Monitoring Studio KM for PATROL Release Notes for v9.0.00

What you Absolutely Need to Know

•	All the application classes and macros have been renamed to SEN_MS_*. No automatic migration will therefore be performed when installing Monitoring Studio 9.0.00. Version 9.0.00 will co-exist with Monitoring Studio 8.6.5x.

•	Credentials management is now easier thanks to a centralized interface.

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When the KM is installed on a PATROL Agent, which is managed by Central Monitoring Administration, all the KM configuration menus are disabled in the PATROL Console. To be able to configure Monitoring Studio from a PATROL Console in such a situation, the KM Command Force Classic Configuration Mode was added to the SEN_MS_MAIN application class.

•	Open VMS is no longer supported.

•	Java v1.6 or higher is required.

•	File Security and JMX monitoring are not implemented in this version.

What you Really Need to Know

•	Improved hierarchy to better reflect what is monitored.

•	Extended support for remote monitoring.

•	Host availability checks: Ping, Hostname Resolution, SNMP, SSH, WMI, or TCP Port checks can be performed to make sure hosts are available. It will automatically turn off the monitoring of the elements attached to the host, if necessary.

•	The interface has been greatly improved to be more user-friendly.

What’s Interesting to Know

Collection Errors

•	It is now possible to report collection errors at the Group level.

•	Monitoring Studio now checks that Java is available on the server and triggers an alert on the CollectionErrorCount parameter of the SEN_MS_MAIN application class.

New Parameters

Application Class	Parameters	Description
SEN_MS_FILESYSTEM	AvailableInodesPercentage	Percentage of available inodes on UNIX and Linux platforms.
SEN_MS_FOLDER	Exists	Indicates whether the folder exists or not.
SEN_MS_MAIN	CollectionErrorCount DebugStatus HostCount MonitorCount	Provide further information about Monitoring Studio.
SEN_MS_PROCESS	Status	Status of Processes running on UNIX & Linux platforms.
SEN_MS_PROCESS	MatchingProcesses	Displays the list of all matching processes.
SEN_MS_SNMPPOLLING	ExecutionTime	Time taken by the SNMP polling to execute.
SEN_MS_WBEMQUERY	ExecutionTime	Time taken by the WBEM query to run.
SEN_MS_WINEVENT	MatchingEvents	Lists all matching Windows Events which contribute to MatchingEventCount as well as their related event message.
SEN_MS_WINSERVICE	ServiceDetails	Additional information regarding the current status of the Windows Service
SEN_MS_WMIQUERY	ExecutionTime	Time taken by the WMI query to run.

Command Line Analysis

•	The following command line parameters have been renamed:

Previous Parameter Name	New Parameter Name
QueryStatus	Status
ReturnOutput	Result

Database Query Analysis

•	The Command Line tool method has been removed from Database Queries. Only JDBC and ODBC are now supported.

•	SSL Encryption can now be disabled when performing SQL queries to a Microsoft SQL Server.

•	Performing a query on a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is not possible with Java 1.8 and the SSL encryption enabled.

•	The ConnectionStatus parameter was removed (this information is now available through the Status parameter).

•	Microsoft SQL Server: The instance name was ignored if the dynamic port was not set.

•	When using the JDBC or ODBC connection method, the ExecutionTime parameter was not reported if local settings did not follow the English format.

•	The following database query parameters have been renamed:

Previous Parameter Name	New Parameter Name
QueryStatus	Status
ReturnOutput	Result

File System Monitoring

•	The following file system parameters have been renamed:

Previous Parameter Name	New Parameter Name
FreeMegabytes	AvailableCapacity
FreeSpacePercent	AvailableCapacityPercentage
UsedSpaceGrowthPercentage	ConsumedCapacityGrowthPercentage
UsedSpaceGrowthSpeed	ConsumedCapacityGrowthSpeed

Folder Monitoring

•	Specific credentials can now be specified while configuring folder monitoring.

•	The following folder parameters have been renamed:

Previous Parameter Name	New Parameter Name
DeletedFileCount	DeletedFileRate
FolderSize	Size
ModifiedFileCount	ModifiedFileRate
NewFileCount	NewFileRate

Numeric Value Extraction

•	The Delta and DeltaPerSecond parameters have been removed.

Process Monitoring

•	Child processes associated to a monitored process can now be included when calculating the process performance statistics.

SNMP Agents & Traps Monitoring

•	When adding the SNMP Polling or SNMP Trap Monitors, Monitoring Studio now verifies if SNMP is activated on the PATROL Agent. If not, a warning message is displayed.

•	The Delta and DeltaPerSecond parameters have been removed from the SEN_MS_SNMPPOLLING application class.

String Search Monitoring

•	When performing a String Search on a log file, it is now possible to report matching lines in the current collect only. Previously, Monitoring Studio would always report matching lines since the last acknowledgment (incremental).

WBEM Query Analysis

•	This feature has been greatly optimized and uses less resources than the previous version. The WBEM Query Analysis tool now uses the WBEM collection hub.

•	It is now possible to specify a timeout after which the query will be stopped.

•	The following WBEM query parameters have been renamed:

Previous Parameter Name	New Parameter Name
QueryStatus	Status

Web Request Analysis

•	Web Service requests (SOAP, REST, etc.) can now be performed through the Web Request Analysis tool.

•	The following Web request parameters have been renamed:

Previous Parameter Name	New Parameter Name
ReturnOutput	Result
ServerConnectionState	Status
Status	HTTPStatus

Windows Event Monitoring

•	Support for all event logs, including Crimson event logs.

•	It is now possible to exclude unwanted event IDs from alerting.

•	The 'Critical' event level is now available when defining the event settings.

•	The AUDIT_FAILURE and AUDIT_SUCCESS event types are no longer supported and argument1 & argument2 cannot be used.

•	The event description was not correct when a timeout was set for automatic alert acknowledgement.

WMI Query Analysis

•	WQL queries (WMI) support dot characters in the WHERE statement.

•	It is now possible to specify a timeout after which the query will be stopped.

•	The following WMI query parameters have been renamed:

Previous Parameter Name	New Parameter Name
QueryStatus	Status
ReturnOutput	Result

Miscellaneous

•	Macro syntax has been improved to support white spaces.

•	Debug Mode: The KM debugging performance has been improved.

•	Duplicate object IDs: Monitors could share the same ID which led to incorrect configuration. A unique object ID is now assigned to each Monitor.

•	Setting large text parameters could cause the PATROL Agent or Console Server to crash. The size of all text parameters is checked and truncated to 1MB to avoid such crash.