Hello Everybody,

We are glad to announce the release of Service pack 9.2 with the much awaited features and enhancements. Its a big list. So take your time to through them, make sure you plan your upgrade as soon as possible and get the most out of OpManager.

New Features

• IPAM Plugin: IP Address Management plug-in helps you manage your IP Address. It also includes Switch Port Mapper to identify the switch port to which a device is connected.

• Discovery Rule Engine: Automate actions such as adding monitors, associating the devices to a business, etc. that you carry out after adding the devices to OpManager.

• Tab Customization: Customize OpManager web client by creating tabs for frequently visited pages, third-party embeds, reports, etc. and navigate easily in a click. You can also modify and delete existing tabs.

• Multiple Threshold support: Configure multiple thresholds for the performance monitors. You can now set multi-level performance thresholds for a monitor and alert at different levels.

• Log File Monitoring: - Agent based: Monitor log files of mission critical applications such as MSSQL, Oracle, etc. in real-time. The agent constantly monitors the log files for content that may even be a regex.

• New Audit Report and Enhancements to Monitor Health Report: Get real-time security audit report in OpManager at a mouse click, and also experience some of the high end enhancements made to monitor device health report.

Changes & Enhancements

• You can now forward Traps and Syslog events from OpManager to any other NMS through Trap/Syslog Forwarder from OpManager GUI.
• The new improved network discovery engine is 5x faster and discovers over 5,000 interfaces in a minute.
• Faster Discovery Enhancements.
• The new improved network discovery engine is 5x faster and discovers over 5,000 interfaces in a minute.
• Support for VMware UUID & Replicated VM's.
• Configurable options are provided in SDP to create new ticket or reopen existing ticket on reoccurrence of an alert.
• New VMware reports for Datastore Top Read & Write Latency are included.
• New Workflow action "Refresh Datastore" is added to the list of several workflow actions.
• Configurable Timeout option is included in Mail Server Settings.
• Option is provided to enable protocol level logging at runtime in System Settings.
• More enhanced rebranding changes are made configurable via brandprops.properties file.
• New Category "Storage" has been added to device category list.
• New device templates are included for NetApp/Cisco Routers.

Bug Fixes

Virtualization (VMware & Hyper-v)

• Issues with polling happening when a VMware is unmanaged or when a downtime is scheduled is fixed now.
• Data collection happens properly even when the datastore name is same as the host name.
• Missing threshold entries in VMware has been fixed.
• For better visualization, the VM displayname set as the VM name is now fetched from ESX instead of DNS name.
• You can now enable VM rediscovery from the snapshot page.
• Status propagation from VM to Host is restricted.
• The alarm suppression option in VMware is enabled for ESX/Hyper-V hosts.
• Issue in VM Rename performed through the VMRename event received via API is fixed.
• Host network usage monitor issue for non-English language installations is now fixed.
• Host discovery failure on adding hosts that share same name due to misconfiguration is resolved.

Business view

• You can now save the Business view names starting with any numeric values.
• The issues concerned with non-English languages, overlapping icons/status position and the Mapnames in export to visio are fixed.
• Grid option is provided in Business view editor.

Maps

• In Layer2 Map, infinite looping that happens in CDPCache table is fixed.
• All Device page loading time has been improved.

Monitors

• In process monitors the issue with false alerts getting generated, when you make a query to fetch a list of processes times out is fixed.
• In process monitors the issue with false alerts getting generated, when the device has more than 1000 processes is fixed.
• The issue with string OID monitors not displaying the values in the widget is fixed now.
• Attributes are listed for SQLServer:Plan Cache in Custom WMI Monitors.
• You can edit the mailbox store location of Used Disk Space monitor in Exchange Monitoring.
• Issue in saving threshold value for Cisco Memory Utilization has been resolved.
• While deleting the performance monitor, alarms of that monitor get deleted correctly in probe and central now.
• In Import/Export Device Template, the issues with multiple custom SNMP monitors and custom WMI monitors are fixed.
• Thread leak/Memory leak issues due to improper closing of sessions in CLI monitoring, is now fixed.

Widgets

• The real time widgets can be configured to fit to current screen size while looking in different sized screens.
• Fit to screen option in Business view widgets works fine now.

Downtime scheduler

• Downtime scheduler is configured to allow granular per minute time.
• Downtime schedule works properly now even when OpManager server is stopped and started when the schedule is on.

Reports

• Inventory Report in OpManager is now working fine.
• Security issue showing IPSLA reports of all devices when logging as a business view user has been resolved.
• Issue with availability showing different values in reports and snapshot page is fixed.

Notifications

• The data unavailability issue in notification profile report is fixed.
• AlarmID variables are now provided in notification profile.

Others

• The 'Forgot Password' option in the login screen works fine. A link to reset password is sent to the configured email ID.
• It is now possible to disable "Keep me signed in" option in OpManager.
• OS Ping is supported for non-English language installations.
• It's now possible to add WMI counters to Server after IP Address change.
• Response time values are shown for the devices that are down.
• You can successfully create tickets in SDP with AD Authentication.
• CPU spike to 100% during archiving is fixed now.
• Issue concerned with illegal thread state exception during failover has been resolved.
• In Central Diagnostics, the data comparison doesn't work in HTTPS mode. This is fixed now.
• Alarm sync and poll using TCP option in Enterprise Edition is working fine.
• CSV/Network shallow discovery issues are fixed. It does not hang and the discovery happens even when there are two devices with same SNMP sysname.
• You can now add process templates even if the credential name has & (xml chars) symbol.
• IP Address is supported as a command line variable in custom scripts.
• A Windows service is now restarted automatically when the service goes down.
• Disk Utilization showing as 0 in certain Linux flavors, and in cases where there is permission denied warning message along with the command output is now working fine.
• Read-only user cannot update the asset details now.
• The issues of the Add Device button not working when the credential description contains large space, is fixed.

Download link and the steps to apply the Service pack is available here.

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

Gabriel
Team OpManager
Network Monitoring Software