Release Notes

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Release Notes

New Features v1.0.5

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

Maintenance Plan - Backup

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 v5.0.7.2+

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.

Support a single DataPower report to two separate DPOD installations.

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

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.

Management

MNTR-823

Application services may fail if started using app-util and SSH session is terminated

 

 

Known Issues

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

 

 

 

 

Release Notes DPOD v1.0.4

New Features

Component

Issue

Description

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

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.

IBM© DataPower Operations Dashboard (DPOD) v1.0.5.0