NetBackup IT Analytics Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.4)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About NetBackup IT Analytics 11.4
  2. Patch releases
    1. Patch releases: NetBackup IT Analytics
      1.  
        11.4.11 patch release notes
      2.  
        11.4.10 patch release notes
      3.  
        11.4.09 patch release notes
      4.  
        11.4.08 patch release notes
      5.  
        11.4.07 patch release notes
      6.  
        11.4.05 patch release notes
      7.  
        11.4.04 patch release notes
      8.  
        11.4.03 patch release notes
      9.  
        11.4.02 patch release notes
      10.  
        11.4.01 patch release notes
  3. What's new
    1.  
      OpsCenter transition (patch 11.3.04)
    2.  
      Collect data from MFA-enabled Veritas Flex Appliance
    3.  
      UI enhancements on Reports tab
    4.  
      Backup Manager Management reports scope selection has policy type filter
    5.  
      New policy for HPE StoreOnce - Gen 4
    6.  
      New alerts and reports
    7.  
      Client Summary Report (patch 11.4.02)
    8.  
      NetBackup Job Finalized alert rule (patch 11.4.03)
    9.  
      HPE Nimble and HP 3PAR (patch 11.3.05)
    10.  
      HPE StoreOnce supporting Gen 3 (patch 11.3.05)
    11.  
      Enhancement in Collection Status page (patch 11.4.04)
    12.  
      Export or email reports without the need for generation (patch 11.4.04)
    13.  
      ExaGrid's Tiered Backup Storage for Backup (patch 11.4.07 and 11.5.01)
  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.  
      Performance profiles and transmitted data
  6. Fixed issues
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Fixed issues
  7. Known Issues and Optimizations
    1.  
      Known issues
    2.  
      Optimization: Customize the Linux file handle setting for large collections
    3.  
      End-of-Life (EOL)

11.4.01 patch release notes

The patch release includes all the previous patches of 11.4.xx.

The following changes are included in this release.

Capacity Manager section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-60476

Resolves an issue with child thread of HP3PAR Data Collector Policy. NetBackup IT Analytics displayed an error and failed to persist offline / inactive hosts data.

Backup Manager Data Collection section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-56326 / SC-56400 / SC-60322

The Veritas NetBackup Data Collector Job Details Probe is enhanced to persist deduplication details. The details are storage server name, storage server type, scanned, CR sent, CR sent over FC, deduplication space saving, and compression space saving.

The details are available in SQL view apt_v_nbu_dedup_job_details.

SC-59458

Resolves an issue with Security Details Probe. The data was not getting collected and the probe displayed a warning message.

For more details, see NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector Installation Guide for Backup Manager > Pre-Installation setup for Veritas NetBackup > Add a Veritas NetBackup Data Collector policy section.

SC-60321

Resolves an issue with HP Data Protector Session Probe which was not functioning post portal upgrade to version 11.3.03.

SC-60538

Resolves an issue with HP Data Protector Session Probe. In case when HP Data Protector Session takes more than Six hours to complete, a new execution for session probe was initiated before the current execution completes. This caused multiple session collection to run in parallel.

This fix ensures that new collection for HP Data Protection server starts only after running probe is completed.

SC-60882

Resolves an issue with Backup Policies Probe using API. When the data collector request the data using API Request, the request was timed out due to large amount of data.

Data collection section

Not applicable in this release.

Reports

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-50163

Resolves an issue with Data Collection Performance Summary report. When drilled down on SDK DP products to view Data Collection Performance details report, NetBackup IT Analytics failed to display the execution period.

SC-59247

Resolves an issue with the tabular report when converted to the chart format. NetBackup IT Analytics displayed blank drill-down report.

SC-60307

Resolves an issue with Anomalies Summary report where the report displayed the clients which were not defined in the report scope.

SC-60555

Resolves an issue with report execution using API. When executing the reports in NetBackup IT Analytics by configuring the page size parameter in API to more than default configured page size in NetBackup IT Analytics, the portal page size configuration was considered instead of API page size configuration. Now, the API page size configuration overrides the default portal page size configuration.

Portal section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-19434

NetBackup IT Analytics is enhanced with a new alert NetBackup Low Media available which is equivalent to OpsCenter alert Low available media.

For more information, see NetBackup IT Analytics OpsCenter Transition > OpsCenter - NetBackup IT Analytics alerts mapping section.

SC-19459

NetBackup IT Analytics is enhanced with a new alert NetBackup No Cleaning Tape which is equivalent to OpsCenter alert No Cleaning Tape.

For more information, see NetBackup IT Analytics OpsCenter Transition > OpsCenter - NetBackup IT Analytics alerts mapping section.

SC-51593

NetBackup IT Analytics is enhanced with an improved mechanism to persist the probe's states in the database.

SC-59126

The OpsCenter transition knowledge base article is now available with updates in the NetBackup IT Analytics Online Help.

See OpsCenter transition (patch 11.3.04).

SC-59432

Resolves an issue with upgrade of Upgrade Manager resulting into Data Collector upgrade failure. The issue occurred when the portal was upgraded from version 11.2.xx to 11.3.

SC-59491

Resolves an issue when executing File Analytics data collection. During the execution, the files were getting collected on C drive instead of configured drive in fa.root attribute.

Note:

For more information, see NetBackup IT Analytics System Administrator Guide > System configuration in the portal > Custom parameters > Customizing the path and directory for File Analytics database section.

SC-59548

Resolves an issue during portal upgrade to version 11.3.02. The data collectors which were configured to HTTPS but were automatically re-configured to HTTP during upgrade, caused the issue.

SC-59586

Resolves an issue with multiple Brocade Switches utilizing same connection which prevented or interfered there by interrupting / blocking the data collection.

SC-59595

Resolves an issue with Networker policy. There was a time zone values mismatch between API and Networker due to which an error occurred in jobs execution.

Networker now considers the time zone from serverConfig API for the processing.

SC-59800

Resolves an issue of persisting the details of the jobs such as DISK_POOL_ID and STORAGE_SERVER_ID in the database.

SC-59990

Resolves an issue with Brocade Switch data collection where NetBackup IT Analytics displayed Principal switch missing in the fabric warning message.

SC-60021

Resolves an issue with Ransomware Scorecard report where the Result/Score/Risk for the following data items was not generated:

Are there any backup destinations that might run out of space and cause potential backup failures?

SC-60218

Resolves an issue with SDK based storage products where the array's IP Address was getting deleted from the database with an alternate collection.

SC-60573

Resolves an issue with the database duplicate rows getting persisted during for the execution of Array Details probes.