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Release Notes

This page lists the new features, improvements, changes and bug fixes in each version of Hardware Connector Library.

Hardware Connectors 36

9 Changes - Released 2024-01-24

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1618 Modified power_state metric to match new standard in all existing connectors

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1624 NetApp E-Series: Incorrect statuses are reported for some devices like batteries, memory modules, etc.
HC-1620 VMware ESXi - Disks (IPMI) and VMware ESXi - Disks (VMware) connectors are not compatible with ESXi version 8
HC-1613 Generic UPS: Incorrect values and thresholds are reported for Voltages
HC-1611 Fujitsu-Siemens Serverview (WBEM): Memory size is incorrect
HC-1609 Dell iDRAC9 (REST): Some statuses may be incorrectly reported as Failed
HC-1608 IBM Storwize Disk Arrays (SSH): Physical disks are not discovered
HC-1604 Dell CMC (Dell Chassis Management Controller) and Dell MX7000 Chassis: Power consumption is not computed
HC-1545 HP Synergy: Power consumption is not collected at the chassis level

Hardware Connectors 35

13 Changes - Released 2023-09-08

What's New

ID Description
HC-1586 Added support for VMware 8

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1603 The MS_HW_HPBladeTelnet.hdf connector has been renamed to MS_HW_HPBladeSSH.hdf
HC-1602 The MS_HW_CiscoTelnet.hdf connector has been renamed to MS_HW_CiscoSSH.hdf
HC-1600 The MS_HW_HPBladeSystem.hdf connector's display name has been updated to display its protocol
HC-1598 The IBM Netfinity Manager connectors (MS_HW_IbmNetfinityManager, MS_HW_IbmNetfinityManagerBASIC, MS_HW_IbmNetfinityManagerRAID) are deprecated: Systems relying on the IBM Netfinity Manager Agent are no longer supported
HC-1597 The HP TopTools connector (MS_HW_HPTopToolsNT) is deprecated: Systems relying on the HP TopTools Agent are no longer supported
HC-1596 The HP TopTools NetRAID connector (MS_HW_HpNetRaidController) is deprecated: Systems relying on the HP TopTools NetRaid Agent are no longer supported
HC-1595 The IBM Director 4 connectors (MS_HW_Director4Linux, MS_HW_Director4NT) are deprecated: Systems relying on IBM Director Agent v4 are no longer supported
HC-1594 The IBM Director 3 connector (MS_HW_Director3NT) is deprecated: Systems relying on IBM Director Agent v3 are no longer supported
HC-1592 Dell PowerSwitch S-Series: Added support for more networking switch models

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1587 HP iLO Gen 10 (REST): Unneeded discovery of empty power supplies slots, mapped-out memory failure not detected, and false missing alerts on network cards
HC-1564 Quantum DXi (SSH): Wrong computation during many hardware object’s collect
HC-1552 Generic UPS: PowerConsumption is not available

Hardware Connectors 34

7 Changes - Released 2023-07-26

What's New

ID Description
HC-1536 Added support for HP Qumulo via Python

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1559 The Motherboard Monitor connector (MS_HW_MBMNT.hdf) is deprecated: Systems with Motherboard Monitor are no longer supported
HC-1553 The HP MP/GSP card connector (MS_HW_HPiLO.hdf) is deprecated: HP MP and GSP cards and older HP-UX and SuperDome systems are no longer supported
HC-1543 Huawei OceanStor (REST): Connector now activates on more OceanStor systems

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1549 Hitachi Configuration Manager (REST)/Hitachi G-Series (REST): Incorrect Type and missing Model on Cache Flash Memories
HC-1548 EMC Unity SMI-S Agent: False missing device alerts
HC-1546 EMC VPLEX Version 5/6: False missing alarms on Power Supplies, Fans and Memories

Hardware Connectors 33

1 Changes - Released 2023-06-12

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1539 Minor regressions in v32 connectors: Adaptec - StorMan - RAID, HP Insight Management Agent - Fiber Array, SMI-S Compliant RAID Controller - Linux, HP Synergy - REST and Promise FastTrack

Hardware Connectors 32

11 Changes - Released 2023-06-07

What's New

ID Description
HC-1519 Telnet: Support for interactive Telnet protocol is removed and replaced with single-step SSH commands

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1527 Disk controllers batteries are now grouped under their disk controllers
HC-1526 HP iLO Gen 9 and 10 (REST): Added fan speed (in percentage)
HC-1517 Added support for HP Qumulo

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1533 HP iLO Gen 9 and 10 (REST): Temperature thresholds are incorrect
HC-1530 HP iLO Gen 9 and 10 (REST): Power Consumption and Status are not collected on some blades
HC-1529 EMC Isilon Cluster (REST): Batteries that are not installed are now excluded from the discovery
HC-1523 Libre Hardware Monitor: Faulty chip reports inaccurate temperatures
HC-1521 Hitachi G Series (REST): Failed physical disks are reported with an "Unknown" status
HC-1518 EMC Unity SMI-S Agent: False missing alarms are generated on all devices
HC-1507 HP Synergy (REST): Local physical disks are missing and blade's names are not set

Hardware Connectors 31

3 Changes - Released 2023-01-23

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1513 Oracle/Sun ILOM (SSH) times out unexpectedly
HC-1512 SuperMicro (REST): Fix Basic Authentication issue
HC-1509 Dell EMC PowerVault (REST) does not activate when enabling hardware monitoring through Storage Analyzer KM

Hardware Connectors 30

10 Changes - Released 2022-11-08

What's New

ID Description
HC-1492 Added support for Pure Storage REST API with token authentication
HC-1484 Added support for Dell EMC PowerVault (REST)
HC-1476 Added support for Hitachi Systems (REST)
HC-1469 Added support for HPE Primera (WBEM)

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1503 EMC Isilon Cluster (REST): Added device ID to the physical disk's display name
HC-1501 Cisco UCS C-Series CIMC (SNMP): Added support for temperature sensors

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1502 Synology Diskstation: Physical disk failures are not reported
HC-1497 Hitachi SVP SMI-S Agent: The connector erroneously creates 2 separate devices
HC-1490 HPE Synergy: Disk controller's "OK" status may incorrectly trigger false alarms
HC-1392 EMC Isilon Cluster (REST): Status is not properly interpreted

Hardware Connectors 29

4 Changes - Released 2022-07-11

What's New

ID Description
HC-1479 Added support for KVM, Xen and QEMU hypervisors

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1483 WMI - Network: Added bandwidth utilization and network traffic in bytes
HC-1481 IPMI: Added information for batteries and several other devices

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1485 APC UPS: Voltages and Battery remaining time are reported with the wrong unit

Hardware Connectors 28

7 Changes - Released 2022-06-23

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1471 Synology: Monitoring of system and disk temperatures
HC-1470 Libre Hardware Monitor: Monitoring of CPU power consumption

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1480 Libre Hardware Monitor: Missing Voltage value
HC-1475 Nvidia-Smi: Objects are not discovered
HC-1474 Oracle/Sun ZFS Storage Appliance: The appliance is not discovered
HC-1473 Nvidia-Smi: Incorrect warning and alarm thresholds on Fan Speed causes false alert
HC-1472 HP Synergy-REST: Connections remain permanently open

Hardware Connectors 27

13 Changes - Released 2022-06-07

What's New

ID Description
HC-1466 Added support for Proxmox hypervisors
HC-1464 Added support for Hyper-V servers
HC-1460 Added support for Eaton PDUs
HC-1456 Added support for Raritan PDUs
HC-1455 Added support for RFC-1628 compliant UPS (SNMP)
HC-1391 Added support for Arista switches

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1462 APC UPS connector now supersedes the Generic UPS connector

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1465 Cisco UCS C-Series CIMC (SNMP): Connector Activation Criteria are not met by certain UCS-C hosts
HC-1461 Cisco UCS B-Series (SNMP): Empty memory slots reported as Failed or Inoperable modules
HC-1459 Cisco MDS9000 Series (SSH): Gaps in data collection for Network Interfaces
HC-1458 HP iLO Gen 10 (REST): No alert triggered for LinkStatus when the port gets unplugged
HC-1457 WMI - LUN: Connector activates unnecessarily when MPIO configuration is empty
HC-1427 Huawei Servers: Negative values are reported for temperatures

Hardware Connectors 26

17 Changes - Released 2022-02-24

What's New

ID Description
HC-1448 Added support for APC PDU
HC-1446 Added support for Windows Storage Spaces (WMI) - NVMe, disk temperature sensors, logical disks
HC-1436 Added support for Dell EMC PowerStore (REST)
HC-1428 Added support for Dell S-Series network switches (SNMP)
HC-1406 VMware ESXi: Added discovery of Virtual Machines and their respective power consumption
HC-1354 Added support for APC UPS
HC-863 Added support for Huawei OceanStor (REST)

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1440 Dell iDRAC - Storage: Added firmware version for physical disks
HC-1439 Lenovo IMM (SNMP): Added firmware version for physical disks
HC-1437 Libre Hardware Monitor reports the GPU utilization
HC-1403 Dell MCX Chassis and Blades: Blades are not instantiated when multiple Chassis are discovered from the same Management Module

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1453 HP iLO Gen 10 (REST): Collection Error Count is constantly in Alarm
HC-1452 VMware ESXi - Virtual Machines (SNMP): Connector may activate on unsupported versions of Hardware Sentry
HC-1450 LibreHardwareMonitor: Temperature sensors are incorrectly reported on Intel CPUs
HC-1449 WMI - Network: Virtual and WAN adapters are discovered and misreported as Ethernet cards
HC-1444 HP iLO Gen 9 and 10 (REST): Unknown statuses trigger false alarms
HC-1441 Nvidia-smi: Connector fails to discover GPU and related devices

Hardware Connectors 25

13 Changes - Released 2021-10-27

What's New

ID Description
HC-1433 Added support for Cisco UCS (REST)
HC-1425 Added support for Quantum i40/i80 Tape Libraries
HC-1416 Consumer-Grade Hardware: Added support for lm-sensors
HC-1411 Consumer-Grade Hardware: Added support for Libre Open Hardware
HC-1408 HP Synergy - REST: Added physical disks monitoring and disk enclosures display name improved
HC-1394 Added support for Nvidia GPUs through nvidia-smi (GeForce, Tesla, GRID, Quadro, Titan)
HC-1080 Fujitsu-Siemens PRIMERGY: Added Power Consumption monitoring

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1429 Cisco UCS C-Series CIMC (SNMP): Connector Activation Criteria are not met by certain UCS-C hosts
HC-1424 IBM DS6000/8000 Disk Arrays: Invalid WBEM query for the OtherDevice and NetworkCard classes
HC-1413 Hitachi Blade Symphony: Incorrect alarm threshold for temperatures
HC-1409 Lenovo IMM (SNMP): Fan speed percent is not collected
HC-1407 Lenovo IMM (SNMP): Discovery/Collection fails when SNMP requests time out
HC-1405 Dell Compellent Storage Manager - Unisphere For Storage Center: Unconfigured and unplugged ports are incorrectly reported as failed

Hardware Connectors 24

10 Changes - Released 2021-07-13

What's New

ID Description
HC-1390 Added support for HP ProCurve switches
HC-1386 Added support for Juniper NetScreen (SNMP)
HC-1385 Added support for Extreme Networks Switches (SNMP)
HC-1384 Added support for Aruba Network Switches (SNMP)
HC-1380 Added support for Cisco Entity Sensor MIB (SNMP)

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1402 The constructor MIB-based connector supersedes the SNMP generic network connector
HC-1387 HP3PAR: Added FC Port errors monitoring
HC-1378 Added connectors to provide enclosure to Network Switches
HC-1079 Dell PowerEdge (iDRAC9): Added Power Consumption monitoring and improved performance

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1382 Oracle/Sun Solaris - Network: Connector does not report the duplex-mode properly

Hardware Connectors 23

3 Changes - Released 2021-03-18

What's New

ID Description
HC-1369 Added support for HPE ProLiant Gen 9 and 10 via iLO REST
HC-1049 Added support for HPE Synergy chassis
HC-634 Added support for Cisco UCS blade components through Cisco UCS Manager SNMP agent
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