Release Notes

IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard v1.0.6.0

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Release Notes

New Features

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

DevOps Services Portal

MNTR-885/889

MNTR-941/929

MNTR-852/879

MNTR-911

A new Services Portal displays a list of all traditional services of the monitored devices for developers self-service maintenance (a DevOps portal).

The first 2 actions available for end users are refreshing remote or entirely local WSDLs, based on security policies (custom roles).

The Refresh WSDL action will validate the new WSDL and schema files (for Local WSDL) or WSDL URL (for remote WSDL) to be validate and

if valid, the action will let the user to promote the new version.

UI - Early failing requests dashboard

MNTR-944

Add a new dashboard for early failing requests (such as SSL failures) - Requires firmware 7.5.2.4+

UI - APIs dashboards

MNTR-912/891

MNTR-661/719

 

Add a new activity dashboard per service URI / API. Users can view the number of invocations and response time per URI or by service name.

UI - Filters

MNTR-861

MNTR-828

MNTR-829

Add multi-selection to applicable filters and add auto-complete for the Service filter.

Add an ability to save favorite filters for later use.

Add more values to time range filters: last 10 minutes, start of day, start of week, this month.

Add validation for numeric type values in applicable filters.

UI - Free text search filter

MNTR-913

Add a free text search filter to the transactions list page where the user may enter a single value that will be searched across various data fields

UI - Sharing

MNTR-877

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

UI - Notifications

MNTR-652

Add recent notifications panel that displays recent UI notifications for the user (not persisted)

UI - Charts

MNTR-827

Allow users to change the size of the series (number of values) that is displayed in charts of type "top N"

Install

MNTR-899

Provide procedure and tools for customers to migrate an existing DPOD Store data to a new DPOD installation (for the following scenarios: upgrading DPOD v1.0.0 or v1.0.1 CentOS, upgrading DPOD HW, moving from Appliance to Non-Appliance mode)

 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

UI

MNTR-703

Wrong object class name on "Failed objects" object filter

Config Sync

MNTR-908

MNTR-841

Add additional limitations to sync documentation

Fix wrong URL in sync task completion email link

UI - APIs

MNTR-935

SFTP transactions stay in "INPROCESS" state

Integration

MNTR-926

Custom Transaction is not working properly with IDG FW 7.6.0.1

UI

MNTR-190

Consistent table drill-down and filter in transaction list screen

Security

MNTR-605

MNTR-855

Upgrade Java to 8u144

Update cURL and openSSL libraries (OpenSSL -> 1.1.0f, cURL -> 7.55.1) - For Appliance Mode installations only with CentOS 7.2+.

Security - LDAP

MNTR-656

MNTR-804

MNTR-878

Improve functionality of app_ldap_utilities.sh

Improve LDAP traces

Management

MNTR-698

MNTR-736

MNTR-870

MNTR-939

MNTR-856

Enrich must-gather data collection

DR

MNTR-783

Add Script that calls DR REST API to set DPOD installation as a standby machine

Install

MNTR-819

Fix validation of NTP configuration

Security

MNTR-866

Add procedure for SSL client authentication to IDG XML management interface

UI

MNTR-867

Add minimum value of 10 seconds to auto_navigation_to_home.interval in user preferences

history Alerts

MNTR-907

Syslog_Errors_MessageCode alert does not find all message codes

UI

MNTR-915

After adding a device redirect the user to the setup tab

Management

MNTR-917

Add additional files to system backup and restore

UI

MNTR-642

Fix duplicate key exception while adding a new device and quickly navigating to the device panel

Release Notes DPOD v1.0.5

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

IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard (DPOD) v1.0.6.0