8.2

Owned by Henrik Wendt
Last updated: Oct 06, 2021 by Oliver Villumsen
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PerformanceGuard® 8.2 Release Notes

Release date: 2021, March 9th

What's New in the Server?

Automatic Agent Update

With version 8.2 of the agent, enrolling the agent in an automatic upgrade program is possible. The registering is administered using an agent configuration Group. When enabled, the agent will periodically check for new releases, which it will download and install. Read more here.

Built-in download of Agent Installer 

The agent can be downloaded directly from PerformanceGuard in the browser by pressing the download button. It will always download the latest released version of the agent after the release of version 8.2. Read more here.

Configure how the agent shall be installed

Dashboard Slideshow

Dashboard slideshows are a way for the user to view multiple different dashboards without swapping between dashboards. Read more here.

Setup which dashboards should be part of the Slideshow, then press play.

What's going on Dashboards

Gives an global overview of poorly performing computers and processes, based on their CPU, Memory or Diskspace usage. The Dashboard makes it possible to dive into computers to see what resources individual processes are actually using. Read more here.

What's going on frontpage, grouped by Memory Capacity

Updated Network Application Creation Dialog

We have shined up the network application dialog such that changes and updates are more comfortable to cancel and misconfigurations are harder to make.

Easy setup of Network applications.

Verified against ServiceNow®

PerformanceGuard’s Incident Management Connector for ServiceNow, has been tested against the latest ServiceNow releases Paris and Quebec, 

The connector can be downloaded here.

What's New in the Agent?

Automatic Agent Update

The new agent-installer comes with  a scheduled service, that, if enabled, downloads and installs new versions that has been released.

New Measurements

The agent now collects the computers UUID and Serial Number.


Miscellaneous improvements

If experiencing any Performance related issues on What's Going On Dashboards please run the following SQL to optimize the performance.
You must run this SQL only once.

Apply the following SQL on the PerformanceGuard backend database (pguard)

Attention: Running the following SQL script will take long time to finish depending on the data in the table.

  1. Open PerformanceGuard Server Manager
  2. Stop the Backend Service
  3. Open Microsoft  SQL Server Management Studio
  4. Login as pguard user on the backend database
  5. Open  a new Query Window on pguard database
  6. Paste the SQL below
  7. TRUNCATE TABLE agent_total_counters
    GO
    TRUNCATE TABLE agent_total_ekstra_counters
    GO
    TRUNCATE TABLE agent_process_counters
    GO
  8. Run the  statement ( Wait for it to return)
  9. Start the Backend Service again

Moreover, a great number of improvements and bug-fixes has been implemented (The most important ones mentioned below)


Bugs fixed in this version


This release contains an important security update, if you are using CapaSystems Cloud Services, its recommended that you update as soon as possible, or you will risk observing degraded service.

Bug

  • [PG-17874] - pg returns 503 service unavailable when token is incorrect
  • [PG-17879] - Bug in hotspot searches
  • [PG-17885] - PerfCounterUtility.exe doesn't get downloaded
  • [PG-17886] - Application Status not working properly
  • [PG-17894] - Upgrade from 8.1.28 to 8.1.31 removes Java options
  • [PG-17900] - Bug correcting the Y-axis
  • [PG-17902] - Timeline chart giving error when adjusting y axis
  • [PG-17906] - Manual patches should not update DB, when not applied
  • [PG-17907] - Unable to create new network application
  • [PG-17911] - Configuration of Host to alert mails
  • [PG-17914] - Check Office365 Access using an ID
  • [PG-17925] - Backlog Custom-Counter Noise
  • [PG-17931] - Joined Server Ports does not work with events
  • [PG-17932] - Network administration bugs
  • [PG-17942] - Agent / Extension doesn't generate reports
  • [PG-17952] - Scaling widgets
  • [PG-17954] - DNS Names doesn't get resolved on already resolved addresses
  • [PG-17955] - Handle Process Versions for pre 8.2
  • [PG-17962] - Y-axis doubles
  • [PG-17967] - Frontend database doesn't get populated with agentId's in the agent-table
  • [PG-17973] - Always show fixed and adaptive threshold
  • [PG-17993] - Fix Machine Counter SQL.
  • [PG-17998] - Auto-Update Dashboard - Dashboard with no time period still starts the timer.
  • [PG-17999] - Relational Dashboard - blank page shown after adding dashboard
  • [PG-18000] - New Dashboards Page - Selecting a tag immediately filter the list
  • [PG-18007] - Tag report does not sync Filter App name
  • [PG-18008] - HTTP filter type does not collect data from Chrome
  • [PG-18014] - Application Sunburst mismatch between leaf's and table
  • [PG-18016] - Sometimes yellow bubbles are not clickable in Computer Bubble Chart
  • [PG-18018] - Dashboard History - Clicking on Preview Dashboard shows an error.
  • [PG-18019] - Saved PDF does not look right
  • [PG-18020] - PerformanceGuard Agent Recovery tab shows wrong value for "Reset fail count after"
  • [PG-18021] - Agents are being removed from the conf_groups table
  • [PG-18041] - Suspended queries on backend database
  • [PG-18055] - No Protocol transaction data
  • [PG-18069] - Upgrade resets java options to default
  • [PG-18073] - App Chart Widget adjusting scales are defect
  • [PG-17576] - Support for AD group synching
  • [PG-17580] - Improve Joined Server Ports

Improvement

  • [PG-17934] - AutoSteps Improvements
  • [PG-17987] - Change the calculation of affected computers below the radial charts.
  • [PG-18079] - When selecting a previous time period. Display still refreshes

Browser Support

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 start 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/