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This page lists the new features, improvements, changes and bug fixes in each version of Hardware Sentry.

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 11.4.01

4 Changes - Released 2024-06-04

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
MSHW-6070 Added Collection Hub handler status to Hub Report
MSHW-6069 The performance of the CollectionHub has been improved

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-6074 Unnecessary messages sent to BHOM because of frequent MetaConfigVar updates
MSHW-6068 The Monitoring Report displays an estimated value for Power Consumption even when the Connector's status is detected as Failed.

Hardware Connectors 36

9 Changes - Released 2024-01-24

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1618 Modified power_state metric to match new standard in all existing connectors

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1624 NetApp E-Series: Incorrect statuses are reported for some devices like batteries, memory modules, etc.
HC-1620 VMware ESXi - Disks (IPMI) and VMware ESXi - Disks (VMware) connectors are not compatible with ESXi version 8
HC-1613 Generic UPS: Incorrect values and thresholds are reported for Voltages
HC-1611 Fujitsu-Siemens Serverview (WBEM): Memory size is incorrect
HC-1609 Dell iDRAC9 (REST): Some statuses may be incorrectly reported as Failed
HC-1608 IBM Storwize Disk Arrays (SSH): Physical disks are not discovered
HC-1604 Dell CMC (Dell Chassis Management Controller) and Dell MX7000 Chassis: Power consumption is not computed
HC-1545 HP Synergy: Power consumption is not collected at the chassis level

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 11.4.00

5 Changes - Released 2024-01-24

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
MSHW-6062 Added new parameter to report the host ambient temperature
MSHW-6053 The performance of the CollectionHub has been improved
MSHW-6051 Power state is now reported for enclosures

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-6059 The Test Report does not provide the actual error when a WMI test fails
MSHW-5910 Remote computer enclosures are not labelled correctly

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 11.3.03

11 Changes - Released 2023-10-25

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
MSHW-6045 Improved the Connector Test Report message
MSHW-6031 Added support for aes256-ctr encrypted private keys
MSHW-6024 Web UI: Ability to enable debug for specific hosts
MSHW-6020 Debug log files can be compressed in a single file when debug ends
MSHW-6019 The removedObjectList configuration variable no longer requires a host ID to be specified

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-6044 The collected values for host's memory and logical disk size are incorrectly reported as '0'
MSHW-6033 Events generated by instances of MS_HW_REPORT appear as HardwareProblem
MSHW-6010 When the server is shut down, the power consumption displayed in the hardware report does not match the power consumption of the enclosure
MSHW-6006 The MetaFQDN set by the user is not taken into account when the connector specifies an alternate MetaFQDN
MSHW-6004 Dell EMC VMAX (WBEM): Monitors are incorrectly attached to the SMI-S provider device instead of the storage system
MSHW-5870 Alert Actions: An unwanted semi-colon character is added at the end of the Connector Problems event description

Hardware Connectors 35

13 Changes - Released 2023-09-08

What's New

ID Description
HC-1586 Added support for VMware 8

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1603 The MS_HW_HPBladeTelnet.hdf connector has been renamed to MS_HW_HPBladeSSH.hdf
HC-1602 The MS_HW_CiscoTelnet.hdf connector has been renamed to MS_HW_CiscoSSH.hdf
HC-1600 The MS_HW_HPBladeSystem.hdf connector's display name has been updated to display its protocol
HC-1598 The IBM Netfinity Manager connectors (MS_HW_IbmNetfinityManager, MS_HW_IbmNetfinityManagerBASIC, MS_HW_IbmNetfinityManagerRAID) are deprecated: Systems relying on the IBM Netfinity Manager Agent are no longer supported
HC-1597 The HP TopTools connector (MS_HW_HPTopToolsNT) is deprecated: Systems relying on the HP TopTools Agent are no longer supported
HC-1596 The HP TopTools NetRAID connector (MS_HW_HpNetRaidController) is deprecated: Systems relying on the HP TopTools NetRaid Agent are no longer supported
HC-1595 The IBM Director 4 connectors (MS_HW_Director4Linux, MS_HW_Director4NT) are deprecated: Systems relying on IBM Director Agent v4 are no longer supported
HC-1594 The IBM Director 3 connector (MS_HW_Director3NT) is deprecated: Systems relying on IBM Director Agent v3 are no longer supported
HC-1592 Dell PowerSwitch S-Series: Added support for more networking switch models

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1587 HP iLO Gen 10 (REST): Unneeded discovery of empty power supplies slots, mapped-out memory failure not detected, and false missing alerts on network cards
HC-1564 Quantum DXi (SSH): Wrong computation during many hardware object’s collect
HC-1552 Generic UPS: PowerConsumption is not available

Hardware Connectors 34

7 Changes - Released 2023-07-26

What's New

ID Description
HC-1536 Added support for HP Qumulo via Python

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1559 The Motherboard Monitor connector (MS_HW_MBMNT.hdf) is deprecated: Systems with Motherboard Monitor are no longer supported
HC-1553 The HP MP/GSP card connector (MS_HW_HPiLO.hdf) is deprecated: HP MP and GSP cards and older HP-UX and SuperDome systems are no longer supported
HC-1543 Huawei OceanStor (REST): Connector now activates on more OceanStor systems

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1549 Hitachi Configuration Manager (REST)/Hitachi G-Series (REST): Incorrect Type and missing Model on Cache Flash Memories
HC-1548 EMC Unity SMI-S Agent: False missing device alerts
HC-1546 EMC VPLEX Version 5/6: False missing alarms on Power Supplies, Fans and Memories

Hardware Connectors 33

1 Changes - Released 2023-06-12

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1539 Minor regressions in v32 connectors: Adaptec - StorMan - RAID, HP Insight Management Agent - Fiber Array, SMI-S Compliant RAID Controller - Linux, HP Synergy - REST and Promise FastTrack

Hardware Connectors 32

11 Changes - Released 2023-06-07

What's New

ID Description
HC-1519 Telnet: Support for interactive Telnet protocol is removed and replaced with single-step SSH commands

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1527 Disk controllers batteries are now grouped under their disk controllers
HC-1526 HP iLO Gen 9 and 10 (REST): Added fan speed (in percentage)
HC-1517 Added support for HP Qumulo

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1533 HP iLO Gen 9 and 10 (REST): Temperature thresholds are incorrect
HC-1530 HP iLO Gen 9 and 10 (REST): Power Consumption and Status are not collected on some blades
HC-1529 EMC Isilon Cluster (REST): Batteries that are not installed are now excluded from the discovery
HC-1523 Libre Hardware Monitor: Faulty chip reports inaccurate temperatures
HC-1521 Hitachi G Series (REST): Failed physical disks are reported with an "Unknown" status
HC-1518 EMC Unity SMI-S Agent: False missing alarms are generated on all devices
HC-1507 HP Synergy (REST): Local physical disks are missing and blade's names are not set

Hardware Connectors 31

3 Changes - Released 2023-01-23

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1513 Oracle/Sun ILOM (SSH) times out unexpectedly
HC-1512 SuperMicro (REST): Fix Basic Authentication issue
HC-1509 Dell EMC PowerVault (REST) does not activate when enabling hardware monitoring through Storage Analyzer KM

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 11.3.01

3 Changes - Released 2022-11-09

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
MSHW-5993 A warning is triggered if no components can be monitored for a host
MSHW-5979 Added support for SHA256 authentication

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-5996 Security vulnerability in Swagger UI (OpenAPI) when displaying the documentation through Monitoring Studio

Hardware Connectors 30

10 Changes - Released 2022-11-08

What's New

ID Description
HC-1492 Added support for Pure Storage REST API with token authentication
HC-1484 Added support for Dell EMC PowerVault (REST)
HC-1476 Added support for Hitachi Systems (REST)
HC-1469 Added support for HPE Primera (WBEM)

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1503 EMC Isilon Cluster (REST): Added device ID to the physical disk's display name
HC-1501 Cisco UCS C-Series CIMC (SNMP): Added support for temperature sensors

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1502 Synology Diskstation: Physical disk failures are not reported
HC-1497 Hitachi SVP SMI-S Agent: The connector erroneously creates 2 separate devices
HC-1490 HPE Synergy: Disk controller's "OK" status may incorrectly trigger false alarms
HC-1392 EMC Isilon Cluster (REST): Status is not properly interpreted

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 11.3.00

21 Changes - Released 2022-08-01

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
MSHW-5976 The verification of a protocol's status automatically increases the corresponding protocol executions counter
MSHW-5973 Hardware Report: New parameters to report the status of IPMI and HTTP protocols
MSHW-5951 Improved WMI collection performance
MSHW-5939 Support deactivation of agent-side collection from a Monitoring Policy
MSHW-5930 CPU's power consumption can now be reported when available
MSHW-5911 Support for GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) monitoring
MSHW-5906 Support for VMs (Virtual Machines) monitoring
MSHW-5905 Improved stability of data collect via IPMI-over-LAN
MSHW-5904 Green IT: Added support for multitenancy

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-5969 Web UI: Custom action buttons may be missing
MSHW-5960 Impossible to download the MS_HW_thresholdtemplate.csv file from the User Documentation
MSHW-5952 In some rare cases, Internal Issues may incorrectly trigger HardwareProblem events
MSHW-5948 The localhost IP address is displayed when no IP is provided for a host, enclosure or virtual machine
MSHW-5942 Web UI: The SMTP Server information is not saved
MSHW-5933 Connector detection may fail with SNMP v2c and SNMP v3 requests
MSHW-5917 Web UI: Sudo cannot be configured for localhost monitoring
MSHW-5913 Hardware Sentry TSPS Component: Cannot deploy packages from TSPS when several PATROL Agents are running on the same host
MSHW-5898 GreenIT: Devices are not displayed in the Hardware Devices view on TSPS v11.3.01
MSHW-5895 VMware ESXi: WBEM connection failure when using Java 11 or later (WBEMException: HTTP 400 - Bad Request)
MSHW-5893 Devices with long IDs may trigger false missing alerts upon PATROL Agent restart
MSHW-5860 Web UI v10.2.00 and older: Console shows Internal Error 500 when querying instances with '#' in their path

Hardware Connectors 29

4 Changes - Released 2022-07-11

What's New

ID Description
HC-1479 Added support for KVM, Xen and QEMU hypervisors

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1483 WMI - Network: Added bandwidth utilization and network traffic in bytes
HC-1481 IPMI: Added information for batteries and several other devices

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1485 APC UPS: Voltages and Battery remaining time are reported with the wrong unit

Hardware Connectors 28

7 Changes - Released 2022-06-23

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1471 Synology: Monitoring of system and disk temperatures
HC-1470 Libre Hardware Monitor: Monitoring of CPU power consumption

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1480 Libre Hardware Monitor: Missing Voltage value
HC-1475 Nvidia-Smi: Objects are not discovered
HC-1474 Oracle/Sun ZFS Storage Appliance: The appliance is not discovered
HC-1473 Nvidia-Smi: Incorrect warning and alarm thresholds on Fan Speed causes false alert
HC-1472 HP Synergy-REST: Connections remain permanently open

Hardware Connectors 27

13 Changes - Released 2022-06-07

What's New

ID Description
HC-1466 Added support for Proxmox hypervisors
HC-1464 Added support for Hyper-V servers
HC-1460 Added support for Eaton PDUs
HC-1456 Added support for Raritan PDUs
HC-1455 Added support for RFC-1628 compliant UPS (SNMP)
HC-1391 Added support for Arista switches

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1462 APC UPS connector now supersedes the Generic UPS connector

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1465 Cisco UCS C-Series CIMC (SNMP): Connector Activation Criteria are not met by certain UCS-C hosts
HC-1461 Cisco UCS B-Series (SNMP): Empty memory slots reported as Failed or Inoperable modules
HC-1459 Cisco MDS9000 Series (SSH): Gaps in data collection for Network Interfaces
HC-1458 HP iLO Gen 10 (REST): No alert triggered for LinkStatus when the port gets unplugged
HC-1457 WMI - LUN: Connector activates unnecessarily when MPIO configuration is empty
HC-1427 Huawei Servers: Negative values are reported for temperatures

Hardware Connectors 26

17 Changes - Released 2022-02-24

What's New

ID Description
HC-1448 Added support for APC PDU
HC-1446 Added support for Windows Storage Spaces (WMI) - NVMe, disk temperature sensors, logical disks
HC-1436 Added support for Dell EMC PowerStore (REST)
HC-1428 Added support for Dell S-Series network switches (SNMP)
HC-1406 VMware ESXi: Added discovery of Virtual Machines and their respective power consumption
HC-1354 Added support for APC UPS
HC-863 Added support for Huawei OceanStor (REST)

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1440 Dell iDRAC - Storage: Added firmware version for physical disks
HC-1439 Lenovo IMM (SNMP): Added firmware version for physical disks
HC-1437 Libre Hardware Monitor reports the GPU utilization
HC-1403 Dell MCX Chassis and Blades: Blades are not instantiated when multiple Chassis are discovered from the same Management Module

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1453 HP iLO Gen 10 (REST): Collection Error Count is constantly in Alarm
HC-1452 VMware ESXi - Virtual Machines (SNMP): Connector may activate on unsupported versions of Hardware Sentry
HC-1450 LibreHardwareMonitor: Temperature sensors are incorrectly reported on Intel CPUs
HC-1449 WMI - Network: Virtual and WAN adapters are discovered and misreported as Ethernet cards
HC-1444 HP iLO Gen 9 and 10 (REST): Unknown statuses trigger false alarms
HC-1441 Nvidia-smi: Connector fails to discover GPU and related devices

Hardware Connectors 25

13 Changes - Released 2021-10-27

What's New

ID Description
HC-1433 Added support for Cisco UCS (REST)
HC-1425 Added support for Quantum i40/i80 Tape Libraries
HC-1416 Consumer-Grade Hardware: Added support for lm-sensors
HC-1411 Consumer-Grade Hardware: Added support for Libre Open Hardware
HC-1408 HP Synergy - REST: Added physical disks monitoring and disk enclosures display name improved
HC-1394 Added support for Nvidia GPUs through nvidia-smi (GeForce, Tesla, GRID, Quadro, Titan)
HC-1080 Fujitsu-Siemens PRIMERGY: Added Power Consumption monitoring

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1429 Cisco UCS C-Series CIMC (SNMP): Connector Activation Criteria are not met by certain UCS-C hosts
HC-1424 IBM DS6000/8000 Disk Arrays: Invalid WBEM query for the OtherDevice and NetworkCard classes
HC-1413 Hitachi Blade Symphony: Incorrect alarm threshold for temperatures
HC-1409 Lenovo IMM (SNMP): Fan speed percent is not collected
HC-1407 Lenovo IMM (SNMP): Discovery/Collection fails when SNMP requests time out
HC-1405 Dell Compellent Storage Manager - Unisphere For Storage Center: Unconfigured and unplugged ports are incorrectly reported as failed

Hardware Connectors 24

10 Changes - Released 2021-07-13

What's New

ID Description
HC-1390 Added support for HP ProCurve switches
HC-1386 Added support for Juniper NetScreen (SNMP)
HC-1385 Added support for Extreme Networks Switches (SNMP)
HC-1384 Added support for Aruba Network Switches (SNMP)
HC-1380 Added support for Cisco Entity Sensor MIB (SNMP)

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
HC-1402 The constructor MIB-based connector supersedes the SNMP generic network connector
HC-1387 HP3PAR: Added FC Port errors monitoring
HC-1378 Added connectors to provide enclosure to Network Switches
HC-1079 Dell PowerEdge (iDRAC9): Added Power Consumption monitoring and improved performance

Fixed Issues

ID Description
HC-1382 Oracle/Sun Solaris - Network: Connector does not report the duplex-mode properly

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 11.2.01

1 Changes - Released 2021-03-25

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
MSHW-5887 Make the list of devices optional in CMA policy for global settings

Hardware Connectors 23

3 Changes - Released 2021-03-18

What's New

ID Description
HC-1369 Added support for HPE ProLiant Gen 9 and 10 via iLO REST
HC-1049 Added support for HPE Synergy chassis
HC-634 Added support for Cisco UCS blade components through Cisco UCS Manager SNMP agent

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 11.2.00

3 Changes - Released 2021-03-18

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
MSHW-5855 Monitors associated to failed connectors can be automatically removed
MSHW-5428 A capacity with the appropriate unit is now displayed for Logical Disks, Memory Modules, and Physical Disks

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-5883 Reports scheduling requires a PATROL Agent restart to be taken into account when using the Classic Console

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 11.1.00

37 Changes - Released 2021-02-04

What's New

ID Description
MSHW-5748 Ability to interact with Hardware Sentry KM through TSPS

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
MSHW-5866 The initial discovery process is significantly faster
MSHW-5865 The Threshold Management Mode selection mechanism is removed from the Web UI to simplify and improve the overall thresholds management
MSHW-5864 The /SENTRY/HARDWARE/ThresholdsManagementMode and /SENTRY/HARDWARE/removeAllThresholds configuration variables are removed
MSHW-5822 Green IT - Link KVM hosts to Groups, Applications and Services
MSHW-5818 Hardware Sentry TSPS Component: Database session validation at startup
MSHW-5811 Installing the TSPS Component in an HA environment is now detailed in the user documentation
MSHW-5807 Hardware Sentry TSPS Component: Added Monitor's filter in the Device Details page
MSHW-5806 Power Consumption format and unit reviewed
MSHW-5804 Hardware Sentry TSPS Component: Enhanced UI rendering
MSHW-5803 Improved TSPS Component OpenAPI documentation
MSHW-5794 The Endurance Remaining parameter now reported for Physical Disks
MSHW-5791 Added the %{DEVICE_HOSTNAME} macro variable to report the actual monitored system behind a proxy
MSHW-5752 Reset (on monitors with an ErrorCount parameter)
MSHW-5751 Remove (on missing devices)
MSHW-5750 Rediscover
MSHW-5749 Collect Now
MSHW-5745 Hardware Views in TSPS: Monitoring link added to the device details view
MSHW-5744 Reinitialize
MSHW-5741 Green IT extension: The Tree View in the Monitors Tab of the Device Details page is fully responsive
MSHW-5739 Green IT - Update of parameter graphs of the device details / monitor details pages
MSHW-5738 Green IT - Link Hyper-V VM hosts to Groups, Applications and Services
MSHW-5528 Classic Wizard: Added sudo options to the SSH configuration of storage devices
MSHW-5423 Added Build Number, Commit ID and Version to infoboxes
MSHW-5295 PSL diagnostic : hostsInfo() displays the MetaFQDN instead of FQDN
MSHW-4866 FQDN added to the hardware inventory report

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-5859 Annotations are missing after a reinitialize KM with reset Alert Action
MSHW-5857 Network Link Alert : LinkSpeed is overwritten by the collect
MSHW-5814 TSPS Component: Temperature is not displayed in the Monitors tab when in WARN or ALARM state
MSHW-5813 Sudo option doesn't work with the WEB UI
MSHW-5812 Hardware Sentry TSPS Component - Graphs may display negative values
MSHW-5810 TSPS Component: Monitors tab appears empty becaused of unhandled value for Status Information
MSHW-5802 IPMI-over-LAN monitoring no longer works in CMA mode
MSHW-5747 Green IT Summary Graphs are not displayed when PATROL Agents are offline for a long time
MSHW-5746 TSPS Component causes high CPU utilization on RSSO server
MSHW-5742 Hardware Views in TSPS: Status and Present graphs are not properly displayed
MSHW-5351 The discovery is not launched automatically after the MS_HW_CONNECTOR's parameters (TestReport and Status) change from failed to OK

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 11.0.01

1 Changes - Released 2020-10-20

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-5735 Green IT cannot retrieve hardware information from PATROL Agent running Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL v11.0.00 or lower

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 10.2.01

2 Changes - Released 2020-01-30

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-5449 HTTP-based connectors may stop working after upgrading to version 10.2.00
MSHW-5448 Event generated for the Present parameter even though missing device detection has been disabled

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 10.2.00

19 Changes - Released 2020-01-14

What's New

ID Description
MSHW-5377 General improvements of the main collection engine
MSHW-5376 Expose Hardware Sentry specific features in Monitoring Studio X Web UI
MSHW-5375 Add top level class representing the KM, different from the class representing the monitored hosts

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
MSHW-5385 Ensure 10.1.00 CMA policies are properly handled by 10.2.00 code
MSHW-5384 Create the MS_HW_KM class
MSHW-5383 [Web UI] Add the ability to configure KM settings
MSHW-5382 [Web UI] Add the ability to create hosts
MSHW-5381 [Web UI] Expose all options to reinitialize KM in
MSHW-5369 CMA interface for Alert Action: Add the option to write a line to a log file
MSHW-5368 SSH: Add Support for SHA2 algorithms for HMAC and Kex
MSHW-5358 Configuring hosts to monitor in a CMA policy allows special characters that breaks the discovery
MSHW-5357 It is possible to specify a file containing the list of hosts to monitor
MSHW-5352 automaticReinitialization now uses options set in defaultReinitializationOptions
MSHW-5347 Allow Embedded File Type/Extension Specification in HDF Files

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-5399 Alert Actions: Email Alert Action cannot be configured when a threshold is reached.
MSHW-5362 Hardware Inventory Report appends irrelevant information to Memory Size
MSHW-5354 get_ranges errors occurred when the Temperature parameter of the MS_HW_TEMPERATURE class was not activated
MSHW-5343 N times comes to default after a KM reinitialize for linkspeed parameter
MSHW-5338 Voltage Refresh Parameters Menu Does Not Refresh

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 10.1.01

4 Changes - Released 2018-05-04

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-5334 The Remove KM Command does not work on the Batteries container
MSHW-5330 "Invalid [...] value" error messages may occur on non-US English systems
MSHW-5329 Monitoring of several devices with different credentials through HTTP REST API may fail randomly
MSHW-5321 When using the PATROL Classic Console, reinitializing the KM does not empty oldInstances.dat and missing devices are re-created

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 10.1.00

16 Changes - Released 2018-02-20

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
MSHW-5276 Performance improvement in AWK processing (no external process)
MSHW-5263 Performance optimization in the discovery process setting the alert thresholds
MSHW-5243 Scalability improvement in the collection process
MSHW-5188 Internal KM Issue Notification no longer triggers PATROL Events unless specified otherwise
MSHW-5166 Improved discovery performance: The discovery process now creates an instance file for each monitored host
MSHW-5165 New configuration variable (deactivatePowerConsumptionEstimation) to deactivate the power consumption estimation
MSHW-5158 The Hardware Health Report, automatically generated when a PATROL Event occurs, now provides additional information about the system impacted by a hardware failure or a threshold breach.
MSHW-5152 Performance significantly improved when monitoring a large number of systems
MSHW-5146 The product uses the most recent JRE available and prefers 64-bit versions over 32-bit versions when it is automatically selected.

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-5289 Monitored host not displayed as a separate device in TrueSight Operations when hostname cannot be resolved
MSHW-5250 When monitoring remote systems through SSH, the SSH client would not properly terminate, even after stopping/restarting PATROL Agent.
MSHW-5221 Updates of Global Variables in policies not taken into account until the PATROL Agent was restarted.
MSHW-5203 The TestReport parameter did not show the output of the command for the IPMI availability test
MSHW-5202 The rediscover() agent query prevented the host credentials from being properly stored when the host was rediscovered
MSHW-5181 StatusInformation parameter wrongly reports a LEDIndicator set to 2 as Off instead of On
MSHW-5172 Removing a connector from a Host Group through KM Commands does not work

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 10.0.01

5 Changes - Released 2018-01-04

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-5132 Connectors for Storage systems no longer work when leveraging a locally installed instrumentation layer
MSHW-5126 Password may appear in plain text when a command times out or fails
MSHW-5114 The ProtocolStatus-Command parameter triggers a false alarm for certain remote hosts
MSHW-5108 Timeout error when monitoring remote IBM AIX systems through SSH
MSHW-5101 Temporary files are not deleted on remotely monitored systems through SSH

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 10.0.00

34 Changes - Released 2017-12-22

Changes and Improvements

ID Description
MSHW-4999 TrueSight CMA mode is used only if an applicable policy is enabled in CMA
MSHW-4993 MS_HW_q allows you to dump the PATROL namespace in TrueSight Agent Query
MSHW-4974 MS_HW_q allows you to list the installed components and their versions (including Hardware Connectors)
MSHW-4967 Default value for Unexpected Status Management in TrueSight CMA is now "OK"
MSHW-4947 MS_HW_q allows you to enable the Debug Mode for individual hosts in TrueSight Agent Query
MSHW-4939 Specific events are now triggered by default (rather than STD/41) to allow events to be forwarded with custom content
MSHW-4932 Annotations with comprehensive report of the problem when an alert is triggered is now enabled by default in TrueSight CMA policies
MSHW-4916 Support for Java 9
MSHW-4907 Support for SSH keyboard-interactive authentication
MSHW-4832 Device information (as in Infoboxes) is now exposed in TrueSight Operations
MSHW-4831 MS_HW_q allows you to interact with the KM in TrueSight Agent Query (reinitialize, debug, pause, resume, remove, refresh, acknowledge, report, etc.)
MSHW-4811 It is now possible to configure a specific FQDN for a monitored host
MSHW-4791 Link Speed greater than 20 GB/s was considered as invalid value and ignored
MSHW-4777 Java Settings are easier to configure with more detailed options
MSHW-4770 Configuration variable (snmpRetryIntervals) has been added to specify the interval in milliseconds at which the SNMP client must retry its requests until a response is received or the timeout is reached
MSHW-4763 It is now possible to specify the monitoring of several hosts at once, sharing the same configuration and credentials
MSHW-4751 A new MS_HW_REPORT class provides detailed information about the operation of the KM (self-monitoring)
MSHW-4745 Protocols can be enabled individually for each host and are monitored with specific parameters
MSHW-4734 Java 8 is required for the product to operate properly
MSHW-4728 Remote monitoring through telnet is no longer supported (will use SSH instead of previously configured hosts with telnet)
MSHW-4691 A new option allows you to automatically clean-up the list of previously discovered devices when the agent starts
MSHW-4683 Event messages are no longer limited to 2048 characters
MSHW-4651 Parameter LEDIndicator is added to MS_HW_LED class to report on the state of the LED (On, Off or Blinking)
MSHW-4650 Cisco UCS monitoring: Use MS_HW_CiscoUcsXmlQuery.jar by default on both Windows and Unix/Linux
MSHW-4576 Add support for HTTP and REST API-instrumented devices
MSHW-4573 Added remote monitoring of a Windows host from another Windows host through commands

Fixed Issues

ID Description
MSHW-5043 In the "Edit Settings" wizard for localhost, WMI credentials cannot be left blank when PATROL Agent configured to run as LOCALSYSTEM
MSHW-5029 Settings for 'sudo' in a TrueSight CMA policy were not honored for IPMI
MSHW-4870 Debug output did not show the output of a command that fails in timeout
MSHW-4789 ErrorPercent could report values greater than 100%
MSHW-4676 SNMPv3 with SHA authentication does not work
MSHW-4675 After a certain time, the product failed to process SSH, SNMP, or WBEM responses that exceeded a certain size and a certain execution time
MSHW-4671 Java processes would sometimes keep on running after a restart of the PATROL Agent preventing proper KM upgrades
MSHW-4643 Deleting a single host via KM Commands may wipe out the whole Hardware configuration
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