Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1.0 Fix Pack 4, 8.1.0-TIV-NCOMNIbus-FP0004

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The following defect solutions are included in this release:

IV61840
The LDAPTimeout parameter might not time out LDAP authentication
requests under the following conditions:
- An SSL protocol is being used
- A TCP/IP socket level call is delayed
- An LDAP search is delayed

This can delay the ObjectServer failing over to a backup if it is
configured to use multiple LDAP servers and the first one is
unresponsive or unavailable. This problem has been resolved.


IV67946
Log file pooling/rolling does not release file handles. This
problem has been resolved.


IV68107
The MIB manager garbles the generated rules file when exporting
MIBs causing any events processed by these rules to have an
unusable OS_EventId. This problem has been resolved.


IV68942
A malloc error was issued when using invalid data in probe rules
for the nvp_add function. That message was incorrect and was
replaced with the correct error message that hilights the invalid
data.


IV72682
When the 'KeepLastBrokenSAF' property is set to '1' and any
corrupt records are found during the forwarding of
store-and-forward cached alerts, the original SAF file should be
retained and renamed to a file with the suffix '.broken'. Due to
regression introduced in fixpacks 7.3.0.6 and 7.3.1.2, this was
not happening. The regression is also present in fixpacks 7.4.0.5
and 8.1.0.2 and earlier fixpacks of the 7.4 and 8.1 releases.
This has now been fixed.


IV73109
The ICU component used by Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus has been
upgraded to version 55.1 to address a potential security problem
that is fixed in this version of ICU.


IV73123
The LDAP libraries used by Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus were updated to
TDS version 6.3.1.10 to address potential security issues. Note:
Not available for platform HPUXIA.


IV73221
New function to allow redirecting ObjectServer connections to a
different ObjectServer (or a different virtual pair). There is a
new signal trigger, named pre_connect, which is always called
when a client connects, before authentication. There is new sql
" alter system redirect connection 'SERVERNAME' " which can
only be issued from this new signal trigger. It causes the
client to be redirected to that SERVERNAME. Note that the new
SERVERNAME must exist in the omni.dat where the ObjectServer
resides.


IV73279
The JRE for Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus V8.1.0 was updated to IBM JRE
7.0 SR9 FP10 to address possible security issues.


IV73670
The version of the IBM Eclipse Help System (IEHS) included in
Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus has been updated to the latest supported
version (V3.6.2.1). Note that the update means users need to use
the full context root in the URL to access the IEHS help in
Information Center mode (<host>:<port>/help instead of <host>:<port>;
for example, localhost:9999/help).


IV73963
There is an internal limit of 16K on a 'create procedure' SQL
statement. Previously, the system issued an error message for
statements that exceeded 32K but would core dump on statements
that were between 16K and 32K in size. The code has been fixed
to reject a 'create procedure' statement that exceeds 16K and log
an error message.


IV74587
Users are not able to run nco_confpack on a machine running
Windows 20128 R2. This problem has been resolved.


IV74679
When using the update_silent.sh script as root user to install a
Netcool/OMNIbus core fix pack, users were asked to accept the
license despite specifying their acceptance of the license on the
command line. This issue has now been resolved.


IV74891
If an event is deleted in the Aggregation layer and then
deduplicates in the Collection layer, this causes a new event
insert in Aggregation with the same ServerName/ServerSerial
values. As a result, when the historical gateway sends the new
insert to the historical database, the insert fails due to a
Unique Constraint or Primary Key error, since the same primary
key ServerName/ServerSerial already exists in the database. This
problem has been resolved.


IV75451
On reconnection to an ObjectServer, a probe is able to handle
certain changes in that server's schema and data stored in its
Store-And-Forward (SAF).

The following schema differences can be successfully handled:

* The addition of new fields added to any position in the schema.
* The complete removal of fields from the schema.
* Fields in the schema that have changed their order.
* Fields whose data types have changed. Existing values will be
converted if possible, otherwise a default value will be
populated.
* Fields that have been renamed will be treated as a new column.
The previous name will be treated as a field that has been
removed.


IV75452
String expressions can now be used for regular expressions in
rules files, rather than just hard coded regular expression
strings.


IV75473
An extraordinarily large query caused a stack overflow on AIX.
Stack usage has been reduced to prevent this from happening.


IV75482
An exception is thrown when installing an iFix for a component
sharing the same Installation Manager profile as Netcool/OMNIbus
core. This issue has now been resolved.


IV75484
Metadata related to HPUX was incorrectly included in the
Netcool/OMNIbus core Installation Manager packaging. This issue
has now been resolved.


IV75494
The device counter extension in Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus keeps
tracks of the number of nodes it receives events from, and logs a
daily count to a log file. If no events are received from a node
for 365 days, the node is automatically removed from the count.


IV75501
The Package Group Name label used by the Netcool/OMNIbus core
component in Installation Manager has changed from "IBM Tivoli
Netcool OMNIbus" to "IBM Netcool Core Components". This is purely
a cosmetic change to reflect that there might be more components
installed into the profile than Netcool/OMNIbus core alone. This
change will only be visible to people performing a fresh
installation of Netcool/OMNIbus core fix pack 4 or later.


IV75502
Events breaching the XinY threshold were not getting escalated on
deduplication unless SuppressEscl was set to zero. This issue has
been corrected and all events that breach the threshold are
escalated after you re-import the updated SQL file into the
ObjectServer using nco_sql.


IV75555
In response to RFE request 14818, the following new SNMP datatype
conversion functions have been added to the Netcool/OMNIbus
Probes library:

hextimetostring - Converts a space-delimited hexadecimal date and
time value into a time stamp string that conforms to the ISO8601
format.
hextoascii - Converts a space-delimited hexadecimal string into
an ASCII string.
decimaltoascii - Converts a space-delimited decimal string into
an ASCII string.
hextodecimal - Converts a hexadecimal string into a decimal
string. You can use it for straightforward conversions with or
without optional delimiter arguments. You can also use
replacement delimiter arguments for more complicated conversions,
for example, to convert a space-delimited hexadecimal IPv4
network address into a dotted decimal address.
decimaltohex - Converts a decimal string into a hexadecimal
string. You can use it for straightforward conversions with or
without optional delimiter arguments. You can also use
replacement delimiter arguments for more complicated conversions,
for example, to convert a dotted decimal MAC address into
standard human-readable IEE802 format.

More details on these new functions can be found in the IBM
Netcool/OMNIbus Knowledge Center.


IV75641
This update includes fixes for the ScopeAlias grouping logic,
SiteNameParent event creation, and ticket number propagation.
The following enhancements are also included: support for
multitiered environments; being able to specify the quiet period
for different types of event (and not simply use the global
default value); an option to specify whether or not to
automatically propagate Acknowledged status to child events;
an option to specify whether or not to automatically propagate
the ticket number to unticketed, unsuppressed child events;
and a template Probe rules and Impact policy to help users
implement custom scope-based event grouping. An SQL file
and README are provided for updating an existing implementation
of scope-based event grouping from the first GA release (8.1
Fix Pack 3) to this version released in 8.1 Fix Pack 4.


IV75687
On AIX, the ObjectServer process size increased every time
gateway synchronization occurred. This issue has now been
resolved.


IV75900
Upgrade to GSKit version 8.0.50.47 on OMNIbus 7.3.1, 7.4.0, and
8.1.0. This is due to a potential security problem that was
fixed in this version of GSKit.


IV76107
Events breaching the XinY threshold are not escalated on
deduplication unless SuppressEscl is set to zero. The
'xiny_on_reinsert' trigger has been modified so that escalation
only happens on either normal (0) or suppressed (4) events.