installation the requirements of 3 disks for Production Edition |
| Upgrade | MNTR-231 MNTR-255 | Fix in upgrade scripts - backup scripts for artifacts and software configuration, configuration data location. |
| Install | MNTR-227 MNTR-240 | Remove unnecessary steps in installation |
| Syslog Agent | MNTR-302 | Improve error handling when failed to identify messages object types when storing parsed messages. |
Known Issues
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| General | MNTR-175 | DPOD shows "Unknown" device or domain |