Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus_GUI 7.3.1 Fix Pack 8, 7.3.1-TIV-NCOMNIbus_GUI-FP0008

Download Description

List of Known Issues addressed in 7.3.1.8 FP8
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1. IV72367 - AEL occasionally turns grey by double clicking an alert with either:
a. Open the details for a different alert which has a serial matching the severity of the original
b. Give an error (if there are no alerts with a serial matching the severity of the original)

Upgrade to TIP2.2.0.7 or later before installing FP8 to get the following fixes:

2. IV10115 - A number of Web GUI windows show blank icons when installing TIP2.2.0.7 after the FP5 installation.
These include the CGI registry, Chart View, Event Dashboard, Event Database Query, Gauges, Inline Frame,
Lightweight Event List (AEL), Map, Map Creation, Map Resources, Menu Configuration, Message,
System Information for Tivoli Netcool/Omnibus Web GUI, Table View, Tool Creation, User Preferences for
Tivoli Netcool/Omnibus Web GUI, and Views.

3. IV10116 - A number of Web GUI windows have insufficient or missing tooltips. These include the CGI registry,
Chart View, Event Dashboard, Event Database Query, Gauges, Inline Frame, Lightweight Event List (AEL), Map,
Map Creation, Map Resources, Menu Configuration, Message, System Information for Tivoli Netcool/Omnibus Web GUI,
Table View, Tool Creation, User Preferences for Tivoli Netcool/Omnibus Web GUI, and Views.

4. IV10118 - Tooltip needs to be very descriptive because there is another portlet with the same name. Affected areas are
ChartView, Gauges, and TableView.



Issues and Enhancements addressed in 7.3.1.8 FP8
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alm00300414 / IV50762
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Short Description: FILTER DEFINITION IN USER FILTER ON THE USER PREFERENCES PAGE SET TO A CERTAIN USER IS COPIED TO ANOTHER USER

Summary:
When a new user is created, the filter definition in User filter on the User Preferences page that was set to a certain user is added to this new user too.


alm00307826 / IV60138
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Short Description: WEBGUI IS AFFECTED BY (CVE-2014-0094)(CVE-2014-0112)(CVE-2014-0113) APACHE STRUCTS

Summary:
CVE-2014-0114 reported that Apache Struts have ClassLoader
vulnerability which will enable attacker to execute code
remotely. Apache have issued announcement and suggested
mitigation action
[http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201405.mbox/%3C53629980.8060805@apache.org%3E].


alm00299795 / IV50239
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Short Description: WAAPI RACE CONDITION CAUSING CORRUPTION OF FILTERS/VIEWS

Summary:
An error occurs when a large WAAPI script is run involving
the creation of filters and maps. The system filter.xml file
gets copied to the global view.xml.


alm00307714 / IV60013
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Short Description: BLIND SQL INJECTION

Summary:
ApScan reported Cross-Site Scripting issues on AEL and MAP
for attributes:- textdirection, guiorientation, enabletooltips.


alm00307646 / IV59984
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Short Description: WEBGUI STOPS WITH "JAVA.IO.IOEXCEPTION: TOO MANY OPEN FILES"

Summary:
A IOException may be thrown due to "too many open files"
after Web GUI runs for a sufficiently long period of time


alm00309551 / IV61742
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Short Description: THREAD COUNT KEPT INCREASING WHEN WEBGUI FAILS TO CONNECT TO FAILOVER OBJECTSERVER PAIR

Summary:
Datasource Failover keep starting new thread to create
connection with datasource even though there is existing
thread working on the connection creation. This issue only
happen on Datasource Failover configuration AND both primary
and backup datasource not reachable.


alm00311189 / IV63426
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Short Description: EVENTLIST.INFORMATION.FIELDS.SORT PROPERTY INEFFECTIVE ON 7315

Summary:
The server.init eventlist.information.fields.sort property
in 7315 does not affect how the fields in the LEL Alert
Status table are arranged.


alm00308846 / IV61062
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Short Description: WEBGUI TABLEVIEW SMARTPAGE COMMAND DOES NOT USE THE DATASOURCE PARAMETER

Summary:
When a smartpage is created using the TABLEVIEW command the
parameter to specify the datasource is ignored. If the
customer uses a different datasource name to NCOMS, the
datasource will be ignored.


alm00311275 / IV63634
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Short Description: WEB GUI 7.3.1 DOES NOT UTILIZE OBJECTSERVER "ACTIVEPRIMARY" PROPERTY TO DETERMINE IF FAILOVER/FAILBACK OCCURRED

Summary:
Web GUI does not utilize ObjectServer "ActivePrimary"
property to determine whether a failover/failback has
occurred.


alm00307649 / IV59986
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Short Description: TRANSIENT FILTERS NOT HANDLING INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERS WHEN USING INTERNET EXPLORER

Summary:
Web GUI requests involving filters, views, maps, etc.
displaying name or other fields with non-ASCII characters do
not build the internal queries properly when using MS
Internet Explorer.
As a result, Maps updating event lists with filters whose
names contain non-ASCII characters, or filters querying for
events whose values contain non-ASCII characters may not
produce the expected results or no results at all, hence
disrupting expected behavior.


alm00312075 / IV64987
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Short Description: CREATING A MAP USING WAAPI CONTAINING SYSTEM AND GLOBAL FILTERS WITH A SINGLE MISSING FILTER CAUSES MULTIPLE FILTERS TO FAIL

Summary:
A Map containing a widget referencing the Active Event List
with a filter that does not exist (i.e. either incorrectly
referenced through WAAPI or erased) will gray out a number
of non-problematic widgets, or even all of them according to
order in which the widgets were created.
The console at the bottom of the Map will display the
following message: "An error occured during processing of
Event Summary Data Service Request:'null'".


alm00311990 / IV64891
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Short Description: DO NOT RESYNC WHEN USER LIST DOES NOT CONTAIN LDAP USERS

Summary:
Do not resync when user list does not contain LDAP users


alm00302545 / IV53460
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Short Description: MISLEADING ERROR MESSAGE IF JUSTIFY ATTRIBUTE IS ADDED FOR ELEMENT BUTTON IN WAAPI CREATEMAP

Summary:
Invoking a WAAPI method call for a Map, containing an
element (e.g. a button) with a non-compliant attribute (e.g.
"justify") will display the following ambiguous WAAPI error
message:

WAAPIClient: Invalid XML - line [x]. Attribute [attribute
name] must be declared for element type [element name].


alm00305907 / IV57734
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Short Description: DURING IMPORT, SYSTEM IS TO IGNORE HARMFUL FILES FROM THE EXPORTED WEBRESOURCE FROM OLDER VERSIONS

Summary:
Unexpected old JavaScript files in data.zip (exported from
731 TIP2.1 source system), override target system and
corrupt applets.


alm00297396 / IV45725
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Short Description: MIGRATION IMPORT DIRECTORY INPUT DIRECTORY

Summary:
Due to a change in the tipcli tool in TIP version 2.2.0.9,
the directory the tool expects to find the export file from
the source server is no longer the directory
<tip_profile>/output on the target server as stated by the
WebGUI documentation but <tip_profile>/input. An error is
generated by the tipcli tool if the file to be imported is
not in the input folder.


alm00294671 / IV41869
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Short Description: PREUPGRADE.SH PICKS UP BACKUP DIRECTORIES AND FILES

Summary:
The preupgrade.sh script is picking up backup files and
directories not actually in live use by WebGUI and exporting
them to upgradeData.zip. This is increasing the likelihood
that the upgradeData.zip will be much larger than necessary,
which can in turn lead to problems when running upgrade.sh
to import the data.


alm00314115 / IV67836
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Short Description: CUSTOM EVENT DASHBOARDS FAIL TO LOAD PROPERLY WITH SYSTEM FILTERS

Summary:
On user with ncw_user (only) role, system filters are not
being loaded for custom Event Dashboard. Only global filters
are being loaded even in a customized Event Dashboard
containing a single monitor box with a system filter. Error
HEMCDW0035: Unable to get data from the server. Contact your
administrator. is displayed on the Event Dashboard.


alm00277760 / IV27003
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Short Description: SELECTIVE EXPORT/IMPORT FOR A MAP FAILS WHEN DEPENDENT FILTER IS USED

Summary:
Importing filter data containing both a dependent filter
definition (with the nested dependency), and the definition
of the actual filter it depends on, will prevent the import
from functioning properly, and display an error message of
type "HEMIE0215E=Problem during retrieving nova by attribute
name [...].".


alm00286313 / IV32956
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Short Description: TIVOLI INTEGRATED PORTAL FIXED NOT INCLUDED IN PREUPGRADE.ZIP WITH WEBGUI FIX PACKS

Summary:
If a user plans to upgrade from Webtop 2.2 or WebGUI 7.3.0
to WebGUI 7.3.1 with an updated TIP, the WebGUI upgrade
tools found in Preupgrade.zip needs to be upgraded with the
latest TIP fixpacks for the tools to work properly.


alm00314772 / IV69071
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Short Description: USERS UNABLE TO VIEW JOURNAL

Summary:
The Journal window opened from AEL missing add Journal
field. When users open the Journal window, the AlertSummary
will check and get the historic event command of the user's
session before proceeding with the Journal response
creation. If there is a historic command present, the
AlertSummary will respond with the historic command instead
of the Journal response. When the command is not meant for
the Journal response, the Journal fails as the response is
unexpected.

AEL Java Console log:
[ERROR] com.micromuse.ncoweb.nova.NoSuchItemException: No
such property: datasource


alm00306288 / IV58690
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Short Description: THE JAVA MAP EDITOR DOES NOT LOAD THE APPLIED CHANGES WHEN THE MAP OBJECT PROPERTIES ARE CLOSED AND RE-OPENED

Summary:
The java map editor does not load the applied changes when
the map object properties are closed and re-opened. The map
object properties loads the original properties value
instead.


alm00314908 / IV69337
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Short Description: DEPENDENT FILTERS DISAPPEAR FROM LIST AFTER RESTARTING WEBGUI

Summary:
Newly created 'advanced' or 'basic' filters added as part of
a pre-existing dependency filter's list, disappear from the
Selected filters list in the Filter Builder after restarting
WebGUI, although they do persist in 'filter.xml'

In the logs, errors like this can be observed:

[2015-02-26T18:24:35.542] [WebContainer : 7]
com.micromuse.wave.fvbuilder.dao.DependencyCreationFactory.c
reateObject SEVERE: HEMFV0087E=Unable to add the dependency
{0} to {1}.
[2015-02-26T18:24:35.543] [WebContainer : 7]
com.micromuse.wave.fvbuilder.dao.DependencyCreationFactory.c
reateObject FINE: HEMFV0087E
com.micromuse.wave.fvbuilder.FilterNotFoundException:
Test_filter_needs_dep_new1
at com.micromuse.wave.fvbuilder.dao.XMLFilter.addDependency(XML
Filter.java:667)
at com.micromuse.wave.fvbuilder.dao.DependencyCreationFactory.c
reateObject(DependencyCreationFactory.java:73)


alm00294034 / IV40232
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Short Description: WEBGUI STORING FULLNAME='FIRSTNAME LASTNAME LASTNAME' WHEN USING ACTIVE DIRECTORY AUTHENTICATION

Summary:
Fullname contain twice firstname in object server when
authenticate user using LDAP


alm00305218 / IV56428
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Short Description: AEL REFRESH RATE IS ALWAYS 60 SECONDS FOR USERS WHO DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO MODIFY THE REFRESH RATE

Summary:
AEL refresh rate is always 60 seconds for users who do not have
permission to modify the refresh rate. This happens regardless
of the value that is set in the user Nova preferences file


alm00294734 / IV42167
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Short Description: REALTIMEDYNAMICCHOICE PROMPT WINDOW DISPLAYS STRANGELY IF IT DOESN'T RETRIEVE ANY ROWS.

Summary:
Create a tool with a RealTimeDynamicChoice prompt that
retrieves some rows in its filter. Verify that the tool
launches and the prompt displays quickly and correctly. Now
remove all rows associated with the prompt so that it retrieves
nothing. Try the tool again. This time the prompt window
displays either an empty frame or shows the window behind.
Resizing can help, but you could still get a grey window or no
list or buttons greyed out.


alm00304694 / IV55841
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Short Description: EUROPE/MOSCOW TIME/DATE SETTING IN AEL PREFERENCES IS INCORRECT.

Summary:
After the update in time zone data for Russian time zone (especially the Moscow time zone) after October 26th 2014,
the offset has changed.Web GUI's dependencies handling time zone data were not up-to-date and required patching.


alm00305476 / IV56743
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Short Description: LDAP GROUP NAME BEGIN WITH "#" DOES NOT DISPLAY IN WEBGUI TOOL PAGE

Summary:
The problem is caused by the fact that when a group name contains a # character, VMM returns the CN of the group with a delimiter, and surrounded in double quotation marks eg: CN="\#TestLDAPGroup", rather than just CN=#TestLDAPGroup. If this CN is then used in a VMM search,the search fails. This kind of VMM search is used to find out which users are in a group, and also to determine if the group still exists.
Because the searches fail using CNs with this formatting, DCI thinks that such groups are obsolete and removes them from the list of groups obtained. Hence, they do not appear on the tools page.

If the CN was returned simply as CN=#TestLDAPGroup, then the VMM searches would work, and these groups would not be removed from the results, and should then appear in the tools page.

The fix is to remove the delimiter in string and back to its original value.


alm00315406 / IV70332
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Short Description: WEBGUI APPLETS CODE SIGN CERTIFICATE ABOUT TO EXPIRE

Summary:
WebGUI applets code sign certificate will expired on Jun 28,
2015. The renew certificate need to be SHA-256 (SHA-2) due
to deprecation of SHA-1 by major browsers (e.g. Microsoft
Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox) starting Jan 1, 2017.


alm00308743 / IV60972
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Short Description: IA LOG REPORTS SUCCESS WHERE OMNIBUSWEBGUI.WAR HAS FAILED TO DEPLOY

Summary:
When applying WebGUI Fix Pack the IA log reported a
successful upgrade but, WebGUI version information on the
Welcome screen does not report the correct version.


alm00310845 / IV63082
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Short Description: WEBGUI7.3.1.7(FP):INCORRECT UNINSTALLATION LOG FILENAME

Summary:
Incorrect Uninstall log filename is being used by the Fix Pack uninstaller.


alm00316310 / IV71817
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Short Description: JAVA.LANG.NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION WHEN LOADING SMARTPAGE (IE11 ONLY)

Summary:
AEL applet fail to load via SmartPage on IE 11 only. The AEL applet
is loaded successfully on Firefox and lower version of IE. The issue caused by the "componentOrientation" parameter set as empty on default GUI Orientation. On IE 11, the parameter with empty valuewas returned as null and cause Applet initialization failed with java.lang.NullPointerException when it retrieve and use the
"componentOrientation" parameter.


alm00316985 / IV73015
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Short Description: AEL HANGS WHEN CLOSED AND OPENED A NEW WITHIN 5 SECONDS

Summary:
Closing a tab or floating window with AEL, and then opening
it again may cause AEL to:

* freeze without fully loading
* lag
* display a number of unrecoverable errors in the client Java logs


alm00317700 / IV74047
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Short Description:DEPENDENTCY FILTER DIDN'T DISPLAY IN THE DEPENDENT FILTER

Summary:
Clicking on the dependent filter in the builder form will not display the dependency, if the dependency was persisted after the dependent filter.

If a dependent filter appears before its dependency(or one/more of its dependencies) in the filter.xml, the dependency cannot be resolved at de-serialization time. This implies both the dependent filter and dependency are retrieved normally, but the dependent filter will not be linked to its dependency. That in turn, implies the dependency will not show in the dependent filter's dependent section in the filter builder, and more importantly, the dependency will not be processed when applying the filter.


alm00318076 / IV74530
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Short Description:NO RECONNECTION OCCURS AFTER WEB GUI DISCONNECT FROM OBJECT SERVER IF WEBGUI IN SSL FIPS MODE.

Summary:
WebGUI does not reconnect to ObjectServer when ObjectServer restarted while WebGUI stay running. The issue only happen on SSL datasource connection and not on normal connection.