Release Notes

IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard v1.0.8.6

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Release Notes

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  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 v1.0.8.6

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

Custom Dashboards

MNTR-1694
MNTR-1741

Admins can design custom dashboards containing DPOD widgets.
Custom dashboards are available to all users from the Dashboards menu.

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1698
MNTR-1705
MNTR-1710
MNTR-1716

New option to trace and view policy variables for specific API Connect transactions (by Catalog and API Name).

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1707

Improved API Connect side calls analysis.

Monitoring

MNTR-1701

Support for monitoring transactions in the default domain.

Management

MNTR-1534

When removing a monitored device from DPOD - all DPOD's log targets can be removed from the monitored device.

Fix List

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

UI

MNTR-1702

Fix column width in API Connect HTTP Response Codes Count chart

UI

MNTR-1581

Page is scrolled back all the way up when navigation occurs

UI

MNTR-1744

Old deprecated Extended Transaction setup buttons are collapsed and not visible by default

UI

MNTR-1757

Restarts dashboard Domain filter fix

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1761

Early Failed grid shows empty Client ID field

System

MNTR-1726

Fix an issue where multiple indices were created for DPOD's static data - CRITICAL

APM Integration

MNTR-1738

Provide external links for APM

Cell Environment

MNTR-1706

Fixes for the cell configuration utility

LDAP

MNTR-1736

Better LDAP error messages

LDAP

MNTR-1746

LDAPS fails if the certificate CN does not match host name

Security

MNTR-1739

Updated Java to 8u192

Stability

MNTR-538

Add additional GC logs in Flume agents


Release Notes DPOD v1.0.8.5

New Features in v1.0.8.5

 

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

API Connect Integration

MNTR-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 Integration

MNTR-1645

New dashboard for comparing latency between API versions.

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1648

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

API Connect Integration

MNTR-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 Integration

MNTR-1452

Analyze API Connect Early Failed Transactions

Cell Environment

MNTR-1532

DPOD's processing can now be distributed across different federated servers in order to handle high transaction loads (thousands of tx per second)

DevOps Services Portal

MNTR-1512

New functionality to import service into multiple devices

DevOps Services Portal

MNTR-1091

New functionality to read custom JSON from the service comment and populate a searchable description in DPOD's Services portal page

B2B

MNTR-1365

Raw messages can now be filtered by From/To B2B Partner Profiles

Reports and Alerts

MNTR-1549

Reports and alerts' JSON can have named parameters

UI

MNTR-1104

Add "Yesterday", "Last Week" and "Last Month" to dashboards and reports time filter

UI

MNTR-1641

New "Elegant" UI theme

 

Fix List

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

Reports

MNTR-1497
MNTR-1549

New reports on average service latency, average request size and services above specific elapsed time

Reports

MNTR-1680

Domain Request Size report shows wrong value in the "Transactions Count" column

Alerts

MNTR-1465

New alert on message code count that exceeds a threshold value

UI

MNTR-1620
MNTR-1662

Add request and response sizes to transactions list and transaction details pages

UI

MNTR-1526

Keep Device and Domain filter selections when navigation through the System Health dashboard

UI

MNTR-1465

In the System Health dashboard - the "Devices Memory" analyze link should open the Device Resources dashboard

UI

MNTR-1516

Tx with Probes dashboard - measured units are now "Policy Rules" instead of "Number of Transactions"

UI

MNTR-1459

Show correct latency analysis for some XML Firewall services

UI

MNTR-1296

Add a warning when removing Device Resources sampling from a monitored device

Syslog Agents

MNTR-1551

Show correct time for syslogs coming from a timezone different than DPOD/user browser

Auto Setup Domains

MNTR-1377

When automatically setting up a domain that was reset - use its original analysis level

Maintenance Plan

MNTR-1431

Backup, 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 Integration

MNTR-1206

API Connect reports and alerts - filters does not work

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1523

Empty API names are now shown as "Unknown" instead of a blank name, so they can be searched

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1525

UI shows an error for some API Connect transactions

Security

MNTR-1509

Non-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

Stability

MNTR-1574
MNTR-1555
MNTR-1591

Fix internal metadata rebuilds errors

Stability

MNTR-1569

Don't use internal metadata if it is more than one hour old

Stability

MNTR-1566

Rotate GC logs after 5 generations to save disk space

Stability

MNTR-1554

Add channel utilization and free memory graphs to syslog and WS-M agents drill-down pages

Stability

MNTR-1331

Print error UUID in the logs for failed internal alert publishing

Performance

MNTR-1681

Reduced the size of the stored messages


Release Notes DPOD v1.0.8

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

IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard (DPOD) v1.0.8.6