New, Powerful Infrastructure Monitoring Capabilities Delivered in DX UIM 23.4 Cumulative Update 3

DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) from Broadcom is a cornerstone enterprise solution that can be employed for precise and powerful infrastructure monitoring. For many enterprises, DX UIM is central to their overall observability strategy. Over the years, ongoing enhancements to DX UIM have supported continual changes in modern enterprise environments and cemented the solution’s strong position as the single source of truth for all aspects of infrastructure monitoring. With DX UIM, customers tackle tool sprawl and improve mean time to resolution (MTTR).

With the General Availability of Cumulative Update 3 (CU 3) in its GA series, DX UIM 23.4 adds a host of innovative features and enhancements that bring new value to users, while maintaining the strong security that is critical for enterprise deployments. Additionally, this update marks a significant step forward in providing comprehensive observability and management capabilities for modern IT environments.

Monitoring Governance Report

One of the most requested features from our customers, the Monitoring Governance Report, provides a new, one-stop location for users to review everything about anything being monitored by DX UIM. The report allows users to identify monitoring gaps and sub-optimally monitored entities in their environment. The report offers an easy-to-use view that details what is being monitored—and, by extension, what is not. This report also offers the following insights:

• How is the entity being monitored.
• Which probes are used with which profiles.
• What thresholds are set up for these monitored metrics.
• Information about data recency, which is derived from the timestamp and value of the last data point collected.

Improved support for topology and observability use cases

Another significant improvement in DX UIM 23.4 CU 3 is the end-to-end update of multiple components in the architectural backbone. This enhances how DX UIM handles infrastructure topology as well as all associated data points. As a result, DX UIM can provide a more accurate representation of the infrastructure topology it monitors for supported probes, as well as for all subsequent probe releases, with updates for capturing accurate infrastructure topology data. This allows teams to deploy DX UIM with confidence in enterprises that are shifting from traditional monitoring to more advanced Infrastructure Observability using DX Operational Observability (DX O2).

Single sign-on (SSO)

In recent releases, we’ve continued to strengthen the security stance of DX UIM, supporting deployment in highly regulated enterprise environments. DX UIM 23.4 CU 3 is now fully SSO enabled across the Administrator Console (AC) and Operator Console (OC). This capability leverages SiteMinderTM as the access management platform, and Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) as the identity provider. This enables tools administrators to support federated authentication and access control use cases, such as:

• Automatic sign-in on DX UIM AC/OC portals when a user is logged in via the SSO provider.
• DX UIM AC/OC portals to perform user logout when the user is logged out on the SSO provider.
• Automatic logout from DX UIM AC/OC portals when the SAML token (and thereby the session ID) expires.

HTTPS support for IM GUI

The Infrastructure Manager (IM) thick client has been enhanced to support connecting to the monitoring probes’ web archive (support.nimsoft.com) over the secure HTTPS protocol. This enhancement offers continued support for those customers who are still using the legacy interface to connect to the web archive, enabling continued access once the use of the unsecure HTTP protocol is revoked.

To learn about additional fixes and enhancements delivered in DX UIM 23.4 CU 3, please refer to the release notes here. You will find information on enhancements that improve the overall quality and stability of the product.