IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard v1.0.8.5

Note: A more recent version of DPOD is available. See DPOD Documentation for the latest documentation.

Release Notes

(star) Technology Preview  -includes new components that are NOT within support yet and might be deprecated in the near future .

 (thumbs up) Become Supported - includes existing components / features that are now within support.

(error) Deprecated - feature that is going to be removed from the product (or support) in the near feature

New Features in v1.0.8.5


Component
Issue
Description
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1638
MNTR-1640
MNTR-1643
MNTR-1644
MNTR-1646
MNTR-1647
MNTR-1666
MNTR-1682

Many new dashboards in the API-C product view, including APIs activity, latency, HTTP response codes and consumers.

API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1645

New dashboard for comparing latency between API versions.

API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1648

New dashboard for comparing API assembly policies between APIs or versions.

API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1117
MNTR-1636
MNTR-1637
MNTR-1668
MNTR-1670
MNTR-1674

Several filters have been added to API-C pages with auto-complete, such as catalog, space, product, plan, API name, API version and consumer application name.

API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1452Analyze API Connect Early Failed Transactions
Cell EnvironmentMNTR-1532DPOD's processing can now be distributed across different federated servers in order to handle high transaction loads (thousands of tx per second)
DevOps Services PortalMNTR-1512New functionality to import service into multiple devices
DevOps Services PortalMNTR-1091New functionality to read custom JSON from the service comment and populate a searchable description in DPOD's Services portal page
B2BMNTR-1365Raw messages can now be filtered by From/To B2B Partner Profiles
Reports and AlertsMNTR-1549Reports and alerts' JSON can have named parameters
UIMNTR-1104Add "Yesterday", "Last Week" and "Last Month" to dashboards and reports time filter
UIMNTR-1641New "Elegant" UI theme


Fix List

Component
Issue
Description
ReportsMNTR-1497
MNTR-1549
New reports on average service latency, average request size and services above specific elapsed time
ReportsMNTR-1680Domain Request Size report shows wrong value in the "Transactions Count" column
AlertsMNTR-1465New alert on message code count that exceeds a threshold value
UIMNTR-1620
MNTR-1662
Add request and response sizes to transactions list and transaction details pages
UIMNTR-1526Keep Device and Domain filter selections when navigation through the System Health dashboard
UIMNTR-1465In the System Health dashboard - the "Devices Memory" analyze link should open the Device Resources dashboard
UIMNTR-1516Tx with Probes dashboard - measured units are now "Policy Rules" instead of "Number of Transactions"
UIMNTR-1459Show correct latency analysis for some XML Firewall services
UIMNTR-1296Add a warning when removing Device Resources sampling from a monitored device
Syslog AgentsMNTR-1551Show correct time for syslogs coming from a timezone different than DPOD/user browser
Auto Setup DomainsMNTR-1377When automatically setting up a domain that was reset - use its original analysis level
Maintenance PlanMNTR-1431Backup, Sync and Firmware upgrade plans can now be canceled before they start to execute
Stop all scheduled executions after a maintenance plan was deleted
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1206API Connect reports and alerts - filters does not work
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1523Empty API names are now shown as "Unknown" instead of a blank name, so they can be searched
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1525UI shows an error for some API Connect transactions
SecurityMNTR-1509Non-admin users can no longer view the internal alerts page
Security

MNTR-1320
MNTR-1476
MNTR-1475
MNTR-1477
MNTR-1514
MNTR-1521
MNTR-1528
MNTR-1530
MNTR-1583

Upgrade ES to 5.6
APM Integration

MNTR-1361
MNTR-1372
MNTR-1436
MNTR-1453

Improved stability
StabilityMNTR-1574
MNTR-1555
MNTR-1591
Fix internal metadata rebuilds errors
StabilityMNTR-1569Don't use internal metadata if it is more than one hour old
StabilityMNTR-1566Rotate GC logs after 5 generations to save disk space
StabilityMNTR-1554Add channel utilization and free memory graphs to syslog and WS-M agents drill-down pages
StabilityMNTR-1331Print error UUID in the logs for failed internal alert publishing
PerformanceMNTR-1681Reduced the size of the stored messages


New Features in v1.0.8

Component
Issue
Description
Non Intrusive Extended TX (star) 

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 IntegrationMNTR-1304
MNTR-1266
Provide built-on TCP connector to Splunk, provide DPOD application for Splunk as implementation reference.
System HealthMNTR-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
SystemMNTR-310Fixes for DataPower Firmware Level 7.7
Support for API Connect version 2018.04
Privacy ToolMNTR-1140Added an option to disable local user repository (since DPOD v1.0.7.1)
Privacy ToolMNTR-1146Added an option to automatically delete WS-M payloads after a day or a week
Privacy ToolMNTR-1177New admin page for deleting DPOD logs of a specific transaction
UIMNTR-906
MNTR-1195
All dashboards can now be exported to CSV
UIMNTR-1057
MNTR-1205
MNTR-1229
Domain filter now support asterisk wildcard
PerformanceMNTR-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 PortalMNTR-1227

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

AlertsMNTR-1269New alert on Ethernet interfaces Tx/Rx Errors
AlertsMNTR-1312New alert on device restart/reload
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1103Add API Connect fields to DPOD custom roles - API Name, Catalog Name, Space Name, Plan Name, Product Name, Consumer Org Name, Client ID
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1075Let the user choose the default API Connect homepage
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1099New alert - more than 5 APIs with latency above X ms.
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1164Service URL/URI Calls dashboards are now available in API Connect view.
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1290New filters in the transactions page for Product Name and Consumer Org Name
Internal HealthMNTR-1089Provide retry functionality for failed publishing via SMTP or syslog of alerts, internal health and maintenance jobs
Device ResourcesMNTR-1231Device Resources page now shows Ethernet Interfaces statistic graphs
REST APIMNTR-1274New REST API to create WS-M subscriptions
REST APIMNTR-943New REST API for executing reports

Fix List

Component
Issue
Description
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1206API Connect reports and alerts - filters does not work
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1247Mark web-api transactions as internal transactions so they won't show when filtering successful transactions
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-955Change "OAuth Valid From" and "OAuth Valid Until" filters to time picker 
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1149Transaction details page - policy graph - Mark the apim.security policy as internal policy and not user policy
API Connect IntegrationMNTR-1138Auto Setup Domains - domains are setup again in DPOD when no logging target stats exists
Store RetentionMNTR-1053Handle closed ES indices correctly
UIMNTR-1207False warning about device locale not set to EN
UIMNTR-1121Product View button sometimes doesn't respond
UIMNTR-179When navigating between raw messages and transactions page - copy the service name filter to the object name filter
UIMNTR-773Schedule expression should not accept two asterisks in a row
UIMNTR-1185Monitored devices settings tab - domains filter is not working properly
UIMNTR-1202Minor changes to dark theme colors
UIMNTR-1051When user is not allowed to see raw messages and payloads, the transaction page should focus on the ext latency tab
UIMNTR-1135Device Management → Settings → Temp domain filter should be dependent on the device filter
UIMNTR-1155Early Failed dashboard - font size is different than other dashboards
UIMNTR-998Reports page new look
Maintenance - SyncMNTR-1199Domain Sync doesn't always exclude DPOD's log targets
DevOps Services PortalMNTR-1137When using external self service portal, the DevOps portal executions page does not honor custom roles
DevOps Services PortalMNTR-1133Add System parameter for setting local WSDL upload size limit 
Device ResourcesMNTR-1244Domain restart is not identified in some cases
Device ResourcesMNTR-1245Device Resources fails when sampling Docker resources
APM IntegrationMNTR-1268Add gtid parameter to transaction page
AlertsMNTR-1284Empty Email sometimes being sent when alert finished with no results
Alerts / ReportsMNTR-1015Service filter does not always work
Alerts / ReportsMNTR-1196Various reports and alerts definition fixes
ReportsMNTR-1119White Space in report filters may cause wrong results.
ReportsMNTR-648Empty ES Headers field in report setup causes an exception to be printed to the logs
PerformanceMNTR-1283Alerts and Reports should use internal indices metadata
PerformanceMNTR-1261Prepare 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


SecurityMNTR-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)

SecurityMNTR-1272Add audit logger to UI service
InstallMNTR-1134Upgrade OS to CentOS 7.4 (appliance installation only)
InstallMNTR-869Fix 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
UI - Transaction DashboardsMNTR-1067DataPower 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(thumbs up)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 SupportMNTR-896Added 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 IntegrationMNTR-1038New API Connect Recent Activity dashboard that displays a high-level overview of APIs activity
ReportsMNTR-982

New URI Summary Latency report
New URI Detailed Latency Report

UI - APIsMNTR-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.

UIMNTR-1037Columns can be hidden or reordered in the Transactions, Raw Messages and API Connect Transactions pages
UIMNTR-1014

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

UIMNTR-731New widget for generating schedule expressions (for scheduling reports, alerts and appliance maintenance plans)
DevopsMNTR-1030Support 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 / SecurityMNTR-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.

SecurityMNTR-1140/1Add ability to disable management of local user registries for better security regulations requirements compliance.


Fix List

Component
Issue
Description
UIMNTR-468Agents page - the message column is too narrow
Reports/Alerts view page - the schedule column is too narrow
UIMNTR-992Show which view is selected (IDG or API Connect)
UIMNTR-993When using auto refresh, the time filter is showing incorrect time
UIMNTR-640In 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
UIMNTR-701The top navigation bar is not displayed correctly for small screen resolutions
UIMNTR-1029A message was added to agent page when the monitored device's time is later than DPOD's agent time
UIMNTR-1042Service URI/URL dashboards shows only the first 10 results while more exists.
UIMNTR-521Limit the number of displayed raw messages per transaction to 2500 as it was causing some browsers to hang
UIMNTR-924XML Firewall service transactions do not appear in the transactions page for monitored devices with firmware 7.6
UI - FiltersMNTR-961On Transaction List  page, the combination of Domain and Payload filters does not work (fixed for IDG 7.6+)
UI - FiltersMNTR-853Domain filter shows duplicate domain names
UI - FiltersMNTR-871Add URI Filter to Service URL Calls dashboard
UI - FiltersMNTR-919Favorite filters widget - a missing confirmation dialog was added before deleting a saved filter
UI - Free text search filterMNTR-936In logical transaction mode, a  missing free text filter was added to Transactions List page 
REST APIMNTR-776Device REST API - correct prefix was added to the agent names when adding a device
REST APIMNTR-815Add new REST API calls to show all available Reports, Alerts and Appliance Maintenance API calls
DevOps Services PortalMNTR-945Allow to setup a separate temporary domain (for WSDL validation and promotion) for each device 
DevOps Services PortalMNTR-1023Truncate error messages that are longer than 5000 characters
DevOps Services PortalMNTR-1039Errors while navigating to services list after DPOD starts
DevOps Services PortalMNTR-1085Allow access to DevOps services portal from external self-service DPOD installation
Payload CaptureMNTR-994Show correct message when trying to start payload capture while the DataPower Web Services Management Agent is disabled
Maintenance PlansMNTR-767When scheduling a maintenance plan - show message to the user about entering Cron schedule expression 1 minute before the scheduled time 
Maintenance PlansMNTR-1010Show the start time of each maintenance plan and task
Replace the email recipient widget in the plan edit page with a newer widget
Maintenance Plans - BackupMNTR-910When backup could not access the device, show a meaningful message instead of "No Domains Found"
Maintenance Plans - SyncMNTR-765Sync activity edit page - keep user selection of the sync activity type, do not change "Specific Domain" to "Domain by Pattern"
Maintenance Plans - SyncMNTR-‎1098In some cases DPOD may remove password map aliases during sync
Restart AnalysisMNTR-691Get monitored devices' audit logs as binary files and not text files
UIMNTR-1003When drilling down to the transaction details in the Early Failed dashboard, highlight the early failed tab and generate correct breadcrumbs
UIMNTR-1011Show store status message with the earliest stored syslog document to administrators
UIMNTR-1034Raw messages page - replace the Global Transaction ID column with Message Code column
UIMNTR-446Cron schedule expression - Don't allow * value for seconds
UIMNTR-833Device resource agent page - number format exception
UIMNTR-923Dropped Syslog Messages graph - show curve instead of spikes when zomming in
UIMNTR-942Use a newer email recepient widget instead of the old one in the alerts and maintenance plans pages
UIMNTR-978Monitored device setup page - For monitored devices with no domains, the "Domains syslog status" button should be disabled
UIMNTR-997The sidebar arrow sometimes doesn't disappear
UIMNTR-1005Internal Health → Agents page - Resources agent should not show Red status if there are no monitored devices
UIMNTR-1019When showing endpoints in the mange devices page, there is an error when showing B2BGW endpoints
UIMNTR-134Add paging to security dashboards
Performance / SecurityMNTR-1026
MNTR-1047
MNTR-1050
MNTR-1022
Upgraded Derby to 10.14.1.0
Upgraded TomEE to 1.7.5
Upgraded Java to 8u152
Upgraded openSSL 1.1.0f to 1.1.0g
Logical TXMNTR-1061Add ES Plugin installation for event forwarding to minimize manual steps
Developer EditionMNTR-1052Provide user notification on the use limit of days for DPOD Developer edition on Docker (7 days) and the existon OVA files for Developer Edition (30 days)
AlertsMNTR-1122Clean old records from internal configuration database when exceeds certain size


Release Notes DPOD v1.0.6

New Features in v1.0.6

ComponentIssueDescription

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 dashboardMNTR-944Add 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 - SharingMNTR-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 - NotificationsMNTR-652Add recent notifications panel that displays recent UI notifications for the user (not persisted)
UI - ChartsMNTR-827Allow users to change the size of the series (number of values) that is displayed in charts of type "top N"
InstallMNTR-899Provide 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)

Fix List

ComponentIssueDescription
UIMNTR-703Wrong 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 - APIsMNTR-935SFTP transactions stay in "INPROCESS" state
IntegrationMNTR-926Custom Transaction is not working properly with IDG FW 7.6.0.1
UIMNTR-190Consistent 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
DRMNTR-783Add Script that calls DR REST API to set DPOD installation as a standby machine
InstallMNTR-819Fix validation of NTP configuration
SecurityMNTR-866Add procedure for SSL client authentication to IDG XML management interface
UIMNTR-867Add minimum value of 10 seconds to auto_navigation_to_home.interval in user preferences
history AlertsMNTR-907Syslog_Errors_MessageCode alert does not find all message codes
UIMNTR-915After adding a device redirect the user to the setup tab
ManagementMNTR-917Add additional files to system backup and restore
UIMNTR-642Fix duplicate key exception while adding a new device and quickly navigating to the device panel

Release Notes DPOD v1.0.5

New Features in v1.0.5

ComponentIssueDescription

Maintenance Plan - Backup (thumbs up)

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 (star) - 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 (thumbs up)

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 -B2BMNTR-463Add 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(star)

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(star)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 (thumbs up)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 AnalysisMNTR-191Add 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.
ReportsMNTR-778New reports that export all sampled configurations per service
WS-MMNTR-629

Add a new Dashboard for each WS-M Agent that shows statistics for dropped WS-M events.

Requires firmware 7.5.2.4+




Fix List

ComponentIssueDescription
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

SecurityMNTR-658When LDAP is enabled, built-in roles shouldn't display users and groups
SecurityMNTR-708LDAP not working with custom group attribute
InstallMNTR-723License generation failed
PerformanceMNTR-750Under high load some syslog events might have a wrong time causing some transactions to stay in "In Process" state- CRITICAL
InstallMNTR-340Different active MQ installations used the same path to persist messages
AlertsMNTR-466Minor UI defects
UIMNTR-510An MPGW transaction with invalid json request might not appear in the UI
UIMNTR-511

Transaction not listed when message rejected by filter which is the first action

Config SampleMNTR-490Added a new filter (object type) to "enabled but down dashboard"
UIMNTR-725When a login is required again, the user is not directed to the same page they were on
UIMNTR-729Notify 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
UIMNTR-769Filter 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
UIMNTR-224When a transaction failed on backend connection add the BE URL to the Error analysis summary.
ManagementMNTR-823Application services may fail if started using app-util and SSH session is terminated


Known Issues

ComponentIssueDescription




Release Notes DPOD v1.0.4

New Features in v1.0.4

ComponentIssueDescription

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.

ManagementMNTR-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.

B2BMNTR-556Show AS2 FSH in down objects but enabled Dashboards.
Install

MNTR-568

MNTR-553

MNTR-475

Support Docker containers for Developer Edition only - removed in v1.0.5. used for internal product development only
PresaleMNTR-596Providing 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 AgentMNTR-636Limit payload capture size when collected by DP Gateway (default to 10MB) - requires firmware 7.5.2.4
UIMNTR-557Add a new API to add a monitored device to DPOD to assist integrate DPOD in a DevOps implementation.

Fix List

ComponentIssueDescription
Performance

MNTR-577

MNTR-567

MNTR-534

MNTR-526

MNTR-535

MNTR-583

Store performance improvements
HAMNTR-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-438Static / Cache data was flushed under load causing temporary data loss
UIMNTR-284Filter 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 AgentsMNTR-528Bind a WS-M agent to a domain was persisted.
PerformanceMNTR-540Static 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.

UIMNTR-572Prevent 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-294Prevent deletion of the last user with administrative rights.
PerformanceMNTR-622Under 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
SecurityMNTR-628Add LDAP password encryption.
Sample Config
MNTR-630Increase Object's Name size limit to support B2B object with long names.
UIMNTR-482MPGW HTTP GET transaction not displayed when "Process Messages Whose Body Is Empty" is off. Requires firmware 7.5.2.4
AlertsMNTR-428After executing an alert, the execution history record was not fully complete in Store.
ReportsMNTR-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
InstallMNTR-460Fix 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.


InstallMNTR-547Add 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

ComponentIssueDescription



Release Notes DPOD v1.0.3

New Features in v1.0.3

ComponentIssueDescription

UI

MNTR-67Allow 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 ConfigMNTR-369Added support for collecting service configuration data about B2B Gateway, B2B Partners and Partner Destination.
UIMNTR-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 .

UIMNTR-467New dashboard to show all DataPower objects that are enabled but in op. state down.
AlertsMNTR-493Add a 4th alert type - "LIST" that sends an alert if a query result is in a predefined user list (whitelist or blacklist).


Fix List

ComponentIssueDescription
AlertsMNTR-417Removed usage of alert internal id in the REST API.
UIMNTR-367

In the Transaction details page - the payload tab should be focused if it's the only tab.

General

MNTR-465Connect 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.

InstallMNTR-160Add scripts to assist with product removal from DataPower Gateway.
UIMNTR-471Service 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.

SecurityMNTR-474-3Upgrade reports using SMTP to work by default with TLS. Existing customer will require to change port. Backward compatibility will require manual steps.
InstallMNTR-492System startup failed in some cases and require manual restarting - CRITICAL.
UIMNTR-495XMLFirewall services don't show in Transactions Page.
Internal HealthMNTR-497

Under heavy load rolling an index can cause 1-4 seconds delay in data streaming.

InstallMNTR-498Initial size allocation for transaction in store is small due to OS function response changes.
ReportsMNTR-500Add default reports directory.
UIMNTR-502Cannot add monitored device that is configured to use TLSv1.2 in XML Management Interface.

Security

Performance

MNTR-504Upgrade all components to java 8u101.
Sample ConfigMNTR-352Add URI field to the service configuration table.
Sample ConfigMNTR-326Show the service user comments in the service configuration page.


Release Notes DPOD v1.0.2

New Features in v1.0.2

ComponentIssueDescription

UI / Security

MNTR-261Add ability to restrict logins of a user with admin privilege to specific IP / subnet
UIMNTR-197Add global transaction id to filters in the Raw messages and Extended transactions screens.
AnalyticsMNTR-6Add a new dashboard that shows reboots/reloads of devices / domains and some other characteristics of the event.

UI

Sample Config

MNTR-296Add support for SSLProxy and TCPProxy Objects.
Internal HealthMNTR-178New Internal Health Dashboard Provides information about Store Performance
UIMNTR-336DPOD Administrator is prevented from creating duplicate WS-M subscriptions.
InstallMNTR-333Add a minimal configuration option to Standard Edition requiring only 16GB of Memory
WS-M AgentMNTR-272Capture JSON Payload from WS-M Events. (Requires IDG firmware 7.5.2)
InstallMNTR-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 (star) - 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 TransactionMNTR-16Technology Preview (star)- 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.

Fix List

ComponentIssueDescription
UIMNTR-370Add an alert to the user before invoking Extended Transaction configuration about its intrusive nature
UIMNTR-48Devices filter does not contain recently-added devices. Fix most common situations of known bug MNTR-175

REPORTS

UI

MNTR-24Trim inputs fields across UI screens.
Internal HealthMNTR-301Enhance product must gather.
ReportsMNTR-155Add a header to all reports that includes all the report's filters.
ReportsMNTR-154Report headers will now contain actual time range instead of relational (e.g last hour)
Change this to have the actual range.
ReportsMNTR-316Clean internal sort values from reports
UIMNTR-336WS-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 ConfigMNTR-309Long configuration sampling caused timeouts. Increased default timeout to 90 minutes.
Internal HealthMNTR-241Store HeapDump directed to directory /log to avoid using up the Store.
Internal HealthMNTR-257

Stop all services from the CLI may create issues with pid files left behind.


Release Notes DPOD v1.0.1

New Features in v1.0.1

ComponentIssueDescription
UIMNTR-200Added support to disable/enable log targets. Used to disconnect DPOD for planned outages or uninstall procedure of a Device from DPOD
InstallMNTR-204Reduce 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

PresaleMNTR-222Generate 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.
UIMNTR-266Expose WSM subscription parameters as system parameters
B2BMNTR-303Transactions screen now supports presenting of B2B transactions.
ReportsMNTR-157Allowing 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

ComponentIssueDescription
SecurityMNTR-213Improve 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
UIMNTR-203

Check in the UI that the difference between server time and browser time (GMT) is not greater than 10 minutes

UIMNTR-216Improved finding the correct time zone of the browser
WSM Agent

MNTR-246

MNTR-237

Bad grammar XML caused infinite parsing loop
UIMNTR-230When user adds a new IDG in DPOD, validate that device name does not contain spaces
UIMNTR-226Improve system messages during IDG setup issues in DPOD UI
Config SampleMNTR-232Change audit record doesn't always display
SecurityMNTR-206Add confirmation of password for SOMA requests credentials
InstallMNTR-172Improve 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 AgentMNTR-302Improve error handling when failed to identify messages object types when storing parsed messages.

Known Issues

ComponentIssueDescription
GeneralMNTR-175DPOD shows "Unknown" device or domain








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