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This article features the fixes included in the VMware Aria Operations (SaaS) January 2022 Update.
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 reportView: 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 driversDatacenter folder missing in VMware Aria Operations inventoryThe statistics metrics for NSX-T Logical Router are cumulative instead of per collection cycleFew minor UI issues in VM Rightsizing Details dashboardNavigation: 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 UIBusiness hour in views: 2 times click on toggle button is needed to enable BH in described caseView: 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 openIllegalArgumentException 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 addedCustom certs: error message: The leaf certificate should not be necessarily the first certificate in the fileViews: Breakdown label is displayed in English even though the browser locale is non-EnglishAlert assignment: Extend User Search: Sorting issues on user searchWrong hover/select effect in "Show Columns" popupName change and new filter addition of "Powered Off Virtual Machine List" and "VMs with Snapshots" viewsWeak file permissions for CaSA script file containing passphraseAdapterBase CustomHostnameVerifier fails to check certificates for vAPI connectionPropagate 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 pageOn Witness Node all firewall ports are open, while only ports TCP 22, 443 should be openEmpty page when bulk deleting users from last pageFirefox 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 MBApplication Availability metric for multiple instances of mongodb shows incorrect data[NSX-T] Resource Discovery takes more than 3 min for scaled end-pointUser should be able to apply term license on top of perpetual licenseSocketTimeoutException 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 leftChange in casa connectivity info APISummary 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 APIsVM and Cluster KPI metrics impacted by Network metric bugERROR in collector logs - Failed to convert 'ERROR: postgres instance 'repl' is not available' to a numberConvertion 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 activatedVCenter group auth sources doesn't update inner ids if new VCs are imported using old VC namesBusiness 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 overriddenIn Configure>Alerts>Recommendations page imported items are not visible until refreshing the pageSocketTimeoutException of single vSAN Adapter Instance causes Timeout failures of all other instancesvRealize Operations 8.4HF1 - Postgres calls performance degradation in 8.4checkbox on Install Agent page not getting deselect/unchecked on completion of a process or clicking refresh linkPlugin Tooltip shows ? where no data pushed from UCP AgentsNotification, Payload Templates details are not refreshed properly in some casesCorrections on service display and process name usagePost Migration rebootstrap of agent with incorrect credentials disconnects salt connectivityAPI call always fails on its first try. If you retry the same exact API call with the same exact token and raw-data it worksAllocation based Monthly Projected Total Cost for a VM is incorrectPlatformInterface.createResource() API allows to create adapter instance object using non adapter instance resource kindChanging 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 CardsOutbound Settings: Import/Export: Wrong JSON outputCloud proxy local users are displayed in the orphaned content page after removing the cloud proxyService Discovery: An incorrect error message appears on saving custom serviceAdmin UI LDAP integration no error message for wrong credentials in group selectionNavigation: Some of the traversal specs have disappeared from the Object Browser in the described caseThe content of the deleted dashboard is being displayed in the described caseAgent stopped automatically post content updateFix display values in the VMware Aria Operations Cloud Proxy VM ConsoleNeed the property "Number of Cloud Proxies in Cluster" of cluster object for on-prem VMware Aria OperationsDifferent 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 VMsReuse Casa client where it is possible (Platform Side)[Cost] When vCenter Adapter collector is down , there is inconsistency in cost across vCenter objectsAdd account appears instead of adapter name when editing the account[Cloud] 8.6 upgrade failedcorrect 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 vRNIFiltering by solution is not working when solution is emptyProperties for Persistent disklocalhost_access_log log files for suite-api are not compressed before rotationService Discovery: Applications remain discovered, after disabling Application Discovery from SDMP adapterImporting 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 OperationsRename IO Wait to Other WaitGlobal SRE Org authenticationFSDB getActiveMetrics method is called twice for the same set of resources when analytics startsManage Dashboard Sharing page gets stuck in the described caseSome pages should be hidden for the standard licenseAdvanced Edition sign is missing in standard licensing for SDMP and App MonitoringSearch bar doesn't look good on small resolution in the Administration > Global Settings pageApplications: 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 optionUnable to upgrade VMware Aria Operations-agent in AAP with 8.6 GA buildwhen/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 onlyAdd vRLi and Cassandra version discoveryTune 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 CPsNullPointerException in DataForwarder class during debug loggingVMware Aria Operations firstboot doesn't complete successfully after deploymentA slight memory improvement in the VC adapter.vRNI MP collects VMs partly with VC read-only userBulk enablement of VMware Aria Operations monitoring metricsSuite API: Get the current version of the service is showing wrong data"Upgrade" button is missing when new version of MP in is availableREST API: Release name and release date are incorrectEdit 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 usermake name change check case sensitive in AdapterBase[vCenter Adpater] VMware Aria Operations Cluster processes may not have enough memory alerts triggered on remote collectorsCost Calculation fails with Null Pointer exception for VMC DC when component resources are nullDashboard 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 stoppedVMware Aria Network Insight MP collects VMs partly with VC read-only userProd multi node environment: Size of Downloaded Support Bundle from Admin UI is 0Unable to reinstall agent in 8.6 if agent was previously installed using scriptBusiness Applications: VM list in custom group preview shown not properly in Add/Edit BAMove 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 deactivationMP doesn't appear in Installed Integrations section, after activation process appears to be completedERROR - Failed running upgrade: 'str' object has no attribute 'status'Information disclosure vulnerability for non logged-in requestsHelp button navigation issues from the Integrations pagechanging the vpostgres log rotation policy based on sizeRemove some leftover metrics from vCenter adapter's describe.xmlImprove upgrade pack download resiliency for CloudProxy in case of network issuesC:\VMware\UCP\salt\nssm.exe - Access is denied issue during content upgradeBusiness Applications: Discard unsaved changes doesn't work properly for the Business ApplicationsAlerts: Selected recommendation are not shown in "Polices" tabSDMP 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 tabRefactor 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 certAnalytics service restarts on "to be alive" FD nodes in CA enabled cluster while happening split brain between fault domainsVMware 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 instancevRealize 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 collectorAnalytics 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 changedCC failing on latest SB build for VMC DatacentersDashboard configuration getting stuck while Importing dashboard when dashboard JSON contains resource with empty identifier.Add missed configuration files into cp support bundleNSX-T adapter does not have generic way to provide the hostUse the socket timeout that was passed as a parameter in the vcops-vlsi module.VidmConnect.java has String.format errorSet 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 immediatelyGET /internal/optimization/{id}/reclaim does not return the reclaimable resources, instead brings them as excludedLogging issue during the anlytics startup.An error message appears when trying to bring online the offline nodesizing 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 beThe solution is already installed error message is displaying in VMware Aria Operations when reinstalling the cloud health management packNPE 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 pageIn "Manage Dashboard" "Group Sharing" pop-up window selected groups are not displayed properlyHelp links are inconsistent for support pages in Admin UIThe cost driver UI does not show total cost and reference cost for labor and license cost driverCollector service started restarting periodically in case ARC agents installed and startedCloud Proxy http-north service has failed to start after the upgradeCost calculation is failing with Date Time Parse Exception for VMC datcenterMulti node Tenant's VMware Aria Operations UI is not AvailableText 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 licenseIssue 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 widgetOther' properties / metrics unavailable for selection when creating Custom Email Payload templateChange "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 pageBusiness Applications: UI crashes on the navigation to any page from the Business Application custom group previewPrevent cyclic relationshipsInstall python3-pip package for VMware Aria OperationsCertificate 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 missingHelp 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 OperationsImprovement on GET /api/versions/current APIRHEL7 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 scriptMulti 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 pagevSphere 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 enabledClean up VMware Aria Operations old configuration files[Cloud] UI is not accessible after the upgradeHttp Proxy: exporting wrong selection after deleteVMware Aria Operations Client UI fails to load after upgrading to 8.6Object Relationship widget reports "Internal Server Error" if failed to get objects hierarchyError in cprc.logDashboards 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 workingjs error in Alert Assignment pageThe 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 NameCVEapacheCVE-2021-44224CVE-2021-44790CVE-2021-39275bindCVE-2021-25219containerdCVE-2021-41103CVE-2020-15257CVE-2021-21334CVE-2021-32760curlCVE-2021-22945jdk-openjdkCVE-2022-21291CVE-2022-21293CVE-2022-21294CVE-2022-21296CVE-2022-21299CVE-2022-21305CVE-2022-21340CVE-2022-21341CVE-2022-21349CVE-2022-21360CVE-2022-21365CVE-2022-21248CVE-2022-21271CVE-2022-21282jvm-hotspot-openjdkCVE-2022-21291CVE-2022-21293CVE-2022-21294CVE-2022-21296CVE-2022-21299CVE-2022-21305CVE-2022-21340CVE-2022-21341CVE-2022-21349CVE-2022-21360CVE-2022-21365CVE-2022-21248CVE-2022-21271CVE-2022-21282kubernetesCVE-2021-25743CVE-2020-8557CVE-2020-8563CVE-2020-8555CVE-2019-11250CVE-2020-8552CVE-2019-1002100CVE-2019-11254CVE-2015-7528CVE-2019-9946CVE-2021-25735CVE-2021-25741CVE-2019-11248libgcryptCVE-2021-40528linux_kernelCVE-2021-39633CVE-2021-45095CVE-2021-44733CVE-2021-43975CVE-2021-43389CVE-2021-42739CVE-2021-41864CVE-2021-42252CVE-2020-27820CVE-2021-20317CVE-2019-19449CVE-2019-0149CVE-2021-34556CVE-2021-35477CVE-2021-40490CVE-2020-36322CVE-2020-36385CVE-2020-26541log4jCVE-2021-45105CVE-2021-45046CVE-2021-44228CVE-2020-9488nssCVE-2021-43527opensshCVE-2021-41617pythonCVE-2020-15523runcCVE-2021-43784tomcatCVE-2015-8751CVE-2021-42340vimCVE-2021-3984CVE-2021-4019CVE-2021-3875CVE-2021-3903CVE-2021-3928CVE-2021-3872CVE-2021-3927CVE-2021-3974CVE-2021-3973CVE-2021-3796xmlsec-javaCVE-2021-40690