IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard v1.0.10.0
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Release Notes
- Amit Munwes
- Shachar Greenberg
- Assaf Cohen (Deactivated)
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 - includes components / features that are going to be removed from the product (or support) in the near feature
Release Notes 1.0.10.1
Fix List
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Appliance Migration Wizard | MNTR-1903 MNTR-1910 | A step by step wizard to backup and restore configuration between gateways. |
| Services Configuration Changes Analysis | 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Custom Dashboards | MNTR-1694 MNTR-1741 | Admins can design custom dashboards containing DPOD widgets. |
| API Connect Integration | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 1.0.8.5
New Features
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| UI | MNTR-2139 | The Time Picker widget is sometimes hidden by the top menu bar |
| 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 | Upgrade ES to 5.6 |
| APM Integration | 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 1.0.8.0
New Features
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Non Intrusive Extended TX | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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) |
| 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 | Limit dynamic port allocation range Improving product stability |
Release Notes 1.0.7.0
New Features
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 | 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 | 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 |
| UI - APIs | MNTR-995 MNTR-996 | Added latency percentile data to Service URL/URI Calls dashboards. |
| 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | MNTR-871 | Add URI Filter to Service URL Calls dashboard |
| UI - Filters | MNTR-919 | Favorite filters widget - a missing confirmation dialog was added before deleting a saved filter |
| UI - Free text search filter | MNTR-936 | In logical transaction mode, a missing free text filter was added to Transactions List page |
| REST API | MNTR-776 | Device REST API - correct prefix was added to the agent names when adding a device |
| REST API | MNTR-815 | Add new REST API calls to show all available Reports, Alerts and Appliance Maintenance API calls |
| DevOps Services Portal | MNTR-945 | Allow to setup a separate temporary domain (for WSDL validation and promotion) for each device |
| DevOps Services Portal | MNTR-1023 | Truncate error messages that are longer than 5000 characters |
| DevOps Services Portal | MNTR-1039 | Errors while navigating to services list after DPOD starts |
| DevOps Services Portal | MNTR-1085 | Allow access to DevOps services portal from external self-service DPOD installation |
| Payload Capture | MNTR-994 | Show correct message when trying to start payload capture while the DataPower Web Services Management Agent is disabled |
| Maintenance Plans | MNTR-767 | When scheduling a maintenance plan - show message to the user about entering Cron schedule expression 1 minute before the scheduled time |
| Maintenance Plans | MNTR-1010 | Show 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 - Backup | MNTR-910 | When backup could not access the device, show a meaningful message instead of "No Domains Found" |
| Maintenance Plans - Sync | MNTR-765 | Sync activity edit page - keep user selection of the sync activity type, do not change "Specific Domain" to "Domain by Pattern" |
| Maintenance Plans - Sync | MNTR-1098 | In some cases DPOD may remove password map aliases during sync |
| Restart Analysis | MNTR-691 | Get monitored devices' audit logs as binary files and not text files |
| UI | MNTR-1003 | When drilling down to the transaction details in the Early Failed dashboard, highlight the early failed tab and generate correct breadcrumbs |
| UI | MNTR-1011 | Show store status message with the earliest stored syslog document to administrators |
| UI | MNTR-1034 | Raw messages page - replace the Global Transaction ID column with Message Code column |
| UI | MNTR-446 | Cron schedule expression - Don't allow * value for seconds |
| UI | MNTR-833 | Device resource agent page - number format exception |
| UI | MNTR-923 | Dropped Syslog Messages graph - show curve instead of spikes when zomming in |
| UI | MNTR-942 | Use a newer email recepient widget instead of the old one in the alerts and maintenance plans pages |
| UI | MNTR-978 | Monitored device setup page - For monitored devices with no domains, the "Domains syslog status" button should be disabled |
| UI | MNTR-997 | The sidebar arrow sometimes doesn't disappear |
| UI | MNTR-1005 | Internal Health → Agents page - Resources agent should not show Red status if there are no monitored devices |
| UI | MNTR-1019 | When showing endpoints in the mange devices page, there is an error when showing B2BGW endpoints |
| UI | MNTR-134 | Add paging to security dashboards |
| Performance / Security | MNTR-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 TX | MNTR-1061 | Add ES Plugin installation for event forwarding to minimize manual steps |
| Developer Edition | MNTR-1052 | Provide 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) |
| Alerts | MNTR-1122 | Clean old records from internal configuration database when exceeds certain size |
Release Notes 1.0.6.0
New Features
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
DevOps Services Portal | MNTR-885/889 MNTR-941/929 MNTR-852/879 | 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 dashboard | MNTR-944 | Add 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 | 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 | 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 - Sharing | MNTR-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 - Notifications | MNTR-652 | Add recent notifications panel that displays recent UI notifications for the user (not persisted) |
| UI - Charts | MNTR-827 | Allow users to change the size of the series (number of values) that is displayed in charts of type "top N" |
| Install | MNTR-899 | Provide 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
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| UI | MNTR-703 | Wrong object class name on "Failed objects" object filter |
| Config Sync | Add additional limitations to sync documentation Fix wrong URL in sync task completion email link | |
| UI - APIs | MNTR-935 | SFTP transactions stay in "INPROCESS" state |
| Integration | MNTR-926 | Custom Transaction is not working properly with IDG FW 7.6.0.1 |
| UI | MNTR-190 | Consistent table drill-down and filter in transaction list screen |
| Security | 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 | Improve functionality of app_ldap_utilities.sh Improve LDAP traces | |
| Management | Enrich must-gather data collection | |
| DR | MNTR-783 | Add Script that calls DR REST API to set DPOD installation as a standby machine |
| Install | MNTR-819 | Fix validation of NTP configuration |
| Security | MNTR-866 | Add procedure for SSL client authentication to IDG XML management interface |
| UI | MNTR-867 | Add minimum value of 10 seconds to auto_navigation_to_home.interval in user preferences |
| history Alerts | MNTR-907 | Syslog_Errors_MessageCode alert does not find all message codes |
| UI | MNTR-915 | After adding a device redirect the user to the setup tab |
| Management | MNTR-917 | Add additional files to system backup and restore |
| UI | MNTR-642 | Fix duplicate key exception while adding a new device and quickly navigating to the device panel |
Release Notes 1.0.5.0
New Features
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Maintenance Plan - Backup | MNTR-693/5 MNTR-743/5/7 MNTR-762/3 | Add backup plan (secure backup, domain / device export) Requires firmware 7.1+ |
| Maintenance Plan - Sync | MNTR-693/5 MNTR-732/7/9 MNTR-740/1/2/4/5/7 MNTR-762/3/8 MNTR-774/6 | Add synchronization plan to synchronize device / domain configuration. Requires firmware 7.1+ |
| API-C integration | MNTR-665/7 MNTR-711/2/3 MNTR-758/9 MNTR-705/7 MNTR-785/9 | 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 | 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 -B2B | MNTR-463 | Add filter to search logs by message id or partner id |
| UI - APIs | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Analysis | MNTR-191 | Add about a dozen built-in common recommendations to assist with SSL issues in transactions. |
| Devops | Support automation of new domains configuration in DPOD by setting a name prefix. | |
| DR | 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. | |
| Reports | MNTR-778 | New reports that export all sampled configurations per service |
| WS-M | MNTR-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
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Performance / Security | Upgraded ES to 2.4.4 Upgraded TomEE to 1.7.4 | |
| Performance | Removed Optimizer script introduced in (1.0.4) and implemented all its improvements as built inside the new ISO file / upgrade procedure. | |
| Install | 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 | |
| Security | MNTR-658 | When LDAP is enabled, built-in roles shouldn't display users and groups |
| Security | MNTR-708 | LDAP not working with custom group attribute |
| Install | MNTR-723 | License generation failed |
| Performance | MNTR-750 | Under high load some syslog events might have a wrong time causing some transactions to stay in "In Process" state- CRITICAL |
| Install | MNTR-340 | Different active MQ installations used the same path to persist messages |
| Alerts | MNTR-466 | Minor UI defects |
| UI | MNTR-510 | An MPGW transaction with invalid json request might not appear in the UI |
| UI | MNTR-511 | Transaction not listed when message rejected by filter which is the first action |
| Config Sample | MNTR-490 | Added a new filter (object type) to "enabled but down dashboard" |
| UI | MNTR-725 | When a login is required again, the user is not directed to the same page they were on |
| UI | MNTR-729 | Notify users to run removal scripts (as mentioned in documentation) to complete the removal of a monitored device from DPOD. |
| Alerts / Reports | Syslog / Email sender was not thread safe and caused unwanted behavior under load | |
| UI | MNTR-769 | Filter 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 |
| UI | MNTR-224 | When a transaction failed on backend connection add the BE URL to the Error analysis summary. |
| Management | MNTR-823 | Application services may fail if started using app-util and SSH session is terminated |
Known Issues
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Release Notes 1.0.4.0
New Features
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Alerts | 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 | 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. | |
| Management | MNTR-118 | DPOD installation configure with built-in user repository allows its users to change their own passwords. |
Internal Health Alerts | Add internal health alert component. For more details read here. | |
| Performance | 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. | |
| B2B | MNTR-556 | Show AS2 FSH in down objects but enabled Dashboards. |
| Install | Support Docker containers for Developer Edition only - removed in v1.0.5. used for internal product development only | |
| Presale | MNTR-596 | Providing Sizing tool to run in customer device and gather statistics |
| Security | Provide assisting script to configure LDAP - LDAP Configuration Script. | |
| WS-M Agent | MNTR-636 | Limit payload capture size when collected by DP Gateway (default to 10MB) - requires firmware 7.5.2.4 |
| UI | MNTR-557 | Add a new API to add a monitored device to DPOD to assist integrate DPOD in a DevOps implementation. |
Fix List
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Performance | Store performance improvements | |
| HA | MNTR-585 | Sync Store and DB with new Attached Gateway after move from Primary to Secondary DPOD installation in Active/Passive Scenario |
UI | Transaction with callable rule invocation might appear several times on Transaction List screen. Requires firmware 7.5.2.4 | |
| UI | Add last /first buttons to transaction list (limited to 10K results). | |
| Performance | MNTR-438 | Static / Cache data was flushed under load causing temporary data loss |
| UI | MNTR-284 | Filter internal DPOD keep alive message from Raw messages panels |
| Performance / Security | MNTR-252 | 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 Agents | MNTR-528 | Bind a WS-M agent to a domain was persisted. |
| Performance | MNTR-540 | Static data on an index should be persist once index is no longer active. |
| Store Retention | MNTR-569 | Provide script to adjust store size after a change of capacity was performed to /data filesystem |
| Performance / Agents | MNTR-591 | Add cache to parsing patterns. Improved performance and logging for Interceptor. Improve logging to identify bottlenecks as they occurred. |
| UI | MNTR-572 | Prevent Extended transaction to be configure on API-C domains |
| UI | MNTR-619 | Trim filters such device , domain to enhance user experience |
Security UI | MNTR-294 | Prevent deletion of the last user with administrative rights. |
| Performance | MNTR-622 | Under high load some syslogs events might have a wrong time causing some transactions to stay in "In Process" state- CRITICAL |
| Performance / Agents | MNTR-623 | Improve records order in Raw Messages inside a single Transaction screen based on a microsecond precision. Requires firmware 7.5.2.4 |
| Security | MNTR-628 | Add LDAP password encryption. |
| Sample Config | MNTR-630 | Increase Object's Name size limit to support B2B object with long names. |
| UI | MNTR-482 | MPGW HTTP GET transaction not displayed when "Process Messages Whose Body Is Empty" is off. Requires firmware 7.5.2.4 |
| Alerts | MNTR-428 | After executing an alert, the execution history record was not fully complete in Store. |
| Reports | MNTR-157 | When the report has 0.0 - the value is left aligned in the cell |
| WS-M Agent | Fail processing WSM Payload with two backend-message elements | |
| Install | MNTR-460 | Fix documentation on how to add a second network card to DPOD as described at Scenario 2 : All-In-One with two network interfaces |
| UI | Improve error messages Improve logs | |
| Install | Create REST API for registering WSM and SYSLOG agents. Add automation support for multi server topology. | |
| UI / Agents | Transactions starting with MQ were not always displayed in Transaction lists. | |
| Install | MNTR-547 | Add documentation on how change the default agents port in AIO installation |
| Syslog Agents | 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 | Improve must gather and process diagnostics |
Release Notes 1.0.3.0
New Features
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
UI | MNTR-67 | Allow 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 Config | MNTR-369 | Added support for collecting service configuration data about B2B Gateway, B2B Partners and Partner Destination. |
| UI | MNTR-260 | Added "request URL" to Transaction screen for REST/HTTP services. |
UI / Reports | Provide Kibana 4.5.1 for user custom queries. Available from Internal Health . | |
| Sample Config | Service change audit will show changes for all service attributes. Show configuration details of all the front-side handlers for MPGW services . | |
| UI | MNTR-467 | New dashboard to show all DataPower objects that are enabled but in op. state down. |
| Alerts | MNTR-493 | Add a 4th alert type - "LIST" that sends an alert if a query result is in a predefined user list (whitelist or blacklist). |
Fix List
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alerts | MNTR-417 | Removed usage of alert internal id in the REST API. |
| UI | MNTR-367 | In the Transaction details page - the payload tab should be focused if it's the only tab. |
General | MNTR-465 | Connect to ES as transport client failed. |
| Must gather | Add timeouts to store stats requests. Add version_history.txt file to must gather. | |
| Install | MNTR-160 | Add scripts to assist with product removal from DataPower Gateway. |
| UI | MNTR-471 | Service with loopback shows as IN PROCESS in Transactions page. |
| Performance | Performance issue to get min/max of dates of documents in the store - CRITICAL. | |
| Documentation | Update doc regarding MPGW WSM payload capture. Add to documentation kernel parameters best practice. | |
Reports | Sending reports using SMTP failed to some MS Exchange customers. | |
| Security | MNTR-474-3 | Upgrade reports using SMTP to work by default with TLS. Existing customer will require to change port. Backward compatibility will require manual steps. |
| Install | MNTR-492 | System startup failed in some cases and require manual restarting - CRITICAL. |
| UI | MNTR-495 | XMLFirewall services don't show in Transactions Page. |
| Internal Health | MNTR-497 | Under heavy load rolling an index can cause 1-4 seconds delay in data streaming. |
| Install | MNTR-498 | Initial size allocation for transaction in store is small due to OS function response changes. |
| Reports | MNTR-500 | Add default reports directory. |
| UI | MNTR-502 | Cannot add monitored device that is configured to use TLSv1.2 in XML Management Interface. |
Security Performance | MNTR-504 | Upgrade all components to java 8u101. |
| Sample Config | MNTR-352 | Add URI field to the service configuration table. |
| Sample Config | MNTR-326 | Show the service user comments in the service configuration page. |
Release Notes 1.0.2.0
New Features
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
UI / Security | MNTR-261 | Add ability to restrict logins of a user with admin privilege to specific IP / subnet |
| UI | MNTR-197 | Add global transaction id to filters in the Raw messages and Extended transactions screens. |
| Analytics | MNTR-6 | Add a new dashboard that shows reboots/reloads of devices / domains and some other characteristics of the event. |
UI Sample Config | MNTR-296 | Add support for SSLProxy and TCPProxy Objects. |
| Internal Health | MNTR-178 | New Internal Health Dashboard Provides information about Store Performance |
| UI | MNTR-336 | DPOD Administrator is prevented from creating duplicate WS-M subscriptions. |
| Install | MNTR-333 | Add a minimal configuration option to Standard Edition requiring only 16GB of Memory |
| WS-M Agent | MNTR-272 | Capture JSON Payload from WS-M Events. (Requires IDG firmware 7.5.2) |
| Install | MNTR-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 | Technology Preview - 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 Transaction | MNTR-16 | Technology Preview - 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
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| UI | MNTR-370 | Add an alert to the user before invoking Extended Transaction configuration about its intrusive nature |
| UI | MNTR-48 | Devices filter does not contain recently-added devices. Fix most common situations of known bug MNTR-175 |
REPORTS UI | MNTR-24 | Trim inputs fields across UI screens. |
| Internal Health | MNTR-301 | Enhance product must gather. |
| Reports | MNTR-155 | Add a header to all reports that includes all the report's filters. |
| Reports | MNTR-154 | Report headers will now contain actual time range instead of relational (e.g last hour) Change this to have the actual range. |
| Reports | MNTR-316 | Clean internal sort values from reports |
| UI | MNTR-336 | WS-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 Config | MNTR-309 | Long configuration sampling caused timeouts. Increased default timeout to 90 minutes. |
| Internal Health | MNTR-241 | Store HeapDump directed to directory /log to avoid using up the Store. |
| Internal Health | MNTR-257 | Stop all services from the CLI may create issues with pid files left behind. |
Release Notes 1.0.1.0
New Features
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| UI | MNTR-200 | Added support to disable/enable log targets. Used to disconnect DPOD for planned outages or uninstall procedure of a Device from DPOD |
| Install | MNTR-204 | Reduce system requirements for Dev ISO to 1 Disk 15GB , 3.5 GB Mem |
| Reports | 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 | |
| Presale | MNTR-222 | Generate syslog and WS-M data for presale demonstration |
| UI | Provide new Dashboard to let the administrator detect missing data in situations where syslogs or WSM events are dropped. | |
| UI | MNTR-266 | Expose WSM subscription parameters as system parameters |
| B2B | MNTR-303 | Transactions screen now supports presenting of B2B transactions. |
| Reports | MNTR-157 | Allowing 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
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Security | MNTR-213 | Improve HTTP protocol security |
| Install | 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 | Must gather script ignores destination directory and improve versioning information | |
| UI | MNTR-203 | Check in the UI that the difference between server time and browser time (GMT) is not greater than 10 minutes |
| UI | MNTR-216 | Improved finding the correct time zone of the browser |
| WSM Agent | Bad grammar XML caused infinite parsing loop | |
| UI | MNTR-230 | When user adds a new IDG in DPOD, validate that device name does not contain spaces |
| UI | MNTR-226 | Improve system messages during IDG setup issues in DPOD UI |
| Config Sample | MNTR-232 | Change audit record doesn't always display |
| Security | MNTR-206 | Add confirmation of password for SOMA requests credentials |
| Install | MNTR-172 | Improve documentation for uninstall procedure |
| Install | Clarify ISO Edition: Light (Developer) Edition vs. Production (All-In-One) Edition, Clarify before installation the requirements of 3 disks for Production Edition | |
| Upgrade | Fix in upgrade scripts - backup scripts for artifacts and software configuration, configuration data location. | |
| Install | Remove unnecessary steps in installation | |
| Syslog Agent | MNTR-302 | Improve error handling when failed to identify messages object types when storing parsed messages. |
Known Issues
| Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
| General | MNTR-175 | DPOD shows "Unknown" device or domain |