Foglight® Agent Manager 7.1.0 Development Kit
Released with Foglight Management Server 7.1.0
Release Notes
September 2023
Resolved issues and enhancements
Getting started with the Foglight Agent Manager Development Kit
Foglight® solution simplifies application performance
monitoring and reduces the skills and effort required to manage applications,
the user experience, and the supporting infrastructure.
Unlike other
solutions, Foglight uses a single code base, and has a model-driven design that
couples fast deployment and accelerated time-to-value. It offers the modular
flexibility required to deliver a range of capabilities and sophistication to
meet the needs of any organization—from those still focused on
technology-centric monitoring to those that have completed the transition to
application-centric or transactional monitoring.
Foglight performs equally well in physical, virtual, and mixed infrastructure environments, providing visibility into issues affecting the application and end-user experience. Intuitive workflows help you quickly move from the symptom to the root cause in the application, database, infrastructure, or network to resolve issues, reducing mean time to resolution. Predefined and drag-and-drop dashboards provide insight that is tailored to each stakeholder. By offering comprehensive visibility into your monitored environment, Foglight helps ensure that cross-functional teams collaborate on and prioritize issues that matter most to the business.
Foglight agents require the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) to manage their life-cycles and centralize communications with the Foglight Management Server.
The Agent Manager Development Kit enables developers to create and manage custom Foglight agents.
These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 7.1.0 release of the Agent Manager Development Kit. Review all sections before starting the installation.
For information about issues resolved in the Agent Manager 7.1.0 release, see the Foglight Agent Manager 7.1.0 Release Notes.
Version 7.1.0 of Foglight contains the following new features and updates:
User Experience Enhancements
Security Enhancements
Improvements
PagerDuty cartridge is provided without the need for a special license (FOG-4816)
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this release.
|
Defect ID |
Resolved Issue |
| FAM-292 |
The init-agent-manifest-props macro in fglam-ant-macros fails if the manifest file uses a namespace prefix, because the <xmlproperty> tag creates variables with the namespace prefix in the name. |
|
Defect ID |
Resolved Issue |
|
FAM-4697 |
The Agent harness shows topology property updates multiple times in message trees. |
|
FAM-4494 |
A verified submission status is never updated. |
|
FAM-4492 |
First verified submission is always lost. |
|
FAM-4261 |
The Agent harness reports the following error on debug level 1: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 10, Size: 10 |
|
FAM-3908 |
A NullPointerException is thrown while an agent instance created by the AgentControlService is displayed under the Agent Type node in the tree. |
|
FAM-3880 |
Adding additional agent instances of the same type can cause a null pointer exception as a result of a call to the JTree.updateUI(). |
|
FAM-3879 |
The ASP string editor in the Agent harness interprets "\n" as a new line. |
|
FAM-3775 |
Setting a label on an enum type property in the agent-definition.xml can cause a fatal error. |
|
FAM-3774 |
The Agent harness cannot write some configuration files to the state directory. |
|
FAM-3563 |
A core dump occurs while generating a heap dump from the Agent Harness menu on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x OS virtual machine. |
|
Defect ID |
Resolved Issue |
|
FAM-4787 |
An old agent running with a newer cartridge on the Management Server with an updated and incompatible ASP schema causes a NullPointerException in the agent's generated property wrappers. |
|
FAM-4180 |
Up-to-date check for topology wrappers is invalid. |
|
FAM-4133 |
TopologyValidator should ignore user-defined topology types that are only referenced from dynamic properties. |
|
FAM-3751 |
Core properties of a topology type that is a subtype of the TopologyObject type are being overridden. |
This release of the Foglight Agent Manager Development Kit does not include any third party known issues.
The 7.1.0.x Foglight Agent Manager cartridge requires Foglight Management Server 5.9.2 or later. The cartridge is compatible with all previously released versions of the Agent Manager client application.
Agent Manager upgrades from a 5.5.4.x legacy release require an intermediary upgrade to 5.6.7 prior to upgrading to 5.8.5 or later. To complete this intermediary upgrade, install one or more of the Agent Manager 5.6.7 platform-specific cartridges (as required), and upgrade the legacy hosts to this release before deploying the 7.1.0.x Agent Manager cartridge or upgrading the Foglight Management Server to version 7.1.0. After all of the legacy hosts are running version 5.6.7, and the Foglight Management Server is upgraded to version 5.9.2 or later, you can start upgrading your hosts to version 7.1.0.x.
For more information about upgrading the Management Server and the Agent Manager, see the Foglight Upgrade Guide.
This will be the final Foglight release that supports the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) on AIX, Solaris and HP-UX platforms. Starting from the next release, FglAM installers will only be provided for Windows and Linux platforms.
Foglight includes a licensing capability that restricts access to those features that are defined in the license. All Management Server installations require 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 Cartridge for Infrastructure), others may require an additional license. Foglight Infrastructure Utilities are covered by the base Foglight license.
To activate a trial or a purchased commercial license:
The Agent Manager Development Kit is packaged with the Foglight Agent Manager and released with Foglight Management Server.
For information about what is included in the Foglight 7.1.0 release package, see the Foglight Release Notes.
Refer to the Foglight Agent Manager Guide for installation instructions.
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 Management Server and Agent Manager client will be enabled for Global Operations, but not localized to any particular locale. Legacy Foglight 4 agents will continue to be limited to the locales supported under Foglight 4. Consult the Global Operations statement for each agent to determine its own capabilities and limitations. The Agent Manager currently requires installation in a directory path with only ASCII characters.
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