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Documentation - HPE Usage and Analytics

HPE Consumption Analytics Platform Release Notes

This topic contains the cumulative release notes for the HPE Consumption Analytics Portal.

For complete documentation about configuring and using the product, see HPE Consumption Analytics platform Documentation.

Changes in recent releases

This section lists the enhancements and bug fixes in recent releases of HPE Consumption Analytics portal. 

May 17, 2021

HPE updated version 2.237.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Monthly Charges where cost was visible to an indirect customer without the channel partner's markup update.
May 7, 2021

HPE released version 2.237.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where some users were missing the left navigation panel when launching the HPE Consumption Analytics platform from HPE GreenLake Central. 
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the HPE GreenLake Customer View, where Summary tab graphics were showing cost by product all services without the channel partner's markup update (i.e., the channel Partner (reseller) had not updated their markup yet in HPE GreenLake Billing Manager). 
May 5, 2021

HPE released version 2.231.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Monthly Charges where 'Cluster Name', 'Partition Name', and 'Node Name' values for HPE CaaS were not getting populated in the Actual Usage drilldown.
April 27, 2021

HPE released version 2.230.0 with security enhancements and the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected a double conversion that was causing a difference in format in the Monthly charges drilldown, and a difference in requested capacities when grouped by meter name, for currencies other than USD.
April 15, 2021

HPE released version 2.227.0 with security enhancements and the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in What-If where a customer was unable to create What-If scenarios due to applied filters returning either no results or "Query Error".
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where a user logged into a new tenant could log in to CAP and  access all data and pages, but after logging out and back in again, the screen displayed the initial setup window, with prompt to add new data collection or use demo mode. 
April 5, 2021

HPE released version 2.224.0 with security enhancements and the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Reports where a non-metered service showed HPE's cost (before markup) rather than the reseller's cost.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Collections for Azure PAYG daily usage, where a record with an unknown format was encountered, and further processing of the collected block of data was terminated.
March 15, 2021

HPE released version 2.217.0 with enhanced alert capability for changes in estimated usage data. 

February 25, 2021

HPE released version 2.212.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Capacity Planning page, where "---" was shown for a non-metered service; with this fix, non-metered services are no longer shown in capacity planning. 
  • Fixed bug: Updated the URL for HPE Consumption Analytics platform release notes to open the correct page in the updated doc site.
February 22, 2021

HPE released version 2.210.0  with the following security enhancement and bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Detailed Usage, where daily usage was incorrect for Hourly Per Core service (did not match the corresponding metering file).
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Monthly Charges, where Installed Capacity values were incorrect (did not match the corresponding metering file).
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in User Management, where users without "Manage Account Preferences" privileges could still update account preferences.
  • Improved security protections against Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.
February 4, 2021

HPE updated version 2.209.0  with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Monthly Charges, where Minimum Contractual Capacity did not show as zero despite setting all capacity values to zero.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Monthly Charges, where the Service Category displayed for 'MLOps-TenantStorage' meter in MLOps service was different in Monthly Charges and exported pdf.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Monthly Charges, where Compute resources were included in usage after the configured end of system term date.
February 3, 2021

HPE released version 2.209.0  with the following enhancement and bug fix:

  • Updated HPE Consumption Analytics platform integration with upgraded documentation site.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Detailed Usage, where for a VM_Count meter configured in VM service, actual usage values in drilldown were showing ON/OFF instead of the number of active VMs.
January 26, 2021

HPE released version 2.205.0  with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Capacity Planning, where a duplicate graph was displayed for a tier.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Home page, where the insights moda window wasl overlapped by the header and overlapped the footer.
January 22, 2021

HPE released version 2.203.0 with the following enhancement:

  • Added user data collection consent header and footer complaint with regulatory requirements.
January 20, 2021

HPE updated version 2.199.0  with the following enhancement and bug fix:

  • Changed the default tenant name for ASMs to a unique name, by including their name in the tenant name:
    • <First + Last>'s Customer Data
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Monthly Charges where, while the rate is displayed as four digits, the downloaded PDF rounded the rate to two digits.  
January 11, 2021

HPE updated version 2.199.0  with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Monthly Charges for VM Count reported by SINGLE or CUSTOM tier, where meter names were not updated when a tier name changed.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Public Cloud View, where Capacity Planning tab displayed if HPE GL View was available.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Monthly charges, where meters were not displayed under Location if the service was configured as 'Reporting by location' and location was set to 'Device id / System id'.
December 16, 2020

HPE updated version 2.199.0  with the following enhancement and bug fix:

  • Improved stability of AWS metrics collection.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Data where  'HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request' error was displayed when creating Azure EA collections. 
December 14, 2020

HPE released version 2.199.0 with enhancements and fixes for HPE GreenLake Central - see HPE GreenLake Central release notes per product:

December 7, 2020

HPE updated version 2.197.0  with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Reports, where Azure VM metrics data displayed differed from the data shown in the Azure Portal.  A new tenant-specific property has been added to tenant set-up to enable 30 days' metrics collection, where applicable, instead of the default 14-day collection.
November 24.2020

HPE released version 2.197.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue on the Insights page and in the Insights Drill Down on the Home page, where 'NaN' was displayed on the y-axis in the Underutilized object storage bucket insight visualization, when the number of read/write requests was zero on all days in the selected period.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in AWS data collection, where, when editing credentials of a linked account that is set to collect Cost, usage and metrics using the Access Key and Secret authentication method, error messages were not displayed completely.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in AWS data collection, where a tenant was not collecting cost data from a CUR collection.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected two issues in field composition, where when creating reports, (1) the values were overwritten for some fields, and (2) for the Cost field "Number of Instances" disappeared when zoom was set to 100%.
November 19.2020

HPE updated version 2.193.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in What-if, where prices were not displayed for Azure VMs.
November 13, 2020

HPE released version 2.193.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where the VM Utilization report was not showing performance utililization data for Azure EA services.
November 12, 2020

HPE updated version 2.192.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where clicking the question mark icon next to Cost Efficiency shows the wrong help page. The URL has been updated to link to the correct page in the documentation.
November 9, 2020

HPE released version 2.192.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected error handling for AWS collections, where an unnecessary error message was raised when the Access ARN value was not populated in cases where the account is configured to collect cost and usage only, not metrics.  Access ARN is not required unless the account is configured to collect metrics as well as cost and usage.  The documentation has been updated accordingly.
November 3, 2020

HPE updated version 2.183.0 with the following enhancement:

  • Capacity planning is now enabled for HPE GreenLake for private cloud (VMaaS) and containers (CaaS), so customers with these services can now see how much hardware is being used for these services and take action as needed.
October 22, 2020

HPE released version 2.183.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges page, where a meter name was incorrectly displayed in the drilldown due to lack of Unicode support.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Reports, where no data was displayed in the Composition field in the Cost Detail overlay.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the HPE GreenLake Central dashboard, where a required credentials type was missing when adding a linked account with delegated access in the HPE GreenLake Central AWS collection wizard.
October 19, 2020

HPE released version 2.180.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in scheduled data collection where days were missing from a particular collection and recollection was failing.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Smart Tags, where if all rules are removed from smart tag, it remained active rather than being inactivated.
October 15, 2020

HPE released version 2.178.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in creating a new What-If, where a communication error displayed, and the Select New Service page was blank.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in creating a new data collection, where an invalid credentials error message displayed as a result of a 204 (no context) response from Azure. 
  • Fixed bug: Corrected indention of the Description field and value in the Account ID Detail overlay in creating reports.
October 12, 2020

HPE released version 2.170.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Insights drilldown from the Home page, where the line chart was shown instead of the bar chart in the "Underutilized object storage buckets" visualization.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected a typo in the Cost efficiency page, where one of the chart descriptions was incorrect.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Smart Tags, where naming a new rule with an existing rule name did not raise an error message about the name duplication.  Now the same error message ("Rule name already exists") is displayed as if a duplicate name is created when editing a rule name.
October 9, 2020

HPE updated version 2.168.0 with the following enhancement:

  • Azure customers can now use the new template that was previously added to create an insight for viewing object storage usage and cost for AWS..
    • The template "Underutilized AWS S3 (Standard class) bucket" has been renamed to "Underutilized object storage bucket". 
    • The AWS object storage details drill-down report has been renamed to "Object storage details". The report is available out of the box; you can find it in the drill-down drop-down list. 
    • If the tenant has both AWS S3 (standard) and Azure Blob (hot) data, you can see data from both providers in the insight results if the thresholds configured are met.
October 7, 2020

HPE released version 2.168.0 with the following enhancement and bug fixes:

  • AWS customers can now use a new template "Underutilized AWS S3 (Standard class) bucket" to create an insight for viewing object storage usage and cost for AWS..
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue for the Nimble 2.0 service in Monthly Charges, where actual usage and Installed capacity existed only for one tier, even if resources were assigned to more than one tier (i.e., all the resources usage and installed capacity were showing in the first tier only, even if some resources were assigned to a second tier).

 

September 29, 2020

HPE released version 2.165.0 with the following enhancement:

  • You can now adjust the size of the Insights overlay window so you can view all the data and the column headers in full.

As of September 30, 2020, the HPE Consumption Analytics platform no longer supports the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) or Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop browser versions.   

This decision follows Microsoft’s August 17, 2020 announcement that support of IE11 and Legacy Edge will be sunsetting in the near future. 

Please use one of the supported browsers listed on this page.

September 25, 2020

HPE updated version 2.158.0 with the following enhancement and bug fixes:

  • Special reindexing logic has been added to data management to prevent timeouts for large data sets.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Cost efficiency page, where the image icon was not showing while creating custom views.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Cost efficiency page, where 0 was not shown for Instance hours scale.
September 23, 2020

HPE updated version 2.158.0 with the following enhancement and bug fixes:

  • The Insight column 'Daily Cost in $' has been renamed to 'Average Cost in $' for the Underutilized VM and Overutilized VM insights. 
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Insights, where one customer 's insight "New Underutilized VMs" showed a VM with utilization but a daily cost of $0.00.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where Azure CSP collection failed when subscriptions had been deleted  The collector now better handles the caching of subscription states stored in S3 and avoids failing.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected outdated AWS pricing in What-If by updating pricing.
September 18, 2020

HPE released version 2.158.0 with the following enhancements:

  • You can now add filters to the Underutilized RDS Instance insights (for example, by account name or ID) to identify cost savings opportunities.
  • Starting September 30, 2020, the HPE Consumption Analytics platform will no longer support the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) or Legacy Edge browser versions.   This decision follows Microsoft’s August 17, 2020 announcement that support of IE11 and Legacy Edge will be sunsetting in the near future.  Please use one of the supported browsers listed on this page.
September 16, 2020

HPE released version 2.157.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges page where the Actual Usage drilldown was not working for Primera 2.0 services.
September 12, 2020

HPE updated version 2.155.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue that was preventing usage file uploads for VMaaS, CaaS, and MLOps services.
September 11, 2020

HPE updated version 2.155.0 with the following enhancement:

  • When creating a report, you can now click the 'i' icon in the field selection list to view a pop-up field description, so you can better understand the data in the reports that you create.
September 3, 2020

HPE updated version 2.155.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Cost Efficiency report where an AWS CUR calculation was incorrect.  
September 1, 2020

HPE released version 2.155.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the CSV download for the Cost Efficiency report, where the names of AWS services in the selection list and in the downloaded files did not match the chart titles in the Cost Efficiency report page.  The title of the export options and exported file names now include the AWS chart titles.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected the chart legends in the Cost Efficiency report from Title Case to Sentence case (only the first word begins with a capital letter, e.g., 'Cost per hour'.
August 28, 2020

HPE released version 2.153.0 with the following enhancement:

  • After a implementation of a Content Security Policy (CSP) in HPE GreenLake Central, a change was required to re-enable expanding and collapsing meters in the Monthly Charges report.
August 25, 2020

HPE released version 2.152.0 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • To capture the data needed for the average cost calculation in the Cost Efficiency report for AWS, the following fields have been added in Reports:
  • Report Format - indicates billing report format the usage record is based on (AWS, AWS CUR, or AWS DBR).
  • Effective Cost - captures the value of reservation/EffectiveCost from AWS CUR.
  • Unused Recurring Fee - captures the value of reservation/UnusedRecurringFee from AWS CUR.
  • Unused Amortized Upfront Fee For Billing Record - captures the value of reservation/UnusedAmortizedUpfrontFeeForBillingPeriod from AWS CUR.
  • Line Item Type - captures the value of lineitem/LineitemType from AWS CUR (e.g., Usage, Tax, SavingsPlanNegation, SavingsPlanCoveredUsage).
  • Savings Plans Effect Cost - captures the value of savingsPlan/SavingsPlanEffectiveCost from AWS CUR.
  • You now have the option to configure Insights to show VMs where CPU utilization and network traffic remained above or below threshold for at least 30 days (the previous limit was 2 weeks).
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Cost Efficiency report where the sequence of columns in a downloaded file did not match the column sequence defined in the report.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the What-if page where some combinations of Region and Operating System were causing a 404 (resource not found) error.
August 24, 2020

HPE released version 2.151.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Reports and SmartTags, where there was too much spacing between lines in the field picker and condition picker, respectively.
August 21, 2020

HPE released version 2.150.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Public Cloud View where the Data and Smart Tags pages were not opening when their menu items were selected from the Cost efficiency page.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where Actual Usage values shown in the tables on the Capacity Planning page were incorrect (the Actual Usage value was being taken from the last day of the month, rather than calculating an average).
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Default View, where a custom date range entered on the Summary page was reset whenever a different tab was clicked.   With this fix, once a custom date range has been entered, it will override any preset filter until the date range is updated.
August 18, 2020

HPE released version 2.146.0 with the following enhancements:

  • If you have an AWS or Azure data collection, you can now download cost efficiency data to a CSV file from the Cost Efficiency page in your Public Cloud View (formerly the Default View for public cloud accounts). To view the documentation for the cost efficiency analytics, you can click the '?' next to the page title to open the topic Working with the Cost Efficiency page.  You can also add this page to a custom view by selecting it from the page list. 
August 13, 2020

HPE updated version 2.143.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Permissions, where the description of the Secondary group from 'Secondary HPE Delivery with full access' to 'Secondary HPE Delivery with limited access'.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in HPE GreenLake Central where $0.00. was shown in All Tracked Cost by cost center. 
August 7, 2020

HPE released version 2.143.0 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • Analytics have been enhanced to support cost efficiency reporting for AWS + Azure public cloud services (see Working with the Cost Efficiency page).
  • A new Cost Efficiency widget is now available in HPE GreenLake Central.  You can view an area chart for the running hours data, and a line chart for the average cost data
  • For billing accounts using currencies other than USD, currency conversion precision has been enhanced by eliminating a double conversion that was creating a small difference between the amount shown in the Monthly Charges page in the HPE Consumption Analytics platform and the amount shown in the same page in the HPE GreenLake Billing Manager.
  • For customers with the Azure Stack Service, the Subscription ID and Resource Group values from the Resource URI are now represented as their own fixed fields and listed as their own columns in the Monthly Charges drilldown.
  • Two default User Groups are now available out of the box for HPE GreenLake accounts.  When creating an ASM user, you can define the user as either the primary or secondary ASM assigned to the customer (see Setting Permissions).
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Capacity planning page, where, for some customers, an incorrect installed capacity value was shown.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the downloaded Monthly Charges PDF, where the cost field was showing 4 digits in both the HPE Consumption Analytics platform and the HPE GreenLake Billing Manager.
July 28, 2020

HPE released version 2.140.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the detail of the Monthly Charges page, where exporting to CSV resulted in a 404 error. 
  • Fixed bug: Corrected error handling when attempting to save a newly created view; if there is an empty page, an Invalid view alert dialog now displays and an event is sent to Google Analytics.   Once you populate the page with at least one widget, or remove it, the normal save dialog displays.
July 27, 2020

HPE released version 2.137.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Azure collections, where health checks were not being raised by Azure subscription authentication errors. 
July 23, 2020

HPE released version 2.138.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an inconsistency in rule definition for the Underutilized EBS Volume Insight configuration, where an 'Above' threshold option - which does not apply to underutilization - was available for daily write bytes. The dropdown has been removed from this rule, as only 'at or below' applies for daily write bytes in this case.
July 22, 2020

HPE released version 2.137.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected two potential security vulnerabilities.
July 17, 2020

HPE released version 2.135.0 with the following enhancement and bug fixes:

  • The Reports feature has been enhanced to set the column width for new columns to the width of the widest cell, so all the data is shown. When you don't need to show all the data, you can reduce the column width manually. 
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where the tenant switcher was missing from the top of the toolbar.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in What-If modeling, where a typographical error caused an error message in Google Analytics for AWS accounts, and prevented selecting a region.
July 9, 2020

HPE released version 2.128.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected several messages from critical errors to info/warning messages, as they were causing Google Analytics error messages.
July 6, 2020

HPE updated version 2.126.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue that was causing a Google Analytics error: hpe.com - server error - 'The pivot field must be the last non-aggregate field in the list.'
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Reseller Partner Relationship in an account linked to the CA DEV 1 HPE GreenLake Central Integration tenant, where a large negative amount was shown in the Monthly Charges Summary widget.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue with server errors in Google Analytics - 'An error occurred while running query.'
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where a new message notification in the HPE GreenLake Central upper right hand pane persisted after messages were read.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Messages, where clicking the trash bin icon in the Messages list (or at the top right of the window) and confirming when prompted failed to delete the message.
June 29, 2020

HPE released version 2.126.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug:  Corrected an issue for customers with Azure collections, where not all Azure Authentication exceptions were raising a Health Check (nor clearing a Health Check when the exception didn't occur)..
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue for Azure data collection, where the connection status for a subscription was not refreshed, validated, or updated over time.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where Account Service Managers (ASMs) continued to see customer data after being removed from the customer.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue on the Data page, where, after navigating to the Lookups, Fields, or Field Packages tab, clicking Data in the left navigation was displaying a blank screen.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where, though the UI version showed the latest deployed version, the old code was still running unless the cache was cleared by the user.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where the old customer name still displayed in HPE Consumption Analytics platform after it was changed in HPE GreenLake.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where, after launching the HPE Consumption Analytics platform from HPE GreenLake Central, a blank page was displayed when switching from the HPE GreenLake Customer View to the Default View.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where, when accessing the Monthly Charges page in HPE GreenLake Central for a month with no data, the spinning wheel displayed forever. This was corrected by adding explicit available periods for each account in the Monthly Cost Summary widget. 
June 22, 2020

HPE released version 2.121.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in widget configuration for bar charts, where a 'Bad Request' error displayed when clicking into Value Field.
June 18. 2020

HPE released version 2.120.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Identity, where logging in to the HPE Consumption Analytics platform with HPE Passport did not update the Last Accessed timestamp.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in custom reports, where rounding discrepancies were noted in comparison with the Monthly Charges page. 
  • Fixed bug:  Corrected an issue in AWS reports where, when using delegated access on an AWS CUR collection, the request timed out and no linked accounts were found.
  • June 17. 2020

HPE released version 2.119.0 with the following enhancement and bug fix:

  • In Reports, the Service column for top-off records is now populated with the corresponding meter's service.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in creating budgets, after launching HPE Consumption Analytics platform from HPE GreenLake Central, where no values were available to select in the filter field, preventing adding a filter against an Azure account.
June 12. 2020

HPE released version 2.115.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where Non-metered Service cost was 0 in the HPE GreenLake Central All tracked cost widget, and in HPE Consumption Analytics platform reports.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where Insights were showing 0 while no changes have been done to implement the changes recommended.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where Insights were showing 'undefined' for the Unit columns.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where Overutilized VM insights were showing infinite for CPU util and NaN Undefined for Network.
June 11, 2020

HPE released version 2.112.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where, for customer and partners, actual usage was 0 for VMaaS and CaaS service if a partner relationship existed, while Actual usage was showing  for the same services if the deal type was Direct Customer.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where VM data was not available for Insights (and other features) for customers with Azure public cloud.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Reports, where the grand total was missing from the report export to .pdf.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue with inconsistent behavior in SSO when launching the HPE Consumption Analytics platform from HPE GreenLake Central.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where multiple server errors and/or query errors were appearing in the Home page, Budget page and Data (Collections) page.
June 5, 2020

HPE released version 2.108.0 with the following enhancements and bug fix:

  • In reports, the same Tier or Location data will now be shown for Top-off records as for the other two usage types.
  • For HPE GreenLake customers, navigation to the HPE Consumption Analytics platform from HPE GreenLake Central has been simplified as follows, based on a recent usability study:
  • When you jump out of the ((hpe_glc}} Monthly Charges widget, the Monthly Charges page in your HPE GreenLake Customer View will open
  • If you've visited this page in the HPE Consumption Analytics platform before, the page will display based on your previous selections, groups, and/or filters; else the first billing account in the list will be shown.
  • When you jump out of the ((hpe_glc}} Capacity Planning widget, the Capacity Planning page in your HPE GreenLake Customer View will open
  • If you've visited this page in the HPE Consumption Analytics platform before, the page will display based on your previous selections, groups, and/or filters; else the first billing account in the list will be shown, with the Manage Groups filter set to Meter Name.
  • When you jump out of the ((hpe_glc}} All Tracked Costs widget, the Summary page in your HPE GreenLake Customer View will open.
  • Fixed bug: The service category for Cohesity Licenses service has been corrected to 'Software' (was 'Compute').
May 26, 2020

HPE released version 2.98.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where AWS credentials validation was timing out., because both the Detailed Billing Report and Cost and Usage Report were doing deep searches in the S3 buckets.  The fix limits the scope of the searches as follows:
  • DBR only searches the top level of the bucket
  • CUR only searches the report name structure
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where the session timeout set in user preferences was not being respected.
May 21, 2020

HPE released version 2.95.0 with the following enhancement and bug fix:

  • For customers with AWS data collections, discounts and taxes will now be included in the data collected from the Cost and Usage Report.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where estimated days information was missing for all services.
  • The team also enhanced the All Tracked Cost widget in GLC to filter results based on user permission/group.
May 11, 2020

HPE released version 2.82.0 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • AWS accounts can now collect data from the AWS Cost and Usage Report. or from the Detailed Billing report. The options and corresponding fields have been added to the Credentials page of the Add Collection wizard:
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    For further details, see the AWS collection topic.
  • When authoring reports, you can now edit certain fields by Smart Tags 
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Reports for VMs, where Azure Stack usage did not show the type of VM to which the usage corresponded.
  • The Capacity Planning widget in HPE GreenLake Central has been enhanced to show only meters that support capacity planning in HPE GreenLake Central.
April 29, 2020

HPE released version 2.78.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges report where an incorrect partner relationship caused 'Not Available' to display in the Cost column for a direct customer.
April 26, 2020

HPE updated version 2.76.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Data > Collections, where failure to create an authorization token for the data source prevented a customer from saving the first collection for the billing account. 
April 24, 2020

HPE released version 2.76.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Views where a newly created view was not going into Edit mode upon saving it.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges report for Scality & StoreOnce services, where GiB values were displayed in the detailed usage drilldown. even though GB, TB, or TiB was selected as the unit of measure
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges report for XP services, where the Device ID column in the detailed usage drilldown was not populated.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges report for Left Hand services, where the Cluster column in the detailed usage drilldown was not populated.
April 20, 2020

HPE updated version 2.69.0 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges report drill down to Actual Usage for Per Core services - e.g., Windows Per Core (Windows Utilization) and Linux Per Core (Linux Utilization) - where only 1s and -s were shown, instead of the actual usage numbers.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges widget in HPE GreenLake Central, where the actual cost shown for previous months was not matching the same in the HPE Consumption Analytics platform Monthly charges report.
April 17, 2020

HPE released version 2.69.0 with the following enhancement and bug fix:

  • For HPE GreenLake Central users, your corresponding HPE Consumption Analytics platform account will be created automatically when you log in to HPE GreenLake, so the HPE Consumption Analytics platform widgets will be populated without manual intervention. 
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges report where "Not Available" displayed in the Rate column instead of the customer's rates.
April 14, 2020

HPE released :version 2.57.0 with the following enhancements. and bug fix

  • Each new HPE Consumption Analytics platform user's idle timeout will default to 15 minutes. You can use the dropdown in the user configuration screen to choose your idle timeout from the options:
  • 5 minutes
  • 10 minutes
  • 15 minutes (default)
  • 30 minutes
  • 45 minutes
  • 60 minutes (applicable security standards specify that the idle timeout may not exceed 60 minutes).
  • Fixed bugs: Corrected two separate issues where the Monthly Charges widget in GLC wasn't working for one user.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where custom tags in an uploaded usage file for the vMaaS service were not found when creating a report in the HPE Consumption Analytics platform.
  • HPE introduced the All Tracked Cost widget on the HPE GreenLake Central, for HPE GreenLake customers.  For more information, see Working with widgets and reports in the HPE GreenLake Central platform.
April 8, 2020

HPE released :version 2.56.0 with the following enhancement.

  • Potentially conflicting user management in the HPE Consumption Analytics platform for HPE GreenLake Central users has been diabled.  You can no longer add, delete, or deactivate a HPE GreenLake Central user in the HPE Consumption Analytics platform.  The user's iemail and name must be set based on the ((hpe_glc)) user and cannot be changed in the HPE Consumption Analytics platform.  You can still assign a user to a different group or modify permissions within the HPE Consumption Analytics platform,
April 2, 2020

HPE released version 2.54.0 with the following enhancement and bug fix:

  • As a user with an AWS account, you now have the option to use delegated access credentials when setting up or editing an HPE Consumption Analytics platform data collection to retrieve your AWS consumption data (see Amazon Web Services).
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Reports, where the save prompt was popping up when selecting fields while creating an new report.
March 23, 2020

HPE released version 2.47.0 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • As an administrator, you can now create a new user where the user email is already assigned to a user under a different HPE Consumption Analytics platform tenant, without getting a "duplicate user name" error (you still cannot add a duplicate to the same tenant).
  • As a user with multiple tenants, you can now:
    • Switch between tenants, using the tenant dropdown list at the top of the page
    • Choose one to be your default tenant:
      • A star icon is shown to the left of each tenant in the tenant dropdown list; the one filled star icon indicates the default tenant:
        CAP_default_tenant.png
      • You can change the default as needed by clicking the star next to a different tenant.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges reports, where the Detailed Usage for VMs was not loading.
March 17, 2019

HPE released version 2.35.3 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where incorrect rates were shown in Monthly Charges when a customer with a Reseller relationship was promoted.
March 2, 2020

HPE released version 2.42.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected a vulnerability that could cause personally identifiable information (PII) to be sent to Google Analytics.  The internal user ID and Tenant ID are now transmitted in lieu of full name and full email.
February 28, 2020

HPE updated version 2.35.1 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where a user was getting an "Unable to Connect" error for the Monthly Charges widget in HPE GreenLake Central due to missing data.
February 20, 2020

HPE released version 2.35.1 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue that prevented customers from logging in if their email. addresses ended in a domain name extension of more than 3 characters (e.g., .cloud) .
February 18, 2020

HPE released version 2.35.0 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges report where the Azure Stack Services drill down was not working.
February 17. 2020

HPE released version 2.33.0 with the following enhancement and bug fix:

  • For customers using AWS, HPE Consumption Analytics platform will now show you the discounts and tax charges from your AWS bill, so you can see the full picture of what you spend and where.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges report, where the meter details were not indented correctly when the meter was expanded.
February 10. 2020

HPE released version 2.30.2 with the following enhancement and bug fixes:

  • When you exit a report or budget without making changes since the last save, you will no longer be prompted to save your changes.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Views, where the date and total cost in the period widget were not updating after editing the period. 
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where logging into the HPE Consumption Analytics platform via HPE Passport using a deleted or blocked account resulted in displaying only JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) rather than an error message.  An appropriate error message now displays:
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January 16, 2020

HPE updated version 2.0.174 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges report where the Location name was missing or incorrect,: 
  • For DL Servers, when Reporting By Location with Location set to Device ID, Location was showing as "SERVERS" rather than the particular Device ID.
  • For DL Servers, Azure Stack Compute , vcms_vstorage,  SAP Hana and LeftHand, when Reporting By Location with Location set to Mapped Location, the Location name was not shown in the report.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Budgets where budgets created by a deleted user could not be deleted.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges report where export to PDF caused a "This site cannot be reached" error (ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE) in the browser.
January 10, 2020

HPE released version 2.0.174 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in Budgets where all users were unable to view or update their budget targets.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where the Report Authoring window was not scrolling correctly.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue in the Monthly Charges report where Meters didn't expand if the meter description contained a colon (:).
December 6, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.167 with the following enhancement:

  • When you enter a custom date range in the Period field, you will now see a light green highlight showing your date range on the calendar:
    CAP_date_range_enh.png
  • If you enter a finish date earlier than the current start date, the start date will reset to the same as the new finish date.
  • If you enter a start date later than the current finish date, the finish date will reset to the same as the new start date.
November 26, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.165 with the following enhancement and bug fixes:

  • When using the Filter Manager --> Starts With option, the query has now been limited to 1000 characters for performance reasons.  If a query of greater than 1000 characters is entered, a message will display asking you to clear your filter and submit a shorter one. 
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where the wrong values were shown for requested and committed capacities in Capacity Planning charts. The total is now aggregated by capacity unit and not by service category.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where an incorrect range was allowed in queries by date range. An error message now displays in this case.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where a customer received an incorrect budget notification due to the inclusion of top-off in the actual value.
November 18, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.162 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • For HPE GreenLake customers, the Monthly Charges report in the HPE GreenLake Central has been enhanced to support collapsing/expanding the line items on the report. (further details will be added to Working with widgets and reports in the HPE GreenLake Central platform).
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where the visible area of the Monthly Charges report was cut in half and would not expand.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where meter rows in the Monthly Charges report would not expand using the + button.
November 12, 2019 

HPE introduced Monthly Charges report and Capacity Planning widgets on the HPE GreenLake Central, for HPE GreenLake customers.  For more information, see Working with widgets and reports in the HPE GreenLake Central platform.

November 4, 2019

HPE released the following information for HPE users of the HPE Consumption Analytics platform:

  • Default HPE settings for the IE browser make it incompatible with the HPE Consumption Analytics platform.  
  • A SharePoint page has been created with steps to configure IE on HPE laptops to allow the HPE Consumption Analytics platform to properly load.
  • The HPE Consumption Analytics platform account activation email has been updated accordingly, to include the following alert: "If you plan to use Internet Explorer on an HPE-issued laptop, please view the instructions here to ensure the portal can be properly accessed."
  • October 28, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.157 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue when drilling down on the Monthly Charges report, where some of the entries in the Host field had VM data appended to the hostname.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue that caused a customer to receive false budget alerts.
October 2, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.157 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • For HPE GreenLake customers, based on user feedback, service-specific pages will no longer be automatically included in the HPE GreenLake view.
  • In the Monthly Charges report, when no locations are included in the results, the gray heading used to separate the results by location will no longer appear.  For customers having some meters with a location and others without, the gray heading will display with the text (no Location)
  • When the report is configured for automatic ascending sort by location , (no Location) will appear last in the results.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue where duplicate values were showing in the Account selection list in the Monthly Charges tab of the HPE GreenLake view.
September 13, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.151 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: Corrected error in Insights calculation due to incorrect rounding, resulting in failure to raise alerts in some cases.  
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue that caused Capacity Planning values drop to zero on the current day for some graphs.  
  • All computations for an Insight (producing a number) are now done at a maximum level of decimal precision.
  • All comparisons for an Insight (determining whether one number is greater than, less than, or equal to a threshold) are now done with numbers rounded to the decimal precision at which the user entered the threshold.  
  • Numbers displayed in Insights results (chart or table) show up to two decimal places (numbers not requiring two decimal places of precision will show zero or one decimal place).
September 3, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.150 with the following enhancement and bug fix:

  • For HPE GreenLake distributors, resellers, and their customers, the HPE GreenLake Customer View is now your default view in the HPE Consumption Analytics platform, and you have access to HPE GreenLake pages (e.g., Monthly Charges, Capacity Planning)..
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an issue that caused an inconsistent number of decimal places in the Monthly Charges report (trailing zeroes following decimal point were being dropped).
August 22, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.148 with the following enhancement:

  • For customers who have an indirect relationship to HPE,  Reseller and Distributor fields have been added to usage data to identify the relevant HPE GreenLake partner(s) by name. (the Account Name field still represents the end customer name).
August 19, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.148 with the following enhancement: and bug fix

  • Two recently-added fields in Reports have been renamed to Collection Name and Collection ID.
  • Fixed bug: Corrected an error that caused an incorrect count of VM services in the Monthly charges report.
August 5, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.148 with the following enhancement:

  • HPE GreenLake channel partners who export data programmatically can now build a report that is not restricted to ten fields total.  You can now add as many numeric fields as you like; dimensions (text fields) are restricted to ten.
August 2, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.146 with the following enhancement:

  • For customers with VM 2.0 services, HPE Consumption Analytics platform's showback capability is dependent on a lookup table and smart tag rules to generate costs per cost center based on VM costs.  This capability has been enhanced, so you can simply select a collection and upload a lookup file with pre-defined columns, and the system then saves a showback cost center field, a lookup table, and smart tag rule.
July 29, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.143 with the following enhancements and bug fix:

  • In the Onboarding process, clicking Get started now automatically skips the collection creation process for accounts with existing collection(s), displaying the default view (Home).
  • Support for Azure PAYG accounts has been enhanced with usage collection, cost calculation, and a health check to warn you when the credentials configured for the corresponding data collection are no longer valid.  Azure PAYG collections run at the same interval, and with equivalent retry attempts, as Azure EA collections.
  • If you log in using an HPE Passport, account that is not enabled for HPE Consumption Analytics platform, you will now see a popup message telling you how to get an account.
  • Fixed bug: The Sign in with Google account button was not functioning; this now works correctly.
July 23, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.134 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: When the browser window was resized to 3/4 width, the plus icon (create new) was not visible in the upper right hand corner of the screen.  This has been corrected.
July 19, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.133 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: When activating their accounts, Microsoft Azure CSP users were being prompted to create a data source.  Since collections for these accounts are fully initialized prior to activation, these users will no longer be brought into the collection configuration tutorial upon log in.
July 17, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.131 with the following enhancements:

  • With this release, HPE Consumption Analytics platform supports creation and management of Microsoft Azure Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) collections to track consumption for Azure accounts purchased through a Microsoft CSP reseller. 
  • You can now create and manage Azure Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) collections in the HPE Consumption Analytics platform.  The help page for Azure collections will be updated accordingly.
  • In the Monthly Charges report, the detailed usage page for Blades now shows ON/OFF status per Blade server with color coding (ON in green and OFF in red), to make it easier to distinguish between the two:
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July 15, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.128 with the following enhancements:

  • On the login page, the  Sign in with Google and Sign in with Microsoft buttons.have been updated.
  • When adding a rule to a collection, you can now see which rule you're  editing throughout the process, to help ensure that your changes are being applied to the correct collection.
July 1, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.121 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • Where an icon is used to represent a Microsoft Azure collection, the four-paned window icon has been replaced with the current Azure icon, with the acronyms EA, CSP, and PAYG in the bottom right corner where needed to differentiate between these collections. 
  • Fixed bug: For a customer with a blade service reporting by Tier, the blade serial number was displayed in the Location field.  This has been corrected so the Location field is now blank, as expected.
  • Fixed bug: When creating an Azure collection, on the Subscriptions page of the wizard, an empty box was shown when the Subscription Collection filter menu above the table was clicked.  This now shows the filter values All, Active, and Inactive.
June 21, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.117 with the following enhancement:

  • Descriptive text "Comprehensive view of hybrid IT usage and cost" has been added to the login page, to comply with a requirement of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to describe the functionality of the app on the homepage.

HPE GreenLake Accounts
With this version, the Usage vs. Commitment by Meter comparison widgets for each service have been temporarily removed from the service-specific pages of the HPE GreenLake view, while the HPE Consumption Analytics platform team addresses inconsistencies in prorating and units of measure that have been identified.  Once appropriate changes are made and the validity of the underlying data is confirmed, these widgets will be restored to the service-specific pages in your default view. 

June 10, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.116 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Clicking the detailed help link in HPE Consumption Analytics platform pages was displaying the help page content in the entire window, rather than launching the help in a dialog window; with this fix, this now works as expected.
June 5, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.114 with the following enhancements and bug fix:

  • For customers with Linux Utilization services, a Linux Utilization page is now available in the HPE GreenLake Customer View.‌
  • For customers with P2000 services, a P2000 page is now available in the HPE GreenLake Customer View.‌
  • Fixed bug:  In the Monthly Charges page, when drilling down into daily totals for Blades, the daily totals read ON or OFF instead of showing the aggregate sum of Blades in the ON state.  This has been fixed so the expected number value is now shown.
June 4, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.114 with the following enhancements and bug fix:

  • For customers who provide valid VMware files, VM -evel cost and usage data is now available in HPE Consumption Analytics platform reporting:
  • Per VM at the month and day level
  • Rolled up to a cost center (via mapping table) at the month and day level.
  • Customers with AWS collections are now able to exclude accounts you do not want data collected for.  The help documentation for managing AWS linked accounts will be updated accordingly. 
  • Fixed bug: For one customer, the detail for Blades services in the Monthly Charges page was incorrect for the month of May.; a correction is implemented with this release.
May 29, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.111 with the following enhancement:

  • For customers with LeftHand services, a LeftHand page is now available in the HPE GreenLake Customer View.‌
May 20, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.107 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Several Flex Capacity accounts were consistently getting "failed to check capacity" errors that could prevent missing data alerts or capacity alerts from being raised.  This release addresses one cause, reducing the volume of these errors (tickets have been raised for the two remaining causes).
May 14, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.102 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: In report authoring, the toggle icons and tooltips for the report configuration panel were reversed. This has been corrected to show the appropriate show/hide icon and tooltip when the panel is hidden/shown.
  • Fixed bug: In the default view, the Capacity planning graph was not auto-scaling correctly; with this fix, it now auto-scales to 10% over the max value.
May 8, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.99 with the following enhancements:

  • For customers with StoreOnce services, a StoreOnce page is now available in the HPE GreenLake Customer View.‌
  • For customers with Virtual Machine services, a VM page is now available in the HPE GreenLake Customer View.‌
  • Under Manage Linked Accounts for an AWS collection, you can now set accounts to "Ignore" if you don't want to collect data from them.  The help documentation for configuring Amazon Web Services will be updated accordingly. 
May 1, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.98 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Under Manage Linked Accounts for an AWS collection, the button to add a linked account was not working.  With this fix, the button is now working as expected.  
April 10, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.93 with the following enhancement and bug fix:

  • For customers with Synergy Compute services, a Synergy Compute page is now available in the HPE GreenLake Customer View.‌
  • Fixed bug:  The Insights results details overlay toolbar and its export menu icons were displaying incorrectly.  Both the toolbar and the menu icons have been changed to the correct colors, consistent with the overall site design. 
March 25, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.89 with the following enhancements and bug fix:

  • The default view for HPE GreenLake accounts now includes service-specific pages for SAN and DL servers. 
  • Fixed bug: In the IE11 browser, the Monthly Charges report's detail drill down Close button was not aligned properly for all services; this is now corrected.
March 22, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.87 with the following enhancement:

  • The  HPE Consumption Analytics platform log in page has been updated to provide more specific help information for each of the supported Single Sign-On (SSO) methods. On the main login page, the "What is this?" help link has been replaced with "More info" links to the following updated/new help pages:
  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • HPE Passport
March 21, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.85 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug:  In Capacity Planning, when you hovered your mouse over the legend for a chart, the mouse pointer would change to indicate a clickable region, but clicking any of the colors or labels in the legend did nothing. With this fix, the mouse pointer no longer changes over the legend, which is intended for reference only.
  • Fixed bug: Under the Data activity, the Inactive/Active toggle for HPE GreenLake collections was acting disabled though it appeared enabled.  The fix was to disable the toggle, in this case.
March 19, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.82 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: A change was made in reporting to handle an error ''No available values' when regular expressions are erroneously used in filters in fields with selection lists.  Fields in the HPE Consumption Analytics platform that show you a selection list of field values will no longer filter by regular expressions, but now accept only a 'Starts with' filter.
March 18, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.82 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: In the Reset Password screen, the Change button was not working with some browsers; this is corrected with this release.
  • Fixed bug: In the Monthly Charges report, the 'Min Contractual Capacity' footnote was displayed when there was no minimum contractual capacity field in the report.  This has been corrected so the footnote will not display if not relevant, and footnote numbering has been corrected accordingly.
  • Fixed bug: In creating a SmartTag, a 'Resource Not Found' error was displayed in the Set Field from Fields overlay, due to a missing icon.  After correction, the error no longer displays. 
  • Fixed bug: When creating a field package under the Data activity, ellipsis icons were displayed in the Add Fields to Field Package overlay, overlapping the checkboxes.  These icons have been removed.
  • Fixed bug: When changing the display currency under Account Preferences, the 'Conversion Stated' information message was closing before you could read it.  The message now displays until you click OK, as intended.
March 7, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.76 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: When logging in to the HPE Consumption Analytics platform, when a new ASM failed to click on the "Get Started" button in the Welcome overlay, they were being forced into demo mode. This has been corrected with this release. 
March 1, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.75 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • From this release, for AWS collections, the VM Provider Type and Purchase Model fields are now being populated for Amazon Redshift and other product types that were not previously supported.
  • If you log in to the HPE Consumption Analytics platform with HPE Passport, you can now resume a paused session using your HPE Passport credentials.
  • The redirect page that displays when an HPE Passport user does not have an HPE Consumption Analytics platform account has been updated.  The text now provides more specific directions for customers and HPE employees, respectively.
  • Fixed bug: On the Capacity Planning page, Committed Capacity was being calculated as Requested * Committed Capacity % , when Override values were entered. This has been corrected so the override value, if specified, is used in lieu of the calculation.
February 21, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.63 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: a customer was seeing incorrect missing data alerts; this was due to the mistiming of usage file processing in data collection, relative to missing data checks and capacity alert checks.  This has been corrected. 
February 15, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.63 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Some forecasting values in capacity planning were negative.  Since capacity can never be less than zero, a change was made for capacity planning only, to stop the values from going below zero. 
February 5, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.59 with the following enhancements:

  • Text related to enabling RI advice was removed from New Data Collection screen for an AWS collection.
  • In-app messaging has been added to notify you of outages and new features.  This is further described in Managing in-app messages.
February 4, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.58 with the following enhancements:

  • To support Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) for partners, two new fields – Customer Rate and Customer Price – have been added to capture what the partner charges the end customers.  These fields will be visible only in partner accounts. To maintain consistent field definitions with customers, the Rate and Cost fields will continue to capture what the partner pays to HPE or the distributor.
  • Collection has been enhanced to process VM usage files in support of VM service configuration and alert processing.
January 30, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.58 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Group filters that were set to be overridden in permissions for a user were still applied in a user's default view. This has been corrected so that capabilities and filters defined for Group are not applied when the user permissions are set to override them.
January 25, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.58 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: in the HPE GreenLake Customer View, the legend had a blank 5th entry, and an extra line was displayed in the chart at 0 for the future months.  This has been fixed and is now working as expected.
January 22, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.55 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • The HPE standard customer authentication service, HPE Passport, has been enabled for the HPE Consumption Analytics platform.
  • PDF export from the Monthly Charges and Capacity Planning pages of the HPE GreenLake Customer View is enabled in this release.
  • Disused fields related to a deprecated feature were removed from the Manage Linked Accounts tab for AWS collections.
  • Fixed bug:  Error 'Failed to parse Synergy Compute usage file' was observed in production logs. This message was changed to a warning in the collection application.
  • Fixed bug:  The PDF export from the Monthly Charges and Capacity Planning pages of the HPE GreenLake Customer View was showing "(0 Estimated Days)" following the "Actual Usage" label when there were no estimated days.  This has been corrected to work as it works in the UI: Estimated Days text is now only shown if the number of estimated days is greater than zero.
January 17, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.51 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug:  Due to the Azure API expiration on Dec. 31st, 2018, it was not possible to create an Azure collection or collect the bill.  This release fixes the Azure collection application.
January 14, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.51 with the following enhancement and bug fix:

  • Collection has been enhanced to process StoreOnce storage usage files in support of StoreOnce service configuration and alert processing.
  • Fixed bug: In Budget Configuration, 'NAN' was displayed in the Difference field when the value in Actual is null. This has been fixed so that the Difference field displays the difference between the target and actual values, whether or not the actual value is null.
January 10, 2019

HPE updated version 2.0.49 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: When a data collection was deleted that had had health checks generated, the health checks were not deleted.  This has been corrected so that when a data collection is deleted, all health checks associated with it will be deleted.  A fix to clean up the orphaned health checks will follow in a later release. 
January 7, 2019

HPE released version 2.0.49 with the following enhancements:

  • You can now drill down to a Detailed Usage report from a link on the Month Charges report for Actual Usage.
  • You can now export the Monthly Charges report in PDF format.
December 13, 2018

HPE released version 2.0.41 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • You can now export capacity planning data in CSV format from the HPE Consumption Analytics platform.
  • Fixed bug: When creating an Insight by copying an existing one, a lock icon displayed, and it wasn't possible to open or modify the copy.  After correction the lock icon no longer displays, and it is now possible to open and edit the copy.
  • Fixed bug: The order of services / locations / meters defined in Monthly Charges in the HPE GreenLake Billing Manager was not reflected in the HPE Consumption Analytics platform Monthly Charges report after saving.  This has been resolved so the change in the former is now reflected in the latter as expected.
  • Fixed bug: After rebranding, search fields were the same color as the background bar.  This has been corrected so the color of the search fields now contrasts with the background bar color.
December 6, 2018

HPE released version 2.0.34 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • Collection has been enhanced to process Synergy Compute usage files in support of Synergy Compute service configuration and alert processing.
  • For HPE GreenLake accounts, the "Contact support" link has been updated with 2 support phone numbers and a link to the Support Center page, per the Terms of Service.
  • Fixed bug: In the Data page, when using the add or copy functions to create new fields, an error was displaying.  This has been resolved so new fields can be created.  
December 4, 2018

HPE updated version 2.0.29 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: When creating a new account, the Example Budget overlay referred to Cloud Cruiser.  This has been corrected to refer to HPE Consumption Analytics platform.
December 2, 2018

HPE released version 2.0.29 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: For 3PAR customers who set Charging Units to GB, the Monthly Charges report shows GB values (with GiB values in parentheses) in the Units column.  In the Committed Capacity and Actual Usage rows, the GiB value was not displaying with the configured precision. This has been resolved so units in all capacity and usage rows are displayed with the correct precision. 
November 27, 2018

HPE released version 2.0.26 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • Collection has been enhanced to process DL server usage files in support of DL service configuration and alert processing.
  • You can now access contextual help directly from the Monthly Charges and Capacity Planning widgets.
  • Fixed bug: When creating a group in permissions, the help text inside the group Name field was "New user's email address".  This text has been removed.
  • Fixed bug: When creating or editing a permissions group, the Save button didn't work unless a data filter was added.  This has been corrected so you can save a group without defining a data filter.
  • Fixed bug: After updating a decimal field's aggregation function and decimal place values in data maintenance, while the aggregation function was correctly updated to use the default in reports, the decimal place value was not. The decimal place value now updates correctly in reports, per the default. 
November 26, 2018

HPE updated version 2.0.22 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • After several occurrences of CC16 tenants with FC data sources becoming disconnected without ability to recover, code cleanup was performed to prevent potential impact on customers by improving code readability and reliability.
  • Fixed bug: Drilldown from Monthly Charges report for blades was showing the wrong value for Enclosure. This was corrected in field mapping.
November 15, 2018

HPE released version 2.0.22 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • A new user now has 30 days to create an account from the date the invitation was sent .
  • Collection has been enhanced to process SAN usage files in support of SAN service configuration and alert processing.
  • The Budgets functionality has been enhanced to apply budget to actual usage, so that budgets make sense in situations where a usage commitment is reported at the beginning of a period and then distributed over individual days, as the account accrues actual usage against it.  The budget documentation at The HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity Customer View and Budgets will be updated with further information on this enhancement.
  • Fixed bug: AWS metrics for a specific customer were not displaying correctly in the HPE Consumption Analytics platform; this was resolved with corrections to the collection logic, and tested successfully.
  • Fixed bug: Buttons in the Group editor were overlapping the content in IE 11.  
  • Fixed bug: For certain customers, blank pages were showing for Capacity Planning when using some "Group By" options. The capacity visualization was updated to take a recent code change into account, which resolved the issue.
November 8, 2018

HPE released version 2.0.16 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • The time before a job task can be retried after being killed prematurely has been shortened.
  • The  shutdown process has been enhanced to ensure the best possibility of job tasks completing and reporting status during service shutdown (e.g., when new versions are deployed), including improved logging to audit any tasks that are still unable to complete.
  • Fixed bug: Typing a date in any field was causing the application to lock up and display dates incorrectly.  Changes were made to date display and error handling logic to correct this.
November 1, 2018

HPE released version 2.0.11 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • Rebranding: This release completes the rebranding of Cloud Cruiser to the HPE Consumption Analytics Portal. 
  • Fixed bug: Several fixes were made to improve support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (IE11).
  • Fixed bug: Detailed help link ("?" button) was not working in IE11 and Mozilla Firefox.
  • Fixed bug: Using the Budget widget in views, it was not possible to delete a budget.  A fix to the widget resolved the issue.
October 28, 2018

HPE updated version 1.61.33 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: For certain customer accounts, numerous internal server errors in budgets were discovered during an Application Health assessment. The issue was traced to invalid data; therefore, validations have been added to the API to prevent recurrence.
  • Fixed bug: Very small numbers in budgets were being displayed in scientific notation (e.g., "1.2344523E-7").  This has been corrected.
October 19, 2018

HPE updated version 1.61.33 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: In capacity planning charts, Installed Capacity and Actual Usage values from the current day were zero, skewing the forecast data. The correction excludes the current date (zero) values from the charts.
October 16, 2018

HPE updated version 1.61.33 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: For Azure VMs, the value in the Units field was incorrect. This resulted from the Microsoft update referenced on October 10, 2018. Corrections have been made to the Units and Operating System field mappings in Azure collection, and to HPE-supplied reports that use filters on the Units field.
  • Fixed bug: For HPE GreenLake accounts, the default view was incorrect. The default view for these accounts is now the HPE GreenLake Customer View.
  • Fixed bug: For HPE GreenLake customer accounts, public cloud Insights were displayed.  Public cloud Insights will now be shown only when the account has one or more AWS, Azure, or GCP collections.
  • Fixed bug: In the Monthly Charges report, Minimum Contractual Capacity was shown when it matched Committed Capacity. Minimum Contractual Capacity is now shown only when it does not match the Committed Capacity.
  • Fixed bug: In the Monthly Charges report, the Committed Capacity was incorrect. It now calculates correctly, or if the Override flag is selected, uses the custom value entered.
October 15, 2018

HPE updated version 1.61.33 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: For 3PAR services, a customer's Monthly Charges report was incorrect. The 3PAR collector has been updated to drop records where Cage Position includes a question mark, and to raise an invalid usage record alert for feeds where Cage Position includes a question mark.
October 10, 2018

HPE updated 1.61.33 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Azure collection was broken after a header change implemented by Microsoft.
  • Fixed bug: Several fixes were made to improve support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (IE11).
October 8, 2018

HPE updated version 1.5.33 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: The Donut widget on the Greenlake summary page had '?' for its icon. This has been replaced by a cloud icon.
October 5, 2018

HPE released version 1.61.33 with the following enhancement:

  • You can now budget on usage quantity as well as cost. When creating a budget, the Budget On control lets you choose whether the budget tracks the amount of the Quantity field or the Cost field. To ensure that a Quantity budget uses consistent units, you must choose a meter for the budget. This new capability of budgeting on quantity is not yet covered in the documentation but will be added soon.
September 8, 2018

HPE released version 1.61.25 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: A report distributed by email was generated for the date range saved in the report itself, not the Time Period specified in the Report Distribution settings.
August 27, 2018

On August 27, HPE updated version 1.61.19 with the following enhancement:

  • HPE Consumption Analytics portal can now read the new header in Azure billing reports unexpectedly introduced by Microsoft late last week. This fixes the broken Azure collection that some customers experienced as a result of Azure's change.
August 22, 2018

On August 22, HPE released version 1.61.19 with the following enhancement:

  • The VM Provider Type and Service Category fields are now correctly populated for usage records pertaining to Microsoft Azure virtual machines after the recent changes to Azure’s billing reports. HPE Consumption Analytics portal fields for VM properties such as VM CPU Count and VM Memory GB might still be populated incorrectly. We expect to release another enhancement shortly to complete our adjustment to the new Azure formatting, which will fix these fields.
August 2, 2018

On August 2, HPE released version 1.61.15 with the following enhancement:

  • A new chart widget is available for displaying data in your views. The Compare Values widget charts the values of two numeric fields for each configured group, allowing you to visually compare them. This widget is best used with two numeric fields that use the same units, as shown in the example below.​​​​​​CompareValues.png
July 19, 2018

On July 19, HPE released version 1.61.11 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: In What-If, when you clicked the cog menu for a model and selected Properties, an error message appeared instead of the properties dialog box.
  • Fixed bug: When editing an Insight, the Results Drilldown menu did not list any reports.
July 12, 2018

On July 12, HPE updated version 1.61.6 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: For some Microsoft Azure customers, some collected data was not loaded into the reporting database, so the results shown in the HPE Consumption Analytics portal UI were incomplete. This was due to a large number of tag fields automatically added by Azure. HPE Consumption Analytics portal now ignores all Azure tag fields whose name includes a UUID.
July 9, 2018

On July 9, HPE released version 1.61.6 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: In the Reports page of the Default View (or another view that includes this page), the list of reports did not include a My Reports section and report names appeared twice in the list.
June 8, 2018

On June 8, HPE released version 1.59.14 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • Users are no longer limited to a single view. In Home (previously called My View), you see your user group's assigned view by default, but can switch to any other view available to you using the menu just to the right of the view name. You can make a view available to a user or group by sharing it with them when saving the view.
  • Azure customers now get values for the Resource Group field for all resources, not just those for which HPE Consumption Analytics portal has Azure subscription access. Resource group names are now collected from the billing CSV file. Values are also converted to all uppercase to remove the inconsistent casing applied by Azure and provide more meaningful reporting.
  • Fixed bug: A user without the Manage Insights permissions capability could not view insights from the Insights Summary widget.
May 30, 2018

On May 30, HPE released version 1.59.5 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: In rare cases, scheduled distribution of PDF reports failed.
May 9, 2018

On May 9, HPE released version 1.59.1, which removed the RI Advisor feature from HPE Consumption Analytics portal. It might return, but there is currently no estimated date for that.

May 7, 2018

On May 7, HPE released version 1.58.12 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: You were unable to edit a permissions group.
  • Fixed bug: For Azure customers using the BOSH service, some collected data was not loaded into the reporting database due to a large number of tag fields automatically added by Azure.
April 20, 2018

On April 20, HPE updated version 1.57.17 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: You could not save a newly-created Insight, and couldn't save changes to an existing Insight.
April 18, 2018

On April 18, HPE released version 1.57.17 with the following enhancements and bug fixes:

  • Multiple Line Charts now use a wider variety of colors, making it easier for a user to match a line in the chart with its name in the legend.
  • Fixed bug: Microsoft Azure internal tags with automatically-generated names were added as fields in HPE Consumption Analytics portal.
  • Fixed bug: An unfinished capacity planning feature was exposed.
  • Fixed bug: Charts and Insights were erroneously limited to just 10 results.
April 5, 2018

On April 5, HPE released version 1.56.4 with the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: For Azure collections, resource group tags were empty for some resources. This was due to inconsistent case in an Azure field that was used for matching resource data to resource group data. Though the matching works correctly going forward, recollecting or reprocessing your Azure collection cannot apply this fix to historical data.
  • Fixed bug: When creating or editing in Insights, there were a few problems. Changing the selected Metric or Group By field had no effect, after selecting a different rule template you couldn't save the insight, and some dropdown menus did not close after you selected a value.
March 9, 2018

On March 9, HPE updated version 1.56.3 with the following bug fix:

  • For some customers, Azure VM metrics were not being collected.
January 31, 2018

On January 31, HPE updated version 1.56.1 with the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: When exporting to Excel (either manually or via distribution) a report with one or more special characters in its name, you received an internal server error. The characters: \ / * ? : [ ]
November 17, 2017

On November 17,  HPE released version 1.56.1, which includes the following enhancement:

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Support Center now provides support for Cloud Cruiser. The Cloud Cruiser support website and support@cloudcruiser.com are no longer supported. To submit a support case, click Contact Support and sign in to HPE Support Center with your HPE Passport ID. If you do not have an HPE Passport ID, click Create an account and follow the instructions.
October 23, 2017

On October 23, HPE updated version 1.55.1, which includes the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: Large AWS bills caused data collection to time out, resulting in missing data.
September 26, 2017

On September 26, HPE updated version 1.55.1, which includes the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: When signing up for a Cloud Cruiser trial from the Get Started page, your Cloud Cruiser account could not be created.
September 20, 2017

On September 20, HPE released version 1.55.1, which includes the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug: When editing a view, report, budget, insight, What-If model, or data collection, refreshing the browser window lost the data you had entered.
  • Fixed bug: When creating a SmartTags rule, the Where Field value was not being saved after you clicked OK.
  • Fixed bug: In SmartTags, when creating a Split Field with two destinations, you were unable to confirm the second destination field.
September 15, 2017

On September 15, HPE released version 1.54.2, which includes the following enhancement:

  • Removed CSV support for uploading usage and billing data.
September 8, 2017

On September 8, HPE released version 1.53.7, which includes the following bug fix:

  • Fixed bug: For some Azure VM types, certain fields were not populated, including Resource Type. This caused VMs of these types to be omitted from Insights results.
September 1, 2017

On September 1, HPE released version 1.53.6, which includes the following enhancement and bug fixes:

  • When your session times out, you can resume your session again. To resume your session, log in and continue with your session. 
  • You can now collect Microsoft Azure metrics without enabling diagnostics settings.
  • Fixed bug: Azure Metrics were missing every 10 days for some VMs and metric collections.
  • Fixed bug: When you clicked the Refresh icon  to refresh new data, the browser would become slower to load data throughout the application.
  • Fixed bug: When loading data, Forecasting displayed errors and stopped responding under certain circumstances.
  • Fixed bug: When recollecting Azure collections, the recollect overwrote old metric files not specified in the recollect date range.

Supported Browsers

You can use any of the following browsers:​

  • Google Chrome 42 and later
  • Microsoft Edge 81 and later
  • Mozilla Firefox 38 and later

Be advised that as of September 30, 2020, the HPE Consumption Analytics platform no longer supports the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) or Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop browser versions.   

This decision follows Microsoft’s August 17, 2020 announcement that support of IE11 and Legacy Edge will be sunsetting in the near future. 

Please use one of the supported browsers listed above.

Operating systems

You can use HPE Consumption Analytics portal from any operating system that can run a supported browser. However, if you are using a Microsoft Windows Server operating system, you must turn off the IE Enhanced Security Configuration option. 

To turn off the IE Enhanced Security Configuration option

  1. Open Microsoft Windows Server Manager.
  2. In the navigation pane, select Local Server.
  3. Next to the IE Enhanced Security Configuration option, click On.
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  4. In the dialog box, change the settings for Users and Administrators to Off, and then click OK.
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Microsoft Windows Server Manager updates to show the IE Enhanced Security Configuration option as Off.
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