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Change History of Monitoring Agent for Linux OS, Monitoring Agent for UNIX OS, Monitoring Agent for Windows OS

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Abstract

Change history of Monitoring Agent for Linux OS, Monitoring Agent for UNIX OS and Monitoring Agent for Windows OS for the APM (IBM Cloud Application Performance Management) and ICAM (IBM Cloud App Management).

Content

Discover what's new for the latest OS Agents. Select an OS agent from the list below to view a version table with detailed history:

Linux OS monitoring

Product version Release date Agent version What’s new
APM V8.1.4.016 June 2021 06.35.14.0.23
  • Add Instana JSON to agent SDA
  • Defect:
    • 144401:  KEF_DEBUG need to be pass to fcp_daemon to trace EIF events sent
CP4MCM 2.3 April 2021 06.35.14.0.22
Defect:
  • Git #15859: removing Process table from default collection due to unexpected and unsustainable disk growth usage in Thanos
APM V8.1.4.0.15 March 2021 06.35.14.0.21
APM V8.1.4.0.14 December 2020 06.35.14.0.21
CP4MCM 2.2 December 2020 06.35.14.0.20
  • Add missing UA dimensions 
  • Add KLZ_Docker_Stat to default data collection  
APM V8.1.4.0.13 September 2020 06.35.14.0.17
  • APAR IJ21932:  KBB_SHOW_MTAB_FS variable doesn't collect swap
    Note:  The default for KBB_SHOW_MTAB_FS had been change to allow all collection with new variable (KLZ_EXCLUDE_DOCKER_FS_STR added to exclude Docker related filesystem)
  • APAR IJ27152: Agent crash when failed to find Docker container last sampled time 
  • Agent crash when failed to find Docker container control group file that doesn't exist 
  • Updating agent factory build to 202008211656
ICAM 2020.2.0 August 2020 06.35.14.16
  • Support configuring for agent to dynamical change to data collection
APM V8.1.4.0.12 June 2020 06.35.14.15
  • Added support for CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 20.04
  • APAR IJ25260: Linux OS agent crash during Docker monitoring data collection of containers that no longer exist
APM V8.1.4.0.11
ICAM 2020.1.0
 March 2020 06.35.14.14
  • Agent cores when monitoring Docker containers 
  • Removed prereqs for CandleManage
  • [APM V8.1.4.0.10 ONLY] Update text in sample script_property.txt
  • [ICAM ONLY] Update metric intervals 
APM V8.1.4.0.10
ICAM 2019.4.0
 December 2019 06.35.14.12
  • [APM V8.1.4.0.10 ONLY] Update UI to display Resident Set Size (MB)
  • RTC issue 140092: Port ITM APAR IV85805 to add IPv6 support for Socket Detail data set
  • RTC issue 140140: fcp_daemon may crashed when CTIRA_HOSTNAME not set
  • General improvements
ICAM 2019.3.0.1 October 2019 06.35.14.11
  • General improvements
APM V8.1.4.0.9
ICAM 2019.3.0
 September 2019 06.35.14.10
  • [APM V8.1.4.0.9 ONLY] RTC 138999:  Adding custom scripting feature
  • APAR IJ12039:  OS Agent log monitoring failed to displayed matched record data
  • Git issue 12713:  Adding 'KBB_SHOW_MTAB_FS=false' to limit file system data collection for file systems in /etc/fstab only.  
  • RTC issue: 134672: Fixed issue where distributed MSN are not checked in the OS agent configuration
  • RTC issue: Linux OS agent doesn't run conversion for local service name by default.  To enable local service name conversion, add "KLZ_DISABLE_GETSERVBYPORT=N" to <install>/config/.lz.environment or <install>/config/lz.environment.
  • [ICAM 2019.3.0 ONLY]:  OS agent log monitoring support
  • [ICAM 2019.3.0 ONLY] Git issue 12469:  adding new attribute 'OSAGNTNODE' for Log Profile Event data set
  • General improvement: 
    • updating agent factory build to 201909041145
APM V8.1.4.0.8
ICAM 2019.2.1
 June 2019 06.35.14.09
  • Add RHEL 8 support
  • RTC issue 137064:  Inaccurate estimate of Net Memory Used Percent
  • Git issue 10132:  Some LZ agent are missing data
  • Update OS Agent configuration to query 10000 systems
ICAM 2019.2.0.1 May 2019 06.35.14.08
  • Update the Process table UI
  • Git 8932:  Linux OS agent monitoring docker stops reporting data after a few hours
ICAM 2019.2.0 April 2019 06.35.14.07
  • Git 9229: Linux OS agent log file failed to wrap on system with Docker monitoring enable
V8.1.4.0.7 March 2019  06.35.14.06
  • General improvements.
  • APAR IJ14022: Excluding Filesystems Types on APM Linux OS Agent
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-OS-AGENT-IF0005 January 2019 06.35.14.05
  • APAR IJ12168: OS AGENT Log Monitoring fail to collect data for 'Kxx_LOGFILEPROFILEEVENTS'
  • APAR IJ12172: Log Monitoring Daemon fail to start when TMP variable had been set
APM V8.1.4.0.6/ICAM 2018.4.1 December 2018 06.35.14.04
  • General improvements.
V8.1.4.0.5 September 2018 06.35.14.02
  • Support for Linux on Power Systems™ (Big Endian) was added.
V8.1.4.0.4 July 2018 06.35.14.02
  • General improvements.
V8.1.4.0.2 February 2018 06.35.14.01
  • Memory upload interval is changed to 1 minute.
  • The IP address associated with the network interface is displayed on the Linux OS dashboard and System Information widget.
V8.1.4 August 2017 06.35.14.00
  • Adds Linux for System z support
  • Adds Linux for Power Systems (Little Endian) support.
V8.1.3.2 April 2017
(SaaS only)		 06.35.13.00
  • Adds Linux on Power Little Endian (pLinux LE) support.
V8.1.3.1 September 2016
(SaaS only)		 06.35.12.00
  • Docker V1.8.0 or later is supported.
  • New attribute groups and widgets to enable the Linux OS agent to deliver Docker monitoring capabilities.
V8.1.3 April 2016 06.35.11.00
  • Ability to monitor application log files, and to configure log file monitoring based on regular expressions.
  • For compatibility, the agent consumes the following information and formats: configuration information and the format file that was used by the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.x Log File Agent; configuration information and format strings that were used by the Tivoli Event Console Log File Adapter. These format strings allow the agent to filter the log data according to patterns in the format file and submit only the relevant data to an event consumer. The OS Agent sends data to the Performance Management server or through the Event Integration Facility (EIF) to any EIF receiver, such as the OMNIbus EIF probe.

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UNIX OS monitoring
Product version Release date Agent version What’s new
APM V8.1.4.0.16 June 2021 06.35.14.19
  • Update build with new jar signer
  • Add Instana JSON to agent SDA
Defect:
  • 144401:  KEF_DEBUG need to be pass to fcp_daemon to trace EIF events sent
CP4MCM 2.3 APRIL 2021 06.35.14.18
Defect:
  • Git #15859: removing Process table from default collection due to unexpected and unsustainable disk growth usage in Thanos
APM V8.1.4.0.15 March 2021 06.35.14.18
Porting ITM  APAR fix
  • [APAR IJ30501] ON AIX, THERE CAN BE A MEMORY OVERLAY WHEN THE NUMBER OF MOUNT POINTS IS GREATER THAN TWENTY
APM V8.14.0.14
CP4MCM 2.2
 December 2020 06.35.14.17
Defects:
  • Git #14800: Update predefined situation UNIX_CMD_Process_Critical and UNIX_CPU_Critical to use non-superseded attributes.
  • Git #14265: Update agent mapping to have unique key for each table
APM V8.1.4.0.13 September 2020 06.35.14.16
  • Updating agent help to include additional threshold information for NT_File_Change and NT_File_Trend
  • Port ITM APAR fix
    • [APAR IJ25499] On Solaris, UNIX OS Agent crashes with invalid KCID value.
  • Updating agent factory build to 202008211656
ICAM 2020.2.0 August 2020 06.35.14.15
  • Support configuring for agent to dynamical change to data collection
APM V8.1.4.0.12 June 2020 06.35.14.14
  • General improvements
APM V8.1.4.0.11
ICAM 2020.1.0
 March 2020 06.35.14.13
  • [APM V8.1.4.0.10 ONLY] Update text in sample script_property.txt
  • [ICAM ONLY] Update metric intervals 
  • Porting ITM APAR fixes 
    • [APAR IV87239] UNIX OS Agent does not compute correctly the queue depth and size
    • [APAR IV81845] IFSTAT daemon becomes unresponsive on AIX 
    • [APAR IV90059] Allow UNIX OS Agent gateway and domain to not be collected 
      To have the agent skip collecting these attributes set the value to TRUE, for example:
           KUX_SKIP_GATEWAY=TRUE
           KUX_SKIP_DOMAIN=TRUE
    • [APAR IJ09073] AIX agent crashes if number of CPUs is greater than 512
    • [APAR IJ16977] Agent does not collect any data when UNIXDCSTAT attribute is collected
    • [APAR IV96304] UNIX OS Agent on AIX does not have the correct process arguments
    • [APAR IV96264] Several AIX memory percentages can have negative values 
    • [APAR IV96512] String attributes in AIX LPAR attribute group are not converted 
    • [APAR IV98517] Agent log file filled with "ERROR CONVERTING PROCESS COMMAND WITH ARGS TO UTF8" messages for commandargs
APM V8.1.4.0.10
ICAM 2019.4.0
 December 2019 06.35.14.11
  • RTC issue 140140: fcp_daemon may crashed when CTIRA_HOSTNAME not set
  • General improvements
ICAM 2019.3.0.1 October 2019 06.35.14.10
  • General improvements
APM V8.1.4.0.9
ICAM 2019.3.0
 Septemper 2019 06.35.14.09
  • [APM V8.1.4.0.9 ONLY] Add Solaris x86-64 support
  • [APM V8.1.4.0.9 ONLY] RTC 138999:  Adding custom scripting feature
  • APAR IJ12039:  OS Agent log monitoring failed to displayed matched record data
  • RTC issue: 134672: Fixed issue where distributed MSN are not checked in the OS agent configuration
  • [ICAM 2019.3.0 ONLY] Add Solaris Sparc support
  • [ICAM 2019.3.0 ONLY] OS agent log monitoring support
  • [ICAM 2019.3.0 ONLY] Git issue 12469:  adding new attribute 'OSAGNTNODE' for Log Profile Event data set
  • General improvement: 
    • updating agent factory build to 201909041145
APM V8.1.4.0.8 / ICAM 2019.2.1 June 2019 06.35.14.08
  • Update OS Agent configuration to query 10000 systems
ICAM 2019.2.0.1 May 2019 06.35.14.07
  • Update the Process table UI
ICAM 2019.2.0 April 2019 06.35.14.06
V8.1.4.0.7
March 2019
 06.35.14.06
  • Add Solaris SPARC support
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-OS-AGENT-IF0005 January 2019 06.35.14.05
  • APAR IJ12168: OS AGENT Log Monitoring fail to collect data for 'Kxx_LOGFILEPROFILEEVENTS'
  • APAR IJ12172: Log Monitoring Daemon fail to start when TMP variable had been set
V8.1.4.0.6 / ICAM 2018.4.1
December 2018
 06.35.14.04
  • General improvements.
V8.1.4.0.5
September 2018
 06.35.14.03
  • General improvements.
V8.1.4.0.4
July 2018
 06.35.14.02
  • General improvements.
V8.1.4.0.2 February 2018  06.35.14.01
  • Memory upload interval is changed to 1 minute.
V8.1.4 August 2017 06.35.14.00
  • General improvements.
V8.1.3.2 April 2017
(SaaS only)		 06.35.13.00
  • General improvements.
V8.1.3.1 September 2016
(SaaS only)		 06.35.12.00
  • General improvements.
V8.1.3 April 2016 06.35.11.00
  • Ability to monitor application log files, and to configure log file monitoring based on regular expressions.
  • For compatibility, the agent consumes the following information and formats: configuration information and the format file that was used by the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.x Log File Agent; configuration information and format strings that were used by the Tivoli Event Console Log File Adapter. These format strings allow the agent to filter the log data according to patterns in the format file and submit only the relevant data to an event consumer. The OS Agent sends data to the Performance Management server or through the Event Integration Facility (EIF) to any EIF receiver, such as the OMNIbus EIF probe.

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Windows OS monitoring
Product version Release date Agent  What’s new
CP4MCM 2.3 06.35.14.
Defect:
  • Git #15859: removing Process table from default collection due to unexpected and unsustainable disk growth usage in Thanos
APM V8.1.4.0.15 March 2021 06.35.14.18
  • Defect:
    • 144401:  KEF_DEBUG need to be pass to fcp_daemon to trace EIF events sent
APM V8.1.4.0.14
CP4MCM 2.2
 December 2020 06.35.14.17
  • Update agent mapping to have unique key for each table
APM V8.1.4.0.13 September 2020 06.35.14.16
  • Updating agent help to include additional threshold information for NT_File_Change and NT_File_Trend
  • Port ITM APAR fix
    • [APAR IJ26924] UDP and TCP Ports are Unnecessarily Opened in Listening State by fcp_daemon process
  • Updating agent factory build to 202008211656
ICAM 2020.2.0 August 2020 06.35.14.15
  • Support configuring for agent to dynamical change to data collection
APM V8.1.4.0.12 June 2020 06.35.14.14
  • Port ITM APAR fix
    • [APAR IV93473] Windows OS agent randomly crashes
    • [APAR IJ07025] Windows OS agent crashes collecting process data when situation stopped
    • [APAR IJ17320] Values for Process % Processor Time and % Privileged Time switched
    • [APAR IV82178] Binary Path attribute not evaluated when Windows OS agent running as non-administrator.  A new environment variable "KNT_USE_DEBUG_PRIVILEGE" is introduce to allow non-administrator user to query a process for the binary path.  Possible values are 0 or 1, the default value is 0 (disabled).
APM V8.1.4.0.11
ICAM 2020.1.0
 March 2020 06.35.14.13
  • [APM V8.1.4.0.10 ONLY] Update text in sample script_property.txt
  • [ICAM ONLY] Update metric intervals 
APM V8.1.4.0.10
ICAM 2019.4.0
 December 2019 06.35.14.11
  • APAR IJ20622:  Windows OS agent fcp_daemon CTIRA_SIT_PATH incorrect due to extra ending backslash
  • RTC issue 140140: fcp_daemon may crashed when CTIRA_HOSTNAME not set
  • General improvements
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-Windows-OS-AGENT-IF0006 December 2019 06.35.14.10
  • Git 12758: Windows OS agent incorrectly set OSAGNTNODE value
Note:  This IF is applicable to both APM 8.1.4 and ICAM OS agents
APM V8.1.4.0.9 
ICAM 2019.3.0
 September 2019 06.35.14.09
  • [APM V8.1.4.0.9 ONLY] RTC 138999:  Adding custom scripting feature
    • Known issue: Scripting is not enable during upgrade
      Workaround:  Edit <install>\TMAITM6_x64\KNTENV to change KNT_FCP_SCRIPT=TRUE and restart agent.
  • APAR IJ12039:  OS Agent log monitoring failed to displayed matched record data
  • RTC issue: 134672: Fixed issue where distributed MSN are not checked in the OS agent configuration
  • [ICAM 2019.3.0 ONLY]:  OS agent log monitoring support
  • [ICAM 2019.3.0 ONLY] Git issue 12469:  adding new attribute 'OSAGNTNODE' for Log Profile Event data set
    • Known issue: No data displayed for Log Profile Event table
  • General improvement: 
    • updating agent factory build to 201909041145
APM V8.1.4.0.8 / ICAM 2019.2.1 June 2019 06.35.14.08
  • Update OS Agent configuration to query 10000 systems
ICAM 2019.2.0.1 May 2019 06.35.14.07
  • Update the Process table UI
ICAM 2019.2.0 April 2019 06.35.14.06
V8.1.4.0.7 March 2019  06.35.14.06
  • Support for Windows Server 2019
  • APAR IJ14405:  NT_SERVICE.DISPLAY_NAME is not available in the threshold editor display item
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-OS-AGENT-IF0005 January 2019 06.35.14.05
  • APAR IJ12168: OS AGENT Log Monitoring fail to collect data for 'Kxx_LOGFILEPROFILEEVENTS'
  • APAR IJ12571: TIMESTAMP attribute not available for Windows OS Agent 'NT_SYSTEM'
V8.1.4.0.6 / ICAM 2018.4.1 December 2018  06.35.14.04
  • General improvements.
V8.1.4.0.5 September 2018  06.35.14.03
  • APAR IJ06379:  Windows OS agent crash when encounter bad performance counters
  • General improvements.
V8.1.4.0.4 July 2018  06.35.14.02
  • General improvements.
V8.1.4 August 2017  06.35.14.00
  • General improvements.
V8.1.3.2 April 2017
(SaaS only)		 06.35.13.00
  • General improvements.
V8.1.3.1 September 2016
(SaaS only)		 06.35.12.00
  • General improvements.
V8.1.3 April 2016  06.35.11.00
  • Ability to monitor application log files, and to configure log file monitoring based on regular expressions.
  • For compatibility, the agent consumes the following information and formats: configuration information and the format file that was used by the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.x Log File Agent; configuration information and format strings that were used by the Tivoli Event Console Log File Adapter. These format strings allow the agent to filter the log data according to patterns in the format file and submit only the relevant data to an event consumer. The OS Agent sends data to the Performance Management server or through the Event Integration Facility (EIF) to any EIF receiver, such as the OMNIbus EIF probe.

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