CA Unified Infrastructure Management hyperv Release Notes All series
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Contents Chapter 1: General Overview 7 Feature List... 7 Chapter 2: Requirements 9 Installation Considerations... 9 Hardware Requirements... 9 Software Requirements... 9 Supported Platforms... 9 Chapter 3: Revision History 11 Chapter 4: Known Issues 13 Contents 5
Chapter 1: General Overview The hyperv probe is used for monitoring the health and performance of the Microsoft Hyper-V servers. The probe collects the necessary data of the host operating system and its corresponding hypervisor system (Windows 2008/2012/2012 R2 Server + Hyper-V / Windows 2008 Server Core + Hyper-V). The probe defines the alarms and their corresponding threshold values for comparing the actual data at customizable intervals. If the threshold values are breached, the probe generates the alarm. The QoS messages are generated on each interval. The probe monitors the Windows virtual machines that are running on the host through the Host Operating System. Feature List The hyperv probe collects and stores data and information from the monitored system at customizable intervals. You can easily define alarms to be raised and propagated to the Nimsoft Enterprise Console when specified thresholds are breached. Chapter 1: General Overview 7
Chapter 2: Requirements This section contains the requirements for the hyperv probe. This section contains the following topics: Installation Considerations (see page 9) Hardware Requirements (see page 9) Software Requirements (see page 9) Supported Platforms (see page 9) Installation Considerations Delete the conf_hyperv exes of previous version and then install new version while upgrading the probe. Hardware Requirements The hyperv probe must be installed on systems with the following minimum resources: Memory: 2-4 GB of RAM. The OOB configuration of the probe requires 256 MB of RAM CPU: 3-GHz dual-core processor 32, or 64 bit Software Requirements The hyperv probe requires the following software environment: Nimsoft Monitor Server 5.1.1 to 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later Robot 5.23 or later JRE 1.6.26.Net Framework 3.5 Supported Platforms Refer to the Compatibility Support Matrix for the latest information about supported platforms. See also the Support Matrix for Probes for more specific information about the probe. Chapter 2: Requirements 9
Chapter 3: Revision History This section describes the history of the revisions for this probe. Date Description State Version Sept 2014 Jun 2014 Fixed an issue where GUI response time was very high with large number of monitors. Fixed a defect where Resource Pool name was appearing blank. The value of Resource Pool is now similar to the value of caption field. Fixed a defect where probe was generating null value for the instances in network counters of Legacy Network adapter in Windows 2012 R2. The value is now similar to the value of instances in network counters of Virtual Network adapter. Added support for alarm generation of Events. Improved probe performance by restricting fetching of events to maximum of 600. Jun 2014 Added support for monitoring Windows Server 2012 R2 Hypervisor. Added support for the following locale: Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese. Sep 2013 Added support for monitoring Windows Server 2012 Hypervisor. GA 2.20 2.11 2.10 2.00 Apr 2010 Probe is now NIS2-enabled. 1.12 Sep 2009 General availability release. 1.11 Jun 2009 Initial commercial release. 1.10 Chapter 3: Revision History 11
Chapter 4: Known Issues The known issues of the hyperv probe are: For non-english locale: The Raw Configure GUI of the probe is not supported for updating the probe configuration because it can corrupt the entire probe configuration file. The probe extracts data for the profile of events after running WMI query for events. Hence, the probe does not generate alarms for the Event Profile when there is a mismatch in the system generated time and value in the TimeGenerated field. For all locales: The probe does not display description for the events HHCTRL, AdobeARM, and VMUpgradeHelper. There is a null value in the event log for the specified events. The issue is generated in the probe due to the system. Chapter 4: Known Issues 13