11.0.00 enhancements

TrueSight Presentation Server 11.0.00 provides the following enhancements:

 

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Installation and upgrade

Updated operating systems for TrueSight Presentation Server

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The TrueSight Presentation Server now supports the following operating systems:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6.9
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP 2

For information about all supported operating systems, see System requirements for Presentation Server.

Discontinued operating system support for TrueSight Presentation Server

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The TrueSight Presentation Server no longer supports the following operating systems:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP 2

For information about all supported operating systems, see System requirements for Presentation Server.


Change in the authentication platform support

Remedy Single Sign-On

The TrueSight Presentation Server now supports Remedy Single Sign-On in place of Atrium Single Sign-On with the following authentication types:

  • Local
  • LDAP/AD
  • SAML v2

For more information, see Remedy Single Sign-On at-a-glance and Planning Remedy Single Sign-On deployment.


Discontinued support for Atrium Single Sign-On

The TrueSight Operations Management 11.0 and later no longer supports Atrium Single Sign-On.

For more information, see Remedy Single Sign-On at-a-glance and Planning Remedy Single Sign-On deployment.

License usage reports

Consumption Data report

TrueSight Operations Management now allows you to generate consumption-based usage reports to understand the value of your applications through their usage. The report gives you the ability to understand your consumption patterns for the following components:


    • Events
    • Configuration Items
    • Performance Data
    • IT Data Analytics
    • Synthetic Monitor

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For more information, see Viewing and exporting the Consumption Data report.

App Visibility and Synthetic Monitor Server Endpoints report

App Visibility and Synthetic Monitor now include a Server EndPoints usage report so you can view the details about the number of server endpoints you are using in App Visibility, or TEA Agents in Synthetic Monitor.

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For more information, see Viewing and exporting the Server Endpoints license usage report for App Visibility portals


Usability

View event data annotation in the TrueSight console

You can now use the TrueSight console to view the data annotation that is generated for an event in the PATROL Agent.

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

View text parameters in the TrueSight console

You can now obtain the performance metric data of a text parameter from the PATROL Agent in the TrueSight console.

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


View deployment status in the Managed Devices page

You can now view the deployment status of a knowledge module on the Managed Devices page.

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For more information, see Managing Infrastructure Management devices from the TrueSight console.


Customization of configuration files

You can now override some of the default settings by customizing the following configuration files after installing the TrueSight Presentation Server:

  • csr.conf
  • idxsrv.conf
  • dbsrv.conf

For information about how to override the default settings, see Customizing configuration files in the Presentation Server.

Your customization is retained when you upgrade TrueSight Presentation Server from version 11.0. For more information, see Preparing for the Presentation Server upgrade.

Integration with other products


Enhancement to Capacity Optimization plugin

You do not need to download and install the TrueSight Capacity Optimization plugin manually. The plugin is installed as part of the TrueSight Presentation Server installation. To register Capacity Optimization in the Presentation Server, you need to add it as a component to the TrueSight console.

For details on adding Capacity Optimization to the Presentation Server, see Adding and editing components.

Launch context-aware applications from events

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Security

Last login time

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After a successful log in to the TrueSight console, a Last login time notification displays the time of the last login. This notification can be closed manually by clicking the close button or by navigating to a different view on the console. When the user logs in for the first time, the notification is displayed as Last login time: Never.
The last login option is disabled by default and you can enable this from the user preferences screen.

For details, see Setting user preferences.


Change Password

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A new Change Password option is available from the TrueSight console action menu. From the console console_actionMenu.pngaction menu, click Change Password and update the new password. 

The change password option is available only if you have logged in as a local user. The option is not available on the console if you are a non-local user. For example, an LDAP or SAML user is a non-local user.

For details, see Setting user preferences.

Login and logout

  • A two-step login has been introduced.

    1. The users are required to provide the application domain or tenant ID followed by the user credentials to log into the TrueSight console.

    2. Remedy Single Sign-On login page is presented as the TrueSight console login page.

      Important:The two-step login is applicable only for a multi-tenant environment. Only step 2 is applicable for a single tenant environment.

  • Logging out of the TrueSight console navigates back to the Remedy Single Sign-On login page.

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For details, see Accessing and navigating the TrueSight console.

 

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