Community, have a look at this to get all caught up on community happenings for the month of August 2016. This is a summary of announcements, tech tips, new ideas created, upcoming events and event replays.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Update: CA Application Delivery Analysis Virtual Multi-Port Monitor 3rd Party Hardware Program Expansion
Service Pack 2 now available for CA Unified Infrastructure Management 8.4
CA Spectrum 9.4.4 is now GA released and available for download
General Availability (GA) Announcement CA Unified Communications Monitor Release 4.3
USEFUL
Spectrum 9.4.3 Patch List
DocOps: Custom PDFs and EPUBs
July 2016 CPU kits for CA eHealth's ORACLE 11.2.0.4 database available at CA Support Online
CA Spectrum Business Value Estimations
CA Virtual Network Assurance Business Value Estimations
A Must Read! SDxCentral Report on Network Performance Management Strategies for Cloud and SDN
NEW BLOG: Stay on offense with a proactive network performance management strategy
Community Member Spotlight - August 2016
UPCOMING EVENTS
September 8, 2016 [WEBCAST]: Spectrum-UIM Integration
September 14, 2016 Operationalizing your Virtual Network – Getting to the Next Level with SDN/NFV Management
September 15, 2016 [WEBCAST] SOI CONCEPTS with LIVE DEMO
September 28 and 29 CA Infrastructure Management User Group Meeting D-A-CH - 28. and 29. September 2016
EVENTS you might have missed
Webcast Recap: Your Input Needed on New UIM for Cloud Dashboards for AWS, Nutanix, and Docker
August 2016 Webcast: Your Input Needed on New UIM for Cloud Dashboards for AWS, Nutanix, and Docker
CA Unified Infrastructure Management - AP Office Hours Transcript, August 17th, 2016, 3.00PM - 4.00PM (AEST) Sydney Time
CA Performance Management 3.0 Sprint 3 Review
CA Spectrum REST API Office Hours Transcript - August 2016
UPGRADE CONTENT (*NEW*)
CA Unified Infrastructure Management Upgrade Content
CA Performance Management Upgrade Content
CA Spectrum Upgrade Content
CA WORLD INFO / Follow the CA World Community --> CA World '16
The CA World '16 Session Catalog is Now Live!
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[NOTICE] New to CA World: The CA Accelerator Zone
NEW TECH TIPS
thank you for all the tech tips! but special thanks this month to DavidM for authoring many new tech tips for UIM
Tech Tip: New UMP users get the message "You do not have the roles required to access this portlet" on every portlet
Tech Tip: UIM Robot installation fails on HP-UX
Tech Tip: UIM - How to monitor an Oracle PDB database.
Tech Tip: UIM - A probe license fails to show the Expiration Date
Tech Tip: Compiling & Installing Perl Modules on Linux
Tech Tip: UIM - Is it possible to update the OpenSSL used by the hub and robot?
Tech Tip: Cannot open the webpage for the Performance Mangement OpenAPI QueryBuilder in Internet Explorer
CA on CA Tech Tip - cdm >= 5.70 and random reboots
Tech Tip: How are Jaspersoft (CABI 6.1) users synched over from Spectrum to Jaspersoft and how can I login as one of these users?
Tech Tip: When using JasperSoft (CABI 6.1) to run a “Top-N” style report, the results are duplicated.
Tech Tip: Two emails are created when user creates new Reports and adds Report Schedule in an Active Passive environment
TECH TIP: hs_err_pid files created in WASP directory, slowly filling drive
Tech tip: Upgrading cdm probe to version 5.70 or later may cause a server reboot.
Tech tip: nas probe in red status and not starting
CA on CA Tech Tip - Enabling CA App eXperience Analytics for CA Unified Infrastructure Management Portal
New KB Article! Baseline Engine and Prediction Engine probes won't start when using "SSL ONLY" mode in a HUB
Spec KB: What support is there for installing and running Spectrum on non Redhat Linux systems such as SUSE or CentOS?
New Videos
PLAYLIST: CA Performance Management 2.8 "How To" Video Series
CA Performance Management - SDN/NFV Virtual Storage Usage Dashboards
CA Performance Management - SDN/NFV Physical Server Usage Dashboards
NEW IDEAS
CA Spectrum Ideas Update - August 2016 <-- thank you jaina01
SystemEdge
Scheduling processes by systemedge
Security Issue: SystemEdge installs JRE world writable
Sysedge support on Oracle Linux 7.0,6.x,5
CA Spectrum
Adding WLC Monitoring for Non Cisco devices
Certify logrhythm Sys Log Server Traps
Spectrum OneClick SSH Timeout
Let Spectrum manage devices by SNMP only (disable Ping necessity)
Additional Alarm Levels for Spectrum
Spectrum NCM GUI
Prevent unfinished modeloutages in the SRMDB
Spectrum NCM Capture/Load Config
Spectrum NCM configuration comparison mask improvement
NCM Policy Repair Action
Clear the SSH known_hosts file automatically
CA UIM
Provide sample UIM Dashboards
Export to .csv feature in audit probe
Add the Ability to Edit the "Custom" Column Names in USM Portlet.
UIM - dasboard designer - graphs.
Self-adaptive dashboard
How can I select a USM group as alarm filter in dasbhoard designer?
- Support UIM database connections to SQL Server 2014 with TLS 1.2
Ability to configure interfaces in maintenance mode
SQL server checkpoint for scheduled jobs
USM direct display for systems in multiple groups
Check all configured QOS data is correctly updated in the UIM database
Provide additional filters for USM group visibility
Make the Support Compatibility Matrix available in .csv format
More information into Clariion probe error messages
Prioritize new ticket creation over updates and close in Service Desk gateway probes
Ability to acknowledge Alarms through email
Disk latency in CDM probe
JDBC Connection to Sybase Database on UIM Dashboards
UIM: Expand group filtering options for Interfaces
webservicemon probe - statefull web services
UIM Maintenance - Probe Time Specification
UMP - storing media gallery in DB
SQL Server Always On Multi-site Asynchronous Replication should be recognized as normal by the sqlserver probe
SQL Server Always On Listener Monitoring should take the location of the primary into account
UIM web logon legal disclaimer
UIM - Add more details on probe gathering methods
Functionality from Alarm Console
Admin Console Regex tester with Log tailing
CA UCM
Creating separate alarm when severity changes
CA NFA
Limit NFA custom reports to not allow all interfaces
NFA Auto vs Full Scale Interface Reports
NFA Alerts for over threshold for number of minutes.
CA Performance Management
Ability to save column sort order in a CA PC Report Template
Would like to add in more than 15 groups to IM On-Demand table
CAPC search to return menus and dashboards
Exclude low usage from 'deviations from normal'
CAPC history
Support of Symbol Technologies Wireless controllers models RFS6000 and RFS7000
improve CAPC Dashboards Webservice export and import
Increase Maximum Number of Rows in On-Demand Reports
Planned maintenance reporting for Performance Center
Discovery Profile with SNMP Set
Additional role rights for ADA in PM
Read the last edition --> What you may have missed (June/July 2016)