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December 2, 2009

 RELEASE: Monitoring Studio KM v8.6.51

Sentry Software is releasing version 8.6.51 of Monitoring Studio KM, the high-performance tool that allows you to set up the monitoring of almost any application for which there is no out-of-the-box monitoring available, with no coding.

New features

  • Acknowlegde Alerts
    This new KM command allows you to acknowledge all alerts for a specific instance
  • Configuration Variables
    Two new configuration variables were added respectively to the Web Request and the WBEM Queries application classes:
    - /MASAI/SENTRY8/windowsWebRequestScriptPath: to specify the path to the VB script used to perform web requests on Windows servers
    - /MASAI/SENTRY8/wbemJarPath: to specify the path to the jar file used to perform WBEM queries

Enhancements and Changes

  • Dynamic Object Builder
    The option allowing you to define if and how Monitoring Studio must trigger an alert when the Dynamic Item, containing the extracted line, is missing from one collect to another has been improved to offer additional alert types: Trigger an INFORMATION, Trigger a WARNING, Trigger an ALARM.
    The way Monitoring Studio removes missing objects in the console can now be configured to : Never, As soon as they are missing or When they are missing "n" times in a row.
  • Alert Actions
    The Email Alert Action tool has been improved to allow you to send an email alert action to multiple recipients.
  • SW_FOLDERS
    The new parameter "LongestTimeFileRemainsInFolder" has been added to the SW_FOLDERS application class to displays the longest time an existing file has been placed in a folder.
  • Alert Action Macros
    The macro %{FOLDER_OLDEST_REMAINING_FILE] has been added to the list of Alert Action Macros to provide the name of the oldest remaining file in the folder.

Corrected issues

  • HTTP Request
    HTTP Request did not trigger an alert when a username/password was configured and the web site was stopped.
  • Polling Intervals and Alert Actions
    Polling intervals and Alert Actions could not be set on older versions of the PATROL Agent because the "parameterType" instance variable was missing.
  • Exit Status Codes
    They were not properly interpreted by the Monitoring Studio interface on older versions of the PATROL Agent.
  • SNMP OIDs
    COUNTER-type values were not properly interpreted.
  • JMX Polling
    The JMX monitoring would stop working when the application server was restarted, resulting in high CPU usage.


Please read the Release Notes to get a complete list of new features, enhancements and corrected issues included in version 8.6.51.

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