Readme for Build 9011

Prerequisite: Upgrade to build 9010 before upgrading to this Hotfix

Feature Enhancements:

• If OpManager detects a DB collation mismatch during PPM upgrade, a system alert is shown to avoid partial upgrades.

Issues Fixed:

• SMS server setting configuration does not break now during an upgrade.
• The custom TCP service monitors are now displayed properly after the upgrade.
• An issue in creating statsdata–<date> (to store daily raw data) table at times, is now fixed.
• Notification profiles related DB restoration issue has been fixed now

ManageEngine OpManager 9.0

Prerequisite for applying this upgrade pack: The build number of OpManager installed must be 8810 and above.

New Features

• IT Automation Workflows to automate 1st and 2nd level administrative tasks. Few pre-built workflows available out-of-the-box, and intuitive drag and drop GUI to create more custom workflows.
• A hot-standby for Probe to ensure high availability. Seamless failover and failback between the primary and secondary probes and 100% data integrity.
• REST API support in OpManager to help integrate with third-party help desk, NMS etc; operations supported include adding a device, adding a notification profile etc.
• Define custom scripts and leverage OpManager’s fault management to the fullest. Supported scripts include Powershell, Linux shell script, VBScript, Phython & Perl.
• Virtualization management support now extended to Hyper-V devices in addition to VMwares; monitor over 70 deep metrics!
• The GUI has got a new face-lift with new tabs organization for easier and intuitive navigation.
• Quick links are included to access help on how to configure tasks in OpManager and perform first level troubleshooting. These can be enabled/disabled from Admin > System settings.
• Support for NFA and NCM plug-ins in Probe (Enterprise edition).
• NFA plug-in now supports 64 bit Windows and Linux installation.

More details on what all is new this release.

Changes & Enhancements

• Dashboards are introduced for Business View users.
• Configurable color coding is included for Utilization widgets (Red for over 90%, Yellow for over 80%) [ Editable range value (Top 10,12,15) for widgets. (Previously it was a drop down box Top 10, 25, 50)]
• An option to specify the consecutive number of times a device is polled/threshold is violated, is included in the device templates specific to Virtual devices.
• You can now edit the threshold type/value of resources defined in the Virtual Machine device templates.
• It is now possible to edit and save the IP address from the ESX Host snapshot page.
• If you want to configure bulk URL monitors, you can specify the links in a CSV file and bulk-import them into OpManager at one go!
• The folder monitoring feature enhancement includes wildcard (file filtering) option.
• Sixteen new templates are included for A10 networks & blackberry devices!
• An option is included to apply a change made in the interface template to all interfaces.
• An option to rediscover the interfaces that are deleted from the device, is included.
• A list-view is now available for Exchange servers with an option to add a server into exchange category directly.
• The AMS validity is shown in the GUI with a link leading to renewal procedure.
• New dashboards are included to show top 10 server and top 10 networks.
• An automatic notification is triggered when the Probe is down (Enterprise edition).
• A ‘View Associations’ option is included in Admin > Notification Profiles screen to quickly see a summary of the different profiles associated to the monitored devices.
• A new device down time report is provided. The report also shows the outage history.
• Localization support is extended to have the Probe name in Japanese or Chinese (in the respective local installations).
• You can now add Probes in the Google Map.
• An option is provided to enable/disable the discovery of a VM in a host.
• For VMs that are also DomainControllers, the snapshot page is enhanced to show the interface details in two different tabs, one for the Virtual NICs and the Interfaces.
• The performance monitor widgets now show the instance name in addition to the device name.
• A new device template is included for Windows 2008 R2.
• When configuring alarm escalation or when scheduling a report, you can now select the site too (specific to Enterprise edition).

Bug Fixes

• Entity name dependency is removed for ESX hosts. Data collection happens even if the VMs are renamed.
• VM Tools Version is updated in the ‘VMProperties’ table at the time of rediscovery.
• VMware hosts are now properly discovered and shown even if there are no VMs.
• The F5 loadbalancers are now discovered with the correct sysOID.
• Accurate reports are generated now for disk forecast.[3. Fixed Disk Forecast Report Issues.]
• A device is now properly added and discovered even if an interface with the same IP is already added.
• The managed/unmanaged state of devices is now correctly shown in the business views.
• The parentnet is correctly updated even for unnumbered interfaces.
• The interface IP address is properly updated during rediscovery.
• Status polling for the interfaces is now done using the IP address.
• The primary interface IP is properly updated when the device IP address changes
• Any changes to the interfaces are now correctly detected and updated during a device or network rediscovery.
• When a network is deleted, all the children elements too are fully deleted.
• Interface reports now show the full data without it getting truncated.
• Interface polling and data collection now happens properly when interfaces are rediscovered when the agent/device is restarted.
• Data collection happens normally even for monitors with the character ‘\’ in the monitor name.
• Duplication of sub-interfaces during discovery, is fixed.
• It is now possible to correctly discover an interface even if the IP address is already present for another interface.
• SNMP V3 credential can now be associated to devices using the Quick Configuration Wizard (in the Probe).
• Alarm details can be viewed fully in the RSS feed even if an alarm entity has the special character ‘#’.
• Device displayed name is now updated with the IP address instead of an empty string if the query to sysName returns white space.
• A category change to and from virtual device to domain controllers will now work without a glitch.
• Process monitoring is now possible using cscript.
• The custom WMI monitors added in the device templates are now properly associated to the devices during discovery.
• Windows 2008 devices are discovered correctly classified as ‘2008’; it was classified as Windows 7 earlier!
• Restrictions are included to prevent VMware templates getting wrongly applied to physical devices. Similarly, incorrect importing into this category is also restricted to avoid unnecessary errors.
• The VMware monitoring license related issues because of a change in node (module) name, is now fixed.
• Few issues in the OpManager- ServiceDesk Plus integration, have been fixed.

Click here for the release notes of the earlier upgrade packs and hotfixes.