April 2023

6 min

Belden Horizon Data Manager 2.10.0

Release Date: April 28, 2023

New Features

The following are new features introduced in this software release:

Description
Features > Marketplace When an application release containing the special variable named EDGE_API_TOKEN is deployed to a Belden Horizon Data Operations instance, the Belden Horizon Data Operations will generate a token (REST API Key) named MPC-APP and pass it to the application release's respective Docker container.
Admin Console: Integration Prometheus and a Prometheus Alert Manager is now supported.
Admin Console: Settings > Network Added a new DNS tab, enabling you to configure the DNS servers that Belden Horizon Data Manager connects to.

Enhancements and Features

The following features and enhancements are included in this software release:

Description
Belden Horizon Data Manager instances are now more compatible with Load Balancers. Previously certain Belden Horizon Data Operations requests would be dropped.
Terminal User Interface The Belden TUI password is now more easily readable.
User UI Dashboard User UI > Company Admin Console Dashboard VM Time has been reworded to System Time.
Edge Device Details > License Admin Console: License Server Management Admin Console: Settings > Licenses Whitespace is no longer allowed while entering a license key.
Edge Device Redesigned the user interface for child DeviceHub devices.
Edge Device Details > Events When Forward Events is enabled, and the connection with a Belden Horizon Data Operations is lost, a more detailed error message is now displayed.
Applications > Application Details When you include the EDGE_API_TOKEN parameter in an application release deployment, the parameter will be read only.
Software Applying software updates for Belden Horizon Data Operations 3.5.0+ is now more reliable.
Features > Marketplace When an application release containing the special variable named EDGE_API_TOKEN is deployed to a Belden Horizon Data Operations instance, the Belden Horizon Data Operations will generate a token (REST API Key) named MPC-APP and pass it to the application release's respective Docker container.
Company Settings > Company: Team Members When adding a new user, a warning will be displayed when SMTP is not set.
Admin Console: Dashboard A warning will be shown if System Time and your Local time differs by 10 minutes. Large numbers have been altered to be easier to read.
Admin Console: Data Lifecycle > Purge Policies Free diskspace space limit can now only be set between 0%-50%.
Admin Console: Edge Devices > Edge Device Templates Parameterized templates can now be successfully downloaded.
Admin Console: Edge Devices > Edge Password Policies When searching for a password policy with a keyword, only matching policy names will be displayed. Previously, both matching policy names and matching policy descriptions were displayed.
Admin Console: Edge Devices > Edge Remote Networks When adding a new Edge Remote network, all IPv4 addresses that are in the format 0.xxx.xxx.xxx/8 are no longer allowed.
Admin Console: Settings > Network : Interfaces When DHCP is disabled, the interface will now require at least one IP address with a gateway
Admin Console: Settings > Licenses When Site license is chosen, Available Licenses will no longer be displayed.
Admin Console: Settings > Support Concurrent support bundle downloads are no longer allowed. When support bundle generation fails, an error message will now be displayed. Support bundles now also contain a configuration DB dump.

Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous releases have been resolved:

Description
Login Fixed an issue where incorrect System Time prevented logins.
Dashboard Fixed an issue with Dashboard tagcount being inconsistent with the tag count in Edge Devices.
Edge Devices Fixed an issue where edge device details were not displaying while license info was still loading. Fixed an issue where Edge Devices were offline rather than online after Belden Horizon Data Manager was upgraded. When Metrics are not available, DeviceHub devices will now display Metrics are not available rather than incorrectly displaying them as offline.
Activation Fixed an issue with activation fails when the User Root CA certificate is not uploaded.
Templates Fixed an issue where parameterized templates cease being parameterized when the scope is edited.
Features > Marketplace Fixed an issue where enum-type variables weren't displaying during application deployment.
Admin Console: Dashboard Fixed an issue where the pagination block was displaying even though there are no statistics to display.
Admin Console: Data Lifecycle > Management Fixed an issue where Purge Policies weren't executing properly. Fixed an issue where event data is not automatically purged after archiving.

Admin Console: Settings > Licenses Fixed an issue where trial license displayed incorrectly expired features.
Admin Console: Settings > Support Fixed an issue where support bundles couldn't be downloaded.
Security Resolved an OpenSSL vulnerability related to CVE-2022-1471, CVE-2022-23806.

Deprecated Components and Features

The following components/features will no longer be available:

Description
Company List When creating a new company, domain resolving validation has been removed.
Edge Device Details > Remote The Remote tab has been removed.
Remote Access The ZeroTier tab has been removed.
Alerts Most System Triggers have been removed except for alert failure system trigger. When adding/editing triggers, Data sources have been removed. They have been replaced with Metrics.
Admin Console: Settings > Network The Remote network tab (containing ZeroTier Network customization) has been removed.

Known Issues

The following issues are unresolved in this release:

Description
Templates, Admin Console: Edge Devices > Edge Device Templates When uploading an invalid Parameterized Template (.zip folder), it will yield a successful result message but won't add the template.
Alert Metrics alerts for Connector online status may not operate properly.
Admin Console: Data Lifecycle > Purge Policies Certain companies cannot be selected.