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What's New in Cloudera Manager 7.9.0

New features and changed behavior for Cloudera Manager 7.9.0

Routing email alerts to different email addresses

You can now configure the alert rules in Cloudera Manager to send email alerts to various email addresses based on rules you provide for users, hosts, services, roles, and alert rules. See Alert email routing.

Added new Cloudera Manager server Health Tests

The following Cloudera Manager server Health Tests were introduced:
  • Cloudera Manager Server Heap Size - This Cloudera Manager server health test checks and ensures that the heap size is adequate for the Cloudera Manager server.
  • Cloudera Manager Server Pause Duration - This health test checks and ensures that the Cloudera Manager server threads are not experiencing long scheduling pauses.
  • Cloudera Manager Server Cluster Availability - This is a health test that tests the availability of Cloudera Manager server instances and calculates an availability percentage based on the running clusters, cluster health, and the total number of Cloudera Manager server instances. This health test is disabled by default. To enable this health test, reset the threshold values to warning: 67.0, and critical: 50.0.
See Cloudera Management Service Health Tests.

Upgraded Logredactor version

The Logredactor version is upgraded to 2.0.14 version to fix CVE issues in jackson-databind.

Cloudera Manager supports a new parameter to filter the filesystem check errors

A new parameter Filesystem Check Error Exclusion Regex is added to filter the filesystem check errors that cause lots of unwanted errors in the agent logs.

To filter the filesystem check errors do the following step:

Go to Hosts > Hosts Configuration and enter host_filesystem_check_error_filter into the search box to modify the filter.

Cloudera Manager supports a new API command to stop all the roles on the given hosts.

A new API endpoint has been added to stop all the roles on the given hosts as follows:
/cm/commands/hostsStopRoles

Cloudera Manager supports generic active directory attributes

In Cloudera Manager, Active Directory(AD) provides a group of attributes that you can assign to an account. This change lets you add more attributes to an account.

Alert Publisher now sends SNMP traps including all defined varbinds

With all defined varbinds in all SNMP traps that are sent by Alert Publisher, you can now read SNMP traps without issues.

Upgraded XStream version

The Xstream version is upgraded to 1.4.19 version to fix CVE issues.

Added metric graphs (charts) for NiFi service in Cloudera Manager

In Cloudera Manager, the NiFi service page now includes useful work metric graphs (charts) to provide important data and effective information about NiFi service.

Optimized Avro communication metrics between Cloudera Manager Agent and Service Monitor

An optimization in the Avro communication metrics between the Cloudera Manager Agent and Service Monitor to significantly increase monitoring capacity for services that depend on the affected part of the protocol. Some services that benefit from this improved scalability are Kudu and Kafka.