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The CAM Portal Sep 2024 release(s)
Date of Release: Sep 26, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.225
Highlights:
New and Updated:
- Enhanced Communication View: Improved functionality of the communication view to ensure that expanding nodes from a Server or App/Cloud Instance adds new nodes and display all relationships accurately, providing a complete picture.
- Optimized Appliance Search: Improved the appliance search feature to ensure that it returns accurate results, enhancing the user experience.
- JWT Token Compliance: Updated the JWT token structure to maintain consistency with OpenID specifications, enhancing user identity security. Improved Appliance Synchronization: Enhanced the appliance synchronization functionality to ensure proper syncing with updated URLs.
Fixed Issue(s):
- CSV Export Functionality: Fixed a bug in the CSV export feature that resulted in a 500 error when exporting container data, enabling successful exports.
- Found Applications Display: Corrected the Found Group resources tab to display found applications accurately instead of unqualified product information.
- Communication Relationship Tooltip: Fixed an issue where the communication relationship tooltips did not populate correctly, improving the accuracy of the displayed information.
- Notification Handling in Catalog API: Resolved an issue preventing the catalog API from sending enable/disable notifications due to rejected requests, ensuring effective event handling.
Date of Release: Sep 18, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.224
Highlights:
Security Enhancements:
- This release includes critical security enhancements, addressing vulnerabilities in Log4j and service container images to strengthen overall system security. Additionally, low-risk vulnerabilities identified during the pentest in the JavaScript library have been patched, ensuring a more secure and reliable platform.
Fixed Issue(s):
- Low-level TCP connections: Fixed an issue where TCP connections were not functioning as expected, improving network reliability.
- Excessive memory consumption: Addressed high memory usage during Spark migration, optimizing resource allocation and performance.
- Date format errors in Server Group metrics: Corrected invalid date formats to ensure accurate metric reporting.
- Scan job durations: Fixed a bug where scan jobs displayed incorrect durations, ensuring accurate time tracking for job completion.
- UI inconsistencies: Resolved various user interface issues, including rendering and layout errors, for a smoother user experience.
Date of Release: Sep 04, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.223.1
Highlights:
Fixed Issue(s):
- Insights Consoles: Resolved an issue where additional data in the ingestion result message caused SQL statement failures, impacting Insights Consoles' functionality.
The CAM Portal Aug 2024 release(s)
Date of Release: Aug 30, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.223, 24.222.1
Highlights:
New & updated:
- Improved Search Functionality: Implemented a page size limit on search requests to prevent inappropriate results and enhance performance.
- Streamlined Navigation: Merged the Explorer menu with Inventory for improved navigation.
Security Enhancements:
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Resolved Critical Vulnerabilities: Addressed security vulnerabilities in SQL Consumer Service and Ingestion Service (CVE-2019-20444, CVE-2019-20445, CVE-2021-41411).
Fixed Issue(s):
- Improved Data Display: Resolved issues with missing created and updated dates for recently scanned items, and ensured correct data display in the communication view.
- Corrected Communication Data: Ensured that the communication view displayed correct data for containers and servers.
- Resolved UI Issues: Fixed scroll bar display issues in Chrome, corrected multi-delete API calls with wrong class types, and addressed quadrant API data retrieval problems.
- Fixed Logout Issues: Corrected issues where the UI was logging users out while active due to session token expiration.
The CAM Portal July 2024 release(s)
Date of Release: Jul 25, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.221.1
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Usability and Cost Collection Improvements: This release includes various usability enhancements and fixes related to cost collection services, resulting in improved overall performance and accuracy.
Date of Release: Jul 18, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.221
Highlights:
New & updated:
- Improved Data Display: Resolved an issue where drill-down into server nodes displayed incorrect service details.
- Refined Communication View: Optimized the communication view to exclude irrelevant PIs, ensuring a clearer representation of service relationships.
Date of Release: Jul 15, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.220
Highlights:
New & updated:
- This release incorporates several improvements designed to optimize CAM's performance and reliability. Targeted bug fixes and system enhancements are made to achieve greater stability and efficiency within the platform.
Date of Release: Jul 05, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.217.1, SAAS 24.218, SAAS 24.219
Highlights:
We're excited to announce the launch of the new user interface (Web UI) for CAM! Designed with your needs in mind, this update delivers a more intuitive and enjoyable user experience while preserving all the functionalities you rely on for effective asset management. We believe that the new UI will significantly enhance your experience with ILLuminate 360 (CAM), and improve overall usability and efficiency.
Key Highlights:
- Enhanced Usability: The streamlined design simplifies navigation and provides easier access to frequently used features.
- Improved Performance: Experience faster response times and smoother interaction for increased productivity.
- Intuitive Menu Layout: Menus have been reorganized with the same entity names, making it easier to find what you need quickly.
- Consistent Functionality: All existing features remain intact, ensuring a seamless transition to the new UI.
The CAM Portal May 2024 release(s)
Date of Release: May 27, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.217
Highlights:
New & updated:
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This update delivers improvements including enhanced error handling in the cost collection service, enhancing cost data collection accuracy and reliability.
Date of Release: May 3, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.215
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Optimized Insights Console Performance: Building upon previous performance enhancements, this release introduces further optimizations to ensure a consistently smooth and responsive user experience for your Insights Console dashboards.
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Expanded Appliance diagnostic capabilities: Container IDs and Names of all the containers associated with the appliance are now auto-populated for quick container selection for getting related Docker logs.
Fixed Issue(s):
- Accurate Cost Calculation for Windows Licenses: We have addressed an issue where the 'CloudLicense:WIN' tag was not correctly adding Windows license costs to virtual machine (VM) cost calculations.
The CAM Portal Apr 2024 release(s)
Date of Release: Apr 19, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.214.1
Highlights:
New & updated:
- Improved Insights Console performance and reliability: We've implemented optimizations to enhance the performance and reliability of several CAM dashboards, including Optimization/Reclamation, Inventory/Services, and Optimization/App End of Life.
- Additional Endpoint troubleshooting capabilities: Enhanced UNIX endpoint diagnostics by providing support for the execution of additional commands.
- Improved Appliance diagnostic capabilities: This release now empowers enhanced supportability by providing support for the execution of additional Docker commands directly within the platform. This expanded support streamlines troubleshooting, diagnostics, and overall supportability.
Date of Releases: Apr 05 & Apr 11, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.213, SAAS 24.214
Highlights:
New & updated:
- The updates deliver enhancements and bug fixes to improve platform performance, reliability, and stability. Experience faster loading times, smoother operation, and more dependable services.
The CAM Portal Mar 2024 release(s)
Date of Release: Mar 25, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.212.1
Highlights:
New & updated:
- Enhanced Insights Console Performance: We've implemented optimizations that significantly improve the performance of Insights consoles. You'll experience faster loading times and smoother interaction with your data visualizations.
Fixed Issue(s):
- Complete Scan Log Availability: Resolved an issue where scan logs were not accessible for all candidate endpoints/IPs.
- Accurate Server Memory Calculation: Fixed a rounding-off error that impacted the Server's Physical Memory calculation.
Date of Release: Mar 14, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.212
Highlights:
Fixed Issue(s):
- Resolves an issue where the Reporting API wasn’t returning metric (hourly summary) data.
Date of Release: Mar 08, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.211
Highlights:
New & updated:
- Improved communication reliability, login experience, cost recommendations, and logging clarity.
- Enhanced data accuracy, and metrics connectivity diagnostics.
The CAM Portal Feb 2024 release(s)
Date of Release: Feb 22, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.210
Highlights:
New & updated:
- Enhanced Keychain management for improved privilege editing, accurate stored location display, and streamlined credential editing experience.
- Expanded diagnostic capabilities with remote Scan Engine netstat execution.
Fixed Issues:
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Resolved issue where users were unable to update the RabbitMQ service within the appliance.
Date of Release: Feb 13, 2024
Version: SAAS 24.209
Highlights:
New & updated:
- Enhanced stability and performance with targeted fixes in Key-Chain and Appliance Management Service.
Fixed Issues:
- The absence of Appliance ID and Tenant ID information in the message header of the appliance command response caused Appliance details to be missing on the CAM UI. This issue has been resolved.
The CAM Portal Jan 2024 release(s)
Date of Release: Jan 29, 2024
Version: SAAS 23.208
Highlights:
New & updated:
- Enhanced AWS cost collection for new regions and instance types.
- Improved Support Capabilities and Diagnostic Tools.
Date of Release: Jan 12, 2024
Version: SAAS 23.206 / 23.207
Highlights:
New & updated:
- Enhanced AWS Optimization and Modernization capabilities in the Insights Console.
Fixed Issues:
- Resolved issue with the exported server data's (Updated Time) format for accurate timestamp representation.
The CAM Portal Dec 2023 release(s)
Date of Release: Dec 19, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.205
Highlights:
New & updated:
- AWS Quick In-Cloud Optimization enhancements.
- Insight Consoles updates to support AWS Plus recommendations.
Fixed Issues:
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The issue where the Appliance download was pointing to an incorrect URL has now been resolved.
Date of Release: Dec 05, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.204
Highlights:
New & updated:
- AWS inventory and performance metrics data collection enhancements to support AWS Quick Assessment.
- Improved AWS Cloud Account onboarding to support Quick Assessment.
- AWS EBS cost enhancements to support cost for all available EBS volume types.
Fixed Issues:
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Resolved an issue wherein a user ran a scan job and tried to view scan results before any of the targets were scanned.
The CAM Portal Nov 2023 release(s)
Date of Release: Nov 22, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.203
Highlights:
New & updated:
- Improvements in the IT Universe Quadrant and Connection Wheel rendering.
- Enhancements in cost collection service.
Fixed Issues:
- Sorting in the UI - Previously, the sorting of the Date columns treated dates as text, this issue has now been resolved.
Date of Release: Nov 09, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.202
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Improved performance and stability.
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UI-Search - Search now is case insensitive.
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AWS data collection enhancements:
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Network I/O CloudWatch metric data for EC2
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Collection of additional CloudWatch metrics for Lambda and RDS
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Target Group, Health, and Load Balancer relationships data collection
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The CAM Portal Oct 2023 release(s)
Date of Release: Oct 26 & Oct 11, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.201 / 23.200
Highlights:
New & updated:
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UI search functionality improvements.
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Enhanced AWS Cloudwatch data collection.
The CAM Portal Sep 2023 release(s)
Date of Release: Sep 21, 2023 / Sep 07, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.199 / 23.198
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Performance and Security enhancements.
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Product Search feature hardening.
The CAM Portal Aug 2023 release(s)
Date of Release: Aug 10, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.197
Highlights:
New & updated:
- New Modernization Console with advanced Cloud PaaS Service migration recommendations. Part of CloudSphere's investment in cloud optimization and modernization capabilities is aimed at helping cloud customers optimize their environments for cloud cost, performance, and overall cloud health.
The CAM Portal July 2023 release(s)
Date of Release: July 27, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.195
Highlights:
New & updated:
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The cost data view will now show the total memory reported by hardware rather than the total available memory reported by the OS. The same will be used for all cost calculation purposes.
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Increase in available PAAS recommendations.
Date of Release: July 20, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.194 & SAAS 23.194.1
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Cloud Rightsizing Dashboard within Optimization Console: Updated dashboard to include cost savings.
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Cloud Rightsizing is only applied to cloud instances and is evaluated based on performance metrics with the assumption that they will be rightsized within the current cloud/region.
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Rightsizing for migrations (on-prem to cloud or cloud to cloud) are included only within the Migration Console.
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All details of the rightsizing recommendations are in the detailed list at the bottom of the dashboard.
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Inventory/Services Dashboard within CloudSphere Insight Console homepage: Service Mapping Coverage calculation added to the console.
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Stability and supportability enhancements.
The CAM Portal June 2023 release(s)
Date of Release: June 29, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.193 & SAAS 23.192.1
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Performance enhancement in cost collection service.
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Metrics collection status now has a new status ‘Blocked’ to reflect metric port access check failure.
The CAM Portal May 2023 release(s)
Date of Release: May 31, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.191
Highlights:
New & updated:
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IT Universe Quadrant UX enhancements.
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Improved platform stability.
Date of Release: May 18, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.190
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Stability & Security enhancements.
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Enhanced logging for appliance synchronization operations.
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Removed legacy reports which have been replaced by reports available through the interactive consoles.
The CAM Portal April 2023 release(s)
Date of Release: Apr 19, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.188
Highlights:
Fixed Issues:
- The container's private IPs were getting used to resolve external system communication & dependencies during the connection resolution phase. This resulted in incorrect external system communication & dependency resolution.
Date of Release: Apr 05, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.187.2
Highlights:
New & updated:
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ITUniverse Quadrant view enhancements: The user can now show/hide(filter) services and relationships based on the following criteria:
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Services Review State (Discovered, Awaiting Approval, Approved, Excluded)
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Waves (Wave 1, 2, 3)
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IT Management Services (Exclude, Include)
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Services with cross-service dependencies (Isolated Services, Connected Services, Both)
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Relationships type(Communication, Shared infrastructure)
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The CAM Portal March 2023 release(s)
Date of Release: Mar 29, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.187
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Application 'End of Life' insight console enhancement to provide EOL info for additional applications (java, IIS Webserver, Apache, Microsoft Exchange, WebSphere, RabbitMQ).
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Enhanced OS EOL to include Solaris.
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Duplicate count information is now available in the Remediation Summary. Users can also drill down into the list of Servers identified as potential duplicates.
Date of Release: Mar 24, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.186
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Service Provider now has the ability to enable or disable Out of box (default) service templates.
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Tenant Users now have the ability to customize the set of Service Templates to be applied for their tenant.
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To ensure an evenly distributed load across scan jobs, the number of scan targets in a single scan job is now restricted to an upper limit of 32,000 targets.
The CAM Portal Feb 2023 release(s)
Date of Release: Feb 21, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.184
Highlights:
New & updated:
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OnDemand Cost estimates collection now immediately starts collecting cost data. Users can now get cost estimates instantly for any newly added cloud provider/region.
Fixed Issues:
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Handled the scenario wherein a vCenter scan that did not return any VMs resulted in the deletion of existing VMs. Now the scan job will be aborted in case the VM List is empty, also the Scan Info message is also updated to display the exact reason.
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Metrics collection for the target endpoint getting scanned by a scan job configured to collect metrics was getting stopped if it was also part of another scan job that did not have metrics collection enabled.
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Cost Information related to a few servers was not getting generated.
Date of Release: Feb 08, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.183
Highlights:
New & updated:
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MS SQL Licensing: Return rightsized Instance CPU Count.
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Improvements/hardening on Cost services.
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Cost Calculation Launch on-demand (selection of new Region).
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Hardening of the Reports API supporting the new Excel Reports Tool.
Fixed Issues:
- Intermittently the cost calculations related to a few fully scanned servers were missing in the Cost view.
The CAM Portal Jan 2023 release(s)
Date of Release: Jan 25, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.182.2
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Appliance Diagnostic enhancements to troubleshoot fingerprint issues in active tenants.
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Improved Diagnostics support (message traceability).
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Process Exclusion support directly on Appliance.
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Additional checks on Scope sizes to prevent failures for very large scopes.
Fixed Issues:
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The Server Connection Wheel UI issue is fixed.
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Fixed the issue in Solaris scanning.
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Multiple CAM Cost enhancements/fixes.
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While the Appliance is in Maintenance Mode (under upgrade), the 'Update' button will now be disabled.
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Identified and fixed the issue wherein the Appliance was dropping scan messages intermittently.
Date of Release: Jan 18, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.182.1
Highlights:
New & updated:
- Enhancements in reporting views to support EOL capabilities in Consoles and Automated Report.
Date of Release: Jan 12, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.181.1, SAAS 23.182
Highlights:
New & updated:
- Currency exchange rates are now updated on a daily basis for enhanced accuracy.
- The appliance registration date data is now available on the Appliance Listing page with the 'Full view' option enabled.
- Report DB API hardening (used in new Excel standard report).
Fixed Issues:
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Appliance's Open Diagnostics: The issue in fetching the SYS logs is fixed now.
Date of Release: Jan 09, 2023
Version: SAAS 23.181
Highlights:
Fixed Issues:
- The Public Cloud Inventory preview was listing only a subset of virtual instances.
The CAM Portal Dec 2022 release(s)
Date of Release: Dec 08, 2022
Highlights:
Fixed Issues:
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In the case of a large number of On-boarded Cloud Subscriptions, the edit and delete API calls were getting timed out.
Date of Release: Dec 02, 2022
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Ability to evaluate cloud instances to see if there is a better instance that should be used to ensure that the cloud infrastructure is running optimally in terms of both performance and cost.
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Ability to retrieve the cost data for both the existing cloud instance and the alternate cloud instance to accurately compare the cost and determine if optimization is possible.
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Ability to separate cloud instance cost (infrastructure) from software license cost. Instance costs with or without software license costs are now available for assessment.
The CAM Portal Nov 2022 release(s)
Date of Release: Nov 23, 2022
Highlights:
Fixed Issues:
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MFA tenant check was failing due to case-sensitive tenant entry.
Date of Release: Nov 4, 2022
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Software Assurance (Licensing Cost) factored into console cost results. Cost data presented in consoles (migration dashboards) now factor in software assurance (OS licensing).
Fixed Issues:
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The user was not able to create UNIX 'private key' credentials without specifying the 'password'.
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Updating an appliance didn't work when was updated to the current version. The current version of the Appliance in the Update Appliance dropdown selector will not be available for selection.
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Tag Instances count was not getting displayed for tags with '+' in the tag name.
The CAM Portal Sep 2022 release(s)
Date of Release: Sep 30, 2022
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Leverage AWS SSM for DOI deep scanning Linux/Unix endpoints (Beta)
Fixed Issues:
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'Apply Fingerprint' now working for multiple/all servers.
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ScanJob/CredentialTest - Disabled/Deleted appliance will not appear in the Appliance Dropdown List.
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The appliance name on the appliance listing page will be automatically refreshed after an update.
Date of Release: Sep 08, 2022
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Insight Consoles (General Availability Release)
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Muti-Factor Authentication support (Beta):
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Tenant level support for 'Two-Factor Authentication'. User authentication for MFA-Enabled tenant users, utilizing:
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First factor: Username & Password.
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Second factor: A one-time password (OTP) generated by Google Authenticator or FreeOTP authenticator apps.
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Enhanced service discovery and categorization into High, Medium, and Low fidelity services. Provides visibility to business services, their inter-dependencies, and improving wave assignment/risk scoring calculations.
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File System cost information for providing the right size cloud migration recommendations and cost assessment.
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Cost estimates visualization performance enhancement: The Cost tabs (server/server groups/service) to pull from the persisted data if available, for providing results immediately.
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Supportability Enhancements:
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Ability to access Appliance’s sys.log from the Web Portal.
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Improved inline feedback on scan operations and failures reasons: Scan Info to have enhanced info and links to KB article.
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Fixed Issues:
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‘System Connection Summary Report’ export via CAM Portal UI.
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In the Consoles, CPU Utilisation and Memory Utilisation metrics values can now be displayed as percentages.
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While updating the cloud provider in the Users Preferences, cloud regions are now loading.
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Compute Right-sizing cost for Azure VMs are now available for recommendation.
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In case the asset has no recorded CPU or Memory utilization info, the “Right-sized” cost of the asset will now be considered the same as its "Lift & Shift" cost, versus zero earlier.
The CAM Portal May 2022 release(s)
Date of Release: May 17, 2022
Highlights:
New & updated:
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Dashboards (Interactive Consoles):
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Calculated Risk score for a Service.
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Calculated Complexity score for a Service.
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Completeness score per service:
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Record per service, Risk & Complexity factors, and aggregated results.
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Migration Waves:
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Provide Migration Wave assignment for a Service.
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Display and Update Service Listing & Overview to Support assigned Service Wave.
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Data Enrichment
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Collect Public End of Support data for OS & MSQL.
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PaaS reference data.
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FX reference rates data.
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Cloud Portal UI:
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Extend Service Review State, which allows the user to approve services that trigger migration processing.
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Replace the 'Retain' recommendation label with 'Research;' in all migration rules.
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Reporting REST APIs.
Fixed Issues:
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Sub-Query in Risk score was causing the error.
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SQL Consumer was using too many connections.
The CAM Portal March 2022 release(s)
Date of Release: Mar29, 2022
Highlights:
Fixed Issues:
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On scope creation, both Hostname and IP address were mandatory fields.
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Create Credential Domain Field was not usable.
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The progress bar behaved in a strange way when you had only the wrong hostname on the scan job.
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WebSocket client exception causing loss of messages.
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API Error Log Not Filtered.
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SQLConsumer restarted actor on some messages.
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Fixed missing validation on the "Hostname" field from the "Edit IP list" modal.
The CAM Portal February 2022 release(s)
Date of Release: Feb 13, 2022
Highlights:
New & updated:
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"Unable to gather Unique Identifier" enabling on the scan configuration page.
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Improved diagnostic information in scan status for scan jobs.
Fixed Issues:
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Resolved issue where the domain field was not available for the windows credentials.
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Fixed the issue where the Update user info and User preferences called pop-up modals that could not be closed by clicking outside the modals.
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Resolved the server’s memory metrics label translation.
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Fixed the issue where "No Data" was displayed in the Public cloud alternatives section of the Cost Tab page. When the region was not added to default regions.
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Fixed the issue related to Cost, where Azure regions were displayed in the Public cloud alternatives section after a reload of the page.
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Resolved the issue where we could not remove Cloud Providers from User Preferences.
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Fixed issue where uploading file with IPs to create scope was failing due to parsing issues.
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Cost - Stabilized listing of default regions, while adding/removing regions to/from the default region list.
Other Cost related fixes
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Fixed issue with the opening of the user preferences modal for the first time after the login, it opened and then was getting closed automatically.
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Resolved issue related to, clicking on update preferences on user preferences modal after making changes and saving them on the cloud provider and regions selections cause the values of cloud provider and regions to be reverted to previous values.
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Resolved cache persistence issue of the cost data after re-logging. The cost was not wiped as expected and it remains cached.
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Resolved the issue where the API fetching the cost (for example using a region that is not public) returned an error but the previously calculated cost remains visible on the Cost tab.