Hey everyone, we're back with another great Alert Central beta. This time around, we've taken some of your bigger issues and combined them with a bunch of bugfixes and general improvements.
What's New/Fixed in 1.1
Here's a list of items we've worked on in this release:
| Item | Related Posts |
|---|---|
| NEW: Alert Central Upgrade Available Notifications (banner, internet settings, check for updates) | |
| NEW: Manually validate users' email addresses, option to not automatically send validation email when importing users, and other validation fixes. | Including Email Validation should be optional |
| NEW: Support for native Exchange mailbox connectivity via Exchange Web Services (receive email without using POP/IMAP) | Part of: Support for MAPI/RPC Email (email from Exchange without IMAP/POP) |
| NEW: Exposed URL that gets sent in email notifications to click back to Alert Central in Settings | How do you set the Web Link in alert Central |
| IMPROVED: Session timeout changed to 60 minutes from 10 | Contact Information, session timeout, Re: Where can I adjust the dashboard timeout settings Part of: Allow for modification of the web interface session timeout |
| "Add Note" button is not in the right location when viewing alert emails in gmail | |
| SMS messages contained placeholder ${HISTORY_TIME} instead of actual time | |
| Problems with reocurring on-call scheduling | Reoccurring on call scheduling wasn't working as expected in 1.0.1.470 (beta) |
| Unable to validate SMS addresses from Android devices | [Bug] Unable to validate SMS from Android, Re: Alert Central 1.0.1.471 Issues present., BUG: Alerts with summaries too long make email subject lines tool long to have ${ACNID:XX} block |
| Issues with long alert summary fields causing separated replies | BUG: Alerts with summaries too long make email subject lines tool long to have ${ACNID:XX} block, Re: Alert Central 1.0.1.471 Issues present. |
| When configuring an email source, "only capture a specific part of the message" is unexpectedly selected by default. | |
| Notes added from emails truncated at 60 characters | Re: Bug/Feature Request: Length of Notes |
| Not able to send outbound mail with open SMTP server | Using Open SMTP server with Alert Central |
| Problems validating addresses on Verizon | SMS on Verizon Network/iPhone |
| Active Directory username/address changes not updating | |
| Changing email in Active Directory does not trigger validation and should | |
| Replying with HTML adds HTML characters to notes unexpectedly | Adding Note with Rich Text via Email Button? |
Known Issues
Currently there's only one known issue inside Alert Central - the upgrade notification banner may not dismiss permanently even if you hit the dismiss button (you'll see it again next time you log in). We're looking into it.
We've also discovered that in some places (namely, the appliance virtual console boot splash screen) the build says 1.0.1 build 521 instead of 1.1.0. This will be fixed in a future update.
Where Do I Download the Upgrade?
Click here!
(or here, if you have an inherent distrust of buttons).
If you'd like to deploy new appliances rather than upgrading your existing instance, here is the download for VMware and here is the download for Hyper-V.
How to Upgrade
There's a full set of instructions in the zip file, but the short version:
- Unzip the upgrade zip file.
- Mount the extracted ISO (Alert-Central-Appliance-...iso) as a CD-ROM image.
- Navigate to https://<appliance IP>:5480 and log in (default is admin/admin if you haven't changed the password)
- Click on the "Updates" tab, then "Check Updates"
- After the update is found, click "Install Updates"
- Magic happens!
NOTE: After deploying, your Alert Central installation should reflect build #521. In some places it may say version 1.0.1, but build 521 is the correct build.
Post Feedback!
Did you expect to see something that's fixed that isn't? Is one of our issues marked fixed not actually fixed for you? Post here in the Alert Central Beta group and we'll help.
Message was edited by: nicole pauls