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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.

   Announcing Skyline Health Diagnostics (SHD) Major release of version 4.0.0 availability for all our customers and partners.   SHD 4.0.0 Release Highlights:- New Features: Introduction of Profile feature to support intent-based analysis. Simplification of user experience of creating analysis runs. Users can create a profile with desired checks and reuse it later at any time with a single Click/API Users with target credentials can create the profile and Operator can run them for diagnostics. Using API users can integrate diagnostics into ticketing system. Integrated Analysis and Scheduling Experience for users Users can schedule any analysis runs as part of running the workflow. Extend scheduling for checks beyond just health checks (VCG, VMSA,..). Notification Feature extended for all Analysis Runs (Previously only scheduled runs had this feature) Support to perform VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.x and above Pre-Upgrade Assessment & Health checks. Integration with the Assessment engine users can upgrade the assessment of VMware Cloud Foundation. VCF Verify/Check tool has been formally integrated with the option to run from SHD UI Diagnostics support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x, 5.x Connect and collect logs feature is enabled for VMware Cloud Foundation VMware Certified SHD remote plugin for vSphere Client SHD remote plugin is supported from vSphere 8.0 U1 from vSphere Client. Users can auto-register the remote plugin as part of appliance deployment. Extended API support Fully documented using OpenAPI 3.0 specifications. All day 1 and day 2 operations except Profile Management are supported from API. VMware Horizon features support for Direct Connect and Analyze Support to perform connect and analysis for VMware Horizon 7 & 8 versions. Support to perform Log bundle analysis for Horizon 7 & 8 versions. VMware SD-WAN offline analysis support (In Tech-Preview) Support to perform Log bundle analysis for VMware SD-WAN product. Diagnostics support for vSphere 8.0 & 8.0U1 Thumbprint-based SSL Verification for all trusted targets.   Plugins: ~220 New Plugins added taking an overall count of ~1970 vSphere – 74 New Signatures 48 Diagnostics (Trending issues for 8.0 U1) 5 Security Advisory 21 Private vSAN – 7 New Signatures. VMware Cloud Foundation - 46 New Signatures. 16 Security Scan checks 21 Diagnostics 9 NSX Check SD-WAN– 102 New Signatures. Partners & Community forum request Support to force reset the shd-admin user password. (Community request) Administrator/Operator Role bases Access (Dell’s request) This release introduces Administrator and Operator Roles for extending administrative privileges to other users. Previous releases had only one hardcoded Administrator user account (shd-admin).   Platform Development Category Management Feature Definition-based checks and categories. This feature enabled dynamic UI generation with fewer or no changes required for the UI in case new categories/checks are introduced. Introduction of Feature Switch We can selectively include/exclude available features (dev time/build time decision). This will help us to produce builds for different release targets/products or market segments. External API Providers and Collectors have been restructured to be modular with less coding required. Code cleanup as part of Public API support HTPP Request Handling is streamlined with better error handling and integrated Cookie support. Task/Workflow Management refined. Release notes : https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Skyline-Health-Diagnostics/services/rn/VMware-Skyline-Health-Diagnostics-Release-Notes.html Documentation Page: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Skyline-Health-Diagnostics/services/Skyline-Health-Diagnostics/GUID-ED9B9FB1-FE2B-498E-BBD0-1AB28E3F873F.html Download Page: https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/get-download?downloadGroup=SKYLINE_HD_VSPHERE