Foglightâ„¢ for DB2 LUW Hotfix 5.7.5.37
Developed for Foglight Management Server 5.6.11
Hotfix Release Notes
July 14, 2017
Release 5.7.5.37 is a hotfix of Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.7.5.1, and includes the changes listed in the following sections. Quest may generate additional hotfixes for future releases of the product.
This hotfix addresses issues listed in Resolved issues. The minimum version required for installing this hotfix is 5.7.5.1.
This hotfix may receive additional testing. If you are not severely affected by the issues that this hotfix addresses, it is recommended that you install the next full release of Foglight for DB2 LUW that includes this hotfix.
For complete product information, refer to the Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.7.5.1 product documentation.
Note: This hotfix also includes the bug fixes addressed by the previous Foglight for DB2 LUW hotfixes:
The following is a list of issues resolved in this hotfix.
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Defect ID |
Resolved Issue |
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DB2FOG-57 |
Fix the installation failure occurred when the Foglight Management Server (which installs Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.7.5.36) is upgraded from version 5.7.5.7 to version 5.7.5.8. |
The following is a list of issues resolved in this hotfix.
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Defect ID |
Resolved Issue |
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FOGDG-98 |
The SPM installer fails to run on Windows 2016 and Windows 10. |
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this hotfix release.
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Defect ID |
Known Issue |
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FOGDG-160 |
[SPM installer] The Foglight for Infrastructure cartridge cannot be enabled automatically after the Foglight Management Server starts up. |
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GVFOG-41 |
Fail to create new agents, if HostAgent and Infrastructure are disabled. Workaround: Install and enable HostAgent and Infrastructure manually. |
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GVFOG-38 |
The global view 5.7.5.5 cannot be installed, if user upgrades the Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.7.5.35 (installed on the Management Server 5.7.5.7) to version 5.7.5.37 by using the SPM installer. Note: This issue does not impact your existing deployment. |
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GVFOG-37 |
The Databases dashboard is missing, if user uses Foglight-5.7.5.7-FoglightForDatabases_<platform>.exe to upgrade Foglight for DB2 LUW to version 5.7.5.37 on the Management Server (which does not install the Foglight for DB2 LUW before). Workaround: Restart the Foglight Management Server. |
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DB2FOG-62 |
The "Error executing script id=xxx" error message shows in the Management Server log, after clicking What's New. Note: This issue does not impact your existing deployment. |
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DB2FOG-49 |
All videos related to the Foglight for DB2 LUW have been removed from YouTube. Note: This issue does not impact your existing deployment. |
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DB2FOG-35 |
The unit in the Pool Breakdown chart under the Databases > History > Memory > Memory Summary dashboard is incorrect. |
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DB2FOG-33 |
Error message shows in the log file after clicking Whole Instance on the Databases > Overview dashboard. |
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DB2FOG-28 |
The changes are saved automatically, even if user does not confirm the changes. |
| DB2FOG-45 | Fails to show the Upgrade Wizard dashboard, after upgrading from the previous releases. Workaround: Click the Upgrade Required button, and then follow on-screen instructions to complete the agent upgrade. |
| DDB-5387 | For DB2 version 9.7 and above, the following metrics are not available due to DB2 limitations: AGENT_USR_CPU_TIME_MS AGENT_SYS_CPU_TIME_MS, LAST_RESET |
| DDB-5376 | For DB2 version 9.7 and 10.1, some statistics information about db2 background processes is not collected due to DB2 limitation |
| DDB-5146 |
The DB2 installer does not support foreign languages on Windows machine.
Once the agent was activated, the following errors may be occurred:
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| DDB-3669 | The Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.6.5.5 Upgrade Wizard does not support the upgrade of external agents if the Agent Manager is not version 5.6.2 or later. Workaround: Upgrade to Foglight Management Server 5.6.4 or later. |
| DDB-2860 | An Agent Manager that is installed on a Windows fail-over cluster as a service that runs on the active node cannot monitor databases that are located on the same cluster. This is an Agent Manager limitation. |
| DDB-2745 | The Memory Summary panel and the corresponding alarm display "null" when there are no child pools under a memory pool. |
| DDB-2706 | If you have a Foglight for DB2 LUW agent that has never been used to collect data and you upgrade to Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.6.4 or later, you will not be able to activate and use the agent seamlessly. To activate and use the Foglight for DB2 LUW agent seamlessly, you must first create an Infrastructure agent and then manually set up resource mapping for that agent. For information on how to create an Infrastructure agent, see the Infrastructure Cartridge documentation. For information on how to set up resource mapping, see the Foglight Administration and Configuration Help. |
| DDB-2637 | When the legacy Cartridge for DB2 LUW and Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.5.x are installed on the same Foglight Management Server and you upgrade the latter to Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.6.4 or later, the online help for the legacy version is no longer available. Workaround: 1. On the navigation panel, navigate to Administration > Cartridges > Cartridge Inventory. 2. Select the check box next to the DB2_OnlineHelp cartridge. 3. Click Disable to disable the cartridge. 4. Click Enable to enable the cartridge. When you are finished, both online help versions are displayed in the action panel. |
| DDB-2073 | For DB2 version below 9.7, the CPU collected and displayed for a monitored instance is the CPU for only the monitored databases under that instance. The instance CPU does not include the CPU for any databases that are under the instance, and are not monitored. |
| DDB-1767 | Monitoring a pureScale environment does not display locks when they are performed between two members (for example, one member is locking another member). |
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DDB-1671 |
When monitoring an instance running on Windows using a Foglight Agent Manager that is running on a non-Windows platform, open file descriptors are not closed correctly. Workaround: On the Foglight Agent Manager machine, the "description" limit is configured to "1024". This value should be defined as "unlimited" or to a larger number, for example "65535". |
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DDB-1567 |
Monitored environments with tablespace that have Korean characters in their name, will not be displayed correctly in the tablespaces dashboard graph. |
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N/A |
The tasks listed below cannot be accomplished from the central Foglight Management Server (the federation master):
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N/A |
This release of Foglight for DB2 LUW supports adding databases to existing instances only using the Databases Management view in the Databases Administration dashboard. |
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Defect ID |
Known Issue |
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FGL-19291 |
If the Foglight for DB2 LUW 5.7.5.36 has been installed on the Management Server 5.7.5.7, the StackOverFlow exception occurs when upgrading the Management Server to version 5.7.5.8. |
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FGL-19282 |
The Foglight Management Server fails to re-enable the cartridges that have been enabled by the Foglight for DB2 LUW. |
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Defect ID |
Known Issue |
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DDB-1683 |
WMI-related issue Problem: WMI support is affected by the firewall on versions of Windows prior to Windows 7. Workaround: For Windows versions prior to Windows Server 2008/Vista, use the following steps:
For Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008: According to Microsoft (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929851), the default dynamic port range for TCP/IP has changed in these versions. The new default start port is 49152 and end port is 65535. Subsequently, monitoring instances that run under these operation systems can be carried out by using either one of the following options:
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N/A |
Monitoring a DB2 instance which resides on Windows Server 2008 R2 requires the following workaround:
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| N/A |
Some base values are not updated when using the Win32_PerfRawData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk WMI class to calculate performance data in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008, because this class does not contain the PercentDiskTime_Base metric. Workaround: A hotfix is available on Microsoft's Web site, at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961435/en-us. |
