VMware Aria Operations (SaaS) January 2022 Update
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VMware Aria Operations (SaaS) January 2022 Update

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Article ID: 331411

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VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

This article features the fixes included in the VMware Aria Operations (SaaS) January 2022 Update.

Resolution

The VMware Aria Operations (SaaS) (formerly known as vRealize Operations Cloud) January 2022 Update addresses the following issues:
  • TLS/SSL Server Supports The Use of Static Key Ciphers (ssl-static-key-ciphers)
  • Add ability to export all metrics in the Metric Chart as PDF to create an ad-hoc report
  • View: Sort by Name in "Configuration | Incorrect | VM with old Snapshot" View has unexpected behavior.
  • Summary is not updated immediately after individual cost edit for Maintenance, License, Labor, Facilities, or Network cost drivers
  • Datacenter folder missing in VMware Aria Operations inventory
  • The statistics metrics for NSX-T Logical Router are cumulative instead of per collection cycle
  • Few minor UI issues in VM Rightsizing Details dashboard
  • Navigation: navigation to another dashboard does not work if the dashboard is set as home landing page
  • [Cloud Proxy]  Requesting to add possibility Generate CP Support Bundles  for On-Prem VMware Aria Operations from Product UI
  • Business hour in views: 2 times click on toggle button is needed to enable BH in described case
  • View: Issues regarding a read-only user for dashboards and  views actions
  • [Manage Dashboard Sharing] clicking on Manage Dashboards doesn't work when Manage Dashboard Sharing is open
  • IllegalArgumentException Adapter status returned by Casa is invalid
  • "Internal server error" shown in VC related Cluster pages before first collection cycle done
  • [Service Discovery] Instead of "SharePoint Application Server" SDMP discovers "IIS" service
  • [Service Discovery] Copy opportunity in the "Execute Script" window for the "STDOUT"
  • [Feature request] In Idle Virtual Machine List view new filter should be added
  • Custom certs: error message: The leaf certificate should not be necessarily the first certificate in the file
  • Views: Breakdown label is displayed in English even though the browser locale is non-English
  • Alert assignment: Extend User Search: Sorting issues on user search
  • Wrong hover/select effect in "Show Columns" popup
  • Name change and new filter addition of  "Powered Off Virtual Machine List" and "VMs with Snapshots" views
  • Weak file permissions for CaSA script file containing passphrase
  • AdapterBase CustomHostnameVerifier fails to check certificates for vAPI connection
  • Propagate OTK error to user when Cloud Proxy cannot register with VMware Aria Operations (SaaS)
  • Template Payload's custom properties duplicates are shown
  • 'Consumer' and 'Provider' cards are not resized equally when expanding the splitter in object summary page
  • On Witness Node all firewall ports are open, while only ports TCP 22, 443 should be open
  • Empty page when bulk deleting users from last page
  • Firefox browser shows empty ALT texts in the Visualize->Manage Dashboards page
  • [App Monitoring] The script-based agent installation on Windows VM is failing, if VM has Virtual Adapter (vEthernet) included or excluded by VMTools
  • [App Monitoring] The script-based agent installation is failing, if VM has multiple IPs with a single network adapter
  • [Cloud] Enable access to adapter instance start/stop APIs for SRE user
  • [Reports] Editor hangs if trying to  upload image file bigger than 5 MB
  • Application Availability metric for multiple instances of mongodb shows incorrect data
  • [NSX-T] Resource Discovery takes more than 3 min for scaled end-point
  • User should be able to apply term license on top of perpetual license
  • SocketTimeoutException of single vCenter Adapter Instance causes Timeout failures of all other instances
  • [Notifications][Webhook] Repeating headers are disappearing without any warnings, only the last inserted is  being left
  • Change in casa connectivity info API
  • Summary Page: Metric values are split into two lines in some objects's summary cards
  • "undefined" displayed on Super Metric preview page
  • [Capacity]  "Reset" capacity calculation API call to be exposed in REST APIs
  • VM and Cluster KPI metrics impacted by Network metric bug
  • ERROR in collector logs - Failed to convert 'ERROR: postgres instance 'repl' is not available' to a number
  • Convertion of legacy to new fomula displays custom tags incorrectly.
  • Alert: Symptoms: Read Only Flow: Can't clone alerts with clone permission
  • [App Monitoring] "Application Availability" metric is 0 for WebSphere which is running and correctly activated
  • VCenter group auth sources doesn't update inner ids if new VCs are imported using old VC names
  • Business Applications: Hovering on some menu items of "More Actions" in "Manage Telegraf Agent" and "Manage SDMP Services" shows a tooltip and for the rest of them doesn't show.
  • Need new mechanism for Pendo Service enablement process.
  • [Metrics] Cloud Type metric does not change value when being overridden
  • In Configure>Alerts>Recommendations page imported items are not visible until refreshing the page
  • SocketTimeoutException of single  vSAN Adapter Instance causes Timeout failures of all other instances
  • vRealize Operations 8.4HF1 - Postgres calls performance degradation in 8.4
  • checkbox on Install Agent page not getting deselect/unchecked on completion of a process or clicking refresh link
  • Plugin Tooltip shows ? where no data pushed from UCP Agents
  • Notification, Payload Templates details are not refreshed properly in some cases
  • Corrections on service display and process name usage
  • Post Migration rebootstrap of agent with incorrect credentials disconnects salt connectivity
  • API call always fails on its first try. If you retry the same exact API call with the same exact token and raw-data it works
  • Allocation based Monthly Projected Total Cost  for a VM is incorrect
  • PlatformInterface.createResource() API allows to create adapter instance object using non adapter instance resource kind
  • Changing Alert Definition Condition Threshold in REST does not show in UI.
  • On Super Metrics page error message is shown, after successfully import.
  • [Summary] "IP Address" field for the VM doesn't exist on the Summary page
  • [VMC Adapter] Currency property is not plotted in VMware Aria Operations
  • [Price] Add Currency to the Pricing Cards
  • Outbound Settings: Import/Export: Wrong JSON output
  • Cloud proxy local users are displayed in the orphaned content page after removing the cloud proxy
  • Service Discovery: An incorrect error message appears on saving custom service
  • Admin UI LDAP integration no error message for wrong credentials in group selection
  • Navigation: Some of the traversal specs have disappeared from the Object Browser in the described case
  • The content of the deleted dashboard is being displayed in the described case
  • Agent stopped automatically post content update
  • Fix display values in the VMware Aria Operations Cloud Proxy VM Console
  • Need the property "Number of Cloud Proxies in Cluster" of cluster object for on-prem VMware Aria Operations
  • Different names for Account Types when adding an account from the Accounts page and from the Repository page
  • [vSAN Compliance] vSAN|VM Storage Policies|Compliance property is not collected for vSAN VMs
  • Reuse Casa client where it is possible (Platform Side)
  • [Cost] When vCenter Adapter collector is down , there is inconsistency in cost across vCenter objects
  • Add account appears instead of adapter name when editing the account
  • [Cloud] 8.6 upgrade failed
  • correct cluster_master_key.txt file permissions after upgrade
  • [Cost Overview] VMware Aria Operations refresh doesn't work
  • [Integrations] User is able to import two accounts for vRA and vRNI
  • Filtering by solution is not working when solution is empty
  • Properties for Persistent disk
  • localhost_access_log log files for suite-api are not compressed before rotation
  • Service Discovery: Applications remain discovered, after disabling Application Discovery from SDMP adapter
  • Importing AD Groups with \+ in DN does not populate the Users in VMware Aria Operations
  • [Integrations] Users is able to import all kind of integrations despite of which license is set in the VMware Aria Operations
  • Rename IO Wait to Other Wait
  • Global SRE Org authentication
  • FSDB getActiveMetrics method is called twice for the same set of resources when analytics starts
  • Manage Dashboard Sharing page gets stuck in the described case
  • Some pages should be hidden for the standard license
  • Advanced Edition sign is missing in standard licensing for SDMP and App Monitoring
  • Search bar doesn't look good on small resolution in the Administration > Global Settings page
  • Applications: No results are displayed on the applications page in the described case
  • [CAS MP] vRA adapter instance is going into the down state, when there is at least 1 VC instance added in integration, with realTime monitoring option
  • Unable to upgrade VMware Aria Operations-agent in AAP with 8.6 GA build
  • when/who has set the currency
  • [Global Settings] vertical scrollbar of main content is hidden at horizontal resolution less than 1545px
  • "Help link " buttons are missing from several pages.
  • [Reporting]: in pdf reports correct hour notation shown on cover page only
  • Add vRLi and Cassandra version discovery
  • Tune text on the VMC account to make it clear that Bills will be collected from CSP (customers who are billed via AWS, cannot not leverage it)
  • [Views] Unnecessary pop-up window appears after saving View from Object Browser page.
  • All generated OTKs are being saved in the casa.db.script, regardless of connected CPs
  • NullPointerException in DataForwarder class during debug logging
  • VMware Aria Operations firstboot doesn't complete successfully after deployment
  • A slight memory improvement in the VC adapter.
  • vRNI MP collects VMs partly with VC read-only user
  • Bulk enablement of VMware Aria Operations monitoring metrics
  • Suite API: Get the current version of the service is showing wrong data
  • "Upgrade" button is missing when new version of MP in is available
  • REST API: Release name and release date are incorrect
  • Edit Mode (All DC & DC Specific) Radio Button clickable space need to be reduced for all Cost Drivers
  • [Global-Search] Disable platform side search for Policy and Maintenance-Schedule objects.
  • [vSan Mesh] card is not opening with VC administrator user
  • make name change check case sensitive in AdapterBase
  • [vCenter Adpater] VMware Aria Operations Cluster processes may not have enough memory alerts triggered on remote collectors
  • Cost Calculation fails with Null Pointer exception for VMC DC when component resources are null
  • Dashboard counts in "Content" window exist, but dashboards list is empty on extending it, for the new added user
  • [App Monitoring] When there are no running applications (supported by VMware Aria Operations), Custom monitoring actions should be available for VM on which telegraf agent is running
  • [AAP]  After the VMware Aria Operations Agent upgrade, Data collection from the vCenter Cloud Account is stopped
  • VMware Aria Network Insight MP collects VMs partly with VC read-only user
  • Prod multi node environment: Size of Downloaded Support Bundle from Admin UI is 0
  • Unable to reinstall agent in 8.6 if agent was previously installed using script
  • Business Applications: VM list in custom group preview shown not properly in Add/Edit BA
  • Move the running Custom Script using Telegraf to ADV license
  • [Cloud] Edit VMC page doesn't open if the user clicks on the VMC name
  • [Cloud] It is impossible to activate "VMware Aria Network Insight" and "VMware Aria Automation 8.x" after deactivation
  • MP doesn't appear in Installed Integrations section, after activation process appears to be completed
  • ERROR - Failed running upgrade: 'str' object has no attribute 'status'
  • Information disclosure vulnerability for non logged-in requests
  • Help button navigation issues from the Integrations page
  • changing the vpostgres log rotation policy based on size
  • Remove some leftover metrics from vCenter adapter's describe.xml
  • Improve upgrade pack download resiliency for CloudProxy in case of network issues
  • C:\VMware\UCP\salt\nssm.exe - Access is denied issue during content upgrade
  • Business Applications: Discard unsaved changes doesn't work properly for the Business Applications
  • Alerts: Selected recommendation  are not shown in "Polices" tab
  • SDMP should prohibit the credential-less service monitoring through the namespaceDB for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC.
  • Needs to enhance/parallelize NamespaceDB availability checking for each VM.
  • [Alert Definition] Alignment issue in notification tab
  • Refactor the "/cluster/vmware/buildinfo" API to properly handle the case when there is no route between some RC nodes.
  • [Cost] Unable to open dashboards under Plan -> Cost in VMware Aria Operations (SaaS)
  • Restriction to apply custom cert only on offline cluster breaks fresh multi node deployment with custom cert
  • Analytics service restarts on "to be alive" FD nodes in CA enabled cluster while happening split brain between fault domains
  • VMware Aria Operations for Logs and VMware Aria Automation Management Pack no longer are activated by default
  • [Automation Central] Delete old snapshots job does not delete all snapshots older than specified days in case the VM has multiple snapshots with different ages.
  • [vCenter Adapter] On a Datastore 'Disk Space|Virtual Machine used (GB)' metric should not include RDM disks
  • "Object not supported" error in troubleshooting workbench.
  • [Proxy RC] Override cprc.support.bundle.configuration file during cloud proxy upgrade .
  • [Reporting] Quantity of "Generated Reports" and "Schedules" shown zero in the "Reports" section of the "Object Browser"
  • [App-Monitoring] Configuration of custom-script via rest-api call is failing if there is configured, at least, one custom script instance
  • vRealize Operations 8.6 MTD cost for VM showing negative
  • [MTD Cost] The demand model MTD cost becomes negative when allocation model is enabled in the subsequent runs
  • [Webhook] Entire URI is encoded
  • [Automation Central] Delete old snapshots job does not delete all snapshots older than specified days in case the VM has multiple snapshots with different ages.
  • Inaccurate state value for Cloud Proxy collector
  • Analytics service of 4 node Medium fails with error "Too many open files"
  • Wrong certificate upload via CASA API didn't return error message.
  • Fix log message in CP's "casa.log"
  • Suite API: GET /api/versions/current : current VMware Aria Operations version should be changed
  • CC failing on latest SB build for VMC Datacenters
  • Dashboard configuration getting stuck while Importing dashboard when dashboard JSON contains resource with empty identifier.
  • Add missed configuration files into cp support bundle
  • NSX-T adapter does not have generic way to provide the host
  • Use the socket timeout that was passed as a parameter in the vcops-vlsi module.
  • VidmConnect.java has String.format error
  • Set a timeout for NamespaceManager#listNamespaces API call.
  • Dashboard configuration getting Stuck or not Completed while Importing Dashboard or Changing the Ownership of Dashboard.
  • Alert Definition: Required fields are not highlighted immediately
  • GET /internal/optimization/{id}/reclaim does not return the reclaimable resources, instead brings them as excluded
  • Logging issue during the anlytics startup.
  • An error message appears when trying to bring online the offline node
  • sizing guidelines incompatibility. GET /actiondefinitions at times fails even with 2 concurrent connections
  • [App Monitoring] "CPU Load" and "Disk" metric groups of "Linux OS" objects are not collected in VMware Aria Operations with Advanced license but should be
  • The solution is already installed error message is displaying in VMware Aria Operations when reinstalling the cloud health management pack
  • NPE thrown in vSAN MP when preferred fault domain name is not set in vSAN API.
  • Not all vEthernet adapter IP address are collected as a property under Properties -> Network -> -1 -> IP Address
  • [App Monitoring] Telegraf agent installation via script error messaging needs should be enhanced when vmtools is not running
  • [Core]There is no response after clicking "Save as a PDF" in Environment>Object Browser>Metrics page
  • [Core]Tooltip of icon "PDF" is incorrect in Environment>Object Browser>Metrics page
  • In "Manage Dashboard" "Group Sharing" pop-up window selected groups are not displayed properly
  • Help links are inconsistent for support pages in Admin UI
  • The cost driver UI does not show total cost and reference cost for labor and license cost driver
  • Collector service started restarting periodically in case ARC agents installed and started
  • Cloud Proxy http-north service has failed to start after the upgrade
  • Cost calculation is failing with Date Time Parse Exception for VMC datcenter
  • Multi node Tenant's VMware Aria Operations UI is not Available
  • Text is truncated in Optimize> Capacity> Cluster Time Remaining Settings > Risk Level
  • [Core] There is no response after clicking "Import" in Configure> Cost drivers and prompt "404 page not found"
  • [App Monitoring] Message for adapter instances of Application Management Pack needs to be changed for VMware Aria Operations Standard license
  • Issue with upgrading setups with webhook notification template.
  • KVException while querying namespace, Reason: No namespace exists with name: marketplacempnamespace
  • [Core] Missing a space in the tooltip of chart in Plan>Cost page
  • [Core] It is impossible to show the full string when scroll bar appears in Plan>Cost>Dashboards widget
  • Other' properties / metrics unavailable for selection when creating Custom Email Payload template
  • Change "Collection Status", "Orphaned Content","Dynamic Thresholds","Redescribe" icons on Administration Landing Page
  • [Core]"All Servers" and "Unmapped Servers" are truncated in Configure>Cost Settings>Cost Drivers>Server Hardware : Traditional page
  • Business Applications: UI crashes on the navigation to any page from the Business Application custom group preview
  • Prevent cyclic relationships
  • Install python3-pip package for VMware Aria Operations
  • Certificate with wrong number of bits upload didn't return correct error message.
  • 'Optimization Recommendations' and 'Time Remaining' cards are not resized equally when 'vSAN HCI Mesh' card is missing
  • Help button is missing for the Ping account type
  • [Integrations] Inconsistency connected with vRLI import
  • [Integrations] [Licensing] Users can add Integration accounts that are restricted by license type of VMware Aria Operations
  • Improvement on GET /api/versions/current API
  • RHEL7 VMs incorrectly configured as unmanaged by the OpenSource Telegraf installer script
  • [Core] Wordwrap issue exists under Access Group column in Administrator>Audit>User Permissions Audit Report
  • [Core] Tooltip is truncated in Plan>Capacity>Workload Planning: Traditional>Public Cloud>LEARN MORE page
  • [Proxy RC] Need to remove force upgrade script
  • Multi instance monitoring doesn't work as expected for Wildfly, Weblogic, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ and OracleDB
  • [Cloud Proxy] Clean up CP unused vcops-photon-cloudproxy-apache.conf and haproxy.cfg config files
  • "VMware Aria Operations 8.x Clients" Swagger page requires update
  • [Core]Cloud proxy name and Edit icon are truncated in Data Sources>Cloud Proxies>Cloud Proxy Details page
  • vSphere and VCF Capacity dashboard. Docs link in VMware Aria Operations (SaaS) environment opens a page with 404 error.
  • CP messaging redesign
  • [VMC] VMC Cost Allocation is done based on Reference cost even though billing is enabled
  • Clean up VMware Aria Operations old configuration files
  • [Cloud]  UI is not accessible after the upgrade
  • Http Proxy: exporting wrong selection after delete
  • VMware Aria Operations Client UI fails to load after upgrading to 8.6
  • Object Relationship widget reports "Internal Server Error" if failed to get objects hierarchy
  • Error in cprc.log
  • Dashboards are not displaying data, when cloud account was added more than 1 day after VMware Aria Operations install.
  • Reduce CSP API Calls from VMware Aria Operations Core Product
  • [Cloud] Casa Connectivity info API object is not being propagated to all the nodes in the setup
  • [Cloud Proxy] Cloud Proxy IP change does not update in gemfire.native.properties
  • [VMware Aria Operations (SaaS)][vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation Dashboards] Some documentation links under dashboards are not working
  • js error in Alert Assignment page
  • The default monitoring interval should be 5 minutes for VMs that are discovered without credentials.

The following CVEs have been resolved as of the VMware Aria Operations (SaaS) January 2022 Update:
Component NameCVE
apacheCVE-2021-44224
CVE-2021-44790
CVE-2021-39275
bindCVE-2021-25219
containerdCVE-2021-41103
CVE-2020-15257
CVE-2021-21334
CVE-2021-32760
curlCVE-2021-22945
jdk-openjdkCVE-2022-21291
CVE-2022-21293
CVE-2022-21294
CVE-2022-21296
CVE-2022-21299
CVE-2022-21305
CVE-2022-21340
CVE-2022-21341
CVE-2022-21349
CVE-2022-21360
CVE-2022-21365
CVE-2022-21248
CVE-2022-21271
CVE-2022-21282
jvm-hotspot-openjdkCVE-2022-21291
CVE-2022-21293
CVE-2022-21294
CVE-2022-21296
CVE-2022-21299
CVE-2022-21305
CVE-2022-21340
CVE-2022-21341
CVE-2022-21349
CVE-2022-21360
CVE-2022-21365
CVE-2022-21248
CVE-2022-21271
CVE-2022-21282
kubernetesCVE-2021-25743
CVE-2020-8557
CVE-2020-8563
CVE-2020-8555
CVE-2019-11250
CVE-2020-8552
CVE-2019-1002100
CVE-2019-11254
CVE-2015-7528
CVE-2019-9946
CVE-2021-25735
CVE-2021-25741
CVE-2019-11248
libgcryptCVE-2021-40528
linux_kernelCVE-2021-39633
CVE-2021-45095
CVE-2021-44733
CVE-2021-43975
CVE-2021-43389
CVE-2021-42739
CVE-2021-41864
CVE-2021-42252
CVE-2020-27820
CVE-2021-20317
CVE-2019-19449
CVE-2019-0149
CVE-2021-34556
CVE-2021-35477
CVE-2021-40490
CVE-2020-36322
CVE-2020-36385
CVE-2020-26541
log4jCVE-2021-45105
CVE-2021-45046
CVE-2021-44228
CVE-2020-9488
nssCVE-2021-43527
opensshCVE-2021-41617
pythonCVE-2020-15523
runcCVE-2021-43784
tomcatCVE-2015-8751
CVE-2021-42340
vimCVE-2021-3984
CVE-2021-4019
CVE-2021-3875
CVE-2021-3903
CVE-2021-3928
CVE-2021-3872
CVE-2021-3927
CVE-2021-3974
CVE-2021-3973
CVE-2021-3796
xmlsec-javaCVE-2021-40690
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