Important This documentation space contains information about PATROL Agents when deployed in a BMC Helix Operations Management environment. If you are a TrueSight Operations Management user, see PATROL Agent 24.2

24.2 enhancements and patches

Review the PATROL Agent 24.2 enhancements for features that will benefit your organization and to understand changes that might impact your users.

BMC applies upgrades as described in the BMC Helix Upgrade policy. BMC applies upgrades and patches during Maintenance windows..

Related topics

Known-and-corrected-issues

Release-notes-and-notices


Technical bulletin

Technical bulletin on high resource usage in PATROL Agent 24.2.00 with certain KMs.

See Technical-bulletins.


Upgrade to Visual Studio 2019

Upgrade your Windows compiler to Visual Studio 2019, and compile all Third-Party Libraries, libcurl, libevent, cJSON, Mozilla NSS, Xerces, OpenSSL, ZLIB, Security Library ESS, and the Agent. This upgrade ensures successful connections to BMC Helix Operations Management and TrueSight Operations Management.


Stream data optimization for BMC Helix Operations Management efficiently

Optimize data streaming to BMC Helix Operations Management by limiting Metric messages to 1 MB to prevent internal server errors while avoiding streaming annotation data, thus ensuring smooth communication and efficient operations.


Monitor capabilities with the addition of the PATROL Agent health application class

The addition of the PATROL Agent heath application class to enhance monitoring capabilities and operational efficiency by introducing the following metrics:

  • Number of Metrics
  • Number of Entities
  • Remaining Days for Certificate Expiry


 

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