NetBackup IT Analytics Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.2)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About NetBackup IT Analytics 11.2
  2. Patch release for version 11.2
    1. Patch releases: NetBackup IT Analytics
      1.  
        11.2.10 patch release notes
      2.  
        11.2.09 patch release notes
      3.  
        11.2.08 patch release notes
      4.  
        11.2.07 patch release notes
      5.  
        11.2.06 patch release notes
      6.  
        11.2.04 patch release notes
      7.  
        11.2.03 patch release notes
      8.  
        11.2.02 patch release notes
      9.  
        11.2.01 patch release notes
  3. What's new: Version 11.2 highlights
    1.  
      Supported product versions
    2.  
      Veritas Flex Appliance Data Collector policy enhancements
    3.  
      License entitlement at domain level
    4.  
      Bulk load of Subscription Attributes using csv file
    5.  
      SLP Job Details probe to collect SLP Jobs with image state as NOT_STARTED
    6.  
      New Front End Terabyte (FETB) reports in Billing and Usage reports section
    7.  
      Privileges of aptare_ro user reduced to avoid a security vulnerability
    8.  
      New VM reports
    9.  
      Azure Subscription Cost alert rule
    10.  
      New system attributes
    11.  
      Portal to support export/import of only digitally signed templates
    12.  
      New Azure daily usage and forecast reports
    13.  
      Reporting of Installed EEBs on Primary server, Media server and Clients (Patch 11.2.02)
    14.  
      Column header and formatter changes in Data Domain MTree Summary (Patch 11.2.02)
    15.  
      Support for Oracle RO Proxy user using Kerberos (Patch 11.2.03)
    16.  
      Enhancements in Hitachi Vantara reports (Patch 11.1.10 and above)
    17.  
      Overriding credentials for Brocade Switch data collector (Patch 11.2.04)
    18.  
      Hitachi Vantara Capacity By Storage report (patch 11.2.06)
    19.  
      NEC Storage HS (HYDRASTOR) Data Collector Policy (patch 11.2.08)
  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.  
      Performance profiles and transmitted data
  6. Fixed issues
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Fixed issues
  7. Known Issues and Optimizations
    1.  
      Known issues
    2.  
      Optimization: Customize the Linux file handle setting for large collections

11.2.04 patch release notes

The patch release includes all the previous patches of 11.2.xx and 11.1.xx bug fixes.

The following changes are included in this release.

Capacity Manager section

Not applicable in this release.

Backup Manager Data Collection section

Not applicable in this release.

Data collection section

Not applicable in this release.

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-54408

The InfiniBox and InfiniGuard data collectors contains the vulnerability components and, Infinidat has not provided any upgrades. Hence, as a precautionary measures, the support is postponed, and data collections are disabled until further notice from Veritas.

Note:

An error message will be displayed during the test connections and data collection.

SC-52791

NetBackup IT Analytics is enhanced to support Fujitsu Eternus version 9 for data collection with NAS Share Size logs.

SC-52205

The Brocade Switch data collector policy is enhanced to incorporate Credentials Override field. The user can now configure the switch to override the default credentials.

Note:

For more information, see NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector Installation Guide for Fabric Manager > Pre-Installation setup for Brocade switch > Brocade switch Data Collector policy section.

Reports

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-52343

The view SDK_V_HVFS_STORAGEPOOLPERFORMANCE is enhanced to include the Demand attribute for a forthcoming Hitachi DP pool summary report.

Note:

The view is available in SQL Template Designer.

SC-53309

Resolves an issue with NetBackup SLP Status report where NetBackup IT Analytics was not able to display the data in the report.

Portal section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-54277

Resolves an issue with SNMP / Email notifications failure for system / policy-based alerts.

SC-54235

NetBackup IT Analytics now supports Apache Tomcat version 9.0.76.

See Supported product versions.

SC-54156

Resolves an issue with Veritas NBU policy which has the bpimagelist output files for policy type Kubernetes 50. NetBackup IT Analytics displayed an error during data collection for job details probe.

SC-54026

Resolves an portal upgrade issue. When NetBackup IT Analytics was upgraded from 11.2.0.01 to 11.2.1.02, an error message was displayed for a data collector and was displayed offline.

SC-53965

Resolves an issue with data collector on NBU primary server, in distributed environment. Even if the root / admin user did not have the CLI credentials, NetBackup IT Analytics displayed an error message while executing the NBU probe.

SC-53736

Resolves an issue with the script that starts the services in data collector. The services were performing unnecessary su operations.

SC-53655

Resolves an issue with Ransomware privileges. When a user overrides an item or view recommendation with privileges as Ransomware override only, NetBackup IT Analytics displayed an error An error occurred on the portal server. Please check the Portal.log for details.

SC-53580

Resolves an issue with Amazon Web Service views SDK_V_AWS_EC2_INSTANCE and SDK_V_AWS_S3_BUCKET, where some attributes were missing.

SC-52808

NetBackup IT Analytics is enhanced to address the Access Control List (ACL) vulnerabilities of Apache ZooKeeper.

SC-52805

NetBackup IT Analytics is enhanced to support NetBackup File Analytics under the Protection suite licensing.

Note:

For more information, see NetBackup IT Analytics Licensing Guide > License installation and guidelines > Protection suite section.

SC-52395

Resolves an issue with export functionality of File Categories in File Analytics. When the user clicks Export icon, the Tomcat service was not responding due to issue with 3rd party compression library Snappy-Java.

SC-52097

Resolves an issue where the client's name of the virtual machine was identified against UUID. However, the client's name as UUID is invalid / unknown for generating the reports.

SC-51658

Resolves a Kafka problem for NetBackup IT Analytics cloud. In the syslog file, Kafka reported a massive quantity of messages. To filter the messages, Kafka is now configured to report only the error messages.

SC-51236

Enhancements incorporated in NetBackup IT Analytics. In the Ransomware Scorecard, the data item Defines the minimum NBU version the NetBackup Primary should have for Ransomware Scorecard.(apt_server_instance) is now renamed as Defines the NetBackup version we would recommend the NetBackup Primary should be on to take advantage of many new Ransomware Resiliency features (apt_server_instance).

Also, the evaluated NBU version is now configured to 10.1 instead of 10.0.