Release Notes
SharePlex Manager 3.0
Release Notes
Wednesday, November 07, 2018
About SharePlex Manager
SharePlex Manager harnesses the technology of Foglight 5 to provide 24 x 7 monitoring of your entire SharePlex infrastructure, from the initial capture of the Oracle redo logs in the source database to the importing and post processing of that data in each target database.
New Features
This release of SharePlex Manager includes the following new features and enhancements.
- Support for Foglight 5.9.2
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Support for SharePlex 9.2.0
- Support for Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2016
- Support for CentOS Linux 6.x and 7.x
- Support for Oracle Linux 6.x and 7.x
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Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x and 7.x
Known Issues
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this release.
| Known Issue | Defect ID |
|---|---|
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When installing on Windows, some users might encounter an "Installer User Interface Mode Not Supported" error. Workaround 1:
Workaround 2:
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SPO-15951 |
| If the same SharePlex instance belongs to more than one stream, it will be listed multiple times in the Instance field drop-down list in the Parameter console (once for each stream it belongs to). Also, if the same instance acts as both a Source and Target, it will be listed twice: one entry will be the source entry that when selected will show the source modules; the other entry will be the target entry that when selected will show the target parameter modules. This means that to set the same value for Import, Export, or Post process parameters for a SharePlex instance in all the streams it is a part of, you must set that parameter in each stream separately using the “ALL” setting in the Queue Name field. |
57320 |
| Supplemental logging must be ON or else activating configuration will fail with wrongly worded "A bad configuration file." | 87972 |
System Requirements
SharePlex Manager must be installed on a Foglight 5.9.2 Management Server (FMS) and requires that SharePlex be installed on all the hosts that you want to monitor.
Note: To learn more about the system requirements for Foglight, refer to the Foglight 5.9.2 System Requirements and Platform Support Guide.
Hardware
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
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CPU |
4-way 2.4 GHz CPUs - one of the following:
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| RAM |
4 GB in total:
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Storage |
If using built-in embedded database repository:
If using external database repository:
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Operating System
| Operating System | Version | OS Architecture | 32-bit | 64-bit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS Linux | 5.x, 6.x and 7.x | x86-64 |  1 | |
| Microsoft Windows | Server 2008 | IA-32 | |
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| Microsoft Windows | Server 2008 | x86-64 | |
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| Microsoft Windows | Server 2008 R2 | x86-64 | | |
| Microsoft Windows | Server 2012 | x86-64 | | |
| Microsoft Windows | Server 2012 R2 | x86-64 | | |
| Microsoft Windows | Server 2012 R2 Core | x86-64 | | |
| Microsoft Windows | Server 2016 | x86-64 | |
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| Oracle Linux | 5.x | IA-32 | |
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| Oracle Linux | 6.x and 7.x | x86-64 | |
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | AP/Server 5.x | IA-32 | |
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 6.x and 7.x | x86-64 | |
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Table Notes:
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On 64-bit RPM-based Linux platforms, the 32-bit version of libgcc*.rpm must be installed for the installer and Management Server to run.
SharePlex
SharePlex Manager can be used with the following versions of SharePlex:
- 5.3.4
- 6.0
- 7.5
- 8.0
- 8.5
- 8.6
- 9.0
- 9.1
- 9.2
Notes: Before you run SharePlex Manager on SharePlex version 8.6 or later, set the SharePlex parameter SP_SYS_SPM_UNIX_TIME to 1, and then restart sp_cop.
Screen Resolution
Minimum: 1024 x 786. Recommended: 1280 x 1024
Browser
Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge. Microsoft Windows 7, 8.1, and 10. Latest patch update available at March 2016.
Firefox 45.0.1, 45.0.1 esr
ChromeTM 49.0.2623.87
High Availability
High availability for SharePlex Manager is supported in SharePlex 8.6.5 and later as follows:
- Quest Foglight for Oracle High Availability 5.9.2 or later must be installed on each of two high-availability servers and configured in High Availability mode. Monitoring of SharePlex occurs only on the active node. For more information, see the Foglight documentation at https://support.quest.com/foglight.
- The Foglight repository must be installed in an external Oracle database that is accessible by both servers.
- SharePlex Manager must be installed on both servers.