Introscope 8
Introscope 8
Introscope 8
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1. Release summary.......................................................................................... 1 2. What's new .................................................................................................. 2 2.1 Enhanced dashboards .............................................................................. 6 Performance Dashboards ............................................................................. 10 Capacity Dashboards ................................................................................... 13 2.2 Viewing Live and Historical Data in the Workstation Console ........................ 15 2.3 SmartStor Tools .................................................................................... 17 2.4 Configuring the Command Line Workstation Log......................................... 24 2.5 Metric Clamping .................................................................................... 25 2.6 Enterprise Manager health and supportability metrics ................................. 28 3. Installation and upgrade notes ...................................................................... 32 4. Backward compatibility ................................................................................ 33 5. Limitations & restrictions .............................................................................. 34 Deprecated and changed features ................................................................. 34 6. Fixed in this release .................................................................................... 34 Fixed in Service Pack Release 8.2.3 ............................................................... 34 Fixed in Service Pack Release 8.2.2 ............................................................... 34 Fixed in Service Pack Release 8.2.1.0 ............................................................ 35 Fixed in Minor Release 8.2.0.0 ...................................................................... 35 7. Known issues ............................................................................................. 37 High priority issues...................................................................................... 37 Other known issues ..................................................................................... 38 8. Introscope for SAP Solution Manager Diagnostics-related known issues............... 54 9. Introscope .NET Agent-related release notes ................................................... 55 Other Introscope .NET agent-related known issues .......................................... 57 10. Contacting Technical Support ........................................................................ 58 11. Acknowledgements ..................................................................................... 59
Release 8.2.3 is a service pack release of CA Wily's market-leading Introscope tool for
monitoring, triaging and diagnosing the health of multi-tiered applications. It is intended to replace previously installed versions of Introscope 8.2.
1. Release summary
The 8.2 release: Integrates Wilys SYSVIEW extensions with the core Introscope programs, tools and utilities. See Whats New and Integrations below. Includes several enhancements -- see sec. 2. It also includes all bug fixes performed in Introscope 8.0 service pack releases.
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2. What's new
For a list of fixes included in this release, see Fixed in this release. Key features in Introscope 8.2 include: Platform Monitors and agents Release 8.2.3 is enhanced to support the following: Platform Monitors for AIX 6.1 (32- and 64-bit) EPAgent for JVM 1.6 .NET agent on Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit), IIS 7.5
Enhanced dashboards Release 8.2.2 adds a number of enhanced dashboards for use in monitoring your application. See sec. 2.1, Enhanced dashboards, below.
Ability to view live and historical data in the Workstation Console Release 8.2.2 adds the ability to view historical data in the Workstation Console. See sec. 2.2 below.
Enhancements to SmartStor Tools Release 8.2.2 adds a number of enhancements to SmartStor Tools. See sec. 2.3, SmartStor Tools, below.
Enhancements to CLW Logging Release 8.2.2 adds the ability to configure the Command Line Workstation Log file. See sec. 2.4, Configuring the Command Line Workstation Log, below.
Enhancements to Metric Clamping Release 8.2.2 adds enhancements to Metric Clamping. See sec. 2.5, Metric Clamping, below.
Enhancements to EM health and supportability metrics Release 8.2.2 adds enhancements to Enterprise Manager health and supportability metrics. See sec. 2.6 below.
CA WILY SYSVIEW Extension The Introscope Integration Pack for CA SYSVIEW is an extension that allows you to trace Customer Information Control System (CICS) transactions using the Introscope Workstation and view dashboards that summarize CICS performance in the Introscope Workstation console. This increases end-to-end visibility for quickly isolating transaction performance problems and allows you to leverage existing SYSVIEW performance data.
SharePoint Power Pack Preconfigured extension to provide overall health monitoring of SharePoint, as well as specific visualizations and artifacts to provide detailed Root Cause Diagnostic capabilities.
Enhanced WebLogic Portal Monitoring Graphical view for poor performing portal components. Enhanced WAS Portal Monitoring Graphical view for poor performing portal components. Reporting Virtual Portal performance.
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CTG Power Pack enhancements Support for CTG V6 and V7, support for the newly released IPIC TCP/IP connection option, and Global Statistics measurements relating to key CTG Gateway Server utilization.
WAS on z/OS platform support enhancements Support for WAS 7 on z/OS 1.10 z/OS PP platform support enhancements Support for z/OS 1.10 New Platform Monitor for HP-UX PA-RISC We have added platform monitor support for HP-UX PA-RISC 64-bit JVM. Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 The SQL Agent now supports the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
Options for Memory vs. Response Time The Introscope 8.2 agent has a new property that allows you to balance memory use against response time. Using the property could potentially lower memory consumption at the expense of a possible increase in response time. Add the following to your agents IntrscopeAgent.profile file, set the property to true, and uncomment it. You must restart the managed application before changes to this property take effect.
############################### #Agent Memory Overhead Setting # # ======================= # Set to true if you want to attempt to reduce the agent memory overhead introduced by architectural improvements to the 8.x Agent. # Increased Agent memory overhead only occurs in certain extreme cases. # The trade-off for the possible lower memory consumption is a possible increase in response time. # Each application is unique and will experience different variations in Memory vs. Response Time trade-offs. # This property is set to false by default and out of the box is commented out. This is not a hot property # and the managed application needs to be restarted for this flag to take effect. #introscope.agent.reduceAgentMemoryOverhead=true
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