Release Notes

IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard v1.0.9.0

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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 v1.0.9

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

Appliance Migration Wizard

MNTR-1903
MNTR-1910

A step by step wizard to backup and restore configuration between gateways.
The wizard backs up a source gateway, performs validation on both source and target, and restore the backup to the target gateway.

Services Configuration Changes Analysis

MNTR-1849
MNTR-1850
MNTR-1929

A new dashboard showing all recent configuration changes for a service and a latency or number of errors around the time of change thus assisting to evaluate the run-time effect of change.

The transaction drill-down page shows whether a recent configuration change was made.

Reports and Alerts History Portal

MNTR-1793

A new portal for reports and alerts executions that allows you to view past alerts or reports or even download reports.

Reports and Alerts Improvements

MNTR-1411

More filter types are now available for API Connect reports and alerts, as reports and alerts are now bound to a product (Gateway or API Connect),

Reports and Alerts Improvements

MNTR-1771

New alert and system health metric for monitoring MQ Connection Utilization

Reports and Alerts Improvements

MNTR-862

New alert for monitoring services that did not run in the last X minutes.

Reports and Alerts Improvements

MNTR-1955

New alert for monitoring API Connect transactions that ended with a specific HTTP status code

Reports and Alerts Improvements

MNTR-2158

Added a new Transactions Latency Statistics report.

API Connect Integration Improvements 

MNTR-1843

Added context variable capturing to the policy variables capture

API Connect Integration Improvements

MNTR-859
MNTR-1673
MNTR-1791
MNTR-1820
MNTR-1827

Handle more cases of early failed transactions (OAuth, 403, etc)
Improved error analysis
Improved payload recording

New DPOD Admin Interface

MNTR-1927
MNTR-1236
MNTR-1831

Most of DPOD's admin functionality, such as stopping or starting DPOD's services, is available through a new Web UI

New Gateway MQ Objects Dashboard

MNTR-1771

A new dashboard that shows Gateway's MQ objects stats such as number of idle and active connections

Support for IDG 2018

MNTR-1768

Support sync and firmware upgrade for IDG 2018.x firmwares

REST API

MNTR-1909

New REST API for updating gateway's details

Fix List

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

Syslog agents

MNTR-1774

Fix - removed or disabled log targets are reconfigured and enabled when setting up syslogs again

Transactions Dashboard

MNTR-2154

Transactions with non-standard Global Transaction ID are not showing correctly in the transaction drilldown page

Transactions Dashboard

MNTR-2085

Fix a problem with parsing and showing WSProxy URIs that contain plus signs

Transactions Dashboard

MNTR-1968

Fix - some transactions stay in Inprocess status when analysis level is Max TPS

API Connect Integration

MNTR-1692

Add HTTP FE response code to API-C total transactions report

UI

MNTR-1773

Show "Gateway" instead of "IDG" in the top menu product view selection

UI

MNTR-1714

Charts and graphs are now more accurate

UI

MNTR-1836

Transaction page - remove duplicate errors from error analysis

UI

MNTR-1785

Favorite filters display shows current filters instead of saved ones in the description

UI

MNTR-1718

Buttons in maintenance screens are not visible on low screen resolutions

UI

MNTR-1821

Filters does not work in the extended transactions page

UI

MNTR-1871

In change audit - the "time" title is not "time sampled"

UI

MNTR-1916

Autocomplete filter not updating when selecting the last value in multi-select

UI

MNTR-1437

Fix wrong wording on system parameter name

UI

MNTR-1454

Fix - don't change product view in the Transaction Debug Log/Purge pages

UI

MNTR-1642

Favorite filters should not save product view parameter

UI

MNTR-1745

"Theme" system parameter options should include the "Elegant" theme

UI

MNTR-1762

In API Connect transaction page, show "No Data" when no data exists

UI

MNTR-1838

Allow text selection for the JSON field in built-in reports/alerts edit page

LDAP

MNTR-854

When using LDAP with group properties for roles, adding a custom role to a group did not work

LDAP

MNTR-1901

Better Handling of DNs with commas and parentheses in the UI and utilities

Reports and Alerts

MNTR-1812

System error report did not show the error message

Reports and Alerts

MNTR-1721

Objects Down alert should have the object name in the alert subject

Reports and Alerts

MNTR-1912

Alerts created from the Service URI/URL calls pages are missing the index fields and document type fields

Reports and Alerts

MNTR-1817

Fix a bug in alert's equal and non-equal comparators

Maintenance

MNTR-1825

Long running maintenance sync tasks were not always canceled automatically

Maintenance

MNTR-1937

Backup tasks support longer lists of domains 

Installation

MNTR-1795

Added more validations to federation installation scripts

Installation

MNTR-1896

Allow to create a cell environment on virtual platforms

Installation

MNTR-1899

Better free space checking before starting DPOD update

Stability

MNTR-1882

Upgrade ElasticSearch to 6.6

Stability

MNTR-1601
MNTR-1697
MNTR-1730
MNTR-1775
MNTR-1815
MNTR-1816
MNTR-1894
MNTR-1932

Internal stability fixes

Stability

MNTR-1826

Changed database compression logic to prevent issues with bloated database size

Security

MNTR-1102

Upgrade Java to OpenJDK 11.0.2

Documentation

MNTR-1777
MNTR-1921

Added more documentation about delivery options for reports.
Better documentation of Cell environment upgrade.

 

 

 

Release Notes DPOD v1.0.8.6

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

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