Release Notes
This page lists the new features, improvements, changes and bug fixes in each version of Hardware Sentry.
Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 10.1.01
4 Changes - Released 2018-05-04Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MSHW-5334 | The Remove KM Command does not work on the Batteries container |
| MSHW-5330 | "Invalid [...] value" error messages may occur on non-US English systems |
| MSHW-5329 | Monitoring of several devices with differrent credentials through HTTP REST API may fail randomly |
| MSHW-5321 | When using the PATROL Classic Console, reinitializing the KM does not empty oldInstances.dat and missing devices are re-created |
Hardware Connectors 9
7 Changes - Released 2018-05-04What's New
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-941 | Add the monitoring of power supplies for IBM Data Power |
| HC-886 | Add support for Dell Compellent |
Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-948 | HP Insight Management Agent - Server: Power supply may be reported as Unknown when unplugged or removed |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-949 | NetApp: Physical disks not discovered or no alarms triggered for failed disks |
| HC-947 | Dell iDRAC - Server: False alarms triggered on network cards |
| HC-945 | IBM VIO Server: LinkSpeed displayed as 10 Mbits for 10-Gbit network interfaces |
| HC-944 | Quantum Scalar i6000: False alarms generated on invalid voltage sensors |
Hardware Connectors 8
13 Changes - Released 2018-03-27What's New
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-939 | EMC Navisphere - Always alert on removed disks |
| HC-860 | EMC Data Domain: Added monitoring of battery status |
| HC-836 | Add support for HP EVA SSSU on Linux |
| HC-714 | Added: Support for EMC Celerra and EMC VNX Unified (Block and NAS credentials must be identical). Support for Global and LDAP users on EMC VNX/CLARiiON. RAID Group / Storage Pool Monitoring added. Components without a status will no longer be shown. |
| HC-560 | Add support for Quanta Rack Mount Server Unit (a.k.a. Ericsson Hyperscale) |
Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-938 | Dell iDRAC - Server connector: Improve network cards IDs to avoid false alarms and display names |
| HC-865 | Removed support for Sun/Oracle ALOM monitoring (telnet protocol is no longer supported) |
| HC-810 | Oracle X5 - /SYS/PWRBS sensor generating false alarms |
| HC-601 | IBM DS (LSI) Disk Arrays (smcli): Improved discovery and identification of hardware components |
| HC-596 | IBM HMC: Add refcode and actual time of the monitored events |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-935 | HP ProLiant: Extraneous memory modules are discovered |
| HC-897 | SSSU Connector - Various fixes and improvements in the discovery |
| HC-664 | Brocade SAN Switches (SNMP): Inaccurate values for traffic parameters caused by 32-bit counters overflow |
Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 10.1.00
16 Changes - Released 2018-02-20Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MSHW-5276 | Performance improvement in AWK processing (no external process) |
| MSHW-5263 | Performance optimization in the discovery process setting the alert thresholds |
| MSHW-5243 | Scalability improvement in the collection process |
| MSHW-5188 | Internal KM Issue Notification no longer triggers PATROL Events unless specified otherwise |
| MSHW-5166 | Improved discovery performance: The discovery process now creates an instance file for each monitored host |
| MSHW-5165 | New configuration variable (deactivatePowerConsumptionEstimation) to deactivate the power consumption estimation |
| MSHW-5158 | The Hardware Health Report, automatically generated when a PATROL Event occurs, now provides additional information about the system impacted by a hardware failure or a threshold breach. |
| MSHW-5152 | Performance significantly improved when monitoring a large number of systems |
| MSHW-5146 | The product uses the most recent JRE available and prefers 64-bit versions over 32-bit versions when it is automatically selected. |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MSHW-5289 | Monitored host not displayed as a separate device in TrueSight Operations when hostname cannot be resolved |
| MSHW-5250 | When monitoring remote systems through SSH, the SSH client would not properly terminate, even after stopping/restarting PATROL Agent. |
| MSHW-5221 | Updates of Global Variables in policies not taken into account until the PATROL Agent was restarted. |
| MSHW-5203 | The TestReport parameter did not show the output of the command for the IPMI availability test |
| MSHW-5202 | The rediscover() agent query prevented the host credentials from being properly stored when the host was rediscovered |
| MSHW-5181 | StatusInformation parameter wrongly reports a LEDIndicator set to 2 as Off instead of On |
| MSHW-5172 | Removing a connector from a Host Group through KM Commands does not work |
Hardware Connectors 7
6 Changes - Released 2018-02-16What's New
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-708 | Add support for Synology DiskStation |
| HC-401 | Add support for IBM FlashSystem 800 / 900 Series |
Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-888 | HP ProLiant Servers (SNMP) - Serial and Model Numbers are properly reported |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-846 | "Hitachi HDS AMS/HUS - SNM2 CLI" connector may generate false alarms for Logical Disks |
| HC-830 | Cisco UCS C-Series CIMC (SNMP): Empty slots discovered as physical disks |
| HC-576 | EMC VNXe (uemcli): Unwanted disk instances, SSL certificate issues |
Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 10.0.01
5 Changes - Released 2018-01-04Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MSHW-5132 | Connectors for Storage systems no longer work when leveraging a locally installed instrumentation layer |
| MSHW-5126 | Password may appear in plain text when a command times out or fails |
| MSHW-5114 | The ProtocolStatus-Command parameter triggers a false alarm for certain remote hosts |
| MSHW-5108 | Timeout error when monitoring remote IBM AIX systems through SSH |
| MSHW-5101 | Temporary files are not deleted on remotely monitored systems through SSH |
Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 10.0.00
34 Changes - Released 2017-12-22What's New
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MSHW-4993 | MS_HW_q allows you to dump the PATROL namespace in TrueSight Agent Query |
| MSHW-4974 | MS_HW_q allows you to list the installed components and their versions (including Hardware Connectors) |
| MSHW-4947 | MS_HW_q allows you to enable the Debug Mode for individual hosts in TrueSight Agent Query |
| MSHW-4916 | Support for Java 9 |
| MSHW-4832 | Device information (as in Infoboxes) is now exposed in TrueSight Operations |
| MSHW-4831 | MS_HW_q allows you to interact with the KM in TrueSight Agent Query (reinitialize, debug, pause, resume, remove, refresh, acknowledge, report, etc.) |
| MSHW-4763 | It is now possible to specify the monitoring of several hosts at once, sharing the same configuration and credentials |
| MSHW-4751 | A new MS_HW_REPORT class provides detailed information about the operation of the KM (self-monitoring) |
| MSHW-4745 | Protocols can be enabled individually for each host and are monitored with specific parameters |
| MSHW-4734 | Java 8 is required for the product to operate properly |
| MSHW-4728 | Remote monitoring through telnet is no longer supported (will use SSH instead of previously configured hosts with telnet) |
| MSHW-4691 | A new option allows you to automatically clean-up the list of previously discovered devices when the agent starts |
| MSHW-4576 | Add support for HTTP and REST API-instrumented devices |
| MSHW-4573 | Added remote monitoring of a Windows host from another Windows host through commands |
Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MSHW-4999 | TrueSight CMA mode is used only if an applicable policy is enabled in CMA |
| MSHW-4967 | Default value for Unexpected Status Management in TrueSight CMA is now "OK" |
| MSHW-4939 | Specific events are now triggered by default (rather than STD/41) to allow events to be forwarded with custom content |
| MSHW-4932 | Annotations with comprehensive report of the problem when an alert is triggered is now enabled by default in TrueSight CMA policies |
| MSHW-4907 | Support for SSH keyboard-interactive authentication |
| MSHW-4811 | It is now possible to configure a specific FQDN for a monitored host |
| MSHW-4791 | Link Speed greater than 20 GB/s was considered as invalid value and ignored |
| MSHW-4777 | Java Settings are easier to configure with more detailed options |
| MSHW-4770 | Configuration variable (snmpRetryIntervals) has been added to specify the interval in milliseconds at which the SNMP client must retry its requests until a response is received or the timeout is reached |
| MSHW-4683 | Event messages are no longer limited to 2048 characters |
| MSHW-4651 | Parameter LEDIndicator is added to MS_HW_LED class to report on the state of the LED (On, Off or Blinking) |
| MSHW-4650 | Cisco UCS monitoring: Use MS_HW_CiscoUcsXmlQuery.jar by default on both Windows and Unix/Linux |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MSHW-5043 | In the "Edit Settings" wizard for localhost, WMI credentials cannot be left blank when PATROL Agent configured to run as LOCALSYSTEM |
| MSHW-5029 | Settings for 'sudo' in a TrueSight CMA policy were not honored for IPMI |
| MSHW-4870 | Debug output did not show the output of a command that fails in timeout |
| MSHW-4789 | ErrorPercent could report values greater than 100% |
| MSHW-4676 | SNMPv3 with SHA authentication does not work |
| MSHW-4675 | After a certain time, the product failed to process SSH, SNMP, or WBEM responses that exceeded a certain size and a certain execution time |
| MSHW-4671 | Java processes would sometimes keep on running after a restart of the PATROL Agent preventing proper KM upgrades |
| MSHW-4643 | Deleting a single host via KM Commands may wipe out the whole Hardware configuration |
Hardware Connectors 6
37 Changes - Released 2017-12-22What's New
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-819 | Add support for EMC VPLEX |
| HC-681 | Add support for HP 3PAR Storage Systems |
| HC-530 | Add support for EMC Unity Storage Systems based on the embedded SMI-S provider |
| HC-508 | Add support for EMC Isilon ONEFS 8 OS |
| HC-480 | Add support for F5 BIG-IP and Radware Load Balancers |
Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-700 | EMC DataDomain: Disk Status incorrectly reported as 'Unknown' |
| HC-647 | EMC Navisphere CLI: Add support for Linux, no longer requires administrator privileges |
| HC-615 | EMC Isilon ONEFS 8: Storage pool capacity may be wrong |
| HC-584 | Dell iDRAC - Storage: Improved Monitoring of Logical and Physical Disks |
| HC-559 | Dell M1000E Chassis: Connections Serialized to Avoid CMC Saturation |
| HC-469 | EMC DataDomain: More accurate labelling of the monitored objects |
| HC-448 | Huawei RH2288H V3 Servers: Proper Labeling of Memory modules |
| HC-444 | Fusion ioDrive: Add support for Windows |
| HC-407 | Hitachi HNAS Systems: Add monitoring of System Drives and FC Ports |
| HC-325 | Hitachi ComputeBlade 500: Add monitoring of temperature, fan, and voltage sensors |
| HC-76 | On Windows, LUNs (MPIO Disks) needs to be monitored even if no FC ports are present |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-746 | Degraded Controller Status on Disk Controllers for Oracle SPARC T5,T7 Servers |
| HC-731 | "NetApp Filer - SNMP Agent" connector generating false alarms |
| HC-694 | Missing Network Interfaces under individual Blades for Brocade SAN Switch |
| HC-627 | NetApp Filers (SNMP): Properly handle "mixed_raid_type" as the status of an aggregate |
| HC-602 | Oracle/Sun ILOM (SNMP): The status of LEDs (notably on power supplies) did not trigger alerts |
| HC-544 | Sun Iostat (Non-Sun Disks): NETAPP LUN Detected as Physical Disk |
| HC-515 | EMC Isilon ONEFS: Physical disks' status L3 generating false alarms |
| HC-514 | Cisco SAN Switches (SSH): No data collected for statistical parameters on FC ports |
| HC-507 | HP BladeSystem (SSH): The connector does not activate on newest firmware |
| HC-506 | Pure Storage: Physical disks and other components not properly attached to the enclosure |
| HC-501 | HP Insight Management (SNMP): Temperature thresholds not set correctly |
| HC-489 | VMware ESXi: Port Speed and Duplex state not collected |
| HC-475 | IBM VIOS: Errors related to ioscli in System Output Window |
| HC-460 | Cisco UCS B200: Physical Network Interfaces showing duplicate MAC addresses |
| HC-450 | EMC PowerPath: The connector did not activate when using sudo |
| HC-417 | IBM VIO Server: No collected value for traffic and LinkStatus on virtual ports in SEA Virtual Adapters |
| HC-394 | Quantum DXi (SSH): False alerts on physical disks, and various timeout error messages |
| HC-377 | EMC Isilon: A logical disk with the name of "Drives:" triggers false alerts |
| HC-336 | Oracle Netra SPARC T4-1: No CPUs discovered |
| HC-280 | EMC VNX, VNXe: uemcli and Navisphere CLI connectors both activate, "unbound state" not recognized for disks |
| HC-27 | IBM BladeCenter: Fan energy saving is not taken into account and triggers false alerts |