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  1. NEXThink Portal V4.0.1.0
    1. Software Requirements
    2. New Features
    3. Enhancements
    4. Fixed Issues
  2. Installation Procedure
  3. Upgrade Considerations
    1. Upgrading from V4.x to latest
    2. Upgrading from V3 to V4
    3. Dependency Matrix
    4. Standard Solutions
    5. New Report Module and Admin Module
  4. Known Limitations
  5. Technical Support
  6. Software Versions History
    1. NEXThink Portal V4.0.0.13
    2. NEXThink Portal V4.0.0.12
    3. NEXThink Portal V4.0.0.11

1. NEXThink Portal V4.0.1.0

1.1. Software Requirements

  • Minimum Engine version: 4.0.0.9
  • Supported Browsers
    • IE 7 and higher
    • Firefox 3.6 and higher
    • Google Chrome

1.2. New Features

  • List widget:
    • The rank information is now displayed.
    • If the investigation contains order information then it is used to fill the second step of the wizard.
  • Reports
    • If the last day of the computation wasn't successful, it is indicated now in both the reports and widget.
    • An option has been added to display keywords as column or row in the activity report wizard.
  • Reports Management: A search box for the widgets has been added.

1.3. Enhancements

  • Administration module: When the select all checkbox is checked, all entries are selected not only the current page.
  • General:
    • Alert dialogs: The default alert dialog box of the browser has been replaced with a NEXThink one.
    • Confirm dialogs: The default confirm dialog box of the browser (send, delete, ...) has been replaced with a NEXThink one.
  • Internal: The testing of the computation of the widgets has been improved.

1.4. Fixed Issues

  • Service widget: Problem with the number of impacted sources with respect to the actual usage.
  • Issue widget: 0 value indicated in red color.
  • Activity Widget: Keeping widget configuration when widget is edited/duplicated.
  • Issue widget:
    • If one issue is edited, the overall ratio of the widget is changed.
    • Display of history chart when mode is ratio even if issue has no reference.
  • Inventory/Activity: The display is wrong when restricted to a single node on hierarchy.
  • Hierarchy: The new hierarchy creation makes data inaccessible until the widget is computed.
  • Report:
    • The sort on numerical values is performed alphabetically.
    • The inventory/issue widget - ratio for trend chart is missing.
  • Reports:
    • The service widget, when grouped by hierarchy, displays Engine ID as column header instead of internal engine ID.
    • Bad alignment of service widget values.
  • Report Management: Wrong UI alert when a report is deleted.
  • Inconsistency between JS language files.

2. Installation Procedure

Find the step by step guide here: http://doc.nexthink.com/doc/4.0.0/GettingStarted/Installation/Portal#Installing_NEXThink_V4_Portal

3. Upgrade Considerations

3.1. Upgrading from V4.x to latest

For step by step by guide, refer to Upgrade V4.x

3.2. Upgrading from V3 to V4

For step by step by guide, refer to Upgrade from V3 to V4

3.3. Dependency Matrix

The Portal and the Engine communicate with each other and therefore depend on each other: Portal 4.0 requires NEXThink Engine 4.0

Investigations can be exported from the Finder for being used in the Portal. The following dependency matrix applies:

Portal 3.2

Portal 4.0

Finder 3.2

OK

-

Finder 4.0

-

OK

3.4. Standard Solutions

NEXThink Portal comes with a set of modules, dashboards and widgets that are tailored for the three standard NEXThink solutions. In case of a new Portal installation, this content is automatically available in the Gallery. In case of an update, you have to add them manually with the following command: 

#/var/nexthink/portal/rsquery/importLibrary.py /var/nexthink/portal/conf/web/portal_standard_solutions.yaml

Some widgets contained in the standard modules need some extra tagging to work properly.

  1. import from NEXThink Library the category pack named "Default V4 categories"
  2. tag your objects accordingly

3.5. New Report Module and Admin Module

NEXThink Portal has enhanced admin module and a new Report module. In case of a new Portal installation, this is automatically available. In case of an update, you have to add them manually with the following command: 

> cd /var/nexthink/portal/rsquery 
> ./importLibrary.py -p <portal_admin_password> ../conf/web/portal_admin.yaml
> ./importLibrary.py -p <portal_admin_password> ../conf/web/portal_report.yaml
> ./importLibrary.py -p <portal_admin_password> ../conf/web/portal_standard_solutions.yaml

4. Known Limitations

5. Technical Support

For technical support, please post your queries at http://support.nexthink.com, or consult our documentation website http://doc.nexthink.com/.

6. Software Versions History

6.1. NEXThink Portal V4.0.0.13

6.1.1. Enhancements

  • SLA Widget
    • Alerts can be generated when probes are removed from Nagios
    • It's now possible to define a time threshold before an alert is sent in case of outage (e.g., send alert after 10 minutes of outage)
  • Improved display of module tabs when there are a lot of them
  • Upgraded Tomcat to its latest 5.5 version

6.1.2. Fixed Issues

  • Fixed different UI issues notably when the browser window was resized
  • Service widget: the "group by" parameter wasn't kept when editing/duplicating the widget (#3732)
  • Fixed some issues in the importation of YAML files (#3613)
  • The OS version was correctly displayed in reports (#3202)
  • It wasn't possible to clear the data of a module that had been modified (#3586)
  • Issues/Inventory widget: fixed some issues related to the display of ratios (#3629, #3631)

6.2. NEXThink Portal V4.0.0.12

6.2.1. Fixed Issues

  • under some circumstances, a migration problem was making Portal crash when migrating directly from V3.2.4 to V4.0.0.11 (#3604)
  • after adding or editing probes, the SLA widget was not able to be recomputed anymore (#3603)
  • a user without administration rights wasn't able to create personalized reports (#3609)
  • some values were sometimes missing in charts (#3614)

6.3. NEXThink Portal V4.0.0.11

6.3.1. New Features

  • in the List widget, the attribute "number of sources" is now available (limitation: if chosen, the widget can only be displayed with the "day" scope)
  • in the Widgets Management widget, one can select and edit multiple widgets to change their "group by" setting (global and by hierarchies available only)

6.3.2. Enhancements

  • some requests are cached to improve performance and user experience
  • more checks are performed to prevent users creating invalid widgets

6.3.3. Fixed Issues

  • deltas are now correctly displayed independently of scope and ratio in the Activity, Issues and Inventory widgets
  • Inventory widgets based on hours (e.g., for nightly activities) weren't computed correctly (#3570)
  • in the Software Metering widget, the execution duration wasn't correct under specific circumstances (#3573)
  • other minor issues were fixed

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