Specifications

SPECTRUM Software Release Notice (SSRN)
For SPECTRUM 6.6 with Service Pack 2 CD release
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Upgrade Considerations
This section identifies product changes that should be
considered when upgrading from prior releases. Some of
these changes may require modifications to existing
SPECTRUM customizations and integrations.
• The version of Service Performance Manager (Web Operator
component) in this release is not compatible with SpectroSERVERs at a
version prior to 6.6.0 SP1. In order to use this version of SPM (Web
Operator component) across a set of distributed SpectroSERVERs, all
SpectroSERVERs must first have at least 6.6 SP1 applied.
• Warning message(s) may occur in the install log. These warnings do
not imply a problem and can be ignored. For example: "Warning:
Attribute 0x114e2 does not appear to be a valid attribute for modeltype
0xXXXXXXX. Default value not set."
• Alarm Notifier will only pass the most recent event for an alarm update
if the new SHOW_ALL_EVENTS .alarmrc parameter is set to FALSE. By
default, this new parameter is set to FALSE, thereby changing the out-
of-box behavior of Alarm Notifier. For Alarm Notifier integrations that
depend on the prior default behavior of all associated events being
passed with alarm updates, SHOW_ALL_EVENTS should be set to TRUE
in the .alarmrc.
• CLI output change - CLI "show attributes" output for multiple attributes
are now reported in the same order as they were requested. This
restores the behavior that existed prior to the 6.5.1 release. (*** This
may require certain CLI scripts to be adapted to support this output
change.)
• AutoDiscovery behavior change - When you run a container based
discovery (with Map Topology unchecked), AutoDiscovery now
attempts to move all models (both new and pre-existing) that
correspond to entries in the result set into the chosen container.
Previously, a container-based discovery (with Map Topology
unchecked) would only put new models in the container. The current
work-around is to set the IsMovable attribute to FALSE for all existing
device models before performing any container-based discoveries. To
do this using Search Manager (for device models selected from search
results), select Management > Set Attribute Values and set
Topologically Relocate Models to False.