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)

Out-of-the-Box dashboards

Three new OOB Dashboards are introduced:

  • Ransomware Risk Assessment Dashboard

  • Alert Dashboard

  • Storage Optimization Dashboard

The new dashboards are available by default to the Admin and Super User. An Administrator user can enable access to end users by tweaking the user privileges. However, to be able to view all the dashboard reports, the end user must also have access permissions to the constituent reports displayed on the dasboard.

The dashboards are accessible from the Reports tab as follows:

  • Alerts > Alert Dashboard

  • Solutions > Risk Mitigation > Ransomware Risk Assessment

  • Solutions > Storage Optimization > Storage Optimization Dashboard

You can also access them from the Inventory, provided the dashboard is configured to appear in the inventory.

OOB Dashboard Benefits

Apart from saving the effort of building a new dashboard, these dashboards provide the following benefits:

Ransomware Risk Assessment Dashboard

  • Highlights the risk of under-protected assets which if exposed to a ransomware threat may get compromised.

  • Highlights any presence of files with well-known ransomware extensions across your environment

  • Contains multiple reports to highlight and visualize the risk in your environment

Alert Dashboard

  • Provides an overview of current and historical alert conditions.

  • Provides a more detailed drilldown view that enables you to actively manage the alerts.

Storage Optimization Dashboard

  • Helps you to maintain an efficient storage use.

  • Provides trends of storage usage.

You must use the Actions > Save As menu and create a copy to save any customization made to these dashboards.

See the APTARE IT Analytics Report Reference Guide for additional information on these dashboards.

Help Dialog for OOB Dashboards

Clicking on Help for the dashboards will display a help dialog with the following information:

  • Short and Long Description of the Dashboard with a link to the main help page.

  • A grid with all the report or portlet names with short and long descriptions. Additionally for each DTD and canned report we should see a link to the Report's help page

  • Each report description has a link to its respective help page.