Foglight for Infrastructure 5.9.8 - Infrastructure Utilities Release Notes

Foglight^® Web Monitor allows you to monitor Web transactions that occur between your Web sites and the end users, by tracking response time statistics from one or more locations. Better management of your Web sites can be achieved when you are alerted of potential problems, before end users are affected. This ensures consistent performance of your Web sites at established service levels.
Foglight^® Net Monitor provides device availability and packet loss monitoring between monitoring locations and network devices. You can use it to monitor the network against service level agreements, and to check for the presence of devices that are critical to your operating environment.
Foglight^® for PowerVM allows you to monitor IBM® PowerVM® environments. Foglight alerts you about infrastructure problems as soon as they develop, enabling you to resolve issues proactively before end users are affected. Early intervention ensures consistent application performance at established service levels. Foglight for PowerVM monitors the health of your virtual system by tracking the levels of resource utilization such as CPU, network, and memory consumption of individual objects in your integrated environment.

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds and other important information about the Foglight Infrastructure Utilities.

Note: As of these release notes, the most current version of Foglight Infrastructure Utilities are:

Foglight Web Monitor 5.9.7
Foglight Net Monitor 5.9.8
Foglight for PowerVM 5.9.8

Review all sections before starting the installation.

Foglight Log Monitor

Foglight Log Monitor is an Infrastructure utility shipped with Foglight for Infrastructure which monitors log files and identifies activities that can potentially lead to performance issues.

Note: For more information about Foglight Log Monitor including known and resolved issues, see the Foglight for Infrastructure Release Notes and Foglight for Infrastructure User and Reference Guide.

New in this Release

This release contains the following new features and updates:

Foglight Web Monitor New Features

Foglight Web Monitor 5.9.7 includes the following new features and improvements:

Added support for FIPS-compliant mode in Web Monitor agent. (IC-4335)
Changed to use BCFKS to store client certificate if agent manager running in FIPS-compliant mode. (IC-4296)