Product Updates
2023

Manufacturing Connect Edge 3.5.5

2min

Release Date: June 1, 2023

Resolved Issues

Description

Integration:

  • Fixed issue with data no longer being sent by an updated connector or any other existing connector because a topic is added to the updated connector.

DeviceHub:

  • Fixed issue with Opcode functions (135,166, 206) not displaying all parameters in the ROC800 Ethernet driver.

System:

  • Fixed login issues with the Terminal User Interface after changing the password.

Known Issues

Description

Terminal User Interface (TUI):

  • A user with the “Viewer” permission is able to access the Terminal User Interface and access all options.
  • No error message displays if a user leaves the username or password field blank and clicks Apply.
  • You may be kicked out of the TUI screen unexpectedly.
  • You can’t add add a site license or add-on license through the TUI.
  • You can’t successfully use the activation and deactivation function in the TUI.
  • When the initial reboot sequence starts, you may be able to access the main menu and make changes before the reboot initialization finishes and the reboot occurs.
  • Some fields, such as Cloud Activation URL and Docker Subnet, accept blank entries before submitting.
  • When attempting Cloud Activation, there is no option to cancel the request or wait for a timeout.
  • The Managed Services section may not display any options.
  • If an admin user cancels the end-user license agreement (EULA) and logs in again to the TUI, they are still able to access all TUI options and make changes.
  • When using VirtualBox, a "Login incorrect" message may display on the TUI during startup.

System:

  • You may not be able to add a Mount Point successfully in System > External Storage.
  • The Up and Down options may not work in System > LDAP/AD Auth.
  • When activating Manufacturing Connect Edge from Manufacturing Connect with a node-locked license, the activation may complete successfully but an error message may display and the license may not migrate successfully.
  • Manufacturing Connect should not be able to apply templates to Manufacturing Connect Edge devices activated with a trial license.
  • When you select a time zone in System > Network > Configure, the selection in the drop-down list may display [object Object].
  • When you try to upgrade with an invalid license key, no error message displays.
  • After activating Manufacturing Connect Edge with Manufacturing Connect, you may have to manually refresh the browser window to see the activated license.
  • The Docker version of Manufacturing Connect Edge may not list events for DeviceHub, Connectors, and Flows.
  • The same license activated on different servers may display a different expiry date on each server.
  • A new XML file is created every time the OPC UA hierarchy is updated.
  • Large template files may not be restored successfully.
  • When uploading a template, the error message "License sync exceeded" may incorrectly display.
  • Errors may occur when trying to generate support bundles.
  • When you click Reset Policy in System > Policy Management, any values entered should reset.
  • Basic authorization for an API Key created in System > Tokens may not work for the Docker version of Manufacturing Connect Edge.

DeviceHub:

  • Search doesn’t work when the DriverName parameter is used.
  • You can’t update the retention hours of a DeviceHub device with a value of 0.
  • Multiple meta data values are able to be added while only the first one is saved.
  • When more than 11 DeviceHub devices are added, some of the devices may get stuck in “Polling” status.
  • If Only Publish on Change of Value is selected for a tag, you subscribe to the poll-once topic of the tag in the Flows Manager, and use the inject node, only the first value will display in the debug window.
  • Tag values aren’t saved in downloaded CSV files for tags that generate JSON objects.
  • Downloaded logs may contain invalid characters.
  • CAN devices may not get detected on HPE EL300.
  • If you stop DeviceHub devices and reboot Manufacturing Connect Edge, the devices may re-connect.
  • Arrays for Gen 2 drivers are not published correctly.
  • Adding an LZ register for the Mitsubishi FX5U Ethernet (Gen1) driver may cause errors.
  • The endianness sequence for the AB PLC5 Ethernet (Gen1) driver is incorrect.
  • The AB CompactLogix Ethernet FreeTag (Gen2) driver contains a spare word in write requests.
  • When using Browse Tags for the OPC UA Client Advanced driver, the Select all function may not work.
  • When the Siemens S7-Advanced (Gen1) driver is disconnected, the memory of the process increases over time until it is stopped by oom_killer.
  • The OPC UA Client Advanced driver may not be able to connect to some OPC UA servers.
  • When the OPC UA Client Advanced driver is in Subscribe mode, the published timestamp value is when the client gets data from the OPC UA server, rather than the tag's serverTimestamp value.
  • When you use Device Discovery for the BacnetIP driver and enter the eth0 broadcast address, BASpi devices won't display in the list of discovered devices.
    • Workaround: Enter 0.0.0.0 in the Network_address field and the BASpi device should display in the list of discovered devices.

Applications:

  • When you run a Docker command in Applications > Containers, an error message may display even though the application is created.
  • After installing several Marketplace applications and then trying to download the template, an error may occur.
  • When running the InfluxDB application, the application may fail with no error message on the cause of the failure.

Integration:

  • If you add an inbound or outbound topic to the Google Pub/Sub connector without an SA key, the connector fails.

Analytics:

  • If you add flows to the Analytics canvas, add the Database Batch Input processor, connect an external DataHub database in DataHub, and then refresh the page, an error may occur.
  • The formatting of the Tengo Script processor dialog should be indented correctly.
  • The Export option on the Analytics canvas may not work successfully.
  • An error may persist for the Change of Value node even after resetting Manufacturing Connect Edge.
  • An error message may display after connecting a Statistical Prediction node to a Moving Average node.

Flows Manager:

  • The Flows Manager should only store two rotated copies of logs and clean the rest.
  • New flows may not be displayed unless Manufacturing Connect Edge is rebooted.