Alibaba Cloud: Aliyun PowerPack Release Notes, version 101

Version 101 of the Alibaba Cloud: Aliyun PowerPack adds the ability to monitor Aliyun resources in six new regions.

  • Minimum Required SL1 Version: 8.8.0

Before You Install or Upgrade

Ensure that you are running version 8.8.0 or later of SL1 before installing "Alibaba Cloud: Aliyun" PowerPack version 101.

For details on upgrading SL1, see the relevant SL1 Platform Release Notes.

Installing or Upgrading the PowerPack

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack will overwrite all content in that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent the new version of the PowerPack from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields.

If you are currently using the Dynamic Applications in this PowerPack to monitor devices, collection errors might occur for one or two polling cycles during the installation of a new version. To prevent collection errors during an upgrade, you can optionally disable collection for monitored devices before performing the following steps and re-enable collection after the upgrade.

If you are currently using the Dynamic Applications in this PowerPack to monitor devices, collection errors might occur for one or two polling cycles during the installation of a new version. To prevent collection errors during an upgrade, you can optionally disable collection for monitored devices before performing the following steps and re-enable collection after the upgrade.

To install this PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions menu and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack modal appears.
  4. Click Browse and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPack Manager page.

For instructions on using the PowerPack, see the Monitoring Alibaba Cloud manual.

Included Features

This release includes the following features:

  • Dynamic Applications to discover and monitor Aliyun accounts and component devices
  • Device Classes for each of the Aliyun component devices monitored
  • An example SOAP/XML Credential for discovering Aliyun component devices

Enhancements and Issues Addressed

The following enhancements and addressed issues are included this release of the "Alibaba Cloud: Aliyun" PowerPack:

  • Device Classes were added to the PowerPack to represent the following regions and their zones:
  • China North 3 (Zhangjiakou)
  • China North 5 (Hohhot)
  • Asia Pacific SE 3 (Kuala Lumpur)
  • Asia Pacific SE 5 (Jakarta)
  • Asia Pacific SOU (Mumbai)
  • UK (London)
  • An issue was addressed that was preventing the PowerPack from collecting data due to an API change.

Known Issues

The following known issues affect version 101 of the Alibaba Cloud: Aliyun PowerPack:

  • The discovery process discovers all available Regions and Zones, even if they do not have resources deployed on them.
  • The Aliyun Zone Discovery Dynamic Application renders the "Zone Name" in hex characters because of an issue displaying multibyte characters.
  • There are occasional gaps in the ECS Instance and CloudDisk performance data.
  • The collected ECS Instance performance data does not match perfectly with the ECS endpoint (AliyunCLI).
  • An HTTP error message can display in the device log and system log for some Dynamic Applications.