PerformanceGuard® 7.2 Release Notes
Release date: 2017, XXX yythAugust 15th
What's New in the Server?
This release introduces one PerformanceGuard 7.2 introduces a new widget:
BTM
This widget Makes it easy to graphically compare metrics for widget provides a new and intuitive way to setup and compare Business Transaction Monitoring (BTM) measurements across individual computers and locations
New Built-In Dashboards
Any one?
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This dashboard provides a quick overview of application performance. Just select from the list of defined applications, and you are ready to go. The performance of an application can be viewed for locations as well as individual computerslocations.
Miscellaneous Improvements
Pass through
Avoids the inconvenience of loggin in twice to get acces to the classic PerformanceGuard interface
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Unified login
Operators will no longer be prompted for the login password multiple times
Deep linking
Makes it possible to copy a URL and to send this to another browser
CORS
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DropWizard Metrics
Internal monitoring of the PG service using standard measurements.
REST versioning
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Complete list of ProcessNames
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share or bookmark a dashboard with the same setup. To share, just send the URL by mail. Sharing directly from the interface will be supported in the next version of PerformanceGuard
REST API
PerformanceGuard now supports access to the data in the database using the REST API.
The API is versionized to ensure that any changes made to the API will not affect external access to the data
The REST API supports Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
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 this browser is much faster than Internet Explorer 11
What's New in the Agent?
The following briefly describes improvements on the agent with this release:
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Windows Performance Counters
PerformanceGuard now supports Object names, Counter names and Instance names up to 4096 characters each. Previous limit was 64 characters
Installation and Upgrades
Clean installation of a PerformanceGuard database now uses the database server properties to place files in the default location. Previously the default location in the installer was the folder where the Master database was placed
If upgrading from PerformanceGuard 6.6 or earlier the following is required:
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If upgrading from PerformanceGuard 6.7 or later:
- Two web server ports instead of previously one port
- Used for embedding the parts of the UI that have not yet been replaced by new functionality
Documentation
The PerformanceGuard documentation is continuously updated and is available online at http://help.capasystems.com here.
Within PerformanceGuard, the documentation is available via content-aware links, and updates to the documentation no longer requires an upgrade of the PerformanceGuard software.
Bugs Fixed
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PG-13470 Active sessions count incorrect for Citrix Server graph
PG-13882 BTM Rest stop/fail command does not work without a query param character(?)
PG-14232 Agent reports process names without "." between name and extension
PG-14235 Startup criteria wrong for new conf group on upgraded versions
PG-14315 'Loading' icon not shown when changing selections in dashboard controller
PG-14316 Multiple tag_ids for Transaction Trend Graph not working in IE
Download
PerformanceGuard can be downloaded from here
Known Issues
Visit the online known issues list to receive the latest info.
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