Japan 5-1-1 Update

Release Date: October 2018

User Interface

The credentials tab is showing blank for some of the clients

Issue is fixed. The Credentials tab is showing data for the clients.

Alert Management

New inference model based on statistical learning

OpsRamp now supports a new inference model that is based on learning how frequently specific alert sequences occur. With this model, OpsRamp automatically learns to recognize alerts that are related by the same cause.

See Help, for details on this new inference model.

New forecast and change based alerts

OpsRamp now supports two new thresholding options for alerts, in addition to static thresholds.

Forecast based alerts

You can now configure alerts based on forecasted time to hit a given capacity limit. This type of alert is supported for disk space related metrics.

Change based alerts

You can configure alerts on metrics that trigger when there is a significant change from recent values.

You can configure alert escalation policies and dashboard widgets based on forecast and change based alerts.

See Help, for details on how forecast and change based alerts work.

Escalation policies on inferences

You can now define alert escalation conditions based on inferences.

Inference models at partner scope

You can now define Inference models at partner scope.

Inference model grid view auto reloads training progress

The Inference model grid view auto reloads training progress for every 5 seconds till it completes the training.

Error reporting on enabling or performing forecast or change detection

Able to view error reporting on enabling or performing forecast or change detection in generic widget.

Change detection: Below message is shown in widget if it exceeds the limit:

This Device cannot enable ChangeDetection monitoring. A maximum of 100 ChangeDetections can be enabled

Forecast: Below message is shown in widget if it exceeds the limit:

This Device cannot enable Forecast monitoring. A maximum of 100 Forecasts can be enabled

Feedback message made mandatory while de-correlating the co-occurred alerts

Provided support for capturing feedback message while de-correlating alerts.

Alerts are generated though Alert option is not selected while creating a template

Issue is fixed. Alerts are not generated when the Alert option is not selected in the process of creating a template.

Patch Management

Patch ratings via UI

You can now set ratings for a patch feed from the UI. Prior to this release, patch ratings could only be set via the API.

The ratings can be whitelisted or blacklisted.

Manual approval is disabled for those devices that have auto approval selected in patch configuration

Popups are displayed for individual patches.

For Windows:

For Linux:

A notification/popup is displayed on hovering over the Approval button (if the device is set to auto-approve in the patch config) saying, “Auto approval qualification will override any manual changes”.

Resource Management

Introduced new device types

1. Storage » Tape Library
2. Network Device » Network Optimizer
3. Network Device » Network USB Hub

The alerts are prioritized based on the impact on a service group

For an alert that is part of an availability metric, user is able to view if this alert is impacting a service group (from alert details view) and take action by accessing the impacted service group from within that alert.

Service Groups - ‘CommandElapsed Time’ is shown for availability alerts for impacted resources

Elapsed time is also displayed in the alert browser. This provides a view into how long the availability alerts have been critical.

Activity log shows that ‘Resources’ are also updated, though the resources are not updated

User Opens any existing Time Bound request and edits the Schedule/Permissions and verifies the activity log. Activity log shows that ‘Resources’ are also updated, though the resources are not updated. Same issue happens when updating the ‘To’ field for an Incident.

Issue is fixed. Now the Activity log shows correct information.

Resource Attributes

Set management IP address on a device

You can now set the primary IP address that OpsRamp uses to manage a device from the device details page.

Note: Only discovered IP addresses can be selected. You cannot enter an IP address.

Miscellaneous

Correction of Display names for Azure and Google Resources

Changed the resource names for the following resources according to respective cloud portals:

Azure Cosmos DB – from DocumentDB Accounts - changed to CosmosDB

Google Cloud SQL – from Storage – changed to DB

Google cloud Storage – from Bucket – changed to object storage and cloud storage

Google Cloud Functions – from Storage - serverless compute, just like Lambda.

Google Machine Learning Engine – from Job  - left as is.

OpsRamp supports AWS Elastic File System

AWS Elastic File System is managed and monitored.

When creating Metric / Time series widget in dashboard, the list is very inconsistent in displaying content

Not all cloud platform services are shown, and some platform services do not come with a tag like “Azure/Machine Learning”. They are just seen as “machine learning.”

Issue is fixed. Resource list is displayed in alphabetical order, with the tags, and the Data is also consistent.

APIs

Enhanced inference model API

The Inference Model APIs has been extended to support the new statistical learning based inference model.

Enhanced APIs to support forecast and change based alerts

The following APIs have been enhanced to support the new forecast and changed based alerts:

• Alert APIs

• Escalate Alert APIs

• Metric data  on resource APIs