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Hello and welcome to the IBM Monitoring Academy Newsletter for September October 2020

Top flashes and technotes

ITM v6 Content:

[IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6]
New APAR's

IJ26680: STARTING AGENTS SIMULTANEOUSLY CAN LOSE RUNINFO UPDATES
www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26680

IJ26471: SYSTEMCTL AND IBM Tivoli Monitoring RUNINFO INCONSISTENCIES CAUSE SYSTEMCTL STOP TO FAIL AT SHUTDOWN
www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26471

IJ26695: PATH ORDERING IN boot FILES DOES NOT MATCH PATH ORDERING IN AGENT CONFIG FILES
www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26695

IJ26472: NEWLY INSTALLED AGENT OR INSTANCE WILL NOT STOP WITH SYSTEMCTL STOP AT SHUTDOWN
www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26472

IJ26285:  unavailable IBM Tivoli Monitoring SERVICE UNIT FILE cannot BE USED INTERACTIVELY
www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26285

IJ26664: NON-ROOT USERS cannot USE ADDSERVERACCESS, LISTSERVERACCESS, AND REMOVESERVERACCESS
www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26664

IJ26325: ITMCMD AGENT START MQ Command hardcoded TIME LIMIT CAUSING DELAYS
www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26325

IJ25499: ON SOLARIS, UNIX OS AGENT CRASHES WITH INVALID KCID VALUE
www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ25499

IJ27295: WASIHS855UPLIFT.SH FAILS MIGRATE ISCLITE LDAP SETTINGS AND SSL CERTIFICATES
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.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ26350

IJ24998: LINUX_PROCESS_STOPPED SITUATION TRIGGERS WHEN PROCESS STATUS IS IDLE AFTER APAR IJ11040
www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ24998

IJ22060: UPLIFT IBM Tivoli Monitoring Java RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT (JRE)
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6254936

IJ25990: Log file AGENT 6.30 FP4 DOES NOT INSTALL ON Linux for System z WITH NEWER z/OS HARDWARE
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6243140

IJ28618: AN HANG CAN OCCUR FOR SPECIFIC PREDICATES IN PURE EVENT SITUATION
www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ28618

Troubleshooting - (ITMv6)

Is IBM Tivoli Monitoring Windows OS Agent (6.3 FP7) compatible for Windows 2019 server?
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1115739

Downloads, new releases, technotes (ITMv6)

Rest query fails from Service Management Unite v1.1.7 to IBM Tivoli Monitoring Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server Data provider
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6251931
Historical data is no longer shown in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server after IBM Tivoli Monitoring 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

How can I confirm the time that an agent first registered with the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server?
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/72545

What versions of DASH are supported by IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.3FP07 and its service packs?
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6346836

APM Content:
Download, new releases, Technotes

RIBM Application Performance Management 8.1.4.0 core framework IF17 (8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-CORE-FRAMEWORK-IF0017)
This Core Framework patch works for both IBM Cloud Application Performance Management and IBM Cloud App Management.
This interim fix is addressing 141196, 140203, 1775, 1818 issues.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/5691848

IBM Application Performance Management 8.1.4.0 core framework IF18 (8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-CORE-FRAMEWORK-IF0018)
This Core Framework patch works for both APM (IBM Cloud Application Performance Management) and ICAM (IBM Cloud App Management).
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6241358

Synthetic Playback Agent for IBM Cloud Application Performance Management 8.1.4.0 interim fix 12 Product/Component Release: 8.1.4
Fix ID: 8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-IF0012.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6217310

KSY fails to aggregate and prune tables after migration to Db2 11.1
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6255192

The Kafka service on the APM Server stops working on some RHEL71 platforms
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6246041

Is the APM 814 Windows OS agent supported for Win 2019?
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/624605

The DataPower agent shows "Circuit Breaker Triggered" and "class java.io.IOException Server" messages.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6246043

The APM 814 Linux OS agent crashes sometimes after startup
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6246055

Change History of Monitoring Agent for Sybase
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/879933

Change History of Monitoring Agent for Oracle® Databases
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/879077

Change History of Monitoring Agent for Linux OS, Monitoring Agent for UNIX OS, Monitoring Agent for Windows OS
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/879071

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affects IBM Performance Management products Q3 2020:
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6349131

Troubleshooting - (APM)

Customer migrated their APM DB from Db2 v10.5.0.10 to Db2 v11.1.4.5.
However, the KSY service is not able to aggregate and prune all tables.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6255192
 

ICAM, CP4MCM, IBM Cloud Private (ICP) Content:

An error occurred while accessing to the kube services rest api: Status code: 401
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6255186

Support of TLSv1.3 and Diffie-Hellman parameters in IBM Cloud Private 3.2.2 version
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6255670

A Security Vulnerability affects IBM Cloud Private - OpenSSL (CVE-2019-1551)
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261525

Security Vulnerabilities affect IBM Cloud Private - cURL (CVE-2019-5482, CVE-2019-5481)
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261513

IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-4303, CVE-2020-4304)
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261535

Swap space handled by IBM Cloud Private.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6256040

IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerability (CVE-2019-17573)
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261533

IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to a Kubernetes vulnerability (CVE-2019-11254)
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261591

Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Cloud Private
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261613

IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerability (CVE-2020-4329)
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261601

IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerability (CVE-2020-4421)
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6261607

An error occurred while accessing to the kube services rest api: Status code: 401
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6255186

503 Service temporary Unavailable.
This technote address an issue that you can sometimes notice on the Nginx Ingress logs. An error "503 Service temporary Unavailable" is generated.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6252789

Liveness probe failed: HTTP probe failed with status code: 504.
This technote describes an issue that you can face with IBM Cloud Pak logging.
You have an ICP cluster with 3 management node on which you installed icp-logging with the version: 2.3.0
You encounter anomalies with Logstash; after few minutes one of your tree pods getting likeness error and continually restarts
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6252393

IBM Cloud Private refreshing ServiceAccount JWT tokens.
Question & Answer.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6244174

IBM Cloud Pak slow performance: auth-idp is unable to connect to MongoDB.
This technote discusses an issue with IBM Cloud Pak performance.
Once you restart 5 primary nodes at one time, MongoDB is not able to recover; two pods are up, but the third is unable to recover.
Auth-idp is unable to connect to MongoDB. Question & Answer.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6236998

Unable to find image 'ibmcom/icp-inception-amd64:3.2.1.2008-ee' during installation of FixPack 3.2.1.2008
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6347542

How to update the scrape_configs definitions for Prometheus on IBM Cloud Private 3.2.2
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6346844

Unloader job failing on IBM Cloud Pak 3.2.2 running on Power
On a newly installed IBM Cloud Private 3.2.2, the unloader job used to update the Security notices for the VA components runs for long time and then fails.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6347546

How to update the scrape_configs definitions for Prometheus on IBM Cloud Pak 3.2.2
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6346844

Troubleshooting - (ICP)

The seret-watcher pod is going to crashloopbackoff.
This technote discusses an issue that happens to the secret-watcher pod.
This pod goes on crashloopbackoff status and it is not writing any logs or reason for it.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6326039

IBM Cloud Pak: Grafana - Unauthorized.
This technote describes an issue that happens when you use Grafana in your cluster, and choose a preloaded template.
Selecting, for example, etcd by Prometheus, it results in the graphs not loading, and a red error box in the upper right area appears, saying "Unauthorized"
This affects all default dashboards provided by the Prometheus data source.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/icp-grafana-unauthorized

Support of TLSv1.3 and Diffie-Hellman parameters in IBM Cloud Private 3.2.2 version
Does nginx support TLSv1.3 and Diffie-Hellman parameters in IBM Cloud Private 3.2.2-2006 version?
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6255670

Swap space handled by IBM Cloud Private.
How is the swap space handled by IBM Cloud Private?
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6256040
 

ITCAM For Transactions

IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions Response Time 7.4.0.2 interim fix 13.
Fix ID: 7.4.0.2-TIV-CAMRT-AIX-IF0013, 7.4.0.2-TIV-CAMRT-LINUX-IF0013, 7.4.0.2-TIV-CAMRT-SOLARIS-IF0013, 7.4.0.2-TIV-CAMRT-WINDOWS-IF0013
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6245316

ITCAM for Transactions V7 ISM Tivoli Enterprise Portal client GUI ism configuration tool is out of date
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6346876

ITCAM4Transactions v7 on RHEL7 Agent installation fails
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6343327

Security Bulletin (ITCAM For Transactions)

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU - Jan 2020 - CVE-2020-2601 affects IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions-Robotic Response Time.
There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition Version 7 and version 8 used by IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions Robotic Response Time. CVE-2020-2601 was disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2020.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6319987?myns=swgtiv&mynp=OCSS5MD2&mync=E&cm_sp=swgtiv-_-OCSS5MD2-_-E

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU - Jan 2020 -CVE-2020-2590 affects IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions-Robotic Response Time.
There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 7, version 8, that is used by IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions - Robotic Response Time. CVE-2020-2590 was disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2020.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6319983?myns=swgtiv&mynp=OCSS5MD2&mync=E&cm_sp=swgtiv-_-OCSS5MD2-_-E

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU - Jan 2002 - CVE-2020-2654 affects IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions-Robotic Response Time.
There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 7, version 8, that is used by IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions - Robotic Response Time. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2020.
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6319985?myns=swgtiv&mynp=OCSS5MD2&mync=E&cm_sp=swgtiv-_-OCSS5MD2-_-E

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

Out of support products and 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 10 December 2020.
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS919-196&appname=USN

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