Predix Edge Manager Q4 2017

These are the new features, enhancements, and known and resolved issues for Edge Manager.

Predix Edge Manager Q4 2017 New Features

This release contains the following new features:

Create Custom Alert Policies
You can now create your own customized time-based alert policies that override the default alert policies (provided by the Device Detail service) when applied to selected, or filtered, devices. See Creating Policies for Alerts.
Global Filters
When you enable global filters, you can apply filters on the Edge Manager dashboard, Device Manager, Operations, and Alerts pages, and the applied filter persists across all of those pages until it is cleared. This allows you to perform device operations on a filtered list of devices from any page that has a device list.

See About Device Filters.

Create and Save Filters
You can create and save your own custom filters for later reuse. See Creating and Saving Filters.
User Manager
There is now a "viewer" role, which allows the user assigned this role to have read-only access to all Edge Manager pages except User Manager. The "viewer" user can also create filters, apply filters, and download software packages from the Repository. See About User Manager.
Edge Manager APIs (Beta)
Edge Manager APIs have been made public to allow you to manage alerts, devices, packages, and BOMs, as well as execute commands on devices directly via RESTful API calls.

See API documentation at https://em-api-apidocs.run.aws-usw02-pr.ice.predix.io/swagger-ui.html.

This initial public release of Edge Manager APIs is in beta, and is subject to regular changes and improvements. Provide comments and feedback, and report issues by filing a support ticket at https://www.predix.io/support/.

Enhancements

This release contains the following enhancements:

Asynchronous File Upload
Asynchronous file upload allows file transfers that were interrupted, for example, by a network error, to automatically resume from the point at which the transfer was interrupted.
Perform simultaneous uploads
When you upload a file to the Edge Manager repository, the upload window shows the progress of the upload, and is non-blocking so that you can navigate to other pages in Edge Manager. You can also start another upload while the first one is in-progress as well as cancel an upload that is in-progress.
Connectivity Summary Includes Provider
The Device Summary page now displays the provider for SIM connectivity.

Changed Functionality

This release contains the following changes to functionality:
Password Policy
The password policy for Edge Manager is now enforced by the User Account and Authentication service. See .
Groups
Groups are no longer displayed in the upper left corner of Device Manager. You can now filter according to groups using the global filter feature. See About Device Filters.
Operations History
There is no longer an Operations > History page. Previously, this page was used for viewing and filtering operations. You can now use the global filters feature to perform the actions previously performed on the Operations > History. See About Device Filters.

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.
  • When you update a Docker container, the Execution Time in the Deployment Schedule does not get updated in Edge Manager. Start and End times are updated and displayed correctly.
  • 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.