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Thank you for using Embarcadero 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, and DB2 UDB LUW databases in real time. Embarcadero 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

SQL Text Capture in a 24/7 Environment

Continued Stabilization of Performance Center

Improvements to User Interface

Controls Added to the Threshold Setup and Criterias

Microsoft Vista Compatibility

Release Notes

System Requirements

DBMS Support

Known Issues

Bug Fixes

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What's New in Version 2.7

SQL Text Capture in a 24/7 Environment

SQL Text capture is now available in a 24/7 environment. The SQL Capture is triggered by a threshold violation. When such a violation occurs, a SQL Capture session is triggered and collects performance-related data for the SQL running currently on the datasource that fired the threshold.

Continued Stabilization of Performance Center

Behind-the-scenes work was done to improve the stablization of the application.

Improvements to User Interface

There have been numerous user-interface improvements that make Performance Center easier and faster to use. Some of the major improvements are:

Controls Added to the Threshold Setup and Criterias

The threshold setup and criteria now uses Alerts as the notification driver. When a threshold is violated the alert triggers an email when a threshold is first violated, and then again when the violation changes, or if the severity of the violation changes. You can now choose to receive continuous notifications during the threshold violation by specifying a reminder. Or you can disable reminders so you are only notified when threshold violations start, stop, or change.

Microsoft Vista Compatibility

Performance Center is now compatible with both Microsoft® Vista Aero™ and Visa Basic.

Release Notes

System Requirements

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

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

DBMS Support

Performance Center supports the following platforms:

Known Issues

Bug Fixes

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 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 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 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 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 Performance Center.
5600 All All Getting 0 datasources when using
Bugs Fixed in Version 2.6.1
Bug DBMS Version Description
4101 All All DATASOURCE_REGISTRATION: Registered new DS not displayed until 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 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.

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