HP Operations Agent Release Notes

for the Windows®, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and AIX operating systems

Software version: 11.01

Publication date: June, 2011

This document is an overview of the changes made to the HP Operations agent. It contains important information that is not included in books or Help. You can find information about the following in this document:

What's New in This Release?
Supported Environments
Installation Notes
Enhancements and Fixes
Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds
Documentation Updates
Support
Legal Notices

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What's New in This Release?

This is a patch release of the HP Operations agent.

New Features

The HP Operations agent 11.01 contains these new features:

Support for monitoring vMA 4.1

This version of the HP Operations agent enables you to monitor vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) 4.1.

Enhanced monitoring of Windows event logs

With this version of the HP Operations agent, you can monitor the data in the Details tab of Windows event logs (for Windows 2008). Also, the HP Operations agent can now monitor subscribed events and  events with the level LOG_ALWAYS or VERBOSE.

New Configuration Variables

OPC_LE_SKIP_NO_OF_INVALID_EVENTS (namespace eaagt): When you set this variable to a positive integer, you can receive notifications in the HPOM console if invalid events are encountered by the logfile encapsulator (opcle). When the number of invalid events encountered by opcle reaches the value of this variable, the HP Operations agent sends an alert to the HPOM console. By default, this feature is disabled and the variable is set to -1.

New Metrics

The HP Operations agent 11.01 introduces the following metrics on Solaris nodes:

Supported Environments

The HP Operations agent runs in these HP Operations Manager (HPOM) environments:

Installation Notes

Support Matrix

You can find the Support Matrix for this product that lists all software and hardware requirements at this location: HP Support matrices.

Note: Most of the support areas require that you register as an HP Passport user and sign in. Many also require an active support contract. To find more information about support access levels, go to: Access levels.

To register for an HP Passport ID, go to: HP Passport Registration

 

Software and Hardware Requirements

For a detailed list of supported operating systems, architectures, virtualization technology, and cluster technology, see the support matrix.

Enhancements and Fixes

 

See the patch text file for more information on enhancements and fixes.

Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds

See the patch text file for more information on known problems and workarounds.

Limitations

Documentation Updates

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Legal Notices

©Copyright 1999 - 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

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Acknowledgements

This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/).
This product includes software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).
This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
This product includes an interface of the 'zlib' general purpose compression library, which is Copyright © 1995-2002 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.