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New BVQ° Server WebUI

Awesome new user experience, custom Home Dashboard, integrated documentation and further reporting options

The WebUI has been completely rewritten and migrated to a new technology stack. All functionalities have been examined, documented and aligned to customer feedback. That leads to easier, faster usage and offers awesome overview. A customizable Home Dashboard shows information you really need most. Reports offer more functionality, are easier to construct with a new clearly arranged editor. Creation of alert rules is much easier with the new wizard based editor and the new weighted system health map makes is easy to concentrate your attention to the most critical issues.

The following key points are particularly relevant:

• Customizable Home Dashboard - Multiple widgets are available and can be freely positioned to personalize each user’s home screen.

• Report Editor - A complete redesign offers more functionality and document aligned structure allows much simpler usage and faster creation of custom reports.

• Custom Alert Rule Editor - A wizard guides you through the necessary steps for creating your own alert rules. It intelligently distinguishes between "Selection" - which objects to monitor, "Conditions" - when these objects trigger an alert, and general information.

• Weighted Systems Health Map - Decide whether to display the SHM based on alert levels (legacy chart coloring) or weighted which is the new default. Through a weighting function, elements with multiple or more critical errors become more prominent. This directs your focus to areas where we believe action is needed.

• Online Documentation - Useful information integrated in the BVQ Serves WEB UI (see below)

Online Documentation

Not fully ready in 2024.H1.0!

Do you want to know how alert rules are created? Or how to schedule a report? Or do you need help in setting up an AIX scanner? BVQ now has an online documentation which answers all those questions.

There are multipe ways to get to the documentation:

1. Point your webbrowser to the BVQ Server address. Prior to logging in, click on “Documentation”

   

2. Point your webbrowser directly to the documentation: http(s)://<bvq_server_ip>/docs

3. After logging in, documentation can also be accessed by clicking on the question mark that is available on each BVQ page in the upper right corner

Miscellaneous Reporting enhancements

• PI Timing based on reported Timeframe instead of fixed preselected timeframes (BVQ-16767)

• Perfchart Options

  • Y Axis Marker Lines (BVQ-14096)

  • Fixed Interval & Moving Average (BVQ-15162)

  • Fixed Y Axis Range per Metric Unit (BVQ-15159)

LDAP Authentication

Reduced user management overhead with LDAP integration

Synchronize your BVQ° application users via LDAP with those already managed by your LDAP service like MS Active Directory service. That reduces management overhead and eases protection of data privacy processing.

In addition to local BVQ users, BVQ now also support LDAP using an MS Active Directory Server. During configuration, AD groups are assigned to corresponding BVQ roles. Once this is done, all AD users can log into BVQ according to their configuration.

Further information, configuration and troubleshooting help can be found in the BVQ manual which is now integrated into BVQ (Open documentation → Adminstration → BVQ Server → Users).

Generic Storage Model

Uniform monitoring and analysis of basic storage functions common in multiple storage platforms

The Generic Storage Model is now finished and we will add support of more storage platforms like Pure Storage Flash Array and Dell PowerStore in the next major release. In advance to that we finalized the Generic Storage Model to focus on essential storage functionality needed in an end to end view from hypervisors through SAN to the storage backend. With that BVQ’s analytic, monitoring, reporting and ITSM connection functions can easily be used in a platform agnostic way.

Today BVQ supports different storage platforms (IBM Storage virtualize (SVC) / Storwize / FlashSystem, Dell Unity, NetApp ONTAP). More storage platforms will be integrated in the near future. To ease usability of multiple storage platforms within BVQ, a Generic Storage model has been defined which combines the most important and most common storage objects in a simplified model.

ITSM ServiceNow Connector

This great feature has already been silently released in 2023.H2.5 and you may have missed that information. Please take a look at the inital annoucement.

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