Version 3.x Release Notes


Date: 12th July, 2010    Build Number: 3.4.2   FreeBSD Release 7.3 for Intel and AMD CPUs
Before Upgrading

If upgrading from a release before Statseeker 3.2.0, please contact Statseeker Support before upgrading.

If your Statseeker Server is currently using FreeBSD 7.0, both Statseeker and the Operating System will be required to be upgraded.

To check if your Statseeker Server is currently running FreeBSD 7.0 please log on to your Statseeker Server using telnet or ssh and run the following command: 

  uname -r

NEW INSTALLATION AND OPERATING SYSTEM UPGRADE - DOWNLOADS

Statseeker 64 Bit - ISO CD Image File ~195M

Statseeker 32 Bit - ISO CD Image File ~180M

New Installation Procedure:

For detailed Installation Instructions go to: New Installation Procedure

Software and Operating System Upgrade Procedure:

For detailed Software and Operating System Upgrade Instructions go to: Upgrade Statseeker Operating System without removing Statseeker data

UPGRADE - DOWNLOADS

Statseeker 64 Bit - ISO CD Image File ~18M

Statseeker 32 Bit - ISO CD Image File ~18M

Upgrade Procedure:
  1. Download the appropriate CD ISO image and copy it to the Statseeker server directory /home/statseeker/cdrom.
  2. Telnet/ssh to the Statseeker server and run ssadmin.
  3. Run the upgrade option in the ssadmin menu.

NOTE: For a detailed overview of the upgrade procedure, FTP instructions and the use of ssadmin go to: Detailed Upgrade Instructions

Why install Statseeker Version 3.4?

Statseeker version 3.4 reintroduces some functionality from Version 2.8 including: "13 Month Device Group Availability Reporting", "Threshold Event Reporting" and "Top X Management Reporting".

New Features:
  1. Top X Management Report

    This report combines the following reports into one for providing a Network Summary:

    1. Current Device Outage Status
    2. Interface Utilization % (Top X)
    3. Interface Bits per Second (Top X)
    4. Interface Bytes (Top X)
    5. Interface Error Totals (Top X)
    6. Interface Discard Totals (Top X)
    Note: The number of entries displayed in the Top X reports is configurable via the Administration Tool.

  2. New Interface Reports

    1. Utilization

      This includes Device, Interface, Interface Speed, Interface RX Util %, Interface TX Util %, and Interface Title information.

    2. Bits Per Second

      This includes Device, Interface, Interface Speed, Interface RX Bits Per Second, Interface TX Bits Per Second, and Interface Title information.

    3. Bytes

      This includes Device, Interface, Interface Speed, Interface RX Bytes, Interface TX Bytes, and Interface Title information.

    4. Packets

      This includes Device, Interface, Interface Speed, Interface RX Packets, Interface TX Packets, and Interface Title information.

    5. Errors

      This includes Device, Interface, Interface Speed, Interface RX Packets, Interface TX Packets, and Interface Title information.

    6. Discards

      This includes Device, Interface, Interface Speed, Interface RX Discards, Interface TX Discards, and Interface Title information.

  3. New Threshold Event Reports

    1. Interface Utilization

      This includes Device, Interface, Interface Speed, Configured Utilization Threshold Percent, Utilization Type (Rx or Tx), Initiated if (above or below), Configured Threshold Interval, Number of Utilization Threshold Events that occurred in specified time filter.

    2. Interface Errors

      This includes Device, Interface, Interface Speed, Configured Error Threshold Percent, Error Type (Rx or Tx), Configured Threshold Interval, Number of Error Threshold Events that occurred in specified time filter.

    3. Interface Discards

      This includes Device, Interface, Interface Speed, Configured Discard Threshold Percent, Discard Type (Rx or Tx), Configured Threshold Interval, Number of Discard Threshold Events that occurred in specified time filter.

    4. Memory

      This includes Device, Configured Memory Threshold Percent, Configured Threshold Interval, Number of Memory Threshold Events that occurred in specified time filter.

    5. CPU

      This includes Device, Configured CPU Threshold Percent, Configured Threshold Interval, Number of CPU Threshold Events that occurred in specified time filter.

    6. File System Usage

      This includes Device, Device's File System, Configured File System Usage Threshold Percent, Configured Threshold Interval, Number of File System Usage Threshold Events that occurred in specified time filter.

    7. Ping Delay

      This includes Device, Configured Ping Delay Threshold (in ms), Configured Threshold Interval, Number of Ping Delay Threshold Events that occurred in specified time filter.

  4. New Historical Management Reports

    1. Group SLA Availability (13 months)

      Before this report can be run, SLAs will first need to be configured in the Administration Tool. This report included information about the availability of each Device Group associated to a SLA for each month for the last 13 months.
      Note: This report is calculated using ping up and down events and will produce availability for each month for the configured SLA period as well as for the total time in that month.

    2. Interface Bytes (13 months)

      This includes Device, Interface, Interface Speed, Rx Bytes and Tx Bytes for the last 13 months, Interface Title.
      Note: This report uses cached data which is calculated once per day, and is calculated in the server's local time. On an upgrade the previous 13 months will be calculated in the background and may take some time before data is represented in this report.

    3. Interface Errors (13 months)

      This includes Device, Interface, Interface Speed, Rx Errors and Tx Errors for the last 13 months, Interface Title.
      Note: This report uses cached data which is calculated once per day, and is calculated in the server's local time. On an upgrade the previous 13 months will be calculated in the background and may take some time before data is represented in this report.

    4. Interface Discards (13 months)

      This includes Device, Interface, Interface Speed, Rx Discards and Tx Discards for the last 13 months, Interface Title.
      Note: This report uses cached data which is calculated once per day, and is calculated in the server's local time. On an upgrade the previous 13 months will be calculated in the background and may take some time before data is represented in this report.

  5. Report summary lines

    1. Reports now have summary lines to show how many interfaces/devices met the report criteria.

    2. The summary line also indicates when no data was found to meet the report criteria.

  6. Report Hiding

    There is an Automatic filtering of the report list in the main console to only show technologies discovered. For Example - if the network has no frame relay interfaces, the Frame Relay section will not appear in the report list.

  7. Configurable Interface Autogrouping

  8. Operating System Upgraded

    Default installed OS is now FreeBSD-7.3-release.