Change History

This section lists content that is new or that has changed significantly since the first release of this content. The most recent changes appear first.

For New in This Release content, see the Pulse landing page for this release.

New in Document Version 8.5.0

The following topics have been added or changed since the previous release:

• The Architecture diagram was updated.
• Software requirements and deployments were updated in Deploying Pulse Collector and Pulse.
• The step to execute ALTER DATABASE <Pulse DB> SET READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT ON; was added to Deploying the Pulse database for the Microsoft SQL Server.
• Starting Pulse was updated.
• Prerequisites and Starting Pulse were updated.
• The following Configuration Options were changed:
  • Removed the [layout-history], [parallel-processing], [thresholds], and [transport-gpb-history] sections.
  • In the [collector] section:
    • Removed the history-transport option.
  • In the [configuration-monitoring] section:
    • Added the excluded-objects-propagation-delay and remove-dynamic-object-delay options.
    • Removed the auto-detect-dynamic-metagroups, enable-differential-layout-recheck, recheck-active-layout-definition, and strict-tenant-security options.
  • In the [layout-validation] section:
    • Renamed the enable-strict-tenant-security-validation-rule option to validate-strict-tenant-security.
  • In the [limits] section:
    • Removed the max-custom-actions-per-layout, max-custom-thresholds-per-layout, max-threshold-associations-per-layout options.
  • In the [output] section:
    • Added the collector-snapshot-log-level and snapshot-log-level option.
    • Removed the cleanup-output option.
  • In the [pulse] section:
    • Added the editable_templates, install_templates, and snapshot_expire_timeout options.
    • Removed the pause_timeout option.
  • In the [scripting] section:
    • Added the stop-compute-formula-threshold-for-snapshot option.
    • Removed the cumulative-formula-script-execution-timeout, cumulative-threshold-script-execution-timeout, enable-extended-statistic-value, post-processing-script-execution-timeout, and threshold-script-execution-timeout options.
  • In the [statistics-request-handling] section:
    • Removed the optimize-statistic-requests options.
  • In the [transport-gpb-out] section:
    • Added the output-file-mode option.
    • Removed the backend-file-ext, cleanup-file-modification-age-threshold, generate-layout-info-file, and output-format options.