Release notes
IBM® Netcool® Operations Insight® version 1.6.3 is available. Compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues are addressed in these release notes.
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Description
Netcool Operations Insight combines real-time event consolidation and correlation capabilities of Netcool Operations Insight with Event Search and Event Analytics. It further delivers seasonality analysis to help detect regularly occurring issues. Netcool Operations Insight also enables real-time enrichment and correlation to enable agile responses to alerts raised across disparate systems, including application topology.
Compatibility
- On-premises components. This topic also includes information on the eAssemblies and fix packs required to download and install.
- Cloud components
System requirements
For information about hardware and software compatibility of each component, and detailed system requirements, see the IBM Software Product Compatibility Reports website:
http://www-969.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity/index.html
For example, to check the compatibility with an operating system for each component, go to the Operating Systems tab, find the row for your operating system, and hover over the icon in the Components column. For more detailed information about restrictions, click the View link in the Details column.
New product features and functions in version 1.6.3.2
Netcool Operations Insight on OpenShift 1.6.3.2 provides event
management capabilities in IBM Cloud Pak® for Watson™ AIOps 3.2.0.
- New features in version 1.6.3.2
- The following features and functions are available in the Netcool Operations Insight version 1.6.3.2 product:
- Single sign-on
- The single sign-on feature was added in 1.6.3.2. For more information, see Configuring single sign-on and adding Web GUI customization with scripts.
- Footprint
- The resources required for a production deployment increased in version 1.6.3.2. For more information, see Sizing for a Netcool Operations Insight on Red Hat OpenShift deployment and Sizing for a hybrid deployment.
- Updated components in version 1.6.3.2
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In Netcool Operations Insight version 1.6.3.2, the following components are updated:
- Log4j is updated to version 2.17.1. For more information, see: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6554808 and https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6527810
- Other components are listed in the following topics:
New product features and functions in version 1.6.3.1
Select Availability:
Netcool Operations Insight on OpenShift 1.6.3.1 is available for
select customers. Contact IBM Sales if you are interested in
purchasing and using this offering. Netcool Operations Insight on OpenShift 1.6.3.1 provides event
management capabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 3.1.1.
- New features in version 1.6.3.1
- The following features and functions are available in the Netcool Operations Insight version 1.6.3.1 product:
- Deprecated support for Db2®
- Support for Db2 was removed from the Netcool Operations Insight on Red Hat OpenShift 1.6.3.1 release.
New product features and functions in version 1.6.3
- New features in version 1.6.3
- The following features and functions are available in the Netcool Operations Insight version1.6.3 product:
- Deprecated support for IBM Network Performance Insight
- Support for IBM Network Performance Insight was removed from the Netcool Operations Insight 1.6.3 release.
- Edit Temporal Pattern policies
- Event Analytics Temporal Pattern policies can now be edited to modify or enhance the events grouped by these policies. For more information, see Editing policies.
- Dashboards
- Improved integration of Grafana dashboards with Netcool Operations Insight.
- Dashboards
- The Runbook dashboard provides usage statistics on your runbooks. The dashboard also indicates the level of runbook automation maturity, from manual runbooks to fully automated runbooks, over time.
- Incident management
- An incident is made up of one or more events and models a single real-life incident in your monitored environment. Using the new incident management capability, your Operations teams can perform a series of incident resolution activities, including listing current incidents, viewing all incidents, or viewing user or group assigned incidents. They can also take ownership of incidents, and work with teams and tools to resolve incidents.
- OpenShift
- Support for deploying Netcool Operations Insight on Red Hat OpenShift version 4.6 was added in version 1.6.3.
- Probable cause custom labels and classification column names
- You can add your own and customized classification label and customize the classification column name that is used for classification when using probable cause. For more information, see Configuring probable cause.
- Updated product versions in version 1.6.3
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The Netcool Operations Insight version 1.6.3 solution includes features delivered by the products and versions listed in the following topics:
The on-premises products are available for download from Passport Advantage® and Fix Central.
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For more information about the new features in these products and components, see the following topics:
Troubleshooting
Support
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