Release Notes

IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard v1.0.14.0

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Release Notes 1.0.14.0

New Features

Category

Issue

Description

Category

Issue

Description

Improved user experience

MNTR-3922
MNTR-4090
MNTR-4321
MNTR-4325
MNTR-4327
MNTR-4332
MNTR-4335
MNTR-4354
MNTR-4355
MNTR-4356
MNTR-4359
MNTR-4360
MNTR-4374
MNTR-4385
MNTR-4390
MNTR-4412
MNTR-4413
MNTR-4420

Many filters (including device, domain, service, API name, product, etc.) support wildcards (*) for matching.

Improved user experience

MNTR-3922
MNTR-4320
MNTR-4348
MNTR-4349

Filters across the system support operators (including reports and alerts).

Improved user experience

MNTR-4369
MNTR-4397
MNTR-4398
MNTR-4400
MNTR-4401
MNTR-4419

A new context menu in main tables (transactions, early failing, raw messages, etc.) allows easier filtering and copy.

Improved user experience

MNTR-4080

Custom dashboards may be used as the home page.

Improved user experience

MNTR-4373

Some widgets that could not be added to custom dashboards, such as Transactions List, are now supported.

Improved user experience

MNTR-4290

CSV export size has been increased to 2,500 records instead of 1,000.

Improved user experience

MNTR-4288

Any alert and report can now be duplicated, no matter if they arrive out-of-the-box or created from scratch.

API Connect Integration

MNTR-4081

Provider organization and consumer organization can be used in custom roles to limit user access.

API Connect Integration

MNTR-4215

Many filters have been added to API Connect dashboards, including provider organization, HTTP response code, HTTP method, elapsed time, request/response size, etc.

API Connect Integration

MNTR-4216

Added Top Consumers table in Recent Activity dashboard.

API Connect Integration

MNTR-4147
MNTR-4416
MNTR-4424

Status column in API Connect Transactions page was replaced by HTTP response code column.

API Connect Integration

MNTR-4380
MNTR-4217

Transaction error analysis now detects some more common error scenarios with API-C v10.

Deprecated Extended Transactions

MNTR-4148

The deprecated Extended Transaction functionality, which required instrumentation of the processing policy, and was replaced in 1.0.8.0 by a non-intrusive alternative, has been removed.

Fix List

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

UI

MNTR-4051
MNTR-4391

Reduce browser CPU utilization.

UI

MNTR-4101

Multiple selection checkbox is not aligned in Firefox.

UI

MNTR-4102

Wrong parameters in URL when navigating between transactions with the next/prev buttons.

UI

MNTR-4106

Several issues in export to CSV of DPOD Health → Devices list.

UI

MNTR-4219

URI filter for API-C does not work as expected.

UI

MNTR-4339

Multiple selection doesn't work for filters with numeric values (e.g. HTTP Res. Code).

UI

MNTR-4370

Non-filter parameters are kept in URL when navigating to a different page.

UI

MNTR-4372

Custom dashboards reset filters automatically when entering the page.

UI

MNTR-4375

The share function should only take filters and parameters related to the specific page the user wants to share.

UI

MNTR-4376

Executions status resets filters automatically when entering the page.

UI

MNTR-4377

Changed behavior of the filters in "Service Configuration Changes" page.

UI

MNTR-4383
MNTR-4328

Filters aren't being reset when navigating from a specific transaction to Dashboards/Explore pages in Gateway, and to Dashboards pages in API-C.

UI

MNTR-4430

Scheduler Info start time column was empty until task has finished.

UI

MNTR-4115

Kibana was not accessible in some installations.

UI

MNTR-4159

Side menu opens when page changes.

UI

MNTR-4169

Sometimes document type filter value cannot be changed when editing a report or an alert.

UI

MNTR-4301

Agent message rate chart doesn't include some API-C records.

UI

MNTR-4354

Service URI Calls dashboard has the filter "In URL" instead of "In URI".

Reports and Alerts

MNTR-4241

Alerts don't work for API-C 2018.

Syslog Agent

MNTR-4072
MNTR-4337

Deduplication of error messages arriving from non-default domains or from apigw category.

Maintenance Plan - Synchronization

MNTR-4357

Synchronization activity fails to detect domain configuration file in DataPower Gateway v10.x.

DevOps Services Portal

MNTR-4379
MNTR-4381

Error validating/promoting WDSL in DevOps Services Portal.

Kibana

MNTR-4414
MNTR-4453

Added utility to configure Kibana to access the store data in Non-Appliance mode.

Security

MNTR-4243
MNTR-4313
MNTR-4314
MNTR-4387

Harden TLS configuration in httpd (protocols, cipher suites and additional crypto properties).

Security

MNTR-4407
MNTR-4124

OS security updates for Appliance installations.

Security

MNTR-4083

New utility to replace the encryption key.

Security

MNTR-4352

Raw Messages dashboard was available to users without the permission to see raw messages.

Task Scheduler

MNTR-4427

Services configuration sampling task appears as STALE.

Performance

MNTR-4091

Increase performance of Recent Plan Executions.

Performance

MNTR-4299

Cleaning up recent executions by number of days as well (30 by default).

Stability

MNTR-4126
MNTR-4437
MNTR-4445
MNTR-4425

Start and stop the system services more reliably and faster.

Stability

MNTR-4088
MNTR-4092
MNTR-4096
MNTR-4107
MNTR-4120
MNTR-4122
MNTR-4140
MNTR-4171
MNTR-4184
MNTR-4236
MNTR-4242
MNTR-4271
MNTR-4291
MNTR-4295
MNTR-4296
MNTR-4298
MNTR-4300
MNTR-4312
MNTR-4351
MNTR-4358
MNTR-4406
MNTR-4410
MNTR-4411
MNTR-4431
MNTR-4440
MNTR-4443
MNTR-4457
MNTR-4418
MNTR-4421
MNTR-4432
MNTR-4433
MNTR-4436
MNTR-4441
MNTR-4444
MNTR-4451

Internal stability fixes and housekeeping.

Release Notes 1.0.13.0

New Features

Category

Issue

Description

Category

Issue

Description

Improved user experience

MNTR-3915

Quickly move to next and previous transactions from the transaction page.

Reports and Alerts

MNTR-4032

When duplicating a report navigate to the new report page.

API Connect Integration

MNTR-4017

Added support for Web Socket Upgrade policy (requires gateway firmware 10.0.2+).

Task Scheduling

MNTR-3778

Allow to mark a task as stale and rerun an existing task from the Scheduler Info page.

Improved user experience

MNTR-3921
MNTR-4062
MNTR-4063
MNTR-4064
MNTR-4065
MNTR-4073
MNTR-4085
MNTR-4086

Home page under User Preferences has many more options, changed the order of tabs under Investigate menu, better navigation in Early Failing tabs.

Supported Platforms

MNTR-3934
MNTR-4066
MNTR-4021

Added support for RHEL 8.3 (non-appliance installation only).

Fix List

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

UI

MNTR-4014
MNTR-4033

Fixed issues with IE11.

UI

MNTR-4077

Favorite filter name breaks to new line.

UI

MNTR-4078

Export to CSV of the extended transactions list didn't always work.

UI

MNTR-4087

Export to CSV of the scheduler info list had several issues.

UI

MNTR-4089

Hovering with the mouse on charts shows duplicate tooltips when over areas that are between two values.

REST API

MNTR-3988

Add report and alert IDs and last execution time to the get report/alert list REST API.

REST API

MNTR-3993

Alerts API unavailable for DPOD installations started prior to v1.0.8.5.

Logs

MNTR-3970

Set fixed size and rotation to Kibana log files in appliance installations.

Simulator

MNTR-3931

Fixed false syslog agent internal alerts.

LDAP Integration

MNTR-4005

Wrong logs appear in the LDAP configuration utility log file.

Security

MNTR-4020
MNTR-4047
MNTR-4067

Increased encryption AES key strength to 256 bytes.

Security

MNTR-3922

Fix potential XSS in WS-M agent.

Security

MNTR-3991

Limit Tomcat listening address.

Security

MNTR-4022

Upgraded Elasticsearch to 7.10.2.
Upgraded TomEE server to 8.0.6.

Stability

MNTR-4084

DPOD services don't start if the pid file takes too long to be created.

Stability

MNTR-3960

Remove leftovers in domains table after deleting a gateway.

Stability

MNTR-4095
MNTR-3929
MNTR-4046
MNTR-4053
MNTR-4052
MNTR-3905
MNTR-4057
MNTR-4056
MNTR-4040
MNTR-3974
MNTR-3969

Internal stability fixes.

Release Notes 1.0.12.0

New Features

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

UI

MNTR-3333

MNTR-3829

Added filter operators, such as "Equal", "Not Equal", "Greater Than" and "Lower Than" to all dashboards.

UI

MNTR-3725

Improved Time filter - add previous and next time period buttons, add new options and allow to manually edit custom time.

Improved user experience

MNTR-3471

Gateways Table - Gateways are sorted by name.

Task Scheduling

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