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ManageEngine OpManager Changelog

What's new in ManageEngine OpManager 12.5 Build 490

Dec 24, 2021
  • ServiceNow Integration:
  • OpManager is now integrated with ServiceNow (provided as a default plugin). This integration allows you to log tickets on ServiceNow from OPM.
  • User Specific Dashboard:
  • Users will now have their dashboard mapped to their profile. This unique dashboard can be customized based on the user's needs.
  • Windows and Hyper-V 2019 support:
  • OpManager has now been upgraded to support Windows 2019 and Hyper-V 2019 devices.
  • Add Custom SNMP Monitor:
  • Custom SNMP monitor creation has been added now. You can create/modify device templates to configure your own monitors for the SNMP-enabled devices in your network.
  • 9500 device templates:
  • The number of device templates supported by OpManager is increased to 9500. They help with the initial configurations to classify the devices into pre-defined categories, and to associate monitors to them. You can modify existing templates or create your own as per your requirements.
  • Horizontal tab GUI:
  • To enhance your user experience, we have added a horizontal view. This user-focused design is specifically introduced to minimize navigation woes and enhance user experience.
  • AlarmsOne Integration:
  • AlarmsOne is now integrated with OpManager. AlarmsOne can be used to manage all your alarms in one console. It makes alert management simple with features like criteria-based alerting, noise reduction, on-call scheduling, escalations, etc.

New in ManageEngine OpManager 11.1 Build 11110 (Jan 9, 2014)

  • CMDB Plug-in Support - The Plug-in helps you to get in-depth visibility of your assets present in your IT environment. This allows you to manage all your IT components based on their business criticality and make informed decisions
  • Root Cause Analysis - Enterprise IT departments need sophisticated monitoring for each aspect of their operations, from basic infrastructure to bandwidth, applications and change management. However, these sophisticated tools churn out alerts at an alarming rate and volume, making it difficult to manipulate the alerts and find the root cause of the problem. This is now supported in OpManager
  • Functional Expression Support - Functional Expression such as Byte to GB, Celsius to Fahrenheit, String to Numeric, Column Min , Column Max, Numeric to String etc are now supported for SNMP based monitors. Option to store or just alert is also provided now.
  • Multi language Support - Language selection options such as Chinese, Japanese, French, Korean etc. are provided in the OpManager webclient
  • Pass Through Authentication support is available now
  • Security vulnerability in Postgres database is addressed now.
  • Reports - A new report to list all the threshold configured devices is available now
  • Around 75 device types are newly added
  • Alarm Suppression Configuration is audited now
  • Regular expression support provided for Event Log description
  • Infrastructure Widget - Option not to show a particular category , if there is no devices present is addressed now
  • Notification Profile / Alarm Escalation:
  • Option to view the latest Polled Value available for recurring notification and escalation mails
  • Alarm Entity parameter is available now for notification
  • Fixed:
  • All issues with respect to Windows Services monitoring is addressed.
  • Downtime Scheduler - The error 'Failed to load from DB ' is fixed now
  • Improper alignment in the hardware / vcenter snap shot pages in japanese edition is addressed - (Issue Id 95292)
  • Issue of data not collected for h ardware parameters such as battery, memory , processors is fixed now
  • At times hardware data collection is stops, if the sensor name size is fixed
  • Interfaces report such as Total bytes transferred in postgres database was incorrect is fixed. (Issue Id 4612390)
  • Schedule reports at times is not generated after 10200 build upgrade due to Message column is fixed now (Issue id 4619595)
  • Schedule reports are not generated in linux installation is fixed now (Issue id 4624044)
  • Email based SMS notification - headers are shown in the text is fixed now
  • OpManager license get corrupted at times, when plugins licenses are applied is fixed
  • URL Monitors - Issue of Alarm generation , if consecutive times is configured is fixed
  • Issue of downtime report not shown in MSSQL database if the device is down for more than 25 days is addressed
  • Device availability reports at times throws error is fixed
  • Issue of details shown for a user, if business views are associated is fixed
  • CPU utilization, Memory Utilization, Disk Utilization real time graphs were not plotted for other languages is fixed now
  • Custom fields for devices and interfaces are now shown in sorted order
  • Database backup and restoration at times fails is fixed now
  • Central failover registration failure case is addressed (Issue 4638492)
  • Process specific workflows are not triggered is fixed (Issue id 4638296)
  • Vmware discovery / rediscovery fails when data store is in inaccessable state is fixed
  • Auto Vaccum parameter set properly for postgres database
  • UPS polling parameters such as battery status, link status will not be updated during polling, if the device is first discovered as non snmp device and moved to ups category
  • Issue of duplication drives getting added in the case of multiple node graphs ie. used /free / partition monitors (snmp based) if the index changes is resolved
  • Issue of data not getting collected for Memory utilization monitor (WMI) if threshold is configured is fixed.
  • WMI - Partition values shown wrongly is corrected now
  • Negative Value in InterfaceReport LegendValues (Min, Max) and ReportList is shown as 0 , (Issue id:4620827)
  • Issue of thresholds getting removed from devices if applied via Templates is resolved. (Issue ID 4639858)
  • Issue of OpManager Agent not getting started is fixed now
  • At times, support information file generation fails if any of the installation plugins are not running. This is fixed now.

New in ManageEngine OpManager 9.4 Build 9400 (Dec 11, 2012)

  • AD Single Sign on:
  • Authenticate user access through Active Directory - Allow all the active directory users or the users in a specific group of an AD domain to gain access to OpManager web-client. The access privileges can be managed by the administrator. Alternatively, the administrator can also add an individual user and choose the user type as 'AD authentication' for confirming the user access privileges through Active Directory.
  • NetApp Storage Monitoring:
  • Never run out of storage space - In addition to device templates for over 700 device types out-of-the-box, a new device template and an exclusive device snapshot for NetApp storage devices monitoring has been included in this release. The newly included device template monitors over 50 metrics for NetApp storage devices. The categories include Aggregate monitors, Disk monitors, Filer monitors, Hardware monitors, LUN monitors, Performance monitors, Quota monitors, Snapvault monitors and Volume monitors.
  • Microsoft Windows 8, 2012 and SQL 2012 monitoring:
  • Stay tuned to the performance of client OS, server OS and database from Microsoft - Newer device templates are introduced for monitoring Microsoft client OS version Windows 8, Server OS version 2012 and enterprise database SQL 2012.
  • Closer integration with NCM plug-in:
  • Accelerate problem resolution with deep NCM integration - Quickly view the 'last network configuration changed', 'backup operation performed' and execute backup operation or a command from the network device's snapshot page or from OpManager alarms page. Further, to keep an eye on the network configuration, you can add the data and report from NCM plug-in into OpManager customer dashboard as widgets.
  • iPhone App for OpManager:
  • Connect to OpManager server and view the performance of all the devices, recent alarms, and business views from your iPhone.
  • Gain granular visibility on network events:
  • To avert false positives, the consecutive times check for status polling is now extended to service monitors, windows service monitors, interface poll and event log monitors.
  • Separate Alarm is raised for Status Poll, Service down and Windows Service down for better clarity and granular notification handling
  • Provides Regex threshold support for String SNMP monitors
  • CCTV View will include WebAlarm links
  • Option to execute notifications and workflow repeatedly until an alarm gets cleared.
  • A seamless integration with IT Pulse:
  • ManageEngine's private social network for IT - When a technician acknowledges, unacknowledges, or clears an alarm in OpManager, the same is automatically posted on ITPulse wall. You can also view the details of such alarms from ITPulse itself and discuss the troubleshooting steps.
  • REST API new additions and enhancement:
  • Performance more action with OpManager REST API - Over 25 different actions can now be performed through OpManager REST API, including listing the alarms and devices, triggering a notification profile and more. In addition to the existing XML format support, the REST API will support JSON too. Discovery Rule Engine: Rerun the rule engine to a selected set of devices at any point of time.
  • Performance reports made more insightful:
  • Create OpManager reports with: Individual data points; Visualize the performance of a monitor as a stack graph; Indicate the set threshold value as a line in the graph.

New in ManageEngine OpManager 9.0 Build 9101 (May 15, 2012)

  • IT Workflow Automation:
  • Administrators have preset routine tasks to perform either during network faults or it could be an on-going maintenance task. These first level troubleshooting steps and repetitive laborious maintenance tasks can now be orchestrated and automated through our powerful IT workflow engine. This feature helps you
  • Resolve issues faster and Reduced MTTR (Mean Time To Resolve):
  • Inherit your IT infrastructure best practices and ensure structured/ proven methods to handle incidents and problems
  • Streamline execution and increase efficiency
  • Avoid human errors and substantially reduce operational costs
  • Intuitive drag and drop GUI for creating IT workflow with out-of-the-box actions and checks & Screen showing options to trigger workflow on a scheduled basis or on the network faults
  • The intuitive GUI of IT workflow engine is:
  • Easy to manage with 100% web-based management console
  • Easy to build with out-of-the-box checks⁄ actions to construct adaptable workflow rules
  • Usage scenario: When OpManager detects a server down failure, you can now configure it to perform the actions such as query the DNS or do an ICMP ping or restart the server or the VM. Further you can configure OpManager to notify you over an email or perform an http post to any web app or even appends the alarm notes with the results.
  • Hyper-V Monitoring:
  • In addition to the existing VMware ESX monitoring feature, you can now monitor Microsoft Hyper-V. Similar to VMware monitoring, OpManager monitors over 70 deep metrics on the availability and performance of Hyper-V hosts and guests.
  • Custom Script Monitoring:
  • Bring your network monitoring scripts together under the OpManager management console. Go beyond SNMP or WMI protocols and dive deep into your device and application performance. Set threshold and get alerted during abnormal situations by leveraging OpManager’s fault management functionality.
  • Supported Scripts: Powershell, Linux shell script, VBScript, Perl & Python.
  • REST API:
  • Those using third party help desk or network management solution can now integrate OpManager with those systems by invoking OpManager’s REST API.
  • To start with the REST API supports operations such as Add device, Add notification profile to a device, Add device to a business view or Google maps, Add Event for non-monitored parameters as well as monitored parameters, Delete device and Add new user.
  • All new enhanced GUI:
  • Navigate quickly to the problematic device or to the area of your interest based on your IT infrastructure role and responsibility with all new improved top level tabs. In addition the improved page-loading speed and quick links to information on how to go about doing some tasks with option to submit instant feedback, provide a smooth user experience.
  • Switch an OpManager standalone instance on-the-fly to a remote monitoring probe.
  • When your needs grow to monitor over 500 devices or 10,000 interfaces, you can convert one OpManager standalone instance to a remote monitoring probe on-the-fly. This capability helps you scale your network visibility as and when you need it.
  • Enterprise Edition: Probe Failover Support (MS SQL backend only)
  • Ensure 24/7 network monitoring with the help of high availability of remote site monitoring probes through hot standby engine; introducing OpManager enterprise edition’s probe failover support.

New in ManageEngine OpManager 8.0 (Mar 3, 2009)

  • Network management editions, syslog monitoring, customizable dashboards, real-time graphs, netflow and NCM plug-ins, fail-over support, enhanced reports, bulk configuration view

New in ManageEngine OpManager 7.0 (Nov 28, 2007)

  • OpManager dons a new rich look and feel with the easiest navigation ever!
  • Enhanced discovery and classification.
  • Advanced WAN monitoring dashboard shows the availability of all your WAN links and Round Trip Time (RTT).
  • A full-blown flash-based MapMaker as part of the new WebClient.
  • An intuitive SLA Dashboard.
  • At-a-glance reports for devices.