Deprecated and discontinued features
Deprecated features and components
Deprecated features are still available in the product or service. However, they are no longer under active development and might be discontinued from the product in the future. We encourage you to plan and implement the recommended change.
Feature | Version | Announcements and recommendations |
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Debian | 10.x | Support for Debian 10.x is deprecated in version 24.2. |
CentOS | 7.x | Support for CentOS 7.x is deprecated in version 24.2. |
TrueSight Server Automation Security | 23.4 | The Umask property in the tx_config.cfg file is deprecated inTrueSight Server Automation 23.4. Use the rootonly option in the RSCD Agent installer to control permissions of the Transactions directory. For more information, see Managing-world-writable-permissions-of-files-and-directories-in-TrueSight-Server-Automation. |
23.4 | Support for following cipher suite for the components that use web services for communication, is deprecated in version 23.4.
We recommend that you use the following newly supported cipher suites instead, which offer stronger security.
For more information, see Session-layer-security. | |
TrueSight Server Automation REST API | 23.4 | In TrueSight Server Automation 23.4, the Ubuntu filter option, previously used for selecting the object type for patching artifacts specific to both Ubuntu and Debian (including CUJ and PAJ), has been deprecated. It is recommended to use the Debian filter for both Ubuntu and Debian, as it offers the same functionality. |
Discontinued features and components
Discontinued features are no longer available in the product or service.
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CentOS | 8.x | Support for CentOS 8.x is dropped in version 24.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vendor Patch Content (VPC) for CentOS | 6.x | VPC for CentOS is dropped in version 24.2. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TrueSight Server Automation Startup scripts | 24.2 | In TrueSight Server Automation 24.2, the init.d startup scripts, which were previously responsible for launching the RSCD Agent, Application Server, Smart Agent, blpxe, and blprocserv utilities on different Linux systems that also support systemd, have been discontinued. Going forward, utilize systemd commands instead. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oracle | 11g R2 and 11g R2 RAC | Support for Oracle 11g Release 2 and Oracle 11g Release 2 RAC databases is discontinued in TrueSight Server Automation version 23.4.01. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IBM AIX | 7.1 | Support for IBM AIX 7.1 is discontinued in TrueSight Server Automation version 23.4. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Process spawner | 23.4 | Support for the process spawner is discontinued in version 23.4. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TrueSight Server Automation Security | 23.4 | Support for following cipher suite for the components that use web services for communication, is discontinued in version 23.4.
Support for following cipher suite for communication from TrueSight Server Automation application server to the RSCD Agent, is discontinued in version 23.4.
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TrueSight Server Automation TEXT columns in the SQL Server tables | 23.1 | Support for TEXT columns in the following SQL Server tables is dropped in version 23.1 of TrueSight Server Automation. The data type of these columns is now changed to VARCHAR(MAX) from TEXT to avoid any future impact because Microsoft has deprecated support for the TEXT data type support for SQL Server.
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Debian | 9.x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dell iDRAC | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Windows | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IBM LPAR | Power7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RHEL | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SuSE Linux | 11.x, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4 and 15.1 | Support for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 service packs 1-4 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 service packs 1 is discontinued in TrueSight Server Automation version 23.4.01. |