Updated 11/13/2012
These release notes provide additional guidance for SolarWinds Enterprise Operations Console (EOC) v1.4.1.
SolarWinds EOC v1.4.x includes the following new features and improvements:
This version of EOC adds support for the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server.
This version of EOC adds support for the latest Microsoft operating systems.
The EOC web console now has a tabbed interface similar to the interface in other Orion web consoles. The available tabs are Home, Network, and Applications & Server, and you can customize their contents from the Settings page.
The Configs view on the Network tab now includes a Global Policy Violations For Each SolarWinds Server resource that displays information from NCM compliance reports. This resource is compatible with NCM v7.1 and later.
The Custom Query resource allows you to display results from a custom SWQL query on any view in the EOC web console. Add this new resource from the Settings page.
The EOC web console now includes an IPAM view on the Network tab to support data from SolarWinds IPAM servers. This version of EOC supports IPAM version 1.7.1 and later.
The EOC web console now includes a Device Tracker view on the Network tab to support data from SolarWinds UDT servers. This version of EOC supports UDT version 2.0 and later.
The banner messages in the EOC web console now look and feel more like the banner messages in other Orion web consoles, with many new messages. These messages include warning and error messages regarding polling issues and connectivity problems. Many of these messages include hyperlinks to troubleshooting resources.
You can now view the EOC web console in Google Chrome version 20 and later.
The EOC web console now includes a Groups view on the Home tab to display resources for Orion Groups.
This version of EOC includes several enhancements to polling performance. These enhancements include extended timeout periods, rules to handle concurrent polling, and prominent notifications when EOC encounters polling issues.
For additional information about these features, see the SolarWinds Enterprise Operations Console Administrator Guide.
For information about the features and fixes in the latest versions of Orion NPM and Orion Core, see the Orion Network Performance Monitor Release Notes.
| Issue | Case Number |
|---|---|
| Fixed the thwack link in the EOC web console. It now points to http://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/network-management_tht/enterprise-operations-console. | N/A |
| Fixed an issue that caused EOC to display web console notifications to users outside of the EOC Administrator role. See KB4344. | 381905 |
| Fixed an upgrade issue that returned a "Conversion failed" error after running the Configuration Wizard. | 397089 |
| Fixed an issue that prevented EOC from rescheduling polling jobs if it lost its connection to SQL Server. | 396742 |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 is now a supported browser. | N/A |
| Fixed an issue in which incremental polling did not work properly with regional settings that use a comma as a decimal separator. | N/A |
| Fixed an issue that caused nodes monitored by more than one Orion server to create duplicate Alerts. | N/A |
| Fixed an issue with SolarWinds Licensor that prevented license updates. | 327028 |
| Updated to a new version of SolarWinds Job Engine to prevent it taking too much system memory. | 266889 273869 |
| Fixed an issue that prevented EOC from polling custom properties of an unlimited length from other SolarWinds servers. | 368234 |
| Updated to a new version of Network Atlas to prevent map icons from showing up incorrectly. | 349384 |
| Fixed an issue with NTA polling that displayed NTA data with an incorrect time. | 354683 |
| Fixed an issue with the EOC web console layout that caused it to scroll off the browser window. | 344435 |
| Fixed an issue that prevented EOC from displaying data on the Traps view. | 357004 |
| Added NTA-specific events to EOC. | 363458 |
| Fixed an issue that prevented EOC from scaling network maps correctly. | 168931 |
| Fixed an issue that caused .NET Runtime 2.0 errors on the EOC server. | 251968 259018 |
| Increased the timeout period for the Add Users page to accommodate slower search capabilities. | 244606 |
| Fixed the Global Down Nodes resource so it does not display unmanaged devices. | 153699 |
| Fixed an issue in which some SWQL filters containing references to Node.CustomProperty and Interface.CustomProperty entities did not work as expected. | 262821 266685 |
| Fixed an issue that returned the error, "RecursionLimit exceeded. (531)" if the EOC web console was left open for an extended period. | 262821 276647 |
| Issue | Case Number |
|---|---|
| Alerts views do not list all IPSLA operation alerts. | N/A |
| Accounts limited by System Name Pattern cannot see any Orion server data. | N/A |
| Internet Explorer 7 and 8 will not display embedded objects within Custom HTML resources. | 195414 |
| If the data for a call path has not been collected, the corresponding call path entry in the Global VoIP Call Path resource appears empty. Please wait a few minutes for data to be collected. | N/A |
| VoIP call paths display invalid Quality of Service values if the source site or the destination site are down. | N/A |
| You cannot remove a user from Orion EOC if the Windows account for that user has been deleted. | N/A |
| Duplicate custom properties appear if custom properties from different Orion NPM servers have identical names but different value types. | N/A |
| The Global VoIP Call Managers resource does not display hosts that do not have any collected data. | N/A |
| Do not uninstall Orion Network Atlas from the Orion EOC server. If you uninstall Orion Network Atlas from the Orion EOC server, the Orion web console map resources stop working. | N/A |
| Performing more than ten Undo actions in a row in Orion Network Atlas marks the map as having been saved. | N/A |
| The UDT Watch List resource in EOC differs slightly from the corresponding resource in UDT v2.5. | N/A |
| Network Atlas displays Orion Groups from EOC in the Unknown folder, not a separate Groups folder. | N/A |
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