Foglight ® for DB2 LUW utilizes a lightweight agent that provides real-time monitoring of all layers of an enterprise application (systems, networks, Internet, and databases) and captures pertinent infrastructure application usage, service, and availability level data used to continually assess the state of an DB2® LUW installation. Using this collected data, Foglight Management Server provides a multi-dimensional view of resource utilization for capacity planning, problem determination, and trend analysis, both real-time and historically.
These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 5.9.7.23 release of Foglight for DB2 LUW. Review all sections before starting the installation.
The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in this release.
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of release.
Setting User Defined Collection Credentials for DB2 will fail, when the DB2 agent name contains the character @ . |
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DB instance is still synchronized and displayed in FMS federation master even though it is stopped for some reason and not displayed in the FMS federation child. |
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Popup message is not clear enough when installing cartridge 5.9.4.10 on FMS version lower than 5.9.2. Workaround: Click “Info” icon on the right corner of the page and see the warning message. |
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The Management Server 5.7.1 stops responding when clicking charts on the Tablespaces dashboard. Workaround: Upgrade the Management Server to 5.7.5 or later. |
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If your DB2 version is 10.1, granting user permission may fail due to inconsistent parameter(). |
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If you select either of DB_DB2, DB_DB2_UI, DB_Global_View_UI cartridges then click Reset on the Cartridge Inventory dashboard, the upgrade wizard will prompt again. Navigate to the Administration > Rules & Notifications > Manage Registry Variables dashboard. |
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DB2 SQL Performance doesn't support DB2 version lower than v9.7.0.10 (excluding 9.7.0.10). |
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DB2 UnixAgentPlus needs to be deleted before adding new DB2 UnixAgent when upgrading DB2 cartridge to 5.9.4.10. |
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The popup message is not clear enough to tell the reason when it fails to install cartridge 5.9.4.10 on FMS version lower than 5.9.2. Workaround: See the warning message on the right corner of the page. |
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If the monitored DB2 server is v9.7.0.10 or v9.7.0.11, the following metrics are not available: Memory Wait, Memory Wait Rate, pureScale Wait, pureScale Wait Rate, Total CPU Wait, Memory Wait (seconds), and pureScale Wait (seconds). |
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In Upgrade Wizard, when upgrade finishes (click the Finish button), there will be low chance that the page will navigate back to the beginning of the Wizard. In fact the upgrade has already been finished after the first upgrade process. We can directly cancel the second upgrade process. Then, we can validate: |
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When monitoring an instance running on Windows using a Foglight Agent Manager that is running on a non-Windows platform, open file descriptors are not closed correctly. Workaround: On the Foglight Agent Manager machine, the “description” limit is configured to “1024”. This value should be defined as “unlimited” or to a larger number, for example “65535”. |
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For DB2 version below 9.7, the CPU collected and displayed for a monitored instance is the CPU for only the monitored databases under that instance. The instance CPU does not include the CPU for any databases that are under the instance and are not monitored. |
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When the legacy Cartridge for DB2 LUW and Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.5.x are installed on the same Foglight Management Server and you upgrade the latter to Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.6.4 or later, the online help for the legacy version is no longer available. On the navigation panel, navigate to Administration > Cartridges > Cartridge Inventory.
When you are finished, both online help versions are displayed in the action panel. |
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If you have a Foglight for DB2 LUW agent that has never been used to collect data and you upgrade to Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.6.4 or later, you will not be able to activate and use the agent seamlessly. To activate and use the Foglight for DB2 LUW agent seamlessly, you must first create an Infrastructure agent and then manually set up resource mapping for that agent. For information on how to create an Infrastructure agent, see the Infrastructure Cartridge documentation. For information on how to set up resource mapping, see the Foglight Administration and Configuration Help. |
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The Memory Summary panel and the corresponding alarm display "null" when there are no child pools under a memory pool. |
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An Agent Manager that is installed on a Windows fail-over cluster as a service that runs on the active node cannot monitor databases that are located on the same cluster. This is an Agent Manager limitation. |
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The Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.6.5.5 Upgrade Wizard does not support the upgrade of external agents if the Agent Manager is not version 5.6.2 or later. Workaround: Upgrade to Foglight Management Server 5.6.4 or later. |
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The DB2 installer does not support foreign languages on Windows machine. The DB2 agent should be created manually through Foglight Administration > Agent Status. The fields that needs to be modified are:
Once the agent was activated, the following errors may be occurred: |
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For DB2 version 9.7 and 10.1, some statistics information about db2 background processes is not collected due to DB2 limitation. |
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For DB2 version 9.7 and above, the following metrics are not available due to DB2 limitations: AGENT_USR_CPU_TIME_MS, AGENT_SYS_CPU_TIME_MS, LAST_RESET. |
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The Databases dashboard does not appear after user upgrades the Foglight for DB2 LUW to 5.7.5.37 using SPM installer. |
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The “Error executing script” error shows in the server log, if user clicks any tab or component on the Global View. |
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An error log showed in FMS log for loading heatmap component in FMS version before 5.9.3. |
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Need to wait for more than ten minutes between the upgrade of the Foglight Management Server and Foglight for DB2 LUW. |
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The tasks listed below cannot be accomplished from the central Foglight Management Server (the federation master): |
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This release of Foglight for DB2 LUW supports adding databases to existing instances only using the Databases Management view in the Databases Administration dashboard. |
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The Windows System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) tool and Anti-Virus Protection tools installed on Windows® may negatively impact CPU and system performance of machines running Foglight, Foglight Agent Manager, and the SQL PI repository. To reduce resource consumption, it is highly recommended that you exclude the following directory from being scanned by the protection tools: |
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Anti-virus software may negatively impact the CPU and system performance of machines running Foglight. To reduce resource consumption, it is highly recommended to exclude the relevant directory, processes, and executables from being scanned by the anti-virus software. For detailed information, refer to the “Configuring anti-virus exclusion settings” in Installing Foglight on Windows with an Embedded PostgreSQL Database . |
The following is a list of third party issues known to exist at the time of this release.
The Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) failed to restart when upgrading DB Cartridge, which is due to “Could not obtain a deployment lock” error. Workaround: Perform the procedure described in the Knowledge Article 266110 . |
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Cannot import license into installer with license file name XXX.lic. When importing license into installer, change license file name to XXX.license. |
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Problem: WMI support is affected by the firewall on versions of Windows prior to Windows 7. Workaround: For Windows versions prior to Windows Server 2008/Vista, use the following steps: Open TCP port: 135.WMI by default uses the port range 1024 to 5000. Port numbers below 5000 may already be in use by other applications and could cause conflicts with your DCOM applications. It is recommended to have at least 100 ports opened, as several system services rely on these RPC ports to communicate with each other.
For Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008: According to Microsoft ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929851 ), the default dynamic port range for TCP/IP has changed in these versions. The new default start port is 49152 and end port is 65535. Subsequently, monitoring instances that run under these operation systems can be carried out by using either one of the following options: |
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In FIPS-compliant mode, it is required to use at least 2048 RSA and DSA key size to do OS monitoring via SSH connection in DB cartridge. When FglAM version is lower than 5.9.7.1, FglAM will not check RSA/DSA key size < 2048, and the connection is non-FIPS compliant. |
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Monitoring a DB2 instance which resides on Windows Server 2008R2 or higher requires the following workaround: Browse to https://www.quest.com/support/ and log in. |
Some base values are not updated when using the Win32_PerfRawData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk WMI class to calculate performance data in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008, because this class does not contain the PercentDiskTime_Base metric. Workaround: A hotfix is available on Microsoft's Web site, at https://support.microsoft.com/kb/961435/en-us . |
To upgrade Foglight for DB2 LUW, follow the instructions in the Managing DB2 Database Systems User and Reference Guide.
A direct upgrade to Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.9.7.x is only available from version 5.7.5.x or later. Customers that are running 5.7.x of the product must first upgrade to version 5.7.5.x and then upgrade to version 5.9.7.x. A direct upgrade to Foglight for DB2 5.7.x is only available from version 5.5.8 or later. Customers that are running earlier versions of the product must first upgrade to version 5.5.8 and then upgrade to version 5.7.x.
For example, if your Foglight for DB2 LUW is version 5.5.8 and you are going to upgrade to version 5.9.7.x, the upgrade path will be 5.5.8 > 5.7.x > 5.7.5.x (or later) > 5.9.7.x.
The following Foglight product versions and platforms are compatible with this release.
Before installing or upgrading Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.9.7.23, ensure that your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
Before installing Foglight for DB2 LUW, ensure that your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements detailed in Foglight System Requirements and Platform Support Guide.
Customers running large deployments (that is, with more than 20 agents) should consult the Foglight for DB2 LUW Hardware Sizing Guide.
The following UNIX programs must be accessible to the user logged on to the UNIX and Linux computers:
In addition, the following platform-specific programs must be available:
For information on the required privileges, refer to the Foglight for DB2 LUW Getting Started Guide.
The operating system platforms and versions of DB2 that are supported for monitoring by Foglight for DB2 LUW are the following.
Foglight for DB2 LUW supports the monitoring of instances that are installed on Linux on System z. The supported monitored instance versions are the same as specified in the list above for the Linux platform.
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IBM® DB2® pureScale is currently not supported for Linux on IBM System z. |
Foglight for DB2 LUW supports monitoring an environment configured to use HADR by creating agents to monitor each one of the nodes separately (applies for both primary nodes and secondary).
Foglight for DB2 LUW supports a physical partition. When monitoring a physical partition, ensure you create the agent using the agent installer on the coordinator host.
This section provides a list of references which address the most commonly faced issues relating to remote connectivity, allowing for easy troubleshooting using the vendor's information knowledge base:
Foglight includes a licensing capability that restricts access to those features that are defined in the license. Any Management Server installation requires a license that grants access to server-specific parts of the browser interface and the features associated with them. Foglight cartridges are also license-protected. While some cartridges are covered by the base Foglight license (such as Foglight Agent Manager cartridges and the Foglight for Infrastructure), others may require an additional license.
Foglight for DB2 LUW is covered by the base Foglight license that allows cartridges to be installed. The SQL Performance Investigator extension requires a dedicated license.
The Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.9.7.23 release package contains the following:
Additional information is available from the following:
This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.
This release is Unicode-enabled and supports any character set. In this release, all product components should be configured to use the same or compatible character encodings and should be installed to use the same locale and regional options. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North America, Western Europe and Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Far-East Asia, Japan.
This release has the following known capabilities or limitations: The server will be enabled for Global Operation, but not localized to any particular locale.
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