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  • Title: Data Recording Module, Solaris Platform Release Notes
  • Publish date: 22 Oct 2012
  • Platforms: Solaris 10, x64 and sparcv9
  • Latest Release: 0.74.1
  • Known Defects: NA
  • Comments: NA

This is the release notes for data recording package for Solaris platform 64bit on Intel and SPARC architectures. This document includes all changes up to the current stable release, listing all updates and bug fixes. Additional if the release contains specific instructions all these will be listed and included.

0.74.1 release, October 2012

  • Bug 209 - stuck established connections
  • Bug 213 - sender should support ssh2 connections using different custom ports
  • Bug 214 - raw2day should support ssh2 connections using different custom ports
  • Bug 216 - sender should have its own startup script
  • Bug 217 - port hdwrec from ksh to perl
  • Update perl-5.16.1
  • Update curl-7.27.0
  • Update XML-LibXML-2.0004

0.74 release, July 2012

  • Bug 196 - sender specifications
  • Bug 197 - Email::Send not supported
  • Bug 198 - add File::Tail, Proc::Daemon, Proc::PID::File to SDR Perl distro
  • Bug 200 - sender libssh2 error channel unknown
  • Bug 201 - better logging if ssh2 connections are failing
  • Bug 202 - sender missing manual page
  • Bug 204 - sender.pid should relocate under sdr prefix
  • Update perl-5.16.0
  • Update Net-SSH2-0.45
  • Update curl-7.26.0
  • Update idn-1.25
  • Update XML-LibXML-1.99

0.73.7 release, May 2012

  • Bug 175 - remove -w from shebang, just use warnings
  • Bug 179 - SDR Data File Extension .sdrd
  • Bug 182 - Normalization of Metrics CPU Utilization Solaris
  • Bug 185 - port raw2day form ksh to perl5
  • Bug 177 - separate raw2day log rotation from transport mode
  • Bug 193 - sysrec solaris sdrd 0737 data format changes
  • Bug 194 - jvmrec should output timestamp as first field in raw data
  • Update Net-SSH2-0.44
  • Update curl-7.25.0
  • Update libssh2-1.4.2
  • Update sysstat-10.0.5
  • Security Update: openssl-1.0.0j

0.73.6 release, March 2012

  • Bug 169 - netrec on Solaris should recorder tcpOutRs
  • Bug 168 - master sdr startup script kills other interactive sdr sessions
  • Bug 148 - openssl vulnerabilities and other libs available
  • Bug 150 - sysrec help usage field counter
  • Bug 151 - revision should answer to -V
  • Bug 152 - make sysrec perlcritic level 4 compliant
  • Bug 153 - make cpurec perlcritic level 4 compliant
  • Bug 154 - make nicrec perlcritic level 4 compliant
  • Bug 155 - make netrec perlcritic level 4 compliant
  • Bug 159 - cpurec help usage field counter
  • Bug 160 - nicrec help usage field counter
  • Bug 161 - netrec help usage field counter
  • Security Update: openssl-1.0.0g
  • Update libssh2-1.4.0
  • Update curl-7.24.0
  • Update libidn-1.24

0.73.4 release, October 2011

  • 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

0.73.1 release, April 2011

  • 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

0.71 release, January 2010

  • Bug 11 - sysrec records negative memory usage
  • Bug 08 - sysrec should take into consideration ZFS ARC consumer
  • Bug 24 - missing CPU information: MHz, GHz
  • Bug 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

0.63 release, February 2009

  • 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
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