SHD 4.0.1 Patch release available

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SHD 4.0.1 Release Highlights:-

• New Features:

• Support for VMware Cloud Gateway Diagnostics for vSphere+

• Supporting the analysis feature for MCGW for vSphere+ customers for direct connect as well as Log bundle upload.
• Users can use this feature to perform diagnostics when vSphere+ registered vCenters or MCGW is disconnected from the Cloud or run health checks periodically to ensure the system is in a healthy state.
• Added 11 checks in GW diagnostic for Certificate, Password Expiry, Storage status, VMware Cloud reachability, FQDN resolution.
• SHD can also analyze all agents log to report any problem observed in agents.

• Support to perform patching for offline (non-internet connected) customers.

• Post deprecation of ISO now customers can use offline patching feature to update the environment.
• Offline users must migrate to 4.0 release to use this feature.

• Enhanced Health & Diagnostics support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x, 5.x

• Added ~40 Health checks to enhance the support for Aria Product suite like vRealize Automation, vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, Workspace ONE and vRSLCM in SDDC environment.
• DNS, NTP, SSH, Certs & Ping checks add capability to monitor the health of product if deployed in SDDC stack.

• Plugins:

• ~250 New Plugins added taking overall count ~2230

• vSphere Best Practices – 87 New Checks added for vSphere Product.
• vSphere Diagnostics – 38 New Signatures

• 31 Diagnostics (Trending issues for 8.0 U1)
• 5 Security Advisory
• 2 Private
• vSAN – 2 New Signatures.

• VMware Cloud Foundation - 99 New Signatures.

• 36 Security Scan checks
• 54 Diagnostics
• 9 Health Check

• VMware Cloud Gateway for vSphere+

• 11 Diagnostics checks added.

• VMware Horizon - 6 New signatures

• 4 Private Diagnostics checks.
• 2 Public Diagnostics checks.

• Partners & Community forum request

• Dell Partner request

• Administrator/Operator Role bases Access (Dell’s request)
• This release fixes the issues reported by Dell for Administrator and Operator Roles for extending the administrative privileges to other users.
• Incorporated the feedbacks received from Dell on 4.0.0 release.

• Invalidating user session when password/role is changed.
• Support multi type reports download (HTML & JSON as same time).

• VMTN Community Request

• Use VMXNET3 adapter for default deployment of SHD appliance.
• Add description and helper text for password in SHD OVA deployment.

• Bug Fixes

• Critical Security update for OpenJDK vulnerabilities.
• SMTP Configuration was not handled correctly on upgraded instances.
• Online update failures on 4.0 upgraded instances.