PerformanceGuard® 7.3 Release Notes
Release date: 2017, June 29th21th November
What's New in the Server?
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PerformanceGuard 7.3 introduces a new widget:
Scout
Dashboard PDF Printing + Sharing
Widget Categories
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Connection Statistics
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AutoSteps
This release includes the new add on functionality called AutoSteps. AutoSteps is a scripting robot that allows for synthetic monitoring.
With synthetic monitoring a whole new range of opportunities is opened for securing fast and reliable IT systems for the end users.
AutoSteps is described in more detail here.
Dashboard sharing and PDF printing
It is now possible to share dashboards directly from the web interface. It is possible to share dashboards as either links to the web interface or as a printer friendly PDF
It is also possible to generate a printer friendly PDF for download to your local computer.
New Widgets
Network Latency Widget
Multiple Ping and traceroute measurements can now be compared for single locations as well as across multiple locations.
AutoSteps Status Widget
To monitor the status of AutoSteps script execution a new widget has been added to provide an intuitive overview.
Miscellaneous improvements
- Export from graphs in the classic web interface in full resolution has been increased from 33 hours to 45 days.
- Widgets have been categorized according to their relevance in the following categories
- Application
- Computer
- Network
- Miscellaneous
- The event engine has been optimized to provide better performance and less load on the backend server.
- The report folder structure no longer has the folder 'BU1' and all reports under this folder will be moved to the 'reports' folder.
Browser Support
This version is supported in both Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 as well as Google Chrome.
We recommend using Google Chrome when accessing PerformanceGuard, because as this browser is much faster than Internet Explorer 11
Installation and Upgrades
If upgrading from PerformanceGuard 6.6 or earlier the following is required:
- Upgrade of the Java SE Development Kit to version 8.
- This can be downloaded from here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
- Microsoft .Net 4.0 or higher
If upgrading from PerformanceGuard 6.7 or later:
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Microsoft Edge can be used but is not officially supported and thus no bugs related to this browser alone will be fixed.
Documentation
The PerformanceGuard documentation is continuously updated and is available online at http://help.capasystems.com.
Within PerformanceGuard, the documentation is available via content-aware links, and updates to the documentation no longer requires an upgrade of the PerformanceGuard software.
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online here
Discontinuation
The 'Location Dashboard' in the classic web interface has been discontinued.
Support for Business Units has been removed, hence reports generated to disk are moved from /reports/BU1/<xxxxx> to /reports/<xxxxx>
Download
PerformanceGuard can be downloaded from here
Known Issues
Visit the online known issues list to receive the latest info.
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