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lpar2rrd Changelog

What's new in lpar2rrd 7.80

Oct 18, 2023
  • The main improvements include IBM Power Systems enhancements:
  • IBM Power Systems: Totals for all servers
  • IBM Power Enterprise Pools 2.0: many enhancements
  • Linux heatmap
  • Check out our demo site for new features.
  • Our Storage, SAN and LAN Performance Monitoring Tool STOR2RRD has been also updated to v7.80.
  • XorMon:
  • XorMon is an unified application UI on the top of LPAR2RRD and STOR2RRD.
  • It provides a complete performance and mapping overview from the OS (VM) level across virtualization layers, Server, Database, Cloud, Container, SAN and Storage. It has been updated to version 7.80.
  • XorMon Next Generation (NG)
  • We are building a new generation of our infrastructure-monitoring software based on Microservice architecture, TimescaleDB, React, REST API and others.
  • New public beta has been released. Testers are welcome. Further details.
  • GA version to be released in January 2024
  • Partnership:
  • We are looking for partners (companies or individuals) for commercial distribution of our tools. Contact us for details.
  • You may not know all the benefits of our support:
  • Unlimited number of monitored devices
  • Reporter feature: unlimited number of reports with automation options
  • Ad hoc historical reporting including XLS/PDF/CSV output
  • Proxy Agent feature
  • Unlimited number of alerts

New in lpar2rrd 7.70 (Jun 28, 2023)

  • XORMON:
  • XorMon is an unified application UI on the top of LPAR2RRD and STOR2RRD.
  • It provides a complete performance and mapping overview from the OS (VM) level across virtualization layers, Server, Database, Cloud, Container, SAN and Storage. It has been updated to version 7.70.
  • XORMON NEXT GENERATION (NG):
  • We are building a new generation of our infrastructure-monitoring software based on Microservice architecture, TimescaleDB, React and others.
  • Public beta has been just released. Testers are welcome. Further details.
  • Come to meet us at VMware Explore on 6 - 9 November 2023, Barcelona
  • PARTNERSHIP:
  • We are looking for partners (companies or individuals) for commercial distribution of our tools. Contact us for details.
  • You may not know all the benefits of our support
  • Unlimited number of monitored HMC (IBM Power System)
  • Reporter feature: unlimited number of reports with automation options
  • Ad hoc historical reporting including XLS/PDF/CSV output
  • Proxy Agent feature
  • Unlimited number of alerts

New in lpar2rrd 7.60 (Feb 3, 2023)

  • XorMon:
  • XorMon is an unified application UI on the top of LPAR2RRD and STOR2RRD.
  • It provides a complete performance and mapping overview from the OS (VM) level across virtualization layers, Server, Database, Cloud, Container, SAN and Storage. It has been updated to version 7.60.
  • XorMon Next Generation (NG):
  • We are building a new generation of our infrastructure-monitoring software based on Microservice architecture, TimescaleDB, React and others. Beta release is expected at the 23rd Feb 2023. Testers are welcome. Further details.
  • Partnership:
  • We are looking for partners (companies or individuals) for commercial distribution of our tools. Contact us for details.
  • You may not know all the benefits of our support
  • Unlimited number of monitored HMC (IBM Power System)
  • Reporter feature: unlimited number of reports with automation options
  • Ad hoc historical reporting including XLS/PDF/CSV output
  • Proxy Agent feature
  • Unlimited number of alerts
  • LPAR2RRD 7.60 Enterprise edition including all benefits will be released on the 25th Feb 2023 for customers with an active support subscription.

New in lpar2rrd 7.50 (Sep 14, 2022)

  • ENHANCEMENTS:
  • Alerting:
  • ServiceNow integration
  • Jira integration
  • Option to define severity of configured alerts
  • Option to set up SMTP server manually
  • OracleDB: tablespace alerting
  • AIX / Linux: implemented alerting for disk multipath fails
  • IBM Power Systems:
  • New "Volume ID" table in Configuration, with all storage volume IDs used
  • Added new Power10 servers rPerfs into CPU Workoad Estimator
  • Added NMON-based TOP10
  • Many smaller fixes especially for REST API-based HMC access
  • VMware:
  • CPU Ready total [%] added into main VM CPU graphs
  • Added "Volume ID" column into datastore table in Configuration
  • Added provisioned and used space into VM table in Configuration
  • oVirt / RHV:
  • Support for RHV 4.5.1.3+ due to changes in the RHV API
  • New storage-capacity table grouped by VM in Configuration
  • Oracle Solaris
  • SARMON: added IOPS, Latency and Data throughput
  • SARMON: historical reporting now based on its data
  • Microsoft Windows / Hyper-V
  • Added latency for each host
  • Added latency for each disk
  • Added paging2

New in lpar2rrd 7.40 (Apr 6, 2022)

  • The main improvements are support for new technologies.
  • Support for new technologies
  • Docker:
  • Check out our LPAR2RRD demo and XorMon demo site for new features.
  • Our Storage, SAN and LAN Performance Monitoring Tool STOR2RRD has been also updated recently v7.40.
  • XorMon:
  • XorMon is an unified application UI on the top of LPAR2RRD and STOR2RRD.
  • It provides complete performance and mapping overview from the OS (VM) level across virtualization layers, SAN and storage.
  • It has been updated to version 1.0.4-1.
  • Come to meet us on Dell Technologies World at 2 - 5 May 2022, Las Vegas, USA. Arrange a meeting with us, let us know via info at xorux.com.
  • You may not know all the benefits of our support:
  • Reporter feature: unlimited number of reports with automation options
  • Ad hoc historical reporting including XLS/PDF/CSV output
  • Proxy Agent feature
  • Unlimited number of alerts
  • LPAR2RRD 7.40 Enterprise edition including all benefits will be released on the 22th Apr 2022 for customers with an active support subscription.

New in lpar2rrd 7.30 (Nov 18, 2021)

  • The main improvements are support for new technologies.
  • Support for new technologies:
  • Huawei FusionCompute
  • Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • For further details refer to release notes.
  • Download link, upgrade manual
  • Check out our LPAR2RRD demo and XorMon demo site for new features.
  • Our Storage, SAN and LAN Performance Monitoring Tool STOR2RRD has been also updated recently v7.30.
  • XorMon
  • XorMon is an unified application UI above of LPAR2RRD and STOR2RRD.
  • It provides complete performance and mapping overview from the OS (VM) level across virtualization layers, SAN and storage.
  • It has been updated to version 1.0.3-1.
  • You may not know all the benefits of our support:
  • Support with next business day response
  • Reporter feature: unlimited number of reports with automation options
  • Ad hoc historical reporting including XLS/PDF/CSV output
  • CPU Workload Estimator based on rPerf or CPW benchmark
  • Live Partition Mobility and LPAR migration support generally
  • Proxy Agent feature
  • Unlimited number of items in one Custom Group
  • Unlimited number of Oracle RAC instances
  • Unlimited number of alerts

New in lpar2rrd 7.20 (Nov 18, 2021)

  • Support for Proxmox, CloudStack and PostgreSQL Database

New in lpar2rrd 6.11 (Nov 3, 2019)

  • Brings a few fixes of v6.10 and these additional enhancements:
  • Dasboard: custom defined tabs
  • oVirt/RHV/XenServer: optimized back-end processing, it consumes now much less CPU resources
  • Solaris: LDOMs are sorted now under their CDOMs in the menu (requires Solaris OS agent 6.11)
  • New menu style

New in lpar2rrd 6.02 (Jun 20, 2019)

  • Support of VMware, oVirt/RHV, XenServer, MS Servers and Hyper-V, Solaris CDOM/LDOM.

New in lpar2rrd 4.80 (Nov 19, 2015)

  • VMware support

New in lpar2rrd 4.60 (Nov 10, 2014)

  • GUI enhancements
  • Support of new POWER8 high-end models in CPU Workload Estimator
  • NMON online grapher
  • New main configuration summary page

New in lpar2rrd 3.50 (May 30, 2013)

  • A CPU Configuration Advisor was added. It aims to provide automatic verification of CPU logical setup for all your LPARs and POOLs based on historical utilization data.

New in lpar2rrd 3.40 (Feb 19, 2013)

  • This version supports lpar renaming and much faster processing.

New in lpar2rrd 3.32 (Dec 19, 2012)

  • This version fixes two issues which appeared in 3.30.
  • Check the lpar2rrd 3.30 release notes for a manual fix of 3.30 if you already running that version.

New in lpar2rrd 3.30 (Dec 18, 2012)

  • This version enhances the CPU Workload Estimator and Active Memory Sharing support.

New in lpar2rrd 3.15 (Jun 9, 2012)

  • Changes include a CPU workload estimator.

New in lpar2rrd 3.11 (May 3, 2012)

  • This release contain fixes and enhances for "Physical and Logical cfg".

New in lpar2rrd 2.61 (Mar 30, 2010)

  • is no longer only off-line tool, since 2.59 you can do whenever refresh (via a WEB link) to get nearly "real-time" graphs
  • intended only for micro-partitioned systems with shared CPU pool
  • creates charts based on utilization data collected on HMC's/IVM's (lslparutil)
  • agent-less, no agents need to be installed on LPAR's
  • ssh-keys based access to HMC/IVM servers to get all the data, so it does not cause ANY load on monitored LPAR's
  • support of all types of LPAR's and OS'es : AIX , VIOS , Linux on Power, i5/OS on IBM Power Systems (formerly pSeries/iSeries)
  • automatically created a menu based WWW front-end for viewing charts, configuration and logs
  • physical (HW) and logical configuration inventory of all managed systems and their lpars (once a day)
  • showing 100 last changes in configuration and 100 last changes in the state of all managed systems and their lpars
  • showing total memory usage for each managed systems
  • LAN income/outcome traffic of IVE/HEA adapters and error packets
  • simple to install, configure and use (initial install & configuration together with supporting tools like Apache/Perl/SSH should not take more than half an hour!)
  • no any additional management when any change/adding/remove/rename of LPAR or managed system (the tool discovers everything automatically for all configured HMC's/IVM's)
  • default graphs are created 1 year back if historical utilization data on HMC/IVM is available (note the HMC keeps 60sec sample rate data for 2 days, hourly data for last 2 months and daily data for last 2 years if utilization data collection is enabled)
  • for viewing older data than 1 year you have to use Historical reports if the data is already present in LPAR2RRD
  • initially the tool loads all historical data already collected on the HMC/IVM, after that the tool loads only new data every hour (depends on cron schedule), saves it in RRDTool databases and re-draws the graphs
  • it can be hosted on any *NIX (theoretically even WIN) platform, it just needs a web server, SSH, Perl and RRDTool installed. (check prerequisites below)
  • by default is created 4 kind of graphs for each LPAR, CPU shared pool and memory usage. First 3 (last day, week and month) are based on 60secs averages, yearly chart is based on daily averages, all provided by the HMC

New in lpar2rrd 2.59 (Feb 26, 2010)

  • Added "real-time" refresh of lpar/pool graphs for HMC utilization sample rates < 1 hour, however the refresh is not automatic, but manual (a "refresh" link in the web).

New in lpar2rrd 2.49 (Nov 24, 2009)

  • was added LPAR search option
  • was added export to CSV in historical graphs
  • lpar2rrd error log is now shown in web
  • LPAR2RRD configuration (lpar2rrd.cfg) is also shown inweb
  • minor fixies for lpar a managed names with a space inside its names (thx to Krzysztof Szczepura)
  • fixed an issue with aggregated graphs on linux platform, when rrdtool crashed (thx to Elvio Prattico)
  • new set of colors for aggregated graphs
  • excluded managed systems are now excluded even from displaing (before they were excluded only from getting new data)
  • when there is corrupted rrttool file then it is automatically removed
  • fixed a bug when it did not show "LPARs aggregated" menu for servers with many lpars
  • LPARs in aggregared graphs are now alphabetically sorted