AVIcode Intercept Studio - What's New

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Thank you for selecting AVIcode's Intercept Studio for your .NET application monitoring needs. Whether you are a new user, or already familiar with Intercept Studio, we think that you will appreciate the benefits of Intercept Studio's new features:

Version 5.7.491 (5.7 RTM)

• Intercept SE-Viewer

Installation: SEViewer doesnt not require to be run under Administrator account

In previous version of SEViewer in order to be installed on new machine with enabled UAC installation should was run under Administrator account. In current version installation could be run under any account that is member of Administrators group.

• Intercept Agent

• Support for the .NET Framework 4.0
• Support for MVC Applications Monitoring

Version 5.7.399 (5.7 RC)

• Intercept SE-Viewer

• Problem management: Number of events changed by Rule is shown on Modify/Delete screens of Rule wizard

Number of events that were changed latest by selected Rule. Number is clickable and leads to Events Window.

• Problem management: Text field status in event details window is clickable

Text field status in event details window is clickable and leads to modify screen of Rule Wizard window. Rule that latest changed this event is highlighted.

• Problem management: Number of changed events is shown on Finish screen

Number of changed events is shown on Finish screen separately for SEViewer and Advisor.

• Problem management: Two new thresholds for Self Maintenance were added

Two new thresholds were added to Option dialogs of SEViewer

• Problem management: Filtration by Rule Name and Description on Delete/Modify screens of Rule wizard

Filtration by Rule name and Description was added to Delete/Modify screens of Rule wizard.

• Export to MHTML: link to the event in SEViewer was added

Event exported in MHTML now contains link to this Event in SEViewer and to SEViewer itself.

Version 5.6.515

• This release is a refresh of Intercept Version 5.6.513. Please see the 5.6.513 notes for
• details.

Version 5.6.513

Intercept SEViewer

• Saving events in MHTML: SE-Viewer allows exporting events in MHTML format
• A check box "Open MSSQL Express download page" was added on the last installation screen.

 Intercept Agent

• Support for Framework 4.0 Requires the following configuration change after installing the monitoring agents:

- Close the Intercept MMC;

• - Navigate to [drive]:\Program files\AVIcode\Intercept\Agent\vX.X.XX\Configuration\Standard;
• - Open PMonitor.config for editing;
• - Change the "supportedFramework" to <ss:supportedFramework max="4.0.99999.9999"/>
• - Save the file and restart application monitoring;
• - Do the same with other Agents installations.

Version 5.6.264

Intercept SEViewer

• 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

• Event and State Counter filtering

• Performance and Exception events wont be stored in the database if they are recorded for particular URIs.
• State Counters wont be stored in the database if they match by name with the filter condition.
• Event URIs and State Counter names are configured in the appropriate HandlerXXX.config

• Performance of Trend tab of Dashboard window is improved - This improvement allows both the Computer and Application Trend windows to load faster

 Intercept Agent

• Self monitoring functionality

Prevents performance degradation on applications with a large amount of timeonly functions processed. Timeonly function processing switching off when the threshold exceeds.

Preconditions: Any namespace switched on for monitoring as timeonly.

Symptoms: Monitoring gives large CPU and/or RPS overhead on the custom application.

Affected Scenarios: There are enormous number of call from entrypoints to the extremely light or almost empty functions from this namespace. It can occur for two reasons: large rate of entrypoints with relatively small number of calls from each, or there are an entrypoints which have a large rate of this function inside them.

• Monitoring of some third-party libraries are switched off by default

Time of execution of inner functions of the following libraries will not be monitored: ANTLR, The Ajax Control Toolkit, Castle Project, Common Infrastructure Libraries for .NET, IESI Collections, Apache log4net, NAnt, NCover, NHibernate, Spring.NET.

Preconditions: [AllNamespaces] is switched on during monitoring.

Symptoms: Monitoring gives large CPU and/or RPS overhead on the custom application.

Affected Scenarios: There are a large number of calls from entrypoints to the extremely light or almost empty functions from this namespace of some third-party libraries.

• Possibility to switch manageability counters and tracing on and off without application restart.

Preconditions: Restart of application is prohibited or need to collect problem diagnostics data on concrete environment.

Symptoms: Monitoring shows strange results or gives large performance impact.

Affected Scenarios: Previously this change of configuration settings for tracing and manageability counters (using direct editing of pmonitor.config) was applied only after an application restart. Now they are applied right after editing is performed. This change is valuable for support personnel mostly for better manageability.

• Performance improvement: monitoring of applications with enormous number of fast calls to SQL per request became faster

Preconditions: No preconditions.

Symptoms: Monitoring gives big performance impact.

Affected Scenarios: Application uses any ORM library to deal with SQL or has big number (~500) of light calls to resources from the entrypoint.

Version 5.6.248

• Tenant Name Collection: Collection of tenant information. Tenant is the string that identifies customers business context for each web application request. Tenant retrieving supports flexible configuration that allows retrieving business context identifier from any point of web request context.
• Support ASHX Handlers: Support of monitoring of web applications with ASHX handlers
• Upgraded max FW supported version : Maximum supported framework version is 3.99. It will allow to work under any FW version below FW 4.0
• Improved collection of IP & User Name, Object URI on Client and Server Side: Agent had an issue that these variables were either was not collected at all in entry-point or the values was different in Server and Client events. This feature fixes these issues.
• Supported Platforms

• Support Monitoring of Reporting Services
• Improved monitoring of SharePoint
• Support installation on Windows 2008 R2 & Windows 7

• CPU Cores Number added to problem events: CPU cores number is added to the Collection Notes section of Server events.
• Collect User Name in Windows Forms: Added collecting of User Name into Windows Forms entry-points
• Expand the list of resource functions to WebClient functions: Added resource functions from WebClient namespace to monitoring. It allows monitoring of downloading files through internet in .NET Applications.
• Change time of event collected on Server from local time to UTC: This is needed to set correct event times on Citrix platform.
• Move the Intercept Service to x64 Platform: The Intercept Service was transferred to x64 Platform to support collecting of x64 Performance Counters.
• Improve installation & configuration of SEViewer DB: Improved UI of SEViewer DB.

Version 5.5.75 Hotfix

What's New

• Intercept SE-Viewer

• Show domain name for resources loaded from foreign domain in CSM P Event [part of Case #4897]: For resources, loaded from a foreign domain, File Size column contains information about the Domain Name.

What's Fixed

• Intercept Server Agent

• The instrumentation of function 'Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query.KeywordQuery.Execute' failed. c0000005: Fixed the access violation problem that occurred while monitoring of MS SharePoint.
• Intercept PerfCounter Monitor Exception pCounter != NUL: Fixed the problem that occurred while monitoring with disabled state counters (collecting of ID Process counter is switched off, so agent can't check process name against process id).
• Agent does not work with application pool with a name with a length of 14 characters or more (Case #5017): Fixed the problem with size of buffer allocated for storing application pool name.
• After turning on monitoring of all namespaces, constructors and properties are being monitored too: Fixed the problem with the default values of Constructors and Properties Monitoring settings.
• After turning on monitoring of All Namespaces, disabling Constructors and Properties Monitoring occurs explicitly.

• Intercept SE-Viewer

• Incorrect Logic of Updating Blocked Chains: Fixed the problem with inner logic of SEViewer operating with chain entries to be created for events. Incorrect SEViewer Handler Type that was used for processing event data. Problem fixed with selection appropriate SEViewer Handler Type.

Version 5.5

SE-Viewer

• Evaluation License Change: Evaluation licenses can now be installed without any conflicts with other licenses. When the evaluation license is installed it is used until it expires or until it removed by user.
• Term Licenses: There is a new 'Term' license category that can causes Server, Desktop and Professional licenses to be restricted by a time limit. Each Term license can be extended by the other Term license with the same SN and type.
• AVIcode Advisor: Custom Reports have been replaced by the Advisor product.
• Counter Normalization: The State and Troubleshooting counter values for CPU are now divided by the number of CPU processors in order to normalize the values to 100% or less
• Truncated Events: If a user tries to open any event that was truncated due to SEViewer database maintenance, then SEViewer will open a similar event that still has data.

Agents

• Windows Server 2008: Support for the Windows Server 2008 Platform
• IIS 7 Integration Mode: Support for IIS7 Integration mode
• New Counters: Two new physical counters have been added: % Exception Events and % Performance Events.
• Counters for WWF: Collection of .NET performance counters for WWF
• New Framework Version: Support for .NET Framework version 2.0.50727.3053
• New Data Provider Support: Support for IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries data provider
• User Identity Collection: Collecting the User Identity in Windows Forms

Configuration Utility

• AVIcode Advisor: The Reporting tab has been removed unless an AVIcode Advisor product is installed.

Version 5.0

SE-Viewer

• New Framework Requirements: SE-Viewer requires the NET Framework Redistributable Package version 2.0 (x86 and x64 versions). As of version 5.0, SE-Viewer no longer runs under Framework Versions < 2.0, although the handlers still use earlier versions
• Installs under IIS 7
• New blue color scheme
• Resizable Navigation pane: The left panel of the main screen is sizable now. The panel size is stored in the user context when SE-Viewer is in restricted mode.
• One click navigation: Navigation between the Computers, Applications, Events, Reports and Custom Repots tabs automatically load the screen for the active tab without clicking 'Apply'
• Cached filter settings: Search/Filter settings in the Navigation pane are preserved between View modes (All, Application Errors, Performance, Operational Info, System Failures) on the Events tab
• Improved 'Create Application Group' interface: The new screen allows you to 'select all' for sources and computers
• Vista and Windows Server 2008 support: Intercept SE-Viewer can run on Vista and Windows Server 2008
• Additional Collection Notes: More information about data collection restrictions is shown in the collection notes . Collection notes automatically open if restrictions have been applied.
• New License Types: 3 new licenses types are being introduced: Professional, Cartridge and Revoke
• Improved Application and Computers Dashboard Calculations: Real events are used for calculation - The Monitored Request, Performance/Exception events, and Total events calculations are now based on data from actual events in addition to the state counters packets but also on . These calculations are applied to the Computer/App Resource Utilization screen, Computer/App Monitored Apps/Computers tab, and Topology screens.
• "Number of Processors" Display: SE-Viewer shows the number of computer processors on the Computers Configuration Dashboard and Application screens
• Support for BizTalk Host attribute: For BizTalk windows services, SEViewer displays the BizTalk host name on the Monitored Processes tab of the Computer popup window for the Computers dashboard
• Filtering by State Counters Names and Instances: New filtering by State Counters is now available for the Application and Computers dashboards, and filtering by Instances is now available for the Computers dashboard
• Problem Group view on Application Key Metric popup window: This new view contains a table with events grouped by problems with external resources, and is available for the Application dashboard
• PDB Management Improvements:

• PDB management works under x64 IIS worker process mode.
• PDB offsets near the stack points in exception events are displayed as links if there is no source information. The links lead to the PDB Management Wizard which will accept only modules this stack point belongs to.

• New Links to Events: Links to the Events window have been added to the Resource Utilization View, the Events View, and to other screens where applicable..
• Operations Manager Changes: SEViewer supports opening the Events View Window from MOM.
• Source Aliasing in SELog: Source aliasing allows setting a common alias name for sources that meet the defined rules in order to decrease the number of sources stored in the database.
• Mouse-over Hints: Mouse-over hints display: state counter descriptions (Event window Performance counters, Computer/App window Trend tab) , detailed information about time (performance stack point) , detailed information about chains (Event window Distributed chain)
• New computer list filter for the Application Group View
• Automatic Dashboard refresh: SE-Viewer dashboards now refresh data automatically. The refresh interval can be configured via Tools Options Data Tab
• Self Maintenance: Total Events count - One more self maintenance limitation has been added: Total events count. It allows explicitly managing the DB size in . This parameter could be found on the Options > Data tab.

MMC

• Automatic restart of Windows Services: After adding a Windows Service for monitoring or changing monitoring settings console an option is offered to restart the service. The restart option is also available through the Windows Service tree node context menu.
• Configure version of supported framework: The MMC will automatically test that the monitoring agents have been validated with your installed version of the .NET Framework to verify compatibility. If your framework version has not been tested, a menu option allows you to enable support for it.
• Wizard to add applications: The Application Management Wizard enables adding any application type (Web, COM+, Windows Services, Executables) for monitoring and setting simple configuration settings.
• Operations/Diagnostic monitoring mode selections: By default users enable Operations monitoring but can choose the Advanced options to enable Diagnostic Mode monitoring
• Assembly Inspector dialog: The Assembly Inspector displays all namespaces, classes, functions, exception handlers and resource calls related to a selected application and allows users to select items to be added for monitoring.
• MSCORLIB in Executable Applications with several domains: It is dangerous to instrument mscorlib in executable applications with several domains. The instrumentMscorlib flag can be set for concrete executable applications. It can have three values:

• Always - the agent processes mscorlib methods as usual methods., when the second domain is loaded to the application monitor the agent prints a warning to the Event Log;
• WhenSafe - this is default value. The agent instruments mscorlib methods in some special way and disables this method from processing if more than two application domains are loaded into the process
• Never - the agent does not instrument mscorlib methods. This flag does not influence ASP.NET applications.

• Sensitivity threshold settings for specific pages

Agents

• Entry points for Web Service requests are moved up: In previous versions of the Intercept Agent, the following issues existed when monitoring web applications. - The time of client-side call and server-side was considerably different. - Several actions that are performed before executing the web page or service (the HTTP Modules) were missing - Special requests handled by non-ASPX and non-ASMX handlers were missing
• Moved up entrypoints for Web Applications: The common monitored entrypoint for HTTP requests has been moved up to System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest . It covers HTTP modules calls, special HTTP handlers, cached web pages, virtually all exceptions in web applications and includes the current Intercept-recognized entrypoints (which will now appear in the stack of the new entry point). System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest  is always an entrypoint in w3wp and aspnet_wp.exe, and most events in a web application start from System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest.
• Vista and Windows Server 2008 support: The Intercept Agent can run on Vista and Windows Server 2008
• Instrumentation API: The Instrumentation API is set of functions that are useful for writing custom actions and producers. New functions have been added to the interface.
• Data collecting: DB2, Oracle, SQL and OLEDB database Fill methods have been added to the list of resource functions in a disabled state.
• Open/Close connection methods: Open/Close connection methods for DB2, Oracle, SQL, and OLEDB databases have been added to the list of resource functions in a disabled state.
• Support for Monitoring ADOMD and Sybase
• Support for static variables: Users can enable collection of static variables for concrete functions in the default configuration file .
• Monitoring interfaces: Functions can be added for monitoring by adding the interface or function from the base class (versus adding the entire name). Format: Interface definition: [Namespace.Interface].Method; Base class definition: [Namespace.BaseClass].Method. The Intercept MMC does not support adding interfaces, they must be added manually through the configuration files.
• Monitoring executable applications in manual mode: An executable application can be added for monitoring in 5.0 in manual mode (the MMC doesnt allow adding applications in manual mode or changing monitoring modes, but it allows configuring settings for these applications). For applications in manual mode, the Agent only configures monitoring, but doesn't change registry settings. As result, to start monitoring the user need to set profiler environment variables. This mode allows monitoring executable applications without Starter.exe. This is important to some users to be able to start monitoring without the Starter.exe process. By default all executable applications are started with Starter.exe [3167]
• Improved Instrumentation of Multi-return functions: Runtime information will be collected for functions that have more than one 'return', or no 'return', at the end of the function

Configuration Utility

• Create and Upgrade SQL Databases: The Configuration Utility supports creating and upgrading SE-Viewer and Reporting databases
• Checks active DB and IIS mode: If the current DB is MS Access and IIS is under x64 mode, a warning message appears and the configuration cannot be saved.
• Defragmentation Self Maintenance: The Configuration Utility supports defragmentation for the SEViewer and Reporting MS SQL databases

Version 4.1 SP1 Refresh

Agents

• Support for Framework 2.0 SP1
• Support for multi-host BizTalk installations

Version 4.1 SP1

SE-Viewer

• Computer and Application dashboard pages are cached: In order to increase the rendering speed of dashboard pages, a caching algorithm has been implemented. Now Computer and Application pages are cached during the first load and are being updated in background every N seconds. The cache refreshing period N is configured via the Tools >Options dialog.
• Configuration utility updates: Configuring MS SQL DB for SE-Viewer to: Create a new login, Create the database,  Bind the user login to the new database, Automatically detect the current database version and upgrades it
• Configuration utility updates: Configuring MS SQL database for Custom Reports: Create a new login, Create the database, Bind the user login to the new database, Automatically detect the current database version and upgrades it
• Configuration utility updates: Publishing data source, reports, security
• Custom Reports: re-designed to include chart and table views.
• Chain links in the event detail view: Now are only displayed for those stack points that have corresponding events.
• Multi Chain wizard logic was updated. When the wizard is opened from an event detail window it looks for corresponding events for current stack point (like it was for single chain) without any date or time limitations.
• Handlers were updated in order to extract the correct description for Report Service functions
• A check box "Open Configuration Utility" was added on the last installation screen. If this check box is checked, the Configuration Utility will be run after installation completes.
• Rendering of main views were optimized when "All" application groups is selected.
• Records count calculation was improved. Previously the record count was calculated in the current view in one 1 second, and N/A was displayed in navigation panel instead of total amount if the calculation failed.
• Performance event detail view rendering was optimized via simplified CSS style sheets.
• New indexes were applied for the EVENT and CHAINENTRYINFO tables

Agents

• New counters in the default counter list: The following .NET CLR Memory counters have been added: % Time in GC, # Gen 0 Collections, # Gen 1 Collections,  # Gen 2 Collections,  Allocated Bytes/sec
• Processing of conditional entrypoints for Web Service calls: PMonitor will report events based on thresholds specified for entrypoints in the "Web Service calls" group.
• Configurable timeouts for sending events
• Detail level 0/0 for CustomProducer disables data collection for the function. The function will be monitored as a time-only function.
• InstrumentationLoader is initialized earlier in the process to eliminate problems with dynamic application domains.
• Support for configuring individual time-only methods
• Support for collecting ProcessRequest session variables.
• New 'instrumentMscorlib' flag: The 'instrumentMscorlib' flag has been added to PMonitor.config to disable the instrumentation of functions from mscorlib.dll.
• Improved Remoting calls collection mode now includes none to support Remoting-related methods that are not instrumented which will report entrypoints (on the Server side) and simple Time-Only (on the Client side).
• Application-specific templates to define default settings for different processes has been added in the default configuration
• Support to show the contents of XML documents as a string object
• Sybase support
• Optimization logic for processing conditional entrypoints for Web Service calls
• Optimization logic for calculating hash of conditions
• Configuration flag to include the computer name in counters
• Extended list of functions and namespaces that will not be instrumented
• Configurable off/on instrumentation for exception tracking of constructors or properties
• GetApplicationList returns exceptionLevel for PMonitor
• Configuration option to control garbage collection

Version 4.1

SE-Viewer

• New Application Topology view: Auto-discovers and displays the dependency between the various component of a distributed application
• Links to the Application Resource Utilization and Computer Resource Utilization details: for the relevant application and computer from the Event Details window
• Context-relevant data : for troubleshooting Security and Connectivity exceptions
• Multi-transaction event chains : with times averaged across multiple events
• MSDN links: event details provide a link to the Microsoft Developer Network to quickly get information about syntax and usage for the specific methods, parameters, etc. that appear in your events
• SE-Viewer configuration: A user friendly interface for configuring the SE-Viewer database connection
• Management server name discovery: Automatic discovery of Management Server computer name to simplify the SE-Viewer installation.
• New 'Events' dashboard: The 'Search' and 'Active' dashboards have been combined to create the new 'Events' dashboard
• Custom Reporting: Custom Reports for SQL Server Reporting Services now uses a dedicated database, ad nine new reports have been added: Application Daily State, Application Hourly State, Com Plus Hotspots, Computer Daily State, Computer Hourly State, Remoting Hotspots, SQL Hotspots, WCF Hotspots, Web Service Hotspots
• Separation of Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) from Reporting data storage: Allows supporting the storage of more reporting data and longer reporting history.
• Improved 'Key Metrics' view: with a graphical view of the most important measurements

Agents

• SCOM 2007: support for System Center Operations Manager 2007. Please contact AVIcode if you are interested in learning more about this product support.
• Custom performance counters : No longer automatically added to both the State Counter Monitoring and Troubleshooting Counter Monitoring lists : you may configure the counter for one, the other or both.
• Network installed applications: Intercept now supports monitoring network installed applications so that the security infrastructure will not affect monitoring of WinForm applications running from a network drive
• Large event support: Support for events larger than 4 MB.
• Support for WCF : Windows Communication Foundation resource calls and for chaining events from WCF distributed applications.
• Optimized performance : for monitoring Namespaces
• DB2 Support: Support for monitoring calls to DB2 databases
• Reduced event size : To optimize network traffic
• Separation of OLTP & Reporting data: separation of Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) from Reporting data storage to allow supporting the storage of more reporting data and longer reporting history.
• Intercept Studio Event Log: Intercept Studio components now have their own event log to eliminate confusion with application events in the Application Log.
• COM+ applications: support for managing COM+ applications from within the Intercept Management Console, including the ability to monitor individual COM+ applications (vs. monitoring all COM+ applications by monitoring dllhost.exe)
• COM+ Services: extended support for monitoring COM+ services.
• Incident Utilities
• Zipped snapshots: The Incident Upload Utility is no longer required in order to consolidate incidents for importing into SE-Viewer. Incidents can now be zipped for import.

Version 4.0

SE-Viewer

• Computer-centric views: Allows IT teams to view the health status and configuration of their system from the application point of view, providing data about monitored server configurations and resource utilization
• Application-centric views: Allows IT teams to view the health status and resource utilization of their applications from the application point of view
• Troubleshooting performance counters: Collects a snapshot of the most interesting performance counters at the time an event occurs
• Support for Uploading Offline Store and Forward Event Data
• Support for Desktop installations
• COM+ chain consolidation: Displays chaining between related Client/Server COM+ events
• Extensible reporting: leverages Microsoft Reporting Services to deliver better insight into application availability and behavior trends
• User Manual Access: Easily downloaded from the AVIcode web site
• Updated download wizard
• New GUI design

Agents

• Operational (concurrent) monitoring: simultaneously monitors and delivers real-time notification of any performance or code problem that occurs, including complete root cause analysis
• Collecting Exception handler stack
• Custom class definitions in operations mode
• Data collection for aspects: Operations mode events now contain additional information for entry points and data access resources like web services and database calls. This information includes security identities for threads and current users, as well as information about calls like the method name, server name, resource name etc.
• Collect and correlate key performance counters: Provides better understanding of how application problems and system performance relate : Includes collecting State Counters, Trend Analysis Counters and Event Context Counters
• Troubleshooting events (performance counters in context of Performance and Exceptions)
• Dynamic counters: Collect information for your own custom counters in addition to counters that Intercept is already configured to collect.
• Improved performance of P-Monitor
• Improved logic and performance for Time-only entry points
• Expanded diagnostic information about working monitor: System events provide additional version information about the current .NET Framework, Operating System and Agent.
• Ability to enable/disable monitoring of specific application pools under IIS 6.0
• On-the-fly configuration: enables better and faster customization of data collection thresholds and triggers
• New Update Procedure: Merges user configuration files with new configuration files during upgrade procedure
• 64-bit support: Provides monitoring for applications running on the 64-bit .NET 2.0 architecture

Version 3.0

SE-Viewer

• Event Classification: SE Viewer now supports the classification of events into aspects to improve usability across development and operations teams. Aspects include: security, performance, application failures, and connectivity.
• Events can be grouped together by area of interest to provide greater visibility into event relationships.
• Application Error Groups: Problem, Action, Exception Class, Failed Function
• Performance Groups: Problem, Heaviest Resource
• Operational Information: Problem
• System Failures: Problem
• The event detail view has been improved to include a tab for visualizing similar events. Events can be viewed by similarity across specific time periods. Results can be displayed in tabular and graphical format.
• Events from the Windows event log can be correlated by time and displayed in the Related events tab.
• New report parameter allows the number of records to be included in the report to be specified.
• Aspect report parameter provides generation of relevant reports by Aspect group.
• Event Import/Export: Individual events can be imported and exported from SE Viewer providing better troubleshooting support. Event exports are stored in secured encrypted data files.
• Custom Instrumentation Integration
• SEViewer supports the ability to integrate existing application instrumentation data into event transactions. Native support is provided for Microsoft Logging Application Block, ASP.NET 2.0 Health Monitoring and Microsoft Exception Handling Application Block. (Requires separate download).
• Open WebService API provides integration with custom instrumentation handlers.

Agents

• .NET 2.0 Support: Full support of the .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 frameworks for exception and performance monitoring. Exception monitoring support for .NET framework 1.0.
• Intercept Agent can be configured to monitor and report Windows Event Log information. Events are published to SE Viewer.
• Flexible configuration rules allow specific events to be monitored and reported.
• Namespace Monitoring: Advanced agent configuration allows all functions to be monitored within an application namespace.
• Aspect Grouping: event information will be categorized by Connectivity, Security, Performance, Application Failures, System Failures and Operational Info, thus providing for better grouping and visualization of event data
• Support for the 2.0 .NET Framework
• Event Log Integration: Provides the ability to merge windows event log information into SE-Viewer for integrated visualization and reporting
• Custom Instrumentation Integration: Provides the ability to integrate custom instrumentation such as logging, Instrumentation Application Block and Log for NT and to correlate with Intercept Agent events
• ITIL Based Incident Management Integration: via MOM /TFS integration and Intercept/TFS integration
• ASP.NET Health Monitoring: Included as a separate download. Please see the AVIcode web site for details
• Exception Handling Application Block Monitoring: Included as a separate download. Please see the AVIcode web site for details
• Logging and Instrumentation Application Block Monitoring: Included as a separate download. Please see the AVIcode web site for details
• Updated .NET MP
• Namespace Monitoring: Advanced agent configuration allows all functions to be monitored within and application namespace

VS Plug-in

• Integration: Integration support for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005

Version 2.3.465

Agents

• Allow monitoring of .NET Framework 1.1 applications, even if the 2.0 framework is on the system

Version 2.3.460

SE-Viewer

• Hiding Information: An optional 'hiddenRules' section is available for the XMonitorHandlerVxx and PMonitorHandlerVxx configuration files to hide information

Agents

• New configuration file option to ignore PDB file errors
• Session State variables now collected for System.Web.HttpContext
• Monitoring is no longer be disabled after framework/deadlock problem, and the ASP.NET worker process will be restarted
• Monitoring is no longer be disabled after framework critical error

Version 2.3.455

SE-Viewer

• Enhanced Notification Functionality : Provides more detailed stack information to developers
• Function Offsets: Offsets appear in the event detail stack area, and permit using Ildasm.exe to locate the actual line of source code corresponding to the particular stack frame
• Simplified Deployment: Download Intercept Agents and Visual Studio Plug-ins to remote computers directly from SE-Viewer
• Modules List in Exception Events: Allows you to see which builds of which modules were involved in an event
• Improved Search Capabilities: Filter events by critical and non-critical events
• Resource Group View: Groups resource calls by type (e.g. Oracle, ODBC, SQL, Remoting, Web Services, etc.), provides a count of the number of calls in each group, and gives the percentage of total page execution time that this type of call takes up

Agents

• Application Pool Disabling: Remove application pools from being monitored
• Event Throttling: Constrains the rate at which events are sent to SE-Viewer to avoid overwhelming it. Events are constrained by the number of events collected in an event group over time. Events can be throttled to the guaranteed maximum event rate per minute via a simple checkbox. This feature allows monitoring in "All" exceptions mode in a production environment.
• Decreased Event Size
• Extended Support for Oracle Parameters
• Support for Windows 2003 SP1
• Enhanced 'Send To' Mail Functionality: Provides more detailed stack information to developers
• Application Pool Disabling: Remove application pools from being monitored
• Function Offsets: offsets appear in the event detail stack area, and permit using Ildasm.exe to locate the actual line of source code corresponding to the particular stack frame.
• Remote Downloads: to download Intercept Agents and Visual Studio Plug-ins to remote computers
• Event Throttling: To constrain the rate at which events are sent to SE-Viewer
• Modules List in Exception Events: Allows you to see which builds of which modules were involved in an event
• Search capabilities for critical and non-critical events
• Resource Group View: groups resource calls by type (e.g. Oracle, ODBC, SQL, Remoting, Web Services, etc.), provides a count of the number of calls in each group, and gives the percentage of total page execution time that this type of call takes up.

Version 2.3.3

SE-Viewer

• Internationalization: Intercept Studio has been tested for compatibility with Turkish, French and Lebanese OS installations. Other changes have been made to support internationalization for other languages.
• Support for new operating systems: Windows XP SP2, Windows 2003 SP1 RC2
• Improved performance and decreased page content size
• Event details may now be accessed in a new window via a single, rather than a double click. This feature can be modified through Tools > Options > View
• Allow or deny all users the ability to delete events
• Allow or deny all users the ability to add licenses
• Simplified exception event detail display makes it easier to pinpoint problems

Agents

• Multi domain support for monitored servers: Monitored servers across the domain are now recognized by both the domain and computer names
• Support for new operating systems: Windows XP SP2, Windows 2003 SP1 RC2
• Support for both the Microsoft Oracle client and Oracle's 9.2.0.4 client
• Support for the Microsoft Exception block
• Improved Performance and Decreased Page Content Size
• Support for Internationalization: Intercept Studio has been tested for compatibility with Turkish, French and Lebanese OS installations. Other changes have been made to support internationalization for other languages.
• Support for new operating systems: Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 SP1 RC2
• Additional restricted security options: Allow or deny all users the ability to delete events, Allow or deny all users the ability to add licenses
• Improved performance and decreased page content size
• Event details open with a single click
• Simplified exception event detail display: makes it easier to pinpoint problems
• Multi domain support for monitored servers: Monitored servers across the domain are now recognized by both the domain and computer names
• Support for new .NET Framework builds: Framework 1.0 SP1 rollup, Framework 1.0 SP 1 build 1.1.4322.967
• Support for more Oracle: Microsoft Oracle client, Oracle's 9.2.0.4 client
• Support for the 'Microsoft Exception block'

Version 2.3.2

SE-Viewer

• Set up WMI notifications through the ToolsNotifications... menu
• Set up Windows Event Log notifications through the ToolsNotifications... menu
• Faster loading and viewing of event details

Agents

• MSI formatted installer to support silent installation across multiple machines
• Support for Impersonation
• Simplified configuration options: Configure WMI and Windows Event Log notifications through the SE-Viewer Tools menu
• Faster loading and viewing of event details
• MSI formatted installer: To support silent installation across multiple machines
• Support for Impersonation

Version 2.3:

SE-Viewer

• Additional application monitoring capabilities - Monitors .NET WinForms, Windows Service Applications written in .NET, Console Applications written in .NET
• Additional framework monitoring capabilities: Monitors both the 1.0 and 1.1 .NET Frameworks
• The Tools > Options dialog in SE-Viewer has a new Security tab that allows enabling restricted security and creating an Intercept Administrator
• Authentication Under Restricted Security: With restricted security enabled, you may use Basic Windows, Integrated Windows or Custom Intercept Authentication.
• Add Users: With Custom restricted security enabled, users may be added through the ToolsUsers... menu
• Modify Profiles: With Custom restricted security enabled, users may modify their profiles through the ToolsProfile... menu
• Set up e-mail notifications through the Tools > Notifications... menu
• Set up the SE-Viewer location for notifications through the Tools > Options Data tab.

Agents

• Additional application monitoring capabilities: monitors .NET WinForms, Windows Service Applications written in .NET, Console Applications written in .NET
• Additional framework monitoring capabilities: Monitors both the 1.0 and 1.1 .NET Frameworks

MMC

• Executable Applications Node: A new node in the AVIcode Intercept Studio Tree allows adding executable applications for monitoring
• Applications Node Properties: The SE-Viewer server connection string can now be configured and tested from the General Properties Tab
• Exception Monitoring Tab for the Web Applications Node and individual Executable Applications Nodes
• GUI Option to configure exception collection type: Collection of either all (handled and unhandled) exceptions or just critical (unhandled) exceptions is now configurable on the X-Monitor Properties Tab
• Define critical exceptions for custom exception handlers

SE-Viewer Reports

• Extended application monitoring support: monitors .NET WinForms, Windows Service Applications written in .NET and Console Applications written in .NET.
• Enterprise security management: Allows datacenters that host multiple applications to permit multiple user groups to access a single management server; allows defining Intercept Studio users; allows assigning user permission for applications; supports Basic Windows, Integrated Windows and Custom authentication.
• Support for custom exception handlers: Allows users to define custom error handlers for critical exceptions, thereby providing tighter integration with existing exception handling instrumentation.
• Improved usability features: supports selecting unhandled or both unhandled and handled exceptions monitoring via the Intercept Management Console; allows setting Intercept Agent to event viewer console connectivity from the Intercept Management Console

Version 2.1:

SE-Viewer Server

• Start menu structure changed
• New SE-Viewer User Interface: Intercept Studio's clean new interface is easier to use than ever. The new Outlook style list bar on the left side of the screen provides easy access to all of the functionality of SE-Viewer.
• SE-Viewer Reports: Intercept Studio's tabular and graphical reports allow analyzing exception and performance issue trends in a variety of ways.
• SE-Viewer Event Correlation/Chains: Intercept Studio graphical event chains now makes it easy to correlate events from resources on different servers to a single application.
• SE-Viewer Selective Event Viewing: While Intercept Studio will continue to monitor all applications that are of interest to your organization, SE-Viewer can now be set on-the-fly to only display events related to applications that are of interest to you.

Last update: Friday, December 10, 2010 12:02:25 PM