What changed in Longitude 6.2.1?

The following updates are included in Longitude 6.2.1:
 

• Installation
  • Streamlined installation
  • Enhanced welcome page with additional web resource links
  • Support for 64 bit Management console and agent installations
  • Documented MAXDB reserved words not to be used for initial Longitude account

 

• Web UI
  • Links on main menu pages for submenus
  • Ability to disable drop down menus
  • Links to http://community.heroix.com
  • Links to online product documentation
  • Added Support for IE8

 

• Event Monitor
  SNMP Trap and Syslog solutions able to use device name instead of an IP Address

 

• SLA/Statistics Dashboards
  Out of the box Statistics and SLA Dashboards for:
  • Ping
  • Windows CPU
  • Unix CPU

 

• Reports – Improved performance
  • Summary tables in the database to improve the speed of reporting for:
    • SLA Summary/Detail Reports
    • Events Summary Report
    • Unix/Windows Detail/Summary/Overview Reports
  • Removed Events from the Summary Reports to speed up report rendering – the Events are still available as standalone reports
  • Removed computer name on disk detail report so disk drive name is viewable
  • Automatically close calendars after selecting a date in configure reports

 

• Reports - New
  • Ping Response time report
  • Cisco Bandwidth report

 

• Application Monitoring Improvements
  • Cisco - Inactive interfaces filtered out by default
  • Cisco - Interfaces are now ordered by index number
  • Exchange and Exchange 2007 - Mailbox collection limitation of 1000 mailboxes removed
  • IIS - Added IIS 7 Support
  • Insight Manager - Updated statistics being collected
  • Internet - Added Support for Selenium 1.02b and Firefox 3.0
  • Oracle – Improved alerting for Instance Down
  • SQL2008 – New application to monitor SQL Server 2008
  • VMWare - Added VMware 3.5 support

 

• Database and Components
  • Components can be configured to use more than 2GB of RAM on 64 bit Management consoles/Agents
  • Improved data deletion algorithms
  • Improved MaxDB database sizing and memory usage