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New WebUI

The BVQ WebUI has been completely rewritten and migrated to a new TechStack. Throughout this process, all existing functionalities have been carefully examined and adjusted to meet the needs of our customers. Many aspects have been made simpler and easier to understand. 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 with less snippet allows much simpler usage and 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.

LDAP Authentication Support

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).

BVQ 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

Generic Storage

BVQ today supports different storage platforms (IBM SVC/Storwize/FlashSystem/, Dell Unity, NetApp ONTAP) and more storage platforms will be available 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.

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