SAM 2022.3 release notes
Release date: September 28, 2022
These release notes were last updated on February 13, 2024.
These release notes describe the new features, improvements, and fixed issues in Server & Application Monitor 2022.3. They also provide information about upgrades and describe workarounds for known issues.
Learn more
- For information on the latest hotfixes, see SAM Hotfixes.
- For release notes for previous SAM versions, see Previous Version documentation.
- For information about requirements, see SAM system requirements.
- For information about working with SAM, see the SAM Administrator Guide.
New features and improvements in SAM
SAM 2022.3 offers new features and improvements compared to previous releases.
SAM 2022.3 is now built on the new SolarWinds Platform and installed with the new SolarWinds Installer.
Learn more about the new SolarWinds Platform.
See also the SolarWinds Platform 2022.3 Release Notes.
New SolarWinds Platform features and improvements
SolarWinds Platform 2022.3 offers new features and improvements compared to previous releases.
Instant evaluation
You can now easily try SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Advanced and Enterprise Scale, or other modules, for thirty days by activating an evaluation license in the SolarWinds Platform.
Learn more about evaluating SolarWinds Platform products.
New customer installation
For information about installing SAM, see the SolarWinds Platform and Orion Platform Products Installation and Upgrade Guide. After installation, use the SAM Getting Started Guide to get started fast.
How to upgrade
You must be on SAM 2020.2.1 or later to upgrade to SAM 2022.3. If you are on SAM 2020.2 or earlier, first upgrade to 2020.2.6 and then upgrade to 2022.3.
For information on upgrading SAM, see Install or Upgrade SAM.
Fixed issues in SAM 2022.3
SAM 2022.3 fixes the following issues.
| Case number | Description |
|---|---|
| 01012377 | Adding new Windows group account to the server no longer returns an error. |
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01016374, 00691802 |
When applying an application template to multiple servers, the template no longer gets applied multiple times. |
| 00520035 | The graphical report for log parser now shows the correct information. |
| 01060801 | All Applications widget, in the Applications Summary page, is no longer showing duplicates for AppInsight for SQL monitors. |
With this release, SAM now runs on the SolarWinds Platform. SAM 2022.3 contains all of the fixed issues since the SAM 2020.2.6 release, including all SAM 2020.2.6 hotfixes and fixes in SolarWinds Platform 2022.2 and 2022.3.
See also the SolarWinds Platform 2022.2 and 2022.3 Release Notes.
Known issues
| Issue | Notes |
|---|---|
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AIX template scripts may fail for some component monitors if the "Inherit credentials from node" option is enabled. Header issues in Perl script output block component monitors from inheriting credentials from nodes. This may impact CPU statistics, Paging statistics/sec, Disk operations/sec of system devices, and Top 10 Active Process metrics displayed in widgets. |
As a workaround, edit component monitors to provide credentials, or avoid using "Inherit credentials from node" option. Click here for details. |
| Some SolarWinds Platform Web Console pages and widgets for features introduced in SAM 2020.2 and later are not compatible with Internet Explorer 11. | Use Chrome, Firefox, or Microsoft Edge instead. |
| A known Microsoft issue may create inconsistency in SAM SQL tables, as indicated by a Database Integrity Check message. |
As a workaround, back up the SolarWindsPlatform database and execute the SQL query provided here. |
| Windows Scheduled Tasks Monitor (WSTM) polling fails for Active Directory nodes with UPN-formatted credentials. "Access is denied" errors appear in Windows Scheduled Tasks widgets. | As a workaround, use the down-level logon name format (domain\user) instead of UPN format (user@domain). Click here for details. |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2-2012 R2 Failover Cluster (Advanced) application monitor polling fails if the 64-bit FailoverClusters module conflicts with PowerShell bitness. | Modify scripts in the application monitor assigned to the node. Click here for details. |
| Warranty data does not appear after Asset Inventory polling of HPE Proliant servers. | API changes made by HP interrupt polling. No workaround is currently available. Click here for details. |
| Application dependency polling is not supported on target Linux systems that use GNU C Library (glibc) 2.17 or earlier. |
Agent plugins include an Nping executable binary that doesn't support distributions based on glibc 2.17 or earlier, such as CentOS and RHEL 6. As a workaround, update Linux distributions on target systems. Test updates in an experimental OS. |
In SAM 2020.2.5 and later, an apiversion variable is required in PowerShell scripts for legacy Microsoft Office 365 Teams and Microsoft Office 365 OneDrive application monitor templates and related application monitors. |
If a "The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found" message appears, add apiversion=v1.0 to scripts. Alternatively, switch to a Microsoft 365 API poller templates. |
| If you assign AppInsight to Exchange to a node after upgrading to SAM 2020.2.6, a "Failed to create powershell connections using provided information" message may appear. |
Use this workaround:
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After upgrading to SAM 2020.2.6, obsolete containers may continue to appear in AppStack and PerfStack. |
Confirm that any container services added in SAM 2020.2.5 or earlier were updated, and then restart all SolarWinds Platform services. |
| After upgrading to SAM 2020.2.6, Kubernetes orchestrators do not appear on the Container Services page. Related polling stops. |
Add the Kubernetes API server back to the SolarWinds Platform via the Container Services page. |
| When deploying Orion agents to CentOS VMs for Container Monitoring, this message may appear: "ERROR on previous provisioning attempt: Agent connected to Agent Management Service but provisioning has failed, error code {0x8009001a}." |
The container certificate store may be corrupt. Contact Technical Support. |
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Monitoring of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) containers stops and the following messages appear in logs:
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AKS switched to Containerd instead of Docker for node pools (© 2021 Microsoft Corp, available at docs.microsoft.com). No workaround is currently available. |
| There are missing views with key, after running configuration wizard first time: CloudMonitoringCloudInstanceMapStaticSubview CloudMonitoringCloudInstanceAzureMapStaticSubview | They appear after running the configuration wizard a second time. |
| JMX Bridge is installed into Services.msc on additional website. | |
| Error 500 on Direct Attached Storage Performance resource for AWS Cloud Instance Details | |
| When using the Add Node Wizard to add Windows nodes with IIS: WMI as the polling method, the IIS is not polled and a message appears stating, "The user name or password is incorrect. |
As a workaround: 1. Open the WebConsole and replace the path after Orion directory in the URL, as shown, and press Enter: 2. On the Global tab, scroll to the APM.WMI.Settings section and check 3. Click Save. |
| The ‘SWIS PubSub Messages Queued’ component in 'Orion Observability - Main Polling Engine’ template is unknown because the path to ‘rabbitmqctl.bat’ has changed. This component is disabled by default, so you must enable it to see the issue. |
As a workaround: Edit the script to change the path FROM 'c:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion\RabbitMQ\sbin\rabbitmqctl.bat' TO 'c:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Orion\RabbitMQ\sbin\rabbitmqctl.bat' |
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Application credentials inheritance failed after upgrade from 2020.2.5. |
As a workaround: 1. Open the WebConsole and replace the path after Orion directory in the URL, as shown, and press Enter: 2. On the Global tab, scroll to the APM.WMI.Settings section and check 3. Click Save. |
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After upgrading to 2022.3, SAM templates which utilize PowerShell (AppInsight, Custom Templates) show down/unknown status due to access denied errors. |
As a workaround: 1. Open the WebConsole and replace the path after Orion directory in the URL, as shown, and press Enter: 2. On the Global tab, scroll to the APM.WMI.Settings section and check 3. Click Save. |
End of support
This version of SAM no longer supports the following platforms and features.
| Type | Details |
|---|---|
| Database | SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014 are no longer supported for use as the SolarWinds Platform or Orion Platform database. |
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Syslog and traps |
Legacy Syslog and Traps functionality has been removed. During an upgrade, legacy syslog and trap rules are migrated to the Log Viewer. A few rule conditions are not currently supported in the new log functionality. Any rules that are not imported are listed in the Migration Report. |
For information on upgrading SAM, see Install or Upgrade SAM.
Deprecation notices
This version of SolarWinds Platform no longer supports the following platforms and features.
Deprecated 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 |
|---|---|
| Browser support | All versions of Internet Explorer will become unsupported in a future release. Some pages are not compatible with IE 11. Do not enable Enterprise Mode in IE 11. It is not supported. |
End of life notices
| Version | EoL Announcement | EoE Effective Date | EoL Effective Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019.4 | July 27, 2022: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on SAM version 2019.4 should begin transitioning to the latest version of SAM. | August 26, 2022: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SAM version 2019.4 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. | August 26, 2023: End-of-Life (EoL) - SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SAM version 2019.4. |
| 6.9.1 | July 27, 2022: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on SAM version 6.9.1 should begin transitioning to the latest version of SAM. | August 26, 2022: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SAM version 6.9.1 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. | August 26, 2023: End-of-Life (EoL) - SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SAM version 6.9.1. |
| 6.9 | July 27, 2022: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on SAM version 6.9 should begin transitioning to the latest version of SAM. | August 26, 2022: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SAM version 6.9 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. | August 26, 2023: End-of-Life (EoL) - SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SAM version 6.9. |
See the End of Life Policy for information about SolarWinds product life cycle phases. To see EoL dates for earlier SAM versions, see SAM release history.
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