What's New in Advisor

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Version 5.7.700 (5.7 RTM)

• Problem management: Two new thresholds for “Grooming” were added

Two new thresholds were added to Option dialogs of Advisor:

• Problem management: Advisor Grooming: Delete events with Delete, By Design statuses

Events with status Deleted and By Design is subject for grooming based on specified thresholds in Options dialog.

• Problem Management: Status parameter was added to all reports

Almost all reports now contain new parameter Status. This parameter filters events by Problem Management Status. Default values: New, Reviewed.

• Intercept Reporting – Set automatic startup mode

In order to simplify Intercept Reporting windows service maintenance startup mode was changed to Automatic. If Reporting is not configured service won’t start and put message to Event Log

Version 5.7.570 (5.7 RC)

Configuration Utility

• Problem management: Two new thresholds for “Grooming” were added

Two new thresholds were added to Option dialogs of Advisor:

• Problem management: Advisor Grooming: Delete events with Delete, By Design statuses

Events with status Deleted and By Design is subject for grooming based on specified thresholds in Options dialog.

• Problem Management: Status parameter was added to all reports

Almost all reports now contain new parameter Status. This parameter filters events by Problem Management Status. Default values: New, Reviewed.

• Intercept Reporting – Set automatic startup mode

In order to simplify Intercept Reporting windows service maintenance startup mode was changed to Automatic. If Reporting is not configured service won’t start and put message to Event Log

Version 5.6.551

Configuration Utility

• Improved configuration utility

Version 5.6.365

Reports

• Support for Microsoft SQL Express 2005 SP3 and 2008

Additional information about feature comparisons between the different editions of SQL Server may be found at:

• Http://www.microsoft.com/Sqlserver/2005/en/us/compare-features.aspx
• Http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/editions-compare.aspx

Version 5.6.356(RTM Hotfix)

Reports

• Custom Counter Analysis report - This report provides daily, weekly and monthly analysis for application specific performance counters. The report allows to pick up to 6 application specific counters. It shows KPIs and trends for the selected counters for a selected period in comparison to a dynamic baseline of previous periods. The report also allows to compare counters values across multiple load balanced servers.
• All reports support relative dates parameters - Relative date parameters are required for scheduling reports. Now scheduling of all reports is supported
• Port forwarding is supported - Enable support for the configuration when Advisor is installed behind firewall (like ISA Server) with enabled port forwarding.
• Custom name for subscription - Subscription wizard allows specifying custom name for a subscription.
• Link to Advisor is added to the e-mail subscription - E-mail generated by subscription will contain link to original report.
• Pre-loader animation - While report is being generated the pre-loader is shown.
• “Week” baseline - Support of “week" baseline is added to Application Status, Application Activity Breakdown, Application Daily Activity reports
• Sliding cache of Favorites - Favorites with relative end date “Today”, “This month: Last Day”, “This Week: Last” are cached till the end hour when they are executed. That guaranties that report content will be updated every hour. Favorites with absolute\relative end date in the past (“yesterday” and so on) are cached till the end day when they are executed. The daily caching guaranties quick response for the favorites that do not require information for a current day. The daily report cache can be created manually during first report retrieval, or automatically based on a daily schedule. To enable automatic cache generation, select option “use cache” in the favorite creation wizard.

Version 5.6.322(RTM)

Reports

• Support SEViewer 5.6 including installation over it and transferring new CSM events
• Application groups are merged from several SEViewers during transfer

Version 5.5.528(RC3)

Reports

• New links to event list.  Because Advisor can now work with several SEViewer installations, the event lists have been redesigned to show and give ability to open events information from different SEViewer databases. Affected reports:

• Application Failure Analysis
• Application Performance Analysis
• Application Status
• Problems Distribution Analysis
• Summary Failure Analysis
• Summary Performance Analysis
• Application Daily Activity
• Utilization Trend

Version 5.5.418(RC2)

Reports

• Summary User Analysis Report: This report highlights the application users who experience most of the problems. For each user the report shows performance, connectivity, security and application failure problems. For performance problems the reports shows the top 5 problematic requests for the selected user and how the response time for that user compares to the average response time for the system.
• Reports are restyled and corrected.
• Improved Reports performance:

• Application Performance Analysis (40%)
• Problems Distribution Analysis (60%)
• Summary Failure Analysis (50%)
• Summary Performance Analysis (50%)
• Problem Analysis Reports\ Application Heavy Resources Analysis (40%)
• Problem Analysis Reports\ Application Slow Request Analysis (50%)

Application Changes

• Changes to Transfer procedure
• Configuration Utility:

• Report data source supports Integrated Security mode.
• DB collation is checked before DB upgrade.
• Errors during test can be ignored to save current configuration and make changes manually.

• Advisor Role updated and uses extended set of tasks

Version 5.5.331(RC1)

Reports

• Client Side Monitoring Reports [NOTE: These reports require having a valid Intercept uX license]

• Application AJAX Calls Analysis: This report provides detailed failure analysis for a selected application. It highlights the top 5 application functionality areas that lead to most of the problems. For each area this report lists the top failure reasons. This report also provides an analysis based on problem root cause and shows application functionality areas affected by each type of problem root cause.
• Client Latency Distribution: This report provides an analysis of client side performance in relation to network latency. Network Latency indicates the quality of a user connection by measuring the time for a packet of data to get from the server to the client browser. This report correlates the number of performance violations experienced by users with network latency, highlighting network subnets where users experience most of the problems and providing network latency information for those subnets.
• Load Time Analysis Based on Subnet: This report provides an analysis of client side performance based on client subnets. The report identifies client subnets where users experience most of the problems and shows a response time breakdown for those subnets. The report analyzes the response time by breaking it down to Network, Server, DOM load, Peripheral Load and JavaScript Processing times. The report provides further analysis by highlighting problematic pages and AJAX calls and shows a response time analysis for them
• Summary Performance Analysis: This report provides an analysis of performance violations by application. For each application it lists the top 5 problems for page requests, AJAX calls and JavaScript Actions and shows them as a percentage of total performance violations. This report further breaks down the load time by network, server processing, DOM load, peripheral loading and JavaScript processing times.
• Summary Size Analysis Report: This report provides an analysis of content size across multiple applications and shows the correlation between content size and load time. The content size is broken down by HTML size, Image size, CSS size JavaScript size, and AJAX size. The report provides further drilldown by showing information for the top 5 heaviest pages and the top 5 heaviest AJAX calls for each application.

Application Changes

• Event list window: User can open list of events from the report and then go to every event information on the SEViewer side (if this event weren’t deleted by Maintenance activity). Note: Only one report supports on Advisor 5.5 RC this type of event lists – the Summary Performance Analysis.
• DB2 resources: The DB2 resources will be extracted from the event data and presented on reports.
• Favorites: The Favorite functionality works on full throttle with cache.
• Configuration Utility: Advisor configuration utility with reporting configuration will be used instead of SEViewer one until Advisor is presented.

Version 5.0.339

This release contains fixes to the software. Please consult the release notes for details.

Version 5.0.0

Overall Application Quality Assessment

• Analysis of application quality based on monthly or quarterly data
• Shows quality metrics based on application performance, application failures, connectivity and security.
• Provides quality hot spot identification for distributed applications.
• Provides quality metrics for vendor provided services

Problem Prioritization

• Identifies applications that have most of the problems
• Identifies quick wins for each application.
• Provides drilldown into actionable data for problem resolution

Application Load Assessment

• Analysis of Application Request Load across multiple applications and servers
• Trend Analysis for Application Request Load
• Correlation of Application Request Load with CPU, IO and Memory utilization

Resource Utilization Assessment

• Shows analysis on how different managed applications contribute to resource utilization from a CPU, Memory, and IO standpoint
• Provides data for making decisions about server consolidation and virtualization.
• Allows analysis of resource utilization spikes and drill down into resource utilization problems.

Capacity Planning

• Provides analysis of request load trends
• Provides analysis of resources utilization trends for CPU, Memory and I/O
• Allows mapping of request load over resource utilization
• Provides comparison of request load and resource utilization with a dynamic baseline

Application Weekly and Daily Status Reports

• Provides Application Daily, Weekly and Monthly Status reports
• Shows key metrics for application load and resource utilization
• Provides comparison of all key metrics with a dynamic 90-day baseline
• Allows analysis of application load and resource utilization spikes with drilldown into performance and failure events for in-depth analysis.
• Highlights new exception and performance problems for a selected period
• Highlights most critical exception and performance problems for a selected period

Application Baselining

• Baseline analysis of major application KPIs: request load, response time, and CPU, Memory and IO resource utilization.
• Supports dynamic 90-days baseline based on hourly, weekly and monthly schedule.
• Provides release impact analysis through comparison of KPIs before and after release
• Support drilldown into a specific period for in-depth problem analysis

Last update: Thursday, December 09, 2010 02:04:14 PM