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Highlights


Systems Health Map: Usability improvements and additional functionality

The Systems Health Map in this release has a lot of improvements for easier usage and quicker insight to potential issues in your environment:

  • additional presentations of alert rule results: by platform, by severity, by system category or by user category
  • possibility to limit the Systems Health Map to selected systems only
  • possibility to exclude multiple alert rule results at once and optionally add comments
  • copy the contents of the alert rule result table to clipboard for easy import into Excel or other tools
  • save timeframe- and autoplay-setting across sessions

Each alert rule result can be analyzed by a only a few clicks. Expert knowledge and the BVQ GUI are not necessarily required to find the root cause of a problem.
It's as simple as that:

  1. Select the alert rule of interest from the Systems Health Map
  2. Select the object which should be investigated further

Now you can find all information about this object:

  1. Summary - Why and when did this object change its status?
  2. Topology changes - Which attribute has changed in the selected timeframe and possibly led to the object change? Additional attributes can be added to or removed from the table.
  3. Performance - What was the performance of the selected object at the time of the incident? Additional metrics can be added to the chart or new charts added. Use the "Go to incident"-button to cover the time of the latest state change in your chart.

Alerting: Usability improvements and additional functionality

Configuration, creation and usage of alert rules in BVQ has also been improved in this release.

Predefined alert rules now have a clone function. The rule will now be opened in the advanced editor for further modification:


Alert conditions in an alert rule created with the advanced editor can be cloned as well:


The Categories-tab provides additional functionality:

  • Click on any user or system category to see which rules are part of it. 

  • Click on "Rule assignment" to add rules to a category or to remove rules from it.

Generic SAN model

BVQ supports two different Fibre Channel Switch vendors - Brocade and Cisco. And for Brocade SANs, there are two ways of collecting the data - via Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) or REST API directly from the FC switches. This makes three different platforms and object models in total.

In this version of BVQ, a generic SAN model has been introduced which combines all three BVQ platforms into one. 

The following table shows all object types which are available as generic SAN object types and their translations into the specific platforms.


Generic OTBrocadeBrocade
(Deprecated)
Cisco
Fabric

SAN Agent

Brocade AgentBrocade Agent (BNA)Cisco DCNM

SAN FabricBrocade FabricBrocade Fabric (BNA)Cisco Fabric

SAN SwitchBrocade SwitchBrocade Switch (BNA)Cisco Logical switch

SAN Switch portBrocade Switch portBrocade Switch port (BNA)Cisco LSwitch port

SAN Physical switchBrocade ChassisBrocade Chassis (BNA)Cisco Switch

SAN ISLBrocade ISLBrocade ISL (BNA)Cisco LISL
NodesSAN NodeBrocade NodeBrocade Node (BNA)Cisco Node

SAN Node port

Brocade Node portBrocade Node port (BNA)Cisco Node port
ZoningSAN ZoneBrocade ZoneBrocade Zone (BNA)Cisco Zone

SAN Zone memberBrocade Zone memberBrocade Zone member (BNA)Cisco Zone member


Further Enhancements

WebUI tables improvements

Several usability improvements are part of this release:

  • Every table in the WebUI has a search box
  • Alert rules are hyperlinks. Clicking on an alert rule name opens the result details for that rule
  • Everwhere in the WebUI alert rules display their configuration details. Hover over the question mark (question) to see all information for the selected alert rule

SVC Host cluster support

A host cluster is a group of logical host objects that can be managed together. Volumes mapped to a host cluster are shared by every host in this cluster. This feature, released in SVC version 7.7.1, is now available in BVQ as well. We have introduced a new object type called "SVC Host cluster".





Requirements and restrictions 

Requirements of the HW/SW environment

Please see Supported Environments

Minimum BVQ version required for an update

v6.2

Known Issues

See https://customercenter.sva.de/home/x/NwwgAw
(support agreement needed to get access credentials)




Changelogs

 Version 2021.H1.8

Version 2021.H1.8

Improvements

Issue ID

Module

Description

BVQ-16811SVC: FavoritesAdd product id column to SVC Drive table
BVQ-16155VMwareAdd Virtual Machine create date attribute
BVQ-16768AlertingShow performance indicator interval of alert rules

Bug fixes

Severity

Issue ID

Module

Description

CriticalBVQ-16726SVC: CapacityFix Capacity calculation for MDisks with SVC Code < 8.1
CriticalBVQ-16802SVCQuorum issues
MajorBVQ-16786PowerVMPath between PVM FC Port and LPAR does not take vFC into account
MajorBVQ-16172Generic Model: PIAggragation of PIs from Storage (Block) Volume to Stroage System
MajorBVQ-16760SVCImprove calculation of SVC_remote_copy_consistency_group_count
MinorBVQ-16759AlertingSubdirectories are displayed twice





 Version 2021.H1.7

Version 2021.H1.7

Improvements

Issue ID

Module

Description

BVQ-16361SVCAdd Compression enabled attribute to SVC MDisk group object
BVQ-16360SVCAdd E-Mail state & Cache prefetch attributes to SVC Cluster object
BVQ-16097SVCSupport for new IBM FlashSystem models FS5015, FS5035 and FS5200
BVQ-16434NetAppAdd Node CPU Utilization peak metric
BVQ-16476VMwareAdd VMware HOST logical CPU utilization % peak metric
BVQ-14852VMwareAdditional Attribute - VMware Cluster & Host total configured VM RAM and vCPU
BVQ-16752VMwareAlert Rule improvements to get rid of unknown states

Bug fixes

Severity

Issue ID

Module

Description

MinorBVQ-16519WebUI: Maintenance ModeNo action when clicking "Skip" button in File access check-screen
MinorBVQ-16683WebUI: Scanner: SVCHFTCS overdue status too often in WARN state
MinorBVQ-16735WebUI: Alerting: ResultsGrouping Objekt shows object type in result list instead of object name
MinorBVQ-16617WebUI: Alerting: ResultsIn stacked bar disabled states not consistent when switching views
MinorBVQ-16722WebUI: Alerting: Configuration: CategoriesDeleting User Category-Root folder should not be possible
MinorBVQ-16723WebUI: Alerting: Configuration: CategoriesMisleading message when trying to delete user categories
MinorBVQ-16712WebUI: Administration: Delete SystemsUnable to delete EMC Systems that were not scanned for a long time
MinorBVQ-16720GUI: FavoritesException while using system favorite "Qualify BVQ objects 4.1"
MinorBVQ-16718GUI: FavoritesException while using system favorite "Qualify BVQ objects 5.1"
MinorBVQ-16713BVQ ServerDST border causes infinite loop in broaden performance
MinorBVQ-16552PowerVM: AttributesTypo in pvm_managed_system attribute "firmare_version"





 Version 2021.H1.6

Version 2021.H1.6

Improvements

Issue ID

Module

Description

BVQ-16694WebUIError messages should not disappear automatically
BVQ-16646Alerting: Predefined Alert Rules: Cisco Change alert rule names
BVQ-16103Alerting: Predefined Alert RulesAdd predefined alert rules for EMC Unity
BVQ-16540Scanner: VMwareMake Storage path performance optional (reinclude storage adapter)
BVQ-16273VMwarenew Attributes for management ipv4 and ipv6 addresses
BVQ-16425VMwareRemove CPU Core metrics from performance scan

Bug fixes

Severity

Issue ID

Module

Description

CriticalBVQ-16558GUI: Perf chartAggregated charts with different source interval creates strange charts
MajorBVQ-16647PowerVMNo link between PVM PV (vSCSI) and FlashSystem / Storwize VDisk
MajorBVQ-16682Scanner: BrocadeAll scanner stopped working due to deadlock
MinorBVQ-16644WebUIBrowser hardening  
MinorBVQ-16583WebUIExpiry values not adjusted based on license restrictions for brocade / netapp / emc / powervm
MinorBVQ-16573WebUI: AlertingAlert Rule results cannot be filtered by unknown state
MinorBVQ-16568WebUI: Scanner configError message not formatted properly
MinorBVQ-16605WebUI: User managementAlerting_Admin should be able to manage Guided Maintenance Reactions
MinorBVQ-16687WebUI: SHMAutoplay toggle not working
MinorBVQ-16579WebUI: SHM: Guided reactions"Edit alert rule" button fails to highlight predefined rule 
MinorBVQ-16614VMWare: PersistDuplicate Key exception for SAS MultiPath of same scsilun to same host
MinorBVQ-16336VMware Performancevm_virtualdisk_to_vm_vm doesn't store performance for non scsi objects
MinorBVQ-16688VMwarevmHostLUNMultiPath exception
MinorBVQ-16616GUI"Clear all filters"-button deletes permanent filter "subelementcount > 0"
MinorBVQ-16618GUI: EditorDrive Array: IllegalStateException occurs during save
MinorBVQ-16648Repository InstallerWrong user description in step 4.1
MinorBVQ-16681SVAMon IntegrationHostobjects with wrong MGO IP





 Version 2021.H1.5

Version 2021.H1.5

New features

Issue ID

Module

Description

BVQ-14581VMwareNew object type VM Physical NIC
BVQ-16463VMware

New object type: VM VMkernel adapter

Improvements

Issue ID

Module

Description

BVQ-16578Brocade (REST)Missing linking between Brocade Alias and Fabric
BVQ-16539BVQ for DockerDifferentiate build number from Windows version
BVQ-16484SupportImprove Support package creation
BVQ-16549Support

Add cluster selection and db information to support package

Bug fixes

Severity

Issue ID

Module

Description

MajorBVQ-16466DataGridName aggregations shouldn't cause ZDG entry
MajorBVQ-16592Scanner: VMwareNullPointerException for ScanAndPopulateVmScsiLunCommand
MinorBVQ-16525Scanner: VMwareDuplicateKeyException for bvq.dgx_vm_storage_path during persist
MinorBVQ-16609ReportingAlerting Table without output
MinorBVQ-16511Reporting: DatasourcesOverall_alert_level missing in system table view exports
MinorBVQ-16520Alerting: Predefined rulesWrong condition in "Cluster time zone not 348 Europe/Paris"
MinorBVQ-16572GUIBVQRuntimeException in "3.1 Organisational structure: Define, assign & overview" favorite
MinorBVQ-16523LicenseLicense expiration information missing a blank
MinorBVQ-16497LinkingPowerVM /VMware and Netapp: Netapp LUNs with offline volume are linked without reason to PVM PVs /VM ScsiLUNs





 Version 2021.H1.4

Version 2021.H1.4

New features

Issue ID

Module

Description

BVQ-16101Common

Free Edition Licensing

Improvements

Issue ID

Module

Description

BVQ-16285GrafanaNew NetApp Dashboard "NetApp Volume to Virtual Machine" 
BVQ-16456ReportingNew report "EMC Unity Report"
BVQ-16416VMware: EventsFilter out events UserLoginSession and UserLogoutSession
BVQ-16479VMware: Scanner

Make storage adapter and storage path performance scan optional

Bug fixes

Severity

Issue ID

Module

Description

MajorBVQ-16487Scanner: TopoPersist: NetAppNa_wwpn_alias not unique
MajorBVQ-16489Scanner: TopoPersist: PowerVMObjectNotValidException because PVM PV reports no unique id
MinorBVQ-16465Scanner: PerfPersist: SVCIOStatFileUtil.extractLatestIOStatGathering retrieves first io stat gathering
MinorBVQ-16227ScannerIntermittant NumberFormatExceptions
MinorBVQ-16496GUIUnsupportedOperationException when opening generic SAN perf chart
MinorBVQ-16507GUI: Capa-ChartsDisplayed attributes don't match last OT in path
MinorBVQ-16464GUIFavorite with invalid attribute is empty when opened in main window
MinorBVQ-16170GUI: Generic Block StorageMissing count on counted object
MinorBVQ-16505AlertingMongoDB update/restart leads to disabled alert rules
MinorBVQ-16495AlertingNetApp predefined alerting rule "Node uptime too high" condition to low disables rule
MinorBVQ-16230ReportingDashes in text snippets lead to incorrectly rendered reports
MinorBVQ-16357ReportingSnippet loop text not formatted
MinorBVQ-15869WebUI: Support packageDelay when clicking "Create support package" for type "Logs, Topology and Performance"
MinorBVQ-16352DataGridlast_update attribute causes state change
MinorBVQ-16455VMwareEmpty event folder not deleted





 Version 2021.H1.3

Version 2021.H1.3

Improvements

Issue ID

Module

Description

BVQ-16092WebUI: Predefined Alert RulesNetApp latency alerts improvements
BVQ-16389Brocade (REST)Brocade FOS 9.X toleration support
BVQ-16410PowerVMChange vNIC Object type names

Bug fixes

Severity

Issue ID

Module

Description

CriticalBVQ-16391DatagridDuplicate-Key-Exception on dgx_disk_array persist
MajorBVQ-16403GUIException for getSerializedPrimaryKey()
MajorBVQ-16376WebUI: SHMAutomatic performance chart creation fails
MajorBVQ-16409Scanner: BrocadeNPE during topo persist
MajorBVQ-16401Scanner: SVCNPE when scanning system without mdisks
MinorBVQ-16377GUI: PerfView"RuntimeException: Exception during performance load!" when changing fixed interval
MinorBVQ-16390Scanner: NetAppTopo persist fails if LAG port has no member ports
MinorBVQ-16399PowerVMLink beteween VIOS and SRIOV LPort may not go via vNIC Backing device
MinorBVQ-16433Scanner: BrocadeScanner process stopped working after switch in one fabric rebooted
MinorBVQ-16393Scanner: Brocade Topo Persist for Brocade (REST) scanner fails with NPE





 Version 2021.H1.2

Version 2021.H1.2

New features

Issue ID

Module

Description

BVQ-13619

VMware

Connecting VMware and SAN: New Object types VM Storage adapter, VM Sotrage path, VM Storage Logical Unit
BVQ-16272Alerting

Create single central performance interval timing in alert rules

BVQ-16208GrafanaAdd two new PowerVM Dashboards
BVQ-16098ReportingNew overview report for Storwize environments
BVQ-16225EMC Unity

Grafana: Unity Performance overview dashboard

BVQ-16192EMC Unity

GUI: Favorites: Add system favorites for EMC Unity

BVQ-16191EMC Unity

GUI: Favorites: Create Unity GUI favorites

BVQ-13619VMware

Add object type: VM Storage adapter

Improvements

Issue ID

Module

Description

BVQ-16094AlertingNew alert templates
BVQ-16325AlertingStandardize object tooltips
BVQ-14641AlertingAdd exclude button to "currently matched objects" table
BVQ-16046Alerting: Predefined RulesShow Severity in all tables
BVQ-16120Alerting: Configuration: CategoriesShow enabled / disabled state of alert rules in info section
BVQ-16152Common: Attribute: DriveChange semantic for "compression_ratio" to percent
BVQ-16326EMC UnityUni System table view improvement
BVQ-16114EMC UnityAdd linking between EMC Unity and VMware
BVQ-15711NetAppAdd linking between Netapp and PowerVM via LUN
BVQ-15645GUIShorten object tooltip
BVQ-16122GUI: Table view favoritesAdd overall alert level to all table views
BVQ-16171Generic Block Storage ModelRename "Storage Volume" to "Storage Block Volume"
BVQ-16160GrafanaImprove VMware VM Detail dashboard
BVQ-16161GrafanaVMware Cluster performance overview dashboard optimized for end-to-end connection
BVQ-16263Scanner: Brocade RESTAdd timeout for "Acquire connection lock on:"
BVQ-16212DatagridSplit SVC port login OT into seperate OT per connected object type (node, host, controller, unknown)
BVQ-16145WebUIShow Popup after login if license expires soon
BVQ-13925Web UI: Home Enable horizontal scrollbars for system bar/stacked chart
BVQ-16331Common: Schema

MGOs of connected origins should be reachable by each other

BVQ-16214Grafana

BVQ SVC MDiskgroup detail dashboard added and little changes on other SVC detail dashboards

Bug fixes

Severity

Issue ID

Module

Description

CriticalBVQ-16268Scanner: PowerVMObjectNotValidException because VIOS reports no system id
MajorBVQ-16177Scanner: PowerVMNPE during topo persist for SEA without backing device
MajorBVQ-16011Scanner: BrocadeSAN Fabric without Aliases causes NPE during topo persist
MajorBVQ-16115GUIEdit DB connection profile: Test connection button is broken
MajorBVQ-16179GUI: Capa/Topo-ChartsTiming favorite not taken in capacity charts
MajorBVQ-16180GUI: Capa/Topo-ChartsSelected Object not visible
MajorBVQ-16186EMC UnityUnity CPU % avg perfromance data for longer than 1 min interval not available 
MinorBVQ-16234GUI/ReportingAlerting information are not displayed in GUI or Reporting
MinorBVQ-16265Alerting: Predefined RulesIncorrect descriptions and missing conditions
MinorBVQ-15679GUIText change in Systems selection dialog
MinorBVQ-15959GUICluster Select dialog mouse wheel operation behaves wrong
MinorBVQ-16237GUIGeneric SAN objects visible although no system selected
MinorBVQ-16169GUIIndexOutOfBoundException
MinorBVQ-16176GUINPE when selecting capa chart without specifying a path
MinorBVQ-16018GUIView name incorrect in initial tab
MinorBVQ-16196GUI: FavoritesIllegalArgumentException when opening system favorite GMCV data flow & quality
MinorBVQ-16174GUI: Capa/Topo-ChartsChart visibility in context menu is missing
MinorBVQ-16173GUI: Capa/Topo-ChartsFixed interval / Moving average settings have no effect on graph
MinorBVQ-16147GUI: PathBrowserGeneric OT not selectable in the middle of a path
MinorBVQ-16274GUI: Perf-View: Event TooltipClassCastException
MinorBVQ-16215GUI: Time favoriteReset timing favorite to default: IllegalArgumentException
MinorBVQ-16146GUI: Perf NormalizationInput Coverage always 100%
MinorBVQ-16330Alerting: Predefined RulesLinks in alerting rule description does not work
MinorBVQ-16064Alerting: Predefined RulesVMware rules report unknown status
MinorBVQ-16228Alerting: Predefined RulesNetApp rules report unknown status 
MinorBVQ-16328NetAppMultiple Links to na_cluster broken
MinorBVQ-16106Scanner: VMwareScanner overview doesn't show error status for performance persist
MinorBVQ-16232Scanner: PowerVMNPE during topology scan when scanning HMCs with no LPARs configured
MinorBVQ-16132Scanner: EMC UnityRequest Retries and timeouts not prefilled
MinorBVQ-16087Scanner: LogfileCollectorParse Exception
MinorBVQ-16184ReportingNo attributes selectable in snippet loop header
MinorBVQ-16217Reporting: SRS Performance ReportR & W size is rendered in bytes instead of KiB/IO
MinorBVQ-16229ReportingSnippet loop text is not working
MinorBVQ-16271GrafanaBrocade (REST) dashboard uses wrong metric
MinorBVQ-16035GrafanaGrafana Datasource "BVQ favorites" not installed automatically leads to incomplete dashboards
MinorBVQ-16205WebUIRestrict uploading expired licenses
MinorBVQ-16111WebUIlayout-problem for table-headers with sorting
MinorBVQ-16107WebUI: Delete SystemsPerf data is not deleted from DB
MinorBVQ-16144WebUI: Support PackageError "unable to copy"





 Version 2021.H1.1

Version 2021.H1.1

New features

Issue ID

Module

Description


CommonAdd Generic SAN model
BVQ-15751GUI

Path Based Capacity Charts

Improvements

Issue ID

Module

Description

BVQ-14206GUIImprovements for search panel and context menu
BVQ-16105WebUI: AlertingPredefined Rule "VDisk mirroring often out of sync" should not check unmirrored vdisks
BVQ-16029WebUI: ReportingPerformance improvement for large reports
BVQ-16069Scanner: SVCReduce auditlog scan to 5min
BVQ-16112General SANConnect Zone Member with FC ports for Zoning validation

Bug fixes

Severity

Issue ID

Module

Description

MajorBVQ-16077Scanner: VMwareURL with IP marked as invalid
MinorBVQ-16127GUIExpection for PI load from not available object
MinorBVQ-16091WebUIServertours incorrectly positioned
MinorBVQ-16090WebUI: Alerting: Configuration: Custom rulesNo information for initially selected rule displayed
MinorBVQ-16084WebUI: Reporting: Report overviewWaitingtime included in duration
MinorBVQ-16089WebUI: SHMException when category/severity/object type is selected
MinorBVQ-16058Scanner: NetAppTopo Persist fails with duplicate key exception for metroclusters
MinorBVQ-16109Scanner: NetApp Persist fails becaus files are not moved to error directory
MinorBVQ-16075Scanner: BrocadeNo error message is displayed if wrong protocol is entered
MinorBVQ-15574Scanner: VMwareScanner overview doesn't show overdue status for event scanner
MinorBVQ-16102MongoDBEventlog doesn't expire for missing cluster




 Version 2021.H1.0

Version 2021.H1.0

New features

Issue ID

Module

Description

BVQ-15983WebUI: AlertingUsability improvements and additional functionality
BVQ-15981WebUI: SHMUsability improvements and additional functionality
BVQ-11362SVCSupport for SVC Host cluster feature
BVQ-15323Alerting

Enable cloning of predefined ARs to Custom ARs

BVQ-15204Alerting

Add possibility to clone a condition

BVQ-15184Alerting

Retrospective alert rule calculation

BVQ-15137WebUI: SHM

Exclude alert results: Enable mass in/exclude

BVQ-15130WebUI: SHM

Per system filter for Alert results & SHM

BVQ-14595Cisco SAN

Cisco Analytic Favorites / Reports / AlertRules

Improvements

Issue ID

Module

Description

BVQ-15824WebUIPreserve url during login
BVQ-13303WebUI: LogsDisplay server logs the same way we use for scanner logs
BVQ-15258GUI: Path browserDisplay SourcePath information for foreign PIs
BVQ-13857

Pathing

Object type Port login: Refine link to Node 2 Node
BVQ-16014PathingExtend logic how to define forbidden OT connections in cloud-links to support list of OTs
BVQ-16020PathingRestrict linking to SAN ISLs (Brocade, Brocade REST, Cisco)
BVQ-15598EMCUnityAdd EMC attributes to BVQ Unified Storage Model
BVQ-15723Scanner: SVC"cpdumps" not required if SVC code >= 8.3.1.2
BVQ-15786Scanner: EMC UnityImprove reliabilty and decrease interval width for performance scan
BVQ-16038InstallerQuote path to executable for Windows services via nssm.exe
BVQ-16044MongoDB Update to 4.4.3

Bug fixes

Severity

Issue ID

Module

Description

MajorBVQ-15865GUI: Perf viewGaps reflected as 0 in object aggregations
MajorBVQ-16028WebUI: ReportingException if SVC and Storwize cluster are selected in one report
MajorBVQ-14510WebUI: AlertingQuotation marks for boolean attributes not set automatically
MinorBVQ-15880GUI / WebUICache Statistics throws Exception if file store is deactivated
MinorBVQ-15963GUI: AspectsSelection of invalid aspect should not lead to aspect change in treemap
MinorBVQ-15630WebUI: ReportingHRN of Metrics in Aggregated capacity chart are not assignable to their platform
MinorBVQ-15939WebUI: ReportingSorting in templates not saved
MinorBVQ-15965WebUI: AlertingRule with null operand should be able to reach OK status
MinorBVQ-15619WebUI: Attribute ReferenceColumn sorting not working 
MinorBVQ-15342WebUI: Attribute Reference Sorting doesn't work properly
MinorBVQ-16039Scanner: SVCSSH Session created, even if HFTCS scan is disabled
MinorBVQ-15568SVCNodePartitionLowerCache metrics TAV / TSAV / TEAV use wrong AGG / NORM logic
MinorBVQ-15569SVCNodePartitionLowerCache metrics RCA/JCA /DCA use wrong NORM logic "sum" for cache sizes
MinorBVQ-15566SVC SvcNodePort IPReplication metrics IPBZ, IPSZ, IPRT use wrong AGG / NORM logic
MinorBVQ-15565SVCSvcNodePort  COMMANDS_TO (FROM) uses wrong aggregation






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