NetBackup IT Analytics Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.3)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About NetBackup IT Analytics 11.3
  2. Patch releases
    1. Patch releases: NetBackup IT Analytics
      1.  
        11.3.06 patch release notes
      2.  
        11.3.05 patch release notes
      3.  
        11.3.04 patch release notes
      4.  
        11.3.03 patch release notes
      5.  
        11.3.02 patch release notes
      6.  
        11.3.01 patch release notes
  3. What's new
    1.  
      Ransomware administration available to all users
    2.  
      Ransomware scope governs the scorecard charts
    3.  
      Data-driven ransomware preparedness evaluation
    4.  
      Exclusive report for critical NetBackup event notifications
    5.  
      Fixed a security vulnerability associated with asymmetric encryption of credentials
    6.  
      Hours to wait before purging stale switch data increased to 96 hours
    7.  
      Real Time Job Details probe introduced
    8.  
      Modifications to Port and Switch reports
    9.  
      Customize Gauge charts colors
    10.  
      Enable multiple authentication for Portal access
    11.  
      Install NetBackup IT Analytics Portal at custom path on Linux hosts
    12.  
      Configure Data Collector through a registration file
    13.  
      Policies disabled for data collection
    14.  
      Telemetry probe added in Veritas NetBackup Data Collector policy
    15.  
      VMware SDK is upgraded to 8.0
    16.  
      Utility to add Ransomware Scorecard questions and answers in bulk
    17.  
      Exported chart or dashboard may display a placeholder image
    18.  
      NetBackup IT Analytics supports Split Architecture installation
    19.  
      Scope selector enhanced to report on selective EEBs and Packages (patch 11.3.01)
    20.  
      Custom parameter datareceiver.security.authentication removed
    21.  
      NetBackup Job Status Summary by Policy Type report (patch 11.3.02)
    22.  
      Two new reports incorporated for Capacity Manager (patch - 11.3.02)
    23.  
      Data Collector Version Updates Summary report (patch 11.3.02)
    24.  
      Microsoft Azure Unattached Disks Summary report (patch 11.3.02)
    25.  
      Job Status Summary by Client (Patch 11.3.03)
    26.  
      OpsCenter transition (patch 11.3.04)
    27.  
      Client Summary Report (patch 11.3.05)
    28.  
      HPE Nimble and HP 3PAR (patch 11.3.05)
    29.  
      HPE StoreOnce supporting Gen 3 (patch 11.3.05)
  4. Supported Systems
    1.  
      Portal supported operating systems
    2.  
      Data Collector supported operating systems
    3. Supported browsers and display resolution
      1.  
        Linux portal server: Exported and emailed reports
  5. Installations and Upgrades
    1.  
      Portal installation memory requirements
    2.  
      Performance profiles and transmitted data
  6. Fixed issues
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Fixed issues
  7. Known Issues and Optimizations
    1.  
      Known issues
    2.  
      Optimization: Customize the Linux file handle setting for large collections
    3.  
      End-of-Life (EOL)

11.3.04 patch release notes

The patch release includes all the previous patches of 11.3.xx.

The following changes are included in this release.

Capacity Manager section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-60476

Resolves an issue with child thread of HP3PAR Data Collector Policy. NetBackup IT Analytics displayed an error and failed to persist offline / inactive hosts data.

Backup Manager Data Collection section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-59458

Resolves an issue with Security Details Probe. The data was not getting collected and the probe displayed a warning message.

For more details, see NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector Installation Guide for Backup Manager > Pre-Installation setup for Veritas NetBackup > Add a Veritas NetBackup Data Collector policy section.

SC-59658

Resolves the SQL Query performance issue with HP Data Protector after the NetBackup IT Analytics was upgraded to version 11.3.03.

SC-60204

Resolves an issue with NetWorker Protection Details probe which was not persisting precise start date value.

SC-60321

Resolves an issue with HP Data Protector Session Probe which was not functioning post portal upgrade to version 11.3.03.

SC-60538

Resolves an issue with HP Data Protector Session Probe. In case when HP Data Protector Session takes more than 6 hours to complete, a new execution for session probe was initiated before the current execution completes. This caused multiple session collection to run in parallel.

This fix ensures that new collection for HP Data Protection server starts only after running probe is completed.

SC-60650

Resolves an issue with Networker policy. The data collection jobs were being associated to backed up client instead of backup server.

Data collection section

Not applicable in this release.

Reports

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-50163

Resolves an issue with Data Collection Performance Summary report. When drilled down on SDK DP products to view Data Collection Performance details report, NetBackup IT Analytics failed to display the execution period.

SC-58486

Resolves an issue with the tabular report where the drill-down functionality did not function during the first-time click, once the report was converted to the chart format.

SC-59039

Resolves an issue with NetBackup SLP Status By Client report and its drill-down report NetBackup SLP Status By Image. Count mismatch was observed between Expected Copies column displayed in NetBackup SLP Status By Client report and Total Copies column displayed in the drill-down report.

Sc-59100

A new view has been added for NetApp 7-mode that collects and shows historical aggregate details.

SC-59247

Resolves an issue with the tabular report when converted to the chart format. NetBackup IT Analytics displayed blank drill-down report.

SC-59248

Resolves an issue with Job Summary by Source report. When the report is executed in tabular format and converted to chart and then clicked drill-down, NetBackup IT Analytics displayed an error message Error rendering the data. However, the report displayed the data.

SC-60220

The following issues are resolved in Inventory Host Group Overview report:

  • Duplicate sectors in expanded donut charts.

  • Inconsistent donut chart colors when filtering.

SC-60307

Resolves an issue with Anomalies Summary report where the report displayed the clients which were not defined in the report scope.

SC-60531

Resolves an issue with Storage Arrays Group report where NetBackup IT Analytics displayed duplicate data.

SC-60555

Resolves an issue with report execution using API. When executing the reports in NetBackup IT Analytics by configuring the page size parameter in API to more than default configured page size in NetBackup IT Analytics, the portal page size configuration was considered instead of API page size configuration. Now, the API page size configuration overrides the default portal page size configuration.

Portal section

Table: Enhancements and resolved issues

Issue Number

Description

SC-50661

Improved the performance of a query for finding job for SDK DP products.

SC-51593

NetBackup IT Analytics is enhanced with an improved mechanism to store the probe's states in the database.

SC-56970

Resolves an issue with Oracle VM host from Inventory. NetBackup IT Analytics displayed access denied error message.

SC-57575

Resolves the data purging issue of the SDK product data due to data dependency.

SC-58398

The memberOf attributes, using Microsoft Azure IDP for authentication and authorization, now supports memberOf claim format sAMAccountName.

For more information, see NetBackup IT Analytics System Administrator Guide > LDAP and SSO authentication for Portal access > Configure single sign-on (SSO) > setting up the external Identity Provider(IDP) server > Users and groups in the external LDAP directory section.

SC-58933

The Host Group Overview in Inventory module is enhanced. When multiple columns were selected for the Inventory Report mode, the columns gets compressed to fit in the page display. A horizontal scroll bar has been incorporated to scroll the report columns.

SC-59092

Resolves an issue when more than one systemctl service profiles, managing the oracle service. In case of standard install, ITA deletes the unwanted profiles during install and upgrade process.

SC-59126

The OpsCenter transition knowledge base article is now available with updates in the NetBackup IT Analytics Online Help.

See OpsCenter transition (patch 11.3.04).

SC-59147

Resolves an issue during execution of Host Discovery policy which was displayed the status as Queued due to null value for Oracle password.

SC-59432

Resolves an issue with upgrade of Upgrade Manager resulting into Data Collector upgrade failure. The issue occurred when the portal was upgraded from version 11.2.xx to 11.3.

SC-59491

Resolves an issue when executing File Analytics data collection. During the execution, the files were getting collected on C drive instead of configured drive in fa.root attribute.

Note:

For more information, see NetBackup IT Analytics System Administrator Guide > System configuration in the portal > Custom parameters > Customizing the path and directory for File Analytics database section.

SC-59586

Resolves an issue with multiple Brocade Switches utilizing same connection which prevented or interfered there by interrupting / blocking the data collection.

SC-59595

Resolves an issue with Networker policy. There was a time zone values mismatch between API and Networker due to which an error occurred in jobs execution.

Networker now considers the time zone from serverConfig API for the processing.

SC-59800

Resolves an issue of persisting the details of the jobs such as DISK_POOL_ID and STORAGE_SERVER_ID in the database.

SC-59804

Resolves the vulnerability issue of enabled HTTP DELETE method on port 8013.

SC-59990

Resolves an issue with Brocade Switch data collection where NetBackup IT Analytics displayed Principal switch missing in the fabric warning message.

SC-60021

Resolves an issue with Ransomware Scorecard report where the Result/Score/Risk for the following data items was not generated:

Are there any backup destinations that might run out of space and cause potential backup failures?

SC-60218

Resolves an issue with SDK based storage products where the array's IP Address was getting deleted from the database with an alternate collection.

SC-60573

Resolves an issue with the database duplicate rows getting persisted during for the execution of Array Details probes.