HotFix 8721 for Service pack 8.7 is Released.

HotFix 8721 for Service pack 8.7 is Released.

Hi,

Its our pleasure to announce the release of HotFix 8721 for SP 8.7. Though it got delayed due to some unavoidable reasons, it has got fixes for many reported problems with few enhancements too. Here is the detailed list. 

Feature Enhancements:

  • The Downtime Scheduler now has an option to schedule a downtime on a monthly basis
  • Monitoring of Exchange 2010 is now supported
  • The notification criteria for the Printer and UPS includes variables like paper jam, low toner, low battery etc.
  • The threshold configuration now allows you to select ‘Not Equals’ as a match condition
  • OpManager Webclient, if invoked before the OpManager server process, reflects the status of OpManager process
  • The reason for a credential failure is shown on clicking the Test Credentials button
  • More time options such as 1, 2 , 4, 6 hours have been included in Widgets
  • New widgets are included to show devices and services that are down, and also to show the business view traffic map
  • An email notification is sent when OpManager loses connection to the database
  • If the Syslog port is occupied, a message to this effect is shown in the Syslog Rules page
  • A hyperlink to the alarm details page is added in the notification mail message
  • The About page shows the latest build number available for download on the OpManager website

Issues Fixed:

  • Downtime scheduler: A couple of issues in daily and weekly schedule in Downtime Scheduler when selecting a day⁄time are fixed.
  • Notification Profiles
    • The Advanced button in the notification profiles criteria page now works correctly
    • URL Monitors are now listed in the notification criteria when the devices are categorized under Custom Category
    • For servers running Windows applications, notification is triggered for threshold violation only if the parameters in MSSQL ⁄ Exchange ⁄ Domain Controller monitors are explicitly selected from the criteria even if the condition If Any Threshold value is configured is selected
  • Reports
    • Availability reports are now corrected to 3 decimal places
    • When exporting a monitor with multiple instances to Excel format, all the instances are now correctly exported
    • Custom Report were not rendered properly when the instance name exceeded a particular length. This is now fixed
    • Issue of 'No Data' shown in Total Bytes Transferred report, if scheduled, is fixed
  • VMware devices
    • You can choose to monitor only the required VMs on a host. You can remove or add the instances to be monitored from the host snapshot page
    • Discovery related issues have been fixed
  •  Back Up ⁄ Restoration:
    • Build Number Check is included to address incompatibility issues
    • Users Permission Check is included and an alert is triggered when the user does not have administrator privilege
    • After the backup and restoration, the device details are now correctly displayed including the custom fields
    • The HTTPS mode related backup⁄restoration issues are fixed
  • Maps
    • Printer attributes (like toner, paper ) status is now displayed in printer view.
    • Business view's list view showing no data when the page size is changed, is fixed.
    • Dashboard views shows no data for Network Maps and Business Views. This is fixed
    • The page loading issue when the interface⁄port count exceeds 500 is fixed using smaller icons
    • The resource reports in the list view maps earlier showed the average value. It is now fixed to show the data collected in the latest poll
  • Usability issue: When an alarm is deleted from the alarm details page, the page is redirected to the device snapshot page after deletion
  • URL Monitoring: The authentication encryption issue in NTLM URL monitors is fixed and the data is collected properly
  • IP Address change:When an IPAddress is changed for a device the other polling parameters are now correctly updated with the changed IP and data collection is uninterrupted
  • Alarm Escalation The alarm escalation, when applied to a business view, now shows the devices filtered based on category within the business view
  • Desktop shortcut : OpManager webclient shortcut (Start –> All programs –> ManageEngine OpManager –> OpManager Web Client) is invoked correctly in the HTTPS mode
  • Installation:
    •  OpManager now accepts a blank password when installing with MSSQL database server
    •  An anti virus check is done during OpManager installation.

  • Discovery
    • Device Addition issue due to stray entries fixed. 
    • Unable to find ManagedObject error message in Device snapshot page is fixed.
    • Discovery Wizard hangs  if space is given in the ipaddress field  is resolved
           

  • Vulnerability: Cross site scripting vulnerability in "jsp/Login.do" page is fixed.

  • Database Maintenance: The issue of reports not showing any data when the corresponding Database Maintenance is configured is now fixed
  • AD License issue: The DomainController snapshot page is enhanced to reflect proper device information if the Domain Controller license is expired
  • Device Search: The issue of device not showing up when searched for, is now fixed
  • Widget UI Issue:The display and alignment of Widgets in the GUI due to the length of the Widget name is now fixed
  • Log a Ticket: Trouble Ticket details are now properly updated when creating a ‘Log a Ticket’ profile
  • Custom Infrastructure View: Inability to associate Windows monitors to devices in a custom category inheriting server properties, is fixed.

  • Exchange Monitoring: An occasional error when adding the ‘Information Store box’ monitor on an Exchange server is now fixed
You can download the hotfix and get the upgrade steps from HERE 

Note: It can be applied only on top of build 8720. 


Gabriel
Team OpManager
Network Monitoring Software



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