Upgrade
Upgrade steps are described in the following KB: PowerConnect ABAP Support Pack 6.X to 7.0 Upgrade
!Important notes:
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User roles are updated in this release and should be re-imported after upgrade (added authorizations required for bgRFC extractors)
Known problems
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HANA Load History extractor (HDB_DBCC_LDHIST): due to event timezone conversion issue, events might be shown in future on Splunk side (not specific to this release).
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SAP Profile parameters extractor (RZ10) might fail in some cases (not specific to this release).
Changes
New
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New Executable ALV Reports Output Extractor (ALV_REPORTS);
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New bgRFC Monitor Extractor (SBGRFCMON);
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New bgRFC Performance Monitor Extractor (SBGRFCPERFMON);
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New SE16N Change document extrator Extractor (SE16N_CD);
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New S416N Change document extrator Extractor (S416N_CD);
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New Oracle DB IO Activities Extractor (ORA_DB02_IOACT);
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New Manual FM Execution log Extractor (SE37_LOG);
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New Inbound SMTP Send Requests Extractor (SOIN);
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New User Trace for Authorization objects Extractor (STUSERTRACE);
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New System Parameter Changes Extractor (TU02);
Improvements
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User authorizations extractor is now multi-client(USER_AUTH);
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SAP Note status could be checked by Rule Processing Framework (RPF_CHECK);
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ABAP dumps extractor has an option to pull only header info (ST22);
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SXMB_MONI extractor filter got a sequence field to control priority (SXMB_MONI);
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LOGS extractor filter now accepts <ANY> as a server to extract logs only once (LOGS);
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E070 extractor is now pulling transport attributes (E070);
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USER_AUTH enhanced with additional fields for authorizations (USER_AUTH);
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HDBSCRIPTS supports variables in HDB timestamp format (HDBSCRIPTS);
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SU53 extractor got new user type field and metric filter (SU53);
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TREAD_DYN extractor can now map record time to the event time (TREAD_DYN);
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ST06 related extractors now have detailed error messages (ST06);
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Endpoint related configuration is now moved to endpoint level;
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Field filter is reworked to include following field states: Clear value, Hash value, Remove field, Remove if empty, Filter value (regexp rule);
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Field filter could be now backed up or synchronized;
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Rule processing performance improvements;
Bug fixes
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BD87_DYN duplicate segment status fix;
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TREAD_DYN filter foreign keys have been removed;
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Various fixes for config synchronization functionality;
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LOGS some files are not extracted bug fix;
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Json serializer NUC issue bug fix;
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Rule processing file encoding bug fix;
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Some extractors are now using runtime configuration instead of metric config;
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RSICFCHK ICF service with Logon Data bug fix;
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SM20 filter bug fix;
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ORA_DB02_BCKP missing entries fix;