24.4 enhancements and patches

Collect data from Microsoft SCOM only for directly connected group members

Collect events and metrics data from Microsoft SCOM by using a new option Directly Impacted Resource Groups Members Only. Select this option to collect data for only those resource group members that are directly connected to a resource group.

For example, a resource group, RS1, has two virtual machines as group members: VM1 and VM2. VM1 has an associated printer, P1. If you select this option, data is collected only for VM1 and VM2 and not for P1.

For more information, see Integrating with SCOM.

Filter events and metrics data from Icinga by using a query

In addition to using regex to filter events and metrics data, you can use a query to filter the events and metrics data from Icinga. Queries are helpful when the data being collected might change over a period of time.

For example, use the query to collect events for all those services whose state is OK. If the state of a service changes to INACTIVE after the data collection interval you have specified, events are not collected for that service.

Use the entityType parameter to specify the entity for which you want to collect data and the filterQueryString parameter to specify the filter query.

For more information, see Integrating-with-Icinga.

Collect alarms and metrics data for a new namespace from AWS CloudWatch

Collect alarms and metrics data for a new namespace ApiGateway of REST API type from AWS CloudWatch.

Receive alarms as events in BMC Helix Operations Management and measure the health of your system by processing the received events with BMC Helix Operations Management capabilities.

Take corrective actions and reduce overall outages by using policies in BMC Helix Operations Management to generate alarms when the value of a received metric goes above or below a set threshold.

For more information, see Integrating-with-AWS-CloudWatch.

Collect metrics from BMC Stackify

Collects metrics from BMC Stackify and receive them in BMC Helix Operations Management.

Take corrective actions and reduce overall outages by using policies in BMC Helix Operations Management to generate alarms when a metric value goes above or below a set threshold.

For more information, see Integrating with Stackify.

Collect alarms from AWS CloudWatch by using additional filters

The Alarm Names filter to collect alarms from AWS CloudWatch is replaced with the following filters: Namespaces, Alarm Names Regex, and Metric Names Regex. These filters help you to collect data for specific namespaces, alarms, and metrics. For more information, see Integrating-with-AWS-CloudWatch.

After you upgrade to version 24.4, the existing connector instances are not updated with these filters automatically. You need to either create a new connector instance or stop the existing data stream and create a new data stream. For information about editing an existing connector for data streams, see Editing-and-deleting-integrations and Starting-or-stopping-data-streams.