Micro Focus Operations Agent 12.12 has been released

  • KM03574068
  • 23-Dec-2019
  • 23-Dec-2019

Summary

Micro Focus Operations Agent 12.12

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Micro Focus is announcing the release of

Product: Micro Focus Operations Agent
Version: 12.12
Languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish

Note: This announcement is accompanied by a refreshed version of Operations Agent 12.12 media. Micro Focus recommends you to use this latest version (published on December 19, 2019), especially if you rely on system infrastructure discovery using the OBM Management Pack for Infrastructure. The Operations Agent 12.12 media has been refreshed to address a specific infrastructure discovery issue.

The following  new key features are available with this version:

Enhanced Security

  • Certificate Revocation List (CRL) support.
  • Security Hardening by default.
  • Certification for SE Linux.
  • Enhanced run-time security on Linux, with stack protection flag.

Quality

  • Fixes for quality improvement feedback, and issues reported by customers.
  • Enhanced pre-install check for Coexistence with other Micro Focus products.

New platform certification

  • RHEL 8
  • SLES 15 SP1
  • Amazon Linux 2
  • OEL 7.7
  • OpenSuSE Leap 15.1
  • RHEL 7.5 for Real Time
  • SLES 15 SP1 PPCLE 64

Third party component upgrade

  • Tomcat upgrade 7.00.096
  • Openssl upgrade 1.0.2t
  • Net SNMP Version 5.8

For more information, please check the Release Notes for this version (available from MySupport).

If you have an active support subscription for these products, please plan for downloading this version from the Software Licenses and Downloads Portal. To access these products in the Software Licenses and Downloads Portal, you will need to sign in with your Micro Focus credentials.

Our goal is to provide you with clear visibility into the support time-line of software products, enabling you to use this information to plan, test, and deploy new product versions. For more information, check our MySupport Software Product Lifecycle pages, where you can find support time-line information for previously released versions. For this newly released version, the following time-line applies (dates subject to change, always check the Software Product Lifecycle pages referenced above for the latest information):

Support time-line
Date Details
Dec 31, 2022 End of Committed Support

Please note that all Micro Focus Operations Agent and Infrastructure SPI, Performance Agent, GlancePlus and GlancePlus Pak customers with active support subscriptions are eligible to update to Micro Focus Operations Agent and Infrastructure SPI 12.12, Performance Agent 12.12, GlancePlus 12.12 and GlancePlus Pak 12.12.