Geneos 5.x Release Notes
Overview
Geneos release notes contain the list of enhancements of features, and a set of issues fixed in the current release.
This page contains release notes for all Geneos 5.x releases.
For the latest highlights, see What's New in Geneos.
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Geneos Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.
Upcoming Geneos release
Geneos follows a two-month release cycle. The next planned release for Geneos 5.7.x is March 2021.
Geneos compatibility and lifecycle
The notice of change in the Geneos compatibility identifies the components, plugins, or features that will no longer be supported by ITRS in any future releases.
To view all the changes to Geneos compatibility and lifecycle, refer to Geneos Compatibility Matrix.
Important
- The ITRS Maven repository has changed its location from
<url>https://itrsgroup.bintray.com/collection</url>to<url>https://maven.itrsgroup.com/repository/public</url>. Please update all the existing links as they will stop working by end of February 2021. - Netprobe 5.1.x is not generally available to download except for Netprobe 5.1.0 -64 package certified for deployment on Solace devices. Please download version 5.2.x or newer for all other deployments.
- Support for Geneos 3.x ended on 30 April 2020. We strongly advise you to upgrade to version 4.x or newer as soon as possible.
- From the release of Geneos 5.0.x, there will be no interoperability with other Geneos components older than version 3.6.x. In order to successfully deploy or upgrade to Geneos 5.0.x in a staged manner, you must first ensure that no other connecting Geneos components are older than version 3.6.x. This change is a result of the removal of LZO compression support in the inter-component EMF2 communication protocol.
- Collection Agent plugins require an additional licence to use. Please contact your ITRS Account Manager or ITRS Sales.
If you have any question or concerns, please contact ITRS Support.
End of support
The end of support means that the affected component, plugin, or feature is no longer supported and this ends the release of binaries. The table below lists the affected components, plugins, and features:
| Notice of change | Affected components | Effective date | Alternative or Upgrade path |
|---|---|---|---|
| End of support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.x | All versions of Collection Agent, Gateway, Licence Daemon, SSO Agent, Web Dashboard, Webslinger | 31 July 2021 |
Upgrade to RHEL 7.x or higher. For more information, see the notice from Red Hat article. ITRS will continue to support running the Netprobe and plugins on RHEL 6.x at least until the end of 2021. |
| End of support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.x | All versions of Netprobe and all other Geneos components | 31 December 2021 | Uprade to RHEL 7.x or higher. For more information, see the notice from Red Hat article. |
Geneos 5.6.0
Released: 9 February 2021
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Active Console
- Collection Agent
- Docker Image
- Gateway
- Kubernetes plugin
- Netprobe
- SSO Agent
- Web Dashboard
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
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JDBC plugin can now publish query results to Geneos streams to be consumed by other plugins, such as File Keyword Monitor and State Tracker.
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SQL Toolkit plugin now supports authentication for environments.
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Gateways now support connecting to Gateway Hub using Hub Application Keys. This simplifies the configuration required to securely connect to Gateway Hub.
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You can now adjust the width of the Metrics view navigation pane to improve visibility.
JDBC plugin
You can now enable the publishing of query results to a stream. When streaming is enabled, headlines for stream information appear in the query dataview.
SQL Toolkit plugin
SQL Toolkit plugin on environment now supports authentication through Kerberos when connecting to MS SQL Server database. This enables a more secure connection to MS SQL Server from environments.
For more information, see SQL Toolkit documentation.
Metrics dockable
Beginning Geneos 5.6.x, you can now adjust the width of the navigation pane in the View > Metrics by dragging the line border to the left or right.
For more information, see Metrics dockable documentation.
Breaking changes
These are the breaking changes in this release:
New ITRS Maven repository
The ITRS Maven repository has changed its location from <url>https://itrsgroup.bintray.com/collection</url> to <url>https://maven.itrsgroup.com/repository/public</url>. Please update all the existing links as they will stop working by end of February 2021.
Workspace directory
Beginning Geneos 5.6.x, Active Console now sets the new workspace default directory to the following paths:
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On :
~\ITRS\ActiveConsole -
On and :
~/ITRS/ActiveConsole/
The new default workspace directory is used when creating a new workspace, but all existing workspaces are not affected. For more information, see Workspace directory in Active Console.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-5788 | Gateway | Gateways now support connecting to Gateway Hub using Hub Application Keys. |
| AA-5830 | Netprobe | Collection Agent DataPoint dimensions have been added to the Geneos dataview rows as runtime parameters. |
| AA-5949 | Docker Image | Improved the wait code in the Gateway container that is used when waiting for a Gateway Hub to become available. |
| COL-4658 | Netprobe | Netprobes run as service or in the command line can now use variables set in the registry, system level environment, or in local user session environment. |
| COL-8295 | Netprobe | SQL Toolkit plugin connecting to MS SQL Server database now supports authentication through Kerberos in Netprobes. |
| COL-9297 | Netprobe | JDBC plugin now supports an option to publish query results to Geneos streams to be consumed by other plugins, such as File Keyword Monitor and State Tracker. |
| COL-9394 | Netprobe | You can now set the qualified path name as the rowname in the Queue plugin. This is done with the useFullPathForRowname setting, and prevents duplicate rows arising from similar queue names. |
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COL-9397 UTL-1173 |
Netprobe
SSO Agent |
The Bouncy Castle libraries have been upgraded to 1.68 to address the security vulnerability issue: CVE-2019-17359. |
| COL-9425 | Netprobe | Webmon plugin on can now accept principals and keytabs to facilitate automatic Kerberos ticket renewal. |
| COL-9482 | Netprobe | Upgraded the Collection Agent to 2.2.1 and the Kubernetes plugin to 2.0.6. |
| UTL-1174 | SSO Agent |
The Undertow Core libraries have been upgraded to
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| VI-9084 | Active Console, GSE | You can now set up a CyberArk Local Credential Provider password agent to retrieve passwords for database connections for historical charts, and querying events in the Active Console. |
| VI-9110 | Web Server | You can now set up a CyberArk Local Credential Provider password agent to retrieve passwords for database connections for historical charts and in the Web Dashboard. |
| VI-9189 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console sets the new default workspace directory to ~\ITRS\ActiveConsole for and ~/ITRS/ActiveConsole/ for and . The new default workspace directory is used when creating a new workspace, but all existing workspaces are not affected. |
| VI-9193 | Active Console, GSE | The Initial Download size (kb) label has been changed to Initial Download size (max of 1024 kb). |
| VI-9203 | Active Console, GSE | You can now adjust the width of the Metrics view navigation pane by dragging the line border to the left or right. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| C2-251 | Collection Agent | Periodic collectors now use a different sleep strategy to mitigate inconsistent collection intervals. |
| C2-255 | Collection Agent | The Bouncy Castle libraries have been upgraded to 1.68 to address the security vulnerability issue: CVE-2020-28052. |
| COL-1667 | Netprobe | Netprobe now exits when terminated with CTRL+C while using the SQL Toolkit plugin. |
| COL-1674 | Netprobe | The SQL Server port now works when using a non-standard (non-default) port number in the SQL Toolkit plugin. |
| COL-8069 | Netprobe | Netprobe now displays warning messages in the Netprobe logs when it disconnects from the Gateway. Previously, these messages were tagged as Info. |
| COL-8265 | Netprobe | Netprobe libcurl library now uses OpenSSL. |
| COL-9179 | Netprobe | Netprobe no longer crashes when terminated with CTRL+C while using the SQL Toolkit plugin. |
| COL-9447 | Netprobe | Extra None: string is no longer added to messages received by the Netprobe from the Kubernetes plugin. |
| COL-9456 | Netprobe | The Disk plugin publishing schema has been updated to accept float64 and int64 values. |
| COL-9498 | Netprobe | Fixed the WebMon segmentation fault when using gss-negotiate and Netprobe is terminated with CTRL+C. |
| VI-1957 | Active Console, GSE | Duplicate commands from different Gateways with different groupings now display correctly in the Active Console context menu. |
| VI-9145 | Active Console, GSE | Selecting Chart > Interpolate now enables interpolation for all of the chart's datasets. |
| VI-9194 | Active Console, GSE | The maximum value of the Initial Download size field in the View File dialog box has been set to 1024. |
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
|---|---|
| AA-5479 |
Library jQuery 1.2.6 is flagged as a security vulnerability by BlackDuck. The reported security vulnerabilities are: BDSA-2014-0063, BDSA-2020-0686 and BDSA-2015-0567. Affected component: Gateway (Express Reports) Planned fix version: Q1 2021 |
| COL-7307 |
Library xercesImpl.jar (version 2.7.1) is flagged as a security vulnerability by BlackDuck. The reported security vulnerability is: CVE-2012-0881. Affected component: Control-M plugin Planned fix version: Q1 2021 |
| COL-7931 |
Library Apache log4j-core-2.7.jar is flagged as a security vulnerability by BlackDuck. The reported security vulnerability is: CVE-2017-5645. Affected component: Control-M plugin Planned fix version: Q1 2021 |
| COL-7932 |
Library Apache log4j-core-2.7.jar is flagged as a security vulnerability by BlackDuck. The reported security vulnerability is: CVE-2017-5645. Affected component: VMware Monitor plugin Planned fix version: Q1 2021 |
| COL-7933 |
Library Apache log4j 1.2.16 is flagged as a security vulnerability by BlackDuck. The reported security vulnerabilities are: CVE-2019-17571 and BDSA-2017-0180. Affected component: Terracotta Universal Messaging plugin Planned fix version: Q1 2021 |
| COL-7934 |
Library Apache log4j 1.2.8 is flagged as a security vulnerability by BlackDuck. The reported security vulnerabilities are: CVE-2019-17571 and BDSA-2017-0180. Affected component: Control-M plugin Planned fix version: Q1 2021 |
| COL-8009 |
Library jQuery 1.4.2 is flagged as a security vulnerability by BlackDuck. The reported security vulnerabilities are: BDSA-2014-0063 BDSA-2020-0686 and BDSA-2015-0567. Affected component: Market Data Monitor Feed Adapter API Kit Planned fix version: Q1 2021 |
| UTL-1135 |
Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12. As a workaround, revert to |
| UTL-1157 |
The or RHEL 8 system version of As a workaround, you may remove or rename the Planned fix version: Q4 2021 |
| UTL-1158 |
The or RHEL 8 system version of As a workaround, you may remove or rename the Planned fix version: Q4 2021 |
| VI-9031 | Library activemq-5.15.10 is flagged as a security vulnerability by BlackDuck. The reported security vulnerabilities are BDSA-2021-0225, CVE-2020-1941 and CVE-2020-13920. |
Geneos 5.5.2
Released: 7 January 2021
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Netprobe
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| COL-9404 | Netprobe |
Message plugin now applies the This change is only applicable on platforms. |
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
|---|---|
| COL-8265 |
When running Webmon plugin on platform requiring secure HTTPS connection, Webmon is unable to locate certificate and key files. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.6.0 |
| UTL-1135 |
Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12. As a workaround, revert to |
| UTL-1157 |
The or RHEL 8 system version of As a workaround, you may remove or rename the Planned fix version: Q4 2021 |
| UTL-1158 |
The or RHEL 8 system version of As a workaround, you may remove or rename the Planned fix version: Q4 2021 |
Geneos 5.5.1
Released: 17 December 2020
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Active Console
- Collection Agent
- Gateway
- Netprobe
- Web Server
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
- The new JDBC plugin lets you query DB2 databases running in .
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| COL-5798 | Netprobe | The TCP Links plugin no longer uses netstat tools package by default for Netprobe. |
| COL-9296 | Netprobe | The new JDBC plugin now supports publishing query results from DB2 for i. |
| COL-9302 | Gateway | All the cells in a row in a dynamically populated dataview now have the same dimensions including the names and values. |
| COL-9424 | Netprobe | Collection Agent 2.2.0 is now packaged with Netprobe 5.5.1. |
| VI-9195 | Active Console, GSE | The jackson libraries have been upgraded to 2.11.3 to address the security vulnerability issue: BDSA-2020-2965. |
| VI-9196 | Web Server |
The jetty libraries have been upgraded to 9.4.34 to address the following security vulnerability issues:
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Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| C2-219 | Collection Agent | Transient collector exceptions are now included in the error logs. |
| C2-249 | Collection Agent | Fixed the deserialisation error caused by extreme samples in a TimerHistogram. |
| COL-8381 | Netprobe | RMS restart command for Netprobe running as a service now works correctly. |
| COL-9121 | Netprobe | FLM publishing schema now contains consistent data types. |
| COL-9292 | Netprobe | RMS Shutdown now works properly on Netprobe Service. |
| COL-9407 | Netprobe | Fixed the deserialisation error that caused the Netprobe to drop the connection to the Collection Agent. |
| COL-9408 | Netprobe | Fixed the high CPU usage in the Dynamic Entities module when receiving a large number of updates. |
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
|---|---|
| COL-8265 |
When running Webmon plugin on platform requiring secure HTTPS connection, Webmon is unable to locate certificate and key files. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.6.0 |
| UTL-1135 |
Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12. As a workaround, revert to |
| UTL-1157 |
The or RHEL 8 system version of As a workaround, you may remove or rename the Planned fix version: Q4 2021 |
| UTL-1158 |
The or RHEL 8 system version of As a workaround, you may remove or rename the Planned fix version: Q4 2021 |
Geneos 5.5.0
Released: 25 November 2020
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Active Console
- File Agent
- FIX Analyser 2
- Integration: Azure Monitor
- Kubernetes Collection Agent plugin
- Licence Auditor
- Licence Daemon
- Gateway
- Netprobe
- SSO Agent
- Web Dashboard
- Webslinger
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
- Gateway Database Logging for MSSQL Server now supports the Kerberos authentication.
- Improved support for Geneos components to work in deployments where communication is required to pass through load balancers.
- Improved support for user-friendly display names in the Active Console for probe, entity, and sampler.
Gateway
Gateway now supports the Kerberos authentication when connecting to Microsoft SQL Server for database logging. The default ODBC driver string has been updated to ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server.
For more information, see Gateway Database Logging.
SSO Agent
The SSO Agent provides tokens used to authorise the users to access Geneos components. In this release, the SSO Agent now works correctly behind a load balancer with multiple nodes making it easier for a token to be used by a different client than the one to which it was issued.
For more information, see Tokens and token lifetimes in SSO Agent User Guide.
Breaking changes
These are the breaking changes in this release:
New binary file name for Geneos components
As part of the improvements to automate our deployment process, the binary file naming convention in ITRS Downloads has been changed from geneos-<component>-<version>.<os>.tar.gz to geneos-<component>-<version>-<os>.tar.gz. This change applies beginning Geneos 5.5.x.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-4396 | Gateway | Gateway now supports the Kerberos authentication ( Integrated Authentication) when connecting to Microsoft SQL Server for database logging and retrieving adaptive rules datasets. |
| AA-5725 | Licence Auditor |
Licence Auditor is now available for 64-bit. The previous package for 32-bit is no longer available. |
| AA-5848 | Gateway | You can now use the centralised configuration without enabling SSO in the Gateway Hub. |
| AA-5889 | Gateway | Added support for GATEWAY_CONFIG and NETPROBE_CONFIG environments in the Geneos docker images. |
| COL-7672 | File Agent |
File Agent is now available for 64-bit. The previous package for 32-bit is no longer available. |
| COL-8025 | Schema | The Groups setting in the File Keyword Monitor plugin is now deprecated. |
| COL-8133 | Netprobe | The REST Extractor plugin now supports JQ expressions and field names in the Response token field. |
| COL-8820 | Netprobe | Self-Announcing Netprobes now support configuration for external passwords using CyberArk. |
| COL-8898 | Integration | The Azure Monitor integration now uses compatible Python library versions. |
| COL-9290 | Netprobe | The Kubernetes Collection Agent plugin has been upgraded to version 2.0.5. |
| UTL-1133 | Netprobe |
Net-SNMP has been upgraded to version 5.9. This is used by both Mibmon and Trapmon plugin. This update addresses the following:
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| UTL-1167 | Active Console, GSE, Gateway, Netprobe, Webslinger, Licence Daemon, FIX Analyser 2 | Geneos components now use the TLS SNI feature to indicate the hostname when connecting to a host which is identified by name. |
| VI-8248 | Active Console, GSE | You can now open the Active Console and GSE as a standalone application on without getting this warning message: Active Console can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. |
| VI-8609 | Active Console, GSE | The fields in the Command dialog box have been modified to display the text fields correctly. |
|
VI-8996 VI-9168 |
Active Console, GSE | The -wsp and -ws flags now support environment variables in specifying paths in the ActiveConsole.gci file. |
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VI-9159 VI-9161 |
Active Console, GSE | The Copy from <name> and Create Notifier Filter options in the gw/probe/ME/sampler/dataview context menu now use the display name when it is available. |
| VI-9162 | Active Console, GSE | The Copy from <name> > Send Properties to Output Viewer command in gw/probe/ME/sampler/dataview now uses the display name as the tab name when it is available. |
| VI-9160 | Active Console, GSE | The Entity Display Name has been added in the Event Tickers Dockable. |
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VI-9181 VI-9182 |
Active Console, GSE | The user readable paths throughout the Active Console and Gateway Setup Editor now use the Managed Entity display name when it is available, except if GSE is opened as a standalone application. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-5047 | Gateway | The Kafka adapter used by Gateway now closes down correctly even if message acknowledgements continue to be received from a Kafka broker long after the messages were sent. Also, the Gateway log now shows the name of the Kafka topic if the broker reports that the topic is unknown. |
| AA-5248 | Gateway, FIX Analyser 2, Netprobe | When a floating probe connects to a Gateway for which no floating probes are configured, the messages logged by the Gateway and Netprobe no longer refer to a licensing issue, or incorrectly refer to the Netprobe as a Self-Announcing Netprobe. |
| AA-5521 | Gateway | On AIX systems, the Netprobe standard output now shows the correct offset from UTC in the default timestamp format. |
| AA-5763 | Gateway | Setup permissions on the main Gateway setup file can now be granted by specifying the name of the file, as an alternative to using the Main file check box. This may be useful where permissions are granted in a setup include file. |
| AA-5805 | Gateway | In Dynamic Mappings, if both the Display name mapping and the GeneosDisplayName attribute mapping are set, then the mapping that will be used is the GeneosDisplayName attribute (GSE will prompt a warning message). |
| AA-5808 | Gateway | The GeneosDisplayName attribute now correctly works when defined in the self-monitoring Managed Entity. |
| AA-5823 | Gateway | You can now use the password argument type when invoking a command from an Effect. |
| AA-5839 | Gateway | Command arguments of type Parameter are now handled correctly when an Effect invokes a command. |
| AA-5843 | Gateway | Gateway now correctly handles a setup change which does not change the database logging passwords, but which enables or disables password lookup through a CyberArk Local Credential Provider. |
| AA-5874 | Gateway | Gateway no longer crashes when a command effect is invoked by a throttle summary action. |
| C2-182 | Kubernetes Collection Agent plugin | The Apache Commons Codec library has been upgraded to 1.14 to address the security vulnerability issue: BDSA-2012-0001. |
| C2-202 | Kubernetes Collection Agent plugin | KubernetesLogCollector now resumes operation if inode is reused after rollover. |
| COL-1402 | Netprobe | Processes plugin can now handle long arguments in and AIX. |
| COL-7602 | Netprobe | Netprobe no longer opens a database connection when loading a new SQL Toolkit plugin. |
| COL-8103 | Netprobe | The REST Extractor plugin can now create dataviews following empty data on start. |
|
COL-8728 COL-8896 |
Netprobe | Bloomberg B-Pipe plugin now handles null element in the Application and Summary dataview. |
| COL-8808 | Netprobe | IBM i plugin publishing schema has been updated to be consistent with the Gateway. |
| COL-9147 | Netprobe | The expectedTime cell is now correctly displayed in the FTM dataview when approaching the start or the end of Daylight Savings Time and when approaching the next year. |
| UTL-1168 | Gateway, Netprobe, Webslinger, FIX Analyser 2 | Geneos components now correctly validates the TLS certificates with expiry dates. |
| UTL-1169 | SSO Agent |
SSO Agent now allows the check to be disabled which compares the address of the client to which a token was issued with the address of the client presenting the token. This change allows the SSO Agent to work correctly behind a load balancer with multiple nodes. |
| VI-1383 | Active Console, GSE | The scaling of duplicated dashboard objects has been fixed when the dashboard is zoomed. |
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
|---|---|
| COL-8265 |
When running Webmon plug-in on platform requiring secure HTTPS connection, Webmon is unable to locate certificate and key files. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.6.0 |
| COL-8381 |
RMS restart command for Netprobe running as a service on Server 2012 R2 does not work. Known issue since: Geneos 5.1.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.1 |
| UTL-1135 |
Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12. As a workaround, revert to |
| UTL-1157 |
The or RHEL 8 system version of As a workaround, you may remove or rename the Planned fix version: Q4 2020 |
| UTL-1158 |
The or RHEL 8 system version of As a workaround, you may remove or rename the Planned fix version: Q4 2020 |
Geneos 5.4.0
Released: 30 September 2020
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Active Console
- Collection Agent
- Docker Image
- Gateway
- Netprobe
- Web Server
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
- Self-monitoring in Geneos is now enabled by default with no configuration required.
- Both Gateways and Netprobes are now available as Docker images for easy deployment. You can download them from the ITRS docker registry.
- The Control-M plugin now supports BMC Control-M versions 9.0.19 and 9.0.20.
- Tibco EMS plugins now support client and server-side SSL authentication for more secure connectivity.
- FTM plugin can now identify and monitor file transfers that occur on a specific day of the month, specific weekday, or business day of a month.
Geneos containers
Gateways or Netprobes are now available as Docker images to run as containers. This is especially useful for deploying Geneos in orchestrated environments.
To run Geneos containers, you must download the container image from the ITRS docker registry. This prompts you to provide login details, these are the same as the credentials you have been provided to access the ITRS website.
For more information, see Install in Geneos Containers.
Control-M plugin
The Control-M plugin now supports BMC Control-M versions 9.0.19 and 9.0.20. This update also includes new metrics for the estimated start and end times, as well as the ability to find out the reasons why a waiting job has not yet been executed.
For more information, see Metrics and dataviews in the Control-M Plugin Technical Reference documentation.
File Transfer Monitor plugin
Beginning Geneos 5.4.x, the FTM plugin now has the capability to associate working days when monitoring files monthly. Also, this plugin can now count the working days either from the start or the end of the month.
For more information, see Day of month in the File Transfer Monitor (FTM) Plugin Technical Reference documentation.
Breaking changes
These are the breaking changes in this release:
Self-monitoring in Geneos
Beginning Geneos 5.4.x, self-monitoring in Geneos is now enabled by default with no configuration required.
This results in an Entity being dynamically created called <gateway_name> Info which contains samplers and dataviews that are automatically enabled with no configuration required. These samplers and dataviews are created using the existing Gateway plugins which you may already have manually configured in your Gateways.
If you do not wish the Gateway to automatically create a self-monitoring Entity, you can disable this feature in the Gateway > Operating environment section.
For more information, see operatingEnvironment > selfMonitoring in Gateway Operating Environment documentation.
In addition, an Entity is automatically created for all running Gateways to utilise its existing built-in plugins and to dynamically start monitoring its performance. Monitoring includes data on the performance of the Gateways, connected Netprobes, and client applications, such as Active Console, connectivity to Gateway Hub, and summary of key activities including severity, snooze, and user assignments.
E4JMS plugin
Beginning Geneos 5.4.x, the E4JMS plugin supports SSL client authentication. This feature introduces breaking changes to the E4JMS plugin SSL implementation for older Geneos versions.
If you are using SSL connections on your E4JMS plugins, you must update your configuration when using the new schema.
For more information, see E4JMS Plugin Technical Reference.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-5509 | Gateway | The algorithm used by Gateway to remove duplicates when evaluating XML path expressions has been optimised. This improves performance when parsing large setup files. |
|
AA-5655 COL-8444 |
Gateway, Netprobe, Docker Image | Docker images containing the Gateway and Netprobe are now available from ITRS Docker website. |
| AA-5665 | Gateway | The librdkafka libraries have been updated to 1.5. You may refer to the official documentation of librdkafka libraries in Github for more information. |
| AA-5697 | Gateway | The new templates for Kubernetes monitoring and Cloud Foundry monitoring have been added to the Geneos Gateway package. |
| AA-5727 | Gateway | Gateway now automatically adds a self-monitoring Managed Entity. You can disable this option if you want to get more control over what self-monitoring is provided. |
| AA-5737 | Gateway Schema | The schema for Dynamic Entity mappings now includes an optional section called Entity Display Name Mapping. This is converted by the Gateway to mapping for a special entity attribute, GeneosDisplayName. When this attribute is present on a Dynamic Entity, it sets the display name for the entity. |
| AA-5738 | Gateway |
When publishing to Gateway Hub, if an entity has a display name defined, it will be published with an attribute called |
| AA-5744 | Gateway | The template setup files supplied with Gateway, templates/gateway.setup.xml.tmpl and templates/gateway.setup.withdefaults.xml.tmpl, now specify the Gateway name as Demo Gateway so that either of them can be used unaltered as the initial setup of a Gateway in demo mode. |
| AA-5764 | Gateway | Gateway now logs an error if a call made to the Hub API fails. |
| AA-5780 | Gateway | The display name for a Managed Entity can now be set by defining an attribute with the name GeneosDisplayName. Setting either of these now sets the other. If there is a conflict, the attribute takes precedence. |
|
AA-5782 COL-9113 |
Gateway, Netprobe | Gateway and Netprobe no longer log drop connections when you use the listen port to check if the Gateway or Netprobe is alive. |
| COL-7601 | Netprobe | Control-M plugin now includes metrics for estimatedStartTime and estimatedEndTime in the dataview. |
| COL-8192 | Netprobe | Control-M plugin now supports Control-M versions 9.0.19 and 9.0.20. |
| COL-8829 | Netprobe | Encoded passwords can now be defined in the Netprobe setup file. |
| COL-8900 | Netprobe | E4JMS plugins now support client authentication. |
| COL-8901 | Netprobe | E4JMS plugins now support optional SSL bypassing host verification, as well as E4JMS server version 8.5.1. |
| COL-8980 | Netprobe | Control-M now displays the Waiting Info parameter in the dataview. |
|
COL-9064 COL-9065 |
Netprobe |
File Transfer Monitor plugin now has the capability to associate working days when monitoring files monthly. In addition, the FTM plugin can count the working days either from the start or the end of the month. |
| COL-9070 | Netprobe | The Collection Agent has been updated to 2.1.2. |
| COL-9112 | Netprobe | The display name for a Managed Entity created by a Self-Announcing Netprobe can be set by defining the GeneosDisplayName attribute in the probe setup file. |
| UTL-1130 | Netprobe | GLib 1.2.10 and its headers have been removed. These were used by TIB RV, Fidessa, GL SLE TCP, GL Routers, and GL Permissions plugins. |
| VI-9033 | Web Server |
The Jetty library in the Web Server has been upgraded to 9.4.30 to address the following security vulnerability issues:
|
| VI-9090 | Web Server | Improved error handling when a non-numerical value is used for a time, row, and column on TileServlet. This addresses the vulnerability issue: QID 150022. |
| VI-9111 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console can now retrieve encrypted passwords from the Gateway. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-5383 | Gateway | The probe hostname is now available to script actions and effects as _NETPROBE_HOST whether or not the rule threads are enabled. |
| AA-5687 | Gateway | Gateway now correctly applies sync level requests from the Active Console. |
| AA-5719 | Gateway | Gateway now supports the use of an effect for a throttle summary action. The set of environment variables available to an effect in this context is the same as for an action invoked directly. |
| AA-5760 | Gateway | Gateway Hub validation of Gateway setup files does not check for the creation of files in the working directory, since this is a local check that Gateway Hub cannot perform. |
| AA-5761 | Gateway | Gateway Hub validation of Gateway setup files does not check for a missing data directory, since this is a local check that Gateway Hub cannot perform. |
| AA-5762 | Gateway | Gateway Hub validation of Gateway setup files does not check for a missing Scheduled Command log directory, since this is a local check that Gateway Hub cannot perform. |
| AA-5771 | Gateway | Gateway now correctly reencodes AES-encoded credentials created using a Gateway key file for the Mibmon plugin. |
| AA-5783 | Gateway | Gateway no longer produces a race condition when an action that has been triggered but not processed is deleted by a setup change. |
| AA-5790 | Gateway | Dynamic Entity mappings now correctly expand variables in Dynamic Mappings using the environment provided in the Dynamic Mapping Type. |
| C2-181 | Collection Agent | The SnakeYAML library has been upgraded to 1.26 to address the security vulnerability issue: CVE-2017-18640. |
| C2-200 | Collection Agent |
Fixed a timing issue where metric collection fails if a thread is removed while collecting metrics about that thread. |
| C2-203 | Collection Agent | The JVM no longer retains handles to store files that were deleted. The deleted files are now properly released and the disk space is reclaimed. |
| COL-7016 | Netprobe | The Process thread count in the monitored Java application no longer increases unexpectedly when a timeout is encountered in the JMX connection. |
| COL-8912 | Netprobe | Fixed the auto-restart issue in Netprobe due to the incorrect memory protection logic on high memory usage probes. |
| COL-9017 | Netprobe | Netprobe no longer crashes when you use any combination of records and fields in a string value. The string value now accepts records of more than 255 characters. |
| VI-8067 | Active Console, GSE | The Title Text and Scale Label Fonts in the Gauge Properties now display the correct values in the Object Inspector. |
| VI-8949 | Active Console, GSE | The floating dockables in the Active Console now display the correct severity icons when the Active Console has started. |
| VI-9075 | Gateway Schema |
Gateway Setup Editor now marks the static text in the Dynamic Entity mapping in
|
| VI-9126 | Active Console, GSE | An error, NullPointerException, no longer occurs when you add historical line charts. |
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
|---|---|
| AA-5521 |
On , the Netprobe standard output does not show the correct offset from UTC in the new default timestamp format. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.0 |
| COL-8265 |
When running Webmon plug-in on platform requiring secure HTTPS connection, Webmon is unable to locate certificate and key files. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.6.0 |
| COL-8381 |
RMS restart command for Netprobe running as a service on Server 2012 R2 does not work. Known issue since: Geneos 5.1.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.1 |
| UTL-1135 |
Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12. As a workaround, revert to |
| UTL-1157 |
The or RHEL 8 system version of As a workaround, you may remove or rename the Planned fix version: Q3 2020 |
| UTL-1158 |
The or RHEL 8 system version of As a workaround, you may remove or rename the Planned fix version: Q3 2020 |
Geneos 5.3.1
Released: 12 August 2020
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Gateway
- Netprobe
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| COL-8677 | Netprobe | Log Reader plugin now supports an optional feature to resume reading from the last read position when Netprobe is restarted. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| COL-8623 | Netprobe | Data ingestion errors are no longer encountered when sending data from the Processes plugin to the Gateway Hub. |
| VI-9085 | Schema | The Gateway setup schema now allows an empty string to be specified as the CyberArk SDK path on . This has the same effect as omitting the setting completely, the documented default value will be used. |
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
|---|---|
| AA-5521 |
On , the Netprobe standard output does not show the correct offset from UTC in the new default timestamp format. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.0 |
| COL-8265 |
When running Webmon plug-in on platform requiring secure HTTPS connection, Webmon is unable to locate certificate and key files. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.6.0 |
| COL-8381 |
RMS restart command for Netprobe running as a service on Server 2012 R2 does not work. Known issue since: Geneos 5.1.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.1 |
| UTL-1135 |
Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12. As a workaround, revert to |
Geneos 5.3.0
Released: 28 July 2020
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Active Console
- FIX Analyser 2
- Gateway
- Kubernetes plugin
- Netprobe
- Web Server
- Webslinger
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
- Collect and monitor log files from systems
- Automate Netprobe configuration using environment macros
- Improved CyberArk password vault support
Log Reader plugin
New Log Reader plugin collects log files from the Integrated File System. You can configure Log Reader sampler to read log files from the IFS, then send the contents of the log files as a stream for consumption by other plugins, such as the FKM and State Tracker plugins.
You can use File Keyword Monitor and State Tracker plugins to monitor and analyse application logs. Also, this plugin can publish the collected log data to Elasticsearch which makes it easier to aggregate and monitor log files from multiple platforms.
For more information, see Log Reader documentation.
Netprobe configuration using environment macros
Netprobe setup file now supports using macros to access environment variables available to the host platform. The macros are resolved to values of environment variables from the Netprobe host.
Also, the reference information from hosts, services, and other sources to simplify and automate Self-Announcing Netprobes configurations is now available to use.
For more information, see OS environment variables in Netprobe setup documentation.
CyberArk password vault support
Gateway and Netprobe now support integration with CyberArk Credential Provider (CP) for more secure access to passwords.
For more information, see CyberArk Credential Provider in Secure Passwords documentation.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-5679 | Gateway |
You can now configure Gateway to use the local CyberArk Credential Provider. Once configured:
|
| AA-5680 | Netprobe, FIX Analyser 2, Schema | Netprobe plugins that support AES encrypted passwords now also support requesting passwords from a CyberArk Credential Provider running on the same host as the Netprobe. |
| AA-5683 | Gateway, Netprobe, FIX Analyser 2 |
When Gateway is configured to use a local CyberArk Credential Provider, supported plugins now request the current value of passwords at the time these are needed. Gateway searches for incorrectly configured passwords on each sample which may impact the performance of other plugins. |
| AA-5688 | Webslinger |
Webslinger now supports more characters in the following:
|
| AA-5694 | Gateway | The CyberArk Application ID is now optional. If not set, then Gateway uses ITRS-Geneos as a default value. |
| COL-8544 | Netprobe | Netprobe now has a new Log Reader plugin which reads logs from IFS files from an machine. |
| COL-8545 | Netprobe | Log Reader plugin now supports an optional rewind feature to read IFS files at the beginning of a file. |
| COL-8546 | Netprobe | The State Tracker plugin can monitor streams from Log Reader plugin. |
| COL-8547 | Netprobe | New i Log Reader plugin supports log filenames with wildcard support matching for last updated file. |
| COL-8550 | Netprobe | Netprobe now supports environment macros in the Netprobe setup file. |
| COL-8661 | Netprobe | Netprobe no longer terminates a process ID that was previously used by the Collection Agent that terminated unexpectedly. |
| VI-9047 | Active Console, GSE, Web Server | The Postgresql library has been upgraded to v42.2.13 to address the security vulnerability issue: CVE-2020-13692 (BDSA-2020-1318). |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-5696 | Netprobe | Netprobe no longer crashes on executing Show Dynamic Mappings for an item which mapping generates or allows invalid characters in an entity, sampler, or dataview name and which specifies entity attributes. |
| AA-5701 | Gateway | Gateway no longer crashes when validating a setup which contains a plugin configured to use an external password specified as an empty string. |
| AA-5707 | Gateway | Fixed spelling error in the Gateway example hook script. |
| C2-194 | Kubernetes plugin | An unscheduled pod now has the correct dimensions applied. |
| COL-7593 | Netprobe | Netprobe log does not get flooded with unnecessary download status when using setup from URL. |
| COL-8485 | Netprobe | Fixed an issue where the TIB-RV plugin caused Netprobe 5.x to crash on platforms. |
| COL-8658 | Netprobe | FIX Analyser 2 has a new debug setting called deferred_orders that can be used to suppress out of order debug messages. |
| COL-8739 | Netprobe | Netprobe no longer crashes after changing FKM configuration with UTF Content-type. |
| VI-8069 | Active Console, GSE | The Tick Distance (%) field in Gauge Settings now displays the correct value in the Object Inspector. |
| VI-8137 | Active Console, GSE | Active Volume Bars no longer allow the Minimum Value field to contain a higher value than the set Maximum Value field. |
| VI-8226 | Active Console, GSE | Multiple selected properties in Object Inspector now display the correct similar values. |
| VI-8728 | Active Console, GSE | The Close (X) button for removing elements in the Path Editor is now more visible. |
| VI-8834 | Active Console, GSE | The Bar Chart's dataset or bars no longer disappear. |
| VI-8964 | Active Console, GSE | The Group Properties Settings in the Object Inspector now correctly apply changes to the dashboard objects. |
| VI-9056 | Active Console, GSE | You can now modify or delete the Time Series charts. |
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
|---|---|
| AA-5521 |
On , the Netprobe standard output does not show the correct offset from UTC in the new default timestamp format. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.0 |
| COL-8265 |
When running Webmon plug-in on platform requiring secure HTTPS connection, Webmon is unable to locate certificate and key files. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.6.0 |
| COL-8381 |
RMS restart command for Netprobe running as a service on Server 2012 R2 does not work. Known issue since: Geneos 5.1.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.1 |
| UTL-1135 |
Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12. As a workaround, revert to |
Geneos 5.2.2
Released: 3 July 2020
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Active Console
- Gateway 2
- Netprobe
- Kubernetes plugin
Breaking changes
These are the breaking changes in this release:
State Tracker plugin
The State Tracker > Rewind option in Gateway Setup Editor is now disabled by default.
For more information, see trackerGroup > trackers > tracker > rewind in State Tracker Technical Reference.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| COL-8043 | Netprobe | Netprobe now captures JQ exceptions when using the REST Extractor plugin. |
| COL-8743 | Netprobe |
The packaged Kubernetes plugin has been updated to 2.0.3. This fixes an issue where metrics from Kubernetes API can have stale timestamps. |
| VI-8936 | Active Console, GSE | Queries used for importing events from Gateway Hub now display in the Output dockable when debug mode is enabled. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-5682 | Gateway | Gateway now always evaluates attributes used by rules from the target managed entity. This occurs even when a rule is evaluated due to a change to a secondary data item addressed by a path alias. |
| COL-8238 | Schema | The State Tracker > Rewind option in GSE is now disabled by default. |
| COL-8349 | Netprobe | Netprobe no longer crashes when RMC evaluates strings longer than 300 characters. Also, the RMC Fields > Strip functionality now returns the correct value. |
| COL-8741 | Gateway, Netprobe | Netprobe no longer rejects Dynamic Entities that generate items with dots in the item (managed entity, sampler, dataview, and row) names. |
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
|---|---|
| AA-5521 |
On , the Netprobe standard output does not show the correct offset from UTC in the new default timestamp format. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.0 |
| COL-8265 |
When running Webmon plug-in on platform requiring secure HTTPS connection, Webmon is unable to locate certificate and key files. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.6.0 |
| COL-8381 |
RMS restart command for Netprobe running as a service on Server 2012 R2 does not work. Known issue since: Geneos 5.1.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.1 |
| COL-8485 |
The TIB-RV plug-in crashes on a Geneos 5.x Netprobe. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.3.0 |
| UTL-1135 |
Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12. As a workaround, revert to |
Geneos 5.2.1
Released: 24 June 2020
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Active Console
- FIX Analyser 2
- Gateway 2
- Netprobe
- Web Server
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| COL-8267 | Netprobe |
The The
|
| UTL-1132 | Gateway, Netprobe |
PCRE has been upgraded to version 8.44 to address the following security vulnerability issues:
|
| UTL-1138 | Gateway, Netprobe | The cURL libraries have been updated to 7.69.1 to address security vulnerability issue: BDSA-2019-4143. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-5654 | Gateway | Gateway now correctly applies setup changes for floating probes when using a demo licence. |
| AA-5673 | Gateway | Gateway now correctly applies setup changes when using a demo licence. |
| AA-5676 | Gateway | FTM publishing schema now includes entries for actualFilename column and Previous Day dataview. |
| COL-7268 | FIX Analyser 2 Netprobe | FIX Analyser 2 database can now be successfully installed once it satisfies the minimum version required. |
| COL-7924 | Netprobe | Netprobe no longer crashes if there is a duplicate definition of an invalid disk partition on a Disk plugin. |
| COL-8494 | Netprobe | The memory key setting in the RMC plugin now works correctly. |
| COL-8567 | Netprobe |
The default health check interval for Collection Agent lifecycle management is now Waiting for the health check interval is now done before the first health check. |
| COL-8614 | Netprobe | Netprobe now disables Collection Agent health check monitoring when detached mode is enabled. |
| VI-9004 | Web Server | Application folders are no longer accessible through the Web Server URL. |
| VI-9025 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console now only downloads a workspace file from a URL once. |
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
|---|---|
| AA-5521 |
On , the Netprobe standard output does not show the correct offset from UTC in the new default timestamp format. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.0 |
| COL-8265 |
When running Webmon plug-in on platform requiring secure HTTPS connection, Webmon is unable to locate certificate and key files. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.6.0 |
| COL-8381 |
RMS restart command for Netprobe running as a service on Server 2012 R2 does not work. Known issue since: Geneos 5.1.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.1 |
| COL-8485 |
The TIB-RV plug-in crashes on a Geneos 5.x Netprobe. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.3.0 |
| UTL-1135 |
Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12. As a workaround, revert to |
Geneos 5.2.0
Released: 2 June 2020
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Active Console
- Collection Agent
- Gateway
- Licence Daemon
- Netprobe
- VMware plugin
- Web Server
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
- Active Console workspace improvements
- Cloud Foundry Plugin
- Demo mode for Gateway
- Improved administration for Dynamic Entities
- Netprobe Discovery
- State Tracker enhancements
Active Console workspace
Active Console can now load a cached version of the workspace when the URL becomes unreachable so that you are always using the latest standard workspace for your organisation.
For more information, see Workspace Selection in Active Console.
Cloud Foundry plugin
The Cloud Foundry plugin collects logs, metrics, and events from Cloud Foundry environments, using the Cloud Foundry Loggregator. This plugin is compatible with both the open source and commercially licensed editions of Cloud Foundry.
For more information, see Cloud Foundry Collection Agent Plugin.
Demo mode for Gateway
You can now run a Gateway in demo mode which allows limited use of the Gateway in non-production environments without needing to request a licence from ITRS. This makes it easier to evaluate or demo Geneos features.
For more information, see Demo mode in Gateway Licensing.
Dynamic Entities
A Show Dynamic Mappings command is now available for all cells in dataviews created by Dynamic Entity samplers and in the InvalidMetrics dataview created by the Dynamic Entities Health plugin. The output of the command shows the dimensions and properties of the datapoint populating the cell and how the Dynamic Entities mapping configuration is used to create the Geneos data structures.
A new Forget Dynamic Entity command is available on all dynamically created Entities so that you can manually remove entities with a long timeout.
For more information, see Dynamic Entities.
Netprobe Discovery
You can now pass the metadata collected by the Netprobe discovery script and pass it to a web service to retrieve the Netprobe configuration. The metadata will be passed to the web service using a GET request to the URL specified by the user.
For more information, see Netprobe Overview.
State Tracker enhancements
State Tracker now supports dynamic stream names. This means that you do not have to list the name of each individual stream you want to monitor. This is especially useful in case of applications that create streams dynamically using the REST API.
State Tree now works on Dynamic Entities. The data published by the new dynamic plugins: StatsD, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry can be sent to State Tracker.
For more information, see State Tracker Plugin User Guide.
Breaking changes
These are the breaking changes in this release:
Dynamic Entities
Gateway, Netprobe, and Licence Daemon have each been updated to support licensing of Collection Agent plugins. All three of these components must be updated to Geneos 5.2.x or higher for the Dynamic Entities feature to be supported in Gateway.
Collection Agent plugins require an additional licence to use. Please contact your ITRS Account Manager or ITRS Sales.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-5531 | Gateway | You can now run Gateway in Demo Mode which allows user's limited use of the Gateway in non-production environments without needing to request a licence from ITRS. |
| AA-5535 | Gateway, Netprobe | A new Forget Dynamic Entity command is available on Dynamic Entities (in the Active Console State Tree) and on cells in the Entities dataview of the Dynamic Entities Health plugin. Running this command will remove the entity, the samplers, and dataviews associated with it. If the Collection Agent is still publishing data which match the relevant mappings, the entity may be re-created almost immediately. |
| AA-5565 | Active Console, GSE | Gateway Setup Editor now only includes samplers supported by Dynamic Entities when listing the available sampler references for the mappingTypes > mappingType > samplers setting. |
| AA-5583 | Gateway, Netprobe |
A Show Dynamic Mappings command is now available in all cells of dataviews created by dynamic samplers and of the InvalidMetrics dataview created by Dynamic Entities Health plugin. This command shows:
|
| AA-5643 | Gateway, Netprobe, Licence Daemon |
Gateway, Netprobe, and Licence Daemon have each been updated to support licensing of Collection Agent plugins. All three of these components must be updated to Geneos 5.2.x for Dynamic Entities to be supported in Gateway. |
| AA-5648 | Netprobe | Netprobe now rejects a Dynamic Entity mapping configuration from Gateway 5.2.x and below. Additionally, Self-Announcing Netprobes 5.2.x and higher will not connect to a Gateway 5.2.x and below. |
| COL-7338 | Netprobe | A new VM Virtual Disk view is now available in the VMware integration to represent the metrics for virtual disk counters. |
| COL-8072 | Netprobe | Netprobe can now use properties from the discovery metadata to add query parameters to the setup URL. |
| COL-8126 | Integration | VMware integration can now connect to secure Netprobes. |
| COL-8303 | Netprobe | Netprobe now has a detached flag configuration for Collection Agent settings. This flag controls whether the managed Collection Agent terminates when Netprobe is stopped intentionally. |
| COL-8375 | Gateway, Netprobe | Dynamic Entities now support State Tracker samplers. |
| COL-8383 | Netprobe | State Tracker plugin now supports wildcard characters (* and ?) in stream names. Streams matching a wildcard name pattern will be tracked. |
| COL-8437 | Netprobe | Support for wildcard characters in stream names also applies to State Tracker tracker templates. |
| COL-8533 | Netprobe | The StatsD configuration in the packaged Collection Agent script now uses the default UDP port 8125 configuration. |
| COL-8555 | Netprobe | Collection Agent components have been upgraded to 2.1.0. |
| UTL-1150 | Active Console, GSE | librdkafka client libraries used by Geneos have been updated to 1.4.0. |
| VI-7351 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console now displays an error message when an invalid workspace from a local workspace or URL is opened. |
| VI-8604 | Active Console, GSE, Gateway Hub | In Active Console debug mode, Gateway Hub queries on historical charts now display the request information in the Output dockable. |
| VI-8858 | Web Server | Web Dashboard now supports Kerberos authentication for supported browsers. |
| VI-8912 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console now loads a cached version of the workspace URL that you can use when the workspace becomes unreachable. |
| VI-8978 | Web Server | Jetty libraries have been upgraded to 8.1.18.v20150929. |
| VI-8980 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console now prompts the Select Workspace dialog when you click OK in the The workspace URL is unreachable error message instead of closing the application. |
| VI-8984 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console error messages for saving a read-only workspace and loading an unreachable connection file have been improved. |
| VI-9005 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console now prompts the Select Workspace dialog when you click OK in the Invalid File error message instead of closing the application. |
| VI-9008 | Web Server | Web Dashboard now sets the correct distinguished name when generating self-signed certificates. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-5625 | Gateway | Active Time changes are now applied correctly when the change time overlaps with a setup change. |
| AA-5630 | Schema | The schema for single line text variables has been fixed so that GSE allows the variables text box to scroll, restoring the behaviour seen before Geneos 5.1.0. |
| AA-5634 | Gateway | Gateway now correctly includes commands published by Self-Announcing Netprobes in the list provided to Active Console. |
| AA-5653 | Gateway | Gateway no longer crashes when using Sampler > Hide Columns to hide the busiestView column in gateway-ProbeData or the maxCellCount column in gateway-ManagedEntitiesData. |
| COL-7881 | Netprobe | Netprobe no longer crashes when executing long user commands. |
| COL-8368 | Netprobe | The Top and Processes plugins now report percentMemory values identical those reported by the top command. |
| COL-8388 | Netprobe | Accept Files and Accept This File FKM commands now work when clearing triggers. |
| COL-8422 | Netprobe |
FKM fileOwner column name is now consistent whether it is added in by default or explicitly added in the Columns section of the Advanced tab. XPaths using fileowner (such as rules or dashboards) are no longer valid. |
| COL-8431 | Netprobe | Improved Netprobe memory consumption when using auto-discovery. |
| C2-155 | Collection Agent Kubernetes | When data collection fails for a cluster node, the Kubernetes plugin no longer stops monitoring data from all other nodes in the cluster. |
| C2-162 | Collection Agent Kubernetes | The Kubernetes plugin now correctly reports CPU usage for values less than one. |
| C2-163 | Collection Agent Kubernetes | The Kubernetes plugin no longer fails to publish pod data from a ReplicaSet, due to a thrown exception when parsing ReplicaSet names. |
| C2-165 | Collection Agent Kubernetes | The Kubernetes plugin no longer throws intermittent NullPointer exceptions after pods are deleted or rescheduled. This ensures no metrics data is lost. |
| VI-8953 | Active Console, GSE | Clicking File > Workspace > Revert now correctly reverts the current workspace to its original layout. |
| VI-8954 | Active Console, GSE | Workspace URLs loaded through Autoload Last Good Workspace now load successfully on startup. |
| VI-8957 | Active Console, GSE | Workspaces hosted through URL are now loaded successfully when the -wsurl flag is used. |
| VI-8988 | Active Console, GSE | -wsurl in ActiveConsole.gci no longer enables the Autoload Last Good Workspace option in the Active Console configuration. |
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
|---|---|
| AA-5521 |
On , the Netprobe standard output does not show the correct offset from UTC in the new default timestamp format. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.0 |
| COL-8265 |
When running Webmon plug-in on platform requiring secure HTTPS connection, Webmon is unable to locate certificate and key files. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.6.0 |
| COL-8381 |
RMS restart command for Netprobe running as a service on Server 2012 R2 does not work. Known issue since: Geneos 5.1.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.1 |
| COL-8485 |
The TIB-RV plug-in crashes on a Geneos 5.x Netprobe. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.x Fixed in Geneos 5.3.0 |
| COL-8567 |
Netprobe may shutdown the Collection Agent when system is under load. Known issue since: Geneos 5.1.x Fixed in Geneos 5.2.1 |
| UTL-1135 |
Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12. As a workaround, revert to |
Geneos 5.1.2
Note: Netprobe 5.1.x is not generally available to download except for Netprobe 5.1.0 -64 package certified for deployment on Solace devices. Please download version 5.2.x or newer for all other deployments.
Released: 28 April 2020
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Gateway 2
- Netprobe
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| COL-8429 | Netprobe |
Self-Announcing Netprobes 5.1.2 will only connect to a Gateway in the following circumstances:
Note: To connect correctly, check that the Self-Announcing Netprobes 5.1.2 connect to Gateway 5.1.x or higher.
There are other factors that can prevent Self-Announcing Netprobes from connecting to the Gateway. For more information, see Self-Announcing Netprobes in Rejection reasons.
|
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
|---|---|
| AA-5521 |
On , the Netprobe standard output does not show the correct offset from UTC in the new default timestamp format. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.0 Fixed in Geneos 5.5.0 |
| COL-8265 |
When running Webmon plug-in on platform requiring secure HTTPS connection, Webmon is unable to locate certificate and key files. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0 Fixed in Geneos 5.6.0 |
| COL-8381 |
RMS restart command for Netprobe running as a service on Windows Server 2012 R2 does not work. Known issue since: Geneos 5.1.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.1 |
| UTL-1135 |
Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12. As a workaround, revert to |
| VI-8672 |
Web Dashboard is not compatible with SSO Agent in the Gateway Hub. Please use the standalone SSO Agent available to download from the ITRS Downloads website. Planned fix version: Geneos 5.2.0 (Q2 2020) |
Geneos 5.1.1
Note: Netprobe 5.1.x is not generally available to download except for Netprobe 5.1.0 -64 package certified for deployment on Solace devices. Please download version 5.2.x or newer for all other deployments.
Released: 16 April 2020
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Active Console
- Collection Agent
- Gateway 2
- Netprobe
- Web Server
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| VI-5002 | Active Console, GSE | State Tree no longer collapses when a new Gateway is added. |
| VI-8730 | Active Console, GSE | Look and feel of the chart scroll bar in the Active Console was improved. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-5601 | Gateway |
Gateways now only import commands from remote Gateways if SSO is enabled and the importing connection is authenticated using SSL. Additionally, the CPU resources required by the Gateway when importing commands have been significantly reduced. |
| AA-5607 | Schema Netprobe |
Geneos now rejects metrics with Dynamic Entity mappings, including static mappings, that produce entities, samplers, or dataviews with names that contain special characters. A Bad Mapping error will be reported in the Dynamic Entity Health plug-in. Geneos component names must only use the following characters |
| AA-5623 | Gateway |
Gateway now always sends down the Dynamic Entities Health plug-in to the Netprobe if it is configured to do so. Previously, it failed to send the plug-in if the only sampler was a Dynamic Entities Health sampler and there was no dynamic mapping that was configured for the Netprobe. |
| COL-8293 | Gateway, Netprobe | Internal commands for the RMC Interface plug-in have been removed and are no longer supported. |
| COL-8318 | Gateway | Netprobe is now able to resume its connection with Collection Agent when a connection was previously made following a restart of the Netprobe. |
| VI-8282 | Web Server | NullPointerException is no longer encountered when keystore.db file exists in the Web Dashboard config folder. |
| VI-8888 | Web Server | Web Dashboard now hides the Communication Problem dialog box when it reconnects with the Web Server. |
| VI-8905 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console can now load workspace URLs with Basic authentication. |
| VI-8928 | Web Server | The Web Server's maximum threads can now be set through the MAX_THREADS parameter in the run and geneosws scripts. |
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
|---|---|
| AA-5521 |
On , the Netprobe standard output does not show the correct offset from UTC in the new default timestamp format. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.0 Fixed in Geneos 5.5.0 |
| COL-8265 |
When running Webmon plug-in on platform requiring secure HTTPS connection, Webmon is unable to locate certificate and key files. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0 Fixed in Geneos 5.6.0 |
| COL-8381 |
RMS restart command for Netprobe running as a service on Windows Server 2012 R2 does not work. Known issue since: Geneos 5.1.x Fixed in Geneos 5.5.1 |
| COL-8429 |
Self-Announcing Netprobe versions 5.1.0 and 5.1.1 will fail to connect to Gateways 5.0.x and older. Known issue since Geneos 5.1.0 Fixed in Geneos 5.1.2 |
| UTL-1135 |
Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12. As a workaround, revert to |
| VI-8672 |
Web Dashboard is not compatible with SSO Agent in the Gateway Hub. Please use the standalone SSO Agent available to download from the ITRS Downloads website. Planned fix version: Geneos 5.2.0 (Q2 2020) |
Geneos 5.1.0
Note: Netprobe 5.1.x is not generally available to download except for Netprobe 5.1.0 -64 package certified for deployment on Solace devices. Please download version 5.2.x or newer for all other deployments.
Released: 31 March 2020
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Active Console
- Gateway 2
- Netprobe
- Collection Agent
- StatsD plug-in
- Kubernetes plug-in
- StatsD client Java library
- StatsD client Python library
- FIX Analyser 2 Netprobe
- Gateway Recorder
- Licence Daemon
- SSO Agent
- Web Server
- Webslinger
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
- Monitoring dynamic and orchestrated environments require Geneos to be more dynamic. From on-demand and elastic server availability in cloud to containers or microservices, and orchestrators, such as Kubernetes and OpenShift, this release introduces a number of new features to make configurations easier and automate monitoring.
- MiniGeneos delivers a full stack of Geneos capabilities in a self-contained, easy to use, and localised container environment that can be run locally in your own development machine.
- New discovery framework for Self-Announcing Netprobes to make configurations easier.
- Geneos now supports integration with CyberArk password vault so that you no longer need to store passwords in Gateway configuration.
- Netprobe documentation has been restructured, and now includes information on deploying to dynamic environments with Collection Agent. For more information, see Netprobe Documentation Home.
- Other improvements:
- Support for Red Hat 8, SUSE Enterprise 15, and 18.04.
- Improvements to Active Console light-theme interface for better contrast and visibility.
- Library updates to resolve known security vulnerabilities.
Geneos for monitoring dynamic environments
Monitoring dynamic and orchestrated environments require Geneos to be more dynamic. From on-demand and elastic server availability in cloud to containers or microservices, and orchestrators, such as Kubernetes and OpenShift, this release introduces a number of new features to make configurations easier and automate monitoring.
For Netprobe, Collection Agent, and plug-ins, the ability to dynamically collect and identify application metrics, events, and logs in a constantly changing environment is now available. Netprobe package now includes Collection Agent and plug-ins for easy deployment and management. Netprobe and Collection Agent can now be deployed natively within orchestrated environments, and scale up and down along with your application. Applications can push metrics, events, and logs to Collection Agent using a dimensional data model which retains more information about the data being sent. For more information, see Collection Agent.
Note: Collection Agent plugins require an additional licence to use. Please contact your ITRS Account Manager or ITRS Sales.
- StatsD plug-in — provides a StatsD server that allows custom metrics to be received from any application instrumented with the industry-standard StatsD protocol. ITRS-provided StatsD client libraries are available for Java and Python, with more to come over the next few releases. For more information, see StatsD Client Java and StatsD Client Python.
- Kubernetes plug-in — provides a suite of collectors and processors necessary for collecting logs, metrics, and events in a Kubernetes or OpenShift environment. For more information, see Kubernetes Collection Agent plug-in.
Dynamic Entities
The ability to dynamically create Geneos data structures like entities, attributes, samplers, and dataviews based on dimensional data received from Collection Agent is now available. The dynamic mapping configuration in Gateway provides great flexibility to create your preferred view into application metrics, events, and logs. For more information, see Dynamic Entities.
MiniGeneos
MiniGeneos delivers a full stack of Geneos capabilities in a self-contained, easy-to-use, and localised container environment that can be run locally in your own development machine. This enables developers, DevOps, or anyone to get up and running with full capabilities on Geneos in a sandbox environment to create, verify, and deploy monitoring alongside applications without needing to fully understand how to configure, or deploy Geneos. For more information, see MiniGeneos.
Netprobe Discovery
New discovery framework for Self-Announcing Netprobes to make configurations easier is now available. This includes the ability to define custom discovery scripts that can discover the application and platform environment. This discovered information can be used in the Netprobe configuration as macros to simplify and automate Self-Announcing Netprobe configurations. For more information, see Auto-discovery.
More secure password
Strict security and audit compliance requires passwords to be stored in central password volts for a more secure access. Geneos now supports integration with CyberArk password vault so that you no longer need to store passwords in Gateway configuration. When required, Gateway retrieves the passwords from CyberArk vault. For more information, see CyberArk.
Breaking changes
These are the breaking changes in this release:
Collection Agent
- Workflow stores created by previous versions are incompatible with this version of the Collection Agent.
monitoring.metrics.reporting-intervalconfig property has been moved tomonitoring.reporting-interval. Any configuration that defined this optional property must now be updated.stop-filterandpass-filterwere replaced withdrop-filterandforward-filter. Refer to the Collection Agent Configuration Reference for more details.useTcp()anduseUdp()methods in StatsdClientBuilder have been replaced withchannelType()in StatsD client Java library.- No longer collecting
jvm_runtime_class_pathandjvm_runtime_library_pathattributes with StatsD client Java library.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
|
AA-5353 COL-7527 UTL-1106 VI-8538 |
Gateway, Webslinger, Licence Daemon, Netprobe, SSO Agent, Web Dashboard |
The following components below now support RHEL 8.x:
|
|
AA-5365 AA-5366 |
Gateway, Licence Daemon |
Gateway and Licence Daemon now support the following:
|
| AA-5408 | Gateway | Gateway has been updated to use version 1.2.2 of librdkafka. |
| AA-5492 | Gateway | Gateway now publishes a snapshot of all severity, snooze, and user assignment states when publishing to Gateway Hub is first enabled. |
| AA-5510 | Gateway | Gateway now supports the use of external password management services, such as CyberArk. External passwords can be used for Gateway database logging connections and in plug-in configurations to connect to third-party applications. |
| AA-5516 | Licence Daemon | The Geneos Licence Daemon (LICD) no longer has a dependency on JQuery. |
| AA-5522 | Gateway |
Gateway now uses version 0.6.3 of This update addresses CVE-2017-11692. |
| AA-5528 | Gateway |
Gateways can now dynamically generate entities from the data provided by the Collection Agent. This greatly reduces the configuration burden when monitoring applications in highly dynamic and containerised environments. |
| AA-5530 | Gateway | You can now set the environment used by Dynamic Entities when creating mappings. |
| AA-5534 | Netprobe Schema | The new Dynamic Entities Health plug-in allows you to track the state of all dynamic entities and metrics data received by a probe. |
| AA-5542 | Active Console, GSE | Gateway Setup Editor now automatically resizes the external password fields to accommodate large passwords. |
| AA-5543 | Gateway | A new Gateway configuration section called Dynamic Entities is added for controlling how entities are dynamically created for data received from Collection Agent. |
| COL-7517 | Netprobe | Added DLL_PATH registry value in the Netprobe registry key. If set, the Netprobe resolves DLL dependencies in the folders specified in the DLL_PATH. |
|
COL-7670 |
FIX Analyser 2 Netprobe, FIle Agent | Netprobe, FIX Analyser 2, and File Agent now support SLES 15.x. |
| COL-8019 | Netprobe | Publisher plug-in now supports bearer authentication with grant type password. |
| COL-8071 | Netprobe | Netprobe now supports a new command line option (-discovery), which allows you to specify the file path for the discovery script. This is for the new auto-discovery feature. |
| COL-8073 | Netprobe |
The Netprobe setup file now supports a new format for macros, which are based on the output of a discovery script that the user may provide. For example, |
| COL-8075 | Netprobe | The new collection-agent and statsd-plugin are now included in the Netprobe package. The Collection Agent files reside in a subdirectory named collection-agent inside the Netprobe distribution. |
| COL-8076 | Netprobe | When configured, the Netprobe now starts the Collection Agent executable JAR file when started. |
| COL-8082 | Netprobe | The Netprobe installer now has text fields to specify the path of the discovery script. This is for the new auto-discovery feature. |
| C2-64 | Collection Agent Kubernetes | The Kubernetes plug-in now provides metrics for the Kubernetes pod and container status. This allows Geneos to monitor the pod and container lifecycles. |
| C2-76 | Collection Agent StatsD client Python library | The Python Statsd client library now supports events and attributes. |
| C2-95 | Collection Agent Kubernetes | The Kubernetes plug-in now provides metrics for the resource requests and limits of containers. |
| C2-107 | Collection Agent | The Collection Agent now uses the new platform datamodel 2.0.0. |
| C2-115 | Collection Agent | You can now specify default values when performing environment variable substitution. |
| C2-117 | Collection Agent Kubernetes | The Kubernetes plug-in now uses Gson to parse JSON files. The Jackson library has been removed. |
| C2-119 | Collection Agent | The Collection Agent now uses the TCP Reporterto communicate with the Netprobe. The NetprobeRestReporter has been removed. |
| C2-123 | Collection Agent StatsD client Java library | The StatsD Java client library now uses the new platform datamodel 2.0.0. |
| C2-124 | Collection Agent StatsD client Python library | The Collection Agent has been upgraded to include additional units of measure. |
| C2-125 | Collection Agent | The Collection Agent now logs its configuration at startup. |
| C2-128 | Collection Agent | You can now create pipeline processors that filter datapoints by specified criteria. |
| C2-129 | Collection Agent | You can now record Collection Agent messages and replay them to stdout, and to the Netprobe. |
| C2-131 | Collection Agent | The Collection Agent now reports more accurate health information to the Netprobe. |
| C2-134 | Collection Agent | You can now add processors to any collector in order to perform edge processing and filtering. |
| C2-135 | Collection Agent Kubernetes | The Kubernetes plug-in now removes stale entries from the KubernetesEnricher pod cache. This prevents uncapped memory usage. |
| C2-138 | Collection Agent Kubernetes | The Kubernetes plug-in now creates additional dimensions to capture more Kubernetes event types. |
| C2-140 | Collection Agent Kubernetes | The Collection Agent now logs errors when connections or requests to the Kubernetes API fail. |
| C2-147 | Collection Agent | The Collection Agent persistent storage has been upgraded with improved error detection and recovery capabilities. |
| C2-151 | Collection Agent | You can now send metrics from the Collection Agent to a Netprobe directly by workflow or through StatsD. This allows you to ensure metrics from different sources are allocated to the same Geneos entity correctly. |
| UTL-1123 | Gateway, Netprobe | curl library has been updated to use OpenSSL version 1.1.1d. |
| UTL-1124 | Netprobe | Net-SNMP has been upgraded to version 5.8. This is used by both Mibmon and Trapmon plug-ins. |
| UTL-1126 | Active Console, GSE, Netprobe, Licence Auditor, Licence Daemon, Web server, FIX Analyser 2, File Agent | OpenSSL versions have been upgraded to 1.1.1d. |
| UTL-1128 | SSO Agent |
Nimbus JOSE+JWT library is now upgraded to 7.9. This update addresses CVE-2019-17195. |
| UTL-1134 | SSO Agent | SSO Agent has been verified to work with LDAP channel binding and LDAP signing. |
| UTL-1140 | Gateway Recorder | Gateway Recorder now supports 64-bit. |
| VI-8593 | Active Console, GSE | The text colour for the selected ungrouped item in the Metrics view is now set to white. |
| VI-8685 | Active Console, GSE | The context menus in the GSE > Navigation panel no longer have static icons. |
| VI-8720 | Active Console, GSE, Web server |
Active Console and Web Dashboard are now packaged with BouncyCastle 1.64 to address security vulnerabilities. This update addresses the following:
|
| VI-8738 | Active Console, GSE | OS's file dialog is now used in the Object Inspector dockable, Active Dashboard properties, Reporting, and Search dialog. |
|
VI-8761 VI-8811 |
Web Server, Active Console, GSE |
These components now use
|
| VI-8762 | Web Server | Jetty libraries have been upgraded to 8.1.7.v20120910. |
| VI-8763 | Active Console, GSE, Web server |
Nimbus JOSE library has been upgraded to 7.9. This update addresses CVE-2019-17195. |
| VI-8764 | Web Server |
ActiveMQ library is now upgraded to 5.15.10. This update addresses CVE-2019-0222. |
| VI-8765 | Web Server |
After upgrading This update addresses the following:
|
| VI-8766 | Active Console, GSE |
Quartz library has been upgraded to 1.6.1. This update addresses BDSA-2019-3134. |
| VI-8768 | Web Server |
Spring Framework libraries have been updated to 4.3.24 that are packaged in the ActiveMQ 5.15.10 library. This update addresses CVE-2018-15756. |
| VI-8769 | Web Server |
Spring LDAP library has been upgraded to 2.3.2. This update addresses CVE-2017-8028. |
| VI-8770 | Web Server |
Spring Security libraries have been upgraded to 4.2.13. This update addresses CVE-2019-11272. |
| VI-8800 | Active Console, GSE | The table row texts in the Active Console settings are now displayed correctly. |
| VI-8807 | Active Console, GSE | The Event Ticker Import dialog now displays the value of From and To dates. |
| VI-8844 | Active Console, GSE | The tabs in the Active Console and GSE now show an underline below the selected tab indicating that a tab is selected. Also, dockables now show the severity by changing the tab's background colour. |
| VI-8864 | Active Console, GSE | The Metrics view now shows more information after the font sizes and styles have been improved. |
| VI-8865 | Active Console, GSE | The entity names in the Managed Entities view now display correctly. |
| VI-8878 | Web Server | Jetty libraries are now upgraded to 8.1.8.v20121106. |
| VI-8883 | Active Console, GSE | The text colour in the Metrics view table and headline is now black. |
| VI-8897 | Active Console, GSE |
The jackson libraries have been updated to version 2.10.2 to address security vulnerabilities found in version 2.10.0. This update addresses the following:
|
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-5478 | Gateway | Gateway no longer enters a deadlock when a Self-Announcing Netprobe connects and there is a KBA item whose target XPath uses a // (descendant or self) element. |
|
AA-5494 COL-7876 |
Gateway, Netprobe | Gateway and Netprobe now work with MySQL 8.0 client libraries. |
| AA-5495 | Gateway | Gateway has been verified to work with MariaDB 10.3 client when running on 8 and Open Suse 15. |
| AA-5497 | Gateway | Gateway no longer core dumps on 8 and when using MSSQL ODBC Driver 17. |
| AA-5507 | Gateway | Gateway now produces a warning when a Gateway Hub dataset includes an invalid alias. If a rule references a time series derived from an invalid dataset, this produces a warning. |
| AA-5525 | Gateway | Rules using historical data functions, such as rate() and average(), now update correctly when Gateway resumes processing rules after a startup delay. |
| AA-5537 | Active Console, GSE, Gateway, Web Server | Geneos components now correctly handle XPath predicates that include both quotation marks and apostrophes. This allows commands, such as Snooze or User Assignment, to be used on cells in rows whose names contain strings of this form |
| AA-5560 | Gateway | Gateway no longer exits with a core dump when the Express Reports setup contains an invalid reference to a password variable. |
| AA-5584 | Gateway | The Gateway Hub Data plug-in now displays N/A instead of inf msg/sec in the Message rate column if the SampleNow command is received more than once in the same second. This prevents a Gateway Hub ingestion error. |
| COL-2007 | Netprobe | MEM_UTIL debug correctly displays the Netprobe memory usage for Netprobe. |
| COL-6701 | Netprobe | Processes plug-in can now handle processes with very long arguments without affecting other rows. |
| COL-7410 | Netprobe | Processes plug-in can now handle processes with very long arguments without crashing. |
| C2-142 | Collection Agent | The Collection Agent store's count metric can no longer take a negative value. |
| C2-144 | Collection Agent | The TCP Reporter no longer fails due to too many open files when a large number of connection attempts fail. |
| UTL-1136 | Gateway Recorder | Gateway Recorder now correctly announces its Geneosversion. This is required in order to connect to Geneos components beginning version 5.0.x. |
| VI-774 | Active Console, GSE | Dashboard objects with anchored lines can now be grouped. |
| VI-2265 | Active Console, GSE | Objects with anchored lines can now be copied and pasted. |
| VI-2670 | Web Server | The limit of Gateway connections in the Web Dashboard > Configurations > Connections page is now 1024. |
| VI-7165 | Active Console, GSE | Modifier paths no longer append additional row and cell elements when modified. |
| VI-7371 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console now allows you to open workspaces from URLs that contain spaces and special characters. |
| VI-7432 | Active Console, GSE | Dashboards with multiline text values can now be imported. |
| VI-7746 | Active Console, GSE, Netprobe, Web Server | Active Console and Gateway Setup Editor now display a warning before it exits due to fatal errors. |
| VI-8201 | Active Console, GSE | The Past Working Day in the Time Definitions Manager now reflects the correct value. |
| VI-8362 | Web Server | Keytool path in the ssl_utils.sh file of a no_jre Web Dashboard now points to the correct JRE path. |
| VI-8371 | Web Server | When the Web Console stops updating within a configured dashboard refresh rate, Web Dashboard now restarts the refresh timer for updating tiles. |
| VI-8386 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console now works properly when using the Find button, and populates the Search result with values. |
| VI-8506 | Active Console, GSE | Doing a search with an empty file no longer causes the Active Console to hang. |
| VI-8575 | Active Console, GSE | Time Definitions now displays the correct label for the Start and End buttons. |
| VI-8603 | Active Console, GSE | The Active Console icon now displays the severity of any path that is defined in the Use Paths for Severity option in the Settings > System Tray. |
| VI-8747 | Active Console, GSE | Workspace file extensions are now case-insensitive allowing the Active Console to open and load workspaces regardless of character case. |
| VI-8825 | Web Server | Web Server no longer has Image resource could not be loaded errors when loaded. |
| VI-8907 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console can now import Event Ticker data from a Gateway Hub source with an HTTP protocol. |
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
|---|---|
| AA-5521 |
On , the Netprobe standard output does not show the correct offset from UTC in the new default timestamp format. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0.0 Fixed in Geneos 5.5.0 |
| COL-8265 |
When running Webmon plug-in on platform requiring secure HTTPS connection, Webmon is unable to locate certificate and key files. Known issue since: Geneos 5.0 Fixed in Geneos 5.6.0 |
| COL-8318 |
On environments, the Netprobe may fail to reconnect with Collection Agent following a restart of the Netprobe. Known issue since: Geneos 5.1.x Fixed in Geneos 5.1.1 |
| COL-8381 |
RMS restart command for Netprobe running as a service on Server 2012 R2 does not work. Known issue since: Geneos 5.1 Fixed in Geneos 5.5.1 |
| COL-8429 |
Self-Announcing Netprobe versions 5.1.0 and 5.1.1 will fail to connect to Gateways 5.0.x and older. Known issue since Geneos 5.1.0 Planned fix version: Geneos 5.1.2 |
| UTL-1135 |
Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12. As a workaround, revert to |
| VI-8672 |
Web Dashboard is not compatible with SSO Agent in the Gateway Hub. Please use the standalone SSO Agent available to download from the ITRS Downloads website. Planned fix version: Geneos 5.2 (Q2 2020) |
Geneos 5.0.0
Released: 12 December 2019
This release delivers the updated binaries in the ITRS Downloads page for:
- Active Console
- File Agent
- FIX Analyser 2 Netprobe
- Gateway
- Gateway Recorder
- Gateway Timezones
- Licence Auditor
- Licence Daemon (LICD)
- Netprobe
- Web Server
- Webslinger
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
- The Publisher plug-in is a new plug-in that enables you to publish data from an FKM outbound stream to an index on the Elasticsearch.
- Centralised configuration now allows you to manage the Gateway configuration using REST API.
- The Web Console monitoring UI brings a brand new look for real-time monitoring.
- Active Console introduces a new light theme interface.
- Geneos data source for Grafana (Technology Preview) lets you seamlessly integrate data from Gateway Hub into your Grafana dashboards.
- Events such as severity, snooze, and user assignment data can now be queried using Gateway Hub REST API.
- Gateway Hub check script is introduced to help validate your environment before installing Gateway Hub.
- Other improvements:
- Gateway now uses the time zones files store in
/usr/share/zoneinfoof the base machine to translate times between time zones. - Gateway now uses standard date and time format for log files generated by Geneos components.
- Support for
POSTandPUTrequests in the REST Extractor plug-in. - Enhanced memory monitoring metrics for the Hardware plug-in.
- Support for 2019.
- Postgresql support for the Gateway Database Logging.
- Support for MySQL 8, Oracle Database 19c, and MS SQL Server 2017.
- Gateway now uses the time zones files store in
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-3823 | Gateway |
Gateway Database Logging now supports the InnoDB engine for MySQL and MariaDB. InnoDB provides support for row-level locking, transactions, foreign keys and relationship constraints. The Gateway Database Logging schema for MySQL no longer explicitly specifies the MyISAM database engine. The default engine (usually InnoDB) will now be used when a new database is created. However, no automated conversion script is supplied, since any upgrade to the InnoDB engine should be carefully planned according to the characteristics of the specific installation. |
| AA-4169 | .Gateway | Database logging now supports PostgreSQL. |
| AA-4226 | Gateway, Netprobe | Loading of MySQL database client libraries no longer requires libmysqlclient_r.so. If it does not exist, MySQL loads the libmysqlclient.so |
| AA-4953 | Gateway,Netprobe, Gateway Timezones |
Gateway now uses the system timezone files The system timezone files are also used to supply timezone abbreviations when the The timezone file is still used to supply a default set of timezone abbreviations to support the |
| AA-5036 |
Gateway, Netprobe, EUEM Netprobe, Webslinger, Licence Daemon ATS, FIX Analyser 2, File Agent |
Gateway, Netprobe, FIX Analyser 2 Netprobe, File Agent, Webslinger, LICD, and Auditor now support a choice of date and time formats for their log files. |
| AA-5343 | Gateway | When requesting a change, the Gateway now passes the source of a change up to centralised configuration. |
| AA-5367 | Gateway |
Gateway Database Logging feature now supports the following database:
|
| AA-5374 | Gateway | When a database logging transaction fails, it is now correctly rolled back. |
| AA-5396 | Gateway Timezones |
The timezone file is now updated based on IANA 2019c release:
|
| AA-5402 | Gateway | Gateway now supports percentile and T-Digest percentile aggregations from Gateway Hub. |
| AA-5404 | Gateway | Tooltips in ShowRules response now shows the value of any time series used in the rule at the time the rule was run. |
| AA-5423 | Gateway | Gateway can now obtain its setup from the centralised configuration in Gateway Hub by specifying the Gateway name. |
| AA-5434 | Gateway | Gateway now only works with centralised configuration in Gateway Hub versions 1.6 and above. |
| AA-5441 | Gateway | When using centralised configuration, Gateways with version 5.x will require a GSE with version 5.x to edit the setup. |
| AA-5442 | Gateway | Gateway 5.0 requires Gateway Hub1.6+ for centralised configuration. Lower Gateway Hub versions will be rejected. |
| AA-5447 | Gateway | When a Gateway starts and requests the setup from Gateway Hub, but the named Gateway has not been added, then the Gateway adds a blank Gateway with the correct name to Gateway Hub and then starts. |
| AA-5448 | Gateway | A new helper script is available in the Gateway package which enables you to upload Gateway binaries into Gateway Hub. |
| AA-5466 | Gateway | The banner setting in managedEntities is deprecated. |
| AA-5472 | Gateway | Gateway no longer publishes to the legacy geneos-raw and geneos-enriched topics. This means that Gateway no longer supports publishing to Gateway Hub versions earlier than 1.4. |
| AA-5499 | Gateway | The start script start_gateway2.tmpl is updated to use Bash rather than csh. |
| COL-6729 | Netprobe | Combo, Components Versions and Informix plug-ins are now deprecated. |
| COL-6829 | Netprobe, File Agent | Added Server 2019 support for Netprobe and File Agent. |
| COL-6902 | Netprobe | The Exegy adapter now uses XCAPI 4.1.12 |
| COL-6917 | Netprobe | The Hardware plug-in now calculates memoryUse metrics based on computations. |
| COL-7000 | Netprobe | The Hardware plug-in now uses new method of obtaining memoryAvailable and memoryAvailablePct for platforms. |
| COL-7221 | Netprobe | The REST Extractor plug-in now supports PUT and POST HTTP methods. |
| COL-7599 | Netprobe | The libwombattcp.so third-party libraries have been removed from the Netprobe package. |
| COL-7676 | Netprobe |
The Netprobe now supports the following database:
|
| COL-7742 | Netprobe | File Keyword Monitor now supports configurable outbound streams for publishing data using the Publisher plug-in. |
| COL-7745 | Netprobe | A new Publisher plug-in is now available on the Netprobe . The Publisher plug-in enables you to publish data from an FKM outbound stream to an index on the Elasticsearch host. |
| COL-7746 | Netprobe | The Publisher plug-in supports basic authentication. You can specify a username and password when publishing messages to an Elasticsearch server that is protected by basic authentication. |
| COL-7828 | Netprobe | The Publisher plug-in includes an Admin View where users can view metrics regarding the state of messages being read and sent to the Elasticsearch server. You can disable this view in the plug-in configuration. |
| COL-7873 | Netprobe |
Jackson libraries have been updated from version 2.9.8 to 2.9.10 to address security vulnerabilities. This update addresses the following CVEs:
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| UTL-1099 | Gateway, Netprobe | The Gateway and Netprobe now use cURL 7.66.0. |
| UTL-1100 | Active Console, GSE, Gateway, Netprobe, Web server, FIX Analyser 2, File Agent | Upgraded Snappy library to version 1.1.7. This is used in the communication protocol between Geneos components. |
| UTL-1101 | Gateway | The libxml2 library is updated to version 2.9.9. |
| UTL-1103 | Gateway | The libxslt library is updated to version 1.1.33. This library is used for XML-related processing. |
| UTL-1104 | Active Console, GSE, Gateway, Netprobe, Webslinger, Web server | The Xerces-C library is updated to 3.2.2 for windows_64, darwin, linux_64, and linux_64-ppcle components. |
| UTL-1105 | Active Console, GSE, Gateway, Netprobe, Web server, FIX Analyser 2 | The OpenSSL library is updated to 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.15. |
| UTL-1114 | Gateway, Netprobe, FIX Analyser 2 Netprobe | The SQLAPI library used by Geneos components to access databases is now updated to version 4.2.5.3. |
| VI-7310 | Active Console, GSE | OS specific file dialog are now used in File menu items Open and Save actions. |
| VI-7428 | Gateway | Remove local help files from GSE package as we now use Web Help. |
| VI-8256 | Active Console, GSE | You can now cancel long running save or validation operations that are waiting on responses from Gateway Hub. |
| VI-8296 | Active Console, GSE | GSE improves SSO handling in conjunction with Centralised Configuration. |
| VI-8364 | Active Console, GSE | Locks menus in the GSE are now consistent. |
| VI-8453 | Active Console, GSE | Added visualisation of Gateway Hub generated validation messages in GSE. |
| VI-8464 | Gateway | GSE improves the Centralised Configuration error messages. |
| VI-8472 | Gateway | Icons are now removed from the Search Criteria's Search For drop-down items in the Tools > Reporting. |
| VI-8477 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console and Web Dashboard now support the Postgresql database for History Charts. |
| VI-8478 | Active Console, GSE | GSE removes metadata comments from the setup files sent to the Gateway Hub. |
| VI-8490 | Active Console, GSE |
GSE updates the Error Dockable that allows you to filter errors by:
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| VI-8607 | Active Console, GSE | Check box icons are now updated with a light theme design. |
| VI-8635 | Active Console, GSE | The new onboarding screen can be accessed any time from the Active Console Help menu. |
| VI-8666 | Active Console, GSE | The Active Chart, Bar Chart, Active Gauge, and Pie Chart now have updated colour schemes. |
| VI-8674 | Active Console, GSE | The onboarding screen now loads on the Active Console startup. To disable the onboarding screen, tick the Do not show at startup check box at the bottom of the screen. |
| VI-8675 | Active Console, GSE | The Open and Save actions in the Active Console > File menu now use platform-default file choosers. |
| VI-8677 | Active Console, GSE | The Dockable Manager dialog now uses the platform-default file chooser. |
| VI-8707 | Active Console, GSE | File choosers for Time Definition > Import, Output > Save As, and Picture Widget > Add/Update now use platform defaults. |
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VI-8732 VI-8733 VI-8734 VI-8735 |
Active Console, GSE |
The options in each menu in the Active Console is now rearranged:
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| VI-8739 | Active Console, GSE |
The Active Console title is now consistently used within the workspace and to all other windows. |
| VI-8740 | Active Console, GSE | Gateway Setup Editor now uses the OS native file dialog. |
| VI-8741 | Active Console, GSE | In Active Console and Gateway Setup Editor, the Gateway dockable no longer have the operating system indicator in the Gateway icons. |
| VI-8742 | Active Console, GSE |
Active Console and hub-sdk are now packaged with jackson 2.10.0 to address security vulnerabilities. This update addresses the following:
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| VI-8744 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console now has a new default workspace. |
| VI-8745 | Active Console, GSE | EventTickers dockable is now renamed to Event Tickers. |
| VI-8758 | Active Console, GSE | Active Console now has new Active Chart types: Area Chart, Scatter Plot, and Step Graph. |
| VI-8759 | Active Console, GSE | Tools in the Tool & Modifiers dialog now show the commonly used groups first and removes the tool groups that are not commonly used. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
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| AA-5300 | Gateway | GSE no longer hides the Remove Comment menu item when using simplified comments. |
| AA-5334 | Gateway | A warning is now shown, instead of an error, when the Gateway Hub location set in both the command line and the Gateway setup file. |
| AA-5426 | Gateway | Gateway no longer warns about lack of database connection when no database configured, but timeseries are configured to be downloaded from Gateway Hub. |
| AA-5490 | Gateway | Fixes a bug where the Gateway can become unresponsive while processing Self-Announcing Netprobe connections, if multi-threaded rule evaluation is enabled. |
| VI-2460 | Active Console, GSE, Web server | Web server no longer displays an error on startup saying the image resource managedentityviewdefault.png could not be loaded. |
| VI-3094 | Gateway | Fixes an error reported when the user tries to open GSE for a Gateway without a license. |
| VI-7923 | Active Console,GSE | Active Console no longer freezes when the current workspace residing in a URL is unreachable. |
| VI-8202 | Gateway | Fixes a bug where the GSE attempts to use a token but it did not have when editing Centralised Configuration Gateways without configuring an SSO server. |
| VI-8279 | Web server | Run scripts now include the DASHBOARDS_DIR parameter. |
| VI-8365 | Active Console, GSE | Fixes a bug where the GSE throws an exception if a Centralise Gateway was opened in GSE without GSE acquiring an SSO token. |
| VI-8445 | Web server | The geneos-bcrypt-hasher.jar inside Geneos Web Server is now renamed to geneos-bcrypt-hasher-1.0.ja. |
| VI-8687 | Active Console, GSE | The ActiveConsole.exe and GatewaySetupEditor.exe no longer indicate an incorrect version number in the file properties. |
| VI-8814 | Gateway | The GSE re-enables the Save current document button if the saving process is cancelled. |
| VI-8815 | Gateway | The Includes folder now unlocks when you unload it. |
| VI-8816 | Gateway | The Includes folder now unlocks when the GSE unloads it due to a reload of either the main setup or the schema. |
Known issues
These are the known issues affecting this release:
| Issue key | Known issue description |
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| AA-5429 |
SSO-enabled Web Dashboard and Webslinger do not currently work with SSO Agent in the Gateway Hub. It works when connecting to a standalone SSO Agent or when SSO is disabled. This involves a fix for SSO Agent in the Gateway Hub. Known issue since: Geneos 4.13.0 Fixed in Geneos 5.0 (December 2019) |
| AA-5490 |
Gateway may become unresponsive when processing Self-Announcing Netprobe connections if multi-threaded rule evaluation (operatingEnvironment > numRuleEvaluationThreads is more than 0) is enabled. A temporary workaround is to turn off multi-threaded rule evaluation in the XML before starting the Gateway. Known issue since: GA4.11.1 Fixed in Geneos 4.13.2 and Geneos 5.0 (December 2019) |
| VI-8672 |
Web Dashboard is not compatible with SSO Agent in the Gateway Hub. Please use the standalone SSO Agent available to download from the ITRS Downloads website. Planned fix version: Geneos 5.1 (Q1 2020) |
Other Geneos releases
| Geneos 5.x Release Notes |
Released: December 2019 Last updated: November 2020 |
| Geneos 4.x Release Notes |
Released: February 2017 Last updated: December 2019 |
| Geneos 3.x Release Notes |
Released: March 2015 Last updated: October 2016 |
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