Presentation of the new features of Performance Vision version 3.3

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WHAT’S NEW
IN VERSION 3.3?

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PERFORMANCE VISION VERSION 3.3
System Upgrade
New Features & Improvements

3. Performance
Vision 3.3
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SYSTEM UPGRADE

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OPERATING SYSTEM UPGRADE
 Has to be a transparent operation for
most users
 Represent a tremendous amount of
internal work

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UPGRADE OS TO CURRENT STABLE RELEASE
Squeeze Debian
6.0
2011
Wheezy
Debian 7.0
2013
Jessie
Debian 8.0
April 2015
Lenny
Debian 5.0
2009

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MAJOR BENEFITS
Linux Kernel
Bugs Corrections
Updated
SSL Libraries
VMware tools
availability

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DATA PRESERVED FOR ALMOST ALL USERS
 User data is preserved by the upgrade!
 Except for:
 Old SPV 500 collectors with a single hard disk

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A SIMPLE TWO-STEPS PROCESS
Upgrade to
3.2.99 version
(ftp)
Restart
Upgrade to
3.3.x version
(http)
 Preparatory Stage for all probes
 Backup configuration (optional)
 Launch migration to 3.3 version
 First on each pollers
 Then finish with the central collector
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MIGRATION EXAMPLE

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DOWNLOAD THE UPGRADE FILE
 Get the upgrade 3.2.99 upgrade on our partner’s portal:
http://www.securactive.net/en/support

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MIGRATE PROBES TO PREPARATORY STAGE
 Use your favorite FTP client to:
upload the migration package on all your probes
 You need:
 Probes IPs
 Account: ftp
 Password: refer to documentation
Wait (can be few minutes) until the update process starts…

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PREPARATORY STAGE UPGRADE
 Wait until the probe reboots automatically
or click on the restart button
 The probe will then restart

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REVIEW THE PROBE LIST
 Collector: OK - 3.2.99 (preparatory stage)
 Poller: Not Ok
Must be upgraded via FTP before next step

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UPGRADE POLLERS FIRST TO 3.3
Once all probes are in the 3.2.99 version, start upgrading Pollers to 3.3
 Use “Download” button to backup configuration files
 Click on “Start Upgrade” to launch the upgrade process to the 3.3
version on each poller

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POLLER IS UPGRADING TO 3.3 VERSION
 During upgrade process,
the poller state is: « Down »

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POLLER UPGRADE TO 3.3 VERSION: COMPLETED
 When the upgrade is completed,
the poller state is: « Done »

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FINISH 3.3 MIGRATION WITH THE COLLECTOR
 Once all pollers are in the 3.3 version,
you can start upgrading the Collector
This page will be unavailable during
the Collector upgrade. It can take more than 15 minutes!

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CONGRATULATIONS, 3.3 UPDATE COMPLETED!
 Congratulations!
Your probe(s) is (are) now in 3.3

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Vision 3.3
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NEW FEATURES
& IMPROVEMENTS

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SORT BCA BY CRITICALITY
BCA can be sorted by criticality level
 BCA with most alerting events are shown first
 One Red > Any Oranges
 One Orange > Any Greens

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TOP DATABASE
Display the most requested databases
 Per server or for all servers

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ERROR RATE IN SQL PAGES
Display the error rate (in percentage)
 Display, sort, filter…

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IMPROVED CUSTOM FILTERS
Examples:
 ip=172.*.*.* and protostack='*TDS*' and sql.error.count > 1
 http.response.server = 'apache' and vlan = 10 and device > 100
 cifs.error.count > 0 and srt > 5ms and protostack = 'IPv6'
 icmp.type = 11 and icmp.err.zone.clt = 'Local'
 0win.count.clt > 0 and bandw > 1MB and diffserv > 0
Power of customized filters has been more than doubled!
 3.2 version: ~ 230 fields
 3.3 version: ~ 500 fields
For more information: User Guide > Appendix > Custom
Filters

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MPLS SUPPORT
The sniffer now natively supports parsing of:
 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) protocol
 Activate / Inactivate in the Configuration section

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BETTER HANDLING OF TCP KEEPALIVES
Better handling of TCP KeepAlive packets
 More accurate Server Response Times to reflect
application’s real workload
Impact on SRT / EURT metrics

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IMPROVED LDAP(S) CONNECTIVITY
Improved LDAP(S) connectivity
 Configuration 〉 Settings 〉 Users
 Supports non anonymous binding

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TRANSACTIONAL CHANGES IN PULSAR
System configuration with Pulsar is now transactional
 Pulsar 〉 changes
 Pulsar 〉 commit
 Pulsar 〉 rollback
 Prompt warns when there are uncommitted changes

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VPN WITH PROXY AUTHENTICATION
VPN connectivity now supports Proxy Authentication
 Pulsar 〉 config 〉 support
 Support access is mandatory for the best service

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ENABLE/DISABLE SUPPORT ACCESS AT BOOT TIME
Setup support access: manually or at boot time
 Pulsar 〉 support start|stop|enable|disable
 Support access is mandatory for the best service

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CHANGE FTP ACCOUNT PASSWORD
Pulsar administrator can change the ftp account password
 Pulsar 〉 passwd ftp
 Account is used only for new licenses or version updates

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LIST/RE-ORDER NETWORK INTERFACES
Review and re-order network interfaces
 Pulsar 〉 edit_interfaces removed
 Pulsar 〉 interfaces List mac address interfaces
 Pulsar 〉 config interfaces Reorder interfaces
 Pulsar 〉 network Up, down, IPv4, IPv6

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MONITORING GRAPHS
Monitor Performance Vision’s activity
 Configuration 〉 Information 〉 Monitoring Graphs
 Helps support team to have best efficiency
demo

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HTTPS WARNING
For security reasons, HTTP will be disabled in a future release
 3.3 should be the last version to accept HTTP connections
 Please, use HTTPS instead of HTTP!

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VERSION 3.3: IMPACTS SUMMARY
 Major impacts compared to 3.2:
 Full operating system upgrade
 Data preserved except on some old SPV 500 collectors
 SRT/EURT metrics
Two steps upgrade!
 Upgrade to preparatory stage, and then to 3.3
 Update should take few minutes per probe

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SOMETHING BIG IS COMING
 Q4 2015 Something BIG is coming

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YOU'RE READY TO GO, ENJOY VERSION 3.3!

37. What’s New
in Version 3.3?
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