NetBackup IT Analytics Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.0)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About NetBackup IT Analytics 11.0
  2. Patch release for version 11.0
    1. Patch releases: NetBackup IT Analytics
      1.  
        11.0.11 patch release notes
      2.  
        11.0.10 patch release notes
      3.  
        11.0.09 patch release notes
      4.  
        11.0.08 patch release notes
      5.  
        11.0.07 patch release notes
      6.  
        11.0.06 patch release notes
      7.  
        11.0.05 patch release notes
      8.  
        11.0.04 patch release notes
      9.  
        11.0.03 patch release notes
      10.  
        11.0.02 patch release notes
      11.  
        11.0.01 patch release notes
  3. What's new: Version 11.0 highlights
    1.  
      Supported product versions
    2.  
      Product name change and UI improvements
    3.  
      Foundation - the new license SKU
    4.  
      NetApp Cluster-Mode Data Collector Policy enhancement
    5.  
      Oracle and NetBackup IT Analytics services enhanced to use systemctl on Linux
    6.  
      Host Discovery and Collection view enhancement
    7.  
      New installer for Oracle 19c database application binaries on Windows
    8.  
      On-demand real-time logging
    9.  
      Enable debug logs for on-demand collection
    10.  
      View table report as chart and vice versa
    11.  
      Add custom headers and footers to reports and dashboards
    12.  
      Google Cloud Platform Data Collection policy
    13.  
      NetBackup Protection Plan support
    14.  
      NetBackup FETB collection support
    15.  
      Anomaly detection with analytics and alerts
    16.  
      Event audit logging with reports
    17.  
      NetBackup Host Certificates report and alert
    18.  
      NetBackup Non-Host Certificate Expiry report and alert
    19.  
      Syslog notifications for report-based alerts
    20.  
      Support for Oracle database binaries as shared service
    21.  
      IT Analytics ServiceNow App certified on Quebec and San Diego releases
    22.  
      Apply report scope only to backup servers
    23.  
      Provision for log4j vulnerabilities
    24.  
      Support for Veritas NetBackup deployed as Docker image
    25.  
      NetBackup IT Analytics Exporters
    26.  
      Install Data Collector using container
    27.  
      Intelligent alerting
    28.  
      VMware Data Collector Policy collects vSAN details
    29.  
      Brocade Switch Data Collector Policy enhanced to receive SNMP traps
    30.  
      Compute Resources Data Collector Policy
    31.  
      Resources Monitor probe for Veritas NetBackup Data Collector Policy
    32.  
      NetBackup Failed Login Attempts alert rule
    33.  
      Open NetBackup web UI from the IT Analytics Portal - (Patch - 2)
    34.  
      View report statistics from actions menu
    35.  
      Event audit enhanced to capture more user actions - (Patch 1)
    36.  
      Data changes in Array Capacity & Utilization report for Product/Vendor Hitachi Vantara - (v11.0 Patch4)
    37.  
      Bulk load of Port Attributes using csv file
    38.  
      EMC Avamar Inclusion and Exclusion list enhancements - (Patch 2)
    39.  
      Enhancements in EMC Avamar data collection - (Patch 2)
  4. Supported Systems
    1.  
      Data Collector supported operating systems
    2. Supported browsers and display resolution
      1.  
        Linux portal server: Exported and emailed reports
  5. Installations and Upgrades
    1.  
      Portal installation memory requirements
    2.  
      Performance profiles and transmitted data
  6. Fixed issues
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Fixed 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)

11.0.01 patch release notes

The 11.0.01 patch release includes all the previous patches of 10.6.00 and up to 10.5.00 P14 patch fixes.

The following changes are included in this release.

Capacity Manager section

Not applicable in this release.

Backup Manager Data Collection section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-41484

Resolves an issue in Backup Manager - Historic Event Collection. NetBackup IT Analytics displayed an exception while sending the data to Data Receiver services.

Data collection section

Not applicable in this release.

Portal section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-32244

Resolves an issue with reports in Privileges. The name and description of the Ransomware Risk Assessment Dashboard report did not get translated into the French language.

SC-37611

Resolves an issue during the upgrade. The Oracle user password was getting exposed in a text file.

SC-39807

The NetBackup IT Analytics framework is enhanced to persist job size, backup size, deduplication ratio, and compression ratio data from the job session API.

Note:

The data for job size, backup size, deduplication ratio, and compression ratio must be available at the parent level in the job session APIs.

SC-40175

Resolves an issue for the KAFKA upgrades. NetBackup IT Analytics now maintains the customize version of KAFKA for any library updates in the aptare-config.properties file.

SC-40636

User saves the Out-of-Box report as customs report or Saved Instances of a Report. NetBackup IT Analytics is now enhanced to incorporate the auditing process for these reports.

SC-40839

The RPM for NetBackup IT Analytics Exporter is now available for RHEL platforms.

SC-41283 / SC-41284

Resolves an issue in the Job Details probe. The probe was interrupted by the framework when posting a large number of jobs. The jobs, which were being persisted in the database, took more than the estimated / expected time.

SC-41295

Resolves an issue in the Job Details probe. When a job was getting interrupted by the framework, the subsequent jobs were also getting dropped from the processing by the probe.

SC-41428

The data collector in NetBackup IT Analytics is enhanced for the Passcode field. The Passcode field now supports all the special characters.

SC-41429

Resolves an issue with Alert Scope filter conditions for ServiceNow: Job Finalized alert rule when NetBackup policy name filter is included in the alert scope.

SC-41581

Resolves an issue of portal upgrade with version 10.6.XX and above. During the upgrade, NetBackup IT Analytics displayed licensing error message as 'The Number of FETB has exceeded the number defined in the license' and stopped the upgrade.

SC-41866

Resolves an issue with load_package.loadServerAttributeFile command/syntax where a system parameter validation was un-available to validate the IP Address and hostname.

SC-42371

NetBackup IT Analytics is enhanced to support APACHE HTTP Web Server version 2.4.53.

For more information, See Supported product versions.

SC-42417

Resolves performance issue observed for NetBackup jobs where the input used in the database query was forcing a bad execution.

SC-42460

Resolves an issue with parsing start/finish timestamp from "bperror" output.

SC-42477

Resolves an issue with an attribute 'isUserDefined' for APTARE SDK API : com.aptare.storage.saveSnapshotSchedule'. This is a mandatory attribute and is re-named as 'isDefault' to indicate if the snapshot schedule is user-define (N) or system defined (Y).

SC-42577

Resolves the command failure issue to persist the HNAS Virtual volume Usage information.

SC-42675

Resolves an issue with missing operating system validation check in Data Collector. NetBackup IT Analytics does not supports RHEL / CENT version 6 platform in 11.0. Hence, the Data Collector upgrade was failing on RHEL / CENT platform.

SC-42581

Resolves an issue of SQL query where the RDF2 was getting filtered out due to which it was not getting displayed in the Host Utilization Details and Utilization Summary reports.

SC-42869

Resolves an issue for the portal upgrade where the /opt/aptare/upgrade directory is a symbolic link.

SC-42877

Resolves an issue with assigned Logical Unit Number (LUN). NetBackup IT Analytics did not displayed assigned LUN to the Hosts.

Note:

A new parameter 'EMC_VMAX_INCLUDE_ALL_MASKINGVIEWS' with default value of 'Y' is incorporated.

SC-42406

Resolves an issue with Job Summary report where the exit code 999999 was displayed instead of 0 (zero) for the Replication import jobs.