CA Spectrum® Software Release Notice Release 9.
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Contents Chapter 1: Overview 9 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Documentation Updates .............................................................................................................................................. 9 Documentation Quality Improvements ....................................................................................................
Enhanced Events Tab for Aged out Alarms ......................................................................................................... 25 New Columns in the Table Preferences Dialog ................................................................................................... 25 Chapter 4: Known Anomalies in CA Spectrum Release 9.4 27 Custom Branding Known Anomaly .............................................................................................................................
Garbled Characters Appear in Alarms ................................................................................................................. 52 Condition Correlation Requires English Input .....................................................................................................
Chapter 1: Overview This section contains the following topics: Introduction (see page 9) Documentation Updates (see page 9) Introduction This CA Spectrum Software Release Notice (SRN) alerts you to special considerations for upgrades, product enhancements or changes, late-breaking information, and known anomalies. We strongly recommend that you read this CA Spectrum SRN to be aware of any changes in the product or the associated documentation.
Documentation Updates Documentation Quality Improvements The CA Spectrum Documentation Bookshelf reflects the following changes to enhance the quality: ■ Bug fixes: Close to 30 documentation-related defects were addressed in this release.
Documentation Updates Third-Party Software License Agreements Third-party software was used in the creation of CA Spectrum. All third-party software has been used in accordance with the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, and distribution as defined by the applicable license agreements. This section contains all third-party software license agreements for applications that are included as part of the current CA Spectrum Release 9.4 software package.
Chapter 2: Special Considerations This section identifies product changes to consider when upgrading to this release.
Important Upgrade and Migration Information Important Upgrade and Migration Information Before upgrading or migrating to CA Spectrum Release 9.4 be aware of the following important points: ■ CA Spectrum Release 9.4 supports upgrades from CA Spectrum 9.2.2, 9.2.2 H09, 9.2.3, 9.2.3 H11 and H12, 9.3, and 9.3 H01. If you are on a version of CA Spectrum earlier than 9.2.2, see CA Spectrum Installation Guide for available upgrade paths to CA Spectrum Release 9.4. ■ CA Spectrum Release 9.4 and 9.
Install JRE and JCEUnlimited Strength Files on OneClick Client Install JRE and JCEUnlimited Strength Files on OneClick Client This release of CA Spectrum includes JRE 1.7.0_60 and JCEUnlimited Strength Files. The JCEUnlimited Strength Files are required for OneClick cryptography requirements. To install these two components on OneClick client, click the Install JRE and JCEUnlimited Strength Files option on OneClick home page and follow the steps thereafter.
CA SystemEDGE vCenter AIM Deployment Enhancement CA SystemEDGE vCenter AIM Deployment Enhancement This release of CA Spectrum supports only remote deployments of CA SystemEDGE vCenter AIM. As a result, before upgrade remove all local deployments of CA SystemEDGE vCenter AIM on the vCenter server hosts, and deploy them remotely. Each CA SystemEDGE vCenter AIM that is deployed remotely is now capable of managing multiple vCenter servers.
Chapter 3: Features and Enhancements This chapter briefly describes many of the major new features included in CA Spectrum Release 9.4.
Localization This release also adds currency for the following third-party components: ■ CA Business Intelligence (CABI) version 3.3 SP1 (for Report Manager) ■ CAPKI 4.3.3 ■ Oracle JDK 1.7.0_60 ■ Oracle JRE 1.7.0_60 ■ Apache Tomcat 7.0.54 ■ OData4J 0.7 ■ Quartz v.2.2.1 ■ ZThread 2.3.2 ■ CAPKI r4.3.3 ■ MySQL 5.5.37 See the Installation Guide for specific requirements that apply to each supported operating system. If you are using CABI 3.2, CABI 3.2 + FP32, and CABI 3.
Support for Fault-Tolerant Archive Manager Support for Fault-Tolerant Archive Manager With this release of CA Spectrum, you can run the Archive Manager on the secondary SpectroSERVER host in a fault-tolerant SpectroSERVER environment. This secondary Archive Manager provides visibility to events in OneClick when the primary Archive Manager is down. For more information about the fault-tolerant Archive Manager, see the CA Spectrum Distributed SpectroSERVER Administrator Guide.
Network and Server Virtualization Enhancements Network and Server Virtualization Enhancements Support for Multi-Instance VMware vCenter Servers Using Single SystemEDGE vCenter AIM This release of CA Spectrum supports only remote deployments of CA SystemEDGE vCenter AIM capable of managing multiple vCenter servers in your VMware environment. CA Spectrum can show the OneClick view of each remotely deployed CA SystemEDGE vCenter AIM and all the managed multiple vCenter servers under it in OneClick.
Certifications Support for LACP With this release of CA Spectrum the following features are supported for LACP: ■ Identify and view the "Link Aggregation" information for devices that support 802.3 ad/ax. ■ Detailed information of available link Aggregations for a selected device like list of ports that are involved in link aggregation, and status. ■ Spotlight view to highlight devices that have link aggregations in OneClick topology. ■ Locater Search for devices with link aggregations in network.
Enhanced Authentication Enhanced Authentication Support for Multiple Active Directory Domains This release of CA Spectrum supports EEM 12.5, and adds support for Multiple Active Directory Domains. Users from multiple active directory domains can now log in to the OneClick. Spectrum supports this feature by leveraging the "Multiple Active Directory Domains" feature present in CA EEM 12.0 and later versions. To use this feature, integrate your CA Spectrum Release 9.4 to CA EEM 12.0 or later version.
IP Services Related Enhancements Enhanced Support for VPN Manager This release of CA Spectrum includes the following VPN Manager enhancements: ■ The Associated Edge Routers sub view in OneClick console now provides hyperlink to that model. On clicking the hyperlink, the model is highlighted under the respective SpectroSERVER landscape. ■ The device model under VPNSite is no longer displayed in the VPN Manager hierarchy.
Nimsoft Integration Enhancements Nimsoft Integration Enhancements Integration with CA Nimsoft This release adds full support for integration with CA Nimsoft. CA Nimsoft and CA Spectrum are integrated through the web server. This integration supports HostServer system management. The HostServer models resulting from the integration provides traditional Spectrum capabilities such as layer2 connectivity and fault isolation with the features supported by Nimsoft monitor.
OneClick Enhancements Enhanced Events Tab for Aged out Alarms With this release of CA Spectrum, an aged out alarm which is cleared displays the "System.Alarm_AgeOut" value in its corresponding "Cleared By" column under Events tab. For more information, see the CA Spectrum Operator Guide. New Columns in the Table Preferences Dialog You can now add two new columns Contact (DB) and Device Location (DB) in Contents view for Alarms and List tabs.
Chapter 4: Known Anomalies in CA Spectrum Release 9.4 This chapter identifies known anomalies for CA Spectrum and its integrated applications in CA Spectrum Release 9.4.
Custom Branding Known Anomaly Custom Branding Known Anomaly Environment: Windows 2008/2008R2/2012/2012R2, Linux, and Solaris. Locale: All supported. Symptom: The custom branding does not work properly when you have space between words in the brand and suite name sections in "custom-branding-config.xml".
Error: SCP Cannot Be Launched Description Solution In some rare cases, interface status does not reflect site status. Due to this behavior, when the interface condition is critical for a site, the site condition is shown as normal. When the VPN condition is critical, the interface condition is normal. We plan to address this known issue in a future release of CA Spectrum.
Service Desk Integration Known Anomalies Service Desk Integration Known Anomalies Platform: Windows 2008 Standard Symptom: After running the ServiceDeskIntegrationSetup file, SDNotifier displays the following error message: /usr/Spectrum/Notifier/sd_notifier/ServiceDeskSetScript: line 178: ../vnmsh/show: such a file or directory does not exist. The error message may not be displayed because it is redirected.
OneClick Known Anomalies OneClick Known Anomalies The following table describes known OneClick anomalies: Description Solution When you map traps through MIB Tools, the EvFormat We plan to address this known issue in a future version and PCause files that are created are not formatted of CA Spectrum. properly. EvFormat files do not contain extra spacing around the description and all of the varbinds are on a single line.
Report Manager Known Anomalies Report Manager Known Anomalies The following topics describe known Report Manager anomalies: IP Domain Support To use Report Manager from outside an IP domain, the OneClick Server entry on the Admin Tools, Preferences page must contain the fully qualified hostname of the OneClick server to correctly navigate to OneClick from Report Manager. Warning After Tomcat Shutdown Symptom: When Tomcat is shut down, the following message is displayed in the stdout.
Report Manager Known Anomalies JdbcTemplate Exceptions During Tomcat shutdown, exceptions can occur in code that references JdbcTemplate. These exceptions occur when an SQL query or update is issued during shutdown. These exceptions can be safely ignored. Internationalization Limitations ■ Report Manager database migration from the 9.1 J version of CA Spectrum is not supported. ■ CABI 3.x does not support Traditional Chinese.
Report Manager Known Anomalies Error during CABI Integration Step Symptom: After successfully installing CABI, I performed the Report Manager integration step. When I pressed Save, I saw the following error: Error importing SRM content: Required dependencies not found on target system : [AQuGhZ2EfP1NkSXoQTUcKz0, AQck.q67O5dHtfsJTBBtsU0] Solution: The CA Reports folder and CA user groups were not added during the CABI installation.
CABI 3.3 SP1 Known Anomalies CABI 3.3 SP1 Known Anomalies Consider the following two known issues in CABI 3.3 SP1: Java 7u51 issue Symptom: If the client machine has JDK version 7update 51 or higher, then while running WEBI reports the following Security exception occurs: Missing required Permissions manifest attribute in main jar: http://:8080/AnalyticalReporting/webiApplet/ThinCadenza.jar Solution: 1. Log in to CABI server machine as administrator. 2. Download the CABI_3.
SpectroSERVER Known Anomalies JSP error in InfoView Preferences Environment: Windows Symptom: In InfoView when clicking Preferences, the following error appears: An error has occurred: Unable to compile class for JSP Solution: To resolve this issue, apply the hotfix“ cabi33sp1hotfix.zip" at ftp://ftp.ca.com/caproducts/CABI/CABI-3.x/boeXIR3_SP6/Windows/.
Installation and Uninstallation Program Known Anomalies Core Dump File Is Truncated Valid on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Symptom: When SpectroSERVER crashes, the generated core dump file is truncated. Visit the following website for detailed information about the known defect that causes this issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759213 Solution: Make the following modifications to generate the core dump file without any truncation. Follow these steps: 1. Log in to the server as "root". 2.
Installation and Uninstallation Program Known Anomalies Description Solution Errors in the ddm log list database tables that had errors. No other symptoms; installation appears successful. The installation of CA Spectrum Release 9.4 includes an upgrade of the MySQL database to a newer version. The errors that are logged indicate that some errors occurred in a table, and that these same errors have been fixed automatically.
Secure Domain Manager and Secure Domain Connector (SDM and SDC) Known Anomalies Secure Domain Manager and Secure Domain Connector (SDM and SDC) Known Anomalies The following table describes known Secure Domain Manager (SDM) and Secure Domain Connector (SDC) anomalies: Description Solution After failover, when the connection is restored to the Primary SDC, traps are not forwarded by the Primary SDC. They are still forwarded by the Secondary SDC. Restart the Primary SDC.
Service Manager Known Anomalies Service Manager Known Anomalies The following table describes known Service Manager anomalies: Description Solution In the Outage History in the Service Manager Dashboard, current outages have no end-time; they are still occurring. Client system time is used to calculate the downtime of these current outages. For an accurate current outage downtime calculation, verify that the OneClick client system clocks are synchronized with the SpectroSERVER system clocks.
VPLS Known Anomalies VPLS Known Anomalies The following table describes known VPLS anomalies: Description Solution Traps are enabled, but the VPLS site is not deleted when it is deprovisioned. This issue is not a VPLS problem. It is related to Juniper devices that are not sending the VpnIfDown trap when the VPLS Site is deleted in configuration. Unable to Run OneClick Client on Linux and Solaris On the Linux and Solaris platforms, Oracle is no longer providing self-extracting installers.
CA Nimsoft - CA Spectrum Integration Known Anomalies CA Nimsoft - CA Spectrum Integration Known Anomalies Environment: Windows, Linux, Solaris The following table describes the known anomalies of Nimsoft Integration: Description Solution The Locater Search Results window displays keys instead of values. We plan to address this issue in a future release. Sometimes after upgrading to CA Spectrum Release 9.4, it was observed that Nimsoft integration is not starting when enabled.
Chapter 5: Internationalization and Localization This section of the Release Notice describes issues related to translation, and also describes other limitations in scope that are related to non-English versions of the CA Spectrum software.
Localization Overview English is always installed to provide backup to the language you select. No more than two languages can be installed–English and one non-English language. In this scenario, the non-English language is the primary language and English is the backup. A non-English language cannot be the backup. EvFormat and PCause files are installed in $SPECROOT/SG-Support. English-only installations should see no directory structural difference from previous releases of CA Spectrum.
Localization Overview Rule of Localization Limits The Rule of Localization Limits states that not everything in CA Spectrum is localized to a non-English language. Localization is limited because CA Spectrum manages diverse network devices that generally support only English/ASCII. In addition, the CA Spectrum core database (ModelType Catalog) is not localized. Therefore, non-English users will see English in various places in CA Spectrum.
Localization Overview You can validate the locale setting that CA Spectrum uses with one of the following methods. Both methods return the same value to ensure the Rule of Localization Homogeneity: ■ Send action 0x10405 to the VNM Model to determine which locale the SpectroSERVER is using. ■ Open URL http://<:port>/spectrum/restful/oneclick/locale to determine which Locale the OneClick server is using.
Limitations and Considerations Limitations and Considerations Upgrade Considerations The following upgrades are supported only for English to English. For upgrades from version 9.2 English to Release 9.4 non-English, only the database migration installation is supported, and English values are not converted to non-English. ■ 9.2.2 (H09) to 9.4 ■ 9.2.3 to 9.4 ■ 9.2.3 (H11) to 9.4 ■ 9.2.3 (H12) to 9.4 ■ 9.3.0 to 9.4 ■ 9.3.0 (H01) to 9.
Limitations and Considerations ■ CORBA (components and APIs), such as server names, hostnames, domain names, and DNS names. All servers in a CA Spectrum DSS environment must use ASCII hostnames and domains. ■ System-level and external utilities, such as TFTP, FTP, SSH hostnames, and directories. This restriction is necessary in part due to limitations of the external tools. For example, the Cygwin bash shell does not support UTF-8. ■ Non-English usernames and passwords may not work in all browsers.
Limitations and Considerations ■ Command-line Interface. The CLI is a script language and a debug tool, and as such is not localized. Because the CLI has been internationalized, it can work with localized data in the database. ■ Command-line elements, including commands, error messages, and user-supplied SpectroSERVER database data. ■ Programmatic values, such as indexes. Report Manager Limitations ■ Report Manager database migration from the 9.1 J version of CA Spectrum is not supported.
Limitations and Considerations Regular Expression Considerations CA Spectrum uses regular expressions for processing. Many expressions are visible, such as in the Locater search editor. In general, consider the data source that a regular expression evaluates: ■ Localized regular expressions are supported for user data that is stored in the Spectrum database. However, not all CA Spectrum data is localized, which can affect the functionality of the regular expression.
Known Issues Known Issues Spectrum Report Manager Database Upgrade Environment: Windows, Linux, and Solaris Symptom: Report Manager database conversion to UTF-8 fails when there are special characters that are not part of UTF-8 character set. The conversion process stops at the first occurrence of such special character, and "SchemaChangeException" is logged in the "stdout.log" (in Windows) and "catlina.out" (in Linux and Solaris) log file. This issue occurs only during upgrades or migrations from 9.2.
Known Issues Component Names Still in Japanese after Upgrade When you upgrade from CA Spectrum Release 9.1J (translated to Japanese) to Release 9.4 (in a Japanese locale), the database migration leaves some component names in Japanese. This situation occurs because some model names in the Navigation panel were determined to be specific to the Japanese locale and were therefore translated. On a new installation in a Japanese locale, you see English names for these models in OneClick.
Known Issues Condition Correlation Requires English Input Some Condition Correlation functionality does not work when user input uses localized characters. In our testing, we verified that the same features worked correctly when we supplied input using English characters. We plan to address this known issue in a future release of CA Spectrum.
