What's new

The Netcool Operations Insight V1.6.0.3 solution includes features delivered by the fix packs and fix pack extensions of the products and versions listed in the following topic:

V1.6.0.3 Product and component version matrix

The products are available for download from Passport Advantage® and Fix Central.

OpenShift

Support for deploying Operations Management on Red Hat OpenShift V4.3 was added in V1.6.0.3.

Upgrade

You can upgrade from V1.6.0.2 to V1.6.0.3.

Rollback

You can rollback from V1.6.0.3 to V1.6.0.2.

The Netcool Operations Insight V1.6.0.2 solution includes features delivered by the fix packs and fix pack extensions of the products and versions listed in the following topic:

V1.6.0.2 Product and component version matrix

The products are available for download from Passport Advantage and Fix Central.

Operations Management on Red Hat OpenShift

The Operations Management on Red Hat OpenShift solution provides the following new features and functions.

OpenShift

Support for deploying Operations Management on Red Hat OpenShift was added in V1.6.0.2.

Storage

Support for Red Hat Ceph storage was added in V1.6.0.2. For more information, see Configuring Red Hat Ceph storage.

New hybrid deployment scenarios are supported in V1.6.0.2. For more information, see Deploying on Red Hat OpenShift and Installing on a hybrid architecture.

Hybrid deployment

You can install a hybrid deployment of Operations Management on Red Hat OpenShift. Install only the Cloud Native Analytics services from the Operations Management package, and connect them to an existing Netcool Operations Insight on premises installation. This configuration enables the use of Cloud Native Analytics policies and the display of Cloud Native Analytics enriched events from your on-premises Netcool Operations Insight installation.

The Netcool Operations Insight V1.6.0.1 solution includes features delivered by the fix packs and fix pack extensions of the products and versions listed in the following topic:

V1.6.0.1 Product and component version matrix

The products are available for download from Passport Advantage and Fix Central.

Operations Management on IBM Cloud Private

The Operations Management on IBM Cloud Private solution provides the following new features and functions.

Cloud Native Analytics self-monitoring

A self-monitoring policy can be enabled to provide assurance that Cloud Native Analytics is processing events. For more information, see Cloud Native Analytics Service Monitoring.

Topology Analytics

View topological context for your Cloud Native Analytics events, where there is an associated resource. For more information, see Topology Analytics on container platforms.

Connecting an on-premises Object Server to Operations Management on IBM Cloud Private

After you successfully deploy Operations Management on IBM Cloud Private, you can connect to an existing on-premises installation to create an event feed between your on-premises and cloud installations. For more information, see Connecting an on-premises IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer to your Operations Management on a container platform deployment.

Upgrade

You can upgrade from V1.6.0 to V1.6.0.1. For more information, see Upgrading Operations Management on IBM Cloud Private from V1.6.0 to V1.6.0.1. For information about rolling back the upgrade, see Rolling back Operations Management on IBM Cloud Private from V1.6.0.1 to V1.6.0.

The Netcool Operations Insight V1.6.0 solution includes features delivered by the fix packs and fix pack extensions of the products and versions listed in the following topic:

V1.6.0 Product and component version matrix

The products are available for download from Passport Advantage and Fix Central.

Operations Management on IBM Cloud Private

The Operations Management on IBM Cloud Private solution provides the following new features and functions.

Cloud Native Analytics

Cloud Native Analytics formulates event grouping policies by identifying seasonal and temporal patterns of events within a monitored environment. You can automatically deploy these policies, or you can manually select which policies are deployed. Events are consolidated into incidents, from which you can drill down into event details and time-lines, and see the seasonal, temporal and scope-based groups to which events belongs. For more information, see Cloud Native Analytics on container platforms.

More configurable deployment options

Increased configuration options allow you to configure passwords, secrets and pod access, or to allow Operations Management on IBM Cloud Private to configure these for you during installation. For more information, see Preparing for installation.

Red Hat OpenShift support

Added support for Red Hat OpenShift. The Operations Management on IBM Cloud Private solution can be deployed on IBM Cloud Private with OpenShift. When you install IBM Cloud Private with OpenShift, IBM Cloud Private provides the IBM Cloud Private experience, management, and operations for applications and uses OpenShift's Kubernetes and Docker registry that is already installed by Red Hat. For more information, see IBM Cloud Private documentation: IBM Cloud Private with OpenShift .

Increased Security Assurance

Installation of Operations Management on IBM Cloud Private must now be performed with user-defined passwords and secrets or with randomly generated passwords and secrets, instead of with default passwords. For more information, see Configuring passwords and secrets.

Netcool/Impact scalability

The number of Netcool/Impact core server pods can be increased or decreased while Operations Management on IBM Cloud Private is running. For more information, see Scaling the Netcool/Impact service.

Certification Levels

Operations Management on IBM Cloud Private now has RedHat image certification, and IBM CloudPak level 2 certification, with improved resiliency, scaling and security. For more information, see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSBS6K_3.2.0/app_center/cloud_paks_over.html

Operations Management for Operations Insight

The base Netcool Operations Insight solution provides the following new features and functions.

Event source integration

IBM Cloud Event Management can be configured to forward public or private cloud events to Netcool Operations Insight , where they will appear in the Event Viewer. Netcool Operations Insight events can also be configured to display in IBM Cloud Event Management. For more information, see Connecting event sources to your IBM Netcool Operations Insight on premises deployment