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Published: December 3, 2010

Thank you for using Embarcadero DB Performance Center, an enterprise DBMS monitoring and performance management system that enables the proactive and reactive monitoring, diagnosis, and management of multiple Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase ASE, and DB2 UDB LUW databases in real time. Embarcadero DB Performance Center is equipped with intelligent diagnostics and expertly designed tuning guidelines; including performance threshold violation detection, alarms, notifications, and powerful reporting mechanisms, all intended to help pinpoint and solve every performance problem you face.

What's New in Version 2.7.3

Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008

Web client support for Firefox and Chrome

Support for IBM DB2 LUW 9.7 and Sybase ASE 15.5

New built-in message logging

Release Notes

System Requirements

DBMS Support

Known Issues

Bug Fixes

Additional Resources

Licensing Your Embarcadero Product

Embarcadero Technologies Product Support

Embarcadero Technologies Technical Support

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What's New in Version 2.7.3

Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008

DB Performance Center can now be installed and run on Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) and Server 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit), including Server 2008R2. See Known Issues below for special instructions regarding Oracle connectivity on 64-bit systems.

Web client support for Firefox and Chrome

The web client now works with Mozilla Firefox 3.x and Google Chrome 7, in addition to Internet Explorer 7 and 8. There are no known issues with the web client under the Opera 10 browser, but it is not yet officially supported.

Support for IBM DB2 LUW 9.7 and Sybase ASE 15.5

DB Performance Center has been validated against IBM DB2 LUW 9.7 and Sybase ASE 15.5 for monitoring.

New built-in message logging

DB Performance Center error message component has been rewritten/improved. Logging now uses an internal tool, and message logs are available through the web client. The logging level is configurable with a new parameter in the Server Options dialog.

Release Notes

System Requirements

The following are the minimum hardware and system requirements to run DB Performance Center:

The following are the minimum hardware and system requirements to run DB Performance Center Client:

DBMS Support

DB Performance Center supports the following platforms:

Known Issues

Bug Fixes

Bugs Fixed in Version 2.7.3
Bug DBMS Version Description
5854 All All An error is displayed when the user opens the Operating System page for AIX OS.
5915 DB2, Oracle All [Regression] Web Client - for DB2 and Oracle the majority of the tables have a column added so the values doesn't correspond anymore with the column header.
5923 Sybase All WEB_CLIENT: Devices under Space screen are overlapped when there are many devices.
5944 DB2 All Login failure, deployment appears to have failed due to DB2s DPF configuration
5977 Sybase 15 SPACE_PAGE: Sybase database size not correct when database has 8k pagesize.
5993 Sybase 12.5,15 sp_perfcntr_primary returning Arithmetic overflow error for Sybase v12.5 & v15 datasource.
5994 SQL Server 2000 TS: MSSQL2000 - Arithmetic overflow errors when running 'sp_perfcntr_primary'.
5999 SQL Server 2008 Deployment failed for MSSQL 2008 (in 2000 compatibility mode) datasource registration.
6001 SQL Server 2005 Arithmetic overflow when populating session details on MS SQL Server 2005
6003 Oracle All Bufferpool usage query (part of primary stored proc) consumes too much CPU
Bugs Fixed in Version 2.7.2
Bug DBMS Version Description
5916 All All [Regression] Cannot schedule a report in the future if the Start Time is earlier than the system time.
5925 Sybase All Datasource registration drop-down menu is missing Sybase datasources even though SQL.ini and all environmental variables exist for Sybase client.
5931 SQLServer All Contention Vital Signs - Number of Deadlocks statistic is incorrect.
5935 All All Frequent ping Alerts causing DBAs to be awakened at night although DS is OK.
5937 Oracle All CPU goes up from 5% to about 40% when the perfcntr_refresh_primary is run.
5951 Oracle All Oracle Statspack Help contains two missing links.
5953 Oracle All Change the users waiting query for Oracle 10g and 11g.
Bugs Fixed in Version 2.7.1
Bug DBMS Version Description
5621 All All Web client displaying corrupt SQL Server version - should be 2000.
5728 Sybase All REPORTS: Report end time not correct - graph is always four hours earlier than specified time.
5742 All All Datasource Homepage graphs not correctly reflecting statistic values.
5804 All All OS_Monitoring - Linux OS - Processor time incorrectly indicates 114.00% and 1218.00%.
5805 Sybase All OS_Monitoring - Linux OS - Modify Conflicts value incorrectly indicates 158.00%.
5806 All All Closing PC Client causes multiple Application errors.
5853 All All If a Scheduled Task with same name does exist, that report can be overwritten or renamed instead of cancelling the Report creation..
5874 Oracle All The Oracle Rollback Contention Ratio is always at 100%.
5878 All All When registering a datasource through Start -> Programs -> Performance Center -> Register Datasource on a brand new repository, this doesn't work.
5885 All All OS_Monitoring: I/O Devices all zero (SAN in use).
5886 All All OS_Monitoring: Disk space free - file system device names should use mount name.
5887 All All OS_Monitoring: Network - Loopback values are exponential numbers.
5888 All All OS_Monitoring: Network values - too many decimal places.
5892 All All Report: Change title "Worst Databases" report to "Worst Datasources".
Bugs Fixed in Version 2.7
Bug DBMS Version Description
574 All All Manage with DBArtisan not functioning when DBArtisan is not running.
589 Oracle All PC 196 BUG - The customer's Oracle datasources take a long time for the data to get populated. Sometimes it is an hour or more after starting up the DB Performance Center Client.
637 All All Would like ability to avoid duplicate email notifications.
1972 All All Would like to be able to get a notification when an alert has been cleared.
2289 SQL Server All DB Performance Center is generating blocks on a production server.
2809 All All Customer is having issues sending notifications to Tivoli, which in turn sends information to their notification system.
4099 All All OS_MONITORING: Linux OS - Processor time is 10600.00%.
4100 All All OS_MONITORING: Linux OS - CPU Utilization time at 1600% and 9000%.
4102 All All REPORTS: Unable to run reports due to baseline date discrepancy.
4120 Sybase All Web client - datasource page not updated since datasource was disabled and re-enabled.
4121 All All INSTALL: Down datasource being incorrectly reflected as "up and connected".
4148 SQL Server All INSTALL: Have to manually restart DB Performance Center after installation to successfully connect to Repository.
4156 Sybase All HOME_PAGE: Sybase "Large I/O hit rate" value is incorrect.
4817 All All DB Performance Center shuts down frequently.
5623 All All User was forwarded email message from EPC indicating a licensing issue - data appears to be lost and the PC service restarts.
5719 All All OS_Monitoring - Linux OS: Processor time incorrectly indicates 4600.00%.
5720 Sybase All Contention page shows several statistics > 100%.
Bugs Fixed in Version 2.6.2
Bug DBMS Version Description
4093 All All Getting an error "Exception caught: Number: -2147467259 Source: Description LastDllError()" during the installation of DB Performance Center.
5600 All All Getting 0 datasources when using a trial license
Bugs Fixed in Version 2.6.1
Bug DBMS Version Description
4101 All All DATASOURCE_REGISTRATION: Registered new DS not displayed until DB Performance Center is restarted.
4205 All All No scroll bar appears in Web Client when there are many data sources and the Web Client is maximized.
4801 All All OS Monitoring continues after datasource is disabled.
4953 All All Chart graph from previous Historical report used when new report is generated.
4954 All All Export Report options not available in 2.5.2 Historical Reports.
5077 All All Cannot add periods to Enterprise Database Availability Comparison to Baseline report.
4254 Oracle 10g ALERTS: Deadlock violated threshold of 0 with a value of 3.28947368421053E-03.
4774 Oracle 10g Statistic "Free memory" SQL not correct for Oracle 10 sga_target - returns error.
4792 Sybase 12.5 WEB_CLIENT: Graphs are not automatically refreshed.
4795 Sybase 12.5 WEB_CLIENT: All values/graphs seem to increase all the time.
Bugs Fixed in Version 2.6
Bug DBMS Version Description
4110 All All Home Page: Error "[DATAABS-3092] Unable to acquire statistic value for stat id".
4179 All All CLNTSERV and CLTRTER errors when right-clicking datasource and selecting threshold.
3241 All All Web Client crashes every night - have to restart Apache and DB Performance Center.
3715 DB2 V9 PC250 3509: No data is being stored in the Repository database.
4558 Oracle All Getting an error when trying to register an Oracle database "Failed to initialize OCI Layer".
4217 Oracle All Contention Health Index always shows 0% on all datasources.
3368 Oracle All DATASOURCE: Many CLTRTER-3106 & CLTRTER-3118 data conversion errors.
3369 Oracle All Error SFTTREE-3025 when attempting to drill down into Memory, I/O, and Users tabs.
2178 SQL Server All Stored Procedures getting overwritten constantly.
4134 SQL Server All Client is taking an hour or more to start and display in a large monitoring environment of a 100 plus datasources.
2112 SQL Server All Proc Plan Hit Ratio and Adhoc SQL Hit Ratio are incorrectly showing a NULL.
2177 SQL Server All REQ-4019 Cannot deploy the objects to datasource.

Additional Resources

Licensing Your Embarcadero Technologies Product

All Embarcadero Technologies products include a 14-day trial period. To continue using the product without interruption, we recommend that you license it as soon as possible. See the steps outlined below to license DB Performance Center. If you have not yet purchased your Embarcadero Technologies product, contact [email protected], or [email protected] and [email protected] for sales in the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions, respectively.

Licensing DB Performance Center

To license the product, take the following steps:
  1. You can install the DB Performance Center Server and Client or only install the DB Performance Center Client using the MSI installation.
  2. During installation of the DB Performance Center Server, you will be prompted to register a valid serial number.
    NOTE: To register DB Performance Center, you need a valid serial number and an active Embarcadero Developer Network (EDN) account. This also applies to the Trial version of DB Performance Center.
  3. Enter the Serial Number and the EDN account number into the correct fields in the DB Performance Center Server Registration dialog and click Register.
  4. If you purchased a DB Performance Center Server license with 50 datasource registrations, you will be able to launch the client from the final page of the installer (or from the start menu at Start > Programs > Embarcadero DB Performance Center 2.7.3 > Performance Center) and begin working with DB Performance Center.
  5. If you have purchased a datasource registration add-on, you must register it separately in the License Manager:
    1. From the DB Performance Center client (running on the same machine as the server), open the About... dialog from the Help menu.
    2. From the Embarcadero Product License Manager dialog select Serial and then click Add to enter the valid serial number for the data source add-on. The newly added serial number is listed on the Unregistered Serial Numbers node.
    3. Expand the Unregistered Numbers node, right-click on the newly entered serial number, and select Register.
    4. The Embarcadero Product Registration dialog appears. Enter the correct DN account to register the serial number for the server.

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