Release Notes

IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard v1.0.18.0

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Release Notes 1.0.18.0

New Features

Category

Issue

Description

Category

Issue

Description

Alerts

MNTR-5186
MNTR-5320
MNTR-5384
MNTR-5406

Triggered alerts now include Investigate links, which display in DPOD the data that triggered each alert.

Alerts

MNTR-5186

Triggered alerts now include additional field names (such as “API”, “Service”, etc.) to identify the alert's subject.

Alerts

MNTR-5186
MNTR-5316

Some useless fields were removed from the triggered alert subject values.

Reports

MNTR-5186

The column headers of reports are now more human friendly (e.g.: no more doc_count or key columns).

Reports

MNTR-5328
MNTR-5367
MNTR-5386

The report file format is now more human friendly (e.g.: background color for column headers).

Improved User Experience

MNTR-5186

Switching between product views (Gateway / API-C) keeps the current page.

Improved User Experience

MNTR-5186

Added Failed Objects page in API-C product view, to inspect object that are enabled but down.

Improved User Experience

MNTR-5186

Added rate limit filters in API Connect transactions page (requires offloading API Connect Analytics data to DPOD).

Improved User Experience

MNTR-5073
MNTR-5369

Added filters and columns in Gateways list.
Filters: Device / Cloud Agent (FFU) / Form Factor / Added By
Columns: Form Factor / Firmware Level / Added By / Cloud Agent (FFU)

API Calls Version

MNTR-5297
MNTR-5400
MNTR-5402
MNTR-5403
MNTR-5409
MNTR-5414

Added support for the new IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard For API Connect Hybrid version.

API Calls Version

MNTR-5297
MNTR-5401
MNTR-5410

A product activation key must be supplied for new installations after the initial login.

Cloud Agents

MNTR-5073

A new page for configuring Cloud Agents (FFU).

Cloud Agents

MNTR-5051
MNTR-5352
MNTR-5380
MNTR-5404

Support of Cloud Agents data in Syslog and WS-M agents (FFU).

Fix List

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

Reports

MNTR-5392

Total API Executions Report values are inaccurate.

Internal Alerts

MNTR-5366

A false internal alert “Could not find the latest successful Reindex Manager execution” appears after upgrade.

Payload Capture

MNTR-5381

Description changed for Payload Capture in Gateway product view.

Maintenance Plans

MNTR-5390

Maintenance plans status emails contain a wrong link to the Web Console.

Maintenance Plans

MNTR-5368

Sync tasks fail to deserialize task state from the DB while unquiescing after import has failures.

Admin Console

MNTR-5394

Disabled backup utility from the Admin Console (will be re-enabled in a future version).

Admin Console

MNTR-5177

Store reallocate unassigned shards failed in a Cell environment.

Install

MNTR-5333

Wrong log message when services start was unsuccessful during installation.

Upgrade

MNTR-4996

Rephrasing error message during upgrade.

Upgrade

MNTR-5293

Retention placeholder not replaced during upgrade.

Upgrade

MNTR-5305

Cumulative upgrade 1.0.14.0 -> 1.0.17.0 creates faulty opensearch.yml in cell member.

Upgrade

MNTR-5354

Cumulative upgrade 1.0.14.0 -> 1.0.17.0 added the OpenSearchDashboard service in cell member.

Upgrade

MNTR-5351

Don't print usage when error occurred on upgrade which is not related to wrong usage.

Upgrade

MNTR-5355

Confusing error message after applying upgrade on cell member.

Upgrade

MNTR-5189

Screen is cleared and squashfs warning is not noticeable during upgrade.

Gateways Auto-Setup

MNTR-5243
MNTR-5338

Auto setup fails to correctly detect domains without log targets and might loop on the default domain if log targets are missing.

Backup and Restore

MNTR-5188
MNTR-5360
MNTR-5362

Backup and restore of DPOD now always include both application and configuration database, to guarantee consistency with the encryption keys (formerly called full backup and restore).

Store Dashboards (Expert Mode)

MNTR-5332

The OpenSearchDashboards service was starting prematurely on system startup.

Store Dashboards (Expert Mode)

MNTR-5242

Redirect the OpenSearchDashboards service logs into a log file.

Store

MNTR-5334

Longer timeouts for the Store service startup.

Configuration Database

MNTR-5220

The configuration databse service did not shut down properly.

Dependencies

MNTR-5198
MNTR-5199
MNTR-5200
MNTR-5206
MNTR-5272
MNTR-5370

Upgraded various packages and dependencies.

System

MNTR-5201
MNTR-5202
MNTR-5329
MNTR-5197
MNTR-5321
MNTR-5399

Internal stability fixes and housekeeping.

Release Notes 1.0.17.0

New Features

Category

Issue

Description

Category

Issue

Description

Improved User Experience

MNTR-4916

Show elapsed time for all transactions (instead of only successful ones) in Transactions page.

Improved User Experience

MNTR-4914

Improved default filters in user preferences, including the time filter and operators (equals/not equals).

Improved User Experience

MNTR-4915
MNTR-5175
MNTR-5176

Custom logo image may be added to the Web Console (in the login page and the top navigation bar).

Alerts

MNTR-5052

A new alert for API-Connect rate limit exceeding a utilization threshold.

Fix List

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

Admin Console

MNTR-4997

Backup logs could not be downloaded from the backup process output modal.

Filters

MNTR-5125

Some values might be missing from the auto-complete filters when some of the devices send Syslog messages with a timestamp in the future.

Syslog Agents

MNTR-5042

New log file for invalid messages sent to syslog agents.

REST APIs

MNTR-5103

Return the report and alert internal IDs in the REST API response.

Store

MNTR-5039

Increase heap size on store nodes with high memory.

Security

MNTR-5047
MNTR-5185
MNTR-5187

Require password change for admin user in quick setup modal.

Internal Alerts

MNTR-5072

Fixed false alarm about the retention service not running after an upgrade.

Service Configuration

MNTR-5136

Fixed service configuration sampling failure after service or domain removed from the DataPower gateway.

Cell Environment

MNTR-4851

Stopping unused services after federation completes.

Upgrade

MNTR-4971

Improved the detection of outdated OS.

Upgrade

MNTR-4532
MNTR-5009

Remove unused properties from configuration files.

Upgrade

MNTR-5094
MNTR-5095

Configuration database might get corrupted during rollback.

Upgrade

MNTR-5093

Upgrade fails with non-DPOD mountpoints that start with /data.

Upgrade

MNTR-5165
MNTR-5174

Remove differences between an installation and an upgrade.

Upgrade

MNTR-4456

Placeholder file was not removed after an OS upgrade and reboot.

Upgrade

MNTR-4632

Invalid version in version-history.txt (e.g.: 1.0.13.7).

Upgrade

MNTR-5041

Remove heapDump.out files from /logs directory during upgrade.

Upgrade

MNTR-4871

Warn in case SquashFS configuration is detected in modprobe.

Product Activation

MNTR-5070

Update email address.

Configuration Database

MNTR-3906
MNTR-4890
MNTR-5105
MNTR-5129

Enhanced the security of the configuration database using the latest encoding and digest algorithms.

Dependencies

MNTR-5179
MNTR-5081
MNTR-5089
MNTR-5092

Upgraded OpenSearch to 1.3.2.
Upgraded OpenSearch Dashboards to 1.3.2.
Upgraded Apache TomEE to 8.0.11.
Upgraded JDK to 11.0.15+10.
Upgraded various packages and dependencies.

System

MNTR-4764
MNTR-4801
MNTR-4999
MNTR-5080
MNTR-5102
MNTR-5128

Internal stability fixes and housekeeping.

Release Notes 1.0.16.0

New Features

Category

Issue

Description

Category

Issue

Description

Improved User Experience

MNTR-4518

A new dashboard for API activity by time interval shows statistics and detailed data of the API calls per minute/hour/day/etc.

Improved User Experience

MNTR-4665

APIC Analytics payload capture link from payload tab when payload is missing.

Security

MNTR-4902

Custom roles may be used to allow users of any builtin role to access Expert Mode.

Security

MNTR-4739

Custom roles may be used to allow users of any builtin role to view and execute report and alerts.

Security

MNTR-4901

Sensitive data may be redacted based on patterns, to prevent DPOD from storing and displaying sensitive data.

Upgrade Assistant

MNTR-4822
MNTR-4975

A new Upgrade Assistant prepares the DPOD instance for upcoming upgrades.
Data is reindexed in the background (if required) while DPOD is up and running.
View the status of the reindexing and configure its behavior through a new page under the Manage section.
This is replacing the Data Migration Tool, that was previously used during upgrades to reindex data.

REST APIs

MNTR-4519

A new set of REST APIs for managing and executing reports.

REST APIs

MNTR-4519

A new set of REST APIs for managing and executing alerts.

Breaking changes

  • Reports REST API was replaced with a new improved and secure API.
    Endpoints https://<dpod hostname>/op/api/v1/report(s) moved to https://<dpod hostname>/op/api/v2/report(s). See Reports REST API for more details.

  • Alerts REST API was replaced with a new improved and secure API.
    Endpoints https://<dpod hostname>/op/api/v1/alert(s) moved to https://<dpod hostname>/op/api/v2/alert(s). See Alerts REST API for more details.

Fix List

Component

Issue

Description

Component

Issue

Description

UI

MNTR-4867

WS-M agent message rate does not include APIC analytics documents count.

UI

MNTR-4868

When filtering with both “Service” and “Payload” filters in Gateway Transactions page, the results are always empty.

UI

MNTR-4442

Auth category is not displayed as an option in Category filter.

UI

MNTR-4984

Raw Messages tab should be the first tab in transaction page.

UI

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