Management Console 5.0 - Release notes

Highlighted features:

• MC-5592 - Automatic Report Archiving (ARA).
  • Configuration is available only through main.properties file.
• MC-5781 - Verification percentage in PDF reports.
  • Displays verification percentage used within the erasure results section of BDE, LUN and BRME reports.
  • Viewing reports in browser does not include the verification percentage, only in PDF exports.
• MC-5637 - Drop group name unique constraint.
  • Group name uniqueness is not anymore restricted.
  • They must be named uniquely only in relation to their sibling.
• MC-5778 - Erasure report notification in Two Way Communication.
  • Whenever MC receives an erasure report from job spec driven erasure client, the event will be notified to AMS.
• MC-5714 - Elasticsearch availability for Standalone installations.
  • When enabled, Management Console will copy report data into Elasticsearch service and utilize it in report searches.
  • This will drastically decrease load in relational database side.
  • Upon installation there is an option to enable Elasticsearch feature. When enabled it is not possible to disable it anymore, unless a new installation is done.
  • It is recommended to enable it only if reports exceed millions to perform the search faster.
• MC-5741 - Dropping MySQL support.
  • Dropping MySQL support from the installer.
  • MC 5.0 onwards installer does not offer MySQL as an option in the database selection.
  • In addition, this applies also to updates, i.e., old installations with MySQL database cannot anymore be updated to MC 5.0 or newer.

Known issues:

• MC-5829 - Enable and fix report editing.
  • Report edits is disabled with 5.0 as we found minor issues.
  • Report edit feature will be enabled back with the 5.0.1 minor release by the end of April, 2019.