Manufacturing Connect 2.12.0

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Release Date: July 18, 2023

New Features

Description
License Server Management: A new License Clients tab allows you to create activation requests for devices to connect to the license server through a proxy.
MDE Settings: A new Analytics feature is now available in MDE version 1.3.0, which includes the following: New or updated metadata concepts. Metadata buckets will only have one schema. Metadata buckets can only be attached to tags through Types. There are now two bucket types: metadata and tag metadata. New buckets flags. Old flags will be deprecated. You can display all values from a given bucket. Updated Type concepts. Two major categories of Types. Default types: Provided by MDE and read-only. Custom types: Defined by users. Both are identical but default types can't be edited and are displayed differently. New Type configuration components. Edge metadata Tag metadata Updated parser structure New real-time service, allowing better real-time metrics. The following can be provided in real-time: Total messages Messages per tag Last ten tag values Throughput of each stage of the system New transformation framework. New archetypes.
User Interface: A new standalone MDE UI application is available in MDE version 1.2 and later.

Enhancements and Improvements

Description
Support: Clickhouse logs and upgrade logs are now available in support bundles.
Activation: If there is an unsuccessful activation through the license server, more details are now included in the error message to assist in troubleshooting. You now have the option of automatically applying the default password policy in Manufacturing Connect to activated devices. When you activate an edge device, the Google Pub/Sub connector is automatically created with a custom attribute. The attribute name is mce_hostname, and the attribute value is the hostname, which includes the MAC address.
Settings: You have the option storing edge device data (OMA and RAW) in Clickhouse. You can configure the backup retention policy for edge device data by setting the number of backups to store.

Resolved Issues

Description
Edge Devices: Fixed issue where expired site-based licenses do not display their expired status.
Marketplace: Fixed issue with an older Docker version causing the Marketplace Catalog app to crash.
Templates: Fixed issue with NTP, DNS, Timezone, Country, and Docker Data being automatically added to templates.
Upgrade: Fixed issue with being able to downgrade Manufacturing Connect to an earlier version. Fixed issue with not being able to upgrade Manufacturing Connect Edge through Manufacturing Connect.
Users: Fixed issue with an incorrect success message displaying after an unsuccessful attempt to add a user.

Known Issues

Description
Marketplace: Marketplace applications may not launch successfully after upgrading from an older version of Manufacturing Connect.
Templates: Uploading a template file circumvents the 512 character limit for Template Description. Two or more templates can share the same description.
Upgrade: If you upgrade Manufacturing Connect, activated edge devices may display as offline and you will need to reboot Manufacturing Connect to view the devices as online.
Backup: After restoring a backup, the Grafana dashboard may not display.
Edge Devices: The disk usage data for edge devices may not display correctly and hide the value. The Docker version of Manufacturing Connect may not display events after enabling the Forward Events feature.
Settings: If you create a custom topic, the prefix for the topic may be incorrect.

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