Release Notes

IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard v1.0.22.x

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Release Notes 1.0.22.1

Release date: 31 October 2024

New Features and Capabilities

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Added support for publishing alerts via HTTP/S and Syslog with JSON format.

MNTR-5393

Added support for the new IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard for Virtual version.
This version is priced per Virtual Processor Core (VPC) for easy and scalable use with IBM DataPower Virtual Edition.

MNTR-6582

Changes and Improvements

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Improved the Developer Edition and the Docker Container for Developer Edition installation experience.

MNTR-6526

Add support for appliance mode installation with a single disk for evaluation and POC.

MNTR-6539

Add /proc/cmdline , fapolicyd status and audit logs to the gathered information in the MustGather script.

MNTR-6519, MNTR-6549

Improved the Store Query page with a new query example.

MNTR-6532

Removed the package iptables-services from the prerequisites.

MNTR-6577

Deprecated and Removed

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Removed support for CentOS 7.x and RHEL 7.x.

MNTR-6517

Bug Fixes

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Cell federation results in too many agents added to the Cell Manager's DB.

MNTR-6530, MNTR-6590

Firmware upgrade doesn't work when running on RHEL/Rocky Linux 9.x.

MNTR-6584

Custom httpd certificates configuration is lost during upgrade.

MNTR-6518, MNTR-6525
MNTR-6583

Wrong disks may be selected when creating file systems during the appliance mode installation.

MNTR-6575

Cloud Agent Probe setup uses a wrong probe expiration time.

MNTR-6512

An error message is not cleared in the Create Probe Capture page.

MNTR-6540

The UI logs are full of warnings generated when populating the transaction flow points.

MNTR-6543

Upgrade fails because /installs/backups directory does not exist.

MNTR-6522

Out of memory error occurs in large cells in the Cell Manager’s console Store node.

MNTR-6541

Import/export configuration scripts and the MustGather file don’t include the new config.yaml file.

MNTR-6579

The gather_nvme_info.sh script displays wrong values for the disks serial numbers on RHEL/Rocky Linux 9.x.

MNTR-6508

Housekeeping

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Upgraded dependencies and added support for this new version in the installation and upgrade processes.

MNTR-6550, MNTR-6551
MNTR-6552, MNTR-6553
MNTR-6556, MNTR-6559
MNTR-6587, MNTR-6592

Resolved security issues.

MNTR-6515, MNTR-6516
MNTR-6554, MNTR-6547

 

Release Notes 1.0.22.0

Release date: 24 September 2024

New Features and Capabilities

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Gateway Transaction Flow Diagram

  • A new visual flow diagram displays the actions in each of the transaction’s rules.

  • The diagram includes the types of actions and their latency.

Gateway Probe Capture

  • Debug-level data for each action in the gateway transaction can be captured and displayed.

  • The data includes content (input, output, etc.), headers, variables, action configuration, etc.

  • The capture may be limited by time, transactions count, interval, service name, etc.

  • This feature is only supported for IDG with firmware level IDG.10.5.0.12 and higher.

MNTR-5819, MNTR-5967
MNTR-6094, MNTR-6183
MNTR-6211, MNTR-6480
MNTR-6498, MNTR-6500
MNTR-6509

Improved Installation Experience

  • The installation and upgrade are much faster, more interactive and with better error handling.

  • Enhanced support for silent/automatic installation of DPOD.

  • The DPOD Cloud Agent images are now available in the IBM container registry.

  • Added support for RHEL / Rocky Linux 9.x.

MNTR-3298, MNTR-4792
MNTR-5130, MNTR-6030
MNTR-6202, MNTR-6315
MNTR-6408, MNTR-6438
MNTR-6457, MNTR-6464
MNTR-6504, MNTR-6506
MNTR-6510

Changes and Improvements

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Add a REST API for DPOD installation quick setup (used for silent/automatic installation).

MNTR-5581

Add support for Base64 encoded activation key.

MNTR-6031

The result message of the API Probe Capture REST API has slightly changed.

MNTR-6113

The Cloud Agent REST API now returns a specific error code when trying to get the details of an cloud agent that does not exist.

MNTR-6114

The result message of the Payload Capture REST API has slightly changed.

MNTR-6117

Add the Syslog message text of error messages as a keyword field in the Store to allow alert/reports use it for aggregations.

MNTR-6209

Support TLS 1.3 for Web Console, Admin Console and REST APIs.

MNTR-6347

Renamed links from Aha! to IBM Ideas Portal.

MNTR-6424

API-Connect transaction flow no longer use horizontal scroll for displaying the policies.

MNTR-6496

Add /etc/cron.d content and change iptables command to have numeric output to the gathered information in the must gather script.

MNTR-6385, MNTR-6497

Increase the stale time and reduce the timeout of background tasks to avoid marking tasks as stale when they are not.

MNTR-6465, MNTR-6466

Breaking Changes

  • DPOD no longer requires the root user for performing administrative tasks via the server CLI (e.g.: using SSH).
    Most of the administration of DPOD should be performed with the non-administrative user that is also running the DPOD services (usually dpodsvc or storeadm), such as starting/stopping services, configuring LDAP, export/import, etc. These tasks can also be accomplished from the Admin Console.
    However, since DPOD also configures the operating system (the httpd service, OS limits, firewall rules, services in /etc/init.d, etc.), some actions require sudo, such as the installation, upgrading DPOD, backup, restore and generating a mustgather file.

  • CLI commands need to be executed with their full path.
    e.g.: Use /app/scripts/app-utils.sh instead of app-util.sh.

Bug Fixes

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

API Probe Capture doesn’t work in a cell environment.

MNTR-6270

API Probe Capture CSV export is missing some fields.

MNTR-6036

API latency dashboards (Analytics and Long Term) data does not change according to the status filter in the successful and error charts.

MNTR-6356

An error occurs when trying to export CSV from the Payload Capture Dashboard page.

MNTR-6372

When several custom dashboards exists, only one is displayed in the menu.

MNTR-6390

The favorites “play” button does not apply the selected favorite.

MNTR-6502

Housekeeping

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Upgraded dependencies and added support for this new version in the installation and upgrade processes.

MNTR-6442, MNTR-6443
MNTR-6447, MNTR-6493

 

Release Notes 1.0.21.0

Release date: 28 June 2024

New Features and Capabilities

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Long Term Statistics

  • Transaction invocation statistical data (at a 15 minutes interval) is stored for long term usage and trend analysis.

  • The data (invocations, latency, etc.) is available via new dashboards and reports.

MNTR-6328, MNTR-6350

API Calls Version

  • Added support for the new IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard for Cloud Pak for Integration - API Calls version.

  • This version is priced based on API Call volumes and scales seamlessly with the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration add-on for API Calls.

MNTR-6344

Supported Platforms

  • Added support for Rocky Linux 8.x (non-appliance installation only).

MNTR-6351

Changes and Improvements

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Reduced the size of the config DB (QueryExecution/ReportExecution tables) to prevents locks, internal alerts and large backups during upgrades.

MNTR-6032

Tuned the Store services heap sizes according to the deployment profile and OS memory.

MNTR-6070, MNTR-6366
MNTR-6381

Changed the memory sampling to use the MemoryStatus/Usage field instead of MemoryStatus/UsedMemory field, to be consistent with the memory utilization that is displayed by the DataPower Gateway CLI (which does not include the memory used for caching).

MNTR-6150

Limit the ephemeral port range to 10000-59999.

MNTR-6259

Revert the Docker Container for Developer Edition image name to the previous name (dpod-developer-edition).

MNTR-6272

Including the limits and sysctl configuration files in the upgrade rollback.

MNTR-6337

Prevent an additional attempt to start the services while the services are already in the process of starting up.

MNTR-6349

Add firewall rules and system units to the gathered information in the must gather script.

MNTR-6370

Disable Tomcat JMX ports.

MNTR-6136

Add support in the Message filter to not equals operator.

MNTR-6147

Increase the auto-complete filter size limit and make it configurable via a system parameter.

MNTR-6335

Bug Fixes

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Misconfigured timeouts caused the audit log analysis task and other tasks to sometimes hang, eventually leading to all housekeeping workers unable to perform other background tasks.

MNTR-6061

An error occurs when parsing Syslog messages containing IPv6 addresses.

MNTR-5922

Internal alerts are triggered for log targets that are down because the domain is disabled.

MNTR-6046

An error occurs when filtering by a boolean field in the Store Browse page.

MNTR-6064

An error occurs when updating the Store allocation.

MNTR-6069, MNTR-6339

An error occurs in the quick setup modal window when LDAP is already enabled.

MNTR-6196

Tooltips are missing some information in the services page in the Admin Console.

MNTR-6271

An error occurs when reallocating unassigned shards of the Store Dashboards (Expert Mode) indices.

MNTR-6286

In a cell environment, an old upgrade process could have created a Messaging agent with a wrong name.

MNTR-6358

An error occurs in the Store Status page when the Store nodes are in failure mode.

MNTR-6359

An error message is displayed for vm.max_map_count when restarting services in the Docker Container for Developer Edition.

MNTR-6365

An error occurs while performing a secure backup of DataPower Gateways that sign the secure backup with SHA512.

MNTR-6377

An error occurs when trying to purge data by multiple transaction IDs or by multiple global transaction IDs.

MNTR-6353

Wrong output message when provided password is not valid in the reset admin password script.

MNTR-6354

API Probe Capture may not display all captured transactions when there is a time difference between the DPOD and the DataPower Gateway server.

MNTR-6373

Missing validation when fetching a role by an invalid ID.

MNTR-6116

Store nodes health table displays non-heap usage instead of heap usage.

MNTR-6368

Housekeeping

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Upgraded dependencies and added support for this new version in the installation and upgrade processes.

MNTR-4844, MNTR-6028
MNTR-6149, MNTR-6288
MNTR-6300, MNTR-6301
MNTR-6303, MNTR-6304
MNTR-6308, MNTR-6334
MNTR-6338, MNTR-6345
MNTR-6346, MNTR-6348
MNTR-6357, MNTR-6378
MNTR-6387

 

Release Notes 1.0.20.2

Release date: 19 April 2024

Bug Fixes

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

When hovering over a chart, the vertical line only appears when the mouse is close to a marker in the chart and doesn’t display values for all markers in the tooltip.

MNTR-6204

An error message is displayed when clicking on one of the built-in roles.

MNTR-6256, MNTR-6266

In a cell environment, the upgrade process registers the wrong messaging agent name in the configuration database for the second Cell Member.

MNTR-6206

An error message is displayed when generating the must gather file in the Docker image about missing “/var/log/messages” files.

MNTR-6264

Housekeeping

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Upgraded dependencies and added support for this new version in the installation and upgrade processes.

MNTR-5237, MNTR-6027
MNTR-6050, MNTR-6228
MNTR-6229, MNTR-6230
MNTR-6232, MNTR-6233
MNTR-6237, MNTR-6244
MNTR-6247, MNTR-6248
MNTR-6260, MNTR-6267
MNTR-6268

 

Release Notes 1.0.20.1

Release date: 8 March 2024

New Features and Capabilities

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Experimental support for OIDC.

MNTR-5480

Changes and Improvements

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Allow Non-Appliance mode installation on Rocky Linux 8.x.

MNTR-6126, MNTR-6198

Additional data collected for support in the mustgather file.

MNTR-6002, MNTR-6041
MNTR-6166

Bug Fixes

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Error when parsing syslog messages containing GTID with the equals sign (=).

MNTR-6100

Sessions of the Web Console and Admin Console expire too soon (after being idle for only 2 minutes).

MNTR-6145

System errors include irrelevant messages which cause false positive alerts.

MNTR-6112

app_status.sh displays command not found error messages.

MNTR-6053

Must gather file is missing many directories.

MNTR-6101

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