Videoscape Distribution Suite Service Manager Release Notes
First Published: June 21, 2013
Last Modified: June 22, 2013
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Release Notes Details for 3.0 1
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Release Notes Details
• Release Notes Details for 3.0, page 1
• Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, page 7
Release Notes Details for 3.0
Change History
Date
Software Version
Description of Change
22 July 2013
3.0
Changed User Interface with
easy-to-access menus and
submenus. Also, includes
additional features when compared
to the last release.
Release Identification and Purpose
Release Identifier: 3.0 OL-29473-01
Purpose: Upgrade from 2.2.2 to 3.0
Documentation Included in this Release
The following documents have been updated for this release:
Document
Revision Number
Filename
Videoscape Distribution Suite
Service Manager User Guide
1
VDS-SM_User_Guide_3.0.pdf
Videoscape Distribution Suite
Service Manager Software
Installation Guide
1
VDS-SM_Software_Installation
_Guide_3.0.pdf
Product Changes
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Release Notes Details for 3.0
The following sections describe the changes between Release 2.2.2 and Release 3.0
Installation Procedure Changes
Configuration Changes: VDS-SM 3.0 supports VDS-IS 3.1, 3.2, and 3.2.1
New Features Added Since Last Release
Type
Navigational
changes
Feature
• Redesigned tabs, top links, and secondary navigation tree for Analytics.
• Color, font, and skin changes.
Scorecards
• Network
• Protocol
• Content
• Viewers
Filters and
Lookups
Analytics
CSV and MaxMind lookups
• Custom Dashboards UI change
• Saved Searches UI change
• Trends
• Analyze with Pivoting
• Custom Searches and Reports
• Content-Analyze by Content Title and Viewership Report
• Sessions-Analyze by Client IP
Analytics –
Reports
• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
Monitoring
Provides real-time monitoring of the following:
• Cache Hit Ratio
• Throughput
• Concurrent Active Sessions
• Responses
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Type
Others
Feature
• Drill down features in charts
• Geolocation support using amMaps
• Wholesale quota and allocation monitoring
• Summarization changes for Content and Viewer Dashboards
Detailed Description of Known Issues in Release 3.0
Bug ID
CSCuh95593
Product Area:
Analytics
Title:
VDS-SM does not handle LIVE and VOD Delivery
Service effectively with the same SRDN.
Description:
When creating LIVE and VOD Delivery Service
through CDS-IS with the same SRDN, VDS-SM
appends both service types as one (LIVE VOD) and
the delivery service is not displayed when the
drop-down list is selected, based on the Service Type
(Live/VOD). It will only display if the Service Type
is ALL.
Steps to Reproduce Issue:
1 Create LIVE and VOD Delivery Service with the
same name in CDS-IS
2 Wait till the CDN synchronizes and the topology
CSV is updated
3 After summarization, it will append as Live VOD.
This can be verified in the Search page.
Problem Type:
Defect
Suggested Workaround:
Avoid creating Live and VOD Delivery Service with
the same SRDN in CDS-IS.
Bug ID
CSCui08058
Product Area:
Analytics
Title:
Dashboards to be enhanced to handle long URL
requests
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Bug ID
CSCui08058
Description:
In Content dashlets, when the URL request is lengthy,
(for example,
linuxweb.com:HLS/Big-Buck-Bunny-HLS2/HD1613792/
BigBuckBunny_2_5/Seg_012712_
150734_0/BigBuckBunny_2_5
_012712_150734_49.ts) the dashlets displaying its
content loses its chart behavior.
Steps to Reproduce Issue:
In CDS-IS, if the content is requested in lengthy URL,
then the issue is seen in the dashboards that are
queried, based on the URL.
Problem Type:
Defect
Suggested Workaround:
Avoid using lengthy URLs in CDS-IS.
Bug ID
CSCuh06652
Product Area:
User Interface
Title:
UI crashes often.
Description:
The UI crashes often, if many browsers are opened.
Steps to Reproduce Issue:
Load multiple browsers.
Problem Type:
Intermittent Issue
Suggested Workaround:
Open few browsers or refresh the page to load again.
Bug ID
CSCui16555
Product Area:
Analytics
Title:
Summary events get duplicated in Indexer hard
restart.
Description:
On every hard restart of the Indexer node (power off
and power on), 5m summary events get duplicated
randomly.
Steps to Reproduce Issue:
Restart the indexer by using VMware power on/off
option and 5m summary events get duplicated
randomly.
Problem Type:
Intermittent Issue
Suggested Workaround:
Shut down the Indexer gracefully.
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Bug ID
CSCug81907
Product Area:
Analytics
Title:
WMS session duration is shown incorrectly if
VDS-SM and CDS-IS are in different time zones.
Description:
In session duration dashlet, the formula used for the
indexed log does not validate the time zone in the
logs. Therefore, the calculated session duration value
is incorrect.
Steps to Reproduce Issue:
1 Have different time zones for VDS-SM and
CDS-IS.
2 Request WMS content and session duration will
be shown incorrectly.
Problem Type:
Defect
Suggested Workaround:
VDS-SM nodes and CDS-IS devices should be in
the same time zones.
Bug ID
CSCuh74481
Product Area:
Analytics
Title:
URL with port id indexed but not summarized by
VDS-SM.
Description:
In some scenarios, CDS-IS device generate URLs
with port number in webengine_clf and
webengine_abr transaction logs.
Steps to Reproduce Issue:
1 Create a DS in CDS-IS and request HLS videos
through VLC.
2 Login to VDS-SM UI.
3 Check the cdn_transction index. The URL along
with the port number is displayed.
4 Asset field is not computed for these logs.
Problem Type:
Defect
Suggested Workaround:
NA
Bug ID
CSCuh88673
Product Area:
Analytics
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Bug ID
CSCuh88673
Title:
Enhancement to support one SR ds_snapshot counter
logs in VDS-SM.
Description:
In two SR setup, we will receive two sr_ds_counter
log with the same value from two different SRs. and
VDS-SM displays wrong value in Throughput and
Concurrent Active Sessions.
Steps to Reproduce Issue:
Have two SRs (redundancy) in CDS-IS with the same
coverage zone file and transaction logs enabled on
the device.
Problem Type:
Defect
Suggested Workaround:
Transaction logs should be disabled in one of the
SRs.
Bug ID
CSCuh16877
Product Area:
Provisioning
Title:
In scenarios where CDS-IS have two CDSM for
redundancy.
Description:
VDS-SM has provisioning to add active CDSM.
There is no option to add a standby CDSM. If the
primary CDSM fails, synchronisation and topology
update will not happen.
Steps to Reproduce Issue:
CDS-IS with two CDSM for redundancy. Bring down
the primary CDSM and synchronization will not
happen between CDS-IS and VDS_SM.
Problem Type:
Defect
Suggested Workaround:
Avoid having CDS-IS with two CDSM.
Bug ID
CSCuh57918
Product Area:
Analytics
Title:
Deployment server is not pushing the changed CSV
files in some scenarios.
Description:
If the CSV files are modified in the deployment
server, the files are not pushed to other analytics
nodes. Issue due to fschange does not push the
changes to other nodes.
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Bug ID
CSCuh57918
Steps to Reproduce Issue:
Updated the delivery_server_capacity.csv with the
values in the deployment server under
$HOME_SPLUNK/etc/deployment-apps
/appnormalise/lookups. The values does not reflect
in the charts.
Problem Type:
Intermittent
Suggested Workaround:
Reload the deployment server.
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