PowerConnect Cloud 2.1.0 Release Notes

Overview

PowerConnect Cloud 2.1.0 release. Install the tarball by following the upgrade instructions

New

• Splunk Modular Input - PC Cloud Agent can now be deployed and run as a Splunk Modular Input on both Splunk on premises and Splunk Cloud

• Single Sign On - Added single sign on support for PowerConnect Cloud UI (via SAML) to leverage thirdparty authentication such as Okta and Google

• Certificate management - can now import SSL certificates using the PowerConnect Cloud UI

• SuccessFactors Plugin

  • Enhanced process monitoring with process and task hierarchy and data replication failures

  • New payroll monitoring input showing payroll run data, records processed, run time and optional payroll details

  • New payroll configuration input showing payroll configuration changes over time

  • New onboarding process monitoring input tracking employee onboarding and offboarding process including task level details

  • New security monitoring capability showing logins, access, ip addresses etc. of systems connecting into SuccessFactors

• Ariba Plugin

  • New integration events monitoring input collects status of every integration with Ariba including errors

• CPQ Plugin

  • New user audit trail input tracking every user interaction with the CPQ system including logins, data changes and configuration updates

• Data Intelligence Plugin

  • New monitoring query input collects tenant and pod metrics from Data Intelligence kubernetes clusters

• Open Connectors Plugin

  • New audit log input

  • New api usage input collects api request details

  • New formula execution input collects data about every formula execution including optional step information and step values

• Added OAuth SAML Bearer auth support

• Added support for ISO formatted timestamps

Changes

• CPI Plugin

  • Checkpointing on the LogEnd message field is now turned on by default. This is to cater for a scenario in the SAP MessageProcessingLog API where under high load conditions data is not published in a timely manner and can possibly be missed. Storing the timestamp of the last message read aleviates this issue.

• CPQ Plugin

  • Added token url configuration for CPQ Events input

• API-M Plugin

  • Added timestamp extraction support

  • Added replay/backfill support

• Ariba Plugin

  • Updated default api url and token url

• SucessFactors

  • Added $expand support to reduce number of calls to the API and improve performance

  • Added private key configuration to key store

• UI

  • Split configuration items into multiple tabs to simplify the view

  • Login screen now has link to login using SSO if configured

  • Show cluster member start time in health view

Bug Fixes

• Ariba Plugin

  • Added API key configuration to use in Ariba API calls

Known issues 

None