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## Update: 16 July 2020

# Product Improvements

The Apply Changes process has been optimised so that the object lookup within the notification profile has improved up to 70x depending on system configuration. Enterprise customers who monitor a large number of devices will experience significant improvement. This optimisation also addressed the following defects:

  • A role with only NOTIFYSOME will now work correctly for notifications

  • Host notifications are now correctly removed, where a relevant service does not belong on it

For the latter, if you select Host Group “USA” with Service Group “Database”, then only hosts that have a service check in the Database service group will be added (rather than all hosts in “USA”). However, some systems have notification profiles configured in this way, so as part of the upgrade we will automatically convert any notification profiles that have no Service Groups to be “Service Groups: All” but set the Service Check notifications states to be none. This will apply to notification profiles with the following configurations:

  • Host Groups configured with no Service Groups

  • Host Groups: All with no Service Groups

# Defect Fixing

This update also addresses general defects across Opsview Monitor. For more details see [here](🔗).

## Update: 22 May 2020

# Opspacks

**Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)** is Cisco's Software-Defined Networking (SDN) offering for data centers and cloud networks. It is a tightly coupled policy-driven solution that integrates software and hardware, and allows application requirements to define the network. This architecture simplifies, optimizes, and accelerates the entire application deployment life cycle. The following Host Templates within the Network - Cisco ACI Opspack provide functionality to monitor Health score, failures and overall metrics across different Cisco ACI components:

  • [Network - Cisco ACI - Fabric](🔗)

  • [Network - Cisco ACI - APIC](🔗)

  • [Network - Cisco ACI - APIC Cluster](🔗)

  • [Network - Cisco ACI - Leaf Node](🔗)

  • [Network - Cisco ACI - Spine Node](🔗)

  • [Network - Cisco ACI - Pod](🔗)

  • [Network - Cisco ACI - Tenant](🔗)

  • [Network - Cisco ACI - Endpoint Group](🔗)

  • [Network - Cisco ACI - Application Profile](🔗)

  • [Network - Cisco ACI - Bridge Domain](🔗)

  • [Network - Cisco ACI - Custom](🔗)

In this Opsview Monitor update, Opsview has made this Opspack fully available. For more information, see the [Network - Cisco - ACI Opspack](🔗) page.

# Defect Fixing

This update also addresses general defects across Opsview Monitor. For more details see [here](🔗).

## Release: 03 December 2019

# AutoMonitor - Express Scan

AutoMonitor was a brand new feature within Opsview Monitor 6.2. It allows users to discover and import hosts for a specific technology into Opsview Monitor with less configuration and fewer steps. In this Opsview Monitor Release, AutoMonitor has been extended to support two of the most relevant Virtualization and Cloud technologies in the market.

  • #### VMware vSphere

Users will be provided with a configuration wizard to quickly discover technology elements within a given vCenter or ESXi Host and automatically import them into Opsview Monitor. AutoMonitor - VMware Express Scan will inspect discovered elements to allocate relevant Host Templates from the following list:

  • OS - VMWare vSphere ESXi Host

  • OS - VMWare vSphere ESXi Guest

  • OS - VMWare vSphere ESXi Datastore

  • OS - VMWare vSphere ESXi Resource Pool

  • OS - VMware vSphere vCenter

See more information [VMware vSphere Express Scan](🔗) See more information about Host Templates within the [OS - VMware vSphere Opspack](🔗)

  • #### Azure

Users will be provided with a configuration wizard to quickly discover Azure Resources within a given Azure Subscription and automatically import them into Opsview Monitor. AutoMonitor - Azure Express Scan will inspect discovered Azure Resources to allocate relevant Host Templates from the following list:

  • Cloud - Azure - Virtual Machines

  • Cloud - Azure - Linux VMs

  • Cloud - Azure - Windows VMs

  • Cloud - Azure - Storage Accounts

  • Cloud - Azure - Health Availability Status

  • Cloud - Azure - Virtual Machines Scale Sets

  • Cloud - Azure - Virtual Machines Scale Sets VM

See more information about [Azure Express Scan](🔗) See more information about Host Templates within the [Cloud - Azure Opspack](🔗)

# User Interface and User Experience Improvements

Opsview is committed to continuously improve Opsview Monitor users' experience. In this release, Opsview Monitor has improved Host Configuration usability when interacting with a single or multiple Hosts. Configuration, updates and edits can be performed more intuitively and efficiently by:

  • Allowing Single and Multiple Host on-grid selection

  • Standardising Single and Multiple Host Edit Modal Window

  • More comprehensibly representing related and interactive items within grid views

  • Allowing Multi-host Deletion (Bulk Delete)

  • Adding more Multi-host Edit (Bulk Edit) capabilities:

    • Edit/Update Parents

    • Edit/Update Host Groups

    • Edit/Update Host Templates

    • Edit/Update Hashtags

    • Edit/Update Icon

For more details see [Hosts configuration](🔗) page

# Opspacks

  • **Kubernetes:** Kubernetes has rapidly grown in popularity and is considered a leading open-source container-orchestration technology for automating application deployment, scaling and management. To monitor this diverse and extensible open-source platform, Opsview has created an all-in-one Kubernetes Opspack that can monitor a Kubernetes setup hosted locally or on the cloud. Monitor live usage metrics such as CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Status from a Cluster level down to an individual pod level. Additionally, this Opspack collects other useful metrics such as HTTP statistics and file descriptors. The following Host Templates are available within this Opspack:

    • Application - Kubernetes - Cluster

    • Application - Kubernetes - Namespace

    • Application - Kubernetes - Node

    • Application - Kubernetes - Pod

    For more details see [Application - Kubernetes](🔗)

  • **Microsoft Active Directory:** Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft product that consists of several services that run on Windows Server to manage permissions and access to network resources. This Opspack provides service checks for high-level status information about Services, Threads, Security Accounts Manager, Address Book, DNS, Database and Replication status. The following Host Templates are available within this Opspack:

    • Application - Active Directory - Services

    • Application - Active Directory - Threads

    • Application - Active Directory - Security Accounts Manager

    • Application - Active Directory - Address Book

    • Application - Active Directory - DNS

    • Application - Active Directory - Database

    • Application - Active Directory - Replication

    For more details see [Application - Microsoft Active Directory](🔗)

# Defect Fixing

This release also addresses an additional 19 general defects across Opsview Monitor. For more details see [here](🔗).