System Data Recorder

The release notes for SDR 0.73.4, recording Linux 32/64bit and Solaris x64/sparcv9 packages.

Recording Linux x86/64

• Bug 140 - jvmrec does not correctly process jvm target names
• Security Update: openssl-1.0.0e
• Update libssh2-1.3.0
• Update sysstat-10.0.2
• Update curl-7.22.0

Recording Solaris 10 x64/sparcv9

• Bug 119 - cleaner shipped with SDR recorders
• Bug 135 - sysrec sub-second interval support
• Bug 136 - cpurec sub-second interval support
• Bug 137 - netrec sub-second interval support
• Bug 138 - timestamp should be the first field in the raw data
• Bug 139 - nicrec sub-second interval support
• Security Update: openssl-1.0.0e
• Update libssh2-1.3.0
• Update curl-7.22.0
• Update libidn-1.22
• Remove nicrec-1.22, unmaintained

Known Defects

• diskrec Linux x86/64, Solaris x64/sparcv9: not available

The release notes for SDR 0.73.3, recording Linux 32/64bit packages.

Recording Linux x86/64

• Bug 121 - add support for sub second interval
• Bug 115 - 0.73.2 openssl not finding its own shared libs
• Bug 129 - make jvmrec report the time as the first field in raw data
• Bug 124 - add support for io stats
• Bug 117 - nicrec for Linux based OSes
• Bug 104 - procrec Linux support
• Bug 130 - update sysrec man page for latest changes
• Bug 131 - update cpurec man page for latest changes
• Bug 132 - update nicrec man page for latest changes
• Bug 133 - update jvmrec man page for latest changes
• Bug 134 - update procrec man page for latest changes
• Update perl-5.12.4
• Update libssh2-1.2.9

Known Defects

• diskrec Linux x86/64, Solaris x64/sparcv9: not available

The release notes for SDR 0.73.2, recording Linux 32/64bit packages.

Recording Linux x86/64

• Bug 108 - ssh2 via Net::SSH2
• Bug 113 - make sysrec clean to perlcritic
• Bug 110 - jvmrec incorrectly uses pargs in Linux based OSes
• Bug 112 - make netrec clean on perlcritic
• Bug 114 - update jvmrec man page for Linux
• Update libidn-1.22
• Update curl-7.21.7
• Update sysstat-10.0.1
• Remove nicrec-1.22, unmaintained

The release notes for SDR 0.73.1, recording Linux 32/64bit packages.

Recording Linux x86/64, Solaris x64/sparcv9

• Bug 102 - jvmrec does not record jvm data from all zones, 64bit support
• Update perl-5.12.3
• Update openssl-1.0.0d
• Update curl-7.21.5
• Update systat-10.0.0

The release notes for SDR 0.71, recording Linux 32/64bit and Solaris x64/sparcv9 packages.

Recording

• sysrec: CR 11 sysrec records negative memory usage
• sysrec: CR 08 sysrec should take into consideration ZFS ARC consumer
• hdwrec: CR 24 missing CPU information: MHz, GHz
• hdwrec: CR 12 incorrect parse of number of physical disks installed
• jvmrec: support for Solaris local zones
• corerec: support for SPARC VI, VII cpus
• SMF: corrections for jvmrec, corerec recorders

Reporting

• generic: CR 31 Internet Explorer 5,6,7 support. Use IE 7 for handling transparent png images correctly !
• generic: CR 32 SDR Perl, memory leak in Perl 5.10 Solaris 10
• wlanalyzer: new HTTP workload analyzer utility, based on Perl
  • reports throughput per sec, minute, hour for your HTTP application
  • combines throughput and CPU utilisation
  • computes the workload Service time
• binaries:
  • perl 5.10.1: updated
  • rrd 1.4.2: updated
  • R 2.9.2: new installation
  • PDQ 5.0.3: new installation

Known Defects

• Recording, jvmrec: supports only Hotspot VM. J9 from IBM might work but has not been tested
• Reporting, network data: not fully implemented

The release notes for SDR 0.63, recording Solaris x64/sparcv9 packages.

Recording

• cpurec: improved reporting for user/sys/idle
• netrec: for system with no zones deployed new features available
• raw2day: connectors for SSH, FTP for automating sending the logs to reporting site
• sender: experimental job to send data every N minutes to reporting side
• hdwRec: hardware recorder improvements

Reporting

• system reports: sysrec data
• per cpu reports: cpurec data
• per zone reports: zonerec data, experimental
• per server hdw configuration: hdwrec data
• scalability: USL and integration of TEST or QA data

Known Defects

• Recording, sysrec: not able to take into calcul ZFS. Situations when memory usage is negative
• Recording, hdwrec: not able to list JVM and zones
• Recording, jvmrec: supports only Hotspot VM. J9 from IBM might work but has not been tested
• Reporting, zones, jvm: not fully implemented
• Reporting, network data: not fully implemented