Release Notes
This page lists the new features, improvements, changes and bug fixes in each version of Hardware Sentry.
Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 10.2.01
2 Changes - Released 2020-02-04Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MSHW-5449 | HTTP-based connectors may stop working after upgrading to version 10.2.00 |
| MSHW-5448 | Event generated for the Present parameter even though missing device detection has been disabled |
Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 10.2.00
11 Changes - Released 2020-01-14What's New
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MSHW-5377 | General improvements of the main collection engine |
| MSHW-5376 | Expose Hardware Sentry specific features in Monitoring Studio X Web UI |
| MSHW-5375 | Add top level class representing the KM, different from the class representing the monitored hosts |
Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MSHW-5368 | SSH: Add Support for SHA2 algorithms for HMAC and Kex |
| MSHW-5358 | Configuring hosts to monitor in a CMA policy allows special characters that breaks the discovery |
| MSHW-5352 | automaticReinitialization now uses options set in defaultReinitializationOptions |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MSHW-5399 | Alert Actions: Email Alert Action cannot be configured when a threshold is reached. |
| MSHW-5362 | Hardware Inventory Report appends irrelevant information to Memory Size |
| MSHW-5354 | get_ranges errors occurred when the Temperature parameter of the MS_HW_TEMPERATURE class was not activated |
| MSHW-5343 | N times comes to default after a KM reinitialize for linkspeed parameter |
| MSHW-5338 | Voltage Refresh Parameters Menu Does Not Refresh |
Hardware Connectors 18
8 Changes - Released 2019-12-23Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1045 | HP SSSU - Add Support for EVA HSV3xx controller enclosures. Fixed Physical Disk Sizes. |
| HC-1044 | Brocade SAN Switch SMI Agent - Create separate devices for each physical switch in TrueSight |
| HC-1042 | VMware ESXi 5 LUN (SSH): On Nimble, take into account LUNs having "eui" as prefix in their Device name |
| HC-1041 | Data Domain Storage Appliance (SNMP): Battery status may be wrongly reported |
| HC-1031 | Support of Dell MX7000 Chassis (REST) |
| HC-1029 | Add support for monitoring Dell servers via their iDRAC using REST |
| HC-1014 | Add Support for SuperMicro systems |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1034 | IBM AIX: LinkSpeed displays 10 Mb/s for 10-Gb/s network interfaces |
Hardware Connectors 17
5 Changes - Released 2019-09-24Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1039 | EMC uemcli (VNXe) : Force serialization of the different uemcli commands |
| HC-1037 | EMC Isilon: Change physical disk "Replace" status to alarm |
| HC-1030 | IBM VIO Server Connector: Data collection for network interfaces takes too long or times out |
| HC-1025 | Add support for Dell MX7000 Chassis (SSH) |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1038 | Dell Compellent: Connector does not activate |
Hardware Connectors 16
5 Changes - Released 2019-06-25Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1023 | EMC DataDomain - Add Numeric Percentage for Battery Charge |
| HC-1020 | NetApp: Add support for monitoring 7-mode systems via ONTAP API |
| HC-1018 | EMC Navisphere - Alert on removed devices - Add controller modules part numbers on some systems |
| HC-430 | Add support for NetApp E-Series Storage Systems |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1024 | Lenovo: Incorrect Voltage value |
Hardware Connectors 15
10 Changes - Released 2019-03-13Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1016 | Add support for older VPLEX systems (5.5 or earlier) |
| HC-1011 | IBM xSeries IMM - Add support for older systems |
| HC-1006 | Add support for Dell EMC Isilon through SNMP |
| HC-1005 | Add support for Dell EMC Isilon through REST API |
| HC-990 | MS_HW_IBMVIOS.hdf: Add the monitoring of all FC cards |
| HC-854 | Add support for NetApp through REST API |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1015 | EMC Isilon SSH - Prevent false logical disk instances creating alerts |
| HC-1012 | EMC Isilon 8 (SSH) : Battery Status is not interpreted properly |
| HC-1009 | Dell MD3000 - IBM SMcli connector would activate superfluously |
| HC-1007 | EMC Navisphere CLI - "Resume Faulted" is not properly reported |
Hardware Connectors 14
10 Changes - Released 2019-01-08Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-995 | Add Support for Fujitsu ServerView Version 8 |
| HC-994 | Data Domain Storage Appliance (SNMP): Battery discharges should not be considered as alarming |
| HC-993 | EMC Navisphere CLI: Add support for VNX systems with SPE enclosures |
| HC-991 | Dell Compellent: Add support for Dell REST API version 3 and higher |
| HC-983 | IBM HMC - Include Additional Event Information (HMC v8+ only) |
| HC-964 | Add support for Juniper Switches |
| HC-958 | Hitachi VSP G Series : Ethernet Ports are now discovered and monitored |
| HC-942 | EMC VNX/Celerra/Clariion: Disabled ports trigger false alerts |
| HC-937 | Add Support for Dell MD3000 (smcli) |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1002 | Fujitsu ServerView: Added serial number and fixed incorrect temperature alert |
Hardware Connectors 13
4 Changes - Released 2018-11-16Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-981 | Add support of physical network interfaces for HP ProLiant Gen8 (and later) servers through iLO |
| HC-979 | Dell EqualLogic: Add support for Controllers |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-987 | Oracle/Sun Solaris - Environment (prtpicl): Temperature and Voltage parameters not properly collected. |
| HC-986 | EMC Celerra/VNX Unified System (SSH): block storage may not be discovered |
Hardware Connectors 12
9 Changes - Released 2018-09-21Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-978 | EMC Isilon - Improve Storage Pool event descriptions |
| HC-976 | HP Insight Management Agent - Drive Array: Improve disk controller's status when its battery is recharging |
| HC-975 | Add support for Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 rack-mount servers |
| HC-970 | Add support for Cisco UCS S-Series |
| HC-680 | Add support for IBM XIV Storage Systems through XCLI |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-980 | EMC Navisphere CLI (Global User): Physical disks are not discovered |
| HC-973 | EMC SMI-S Agent (ECOM) connector: missing instances due to duplicate DeviceID's |
| HC-972 | NetApp Filer (SNMP): Physical disks may not be discovered |
| HC-971 | Cisco UCS C-Series CIMC (SNMP): Enclosure status is inaccurate, connector applies to non C-series servers |
Hardware Connectors 11
7 Changes - Released 2018-07-18Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-965 | Dell EMC VNX: Add support for latest version of navisseccli |
| HC-960 | Linux Network: ip is now preferred over ifconfig in 2 separate connectors |
| HC-951 | NetApp Filers: Disk Shelves are displayed as separate objects (requires ONTAP 9), System Electronics Monitoring, Part Numbers of Power Supplies |
| HC-864 | Add support for Nimble Storage Systems |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-966 | Oracle/Sun Solaris - Environment (prtpicl): False alarms on disabled voltage, temperature, LED and fan sensors |
| HC-962 | Fiber Alliance switches: Link Status and Bandwidth Utilization parameters not properly collected |
| HC-961 | Dell EqualLogic: Status of physical disks not properly interpreted for newer versions of EqualLogic |
Hardware Connectors 10
5 Changes - Released 2018-05-30Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-956 | Add support for Hitachi VSP G Series through Storage Navigator SMI-S |
| HC-955 | Linux - Network: Add support for interface name starting with enp, ens, eno and for systems where net-tools (ifconfig) is not installed |
| HC-953 | Dell Compellent: Serial Number and Service Tag added for controllers |
| HC-952 | Oracle/Sun - ZFS Storage Appliance : SSH connections are serialized to avoid connection limit |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-946 | IBM AIX - Common: Connector not reporting network interfaces in "Dead" state |
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
8 Changes - Released 2018-05-04Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-948 | HP Insight Management Agent - Server: Power supply may be reported as Unknown when unplugged or removed |
| HC-943 | Improve performance of EMC VNX/Clariion/Celerra connectors |
| HC-941 | Add the monitoring of power supplies for IBM Data Power |
| HC-886 | Add support for Dell Compellent |
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 2018-03-27Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-939 | EMC Navisphere - Always alert on removed disks |
| 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-860 | EMC Data Domain: Added monitoring of battery status |
| HC-836 | Add support for HP EVA SSSU on Linux |
| HC-810 | Oracle X5 - /SYS/PWRBS sensor generating false alarms |
| 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-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 |
| HC-560 | Add support for Quanta Rack Mount Server Unit (a.k.a. Ericsson Hyperscale) |
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 2018-02-16Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-888 | HP ProLiant Servers (SNMP) - Serial and Model Numbers are properly reported |
| HC-708 | Add support for Synology DiskStation |
| HC-401 | Add support for IBM FlashSystem 800 / 900 Series |
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 2017-12-22Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MSHW-4999 | TrueSight CMA mode is used only if an applicable policy is enabled in CMA |
| 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-4967 | Default value for Unexpected Status Management in TrueSight CMA is now "OK" |
| MSHW-4947 | MS_HW_q allows you to enable the Debug Mode for individual hosts in TrueSight Agent Query |
| 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-4916 | Support for Java 9 |
| MSHW-4907 | Support for SSH keyboard-interactive authentication |
| 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-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-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-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 |
| 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 |
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 2017-12-22Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-819 | Add support for EMC VPLEX |
| HC-700 | EMC DataDomain: Disk Status incorrectly reported as 'Unknown' |
| HC-681 | Add support for HP 3PAR Storage Systems |
| 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-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 |
| 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 |
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