3.4 Release Notes

Owned by Alan Forbes
Last updated: May 17, 2016
5 min read

New Features

  • IBM Connections Monitoring and Reporting:
    • The IBM Connections instance(s) show up as any other server type on the Dashboard, and the Reports, Health page, Details page, etc. are also consistent with other server / device type pages.
    • Admins can easily select the tests to be performed upon scanning of an instance, and configure the desired thresholds.  The results will be displayed with a value of Pass/Fail in the Health Assessment tab of the Details page.
      • The following tests and thresholds can be set up via the Configurator:  Create Activity, Create Blog, Create Bookmark, Create Community, Create File, Create Wiki.
      • The following are some highlights of the IBM Connections Health page
        • The Overview tab includes the Daily Activities graph and the Top 5 Tags chart.
        • The profile data charts in the Profiles tab show the number and percentage of profiles with picture / no picture, the number and percentage of managers / non managers, etc.
        • The Activities tab shows Activities Created, Activities Followed, number of Users Following an Activity, and Activity Owners.
        • The Blogs tab includes a graph showing blogs, comments, entries and notifications created over time.  A summary table provides additional blog details.
        • The Bookmarks tab show the bookmarks created over time, the total number of bookmarks, and the number of distinct bookmark URLS.
        • A graph in the Files tab shows the number of files created, downloaded, revisioned and updated.
        • The Forums tab contains information about forums, topics and replies.
        • The Wikis tab summary table contains the total number of wikis, pages, and revisions, as well as the number of wikis and pages created the previous day.
    • There are a series of reports related to IBM Connections under the category of Connections.   If you have multiple instances of IBM Connections you can select which ones to include in the report using the check box selector at the top of the report.
    • Reports are available for Activities, Bookmarks, Files, Forums, Profiles, and Wikis.

 

Improvements

  • Enhancements to the Office 365 Health page:  The ability to track Mail Services response times, Daily User Logins / Last Logon, Top 5 Mailboxes (GB), Top 5 Inactive Mailboxes, and Active / Inactive Users.
  • A new Service Details tab in the O365 Health page displays service status messages from Microsoft.
  • Information about O365 password settings is collected and graphed:  Password Expires/Never Expires, Strong Password Required True/False.
  • The Office 365 Groups page under Key Metrics shows the various O365 groups and users associated with them.
  • If a server is configured to alert for Windows services and multiple services are missing, each service alert is handled as a separate event.
  • Dashboard Mail now includes the top Exchange mail users by sent / received message count and by sent / received mail size.
  • New Exchange on-premises report lists mailboxes which have not been accessed in over 30 days in order of most stale first.
  • The health of the Mailbox Assistant service is tested, and the Pass/Fail result is displayed in the Health Assessment tab of the Exchange server details page.
  • The Mailbox Replication service is tested on Mailbox servers and the Pass/Fail result is displayed in the Health Assessment tab of the Exchange server details page.
  • The Exchange service device scanning was moved to its own thread for better performance
  • Enhanced Traveler reporting features new reports including Allocated C Memory, allocated Java Memory, and HTTP Sessions.
  • Enhanced the overall status boxes on the top of the Dashboard and made the tool tips more descriptive.
  • A pop up window was added to the details column in the server Health Assessment tab to display the full text pertaining to an issue.
  • The new Financial reports category offers Server Utilization and Cost per User Served reports, which can be grouped by server type.  To use this report you must assign a monthly operating cost and target user count in the configurator, maintain servers.
  • The new Cost per User Served page in the Key Metrics menu shows the average cost per user served by taking the monthly operating cost in the servers table and dividing it by the average user count over the prior 30 days.  To use this report you must assign a monthly operating cost and target user count in the configurator, maintain servers.
  • Added the new Monthly Operating Cost and Ideal User Count fields to Maintain Servers and to the Server Settings Editor, to support the new financial reports.
  • Redesigned the Scheduled Reports page to make it easier to select the report type and frequency.
  • Added Monthly Server Downtime, Server Disk Free Space, and Device Up Percent Daily to scheduled reports.
  • Added a threshold and alert type for the Domino AvailabilityIndex statistic, and created the Daily Availability Server report.  AvailabilityIndex is a statistic maintained by Domino itself and is used primarily for load balancing.
  • Created the Server Access via a Browser report to show the activity level of users accessing a Domino server via a browser.
  • The following enhancements were made to the Database Replication Health page:  A Scan Now option was added to force an entire cluster to scan immediately, and a hoverbox was added to the page to indicates when the cluster was last scanned and when it’s set to scan next.
  • Added a widget based on the mail delivery page to the Overall Health docking page.
  • Added a status widget to the Overall Health docking page.
  • A Help menu group was added to the Configurator to provide access to Documentation, the Support Portal, Assembly Information, and Credits.
  • Added a date picker to the Last Sync Time column in the Mobile Users page.  
  • A new filtering option called “All Open Alerts” was added to the Alerts History page.
  • The Master service sends out an alert if a monitoring service cannot be started.
  • When the Master service calls KillNotes, it also kills the IBM smart upgrade service (SUService.exe) which, if running, sometimes prevents the Domino service from starting.
  • When the Master service fails to start a system message is displayed on the Dashboard.
  • The Create Test Alert dialog box now features an informational pop up box.
  • A Test Message button in the Alert Settings page prompts for a recipient and sends a test message with the subject “VitalSigns Test.”  This tests the mail server settings, independent of any notification settings that may be configured.
  • Modified URL validation to allow monitoring of URLs in formats other than www.name.com.
  • VitalSigns is now supported on Windows 10.

 

Bug Fixes

  • The default sorting order of entries in the Alerts History page has been fixed to display the newest entries at the top.
  • Added a page size selector and the ability to save the page size preference to the Notes Mail Probes grid.
  • Fixed the issue with the Mail Probe scan intervals; the selected business hours are now correctly applied.  
  • The Queues tab data in the Exchange Server Health page is being populated correctly.
  • The widget position in the Overall Health docking page is now saved after navigating to other pages.
  • Fixed Copy to Clipboard button in pop up window of “Currently Running” server tasks.
  • ExJournal document count unchanged alert is no longer cleared when the daily task clears the table information.
  • Fixed various issues in the ExJournal Settings section of the Domino Properties configuration page.
  • A success message is now displayed after changes to the Assign Server Access page are saved.
  • Fixed issue with cluster analysis so that when multiple clusters are enabled at one time the data for both clusters comes back cleanly.
  • Fixed the Scan Now option available by right-clicking on a Traveler server.
  • The Office 365 Health page grid’s page size preference is now saved when navigating away from the page.
  • When manually adding a new server via the Configurator, the Monthly Operating Cost and Ideal User Count fields are no longer required.
  • Improved the Domino Health page so the text in the server Details column is displayed in full, and the time is in a user-friendly format.
  • Disabled Traveler servers are now being properly removed from the Traveler Health page.
  • Fixed Maintain Locations drop-down choices so special characters display correctly for country, region, and city.

Patch Releases

  • Patch 1 - addressed various bugs / typos found in 3.4, including an issue with the Master service daily restart of services.