Version Argent Omega — All Versions Date Tuesday, 12 July 2022 Summary When using Service Level Agreement Rules against a server or a device, false alerts can trigger due to network slowness Technical Background N/A Resolution To prevent a false alert from triggering for a Rule that breaks every single time due to a network […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1509-A and later Date Monday, 21 September 2015 Summary Now when the master Job Template is modified, the user can optionally have all the existing submitted Job Instances that are already in the scheduler updated as well Technical Background The Argent Job Scheduler is the central scheduler that submits Jobs to […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 1509-A and later Date Thursday, 8 October 2015 Summary The Argent Job Scheduler database Date operations has been enhanced to a generic date format which is universally acceptable to support all human languages — German, U.K. English, etc., as well as U.S. English Technical Background Default language of SQL Server can […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0 1505-A and earlier Date Monday, 21 September 2015 Summary An issue has been addressed that Argent Queue Engine Restarts And Jobs Are Reported As Abended In the Scheduler GUI Technical Background Argent Queue Engine restarts and Jobs are reported as Abended in the Argent Job Scheduler GUI When applications other […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler version 10.0A-1601-A and earlier Date Friday, 8 April 2016 Summary Addressed the issue that, scheduled Jobs get delayed by one hour for the regions having DST (Daylight Saving Time) Technical Background When submitting a Job, the scheduled Jobs get delayed by one hour in J1 screen than the actual scheduled time […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1607-A and later Date Friday, 29 July 2016 Summary Argent Job Scheduler has been enhanced with ‘*.*’ in File dependency to check if dependency is met by ANY of the files in the specified folder Technical Background On specifying ‘*.*’ along with the path in File Dependency, Argent Job Scheduler checks […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1603-A and earlier Date Friday, 27 July 2016 Summary Argent Job Scheduler got hung when server of the specified ODBC dependency went offline Technical Background Argent Job Scheduler uses Windows ODBC connection for database connectivity in ODBC Dependency When server of ODBC dependency goes offline the Windows ODBC connection may go […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1603-A and earlier Date Monday, 1 August 2016 Summary Addressed the issue that Argent Job Scheduler Primary Server gets hung when the Argent Job Scheduler backup Node goes offline Technical Background Argent Job Scheduler Backup Node updates a heartbeat file in a network shared path to notify the Primary Engine about […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1609-A and later Date Tuesday, 20 September 2016 Summary Argent Job Scheduler now provides filter option in Archived Jobs screen to filter the Archived Jobs Technical Background Job filtering is an existing feature of Argent Job Scheduler, which has been implemented in Archived Jobs screen also Click For Full Size The […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1609-A and later Date Tuesday, 20 September 2016 Summary Argent Job Scheduler now has the sorting option for the columns in Archived Jobs screen (J19) Technical Background Argent Job Scheduler has been enhanced with sorting option for the columns in Archived Jobs Columns can be sort accordingly by clicking on the […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1609-A and later Date Tuesday, 20 September 2016 Summary Argent Job Scheduler has been enhanced with a new option ‘Copy Job Class’ Technical Background Using this feature, it is possible to copy all ‘Job Templates’ from one Class to another Class with a new name and all the Jobs are prefixed […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1610-A and later Date Friday, 21 October 2016 Summary Argent Job Scheduler provides an option to restart Job execution on failure of Jobs, for a specified number of times, based on the exit code of Job Process Technical Background Alert is fired for each time a Job execution is failed To […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1610-A and later Date Thursday, 20 October 2016 Summary Argent Job Scheduler has been enhanced with options to replace strings of Job Names and Job Parameter in Job Definition using ‘Replace Strings’ Screen (J98A Screen) Technical Background Argent Job Scheduler version 10.0A-1610-A has been enhanced with two options Job Names and […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1701-A and later Date Monday, 30 January 2017 Summary Argent Job Scheduler provides a new option to check Job Dependency only on days specified in an Argent Calendar Technical Background Currently Job dependencies are checked every time when a parent Job runs Argent Job Scheduler provides a new Calendar field in […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1701-A and later Date Monday, 30 January 2017 Summary Argent Job Scheduler has been enhanced to facilitate an optional delay in executing the post Job Technical Background Currently post Jobs run immediately or as per the Job Schedule after the completion of the parent Job Argent Job Scheduler has been enhanced […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1712-B and above Date Wednesday, 27 December 2017 Summary Past Production Day Report of Argent Job Scheduler has been enhanced with addition of Job Class field Technical Background All Job Templates have Job Classes Job Classes are used for better organization of Job Templates and also to configure common security features […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1804-A and above Date Tuesday, 24 July 2018 Summary Argent Queue Engine has been enhanced with a more secure and durable licensing key architecture that is unaffected by bad Microsoft security patches All customers must upgrade to 1804-A or later before 2 January 2019 Technical Background Argent Queue Engine license key […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1809-A and below Date Tuesday, 15 January 2019 Summary In Argent Job Scheduler GUI, the Calendar control popup, associated with date fields, is NOT working on clicking the downward arrow Technical Background In Argent Job Scheduler GUI, the calendar control popup does NOT work on clicking the downward arrow The calendar […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0A-1902-A and above Date Wednesday, 6 February 2019 Summary All too often, customers are faced with unstable and unreliable emails systems — email alerts from the Argent Job Scheduler are not sent to the intended recipients What is far more serious is when the email system crashes it can also bring […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 1902-A and below Date Friday, 12 April 2019 Summary When an Argent Calendar is renamed in Argent Job Scheduler GUI and if that Calendar is configured in Schedule of a Job, all the Calendar entries (NOT just the renamed entry) in the Schedule get updated with the newly renamed Calendar Technical […]
Version Argent Linux Queue Engine 5.0A-1907 or above Date Tuesday, 18 June 2019 Summary When using utility ‘qcreate’ to create a queue for Argent LINUX Queue Engine, it generally shows a prompt waiting for user to enter password As a result, the utility is difficult to use in the situation of unattended maintenance or automated […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 1906-A and above Date Saturday, 22 June 2019 Summary The Argent Job Scheduler 1906-A has been enhanced to run the GUI without Administrative privilege Technical Background Now it is possible for a Non-Admin user to start and run Argent Job Scheduler GUI, with some features disabled Both local users and Argent […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 1906-A and above Date Saturday, 22 June 2019 Summary Argent Scheduling Engine override ping to check Argent Queue Engine Status Technical Background In Argent Job Scheduler versions 1902-A and below, ICMP ping was used to check if an Argent Queue Engine was online. In AWS and Azure cloud, by default, all […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 1911-B and above Date Monday, 2 December 2019 Summary Argent Queue Engines can be installed in two different modes: Standalone Dependent Standalone mode is the traditional way of installation and requires a unique license key for the Argent Queue Engine In this mode the Argent Queue Engine runs independent of the […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 1911-B and above Date Monday, 2 December 2019 Summary A new licensing feature has been implemented in the Argent Job Scheduler: Dependent mode Technical Background A new feature for licensing the Argent Queue Engine in Dependent mode has been implemented in the Argent Job Scheduler Queue Engines running in Dependent mode […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 2001-A and above Date Friday, 31 January 2020 Summary A new command line tool has been introduced in Argent Job Scheduler to export Job Templates from one environment to another. For example, this can be used to move Jobs from a test or development environment to a production environment. Technical Background […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 2001-A and above Date Friday, 27 January 2020 Summary The Argent Job Scheduler GUI has been enhanced with options to alert when a Job is Held, Cancelled, or changed by any user. Technical Background Argent Job Scheduler has been enhanced with three new options to alert when a user does the […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 2001-A and 2003-A Date Friday, 11 September 2020 Summary Argent Job Scheduler fails to submit Jobs to any of the connected Argent Queue Engines The log file AJSMAIN_SQL_LOG.TXT shows repeated lines, such as “Outstanding Connection Count Reaches Threshold 30 (Current: 41).” Technical Background An enhancement was done in Argent Job Scheduler […]
Version Argent Queue Engine – ANY Date Thursday, 24 December 2020 Summary Argent Queue Engine upgrade not successful due to another program using Argent Queue Engine port 3135 Technical Background Upgrade process for Argent Queue Engine ends unsuccessfully due to setup process unable to secure all necessary processes, ports, and files Resolution 1) Search Argent […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0-2107-B and above Date Monday, 30 August 2021 Summary Customers may request that the Argent executables be digitally signed prior to allowing them to run in their environment Technical Background The Argent executables have been digitally signed in the Argent Job Scheduler 10.0-2107-B release Resolution Customers can upgrade to the 10.0-2107-B […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0-2105-A and above Date Monday, 6 September 2021 Summary In Argent Job Scheduler, two new registry values are introduced to configure the waiting time during the execution of Job Sequence Jobs The new registry values are the following: OVERRIDE_ALL_JOB_SEQUENCE_SLEEP_SECONDS – Contains the waiting time to be used during the execution of […]
This section covers all Argent Reports Release Note KBIs
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above Date Fri, 16 Aug 2013 Summary The Argent Reports interface has been revamped with resizable panes and a focus on maximizing real-estate Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above Date Fri, 16 Aug 2013 Summary The Argent Reports has enhanced the email code for Report Automators The new email code is much more efficient and should eliminate the issue of “corrupted attachments” or zero-byte attachments Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above Date Fri, 16 Aug 2013 Summary The Argent Reports has enhanced the scheduling code for Report Automators Technical Background In previous versions, the scheduler had a potential issue when the ODBC connection fails due to a database reboot, network issues or database issues The enhanced scheduling code corrects this […]
Version Issue Addressed in Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above Date Fri, 16 Aug 2013 Summary Compliance Reports not displaying data when “all” nodes are selected Technical Background For the Argent for Reports Compliance Reports, when choosing specific nodes, data is displayed When choosing “*” for all nodes, data is not displayed Resolution Upgrade to Argent […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above Date Fri, 16 Aug 2013 Summary Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above contains various speed improvements and caching for environments with a large number of nodes and Monitoring Groups Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above
Version Issue Addressed in Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above Date Fri, 16 Aug 2013 Summary In previous versions, Node-based Reports would sometimes show ALL nodes and ignore the “Apply To The Following Nodes” option This has been addressed Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above Date Fri, 16 Aug 2013 Summary Argent Reports now fully supports installation on Windows Server 2012 and IIS 8 Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1308-A and above Date Fri, 16 Aug 2013 Summary Argent Reports allows customers to define SQL Variables SQL Variables can be used in the Generic Table definitions to make it easier to make changes without having to modify the SQL code directly Technical Background To use a SQL Variable, specify the name […]
Version Argent Reports — All Versions Date Tue, 10 Sep 2013 Summary Argent Reports fails at starting the Argent Reports Scheduling Service, OR reports fail to generate automatically at the scheduled time When observing the Argent Reports Scheduler logs, the following log entries can be seen: DISASTROUS OPERATING SYSTEM ERROR DETECTED BY ARGENT. OPERATING SYSTEM […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B and above Date Monday, 30 Sep 2013 Summary Argent Reports “Cross-Reference Reports” have been enhanced with new columns: Alert SMS Recipients Alert Escalation Alert Auto-Correction Additionally, Email Alerts and SMS Alerts now show the corresponding Email Alerts and SMS Alerts (in brackets) after the definition name Click For Full Size Technical […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B and above Date Monday, 30 Sep 2013 Summary A new Date Range option has been added for all reports: From First to End of LAST Month This option dynamically assigns the date range of the report to the first of the last month, and the end of the last month E.g. […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B and above Date Monday, 30 Sep 2013 Summary Argent Change Log Tables have been enhanced with change information for: Argent Console (Alerts, Calendars and Macros) CMDB-X and Shared Definitions (CMDB-X, Licensed Nodes and Monitoring Groups) Technical Background Argent Change Log Tables read from the {PRODUCT}_SYSTEM_AUDIT table Argent Reports simply provides translation […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-A and below Date Monday, 30 Sep 2013 Summary Some customers may report that reports are not being scheduled — this differs from https://help.argent.com/#KBI_310655 In this scenario, customers have reported instances where the ARGSOFT_ARGENT_REPORTS_CDP.EXE process, which is a process responsible for executing the automatic schedule for Argent Reports, does not appear after […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B and above Date Monday, 30 Sep 2013 Summary Some customers have reported cases where PDFs cannot be generated During the PDF generation, the following error message appears: Click For Full Size “Could not render the header html area. Could not render the url. Could not get image from url.The URL is […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary Added “Rule Description” and “Relator Description” to Cross-Reference Reports These correspond to the large “Description” boxes that can be filled=in for Argent XT or Argent AT Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1401-A or above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary SLA Downtime Reports now have a flag that allow users to sort the reports in order of downtime descending (so that most problematic nodes appear at the top), or to sort by the traditional alphabetical order of node name Technical Background The flag […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary Customers reported that Argent for Compliance File Audit Reports displayed ‘phantom’ data of file deletions that never occurred These file deletions are actually the result of Microsoft Office and the way working-files are handled These temporary files are now explicitly ignored by Argent […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary Customers report that Argent for Security File Audit reports show no data Technical Background This is caused by a coding error and has been addressed Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1401-A or above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary An empty ‘To:’ field for Email Alerts causes errors in Cross-Reference Reports Technical Background Bullet-proofing has been added to prevent this error from occurring Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1401-A or above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary Older versions of Argent Reports have date ranges reported as, e.g. “Past 24 Hours Since Wed, 1 Feb 2014” Customers may be confused due to the wording This has now been changed to, e.g. “Past 24 Hours as of Wed, 1 Feb 2014” […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary The %VARIABLES% pull-down menu now offers more information reminding customers what the variable does, and the current value of the %VARIABLE% Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1401-A or above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary The ‘Sum of Message Size (MB)’ was missing from Exchange Mailbox Traffic Reports Technical Background This has been added Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1401-A or above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary The ‘Manage Folders’ popup may not appear after clicking on the button This may be caused by certain versions of Internet Explorer Technical Background This has been bullet-proofed and will no longer occur Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1401-A or above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary Customers can now specify custom file names for Report Automators For example, the default preview for PDFs is “REPORT_PREVIEW.PDF” and the default production Automator for PDFs is {Automator Name}_{Date}.PDF The new “Custom File Name” field allows %VARIABLES% to be used for further customization […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary SLA Downtime Reports now shows ’00’ for the hours field instead of ‘0’ This ensures the spacing is uniform across all rows, and makes it easier to compare one row with another Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1401-A or above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary The sort order is now underlined in the header of various reports This helps readers understand exactly what the sort order is Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1401-A or above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary Added ‘Previous Seconds Difference’ and ‘Previous Event Time’ as options in Event-based Tables Previous Seconds Difference The seconds difference between the previous matching row Previous Event Time The event time of the previous matching row The matching row is defined as a row […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary ‘Argent Console (XT)’ appears twice in product pull-down menus in Argent Reports This is caused by the re-introduction of Argent Console Predictor tables in Argent AT in Argent AT 1310-A Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1401-A or above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1310-B or below Date Friday, 28 Feb 2014 Summary Argent Reports allows customers to “Test Email Settings” on the Management tab, “Settings” leaf This provides an easy and convenient way of ensuring the email settings are correct, and work with Argent Reports Any errors that occur in the send-out will be returned […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary Customers using the ‘Export‘ feature to export PDFs or Excel reports to a UNC path can now optionally send an accompanying email notification The email notification dynamically appends the link to the bottom of the email The link can be the full UNC […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary Performance Tables in Argent Reports now has the ability to specify a ‘Unit Label (Optional)‘ next to each value Technical Background While many customers are happy with the header (to prevent clutter), some customers may opt to have the unit label on every […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary Customers can now exclude specific Node instances for graphs in Argent Reports Technical Background Argent Graphs provides the ability to plot all instances from a Performance Counter (e.g. the logical disk drives), and specify any exclusions However, the exclusions apply to all Nodes […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary Argent Reports now allows customers to specify what constitutes as a ‘Weekend‘ when using the ‘Exclude Weekends‘ options Technical Background Some customers have their business hours open full-time on Saturdays while Sunday is a day of rest Similarly, some countries may have a […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary When using the ‘Custom File Name‘ feature in Report Automators, introduced in Argent AT 1401-A, some customers may notice that Excel Reports are being generated as PDF files Technical Background This issue was caused by a coding error Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary Argent Reports provides new options for handling Argent Reports Graphs These options are controlled in the XML\ARGSOFT_INTERNAL_SETTINGS.XML file, under the XML Node “GRAPH_MODE“: Dynamic Generation (Default) Value: “” or “DYNAMIC” Saved Temporary Image Value: “SAVE” Embedded Image Value: “EMBED” Technical Background Dynamic Generation […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary Compliance Tables in Argent Reports now have the ability to ‘Group By‘ and ‘Sort By‘ any field Technical Background When ‘Group By‘ is used, a Group Title will appear for each grouped item – the ‘Sort By‘ is applied internally within each Group […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary ‘Previous Event Time‘ and ‘Previous Seconds Difference‘ are two new options for selectable columns in Event-based Tables and Compliance Tables Technical Background These options find the previous ‘matching‘ Event, which is defined when all included columns in the report are identical (e.g. Event […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary Different reports have different sizes – sometimes customers want to combine two or more separate “small” reports into a single page Report Groups now have the ability to control whether or not a Page Break should be included before each report Click For […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary Report Automators and override settings now allow for the ability to convert all time zones used for reports into the Server Time Zone The Server Time Zone is automatically adjusted for Daylight Savings, and is the preferred option for all reports Technical Background […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary New features in the SLA Downtime Tables of Argent Reports: Click For Full Size Group By Monitoring Group or Location Customers can now have the SLA summary represent an entire Monitoring Group, or location Values are calculated by taking the sum of the […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary Cross Reference Tables in Argent Reports now have the following columns that can be added: Alerts, Escalations, and Auto-Correction During Business Hours* Alerts, Escalations, and Auto-Correction After Business Hours* Node: Alternative IP, Location, Make, Model, Vendor, Type and Description Relator: Prerequisite Rules, Relator […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary Argent Reports now displays Argent for Hyper-V and Argent for SAP counters Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary For customers using bar graphs with the ‘Entire Range‘ time resolution, the bar graph will now show the counter labels under each bar (instead of a time value) The value will also appear above each bar (to two decimal places) Click For Full […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary The number of allowed characters in a definition name has been increased from 20 characters to 100 characters Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary A customer may notice no data in reports for particular Nodes, when data clearly exists in the database or via the GUI reports This can occur for all reports, but may be more evident in Compliance and Event-based Tables This issue is caused […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Summary Node-based Tables in Argent Reports has two new features: Show Licensed/Unlicensed Nodes Product Matrix This feature adds a new series of columns representing a matrix of Argent products and Licensed Nodes This allows customers to quickly identify servers that may be incorrectly Unlicensed […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above Date Wednesday, 25 June 2014 Summary When a Monitoring Group is renamed in the Argent AT GUI, Argent Reports does not automatically update reports that reference the Monitoring Group. Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-A or above addresses this Technical Background Every Monitoring Group has a UUID associated with it in the […]
Version Argent Reports 1407-A and above Date Friday, 27 June 2014 Summary Argent Reports now supports all versions of Windows 2012 R2 Technical Background W2012 R2 uses MDAC 6.3, which is fully supported by all Argent products Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 1407-A or above
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-B and above Date Friday, 1 Aug 2014 Summary Report Automators now allows Reports to be sent as an HTML file attachment Graph images will be embedded into the HTML using base64 encoding (supported on IE8 and above, and all versions of Firefox, Chrome, etc.) Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-B and above Date Friday, 1 Aug 2014 Summary Performance Top X Reports allow customers to quickly see the Nodes with the highest (or lowest) of any metric Here are some of the new features: Visualization Bars for Percentage Metrics This option adds a series of horizontal bars that help customers visualize […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-B and above Date Friday, 1 Aug 2014 Summary Report Groups can now be previewed within the browser, as an HTML, XLS or PDF report Technical Background Prior to this release, customers were forced to put the Report Group in a Report Automator in order to preview – this is no longer […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-B and above Date Friday, 1 Aug 2014 Summary A Monitoring Group can be shared across multiple products – what happens when a Monitoring Group has 5 Nodes that are licensed in one product, but only 2 Nodes are licensed in the other? The Cross Reference Reports now cater for this and […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-B and above Date Friday, 1 Aug 2014 Summary The Compliance Reports in Argent Reports now supports the LOG_ARCHIVE table – this is the table where all file logs, or logs that don’t match the auditing features of the Universal Compliance Relator Historically, the LOG_ARCHIVE table could be handled by the Event-based […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-B and above Date Friday, 1 Aug 2014 Summary By default, this feature is enabled – however, some customers may need to disable this feature if they are running into issues where seemingly simple Reports are taking a very long time to generate One customer has noticed that the Unicode support (denoted […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-B and above Date Friday, 1 Aug 2014 Summary A customer may notice a SLA Report shows a server with ‘No Data‘, when in fact the server does have data (and only if that data is 100% Uptime) Technical Background This is caused by a coding error, and has been corrected Resolution […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-B and above Date Friday, 1 Aug 2014 Summary If a customer starts monitoring a new server today, and if a report is generated against this server for ‘Past 30 Days‘, the SLA Report will incorrectly base the percentage on the total range of 30 days, instead of the first data point […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-B and above Date Friday, 1 Aug 2014 Summary This issue only occurs in Internet Explorer, and only occurs when accessing the Compliance Reports The persistence feature of Argent Reports may cause customers to always see this issue every time they launch Argent Reports, as it will try to take the user […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-B and above Date Friday, 1 Aug 2014 Summary Argent Reports now has PowerShell Reports – these reports allow native PowerShell scripts to be executed, with the output fashioned into a report Click For Full Size The script editor supports syntax highlighting, and Timeout in Minutes can be set (from 1 minute […]
Version Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-B Date Thursday, 11 Sep 2014 Summary When Argent Reports “Preview PDF” option is used, a new page launches with the error message: Parser Error Message: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validation cryptographic algorithms Automatic PDF Reports will not work either Click For Full Size Technical Background […]
Version Argent Reports 5.0A-1501-C or later Date Thursday, 12 Feb 2015 Summary Argent Reports now supports Argent AT 3.1A-1501 or later Argent AT 3.1A-1501 has a change in the way certain values are stored (no longer using the registry) Argent Reports now detects if the database registry values are present, and if not, it looks […]
Version Argent Reports 5.0A-1501-C or later Date Thursday, 12 Feb 2015 Summary Argent Reports has added decimal place options for each metric type for various report classes. For example, in a Performance Table, Incoming Bytes/sec can always have no decimals, while % Free Space can be set to two decimal places. This is customized within […]
Version Argent Reports 5.0A-1501-C or later Date Thursday, 12 Feb 2015 Summary Argent Reports has corrected graphs to include thousands separators in the Y-axis for graphs, and thousands separators for the Hours:Minutes:Seconds in SLA Reports Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 5.0A-1501-C or later
Version Argent Reports 5.0A-1501-C or later Date Thursday, 12 Feb 2015 Summary The ‘From 1st to End of Last Month’ time range was incorrectly excluding the last day of the month due to a coding error. This has been addressed. Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 5.0A-1501-C or later
Version Argent Reports 5.0A-1601-A and earlier Date Monday, 2 May 2016 Summary Customers may notice Table Reports generated in Argent Reports will incorrectly place data into the left most column when the following condition is met: If Time Resolution: “Entire Range” is selected, AND if any node does not contain data for a one or […]
Argent Reports 5.0A-1607-A and later Date Tue, 5 July 2016 Summary Added Argent Reports integration for Argent for MySQL, Argent for Java and Argent for XenApp Technical Background Customers will now see the full product names instead of the internal names of these products in pull-down menus Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 5.0A-1607-A or later
Argent Reports 5.0A-1607-A and later Date Tue, 5 July 2016 Summary Added Service Names for Service Rules under the “Rule: Threshold” column of Cross-Reference Reports: Technical Background The service names included in the Service Rule will be listed, along with the alerting options (Running, Not Running, Stalled, Not Installed) will be added in brackets Resolution […]
Argent Reports 5.0A-1607-A and later Date Tue, 5 July 2016 Summary SLA Reports in Argent Reports now discard SLA data points that occur during server maintenance periods Technical Background This results in a more accurate SLA report to only include unplanned outages. An optional flag exists to turn this feature off — Customers who wish […]
Version Argent Reports 5.0A-1610-B or later Date Tuesday, 8 November 2016 Summary Argent Reports now fully supports Argent for Java, Argent for MySQL, Argent for XenApp, Argent for AWS, Argent for Sybase, Argent Defender Ultra, and Argent for Storage. Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Reports 5.0A-1610-A or later