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 8.5.1

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

• The following Configuration Options were updated:
  • The default value of max-objects-per-layout in the [limits] section was changed to 100.
  • New options were added to the new [parallel-processing] section.
  • max-stat-data-queue-size was added to the [statistic-request-handling] section.
  • worker-thread-count was added to the [transport-file] section.
  • exchange was added to the [transport-rabbitmq] section.
  • exchange-prefix was updated in the [transport-rabbitmq] section.

New in Document Version 8.5.010

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

• Deploying Pulse Collector and Pulse was updated to include:
  • Software Requirements:
    • Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Cluster
    • Oracle 12c RAC
    • GAX release 8.5.000.68
  • Deploying RabbitMQ was added to provide an option for Quick Widget Updates.
  • The following privileges in Configuring User Access were changed:
    • Pulse Read Layout renamed Pulse View Dashboard.
    • Pulse Update Layout renamed Pulse Edit Widget Display .
    • Pulse Write Layout renamed Pulse Manage Widgets.
    • Pulse Write Template renamed Pulse Manage Templates and Default Dashboard.
    • Pulse Read All Layouts and Pulse Write Snapshot added.
  • amqp-client-3.3.4.jar, spring-amqp-1.3.6.RELEASE.jar, spring-rabbit-1.3.5.RELEASE.jar, and spring-jetty-1.1.0.RELEASE.jar added to the list of files to manually add if the installation procedure fails to find the GAX installation.

• Pulse Restful Web Service API was added.

• The following Configuration Options were changed:
  • The [transport-gpb-out] section was renamed [transport-file].
  • In the [collector] section, removed the output-transport option.
  • In the [statistic-request-handling] section, removed the data-flow-timeout and data-flow-check-interval.
  • In the [transport-gpb-out] section, removed the transport-type option.
  • The [transport-rabbitmq] section was added.

• The following Application Files were added:
  • Upgrade scripts: pulse_upgrade_08.5.001.02_mssql.sql, pulse_upgrade_08.5.001.02_oracle.sql, and pulse_upgrade_08.5.001.02_postgres.sql
  • JAR files: amqp-client-3.3.4.jar, spring-amqp-1.3.6.RELEASE.jar, spring-rabbit-1.3.5.RELEASE.jar, and spring-jetty-1.1.0.RELEASE.jar

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.