Datacenter Automation Utilities PowerPack Release Notes, version 103

Version 103 of the Datacenter Automation Utilities PowerPack addresses an issue that was causing errors due to unsupported characters.

  • Minimum Required SL1 Version: 8.10.0

Before You Install or Upgrade

Ensure that you are running version 8.10.0 or later of SL1 before installing "Datacenter Automation UtilitiesPowerPack version 103.

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

Installation and Upgrade Process

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.

Features

This release includes the following features:

  • Automation actions for formatting the output from the automation actions in the Datacenter Automation Pack PowerPacks.

Enhancements and Issues Addressed

The following enhancements and addressed issues are included in version 103 of the "Datacenter Automation Utilities" PowerPack:

  1. An issue was addressed that was causing a "utf8 codec can't decode byte" error when the "Datacenter Automation: Format Output for ServiceNow Scoped" automation action snippet encountered device data with special characters. With this change, non-supported characters will be skipped and a blank space will be used in their place instead.

Known Issues

This release has no known issues.