This update introduces a preview into range of new functionality on our 2021 roadmap.
New VMWare Dashlet
In the first phase of support for VMWare it is now possible to Manage VMWare equipment and monitor via a specialized
VMWare System Health Summary Dashlet
In this special preview release, the dashlet shows the status of the hosts, and virtual machines within them as well as their power status.
Watch this space more functionality coming soon!
Ability to configure and run custom PowerShell Commandlets from within VSM
VSM now provides you with even more control over your windows environments.
We have added the ability to periodically execute custom PowerShell commands for Managed Windows Servers and view results within VSM.
Navigate to your Manage Equipment Page, and Edit a Windows Server.
Under the Custom Scripts Tab, enter the PowerShell command details.
For example:
- Retrieve the last 10 lines of an application log file every 5 minutes:
Get-Content c:/User/AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams/logs.txt | tail -10
- Retrieve random Internet Cat Facts every 24 hours
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://catfact.ninja/fact' -UseBasicParsing | Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'Content' | ConvertFrom-Json
To view command output, click on View Details -> Custom Scripts, for that Windows Server.
A maximum of five PowerShell commandlets may be added with minimum frequency of 5 minutes.
Password Complexity Improvements
In addition to MFA, we have added the ability to increase your users' password complexity. This functionality is also configurable under your account settings.
By default every password must be:
- at least 8 characters long
- must comprise alphanumeric characters, including at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, and one number
Administrators have the ability to further customize password complexity by defining the minimum password length which can be set to a maximum of 15 characters. This is managed under the entity account settings tab.
Existing users whose passwords do not meet these requirement will be made to change their password the next time they log on to VSM.
Ability to select multiple ACMs for Call Rate Report
Previously, when running the Call Rate Report it was only possible to select one ACM per location. This has been updated and it is now possible select one ore more ACMs. Each ACM is displayed on a separate page.
Latest updates
Missed out last mail from the Service Desk? It is now possible to read the latest updates via the top menu:
Bug Fixes
Manage Equipment page
- There have been several performance improvements made to this page
- Previously, there were some problems around editing Windows Servers. This has now been fixed.
- The Import button is back
- When adding new equipment, there is an 'Add Another' checkbox, which previously did not always work as expected. This has now been fixed.
Call Detail Records
For a brief period there was a processing issue causing no CDR data for some customers. For other customers there was an issue where the wrong data was showing in some of the columns on the CDR page. This was a temporary glitch. Both issues have now been retrospectively fixed.
Thresholds
Previously, there was an issue, where when a user manually resolves a customized threshold alarm, either on the Dashlet or Manage Alarms page, then that threshold alarm would not re-raise when it was next breached.
This behavior was incorrect. If a threshold alarm is resolved manually, it should be re-raised the next time the threshold is re-breached.
There was also an issue where it was not possible to add a CPU or Memory threshold via the Windows Server Dashlet. This has been fixed.
Scheduled Reports
Previously, when business partners created a scheduled report under <Customer> -> Service Desk -> Reports -> Create Scheduled Report, they could only select other BP users, and not customer users they were running the report for.
This has now been fixed, BPs can create a scheduled report and on behalf of their customers, and select the target recipients to be other BP Users, or the corresponding customer users.