Release Notes

IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard v1.0.19.0

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Release Notes 1.0.19.0

Release date: 4 April 2023

New Features and Capabilities

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Support for Containerized Gateways

  • IBM DataPower Gateways deployed in Kubernetes/OpenShift are now supported via the new DPOD Cloud Agent component.

  • Automatic discovery of IBM DataPower Gateways as they are deployed, scaled up or scaled down by the DataPower k8s Operator.

  • The collected data is stored in a persistent messaging layer until it is processed by DPOD.

  • The DPOD Cloud Agent is highly available and can be scaled up or down as required.

MNTR-4884, MNTR-5208
MNTR-5304, MNTR-5319
MNTR-5419, MNTR-5431
MNTR-5564, MNTR-5582
MNTR-5599, MNTR-5624
MNTR-5636, MNTR-5645
MNTR-5688, MNTR-5697
MNTR-5705, MNTR-5717
MNTR-5718, MNTR-5719

Cell members can be removed from a cell environment for decommissioning or transferring to another cell environment.

MNTR-5482, MNTR-5519

A new tool for exporting and importing configuration between DPOD instances (reports, alerts, gateways, roles, LDAP, etc.).

MNTR-5481, MNTR-5543
MNTR-5549

Changes and Improvements

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Improved reliability of system services startup/shutdown sequence by polling the process readiness and by proceeding with the startup/shutdown sequence even if one of the services fails to start/stop.

MNTR-4864, MNTR-5413
MNTR-5417, MNTR-5518
MNTR-5600, MNTR-5637
MNTR-5701, MNTR-5716

Added support for the new Syslog log target attributes (buffer size and connections count) in DataPower Gateway firmware 10.5.0 and 10.0.1.9.

MNTR-4895

Reduced the time to fetch device resources data by combining several SOMA requests into a single request.

MNTR-5193

Added support for installation in AWS and Azure.

MNTR-5225

Added support for using a host alias as the log target source when configuring Syslog.

MNTR-5231

New IBM logo.

MNTR-5285

Added REST API for API Connect Analytics payload capture.

MNTR-5287

Logging invalid Syslog message in the Syslog agent logs.

MNTR-5291

Added support for multiple selection and wildcards when creating API Connect Analytics endpoint payload capture.

MNTR-5432, MNTR-5613

Reduced the number of log messages that are collected per transaction for better throughput and longer retention period.

MNTR-5455

Added X3 as a supported gateway in the description of the appliance migration limitations.

MNTR-5490

Remove the limitation of appliance migration to run under the Developer edition.

MNTR-5506

Client IP filter added to reports and alerts.

MNTR-5642

Missing description for some of the API Connect extended latency transaction actions.

MNTR-5548

Improved unassigned shards reallocation performance.

MNTR-5517

Improvements to the must gather utility packaging and collecting process.

MNTR-5552

Added description to quiesce toggle button in maintenance plans.

MNTR-5573

Removed unused properties from properties files and changed MSC_DPOD email subject prefix in alerts and reports to MSC-DPOD.

MNTR-433

Improved some column headers of reports.

MNTR-5429

Deprecated and Removed

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Removed REST APIs for Syslog and WS-M agents.

MNTR-5515

Bug Fixes

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Improved the security and the stability (e.g.: by applying timeouts and connection re-establishment) of HTTP outbound requests, and avoiding Out-of-Memory errors during downloads of large files (e.g.: backup files), by implementing a unified HTTP client for HTTP requests.

MNTR-4610, MNTR-4759
MNTR-5551, MNTR-5578
MNTR-5597, MNTR-5601
MNTR-5604, MNTR-5607,
MNTR-5615, MNTR-5618,
MNTR-5619, MNTR-5626,
MNTR-5638, MNTR-5685,
MNTR-5689

Report update fails with a non-informative message when the report name is longer than 50 chars.

MNTR-4798

Cumulative upgrade fails with the error message Directory /app/keys/store does not exist.

MNTR-5217

Domain sync fails when XML Manager is using an LB Group.

MNTR-5230

Syslog agents keepalive does not recover after Syslog agents restart.

MNTR-5398

Re-enabled backup utility in the Admin Console (reverted MNTR-5394).

MNTR-5405

The Developer edition trial limitations are not shown in Product Activation page.

MNTR-5415

The Developer edition trial period is based on browser time instead of server time.

MNTR-5416

Upgrade to 1.0.18.0 fails in the minimal deployment profile.

MNTR-5488

Filters and import service fail in DevOps Services Portal on a self service portal (deprecated).

MNTR-5498, MNTR-5700

Orphan JSON files under serviceConfigJsons directory cause out-of-memory errors.

MNTR-5501

Quick setup URL validation doesn't work in Internet Explorer 11.

MNTR-5502

flume.init.log file does not rotate on cell members due to file permissions issue.

MNTR-5505

Error when parsing Syslog messages containing front-end URI with a comma or a semicolon.

MNTR-5510

Report files may overwrite each other if they complete at the same time.

MNTR-5555

Missing Error Analysis within Gateway early failed transactions.

MNTR-5561

Errors are reported to flume.init.log file instead of the regular log files.

MNTR-5574

Rollback on failure when resetting admin password from CLI.

MNTR-5580

Transactions may be assigned with Unknown device and domain when a gateway that already has DPOD log targets is added to DPOD (e.g. when migrating the gateway’s configuration to a new gateway), even though Auto Setup is configured for the device.

MNTR-5602

Error message Failed to scan [file:/app/...jar] from classloader hierarchy appears in the TomEE server logs.

MNTR-5603

Maintenance tasks ignore the maintenance window.

MNTR-5616

Reallocation of unassigned shards fails from the Admin Console.

MNTR-5625

Audit log analyzer fails to detected truncated files and fails.

MNTR-5640

The Syslog agent may hang during shutdown due to dropped connections against the Store.

MNTR-5643

LDAP configuration fails on cell members.

MNTR-5644

DPOD backup fails on RHEL 8.x.

MNTR-5646

Error when populating transaction service configuration changes when transaction is not part of a service.

MNTR-5649

A JavaScript Exception appears in the console when clicking on the Payload Capture tab in APIC product view for a non API Connect transaction.

MNTR-5651

The Operation filter doesn’t work within the extended transactions page.

MNTR-5652

NUMA config is lost when upgrading a cell member.

MNTR-5653

Adding a local user fails.

MNTR-5654

Setup Syslog for all devices and domains doesn’t work when having multiple upgrades (Post Upgrade task).

MNTR-5655

Appliance migration fails when choosing the option "Remove source gateway".

MNTR-5658

Gateway-only reports and alerts continue to execute when changing to API Calls license.

MNTR-5407

Service configuration sampling fails when there is no FSH attached.

MNTR-5538

API-C Analytics rate limit data is not parsed for IDG 10.5.0.1 Analytics offload records.

MNTR-5541

Report execution and creation via REST API fail.

MNTR-5668

System Overview Dashboard - System Activity chart showing data from Gateway product view when in APIC product view.

MNTR-5712

Housekeeping

Description

Issue(s)

Description

Issue(s)

Upgraded dependencies and added support for this new version in the installation and upgrade processes.

MNTR-4054, MNTR-4894
MNTR-5190, MNTR-5315
MNTR-5383, MNTR-5444
MNTR-5445, MNTR-5453
MNTR-5529, MNTR-5550
MNTR-5577, MNTR-5594
MNTR-5611, MNTR-5623
MNTR-5625, MNTR-5635
MNTR-5704

Resolved security issues.

MNTR-5289, MNTR-5339
MNTR-5341, MNTR-5342
MNTR-5343, MNTR-5344
MNTR-5349, MNTR-5412
MNTR-5493, MNTR-5527
MNTR-5620

Implemented changes for test automation.

MNTR-5466, MNTR-5526
MNTR-5546, MNTR-5568

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

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