What's New in This Release

This topic lists new features and changes in functionality in TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence and TIBCO LogLogic® Enterprise Virtual Appliance version 6.3.0 as compared to the earlier release.

For other information such as migration, closed issues, and known issues, see TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence 6.3.0 Release Notes.

New Features

New features for the following components and functionalities have been introduced in this release:

Advanced Features
  • Monitoring Console: Starting from version 6.3.0 of LogLogic LMI, the TIBCO Hawk® Console is available in LogLogic LMI as the Monitoring Console. Using the Monitoring Console you can monitor the applications and operating systems and define actions for the predefined conditions. For more information, see Monitoring Console in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • From the System Settings > General page, you can enable or disable the Advanced Aggregation and Monitoring Console features separately.
Advanced Search
The Advanced Search section has a new look. The Filters section is now in the left pane. The Messages, Timeline Charts, and Highlight modes can be enabled or disabled using sliders. A notifications section summarizes warning notifications. For more information, see Advanced Search in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • Distributed Advanced Search Queries: You can run Advanced Search queries on a Management Station and specify a list of Remote Appliances to which the query should be distributed. The query is run on all appliances specified, and the combined search results are displayed on the Management Station. For more information, see Distributed Queries in Advanced Search in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • DISTINCT statement: You can use the DISTINCT statement in Advanced Search queries to fetch distinct values of data in the search results. The statement can be used in SQL, EQL, and ECL queries. For more information, see FILTER Statement in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • Log source picker: You can use data model names in an Advanced Search query or select log sources from the log source picker to generate a query that includes the selected sources. For more information, see Log Source Picker in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • Scheduled queries
    • You can run scheduled queries immediately by clicking the Run Now button on the Edit Scheduled Query page.
    • You can choose to send search results as email attachments in PDF, HTML, or CSV format. Earlier search results could be sent only as CSV file attachments.
    For more information about scheduling queries, see Configuring Query Schedules in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • A new infrastructure query has been provided to view the status of correlation alerts. For more information, see Correlation Alert SLA Status in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • NOT IN function: You can use the NOT IN function in EQL and SQL queries in Advanced Search.
Advanced Dashboards
The Advanced Dashboards section has a new look. The dashboards are now displayed in groups. Other than the built-in groups, you can create your own groups and subgroups of dashboards. For detailed information, see Advanced Dashboards in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • The following functionality enhancements have been introduced in widgets:
    • Widgets can now be moved or copied to other dashboards.
    • Loading widget data: Earlier, if a query was incorrect, the widget took a long time to display data. Starting with this release, you can stop loading data on the widget and return to the widget settings to verify the query, columns, and so on.
    • In a Number widget, the background color changes to green, yellow, or red based on value of the threshold field.
  • New widgets: The following new built-in widgets have been introduced on the Dashboards > Advanced Dashboards > System Status dashboard.
    • stDataFile, indexFiles, metaIndexFiles - Sizes in MB
    • Remote Storage
    • Forwarder Rules
    • File Transfer Rules
    • IO Statistics
    • Estimated time to reach maximum disk usage
    • Status of LogLogic LMI engines
    For more information, see System Status Dashboards in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • The following new widget types have been introduced:
    New widget types
    Widget type Description For more information, see...
    Bubble chart Displays data as a bubble chart or a scatter plot. Bubble Chart in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide
    Gauge widget: New types of gauges Displays the data as needle, wheel, or solid. Previously, only the needle type was displayed. Gauge Widget in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide
Backup and archiving
  • File System Support for Archiving Data: In addition to EXT2 and EXT3, you can use XFS and EXT4 file systems on SAN devices for archiving data. For more information about archiving, see Archiving of Log Data in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Administration Guide.
  • You can now backup and archive to Amazon S3 buckets. For more information, see Backup Methods in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Administration Guide.
Security
  • Malicious attacks can be prevented by enabling the CSRF guard property. For more information, see Cross-site Request Forgery in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • Security can be enhanced by enabling two-factor authentication. For more information, see Security Settings in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Administration Guide.
  • You can choose to have emails sent to an SMTP server using the TLSv1 protocol. For more information, see Configuring SMTP in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Administration Guide.
  • Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) libraries are preinstalled in LogLogic LMI. You can now enable or disable the FIPS mode on your LogLogic LMI appliance. Enabling the FIPS mode ensures that FIPS-compliant libraries are used during secure communication. For more information, see the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Administration Guide.
Trigger Groups and Synchronization
In addition to the system group, which is built in, you can also create your own trigger groups. Updates to the trigger settings take effect only after synchronization. Earlier, clicking the Sync triggers icon on the Triggers tab synchronized all triggers in the system. Starting from this release, you can select the trigger groups to be synchronized. For more information, see Manage Triggers in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
Jumbo messages
  • An administrator can configure the maximum message length of jumbo messages within the limit of message length that can be processed in LogLogic LMI.
  • Jumbo messages from Check Point interfaces can now be processed in LogLogic LMI.
For more information, see Processing Jumbo Messages in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Administration Guide.
Purging Stale Devices
An option has been added on the Administration > System Settings > General tab to purge stale Syslog devices after a specified number of days, based on the last time data was received from those devices. By default, the feature is disabled. For more information, see Purge Stale Devices in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Administration Guide.
Health check
The health check script now also verifies that the correct hot fix version is installed on the appliance. For a complete list of items that the health check script verifies, see Health Check Items in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Configuration and Upgrade Guide.
Aggregation
You can now create an aggregation rule on a Management Station and distribute it to a specified list of Remote Appliances. When you run an optimized GROUP BY query on the Management Station using the distributed aggregation rule, the query is run on all appliances specified in the aggregation rule, and the combined search results are displayed on the Management Station. For more information, see Distributed Aggregation Rules in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • When you add an aggregation rule from the Management > Advanced Features > Rules > Aggregation page:
    • In the new Compute aggregation for field, you can specify the time when the aggregation computing must start. A one-time calculation of aggregation happens on the data that was already collected prior to the creation of the aggregation rule.
    • In the new Maximum Aggregated Data Storage Size in MB field, you can specify the maximum storage size of aggregated data based on the storage availability in your setup.
    For more information, see Adding an Aggregation Rule in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
Alerts
  • New System Alerts: The following alerts have been added to the preconfigured system alerts:
    • Emergency Disk Usage
    • Engine Status
    For more information, see Preconfigured System Alerts in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • Notifications for Advanced Alerts: In addition to email or syslog notifications for Advanced Alerts, you can now set an SNMP alert notification. For more information, see Manage Triggers in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
Other enhancements
  • SNMP Traps: You can now choose to have the SNMP trap cleared after the issue is resolved. You can select the Issue SNMP Trap Clear check box on the Alerts > Manage Alert Rules > Edit Alert Rule > General tab for the required alert rule. For more information, see Adding a New Alert Rule in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • Socket timeout: The JDBC read timeout values for the Oracle Audit Database collector can be modified if required.
  • New parsers: Now you can use JSON and XML parsers to parse log data. For more information about these parsers, see Data Models in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • REST API is now available for creating correlation rules. For more information, see REST API Support for Correlation Rules and Triggers in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • A new data type, DURATION, is introduced for sorting, parsing, and formatting timestamps. For more information about scheduling queries, see Supported Data Types in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • ROUND function: A new math function has been added in the EQL predefined functions. The ROUND function returns the FLOAT value of the numeric argument rounded to the number of decimal places specified by an integer. For more information, see Predefined Functions in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
  • ULDP library: Implementation of the ULDP library is available in Python version 3.6
  • The llversion command displays versions of all components of LogLogic LMI. For more information, see TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Administration Guide.
New Documentation
  • Security Guidelines: A new guide that describes the security guidelines for various components of LogLogic LMI has been added in this release. It is available only in PDF format. See TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Security Guidelines.
  • LogLogic Glossary: A list of glossary items has been added in the LogLogic LMI documentation in this release. Glossary is available only in HTML format. See TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Glossary.

Changes in Functionality

This section lists changes in functionality since the last major release of this product.

Port Assignments
The port number range used by engine_stunnel for forwarding logs to downstream appliances when authentication and encryption are enabled has been changed to 7000-8000. Earlier, this range was 6000-7000. For a complete list of port assignments, see Port Assignments in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Administration Guide.
Firewall
If the firewall is enabled on the appliance, you can add your own ports by running the system firewall command. The rules take effect immediately after running the command. The command can also be used for adding custom ports to the available port list, and can then be used to create firewall rules using the GUI.
Data encryption
  • The dm-crypt and gocrypt encryption systems are used instead of eCryptfs to encrypt data stored in the appliance.

    dm-crypt is used for encrypting local storage, and gocrypt for remote file storage.

    For more information, see Data Encryption in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Administration Guide.
  • The data vault feature is not supported in an Amazon AWS environment. Use encrypted volumes such as Amazon EBS or Amazon S3 instead.
Network Adapter
To support 10g Ethernet with LogLogic EVA, the default type of the Network adapter > Adapter Type field has been changed from E1000 to VMXNET3.
VMware versions
Minimum supported VMware version has changed to ESXi5.5 and VMware Workstation 10.x. For a complete list of the supported VMware products, see Installing LogLogic EVA in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Enterprise Virtual Appliance Quick Start Guide.
system Command
By default, the system keycopy command now copies the RSA public key to the target server. To copy the DSA public key instead, use the dsa option while running the command:
system keycopy dsa
Previously, the command copied the DSA public key by default. For more information about the system command, see system Command in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence Administration Guide.
Key-Value Parser
When adding a data model with a key-value parser, you can specify a list of columns to be parsed in the new field Predefined Columns. If specified, the key-value parser parses only the specified columns from logs. This field is useful when column names include special characters such as a space. For more information, see Parsers and Field Description in the TIBCO LogLogic® Log Management Intelligence User Guide.
Advanced Search
The maximum number of results displayed on the Result tab by default has been increased from 10,000 to 100,000.
Advanced Features
Advanced Aggregation is disabled by default. If required, an administrator can enable it when the Advanced Features are also enabled.
GUI elements
Management > Advanced Features. The following GUI elements in Management > Advanced Features have been renamed:
Before version 6.3.0 Starting from version 6.3.0
Rule Management menu Rules menu
Enrichment List page Enrichment Lists page
Administration > System Settings > General. The following GUI elements on the Administration > System Settings > General tab have been moved to another section or renamed.
Before version 6.3.0 Starting from version 6.3.0
Section name Field name Section name Field name
General SNMP Community String SNMP Settings Inbound Polling Community String
General Enable Advanced Features Advanced Feature Settings Advanced Features
General Enable Monthly Index Advanced Feature Settings Monthly Index
General Enable SNMP Daemon SNMP Settings SNMP Daemon
General Enable SSH Daemon at Startup General SSH Daemon at Startup
General Enable Full Text Indexing General Full Text Indexing
General Enable Parsing General Log parsing for reports
General Enable UI Verbose Logging General UI Verbose Logging
General Enable Manage Device General Manage Device
General Enable Accept Detail General Accept Detail
N/A Syslog UDP Port Syslog Port Settings Syslog UDP Port
N/A Multi Line Log Delimiter General Multiline Delimiter
N/A Max. Widgets in My Dashboard General Max. Widgets in My Dashboard
Data Privacy Options N/A Data Privacy Settings N/A
Index Search Options N/A Index Search Settings N/A
Index Search Options Monthly Index Load Divisor Advanced Feature Settings Monthly Index Load Divisor
SNMP Trap Sink Community String SNMP Trap Sink Settings Outbound Traps Community String