UIM BI v23.4.5.1 (Early Access)

[Ravishu Arora]

Hi All,

The DX UIM 23.4 CU5 release introduced UIM Data Services (ODATA APIs) as an alternative to CABI, which is being phased out of DX UIM.

Today, we are pleased to announce the early access release of UIM Business Intelligence (UIM BI) with which you can integrate UIM Data Services as a data source to meet your reporting needs within the product.

In addition to this integration, UIM BI v23.4.5.1 (Early Access) also includes some key enhancements like:

• multi-line widget,
• pivot tables,
• an improved context selector,
• and more

Details can be found in the solution document here, and in the technical documentation here.

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Principal Product Manager
Broadcom Software
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[Joakim E]

Hi Ravishu,

Are there no predefined reports with UIM BI (like in CABI)?

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[Garin Walsh]

Regarding the predefined reports, I will make the comment that based on what was included long ago with the LifeRay version of the web interface, the OTB reports weren't really usable. Once you stepped away from the "show CPU for all servers over some arbitrary time" sort of request, time spent changing an existing OTB report generally exceeded the time to create from scratch. 

I will say though that the value of the OTB reports then was in presenting an example of "how to" that should have been in the documentation but wasn't.

And to ask a new question, looking at the new multi line widget, I note that there are only two data sources listed: 
 

But the existing "graph" widget supports more:

 

The question is if this is just because this is a preview version or is the intent with the multiline widget not to support the QOS and Metric methods of identifying data?

And if that is indeed the case, it would be handy to have a document that explains bluntly how to translate a QOS or Metric data source definition into a ODATA source. At this point I am sure that I can guess at a way to do it but it would be nice to have something that shows the correct way before slogging my way through it.

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[Devender Vanga]

Hi Garin,

 

Thank you for your feedback.

 

At this point of time Multi Line chart supports OData and SQL as data sources. We will comeback to you on having QoS and Metric as supported data sources in Multi Line chart.

Regards,

Devender Vanga

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[Devender Vanga]

Hi Joakim,

Predefined UIM BI reports will be shipped with 23.4 CU6. 

Regards,
Devender Vanga

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[Marius Nitu]

Hello,

I tried to follow the steps on a newly installed environment with the primary hub and OC installed on the same machine. When creating the OData Connection in Dashboard Designer I get an error "The OData connection failed".

If I try to access the OData URL in the browser (http://[IP]/uimdataservices/odata) I can enter the username and password and then I get an HTTP 404 error.

The OData URL http://[IP]/uimdataservices/v1/ is accessible.

The user I tried is administrator.

Marius

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[Devender Vanga]

Hi Marius,

Thank you for your feedback.

Example OData URL is updated in the documentation. 

Regards,
Devender

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[Sam Green]

Hi Ravishu,

When I copy and paste the following example url and update with my IP and groupID:

http://[HOST_OR_IP]/uimdataservices/v1/deviceTrendTableReport(GroupId=-1,CsIds='1,2',MetTypes='1.1:3',AggregateFunction='cs_id',SortOrder='asc',TimeRange=72,StartDate=2025-07-20T05:00:00.000Z,EndDate=2025-07-21T05:00:00.000Z)?$format=json

I get the following error:

Error getting entity data: The URI is malformed

I'm getting the same error when I test other example urls too.

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[Devender Vanga]

Hi Sam,

Is the issue observed with the examples copied from the document only or with the url typed manually also for any other uri/api? I have tried the same example which you have mentioned and is fetching the details.

URI malformed message appears when there are extra spaces or any of the attribute names are typed wrongly in the url.

Regards,
Devender Vanga

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[Sam Green]

Thanks Devender,

I see my issue, I was pasting directly into the query so my syntax was off.  It's working now.

Thank you!

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[Sam Green]

Hi Devender,

What is the best way to get the details required for the query, looking for quick way to find GroupID, CsID, MetTypes etc

At the moment I'm having to run multiple sql queries to get the required information.

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[Devender Vanga]

Hi Sam,

The Master API provides essential information on entities such as Groups, Devices, Alarms, and Metrics. For example, `MasterGroups` provides group information like `GroupId` and `GroupName`, while `MasterDevices` offers device details including `CsId`, `Name`, and `OsType`.

MasterMetrics offers metrics information like MetricName, MetTypes and QoS.

You can access the metadata for the available APIs at `http://[HOST_OR_IP]/uimdataservices/v1/$metadata`. This will show all the attributes contained within each API response.

Best regards,

Devender

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[Sam Green]

Thank you!

Is there an expression to escape a backslash in the CiNames, I'm having trouble when I specify F:\

/metricReport(GroupId=-1,CsIds='11568,11569,11570',MetTypes='1.5:1',CiNames='F:\',TimeRange=72,StartDate=2025-08-20T05:00:00.000Z,EndDate=2025-09-21T05:00:00.000Z)?$format=json

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