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Version 1.1.00 of BMC PATROL for Amazon Web Services (BMC PATROL for AWS) is the second release of this solution. For an overview and features of the solution, see User-goals-and-features.

This section provides information about what is new or changed in this space, including urgent issues, documentation updates, maintenance releases, service packs, and patches.

The product has been enhanced with the following new features:

Feature

Summary

Support for collecting performance metrics for 3 new Amazon services

This release adds support for the following Amazon Web Services:

  • Amazon Simple Queue Service
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service
  • Amazon ElastiCache

New application classes

The following application classes have been added:

  • AWS_SQS
  • AWS_SNS
  • AWS_MEM_CACHE
  • AWS_MEM_STATS
  • AWS_CACHE

New parameters

The following new parameters have been added in this release:

  • MessagesDelayed (AWS_SQS)
  • MessagesVisible (AWS_SQS)
  • MessagesNotVisible (AWS_SQS)
  • MessagesDeleted (AWS_SQS)
  • EmptyReceive (AWS_SQS)
  • MessagesReceived (AWS_SQS)
  • SentMessageSize (AWS_SQS)
  • MessagesSent (AWS_SQS)
  • PublishSize (AWS_SNS)
  • NotificationsFailed (AWS_SNS)
  • NotificationsDelivered (AWS_SNS)
  • MessagesPublished (AWS_SNS)
  • NetworkBytesOut (AWS_MEM_CACHE)
  • NetworkBytesIn (AWS_MEM_CACHE)
  • FreeableMemory (AWS_MEM_CACHE)
  • SwapUsage (AWS_MEM_CACHE)
  • CPUUtilization (AWS_MEM_CACHE)
  • CurrentConnections (AWS_MEM_STATS)
  • CurrentItems (AWS_MEM_STATS)
  • GetMisses (AWS_MEM_STATS)
  • GetHits (AWS_MEM_STATS)
  • BytesReadIntoMemcached (AWS_MEM_STATS)
  • BytesUsedForCacheItems (AWS_MEM_STATS)
  • UnusedMemory (AWS_CACHE)
  • NewItems (AWS_CACHE)
  • NewConnections (AWS_CACHE)
  • CollSQS (AWS_ACCOUNT)
  • CollSNS (AWS_ACCOUNT)
  • CollECC (AWS_ACCOUNT)
    For more information, see the online Help on your PATROL console.

New pconfig variables

The following pconfig variables have been added:

Monitoring Amazon Web Services by using BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration Console

With version 1.1.00 of BMC PATROL for AWS and version 9.0.00 of PATROL Agent, you can configure accounts provided by Amazon Web Services by using version 9.0.00 of the BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration console. This improves administrative efficiency and effectiveness by allowing configuration of web services and accounts provided by Amazon Web Services by using BMC ProactiveNet policies. 
For more information, see configuring accounts provided by Amazon Web Services by using the BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration console.

 

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