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IBM is pleased to announce the availability of IBM Endpoint Manager for Server Automation 9.2.
This release contains a number of enhancements that expand our platform support, improve speed and efficiency of automation plans (e.g. Parallel paths and new search icon), improve step failure handling and provides example automation plans to accelerate time to value.
New Major Features & Enhancements:
IBM Endpoint Manager V9.2 support
IBM Endpoint Manager for Server Automation runs on the IBM Endpoint Manager 9.2 platform.
The ability to select between sequential and parallel plan types
When creating an automation plan, you can select between a sequential or parallel plan type. This lets you create simple sequential plans for less complex automation scenarios and parallel plans for more advanced automation scenarios, where you want plan steps to be executed concurrently.
Usability Enhancement - New search icon to search for steps and targets
When adding steps to a plan or assigning targets to steps in a plan, the list of available steps or targets are no longer loaded by default. Instead, you now use a search icon when adding steps or assigning targets. This improves performance and usability.
The ability to set a step failure threshold in plans
You can now set step failure thresholds for each step in your plan. Setting a failure threshold means you can specify a percentage of failing targets that defines the success or failure of the step.
New fixlets for the deployment and configuration of Microsoft SQL Server 2008R2 and 2012
New fixlets that support automated patching of nodes in Microsoft Exchange 2010 and 2013 clusters
New sample automation plans
Several new sample automation plans have been added.
For further information on IBM Endpoint Manager for Server Automation 9.2, please refer to the online Knowledge Center.