Edge Manager 2016

Q4 2016

New Features

The following features have been added to Edge Manager.

Deployment Information
You can view information about the software and configuration deployments such as deployment and execution time and the result of the deployment.
Access to Execution Logs
You can use the Commands tab to access a detailed execution log for the device. See Viewing Command History and Canceling Pending Commands for a Single Device.
Device Details
The Device Summary page displays more details about the device, including:
  • View details for the device including information about the device OS and model.
  • Resource Usage information for the device, such as CPU, memory, and disk usage.
  • Power Supply information for the device, such as power supply type, power supply status, and percentage of how full the power supply is.
  • Health of device displays status, last status change, and up time for the device.
  • Connectivity displays the number of SIM cards associated with the device and their status. Click the ICCID link to view details for the SIM card.
  • OpenVPN displays client information for the device.

See Viewing the Device Summary.

Filtering
  • Filter by name of filter, attributes, operator, and value.
  • Create and save custom filters.
  • Edit and delete filters.
Multi group selection
You can now select multiple groups.
Connectivity
The following features have been added to Predix Edge Manager Connectivity:
  • Open VPN connection page displays details for VPN connections associated with registered devices.

    For more information, see VPN Management.

Enhancements

Device Manager
  • Topology view for groups

Limitations

This release has the following limitations:
Not all functionality is backward compatible
Deployment information, access to execution logs, device details, openVPN, and some attributes in Filter are not supported for devices that are running Predix Machine version 16.3.x or earlier.

Known Issues

This release contains the following known issues:

  • Issues with Firefox And Chrome browsers:
    • There is a plug-in conflict that causes the browser to crash (GE internal only) when downloading a file, or when viewing the output of a command.

      The same plug-in conflict causes an error when uploading a large file (hundreds of MB).

      Workaround:

      For Firefox: Run Firefox in Safe mode to disable Firefox plug-ins.

      For Chrome:
      1. Run Chrome in Incognito mode.
      2. In Settings > Extensions, if you have the DGExtension, ensure that it is disabled by unselecting the checkbox.
  • Operations start, execution start, and elapsed time display differently for the top level versus operation details when there is only one operation. This is due to how the summary is calculated versus how the operation detail is calculated.
  • You can create groups with the same name as an existing group and attach it to the same parent.

    Workaround: To avoid creating groups with duplicate names, verify that there are no existing groups with the same name.

  • You cannot save a filter if the name has more than 63 characters.

    Workaround: Use fewer than 63 characters in filter names.

  • If a device is placed in inventory but not enrolled, and software or configuration packages are sent to that device, and one of the Edge Manager services fails and needs to be restarted, then those software or configuration packages may need to be redeployed to that device.
  • There is a known issue with deleting a group with a large number (over 5,000) of devices. Do not create such large groups, or move devices incrementally out of large groups so you can delete the group.

Q3 2016

New Features

The following features have been added to Edge Manager.

Edge Manager
Device Manager
In Device Manager > Devices, you are now able to perform the following actions:
User Manager
You can now edit user roles to add or delete roles associated with a user.

For more information, see Editing Edge Manager User Roles.

Connectivity
The following features have been added to Predix Connectivity.
  • You can now perform batch updates of the life cycle state and rate plan for SIM cards.

    For more information, see Performing a Batch Update.

  • Predix Machine can now detect the set of IPs on a device and call a special SIM API daily to detect changes of SIMs. This allows Predix Connectivity to associate SIMs with IPs passed-in with a device id.
  • Diagnostic reports for the SIM card gives you information about provisioning or connectivity issues related to the SIM card.

    For more information, see Troubleshooting SIM Cards.

  • Alerts for SIM cards based on high and no usage are displayed on the SIM card summary page.

    For more information, see Viewing Details for a SIM Card.

  • Messages about cellular service provider maintenance appear on the Connectivity page.

Enhancements

The following enhancements have been added.

Commands
You can now execute commands for a single device on the device summary Commands page.

For more information see Executing or Canceling Commands for a Single Device

Dashboard

Dashboard is now the landing page for Edge Manager, which gives you an overview of your devices and their status.

Q2 2016

New Features

Device Manager
  • Create, edit, and delete groups.
  • Add and delete devices.
  • View the device summary.
  • Assign technicians to devices.
  • Open an SSH tunnel to remote devices.
  • Execute custom commands on multiple devices.
  • Get the output for executed commands, including a descriptive error message in case of failure.
Repository
Add software packages – Allows you to add software packages to the cloud repository so you can deploy application, system, and configurations to devices on a managed schedule.
Commands
  • Access and manage the default commands for devices.
  • Create custom commands.
Connectivity
  • Modify SIM states.
  • Modify data- usage plans.
  • Troubleshoot connectivity issues.
  • View logs.
User Manager
  • Add and delete users.
  • Reset user passwords.
  • Assign roles to users.
  • Change passwords for users who are signed in.