Hi,

We are very pleased to inform everyone that we have released our Service Pack 9400 today.

You can download the service pack from our website,

http://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/service-packs.html

The jre for OpManager 9400 (& onward) has been upgraded to version 1.6 and you can find the respective download and instructions on the link given above.

Netflow Plugin Upgrade: Upon upgrading OpManager to 9400, the Netflow plugin should also be upgraded to it's latest build 9700. Download 9700 from the link below,

http://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/netflow-plugin-service-packs.html

NCM Plugin Upgrade: NCM plugin should also be upgraded to the latest version 5810. Download it from the link below,

Readme for Build 9400

New Features

1. iPhone App for OpManager: Connect to OpManager server and view the performance of all the devices, recent alarms, and business views from your iPhone.
2. OpManager supports monitoring Windows 8, Windows 2012, and MS SQL 2012.
3. OpManager supports monitoring NetApp storage devices. [Watch Video]
4. Now authorize AD group users with different access privileges to access OpManager web-client with the new AD authentication feature. [Watch Video]
5. A seamless integration with ManageEngine ITPulse, the private social network for IT. OpManager will posts event status automatically in ITPulse, when a technician acknowledges, unacknowledges, or clears an alarm in OpManager. You can also view the details of such alarms from ITPulse itself and discuss the troubleshooting steps. [Watch Video]
6. The NCM plugin data and reports can be added as widgets in the dashboard page. Also OpManager now raises alarm for change detection and backup operations done by the plugin.
7. OpManager now includes option to view config changes, execute backup/commands from the device snapshot and alarm pages itself.
8. New APIs are available for listing the alarms and devices, triggering a notification profile, and more.
9. OpManager provides option to execute notifications and workflow repeatedly until an alarm gets cleared.
10. To avert false positives, the consecutive times check for status polling is now extended to service monitors, Windows service monitors, interface poll and event log monitors.

Enhancements

Virtualization (VMware & Hyper-V)

• OpManager includes provision to add event log rules on Hyper-V host server.
• OpManager includes option to create custom WMI monitors form Hyper-V host and Virtual machines from their respective device template page.
• OpManager now supports changing the category of virtual devices.
• IT Automation tab with options to view and create workflows has been introduced in ESX & Hyper-V server snapshot page.

API

• API now supports JSON output in addition to XML format.
• In 'Associate device to Notification Profile' API, an option to provide the list of thresholds has been added.
• In 'Add Device' API, you can now provide the device type and display name in addition to the device name.
• Support for associating multiple devices has been added in 'Add device to Business View' API.

Workflow

• Workflow supports new actions like creating OpManager alarms and folder. And also provides wildcard support for file related tasks.
• The admins can now forcefully shutdown/reboot/logoff the remote machine using shutdown task option in Workflow.
• Delete older files option in Workflows can now check and delete older files in subfolder also.

System Settings

• OpManager now includes options to configure Date/Time format and also enable logging at runtime, under Admin -> System Settings.

Business view

• In Business view, now you can zoom in/out.
• Option to enable/disable traffic arrows for the links is provided now.
• It is now possible to associate a link to multiple devices in a business view.

Others

• Options have been included to create charts with data points, stacked area chart and to show the threshold value line in the graph.
• Separate Alarm is raised for Status Poll, Service down and Windows Service down for better clarity and granular notification handling.
• Now devices notes can be added in bulk via a CSV import.
• Option provided to bind OpManager to a particular IP address of the server instead of all IP addresses in the machine.
• Process monitoring feature is now enhanced to monitor, alert and report on absolute value of process memory in addition to percentage utilization.
• Delete all option provided to purge the Unsolicited Trap.
• Discovery Rule Engine now has option to manually rerun the rules against a set of devices.
• Device Templates has been enhanced to provide a custom OID check in addition to SYSOID for classification.
• Regex support is now provided for String based threshold setting.
• The traps raised from the IP address can now be mapped to the source server with option to configure the IPMI address for SNMP traps.
• License changes - Only managed devices are counted for license.
• WebAlarm link is now included in CCTV view.

Bug Fixes

Click here to see the detailed list of bugs fixed.