DX Infrastructure Management

Please find the included product update and release information for CA Unified Infrastructure Management.  This notification includes information on all components that were released during the months of July & August, 2016. If you would like to receive this same information via email, please emaiumair.khan@ca.com

Thank you!

The CA Unified Infrastructure Management Team

CA Unified Infrastructure Management 8.4 Service Pack 2.

CA UIM development team is pleased to announce the availability of CA Unified Infrastructure Management 8.4 Service Pack 2 with over 25 new fixes and enhancements. This second, cumulative service pack provides you with all bug fixes and performance improvements from Service Pack 1, plus the latest fixes and performance enhancements for UIM 8.4. This service pack is recommended for all UIM 8.4 installations, and can be installed onto systems running either the original 8.4 release or onto systems running 8.4 with service pack 1 applied. (If you are not yet running version 8.4, we’d strongly encourage you to upgrade now to take advantage of the many powerful new capabilities and quality improvements you’ll find in the latest version.)

The Service Pack can be found on the download page of the CA support site at:  http://nmscdn.nimsoft.com/CA_UIM_8.4_SP2/uim_ca_sp_8.4-sp2.zip.

Release Notes and documentation are available from: http://support.nimsoft.com/Default.aspx?center=portal/downloads#uim84_sp2http://support.nimsoft.com/Default.aspx?center=portal/downloads#uim84_sp2

The following are the list of updates in CA UIM 8.4 Service Pack 2: 

• UMP
  • At-a-Glance Reports Now Sort Correctly for Multiple Disk Usage Graphs (Support Case: 00343385)
  • Alarm Loading Is Improved (Support Case: 244842)
  • Analysis Reports Now Maintain Account Security 
  • Cloning an SLA Now Replicates Any Existing Exclusion Period
  • Dashboard Line Widget Now Has a Separate Link Section (Support Case: 00412752)
  • Dashboard QoS Data Sources Now Correctly Show Intervalized Data (Support Case: 428610)
  • The Dashboard List Widget Now Respects the Display of Units (Support Case: 00352199)
  • The Dashboard Portlet No Longer Freezes When Opening Dashboards
  • Deselecting an Automatic Group Now Empties the Group in USM
  • Dynamic Group Members in USM Are Now Properly Displayed on Refresh
  • Group Filters in USM Now Operate Correctly on Oracle UIM Databases
  • Invalid XML Characters Are No Longer Accepted in Restricted Text Fields for SLAs
  • List Designer No Longer Displays Duplicate Hosts
  • Report Scheduler Honors Time Zone Settings from the Performance Report Designer
  • Time Period Values Now Persist for Dashboard List Widgets (Support Case: 00352246)
  • URL Links to the Performance Report Designer in Dashboards Are No Longer Encoded (Support Case: 415910)
  • Viewing Behavior for Alarm Widgets in Custom Dashboards Is Corrected (Support Case: 246532)
• Probes and Packages
  • alarm_enrichment Performance Improvements 
  • baseline_engine Probe Concurrent Modification Issues Corrected (Support Case: 375092)
  • baseline_engine Probe Stability Improvements (Support Case: 426652)
  • The Controller Information List Now Accurately Displays the Trellis Package and Version Numbers
  • The data_engine Probe No Longer Generates an ORA-00900 Error (Support Case: 428744)
  • The data_engine Probe Now Correctly Updates the Metric ID
  • Discovery Server Robot Changes Are Now Persisted to the UIM Database
  • Improved Security in the wasp Probe
  • Multiple Auto-Operators Are No Longer Ignored
  • New Unit Variable for Custom Alarm Messages
  • wasp and service_host 8.43 Include Tomcat 7.0.69
  • Webservices REST Calls Now Allow Special Characters in Source and Target Names
  • Plus all updates from SP1

These updates have been consolidated into two meta-packages, which allow you to deploy all of the required service pack components at once in a few easy steps. Please see the documentation for additional content details and installation instructions.

2. The following CA Unified Infrastructure Management probe updates (28) were made available during the months of July & August, 2016: