2019 updates
Here are the visible new features or enhancements released in 2019.
December 17
This Collection Zone update includes new features, bug fixes, and ZenPack updates.
There are no Zenoss Cloud changes in this update.
New features
- The base image for Collection Zones now includes common, 3rd-party Python libraries, so that ZenPack developers can rely on them.
- A new ZenPack, Cloud View, is now included in Collection Zones.
Bug fixes
- Device names that include spaces can be modeled now.
- Removed
pyrawandicmpechofrom base images to prevent privilege escalation vulnerability. - Custom device reports and multi-graph reports now work as expected.
- All user accounts now include the user's email address after the user logs in for the first time.
- Overlapping maintenance windows no longer fail to set the correct production state on member components.
- Event archive reports can now be exported successfully.
- In device graphs, when one metric is deselected and the view is changed, the deselection is now maintained.
- The
zenpingservice now correctly detects devices that are down. - Unexpected closures of, or errors in, SSH connections no longer cause missed collection runs.
ZenPack updates
| ZenPack | Previous | Current |
|---|---|---|
| AWS | 4.1.1 | 5.0.0 |
| Capacity | 1.0.4 | 1.0.5 |
| Cisco UCS | 3.0.1 | 3.0.2 |
| Dashboard | 1.3.9 | 1.3.10 |
| Dell PowerEdge | 3.0.0 | 3.0.1 |
| Distributed Collector | 3.1.9 | 3.1.10 |
| EMC.base | 2.1.0 | 2.1.1 |
| Google Cloud Platform | 1.0.2 | 1.1.0 |
| HP Proliant | 3.3.3 | 3.3.4 |
| IBM Power | 1.1.3 | 1.2.0 |
| Microsoft Azure | 2.0.0 | 2.1.0 |
| StorageBase | 1.4.3 | 1.4.4 |
| WBEM | 2.1.0 | 3.0.0 |
| WSMAN | 1.0.4 | 1.0.5 |
August 20
This update includes the following improvements to Zenoss Cloud:
- The dashboard scope page no longer includes a field for entity type. Instead, a filter option is included.
- Two new roles are added to Zenoss Cloud: Key Creator and Key Administrator.
- Users can create their own authentication keys for Collection Zone clients.
There are no Collection Zone changes in this update.
August 13
This Collection Zone update includes new features, bug fixes, and ZenPack updates.
There are no Zenoss Cloud changes in this update.
New features
This release includes a collection of modeling pipeline enhancements that improve Service Impact performance. In addition, enhancements have been made to better facilitate processing large device models and configuration invalidation tasks. Other improvements:
- Device details pages include a new option, for performing debugging from the browser interface.
- From the Infrastructure tab, you can select a device class or organizer and model all the selected devices.
Bug fixes
- Editing a Site Window portlet no longer prevents the portlet's graph from rendering.
- Critical events on /Status no longer show devices as down unless the event is on /Status/Ping.
ZenPack updates
| ZenPack | Previous | Current |
|---|---|---|
| CiscoUCS | 3.0.0 | 3.0.1 |
| GoogleCloudPlatform | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 |
| HP.Proliant | 3.3.2 | 3.3.3 |
| IBM.Power | 1.1.2 | 1.1.3 |
| LinuxMonitor | 2.3.2 | 2.3.3 |
| Microsoft.Windows | 2.9.3 | 2.9.4 |
| vSphere | 4.0.1 | 4.0.2 |
July 30
This update includes the following improvements to Zenoss Cloud:
- The dashboards feature is added (alpha release).
- In Smart View, related entities that don't have names are not displayed.
There are no Collection Zone changes in this update.
July 15
This update includes the following improvements to Zenoss Cloud:
-
Admin of users has inconsistent icons
-
Smart View powered by V2 API goes live!
- Improved performance
- Improved accuracy of the right side (related entities)
- Quick search powered by V2 API goes live
- Search is now case insensitive
There are no Collection Zone changes in this update.
June 20
This update includes improvements to Smart View for light theme users. Dark theme is unchanged.
There are no Collection Zone changes in this update.
June 6
This Collection Zone update includes new features, bug fixes, and ZenPack updates.
There are no Zenoss Cloud changes in this update.
New features
The Cisco UCS ZenPack now includes an interactive topology view, bandwidth usage views, an enhanced dependency view, new portlets, and new reports.
A unique feature of this ZenPack is aggregation pools, a Zenoss innovation that helps you understand how the UCS unified fabric is working. Aggregation pools are similar to port channels:
- A port channel is a collection of ports on a single switch.
- An aggregation pool consolidates information across fabric interconnects to get total usage across switches.
Aggregation pool components illuminate actual usage. For more information, refer to the Cisco UCS ZenPack documentation.
Bug fixes
- Critical events on /Status no longer show devices as down unless the event is on /Status/Ping.
- Hyperlinks in event messages now work as expected.
- In dashboard and notification popups, the controls for increasing and decreasing numerical values no longer disappear.
- The Zope health check no longer fails to restart Zope when a deadlock occurs.
- Modeling no longer is blocked when requests for device status from the event processor do not return normally.
- In the event transform display, the scroll bar is now displayed for large transforms.
ZenPack updates
| ZenPack | Previous | Current |
|---|---|---|
| CiscoMonitor | 5.9.0 | 5.10.0 |
| CiscoUCS | 2.8.0 | 3.0.0 |
| Microsoft.Windows | 2.9.2 | 2.9.3 |
| NetAppMonitor | 3.7.0 | 4.0.0 |