11.3.04 enhancements


TrueSight Operations Management version 11.3.04 provides the following enhancements and changes:

Adobe Flash End of Life impact in 11.3.04

The TrueSight Infrastructure Managementoperator console is no longer supported. The TrueSight console, a component of TrueSight Presentation Server, is the replacement for the operator console. For more information on the TrueSight console enhancements in 11.3.04, see Operator console workflows available in the TrueSight console.


Installation and upgrade

Added health check validation to the installers

The TrueSight Presentation Server and TrueSight Infrastructure Management installers now perform the following tasks:

  • Check for the upgrade readiness of your TrueSight Presentation Server and TrueSight Infrastructure Management environment before you start the upgrade.
  • Prevent you from continuing the upgrade process if there are upgrade impact issues in the TrueSight Health Check Tool report.

For more information, see Technical bulletin — Announcing the availability of TrueSight Operations Management installers with health check validation.

Added support for operating system

The TrueSight Presentation Server and TrueSight Infrastructure Management now support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (64-bit version) 8.x.

Discontinued support for operating system

The TrueSight Presentation Server and TrueSight Infrastructure Management no longer support Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.

Added support for AdoptOpenJDK

AdoptOpenJDK JRE version 1.8.0_252 is installed with TrueSight Presentation Server, TrueSight Infrastructure Management, and TrueSight Integration Service.

During upgrade, the current JRE is replaced with AdoptOpenJDK JRE version 1.8.0_252. 

Operator console workflows available in the TrueSight console

View event relationships

You can now view event relationships on the Event Details page in the TrueSight console.

For more information, see Viewing-related-events-in-the-TrueSight-console.

Manage notification rules

TrueSight Infrastructure Management event rules are now available as notification rules in the TrueSight console.

For more information, see Managing-notification-rules.

Manage attribute sets in the TrueSight console

You can now manage attribute sets in the TrueSight console.

For more information, see Managing-attribute-sets.

Download the monitor information

You can now download metric and graph data in CSV and PDF formats from the Monitor Details > Performance Overview tab. The PDF format replicates the graph that is displayed on the Performance Overview tab.

For more information, see Viewing-monitor-information-in-the-TrueSight-console.

Execute agent actions

You can now execute agent actions for a monitor on the Device Details page in the TrueSight console.

For more information, see Executing-agent-actions-on-a-monitor.

Monitor configuration items

You can now monitor configuration items in the TrueSight console.

For more information, see Monitoring-configuration-items.

View Performance Diagnostics

You can now view the performance diagnostics details on the Managed Devices page in the TrueSight console.

For more information, see Viewing-Infrastructure-Management-performance-diagnostic-details.

Authentication and authorization

Authenticate users with OpenID Connect

TrueSight Presentation Server now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) built on OAuth 2.0.

For more information, see Setting-up-OpenID-authentication-in-Remedy-SSO.

Synchronize authorization profiles

You can now synchronize authorization profiles from TrueSight Presentation Server to TrueSight Infrastructure Management by using the SYNC_AUTHPROFILES command.

For more information, see Presentation Server tssh commands.

Events and groups

Mandate notes for event operations

You can now make the insertion of notes mandatory for various event operations by running the tssh properties command.

For more information, see Performing-event-operations-in-the-TrueSight-console.

View a filtered event assignee list

You can now configure event preferences to show a list of users filtered on user groups, while assigning an event. To use this functionality after an upgrade, you must configure it.

For more information, see Performing-event-operations-in-the-TrueSight-console.

Disable event annotation insertion

You can now disable insertion of event annotations into the database. By default, it is enabled.

For more information, see Viewing-or-adding-notes-to-an-event.

Display a collapsed view of parent nodes

You can now display a collapsed view of parent nodes on the Groups page by running the tssh properties command. By default, the group name displays an expanded view of nodes.

For more information, see Changing-the-view-on-the-Groups-page.

Data visualization

Copy text from grid-based pages

You can now copy text from specific fields or entire rows on grid-based pages, such as Monitoring > Events.

Note that this functionality is not supported for hierarchical views.

To copy text from one or more rows, select the rows and press Ctrl+c

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To copy text from a specific field, select and right-click the text, and click Copy. However, you cannot use Ctrl+c to copy text from a specific field.

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Thresholds

Download the global thresholds configuration

You can now download the global thresholds configuration in CSV format from the TrueSight console.

For details, see Downloading-the-global-thresholds-configuration.

Save the instance thresholds configuration

You can now generate and save the absolute, signature, and abnormality instance threshold configuration values in CSV format by using the pw report threshold instance command.

For details, see pw-report-threshold-instance.

Integrations

Configure integrations from the TrueSight console

You can now use the TrueSight console to configure these integrations:

New out-of-the-box Orchestration policies

The following out-of-the-box Orchestration policies are now available after you integrate with TrueSight Orchestration:

  • Apache Web Server Service Down via TSSA
  • Microsoft Skype Service Down via TSSA
  • Print Spooler Service Down via TSSA
  • SNMP Service Down via TSSA

For more information, see Managing-Orchestration-policies.

Administering

Enable SMTPS for email alerts

You can now enable SMTP Secure protocol to receive email alerts from the TrueSight console.

For more information, see  Configuring e-mail settings to receive alerts 


Dashboards and dashlets

Edit shared dashboards

You can now allow other users to edit shared dashboards by running the tssh properties command. For more information, see Sharing and copying dashboards.

Add monitors not directly associated with blueprint groups

You can now add monitors that are not directly associated with blueprint groups to the Monitors - Top or Bottom Performers dashlet.

For more information, see Monitors - Top or Bottom Performers dashlet.

Content findability

You can now easily search for content across documentation spaces for the latest version of TrueSight Operations Management components.  This customized Search filter is accessible from the Home page of each component doc space.

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Tip: For faster searching, add an asterisk to the end of your partial query. Example: cert*