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This page lists the new features, improvements, changes and bug fixes in each version of Hardware Sentry OpenTelemetry Collector.
Hardware Sentry OpenTelemetry Collector 2.0.00
36 Changes - Released 2022-07-13What's New
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HWS-409 | Added support for Native OpenTelemetry |
| HWS-414 | Added support for gRPC to push metrics to the local OTLP receiver |
| HWS-434 | Added support for the WinRM protocol |
| HWS-456 | Added support for log rotation on otel.log |
| HWS-515 | Metrics comply with the OpenTelemetry semantic conventions |
| HWS-557 | Added support for Datadog |
| HWS-487 | Alerts are triggered as OpenTelemetry Logs |
| HWS-460 | Network communications are encrypted using the TLS protocol |
Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HWS-208 | Report the OS type and processor architecture of the localhost enclosure |
| HWS-309 | Report the enclosure IP address (ip_address attribute) |
| HWS-379 | Report to which operating system(s) the connector applies (applies_to_os attribute) |
| HWS-403 | More logging and debugging capabilities added |
| HWS-408 | Logs are now stored in the ./logs directory |
| HWS-413 | Ability to override the resource host.name |
| HWS-420 | Hardware Sentry OpenTelemetry Collector relies on OpenTelemetry SDK 1.15.0 and OpenTelemetry Collector 0.55.0 |
| HWS-423 | Updated the Jackson library which contained vulnerability issues |
| HWS-425 | Report whether the host is configured or not (hw.host.configured metric) |
| HWS-426 | Report whether the configured protocols are responding (hardware_sentry.host.up metric) |
| HWS-429 | Report the Agent hostname and OS type (agent.host.name and os.type attributes) |
| HWS-441 | Report the number of detected and not fixed errors on GPU (hw.errors metric) |
| HWS-446 | Hardware connectors and supported platforms are now listed directly in the documentation |
| HWS-452 | Ability to enforce all network calls to be executed in sequential order on a host |
| HWS-514 | Terminology Update: Host is now used instead of Target |
| HWS-437 | Improved debug output |
| HWS-451 | Virtual Machine Monitor: Rename the hostname attribute as vm.host.name |
| HWS-567 | hardware_sentry.agent.info metric: Added the otelVersion attribute and updated other attribute names |
| HWS-510 | Report whether the power consumption is estimated or measured on the host (quality attribute) |
| HWS-538 | Erroneous connector names will no longer prevent the host from being monitored |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HWS-395 | Monitors are missing when using IPMI |
| HWS-398 | The NvidiaSmi connector does not work as expected |
| HWS-407 | On Windows, Hardware Sentry Agent java.exe process is not terminated when hws-otel service is stopped |
| HWS-417 | Log4j2 CVE-2021-44228 Vulnerability - Embedded log4j2 version 2.18.0 |
| HWS-436 | VMware ESXi: powerState is not reported when the VM status is suspended |
| HWS-546 | HWS CLI: NullPointerException may be thrown for syntax issues |
| HWS-558 | Local OS commands fail when the configured hostname is not `localhost` |
| HWS-545 | Dell CMC (Dell Chassis Management Controller): No power consumption reported due to an SSH interactive issue |
Hardware Dashboards for Grafana 2
8 Changes - Released 2022-07-12What's New
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HWGRAF-38 | Live consumption data is reported for the whole infrastructure down to individual hosts |
| HWGRAF-39 | Daily and monthly historical consumptions are calculated and graphed |
| HWGRAF-40 | Site temperature optimization panel added to the site dashboard |
Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HWGRAF-21 | Dashboards updated to reflect the latest HWS agent changes and addition of new VM dashboards |
| HWGRAF-24 | Display the last time an agent was seen for the past 6 hours |
| HWGRAF-26 | Host Dashboard: Ability to search for a specific site and host |
| HWGRAF-36 | Major updates to comply with the new metrics convention of Hardware Sentry OpenTelemetry Collector |
| HWGRAF-35 | Added support for Grafana version 9.0.0 and many other changes |
Hardware Connectors 29
4 Changes - Released 2022-07-11What'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 2022-06-23Changes 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-1472 | HP Synergy-REST: Connections remain permanently open |
| HC-1473 | Nvidia-Smi: Incorrect warning and alarm thresholds on Fan Speed causes false alert |
| HC-1474 | Oracle/Sun ZFS Storage Appliance: The appliance is not discovered |
| HC-1475 | Nvidia-Smi: Objects are not discovered |
| HC-1480 | Libre Hardware Monitor: Missing Voltage value |
Hardware Connectors 27
13 Changes - Released 2022-06-07What's New
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1391 | Added support for Arista switches |
| HC-1455 | Added support for RFC-1628 compliant UPS (SNMP) |
| HC-1466 | Added support for Proxmox hypervisors |
| HC-1456 | Added support for Raritan PDUs |
| HC-1460 | Added support for Eaton PDUs |
| HC-1464 | Added support for Hyper-V servers |
Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1462 | APC UPS connector now supersedes the Generic UPS connector |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1427 | Huawei Servers: Negative values are reported for temperatures |
| HC-1458 | HP iLO Gen 10 (REST): No alert triggered for LinkStatus when the port gets unplugged |
| HC-1465 | Cisco UCS C-Series CIMC (SNMP): Connector Activation Criteria are not met by certain UCS-C hosts |
| HC-1457 | WMI - LUN: Connector activates unnecessarily when MPIO configuration is empty |
| 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 |
Hardware Connectors 26
17 Changes - Released 2022-02-24What's New
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1354 | Added support for APC UPS |
| HC-1406 | VMware ESXi: Added discovery of Virtual Machines and their respective power consumption |
| HC-1428 | Added support for Dell S-Series network switches (SNMP) |
| HC-1436 | Added support for Dell EMC PowerStore (REST) |
| HC-1446 | Added support for Windows Storage Spaces (WMI) - NVMe, disk temperature sensors, logical disks |
| HC-1448 | Added support for APC PDU |
| HC-863 | Added support for Huawei OceanStor (REST) |
Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1403 | Dell MCX Chassis and Blades: Blades are not instantiated when multiple Chassis are discovered from the same Management Module |
| HC-1437 | Libre Hardware Monitor reports the GPU utilization |
| HC-1439 | Lenovo IMM (SNMP): Added firmware version for physical disks |
| HC-1440 | Dell iDRAC - Storage: Added firmware version for physical disks |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HC-1441 | Nvidia-smi: Connector fails to discover GPU and related devices |
| HC-1444 | HP iLO Gen 9 and 10 (REST): Unknown statuses trigger false alarms |
| HC-1449 | WMI - Network: Virtual and WAN adapters are discovered and misreported as Ethernet cards |
| HC-1450 | LibreHardwareMonitor: Temperature sensors are incorrectly reported on Intel CPUs |
| 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 |
Hardware Sentry OpenTelemetry Collector 1.0
18 Changes - Released 2021-10-26Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HWS-341 | GPUs (Graphic Processor Units) can now be monitored |
| HWS-359 | Site, Electricity Price, Carbon Density and P.U.E. metrics can be specified |
| HWS-362 | Added support for passwords encryption |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HWS-282 | Dell iDRAC9 (REST): Some objects are missing |
| HWS-295 | NetApp Filer (SNMP): Status is not accurate for temperature sensors |
| HWS-297 | Fujitsu Eternus DX Disk Arrays: Some logical disks are missing |
| HWS-298 | Hitachi SVP SMI-S Agent: Too many network cards are discovered |
| HWS-303 | EMC uemcli (VNXe): No data collected |
| HWS-304 | EMC Celerra/VNX Unified System (SSH): No data collected |
| HWS-386 | IBM Storwize Disk Arrays (SSH): No data collected |
| HWS-310 | Dell EqualLogic: Power Consumption is missing for Disk Controllers |
| HWS-343 | HP-UX (WBEM): No data available for voltage |
| HWS-364 | EMC Navisphere CLI: No data collected |
| HWS-365 | IBM AIX: Some objects are missing |
| HWS-367 | IBM VIO Server: Some objects are missing |
| HWS-368 | Prometheus: NaN instead of proper values in /metrics |
| HWS-377 | Oracle/Sun Solaris - Network: Collect is not working as expected |
| HWS-381 | Quanta - Power Supplies Missing |
Hardware Sentry OpenTelemetry Collector 0.9.2
15 Changes - Released 2021-10-19What's New
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HWS-350 | Hardware Sentry now runs as a standard OpenTelemetry Collector |
Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HWS-37 | Added support for interactive SSH protocol |
| HWS-174 | Added the monitoring of virtual machines |
| HWS-327 | Hardware Sentry Exporter: Added timestamps to the reported metrics |
| HWS-331 | Hardware Sentry CLI: New option to compile a connector and execute on the fly |
| HWS-347 | Added support for log levels (all, trace, debug, info, warn, error, fatal) |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HWS-261 | Blades: The value of the PowerState metric is not correct |
| HWS-281 | Some classes are missing due to an incorrect TableJoin interpretation |
| HWS-284 | SuperMicro: Some Temperature sensors, Memory Modules and Netword Cards are not discovered |
| HWS-296 | The hw_target_heating_margin_celsius metric is sometimes negative |
| HWS-299 | HP-UX (WBEM): An unexpected 500 error occurs |
| HWS-305 | EMC Isilon 8 (SSH): Some enclosures, logical disks, and network cards are missing |
| HWS-320 | Collection may not work for Enclosure with a single instance |
| HWS-322 | Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Mount Server: The hw_temperature_celsius metric is sometimes negative |
| HWS-324 | Some classes are missing due to an incorrect Regex interpretation |
Hardware Sentry OpenTelemetry Collector 0.9.1
12 Changes - Released 2021-10-05Changes and Improvements
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HWS-245 | Improved log results formatting |
| HWS-267 | Prometheus Configuration: New values expected by the UnknownStatus setting |
| HWS-301 | Improved default logging settings |
| HWS-313 | Added hardware-sentry-rules.yml to Prometheus Exporter |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| HWS-252 | Automatic connector detection: connectors leveraging non-configured protocols are needlessly tested |
| HWS-253 | NullpointerException when using REST-based connectors |
| HWS-254 | Invalid values collected for REST-based connectors |
| HWS-274 | Synology: IllegalArgumentException: snmpSource Oid cannot be null |
| HWS-278 | CpqIDEDriveArray: Power Consumption not collected on disk controllers |
| HWS-279 | Wrong labels on Memory Module metrics |
| HWS-280 | REST-based connectors fail to process non-numeric values |
| HWS-289 | Network Card Duplex Mode is always reported even when no value can be collected |
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