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 P2 patch release notes

The 10.6.00 P2 release includes all patch fixes up to and including 10.5.00 P9. The following changes are included in this release.

Backup Manager section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-31715

Data collection is enhanced to support collection and persistence of VMware VM backup data from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server.

In addition to backup related out-of-the-box reports, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus specific data is available by creating custom reports using Dynamic Template Designer or SQL Template Designer with following SDK views.

  1. IBM SPP Job - sdk_v_ispp_job

  2. IBM SPP Job Session - sdk_v_ispp_jobsession

  3. IBM SPP Job Session Statistics - sdk_v_ispp_jobsessionstats

  4. IBM SPP Secondary Storage (IBM Spectrum Protect and Cloud storage) - sdk_v_ispp_secondarystorage

  5. IBM SPP Site - sdk_v_ispp_site

  6. IBM SPP Site Throttle - sdk_v_ispp_sitethrottle

  7. IBM SPP SLA Sub Policy - sdk_v_ispp_slasubpolicy

  8. IBM SPP vSnap Server - sdk_v_ispp_vsnapserver

SC-33887

Cohesity Data Collection and persistence is enhanced to support identification of different object types that are backed up which was otherwise reported as OTHERS.

SC-34556

Resolves an issue with Cohesity data collection where the protection runs of all the protection jobs were not collected, when there were more than 100 protection runs available as response to protectionRuns REST API call. By default, maximum number of protection runs that can be collected per probe cycle is 99999.

If there are more protection runs expected during a probe, then it can be configured using "Advanced Parameter" - COHESITY_MAX_JOB_RUNS for the specific Cohesity Server.

Backup Manager Data Collection section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-32803

Resolves an issue with Host Type where an option has been incorporate for the user to update the Host Type to NetBackup Master.

SC-34194

Enhanced the Message and Resolution displayed on the Collection Status > Data Collection Detail screen for Netbackup collection when the collection failed due to "UnkownHostException" error.

Data Collection section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-33856

Resolves an issue during NetBackup Jobs for data collection. A database error message ERROR APT-DB-108740 was getting displayed in certain cases.

SC-33899

Resolves an issue for Inventory Details Probe of TSM connector which occurred due to parsing issue for Libraries from Drives.

SC-33936

Data Collector for Huawei OceanStor Array is enhanced with 3 new Array models.

  1. PRODUCT MODE: 813. PRODUCT MODEL: OceanStor Dorado 6000 V6

  2. PRODUCT MODE: 103. PRODUCT MODEL: 5800 V5

  3. PRODUCT MODE: 815. PRODUCT MODEL: OceanStor Dorado 8000 V6

SC-33968

Resolves an issue with Data Collection for some NetBackup jobs. APTARE IT Analytics was able to persist the Scanned_kb data.

SC-34906

Resolves an issue in NetBackup collector where backup copies were missing if Two copies are stored in on same Disk Pool.

Also fixed an issue for creating parent-child relationship in case of three layer hierarchy jobs when parent job comes after grandparent job

Portal section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-32884

VMWare Intelligent policy is enhanced to display the following details for a client.

  • VM DisplayName

  • VM DNSName

  • VM HostName

  • VM InstanceName

Note:

For more information, refer Report Reference Guide >> Backup Policies Report section.

SC-33308

Hitachi Vantara All-Flash and Hybrid Flash Storage collection is enhanced to optimize collection of storage paths which resolves the connection time out issues during persistence.

SC-34088

Resolves an issue with parsing NFS export path when path includes a hyphen ("-") character.

SC-34091

Resolves an issue with Avamar client agent version on persisting with incorrect/older version information for any client and master server with MC_RETIRED domain in APTARE IT Analytics.

SC-34128

Resolves an issue with File Analytics. In File Analytics, if a folder name starts with an existing and same folder name and a number, then FASubDirectoryReport reports only one folder name with consolidated folder size of all those folders in the form of single folder.

For example: If there are folders such as SubDirectory (1GB), SubDirectory1 (2GB), and SubDirectory2 (1GB), APTARE IT Analytics reports SubDirectory as 4GB in size and will not show SubDirectory1 and / or SubDirectory2.

SC-34139

Resolves an issue with "Utility Node Details" probe of "EMC Avamar" collector policy - closing SSH connections explicitly.

SC-33428

Alerts framework is enhanced to prevent creation of alerts if there is an existing alert for the alert policy and alert object combination

Note:

For more information, refer APTARE IT Analytics User Guide >> Alerting >> Managing Alert Policies >> Adding/Editing an Alert Policy >> Name the Policy and Define Time Intervals section of the document.

SC-33981

APTARE IT Analytics is enhanced allowing users to customize the colors in Percentage Bar and Numeric Color Formatter.

SC-34611

Resolves an issue with index recreation for lifecycle_policy_state field in apt_nbu_job_table.

SC-34150

Scheduling reports in APTARE IT Analytics is enhanced. When scheduling report in HTML format, using Email Behavior option, user can configure to either attach the report to the email or embed the report in the email.

SC-34254

Accessing reports using REST API in APTARE is enhanced with SSO configuration.

For more details, see See Access APTARE reports with REST APIs even with SSO configured.

SC-34381

File Analytics section is enhanced to include File List Preview report.

Note:

For more information, refer Report Reference Guide >> File Analytics Reports >> File List Preview section.

SC-34462

Reports in APTARE IT Analytics is enhanced to include NetBackup SLP Status by SLP as a separate report.

SC-34693

Resolves an issue with Search functionality in APTARE IT Analytics. When the user clicks Search and then selects Capacity Manager or Backup Manager products, the search did not render appropriate results.