PG 7.1

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Last updated: Oct 06, 2021 by Oliver Villumsen
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PerformanceGuard® 7.1 Release Notes

Release date: 2017, March 28th

What's New in the Server?


PerformanceGuard 7.1 introduces two new widgets:

Application Performance Overview

This widget allows the operator to compare performance of multiple applications across multiple locations and multiple metrics. Using this widget, it is now possible to compare e.g. response times from a single computer with a location to help identify if response times experienced on that computer are also seen elsewhere. Setting up the widget has been improved by simplifying the process – just select from the list of defined applications, find the location in a tree structure, select the required metrics, and you are ready to go. The widget automatically selects the most suitable data resolution, and the operator can toggle min/max areas on and off. Setting up applications for this widget is described here.

Windows Performance Counters

Accessing the same performance counters for different computers has never been easier. You can set up Windows Performance Counters in this widget on the fly or in a predefined dashboard and select the desired computers. Selecting counters is now done from a tree structure, with the ability to select entire counter objects with all counters and instances with a single click.


New Built-In Dashboards

PerformanceGuard 7.1 comes with two new built-in dashboards:

Application Performance Overview

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 computers.


SQL Server - Windows Performance Counters

This dashboard presents all counters included in the built-in Custom Counter Template for SQL Server. Just select the computer you wish to view, and the dashboard will update with all counters.

Miscellaneous Improvements

Custom Counter Templates

We have added a set of templates for easier configuration of Windows Performance Counters.

Computer Info

The Computer Info widget now includes Vendor, Model and BIOS version of the selected computer, provided that you upgrade your PerformanceGuard agents to version 7.1.

Widget Renamed

The Computer Performance widget has been renamed to Computer Usage to avoid it being confused with other widgets.

Widget Improvements

The zoom out functionality has been greatly improved to allow fast zoom out.

Moving the mouse over a data series on a graph, or its label below the graph, will highlight the series.

Search for Computers

On dashboards that use a computer as input, it is now possible to search for computers by:

  • Computer name
  • User logged in
  • Location
  • Subnet 
  • Agent group

Dashboard revisions

PerformanceGuard maintains a history for each dashboard, by registering the modifying user and the date at which a dashboard is saved. Administrators are able to revert to any previous version of the dashboard

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:

  • Support for version 2 Windows Performance Counters

Installation and Upgrades

If upgrading from PerformanceGuard 6.6 or earlier the following is required:

If upgrading from PerformanceGuard 6.7:

  • 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 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

  • PG-12068 Version 2 Windows Performance Counters not collected
  • PG-13470 Incorrect session count on Citrix graphs
  • PG-13556 Agent loses counter objects that have changed id after agent started collecting
  • PG-13668 Frontend creates files that causes errors later
  • PG-13680 Custom Counter does not return any data when measuring Pagefile Counter category
  • PG-13683 Frontend delete job does not use correct retention period
  • PG-13771 Agent crashes while getting processes on system running Docker with Windows Containers
  • PG-13794 Agent reports data in 3 minute intervals rather than the configured report interval
  • PG-13824 Disabled new displays admin interface, per default
  • PG-13990 Application Ping graph does not work
  • PG-14068 Citrix trend graph does not filter by selected ICA Client Groups
  • PG-14149 Duplicate agents may appear when searching for agents
  • PG-14152 Performance Status may show incorrect online count
  • PG-14158 Introducing PerformanceGuard in one word for the agent service caused default startup criteria never to be met
  • PG-14160 When agent restarts it sometimes causes duplicate Custom Counters
  • PG-14182 Setting DNS server does not work

Discontinuation

  • MS SQL Server 2008/2008R2 is no longer officially supported. This does not mean that it will not work, but issues related to this version of MS SQL Server will not be resolved.

Download

PerformanceGuard can be downloaded from here

Known Issues

Visit the online known issues list to receive the latest info.