Orion Platform 2017.3 Release Notes
Release Date: September 13, 2017
- Orion Platform 2017.3 New Features
- Orion Platform 2017.3 Fixed Issues
- Orion Platform 2017.3 Deprecations
- Orion Platform 2017.3 End of Support
- Legal Notices
Orion Platform 2017.3 New Features
Installer
Use the Orion Installer to install and upgrade one or more Orion Platform products simultaneously in your environment. When installing new products into an existing Orion environment, the Orion Installer verifies compatibility between the product versions and notifies you if additional steps are needed. The Orion Installer also supports upgrades from older versions of the software with a generated upgrade path, merging the capabilities of the Product Upgrade Advisor into the installer.
- .NET 4.6 is required to use the new installer and will be downloaded when you run the installer. Do not stop the installation after installing .NET 4.6 due to compatibility issues with older versions of SolarWinds software. A reboot may be required after installing .NET.
- To eliminate compatibility issues, all required Orion Platform products are upgraded when you complete the Orion Installer.
The installer:
- Installs or upgrades all products from a single screen. You do not need to download files for each product.
- Provides an easy-to-follow install path when required. If you upgrade from an older product version, the installer provides upgrade paths custom-made for your current environment so you can complete complex upgrades and installations with ease.
- Runs preflight checks to ensure your environment specifications match the system requirements for selected product installs. If changes are needed, the installer provides guidance for required versions.
- Automatically starts the Configuration Wizard as needed after product installs to complete database and configuration tasks.
» Read more about the Orion Installer
Search from your global navigation
Search for your nodes, interfaces, or volumes by their display name or IP address directly from the global navigation bar at the top of every page. The last five searches you perform are saved so you can quickly run frequent search queries. Further refine your results through filters on the search results page.
Dashboards and widgets
The new Customize Page significantly simplifies and streamlines how you build your dashboards or views. Drag and drop resources, now known as widgets, exactly where you want them on your page, including on to blank areas to create new columns.
- Start searching for widgets in two clicks from any customizable page.
- Mark favorite widgets so you can quickly add them to new dashboards or pages.
- Drag and drop widgets directly on to the pages or move widgets to new locations.
Windows Authentication for SQL
Secure the connection between your Orion server and your SQL server
Increase your security compliance by using Windows authentication for both day-to-day data storage and retrieval between your Orion server and your SQL server and during the initial setup of your database server in the Configuration Wizard.
Do not use a Windows account with a password policy applied.
You can also enable SSL directly in the Configuration Wizard to encrypt the information exchanged between your Orion server or additional polling engines and your SQL server, independent of SSL settings on your SQL server.
SSL must be configured on your SQL server to utilize this feature.
SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups in a MultiSubnet Failover configuration
Leverage MS SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups in your HA configuration so your database is also highly available and disaster recoverable.
Multi-subnet High Availability
Distribute HA pool members to different subnets in this new update to SolarWinds High Availability for near instantaneous, automated failover to a secondary server on a different subnet. Create an HA pool , update your secondary server, and activate HA in your current Orion environment just as easily as before.
» Read more about multi-subnet High Availability (DR)
PerfStack
Get both broad and in-depth visibility into your environment by correlating disparate data points across your infrastructure, including on premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, in easy-to-read charts.
This version of PerfStack™:
- Includes Real-Time Polling at approximately one second intervals for selected metrics.
- Increases the number of supported metrics and products
- Lets you view the data behind supported charts with the Data Explorer.
- Enables Drag and drop entities to the chart area.
- Can open an analysis project directly from an entity with common metrics already added.
- Lets you access the details page for an entity from the Performance Analysis dashboard.
» Read more about these changes
Manage Nodes
The new Manage Entities page presents information about your nodes in a more intuitive fashion, including filtering options and contextual management options.
- Search your entities using the display name or IP address.
- Sort entities by display name, status, or IP address.
- Quickly view which nodes are muted and resume alerts with one click.
- Add more information by editing the rows
» Read more about these changes
Other improvements
- Deploy Orion agents to Raspberry Pi (Raspbian version 8.0 on ARMv6 or ARMv7 processors, 32-bit). If you upgrade to this version, you can install any Linux agent plug-ins on Rasberry Pi devices.
- Improved memory performance.
This version changes the system requirements. .NET 4.6.2 is required and Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 are no longer supported for installations.
Orion Platform 2017.3 Fixed Issues
Orion Platform 2017.3 fixes the following issues.
| Case number | Description |
|---|---|
|
1170324, 1135026, 1164963, 1144272, 1141633, 1151850, 1146475, 1144596, 1159800, 1147767, 1143080, 1138560, 1137648, 1138009, 1124158, 1163713 |
The global navigation menu bar is missing. |
| 1152162 |
Netpath cannot access the requested path. |
| 1136599, 1143676, 1133928, 1110258 |
NetPath times out and only shows a single point in time. |
| 24135 |
A CPU utilization issue on multi-core nodes running Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 when using WMI or the agent polling method. |
| 1169799 |
Orion agent Debian-based Linux packages are missing a space in the version information. |
| 1152643 |
Agents appear connected on the Manage Agents page, but cannot send information back to the server after an upgrade. |
| 1081143, 1113910 |
Linux-based Orion agents fill the /tmp folders with TaskProperties files. |
| 1068885 |
The Orion agent cannot differentiate between two nodes with the same IP address when one node is behind a NAT. |
| 1053867 |
Cannot add SNMPv3 credentials to poll a Windows node with the Orion agent. |
| 1046185 |
When deploying an Orion agent, the Application Event log has the following error:
|
| 1199142, 1103578, 1092273, 1139529 |
IPv6 nodes polled with ICMP do not return correct values or are unreachable. |
| 955013, 1024495, 1138773, 1202980 |
Incorrect time zone information for the southern hemisphere and the alerts are scheduled one hour earlier than intended. |
| 1179158 |
Repeated alert actions stop working after one of the following occurs:
|
| 1164854, 1196999, 1190898 |
Domain users or groups added after an upgrade cannot log in with a error:
|
| 1082111, 1009462, 1073184, 1102489, 1116840, 1113529, 1164723, 1195031, 1147707, 1130235, |
Repeated alert actions do not trigger when an alert is edited or the alerting service is restarted. |
| 1187535, 1126092, 1091068, 1126361, 1160693, 1034970, 1067830, 1075247, 1067457, 1086208, 1105612, 1124335, 1138711, 1146216, 1152348, 850464, 961469, 944283, 1005146, 1004940, 1023357, 1087128, 1090237, 1082382, 1108013, 1116804, 1112982, 1119012, 1113720, 1124724, 1134211, 1145831, 1109627, 1180971, 1187535, 1154647 |
The Node Reboot alerts and event-based alerts do not trigger.
|
| 1190180, 1167620, 1174631, 1175273, 1171806, 1180712, 1181381, 989718 |
Scheduling for alerts and reports is one hour off. |
| 1183756, 1032145, 1066438, |
Some alert actions cannot be simulated and return an error similar to the following:
|
| 1148595, 1133531, 1135332, 1138622, 1142313, 1143110, 1138788, 1150043, 1152481, 1113579, 1113898, 1138326, 1153010, 1141811, 1153896, 1157577, 1171634, 1155356, 1147223, 1143539, 1153845, 1134872, 1148761, 1154253, 1128086, 1158176, 1124099, 1060558 |
The Orion Web Console is slow after an upgrade due to SWIS v3 using a large amount of memory. |
| 1180808, 1116741 |
Account limitations applied to groups intermittently display unwanted nodes. |
| 1094832, 1130773, 1159671, 1171385, 1171682, 1166910, 1116402, |
Some resources are not listed due to HEX-string values in the OIDs. |
| 1139372, 1154482, 1156463, 1143611, 1118211, 1174841 |
Saved changes to Network Atlas maps do not display when your Orion server time zone is set to any negative time zone, such as UTC-5. |
| 1126358, 1148560, 1144414, 1152358, 1159419, 1101641, 1118741, 1120297, 1107631, 1139310, 1130725, 1150164, 1175369, 1143012, 1155599 |
You are prompted to log in when viewing reports. PDF reports have a screenshot of the Orion Web Console login page or an Unexpected website error. |
|
1148059, 1165475, 1166654, 1168955, 1171034, 1139724, 1156926, 1152091, 1148399, 1147728, 1146219, 1081084, 1148739 |
Performance issues due to deadlock and locking in the OrionServers table. |
| 1018994, 1084453, 1095223, 1113681, 1163514, 1083077, 1107391, 1123401, 1110556, 1130277, 1170228, 1033563, 1069910 |
Custom Object resources are very slow or time out when editing or creating them. |
| 1163156 |
CPU is high for trap services. |
| 1142839 |
Page loading times are high. |
| 1103629, 1163273 |
Cannot import custom properties for groups to a Worldmap. |
| 1166215, 1166270 |
When integrated with ServiceNow instances with a large number of customizations, alerts do not work as expected. |
| 1165130, 1105005 |
Devices do not poll when you are missing SNMP v3 credentials. |
| 1155215, 1155352, 1058519, 1096595, 1106405, 1089958, 1140354, 1138870, 1112997, 1132300, |
Automatic monitoring settings are reset to the default after the Configuration Wizard runs. |
| 1066550, 1100302, 1146412, 1124954 |
Cannot open the Advanced Configuration page. |
| 1132857 |
When copying the default Node Details view, the Quality of Experience and Asset Inventory sub pages do not copy the appropriate resources. |
| 1136856, 1117267, 1116460, 1106393 |
SNMPv3 credentials are not correctly assigned to nodes.
|
| 1141314 |
The time does not update in theOrion Web Console. |
| 1136721 |
The Managed Alerts page does not completely load, and you cannot filter alerts. |
| 1132507, 1070372, 1056500, 1121349, 979463, 897210 |
Alerts created with a disabled user do not work as expected, and the Active Alerts page may be blank or have an error. |
| 1118106, 1141738, |
ServiceNow integration stops working if you mass edit incidents. |
| 1128614 |
Cannot advance to the next Manage SNMPv3 credentials page. |
| 1092013, 1097173, 1112369, 1117267, 1125348 |
SNMPv3 credentials can be deleted or incorrectly updated when mass editing nodes that use different polling methods. |
| 1100922, 1122034 |
Cannot create ServiceNow incidents due to missing roles. |
| 1106587 |
Limitations are not applied correctly to alerts. |
| 1083182, 1142800, 1120175, 1118112, 1120175, 1109625 |
Cannot add or search for domain accounts when using LDAP. |
| 1110844, 1119752, 1100383, 1101723, 1112970, |
ServiceNow incidents re-active. |
| 1109266, 1072704, 1056235, 1052510, 1118865 |
Volume added using WMI stop polling. |
| 1118901, 1076841, 1097612, 1089416, 1087776, 1024125, 968951, |
Network Atlas maps load slowly or not at all. You may receive an error similar to the following:
|
| 1106647 |
Device type 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.1852 is not completely recognized |
| 1103781, 1097218, 1108197 |
Some features, such as the Real-Time Process Explorer, stop functioning on you additional polling engines with the following error:
|
| 1102878, 1102634 |
The Settings page is blank when the default document is disabled in IIS. |
| 1100794, 1058790, 993082 |
The ServiceNow incident resource does not display data. |
| 1097774, 1054466 |
HTML reports are embedded with What's New in the UI information. |
| 705254, 993277, 1095107, 1081919, 1031691, 973096 |
When you monitor multi-core devices with WMI, the polled results are inconsistent and may return errors. |
| 1080560 |
The Orion Service Manager opens with the following message:
|
| 1086858 |
New Cisco switches (C 2990CX) display an incorrect Machine Type. |
| 1080095 |
The Custom Query resources does not page correctly. |
| 1074893, 1044414, 1013808, 977233, 1059448, 1046813, 1027885, 940870, 1017984 |
Cannot open Quality of Experience resources in the Orion Web Console or Network Atlas.
|
| 946894, 1018470 |
L3 polling data is incorrect for some nodes. |
| 869365, 1001732 |
The job engine for SNMP polling become unresponsive and polling does not complete. |
| 913105 |
Large spikes in the Data Transmitted metric on non-US English installations |
| 818878 |
Trigger conditions affect what is displayed in the Detected Objects window. |
Orion Platform 2017.3 Deprecations
Deprecation indicates that the feature should be avoided. Deprecated features remain in the software, but will be removed in a future release. Customizations applied to a deprecated feature may not be migrated if a new feature replaces the deprecated one.
This version deprecates the following hardware, software, and features.
| Type | Deprecation |
|---|---|
| All Active Alerts resource |
The current All Active Alerts resources is deprecated. The resource is replaced with a new, enhanced widget. You can continue to use the deprecated, legacy resource. |
|
Pre-configured resources (Availability, Min/Max/Average, Percent Loss, etc.) |
Most pre-configured resources are deprecated as of this release. The resources will be compressed into single, configurable widget in a future release. |
| Last XX resources | Pre-configured Last XX resources are deprecated as of this release. They will be replaced with a single, configurable widget in a future release. |
| Managed Nodes |
The current Managed Nodes page is deprecated as of this release. A new version is available, but you can continue to use the legacy page. SolarWinds recommends migrating to the new Managed Nodes page at your earliest convenience. |
| Customize Views | The Customize View page is deprecated as of this release. Functionality is migrating to the Customize Page feature. |
|
Search resources (legacy search, search on thwack, search for nodes, etc.) |
All search resources are deprecated as of this release. Use the integrated search in the global navigation. |
Orion Platform 2017.3 End of Support
For information about supported versions of SolarWinds products, see this article.
| Type | Details |
|---|---|
| Microsoft SQL Server |
SQL 2008 and 2008 R2 are no longer supported as your database server as of this release. SolarWinds recommends that you upgrade directly to SQL 2016 at your earliest convenience. |
| Microsoft Windows Server |
You cannot install SolarWinds Orion Platform products on Windows Server 2008 R2 as of this release. SolarWinds recommends that you upgrade to Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016 at your earliest convenience. |
| Export to PDF feature |
The Export to PDF button is no longer available. SolarWinds recommends that you use the Save as PDF functionality built into your browser. |
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