From the Lab

SharePoint Monitoring: new features in the pipeline

november 30, 2010
  • Status: ongoing development
  • Expected Release Date: January 2011

Sentry Software will soon be releasing a new version of its SharePoint Monitoring products:

  • SharePoint KM for PATROL version 1.0.02
  • BMC Performance Manager Express for PATROL version 2.7.07

New Features

  • Full compatibility with SharePoint 2010 and Windows Server 2008, SharePoint 2010 and Windows Server 2008 (a class named SEN_WSS_MAIN was added to provide users with the version of SharePoint Server).
  • Both products will support the 64bits version of Windows.

Improvements and Fixed Issues

  • Enhanced detection of SharePoint 2010 errors for both products.
  • BMC Performance Manager Express for SharePoint will no longer fail to collect when the SQL database instance name is different from the SQL Server hostname.
  • Both products will no longer trigger a false alert on the HTTP availability test for web application that do not have a root site.