SiteScope Release Notes

7.8.0.1

Date: 06/10/2003

7.8.0.1 Changes

URL Sequence Monitor: Fixed a bug that was introduced in version 7.8.0.0 that limited the URL Sequence Monitor to four steps. The monitor now works with more than four steps.
URL Sequence Monitor: The floating window that appears when the Displays HTML in a Floating Window option is checked in the URL Sequence monitor now disappears when requested.
Preferences/General: Fixed a bug that was introduced in 7.8.0.0. that in certain situations caused a blank screen to appear after saving changes in the Preferences/General page. A save operation no longer causes this situation.
Remotes: Fixed a bug in how SiteScope handles SSH connections when running a remote script. In certain situations when a script doesn't return, the SSH connection would hang and start skipping. SSH connection functionality now handles this situation without hanging.
Personal Edition: Mercury Interactive has created a new version of SiteScope called SiteScope Personal Edition. This version is the same as the standard SiteScope product but limited to 10 points. This release includes the ability for a Personal Edition license to be input in the license option field.
Service Monitor: Fixed a bug that was introduced in the 7.8.0.0 Service Monitor that resulted in failure of SSH communication between Windows NT systems. The Service Monitor now functions as normal via SSH.
ActiveWatch: Mercury Interactive has changed the name of its managed service offering from ActiveWatch to Topaz Managed Services (TMS). All references to ActiveWatch within SiteScope have been changed to Topaz Managed Services.
Ping: Fixed a bug that was introduced in SiteScope 7.8.0.0 that caused the Ping monitor to not detect error conditions. The Ping Monitor now functions as normal.
Siebel Command Line Monitor: The Siebel Command Line Monitor now supports Siebel version 7.5.3
Topaz Integration: Fixed a bug in the integration between SiteScope and Topaz where an incorrect data format was being sent that caused inconsistent data logging.
Topaz and Reporting: Match value can now be reported in both.

7.8

Date: 05/16/2003

7.8 Additions and New Features

Added a new monitor type on SiteScope for Windows to run test scripts created using Mercury Interactive's Astra LoadTest: the ALT Script Monitor. This monitor type is well suited for monitoring web page sequences that include Javascript content. Note: Enabling the ALT Script Monitor requires a separate SiteScope license key as well as installation of Astra LoadTest on the same machine as the SiteScope installation.
SiteScope 7.8c1 supports Windows 2003 Server. The RTSP Monitor and MAPI Monitor currently have limited support on this platform. These monitor types will fully support Windows 2003 Server in a later release.
Backup Groups: To backup the groups directory every 24 hours, insert the line: "_backupGroups=true" into SiteScope\groups\master.config. This is useful for restoring files like master.config and group files.
Added SiteScope configuration file backups feature that let you have SiteScope maintain one or more backups of all key SiteScope configuration files. Set the number of backups in General Preferences screen.
A Custom HTML property has been enabled for the user login page. This allows you to include your custom HTML above the page title. TO enable this feature, add the setting: _loginHTMLHeader=custom_html_code_here to the master.config file.
A new feature has been added under Unix Remotes that will allow the user to specify shell commands directly after a Telnet or SSH session has been initiated. These commands can be used to customize the shell for each SiteScope remote.
Revised the first time setup routine to include a screen for entering email and license keys and revised the following screen to allow links for setup wizards. The Copy Configurations wizard is now on a separate setup page.
Disk Space, CPU, and Memory Monitors have a new Tools link on the monitor detail table page for Windows installations of SiteScope.
Secondary prompt and response field has been added for Unix Remotes to account for cases where the remote server requests additional information to establish a telnet login session
Added a "Clear" button to most browsable counter application monitors, such as the IIS Server Monitor, to allow all default counter selections to be cleared in a single action.
Enhanced the Monitor Description Report selection to enable selection of sort key and order and to display groupwise dependencies as well as individual monitor dependencies.
Added support via master.config settings to override how SiteScope handles file permissions on Unix. A _setUnixFilePermissions setting of false will stop SiteScope from changing any of its file permissions. Note: Setting this value may have unknown effects if the system defaults are not set properly. The setting _unixFileMask works exactly the same as umask(1) on Unix, with one small change. It is not permitted to change the umask of the user bits. See the UNIX man page for umask for a complete description.
Added functionality in Reports to exclude a status of "no data" (for example, a connection failure) from the uptime calculations in reports.
Added a setting to the master.config with the syntax of: _noScientificNotation=#.##### to control the number format in reports using java DecimalFormat. This also accepts commas in numbers.
Added a setting: _usePreviousRecordCount=true to NT Event Log Monitor to continue using an existing record count after a new connection with the remote is established.
Added a CGI option of -DAlert.debug=true for debugging. This prints a fully expanded expression string for alert checking, with left side variable values printed.
Default for Topaz integration is NOT logging to topaz. Monitors need to be enabled to log to Topaz
Added number of metrics that are being logged to Topaz by default to Topaz prefs page.
URL Sequence Monitor: When adding or updating with the wizard, you can now select "Displays HTML in a Floating Window" to see what the current target page looks like.
Added two new monitor types for monitoring Siebel servers: the Siebel Web Server Monitor and the Siebel Server Manager Monitor. Also included a setup wizard for creating groups and monitors for Siebel systems. Note: Enabling the Siebel monitor types requires a Topaz installation and a separate SiteScope license key.
Added a new monitor type on SiteScope for Windows: the QTP Script Monitor. This monitor type requires a separate SiteScope license key as well as installation of QuickTest Pro on the same machine as the SiteScope installation.
Added API classes for communicating with Topaz Monitoring console known as project Flipper.
Two new J2EE monitor types are added for use with Topaz: J2EE Realtime and J2EE Report monitors.

7.8 Changes

Email Subject line: When the international flag is set, the subject line doesn't get scrambled
SNMP Preferences: Saves and restores the SNMP Community field.
Significantly increased the performance and scalability of the Ping, Service, CPU, Disk and Memory monitors when monitoring Windows NT/2000 environments from a Windows 2000 SiteScope server.
Removed link to Fail-Over if the feature is not installed. Should be present if Fail-Over is installed
The Java JRE used by SiteScope has been upgraded to version 1.4.1.02 from Sun Microsystems.
Master.config: Protected file operations have been added so that it is less likely that the master.config will be overwritten accidentally.
Changed the default setting for monitor groups so that SiteScope will not backup .dyn files by default. It can be overridden by changing the value of the _backupDyns setting in the master.config to be blank.
Corrected documentation for the Script Monitor to better explain the optional USE COMMAND feature.
Added new "<span class=titlename>" and "<span class=groupname>" HTML code to the Multi-view page to allow control of SiteScope title and monitor group name font and color by use of the SiteScope UI style sheets.
Added the password constraint to LDAP monitor. A password is required before the monitor can be added
The Support link at the right end of the navigation links has been redirected to the Mercury Interactive Customer Support web site. SiteScope users are encouraged to register for access to the online support site which includes an interface for entering and tracking support requests as well as a searchable SiteScope Knowledge Base.
Added a check box for including warnings with "good" time in total uptime calculation in reports.
Corrected the text label on the warning % check box in reports. It is a display option only.
Added explanation to templates to include email links to SiteScope report pages.
The Password field in a UNIX or NT remote profile is not blanked out when editing the profile. The password defaults to the last password entered.
Added an International flag option to the Copy Configuration option on the setup page.
Fixed a problem with the Log File Monitor so that email alerts using a rules file are sent correctly now.
Added an optional timeout setting for use with to the Script Monitor on SiteScope for NT/2000 that kills all script processes if the script does not return an exit value before the timeout period expires. Note: This only applies to scripts run in a NT-to-NT environment and requires editing monitor group files.
Fixed a problem in the Disk Space Monitor so it finds correct disk space information for C and D drive information, instead of 36MB COMPAQ partition.
Fixed a problem with the Web Service Monitor when reading a WSDL file that used the older 1999 version XML schema xsd file.
Changed the Web Service Monitor to display a blank parameters box with label "parameters=", to allow the user to manually enter complex type parameter values when SiteScope is not able to process unconventional complex type parameters in a WSDL file. Previous behavior was to just throw an exception.
Fixed a problem in the Real Media Player and Windows Media Player monitors that caused an error if the path to the player directories contained whitespaces.
Fixed several problems in the Acknowledge Monitors feature:
- When all monitors are acknowledged inside a subgroup, it is now reflected in the subgroup acknowledge icon.
- When acknowledging a group via acknowledge button, now disables alerts in the group.
- When an acknowledge is cleared, the alerts are enabled no matter how/where the monitor/group was acknowledged.
- Return/refresh links are fixed.
- Acknowledge clear after monitor status changes now enables alerts.
- A new master.config setting has been added that forces acknowledgements to be cleared manually. They won’t be cleared automatically on status changes. This setting is _acknowledgeManuallyClear and should be set to true. If this setting does not have a value, SiteScope will behave as it previously has.
Fixed a problem on Linux where the Directory Monitor could generate false negatives. A new error message indicates when the user did not have permission to access all the subdirectories.
Fixed a problem on Linux where local scripts were not working without the shell invocation line at the beginning. This was a JVM issue and is resolved in JRE 1.4.1.
The SiteScope telnet client sometimes allowed the server to get into a state where it would not echo back SiteScope commands. The Telnet Client has been changed to encourage Telnet Servers to Echo back SiteScope commands.
Fixed a problem with the LDAP Monitor where an LDAP Array out of Bounds Exception when when the user did not do a match in the regular expression for the content match.
Found and fixed a bug in the URL Sequence Monitor where checkurlsequenc monitor could be null
Changed the launch event logic for the Multi-view button on the SiteScope navigation bar to open the Multi-view window without interrupting the Meta Refresh command of the SiteScope main panel. It was found that opening the Multi-view window would stop the automatic refresh of the SiteScope main page until the page was reloaded explicitly using the browser's Refresh or Reload command.
SiteScope will now try and kill off processes that SiteScope has been leaving as zombies when it restarts. This functionality is controlled by settings in the master.config. _killProcesses: This true/false setting controls whether or not SiteScope will try and kill these processes. _processDestroyTimeout: This setting, given in milliseconds, controls how long SiteScope will wait for Java to destroy processes on its own. Currently the processes being killed are plink.exe, ping.exe, SendModem.exe, srvrmgr.exe and perfex.exe. These can be overridden by the _doNotKillProcesses setting. Simply enumerate the processes that SiteScope should not kill. Note: SiteScope will kill off "all" processes with the names listed.
Fixed a bug where the warning not included in % was showing the wrong value in reports.
Fixed a problem with the CPU Utilization Monitor. It was reporting negative average CPU usage values for computers with 4 CPU's and using Micosoft O/S.
Fixed Advanced features on the Add Alert Page. The Status Match field is no longer blanked out when Monitor Type is selected.
Fixed BroadVision monitor anomaly where in a "Production" style configuration, non-root server metrics were not available for selection when defining a new BroadVision monitor. Note that a monitor should only be defined against a primary BroadVision root node. See the BroadVision Monitor documentation for details.
The Default Mail Alert Template was changed to remove the <diagnosticText>from the Default mail template and changed NoDiagnostic template to WithDiagnostic template (to include the <diagnosticText>field).
Added a Threshold Summary Table to Reports. The threshold summary table shows each of the monitors in the report and its error, warning, good thresholds. This feature is not automatically enabled, but must be enabled in the Report setup section.
Fixed a problem with "Alert on Good". There was a problem with alert on good “Always, after the condition has occurred at least X times” when using “Only allow alert if monitor was previously in error at least X times”. The first value would always change to the second value no matter how it was originally set. This problem has been fixed.
Restored missing thresholds to the Log File, Script, SNMP, and URL Content monitors which were missing a number of threshold properties.
Added status as a threshold option to the SNMP Monitor which can be changed in addition to being the default threshold.
Fixed a problem with the Script Monitor path. When running a log file monitor against a remote Unix machine and a script monitor running a script on the same remote Unix machine, the path for finding the script would be changed. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a problem with the URL Monitor and the � symbol. The use of the � symbol (when not created using an HTML entity reference) caused the output in the Tools page to stop after the symbol. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a Problem With URL Sequence Monitor Reports where URL Sequence monitors with more than 19 steps were showing ?n/a? in the Report details.
Changed the Web Service Monitor to always namespace qualify the method element of SOAP requests being sent when the monitor is run, as some web service providers require it.
Changed the Alert temporary disable feature to allow the use of a semicolon ";" in the comment field.
Fixed a problem with the Multi-view page where multiple instances of SiteSeer accounts were displayed if the accounts had subgroups.
Changed the Monitor Set routines to allow the creation of subgroups as part of a monitor set template.
The EJB Monitor was removed. This monitor was only available when SiteScope was integrated with Topaz
Made changes to SiteScope-to-Topaz integration to improve scalability

7.7

Date: 04/02/2003

7.7 Additions and New Features

None

7.7 Changes

Several changes were made in the SiteScope interface to reflect integration with Mercury Interactive. The End User License Agreement, copyright statements, and support information are updated.
Changed the default colors used in report tables and graphs.
A problem was fixed relative update static pages for monitors using https.
Fixed a problem with logging of detailed measurements in the URL Sequence Monitor for monitors with more than 19 steps.

7.6c2

Date: 1/21/2003

7.6c2 Additions and New Features (updated Feb 2003)

Added support of SNMP V3 authentication to the SNMP Monitor
Added a new monitor type, the Global Port Monitor (for SiteSeer Only).
Added labels to matched values in the Log File Monitor.
Added a 'Send Only' option to the Mail Monitor to check if e-mail messages are being accepted by a mail server.
Added support for Pager Alerts on SiteScope for Linux
URL Sequence Monitor: Now logs detail measurements per step (round trip, DNS, connect, response, and download times)
The Pager alert type has been enabled for SiteScope on Linux.

7.6c2 Changes (updated Feb 2003)

Note:For security reasons, the last-entered password is no longer displayed in the NT and Unix Remote Detail pages. When editing a Remote connect, you will have to re-enter the password or press the back button to get out of the page.
Absolute Schedules: Comma separated times, now more than the first one works.
Changed the default monitor Disable option from "Disable Permanently" to "Disable on a one-time schedule" which will disable monitors for only one hour by default.
Fixed a String Index Out of Bounds Exception that could occur with the SiteScope HTTP server.
Fixed an "Array Out of Bounds Exception" that could occur with the SiteScope Health monitoring.
Handling of the master.config file has been changed to handle the '#' symbol at the beginning of any line. SiteScope will remove them instead of overwriting the file.
Fixed a problem where duplicate counters were displayed for monitor types using the "Browsable" interface
A problem with the use of international characters in the master.config has been corrected. Prior to this the file could get corrupted if it used international characters.
Expanded the capabilities of the Apache Server Monitor to support monitoring of the server-status?refresh=nn statistics page as well as the server-status?auto statistics page.
Fixed a problem that occurs when using UNIX rLogin. The session could return a code of -1000.
To enable certification cert days in URL monitor you need to set _urlCertDays=true in the monitor mg file or master.config. If _urlCertDays=true is set, then an attribute called "Certificate Expiration Days Remaining." in the good,error,warning drop downs at the bottom of a URL type monitor advanced features takes effect. This can be used to set a threshhold with respect to the number of days till the cert expires.
Fixed a problem with the configuration copy routine used by the High Availability (Mirror) option to preserve certain master.config file settings.
Fixed a licensing bug for browsable monitors
Fixed a thread leak problem in SiteScope for Linux
Email Monitor for IMAP4. Leave unrelated emails unread.
Fixed a problem where the Refresh link doesn't refresh a monitor if the monitor is on a schedule/ absolute schedule. The RunOnce button on the group detail page updates the status for monitors on an absolute schedule.
Fixed a problem with the Manage Monitors Search and Replace function that would replaces the wrong values in monitors referencing a remote machine definition. The correct substitution is now made.
Fixed SiteScope user account permissions relating to properly enforce permissions for enabling/disabling groups, monitors, and alerts.
Fixed an intermittent problem seen on Linux where Log File Monitor returned an "unable to read log file" error. This was caused by the shell terminal window being to small.

7.6c1

Date: 12/02/2002

7.6c1 Additions and New Features

SiteScope now works with international character sets in addition to Latin-1. Go to General Preferences page by clicking on the Preferences link and check the "International Version" option to enable multiple character set encodings.
Enabled optional daily rolling of the SiteScope RunMonitor.log file. To enable this feature the _createDailyRunMonitorLog=true must be set in master.config file.
Enabled optional daily rolling of the SiteScope Error.log file. To enable this feature the _createDailyErrorLog=true must be set in the master.config file.
SiteScope now supports NT-to-NT SSH remote connections. This connection requires installation of an OpenSSH service on the remote NT machine being monitored. Additional SiteScope files should also be copied to the remote machine.
Added the Database Monitor as one of the types of monitors available for use with the Formula Composite Monitor
Added Labels to the Formula Composite monitor
Added a "force synchronization" feature to the Database Driven Configuration (DDC) feature.
Added the SMS Alert type to support basic Short Message Service alerting (generally available in Europe and Asia). Requires serial port adapter and wireless device to transmit alerts.
Added "per step" response time breakdown to the URL Sequence Monitor
The Web Service Monitor has been updated to use industry standard SOAP and WSDL technologies, with support for XML Schema complex data types
Added a new SunONE Monitor that uses the latest stats-xml performance metrics file (iPlanet 6.0 web server) to display counters for selection, including several derived counters that track utilization metrics.
The Netscape Server Monitor has been refactored to better support monitoring of iPlanet 4.x and iPlanet 6.0 servers. The display name and help documentation has been changed to be the "iPlanet Server Monitor" type instead of Netscape Server Monitor. Performance counters for iPlanet 6.0 have been added to the new application template file: counters.iplanet.
Added a "days until server certificate expiration" option as an Error if / Warning if threshold to the URL Monitor.
Added support for the HTML <IFRAME> tag in the Link Check Monitor, URL Sequence Monitor, URL Monitor, and URL Content Monitor.
Added support for remote monitoring of Mac OS X machines as a UNIX remote type (see the OS selection option in the UNIX remote set up page).
Added a link in Alert Log page for the Topaz log file. This new log file records SiteScope-Topaz integration problems.

7.6c1 Changes

Added an option disable logging of selected monitors to Topaz. An optional control has been added to the Add/Edit Monitor page, the Group detail page and the Manage Monitors and Group page to enable or disable logging to Topaz for selected monitors. These options appear only when SiteScope is configured to send data to Topaz.
Several Application monitor types have been changed to allow selection of groups of objects or nodes recursively in the browsable counter selection tree. The user needed to select each item separately before this change.
Several Application monitor types have been changed to allow deselection of browsable counters from the monitor page instead of having to return to the counter selection tree.
Fixed the SiteScope Health monitors to be more responsive
Refactored and revised the default monitors and groups created during a new SiteScope installation. More monitor types are created and are organized into subgroups. Text was added in the Monitor Description field to explain the monitor types and setup hints.
The "Skip this page" option displayed for a new SiteScope installation was fixed to skip the creation of default monitors and groups.
Revised several graphics and UI code to more consistently handle the use of cascading style sheet to customize the SiteScope interface. Users should use the SiteScope/htdocs/artwork/user.css stylesheet file to customize the SiteScope interface.
Hyperlinks on the Link Check Summary report and most SiteScope log files now open separate browser windows.
Deleting a subgroup in SiteScope now refreshes back to the parent group rather than to the SiteScope main panel view. Other navigation links have been added to the group detail pages
SNMP Trap alerting has been fixed
The DDC Preferences link has been suppressed. To have the DDC link displayed, the _configJdbcShowDDCLink property needs to be set in the master.config file
SiteScope now allows the "#" symbol to be used in the instance name for NT performance counters
Added the description of the Monitor Set to the Monitor Set creation page. The _monitorTemplateDescription= property contains the description for each monitor set file.
Fixed bug that would cause SiteScope to hang on startup if a DHCP Monitor configuration exists but the JDHCP libraries are not installed.
Changed the "Gauges per row" default on General Preferences page from "0" to "3".
Enhanced data handling in SSH sessions to prevent blocked reads.
Fixed bug in Log File Monitor that could cause occassional "File Not Found" errors on Unix platforms.
Removed the "McEditor" functionality as it is no longer current
Fixed bug in timed alert disables that allowed negative values to be entered.
Added a _monitorProcessCheckDelay variable to the master.config file. This item specifies the amount of time, in seconds, between checks for an active SiteScope monitoring process.
Fixed bug in Service Monitor that caused process memory use to be computed incorrectly for monitors on HP-UX platforms
Fixed bug in Service Monitor that would result in "Process not found" error when selecting the "Measure Process Memory Use" box for monitors on unix platforms.
Added support for RSA authentication on Windows platform via a private key in the SiteScope/groups/identity file.

7.5c2

Date: 09/09/2002

7.5c2 Additions and New Features

Health:Added ability to configure user permissions for viewing Health information, editing the Health page, and disabling/enabling the Health monitors
Ping Monitor (Linux release only):Now uses timeout argument and works with RedHat Linux 7.3.
CPU Monitor (Linux release only):Added ability to automatically report per-processor statistics on Linux machines with multiple CPUs.
All Monitors:Added multi-level monitor dependencies. Now if C depends on B depends on A, C checks both B and A for depends on status.
Mail Monitor:Added smtp-auth capabilities to mail monitor during send according to RFC 2554 specs.
Monitor Sets:Added a new drop down list for unix remote additions.
MAPI Monitor:Added functionality to allow SiteScope to send a message with an optional attachment through a SMTP server, and verify the arrival of the message in a mailbox on the exchange server.
Reports:Added functionality to allow comma-delimited and xml files to be sent as attachments, instead of in the message body. This feature is enabled with the _reportSendFileAsAttachment=true configuration setting.

7.5c2 Changes

SSH Remote Connection method (Linux and Solaris only):Fixed problem that would cause orphan ssh processes when performing a Test or a Detailed Test of the connection or when the connection failed.
Database Monitor:Restored ability to set thresholds on "rows," "content match," and "round trip time."
Mail Monitor: Fix low level charset problems. Now works.
Health:Now includes "S" for "Skipped #..." in Health status.
All Monitors:Allow disabling of .dyn backups through _backupDyns configuration parameter
User Preferences:Now displays error messages instead of just redisplaying the page.
SiteScope/groups/multi.config:traps syntax errors better.
Reports:If a user is logged in, report graphics now display
Dynamic Update:Exclude IP range now saves
SNMP Tools:Fixed to walk the MIB correctly.
Browse Monitors:Refresh remembers the last setting used
View Logs from Alerts:Improved display formatting
WebLogic 6.x Monitor:Fixed memory leak
Reports:Correct email address for missing reports
Static HTML with an external web server (e.g. IIS):Now no longer errors with "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: go"

7.5c1

Date: 08/12/2002

7.5c1 Additions and New Features

Added a configurable SiteScope Health feature for assessing/alerting on SiteScope server problems (skipped monitors, CPU load, etc.).
SiteScope UI Additions:
1. Implemented a scalable group display container to the SiteScope main panel
2. Added two external style sheet references to all SiteScope UI pages: /htdocs/artwork/sitescopeUI.css and /htdocs/artwork/user.css. The user.css is reserved for user created styles.
3. Added a new button to the global navigation menu to the SiteScope Health feature
4. Added UI text indicator to group detail page when static baseline feature is enabled
Implemented Real Media Player Monitor for monitoring Real Network streams and formats.
Implemented Windows Media Player Monitor for monitoring Windows Media Server Streams and formats.
Added a Formula Composite Monitor for monitoring two SNMP or Script monitors and performing an arithmetic operation on the result.
Added a "Dynamic Update" feature for automatically creating a set of monitors for a list of servers that is gathered by either walking a SNMP MIB or querying a table in a database
Added SNMP version 2c support for the:
- SNMP Monitor
- SNMP Trap Monitor
- SNMP Trap Alert
Added a "Monitor Types" filter option to the define alert page.
Added "Listing of Good" option to the report creation page.
Added "Not include warning % in uptime calculations" option to the report creation page.
Implemented a Rolling Baseline (dynamic performance thresholds) option for URL and NT performance counter monitors.
Added Column Labels field to the Database Monitor
Added Matched Value Labels field to the Script Monitor
Implemented Citrix Metaframe Monitor to monitor "ICA Session" performance counters
Allowing the use of the <errorOnly> tag in the alert templates. This tag will give the metric that has met its threshold. Turn this on by setting _errorOnly=true in master.config
Allowing the use of the <getHostName> tag in the alert template to add the target for the monitor regardless of the type of monitor
Added a SNMP diagnostic tool to retrieve a set of OIDs from a MIB.

7.5c1 Changes

Increased the maximum JVM heap size from 96 megabytes to 256 megabytes which increases system memory requirements to 256 Mb.
SiteScope UI Changes:
1. Added second row menu (Preferences, Monitor Browser, Tools, etc.) to the navigation bar on all screens
2. Adjusted layout and text alignment in many product screens
3. Added Manage Monitors and Groups link to the navigation bar on all screens
4. Added table and template description string to Monitor Set screens
Improved the RTSP Test Tool
Added -DPlatform.debug= levels for improved troubleshooting of certain network monitors.
Fixed report schedule filter; errors and warnings are now filtered as well as shown samples.
Fixed Bug (#313) - disable subgroup by icon.
Added CPU monitor default error condition "utilizationPercentage == 100". For feature backward compatibility purposes, a new setting was added to master.config called "_cpuEnableErrorAt100". To disable the new default error condition, edit master.config and set "_cpuEnableErrorAt100" to "false".
Oracle JDBC Monitor: Corrected a the problem of the monitor staying in a "Good" status even when there is an execption being shown indicating a failure to connect to the database.
Oracle JDBC Monitor: Using templates for the commands to be run
MAPI Monitor - Fixed several bugs, changed the required input fields and narrowed the functionality.
Tuxedo Monitor - Added client name, port number, and connection data fields to the montior.
URL Content Monitor - Added CGI Arguments in Tools Link.
NT Counter Monitor could go negative when previous measurement was N/A.
SNMP monitor is using Netaphor libraries instead of Adventnet libraries to support snmp v2c
Allow error/warning/good thresholds on a per step basis in URL Sequence Monitor
Made changes to the example Monitor Set Templates to improve usability and support Dynamic Update feature for F5 load balancers

7.1c5

Date: 06/20/2002

7.1c5 Changes

Script Monitor (Remote Linux): Fix SSH Linux bug, now removes extra characters in script drop down in monitor detail page.
Application SNMP Monitors: Removed code that assumes an oid ending in .1-.5 is an index. instead, assume last chunk is not an index. if that request fails, assume last chunk *is* and index and try again.
WebLogic6x Monitor: Added a mechanism to match servlet names when they may have different number prefix due to loading sequence. This also requires passing names[] in addition to ids[] to Impl class.
All Monitors: Include units with error if, warning if, good if
URL Sequence Monitor: Fix to allow {$$x.x} notation to work in conjunction with {$x} notation.
Group Detail PageAdded custom settings for all group table tags and row tags. _customGroupRow defaults to <TR> _customGroupTableTag defaults to <TABLE WIDTH=\"100%\" BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0><CAPTION ALIGN=LEFT>
Oracle JDBC Monitor: Fix to prevent a failed connection from showing a threshold category of "Good".
Tuxedo Monitor: Added client name, connection data, and port #.
File and Log Monitors: fixed bug that resulted in a "File Name not found" error in file monitors using substitution expressions when the "no error on file not found" box is NOT checked.
SSH on Linux: Enable ssh on linux fix bug in new key accepting code that would cause it to send "yes" twice, which would make the remote connection fail the first time it was set up.
RTSP Monitor on UNIX: Fixed for UNIX.

7.1c4

Date: 06/11/2002

7.1c4 Changes

Included support for SiteScope to run natively on Redhat Linux 7.2.
Oracle JDBC Monitor - Corrected the problem of the monitor staying in a "Good" status even when there is an execption being shown indicating a failure to connect to the database.
Tuxedo Monitor - Added client name, port number, and connection data fields to the monitor.
Topaz Integration - Fixed a problem with special characters in monitor/group/description in SiteScope.

7.1c3

Date: 05/06/2002

7.1c3 Changes

Added the Oracle JDBC Monitor for monitoring Oracle database servers
Topaz Integration - Fixed a problem with using double quotation marks in the name of a monitor.

7.1c2

Date: 05/01/2002

7.1c2 Changes

The WebSphere Application Server Monitor shipped with 7.0 has been replaced with a new version that supports multiple versions of the WebSphere Application Server.
NT Counter Monitor - added object to the counter name so it is object:name:instance.
Topaz Integration - Fixed a problem with using '>' or '<' (greater than or less than symbols) in the name of a monitor.
Topaz Integration - Fixed a problem that caused Topaz to not display the group ordering correctly after moving groups in SiteScope using the Manage Monitors and Groups page.

7.1c1

Date: 04/22/2002

7.1c1 Additions and New Features

SiteScope 7.1 implements a management interface to Mercury Interactive’s Topaz 4.1. This enables SiteScope to be managed remotely from a Topaz 4.1 console as well as enabling SiteScope to be an agent to Topaz Management Console. See the SiteScope Topaz Preferences page under the SiteScope Preferences area for the information needed to enable this functionality.
Added the Check Point OPSEC Monitor for monitoring Check Point firewall devices using Check Point Open Platform for Secure Enterprise Connectivity protocol
Added the DB2 Monitor for monitoring IBM DB2 database servers
Added the EJB Monitor for monitoring an Enterprise JavaBeans host server
Added the MAPI Monitor for monitoring Messaging Application Program Interface functionality on Microsoft Exchange servers.
Added the OracleDB Monitor for monitoring Oracle database servers
Added the SAP Monitor for monitoring SAP servers
Added the Sybase Monitor for monitoring Sybase database servers
Added the Tuxedo Monitor for monitoring BEA Tuxedo servers
Scheduled reports now include a month-to-date time period option that generates daily reports showing monitoring data accumulated month-to-date.
Added a database connection diagnostic tool which uses a supplied JDBC or ODBC driver and URL connection String to test the connection to a database. The tool will check to see if 1) the supplied driver can be found and loaded, 2) a connection can be made to the database, 3) an optional SQL query can be executed and displayed, and 4) the database connections and resources can be closed. When exceptions and errors are encountered, the information is printed and a suggested resolution is given to help with troubleshooting. This tool can be excellent in helping to determine parameter values to be supplied in monitor setup, database alerts, and database logging.
Added a performance counter diagnostic test tool which provides an interface to perfex.exe found in the \SiteScope\tools\ directory. Supplying a machine name will list all NT performance counter objects that are available on this machine. Selecting the "List Objects and Enumerate Counters" button will enumerate each individual NT performance counters and its current value for the selected counter object. If there are no counter objects available for this machine, the drop down list that contains the counter objects will indicate this situation. This tool can be a great troubleshooting tool when dealing with remote registry connections to read performance counters.
Added _alertPageColumnOrder property to change the order of the columns in the alert list page to try to compensate for cells that cause the table to be wider then the browser window.
Monitor set templates now will pick up custom monitor properties.
Fixed bug that could cause groups with identical names to show up twice on the Manage Monitors and Groups page.
Fixed bug that could cause a "monitor ID not found" error when moving or copying groups.
Fixed bug that would cause a jdbc driver to not load simply because there was leading or trailing whitespace in the jdbc driver specification.
Added _perfexTimout=timeout_val where timeout val is the number of milleseconds specifying the timeout of Perfex obtained measurement monitors (CPU, Disk, Performance counters, etc.)

7.0c4

Date: 03/8/2002

7.0c4 Changes

Performance Counter Based Application Monitors (ASP Server, ColdFusion Server, IIS Server, Real Media Server, SQL Server, Windows Media Server) - Fixed a URL encoding problem with performance counter based application monitors that sometimes prevented the above application monitors from selecting counters properly. When a URL containing counter objects with spaces was passed to the counter selection page and back to the monitor setup page, the encoding problem caused the counter selection page to fail.

7.0c3

Date: 03/4/2002

7.0c3 Known Bugs

The Cold Fusion monitor will cause reports to display the wrong data in the columns after upgrading from 6.0. See the Customer Support Knowledge Base for more information.

7.0c3 Additions and New Features

None

7.0c3 Changes

Disk Monitor - Now it doesn't require a ":" at the end of the disk name and works with disks that have more than one character for a name.
SSH Monitors - Added Trouble shooting link for immediate help.
Disk Monitor - Added a Windows 2000 note about counters being turned off by default.
URL Sequence Monitor - Fixed {$$x.x} bug: When there are no matchValues saved in the previous step, It looks for $$ values anyway.
Web Server Monitor - Fixed problem with ssl when using external web server on unix.
Ping Monitor - Added language support for Ping in finish for "aika".
General - Setting for _NTCounterMonitorMaxCounters was being overridden by default of 10. This caused problems with customers adding perfmon chart files with greater than 10 counters.
General - Fixed problem with "Unknown Remote Command Line method:"
WebLogic 5.x - Don't check test WebLogic 5.x OID before reading SNMP OID data.
Group Page - Disable subgroup via the green button was causing an exception.
Remote Monitors - Fix Bug: Disabling a remote NT monitor resets the server to "this server" Now fixed.

7.0c2

Date: 01/30/2002

7.0c2 Known Bugs

The Cold Fusion monitor will cause reports to display the wrong data in the columns after upgrading from 6.0. See the Customer Support Knowledge Base for more information.

7.0c2 Additions and New Features

Added Tibco Services Monitor as a Beta monitor type

7.0c2 Changes

All Monitors - Fixed Depends On feature when renaming a group.
URL Monitor - Display results of content matching in the URL tools page.
URL Monitor - Use NT Challenge (if checked) in the URL tools page.
URL Sequence Monitor - On resume step, the monitor restores the diagnostic text buffer to the step that failed.
URL & URL Sequence Monitor - Fix an SSL bug: Now if NT Challenge is not checked and the JAVA libraries fail, the monitor will try to use NT Challenge Response if it receives a cannot connect or an SSL error. NOTE: This applies to the current run of the monitor only.
URL Sequence Monitor - Fix bug with $$. It now allows for multiple value substitutions in a field.
Remote Monitors - Fixed Bug: Disabling a remote NT monitor resets the server to "this server" Now fixed.

7.0c1

Date: 01/21/2002

7.0c1 Additions and New Features

A NEW LICENSING MODEL is implemented in SiteScope 7.0 for all monitor instances. Upgrading to SiteScope 7.0 from ANY earlier version of SiteScope will require conversion to a new license key. Contact SiteScope Sales to convert existing SiteScope licensing to SiteScope 7.0 licensing.
Added the DHCP Monitor for monitoring a DHCP server
Added the SNMP Trap Monitor for monitoring SNMP Traps received from SNMP enabled network devices
Added the F5 Big-IP Monitor for monitoring F5 Big-IP load balancers
Added the Cisco Works Monitor for monitoring Cisco Works servers.
Added the SQL Server Monitor for monitoring Microsoft SQL Server performance counters.
Added the BroadVision 5.5 Application Server Monitor for monitoring BroadVision 5.5 servers.
Added the WebLogic 5x Monitor for monitoring BEA WebLogic 5.x servers.
Added the WebLogic 6x Monitor for Monitoring BEA WebLogic 6.x Server performance metrics.
Added the WebSphere Application Server Monitor for monitoring IBM WebSphere Application servers.
Added the Oracle9i Application Server for monitoring Oracle9i Application servers
Added the Dynamo Application Server Monitor for monitoring ATG Dynamo Server performance metrics.
The ?Add Monitor to Group? page now has an alphabetical index listing of monitor types at the top of the page as well as the categorized listings as before.
Added a check box in the Browse Monitors feature to show monitors in error or warning that have not been acknowledged.
Added a check box in the File Monitor Detail Page to allow for a file not found condition to be reported in the status message but NOT put the monitor in error. NOTE: You MUST also set the "Good if" condition to be "status == 404"
Added a check box in the Log File Monitor Detail Page to allow for a log file not found condition to NOT put the monitor in error.
Added Operator help. Search for Creating, Managing, and Displaying Custom Monitor fields
Added Match Content field to the URL Monitor tools to test for content on a web page. See Diagnostic Tools
Added the ability to create of groups of monitors for replicating a set of monitors Monitor Set Templates. See Adding Monitor Sets.
Added the ability to configure SiteScope through a database. Database Driven Configuration.
UNIX and NT remote servers can now be set up from "Choose Server" function within
SiteScope now supports individual monitor-to-monitor dependency in addition to the group-to-monitor dependency it has supported in past releases. This feature is part of each monitor setup page.
SiteScope Application monitors now include a feature for selecting different server or application performance metrics to monitor.
All SiteScope Application monitors now allow for setting of error, warning, and good status thresholds on up to ten different parameters. The multiple conditions are evaluated as logical OR conditions.**NOTE: IF APPLICATION MONITORS WERE USED IN YOUR PREVIOUS SITESCOPE INSTALLATION YOU WILL NEED TO RESET THE ERROR, WARNING, AND GOOD THRESHOLDS IN EACH MONITOR IF YOU ARE USING VALUES OTHER THAN THE DEFAULTS. YOU CAN E-MAIL support@merc-int.com IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS. **

7.0c1 Changes

Several changes are made to the product UI including:
- The blue gauges for monitors and groups are suppressed in all views by default. The number of monitor groups that are displayed in the main page has been increased. THE BLUE GAUGES CAN BE OPTIONALLY RE-ENABLED VIA A CHECK BOX ON THE GENERAL PREFERENCES PAGE
- The links for "Add New Group" and "Add SiteSeer" have been changed on the main page to distinguish them from group links
- The Preferences, Diagnostics, BrowseMonitors links at the bottom of the main page have been relocated to just below the general SiteScope navigation bar at the top of the page and oriented horizontally
- The Open SiteScope, First Time Start Up and Add SiteSeer pages have been changed
- Titles were added to the selection features on the Browse Monitor page.
Fixed a rare problem with updating data in the URL Monitors tools link to initially match the monitors settings.
Added 2 metrics to the Mail Monitor which report the duration of the send and receive portions separately, in addition to the total round trip time of the monitor.
Added an "Instance" field to the IIS Server Monitor to override the default instance of "Default Web Site"
For high-availability SiteScopes, only run reports if backup SiteScope is enabled ? this prevents empty reports from the secondary from being sent
Mail monitor ? added ability to store matched content as variables
Fixed problem with pages not being update properly, for example after deleting a monitor
Fixed progress page so that it doesn't generate an exception after a group has been deleted, and the monitors in the deleted group were still on the progress page.
Fixed problem of home directory not being located on some remote UNIX systems when listing all files in the ~/scripts directory.
Process names entered for the service monitor can now be regular expressions
Ping monitor - shows values under 10 milliseconds using the master.config setting: _singleDigitMillis=true
Created a template field <remoteMachineName> for use in alerts.
Added Group Description Limited to One Line
{$1} doesn't work for absolute URL addresses
URL Sequence Monitor: Allow the Resume step to continue processing past one resume step to the end. Selectable by a check box in the monitor setup page.
For Port monitor, added ability to connect to a UDP port with an empty "Send String" field.
NT Event Log monitor, added the timestamp to the status.
For Log File monitor, added ability to do multiple-line .
Fixed remote Log File monitors for remote systems which return unusual values for certain commands.
For Log File monitor, populate the <value> properties when using a rules file.
For URL Sequence wizard, prevent exception if the "Update Every" field is a non-integer.
For URL monitor, fixed handling of meta-refreshes which include spaces in the URL.
Cleanup all processes started by SiteScope on daily restart and issuing the 'stop' command (Unix only).
Catch dropped telnet connection and prevent SiteScope from continuing to read closed pipe.
Added _showValsInMessage property for Logfile Monitor to allow showing matched values in monitor status.
NT Event Log Monitor added the ability to 'Not match source/ID'.
Fixed the ssl2.config problem. If both the java ssl and the Internet Explorer libraries fail, the entry written to the ssl2.config is now deleted and SiteScope will try calling the java ssl libraries again.
Fixed bug with Global depends. When a monitor is running, it was returning "nodata." Now returns the last state.
Fixed bug: The age of some directories were returning negative values. Now it will be forced to 0 instead allowing negative values.
Fixed bug: When duplicating or Copying monitors and replacing strings, the source monitor would be changed as will as the destination monitor in fields like POST data
Removed Monitor Count feature (not applicable to 7.0 licensing).

6.0c2

Date: 12/03/2001

6.0c2 Changes

The name of the URL Transaction Monitor is changed to URL Sequence Monitor
Fixed behavior with the Progress page so that an exception isn?t logged to the error.log after a group has been deleted. Note: monitors that are deleted from a group may still be displayed on the Progress page.
Fixed problem of home directory not being located on some remote UNIX systems when listing all files in the ~/scripts directory. The problem appeared to be on FreeBSD machines with home directories automounted via adm from the NetApp filer. The problem did not exist on Solaris machines which had home directories mounted from the same filer.
Added a link on the monitor setup pages to the regular expressions help page for details on date and time variable substitution on directory path property. This effects the following monitors:
- Directory Monitor
- File Monitor
- Mail Monitor
- Web Server Monitor
- FTP Monitor
Fixed remote log file monitor on remote Linux machines to correctly retrieve the data added to the file since the last time the monitor ran. Previously it requested the last X bytes of the file, instead of the remaining bytes of the file starting at position X.
The URL Sequence Monitor now supports a ?resume at step? option if an error occurs during the sequence. This allows SiteScope to execute a log-out step if some other step failed. The feature includes a new drop down menu in the transaction monitor detail page..
Enhanced the options for Creating, Managing, and Displaying User-Defined Monitor fields to the monitor detail tables. This can be used to add descriptive notes regarding corrective actions to take relative to particular monitors.
Added property to master.config, "_onlyBrowseUnacknowledged=CHECKED" to browse only unacknowledged monitors in error or warning.
Added a property to prevent operators from permanently disabling monitors. Do this by adding the entry "_noPermanentDisable=TRUE" to master.config
Modified File Monitor behavior to allow a good status to be reported when the file is NOT found. The steps are as follows:
1. Add "_noFileCheckExist=CHECKED" to master.config
2. On the file monitor set up page set the ?good if? condition to Status == 404
Corrected behavior when adding multiple custom description lines when adding a new monitor group. This previously only worked when editing an existing group. You can now enter a multi-row, two column above the monitor detail table by entering decription name value pairs seperated by a colon ":". Placed one name-value pair per line in the description text box.
Fixed Bug with content matching on URL addresses with the {$1} construct so that you don't get the following: http://ip:8888/SiteScope/http://www.somewhere.com. The value should now correctly resolve to: http://www.somewhere.com
XML values matched with the content match in URL monitors are now retained as with other content matching.
Fixed Bug: Added additional, non-English name values (e.g ?nome:?) for use in the DNS Monitor for checking non-English DNS servers.
Fix SiteScope behaviour with regards to changes on remote NT servers. It is no longer necessary to restart the SiteScope service after changing user or password on remote NT servers.
In the URLSequenceMonitor Tool page, added ability to stop at any step in the sequence and switch to the URL sequence wizard to complete the sequence steps.
URLSequenceMonitor, added the ability to reference any extracted value from any step in the sequence. The new syntax for passing retained values is {$$1.1},{$$1.2},{$$2.1},... Where 1.1 represents the first matched and retained value saved in step 1, 1.2 is the second value saved in step 1 and so on. For example; in step 1 you save 2 values and in step 2 you save no values and finally in step 3 you save 1 value. {$$1.1}=first value of step 1, {$$1.2}=second value of step 1, {$$3.1}=first value of step 3.
Range schedules with multiple enable times having one time supplied as 0:00 will not work correctly. For example, the schedule "Wednesday, enabled, from: 0:00, 4:30 to: 3:00, 23:59" would previously not have worked correctly. This problem would not occur if the first "from" time is something other than 0:00. This applies to monitors and alerts in the schedule field.
If a SiteScope is globally disabled, then scheduled management reports are not run. This is used for SiteScope High Availability fail-over systems.
Corrected problem with Script Alert not passing parameter 3 correctly

6.0c1

Date: 8/13/2001

6.0 Additions and New Features

Log File Monitor ? remote monitoring of Unix log files is now supported
Added Application Monitors from the Mercury Interactive?s Topaz product ? these represent the current best practice monitoring of these types of applications:
- Apache Server Monitor
- Ariba Server Monitor
- ASP Server Monitor
- CheckPoint FireWall-1 Monitor
- Cold Fusion Monitor
- MS IIS Server Monitor
- Netscape Server Monitor
- Real Server Monitor
- SilverStream Monitor
- Windows Media Server Monitor
For High-Availability licenses, added mirror feature for automated SiteScope failover updates and syncs
For High-Availability license, a failover capability from multiple SiteScope servers to a single redundant server can be configured (advanced feature ? see Mirroring Multiple SiteScopes technical note)
The URL Transaction Monitor Tools Page now includes a button to allow editing the transaction using the URL Transaction Wizard.
A new Baselining feature allows performance baselines to be set on monitors (see the Manage Monitors and Groups page.), and then used in error and warning thresholds as a percentage deviation from baseline, or a number of standard deviations from the baseline
In Reports, the Total Time in Error value (previously seen only at the top of the graphs) can now be displayed in a separate summary table.
Added additional Acknowledge Status capabilities. These include temporarily disabling alerts, updating, viewing the Acknowledge log, and clearing temporarily disabled alerts on monitor status change
Added a feature to display the total monitor count including monitors running on remote SiteScopes (see the General Preferences page)
Content matching on XML documents can now be done on XML element attributes. For example, you can match on forms such as: xml.el1.el2[name=two].el3 where the document contains an element: <el2 name=?two?>
Monitor templates ? new feature allows definition property values in a templates.config file, to centralize monitor settings in a single location (advanced feature ? see Monitor Templates technical note)
Configurations read/written to database (advanced feature ? see Configurations From Database technical note)
Configurations read/written to database (advanced feature ? see Configurations From Database technical note)

6.0 Changes

URL Transaction Wizard, added "Post Data" field for step 1 when creating a new transaction.
URL Transaction Wizard, added PostData field on step 1.
URL Transaction Monitor, added step number to the end of the step name (if name exists) for alert messages
URL Transaction Monitor Tools Page, added roundtrip times for each step.
URL Transaction Monitor, added the step number to the end of the step name
URL Monitor, fixed problem where the ./ was removed from the query string portion of the URL (after the ? character) Port Monitor; Added "Status" option to "error if" and "good if."
URL Monitor, URL Transaction Monitor, changed mechanism to strip script and noscript tags from an HTML page prior to processing the page looking for valid tags.
URL Monitor, SSL Tunneling through a proxy with clients certificates on Unix.
Get URL Tool, added proxy username and proxy password on page
Script monitor - added the ability to display matched values with decimal places (in reports and alerts), and to set the default precision for all Script monitors. [_defaultPrecision=2]
SNMP monitor - added the ability to display matched values with decimal places (in reports and alerts), and to set the default precision for all SNMP monitors. [_defaultPrecision=2]
LDAP Monitor, added time out
LDAP Monitor, added filtering capability
Log Monitor, NT Event Log Monitor - took off property of "Verify Error" because this property is not useful for these monitors
Log File monitor - added the ability to capture and use values in content match. (e.g. value, value2, value3, value4)
NT Event Log Monitor - added the ability to capture and use values in positive content match. (e.g. value, value2, value3, value4)
RTSP Monitor, enhanced to run more reliably, and added better error messages.
Reports, the List of Alerts option now pulls information from the alert.log.old file if it is relevant to the time period chosen
Add new month name and weekday name regular expression matching for non-English names. See the section titled "Language/Country specific variables" in regexp.htm
Refresh Group no longer challenges you for an administrator login, even when a user is logged in
Reports, fixed problem with maximum values in graphs.
Reports, fix quick management reports that had an end time between midnight and 1am. Data was not being shown for this time range
Manage Monitors and Groups, fixed bug with an internal property being changed by the find/replace operation.
Browse Monitors with show errors and warning will now display any acknowledged monitors
Group properties page, enable advanced options to display if only one group is at the root level. (Was 2 or more)
Login Page: works now with LDAP
Schedule Preferences, add Note to add times on SiteSeer schedules (email, pager, range and absolute schedules) to use Mountain Time
Add _centrascopeAccessOnly setting, so that CentraScope can lock out local updates to a SiteScope
Deleting Monitors now deletes the monitor(s) and or group(s) from reports too.