Notes de version XorMon 2.4

2.4.11

Fixes:

• Cisco UCS: performance data was not being saved under certain conditions; this has been fixed
• The "SAN Switch - Tape" topology now correctly displays data for IBM TS4300 tape libraries
• Hitachi VSP: Fixed incorrect performance data timestamps in Export Tool 2 caused by different storage and XorMon server time zones
• VMware fix: vmw2rrd failed: SOAP request error - possibly a protocol issue
• AI agent: introduced new trial period for its testing, 2-month from the first query
• Dell EMC PowerMax/VMAX: Capacity metrics now use the correct GiB/TiB units
• Dell EMC PowerMax/VMAX: Fixed empty RDF director data_rate metric
• SAN Cisco: Administratively down ports are no longer evaluated as an error in Health Status
• OpenTelemetry: fixed an issue with selecting 'Server' based data sources, it did not allow to select it under some conditions
• Minor ACL fixes
• Docker:
  • The container no longer needs 'privileged: true'. You can remove it from your 'docker run' command or compose file
  • The image also runs as a non-root user: 'docker run --user', Kubernetes 'runAsUser' and OpenShift with a random UID
  • On start the application drops from root to the 'xormon' user (UID/GID 1001 by default).
  • To match the owner of a mounted host directory, set 'XORMON_UID' and 'XORMON_GID'

2.4.0

Support for new technologies

• Server
  • Huawei FusionCompute
  
  
• Server Processor
  • Dell OpenManage
  • Supermicro BMC
  • Cisco UCS
  
  
• Storage
  • Hitachi Ops Center
  • Cloudian
  • TrueNAS SCALE
  
  
• LAN
  • HPE Juniper
  • F5 Big-IP
  • Palo Alto
  
  
• Tape
  • Cybernetics ISAN VTL

Major feature enhancements

• OpenTelemetry exporter
• AI chat: significantly enhanced
• Oracle DB: substantial enhancements and optimizations
• Topology: noticeably enhanced with the preview panel
• LAN: NetFlow / sFlow support

Other feature enhancements

• Server
  • RHV/OLVM/oVirt: NIC utilization and drop graphs, VM counts in totals
  • RHV/OLVM/oVirt: Topology added
  • Linux: Topology added (physical SAN and logical server x volume)
  • VMware has consolidated the vCenter and Cluster Total menus, grouping tabs under subtabs
  • Windows: Topology added (physical SAN and logical server vrs storage volume)
  • XenServer / XCP-ng: Topology added
  • Nutanix: host network throughput, memory usage %, host and VM NIC tables (Nutanix API v4)
  
  
• OS Agent
  • XorMon agent:
    • XorMon AIX agent has been released
    • Process list snapshot in new tab 'PS Snap' (once an hour, one week retention)
    • Process "ps -ef" collector when a CPU alert threshold is reached
  • Solaris agent: Error log implemented
  • Disk multipath error-based alerting was added
  • New OS agent health status dashboard: UI ➡ Dashboard ➡ Health Status ➡ OS agent
  • Linux multipath topology
  
  
• Storage
  • NetApp new metrics (tabs):
    • CIFS shares
    • CIFS sessions
    • NFS export policies
    • NFS sessions
    • Quotas with usage for Qtrees
    • Mount path column in the Volume tab
  • Dell EMC PowerMAX / VMAX:
    • Volume (T-DEV) capacity added
    • Mirroring support
    • Mapping added: Pool ➡ Volume, and Volume ➡ T-DEV
    • Replication lag monitoring (IO, Data, Cycle Time, RDF Response, Time Write Pending)
    • Configuration tables added: T-DEV and volume details
    • Mixed SRP (FBA/CKD) support added
    • WWN information added: T-DEV (WWN) and Hosts (WWN)
    • Backup IP support for data collection – backup IP used when instance switches from active to passive mode
    • Added used_capacity_before_reduction for volumes in DRP Pools
  • Dell EMC Unity new metrics:
    • SMB (CIFS) and NFS protocol latency per Storage Processor — total, read and write — on the Node pages
    • Filesystem latency (client response time) — total, read and write
    • NAS server and NAS pool latency — total, read and write — aggregated from their file systems
    • Write cache dirty data on the Node pages
  • IBM DS8000:
    • Data collection for pool virtual capacity fixed
    • Separate physical and logical capacity metrics added for Pools, Volumes, Volume Groups and Devices
  • EverPure Storage FlashArray:
    • Added split latency metrics — SAN, Service, and Queue write latency
    • Fixed ActiveCluster read metrics for hosts, host groups, volumes, and pods to correctly reflect local array activity. Previously, mirrored items from the remote array were counted twice, resulting in inflated read value
  • Dell EMC Unity fix: performance and capacity metrics were not collected on Unity OE 5.5 and newer due to a rejected metric path
  • Dell EMC ECS: enhancements to bucket/namespace monitoring
  • IBM FlashSystem: enhanced topology diagrams showing mdisks mapping to back-end storage volumes (typically SVC setup)
  • IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS): CES service state and addresses in the node configuration, node IO, data and latency tabs
  • Fujitsu ETERNUS: fixed SSH connection failure on RHEL 9 with old IPSSH-7.0.0 firmware (legacy SSH-RSA host key algorithm, AES128-CBC cipher)
  • NetApp E/F-series: added snapshot monitoring
  • Pure Storage FlashArray: added snapshot monitoring
  
  
• Database
  • Oracle DB:
    • ASM monitoring includes topology
    • SQL statements
    • 70% of original metrics are saved as 1-minute samples instead of 5-minute samples as before
    • Most queries have been adjusted and optimised, and the monitoring impact is much lower despite many new queries
    • Latency graphs under 'Instances' have been completely rebuilt
    • Added: Alert history, Session, Service, SQL Query, Waitclass, DataGuard
  
  
• Network
  • LAN topology (based on MAC address): Switch ➡ Host
  • LAN + SAN: a new 'Total' menu item where the graphs, which were previously in the 'Data', 'Packet' and 'System' tabs, are consolidated
  • FortiGate: minor enhancements to alerting and FortiGate port aliases added to the UI presentation
  
  
• Cloud, Container
  • AWS Cloud: refactored, no need to install awscli anymore, much faster data processing
  • Docker grouping added
  
  
• Product
  • Dashboard: possibility to put there alerting tables
  • Dashboard: new device-based templates
  • Dashboard: autoplay
  • Alerting: new timeline view to see each alert activation over time
  • CMDB: tags can be used for selections
  • Custom groups: nested custom groups with their own total aggregated data
  • Topology VM – Volume: Volumes that are not monitored storage devices in XorMon are presented in the topology under the 'Unknown Volumes' group with their volume ID
  • AD/LDAP: support for items that are managed by a technical account
  • Grouping: It is possible to switch between having an item in only the group or having it in the group and the main menu
  • Custom Host and IP ping alerting
  • A new trends summary page for all clusters, nodes and VMs under each technology
  • Tags can be selected using a regular expression, new items can be assigned to tags automatically then as they are created
  • A new Grafana integration way with a XorMon Grafana plugin and direct configuration of everything inside the Graphana UI
  • A new feature called Performance Views for Server, SAN, LAN, Storage
  
  

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