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. |
| ▪ | 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). |
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