Release Notes

IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard v1.0.8.0

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Release Notes

 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

New Features in v1.0.8

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

Non Intrusive Extended TX  

MNTR-1271
MNTR-1279
MNTR-894

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. 

This feature is not enabled on systems upgraded to version v1.0.8.0 from older versions.


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

APM Integration

MNTR-1304
MNTR-1266

Provide built-on TCP connector to Splunk, provide DPOD application for Splunk as implementation reference.

System Health

MNTR-1248
MNTR-1232
MNTR-1235
MNTR-1237
MNTR-1243
MNTR-1273
MNTR-1295
MNTR-1300

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

System

MNTR-310

Fixes for DataPower Firmware Level 7.7
Support for API Connect version 2018.04

Privacy Tool

MNTR-1140

Added an option to disable local user repository (since DPOD v1.0.7.1)

Privacy Tool

MNTR-1146

Added an option to automatically delete WS-M payloads after a day or a week

Privacy Tool

MNTR-1177

New admin page for deleting DPOD logs of a specific transaction

UI

MNTR-906
MNTR-1195

All dashboards can now be exported to CSV

UI

MNTR-1057
MNTR-1205
MNTR-1229

Domain filter now support asterisk wildcard

Performance

MNTR-1110
MNTR-1240

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.

DevOps Services Portal

MNTR-1227

New functionality to stop or start a service based on custom role permissions

Alerts

MNTR-1269

New alert on Ethernet interfaces Tx/Rx Errors

Alerts

MNTR-1312

New alert on device restart/reload

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1103

Add API Connect fields to DPOD custom roles - API Name, Catalog Name, Space Name, Plan Name, Product Name, Consumer Org Name, Client ID

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1075

Let the user choose the default API Connect homepage

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1099

New alert - more than 5 APIs with latency above X ms.

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1164

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

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1290

New filters in the transactions page for Product Name and Consumer Org Name

Internal Health

MNTR-1089

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

Device Resources

MNTR-1231

Device Resources page now shows Ethernet Interfaces statistic graphs

REST API

MNTR-1274

New REST API to create WS-M subscriptions

REST API

MNTR-943

New REST API for executing reports

Fix List

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1206

API Connect reports and alerts - filters does not work

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1247

Mark web-api transactions as internal transactions so they won't show when filtering successful transactions

API Connect Integration

MNTR-955

Change "OAuth Valid From" and "OAuth Valid Until" filters to time picker 

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1149

Transaction details page - policy graph - Mark the apim.security policy as internal policy and not user policy

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1138

Auto Setup Domains - domains are setup again in DPOD when no logging target stats exists

Store Retention

MNTR-1053

Handle closed ES indices correctly

UI

MNTR-1207

False warning about device locale not set to EN

UI

MNTR-1121

Product View button sometimes doesn't respond

UI

MNTR-179

When navigating between raw messages and transactions page - copy the service name filter to the object name filter

UI

MNTR-773

Schedule expression should not accept two asterisks in a row

UI

MNTR-1185

Monitored devices settings tab - domains filter is not working properly

UI

MNTR-1202

Minor changes to dark theme colors

UI

MNTR-1051

When user is not allowed to see raw messages and payloads, the transaction page should focus on the ext latency tab

UI

MNTR-1135

Device Management → Settings → Temp domain filter should be dependent on the device filter

UI

MNTR-1155

Early Failed dashboard - font size is different than other dashboards

UI

MNTR-998

Reports page new look

Maintenance - Sync

MNTR-1199

Domain Sync doesn't always exclude DPOD's log targets

DevOps Services Portal

MNTR-1137

When using external self service portal, the DevOps portal executions page does not honor custom roles

DevOps Services Portal

MNTR-1133

Add System parameter for setting local WSDL upload size limit 

Device Resources

MNTR-1244

Domain restart is not identified in some cases

Device Resources

MNTR-1245

Device Resources fails when sampling Docker resources

APM Integration

MNTR-1268

Add gtid parameter to transaction page

Alerts

MNTR-1284

Empty Email sometimes being sent when alert finished with no results

Alerts / Reports

MNTR-1015

Service filter does not always work

Alerts / Reports

MNTR-1196

Various reports and alerts definition fixes

Reports

MNTR-1119

White Space in report filters may cause wrong results.

Reports

MNTR-648

Empty ES Headers field in report setup causes an exception to be printed to the logs

Performance

MNTR-1283

Alerts and Reports should use internal indices metadata

Performance

MNTR-1261

Prepare for future ES upgrade

Performance

MNTR-1127

MNTR-525

MNTR-968

MNTR-1122
MNTR-1213
MNTR-1126

Improving internal database performance and stability

Applying O/S performance profile

Include performance monitoring tool

Delete old database records if the database size reaches a certain configurable threshold


Security

MNTR-1043
MNTR-1024
MNTR-1025

Upgraded openSSL 1.1.0g to 1.1.0h (appliance installation only)
Upgraded openSSH to 7.4 (appliance installation only)
Upgraded httpd version to 2.4.6.67 (appliance installation only)

Security

MNTR-1272

Add audit logger to UI service

Install

MNTR-1134

Upgrade OS to CentOS 7.4 (appliance installation only)

Install

MNTR-869

Fix bug in product removal

Stability

MNTR-983

MNTR-1233

Limit dynamic port allocation range

Improving product stability

Release Notes DPOD v1.0.7

New Features in v1.0.7

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

UI - Transaction Dashboards

MNTR-1067

DataPower and API Connect transactions lists may be exported to a CSV file (applicable for Firefox 57+ and Chrome latest version only)

Maintenance Plan - Firmware Upgrade

MNTR-895

Add Firmware upgrade plan (virtual and physical)

Requires firmware 7.5+

Payload Capture

MNTR-865

Payload capture can be enabled on multiple devices or domains at once

Tenant Support

MNTR-896

Added the ability to monitor transactions' information on appliance with Tenants

API-C Integration

MNTR-1036

The Early Failing Requests Dashboard in now also available in API Connect view

API-C Integration

MNTR-1038

New API Connect Recent Activity dashboard that displays a high-level overview of APIs activity

Reports

MNTR-982

New URI Summary Latency report
New URI Detailed Latency Report

UI - APIs

MNTR-995
MNTR-996

Added latency percentile data to Service URL/URI Calls dashboards.
Add a menu item that allows to create a new latency alerts based on percentile.

UI

MNTR-1037

Columns can be hidden or reordered in the Transactions, Raw Messages and API Connect Transactions pages

UI

MNTR-1014

The transaction error analysis now indicates whether a probe was enabled during its execution

UI

MNTR-731

New widget for generating schedule expressions (for scheduling reports, alerts and appliance maintenance plans)

Devops

MNTR-1030

Support automation of domains configuration in DPOD for domains that were previously configured but were reset by API-C or by Admins

Internal Health Alerts

MNTR-597
MNTR-938

New Internal Monitoring page that shows DPOD's components status and recent alerts to assist monitoring DPOD internal health.
Add Internal Alerts to user notifications widget

Install / Security

MNTR-1136

Add Support for user supplied (pre installed) CentOS 7.4.0 / RHEL 7.4.0 OS when installing the product in a Non Appliance mode.

Security

MNTR-1140/1

Add ability to disable management of local user registries for better security regulations requirements compliance.


Fix List

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

UI

MNTR-468

Agents page - the message column is too narrow
Reports/Alerts view page - the schedule column is too narrow

UI

MNTR-992

Show which view is selected (IDG or API Connect)

UI

MNTR-993

When using auto refresh, the time filter is showing incorrect time

UI

MNTR-640

In Add/Edit device page - a validation of IPV4/IPV6 was added to the log target source address input
In Node edit page -  a validation of IPV4/IPV6 was added the IP address input

UI

MNTR-701

The top navigation bar is not displayed correctly for small screen resolutions

UI

MNTR-1029

A message was added to agent page when the monitored device's time is later than DPOD's agent time

UI

MNTR-1042

Service URI/URL dashboards shows only the first 10 results while more exists.

UI

MNTR-521

Limit the number of displayed raw messages per transaction to 2500 as it was causing some browsers to hang

UI

MNTR-924

XML Firewall service transactions do not appear in the transactions page for monitored devices with firmware 7.6

UI - Filters

MNTR-961

On Transaction List  page, the combination of Domain and Payload filters does not work (fixed for IDG 7.6+)

UI - Filters

MNTR-853

Domain filter shows duplicate domain names

UI - Filters

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