Speed up of back-end processing (parallelization when retrieving data)
Many other smaller enhancements and fixes.
IBM Power
OS agent supports Linux generally. It allows to load performance data from any Linux box. All will be placed under "Linux" item in "SERVER" menu.
Heatmap: enhanced memory, RED is reported if memory usage is over 90% and paging is over 50kB/sec (in or out).
NMON data support in historical reports
UI
New filtering implemented for all tables and all their columns include legends on aggregated graphs (point mouse on the shadow strip under each table header)
Consider also OS agent upgrade to 4.84 which is necessary for Linux x86 support. IBM i OS agent is coming soon.
4.81-004
Cumulative patch. Install it on the top of version 4.81.
Download link. Install instructions.
OS agent response time data has been added into "Historical reports"
links from "LPAR search" can be wrong (they might be dirtected to already removed LPARs)
space characters caused a problem in server, lpar and cluster names
backlinks from legends & heatmaps fixed
historical report server - enable tabs for NMON agent data, add resp_time tab
"load.sh html" can crash with "no space" in very big environments, it is caused by a new added code in 4.80, fixed now
heatmap crashing when any LPAR has this setting: curr_proc = 0
CPU pool trend graphs issue: yellow part (borrowed) was wrong (uin fact there was entitled value)
Refresh icon on LPAR graphs disapeared
deactivated HMC are excluded from the "HMC total" menu
4.81
Bug fixes of 4.80
OS agent fix for reporting of fcs interfaces dedicated to NPIV and tapes (upgrade the agent to 4.81)
VMware workaround of a VMware bug "BUG PR no:1467231" (affected versions are VCSA 5.5U3 and VCSA 6.0U1 without any patch)
It caused gaps in cluster/resource pool and datastore data
Historical reports form might fail to load
Historical reports: aggregated CPU graph did not work
switch to the HMC view might fail the UI
SAN graphs: the first interface has not been stacked in aggregated graphs
CPU workload Estimator did not work in "free" product release
VMware: VM and datastore names with a space inside caused problems
CPU Workload Estimator is enhanced about SMT based rPerf estimations
It gives more accurate estimations based on SMT setting of the target and source systems
Custom Groups are enhanced about "set of custom groups"
It allows grouping of custom groups in sets of them what might be useful especially when you have many of Custom Groups defined
Heatmaps feature has been introduced for CPU and Memory (IBM Power & VMware, LPARs/VMs and servers)