The Tideway Knowledge Update 2008-Nov-1 (TKU 2008 Nov) is a deliverable for Tideway Foundation platform version 7.1 and later.
TKU 2008-Nov-1 has been tested and verified against Tideway Foundation version 7.1.1, 7.1.5, 7.1.6 and 7.1.7. This TKU cannot be uploaded on a version 7.0.x appliance.
Customers can access this TKU release from the Tideway Downloads site and then clicking Download Area->latesttku. If you're a customer or partner and don't already have a login to this site or have forgotten yours please contact support@tideway.com.
Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here.
Vendor | Product | Category | Platforms | Instances | Versioning | Module |
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IBM | Tivoli Composite Application Manager/Response Time Tracking | Performance Management Software | UNIX, Windows | Y | Y | |
IBM | Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Websphere and J2EE | Performance Management Software | UNIX, Windows | Y | Y | |
IBM | WebSphere Application Adapters | Application Deployment Software | UNIX, Windows | N | N | |
Open Source | Lighttpd Web Server | Application Server Software Platform | UNIX, Windows | Y | Y | |
PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL RDBMS | Relational Database Management System | UNIX, Windows | Y | Y | |
PrismTech | JacORB | Application Deployment Software | UNIX, Windows | N | Y | |
Red Hat | Hibernate | Application Deployment Software | UNIX, Windows | N | Y | |
Sun Microsystems | GlassFish Enterprise Server | Application Server Software Platforms | UNIX, Windows | Y | Y |
In this TKU, we also introduce a pattern module to identify and model HP-UX Partitions within a physical host. This component of TKU enhanced Foundation Discovery scripts and does not ship with the main TKU archive but is available together with these scripts as content downloadable from Configipedia.
Vendor | Product | Enhancement | SI Key Change | Module |
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IBM | DB2 Content Manager OnDemand | Added an additional package (Windows) to the list of packages queried to obtain the version | N | |
IBM | Tivoli Storage Manager | The pattern has its key changed to key_group since it has been established that more than one ITSM server can run on a host. Instances are therefore now grouped by their installation directory | Y | |
IBM | WebSphere MQ | The name of the message queue being managed by the MQ Series Queue Manager SI is now displayed in the UI | N | |
Microsoft | Exchange Server | Added checks to ensure that one of the trigger processes does not cross-match with VERITAS DirectAssist. To assist reporting, if version is unknown, then the 'full_version' string is set to an empty string, not 'Unknown' | N | |
Microsoft | SQL Server | Added Versioning capabilities - versioning now performed by WMI Query in preference to Registry Query, since if it succeeds the full_version will reflect all hotfixes applied | N |
The following bugs have been fixed in Tideway Knowledge Update 2008-Nov-1.
Case No | Defect No | Details | Pattern Module |
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13637 | 10761 | Problem: BMC Performance Manager pattern may fail with an ECA Engine Error when scanning hosts where the previously identified BMC Patrol Agent is no longer found and the BMC Patrol Agent SI ages out. Resolution: Pattern trigger updated in TKU November 2008 Release to fire on 'created, confirmed' conditions, instead of 'created, modified' conditions | |
N/A | 10836 | Problem: VMware ESX Server pattern may fail with an ECA Engine Error while attempting to retrieve the list of patches applied. Resolution: Pattern module updated in TKU Nov 2008 - code fix | |
13883 | 10859 | Problem: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server pattern will currently not attempt package versioning on UNIX platforms due to incorrect platform class check. Resolution: Code fix of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server pattern in TKU November 2008 so that the pattern will attempt package query versioning on UNIX platforms. Additionaly, the key has been replaced with key_group to provide the user with the count of instances of the product | |
N/A | 10873 | Problem: JBoss Portal pattern could potentially fail with ECA Engine error if the pattern fails to parse an XML file from which it gathers version information. | |
N/A | 10876 | Problem: TKU patterns for identification of Tideway Foundation will attempt to create two SIs for each component due to the change in how the Foundation components are launched in Foundation 7.1.6 and later. |
The following active commands are new in this release:
Lighttpd Web Server
<abs. path to trigger process> -v
'cmd /c DIR | FINDSTR server.tag "<abs_path_to_config_files>*.conf"
'Microsoft SQL Server
select Version from CIM_DataFile where Name = \'<abs_path_to_binary>\'
'PostgreSQL RDBMS
<abs_path_to_binary> --version
'Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server
<abs_path_to_installation_root>/bin/asadmin version --verbose=true
'cmd /c <abs_path_to_installation_root>\bin\asadmin.bat version --verbose=true
'<abs_path_to_installation_root>/bin/asadmin version --verbose=true
'cmd /c <abs_path_to_installation_root>\bin\asadmin.bat version --verbose=true
'If you have chosen not to delete the Software Instances created using a previous TKU, for any pattern where the SI key has changed, any host where the above software instances were created will have another set of software instances created following installation of a newer TKU and re-scan. The software instances created by the previous TKU patterns will disappear once they have aged out (see Tideway Foundation documentation for description of SI aging).
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