HP Business Availability Center 8.06
What's New
Software version: 8.06 / January 2011
This file provides information about new features and enhancement to HP Business Availability Center 8.06, 8.05, 8.04, 8.03, 8.02, 8.01, and 8.00 (for 8.05 information, click here; for 8.04 information, click here; for 8.03 information, click here; for 8.02 information, click here; for 8.01 information, click here; for 8.00 information, click here).
Release Highlights
HP Business Availability Center 8.05
What's New
Software version: 8.05 / September 2010
This file provides information about new features and enhancement to HP Business Availability Center 8.05, 8.04, 8.03, 8.02, 8.01, and 8.00 (for 8.04 information, click here; for 8.03 information, click here; for 8.02 information, click here; for 8.01 information, click here; for 8.00 information, click here).
Release Highlights
- Platform enhancements:
- Support for Oracle 11 database
- Support for SQL 2008 database
- Support for viewing Business Availability Center in IE 8.0 (see the Business Availability Center 8.05 readme for limitations with use of this browser)
- Support for viewing Business Availability Center in Firefox 3.x (see the Business Availability Center 8.05 readme for limitations with use of this browser)
- SaaS Rent-a-POP: When editing transaction monitors in End User Management Administration, there is a link to the HP BAC Anywhere Web site. From this site, you can manage rented POPs (Business Process Monitor agents managed by HP Software-as-a-Service) and assign them to transaction monitors.
- Real User Monitor: Real User Monitor 8.05 is supported on Windows Server 2008 (see the 8.05 readme for the list of supported versions).
- Defect fixes and customer escalation fixes
HP Business Availability Center 8.04
What's New
Software version: 8.04 / March 2010
This file provides information about new features and enhancement to HP Business Availability Center 8.04, 8.03, 8.02, 8.01, and 8.00 (for 8.03 information, click here; for 8.02 information, click here; for 8.01 information, click here; for 8.00 information, click here).
Release Highlights
- Platform enhancements:
- Business Availability Center 8.04 is supported on Windows Server 2008 (see the 8.04 readme for the list of supported versions).
- Business Process Insight Server 8.04 is supported on Windows Server 2008.
- You can now use the Customization tab in User Management to hide applications and whole contexts from a user's view, in addition to being able to hide pages and tabs within applications.
- Update of Java Runtime Environment running on Business Availability Center servers to JRE 1.5.0_22
- TransactionVision enhancements:
- Supported databases for the TransactionVision Analyzer and UI/Job Server now include Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2008 and DB2 9.5
- Windows Server 2008 support for the TransactionVision Analyzer and UI/Job Server
- Windows Server 2008 support added for the WMQ Sensor, Java Agent and .NET Agent
- SonicMQ 7.6.2 support added for the Java Agent
HP Business Availability Center 8.03
What's New
Software version: 8.03 / September 2009
This file provides information about new features and enhancement to HP Business Availability Center 8.03, 8.02, 8.01, and 8.00 (for 8.02 information, click here; for 8.01 information, click here; for 8.00 information, click here).
Release Highlights
- Service Level Management (SLM) enhancements:
- SLM now enables customization of the First day of month setting which is used in calculating agreements.
- A new business rule, EMS Events Availability, calculates status for the System Availability KPI assigned to an EMS Monitor CI. This enables you to include EMS events as part of the SLM calculation.
- Platform enhancements:
- Update of Java Runtime Environment running on Business Availability Center servers to JRE 1.5.0_18
- Mutual authentication: Users can set up authentication for both the Discovery and Dependency Mapping (DDM) Probe and Business Availability Center running an embedded UCMDB, with certificates. The certificate for each side is sent and authenticated before the connection is established.
- Real User Monitor Engine enhancements:
- System Availability Management enhancement:
- Dashboard enhancement:
- TransactionVision enhancement:
HP Business Availability Center 8.02
What's New
Software version: 8.02 / June 2009
This file provides information about new features and enhancement to HP Business Availability Center 8.02, 8.01, and 8.00 (for 8.01 information, click here; for 8.00 information, click here).
Release Highlights
- Netuitive integration:
- System Availability Management (SAM) enhancement:
- Apache Web server upgrade:
- End User Management (EUM) enhancements, including:
- Real User Monitor (RUM): Additional OS support for RUM probe (Windows 2003 and RHE5 64 bit); Improved SSL traffic handling for special environments; Seven protocol decoder packs for slow requests: MSSQL, LDAP, MySQL, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, FTP; Improved system health; Keystore management improvements
- Business Process Monitor (BPM): Support for VuGen 9.5; BPM support for Windows Vista; New MSI installation replaces InstallShield on Windows platforms; New Solaris packaging (sparc) installation replaces InstallShield on Solaris platforms
- Business Process Insight enhancement:
- Interactive integration documentation for Business Availability Center-Service Manager/ServiceCenter integration:
HP Business Availability Center 8.01
What's New
Software version: 8.01 / March 2009
This file provides information about new features and enhancement to HP Business Availability Center 8.01 and 8.00 (for 8.00 information, click here).
Release Highlights
- Support for integration with Service Manager 7.10 in the following applications:
- Support for migrating from internal to external UCMDB
- Support for upgrading on Solaris OS
- Universal CMDB
- Discovery and Dependency Mapping
- Added AES Encryption Algorithm for DSD (replaces 3DES)
- Includes the following new DDM Content:
The SAP Profiles by Shell job has been added to the Application - SAP module. This job discovers Profile files for SAP Application servers using Shell credentials.Host Resource discovery now includes TCP Connections and Process to Process discovery.Application Signature maps Windows Services to the relevant Processes and Software Elements.Improved CPU Cores discovery
HP Business Availability Center 8.00
What's New
Software version: 8.00 / January 2009
This file provides information about new features and enhancement to HP Business Availability Center 8.00.
Release Highlights
Business Availability Center Dashboard
- Significantly enhanced Business Availability Center Dashboard providing new 360-degree console views of key services, showing:
- Over time KPIs - Valuable key performance indicators for better decision making
- Business Impact - Profound understanding of risk to business objectives
- Alerts - Easily view which business services are in trouble
- Changes - Discovery of recent and planned changes that have business impact
- Incidents - Track incidents related to CIs in the selected hierarchy
Problem Isolation and Resolution
- Industry-leading Problem Isolation capabilities:
- Closed-loop isolation and resolution flow through Operations Orchestration (OO) integration
- Improved support for HP Operations Manager installed base through event correlation to application problem/anomaly start time
- Improved problem prevention through leverage of real user data in Proactive Analysis
- Increased visibility to incident prevention information in Problem Isolation reports
Business Transaction Management
- Extended Business Transaction Management capabilities
- Richer user experiences through more integrated workflows, including new native Business Availability application components for Business Process Insight and TransactionVision
- Better and simplified end-to-end transaction views with new aggregated transaction topology view, providing front-end (Real User Monitor)/back-end views of business transactions
- New business process health views in Business Availability Center Dashboard
- Easier dependency mapping of business processes to transactions and other IT services
End User Experience
Real User Monitor
- Generic TCP Poor Request drill down:
- Drill down from summary reports to see poor requests (slow requests and requests with network errors) by server and by client
- Support drill down to specific slow requests or requests with network errors
- Show text snippets for poor requests
- Save network capture files of poor requests for network analysis: the ultimate handoff from application owner to network owner
- Out of the box templates for WebSphere Portal 5.0/6.0
- Support for MPLS traffic
Dashboard
- Significantly extended Business Availability Center Dashboard, providing quick and easy access to the key data associated with a configuration item that is having a performance or availability issue. This new tabbed-based approach provides quick access to:
- Simplified creation of KPI rules with new dynamic Java scripting language (Groovy rules)
- More control on the propagation of KPIs with new propagation manager in KPI Assignments
- New Yahoo! Widget to display the status of a selected Dashboard view
- New Rich Text Portlet for My BSM, providing ability to simply create text, images and Flash files to be displayed to users in the My BSM portal
- Ability to create and visualize simple end-to-end process models and understand the impact that service dependencies are having on these business processes
- New Business Process Insight "Lite" capability: This new Dashboard capability allows users to create end to end business process models, along with any dependencies on hosts or applications. In the Business Availability Center Dashboard, users can then see the health of those business processes based upon the underlying health/performance of these dependencies. This out-of-the-box feature is a great new way to get an end to end business process health view; subsequently these business processes can be monitored in real-time as operational business process, including the business process instance data by extending the solution to incorporate the HP Business Process Insight product.
Problem Isolation
Reactive Analysis
- Reduced Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) through closed-loop isolation and resolution flow with Operations Orchestration (OO) integration
- Correlation of end-user experience metrics to infrastructure monitoring events coming from HP Operations Manager and other third-party infrastructure monitoring tools
- Reduced Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) through quick in-context drill-down to Problem Isolation from incident-indicating alerts
Proactive Analysis
- Establishment of expected behavior norms through ongoing learning of historical simulated and real user performance data
- Improved problem prevention through correlation of real user performance data to underlying infrastructure monitoring data
- Correlation of end-user experience metrics to infrastructure monitoring events coming from HP Operations Manager and other third-party infrastructure monitoring tools
- Increased visibility into incident prevention information through Problem Isolation reports, also available in the My BSM portal:
Platform
Business Availability Center for SOA
Business Availability Center for Siebel
Business Availability Center for SAP
SiteScope 10.0
Diagnostics
- SOA Enhancements
- SiteScope Integration
- Performance Center/LoadRunner Integration
- Stack Trace Sampling: visibility into additional methods without instrumentation
- Dynamic Instrumentation
- Diagnostics
- Threshold Violations per Metric
- Support for .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5 (WCF)
- CPU utilization by probe
- Object lifecycle monitoring
- EJB 3 instrumentation
- .NET Remoting Cross VM
- Tuxedo monitoring (through JOLT instrumentation)
- Licensing changes
- Scalability improvements (reduction in server memory usage and CPU utilization)
- Ability to select multiple entities in the UI
- The Diagnostics Online Help has been changed to include a link to the HP Diagnostics Installation and Configuration Guide PDF file
Business Process Insight
TransactionVision
- Significantly enhanced Business Availability Center integration:
- New TransactionVision application inside of Business Availability Center, all TransactionVision end-user features available from within Business Availability Center
- TransactionVision administrators can access all administration facilities directly from Business Availability Center Administration
- New Transaction Topology UI including end-to-end transaction views from Real User Monitor through to back-end transactions
- Deeper CMDB integration with TransactionVision discovered Java topology information populating the CMDB
- Enhanced Sensor/Agent coverage
HP Universal CMDB
Integrations
Service Manager Integration
Integration and Licensing Changes for UCMDB Foundation
Integration Documentation
Integration with Business Availability Center and Operations Manager i
Application
Modeling Studio
Additional Modeling Improvements
Federation
Discovery and Dependence Mapping (DDM)
- Control and monitor discovery at the view and CI level
- Ability to run on demand to check what has changed
- Application signature configuration UI
- Out-of the box support for VMware Virtual Center discovery and VMware ESX Server discovery via VMware Infrastructure Management protocol
- Load balancer discovery (F5/Alteon/CSS)
- Quick DDM-based data import support (from database, CSV, or Java properties files)
- Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server discovery
Business Availability Center Documentation
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