TrueSight Operations Management version 10.7.00 provides the following enhancements and changes:
The TrueSight Presentation Server now supports the following operating systems. Oracle Linux Server 6.8 and 7.3 (64-bit) Microsoft Windows 2016 - Standard Edition and Datacenter Edition (64-bit) Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 (64-bit) operating system for the TrueSight Presentation Server has been discontinued. Updated operating systems for TrueSight Presentation Server
Discontinued support for operating system
For information about all supported operating systems, see System requirements for Presentation Server.
The Infrastructure Management Server now supports the following operating systems:
For information about all supported operating systems, see TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server system requirements.
This release of TrueSight Infrastructure Management enables you to upgrade PATROL Agents to the latest version using the Deploy and Install packages functionality in the TrueSight console.Upgrading PATROL Agent using the TrueSight console
For more information, see
Upgrading PATROL Agents using the TrueSight console.
The following components include updated support to keep in line with the latest supported technologies. Operating systems for server components: Support for App Visibility server components now includes the following operating systems, which coordinates with the latest supported versions: Application servers and Java versions: Support for the App Visibility agent for Java now includes the following application servers and Java versions: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5.x IBM Java 1.8 TEA Agents: Windows 10 Windows 2016 For more information about system requirements, see
System requirements for App Visibility Manager
Newer operating system versions were added, and older operating system versions were removed, for the
Real User Analyzer and Collector
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x (64-bit) Ubuntu 14.04.xx LTS Ubuntu 15.10 Ubuntu 16.04.xx LTS Ubuntu 12-04 Ubuntu 12-10 Ubuntu 13-04 Ubuntu 13-10 The Windows OS support only applies to the Cloud Probe component. *These OS versions are no longer supported by the vendor. Also, added the Network Security Services (NSS) libraries to the required software list. You can now migrate the BMC Real End User Experience Monitoring v2.7 Real User Analyzer and Collector component database and configuration information to the new Software Edition. Migrating is especially helpful because it enables you to reuse configured information from the earlier version, including the Real User Analyzer's v2.7 summary data. This saves time in getting started with the latest Real Analyzer or Collector components. For more information, see
Migrating from BMC Real End User Experience Monitoring v2.7 to Software Edition.
There is also new information for upgrading the Real User Analyzer, Collector, and Cloud Probe components to the new v10.7. For more information, see
Upgrading the Real User Experience Monitoring Software Edition.
Updated support for the App Visibility Manager
Added versions Removed versions Windows 2016
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6.8
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 12.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTSRed Hat Enterprise Linux version 6.4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6.5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 11 SP2Application server Java version Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Sun Java 1.8 Apache Tomcat 8. x Sun Java 1.8 Added version
and
TEA Agent system requirements.
Updated operating system support for Real End User Experience Monitoring components
and the
Cloud Probe.
Added OS versions Removed Ubuntu OS versions* Added Windows OS version Removed Windows OS versions* Windows Server 2016 (64-bit) Windows Win 7 Added Real End User Experience Monitoring migration and upgrade information
You can now install and configure a high-availability environment for Infrastructure Management to minimize downtime and eliminate a single point of failure. Your network administrator can configure Infrastructure Management for high-availability after installation so that the system automatically switches to a standby node if the active node fails or is temporarily shut down.High-availability deployment of TrueSight Infrastructure Management
For more information, see Considerations for a high-availability deployment of Infrastructure Management.
You can now enhance the PATROL Agent data security by encrypting it with keys exchanged through the key exchange process between the TrueSight Presentation Server and the PATROL Agent. The PATROL Agent data that can be secured through this exchanged key encryption are: By default, during the TrueSight Presentation Server installation, a unique key is generated that is used to encrypt the PATROL Agent data. This key is shared with the PATROL Agent. Post the TrueSight Presentation Server installation; you can change this key using the Presentation Server Enhanced PATROL Agent data security
tssh
command.
For more information, see Enhancing the PATROL Agent data security in TrueSight Operations Management.
The following security vulnerabilities were corrected in Real End User Experience Monitoring components. Type CVE-2013-2186 CVE-2014-0050 Apache Shiro CVE-2015-5346 CVE-2015-5351 CVE-2016-0714 Apache Xalan OpenSSL CVE-2016-0705 CVE-2016-0799 CVE-2016-0798 CVE-2016-2107 CVE-2016-2108 CVE-2016-0797 GLIBC Corrected Real End User Experience Monitoring security vulnerabilities
CVE-ID Apache Commons FileUpload CVE-2014-0074 Apache Standard Taglibs CVE-2015-0254 Apache Tomcat CVE-2014-0107 CVE-2015-7547
You can now overwrite an existing installed solution with the same version from a deployable package without uninstalling the solution. This is useful if you feel that the installed KM file is corrupted. For more information, see Deploying packages to PATROL Agents using the TrueSight console.
You can now deploy monitoring solutions to multiple PATROL Agent instances that are running on the same host. For more information, see Deploying packages to PATROL Agents using the TrueSight console.
If you do not know the correct installation directory while creating a deployable package, you can leave the field for specifying the installation directory blank. The correct directory is automatically selected through the BMC_BASE variable. The BMC_BASE variable also automatically selects the correct directory if you enter an incorrect installation directory.
InTrueSight Infrastructure Management, you can now create advanced rule-based groups to monitor resources in an organized manner. You can add one or more rules, and set multiple conditions to select devices or monitors. For more information, see Creating, editing, and deleting rule-based groups. The TrueSight console provides an option to add an automatically synchronized group as a child group of a manual group that is created. You can select a child group from a list of manual and automatically synchronized groups. The automatically synchronized group names are displayed along with their associated Infrastructure Management server names enclosed in the parentheses. For more information, see Creating, editing, and deleting static groups or Creating, editing, and deleting rule-based groups. Create rule-based groups with multiple conditions
Add automatically synchronized groups as child groups
New filters in Groups and total monitors in Group Details views
For more information, see
Creating, editing, and deleting rule-based groups
,
Creating, editing, and deleting static groups
or
Creating, editing, and deleting rule-based groups
.
The following enhancements to the App Visibility agent for .NET provide expanded data visualization for your .NET Framework applications. The features were added to version 10.5.00.001 (Fix Pack 1), and incorporated in this version.
of .NET Framework and use Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). For more information, see Monitoring standalone services for .NET Framework.
For general information about code-level details, see Viewing a trace at the code level.
TrueSight Synthetic Monitor now includes metric rules for monitoring the metrics of synthetic executions. Events are generated by these rules. For more details, see Managing synthetic metric rules.Synthetic metric rules
The Synthetic Health view shows the current health and a 24-hour overview of your application based on its synthetic executions, and the metric rules defined for it. You can also view historical synthetic health data by selecting a different day. The Synthetic Health view is updated every minute. Data is displayed for all transactions as they run, and is not tied to any fixed intervals (TOM-14392, TOM-20390, TOM-24470). For more details, see Investigating application issues reported by synthetic health events.Synthetic Health view
The Synthetic Health Analysis view shows detailed synthetic health data for a single hour from the Synthetic Health view. The view can be filtered to show the health based on selected metrics, locations, Execution Plans, and transactions. The following tabs are included: For more details, see Analyzing synthetic health details.Synthetic Health Analysis view
Reports, based on the results of synthetic executions can be viewed in the user interface, or exported as PDFs or as raw data in a CSV file. Reports can be generated for a single day, a week, or a month (TOM-13611). For more details, see Viewing synthetic health reports. Reports also include comparisons to a parallel time period.Synthetic metric reports view
In TrueSight Synthetic Monitor you can now see the results of the most recent executions of an Execution Plan directly from the Execution Plan settings. For more details, see To view the recent executions for an Execution Plan.Synthetic Monitor - Show Recent Executions
You can integrate App Visibility Manager with Real End User Experience Monitoring Software Edition to access code-level diagnostics data about a transaction from a monitored browser session. For more information, see
Integrating end-user experience monitoring with deep-dive application diagnostics.
Deep-dive visualization for integrated products
On-screen reports are now implemented using an HTML5 format. This means the reports are available on all browser versions. Previously, viewing on-screen reports required support for the NPAPI plugin, which some browsers no longer support. On-screen reports enable you to visualize performance statistics in the Real User Analyzer by using pre-configured and custom reports. As part of this change to HTML based on-screen reports, there are some changes in the reports capabilities. Some reports types included two Y axes. For example, the Report for Latency has two Y axes, "Latency (ms)" on the left side and for "Requests" on the right side. In the old implementation, the user can zoom and scroll both axes independently and each zoom/scroll only changes the parts of the graph that correspond to the zoom/scroll action. In new implementation, the user can zoom and scroll only using the axis on the right side of the report, and each zoom/scroll changes all the parts of the graph, not just the graph elements that correspond to the axis that the user performed the zoom/scroll action.Added support for on-screen reports
Changed on-screen reports
You can now configure TrueSight console to integrate with the TrueSight Pulse and TrueSight Intelligence. Add the TrueSight Intelligence component to configure integration with TrueSight Intelligence. This integration allows you to send event data to TrueSight Intelligence for analytics. Tip You need a valid subscription for integration with TrueSight Intelligence.
Click here
Add the TrueSight Pulse component to configure integration with TrueSight Pulse. After this integration is configured, the monitoring data is also available to TrueSight Presentation Server. Events that are triggered in TrueSight Pulse as a result of detected abnormalities are sent to the TrueSight Presentation Server. Tip You need a valid subscription for integration with TrueSight Pulse.
Click here
TrueSight Intelligence integration
to sign up for a TrueSight Intelligence trial.
TrueSight Pulse integration
to sign up for a TrueSight Pulse trial.
To add TrueSight Pulse and TrueSight Intelligence as components on the TrueSight console, see
Adding and editing components
and Integrating with TrueSight Pulse.
Configuration support for Integration for BMC Remedy Service Desk (iBRSD) is discontinued. You can use BMC Service Resolution (BSR) for integration with Remedy Service Desk. For more information, see Configuring the integration with BMC Service Resolution.iBRSD support discontinued
Now the license usage report displays information about the number of licenses used for each monitoring solution managed under Infrastructure Management with a high count and the date on which the high count was calculated. The report can be viewed and generated for a single component at a time.
This view and report can be used by those who want to know the license count under each category of the managed components. The report is available on the TrueSight console under Administration > License Usage menu. You can generate the license usage report in a PDF and CSV formats.
License Usage is available under TrueSight console only when you have both the TrueSight Presentation Server and TrueSight Infrastructure Server versions at 10.7 or later. For more information, see Viewing and exporting the license usage report for TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server.
The TrueOps 10.7 mobile app is now available on both iOS and Android platforms with the following key functions: TrueOps 10.7 is now supported on selected Android platforms. The application administrators and users can perform all the key functions on the supported Android platforms for both applications and services. TrueOps 10.7 for iOS has been enhanced to support some of the event operations for the preferred services. The application administrators and users can perform all the key functions on the supported iOS platforms for both applications and services. For more information on TrueOps 10.7, see Getting started with TrueOps mobile app.TrueOps for Android
TrueOps for iOS
BMC Real End User Experience Monitoring Software Edition can report information through SNMP to a managing system in your network. This passive end-user experience monitoring provides an SNMP MIB that enables your SNMP manager to get (read-only) management data from the end-user experience component, such as the following metrics: To set up REUEM as a managed system, you enable the service, configure a local SNMP agent, and then configure the SNMP MIB or SNMP traps. For BMC Real End User Experience Monitoring Software Edition, added a new extraction rule to a Trace object custom field, you must use only the following Data Source field options after selecting the rule format type: Added SNMP service support
Added a Trace object extraction rule
To view the full path for monitor instances, you can now enable Show absolute path for the Monitor Instances from the User Preferences section. You can now view the full path under the following pages when you enable this option:
For more information on enabling, see Setting user preferences.
The Presentation Server supports English, Chinese, and German languages out-of-the-box. For information about creating and applying the custom language pack to the Presentation Server, see Creating and applying a custom language pack. You can right-click on an event's Occurred column, to display the browser context-menu that allows you to open the event details on a new tab or window of the browser. For information about monitoring events and drill-down options, see
Monitoring and managing events from the TrueSight console.
Multi-language support
Support for opening event details in a new tab or window
The title verification in the Title Checker of the URLChecker script supplied by BMC includes improved handling for tab and space characters (TOM-22934). Execution Plan name now supports up to 256 characters (TOM-23015). You can now reclassify Execution errors and Accuracy errors as Availability errors in Synthetic Monitor (TOM-23305, TOM-25956). For more details, see Reclassifying Synthetic Monitor Execution errors and Accuracy errors as Availability errors. The process for downloading execution logs in TrueSight Synthetic Monitor has been simplified to remove unnecessary steps (TOM-13551). Silk Performer version 17.5 now includes a Project Version field that is used in TrueSight Synthetic Monitor to track the version numbers of your scripts. Labels used in the user interface were modified to more closely adhere to industry standards (TOM-24464). Notes in the TEA Agent configuration file were expanded to clearly identify parameters that should not be modified (TOM-24469). Connection handling between App Visibility and the Presentation Server was enhanced to avoid stuck requests (TOM-28685). The event payload for events in TrueSight Synthetic Monitor has been expanded to populate more event slots and include more data. Execution logs for scripts created with Silk Performer version 17.5 generate .tlz files instead of .xlg files. Scripts that were created with previous versions of Silk Performer will continue to generate .xlg files. File contents and function are identical, and both are fully supported.Title Checker in URLChecker script has improved handling for tab and space characters
Extended Execution Plan name
Reclassifying errors in Synthetic Monitor
Simplified execution log download
Silk Performer script version numbering
Corrected labels in TrueSight Synthetic Monitor
Notes in TEA Agent configuration file
Enhanced connection handling in App Visibility
Expanded Synthetic event payloads
File type changed in execution logs
The Web beacon JavaScript library code was revised to better handle non-standard ports. The JavaScript is also in the webBeacon_toolkit.zip that can be downloaded from the Toolkits table in the PDFs topic.Revised the JavaScript for deploying Web beacons
You can now filter PATROL Agents based on a specific monitoring solution and version. You can perform actions such as installing and deploying packages or modifying policy management settings on the filtered list of Agents. For more information, see Filtering PATROL Agents. You can now configure an instance-level filter while adding monitor types in a monitoring policy. When you add an instance-level filter to a monitoring policy, you can choose to filter out the data, or events, or both. Based on the type of configured filters, PATROL Agents send the collected data and the generated events to the Infrastructure Management server. For more information, see
Configure filters to include or exclude data and events
You can use a new advanced filter type called dynamic event groups to combine events based on certain criteria or conditions. Dynamic event groups are set of events that are created dynamically based on event slot that you specify. For more information, see Creating dynamic event groups. You can now manage the event groups and dynamic event groups using the TrueSight console. You can create, modify, view, and delete the event groups using the Manage Event Groups page. For more information, see Managing event groups from the TrueSight console. Several out-of-the-box event groups are now included with the TrueSight console that enables you to process events quickly. For more information, see Out-of-the-box event groups. You can now export downloadable reports that contain details about the PATROL Agents and Monitoring Solutions. For more information, see Managing Infrastructure Management devices from the TrueSight console. Instead of editing the out-of-the-box event table views, you can now create and edit the global or user-defined event table views. For more information, see Accessing the event table views from the TrueSight console. Along with event actions menu, you can now use the event toolbar to perform the event operations such as manage event ownership, set event priority, export event details, and so on. For more information, see Performing event operations in the TrueSight console. New Agent filter functionality
Instance-level filter for the PATROL Agent data
New dynamic event groups filter type
Option to manage event groups
Out-of-the-box event groups
Export monitoring solutions for PATROL Agents
Option to manage event table views
New toolbar for event operations
When you start or restart the Infrastructure Management server or remote Integration Service, the configured ports are checked to verify that they are available. In the case of conflicts, the Infrastructure Management server or remote Integration Service start-up process is aborted. For more information, see Troubleshooting startup problems due to port conflicts.Easier troubleshooting of startup problems due to port conflicts
In TrueSight Operations Management 10.1 and earlier, the online documentation was combined into a single space, which sometimes caused confusion about the use cases that applied to specific component products. The documentation is now divided into documentation spaces that are aligned to the individual component products. A separate space now documents how to deploy the TrueSight Operations Management solution.
You can use the
TrueSight product documentation
page to locate any topic in the component based documentation.
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