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NetBackup IT Analytics Release Notes

Last Published: 2023-09-08

Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.1)

11.1.01 patch release notes

The 11.1.01 patch release includes all the previous patches of 11.0, 10.6.00 P17, and up to 10.5.00 P14 patch fixes.

The following changes are included in this release.

Capacity Manager section

Table: Enhancements and resolves issues

Issue Number	Description
SC-46259	Enhancement incorporated in Hitachi Ops Center Configuration Manager REST API. The REST API collects the additional data points from the Hitachi Arrays. Even though the data from these data points is currently not persisted in any of the reports, they can be used in the custom RTDs. The additional data points collected are as follows: Total Efficiency Ratio Data Reduction Ratio Provisioning Efficiency % Software Saving Ratio Software Compression Ratio Software Deduplication Ratio Software Pattern Matching Ratio FMD Pattern Matching Ratio FMD Saving Ratio FMD Compression Ratio Calculation Start Time Calculation End Time Note: The above data points are collected for all Hitachi Arrays probed using the Hitachi Ops Center Configuration Manager REST APIs.

Issue Number

Description

SC-46259

Enhancement incorporated in Hitachi Ops Center Configuration Manager REST API. The REST API collects the additional data points from the Hitachi Arrays.

Even though the data from these data points is currently not persisted in any of the reports, they can be used in the custom RTDs.

The additional data points collected are as follows:

Total Efficiency Ratio
Data Reduction Ratio
Provisioning Efficiency %
Software Saving Ratio
Software Compression Ratio
Software Deduplication Ratio
Software Pattern Matching Ratio
FMD Pattern Matching Ratio
FMD Saving Ratio
FMD Compression Ratio
Calculation Start Time
Calculation End Time

Note:

The above data points are collected for all Hitachi Arrays probed using the Hitachi Ops Center Configuration Manager REST APIs.

Backup Manager Data Collection section

Not applicable in this release.

Data collection section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number	Description
SC-41009	Resolves an issue with NetBackup rawdata files. If the user tries to uninstall the Data Collector or delete the rawdata files for that specific NetBackup, an error was displayed, Unable to delete; filename too long.
SC-43968	Resolves an issue of data collection from the VMWare environment using the Veeam system. The host ID value from the VMWare environment is mapped to the Veeam system. However, if the host ID value was not found, a new host entry is created using DP_SEARCH_HOST_FOR_VM_OBJ_ON parameter and mapped for data collection.
SC-45823	Resolves an issue in the Collection Status page for HP Data protector probes where the device name in the Device column was not displayed.

Portal section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-33153

Resolves an issue with My Reports section. NetBackup IT Analytics allowed creating the folders in My Reports folder with the same name for the same user which was incorrect.

SC-38336

Resolves an issue with the NetBackup IT Analytics Portal. The portal was not able to deliver email alerts for the scheduled reports and the report details were also not available in the email.

SC-39239

The Avamar Purge process is enhanced for the log tables. The data in the log tables will be deleted in chunks for faster execution and will not use excessive UNDO space.

SC-43250

Enhanced the performance of three queries in sdp_dp_common_pkg.backupExists by adding the upper bound.

SC-43631

Enhancement incorporated in Ransomware scorecard. A new RTO Compliance data item added. For more information, See Ransomware scorecard enhancement for RTO COMPLIANCE (Patch 1).

SC-43635

Enhancement incorporated in Ransomware scorecard. A new pool space issue data item added. For more information, See Ransomware scorecard enhancement for Pool Space (Patch 1).

SC-43996

Resolves an issue with NetBackup Job details which were getting executed for more than 16 hours. The issue was observed due to ENABLE_MINUS_T_OPTION parameter due to the poll date log record.

SC-44086

Enhancement incorporated in Alert >> Alert Policy Administration >> Alert Configuration >> ServiceNow: Job Finalized alert page. A new filter Job Type allows the user to filter the jobs based on types.

SC-44666

The following enhancements are incorporated in this release:

A new table aps_emc_logical_unit_log has been created to collect the EMC logical unit log and changed it to data persistence in this new table.
New table to Dynamic template designer.
New aps_v_emc_sym_logical_unit_log view is created and is available in SQL Template Designer.

SC-45179

Resolves an issue with NetBackup Job Failure based alert rules. The alert rule now displays the description of the Exit Status along with the code.

SC-45535

Resolves an issue in Isilon arrays where the disk model value was too large to retain in the database.

SC-45537

Resolves an issue with the portal. When the portal was upgraded from 10.6 P15 to 11.1.0, the license code was not getting updated. Hence, the portal displayed an invalid license error message.

SC-45566

Enhancement incorporated in Ransomware Scorecard. The user can now view ransomware query recommendations.

Note:

For more information, see NetBackup IT Analytics User Guide >> Manage ransomware scorecard >> Answer a ransomware query section.

SC-45782

Resolves an issue with persisting the value of backupid when multiple string appeared in the output of NetBackup "/licensing/capacity" REST API

SC-45989

Resolves an issue with Oracle 19c ASM. NetBackup IT Analytics now supports data collection from Oracle 19c ASM with the new advanced parameter 'HOST_COLLECTION_ORACLE_CONN_STR'.

Navigate to Admin > Advance > Parameter and then click Add. Add Advance Parameter dialog box is displayed. Specify the parameters for the following fields:

Parameter: HOST_COLLECTION_ORACLE_CONN_STR
Value: jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:${port}/${sid}

SC-46020

Enhancement incorporated in Array Capacity & Utilization report. The values in Pool Summary and Volume/LUN Summary columns are now displayed as hyperlinks for the following rows:

# Resv Vols/Luns in Pool Summary
# Vols/LUNs in Volume/LUN Summary
# Allocated Vols/LUNs in Volume/LUN Summary
# UnAllocated Vols/LUNs in Volume/LUN Summary

Click hyperlinks and NetBackup IT Analytics displays the new Hitachi Vantara Lun Utilization Summary report.

Note:

For more information, See Report Reference Guide >> Array Capacity & Utilization reports >> Array Capacity & Utilization - (Hitachi Vantara All-Flash and Hybrid Flash Storage) section.

SC-46118

Resolves an issue with Alert scope where the offensive word such as Master is replaced with the word Primary.

SC-46449

Resolves an issue with the VMWare where the database integrity constraint blocked the purging process.

SC-46523

Resolves an issue with VMware data collection. NetBackup IT Analytics encountered more than 30 GB of trace files by Oracle. A deadlock situation arises when deleting these trace files.

SC-46969

Resolves an issue with Hitachi HCP. The Total capacity and used capacity for S series storage are now captured and added to the total usable capacity along with primary storage details. The RTD report can be created to view the S series storage and primary storage capacity details, separately. Node level capacity details for S series storage are not available.

SC-43106

Resolves an issue where the anomaly engine tomcat instance performed verbose logging and filled the file: opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.56/aptare-instances/anomalydetection/logs/catalina.out