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)

Optimization: Customize the Linux file handle setting for large collections

Certain environments may require optimizations to improve performance or to accommodate a large number of data collection policies.

In Linux, a portion of memory is designated for file handles, which is the mechanism used to determine the number of files that can be open at one time. The default value is 1024. For large collection policy environments, this number may need to be increased to 8192 so that the collector does not exceed the open file handle limit. A large environment is characterized as any collector that is collecting from 20 or more subsystems, such as 20+ TSM instances or 20+ unique arrays.

To change the number of file handles, take the following steps.

  1. On the Linux Data Collector server, edit /etc/security/limits.conf and at the end of the file, add these lines.

    root soft nofile 8192
root hard nofile 8192

  2. Log out and log back in as root to execute the following commands to validate all values have been set to 8192.

    ulimit -n
ulimit -Hn
ulimit -Sn

  3. Restart the Data Collector.