APTARE IT Analytics Release Notes

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Product(s): APTARE IT Analytics (10.6)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About APTARE IT Analytics 10.6.00
  2. Patch release for version 10.6.00
    1. Patch releases: APTARE IT Analytics
      1.  
        10.6.00 P17 patch release notes
      2.  
        10.6.00 P16 patch release notes
      3.  
        10.6.00 P15 patch release notes
      4.  
        10.6.00 P14 patch release notes
      5.  
        10.6.00 P13 patch release notes
      6.  
        10.6.00 P12 patch release notes
      7.  
        10.6.00 P11 patch release notes
      8.  
        10.6.00 P10 patch release notes
      9.  
        10.6.00 P9 patch release notes
      10.  
        10.6.00 P8 patch release notes
      11.  
        10.6.00 P7 patch release notes
      12.  
        10.6.00 P6 patch release notes
      13.  
        10.6.00 P5 patch release notes
      14.  
        10.6.00 P4 patch release notes
      15.  
        10.6.00 P3 patch release notes
      16.  
        10.6.00 P2 patch release notes
      17.  
        10.6.00 P1 patch release notes
  3. What's new: Version 10.6.00 highlights
    1.  
      Supported product versions
    2.  
      Dashboard actions menu enhancements
    3.  
      Veritas Standard licensing for APTARE IT Analytics
    4.  
      Leverage NetBackup policy Data Collection for File Analytics
    5.  
      Minimum upgrade path
    6.  
      REST API support in Brocade switch policy
    7.  
      APTARE IT Analytics Portal installer changes
    8.  
      Security changes
    9.  
      System health check report improvements
    10.  
      Support tool enhanced for log gathering
    11.  
      Out-of-the-Box dashboards
    12.  
      Faster connector deployment
    13.  
      Connector deployer to use "portal" and "aptare_ro"
    14.  
      New branding of APTARE IT Analytics portal
    15.  
      Policy portability support
    16.  
      New reports category-public cloud reports
    17.  
      All suite portal deployment
    18.  
      Replication reports moved under Capacity Manager reports
    19.  
      New Ransomware category for known file extensions
    20.  
      Optimized connector deployment time
    21.  
      Enhanced SDK framework
    22.  
      Change Read-Only Oracle user in portal.properties
    23.  
      Enhanced framework to display drilldown parameters
    24.  
      Support for Hitachi Vantara All-Flash and Hybrid Flash storage arrays
    25.  
      Access APTARE reports with REST APIs even with SSO configured
    26.  
      Evaluate NetBackup deduplication savings in your environment
    27.  
      New dashboard and reports to track backup performance
    28.  
      NetApp StorageGRID
    29.  
      Data Collector policy for Infinidat InfiniGuard
    30.  
      NetApp StorageGrid Summary reports
    31.  
      Capture historic Cohesity DataProtect events on-demand
    32.  
      Alerts and reports on NetBackup image replication failures
    33.  
      Data Collector for FUJITSU ETERNUS CS8000 model
    34.  
      Data Collector for FUJITSU ETERNUS DX/AF model
    35.  
      IT Analytics ServiceNow App certified on Quebec and San Diego releases
  4. Supported Systems
    1.  
      Portal supported operating systems
    2.  
      Data Collector supported operating systems
    3. Supported browsers and display resolution
      1.  
        Linux portal server: Exported and emailed reports
  5. Installations and Upgrades
    1.  
      Portal installation memory requirements
    2. Before you upgrade
      1.  
        Portal/Data receiver Java memory settings
      2.  
        Upgrading the Oracle database application binaries (Windows)
      3.  
        Upgrading Oracle database application binaries (Linux)
    3.  
      Performance profiles and transmitted data
    4.  
      Dropping SCDBUSR in a shared service environment
  6. Enhancements and Resolved Issues
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Portal enhancements and resolved issues
  7. Known issues, optimizations, and End-of-Life (EOL)
    1.  
      Known issues
    2.  
      Optimization: Customize the Linux file handle setting for large collections
    3.  
      End-of-Life (EOL)

10.6.00 P5 patch release notes

The 10.6.00 P4 release includes all patch fixes up to and including 10.5.00 P11. The following changes are included in this release.

Capacity Manager section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-30575

A new feature Infinidat InfiniGuard incorporated in Data Collection.

After a successful data collection, Infinidat InfiniGuard specific data can be viewed from the following database views:

  • sdk_v_igrd_dde_node (DDE Node Information)

  • sdk_v_igrd_nas_share (NAS Share Information)

  • sdk_v_igrd_vtl (VTL Information)

  • sdk_v_igrd_array_performance (DDE Node Performance)

For overview information, See Data Collector policy for Infinidat InfiniGuard.

For more information, see Data Collector Installation Guide for Capacity Manager >> Pre-Installation setup for Infinidat InfiniGuard section

Backup Manager Data Collection section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-36522

Resolves a Veritas Netbackup data collection issue where Backup policy probe failed for Veritas Netbackup version 7.6 with "Unable to find data for key : #{driver}.getNBUDBInstances" error message.

SC-37309

Resolves an issue with bplist command. The command is enhanced to execute with -s option where -s is the start date which is calculated using value specified in NBU_CATALOG_LOOKBACK_DAYS in Advance Parameters section.

Note:

To disable bplist feature, add NBU_DISABLE_VMCLIENT_CORRECTION parameter with value as 'Y'.

Data Collection section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-36127

Resolves an issue for EMC Data Domain where APTARE was not able to display the license and no error message was displayed.

SC-36640

Resolves an issue with Data Domain data collection which failed with connection reset error. An Advanced parameter DATADOMAIN_COMMAND_INTERVAL_DELAY_IN_SECS has been incorporated for time delay between two command executions. The advance parameter applies the specified time delay for all data collection probes from data domain servers in case of both "EMC Data Domain Storage" and "EMC Data Domain Backup" policies.

Portal section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues.

Issue Number

Description

SC-35774

The scope functionality of a dashboard is enhanced to retain its scope even after user logs out or log in or the dashboard is moved to similar objects.

SC-35803

Resolves an issue with the permission driven reports. The credentials of the Inventory module users are validated to display the reports.

SC-36598

The Edit Users dialog box in Users and Privileges module is enhanced to incorporate a new privilege for Import Reports option under SQL Template Design.

Note:

Post upgrade to 10.6 P4, the credentials are enabled to all users.

SC-36525

APTARE IT Analytics now supports OEL operating system for version 7 and 8.

SC-37377

Resolves an issue to prevent creation of more than one alert for the same job and alert policy combination.