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) |
|---|---|
Support for Containerized Gateways
| MNTR-4884, MNTR-5208 |
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 |
Changes and Improvements
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 |
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 | MNTR-433 |
Improved some column headers of reports. | MNTR-5429 |
Deprecated and Removed
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Removed REST APIs for Syslog and WS-M agents. | MNTR-5515 |
Bug Fixes
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 |
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 | 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 | MNTR-5501 |
Quick setup URL validation doesn't work in Internet Explorer 11. | MNTR-5502 |
| 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 | MNTR-5574 |
Rollback on failure when resetting admin password from CLI. | MNTR-5580 |
Transactions may be assigned with | MNTR-5602 |
Error message | 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) |
|---|---|
Upgraded dependencies and added support for this new version in the installation and upgrade processes. | MNTR-4054, MNTR-4894 |
Resolved security issues. | MNTR-5289, MNTR-5339 |
Implemented changes for test automation. | MNTR-5466, MNTR-5526 |
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 |