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 P6 patch release notes

The 10.6.00 P6 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-36877

Fujitsu Eternus data collector in Capacity Manager is now supported with CS8000 model.

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

  • aps_v_storage_array (Information about the Eternus System)

  • sdk_v_fecs_systeminfo (Eternus System Information - ecs-query-appliance, ecs-conf-get-sysdef, ecs-conf-get-model and csversion)

  • sdk_v_fecs_filesystem (Information about the filesystem configuration parameters on the Eternus system)

  • sdk_v_fecs_nasfs (Information about the diskspace nasfs on the Eternus system)

  • sdk_v_fecs_filegroup (Information about the filegroup configuration parameters on the Eternus system)

  • sdk_v_fecs_cifs (Information about the CIFS shares on the Eternus system)

  • sdk_v_fecs_nfs (Information about the NFS shares on the Eternus system)

  • apt_v_host (Information about the hosts)

  • sdk_v_fecs_cifs_host_info (Information about the CIFS shares hosts on the Eternus system)

  • sdk_v_fecs_nfs_host_info (Information about the NFS shares hosts on the Eternus system)

For overview information, See Data Collector for FUJITSU ETERNUS CS8000 model.

For more information, see Data Collector Installation Guide for Capacity Manager > FUJITSU ETERNUS section

SC-38352

Resolved an issue causing failure in collection from Isilon OneFS 9.x. Added support for Isilon OneFS 9.1.0.4.

Backup Manager Data Collection section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-35186

Resolves an issue of "EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found" for bplist command with distributed architecture.

SC-32975

The Backup Manager in APTARE IT Analytics is enhanced to support Dell EMC NetWorker Backup & Recovery with version 19.4 and 19.5.

SC-30994

Data Collector has been enhanced to support EMC Avamar 19.4 version.

Data Collection section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-38280

Resolves time-consuming issue with Data Collector administrator page. When a user updates a policy, APTARE IT Analytics consumed excessive time when the page is refreshed.

Portal section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues.

Issue Number

Description

SC-31081

The story was created to test the compatibility of APTARE IT Analytics with Oracle quarterly release patch version 19c Production version: 19.12.0.0.210720.

SC-32060

Enhanced the SDK DB connector deployment functionality enabling the re-deployment of Backup and Storage hierarchy for different vendors.

SC-36155

Field configuration for LUN Utilization summary report for HP 3PAR product is enhanced. The data type for Formatter field is modified from numeric to byte for Set Size field.

SC-36591

Resolves an issue with the scope of the report selected. When the user selects "All Storage Arrays", "All Backup Servers", "All Fabrics", "All Datastores", "All Entities", "All VM Servers", "All VM Guests" are selected along with any other objects/attributes, the scope in the report was not displayed correctly.

SC-36694

The Report Scope Selector dialog box of NetBackup Deduplication to MSDP Savings dashboard by Policy Type is enhanced. The dialog box now displays only Hosts Picker objects in the scope.

SC-37394

Resolves performance issues with NetBackup data collector's "Job Details" probe.

SC-37812

Resolves an issue with the Support Tools module. To generate the logs, When the user specifies Data Collector server and selects NetApp storage grid collector, APTARE IT Analytics displays an error message.

SC-38048

Resolves an issue with Array Capacity & Utilization report for HP 3PAR Disk Array where incorrect unit was displayed.

SC-38227

The APTARE IT Analytics data collector is enhanced for EMC Data Domain storage array to support version 7.6.

SC-37375

The Ransomware File category is enhanced with newly identified ransomware file extensions.

SC-31528

Resolves an issue of constraint PTL_GROUP_MEMBER_PK1 violation which occurred when the user executed load group member file and selected the option to move old entries to recycle bin.