Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year on behalf of OpManager Team. While you are enjoying your vacation, we finally have the much anticipated HotFix 8722 release. Once again we slipped the release dates but we compensated it with more fixes and nice enhancements.    Here is the list in detail.

Feature Enhancements:

• Support for adding non ping-able device is included now.
• Support for scheduling downtime for consecutive days is provided in Monthly Day-wise option.
• WAN link report has a link to the interface and device snap shot page.
• Domain Controller category is now listed in URL response widget.
• Process monitoring - Down alert is generated if the instance count is 0 and 'consecutive times' field is configured.
• Device Templates now have a 'Copy As' option to enable saving the same template under a different name.
• During Failover, email notifications are sent when:
  • The Standby server is not started.
  • Data replication process is not completed during standby server startup.
  • Data replication fails during take over.
  • Appropriate message is shown to the user, if the client is connected to standby server in standby mode.

Issues Fixed:

• Startup
  
  
  
• Issue of primary and secondary running as 'active' at the same time, is resolved
• OpManager upgrades are effected smoothly(dedicated patches as com folders which created problems after upgrade will be renamed automatically)
• Mysql database tables getting corrupted at times, is fixed during server start up.
• OpManager plugins are not be shown for business view users.

• Discovery
  
  
  
• Issue of device not getting added at times, is fixed.
• CIDR Discovery related issues are fixed.
• Network view is grayed out even when there are some active devices added, is fixed.
• CLI Credentials are listed correctly in Add Server Page.
• Special characters in SNMP community string and WMI Credentials are supported now.
• Device Type is now set correctly even if the device is removed and rediscovered again.
• Interfaces are now discovered/rediscovered properly even if the interface count exceeds 1000.

• Maps
  
  
  
• Issue of error page showing up in some scenarios when viewing the Traffic Map, is fixed.
• Layer 2 maps now show proper color-coding to reflect the Links status.
• Layer 2 mapping is shown properly even for routers that have sub-interfaces.
• Issue of OpManager getting crashed at times, due to large number of iprouting entries in BGP router, is fixed.
• The list view showing duplicate entries for devices with multiple CPU instances, is fixed.
• Interface/Port symbol is correctly shown in the corresponding map view page.
• Issue of being unable to access a business view, is now fixed.
• Custom business view images are included during backup and restoration.

• Alarms
  
  
  
• Alarms are properly generated when the consecutive failure count is configured in the URL monitors.
• Threshold alarms are now properly generated even if the message contains the $ symbol.
• Threshold alarms are properly generated for the WMI based monitors.
• A read-only user for business views can now view alerts only for the devices in that view.
• Threshold violation alerts not generated if threshold.conf file is corrupted, is fixed now.
• OpManager no longer crashes when viewing the devices alarms or unsolicited traps!
• Issue of SMS alerts not sent at times, is fixed.
• Issue of device down alert not generated, if already an alert of same severity is present, is fixed.

• Monitors
  
  
  
• Custom WMI monitors can now have same monitor name, if the data is polled using different WMI Class.
• WMI monitors are added correctly even if the monitor name exceeds 255 characters.
• The issue of Real Time Monitors not shown if the device has had any WMI specific errors, is now fixed.
• Used disk space monitor (public / mail store) is now listed correctly for Exchange 2000/2003.
• You can add Exchange Server - store information details even if more than 10 - 15 stores are configured.
• The calculation of SNMP-based CPU utilization was formerly incorrect. It is fixed to reflect the correct utilization.
• When both, SNMP and WMI Process Monitors are added, polling is now done for both the monitors.
• CLI credential options are removed for network devices.

• Data Collection
  
  
  
• Proper data collection now happens for Cisco Temperature monitor.
• Data collection stops at times in OpManager 64 bit version. This issue is fixed.
• Data collection is smooth even if monitored partitions have space in their names.
• Data archiving was not done due to error in dynamic table creation. This is fixed.
• Interface data is collected properly even if ifspeed is not configured.
• Device status is updated correctly irrespective of the dependency configuration.
• Switch Port Mapper data was not shown at times because of snmp timeout. This is fixed.
• Issue of CLI based CPU, Memory and Disk utilization data not shown for different flavors of Linux / Solaris / AIX devices is rectified now.

• Reports
  
  
  
• Custom Reports display the resource monitors protocol-wise if all the supported protocol monitors are associated to the device.
• The sorting in the 'All servers disk usage report' is based on the device names instead of disk usage.
• Windows Service Monitor Availability and Process Monitor Availability reports are rendered properly when exported to PDF or XLS format.
• Scheduled reports and custom infrastructure reports can now have a space in the report name. Example: December Report.
• You can edit the custom report for virtual devices.

• Others
  
  
  
• Modifying or assigning a Downtime schedule to an existing or new business view is now possible.
• Newly added business view not being displayed when editing the Downtime scheduler is fixed now.
• You can edit and save the changes for Down Services and Down Devices widgets.

Gabriel
Team OpManager
Network Monitoring Software