XorMon 1.8 Release Notes

1.8.14

Fixes:

• IBM FlashSystem:
  • Using usable capacity instead of physical one on new firmwares
  • Total capacity could be wrong under some circumstances, fixed
  • Child Pools are separated under its own subsystem item
• Fujitsu Eternus - data collection using password authentication did not work

1.8.1

It contains a fix for XorMon REST API, it did not work properly in v1.8.0

1.8.0

Support for new technologies

• IBM Z Mainframe
• Veritas NetBackup
• ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage
• iXsystems FreeNAS, TrueNAS
• Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) Block
• Fujitsu ETERNUS

Feature enhancements

• Grafana integration
• Filtering in the left tree menu
• Reporter: ability to exclude items from selections
• Filesystem usage graphs (total,used,free), integration with alerting, reporting and exporting
• Users: read-only role, user locking
• VMware: mapping table: VM disks ➡ datastore and storage devices
• IBM i OS agent: implemented support for reporting, exporting and alerting
• Storage capacity prediction graphs: implemented total capacity per storage device (previously only per pool prediction was available)
• Volume multipath: storage volumes assigned to VMs are visible in the "Volume" VM tab
• Item Select: ability to exclude items from already selected set of items
• UI Search feature enhanced with IP, MAC, WWN and Volume ID search capabilities
• Dell EMC Power MAX: support for 10.2+ firmwares
• Tag support in the REST API
• SSL communication support between the OS agent and XorMon server (use -x when you running the OS agent)
• OS agent sends MAC and WWN of all interfaces, they are accessible through the UI Search feature
• Broadcom SANnav: events and zoning setup are presented in the application
• IBM FlashSystem / Storwize / SVC: storage firmware 8.7+ support, older XorMon versions do not support it
• IBM FlashSystem / Storwize / SVC: support for copy services (mirroring)

Many fixes especially for

• IBM Storage Protect (TSM): include many smaller enhancements
• Hitachi HCP
• VMware
• Hitachi VSP
• IBM FlashSystem / Storwize

Licensing changes

• Storage: 8 devices limits (it was 12)
• SAN switches: 8 devices limits (it was 12)
• Backup devices: 5 devices (it was 1)