Announcements

2.2.0

Support for new technologies

Note: Node.js v24 is required for this XorMon version, upgrade to it before XorMon v2.2.0 upgrade as per this docu.

Feature enhancements

Server
- IBM Power Systems:
  - Fixed LPAR CPU usage in % for capped LPARs
  - LAN Topology has been enhanced
  - OS agent works now even without attached HMC, before OS agent data required attached HMC
- VMware:
  - Topology new view: VMware ESXi ➡ Switch
  - Topology: new view datastore ➡ volume
- Proxmox
  - Topology enhanced
  - Added Pressure CPU, IO and Memory for VM/hosts
- oVirt, OLVM, RHV: LAN usage summary added to host and cluster totals
- Service processor: added into SAN Topology
- Advisor: added Total CPU and memory savings to each page
OS Agent
- Linux: added Pressure CPU, IO and Memory
- AIX: NVME over FC support
- AIX: FC and Ethernet statistic support for VIO Server 4.1.1.10+
- Solaris: runtime optimization for environments with many disks and zones on a host
- Linux on Power: fixed a bug where the number of configured CPUs was reported incorrectly
Storage
- Topology: Storage ➡ Server VM
- Netapp FAS / AFF:
  - Storage VMs added (both performance and capacity)
  - Improved health status monitoring
  - Volume snapshots added
  - Volume inode usage percentage added
  - Qtrees added (performance and quotas)
- Pure Storage FlashArray:
  - Added Pool metric total reduction
  - Added replication in/out and lag metrics for Pods
  - Added support for asynchronous POD replication (mirroring)
  - Added filesystem physical & logical capacity
- Hitachi VSP:
  - Added configuration tables for Journal, Local Mirror, Remote Path Group, and Quorum Disks with status monitoring and alerting
  - Added support for copy services (mirroring)
  - Added Pool metric data reduction
- HPE MSA, Dell EMC ME4/5: added health check optimization: now checking both nodes and adding the system table per node to health status
- Infinidat InfiniBox: added to SAN Topology
Container (Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift)
- Menu changes
- Monitoring stateful sets, deployments, replica sets, cron jobs and jobs
- Health status added
- Event log added
- Alert can be set for number of events in the event logs
Network
- SAN Topology: new view: Server ➡ Switch
- SAN Topology: SAN all (Server ➡ SAN ➡ Storage/Tape)
- Ping alerting: enhanced even for SAN and LAN switches
- SAN Brocade (REST API):
  - Fix the speed values for ports and fix Data In/Out [%] graphs
  - Add the apiPort to the device configuration form
  - Add the switch IP to the device configuration form (in case a hostname is used for data collection or the switch is behind a NAT)
  - Add new configuration table for Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI) and for HBAs
- SAN Cisco: fix the portChannel ports that were missing in the XorMon UI
- SAN / LAN:
  - TOP is implemented
  - Some switches might not work properly via SNMP properly since v2.1.0, fixed
  - Add the serial number to the summary view
- SAN: HW alert when any port goes from online to any else status (user settings)
- LAN Cisco: add the SFP module model to the configuration table for physical ports
Tape
- IBM TS4k: added support for media 3592
- IBM TS4300: implemented Bearer token caching to prevent memory leak caused by frequent authentication
Product
- REST API: added all CMDB configuration tables, example
- Self monitoring: the internal DB data size usage graph is now available for each hardware class
- Search: enhanced, all switch port client WWN's and server WWN's are now included
- XorMon host CPU issues fixed, high CPU load could appear in older versions under certain circumstances
- Aggregated graphs: the legend of all graphs contains a "Total AVG/MAX" header row
- Zabbix alerting integration
- Fixed several security issues reported by third-party security penetration testing

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