Cumulocity IoT Edge 10.4
Cumulocity IoT Edge Release 10.4, April 2019, includes the improvements listed below.
Apama Analytics Builder
Cumulocity IoT Edge now includes Apama Analytics Builder. Analytics Builder provides self-service analytics to the domain experts, allowing web-based drag & drop of streaming analytics applications.
You can access Apama Analytics Builder from the Cumulocity IoT app switcher:
See Apama Analytics Builder for Cumulocity IoT for the complete documentation.
Cumulocity IoT platform
Cumulocity IoT Edge 10.4 release is based on the 10.4.0 release of the Cumulocity IoT platform. Therefore all new features in the Administration, Cockpit and Device Management application and related APIs are now also available in Cumulocity IoT Edge.
Specifically new features are:
Administration
- Single sign-on with the OAuth2 protocol is now possible, including Azure AD integration. See Administration > Changing settings > Configuring single sign-on in the Users guide for details.
- In addition to the “user name” used to authenticate a user, an administrator can now also specify a “login alias” for a user. This allows to change the displayed name (e.g. after a change of name or email address) without changing the ID (user name). The user can login using the original “user name” or the “login alias”.
- An alarm is now raised when the data broker cannot connect to the cloud or when the queue is full.
Cockpit
- A new button Clear all to clear all alarms at once (after confirmation) has been added.
Device Management
- Under Device Registration, the most recent pending device registration is shown on top.
- The “Group assignment” widget has been improved: the dropdown menu highlights matching groups and hides groups which do not contain the provided text in their name.
- It is now possible to delete device credentials when removing root devices.
- The event list in the Events tab can now be filtered by manually entering an event type.
- It is now possible to bulk-register devices from an uploaded list of serial numbers.
- Number of unresolved alarms by severity will be shown in alarms overview (also in Cockpit application).
Other
- A new version of the Web SDK has been released, supporting Angular version 7.
- With MQTT, devices can now be updated using JSON.
For further details, refer to the Cumulocity IoT platform release notes.
VMWare as main hypervisor
With Cumulocity IoT Edge 10.4 release, VMWare-based hypervisors are the preferred choice for Cumulocity IoT Edge production installations. Detailed changes are:
- In addition to VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation Player is supported.
- VirtualBox support is marked as “non production”.
Edge packaging and installation
Edge installation has been improved as follows:
- The post-installation tool has been updated with more error checks, see Setting up Cumulocity IoT Edge > Configuration.
- The IP address is now easily configurable, see Setting up Cumulocity IoT Edge > Accessing the Cumulocity platform.
- Disk size is now expandable.
- Time synchronization requirements are now documented.
- The email service is now configurable, see Operating Cumulocity IoT Edge > Administration and configuration. This can be used to send “Forgot password” emails and to configure Smart Rules that send emails.