Happy 2023, Data Platform customers!   We’re excited to announce the immediate availability of the latest patch release 5.5.60 for Data Platform 2022 (it was shipped on the last day of December 2022).   We introduced two new features with this patch: capability to send alerts/notifications (via email) on Normalization and Catalog Sync event status changes (start, succeed, or fail) support for SAML authentication, starting with an Okta-specific implementation   We included several bug fixes for: an issue with Data Platform configuration wizard failing when SSL is enabled for LDAP authentication with the error: Please trust or import the certificate manually to proceed further. an issue with de-duping Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition: Core-based Licensing an issue with incorrect database collation for database tables   You can click the in-product banner/notification on the Admin Console to obtain this update (after a Technopedia sync). Details on 5.5.60 Patch (December 2022) can be found in the release notes posted in the documentation section of Data Platform. ... View more

UPDATE (as of Tuesday, December 6, 2022 4:22pm CST): We discovered that the original build number (3004) caused a regression where the "TEST" connection button is broken, therefore users are unable to test the connection to discovery sources. We have since released a new build number to the server (3006) as of Tuesday, December 6, 2022. If you upgraded to 5.5.59 patch release before that, you may see another red banner that says new update is available. After applying this new update, you can confirm that your installation has the latest build number (3006). We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. We’re excited to announce the immediate availability of the latest patch release 5.5.59 for Data Platform 2022 (shipped on the last day of November 2022).   This release contains the following new enhancements: Normalize job is now able to skip bad rows or improperly formatted rows in CSV files without interrupting the entire process. When it happens, exceptions and errors are captured in the BDNA.log file, while the process continues reading the rows. Updated Apache Tomcat version to 9.0.65 SolarWinds extractor version 2020.2.5 is now available on Administration Console user interface (previously, it has to be done using a custom config file)   We also addressed the issue in which Internet Explorer users would see a blank screen when adding a data source in the Administration Console.   You can click the in-product banner/notification on the Admin Console to get to this update (after a Technopedia sync). Details on 5.5.59 Patch (November 2022) can be found in the release notes posted in the documentation section of Data Platform. ... View more

The latest monthly patch for Data Platform, 5.5.58, is now available as of November 1, 2022.   This release brings in fixes for the following issues: For User Console: XSS vulnerability issue with gourl parameter present in the Analyze report URL For Admin Console: an issue where, under certain circumstances, enabling the security banner for Data Platform could possibly allow an open redirect   Details on 5.5.58 (October 2022) release can be found in the   release notes   posted in the   documentation section   of Data Platform. ... View more

After a slight delay, our engineers were able to wrap up the remaining works, and the latest patch release 5.5.57 for Data Platform 2022 is now available (as of October 4, 2022).   This release brings fixes on a couple issues in User Console: a regression bug introduced in 5.5.56 causing LDAPs failure when running User Console configuration an issue with Analyzer reports hanging when using Internet Explorer   This release also packages the latest update on isapi_redirect.dll file in User Console (version 1.2.48).   You can click the in-product banner/notification on the Admin Console to get to this update (after a Technopedia sync). Details on 5.5.57 Patch (September 2022) can be found in the release notes posted in the documentation section of Data Platform.       ... View more

UPDATE (2022-10-04, 7:28pm UTC): the patch is now available, please refer to   this post   for details Our monthly patch is usually released by the end of the month. Understandably, by now, you would expect that our 5.5.57 patch (September 2022) should have been released. Unfortunately, there are a few release-readiness items which prevent us from releasing on time. Our engineers are actively working to get the release out. We'll expect to get more clarity by the end of our Monday (October 3, 2022). This blog post will be updated as soon as we have any update. Our most sincere apologies for the inconvenience. ... View more

We’re excited to announce the immediate availability of the latest patch release 5.5.56 for Data Platform 2022 (shipped on the last day of August 2022).   This release contains several new enhancements: the ability to automatically retrieve and import SSL certificates into the local certificate store, when needed updated documentation which includes description for cubes, categories, and fields in User Console (can be found here) Out of Date Versions report now also provides major releases behind   We also addressed the issue with exporting large data sets in CSV and Excel format in User Console. You can click the in-product banner/notification on the Admin Console to get to this update (after a Technopedia sync). Details on 5.5.56 Patch (August 2022) can be found in the  release notes  posted in the  documentation section  of Data Platform. ... View more

The latest monthly patch for Data Platform, 5.5.55, is available as of the end of July 2022.   This release brings in the following enhancement: a check box under Preferences in Admin Console to enable or disable the proxy server when an import is run for ServiceNow and Casper data sources.   This release also provides several bug fixes which includes: an issue of displaying "0" in Normalized CPU speed field In ServiceNow when CPU speed is empty. an issue with test connection hanging with Simple Mashup. an issue with Normalize failing with this error “The referenced entity 'BDNA20220330014_GR' was modified during DDL execution. Please retry the operation.” a “Cannot Load Tapi” error when running Data Platform config wizard after upgrading to 5.5.53. an issue with patch upgrade from 5.5.53 to 5.5.54 failing with this error “Could not find stored procedure 'DROP VIEW DIM_N_SYSTEM_V'. Cannot alter 'DIM_N_SYSTEM_V' because it is not a table.” Details on 5.5.55 (July 2022) release can be found in the   release notes   posted in the   documentation section   of Data Platform. ... View more

With Flexera One Technopedia Public API generally available early this year, the work continues to bring various "enrichment packs" (aka "content packs") associated with products and releases that are captured in Technopedia. Two of the packs were part of the GA: Lifecycle and Support, Hardware Specifications. And now, we're excited to announce that another pack is now available in the API: Open Source Enrichment Pack.   Open Source Enrichment Pack allows Technopedia to drive various use-cases around open source by providing attributes to accurately identify whether a particular software application or component is open source, along with the type of restrictions associated with it. This enrichment, down the road, will facilitate the organizations' capability to better manage the composition of their software assets, depending on their appetite (or aversion) towards incorporating open source in their portfolio.   What makes this enrichment even more exciting is the fact that it is fully powered by the open source catalog coming from Flexera's very own subsidiary, Revenera's Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solution. Revenera's Code Insight is an industry-leading SCA solution that helps organizations manage their open source compliance and security needs, bringing in one of the largest  open source knowledge bases in the industry, with more ~18 million components.   Open Source Enrichment Pack is included as part of Technopedia Enrichment Pack subscription (available to all Flexera One IT Visibility customers as well as customers with Technopedia-only subscription). It is currently only accessible through the Flexera One Technopedia Public API (GraphQL). We're actively working to make it an integral part of IT Visibility's inventory data--via IT Visibility Dashboards as well as export capabilities--in the second half of this year.   Details on attributes that are available as part of this pack can be found in our Technopedia API datasets documentation (Open Source Enrichment attributes are captured in the following datasets: ScaOpenSource, componentLicenseData, versionLicenseData, keywordsData). ... View more

We’re excited to announce the immediate availability of the latest patch release 5.5.54 for Data Platform 2022 (shipped on the last day of June 2022).   This patch contains several improvements, including: Update to Pentaho Business Intelligence (8.3.0.26-1502), which delivers: Update to Log4J 2.17.1 Fix for vulnerabilities associated with CVE-2021-34684: Unauthenticated SQL Injection Fix for vulnerabilities associated with CVE-2021-44228 (and its variances, see this post) - Authenticated Remote Code Execution Enhanced the Normalize process to continue the ETL step even when the ServiceNow process fails   This patch also brings fixes on several issues, including: An issue where re-running the Configuration Wizard resulted in TAPI startup failure when SQL Server was in use and not installed locally An issue in Flexera User Console 2022 where one or new dependencies for Setup Wizard were missing, needing to be manually copied from Data Platform bin folder Issues where the publishing step would fail where one more processes with a non-numeric resource id were attached to a ServiceNow process An error where User Console reports failed to export in CSV or Excel format An issue in ETL behavior for ServiceNow integration which causes creation of duplicate OS An issue in ServiceNow Network Gear ETL which causes network devices not being recognized when they were not imported from cmdb_ci_netgear A minor issue with Admin Console where the link to the User Console for some Inventories was not clickable   You can click the in-product banner/notification on the Admin Console to get to this patch (after a Technopedia sync). Details on 5.5.54 (June 2022) patch release can be found in the release notes posted in the documentation section of Data Platform. ... View more