Release Notes for SquaredUp DS for SCOM v5

For the full list of new features in SquaredUp DS v6 see What's new in SquaredUp DS for Scom

See the Release Notes for the most recent version: Release Notes for SquaredUp DS for SCOM

5.9.1

Improvements

  • SquaredUp Cloud Management Pack support for discovering SquaredUp Cloud objects & their health (SQ-5011)
  • SquaredUp Cloud Management Pack support for EU hosted tenants (SQ-4991)
  • Ability for admins to disable Personal Dashboards feature from 5.9 RC (SQ-5050)

Issues Addressed

  • Home dashboards in folders prevents new dashboards/folders being created (SQ-5008)
  • SquaredUp Cloud Management Pack is writing Debug messages with Debug set to False (SQ-4994)
  • SquaredUp Cloud Management Pack: when a cloud object goes from Not Monitored to Healthy to Not Monitored the object remains "Healthy" in SCOM (SQ-4997)

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.9.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • New visualization: Date heatmap (SQ-4817)
  • New visualization: Vertical bar chart (SQ-4961)
  • Tile copy/paste functionality (SQ-4978)
  • Dashboard favorites (SQ-4980)
  • Home dashboard (SQ-4980)
  • Personal dashboards for all users (SQ-4979)
  • SCOM Managed Instance support (beta) (SQ-3629)
  • Cleaner list of tiles with better categorization of tiles (SQ-4966)
  • “The X Tile” provides help in connecting SquaredUp DS to SquaredUp Cloud for quicker setup
  • Save the sort preferences on the Alert tile so sorting by last modified is stored (SQ-4792)
  • Donut tile labeling improvements (SQ-4946)
  • SquaredUp Cloud MP changes to make it easier to traverse objects discovered in SCOM and health for Cloud Scopes (SQ-4976)

Issues Addressed

  • Named Users list dropping to 5 Users on Primary if secondary restarted while primary is offline (SQ-4977)
  • Zero value is not displayed in Web API scalar tile (SQ-4973)
  • Newly created task action is unable to return a result (SQ-4384)

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.8.1

Improvements

  • Minor updates to dashboard packs

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.8.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • New visualization: Hosting Stack tile (SQ-4797)
  • Conditional custom colors based on label and value on Performance tiles (SQ-4888)
  • Monitor tile: grouping improvements (SQ-4595)
  • More sorting options on Status tiles (SQ-4886) (SQ-4795)
  • Option to show data points on line graph (SQ-4830)
  • Management of perspectives in the Admin System settings (SQ-4793)
  • Ability to hide group links in VADA (SQ-4906)
  • Performance improvements for large, high load environments

Issues Addressed

  • Mustache does not work in criteria for the Alert tile (SQ-3359)
  • Using criteria in an advanced scope can cause performance degradation (SQ-4934)
  • Report does not display data when a layer is missing data (SQ-4694)

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.7.2

Issues Addressed

  • Unable to use Export to Excel on Performance drilldowns
  • Slow performance and database locked errors when in HA configuration

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.7.1

Issues Addressed

  • Dashboard tiles all make data requests on dashboard initial load, regardless of visibility (SQ-4898)
  • Export to Excel fails on Alerts list tile due to backend ISO date handling (SQ-4901)
  • Security improvements (SQ-4849, SQ-4848, SQ-4847)

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.7.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • Improvements to timeframes (SQ-2429) (SQ-2816) (SQ-4047)
    • Expanded duration options
    • Custom duration using ISO8601 format
    • Date range picker in applicable tiles (Performance Graphs, Alerts and SLA)
    • Timeframe picker in applicable Connect tiles (Web API, PowerShell, SQL and Azure)
  • Improvements to the Line Graph tile (SQ-2880) (SQ-3384) (SQ-4113) (SQ-4637) (SQ-4831)
    • Multi-object drilldown
    • More information on line hover
    • Configurable threshold line
    • X-axis draws to last data-point date/time (including future dates)
    • Vertical grid lines
    • Sparkline color line label matching
  • New admin control
    • Recycle Bin feature for dashboards and perspectives (SQ-2726)
    • Last login time in the named user list (SQ-2406)
  • Other improvements
    • Alerts list: date column to nearest minute for first 59 minutes (SQ-4467)
    • Alerts list: readable and sortable date in “resolved” column (SQ-2395)
    • Donut: optional scrollable legend to fix tile height (SQ-4769)
    • Performance Improvements generally and when under heavy load:
      • Faster processing large navigation menus
      • Faster processing many team folder ACLs and AD groups per user.

Issues Addressed

  • Miscellaneous bug fixes with line graph visualizations and performance drilldown

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.6.1

Improvements

  • Updates to out-of-the-box dashboard packs (SQ-4737)

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.6.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • New visualization: Status Tree View (SQ-3076)
  • New visualization: Status Sun Burst (SQ-4715)
  • Export Matrix tile to Excel (SQ-2673)
  • Limit results option in Status tiles (SQ-4691)
  • Wrap sub labels in Status tiles (SQ-4643)
  • Sort by health in Monitor tiles (SQ-4221)
  • Allow API query parameters to be set at provider level (SQ-4092)

Issues Addressed

  • Grid tile with only one row cannot export data to Excel (SQ-1528)
  • SQL Line Graph does not export grouping field value to Excel (SQ-3345)
  • “entity” column value is blank when exporting Status tiles to Excel (SQ-4379)
  • SCOM Big IP Management link in Settings > System is broken (SQ-4771)
  • Performance degradation on initial loading of a dashboard (SQ-4744)

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.5.1

Issues Addressed

  • Minor bug fixes

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.5.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

Issues Addressed

  • Text is sometimes cut off on the Matrix tile (SQ-1314)
  • SLA text sometimes overlays the SLA graphic (SQ-4663)

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.4.1

Issues Addressed

  • Columns with the same name in Grid tiles inherit the same width on refresh (SQ-4612)
  • Mustache value cannot be used in SQL query via ODBC connection (parameterised query) (SQ-4634)

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.4.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

Issues Addressed

  • FIPS preventing SquaredUp from running correctly (SQ-4471)
  • SVG in Image tiles are not loading correctly under certain circumstances (SQ-4528)

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.3.1

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Dollar sign in URL turns into %24 for GET method (SQ-4296)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.3.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • New visualization: Status Image (SQ-3844)
  • Default dashboard timeframe (SQ-2368)
  • Scalar: conditional colors (SQ-3757)
  • Donut: display improvements (SQ-3168)
  • Adjustable row height in all grid tiles (SQ-4233)
  • Easily share your dashboard with our Community: Dashboard Packs (SQ-4172)
  • New Community Dashboards website (SQ-4172)
  • Security improvements (SQ-4440, SQ-4441, SQ-4442, SQ-4443, SQ-4444, SQ-4445)

Issues Addressed

  • Grid links do not work in certain circumstances (SQ-4090)
  • Dynamic properties picker does not work on Monitor perspectives (SQ-4435)
  • PowerShell bar graph does not show 0 value (SQ-4434)
  • Installation fails if the IIS password contains angle brackets (SQ-4420)

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Dollar sign in URL turns into %24 for GET method (SQ-4296)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.2.1

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Grid Options Row Link does not work in certain circumstances (SQ-4090)
  • Dollar sign in URL turns into %24 for GET method (SQ-4296)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.2.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • New PowerShell visualization’s execution controls and security options
    • Set your own Run As accounts (SQ-4186)
      • If you are upgrading from a previous version, check if your PowerShell profiles use different identities to run the scripts. If they do, save them as Run As accounts instead of keeping them in the profile script. See Managing PowerShell Run As accounts
    • Choose execution interval, timeout and environment (SQ-4147, SQ-4231, SQ-4094)
    • Each script now runs inside its own child process (SQ-4146)
  • New visualizations available for the Splunk tile (SQ-4043)
  • Export all columns to Excel for Alerts (SQ-4173)
  • Configurable switch to open links in same or new tab (SQ-2713)
  • GitHub samples link from the top right hand menu ☰ (SQ-4275)
  • Option to turn off drilldown in Open Access (SQ-3750)
  • Security improvements (SQ-4241, SQ-4179, SQ-1366)

NOTE: Best Practices for Security for deployment of SquaredUp DS have been updated.

Issues Addressed

  • HTML Web Content tile link does not open in the new tab (SQ-3947)
  • PowerShell scalar does not recognize decimal data type (SQ-4132)

Known Issues

  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Grid Options Row Link does not work in certain circumstances (SQ-4090)
  • Dollar sign in URL turns into %24 for GET method (SQ-4296)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.1.1

Issues Addressed

  • "An error occurred: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this resource" at the Data Warehouse stage of setup (SQ-4163)

See What's New in SquaredUp DS for SCOM for more information.

Known Issues

  • HTML Web Content tile link does not open in the new tab (SQ-3947)
  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Scoping using a tag with a long name makes the value box unusable (SQ-3498)
  • Grid Options Row Link does not work in certain circumstances (SQ-4090)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.1.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • New data source: Splunk (SQ-1169)
  • New data source: Elasticsearch (SQ-3952)
  • New PowerShell tile (SQ-3792)
  • Status visualizations for external data sources (SQ-2926/3421/3752)
  • New visualizations available for the SQL tile (SQ-2428)
  • Re-designed Integrations Settings page (SQ-3637)
  • Headers can be configured and saved in all Web API providers (SQ-4017)
  • Donut legends/segments are no longer limited, new color palettes (SQ-3927)
  • New “Sample Integrations” dashboards available to import (SQ-4059)
    NOTE: To keep improving your product experience, we have made some enhancements to the telemetry analytics.

See What's New in SquaredUp DS for SCOM for more information.

Issues Addressed

  • ServiceNow – No default view is used when API access is limited (SQ-2366)
  • Unable to add EA availability test if you click on “existing monitoring” first (SQ-3879)
  • Display issue when navigating away from a dashboard/perspective with a Web Content tile using an embedded display mode (SQ-1508)
  • API access token not refreshed if current token was not provided with an “expires_in” property (SQ-4028)

Known Issues

  • HTML Web Content tile link does not open in the new tab (SQ-3947)
  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Scoping using a tag with a long name makes the value box unusable (SQ-3498)
  • Grid Options Row Link does not work in certain circumstances (SQ-4090)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.0.1

Issues Addressed

  • Blank browser after installing SquaredUp DS v5: Browser help displayed for unsupported Internet Explorer (SQ-3742) (see Server Spec and Sizing)

Known Issues

  • The Open Access Upgrade step does not run in the correct sequence of steps after upgrade, resulting in Open Access dashboards showing the error "Unexpected Request" and the Open Access Upgrade step is unexpectedly displayed when an admin clicks an item on the navigation bar
  • ServiceNow – No default view is used when API access is limited (SQ-2366)
  • Error: “SCOM connectivity error: unknown or non-specific error" after upgrading (SQ-2678)
  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Discovery is unable to complete through a Citrix NetScaler using Service Groups (SQ-2372)
  • Performance tile drilldown not loading correctly when instance name contains a comma (SQ-1512)
  • Custom PowerShell availability monitor truncating script at 4000 characters (SQ-3598)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

5.0.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

See What's New in SquaredUp DS for SCOM for more information.

Issues Addressed

  • Miscellaneous Open Access bugs (SQ-1438, SQ-1440, SQ-1473, SQ-2557)
  • Miscellaneous Dashboard Designer bugs (SQ-3254, SQ-1325)
  • Missing date time on Alerts Drilldown (SQ-3334)
  • Ticket button on alerts no longer works (SQ-3510)

Known Issues

  • The Open Access Upgrade step does not run in the correct sequence of steps after upgrade, resulting in Open Access dashboards showing the error "Unexpected Request" and the Open Access Upgrade step is unexpectedly displayed when an admin clicks an item on the navigation bar (SQ-3671)
  • ServiceNow – No default view is used when API access is limited (SQ-2366)
  • Error: “SCOM connectivity error: unknown or non-specific error" after upgrading (SQ-2678)
  • Alerts Analytics perspective shows incorrect number of records in certain situations (SQ-3536)
  • Discovery is unable to complete through a Citrix NetScaler using Service Groups (SQ-2372)
  • Performance tile drilldown not loading correctly when instance name contains a comma (SQ-1512)
  • Custom PowerShell availability monitor truncating script at 4000 characters (SQ-3598)
  • Encrypted content is lost when applying a new license key in a High Availability environment (SQ-5160)

Older versions

Release Notes for SquaredUp DS for SCOM v4

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