Release Summary - 17.09.00

Multi-dimensional Data Center Management and Deeper Discovery in Main Appliance v17.09.00 Release

Release Overview

Taking Data Center Visualizations to another level, providing performance enhancements and deeper discovery, the Main Appliance v17.09.00 release includes room layout and rack visualization improvements, subnet and custom fields performance enhancements, a preview of our new dark mode UI theme, and multiple bug fixes.

Server Room Layout Page Improvements

• Release v17.09.00 includes an enhanced room layout page that provides a cleaner display of room objects, a legend for rack colors, and options for rack display and rack color so you can more easily see rooms the way you want to.
• For example, click Power Detail in the left pane to see information about the power units in the room.
• If you define custom fields for racks, you can select the Rack Color option to display the racks according to the color values of their custom field values.

Rack Layout View Page Improvement

• The rack layout view page now also includes a Power Details option in the left pane that displays information about the power units in that rack. Click the option button to display the power details.

Storage Mapping (NFS/CIFS) to Windows and Linux Resources

We are expanding the insights that Storage Discovery is able to provide by adding visibility to non-VMware Windows and Linux devices! In the UI, you will be able to navigate from a mountpoint in the host to a file system in the storage array. This is the first of many visibility enhancements being added to our Storage Discovery functionality.

Subnet Addition Performance Enhancement

In this release we improved performance by adding new subnets on large VRF groups containing large amounts of IPs and subnets.  Your experience was relative to whether you were adding a large or small subnet and the number of IPs already existing in the parent subnet.  In addition, this performance improvement applies to adding subnets via API, discovery jobs or via the UI.  Here are some sample numbers from our testing that you might expect to see.

Note: Results may vary depending on how many IPs and the distribution of those IPs among all the subnets within the VRF group.  Nevertheless, you should see drastic improvements!

Custom Fields Performance Enhancement

In this release we improved our architecture governing custom fields that was causing customers with a large number of custom fields to experience heavy delays in view and edit pages for any models with significant volume.  This architectural change now brings the page rendering speed to be equivalent to those customers with no custom fields.  Here are some sample numbers of the improvement you might see if you had similar amounts.

New PCI Card Autodiscovery for Windows

Device42 v17.09.00 Windows autodiscovery now supports the discovery of PCI cards as parts on discovered devices. Go to a device view page and click the Parts tab to see any discovered PCI cards for the device.

Dark Mode UI Theme Preview

Device42 v17.09.00 includes a preview of our new dark mode UI theme. When you first select the dark theme, Device42 displays a brief message explaining that we’re still working on this feature. The message disappears automatically in a few seconds. No message displays if you switch back to light mode.

Remote Collector Improvements

We have made incremental improvements to the Remote Collector. Firstly, we have fixed an issue in which the RCs would disconnect without a clear indication as to why. Secondly, we have improved the metadata and logging of Collector connection events to provide better diagnostic information.

Coming Soon: Foundational Database Changes

In our next release, we will be changing the behind-the-scenes information for our Database Discovery. With the release of 17.10.00, any Device42 Database Bookmarks you have created will have to be recreated due to the changes. We recommend noting any database-specific bookmarks ahead of the update just so you can more easily recreate them after the update.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue in which a pop-up form used in Jira integration to add a Jira issue appeared cut off.
• Resolved an issue in which auto clean rule tags were removed incorrectly after an upgrade.
• Resolved an issue in which attempting to save updated part data sometimes caused a database error.
• Resolved an issue in which assigning permissions to users occasionally did not work correctly via the API.
• Resolved an issue in which backups may not include all reports files.
• Resolved an issue in which discovery of Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances was sometimes not correctly returning IP addresses for devices.
• Resolved an issue in which device file attachments could be uploaded or downloaded without proper authorization.
• Resolved an issue in which the standby backup and restore process occasionally did not restore the correct license file to the standby instance.
• Resolved an issue in which importing or exporting picklist custom fields occasionally did not function correctly.
• Resolved an issue in which Kubernetes discovery occasionally did not correctly delete containers that are no longer being found.
• Resolved an issue in which the association between hosts and containers were sometimes incorrectly removed during discovery if the Discover VM option for the job is disabled.
• Resolved an issue in which device attributes occasionally did not appear in resource maps.
• Resolved an issue in which selection arrows used to move items between permissions list boxes were not working correctly.
• Resolved an issue in which the device view page would sometimes throw an error for non-super users.
• Resolved an issue in which accessing the application components list page occasionally generated an error.
• Resolved an issue in which creating or trying to schedule advanced reports occasionally generated an error.
• Resolved an issue in which oVirt Hypervisor/*nix/Windows discovery jobs occasionally were not correctly returning virtual machine IP addresses.