2.17 Release notes
Last modified by Guttorm Husveg on 2023/12/07 13:16
General notes
| # | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | We highly recommend our customers running older versions of Ceeview to upgrade. If you need assistance with upgrading, please contact our support department and we will assist. Email: support@ceeview.com or phone: +47 24 07 72 00. |
| 2 | Warning - "Invalid License" You will get a warning at login if your account does not have a valid license. Please, contact Ceeview support to update your license. |
| 3 | Renamed ceeview class: com.ceesoft.ceeview.services.jdbc.Jdbc ---> com.ceesoft.ceeview.services.jdbc.JdbcService. This name change will impact scripts using the Jdbc service. After upgrading to 2.16 the script(s) using the jdbc service will require an update specifying the new classname. |
| 4 | Downloading Ceeview rel. 2.17 Required files to upgrade/install Ceeview 2.17 are made available on our ftp site. Contact Ceeview Support for login details. |
| 5 | Upcoming release - Ceeview rel. 2.18 The next release of Ceeview, i.e. Ceeview 2.18, will have a new menu structure where old favorites will have to be recreated! |
| 6 | End of Support The service qualifier Application/Script/WinTask will not be supported after version 2.17. Please contact Ceeview for an upgrade path for Ceeview 2.18 and later if you are using this qualifier. |
| 7 | End of Support Legacy Serviceboard is no longer supported in this release. Last chance to convert to Dashboard was in 2.16 release. |
| 8 | End of Support The monitor Groovy Script has for the last releases been marked as a legacy monitor and version 2.17 is the last release which support this monitor. Please contact Ceeview for an upgrade path for Ceeview 2.18 and later if you are using this monitor. |
| 9 | End of Support Monitor Eventlog’s support for monitor fragments will be removed in release 2.18. Please contact Ceeview for an upgrade path for Ceeview 2.18 and later if you are using this functionality. |
Features
| # | Description |
|---|---|
| CV-11114 | Application - show monitor maintenance: Added display of monitor and asset maintenance status in application (Grid and view). |
| CV-13479 | Dashboard - extend GPS widget to support service elements: Service elements can now be geo localized in dashboards using the the Custom/GPS widget. |
| CV-13914 | Management/Agent - Provide method to reset Healthindex: Added functionality to reset health index for monitors inside Agent details (Monitor tab). |
| CV-13568 | SLA/Calendar: Removed the calendar field from configuration. It is now included in the Exclude calendar. |
| CV-13562 | Dashboard/Widgets: Non header edit mode now have floating icons so we don't distort the scale of the widget when hoovering over it. |
| CV-13299 | Dashboard: Replaced the URL with copy symbol |
| CV-13269 | Monitor/Icinga: Implemented Icinga monitor. |
| CV-13267 | Monitor/Connectivity: Added timesetting in the monitor configuration and minor layout improvements. |
| CV-12878 | Monitor process: New version of the process monitor providing improved monitoring |
| CV-13843 | Service qualifiers: Added support for running system (cpu, disk, process ...) qualifiers locally on linux, ie without using ssh |
| CV-9072 | Agent/Server: Added possibility to change memory properties for the agents jvm settings through the GUI. |
Enhancements
| # | Description |
|---|---|
| CV-14256 | Service qualifiers: Improve performance of opening SCOM qualifiers for read. |
| CV-9910 | Monitor/Script: The script monitor now provides documentation regarding available api methods |
| CV-13506 | Dashboard: Added option to use map as OpenMap as background. Assets with GPS coordinates will use it for positioning. |
| CV-13312 | Service/SQ: Added support to set negative values in breach and warning threshold of type Static, Value Range and Delta. |
| CV-12896 | Infrastructure/Asset: Added support to manually set GPS location for an Asset. |
| CV-13538 | Notification/ActionTriggers: New configuration setting MaximumEventAge, available in dialog Management/Server/Services/CeeviewNotificationService, controls how old an event may be before it is ignored, unit is minutes and default is that no age limit. |
| CV-7267 | SLA Recalculate: Added possibility to recalculate multiple SLA's and Services from within their respective menus (grid view). |
| CV-5482 | Health filters: When creating a health filter from Reasons, EventSummary or Asset/HealthReasons grids the health for the selected asset/monitor will be reset. |
| CV-12304 | Auditing: Added audit for cost and application operations. |
| CV-13747 | SLA and Service/Detail: Added To Time to Root cause grid for better readability. |
| CV-14051 | Actiontrigger: Removed the legacy policy as it is no longer in use. |
| CV-13602 | Dashboard/State Widget: Added option to hide/show Buckets and Bar in State widget. |
| CV-13403 | Dashboard/Health: Single/Mulitgraph. Locked Y axis to 100 as value can never be higher. |
| CV-13324 | Service: Service warnings are now propagated and set for the full chain of elements from element where warning occurred up to the root element. In earlier versions only element where warning occurred and root element was marked with warning indication (orange color). |
| CV-13313 | Automation: Added Activate/Deactivate as grid menu actions. |
| CV-13068 | Service grid: Rewritten to support standard functionality for filtering, sorting, freezing of columns. |
| CV-10442 | DataRegistry - improvements to dialogue: Various improvements related to user intercation |
Fixes
| # | Description |
|---|---|
| CV-14016 | Mobile App. On The Go (OTG): New version of OTG with updated jre with new timezones. |
| CV-13803 | Dispatcher: Optimized code in dispatcher to avoid potential concurrency issues. |
| CV-12837 | Dashboards: Improved access of data to be displayed. In 2.17 and later server will no longer query in vain agents for data if server do not have data for requested period. |
| CV-11537 | Permissions: Removed legacy permission "Enable second generation permission checking" as this is the one and only way Ceeview checks permissions (ie roles with permissions either granted directly or through aggregate permissions). |
| CV-14315 | Service qualifier: The new Azure Alerts qualifier monitors the existence of defined alerts. See https://docs.ceeview.com/Version/2.17/Service/Servicequalifiers for details. |
| CV-13963 | Service: Improved how missing permissions is presented to user. |
| CV-13510 | Service/Viewer/Table: Fixed a bug where we did not show the correct unit on event. |
| CV-13163 | Connectivity monitor: The monitor now returns a monitor error it has no targets to monitor. |
| CV-13145 | System monitor: Reason text for detect machine reboot now includes unit of time for uptime/downtime - hours, minutes, seconds. |
| CV-12230 | Cost monitor: Cost monitoring for Azure can now be configured using Ceeview UI. Use Cost/CostGateway to define what/how to collect cost from Azure, then Cost/CostStore to create the cost store visualizing the collected cost metrics. |