Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 7.4.0 Fix Pack 5, 7.4.0-TIV-NCOMNIbus-FP0005

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* A change introduced by this fix pack might negatively
* affect existing product function.
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* Please refer to APAR IV79815 for a description of the
* problem and corrective action and evaluate this APAR for the
* potential impact in your environment.
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The following defect solutions are included in this fix pack:

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 is resolved.


IV55784
If a pre-insert trigger also does an insert into the same table, the two events can end up with the same Serial value if the Serial number wraps during the insert. This problem is resolved.


IV62192
MIBs containing extra spaces failed to import properly resulting in orphans. This problem is resolved.


IV61491
MIB Manager might fail to import an MIB if the MIB contains non-ASCII characters and MIB Manager is not running in a UTF-8 locale. The import completes without errors or warnings but the MIB is not displayed in the 'MIB Modules' tab on MIB Manager.  This problem is resolved.


IV62891
The nco_config updates a Boolean column when selected. This problem is resolved.


IV63168
Assigning an integer value to a string column in a JSON row set payload for an ObjectServer table that was sent as part of an HTTP POST to the servers HTTP interface, caused the server to crash. This issue is now fixed. The type mismatch is now correctly handled and a HTTP 400 (Bad Request) is returned with a JSON error payload to indicate a type mismatch.


IV56455
The failover thread of a probe running in secondary mode in a peer-to-peer failover setup might hang. This could result in the probe failing to send events on if it loses contact with the primary probe of the peer-to-peer pair. It could also result in unbounded memory growth of the secondary probe as it buffers all events without flushing the buffers. This issue is fixed.


IV63757
The following Log File Pool properties were added to the default NCOMS.props file: LogFileUsePool, LogFilePoolSize, LogFileUseStdErr.


IV63758
Some fields of the Restrict Rows section of the desktop View Builder did not work correctly. These fields restrict the number of rows on display in the event list.
Minimum
Maximum
Default
After you entered values in these fields, they defaulted back to 1. The same occurred after you used the arrows to change the values. This problem is fixed.


IV63759
After you changed the value of the event_flash_time property in the ~/.omnibus/prefs file, then event list freezes. This problem is fixed.


IV64030
If an integer value in a property file starts with a zero, the value was treated as octal-based rather than base 10. This problem is resolved.


IV63169
The JRE for Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus V7.3.1 and V7.4.0 was updated to IBM JRE 6.0 SR16 FP1 to address possible security issues.


IV64823
When using registertarget/settarget, the server name value from the registertarget/settarget directives should be on the insert statement in the log file. This problem is resolved.


IV51280
The indexes implemented in OMNIbus prevent some post-database action based triggers from functioning correctly. The problem is that indexes are updated after the post insert action is fired. For example, it is not possible to find the new row using the Serial field in an after insert trigger because the index on the Serial field has not been updated. Note, the new row variable holds a reference to the row which can be used instead. This problem is corrected.


IV65579
The shared library version information will now be output when a probe is run with -version, it will also be added to the log header which is written out with every new logfile.


IV63601
When the nco_osreport -dbinit command is run to extract configuration from an ObjectServer, or the nco_dbinit command is run to create an ObjectServer from extracted configuration files, the command fails and the following error is written to the log.

Object not found in file automation.sql at or near channel_stats on line 19 of statement 'create or replace trigger aen_activity'

This problem is resolved.


IV62328
Changes to an SQL parameter from IN to OUT could cause the ObjectServer to crash. This problem is resolved.


IV66640
ObjectServer crashes after resynchronization by gateway due to  a restriction filter. This problem is resolved.


IV63870
When installing a probe or gateway into Netcool/OMNIbus V7.4.0 with fix pack 4 on Windows Server 2012, the following error message is displayed after the license is accepted: "Deployment Engine failed to initialize".

When the error is acknowledged, the installer shuts down.

This problem occurs because fix pack 4 downgrades a component of the integrations installer. The problem is now fixed.


IV63973
The following security-related files have been designated configuration files so that any changes that are made to these files are retained after any future updates to the JRE:
- java.security
- US_export_policy.jar
- local_policy.jar
This change means that the next JRE update after Netcool/OMNIbus 7.4.0.5 will resolve the problem of FIPS 140-2 configurations being overwritten when the JRE is updated.



Date - Summary of Changes
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13 January 2016 - Updated for
IV79815: Problem with messages in Windows Event Log
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