Release Notes

IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard v1.0.10.0

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Release Notes 1.0.10.1

Fix List

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

Security

MNTR-2759 
MNTR-2760
MNTR-2765
MNTR-2768
MNTR-2769
MNTR-2770
MNTR-2772
MNTR-2777
MNTR-2779
MNTR-2780
MNTR-2781
MNTR-2791
MNTR-2798

Deprecated SSH cryptographic settings, HTTP security header not detected, vulnerable Javascript library (CVE-2019-11358, CVE-2015-9251)

Release Notes 1.0.10.0

New Features

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

API Connect Integration Improvements

MNTR-2377

Support for DataPower API Gateway.

API Connect Integration Improvements

MNTR-2686

Extended transactions page now shows API Connect transactions (when extended transactions are enabled).

API Connect Integration Improvements

MNTR-1844

Reworked API Connect transaction drill-down page to show more accurate transaction flow and latency information.

LDAP Integration

MNTR-2304

Improved integration with LDAP to allow more flexibility and simplicity in the LDAP registry configuration.

LDAP Integration

MNTR-1751

Better support for secure LDAP (LDAPS) using TLSv1.2 and host name verifier.

Objects Down Monitor

MNTR-2714

Enabled but Down list of monitoring classes' can now be altered via a system parameter.

Reports and Alerts

MNTR-2158

New report - latency statistics grouped by gateway/domain/service name.

Reports and Alerts

MNTR-2641

Support TLSv1.2 for SMTP with STARTTLS

UI

MNTR-2662

New Device Information panel under Manage→Gateways, showing summarized information about the gateway, such as firmware level and device type 

Fix List

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

API Connect Integration Improvements

MNTR-1841

API Policies dashboard are now sorted by API Name + Policy Name  + Version

API Connect Integration Improvements

MNTR-2377

API Connect URI and URL calls dashboards can now be filtered by API attributes.

Objects Down Monitor

MNTR-2705

Speed up the Objects Monitor sampling

Support for IDG 2018

MNTR-2275

SOMA messages containing errors where not parsed correctly for IDG 2018.4.1.X

Support for IDG 2018

MNTR-2273

Some DPOD functionality, such as backup and DevOps portal operations, failed on IDG 2018.1.6

Restart Analysis

MNTR-1906

Out of memory when reading audit log files.
Added support for reading more than 3 audit log file generations.

Syslog Agents

MNTR-2154

MNTR-2587

Extended latency message was not parsed correctly in some cases.

UI

MNTR-2695

Add "Copy to Clipboard" button to the Manage->Debug Log page

UI

MNTR-2722

Reworked EULA/License page

General

MNTR-2177

Remove ES deprecation warnings from the UI and reports servers

DPOD Admin Interface

MNTR-2653

AppAdmin fails to parse available services when the customer has a custom message in /etc/profile

Documentation

MNTR-1921

Better documentation for the Cell environment upgrade process

Stability

MNTR-1388

Show an internal alert if DPOD's log targets are not configured correctly.

Security

MNTR-2711

Upgraded CentOS to 7.7

Security

MNTR-2591

Upgraded TomEE server to 8.0.0
Upgraded Java to OpenJDK 11.0.5+10

Security

MNTR-2243

Upgraded ElasticSearch to 6.8.1

Release Notes 1.0.9.0

New Features

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 1.0.8.6

New Features

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

Component

Issue

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