CAM Portal (SaaS) Releases

Note: The portal is already at the latest released codebase.

 

The CAM Portal May 2023 release(s)

Date of Release: May 31, 2023

Version: SAAS 23.191

Highlights:

New & updated:

• IT Universe Quadrant UX enhancements.

• Improved platform stability.

 

Date of Release: May 18, 2023

Version: SAAS 23.190

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Stability & Security enhancements.
• Enhanced logging for appliance synchronization operations.
• Removed legacy reports which have been replaced by reports available through the interactive consoles.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:

• ITUniverse Quadrant view enhancements: The user can now show/hide(filter) services and relationships based on the following criteria:

  • Services Review State (Discovered, Awaiting Approval, Approved, Excluded)

  • Waves (Wave 1, 2, 3)

  • IT Management Services (Exclude, Include)

  • Services with cross-service dependencies (Isolated Services, Connected Services, Both)

  • Relationships type(Communication, Shared infrastructure)

 

 

The CAM Portal March 2023 release(s)

Date of Release: Mar 29, 2023

Version: SAAS 23.187

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Application 'End of Life' insight console enhancement to provide EOL info for additional applications (java, IIS Webserver, Apache, Microsoft Exchange, WebSphere, RabbitMQ).

• Enhanced OS EOL to include Solaris.

• 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:

• Service Provider now has the ability to enable or disable Out of box (default) service templates.

• Tenant Users now have the ability to customize the set of Service Templates to be applied for their tenant.

• 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:

• 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:

• 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.

• 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.

• Cost Information related to a few servers was not getting generated.

   

Date of Release: Feb 08, 2023

Version: SAAS 23.183

Highlights:

New & updated:

• MS SQL Licensing: Return rightsized Instance CPU Count.

• Improvements/hardening on Cost services.

• Cost Calculation Launch on-demand (selection of new Region).

• 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.
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The CAM Portal Jan 2023 release(s)

Date of Release: Jan 25, 2023

Version: SAAS 23.182.2

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Appliance Diagnostic enhancements to troubleshoot fingerprint issues in active tenants.

• Improved Diagnostics support (message traceability).

• Process Exclusion support directly on Appliance.

• Additional checks on Scope sizes to prevent failures for very large scopes.

Fixed Issues:

• The Server Connection Wheel UI issue is fixed.

• Fixed the issue in Solaris scanning.

• Multiple CAM Cost enhancements/fixes.

• While the Appliance is in Maintenance Mode (under upgrade), the 'Update' button will now be disabled.

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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:

• MFA tenant check was failing due to case-sensitive tenant entry.

Date of Release: Nov 4, 2022

Highlights:

New & updated:

• 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:

• The user was not able to create UNIX 'private key' credentials without specifying the 'password'.
• 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.
• 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:

• Leverage AWS SSM for DOI deep scanning Linux/Unix endpoints (Beta)

Fixed Issues:

• 'Apply Fingerprint' now working for multiple/all servers.
• ScanJob/CredentialTest - Disabled/Deleted appliance will not appear in the Appliance Dropdown List.
• The appliance name on the appliance listing page will be automatically refreshed after an update.

Date of Release: Sep 08, 2022

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Insight Consoles (General Availability Release)
• Muti-Factor Authentication support (Beta): 
  • Tenant level support for 'Two-Factor Authentication'. User authentication for MFA-Enabled tenant users, utilizing:
    • First factor: Username & Password.
    • Second factor: A one-time password (OTP) generated by Google Authenticator or FreeOTP authenticator apps.
• 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.
• File System cost information for providing the right size cloud migration recommendations and cost assessment.
• Cost estimates visualization performance enhancement: The Cost tabs (server/server groups/service) to pull from the persisted data if available, for providing results immediately.
• Supportability Enhancements:
  • Ability to access Appliance’s sys.log from the Web Portal.
  • Improved inline feedback on scan operations and failures reasons: Scan Info to have enhanced info and links to KB article.

Fixed Issues:

• ‘System Connection Summary Report’ export via CAM Portal UI.
• In the Consoles, CPU Utilisation and Memory Utilisation metrics values can now be displayed as percentages.
• While updating the cloud provider in the Users Preferences, cloud regions are now loading. 
• Compute Right-sizing cost for Azure VMs are now available for recommendation.
• 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:

• Dashboards (Interactive Consoles):
  • Calculated Risk score for a Service.
  • Calculated Complexity score for a Service.
  • Completeness score per service:
    • Record per service, Risk & Complexity factors, and aggregated results.
  • Migration Waves:
    • Provide Migration Wave assignment for a Service.
    • Display and Update Service Listing & Overview to Support assigned Service Wave.
• Data Enrichment
  • Collect Public End of Support data for OS & MSQL.
  • PaaS reference data.
  • FX reference rates data.
• Cloud Portal UI:
  • Extend Service Review State, which allows the user to approve services that trigger migration processing.
• Replace the 'Retain' recommendation label with 'Research;' in all migration rules.
• Reporting REST APIs.

Fixed Issues:

• Sub-Query in Risk score was causing the error.
• SQL Consumer was using too many connections.

 

The CAM Portal March 2022 release(s)

Date of Release: Mar29, 2022

Highlights:

Fixed Issues:

• On scope creation, both Hostname and IP address were mandatory fields.
• Create Credential Domain Field was not usable.
• The progress bar behaved in a strange way when you had only the wrong hostname on the scan job.
• WebSocket client exception causing loss of messages.
• API Error Log Not Filtered.
• SQLConsumer restarted actor on some messages.
• 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:

• "Unable to gather Unique Identifier" enabling on the scan configuration page.
• Improved diagnostic information in scan status for scan jobs.

Fixed Issues:

• Resolved issue where the domain field was not available for the windows credentials.
• 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.
• Resolved the server’s memory metrics label translation.
• 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.
• Fixed the issue related to Cost, where Azure regions were displayed in the Public cloud alternatives section after a reload of the page.
• Resolved the issue where we could not remove Cloud Providers from User Preferences.
• Fixed issue where uploading file with IPs to create scope was failing due to parsing issues.
• Cost - Stabilized listing of default regions, while adding/removing regions to/from the default region list.

Other Cost related fixes

• 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.
• 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.
• Resolved cache persistence issue of the cost data after re-logging. The cost was not wiped as expected and it remains cached.
• 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.