IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard v1.0.18.0
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Release Notes 1.0.18.0
New Features
Category | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Alerts | MNTR-5186 | 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 | 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 |
Reports | MNTR-5328 | 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 | Added filters and columns in Gateways list. |
API Calls Version | MNTR-5297 | Added support for the new IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard For API Connect Hybrid version. |
API Calls Version | MNTR-5297 | 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 | Support of Cloud Agents data in Syslog and WS-M agents (FFU). |
Fix List
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 | 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 | Backup and restore of DPOD now always include both application and configuration database, to guarantee consistency with the encryption keys (formerly called |
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 | Upgraded various packages and dependencies. |
System | MNTR-5201 | Internal stability fixes and housekeeping. |
Release Notes 1.0.17.0
New Features
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
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 | 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 | Remove unused properties from configuration files. |
Upgrade | MNTR-5094 | Configuration database might get corrupted during rollback. |
Upgrade | MNTR-5093 | Upgrade fails with non-DPOD mountpoints that start with |
Upgrade | MNTR-5165 | 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.: |
Upgrade | MNTR-5041 | Remove heapDump.out files from /logs directory during upgrade. |
Upgrade | MNTR-4871 | Warn in case SquashFS configuration is detected in |
Product Activation | MNTR-5070 | Update email address. |
Configuration Database | MNTR-3906 | Enhanced the security of the configuration database using the latest encoding and digest algorithms. |
Dependencies | MNTR-5179 | Upgraded OpenSearch to 1.3.2. |
System | MNTR-4764 | Internal stability fixes and housekeeping. |
Release Notes 1.0.16.0
New Features
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 | A new Upgrade Assistant prepares the DPOD instance for upcoming upgrades. |
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.
Endpointshttps://<dpod hostname>/op/api/v1/report(s)moved tohttps://<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.
Endpointshttps://<dpod hostname>/op/api/v1/alert(s)moved tohttps://<dpod hostname>/op/api/v2/alert(s). See Alerts REST API for more details.
Fix List
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 |