What’s New in This Release

Introduction

GridGain® Web Console is a free monitoring and management tool for Apache® Ignite™ and GridGain applications. The latest Web Console 2019.10 release adds new features, a new architecture, and simplifies installation and configuration.

New Feature: Updated Web Console Architecture

Previous releases of Web Console were based on NodeJS and required an externally managed MongoDB database to store configuration, user profiles, metrics information, and more. In 2019.10, we updated the Web Console architecture to be a pure Java web application which runs on SpringBoot and uses Apache Ignite Persistence to store configuration information and metadata. You will no longer need to install NodeJS or an external MongoDB to run Web Console.

New Feature: Dashboard Metrics for Apache Ignite and GridGain Community Edition

Previously, on premise Apache Ignite and GridGain Community Edition users of Web Console only had access to the Configuration and SQL Queries screens. Web Console 2019.10 adds Dashboard Metrics as basline functionality for Web Console. Additional Gridgain Enterprise and Ultimate Edition features like Data Center Replication, Rolling Upgrades, Snapshots, etc. are activated based on the detected license of the connected clusters, caches, and nodes.

New Feature: Backward Compatibility for Apache Ignite and GridGain Clusters

Web Console 2019.10 adds the ability to manage multiple versions of clusters simultaneously. The following versions of Apache Ignite and GridGain have been certified with Web Console 2019.10.

  • Apache Ignite 2.5.0

  • Apache Ignite 2.7.5

  • GridGain 8.4.4+

  • GridGain 8.5.x

  • GridGain 8.7.x

New Feature: Data Center Replication Improvements

A number of usability improvements and enhancements for Data Center Replication are included in this Web Console release.

  • Pause and Resume Data Replication. Addition options have been added to the Data Replication screen to give users more control over the replication process. This includes a new button to Pause and Resume replication.

  • Additional Data Replication properties added to Configuration screen

  • Additional status events added to Sender and Receiver tabs to provide more information on data flow from Hubs

  • New Alerts have been added for Data Center Replication events. This includes the follow event types:

    • Remote node connected and disconnected

    • Cache replication started and stopped

    • Cache Full State Transfer started, finished, or failed

    • DR Store corrupted

    • DR Store overflow

    • Replication Paused

    • Replication Resumed

Installation and Upgrade Information

  • Migration. For customer moving from Web Console 8.7.6 and older, migration script are shipped to help migrate configuration information stored in MongoDB to the new persistence standard introduced in Web Console 2019.10. Please see the Migration Guide documentation for additional information.

  • Direct Install. On premise installation has been simplified to a single, self contained zip file. Please see the Deployng Web Console documentation for setup and configuration details.

  • Docker Deployment. Docker-based deployments now use a web-console-frontend and web-console-backend image which can be setup through a simple docker-compose.yml. Web Console Docker images are now publicly available on DockerHub. Please see the Deploying Web Console for Docker documentation for additional configuration information.

Fixed Issues

287 Issues and Enhancements were fixed and added in this release.

This list includes the following:

GG-18321

General

Web Console: Re-implemented backend on GridGain and Spring Boot

GG-24007

General

Web Console: Version schema changed to YYYY.MM.pp

GG-23443

General

Agent now supports encrypted password

GG-24054

General

Do not overwrite caches/models whens saving GG config

GG-24055

General

Update WC help menu links

GG-22803

General

Add "Help" menu with useful links to Web Console header

GG-18054

General

Added info about cluster edition to "Nodes" table on "Monitoring" screen

GG-17784

General

Fixed usability issue when cluster has caches with groups

GG-18011

Baseline Topology

Added column with node type: coordinator/server on "Baseline" screen

GG-21374

Baseline Topology

Implemented support for auto adjust baseline mode on "Baseline" screen

GG-17563

DR

Fixed "Ignored DC" list on "Configuration/DR Sender settings" screen

GG-17657

DR

Fixed DR code generation

GG-17777

DR

Fixed DR screens to correctly work with different clusters

GG-18487

DR

Added missing DR properties on "Configuration" screen

GG-18511

DR

Added "Pause/Resume/Bootstrap" actions on "Data Center Replication" screen

GG-22972

DR

Display remote hub and DC connection status on "DR/sender" screen

GG-23366

DR

Added support for alerts on DR events

GG-23825

DR

Fixed clearing of data on Data Replication pages on the cluster lost

GG-24050

DR

DR events added to cluster configuration wizard

GG-17530

Snapshots

Removed duplicate confirmation on snapshot move

GG-17952

Snapshots

Implemented restore to point-in-time and restore from common folder on "Snapshots" screen

GG-18053

Snapshots

Added support for Cron expressions in snapshots schedules

GG-18097

Snapshots

Added confirmation on changing snapshot schedule enabled state

GG-18337

Snapshots

Added progress visualization for snapshot operations

GG-18403

Snapshots

Added compression option on Snapshots screen

GG-17573

Snapshots

Disable "Snapshots" screen if this functionality not available in cluster

GG-17758

Snapshots

Fixed snapshot availability detection logic

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