BMC PATROL for Oracle Database Monitoring 9.7

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Release notes and notices Updated 16 Dec 2020

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Date	Title	Summary
December 22, 2020	9-7-12-Service-Pack-3	Released a service pack with new features and fixed issues reported in the earlier versions.
August 31, 2020	Technical-bulletins	Added Oracle 19c support
December 10, 2018	Technical-bulletins	Added Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 platform support
November 1, 2018	9.7.11.03: Fix Pack 3	Released a fix pack to fix issues reported in the earlier versions
May 23, 2018	9.7.11.02: Fix Pack 2	Released a fix pack to fix issues reported in the earlier versions
January 16, 2018	9.7.11.01: Fix Pack 1	Released a fix pack with the following changes: Improved Oracle Extended Tablespace Monitoring (ETSM) feature Removed support for deprecated features Fixed issues reported in earlier versions, see Known-and-corrected-issues
October 08, 2017	Technical-bulletins	Added tolerance support for Oracle 12c R2
June 23, 2017	9-7-11-Service-Pack-2	PATROL for Oracle Database 9.7.11 provides you the following new features: Support for Windows 2016 Introduced a new pconfig variable.
April 6, 2017	9.7.10.02: Patch 2	Released a patch to fix issues reported in the earlier versions
November 24, 2016	9.7.10.01: Patch 1	Released a patch to fix issues reported in the earlier versions
September 20, 2016	9-7-10-Service-Pack-1	PATROL for Oracle Database 9.7.10 provides you the following new features: Oracle KM now supports a detailed events report Privilege to execute SQL*Plus commands
March 14, 2016	9.7.00 enhancements	PATROL for Oracle Database 9.7.00 provides you the following new features: Oracle KM supports now RAC one node on Standby as well PCM has full control over Oracle instances Configuring the RAC KM with the batch configuration Copying the Oracle related pconfig after discovery for the ORACLE_R1N.km Reporting warning and alarm tablespaces when alarmed Supports Listeners Services Monitoring Compatibility of ORACLE_CAPACITY with Oracle 11g Excluding Disabled jobs while calculating FailedJobs Usage of wildcards for monitoring listener INCLUSIONS or EXCLUSIONS Excluding certain FailedJobs from monitoring using ETSM Menu command to sort the ETSM_REGULAR tablespaces into ETSM_LARGE and ETSM_VERY_LARGE containers Support Regular Expression in User Monitoring Support for SQL Custom Query Monitoring is not required in the filesystems for the ETSM parameters Monitoring the PATROL Database Monitoring user for its password expiry Monitoring callout listener Monitoring Dataguard real time Detecting the version of Oracle home and Oracle database after upgrading Supports ANYINST for all instances while monitoring Monitoring the +ASM instance using only ASM Monitoring the RAC services in RAC KM Parameter reports are available online Configuring Oracle through CMA without using the SYS password Monitoring Oracle 12c Management Listener Monitoring Oracle 12c Management Database Added a pconfig variable with version of the Oracle km Reducing duplication of events under availability Including full path and file name for all Oracle KM log monitoring for each alert

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Accessing online Help

Online Help for KMs is no longer available for the following consoles:

PATROL Central Operator – Microsoft Windows Edition
PATROL Central Operator – Web Edition
PATROL Console for Microsoft Windows
PATROL Console for UNIX.

However, online Help will continue to be available from the BMC TrueSight Operations Management console and BMC Central Monitoring Administration. For more information, see Frequently-Asked-Questions-on-Online-Help.

Is online Help available for KMs?

Online Help will not be available from the following Consoles:

PATROL Central Operator – Microsoft Windows Edition
PATROL Central Operator – Web Edition
PATROL Console for Microsoft Windows
PATROL Console for UNIX

However, online Help will continue to be available from the TrueSight console and BMC Central Monitoring Administration.

How can I access the online Help?

You can access the online Help from the TrueSight Operations Management console and Central Monitoring Administration. For complete product documentation, refer to the KM documentation on docs.bmc.com.

What kind of offline documentation can I get?

KM documentation is available in PDF format.

How do I access the documentation PDF?

You can access the offline documentation from the following locations:

Product documentation is available in PDF format along with the installation files on the EPD site.
PDFs are also available on the PDFs and videos page of the respective KM documentation on docs.bmc.com

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