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Gateway Update Notification and Auto update for Enterprise Gateway

Vote (822)

Pedro Innecco on 09 Apr 2016 00:57:05

We should be notified when there is a new version of both gateways. In addition, the Enterprise gateway should be updated automatically (admins should be able to turn this on/off).

Administrator on 21 Jun 2016 05:18:08

Thanks for suggesting, this item is on our backlog.

Comments (84)

edh on 05 Jul 2020 23:10:34

RE: Gateway Update Notification and Auto update for Enterprise Gateway

This is a critical need. Currently the only way to get a notification is when the gateway fails and we start getting Power BI refresh failures.

Now that we have a cluster, need the notifications on a node basis.

Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:04:00

RE: Gateway Update Notification and Auto update for Enterprise Gateway

Yes, this is totally necessary. The Nov 2017 release totally broke our gateway and we never had issues in the past. We went this to actually do a good job updating (Im on Windows 2012 R2 server). Pretty standard hardware and software. We should be able to pick a time too, so it doesn't interfere and don't forget a date. The ADF gateway has this feature already for time, but not date.

Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:04:00

RE: Gateway Update Notification and Auto update for Enterprise Gateway

If I could vote 10 times, I would!!!

David Cresp on 05 Jul 2020 23:03:57

RE: Gateway Update Notification and Auto update for Enterprise Gateway

This is really important given that not updating to the September version of the Gateway meant that our reports stopped refreshing.

Anthony on 05 Jul 2020 23:00:38

RE: Gateway Update Notification and Auto update for Enterprise Gateway

I'd like a bit more functionality. I imagine most users will not view the server the gateway is installed on's desktop regularly and so a popup window or any 'alerts' within the gateway window will not be sufficient.

Ideally the gateway should be able to send 'alerts's somehow, or log event log entries that can then be polled by other 'alerts'ing software to generate an email 'alerts' for the server admin team.

Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:24

RE: Gateway Update Notification and Auto update for Enterprise Gateway

Just more than necessary !!!!

Ron Pitts on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:24

RE: Gateway Update Notification and Auto update for Enterprise Gateway

Agree that it would be nice to update however it depends how good the auto update experience is, e.g. we dont want the auto update to break during the patching because of various config changes in versions, etc.

jerome P on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:23

RE: Gateway Update Notification and Auto update for Enterprise Gateway

this is helpful when the gateway is forgotten on a server somewhere and the IT members didn't check for new releases.

Marco Russo on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:23

RE: Gateway Update Notification and Auto update for Enterprise Gateway

Not having the automatic update on the gateway is a very bad idea. Users relying on the gateway might have their reports not working every time there is an update of Power BI Desktop.

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:40:29

RE: Gateway Update Notification and Auto update for Enterprise Gateway

Is there an option to 'alerts' few users when the gateway is not reachable/error/stopped. We are not having any way to monitor the gateway now. If Power BI can send an 'alerts' to the admins if the gateway is not reachable then that would help. I am seeing this issue a lot for direct connections

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