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OpManager v12.2 - 11600

OpManager v12.2  Build No - 12200

Features and Enhancements in OpManager

  • Plug-ins such as NetFlow, NCM, and OpUtils are merged with OpManager for unified network management. These plug-ins will now be available as add-ons and no additional download or upgrade is required. 
  • New API-based web-client that includes integrated dashboards, snapshot pages, alarms, inventory, and reports.
  • Support for radius server authentication.
  • Enhanced charts and graphs with drill-down and filter options.
  • Tomcat has been upgraded to version 8.
  • JRE has been upgraded to version 1.7.
Limitation:
  • Old struts-based web-client will no longer be available with version 12.2

Features and Enhancements in NetFlow Analyzer

  • SNMP V1/V2 Mapping issue fixed.
  • End user bandwidth monitoring for MSSQL Handled.
  • No data for Last 24 hour fixed Device blank page issue fixed ( Mapping between OPM and NFA fails/ if deleted from OPM/NCM it is handled).
  • Inventory view tab blank out issue fixed. Mailserver setting TLS handled.
  • SFlow output interface flow processing handled. SNMP default time and retries handled.
  • GRE and ESP include/Exclude handled.
  • TimeFrame selection in Expanded Widget View Handled properly NetFlow Issue Fixed : Interface Traffic Widget Table data related Changes
  • CBQoS Service Policy Tree Map view First Cut provided in Interface Snapshot Page under CBQoS widget. Device ID assignment fixed in Pagination.

Features and Enhancements in Network Configuration Manager

  • TFTP Path Disclosure(Vulnerability) fix
  • PCI- Deleted User Reviews cannot be Reviewed issue is fixed.
  • Configlet schedule PDF attachment issue is fixed
  • Unable to backup more than 50 devices issue is fixed.
  • Compliance - Rules/RuleGroups not listed when the count is more than 50 issue fixed
  • Alarms and Workflows not working issue fixed.
  • "write mem" command execution showed failed even though the command execution success in the device.

Features and Enhancements in Firewall Analyzer

  • Inventory - Device drill down - Top 10 widgets - If I expand without refreshing the widgets, scroll down option is missing.
  • Check-point device dll & opsec.exe not bundled.
  • "View All" option missed in all default Reports.
  • URL-Report parsing issue fixed for Palo-Alto
  • Cisco-Meraki (Proxy) and FireSight device support
  • Administrator/ Operator specific page view issues fixed
  • Showing two scroll-bar in Security Audit page.

OpManager v11.6  Build No - 11600 (Jun 16th, 2015)

Features and Enhancements

  • Scheduled Discovery: Now network discovery can be scheduled to run periodically. Other enhancements include options to
    • Skip interface discovery
    • Select interface type during discovery
    • Select rule engine
    • Configure discovery reports
    • Add filters and rediscovery rules for actions such as adding, deleting, and un-managing devices or interfaces
  • VLAN Discovery now supported.
  • Device template for UCS system with 24 new monitors has been added.
  • In 3D data center floor view, options to add air aisles, walk paths and walls have been added newly.
  • Option to generate QR code for the devices on the rack.
  • Now racks and floors can be added in the Business view.
  • Connect now feature is added in Business Views to import connections from Layer2 map and draw the connections.
  • Option to convert TopoMapper Plus to OpManager free version and vice versa has been added newly.
  • Submit Feedback option has been added to capture a screen and submit the feedback to OpManager team for enhancements and bug fixes.
  • Bulk edit option for editing thresholds and polling intervals of AD, MSSQL & Exchange monitors.
  • XenServer monitoring is now available in OpManager.
  • Extensive support for monitoring VMware events.
  • Full monitoring support for VMware devices via vCenter. The earlier option available to monitor them via ESXi servers is withdrawn. VMware monitoring is supported from version 4.1 only.
  • Now OpManager extends showing configuration details of VMware devices to data centers/clusters.
  • New dashboards and widgets for virtualization monitoring have been added.
  • Option to configure monitoring interval and threshold settings for monitors of virtual servers has been added newly.
  • In addition to VM performance monitors for Virtual Servers , full fledged SNMP/WMI/CLI monitors are also supported now.
  • OpStor plug-in 9.0 is compatible with 11400 & 11500 only. So Users upgrading from 11500 to 11600, also need to upgrade OpStor plugin to 9.1 version.
  • OpStor plug-in 9.1 is compatible with 11600 only. So customers degrading from 11600 also need to degrade to OpStor 9.0 version.

 

 

OpManager v11.5  Build No - 11500 (Feb 5th, 2015)

Features and Enhancements

  • Schedule Upgrade - Schedule Upgrade helps to stay up-to-date with the latest version of OpManager. Whenever a new version/update gets released, OpManager downloads it and starts upgrading automatically during the time scheduled by you.
  • Migration Support:Migration from Enterprise Edition to LEE - OpManager now supports data migration from Enterprise Edition to Large Enterprise Edition. It provides an option to automatically migrate configuration data from OpManager EE (Central server & Probes), and populate in its own DB.
  • Migration from Standalone To Enterprise Edition  - Users running OpManager standalone edition in PostgreSQL database can now seamlesssly migrate to enterprise edition (i.e) central - probe architecture. Earlier this migration feature was supported only for MySQL and MSSQL databases.
  • SMS jar file has been upgraded from version 1.2.1 to 3.5.3. With this version upgrade, two new fields are introduced in the SMS server settings. Users are requested to revisit the SMS server settings in OpManager webclient and set up the configuration once again. To see the list of compatible GSM modems/phones, click here.
  • Private Groups in Social IT - Private groups in Social IT allows to carryout discussions on a project within the project members. The admin of the group can invite as many people to join the group. Only the group members will have access to view the discussions that happen in these groups.
  • It is now possible to add custom dials for for all the performance monitors listed in device snapshot page.
  • Support for monitoring Exchange 2013 environment is newly included in OpManager.
  • Email attachment size limit for schedule reports has been increased up to 3MB.
  • OpManager 11500 supports monitoring the disk array data hardware status of all the DELL servers.
  • Interface templates section has been revamped. Earlier there was a single process for applying and associating templates. But now, it's been split into two processes - Apply template and Associate template. Associate template allows you to choose values to associate instead of associating all template values to interfaces.
  • New SMS Gateway(Clickatell) has been added for receiving SMS alerts.
  • To make initial configuration easier, more than 350 device templates are newly added in OpManager.IPSLA monitors are newly added to the notification criteria.
  • OpManager 11500 provides option to select the required discovery mechanisms such as CDP, LLDP, IPROUTE and FDB during Layer 2 discoveryA new widget for Layer 2 maps has been addedExchange monitors are discovered automatically if WMI credentials are passed.

OpManager v11.4  Build No - 11400 (Oct 1st, 2014)

  1. UCS Monitoring:

UCS Monitoring is an add-on that helps you to monitor all the Cisco UCSes and its components, in your data center. It leverages Cisco UCS XML API to monitor the UCS and instantly notifies you in-case of any fault via email & SMS. Apart from this, the UCS monitor also includes a 2D relationship map that helps you to visualize the relationship among the hosts, clusters, and VMs present in the UCS.

  1. Enhancements in network mapping

Network mapping functionality in OpManager has got exciting enhancements such as

  • LLDP Support – Helps to enhance automatic network discovery in multivendor networks
  • Multiple Subnet Range support - Allows you to add multiple subnet ranges. This helps you to choose the desired network range and map them together
  • Some of the other network mapping features that are newly included in Fluidic webclient are :
    1. SNMP V3 support
    2. Option to change Layout
    3. Export to visio
    4. Multiple Parent support
    5. Options to Edit, Update and Delete a network map
    6. Support for L2 Switch as Seed device
  1. SIEM Plug-in for OpManager (EventLog Analyzer)

With the help of ELA Plug-in, you can now effortlessly manage terabytes of machine generated logs, monitor file integrity, conduct log forensics analysis, monitor privileged users, comply to different regulatory bodies and instantly generate variety of reports.

It also offers Real-time Event Correlation with over 70+ out-of-the-box correlation rules for proactive threat management and triggers alert notification via E-mail & SMS or Program execution. In-addition you can also set alerts based on specific type of compliance violation for HIPAA, GLBA, PCI-DSS, SOX, FISMA, etc.

  1. OpStor Plug-in(Storage Management)

OpStor Plug-in enables you to monitor the storage devices like Storage Arrays, Fabric Switches, Tape Libraries, Tape Drives, Host servers and Host Bus Adapters cards from all leading vendors in the industry. It provides a unified view of storage environment along with effective reporting which in-turn increases visibility and reduces the time taken to detect any faults.

Storage Capacity forecasting helps you to predict the future storage needs by analyzing the usage & traffic utilization trends. Further, the OpStor Plug-in also provides topological map, real-time graphs & various reports on resource utilization, device availability and performance trends.

  1. Hardware monitoring support is now available for the Domain Controller category

OpManager v11.3  Build No - 11300 (May 19th, 2014)

  1. OpManager now includes the highly productive, faster and API driven user interface by default. The new web client will be the default UI for new installations. However, the existing customers can use the same old client and switch to the new UI anytime.
  2. OpManager now includes Social IT- a private social networking medium built exclusively for IT folks. Social IT provides a cascading, Facebook-like wall for threaded discussions enabling real-time collaboration/communication between IT staffers. This Social IT integration is available only in the new API webclient.
  3. Now you can configure OpManager to detect event floods and anomalous event rates with predefined rules. Click here to know more about OpManager’s event flood handling functionality.
  4. OpManager now supports monitoring of Windows 2012 R2 & HyperV 2012 R2.

 

OpManager v11.2  Build No - 11200 (Feb 24th, 2014)

Device Discovery in Large Enterprise Edition:

  • With the improved Discovery engine, you can now discover up to 20,000 devices in 5 minutes & 1 million interfaces in 1hour
  • In Large Enterprise Edition, device discovery will no longer include the discovery of interfaces. For discovering the interfaces, you will have to use the "Interfaces Discovery" section

API Client Enhancements

  • Live popup notifications have been added to instantly alert you about the alarms raised
  • Now you can make use of the keyboard shortcuts to traverse between device snapshot pages & alerts. You can also use the shortcut keys to pickup/clear/delete any alerts
  • With the help of Heat Map, you can now get the status of all the monitored devices in real-time from a single page
  • Virtualization maps for VMware & Hyper-V enable you to view the relationships among hosts, clusters, and virtual machines

REST API Enhancements

  • Includes support for more than 330 REST APIs

Layer2 Enhancements:

  • Discovery of non cisco devices and end nodes (server, desktop) are now supported
  • Now you can also draw the Layer2 Maps for the devices which are not discovered/ monitored in OpManager

Other Enhancements:

  • Support for iPad App
  • ITPulse tab has been removed from the product as it is EOLed

 

OpManager v11.1  Build No - 11100 (Nov 15th, 2013)

  • CMDB Plug-in Support - The Plug-in helps you to get in-depth visibility of your assets present in your IT environment. This allows you to manage all your IT components based on their business criticality and make informed decisions
  • Root Cause Analysis - Enterprise IT departments need sophisticated monitoring for each aspect of their operations, from basic infrastructure to bandwidth, applications and change management. However, these sophisticated tools churn out alerts at an alarming rate and volume, making it difficult to manipulate the alerts and find the root cause of the problem. This is now supported in OpManager
  • Functional Expression Support - Functional Expression such as Byte to GB, Celsius to Fahrenheit, String to Numeric, Column Min , Column Max, Numeric to String etc   are now supported for SNMP based monitors. Option to store or just alert is also provided now.
  • Multi language Support - Language selection options such as Chinese, Japanese, French, Korean etc.  are provided in the OpManager webclient
  • Notification Profile / Alarm Escalation
    • Option to view the latest Polled Value available for recurring notification and escalation mails
    • Alarm Entity parameter is available now for notification
  • Pass Through Authentication support is available now
  • Security vulnerability in Postgres database is addressed now.
  • Reports  - A new report to list all the threshold configured devices is available now
  • Around 75 device types are newly added
  • Alarm Suppression Configuration is audited now
  • Regular expression support provided for Event Log description
  • Infrastructure Widget - Option not to show a particular category , if there is no devices present is addressed now

OpManager v11  Build No - 11000 (September 30th, 2013)

OpManager Large Enterprise Edition Release:

  1. A single OpManager Large Enterprise Edition server can hold up to 50,000 devices or 1 million interfaces in a single box. It is twenty times more scalable than the enterprise edition.
  2. Has twenty times faster discovery engine - Discovers 20,000 servers in 5 mins.
  3. Integrated Layer2 Discovery with automated dependency to avoid false alarms.
  4. New API client released as THEME for opmanager. Completely built with Ember.js and APIs. Works ten times faster with real-time updates.
  5. Multi Language Support.

OpManager v10  Build No - 10200 (July 22nd, 2013)

Widgets

 

  1. In Performance Monitor widget, Sort Column option is added in Top N Monitored Values
  2. Business View Summary widget now includes alarm count and list of devices in business view
  3. Option to choose a dashboard when creating new tab
  4. Embed widget option to hide headers
  5. Open CCTV View link from Manage CCTV page
  6. Last Polled Value time period option in following widgets
  • Devices by CPU Utilization
  • Devices by Memory Utilization
  • Devices exceeding N % CPU Utilization
  • Devices exceeding N % Memory Utilization
  • Top N Min/Max/Average CPU Utilization
  • Top N Min/Max/Average Memory Utilization
 
Schedule Reports

 

Notification subjects and messages can be configured by the user. Default parameters are Scheduler Name, Report Description, Report Period, Report URL etc.

 
Rule Engine

 

  1. Support for MSSQL monitors & URL Monitors are provided in Rule Engine.
  2. Provision to add a URL as templates is available now.
 
MSSQL Monitors 

 

In MSSQL device snapshot page, Delete Option is provided in MSSQL Instances and MSSQL databases.

 
Archiving
 

Option to Re Run Archiving is newly added in the Database maintenance page. This feature will be useful in-case the hourly or daily archiving is missed due various reasons such as server maintenance shutdown, database disconnection etc.

 
Workflows

 

NCM Plugin actions such as Backup, Execute command, Execute template, GetLast N Changes are added as Workflows.

 
Hardware Monitors

 

  1. Option to enable/ disable hardware monitors is added
  2. Option to suppress alarms for hardware monitors is supported now
 
Device Templates

 

  1. Option to configure Sys Description is added
  2. Operators such as Equals, Not Equals, Contains, Not Contains, Ends with, Starts with etc are now supported in device templates
  3. Option to export and import device templates with multiple rules is provided.
 
Tabs
 

New tab link 'All Devices by Disk Usage' is added under Maps tab, with the filtering option and the option to delete drives

 
Maps

 

Option to set the view as default for SLA Dashboard is added

 
Reports

 

Interface aggregate data graphs are added in the new Opmanager API Client

 

OpManager v10 – Build No - 10100 (May 7th, 2013)

  1. With OpManager's new 3D Data Center Builder, you can virtually create an exact model of your racks and data centers. You can embed these datacenter designs on your NOC screens and monitor them 24x7 from anywhere, anytime. The 3D data center can also be viewed from iPad and other tablets.
  2. A high productive, ultra-fast, responsive, API driven new UI is ready to use. Built completely on a new JavaScript framework it offers you 10x more productivity than the previous one.
  3. You can now avail APM plugin in OpManager 中心 webclient also. Previously the plugin was available only in the standalone version.
  4. Now you can make you of APC PDU (Series 7800/ 7830 / 8841/8858 / 8858NA3) templates which are newly added to list of OpManager device templates. With the help of these templates, you can monitor parameters such as PDU Phases, PDU Power/Phase Load, PDU Voltage, PDU Bank Load & many more

 

OpManager v10 – Build No - 10000 (March 18th, 2013)

  1. Now OpManager provides support for monitoring IPv6 network devices and servers. After discovery, device templates along with the essential monitors are applied on the IPv6 devices and monitored for performance.
  2. Applications Monitoring plugin for in-depth monitoring of applications such as Oracle, SAP, Sharepoint, Websphere and much more has been added now.
  3. Get granular insight into your VMware environment, as OpManager now monitors VMware ESX/ESXi and VMs through vCenter via vSphere API.
  4. Now OpManager out-of-the-box monitors hardware health such as temperature, voltage, power, fan speed, status of processors, storage, memory, disk arrays, etc. of HP, Dell, Cisco and Juniper devices, via SNMP. OpManager also supports hardware monitoring for ESX hosts via vSphere API.
  5. Failover support for OpManager 中心 server has been added now. Probe already includes support for failover.
  6. Now raise a ticket with OpManager support along with the support information file, in a single click (Support-> Request Support).
  7. Adding notes to an alarm has been simplified now. In alarms page, now you can add alarm notes by clicking ontem the "Note addition button" present beside each alarm notification. You can also add alarm notes in bulk by selecting the desired alarm notes and clicking on "Add note" button.
  8. In Enterprise Edition, the intelligence to detect build mismatch between Probe and Central has been added.
  9. Time Window option has been added in Schedule Reports page (Issue ID 91998)
  10. Time out and max hops are now supported in TraceRoute in both RestAPI and Workflows.
  11. Search filtering option added in All Devices and All Interfaces page

 

OpManager v9 – Build No - 9400 (November 29th, 2012)

  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.Download the App now.
  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. [Instructions to configure]
  5. A seamless integration with ManageEngine ITPulse, theprivate 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.
Virtualization (VMware & Hyper-V)

 

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

 

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

 

  1. Workflow supports new actions like creating OpManager alarms and folder. And also provides wildcard support for file related tasks.
  2. The admins can now forcefully shutdown/reboot/logoff the remote machine using shutdown task option in Workflow.
  3. Delete older files option in Workflows can now check and delete older files in subfolder also.
  4. System Settings
  5. OpManager now includes options to configure Date/Time format and also enable logging at runtime, under Admin -> System Settings.

Business view

 

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

Others

 

  1. Options have been included to create charts with data points, stacked area chart and to show the threshold value line in the graph.
  2. Separate Alarm is raised for Status Poll, Service down and Windows Service down for better clarity and granular notification handling.
  3. Now devices notes can be added in bulk via a CSV import.
  4. Option provided to bind OpManager to a particular IP address of the server instead of all IP addresses in the machine.
  5. Process monitoring feature is now enhanced to monitor, alert and report on absolute value of process memory in addition to percentage utilization.
  6. Delete all option provided to purge the Unsolicited Trap.
  7. Discovery Rule Engine now has option to manually rerun the rules against a set of devices.
  8. Device Templates has been enhanced to provide a custom OID check in addition to SYSOID for classification.
  9. Regex support is now provided for String based threshold setting.
  10. 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.
  11. License changes - Only managed devices are counted for license.
  12. WebAlarm link is now included in CCTV view.

 

OpManager v9 – Build No - 9200 (July 10th, 2012)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. You can now forward Traps and Syslog events from OpManager to any other NMS through Trap/Syslog Forwarder from OpManager GUI.
  8. The new improved network discovery engine is 5x faster and discovers over 5,000 interfaces in a minute.
  9. Faster Discovery Enhancements.
  10. Support for VMware UUID & Replicated VM's.
  11. Configurable options are provided in SDP to create new ticket or reopen existing ticket on reoccurrence of an alert.
  12. New VMware reports for Datastore Top Read & Write Latency are included.
  13. New Workflow action "Refresh Datastore" is added to the list of several workflow actions.
  14. Configurable Timeout option is included in Mail Server Settings.
  15. Option is provided to enable protocol level logging at runtime in System Settings.
  16. More enhanced rebranding changes are made configurable via brandprops.properties file.
  17. New Category "Storage" has been added to device category list.
  18. New device templates are included for NetApp/Cisco Routers.

 

OpManager v9 – Build No - 9100 (March 1st, 2012)

  1. Major enhancements have gone into the Map Maker which includes curved lines, localized names, customized line thickness, easy drag-drop etc.
  2. The long-awaiting option to export and import device templates and share them with the community, is now available. The shared device, workflow, and script templates are listed under the RESOURCES tab in our forums. The shared template are validated and approved before displaying them here.
  3. Support for Korean language installation is provided.
  4. SSH key authentication for monitoring Unix-based devices, can now be given as file inputs., viz. instead of specifying the user name and password in the OpManager credentials GUI, you can store them in a file and give the file as authentication input.
  5. Option to provide timeout in CLI credentials added.
  6. You can now test the authentication credentials for multiple devices at one go, instead of testing it for each device.
  7. Keep a tab on the monitors for which data is not collected for a specified period by accessing Support Diagnostics GUI.
  8. The credentials configured are now grouped by the Protocol and listed for easy manageability. For instance, you’ll see the grouping when adding a new device for discovery.
  9. A new device template is included for Cisco5508WLC devices.
  10. When configuring trap processors, you’ll be able to select up-to the 20 Varbinds as part of the match criteria.
  11. New graph Memory Utilization (UCD SNMP MIB) is added by default.

 

OpManager v9 – Build No - 9011 (January 5th, 2012)

If OpManager detects a DB collation mismatch during PPM upgrade, a system alert is shown to avoid partial upgrades.

 

OpManager v9 – Build No - 9000

  1. IT Automation Workflows to automate 1st and 2nd level administrative tasks. Few pre-built workflows available out-of-the-box, and intuitive drag and drop GUI to create more custom workflows.
  2. A hot-standby for Probe to ensure high availability. Seamless failover and failback between the primary and secondary probes and 100% data integrity.
  3. REST API support in OpManager to help integrate with third-party help desk, NMS etc; operations supported include adding a device, adding a notification profile etc.
  4. Define custom scripts and leverage OpManager’s fault management to the fullest. Supported scripts include Powershell, Linux shell script, VBScript, Phython & Perl.
  5. Virtualization management support now extended to Hyper-V devices in addition to VMwares; monitor over 70 deep metrics!
  6. The GUI has got a new face-lift with new tabs organization for easier and intuitive navigation.
  7. Quick links are included to access help on how to configure tasks in OpManager and perform first level troubleshooting. These can be enabled/disabled from Admin > System settings.
  8. Support for NFA and NCM plug-ins in Probe (Enterprise edition).
  9. NFA plug-in now supports 64 bit Windows and Linux installation.
  10. Dashboards are introduced for Business View users.
  11. Configurable color coding is included for Utilization widgets (Red for over 90%, Yellow for over 80%) [ Editable range value (Top 10,12,15) for widgets. (Previously it was a drop down box Top 10, 25, 50)]
  12. An option to specify the consecutive number of times a device is polled/threshold is violated, is included in the device templates specific to Virtual devices.
  13. You can now edit the threshold type/value of resources defined in the Virtual Machine device templates.
  14. It is now possible to edit and save the IP address from the ESX Host snapshot page.
  15. If you want to configure bulk URL monitors, you can specify the links in a CSV file and bulk-import them into OpManager at one go!
  16. The folder monitoring feature enhancement includes wildcard (file filtering) option.
  17. Sixteen new templates are included for A10 networks & blackberry devices!
  18. An option is included to apply a change made in the interface template to all interfaces.
  19. An option to rediscover the interfaces that are deleted from the device, is included.
  20. A list-view is now available for Exchange servers with an option to add a server into exchange category directly.
  21. The AMS validity is shown in the GUI with a link leading to renewal procedure.
  22. New dashboards are included to show top 10 server and top 10 networks.
  23. An automatic notification is triggered when the Probe is down (Enterprise edition).
  24. A ‘View Associations’ option is included in Admin > Notification Profiles screen to quickly see a summary of the different profiles associated to the monitored devices.
  25. A new device down time report is provided. The report also shows the outage history.
  26. Localization support is extended to have the Probe name in Japanese or Chinese (in the respective local installations).
  27. You can now add Probes in the Google Map.
  28. An option is provided to enable/disable the discovery of a VM in a host.
  29. For VMs that are also DomainControllers, the snapshot page is enhanced to show the interface details in two different tabs, one for the Virtual NICs and the Interfaces.
  30. The performance monitor widgets now show the instance name in addition to the device name.
  31. A new device template is included for Windows 2008 R2.
  32. When configuring alarm escalation or when scheduling a report, you can now select the site too (specific to Enterprise edition).

 

OpManager v8 – Build No - 8812 (August 17, 2011)

  1. The Alarm reports page now has option to filter alarms based on its properties; This report can be exported to .pdf, excel formats and can be emailed.
  2. Option to escalate alarms via SMS in addition to email, is included. Option to configure URLs in Alarm Escalation is also added.
  3. You can now associate any type of notification profile to a particular or to a group of URL Monitor. This functionality is available under the individual URL monitor page and at the "Quick Configuration Wizard" option.
  4. You can now edit or update or add new mail store location for Exchange monitors.
  5. Google map integration is enhanced now to show the location of the device both in the Google Map as well as in the Google Map widget.
  6. Device search option is now extended to search "interfaces" using interface name or IP address and for "URLs".
  7. When polling devices using ICMP ping for availability, choose which round-trip-time metric (Minimum⁄ Maximum⁄ Average response time) you want to show as Device Response Time under device availability. By default OpManager shows the average response time and you can change this now by editing Ping.properties file.
  8. A new widget is added to show the total bytes transferred.
  9. When reports are scheduled and emailed, the users with non-admin privilege can also access and view the reports.
  10. Alarm ID is now configurable in the notification profile both, as part of the subject or/and the message.
  11. In the device template "list of monitors", a multiple-select check box is provided against each group of monitors. The same option is available while associating monitors from the device snapshot page.

 

OpManager v8 – Build No - 8810 (May 9, 2011)

  1. VMware ESX⁄ESXi version 4.1 is now supported.
  2. View the domain controller dashboard in VM snapshot page.
  3. Applywarning and error thresholdsacross multiple ESX hosts and VMs using Device templates.
  4. NFS datastore reportsare added for ESX v 4.1. Generate reports such as Disk Read Speed, Disk Write Speed, Write Latency, etc. on datastore.
  5. Discover VMs also using the "Add Device" option under the "Admin" tab.
  6. Get more meaningful and actionable SNMP Traps by processing every Varbind with intelligent processor.
  7. Port⁄ Interface monitoring has been enhanced for better performance.
  8. Embed OpManager dashboard widgetsas iframes into other sites
  9. Network rediscovery now shows split–up of already discovered devices and new devices count.
  10. Web client page loading time is now displayed in every page.
  11. Options are included to change the Traffic Counter (32⁄ 64 bit) at individual interface level.
  12. Interface parameter (ifalias) can be updated in OpManager by performing interface rediscovery operation.
  13. UTF–8 Unicode is now supported in OpManager.
  14. UPS interface details are monitored and shown now.

 

OpManager v8 – Build No - 8723 (February 15, 2011)

  1. Community page enhanced to reflect industry benchmarks for resource performance.
  2. An option is included to configure subject for the email–based SMS profile.
  3. Provision to add STM files besides .edb in Exchange Mail and public store.
  4. A new report to reflect total bytes transferred is included in the Reports tab.
  5. You can now specify match criteria for threshold values in the Interface templates.
  6. Interface properties ⁄ Custom fields for interfaces are added in notification profiles.
  7. Interface snap shot page refreshes now based on the refresh interval configured in the ‘Personalize’ settings.
  8. All Interfaces⁄Utilization reports are enhanced to show the links capacity. Columns are included to show Inspeed and OutSpeed values
  9. A new Widget is included to display tips to troubleshoot and workaround some configurations and tweaks in OpManager.

 

OpManager v8 – Build No - 8722 (December 27, 2010)

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

 

OpManager v8 – Build No - 8721 (August 30, 2010)

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

 

OpManager v8 – Build No - 8720 (July 16, 2010)

  1. Exhaustive ESX VMware Monitoring using VMware APIs. Supports monitoring ESX 3.5, ESX3.5i, ESX4 and ESX4i
  2. Automatic Layer 2/ Layer 3 network mapping
  3. Supports configuring Mail server with ssl support
  4. New collection of widgets for Service and Process Monitoring added
  5. New set of device templates and monitors included
  6. Category ‘Unknown’ has been introduced
  7. NetFlow plugin version 8000 released.Click hereto upgrade to the latest NetFlow plugin release.
  8. NCM plugin version 5500 released.Click hereto upgrade to the latest NCM plugin release.

 

OpManager v8 – Build No - 8052 (Apr 27, 2010)

  1. A new CLI-based monitor for partition details of a device is included.
  2. Alarm Details page has been enhanced to show the name of the log rule that triggered alarms (for Syslogs, Event Logs, and SNMP Trap based alarms). You can also edit the rule from this page.
  3. The status of a Downtime Scheduler (in progress or not) is now shown in the schedule listing page.
  4. You can now revert a re–branded installation of OpManager to the original settings that will default to OpManager logo and images.

 

OpManager v8 – Build No - 8051 (Mar 2, 2010)

  1. Link to OpManager Community portal is included as a separate tab.
  2. Support extended for managing Windows 7 devices.

 

OpManager v8 – Build No - 8050 (Jan 8, 2010)

  1. Data is collected every 5 minutes in the WAN RTT Monitor
  2. Hop graphs are now shown for every RTT path from source to destination
  3. Data is collected every 5 minutes in the VoIP Monitor
  4. OpManager now supports 64-bit OS
  5. File and folder monitoring for Windows devices
  6. Provision to create custom WMI monitors in addition to the already available SNMP-based custom monitors. You can also associate these monitors from the device templates
  7. Users can now access the OpManager web client using iPhone or Blackberry user interfaces
  8. A new network traffic map to let you quickly identify highly utilized network links
  9. OpManager now also alerts via Twitter Direct Messages
  10. More device templates included taking the templates count to over 650 device types out-of-the-box
  11. Provision to monitor custom event log categories in addition to the default Windows event logs
  12. Reports enhanced to include NT Services and Process availability reports
  13. Scheduled reports are now available for all reports and monitors
  14. Support to export reports as Excel files now extended to all the in-built reports

 

OpManager v8 – Build No - 8025 (Nov 23, 2009)

  1. Alarm Notifications Include alerting through RSS feeds
  2. Provision to edit existing user privileges

 

OpManager v8 – Build No - 8024 (Oct 9, 2009)

  1. The tools in the Device Snapshot page now includes SSH⁄ HTTPs options
  2. Export of Switch Port Mapper Reports as PDF or Excel files. Option to send the report via email also included.
  3. Ability to send SMS if the OpManager server loses network connectivity.

OpManager v8 – Build No - 8022 (Aug 11, 2009)

  1. Notification Profile: In addition to ‘Custom Fields for Devices’ and ‘Alarm Variables’, ‘Device Properties’ such as Device Type, Device State, RAM, Disk, IPAddress etc. can now be added to all the notification profiles
  2. Notification Profile: Option to add ‘Custom Fields for Devices’ and ‘Device Properties’ as arguments for Run System /Run Program command
  3. Option to select the required Devices is provided in the MIB Browser
  4. Provision to set the ‘List View’ as default map view
  5. Option to view the current downtime details in the Outage History reports
  6. Interface Real time graphs will be shown by default for all the users, irrespective of license applied
  7. The Netflow dashboard can now be seen from the OpManager webclient if the Netflow plugin is installed

 

OpManager v8 –Build No - 8021

  1. Enhanced Alarm actions: Option to perform Ping, Trace Route, Test Monitor, Actions, Manage/ Unmanage devices, RDP & much more for every alarm.
  2. Email Notification will have a link to device snapshot page for faster access to OpManager web-client
  3. Ability to add Google maps to Custom Dashboards
  4. Option to sort entries in Infrastructure view widget
  5. WMI–based partition details are added out–of–the–box

 

OpManager v8 –Build No - 8020

  1. Alarm Suppression: Suppress the alarms of a specific device for a pre-defined time interval.
  2. Faster Backup and Restore utilities
  3. I18N Internationalization issues fixed (For Japanese and Chinese Language)

 

OpManager v8 –Build No - 8007

  1. Provision to add Telnet/SSH port number for devices discovered/monitored though CLI.
  2. A new option to configure the consecutive times when the alarm should be generated has been added for URL monitors
  3. Option to view the Real time graphs for the premium license users
  4. SLA Dashboard now shows for business views
  5. Option to configure Notification for interfaces belonging to Servers and Desktop category has been added
  6. In the device snap shot page, instead of average data the latest collected traffic data is now shown
  7. Configure tab option added in the interface snap shot page
  8. Bar image option added in All servers disk usage report
  9. Default monitors added for MGE and TrippLite type UPS
  10. Provision to view the "About" and "Register" link is removed for Read only users
  11. Interface name with special character are listed in customizable dashboard widgets
  12. Option to monitor the cumulative resource usage for VMware server is enabled, even without the add-on license. (Note: VMware Dashboard still requires add-on licensing)

 

OpManager v8 –Build No - 8000

  1. Plug-in for Network Configuration Management (NCCM).
  2. Syslog Monitoring.
  3. More performance monitors for Windows infrastructure.
  4. Customizable dashboards.
  5. Plasma TV/CCTV View.
  6. List view or Bulk configuration view.
  7. Real time graphs for performance Monitors (CPU, Memory, Disk & etc.)
  8. Real time Traffic and Bandwidth graphs.
  9. More Device Tools (RDP, Telnet apart from Weblinks, Trace Route, Ping and etc).
  10. Process Monitoring Template.
  11. Superior Interface Snapshot page.
  12. Enhanced Reports.
  13. Failover Support.
  14. Intro Tab - To facilitate fast deployment of OpManager.

OpManager v7 –Build No - 7204

  1. Support for VoIP Monitoring.
  2. Plug in for NetFlow monitoring.
  3. All new revamped WAN RTT Monitoring (IP SLA based WAN Monitoring).
  4. Over 300 new Device templates have been added.
  5. Support for integrating NetFlow Analyzer Enterprise Edition (configurable from Admin-> Add-On/Product Settings).
  6. Option to configure ICMP ping to the devices using IP Address or DNS Name. (NOTE - The option is provided in ServerParameters.conf file in OpManager\conf folder).
  7. Option to select the Exchange server version (2003 or 2007) while configuring the exchange monitors.
  8. Provision to add notes on Alarm messages for read only users.
  9. Provision to configure the username/password in DBManager, if there is a change in Database credentials.
  10. Ability to configure thresholds even for negative value monitors.
  11. Support for monitoring OID of type Time-Ticks.

OpManager v7 –Build No - 7202

  1. Ability for the devices in the Custom category to inherit the properties of another selected category.
  2. Monitoring and installation support for Windows 2008. A separate device template is also included for Windows 2008.
  3. Availability Reports showing the uptime/downtime in day-wise, by hours etc.
  4. Provision to delete custom monitors.
  5. Option to view current day’s data in Active connections / mobile users / temperature monitors in the snapshot page.

OpManager v7 –Build No - 7200

  1. SNMPv3 support.
  2. String OID monitoring.
  3. Process Monitoring in Windows and Linux devices.
  4. Schedule the reports and export to Excel format.
  5. Availability reports - Displays onhold, parent down, dependent unavailable, on maintenance parameters of the devices.
  6. Generate Time based availability reports.
  7. Sys OIDs are added for the following series Cisco 2800, Catalyst 3750, Cisco PIX.
  8. Enhanced Webclient Performance wrt Mysql Database. Reduced the number of queries to access a device snapshot page.

OpManager v7 –Build No - 7100

  1. Add-on for monitoring VMware ESX Servers.
  2. Discover devices by importing from a CSV file.
  3. Process monitoring on Windows Servers and Desktops.
  4. Web-alarm enabling users to be notified of a fault.
  5. Determining device availability using TCP Port checks.
  6. Provision to add a device directly into a category.
  7. Provision to add custom links to devices for ready reference.
  8. Provision to select a time-window for a notification to be sent.
  9. Exporting reports to XLS file format.
  10. Alarm escalation policies can be configured for all devices in a business view.
  11. Enhanced switch port mapper showing the ports-devices mapping information.
  12. URL password is now in encrypted format.
  13. Enhanced the min/max values displayed in the interface reports.
  14. MSSQL DB password is now in encrypted format.
  15. Top 1000 Reports option is included in scheduled reports.