What's New in Report Manager
In addition to addressing a range of Partner-reported bugs, Report Manager 5.0 SP6 also includes several noteworthy changes:
- The branding of Report Manager has been updated to use the N-able color scheme and logo.
- The minimum version of .NET that Report Manager requires is now .NET 4.7.
- The performance of the Fact Transform – Availability package has been improved.
- In order to improve the security of your data, exporting data from N-central to Report Manager is now done over a reverse SSH tunnel.
Please refer to the Fixed Bugs section further in the Release Notes for a detailed list of the bugs addressed by this release.
Our release also includes over 20 bug fixes!
End of Support and Deprecation Notices
In the table below we have listed items that will no longer be supported or will be deprecated in future releases.
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 | Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is no longer supported. Support had been discontinued for any new versions of Report Manager released after June 1st, 2017. A failure message appears if Report Manager is installed on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. |
| Windows Server 2008 R2 | Windows Server 2008 R2 is no longer supported. Support had been discontinued for any new versions of Report Manager released after June 1st, 2017. A failure message appears if Report Manager is installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. |
| Report Model | The Report Model reporting tool has been removed. All associated stock reports have been updated accordingly. Custom reports will need to be updated manually. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 no longer support report model projects. |
| SEM Patch ETL and database tables | The SEM patch tables in the database and their corresponding ETLs have been deprecated following a corresponding deprecation in N-able N-central several versions ago. |
| Availability Hourly ETL and tables | The AvailabilityHourly ETL and database tables have been removed. Stock Reports now use it’s sister table “FactAvailability”. Custom reports will need to be updated manually. |
| Deprecated Reports | N-able is considering to deprecate some reports that have had little to no uptake. The reports will be deprecated in upcoming releases, and communicated in the Report Manager discussion forums and blogs. |