Release Notes for v2.9.25

What's New

●BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware now monitors the overall CPU and memory status of Oracle/Sun Solaris 11 servers.

●A new configuration property (IPMI Timeout) is now available to allow users to override the default timeout value for executing a single IPMI command.

New Connectors

Several connectors were added to the current version of BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware. They enable the product to fully monitor the following systems:

●Pure Storage FA Series (SSH) to monitor Pure Storage FA Series via SSH.

●QLogic HBAs - ESX to monitor QLogic HBA adapters on ESX servers.

●EMC Isilon to monitor EMC Isilon systems.

Changes and Improvements

●Dell CMC: The blade's hostname was added to each blade display ID.

●EMC Disk Arrays: The connector no longer verifies the presence of disk. This reduces the workload on the EMC SMI-S Provider and reduces the risk of the connector failing to query the EMC SMI-S Provider.

●IBM BladeCenter Chassis: Embedded switches, passthroughs, and management modules are now monitored.

●The IBM Storwize (SSH) connector supports IBM Storwize v3700 systems.

●SPARC Enterprise Mx000 (XSCF): Negative voltage sensors, such as -12V, are discovered.

●WMI - HBA Connector:

▪The connector now uses the LUN's naa.ID to identify LUNs. Using the naa.ID helps link LUNs to the Storage System's volume as they share this unique identifier code.

▪The connector displays the disk's Windows MPIO ID as well as the drive letters and partition names of any volumes on that LUN. A typical LUN ID will therefore read: naa.60616043312F05A4308DC65F111 (MPIO Disk0 - C:(OS) D:(Data))

Fixed Issues

●Adaptec Storman Connector: The connector supports a new Physical Disks command output to prevent some physical disks to be missing.

●Hardware WMI Exceptions in RSM Log: The Network card (iLO management cards) Status is now properly monitored and the error message "The Specified datatype is invalid" will no longer be appearing in the RSM log file.

●HP Insight Management Agent - Server - WBEM: The connector removes all temperature thresholds of zero to avoid unwanted temperature alerts.

●HP-UX WBEM Network: The link status for the HP-UX network cards was always "Unknown".

●HP-UX System: On some cases, the value of the Error Percent parameter of the Network class was not reported correctly.

●IBM Storwize (SSH): LEDs were not reporting all faults on both v3700 and v7000 systems.

●IBM ServeRAID Disks Monitoring:

▪To prevent battery-controller association issues, a more reliable method has been implemented to associate batteries to their related disk controllers. Successful activation of this connector will automatically disable the previous monitoring method (SMI-S based).

▪The status code returned by the IBM Director Agent for the controller’s battery was occasionally misinterpreted as degraded.

●SPARC Enterprise Mx000 (XSCF): False voltage alerts were triggered due to incorrect thresholds.

●Sun SPARC servers running Solaris :

▪False alarms were triggered on LED instances.

▪Invalid values were reported or false alarms were triggered for temperature and voltage sensors.

●Windows MPIO LUNs Monitoring: Because Windows regularly changes the unique identifiers of LUNs and physical disks, false missing/present alerts could occur for LUNs and duplicate instances could appear. To solve this issue, the WMI - HBA connector now uses the LUN's naa.ID, which is unique and does not change.

●VMWare ESX: Individual memory sensors listed under "Other" sensors in the vCenter/vSphere configuration tab are now monitored by BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware.

●Windows - DiskPart: On Windows systems, the DiskPart connector was causing a thread/handle leak in the VDS.EXE process (Virtual Disk Service).