The content files enable SMA Service Portal to connect to Service Manager and empower customers to enable Smart Analytics in Service Manager without the need for a license. Service Manager 9.6x, SM 9.5x and SM 9.41 Codeless are supported.

• Service Portal unload: enables Service Portal to connect to Service Manager
• Smart Search unload: empowers you to enable Smart Search without the need for a Smart Analytics license (this unload is not required for Service Manager 9.62)
• Smart Search Entitlement unload: enables Smart Search to be executed based on the user's entitlement defined in Service Manager (this unload is not required for Service Manager 9.6x)
• The .jar file in idm-client-core-1.10.18.zip enables customers to configure SAML authentication in Service Manager 9.5x by using the idm service embedded in the SMA suite.

For more details, please refer to the documentation here: https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/Service_Management_Automation_-_SM:2019.02/SetUpSMAClassicSM

This package contains SMAX cloud deployment scripts for AWS and Azure deployments.

The package includes Packer and CloudFormation scripts that enable automated deployment on AWS. The Packer scripts mainly create new AMI templates based on the provided CDF installation package, while the CloudFormation scripts perform the majority of the auto-provisioning work for CDF and the suite. Multiple availability zone are supported. For more details, see https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/SMAX:2019.02/InstallSuiteOnAWS

Currently, the Azure deployment scripts only contain some fast-forwarding scripts to ease the Azure infrastructure deployment such as OS tuning and thinpool. For more details, see https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/SMAX:2019.02/installSMAOnAzure

1. Service Portal iOS APP (SMAX only)

You can download the app in Apple Store by searching for "Self-Service Portal" or download it from: .

Please refer to https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/SMAX:2019.02/iOSMobileApp for more details.

2. Service Portal Android APK (SMAX only)

There are multiple service portal enhancements made available in this release. Please go to Google Play and search for "Self-Service Portal" to find the APK or go to the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mf.sma.mobile.app.

Please refer to https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/SMAX:2019.02/AndriodlMobileApp for more details.

Operation toolkit provides the following scripts to ease your operation efforts. The toolkit works for the SMA 2019.02 release only.

1. Backup and Restore

The disaster recovery(DR) toolkit performs a full backup and restoration of the following suite data:

• Suite configuration data: configmap data, certificate files of integration products stored in the global NFS volume, and more.
• Business data: content and configuration data stored in the Smart Analytics (IDOL) NFS volume, and attachments that users have submitted to Service Portal tickets, and more.

For SMA-X, please refer to https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/SMAX:2019.02/BackUpAndRestore

For SMA-SM, please refer to https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/Service_Management_Automation_-_SM:2019.02/BackUpAndRestore

2. Change FQDN

Use the script in itom-sma-change-fqdn-2019.xx.tar.gz to change the FQDN of your suite environment.

For SMA-X, please refer to https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/SMAX:2019.02/SMAXChangeFQDN

For SMA-SM, please refer to https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/Service_Management_Automation_-_SM:2019.02/SMAXChangeFQDN

3. RabbitMQ Fixing tool

This script is used for fixing the issues with RabbitMQ in the SMA suite. The supported versions are 2018.05 and above. Please refer to the readme file in fix_rabbitmq-2019.xx-xx.tar.gz for details.

4. Integration User Password Change

SMA has a system-defined user (bo-integration@dummy.com) for internal integration purposes (for example, for data synchronization between Suite Administration and tenants). You may need this user's password when running certain tools provided by Micro Focus. Use this script (changeIntegrationUserPwd.sh) in changeIntegrationUserPwd-2019.xx-xx.tar.gz to change this user's password for best security.

For SMA-X, please refer to https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/SMAX:2019.02/ChangeSystemIntegrationUserPass

For SMA-SM, please refer to https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/Service_Management_Automation_-_SM:2019.02/ChangeSystemIntegrationUserPass

5. Database and Sysadmin Password Change

There are two scripts in initom-sma-operation-tool-2019.xx-xx.tar.gz.

• The action_change_db_pwd.py can help you apply external Database changes to the suite if you change an external PostgreSQL password which is not managed by the SMA suite. For more information, please refer to https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/SMAX:2019.02/SyncDBPasswords and https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/Service_Management_Automation_-_SM:2019.02/SyncDBPasswords.

Usage: action_change_db_pwd.py [-h] -d {UCMDB,Idm,Service Management,Suite Administration, SmartAnalytics, Autopass} [--version]

• The action_change_sysadmin_pwd.py script is used to synchronize sysadmin password into IDM after the UCMDB service changes the sysadmin password. For more information, please refer to https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/SMAX:2019.02/SyncSysadminPassword

6. Clean Thinpool

As the SMA Suite has multiple releases and now the thinpool device usage becomes quite high, the clean_thinpool.sh script in clean_thinpool-2019.xx-xx.tar.gz can be used to purge all unused images in the cache to release thinpool space significantly.

For more information, please refer to https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/SMAX:2019.02/PerformVersionUpdate

7. SMAX IDOL Re-index

Use this script to trigger a re-index process in SMAX.

Notes:

1. The script triggers a re-index process. The whole process may take hours depending on your data size and the hardware capacity (CPU, memory and storage I/O).
2. The search functionality is temporarily unavailable during the re-index process.
3. You must use Python 2.7 or above on the master node of the suite.
4. You must have the "root" privilege to execute the script.

Please follow the steps in the README file in SMAX_search_reindex-2019.xx-xx.tar.gz.

1. System Check

The diagnostic tool (system_check.sh in diagnostic_tool-2019.xx-xx.tar.gz) in this release is enhanced to gather a log file from the NFS server for unready pods and to create a package to collect all information. Run this script on the master nodes, worker nodes, and NFS server as needed.

• Usage:
  • ./system_check.sh (the log file will be put in the /tmp folder)
  • ./system_check.sh -l /<user-defined path>/ ( all log files under the <user defined path>)

2. Check Resource

The script check_resources.py in check_resources-2019.xx-xx.tar.gz is used to check CPU and memory usages of each POD for a running SMA Suite. It is useful for checking the system health of the SMA Suite.

• Usage:
  • Before running this script, you need to install python 2.7 or above.
  • python ./check_resources.py

This feature provides key capabilities for SMAX customers to integrate with Service Manager (9.41, 9.5x and 9.6x) to:

• Aggregate catalogs from Service Manager
• Fulfill requests in Service Manager
• Track requests in SMAX portal(as a single systems of record)

Please follow the instruction to apply the unload https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/SMAX:2019.02/ServiceCatalogAggregation. If you have any suggestions or questions, please go to SMA Customer Community to post a Topic.

The unload file is not updated in this release. You can get it from SMA2018.08 marketplace.

The SMA Virtual Agent (Chatbot) function helps end user to quickly find answers related to their questions. The virtual agent can understand messages from end users in natural language. Support tickets can be created via the virtual agent if end users cannot find answers from the knowledge base. This will save real agent's time from interaction with end users. Service Requests can also be created via the virtual agent if end users cannot find the correct service offerings within the portal. Please note this is a Beta feature in SMA2018.05 release, the feature can work only with SMAX/SMA-SMA 2018.05 or above.

Should you have any questions, please go to SMA Customer Community to post a Topic. The function will be officially released and supported in future release.

Integration content for SMAX 2019.02:

• OO SMAX content pack (https://marketplace.microfocus.com/itom/content/oo-service-management-automation-x-smax-content)
• OMi integration script (https://marketplace.microfocus.com/itom/content/omi-integration-with-service-management-automation)
• SharePoint connector (https://marketplace.microfocus.com/itom/content/sharepoint-connector)

Feature Tracker in SMA-SM provides enhanced capabilities to allow the management of an end-to-end development lifecycle. The module utilizes an integration into version control systems to keep track of all your application changes. It enables you to manage and maintain objects changed for tailoring purpose inside SMA-SM upon integration with a Git code repository. In addition the solution helps to simplify the CI/CD process for Service Manager releases. It offers capabilities to commit all code changes, but also deploy all code changes into different environments from within SMA-SM application itself. The solution also provides entitlement capabilities to ensure that a "Review Based Development" approach can be followed, which means that only users with special permissions are able to commit code or deploy code.

In order to enable this feature, you need go to https://marketplace.microfocus.com/itom/content/sm-devops-support to download the unload and apply it to your SMA-SM.

Please make sure to download the latest v1.10 package and refer to the documents packaged in it for more details on how to install and configure.