XorMon 2.0 Release Notes

2.0.11

Fixes
  • IBM TS4300 support for firmware versions < 1.5.0.0-A00
  • IBM Spectrum Protect(TSM): fixes global Health Status, event table column labels and dates
  • Azure monitoring for VMs without public IPs fix
  • Dell EMC Unity: fixed write IO calculation
  • IBM GPFS: Fileset/Inode – fixed weekly graph display
  • Brocade (REST API): it might not work for all, fixed, in log could be seen this: 'sampling-interval=2 Must be 5, stats skipped...'
  • IBM FlashSystem: performance statistic failing under some conditions, fixed
  • Predictions fail to load under certain circumstances after upgrade to 2.0.0
  • Alerting: fixes ping status alerting via ServiceNow, tweaks to FS alerting
  • Switch-Tape topology view fixed

2.0.0


Support for new technologies

Major feature enhancements

Other feature enhancements

  • Server
    • IBM Power Systems
      • POWER11 and HMC 11 support
      • LAN Topology has been added
      • Enhanced LAN configuration (SRI-OV, vLAN, SEA, Link aggregation)
      • CPU Shared Pool graphs have been enhanced
      • Virtual Ethernet performance graphs are now included in Total graphs (previously, only VIO were present) as well as VLAN under each LPAR
    • VMware
      • vCenter 9.x support
      • Snapshot monitoring : list of all active snapshots, their sizes and further details, VM snapshot size graphs
      • SAN HW topology (ESXi to SAN switch)
    • Proxmox: OS agent data mapping to VMs under Proxmox
    • Consolidated tabs for VMs where all CPU, memory, disk, etc., tabs are grouped into sub-tabs to shorten the main tab menu

  • Storage
    • Dell EMC² PowerMAX
      • Topology diagrams
      • Alerts/Events
      • Mapping between Host and Storage Group
      • New capacity metrics Effective Total and Used Capacity (Unisphere V10+)
    • IBM FlashSystem
      • Policy-based replication (PBR) and policy-based high availability (PBHA) support and its presentation
      • New subsystems Host Cluster and Volume Groups
    • Dell EMC² PowerScale / Isilon: Pool: added spare capacity (VHS) for Pool
    • Hitachi VSP: automatically groups port data into new 'Host Group' item
    • Pure Storage: support for REST API 2.0 has been added, as well as for ports (Eth/FC) stats, volume group, and protection group
    • The storage capacity table has been updated to include fill-in and growth rates, both of which are based on last week's data
    • Oracle ZFS minor enhancements
    • FreeNAS v25+ is now supported as the storage API has changed
    • Storage grouping now allows for the creation of nested group levels, and storage can be in multiple groups

  • Network
    • LAN
      • Topology has been added
      • New metrics 'Discards in/out'
      • SFP Power graphs
      • New interswitch link graphs (ISL), all ISLs from all switches in a single graph
    • SAN/LAN
      • Data in/out metrics are available in all graphs as Bytes/sec and, newly even as bits/sec
      • Added switch uptime
    • SAN: added 'Total errors' graph

  • OS agent
    • Linux
    • OS agent graphs are mapped under the database instances on which they are running
    • Operating system version details have been added to the Summary page

  • Server Service Processor
    • HW inventory greatly enhanced
    • HPE iLO: has been enhanced with CPU, Memory Bus, I/O Bus usage graphs

  • Product
    • REST API has been extended
      • Alerting: list active (triggered) and inactive alerts
      • Certificate management
      • Storage capacity metrics have been enhanced
    • Reporter:
      • Ability to generate graphs with multiple metrics
      • Option to sort tables by column
      • Ability to generate more complex tables
    • Summary pages
      • Graphs' legends are hidden by default and can be switched on by clicking a button in the top right
      • A custom time range has been added
    • Grafana: possibility to import tables and further minor enhancements
    • VM TOP: a custom time range has been added
    • Topology exports to PNG
    • Search feature (top-right magnifier icon) has been extended
    • Weekly and Monthly graphs have higher resolution, lower time aggregation is used
    • Zoom: it is not only vertical, but also horizontal, useful especially for filtering huge peaks in graphs
    • Reporter/Exporter: OS agent metrics are mapped to virtualization technology directly during report creation

  • Others
    • IBM Storage Protect (TSM): drive usage graph
    • Oracle DB: improved menu layout

... and many many minor enhancements and bug fixes.


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