ManageEngine® Applications Manager Chapter 1.3. Release Notes |
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Out-of-the-box support for monitoring the availability and performance of Microsoft Hyper-V servers and their guest virtual machines. Applications Manager now supports multiple virtualization vendors such as VMware and Microsoft.
Introduced server process templates/Windows service templates which are a pre-defined, reusable collection of processes. They provide an easy way to add multiple server processes/templates for monitoring across a group of servers.
Improved method of managing operations in web services. Includes the ability to specify SOAP Action and Request values corresponding to the operation and also the ability to add custom operations.
New REST APIs to add different monitor types, delete and list monitors.
Options to stop, start and reboot Amazon EC2 instances from within Applications Manager.
Additional performance metrics for MySQL DB servers including information about system variables of the MySQL server.
Out-of-the-box support for monitoring the availability and performance of Amazon EC2 and RDS instances. Applications Manager helps you ensure your business-critical cloud-based applications and services are performing well at all times.
Introduced new report type for monitor groups known as Availability and Downtime Trend Report. This report compares the availability of the monitor group against target availability and also shows the downtime count and total downtime for the monitor group.
Enhancements to SNMP Trap listener feature including the ability to select trap severity based on threshold profiles.
Support for monitoring Exchange server 2010.
Option to monitor WebSphere Application Server through secure SSL mode.
Support for associating dependent devices across managed servers in the Enterprise edition. This will help you better organize your monitors and reduce redundant checks.
Out-of-the-box support for monitoring the availability and performance of VMware ESX/ESXi host servers and their guest virtual machine instances. Applications Manager provides a single console for monitoring both physical and virtual components of a heterogeneous IT environment.
Comprehensive monitoring of Memcached servers to help you detect and diagnose problems with your caching systems faster.
Support for monitoring PostgreSQL database servers.
Introduced Web application group which is a new type of Monitor Group. This will be useful for grouping your web infrastructure into logical components such as servers, databases, web servers, etc and better manage the relationship between components.
An improved Real Browser Monitor (RBM) dashboard that provides an overview of the status of your web transactions from multiple locations.
New REST APIs to create, edit and delete downtime schedulers, get monitor data, and add monitors.
Option to send events as SNMP Traps to external SNMP Trap listeners.
Enhancements to Java Runtime Monitor including the ability to know how garbage collection behaves in the JVM. You can also see the impact of the GC on thread dump with history and view historical JVM configuration parameters.
Support for monitoring Windows 7 server.
Support for monitoring WebSphere Application Server version 7.
Issues fixed include ServiceDesk Plus integration issue when customers enable AD authentication in ServiceDesk Plus. | More
New monitor type called "Real Browser Monitor" (RBM) introduced. RBM opens up a Microsoft Internet Explorer browser and monitors a web application just like how a real user sees it. It supports playback from different geographical locations.
Get notified of anomalies in a production application by defining anomaly profiles on performance metrics. Support for anomalies based on fixed baseline, moving baseline and custom expressions. There is also an Anomaly Dashboard introduced to facilitate viewing all the performance metrics.
REST APIs introduced to make integration of Applications Manager with internal portals and other monitoring tools easier.
At a glance Report that provide a summary of Top 10 monitors based on various performance metrics and uptime. You can view reports by Monitors, Monitor Types and Monitor Groups.
Alarm Management : Define dependent device for a Monitor Group or individual monitor to suppress false downtime alarms caused by the dependent device being down.Enhanced alarm configuration rules for health and availability of Monitor Group.
Monitor Group Template Dashboards have been introduced. This will help configure a custom dashboard and reuse it for multiple Monitor Groups (business applications or customers) - based on how you use the product.
New widgets called "Bookmarks" and "Custom Text and HTML" for Integrating knowledge base articles and other web links added to Custom Dashboards.
To enhance Web Client security, configurable Account policies has been added to the User Administration Module.
Microsoft SQL Server database back-end support.
Support for monitoring Oracle E-Business Suite.
Ability to create custom dashboards.
Enhancements in server monitoring.
Enhancements in WebClient look and feel.
The MySQL DB Server bundled in the product has been upgraded from version 4.0.13 to version 5.0.52.
Monitor the performance of AS400 / iSeries.
Support for monitoring SAP CCMS metrics.
LDAP, DNS and FTP/SFTP Service Monitors are now supported by Applications Manager.
Additional metrics such as Hour of day, Day of week, Statistical and Heat chart report tabs in 7,30 History data are added.
Support for Monitor Group/Sub-Group in downtime scheduler.
Ability to assign Sub-Group for operator role.
Issues Fixed in 8.6
Issue in Database Query monitor is fixed. It now retains only new data collected across all rows and columns.
Memory leak issue in JBoss monitoring is fixed.
Issue fixed in infinite loop in URL monitors.
Issue in associating monitors to a monitor group with same name is fixed. | More...
Database Query Monitor is now supported by Applications Manager.
Applications Manager now supports Active Directory Monitoring.
A new flash-based graphical view, called Business View, is added to view IT infrastructure.
Support for database details in MySql monitors that are collected once per day based on configuration is added.
Issues Fixed in 8.5
Issue in Configure Alarms for Script and Query monitor when scalar attributes are not available is fixed.
Issue in collecting Performance metrics for Weblogic 9 and 10 datacollection, when WLS server is restarted without restarting Applications Manager, is fixed.
Issue fixed in Server Monitors when memory load increases leading to Out Of Memory.
Issue fixed to have multiple network interface on the same host. | More...
ManageEngine Applications Manager integrates now with a comprehensive Network Monitoring Tool, ManageEngine OpManager.
In WebServices monitoring, added support for generating alarms based on the output of the service.
Free Edition of Applications Manager will not support DB2, Sybase in addition to Add-ons.
J2EE Web Transactions, IBM WebSphere MQ Series and MS Office Sharepoint have been modified as Add-ons.
Issues Fixed in 8.4
Issue in synching of data between the Managed Servers and Admin Servers is fixed.
Issue in showing the status in Icons View and Table view is fixed
Fixed issue in enabling and disabling SSL in AMServer.properties is fixed Cleanup entries are added for the Script Table data
Fixed issue in Archiving for Tomcat Session and Oracle Users. | More...
IBM WebSphere MQ, SilverStream, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server, GlassFish Server Monitor Support added
Windows Vista monitoring support added
Oracle 10.1.3 monitoring support added
Support for Custom attribute reports added
Poll Now - option added for monitors
Restricted access of Monitor Groups for Managers.
Issues Fixed in 8.3
Fixed issue in Google Map display when the monitor group display name contains single quotes.
While creating the Monitor Group (MG), the owners select box is shown empty when the latest MySQL Driver is used.
In MySQL monitoring, when the 'last error' attribute is having sepcial characters the polling will stop for that monitor.
The performance issue in deleting the NA rows in script monitor is fixed.| More...
What's New in Release 8.2
Availability and Health Reports - Critical Snapshot, History reports added
Availability Trend Report, Outage Comparison Report added
Ability to configure Business hours for reports added
Support for bulk import of monitor configurations
Support for sending SMS alarms via Modem
Network Interface monitoring in WMI mode added
What's New in Release 8.1
Sybase Support added
Outage Comparison Reports, Availability Trend Reports, Availability and Health Snapshot Reports added
Support for adding custom monitor types
MySQL monitoring enhancements added
What's New in Release 8
SAP Server Monitoring support added
Enhancements in Availability and Performance Dashboards
DB2 Monitoring Enhanced
Improvement in scalability of reports
WebClient Enhancements
What's New in Release 7.4
Ping Monitor support added
Support for Secondary Mail Server configuration
Support for creating a Monitor Group within a Monitor Group (Monitor Sub-Group)
Support for Monitor Group creation in Admin Server (Enterprise-Edition Setup)
Ability to treat Monitor Group as a Services Group or as an Application Cluster has been added.
What's New in Release 7.3
Localized webclient to support German, Spanish and French languages
Support for monitoring Windows Performance Counters in Windows 2000
Availability and Health realtime snapshot report for Monitor Groups added
Support for JSON Feeds for integrating Applications Manager data in corporate intranet
$DATE tag enhancements in actions.
Alarm Escalation added
What's New in Release 7.2
WebLogic Integration Server Monitoring
Support for Java Runtime Monitor
File System Monitoring
Failover support for Enterprise Edition
IIS Enhancements
WebSphere Enhancements
Script Monitoring Enhancements - Table support added
WebClient Enhancements
What's New in Release 7.1
Web Services (SOAP) Monitoring
Windows Performance Counters Monitoring
Support for monitoring Mac OS
JBoss 4.0.4 Support
WebLogic 9.2 Support
Ability to specify the attribute type for JMX and SNMP Monitors
Windows Authentication Support for MS SQL Server monitoring
New Plasma View of monitors added
Ability to compare reports is added
Customizable UI for home tab and Plasma View
Bulk update of Poll intervals added
More $Tags support in executing actions ($OID, $DATE, $URL)
SSH Key based authentication for Remote Script Monitoring and Execute Program Action
Ability to set auto refresh time interval added.
New Simple web client layout added. Option to choose between Classic and Simple layouts.
New Maroon color theme added for personalizing the webclient
While creating new monitors, troubleshooting is made easy via Diagnose Link
Remote sessions opened in Server monitoring, issue fixed
Script Monitoring issues fixed
Issue in invoking MBean Operation in JMX 1.2 fixed
Enterprise Edition - Support for large scale monitoring with a distributed setup
Support for Windows Services monitoring
Support for Remote Script monitoring
Server Monitoring Enhancements (HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, Solaris)
Webclient and Server Performance Enhancements
Webclient HTTPS support
Improved Fault Management capabilities
Support for Authenticated JMX Agents
Improved multi-lingual support
Other bug fixes and minor enhancements
Support for Oracle Application Server Monitoring
Support for Tru64 Unix Monitoring
Support for Windows Event Log monitoring
Support for LAMP Edition and Database Edition of ManageEngine Applications Manager
Option to schedule daily, weekly, monthly performance and availability reports
Option to copy and paste the configuration of one monitor to create new monitors
Bulk update of usernames and passwords of monitors
Ability to Manage / Unmanage a monitor
Option to configure the number of polls for performance data collection
Bulk alarm configuration for attributes
More configuration support for Google Maps Business Views
Integration of Google Maps Business View
Support for Weblogic 9.1
Support for JBoss 4.0.3
Multilingual support for Simplified Chinese and Japanese languages
PDF report generation for attributes is provided
Enhanced Web Client
Support for monitoring Microsoft .NET
Support for monitoring WebLogic 9.
Support for monitoring Web Transactions.
Support for monitoring Oracle RAC.
Integration of ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus to track the alarms generated as trouble tickets.
NTLM support is provided in URL monitoring.
Reporting enhancements like Downtime History report of individual monitors and Summary Report are provided.
Various usability enhancements like configuring prerequisites for monitoring are provided at the initial stage itself.
Option to configure database retention parameters.
Support for Monitoring Microsoft Exchange Server.
Support for Monitoring of FreeBSD Operating Systems.
Support for Monitoring JBoss 4.0.2.
Support for Telnet Monitoring is provided.
Integration of AdventNet's QEngine - a platform independent Test Automation tool used for Web Functionality, Web Performance, Java Application Functionality, Java API, SOAP, Regression, and Java Application Performance testing.
Standalone Enhanced URL Recorder is provided.
SSL support for Apache, IIS and PHP.
Consoles for Manager provided to maintain SLAs.
Option to associate multiple users to single Monitor Group is provided.
Alarm Enhancements like Pick/Unpick alarms, Annotation of alarms have been provided.
Polls to retry can be configured individually for any attribute of a Monitor.
Multiple varbind support in alarm messages is provided.
Option to export reports to CSV and PDF formats.
Support for Monitoring IBM AIX servers.
Support for Monitoring HP Unix Servers.
Support for Script Monitoring is provided.
Support for PHP Monitoring is provided.
WebSphere 6.0 Monitoring support is provided.
WebSphere Monitoring in Network Deployment mode is supported.
Maintenance Task Scheduler Provided.
SNMP Trap Listener provided.
JMX Notification Listener Provided.
Introduction of new role - "User", in addition to the existing Operator & Administrator roles.
Replaceable Tags enhancement provided in actions.
Support for String data type for defining threshold values.
Option to be execute an action (like email) repeatedly, till a monitor returns to normalcy.
Alarm Template feature for bulk alarm configuration.
Support for JBoss SSL .
Custom Time Period reports provided.
Option to delete known downtime reports provided.
Support for Monitoring Apache WebServers.
Support for Monitoring IIS WebServers.
Support for IBM DB2 Database Server Monitoring.
JMX MBean Operation Support.
Support for Monitoring JBoss 4.x.
Support for Tomcat SSL.
Support for Monitoring WebSphere Application Server 5.x
Support for Monitoring JBoss Application Server 3.2.x
Support for Monitoring Tomcat Application Server
Support for Monitoring WebLogic 8.1 Application Server
Support for Monitoring MS SQL Database
Support for Monitoring Oracle 10g Database
Support for Monitoring MySQL Database
Support for Monitoring Mail servers (SMTP, POP)
Support for Monitoring Web servers
Support for Monitoring Network Services like ftp, telnet, tcp port, etc
Support for Monitoring Websites (URL, URL sequence, URL content monitors)
SNMP based custom application monitoring
JMX based custom application monitoring for MX4J / JDK 1.5, WebLogic JMX, JBossMX, WebSphere JMX
Intuitive Web client support
Unified view of monitors using Monitor Group
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