Veritas CloudPoint Release Notes

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Product(s): CloudPoint (2.2.1)
Platform: Linux
  1. Getting help
    1.  
      About this document
    2.  
      CloudPoint resources
  2. New features, enhancements, and changes
    1.  
      Tag-based asset protection for production environments
    2.  
      Support for AWS nitro-based instances that use NVMe devices
    3.  
      Single File Restore (SFR) supported on Linux root file system
    4.  
      Support for Hitachi storage arrays
    5.  
      Support for InfiniBox storage arrays
    6.  
      CloudPoint REST API version updated to /v3
    7.  
      Updates to the CloudPoint plug-in for Microsoft Azure
    8.  
      Unconfigure plug-in and disconnect host option now available from the CloudPoint user interface (UI)
    9.  
      Support for AWS GovCloud (US)
  3. Limitations
    1.  
      CloudPoint support for AWS regions and GCP zones (14446)
    2.  
      Limitations on replicating and restoring assets
    3.  
      If two snapshot operations are performed on an instance at the same time, the second one fails
    4.  
      You cannot delete snapshots created by an Amazon snapshot policy
    5.  
      CloudPoint cannot snapshot LUNs which are under a consistency group for Dell EMC Unity arrays (3977)
  4. Known issues
    1.  
      Azure instance image cleanup failed (7253)
    2.  
      Agent services restarting continuously (8030)
    3.  
      CloudPoint does not support 'Overwrite existing' restore option for file system and application's host-level snapshot (8924)
    4.  
      If a snapshot creation policy is run in parallel with in-place restore, the policy may fail. When the policy is run again, it succeeds (8142)
    5.  
      When AWS is configured with different regions in parallel, stacks are added in the logs (7481)
    6.  
      Some errors are logged in the nginx_error.log file (6593)
    7.  
      CloudPoint is not able to find Google cloud network configuration (3254)
    8.  
      Signing out from a non-admin account and signing in as an admin gives limited access (2862)
    9.  
      Configuring multiple plug-ins may cause an error (6562)
    10.  
      Assets (instances) are not getting discovered for Azure (6953)
    11.  
      CloudPoint incorrectly allows snapshot operations on operating system native file systems (12285)
    12.  
      Application-consistent snapshot operations for ext2 file system assets fail (12948)
    13.  
      Snapshot operations might hang if CloudPoint host restarts (14757, 9039)
    14.  
      Indexing may fail if snapshot is not local to the CloudPoint host (14127)
    15.  
      Disk-level snapshot restore to the same location fails if an application was previously added and removed on the same disk (13196)
    16.  
      Disk-level snapshot restore fails if MongoDB configuration file is at a non-default location (13130)
    17.  
      Multiple simultaneous restore operations on the same AWS instance may fail (14286)
    18.  
      During a policy run, a snapshot failure of one of the assets causes the other successful snapshots to be orphaned (14760)
    19.  
      Classification fails if the snapshot contains encrypted files (15858)
    20.  
      CloudPoint upgrade may stall if the Docker version is not 18.03 (15846)
    21.  
      Classification job may fail with a partition detection error (15554)
    22.  
      CloudPoint UI incorrectly displays internal storage objects (15611)
  5. Fixed issues
    1.  
      Fixed issues

Fixed issues

The following issues are fixed in this release. If you contact Veritas about any of these issues, use the incident number as a reference.

Table: CloudPoint fixed issues

Incident #

Description

3928828

Delete snapshot operation not visible on the Recent Activity tab in the UI.

3931139

Failed to delete snapshot errors are logged incorrectly until the policy snapshot retention count is reached.

12286

MongoDB database application snapshot creation might fail.

13940

Indexing or classification jobs may fail in an Azure environment.

13502

Indexing or classification appears as completed but the actual operation may have failed.

15063

Removing a plug-in fails to delete assets if an asset discovery is already in progress.

3941239

If a CloudPoint policy protects a large number of assets, for example 100 devices or more, it takes longer to delete snapshots. If a delete operation occurs at a scheduled snapshot time, the delete may fail. This issue is now resolved.

8250

After restoring an instance on AWS, tags are not restored. This issue is now resolved.

6274

An issue related to role API returning 500 Internal Server Error when an incorrect role ID is provided is now resolved.

6098

The support for replication and restore of encrypted snapshots when using Customer Managed Keys is now added.

5286, 5611

An issue related to snapshot replication through policy not getting triggered is now resolved.

4604

An issue related to anonymous relay for SMTP is now resolved.

4427

An error is generated when GCP host is restored from one zone to another. This issue is now resolved.

5623

An issue related to replication of replicated snapshot caused an exception "TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects". This issue is now resolved.

4604

An issue related to Anonymous relay for SMTP is now resolved.

3210

An issue about not being able to find the server at www.googleapis.com was resolved.

9519, 5495

An LDAP integration error in the CloudPoint UI "Error updating LDAP". The issue is resolved. CloudPoint now supports LDAP over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

8291

After restoring a host-level snapshot, the instance name appeared blank in the AWS console. This issue is now resolved.

6128, 10335

CloudPoint did not provide an option to suspend a policy. This issue is now resolved. An option to disable a policy is now available.