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Hello and welcome to the IBM Monitoring Academy Newsletter for July/August 2020

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Hello and welcome to the IBM Monitoring Academy Newsletter for July/August 2020

Top Flashes/Technotes

ITM v6 Content:

[IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6]
New APAR's
IJ26680: STARTING AGENTS SIMULTANEOUSLY CAN LOSE RUNINFO UPDATES
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26680
IJ26471: SYSTEMCTL AND ITM RUNINFO INCONSISTENCIES CAUSE SYSTEMCTL STOP TO FAIL AT SHUTDOWN
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26471
IJ26695: PATH ORDERING IN BOOT FILES DOES NOT MATCH PATH ORDERING IN AGENT CONFIG FILES
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26695
IJ26472: NEWLY INSTALLED AGENT OR INSTANCE WILL NOT STOP WITH SYSTEMCTL STOP AT SHUTDOWN
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26472
IJ26285: DISABLED ITM SERVICE UNIT FILE CAN NOT BE USED INTERACTIVELY
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26285
IJ26664: NON-ROOT USERS CANNOT USE ADDSERVERACCESS, LISTSERVERACCESS, AND REMOVESERVERACCESS
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26664
IJ26325: ITMCMD AGENT START MQ HAS HARD-CODED TIME LIMIT CAUSING DELAYS
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26325
IJ25499: ON SOLARIS, UNIX OS AGENT CRASHES WITH INVALID KCID VALUE
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ25499
IJ27295: WASIHS855UPLIFT.SH FAILS MIGRATE ISCLITE LDAP SETTINGS AND SSL CERTIFICATES
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ27295
IJ26350: ON WINDOWS, NUMEVENTSTOCATCHUP=-1 SKIPS MESSAGES IF THE MONITORED LOG WAS RESET WHILE THE AGENT WAS NOT RUNNING.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26350
IJ24998: LINUX_PROCESS_STOPPED SITUATION TRIGGERS WHEN PROCESS STATUS IS IDLE AFTER APAR IJ11040.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6254848
IJ22060: UPLIFT ITM JAVA RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT (JRE)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6254936
IJ25990: LOG FILE AGENT 6.30 FP4 DOES NOT INSTALL ON ZLINUX WITH NEWER z/OS HARDWARE
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6243140  

Downloads/New Releases/Technotes

Rest query fails from Service Management Unite v1.1.7 to ITM TEPS Dataprovider
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6251931
Security Bulletin: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU - Oct 2019 - Includes Oracle Oct 2019 CPU affects IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions-Robotic Response Time
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6253849
Historical data is no longer shown in the TEPS after ITM infrastructure from RHEL6 to RHEL7.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6254319
Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affect IBM Tivoli Monitoring
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6252467

Coming Soon

Latest WAS/IHS PSIRT 
Security Bulletin: WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-4450)-Due 09/22/20
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6246043
WebSphere Application Server IIOP Deserialization Vulnerability (CVE-2020-4449 and CVE-2020-4450)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6220276

APM Content:
Download/New releases/Technotes
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-CORE-FRAMEWORK-IF0017
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-CORE-FRAMEWORK-IF0018
IBM Application Performance Management 8.1.4.0 8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-IF0012 Readme
KSY fail to aggregate and prune tables after migrating to DB2 11.1
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6255192
The kafka service on the APM Server stops working on some RHEL71 platforms.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6246041
Is the APM 814 Windows OS agent supported for Win 2019?
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/624605
The DataPower agent shows "Circuit Breaker Triggered" and "class java.io.IOException Server" messages.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6246043
The APM 814 Linux OS agent crashes sometimes after start up.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6246055
 
ICAM/CP4MCM/IBM Cloud Private (ICP) Content:
An error occurred while accessing the kube services rest api: Status code: 401
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6255186
503 Service temporary Unavailable
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6252789
Liveness probe failed: HTTP probe failed with statuscode: 504
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6252393
IBM Cloud Private refreshing ServiceAccount JWT tokens
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6244174
Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to multiple node.js vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-11080, CVE-2020-10531, CVE-2020-8172, CVE-2020-8174)
Security bulletin: Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerability (CVE-2020-4329)
Security bulletin: Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerability (CVE-2020-4421)
Security bulletin: Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Cloud Private
Security bulletin: Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to a Kubernetes vulnerability (CVE-2019-11254)
Security bulletin: Security Bulletin: Security Vulnerabilities affect IBM Cloud Private - Node.js (CVE-2019-15605, CVE-2019-15606)
Security bulletin: Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerability (CVE-2019-17573)
Security bulletin: Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-4303, CVE-2020-4304)
Security bulletin: Security Bulletin: Security Vulnerabilities affect IBM Cloud Private - cURL (CVE-2019-5482, CVE-2019-5481)
Security bulletin: Security Bulletin: A Security Vulnerability affects IBM Cloud Private - OpenSSL (CVE-2019-1551)
 
[Technotes]
ICP slow performance: auth-idp is unable to connect to mongodb
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6236998
The seret-watcher pod is going to crashloopbackoff
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6326039
ICP: Grafana - Unauthorized
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6258305
Support of TLSv1.3 and Diffie-Hellman parameters in IBM Cloud Private 3.2.2 version
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6255670
Swap space handled by IBM Cloud Private
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6256040
Security Bulletin: A Security Vulnerability affects IBM Cloud Private - OpenSSL (CVE-2019-1551)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261525
Security Bulletin: Security Vulnerabilities affect IBM Cloud Private - cURL (CVE-2019-5482, CVE-2019-5481)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261513
Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-4303, CVE-2020-4304)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261535
Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerability (CVE-2019-17573)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261533
Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to a Kubernetes vulnerability (CVE-2019-11254)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261591
Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Cloud Private
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261613
Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerability (CVE-2020-4329)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261601
Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerability (CVE-2020-4421)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261607
[Downloads]
Fixes: icp-3.1.2-build554801-39556 
https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?product=ibm%2FWebSphere%2FIBM+Cloud+Private&fixids=icp-3.1.2-build554801-39556&source=myna&myns=swgother&mynp=OCSSBS6K&mync=E&cm_sp=swgother-_-OCSSBS6K-_-E&function=fixId&parent=ibm/WebSphere 

This patch fixes the following security vulnerabilities that affect IBM Cloud Private version 3.1.2 clusters. CVE-2019-2510, CVE-2019-2537, CVE-2019-2614, CVE-2019-2627, CVE-2019-2628, CVE-2019-2737, CVE-2019-2739, CVE-2019-2740, CVE-2019-2758, CVE-2019-2805, CVE-2019-2938, CVE-2019-2974
ITCAM for Transactions v7.4 Content
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions Response Time 7.4.0.1 Interim Fix 45 (7.4.0.1-TIV-CAMRT-IF0045)
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions Response Time 7.4.0.2 Interim Fix 12 (7.4.0.2-TIV-CAMRT-IF0012)
        New features:
ITCAM for Transactions Response Time 7.4.0.2 IF0012 brings:
- RIS: support RFT 10.0 version script exporting
- RIS: support RPT 10.0 version script exporting
       Remark: RPT/RFT 10.1 have not been tested yet, so are not officially supported currently with such Ifix, for robotic script  export and playback.

Security Bulletin: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU - Jan 2020 - CVE-2020-2601 affects IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions-Robotic Response Time

Out of support products/ versions:

Tivoli Common Reporting v3.1.1 using Cognos 10.x
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6210342

How to migrate Tivoli Common Reporting V3.1.3 to Cognos V11
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6203779
How to install the IBM Tivoli Monitoring OS Agent Reports in an IBM Cognos Analytics 11.x environment
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6198432
Rational Performance Tester (RPT) versions 8.6 8.7 9.0.x, Rational Functional Tester (RFT) 8.6.x are reaching end of support December 10, 2020. See: https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS919-196&appname=USN

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Modified date:
15 September 2020

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