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7th March 2022

Scope

We have worked hard to deliver a great MindSphere Private Premium experience, but we are still tracking some known issues. If you find others, please give us your feedback by contacting our MindSphere Support.

We recommend that you read the following release notes carefully. These notes contain important information for installation and use.

These release notes are relevant for MindSphere Private Premium Release in March 2022.

MindSphere Private Cloud

Within this release of MindSphere Private Cloud, you will experience the MindSphere services and applications in the same way with from our public cloud offerings.

Depending on the chosen plans and services for each deployment, the following services will be available with this release:

  • Asset Manager
  • Event Management
  • Integrated Data Lake
  • IoT Time Series
  • IoT TS Aggregates Service
  • Notification Service
  • Settings
  • Usage Transparency

Asset Management

What's new?

  • It is now possible to delete individual variables from aspect types even if there are already assets instantiated for this type.
  • Within this release, the following technical hard limits are enforced for new capability package tenants:
Object Type Technical/hard limit
Variable (static and dynamic) defined in an AspectType 20
Aspects associated with an AssetType 30
Static/Direct variable on a AssetType 25
Max depth in AssetType hierarchy 5
Max depth in Asset hierarchy 20
Max Attribute count per asset 200

Modelling recommendations (in case of error on exceeded technical limits):

Error Message Recommendation
Aspect type cannot be created as aspect type variables technical limit exceeded for tenant. Please reduce the number of variables in aspect type. 1. Reduce the number of variables in aspect type.
2. Split variables across multiple aspect types.
e.g., 30 variables on an aspect type can be split across 2 aspect types with 15 variables each.
Asset type cannot be created as asset type aspect technical limit exceeded for tenant. Please reduce the number of assettype-aspecttype associations. Reduce the number of aspects on asset type by increasing variables per aspect, but make sure that variables per aspect are within limit of 20.
Asset type cannot be created as asset type direct variable technical limit exceeded for tenant. Please reduce the number of direct variables in asset type. Reduce the number of direct variables on the asset type by shifting them over to a reusable aspect type.

Asset Manager

What's new?

  • The users will now be able to rename variables on an aspect-type and rename aspects of an asset-type.
  • With this release, the MindConnect system is enabled to perform mass firmware updates from the "Connectivity view" of Asset Manager.

Event management

What's new?

  • Event management application provides API to create the events in bulk. The current limit is 50 events at a time.With this release, the bulk API will have higher limits for event creation i.e. 150 events at a time.

Integrated Data Lake

What's new?

  • Within this release, we have Improved user interface for search providing a combination of parameters & operators to search objects within Integrated Data Lake.
  • It is now possible to view images associated with the objects from within the Integrated Data Lake Plugin in Fleet Manager.

IoT Time Series Service

What's new?

  • Within this release, we provide supporting timeseries data access based on the new Ability to remove and rename variable.

IoT TS Aggregate Service

Advance information:

IoT timeseries Aggregate V3 API is planned to be deprecated by mid of April' 2022. Please migrate to upgraded version V4 API.

MindConnect IoT2040

What's new?

  • Within this release, we have enabled OPC debug logs via UI for debugging.

MindConnect Nano

What's new?

  • Within this release, we have enabled OPC debug logs via UI for debugging.

Notification Service

What's new?

  • Within this release, we provide Template Support feature parity for Emails.

Settings

What's new?

  • Within this release, the available modules and functions in Settings are now grouped in the left-hand navigation bar.
  • In the Settings application, you will find a new tab called Policies which you can use to create access policies for your users and assets as well as IDL files (if available in your tenant). These access policies allow you to configure fine-grained access. During the first stage of our roll out we only grant access to the new feature set upon request. To utilize our Resource Access Management service, please contact your sales representative.

Note

Enabling Secure Data Sharing in your tenant will restrict access for every non Tenant Admin user. For this reason we also provide the option of a two-phase roll out which gives you the opportunity to create policies before access enforcement is enabled.

Variations

The following table shows the variations for Private Standard:

Offering Currently not available on Private Cloud
Asset Manager - Contract Administration (OData contracts for Mendix Datahub)
- Native MQTT (MQTT certificate management for MQTT agents)
Developer Cockpit Use of Cloud Foundry on Private Cloud.
Integrated Data Lake Modified Search
Message Broker API version 5
MindConnect Service Not available
MindConnect Software Agent Not available

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