PerformanceGuard® 8.3 Release Notes
Release date: 2021, November 23th
PerformanceGuard 8.3 integrates to CapaSystems' new cloud solution CapaOne, a platform with different products; PerformanceGuard customers will get free access to the product CapaOne Reliability.
If you would like to have CapaOne Reliability, contact Sales at sales@capasystems.com.
They will attach a FREE CapaOne Reliability to the PerformanceGuard contract.
CapaOne Reliability can only be integrated after upgrading PerformanceGuard to v. 8.3 Server and Agents
What's New in the Server?
New Features:
CapaOne Reliability collects reliability information from all computers and shows the information on a dashboard (Requires the new CapaOne Agent)
PerformanceGuard Integrates to CapaOne Reliability so you can “Left Click” on a unit and get direct access to the reliability information
Improvements:
Admin access to all dashboards
Improved usage of Database Indexes and statements
What's New in the Agent?
PerformanceGuard Agent
CapaOne Integration:
Collects CapaOne Agent identification
Detection of new Windows versions added support for :
Microsoft Windows 11
Microsoft Server 2022
Agent improvements:
Improved Agent installer.
Agent stability / Hardening
Measure stability
CapaOne Agent
Collects Reliability index
Collects Windows Events that have an impact on reliability
Miscellaneous improvements
Moreover, a great number of improvements and bug fixes has been implemented (The most important ones mentioned below)
Bugs fixed
This release contains an important security update, if you are using CapaSystems Cloud Services, it's recommended that you update as soon as possible, or you will risk observing degraded service.
[PG-18175] - Fixed Missing Performance Counters
[PG-18224] - Native Messaging extension crashes with the latest build of Google Chrome and Edge Chromium
[PG-18265] - "Edit subnet group" slider is broken
[PG-18274] - Changing and import from all to just slider
[PG-18276] - Search defect with multi-words
[PG-18279] - Improved, client DNS resolve
[PG-18290] - The Process-dropdown is always only ”All Processes” in Hotspot Process Traffic
[PG-18131] - Locked application-status-widget period
[PG-18312] - Agent get windows version 10 +
[PG-18319] - Connect single measurements
[PG-18322] - Improved ServiceNow integration
[PG-18325] - Fullscreen to normal does not work on PG widgets
[PG-18330] - WGO: Going back from Online status gives an error
[PG-18338] - Can't install 8.1 version agent or older
[PG-18340] - Fixed Agent Mem Usage
[PG-18342] - Tag data is never collected for IE
[PG-18372] - Selected dashboards doesn't get cleared after creating a slideshow
[PG-18375] - Agent install from administration page bugs
[PG-18376] - Physical memory free doesn't get reported correctly
[PG-18377] - Unable to install Agent on a core server
[PG-18380] - Moving servers from unmonitored to monitored fails
[PG-18384] - CI PG Overwrites PG settings for com.capasystems.performance
[PG-18385] - When installing CI or Ent. agent. pga-service stops
[PG-18386] - pga_updater is marked to deletion but never deleted
Improvement
[PG-17495] - Admin Should have access to all dashboards
[PG-17896] - improved dns_resolver usage
[PG-18056] - Free disk space is collected in a static report
[PG-18145] - New dialog for dashboard selection when deleting a user
[PG-18157] - Only public dashboards should remain when deleting a user
[PG-18280] - Changed resolution on Computers by Avg. Login Time
[PG-18308] - PG Agent Does not recon newer windows versions
[PG-18379] - Remove Torn_page_Detection from all initial DB-scripts
This version is supported in both Microsoft Edge and new Chromium-based Edge as well as Google Chrome.
Documentation
The PerformanceGuard documentation is continuously updated and is available online here
Discontinuation
This is the latest release of PerformanceGuard Server that supports installation on Windows Server 2008/ 2008 R2 and 2012.
Internet explorer filters will be phased out and we recommend starting using chromium filters from now.
Download
PerformanceGuard can be downloaded from here
Known Issues
Visit the online known issues list to receive the latest info.
Changes in JVM and LDAP (config.properties) Parameters are not updated before PG 8.3, i.e. you will need to copy them manually.
CapaSystems
https://www.capasystems.com/performanceguard/