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Halcyon PrimeAlert (R) Agent for Windows
Version 5.2.0
For use with Sun Management Center
ReleaseNotes
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VERSION/DATE: 5.2.0a/2008-04-19
ENHANCEMENTS:
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- Support for Sun MC 4.0.
- Support for x86 platforms.
UPGRADE STRATEGY:
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- None. This version is compatible with the previous release.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
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- During installation of the PrimeAlert Agent for Windows, the user can
select which user will run the Halcyon PrimeAlert Agent service. The
'Select User' button does not work properly when a non-default user
is desired.
- [LogFileAlert] If a file is scanned using the full scan mode, the
file is only re-scanned when the file's size or modification time are
changed; the file should actually be re-scanned periodically
regardless of whether or not the size or modification time have
changed.
- [LogFileAlert] If a pattern regular expression contains round
brackets, (), an incomplete matching line may be displayed.
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VERSION/DATE: 5.2.0/2007-04-30
ENHANCEMENTS:
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- The PrimeAlert Agent for Windows is now interoperable with Sun
Management Center 3.6.1.
- The PrimeAlert Agent for Windows is now compatible with Microsoft
Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
- The EventLogAlert module now supports monitoring additional Windows
event logs. The Hardware Events and Forwarded Events logs that were
added in Windows Server 2003 R2 can now be monitored.
- The PrimeAlert Agent for Windows now supports a 16 character Super
User seed. SunMC 3.6 and above allow the use of 16 character seeds.
- The ProcessAlert and WinSystemAlert modules have bee renamed to
ProcessMonitor and WinSystemMonitor.
UPGRADE STRATEGY:
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- When upgrading from version 5.1.1b of the Windows Agent use the
following steps:
1) Stop the previous verion of the PrimeAlert Windows Agent
by executing the following on the command line:
> net stop "Halcyon PrimeAlert Agent"
2) Uninstall the previous version of the PrimeAlert Windows Agent
3) Install the current version of the PrimeAlert Windows Agent.
See the README.install file for more details.
4) Any custom alarm limits set in the Physical Disks and Logical
Disks section of the PrimeAlert SystemMonitor module will
have to be re-entered as they will be lost.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
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- During installation of the PrimeAlert Agent for Windows, the user can
select which user will run the Halcyon PrimeAlert Agent service. The
'Select User' button does not work properly when a non-default user
is desired.
- [LogFileAlert] If a file is scanned using the full scan mode, the
file is only re-scanned when the file's size or modification time are
changed; the file should actually be re-scanned periodically
regardless of whether or not the size or modification time have
changed.
- [LogFileAlert] If a pattern regular expression contains round
brackets, (), an incomplete matching line may be displayed.
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VERSION/DATE: 5.1.1b/2005-11-28
UPDATES:
- Added Solaris 10 support.
- Tested against Sun MC 3.6
UPGRADE STRATEGY:
- This version is compatible with the previous version. No changes
have been made to the Windows agent software. The Solaris packaging
has been modified to allow installation on Solaris 10.
We recommend that you uninstall the 5.1.1a Solaris components before
upgrading your OS, and re-install with this 5.1.1b release afterwards.
Remember to re-apply any manual patches you have received from Halcyon.
If you have any patches or manual procedures that you used with
the 5.1.1a Windows agent, you should also install/undertake
them with the 5.1.1b Windows agent.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
- Same as prior version (5.1.1/5.1.1a).
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VERSION/DATE: 5.1.1a/2003-07-23
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added Solaris 9 support.
- Interoperable with Sun MC 3.5
UPGRADE STRATEGY:
- This version is compatible with the previous version. To upgrade to
this release from the previous version, only the Server Layer
components need to be upgraded. There is no need to upgrade the
agents.
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VERSION/DATE: 5.1.1/2001-01-22
BUG FIXES:
- The Solaris packages for the PrimeAlert Agent and its bundled modules
can now be installed when the SunMC 2.1.x/3.0 packages are installed
in a non-default location.
- For Windows agent hosts, the host pop-up menu in the SunMC console
now has an Alarm Action entry.
- Under Windows 2000, the reported physical memory for machines with
greater than 2 GB of memory is now correct.
- A new SunMC 2.1.1 console feature, 'enhanced tables', has been
disabled, since SunMC 2.1.1 does not support this feature for modules
that have multiple instances (see the Sun Management Center 2.1.1
Software Release Notes - Bug ID 4302619).
- [SystemAlert] An empty Threads value in the Object Information table
no longer causes a data update error.
- [EventLogAlert] Instances of EventLogAlert no longer disappear from
the SunMC console after the Halcyon PrimeAlert Agent service is
restarted.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- The PrimeAlert Agent for Windows is now interoperable with Sun
Management Center 3.0.
- The PrimeAlert Agent for Windows is now compatible with Microsoft
Windows 2000.
- The InstallShield installer for Windows now allows a user to specify
a non-default public user seed.
- The agent is now called the 'PrimeAlert Agent for Windows'.
- As documented in the README.txt file for this distribution, all text
documentation files for this distribution are now archived to a
standard location on any installation host.
- This distribution includes a new UNIX uninstallation script; see
the INSTALL.txt file for details.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
- Assume that a user installs Sun Management Center in the /opt
directory, and then decides to relocate some of the installed
directories (located below /var/opt/SUNWsymon or below
/opt/SUNWsymon) after SunMC is installed. For example, assume that
the directory /opt/SUNWsymon/modules is moved to /export1/SUNWsymon,
and then a symbolic link is created to link /opt/SUNWsymon/modules to
/export1/SUNWsymon/modules. In this case, if the current distribution
attempts to install any files in or below the directory
/opt/SUNWsymon/modules, the symbolic link will be replaced by a real
directory. This problem does not occur under Solaris 2.5.1.
- Under certain circumstances, when a module's demo license expires,
the module is no longer accessible from the SunMC console window, and
newly loaded instances of the same module are also not accessible
from the console. To make the module accessible again, load an
instance of a different module (that has a valid license) on the
agent.
- During installation of the PrimeAlert Agent for Windows, the user can
select which user will run the Halcyon PrimeAlert Agent service. The
'Select User' button does not work properly when a non-default user
is desired.
- [LogFileAlert] If a file is scanned using the full scan mode, the
file is only re-scanned when the file's size or modification time are
changed; the file should actually be re-scanned periodically
regardless of whether or not the size or modification time have
changed.
- [LogFileAlert] If a pattern regular expression contains round
brackets, (), an incomplete matching line may be displayed.
- [SystemAlert] For PrimeAlert SystemAlert, within the Disk Information
folder, the Reads/s and Writes/s columns of the Physical Disks table
do not provide correct data for a Windows 2000 host.
UPGRADE STRATEGY:
- This version of the PrimeAlert Agent for Windows no longer supports
Sun Enterprise SyMON 2.0.x; only Sun Management Center 2.1 or higher
is supported.
- This version of the PrimeAlert Agent for Windows only works with the
following versions of these unbundled modules:
- PrimeAlert for Microsoft SQL Server 1.0.3 or higher
- PrimeAlert ScriptRunner 1.0.5 or higher
- If you are upgrading a Windows host (agent layer) from PrimeAlert
Agent for Windows version 5.0 to 5.1.1, all current configuration
information for the local agent will be lost, unless certain files
are manually copied to the new agent directory tree after the
upgrade; see the INSTALL.txt file for details.
- In order to obtain the full benefit of the new features included in
this version of the PrimeAlert Agent for Windows, PrimeAlert Agent
for Windows packages should be upgraded for all SunMC/PrimeAlert
layers (server, agent, and console).
- PrimeAlert Agent for Windows packages on the SunMC server host should
be upgraded first. Then, PrimeAlert agent hosts can be upgraded
according to any user defined schedule. Note that after the server
host is upgraded, the PrimeAlert Agent for Windows should continue to
operate properly for all agent hosts, regardless of the version of
the PrimeAlert Agent for Windows that is installed on an agent host.
Finally, after all server and agent hosts have been upgraded, the
console hosts should be upgraded to ensure that the module help
documentation is up-to-date.
- CAVEAT: After the server host has been upgraded, agent hosts that
contain older versions of the PrimeAlert Agent for Windows may not
have all of the functionality of the newest agent until the agent
hosts have also been upgraded to the same level as the server host.