APTARE Technical Documentation Version 10.2.01P10

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APTARE Release Version 10.2.01 includes a number of new enhancements including search and filtering additions, collection from Veeam, RMAN, Cohesity and ECS, storage optimization and risk mitigation solution expansion, new reports, and many Portal enhancements. This section highlights some of the new features. For a complete list, refer to the release notes.

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The 10.2.01 release includes all previous 10.2.00 patches and all patch release fixes up to and including version 10.2.00P4.

The 10.2.01P10 release includes previous 10.2.01 patches and all patch release fixes up to and including version 10.2.00P7.

The Backup Manager App for ServiceNow is officially certified and available now in the ServiceNow Store. Certification by ServiceNow signifies that the Backup Manager App has successfully completed a set of defined tests focused on Now Platform™ security, compatibility, performance, and integration interoperability. The first release automates the creation of Incidents for key backup failures.

Numerous enhancements have been made in the areas of Search and Filtering to increase the scope of the functionality allowing for the presentation of quick and granular results when analyzing large volumes of data.

• A distinction between Search and Advanced Filtering. The term Search is reserved for a top-level search across all areas of the product. Advanced is now referred to as Advanced Filtering and changes to labels and icons in the Portal reflect that update.

• Search has been expanded to include users. You can now quickly locate user profiles using First Name, Last Name, Login name and email. User profiles can be active or inactive. See Navigating with Search.

• Advanced Filtering now offers expanded query building options that extend into all areas including Inventory, Users and Privileges, User Groups, Solutions, Data Collection Status and Administration. You can now create queries using all relevant fields in the database with specific operators to further refine and locate the information you need. The ability to add custom filter logic is also available. See Advanced Filtering.

• Inventory Specific Advanced Filtering offers additional functionality that allows you to save the query you build and access it as required for a specific object type. Also available in the Inventory is the ability to filter on multiple objects at the same time using the Filter by field. You can copy and paste a comma or space separated list into the Filter by field to return a custom data set. See Saving Advanced Filters (Inventory) and Valid Entries for Filtering.

• Report Filtering has been enhanced to include custom filter logic. With custom filter logic, you can now build queries to find exactly the type of information you need to examine your datacenter. This custom filtering is available on all tabular reports. See Advanced Filtering for Tabular Reports.

Keeping with the theme of creating analysis suites that are easy to use and provide relevant details, both the Storage Optimization and the Risk Mitigation Solutions have been expanded.

• The Storage Optimization Solution now includes a cost component so you can quickly examine the costs associated with optimization opportunities and have them visually represented. By knowing costs, you can use the information to help prioritize the problems that have the greatest fiscal impact for your organization. This cost parameter has been added to Storage Optimization rules and all the Storage Optimization solution reports with their associated drilldowns. See Configuring Storage Optimization Rules.

• The reports, Storage Optimization Analysis and Storage Optimization by Tier now visualizes the data as double donut charts providing an easy way to view two dimensional data. See Storage Optimization Analysis and Storage Optimization by Tier.

• The Risk Mitigation Solution added new rules that are visualized through drill down reports from the Risk Mitigation Analysis report:

• VM Datastore Forecasting examines VMWare datastore statistics for the number of weeks in the defined period to forecast the date when storage will run out within a three year period.

• VM Guest Forecasting examines VMWare guest disk statistics for the number of weeks in the defined period to forecast the date when storage will run out within a three year period.

• Host Multi-Pathing Exposure examines hosts that may be at risk if they have less than a specified number of paths.

• The Storage Optimization Solution added a new rule, Sources Backed Up by Multiple Servers, that can be visualized through Storage Optimization Solution Reports and highlights Hosts that are at risk if they have less than a certain number of paths defined.

• Both Storage Optimization and Risk Management rules have been expanded to include the concept of “sources of backup” to accommodate Veeam Backup & Replication, Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) and Cohesity DataProtect support and collection. As a by product, some of the rules (and their corresponding detail reports) have been renamed:

In an effort to refresh Host Groups and improve their usability, a number of updates have been made:

• Management function operations are now available from the grid in the Inventory. Once you’ve filtered the data, select a host or backup server to activate the management functions on the action bar. These functions have been added to the Host Group Overview to eliminate the need to navigate away from the page to make changes. See Managing Hosts and Backup Servers.

• Host Group Membership Operations can now be access directly from the grid in the Inventory. Cut, Paste, Copy and Remove are now available from the list view enabling you to quickly move hosts and backup servers between Host Groups. See Host Group Membership.

This release adds Veeam Backup & Replication, Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) and Cohesity DataProtect to our continually expanding list of supported vendors. Backup Manager now collects and reports on data from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. You can create collection policies and quickly report on clients, and any other backup source types that Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity accept right out of the box. Numerous standard reports have been enhanced to analyze and display Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity data. The following reports have been updated:

• Backup Duration SLA - A new option for filtering the data is added to the report’s scope selector: Both (Parent and Child Jobs), Parent Jobs or Child Jobs.

• Backup Executive Summary - A new section has been added in the report to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Objects are now reported on. Failed Objects drill down to a Failed Backup Sources report.

• Backup Status SLA - A new option for filtering the data is added to the report’s scope selector: Both (Parent and Child Jobs), Parent Jobs or Child Jobs.

• Billing & Chargeback Summary - Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Clients are now reported on under the heading of Source and a Source Type column has been added. Entries in the Source column now drill down to either a Host Details report or a new report, Object Details.

• Client Job Histogram - Name changed to Job Histogram. Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Clients are now reported on under the heading of Source and a Source Type column has been added. Entries in the Source column now drill down to either a Host Details report or a new report, Object Details.

• Consecutive Errors By Client - Name changed to Consecutive Errors. Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Clients are now reported on under the heading of Source and a Source Type column has been added. Entries in the Source column now drill down to either a Host Details report or a new report, Object Details.

• Data Protection Dashboard - Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Clients are now reported on under the heading of Source and a Source Type column has been added. Entries in the Source column now drill down to either a Host Details report or a new report, Object Details. Entries in the Finish Date column drill down to the Job Details report.

• Error Log Summary by Policy - Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Clients are now reported on under the heading of Source and a Source Type column has been added. Entries in the Source column now drill down to either a Host Details report or a new report, Object Details. Entries in the Last Error Date column drill down to the Job Details report.

• Error Log Summary by Client - Name changed to Error Log Summary. Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Clients are now reported on under the heading of Source and a Source Type column has been added. Entries in the Source column now drill down to either a Host Details report or a new report, Object Details. Entries in the Last Error Date column drill down to the Job Details report.

• Failed Clients - Name changed to Failed Backup Sources. Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Clients are now reported on under the heading of Source and a Source Type column has been added. Entries in the Source column now drill down to either a Host Details report or a new report, Object Details. This drill down report is available by generating the Backup Executive Summary and clicking a link in either Clients Failed or Objects Failed.

• High Backup Retention Jobs - Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Clients are now reported on under the heading of Source and a Source Type column has been added. Entries in the Source column now drill down to either a Host Details report or a new report, Object Details. This drill down report is available by generating the Storage Optimization Analysis report and clicking the High Backup Retention Jobs sector.

• Mission Control - Backup - Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Clients are now reported on under the heading of Source and a Source Type column has been added. Entries in the Source column now drill down to either a Host Details report or a new report, Object Details.

• Monthly Backup Summary - Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Clients are now reported on under the heading of Source and a Source Type column has been added. Entries in the Source column now drill down to either a /host Details report or a new report, Object Details.

• Object Details - New drill down report has been added to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. The Object Details report provides information about backup sources other than known hosts, such as datastores, folders and so on.

• Job Details - Additional information has been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. These new fields include information about Related Jobs, Protection Policies and Fragments.

• Job Duration - Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Drill down to the Job Summary report.

• Job Summary - Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Clients are now reported on under the heading of Source and a Source Type column has been added. Entries in the Source column now drill down to either a Host Details report or a new report, Object Details.

• Server Consumption Summary - Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Clients are now reported on under the heading of Source and a Source Type column has been added. Entries in the Source column now drill down to either a Host Details report or a new report, Object Details.

• SLA Job Summary Report - Columns in the report have been added and revised to support collection from Veeam, RMAN and Cohesity. Clients are now reported on under the heading of Source and a Source Type column has been added. Entries in the Source column now drill down to either a Host Details report or a new report, Object Details.

• Data Protection API expansion - APTARE has expanded the API model to allow developers using our SDK to persist objects related to Data Protection into the database. This enables IT Analytics to report on the Data Protection infrastructure of the enterprise.

• Check boxes were added to the policy dialogs for better usability when selecting servers to the following Data Collector policies:

• Performance - Numerous updates have been made to the Inventory to dramatically improve the performance for large scale environments.

• New Feature: Pinning Reports - In the Inventory, a new pin icon displayed on tabs allows users to easily add/remove reports by pinning/unpinning a report to an Inventory object type. Pinned tabs can also be renamed by right-clicking the tab and selecting Rename. See Pinning Reports - Saving Reports with Inventory Objects.

• Report Selection Change - Reports are now selected and added to Inventory Object Types by a new +tab. This is similar to the way new dashboards are added. The +tab is used in combination with the Pinning Reports feature. The Select Reports link has been removed from the Inventory. See Choosing Reports to Display.

• New Objects: FA Shares and Volumes are now displayed - Enhancements have been made to more fully leverage collected data and address the most common File Analytics use cases. The modified Capacity Forecast by Volume/Share serves as the overview page for the object group. See Show Objects.

• Host Group Icon Removal - In an effort to de-clutter and improve the user experience, the Host Group icons in the Inventory have been removed from the hierarchy panel.

• New Objects: SQL Template Designer - Datastores, VM guests and VM servers are now available as scope widgets in the SQL Template Designer, allowing for report templates created for these objects to display in the Inventory.

• Standardizing Icons for Success, Warning and Failure - In an effort to make the status more readily identifiable, we added a graphic component to some legacy color indicators to represent common status states. This also helps with color-related accessibility issues. These new icons appear in several reports and in the Portal.

• Scheduling and Alerting now accepts CRON expressions - Using CRON expressions adds more flexibility to scheduling operations in the Portal. This has also been added to reports when scheduling alerts. See Configuring Master Schedules and Viewing and Managing Your Scheduled Reports.

• Host Group Overview in the Inventory now allows you to configure the dashboard portlets with your custom attributes, providing a view of the data further honed to your environment. This feature enables you to select any defined Attribute and have it render as a part of the pie chart. The feature also allows you to change the position of the portlet on the dashboard.

• New Apache Version Support - Apache 2.4.33 is now supported for new installs on both Linux and Windows to take advantage of the latest security patches.

• Label Changes on Data Collector Administration and Status pages - To create consistency and clarity around the status of a Collector and policies, the labels have been changed on buttons and in the grid. For collectors, button labels have been changed from Turn On to Enable and Turn Off to Disable. For policies, button labels have changed from Activate to Enable and Stop to Disable.

• Support Tools Update - The default sorting has been changed to display the last request first and the percentage of download complete is now displayed when appropriate.

• Name Change for IBM TSM - Throughout the Portal menus, dialogs and report titles, IBM TSM has been updated to IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM). The following report names have been changed:

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Policy Domains has been changed to IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) Policy Domains.