Date:
July 2008
Last change: May 2009
Contents
How is the new version 6.2 installed and licensed?
Installation is accomplished over a normal SETUP routine.
Please attend the related information in the Start-WEB,
and the description inside installation-procedure.
Installation is accomplished over a normal SETUP routine.
Please attend the related information in the Start-WEB,
and the description inside installation-procedure.
What is new in theGuard! Service Management Center Version 6.2?
Service Packs
NetworkManager Discovery Server SNMP interface Browse Server Webconsole Multi Site NetworkManager ClassManager HistoryServer Webconsole Multi Site Redundancy Server Database Server SNMP interface Discovery Server Browse Server NetworkManager PollServer SNMP interface Browse Server NetworkManager SNMP interface HistoryServer Webconsole NetworkManager Poll Server HistoryServer Webconsole Discovery Server SNMP interface NetworkManager Poll Server Discovery Server Browse Server Update from older CINeMa or theGuard! NetworkManager versions
Note: Detailed installation information can be found in the installation manual.
Further information
For further information see http://networkmanager.realtech.com. Known problems
- Bugfix: Managed Object discovery option is not saved in normal scans
- Bugfix: Port numbers contain a thousand seperator
- Improvement: Extended IPv6 support
- Improvement: Automatic SNMP group assignment for new nodes if an SNMP class is selected
- Improvement: Discovery Options dialog takes a long time to open if many DHCP ranges are defined
- Improvement: Alarm threshold slider may accidentially be moved using the mouse wheel
- Improvement: Support for additional image formats in map (requires Business View license)
- New Feature: Extended network objects in map view to line objects with correlation function (requires Correlation Engine license)
- New Feature: Selection filter for Business Views and line objects (requires Correlation Engine or Business View license)
- Bugfix: topology error with new detected nodes of classes 'Ping' or 'Other'
- New Feature: Extended CLI requests
- Improvement: Extended IPv6 support
- Improvement: Speed up WMI requests<
- Improvement: Speed up WMI requests
- Bugfix: Long Configurations for a dashboard (>255 chars) cut to 255 chars when save
- Bugfix: Group management in Nodemanager fixed
- Improvement: Multiple improvements for dashboard elements
- New Feature: Import of group assignment for Managed Objects and Polls
- Bugfix: 'Error count' dialog cannot be 'cancelled' if invalid error string is entered
- Bugfix: Provisioning window remains visible when user logs off
- Bugfix: The '$' character cannot be used as a valid OK answer in provisioning macros
- Bugfix: Provivioning config data truncated, if the executed command re-occurs in the device data
- Improvement: Improved handling when saving automap filters
- New Feature: Display of the current poll statistic values in global Settings dialog
- New Feature: Group restriction added to class menu
- Bugfix: Wrong Interfacespeed in Statistics
- New Feature: Support of WMI-Propertiesy
- New Feature: optical and technical improved, older versions of views can not be used with this version
- New Feature: Status forwarding to Inventory-Central-Site possible
- New Feature: Authentication set import
- Improvement: Reduced resource needs on Active System
- Improvement: Memory management improved
- Bugfix: Memory leak
- Bugfix: Error in handling aborted database conections
- New Feature: WMI support
- Bugfix: Response time did not work for Winnet requests
- New Feature: WMI support
- New Feature: Protocol check before scan
- Improvement: Extended inventory scans
- Improvement: Speed up data communication
- New Feature: WMI support
- Bugfix: Response generation errors
- Bugfix: When changing Automap filter settings, data display is reset
- Bugfix: Deleting a node assignment in Authentication Sets may lead to access violation
- Bugfix: Closing the login dialog using the Cancel button may lead to access violation
- Bugfix: Provisioning macros may cause password errors although password is correct
- Bugfix: IPv6 addresses cannot be inserted in class menu items as poll addresses
- Improvement: Managed Objects Tunnel is used in automaps
- Improvement: Improved menu navigation in provisioning dialogs
- New Feature: IPv6 support in logic Automap view
- New Feature: Display and insertion of UTC time in event logs
- New Feature: Extended error count on poll errors can be configured based on error code
- Improvement: No trap community evaluation for SNMPV3
- Improvement: Class property sequences are not recreated on every change in the XML file
- New Feature: MPLS as a new topology type in automaps
- Improvement: Improved display in BPM Dependency and Managed Object Relations dialogs
- Bugfix: Constant request time did not work exactly with ICMP and TCP requests
- Bugfix: Status color in log entries for exceeded thresholds is not set
- Bugfix: In NodeManager, the current log windows is opened instead of history log
- Bugfix: Suggestions for subnet revervations in Site Manager are not calculated correctly
- Bugfix: Certain addresses cannot be used as networks in Discovery scans
- Bugfix: Maps that have been created using 'Save profile as...' are not displayed properly in WebConsole
- Improvement: Manual ping function for users with limited system privileges
- Improvement: Provisioning function handling
- Improvement: Poll default values cahnged to Retries 2 and Timeout 4 seconds
- New Feature: Optionally ignore S-Severity when calculating submap priorities
- Bugfix: Additional OK events are generated when using Ping-retry
- Bugfix: Some Requests fail with error "unknown property"
- Bugfix: in some cases History polling would be stopped after deleting a Performance entry
- Bugfix: no refreshing for online Responsetime values
- Bugfix: to many messages in Windows Eventlog
- Bugfix: Some Requests fail with error "unknown property"
- New Feature: faster PerformanceMonitor init
- New Feature: better Multisite view
- Bugfix: a missing NetworkManager Terminal Server Edition License used non existent group assignments in the nodemanager
- New Feature: Correlation rules are available via the map view
- Bugfix: Discovery Scans casually stopped with error
- Bugfix: Saving of Inventar data failed
- Bugfix: History function did not work correctly
- New Feature: New detected nodes are automatically inserted in group "new nodes"
- New Feature: Extended Log for Provisioning scans
- Bugfix: SNMPV3 synchronisation to HP nodes failed
- Bugfix: When closing NetworkManager while an Automap windows is open, an access violation may occur
- Improvement: Opening an additional map also opens the corresponding Business view
- New Feature: Navigation buttons (forward/back) for submap history
- Bugfix: Request Count was not resetted
- Bugfix: Discovery Server crashed if a automap request is started on initializing
- Bugfix: Provisioning Events did not have a severity
- Bugfix: Create tree action required a long time
- Bugfix: Status-Tag in XML files was ignored
The system is described in the whitepaper system concept.
A detailed description of the specific functions is described in the product service description of theGuard! Service Management Center.