What's new
New features, capabilities, and coverage are available in the latest release.
- For information about the agent version in each release or refresh, see Change history.
- For detailed system requirements, see the Software Product Compatibility Reports for IBM® Cloud Application Performance Management - Agents V8.1. Expand the Report filters twistie, click Edit, select the agents and data collectors that you want to view, and then click Apply. The detailed information such as operating systems, prerequisites, and supported software is displayed for you.
What's new for the March 2024 refresh of V8.1.4.0.21
- Expanded platform support for agents
-
- Added support for Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 9.0 on x86_64 for the following agents:
- Microsoft SQL Server agent
- WebSphere® MQ agent
- Added support for Windows Server 2022 (Datacenter
and Standard editions) for the following agents:
- Oracle Database agent
- WebSphere MQ agent
- Added support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 on x86-64 (64 bit) for the following
agents:
- Tomcat agent
- WebSphere MQ agent
- Added support for AIX 7.3 for the following agents:
- WebSphere MQ agent
- Added support for Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 9.0 on x86_64 for the following agents:
- DataStage® agent
-
- Added support for DataStage Server version 11.7.1.4
- Fixed issues to improve the performance of the agent
- Db2® agent
- General improvements
- IBM Integration Bus agent
-
- General improvements
- Added tolerance support to monitor IBM App Connect Enterprise V12.0.10.0
- J2SE data collector
- Upgraded J2SE agent to the latest toolkit build, 7.3.0.17.0
- JBoss® agent
- Fixed vulnerability issues
- MariaDB agent
- Added support for MariaDB Server version 11.1.2
- Microsoft SQL Server agent
-
- Added Watchdog feature for Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms.
- General improvements
- Microsoft Exchange Server agent
- General improvements
- MongoDB agent
- Added support for MongoDB Server version 7.0.5
- MySQL agent
- Added support for MySQL Server version 8.2.0
- Oracle Database agent
-
- General improvements
- The default situation,
RDB_Inst_Down_Crit
has been deprecated forRDB_Active_Instance
attribute group. - A new default situation,
RDB_Inst_Down_Crit
is introduced to theRDB_Instance_Info
attribute group with modified formula.
- PostgreSQL agent
- Added support for PostgreSQL Server version 16.1
- RabbitMQ agent
- Added support for RabbitMQ Server version 3.12.11
- SAP NetWeaver Java™ Stack agent
-
- Upgraded the agent to the latest toolkit build, 7.3.0.17.0
- Added Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022 support for the toolkit
- Fixed vulnerability issues
- Tomcat agent
-
- Added support for Tomcat server 10.1.11 for non-Windows platform
- Fixed vulnerability issues
- WebSphere Applications agent
- Fixed vulnerability issues
- WebSphere MQ agent
-
- Added support for IBM MQ 9.3 Server
- Fixed issues to improve the performance of the agent
- WebLogic agent
- Fixed vulnerability issues
What's new for the May 2023 refresh of V8.1.4.0.20
- Expanded platform support for agents
-
- Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0 on x86_64 for the following agents:
- Cassandra agent
- DataPower® agent
- JBoss agent
- MariaDB agent
- RabbitMQ agent
- WebLogic agent
- WebSphere Applications agent
- Added support for Windows Server 2022 (Datacenter
and Standard editions) for the following agents:
- Cassandra agent
- Internet Service Monitoring
- J2SE data collector
- Microsoft SQL Server agent
- Microsoft .NET agent
- Microsoft Exchange Server agent
- Microsoft IIS agent
- Microsoft SQL Server agent
- Oracle Database agent
- WebLogic agent
- Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0 on x86_64 for the following agents:
- Cassandra agent
- Added support for Apache Cassandra Database 4.1
- DataPower agent
- Fixed vulnerability issues
- Db2 agent
- General improvements
- Internet Service Monitoring
- Fixed issues to improve the performance of the agent
- J2SE data collector
- Upgraded J2SE agent to the latest toolkit build, 7.3.0.16.0
- Linux KVM agent
- Fixed vulnerability issues
- MariaDB agent
- Added support for MariaDB Server 10.11.0 and MariaDB Server 11.1.0
- Microsoft SQL Server agent
- Added support for Microsoft SQL Server 2022
- Microsoft IIS agent
- Improved agent performance by fixing the environment crash issue. The IIS agent can voluntarily stop data collection for the impacted attribute groups, and hence, improve agent performance by using less system resources.
- NetApp Storage agent
- Fixed vulnerability issues
- Oracle Database agent
- Added support for Oracle Database 21c
- PostgreSQL agent
- Added support for PostgreSQL Server version 15.2
- RabbitMQ agent
- Added support for RabbitMQ Server version 3.11.x
- SAP agent
- Provided compatibility support for SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK 7.50 PL11 libraries
- SAP NetWeaver Java Stack agent
-
- Upgraded SAP NetWeaver Java Stack agent to the latest toolkit build, 7.3.0.16.0
- Fixed vulnerability issues
- Sterling File Gateway agent
- Fixed vulnerability issues
- WebSphere Applications agent
- Fixed vulnerability issues
- WebLogic agent
- Fixed vulnerability issues
What's new for the November 2022 refresh of V8.1.4.0.19
- Expanded platform support for agents
-
- Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0 on x86_64 for the following agents:
- Cisco UCS agent
- Db2 agent
- Hadoop agent
- Internet Service Monitoring agent
- Linux KVM agent
- HTTP Server agent
- Linux OS agent
- MongoDB agent
- MySQL agent
- NetApp Storage agent
- SAP HANA Database agent
- Sterling Connect Direct agent
- Sterling File Gateway agent
- SAP NetWeaver Java Stack agent
- Oracle Database agent
- PostgreSQL agent
- Response Time agent
- SAP agent
- Tomcat agent
- VMware VI agent
- Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0 on zLinux Operating Systems for the following agent:
- Db2 agent
- HTTP Server agent
- Linux OS agent
- Oracle Database agent
- Response Time agent
- Tomcat agent
- Added AIX® 7.3 Operating System support
- Db2 agent
- Oracle Database agent
- Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0 on x86_64 for the following agents:
- MongoDB agent
-
- Added support for MongoDB 6.x Server
- Internet Service Monitoring agent
-
- Upgraded Log4j to version 2.19.0
What's new for the April 2022 refresh of V8.1.4.0.18
- Expanded platform support for agents
-
- Added support for Windows Server 2022 (Datacenter and Standard editions) for the following agents:
- Amazon EC2 agent
- Amazon ELB agent
- Azure Compute agent
- Cassandra agent
- Cisco UCS agent
- Citrix VDI agent
- Db2 agent
- DataStage agent
- Hadoop agent
- HTTP Server agent
- JBoss agent
- Microsoft Active Directory agent
- Microsoft Cluster Server agent
- Microsoft Exchange Server agent
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server agent
- Microsoft IIS agent
- Microsoft .NET agent
- Microsoft SharePoint Server agent
- Microsoft SQL Server agent
- MySQL agent
- MariaDB agent
- MQ Appliance agent
- NetApp Storage agent
- PostgreSQL agent
- RabbitMQ agent
- Response Time Monitoring agent
- SAP agent
- SAP HANA Database agent
- SAP NetWeaver Java Stack agent
- Siebel agent
- Sterling Connect Direct agent
- Sterling File Gateway agent
- Sybase agent
- Tomcat agent
- VMware VI agent
- WebLogic agent
- WebSphere Applications agent
- WebSphere MQ agent
- Windows OS agent
- Added Windows 11 Operating System support
Added Windows 11 support for Windows OS agent.
- Added support for AIX 7.3 Operating System for the following agents:
- Db2 agent
- DataPower agent
- Hadoop agent
- HMC Base agent
- HTTP Server agent
- IBM Integration Bus agent
- Oracle Database agent
- Response Time Monitoring agent
- SAP agent
- SAP HANA Database agent
- SAP NetWeaver Java Stack agent
- Siebel agent
- UNIX OS agent
- WebLogic agent
- WebSphere Applications agent
- WebSphere Infrastructure Manager agent
- WebSphere MQ agent
Note: To get the expanded platform support for Windows Server 2022, Windows 11, and AIX 7.3, you need to apply8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-CORE-FRAMEWORK-IF0023
. For more information, see IF0023 Readme. - Added Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 support on Windows
For Windows 64-bit operating system, Microsoft Visual C++ is upgraded to 2013 from 2008 for Microsoft Active Directory agent.
- Added support for Windows Server 2022 (Datacenter and Standard editions) for the following agents:
- Cassandra agent
-
- Added support for Apache Cassandra Database 4.x
- DataStage agent
- Added support for InfoSphere® Information Server V11.7.1.1
- Microsoft Active Directory agent
- Added Failed Certificates Details widget and Failed Certificates data set to view details of the failed certificates from the certificate authority
- Microsoft Exchange Server agent
-
- Added Message Tracking Log Details dashboard, Message Track Log Events widget, and MS Exchange Msgtrk Log Details data set to view details of message tracking logs
- Microsoft SharePoint Server agent
-
- Added support for Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition
- Deprecated “Trace Log” attribute group for all the Microsoft SharePoint Server Agent versions
- MongoDB agent
-
- Added support for MongoDB database V5.0.1
- Added Transport Layer Security (TLS) support for MongoDB agent
- MySQL agent
-
Removed JDBC Jar dependency as a prerequisite during agent installation
- MariaDB agent
-
- Added support for MariaDB Community Server 10.6 Standalone and Cluster Setups
- Added support for Ubuntu 16, 18, and 20 platforms
- PostgreSQL agent
-
Added support for PostgreSQL Server version 14
- RabbitMQ agent
- Added support for RabbitMQ Server v3.9.x
- SAP agent
- Added support for SAP S/4 HANA version 2021
What's new for the October 2021 refresh of V8.1.4.0.17
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 support on Windows/Linux
-
For Windows 64-bit operating system, Microsoft Visual C++ is upgraded to 2013 from 2008. You need to apply
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-CORE-FRAMEWORK-IF0022
or later release to work with V8.1.4.0.17.Note:- Windows 32-bit operating system is not supported by
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management V8.1.4.0.17 or later releases. If you want
to install IBM Cloud Application Performance Management on Windows 32-bit operating system, you need to use IBM Cloud Application Performance Management V8.1.4.0.16 or earlier versions and
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-CORE-FRAMEWORK-IF0021
or earlier versions. - The IBM Integration Bus agent is not included in agent installation package of Windows 64-bit operating system because of Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 support issue. If you want to install IBM Integration Bus agent on Windows, you need to use the agent installation package of V8.1.4.0.16 or earlier versions. For more information, see Part numbers.
- Windows 32-bit operating system is not supported by
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management V8.1.4.0.17 or later releases. If you want
to install IBM Cloud Application Performance Management on Windows 32-bit operating system, you need to use IBM Cloud Application Performance Management V8.1.4.0.16 or earlier versions and
- Agent enhancements
-
- Db2 agent
-
- Upliftment to Visual Studio 2013.
- Resolved potential memory access issues.
What's new for the June 2021 refresh of V8.1.4.0.16
- Agent enhancements
-
- IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) agent
- Added support of IBM MQ 9.2.
What's new for the March 2021 refresh of V8.1.4.0.15
- Agent enhancements
-
- Db2 agent
- Fixed prerequisite issue on SLES 15.1 on zLinux platform.
What's new for the December 2020 refresh of V8.1.4.0.14
- Expanded platform support for agents
-
- CentOS 7 x86-64
-
- Cassandra agent
- DataStage agent
- MariaDB agent
- MongoDB agent
- MySql agent
- RabbitMQ agent
- Agent enhancements
-
- DataStage agent
-
- Improved code quality and handled security vulnerabilities identified by SonarQube scan.
What's new for the September 2020 refresh of V8.1.4.0.13
- Expanded platform support for agents
-
- CentOS 7 x86-64
-
- Hadoop agent
- Agent enhancements
-
- Cassandra agent
- Agent is now able to collect data for new node that is added to existing Cassandra cluster.
What's new for the June 2020 refresh of V8.1.4.0.12
- New agent
-
- IBM i OS agent
-
The Monitoring Agent for IBM i OS provides you with the capability to monitor and perform basic actions on IBM i operating systems.
For more information, see IBM i OS monitoring.
- Expanded platform support for agents
- The following agents and platforms are now supported:
- Agent Builder enhancements
- You can now create custom agents that can run on the IBM Cloud Pak® for Multicloud Management.
- Agent enhancements
-
- Cisco UCS agent
- Added support for Windows Server 2019 Datacenter and Windows Server 2019 Standard.
What's new for the March 2020 refresh of V8.1.4.0.11
- Agent enhancements
-
- Expanded platform support for agents
- Added Cent OS 7.6, 8.0, and 8.1 support for the following agents:
- HTTP Server agent
- JBoss agent
- Linux OS agent
- PostgreSQL agent
- Internet Service Monitoring
-
- Added support for SLES 15 on x86-64 (64 bit) platform.
- Enhanced the configuration panel to have Active and Description fields for every monitor element listed in profile edit dialog box.
- Added Activate and Deactivate buttons on profile edit grid so that user can activate or deactivate multiple monitor elements at a time
- Enhanced Delete functionality in the profile edit dialog box for user to delete multiple monitor elements at a time.
- Microsoft Active Directory agent
- Added New widget for Last Logon Information of privilege users.
- Microsoft Exchange Server agent
- Added widget for DLPPolicyTips and show Data Loss Prevention Policies and Policy tips in Attribute details tab.
- Microsoft IIS agent
- Added new attribute group called
Web Application
. For more information about prerequisites for this attribute group, see Prerequisite to install Web Application Attribute Group - Microsoft SQL Server agent
- Added tolerance support for SQL Server 2019
- RabbitMQ agent
-
- Added support to HTTPS protocol.
- Added configuration panel parameters
Protocol
andPath to truststore
.
- Documentation enhancement
- Added HTTP Server monitoring solution overview architecture. For more information, see Overview of HTTP Server monitoring.
What's new for the December 2019 refresh of V8.1.4.0.10
- New Agent
-
- MariaDB agent
-
The Monitoring Agent for MariaDB offers a central point of management for your MariaDB environment or application. The software provides a comprehensive means for gathering the information required to detect problems early and to prevent them. Information is standardized across the system. You can monitor multiple servers from a single console. By using the Monitoring Agent for MariaDB you can easily collect and analyze MariaDB specific information.
- For information about configuring the agent after installation, see Configuring MariaDB monitoring.
- For information about the dashboards, thresholds, and attributes, see the MariaDB agent Reference.
- Expanded platform support for agents
- The following agents and platforms are now supported:
- Agent enhancements
-
- Cassandra agent
- Added two new attributes called
Agent Hostname
andAgent Instance Name
in theCluster Details
,Node Statistics
, andKeyspace Details
attribute groups. - Db2 agent
- Added support to monitor
Current Running SQL
. - IBM Integration Bus agent
- Added two new group widgets,
TCPIP Client Connections
andTCPIP Server Connections
in theIntegration Server Status - Detail
page. - Internet Service Monitoring
-
- Added two new configuration panel variables:
- Active: To select a state for profile element as active or inactive.
- sniServerName: Indicates the name of host/server for which a certificate from SNI enabled web server is required.
- Default settings under Data Validation Tab for HTTP,HTTPS and DNS monitors are now editable
-
Agent now supports & character in page field for HTTP and HTTPS monitors
- Agent now support Danish characters in regex field of HTTP and HTTPS
monitorsNote: Set the locale to da_DK on Linux platform before agent installation to use this feature
- Added two new configuration panel variables:
- Microsoft Active Directory agent
-
- Added a new widget called
KCC details
in theStatus Overview
page. - Added following new attribute groups in the Attribute Details tab:
Directory Services
Kerberos Consistency Checker
Kerberos Key Distribution Center
Name Service Provider
Exchange Directory Service
- Added New widget for Last Logon Information of privilege users.
- Added a new widget called
- Microsoft .NET agent
- Added a new attribute called
Request Name
in theDatabase Call Details
attribute group. This attribute displays the name of the request that fires the database query. - Microsoft Exchange Server agent
-
- Added a new widget called
Transport SMTP Recive
in theStatus Overview
page. - Added following new attribute groups in the Attribute Details tab:
MS Exchange AB
MS Exchange ADAccess Processes
MS Exchange ADAccess Caches
MS Exchange ADAccess Domain Controllers
MS Exchange ADAccess Forest Discovery
- Added the following in Attribute details tab.
- Policyholders widget
- Data Loss Prevention Policies
- Policy tips
- Added a new widget called
- Microsoft SQL Server agent
- Added tolerance support for SQL Server 2019.
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server agent
- Added support for Windows Server 2019.
- Microsoft IIS agent
-
- Added new group widgets:
System-Main Memory Statistics
IIS Server- Assigned Memory Usage
IIS Server- Assigned CPU Usage
Worker Process Details
.Net Memory Management
- On each application pool name in
Worker Process Details
group widget a page is created that shows the historical trend of Requests processed per second, Elapsed time, Requests in Queue, Memory and CPU Utilization. - On each application pool name in
.Net Memory Management
group widget a pop-up is added that shows the historical trend of percent time in GC.
- Added new group widgets:
- Microsoft SharePoint Server agent
-
- Added a new attribute group called
Trace_Log
that provides the high severity logs information. - Added two new group widgets called
Trace Log Details
andLast 1 Hour Trace Log Count
in the Overview page to display the details of recent 100 trace log events and last 1 hour count of unexpected, monitor-able and high level trace logs.
- Added a new attribute group called
- MySQL agent
- The agent collects data consistently after server restarts.
- NetApp Storage agent
- The agent now shows exact list of Qtress that are mapped to Volume.
- PostgreSQL agent
- The agent now supports PostgreSQL Server version 12.
- Response Time Monitoring agent
-
- A new configuration parameter
KT5AARIPTOUSERID
is added. It allows you to save Client IP address in User Name property in AAR raw data. By default, it is set asNO
. To change the setting, you need to restart the Response Time Monitoring agent.KT5AARIPTOUSERID=NO
: If the value isNO
, the Response Time Monitoring agent agent will save username of transaction to userID property of AAR.KT5AARIPTOUSERID=YES
: If the value isYES
, the Response Time Monitoring agent will save Source IP address of transaction to userID property of AAR.
- The Response Time Monitoring
agent now supports
specifying
KT5AARIPTOUSERID
value in silent configuration. - The title of existing group widget
Worst By User - Top 5
is changed toWorst By User - Top 20
. The group widget is changed to display top 20 users with highest percentage of transaction failures over the selected period.
- A new configuration parameter
- VMware
-
- Agent now supports fetching of the IP address or Host name of vCenter from vSphere API call,
instead of showing Configured Address as it is from configuration panel. User can
activate this feature by setting the flag in agent environment to Y. For example,
KVM_RETRIEVE_HOSTNAME_FROM_API=Y
. - Retry count now can be given a limit to restrict the connection attempts with data source. For
example,
KVM_DATA_PROVIDER_CONNECTION_RETRY_COUNT=1000
, adding this variable in agent environment file would put a lock on connection retry count in case of connection failure with vCenter. 1000 indicates agent would try till 1000 subsequent unsuccessful connection attempts and then would bring down the data provider process with a log message NO MORE ATTEMPTS OF CONNECTION;STOPPING THE DATA COLLECTION, TO RESUME MONITORING PLEASE RESTART THE AGENT. TO HAVE MORE ATTEMPT OF CONNECTIONS, RESET THE VALUE OF THE VARIABLE KVM_DATA_PROVIDER_CONNECTION_RETRY_COUNT. Default value to retry connection attempts is 6, user can set the desired threshold as per the requirement. - Agent supports configuring of Instance specific heap size to efficiently utilize the allocated
memory on the system. For example,
KVM_CUSTOM_JVM_ARGS= -Xmx512m
, by setting this variable in instance’s environment file would mean that instance is configured to use 512 MB of heap memory. The size can be changed based on the total count of vCenter objects an instance is monitoring.
- Agent now supports fetching of the IP address or Host name of vCenter from vSphere API call,
instead of showing Configured Address as it is from configuration panel. User can
activate this feature by setting the flag in agent environment to Y. For example,
What's new for the September 2019 refresh of V8.1.4
- Expanded platform support for agents
- The following agents and platforms are now supported:
- Agent enhancements
-
- Db2 agent
-
- The agent now supports Db2 server version 11.5.
- Hadoop agent
-
- A new configuration parameter Unique Cluster Name which is a unique name for Hadoop Cluster indicating its version and flavor is added in the configuration panel.
- The Hadoop agent now shows display item for the thresholds created on Ambari Services.
- The Hadoop agent now supports monitoring of Streaming Analytics Manager service in Hadoop cluster.
- The Hadoop agent now supports monitoring of Schema Registry service in Hadoop cluster.
- HTTP Server agent
-
- The agent now supports Oracle HTTP server on Solaris Sparc.
- Internet Service Monitoring
-
- The agent now supports IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.
- The agent is enhanced to delete profiles from the existing profiles and rename the existing profiles.
- MongoDB agent
-
- The agent now supports MongoDB database version 4.x.
- MySQL agent
-
- FQDN attribute is added for Application Availability in the Help section.
- Fixed Tooltip display for IP Address Agent Configuration parameter.
- The following new attributes are added for monitoring in IBM Cloud App Management.
- Database Size Information
- Error Information
- Count of Db Instance Lock
- User's connection details
- Process list details
- Events Information
- PostgreSQL agent
-
- Two new situations called
Deadlocks_Count_Crit
andDeadlocks_Count_Warn
are added to monitor number of deadlocks in a database, which will help you to address the exact issue for the deadlocks. - One new attribute group called
Deadlocks_Info
is added to check the deadlock details.
- Two new situations called
- Sybase agent
-
- FQDN attribute is added for Application Availability in the Help section.
- Synthetic Playback agent
-
- Firefox V68.0 ESR is now supported.
- System proxy, PAC proxy, and no proxy configurations are now supported.
- Tomcat agent
-
- The agent is enhanced with metrics and UI views for monitoring Heap/Non-heap memory pool usage for JVM.
- The agent is enhanced with metrics and UI views for monitoring threads, and class loading information for JVM.
- The agent UI now displays FQDN on Server Information view.
- UNIX OS agent
-
- The agent is now updated with the custom scripting feature. Shell scripts, PERL scripts and other types of scripts can be used.
- VMware VI agent
-
- A new configuration field named KEY_STORE_PASSWORD is added. It allows user to configure the agent with new key-store password set for the agent JRE.
What's new for the June 2019 refresh of V8.1.4
- Expanded platform support for agents
- The following agents and platforms are now supported:
- Windows Server 2019
-
- WebSphere Applications agent
- Agent enhancements
-
- Hadoop agent
-
- The Hadoop agent now supports monitoring of HDF 3.3 (with HDP 3.1.0) Ambari service Big SQL 6.0.
- The Hadoop agent now supports SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 on x86-64 platform.
- HMC Base agent
- The HMC Base agent supports HMC V9.1.
- Internet Service Monitoring agent
- The agent now has Service Assurance Agent monitor, which monitors Cisco Service Assurance Agent probes.
- Microsoft IIS agent
- The agent is enhanced with tolerance provision to the Windows 2019 server. This enhancement displays the FTP site data for agent that is installed on Windows 2019 server.
- MongoDB agent
- The agent now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 on x86-64 (64 bit) platform.
- Python data collector ifix02
- The data collector now supports Django 1.10 and higher.
- SAP agent
-
The SAP agent now supports the following platforms:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 on x86-64 (64 bit)
- SAP NetWeaver Application Server 7.52 (SAP Basis 752)
- SAP HANA Database agent
-
The SAP HANA Database agent is enhanced with the following features:
- Hostname is added in the :HDB Subnode node of SAP HANA Database agent for its unique identification.
- The agent now supports scale out architecture.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 on x86-64 (64 bit) and Linux ppc64le platforms.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 on x86-64 (64 bit) platform.
- A new attribute Trimmed Host is added under System Database attribute group.
- SAP NetWeaver Java Stack agent
-
The SAP NetWeaver Java Stack agent supports the following platforms:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 on x86-64 (64 bit)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 on x86-64 (64 bit)
- Windows Server 2019 DE and SE
- Windows Server 2016 DE and SE
- Synthetic Playback agent
-
- Supports .side script recorded by Selenium IDE 3.2.X, 3.3.X, or 3.5.X
- Supports playback by Firefox ESR 60.5.1
- Supports the wait, flow control, and linkText locator type Selenium IDE commands
- Skype for Business Server agent
-
The Skype for Business Server agent is enhanced with the following features:
- The agent now supports Skype for Business Server 2019.
- Two new group widgets such as
Database-Throttled Requests(DBStore)
andDatabase-Throttled Requests(SHAREDDBStore)
are added on the Overview page that displays number of requests throttled by the Skype for Business Server due to high latency of the database queue for DBstore and shared DBstore.
- Prerequisite scanner
-
The IGNORE_PRECHECK_WARNING command is now available as an alternative to the SKIP_PRECHECK command. For more information, see Bypassing the prerequisite scanner.
- Documentation enhancement
-
A page is created to help you quickly find out the version information and change history for each agent and data collector. See Change history.
What's new for the March 2019 refresh of V8.1.4
- Expanded platform support for agents
- The following agents and platforms are now supported:
- Monitoring Agent for Cassandra
-
The Cassandra agent is enhanced with the following features:
- Added support for Windows Server 2019 Operating System.
- Added detailed logging for troubleshooting.
- Monitoring Agent for Db2
-
The Db2 agent is enhanced with the following features:
- The Db2 agent now supports Windows Server 2019.
- The Db2 agent now supports Solaris SPARC 10/11 platforms.
- Monitoring Agent for Hadoop
-
The Hadoop agent is enhanced with following features:
- Added support to monitor the SSL enabled Hadoop BigInsights, Hortonworks and Cloudera clusters.
- Added support to test the connection to SSL enabled Hadoop cluster.
- Added support of Windows Server 2019 Operating System (Datacenter and Standard Editions).
- Added support for monitoring Hadoop offering: Cloudera 6.1.1 (CDH 6.1.1).
- Added support for monitoring Hadoop offering: Hortonworks 3.1.0 (HDP 3.1.0).
- Monitoring Agent for IBM Integration Bus
-
The IBM Integration Bus agent is enhanced with the following feature:
- Added tolerance support to monitor IBM App Connect Enterprise V11. For more information, see Configuring the IBM Integration Bus agent.
- Monitoring Agent for Microsoft Internet Information Services
- The Microsoft IIS agent now supports Windows Server 2019 Operating System.
- Monitoring Agent for InfoSphere DataStage
-
The DataStage agent is enhanced with the following features:
- Added support for Windows Server 2019 Operating System.
- Added query timeout to data collection queries for better performance of the agent.
- Monitoring Agent for Microsoft Active Directory
-
The Microsoft Active Directory agent is enhanced with the following features:
- Added support for Windows Server 2019.
- Added new attribute group
AD_Services_Status
that provides services state that are related to Active Directory Server.
Based on the services state, it determines the Server Status of Active Directory. - Added new situation
AD_Server_Status
that monitors Active Directory Server Status. - Added new attribute group
Root_Directory_server
that provides active version and monitored OS name.
- Monitoring Agent for Microsoft Cluster Server
-
The Microsoft Cluster Server agent is enhanced with the following features:
- Added support for Windows Server 2019 Operating System.
- Added the
CLUSTER_SERVICE_VERSION
attribute.
- Monitoring Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server
-
The Microsoft Exchange Server agent is enhanced with the following features:
- Added support for MS Exchange Server 2019.
- Added new attribute group
MSExchange MAPIoverHTTP
that provides information about MAPI over HTTP protocol statistics.
- Internet Service Monitoring
-
The Internet Service Monitoring agent is enhanced with following features:
- Added support for LDAP, NTP, NNTP, SOAP, SNMP, SIP, RTSP, RPING, RADIUS and TFTP monitors.
- Added support for Windows 2008 R2 server OS and Windows server 2019.
- Monitoring Agent for Microsoft SQL Server
-
The Microsoft SQL Server agent now supports Windows Server 2019.
- Monitoring Agent for MySQL
-
The Monitoring Agent for MySQL is enhanced with the following features:
- Added support for Windows Server 2019.
- Added support for Solaris SPARC 10/11 platforms.
- Added capability to set additional properties to the agent initiated JDBC connection with the MySQL server.
- Monitoring Agent for PostgreSQL
-
The PostgreSQL agent now supports Windows Server 2019 Operating System.
- Monitoring Agent for RabbitMQ
-
The RabbitMQ agent now supports Windows Server 2019 Operating System.
- Monitoring Agent for Skype for Business Server
-
The Skype for Business Server agent is enhanced with the following features:
- Added support for Windows Server 2019 Operating System.
- Added a new attribute group called
KQL_Server
to display the Skype for Business Server product related information. - Added a new situation called
Skype_Server_Down
to monitor the Skype for Business Server status based on the server front-end and IM conferencing services status.
- Monitoring Agent for SAP Applications
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The SAP agent is enhanced with following features:
- Added case sensitive password feature for application user being used between SAP agent and SAP server.
- Added support for Windows Server 2019 Operating System (Datacenter and Standard Editions).
- Added support to see the Long Running Jobs present in SAP System for more than 24 hours.
- Improved performance of /IBMMON/ITM_MAIALRT_INX function Module.
- Added support for Solaris v10 and v11 SPARC Operating Systems.
- Added trim feature to SAP hostname in order to match the Managed System Name’s maximum 32 characters limit.
- Monitoring Agent for SAP HANA Database
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The SAP HANA Database agent is enhanced with following features:
- Added support to discover the tenant databases when the tenant db name and HANA system SID are same.
- Added support for Windows Server 2019 Operating System (Datacenter and Standard Editions).
- Monitoring Agent for Sybase Server
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The Sybase agent is enhanced with the following features:
- Added support for Windows Server 2019.
- Added support for Solaris SPARC 10/11 platforms.
- Enhanced Sybase query for better concurrency and reduced locking.
- Monitoring Agent for Tomcat
- The Tomcat agent now supports Windows Server 2019 Operating System (Datacenter and Standard Editions).
- Monitoring Agent for UNIX OS
- The UNIX OS
agent is enhanced with the
following feature:
- Added support for Solaris SPARC 10 and 11.
- Monitoring Agent for VMware VI
- The VMware VI agent has been refreshed to ignore the unavailable(-1) values while displaying the trend of average on the graph for all multi-line charts.
- Monitoring Agent for WebSphere Applications
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The WebSphere Applications agent is enhanced with the following features:
- Added support for Solaris SPARC 10 and 11.
- Added support for monitoring WebSphere® Extreme Scale. You can configure monitoring for an Extreme Scale zone, or several zones, under the node for any server belonging to the zone or zones. You can drill down to view information for different servers, map sets, and partitions within the zone or zones. For more information, see Configuring the WebSphere Applications agent to monitor WebSphere Extreme Scale.
- Monitoring Agent for WebSphere MQ
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The WebSphere MQ agent is enhanced with the following features:
- Added support for SLES 15 xLinux.
- Added support to collect statistics for the queue manager and display the collected data. For more information, see Enabling queue statistics monitoring for the queue manager of IBM MQ.
- Data collector enhancements
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- J2SE data collector
- The J2SE data collector is enhanced with the
following features:
- Added support for OpenJDK 9, 10, and 11 versions.
- Added support of Windows Server 2019 Operating System (Datacenter and Standard Editions).
- Added feature to auto-discover the J2SE application specific classes and methods for Transaction Tracking and Diagnostic Data monitoring.
- Selenium IDE 3.2.X and 3.3.X for synthetic scripts
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Selenium IDE versions 3.2X and 3.3.X are now supported; scripts and test suites are saved in .side format rather than the .html format used by older versions of Selenium IDE. If you have existing .html scripts, you can still use them. In some instances, you might want to edit the .html scripts or re-record them in the new .side format.
For more information, see these subtopics of Managing synthetic transactions and events: Recording synthetic scripts, Structuring complex scripts, and Updating scripts from earlier Selenium IDE versions.
What's new for the December 2018 refresh of V8.1.4
- New agent
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- Monitoring Agent for IBM Cloud
- The Monitoring Agent for IBM Cloud collects virtual machine inventory and metrics from your IBM Cloud (Softlayer) account. Use the IBM Cloud agent to track how many virtual devices you have configured and running in IBM Cloud. You can see what resources are allocated to each virtual device in the detailed dashboard page, which also shows information like the data center a device is located in, the operating system, and the projected public network bandwidth for the month.
- Agent enhancements
-
- Monitoring Agent for Cassandra
- The Cassandra agent is enhanced with the following features:
- Added
a new threshold named
Cassandra_Cluster_Down
that monitors the state of the monitored instance. - Added support for Ubuntu 18.04 operating system.
- Added support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 platform.
- Added
a new threshold named
- Monitoring Agent for Db2
- The Db2 agent is enhanced with the following features:
- The Db2 agent now supports HADR Monitoring Capabilities for multiple standbys.
- The Db2 agent now supports new value
Stopped
for Database Status attribute.
TheStopped
status indicates that the database is not active and having zero active connections while it is healthy and ready to accept new connections. - Added the new widget
Db2 Server Information
to display Db2 Server details. - Added the new page
HADR Status – Local Databases
to display the information about partner databases in the following new widgets:HADR Databases Details
is the table widget which displays important attribute values for partner database.Log Gap (History)
is the graph widget which displays log gap trend vs time.Standby Flag Status
is the table widget which displays standby flag status values.
- Added the new predefined threshold
UDB_HADR_Aux_Standby_Disconnect
to monitor secondary standby databases in HADR environment. - The Top 5 database memory usage widget is updated to show the correct value.
- The Db2 agent now supports the following platforms:
- Ubuntu zLinux 18.04
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 on x86-64 (64 bit)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 for zLinux
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 for Power® Linux Little Endian
- Monitoring Agent for InfoSphere DataStage
- The InfoSphere DataStage agent is enhanced with the following features:
- Added capability to disable data collection for selected attribute groups.
- Optimized data collection for Job Runs attribute group.
- Added support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 platform.
- Internet Service Monitoring
- Internet Service Monitoring Agent now supports Windows 64-bit and Linux 64-bit platforms.
- Monitoring Agent for Microsoft .NET
- The .NET agent is enhanced with the following features:
- The .NET agent now tracks the failed requests. The status of these requests is shown as
failed
under the Latest Requests group widget of the Middleware Transaction Details page. Also, the Latest Errors group widget lists the recent failed requests along with the status code and error description. - The .NET agent also monitors the user data available through ASP.NET Identity and ASP.NET sessions. The user data is displayed in the Users Top–5 group widget of the Middleware Transaction Details page.
- The .NET agent now tracks the failed requests. The status of these requests is shown as
- Monitoring Agent for MongoDB
- MongoDB agent now supports SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 platform.
- Monitoring Agent for NetApp Storage
- The NetApp Storage agent is enhanced with the following features:
- A new Search box is added on the Event Details page that filters the event data based on the search criteria.
- A new Details page is added for LUNs.
- The user is now able to check the details of related devise mapped to each storage object on the Details page.
- Monitoring Agent for OpenStack
- Support was added for monitoring virtual machine instances, such as the usage of the virtual machine instance CPU, memory, disk, and network interface controller.
- Monitoring Agent for PostgreSQL
-
- Support added for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
- Optimized data collection for CPU and Memory attribute groups
- Monitoring Agent for RabbitMQ
- Support added for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
- Monitoring Agent for SAP Applications
- SAP agent now supports the following platforms:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 platform
- SAP NW RFC SDK 7.50
- Monitoring Agent for Skype for Business Server
- The Skype for Business Server is enhanced with the following features:
- Synthetic Transaction Commands in Synthetic Transaction Module are now executable by already configured Test Users. To avail this feature, disable the Use Agent Configuration Values in Agent configuration panel and provide value of Pool FQDN for which Synthetic Commands are to be executed. Make sure the Test User is configured through NewCsHealthMonitoringConfiguration command for Identity provided in Pool FQDN field of Agent Configuration Panel.
- Users can now disable Synthetic Commands. To disable any particular command from execution, provide false against that command name in LyncSyntheticTrans.exe.config file present at location <CANDLE_HOME>\tmaitm6 for 32-bit version and <CANDLE_HOME>\TMAITM6_x64 64-bit version.
- Monitoring Agent for Tomcat
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- New attribute group Cluster is added. It contains information of properties of a cluster.
- New widget Cluster Information is added. This widget displays information of attribute group Cluster. It will not display any data if the agent is monitoring a non-cluster Tomcat setup.
- Configuration panel variable Tomcat Server Port is added. This variable represents the port on which Tomcat server is running. Default value of the variable is 8080.
- Monitoring Agent for VMware VI
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- Component page has been enhanced to show the IP Address or Hostname of configured vCenter and its connectivity with the agent.
- WebSphere Infrastructure Manager agent
- The WebSphere Infrastructure Manager agent now supports AIX.
- WebSphere MQ agent
- The WebSphere MQ agent is now supported on IBM WebSphere MQ 9.1.
- Data collector enhancements
-
- J2SE data collector
- The J2SE data collector is enhanced with the
following features:
- Added support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for Power Linux Big Endian (64 bit).
- Added support for Power Linux Big Endian (pLinux BE) (64 bit).
- Added support for Power Linux Little Endian (pLinux LE) (64 bit).
- Added configuration module and Jetty server monitoring.
- Expanded platform support for agents
- The following agents and platforms are now supported:
What's new for the October 2018 refresh of V8.1.4
- Integration with Cloud Event Management
- Cloud Event Management provides real-time incident management across your services, applications, and infrastructure. Now, with the integration between Cloud Event Management and IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, all the events that are generated in Cloud APM are sent to Cloud Event Management.
What's new for the September 2018 refresh of V8.1.4
- New agent available
- Monitoring Agent for MQ Appliance
- The MQ Appliance agent provides monitoring information that is specific to the MQ appliance level on MQ Appliances, for example, CPU, memory, storage, sensors, and queue managers summary information.
- Agent enhancements
-
- Monitoring Agent for Db2
- The Db2 agent now supports Power Linux Big Endian operating system.
- Monitoring Agent for Hadoop
-
- The Hadoop agent now monitors the status of two more services: SmartSense and Druid.
- The Hadoop agent now supports Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 3.0.0.
- Internet Service Monitoring Agent
- Edit functionality for Internet Service Monitoring Agent is enhanced. All the monitors which have configurable parameters can be edited.
- Monitoring Agent for MySQL
- The MySQL agent now supports monitoring MySQL v8.0.11.
- Monitoring Agent for NetApp Storage
- The NetApp Storage agent is enhanced with the following features:
- A new widget called Overall Events Summary is added on the NetApp Storage Instance page. It
displays the cumulative count of events. You can view all the events that occurred across the
environment, irrespective of severity or object by clicking the status bar represented as Total
Events.
Also, an Event Status column is added in every objects table, which shows event status prioritized based on time and then the level of severity.
The NetApp Storage Instance page now displays Events Summary table rather than a chart.
- The Aggregate Details page is updated to display the related devices that are associated with the selected aggregate.
- A new widget called Overall Events Summary is added on the NetApp Storage Instance page. It
displays the cumulative count of events. You can view all the events that occurred across the
environment, irrespective of severity or object by clicking the status bar represented as Total
Events.
- Monitoring Agent for SAP Applications
- Support added for SAP NW RFC SDK 750.
- Monitoring Agent for SAP HANA Database
- Two new features are added:
- SAP HANA Database can be monitored in stand by mode.
- SAP HANA Database agent supports the Big Endian platform for Power System.
- Monitoring Agent for VMware VI
-
- Monitoring of HostVFlashManager is now supported
- The ESX Server Dashboard now shows the count of virtual machines that are in their Critical, Warning and Normal status with respect to CPU utilization.
- New Platform: LinuxLinux on POWER Big Endian
- There is a new platform available. The following agents are now supported on LinuxLinux on POWER Big Endian:
- Db2 agent
- IBM Integration Bus agent
- Linux OS agent
- SAP HANA Database agent
- WebSphere MQ agent
- WebSphere Applications agent
What's new for the July 2018 refresh of V8.1.4
- Cloud APM 8.1.4.0 Interim Fix 6 Server Patch
- After you apply Cloud
APM 8.1.4.0 server
Interim Fix 6, you can:
- Change the names of the Cloud APM server Db2 databases on the remote Db2 server.
- Change the remote Db2 server port number, host name or IP address.
- Move the Cloud APM server Db2 databases to a different computer system or to a different Db2 instance user.
- New agents available
-
- Internet Service Monitoring
-
The Internet Service Monitoring offers to determine whether a particular service is performing adequately, identify problem areas and report service performance measured against Service Level agreements. Internet Service Monitoring works by emulating the actions of a real user. It regularly polls or tests Internet services to check their status and performance.
- Monitoring Agent for Sybase Server
-
The Sybase agent offers a central point of management for distributed databases. It collects the required information for database and system administrators to examine the performance of the Sybase server system, detect problems early and prevent them.
- Agent enhancements
-
- Monitoring Agent for Hadoop
-
- Support added for monitoring Hadoop services such as, Mahout, Atlas, and Falcon.
- Support added for monitoring Hadoop offering: Cloudera CDH 5.13.
- Support added for monitoring Hadoop offering: Hortonworks HDP 2.6.4.
- Monitoring Agent for HMC Base
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HMC V8 R8.7.0 is now supported.
- Monitoring Agent for HTTP Server
- Support for the 64-bit Apache HTTP Server on Windows was added.
- Monitoring Agent for Microsoft .NET
-
The Monitoring Agent for Microsoft .NET is enhanced as follows:
- The IIS Response Time module now monitors the subtransaction and render time breakdown through JavaScript injection for ASP.NET web forms (.aspx pages) and
ASP.NET MVC razor views, which satisfy following conditions:
- The page meets the W3C HTML standards.
- Response headers contain Content-Type: text/html, application/xml,application/json.
- Response content includes the <head> element.
- The .NET agent uploads the deep dive data to Diagnostic Query Engine (DQE) service on the APM server. The DQE service deep dive dashboard quickly loads and displays the data.
- The new threshold NET_Slow_IIS_Request_Crit is added that triggers when the Slow Top 10 widget has requests with response time greater than 500 milliseconds.
- The selective filtering tool is updated with the search box to search an application pool from the list of application pools.
- The ProcListCaller utility is added to provide the list of processes that have loaded the .NET Agent CLR profiler (CorProfLog.dll).
- The IIS Response Time module now monitors the subtransaction and render time breakdown through JavaScript injection for ASP.NET web forms (.aspx pages) and
ASP.NET MVC razor views, which satisfy following conditions:
- Monitoring Agent for Microsoft SQL Server
-
- The Microsoft SQL Server agent now supports multiple collations in ERRORLOG parsing based on collation settings in koqErrConfig.ini file. When the koqErrConfig.ini file does not contain any valid collation settings, you will be able to see only the default English error message with severity level more than the default severity level, if any. The default severity level is 17. All the collations exist in the koqErrConfig.ini file will be considered while parsing the ERRORLOG file. So only the collations that are in use should be added in the koqErrConfig.ini file. The ERRORLOG parsing is case sensitive, you must ensure the collation keyword values in the koqErrConfig.ini file are exactly the same as the keyword values found in ERRORLOG file or in the reference koqErrConfigSample.ini file. Note that the changes made in the koqErrConfig.ini file is not preserved during agent upgrade, you must make a backup before agent upgrade.
- The agent also provides the utility tool koqVerifyPermissions.exe to check if an existing SQL Server user has sufficient permissions to monitor the Microsoft SQL Server. If an existing SQL Server user does not have sufficient permissions, you can use the utility tool permissions.cmd as an alternative to grant the minimum permissions to an existing SQL Server user for data collection.
- Monitoring Agent for NetApp Storage
-
The Monitoring Agent for NetApp Storage is enhanced as follows:
- The new Component page is added to display the details of agent connection state whether the data provider is up or down, along with IP address of monitored data sources. The individual status bar represents the number of nodes, aggregates, volumes, and disks that are in critical, normal, warning, or unknown state.
- The new NetApp Storage Instance page is added to highlight key properties of clusters, aggregates, volumes, disks, and vServers. It also displays the Events Summary chart with count of events that are occurred on each available storage entity or object across the environment. For example, if there are 12 volumes that are configured and each volume has two events with severity as Critical, then the Event Summary chart depicts the total count of events that are occurred on all the volumes available in an environment. In this case, the chart shows a bar with 24 critical events against the volume as an entity plotted on the X-axis.
- The Node Details page is updated to show network port details.
- The Volume Detail page is updated to display details of the associated snap mirrors and LUNs count for each selected volume.
- The vServers Details page is updated to display information about network logical interfaces.
- Monitoring Agent for Tomcat
- Tomcat V9.0.5 server is now supported.
- Monitoring Agent for WebSphere MQ
-
Remote monitoring is supported. Two configuration parameters are added for the agent to be able to collect monitoring data for a remote queue manager. However, these configuration parameters do not have any effect on a local queue manager. If you want to configure the agent to monitor a local queue manager, you can press Enter to skip specifying these parameters.
For more information about agent configuration, see Configuring the WebSphere MQ agent.
- EIF slot customization enhancement
-
You can now add multiple attribute values and literal values to the EIF slot. Instead of, say, a Disk free percent is Disk_Free_Percent message for a threshold that tests for low available disk space, you could have Disk free percent is Disk_Free_Percent and inodes free percent is Inodes_Free_Percent. The forwarded message might look like this: Disk free percent is 13 and inodes free percent is 9. For more information, see Customizing an event to forward to an EIF receiver.
- IBM Cloud Application Business Insights
-
You can use the stand-alone IBM Cloud Application Business Insights application that promotes data democratization for business users and small and medium-sized enterprises. It provides advanced and powerful data visualization and exploration tool that functions beyond basic reporting.
Currently, the Dashboard Designer tool has default connectors to Cloud APM and IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents data sources to retrieve and render information on your custom dashboards. You can also connect many relational databases to create dashboards.
For more information, see IBM Cloud Application Business Insights documentation on IBM Knowledge Center.
What's new for the April 2018 refresh of V8.1.4
- New agent available
-
- Monitoring Agent for AWS Elastic Load Balancer
-
The Amazon ELB agent provides you with a central point of monitoring for the health, availability, and performance of your AWS Elastic Load Balancers. The agent displays a comprehensive set of metrics for each load balancer type-application, network and classic-to help you make informed decisions about your AWS Elastic Load Balancer environment.
- Agent enhancements
-
- Response Time Monitoring Agent
- The IBM HTTP Server Response Time module now supports IBM HTTP Server version 7, 8, and 9 on Windows.
- Data collector enhancements
-
- Node.js data collector
- By default, user sensitive information, such as cookies, HTTP request contexts, and database request contexts, are no longer collected by the Node.js data collector. You can change this default behavior by specifying the new environment variable, SECURITY_OFF.
- Documentation enhancements
- See Agent version in Cloud APM, Private releases.
What's new for the February 2018 refresh of V8.1.4
- New agent available
-
- Monitoring Agent for Azure Compute
-
The Azure Compute agent provides you with a central point of monitoring for the health, availability, and performance of your Azure Compute instances. The agent displays a comprehensive set of metrics to help you make informed decisions about your Azure Compute environment. These metrics include CPU usage, network usage, and disk performance.
- Agent enhancements
-
- Monitoring Agent for DataPower
- Transaction tracking between the WebSphere MQ agent and DataPower agent is supported.
- Data collector enhancements
-
- J2SE data collector
- Support was added for Spring Boot Applications.
What's new for the December 2017 refresh of V8.1.4
- New agent available
-
- Monitoring Agent for InfoSphere DataStage
-
You can use the DataStage agent to monitor the health and performance of the DataStage server resources, such as engine services, engine systems, job activity, job run status, and details of job runs. This agent supports remote monitoring.
- Agent enhancements
-
- Monitoring Agent for Hadoop
-
Support was added for monitoring a Hadoop cluster that is secured with the Kerberos SPNEGO-based authentication, which uses Active Directory Key Distribution Center (KDC).
- Data collector enhancements
-
- Liberty data collector
- The managed system name (MSN) registered by the Liberty data collector is changed to reflect the host name and Liberty server name. The new MSN for this data collector is BI:servername_hostname_md5:BLP, where md5 is the local application GUID based on MD5. The length of servername_hostname_md5 is 25 characters.
- Documentation enhancements
- The information about default ports that are used by agents and data collectors is provided to facilitate you to prepare the environment. See Default ports used by agents and data collectors.