SolarWinds Platform 2024.2 release notes
SolarWinds Platform RC documentation - The following content is a draft for a release candidate. All content subject to change. Some links might not function yet.
These release notes contain a description of features and functionality that SolarWinds intends to deliver in the next generally available release. However, SolarWinds reserves the right to remove, or otherwise elect not to deliver, such features and functionality from the final generally available release, and this is not a commitment of delivery.
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Here's what's new in SolarWinds Platform 2024.2.
Learn more
- See the SolarWinds Platform 2024.2 system requirements.
- For information about working with SolarWinds Platform, see the SolarWinds Platform 2024.2 Administrator Guide.
New features and improvements in SolarWinds Platform
Maps improvements
In Intelligent Maps, users can:
- Define custom topology links based on status of child entities
- Disable specific automatically added links
- Show multiple links between two nodes when there are multiple links
- Track wireless heat maps history
Users can import Network Atlas maps to Intelligent Maps.
Other improvements
- Administrators can configure a mandatory Department of Defense notice to be displayed and acknowledged before users log in.
- Improved stability, installation and upgrade experience
- Improved performance of the SolarWinds Platform
Fixes
Case number | Description |
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01539957, 01579210 |
The timeout limit for the Verify MessageBus connection test on the Deployment Health page has been increased. This change prevents tests that should succeed from failing with the message |
413124, 00583729, 00917555, 01509843, 01590830 |
On the Manage Nodes page, all nodes are displayed when nodes are grouped by Maintenance Window, even for users connecting to the SolarWinds Platform server from a different time zone. |
01570284, 01589174 |
On the modern Manage Nodes page, custom properties can be successfully imported. |
01558137, 01573518, 01583277, 01585187, 01585743 |
Installing an additional polling engine no longer fails if the SolarWinds Administration Service (SWA) was updated on the main polling engine, resulting in the message |
00347151, 00583729, 00609433, 00808352, 01086612, 01351960, 01445837 |
Scheduled maintenance mode times are displayed correctly when multiple nodes are selected and when the nodes and the SolarWinds Platform server are in different time zones. |
00971087, 01337532, 01522899, 01526029, 01526147, 01550288, 01570302 |
The SWJobEngineWorker2x64.exe process in the Solarwinds.Orion.Core.Collector plugin no longer leaks memory. This issue caused slow performance, failures due to out of memory errors, other errors and warnings in logs, and missed polls. |
01560597, 01562147, 01565729, 01567347, 01571619, 01571639, 01558789, 01566874, 01561654, 01560265, 01573988, 01571865, 01572094, 01580802, 01564082 |
Object icons on the Active Alerts page are displayed correctly. |
01559327, 01556253, 01562533 |
The check to determine whether time settings across agents are synchronized was removed from the Deployment Health check in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console. In the stand-alone Active Diagnostics application, the check no longer indicates problems when there are none. |
01051176, 01221567, 01314256, 01546461, 01563438, 01560376, 01564113, 01564143, 01568945, 01576335, 01564113 |
The test to identify mismatches between the SWIS URI System Identifier and the system identifiers in URIs no longer fails. The test has been added back to Active Diagnostics. |
01521004, 01567098 |
On the Collect new diagnostics page, the search results display the correct nodes, and pagination works correctly. |
01550125 |
Remote installation of an agent no longer fails on non-English computers running a Linux-based operating system. |
01559272, 01561292, 01563910, 01566566, 01550711, 01560088 |
Intelligent Maps no longer display black objects instead of icons. |
01550299 |
Intelligent Maps display all icons correctly when they are selected from the Icon property panel. |
01487914 |
If you click the Submit button multiple times after editing a node, the operation no longer fails with an error. |
01562091 |
Hovering over interfaces on an Intelligent Map no longer causes an error to be displayed, similar to:
|
01533680, 01552117 |
Job engine clear messages are no longer sent between polling engines, which could cause polling to stop. |
01455555, 01423586 |
The Linux agent no longer uses the wrong path to search for certificates, which prevented the agent service from starting. |
01502617, 01544348 |
A query that lead to deadlocks in the SolarWinds Platform database has been tuned. |
00894876, 00952370, 01316477, 01542041 |
When a user logs out of the SolarWinds Platform Web Console, the resulting login dialog populates the Username field based on the credentials of the user who logged out, rather than always |
01488421 |
Node availability data is no longer displayed incorrectly if a node enters fast poll from the |
01507890 |
On the configuration dialog for the Send a GET or POST Request to a Web Server alert action, you can enter user names and passwords of up to 150 characters when you choose Basic or NTLM authentication. The previous limit was 50 characters. |
01510957 |
On the Add SMTP Server dialog, you can enter a host name with a segment that starts with a number. |
01494432 |
A view in the SolarWinds Platform database has been tuned to improve performance when retrieving application availability data and to prevent high database CPU usage. |
00158062, 00334434, 01459950 |
Reports that contain a SWQL query are displayed correctly when they are sent through the report scheduler as an HTML email. |
01507494 |
Special characters, such as the German umlaut, are displayed correctly in the user interface. |
01423540, 01499591, 01508573 |
Database maintenance performance has been improved to run more quickly. |
01330047, 01395989, 01469949, 01511737 |
The speed and accuracy of topology calculation to show connections on network maps has been improved. |
01462551, 01399856 |
During provisioning, the AIX agent no longer queries its DNS server to resolve its IP address in order to send this information to the SolarWinds Platform. |
00655331, 01492460 |
Searches based on a custom property value work correctly when the custom property name is SiteID. |
01496061 |
If any metrics are missing from a PerfStack project, the PerfStack Widget displays the available metrics instead of the Load PerfStack Project button. |
01430167, 01497213 |
In a deployment with High Availability configured, the Deployment Health tab no longer shows invalid issues on standby servers because of SWIS connection failures. |
00637986, 00640711, 01504141 |
Having special characters in a report name no longer causes the report scheduler to fail. |
01253523, 01468220, 01495488 |
The next poll and next rediscovery times for volume polling are shown in the time zone of the server, not in the UTC time zone. |
01453924 |
When multiple alert actions are triggered simultaneously, the AlertDetailsUrl and AlertObjectID macros return the correct values. |
01250912, 01384999, 01493532 |
The Power Control Unit (PCU) status is displayed on Node Details page after an upgrade. |
01311212 |
The software version and other information about PCU/UPS devices is updated with the latest polled values. |
01196102 |
When you run the Discovery Wizard with a set of more than 35 nodes, statistics for PCUs are not lost. |
00787337, 01266827 |
Assigning UPS devices to a Universal Device Poller (UnDP) in bulk is successful, data is polled from UPS devices, and UPS inventory reports are displayed correctly. |
01155223, 01424647 |
Polling of UPS devices without Battery Temperature no longer results in UPS and Battery Status being reported as unknown. |
00384424, 00483466, 00565220, 01482010 |
Custom reports and charts with custom time periods no longer incorrectly add "UTC" to the title, even though the time is shown in the server's local time zone. |
01459302 |
Network Discovery using Seed Router on some newer devices no longer fails with the error |
01477323 |
An issue that resulted in the incorrect notification |
01002109, 01231236, 01140657, 01198400, 01353300, 01428595 |
An issue was fixed that caused alert actions to fail with errors such as:
|
01405094 |
Hovering over a location on a map no longer produces unexpected results, such as the pop-up appearing in the wrong location or staying open after the mouse moves. |
01415696 |
Applying account limitations no longer slows down operations with the Orion.Group entity, causing performance issues in widgets, such as active alerts or maps. |
01373197 |
The issue with inconsistent SNMP information is resolved by updated OIDs. |
01526029, 01526147 |
A memory leak in the |
00909898, 01119224, 01385636 |
Operations on custom properties no longer cause deadlocks, which were leading to issues such as the inability to delete a custom property or to edit multiple nodes at the same time. |
01359275, 01389703 |
Duplicating a dashboard from the Manage Dashboards page no longer assigns the same ID, which was causing upgrades to fail. |
01352738 |
When a Group Member alert is triggered, macros in the alert notification are parsed correctly. The notification no longer shows the macro instead of the resulting text. |
01227054, 01335583 |
When you create a report, the Resource Preview pane includes orange column width indicators, and Custom is selected as the default column width setting. |
01228625, 01242391, 01468064 |
The installer no longer fails while attempting to upgrade the Oracle ODBC driver. |
N/A |
If you use Windows Agents with disabled automatic update of Agents and upgrade your deployment to the latest version, Agents no longer stop polling CPU, memory, and disks. |
N/A |
The Map It feature is displayed correctly when you hold the Alt key on an Intelligent Map. |
Installation or upgrade
For new SolarWinds Platform deployments, download the installation file from the SolarWinds Platform product page on https://www.solarwinds.com or from the Customer Portal. For more information, see Get the installer.
To activate SolarWinds Platform in an existing SolarWinds Platform deployment, use the License Manager.
For upgrades, go to Settings > My Deployment to initiate the upgrade. The SolarWinds Installer upgrades your entire deployment (all SolarWinds Platform products and any scalability engines).
For more information, see the SolarWinds Platform Product Installation and Upgrade Guide.
For supported upgrade paths to 2024.2, see Upgrade an existing deployment.
End of life
Version | EOL Announcements | EOE Effective Dates | EOL Effective Dates |
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2022.3 | February 6, 2024: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on SolarWinds Platform 2022.3 should begin transitioning to the latest version of SolarWinds Platform. | March 7, 2024: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SolarWinds Platform 2022.3 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. | March 7, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SolarWinds Platform 2022.3. |
2022.2 | November 1, 2023: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on SolarWinds Platform 2022.2 should begin transitioning to the latest version of SolarWinds Platform. | December 1, 2023: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SolarWinds Platform 2022.2 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. | December 1, 2024: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SolarWinds Platform 2022.2. |
See the End of Life Policy for information about SolarWinds product life cycle phases. To see EoL dates for earlier SolarWinds Platform versions, see SolarWinds Platformrelease history.
Deprecation notice
The following platforms and features are still supported in the current release. However, they will be unsupported in a future release. Plan on upgrading deprecated platforms, and avoid using deprecated features.
Type | Details |
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Network Atlas |
Network Atlas is deprecated as of Orion Platform 2020.2. It is still available and supported in the current release, but will be removed in a future release. Deprecation is an indication that you should avoid expanded use of this feature and formulate a plan to discontinue using the feature. SolarWinds recommends that you start using Intelligent Maps in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console to display maps of physical and logical relationships between entities monitored by the SolarWinds Platform products you have installed. |
Port 17778 |
SWIS REST Endpoint on port 17778 is deprecated as of 2023.1. Starting with 2024.2, the port is disabled by default and replaced with port 17774. If you are using DPAIM, make sure you are running DPA 2024.2 or later to switch to port 17774. Earlier DPA versions cannot send data to DPAIM on port 17774. See Specify the port DPA uses... for more information. You can enable the port in Advanced Configuration by clearing the DisableSwisRestEndpointOnPort17778 option. See Enable/disable the SWIS endpoint port. |
SolarWinds Platform products RC release notes
Hybrid Cloud Observability (all versions)
Network Management
- EOC 2024.2 RC
- IPAM 2024.2 RC
- LA 2024.2 RC
- NCM 2024.2 RC
- NPM 2024.2 RC
- NTA 2024.2 RC
- UDT 2024.2 RC
- VNQM 2024.2 RC
Systems Management
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