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Orion Platform 2018.2 Release Notes

Release Date: May 31, 2018

Orion Platform 2018.2 New Features

Scale improvements

  • Support for 100 Additional Polling Engines in a single instance (400% increase over previous releases)
  • Support monitoring up to 400,000 elements in a single instance (4 x more than in previous releases)

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Load Average metrics collected from Linux-based devices

When polling CPU & Memory with the Orion agent, selected metrics are available for alerts, alert variables, charts, reports, PerfStack(TM), and SWIS.

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Improved group member statistics

Use the new metric showing group availability by averaging the availability of the internal group members instead of using the status of the entire group. You can use this metric in a new widget, in alerts, reports, and in PerfStack dashboards.

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Intelligent Maps

Intelligent Maps is an is an advanced troubleshooting tool that provides a contextual and graphical portrayal of an entity and its critical relationships, including routers, switches, servers, interfaces, volumes, and groups. It visualizes physical and logical relationships between entities, leveraging Network Performance Monitor’s Topology, Server & Application Monitor Application Dependencies, and other relationship information to quickly isolate and identify critical health and performance issues easily.

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PerfStack widget

Add saved Performance Analysis project to any view as a widget. Just click the Edit view icon > Add widgets, search for the project name, and drag the widget to its position.

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Other improvements

  • For modules that monitor UPS power supplies, UPS monitoring for APC (American Power Conversion) SmartUPS Uninterruptible Power Supplies containing Network Management cards.
  • Updated popovers:
    • Up to five custom properties can be configured to display in node popovers
  • Updated Orion Installer with improved scalability engine installation experience
  • Added support for over 70 vendors and 5000 devices.
    • Added support for Apresia (CPU, memory, icon, MIBs for traps and Huawei devices (CPU and memory)
    • SNMPv3 support for Huawei and other RFC3414 devices
  • Support Orion cloud deployment in Amazon EC2 and Azure VM
  • Support for utilizing Amazon RDS for SQL Server for the Orion Database
  • Orion Platform modules no longer require MSDTC
  • Modules no longer require TLS 1.0 or 1.1 be enabled on the Orion Server
  • Microsoft Device Guard Support (all binaries properly signed)

Hotfix info

Orion Installer for installing Orion Platform 2018.2 already includes the Orion Platform 2018.2 Hotfix 1.

Orion Platform 2018.2 Fixed Issues

Orion Platform 2018.2 fixes the following issues.

Case number Description

00019605,
00047469

AppStack respects single group limitations.

1144272, 1176440,
1191598, 1197682

When the Orion Web Console is configured to use client certificate authentication, menu items are displayed correctly.

00066337,00061508, 00061508, 00055119

During the upgrade, website files are not overwritten.

1089390

The SQL performance is not affected by excessive reads.

1171110, 1186153

SHA1 certificate is not used anymore.

1179158

Orion Platform correctly executes repeated alert actions.

1336581, 00076562

Audit events are generated correctly.

1204393

Queries with Datetime are executed correctly

948689, 952451,
1066295, 1257968

Active alert resources respect view limitations based on Group Name Pattern or Group of Groups.

1092588, 1037529, 1260477, 1013431

Alerting actions trigger without delay.

00036699, 00025363

You can close ServiceNow tickets in ServiceNow. Closing a ServiceNow ticket stops sending Orion alerts for the issue.

1168389, 1173705, 1221600, 1120837,

1113472

You can add interfaces and volumes on agent-polled nodes or nodes that are found twice to the Discovery Ignore List.

1196323

Syslogs and Traps views are displayed correctly if you have devices with the same MachineTypes, each MachineType with different special characters.

1149359

External processes start successfully when the username has the format user@domain.

1355539, 1311390

The JobEngine service runs without issues, and performance data is updated on devices.

1089413, 1101096

Child elements of a storage array respect user limitations of the parent array.

1082086, 959170

The security issue with the OpenSSL library in Orion Platform products is resolved.

1163039, 1109011, 1148640, 1179830, 1161572

New custom properties are displayed without issues when inserting variables into alerts.

1341059

View limitations are applied correctly in the hardware Health Overview widget.

1094540, 1224160

When creating groups, the Search by Node IP address works correctly.

1056869

Using Advanced Database Queries in reports works without issues.

00022780, 00032805, 1130747, 1125894

Custom chart resources display correctly.

1104961, 1238351, 1150263, 1273370, 1338333

QoE/DPI does not excessively affect the performance of the Orion Web Console.

00018883, 1334323, 1355867, 1365779, 1359469

Custom properties show on maps without issues.

1244351

The readme for offline help files is correct.

996396

Node validation issues with SNMPv3 columns are resolved.

1108733, 1357345, 1197953, 1174828

ServiceNow field is now displayed as a text box.

876639, 889594, 920136, 1102219, 1358660

Custom charts show only the number of top records configured in the Show only limited number of top records.

1273447

Latitudes and longitudes with a trailing 0 are displayed correctly on the WorldMap.

00036038, 00023095

The alerting service is working without issues.

00045994

SilverPeak devices are displayed correctly.

00053297, 1357894, 1361734

After the upgrade, user graphics are displayed correctly in the Network Atlas.

1166495

Credentials cache is disabled by default.

1348736

ServiceNow integration: The Contact type field provides correct values, and new tickets are created instead of reactivations.

1166495, 1188140, 1193919

The Credentials manager can support over 1,000 credentials.

1355306

Database maintenance retains dependencies between discovery profiles and found nodes.

1258332

Mount point disks are polled correctly when the node is an agent.

1294415

Alert macros using variables work correctly.

00021978, 808735, 1185765, 1232236

SWQL queries with long alert conditions are displayed correctly.

00022839, 1279384, 1325433, 1273022

SQL queries in send email actions are parsed correctly.

1336787, 00049928

You can integrate DPA into Orion using Windows SQL authentication.

1243055, 1258332, 1259100, 1273347, 1283616

Mount points on WMI nodes are monitored correctly.

1243773

A custom report resource retrieving a large amount of data displays without issues.

1192721

A new alert for groups based on MemberAvailability is available out-of-the-box.

1200878

The Configuration wizard completes successfully when the IP address is used in binding.

1236429

When configuring mail recipient actions, you can use more than one macros.

1233991, 1209460

After restarting the alerting service v2, old macros work without issues.

1355458

XSS vulnerability in the Message Center and in Details views has been resolved.

1309520

Limitations on views and resources work correctly.

1177501

Issues with receiving bad traps have been resolved.

1211610

ServiceNow integration now reflects inactive choices..

1243201, 1265030, 1241747, 1265030

After upgrading the Orion Platform, Configuration wizard completes successfully.

1234343, 1162526, 1347668, 1154095, 1234837, 1243148, 1263062

Mandatory custom properties are required.

876767

Reports with duplicated charts initialize correctly.

00022551

When uninstalling Orion Platform products, Configuration wizard completes without issues.

1166270, 1174828, 1180967, 1207039

ServiceNow integration: issues with state and incident state have been resolved.

1348736

ServiceNow integration: the Contact type field references the correct field, and the Orion Platform correctly opens new tickets.

1351562

When editing custom properties, you can add notes and links without issues.

1243971, 1319151, 1243971, 1184410, 1178884, 1194514

Orion Web Console displays in one language.

00052045, 1321106

${N=SwisEntity;M=DetailsUrl} variable returns the correct value from the OrioWebServerAddress settings.

1155599, 1185495

PDF formatting issues when using third party engines have been resolved.

1149359, 1181261

Alert actions requiring executing external programs or VB scripts work without issues for non-built-in domain Administrator users.

1357871

Searching in the Action Manager returns correct results.

00034880, 1224826, 1356370, 1357396

Settings for an AD account are stored in the Orion Web Console even after the user logs out.

1191301, 1187591, 1329563, 1337451

Orion certificates are upgraded from sha1 to sha256.

00010367, 00068806, 00060064, 1365612, 1363354, 00060064

When displaying the Message Center page in the Orion Web Console, the memory utilization in SWIS is appropriate.

1211610

ServiceNow integration: Incidents closed based on events do not reopen incorrectly.

00050141, 00057324, 00032910, 00053703

The vulnerability towards the ROBOT attack has been addressed.

00051801

Inappropriate error messages in the Orion Web Console do not appear.

1197522, 1356174, 1202106

When a dependency is corrupted, valid dependencies display in the Dependency widgets and views.

1194193, 1240374

The OrionServers table is updated from the main polling engine server.

1356961, 00019305, 00056252, 00068463, 1197497, 1232325, 00042222, 1126690

The SWIS subscription link from an additional polling engine to the main polling engine is working correctly.

00063235

Performance Analysis queries NPM tables only if you have NPM installed.

Orion Platform 2018.2 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
Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 This software is deprecated as of this release. Although you can install Orion Platform 2018.2 products on Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 are deprecated and will not be supported in future versions of the Orion Platform. SolarWinds strongly recommends that you upgrade your operating system to Windows Server 2016 or later at your earliest convenience.
SQL Server 2012 This software is deprecated as of this release. Although you can use SQL Server 2012 with Orion Platform 2018.2 products, this version is deprecated and will not be supported on future versions of the Orion Platform. SolarWinds strongly recommends that you upgrade to Microsoft SQL Server 2016, 2017, or later at your earliest convenience.
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.

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