Hello IM Community, This edition is covering a 2 week span of material. My regrets to those dedicated weekly readers -- on occasion, I take a few days off . Regardless, in case you have not visited our community recently below is a great recap of things you might have missed.
Also, have you seen our series on Community Hacks? Be sure to check them out as they offer great tips and tricks on how to best leverage this community platform. Then, suggest you follow Chris_Stallone to stay close to all the other goodies he publishes.
Noteworthy / Announcements
Spectrum Documentation - Download from Wiki
The Latest Unified Infrastructure Management Roadmap with Dates
CA SystemEDGE Administration Guide
Community Member Spotlight for July - James Perkins
CA UIM Office Hours Transcript - July 2015
Announcing RHEL 7.x support for CA SystemEDGE version 5.8.1, 5.8.2, 5.9
New Tech Tips:
Tech Tip: How do I request for CA Visual Infrastructure License
Tech Tip: Error code:143:-100 when starting CA Visual Infrastructure services.
Spec KB: Moving Datacenters to different landscapes for virtual modeling with the CA Spectrum 9.4.1 integration with CA Nimsoft
Spec KB: VMware objects are not discovered in CA Nimsoft/CA Spectrum 9.4.1 when using the VMware integration
Infrastructure Manager Archive VS Admin Console Web/Local Archive
Tech Tip PM 2.4 Unexpected error: 500: Property missing: /form/
Tech Tip: nhRemotePollerSetup fails with error: Setup was unable to locate eHealth on host 'Remote_Poller_IP'.Tech Tip: nhRemotePollerSetup fails with error: Setup was unable to locate eHealth on host 'Remote_Poller_IP'.
Tech Tip: SILKWide Codec Threshold
Tech Tip: NPC - All reports disappear under a menu.
Spec KB: CA Spectrum install fails on Windows 2012
Spec KB: 64bit Tomcat does not work on CA Spectrum 9.4 and 9.4.1
Tech Tip - How to display Alias vs. Name of elements in LiveHealth
Tech Tip - New models in spectrum do not have eHealth reports link available
Tech Tip - nhspectrumsetup - Why use it?
Tech Tip - How can I update all the members of my eHealth cluster at once?
New Ideas:
Spectrum
Keep focus of a container view, after deleting a model
Workflow assessment to avoid monotonous actions in Spectrum OneClick.
Allow administrative action to re-sync OC-server alarm-table
If certain interfaces/ports come up, I want the device to come out of maintenance automatically
Spectrum NCM - add unsupported devices to default device families
SPECTRUM 10 - GISVIEW Have higher priority map bubbles go to the front
UIM
Custom Metrics in Self Certification Wizard
Drilldown Reports - Security Modification
Nimsoft should generate Probe License Expiration alarm in advance, similar to Hub license expiration alarm
NetApp C-Mode monitoring of volume health and utilization
IBM PowerVM Capacity Backup Monitoring
[UIM] Tools introduction using download space than article space so that we are able to aware of it.
Total Memory and CPU allocations in Server summary
Allow VMWare to Remove Auto-Monitors or prevent from finding certain systems
VMware summary dashboards
SLM export option
Alarm filters in USM should be reflected in the device icons in the tree
When a queue on a hub is deactivated, alarms related to that queue should be closed
Export SLA/SLO/Qos restraint unavailability periods
Admin Console Must Haves Add-on's in next release: Re-try and Status Column
Feature request : Provide an opportunity for a user account linked to an account to change dashboards published for the account.
USM automatic group filtering
SCOM to Nimsoft integration\probe
Dashboards: Data source removal
DEFECT: Sybase probe passing password in clear text
Request for enhancement: Create Sybase report for UMP.
UMP - Performance Report Read Only access
Nimsoft database improvements
ntp client probe
Processes probe: assign different severities for process down in different profiles
Robot text field for audit or history
eHealth
Add entry to monitor polling cycle in the nhAddSysEdgeMonEntries command
Parameterized URL for LE browser
NFA
Full NBAR2 Support (all available versions or Engines) on NFA
Separate periodicPruneFrequency for RAW flow
Ability for NFA to resolve hostnames by DNS or/and hosts file
DCIM
CA Visual Infrastructure - enable read-only view for the VM Panel
CA Visual Infrastructure - enable CA VI to synch virtual machine info from the VMware probe
CA Visual Infrastructure - enable moving blades from 3D client enclosure view
CA DCIM - Expand Search Capabilities
CA DCIM - Network Path Expansion
CA DCIM - Remove All Enclosures
CA DCIM - Apply business rules to Reservation or Cabinet Groups
CA DCIM - Expand Reservation Requirements
CA DCIM - Placement Algorithms
CA DCIM - Audit Trail
CA DCIM - Show 2D drawing of existing and reserved (future) Cabinets or Cabinet groupings
Performance Management / Performance Center
IP SLA for FTP
Import Checkpoint IPSO Multicore Statistics Data
Ability to retire single item (component, interface)
DELETE button/function in device table
SystemEDGE
SysEDGE SRM Choice of Encryption protocols
[SystemEDGE] run SA/SRM custom tests in user context
[SystemEDGE] LogFile Monitoring for (status) files that contain only one line of code
Clear Trap For Log File Monitoring
New Videos
CA Spectrum r10.0: Performance Improvement
CA Spectrum r10.0: Generating SRM Reports
CA eHealth Installation
CA SystemEDGE Installation on Solaris
Prior Edition --> What you may have missed (July 6 - July 12)