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SovLabs has released it’s latest version of it’s vRealize Automation plugin version 2019.8.0. Among other key updated it is Certified for vRealize Automation 7.6 as well as ServiceNow Madrid. Below is the full list of updates available in this release:
What’s New?
- Certified for vRA 7.6!
- SovLabs Licenses
- A new SovLabs 2019.x license key is needed in order to use the SovLabs 2019.x Plug-in
- Activate your SovLabs License key at https://license.sovlabs.com
- Detailed instructions can be found here
- A 2019.x license key is needed in order to use the SovLabs ServiceNow Connector 2019.8.0
- A new SovLabs 2019.x license key is needed in order to use the SovLabs 2019.x Plug-in
- SovLabs EULA has been updated!
- During install of the SovLabs Plug-in and running SovLabs Configuration, the EULA now refers to https://sovlabs.com/eula
- SovLabs Template Engine
- Added new tags, filters and improvements!
- Tags: decrement, ifchanged, increment
- Filters: abs, at_least, at_most, ceil, compact, concat, floor, lstrip, newline_to_br, reverse, round, rstrip, slice, sort_natural, strip, uniq, url_decode and url_encode
- Improvements
- Allow “.” in variables
- Enhanced parser error messages
- Allow Unicode forward and backward “fancy” quotes
- Added new tags, filters and improvements!
- Puppet Enterprise
- Added “2018.1” and “2019.1” into the Version dropdown list. Previously verified on 2018.3.4 and 2019.2.0
- ServiceNow CMDB
- Added “Madrid” into the Version dropdown list. Previously verified on 2019.2.0
- Backup as a Service for Veeam
- Support for Veeam 9.5, Update 4
- Performance improvement for Backup Jobs with a large number of VMs
- Backup as a Service for Cohesity
- New Day2 Feature: Ability to Recover Virtual Disk that allows recovering an entire virtual disk – either by overwriting the existing disk or recovering to a new (unmounted) device
ServiceNow Connector 2019.8.0
What’s New?
- A 2019.x license key is needed in order to use the SovLabs ServiceNow Connector 2019.8.0
- Supports Madrid
- Added ability to enable the vRA Business Group to be selected at request time by the end-user in ServiceNow when ordering the Catalog request
Import Catalog Item / Modify Catalog Item Mapping Page Enhancements
- New field for “Override vRA Business Group?”
- Updated “Constant” label to “Template”
Improvements/Resolved Issues
- Error logs in ServiceNow and ServiceNow Mid Server
- ServiceNow request to show useful error when the request is unable to be generated in vRA
- Hid unnecessary fields during Import/Modify for a vRA Blueprint
Resolved Issues
- Ansible Tower
- Fixed issue for Static Inventory failing when no dynamic groups are defined.
- Ansible Tower for CM Framework
- Fixed error reporting to report back correct error when an IP address is not defined
- Fixed the error similar to the following: “[WARNING]: * Failed to parse /tmp/awx_inventory_rNDKxh/tmpqWOvv0 with script plugin: Inventory script”
- Fixed error when accidentally appending trailing “/” to vRO Hostname when creating the Ansible Tower Endpoint
- Snapshot Management
- Fixed issue for missing ID(s) from incomplete vRA CAFE/IaaS data that prevented successful mapping to managed VMs in vCenter. Added checking and additional logging.
- IPAM Framework
- Fixed Release IP to release the IP address correctly
To see previous feature releases please visit the SovLabs support website here.