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Helix 11.1 Release Notes
Helix 11.1 Release Notes
Helix 11.1 Release Notes
1 Release Notes
Ref: HELIX-SA-RN-11.1
Version: 1.1
Status: Final
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Contents
1 Document Control
Note 1: For additional information regarding the various Helix products and more detailed insights into
the capabilities, please refer to the respective product descriptions guides included in the Helix
documentation package
Note 2: Helix 11.1 is suitable for both CSPs that install a new system and CSPs that perform upgrades from
a previous version. Full documentation is available for Helix 11.1, including this Release Notes document.
5 Deprecated Features
None.
6 Bug Fixes
This section highlights top fixes to customer-reported bugs in Helix 11.1:
SA-25307 Helix Performance Helix PM Global defaults set in BOE are overridden
Management Reporter during Helix upgrades.
SA-29483 Helix Framework Scheduler The Scheduler distributor process does not
reconnect to DB if Oracle RAC is configured
and active node is changed.
SA-30079 Helix Fault Service Impact On SI Prediction, when using the 'Consider
Management current active alarm' option; the current
alarms appear, but the services/ resources
not marked for prediction aren't colored in
the tree.
SA-30252 Helix Performance KPI Manager After changing a KPI from one user-group to
Management another, the left pane (KPIs tree) must be
manually refreshed to see this change.
SA-30568 Helix Performance Sentinel When a user writes in a Custom SQL widget
Management a “List of Values (LOV)” select statement that
includes a “where” clause or an “order by”
clause, although these are not supported,
Sentinel does not alert about this.
SA-30940 Helix Framework TEOCO Scorpio functions used in libraries are not
Mediation called in the correct order.
7 Known Issues
This section describes issues that users of Helix 11.1 may encounter, as well as possible workarounds
for these issues:
Information Helix Framework Helix Agent In case customers do not bring their own
Only signed certificate, and use the default self-
signed certificate for containerized agents,
it is valid for one year and must be
periodically renewed.
9 Appendix A
Note: Correlator ES, based on Ilog Rules or Red Hat JBOSS BRMS, can only be used in
existing installations. New installations must use Correlator ES based on Drools.
Note: Other modules from the different product lines can be part of the Service
Management Solution as required.
Details of the supported versions for the different 3rd party applications and software, can be found in
section 9.3.5 below.
Notes:
o OPTIMA Backend server (OPTIMA Mediation) platforms of existing deployment may be
preserved
9.3.3 Database
The following are the supported databases:
Oracle Server with the Partitioning option
Oracle Client for Red Hat server
Oracle Client for Windows
Notes:
o Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is supported
o Pluggable Database (PDB) on Oracle Container Database (CDB) is supported
o Oracle RAC is supported
o Oracle Exadata is supported
Note: Certain applications require IE compatibility mode or IE Tab depending on the used
browser.
RHEL (Red Hat 6.10/7.8 x86_64 RHEL 6.10 is available only for upgrading
Enterprise Linux) of existing Helix systems
Helix Systems with Big Data must be
installed on RHEL 7.8
Helix Agents over RHEL must be installed
on RHEL 7.8
Oracle Database Oracle Server 19c (19.8) / 18c Oracle 19x is supported on RHEL 7.8 or
server and client (18.11) higher
Oracle Client 19c (19.3) / 18c
For projects that run on RHEL 6.10, Oracle
(18.1) for Red Hat server
18c will still be supported
Oracle Client 19c (19.3) / 18c
(18.2) for Windows Oracle Server/Client 18c for Red Hat
server is available only for upgrading of
existing Helix systems.
Oracle Instant Client 11rG2 for Windows
is used by Inspector
NGINX 1.18
GoXam for WPF 2.2.2.46 For Site View and Correlation Tree charts
in Cruiser
Kafka 2.3.1
Zookeeper 3.4.13
Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 server 64-bit For Auxiliary Server Platforms (Report
Scheduler)
Note: For the prerequisite patches, please refer to the Helix 11.1 Server Installation Guide.