This release includes a number of functional improvements, such as an improved
References Report and greatly improved performance of configuration
retrieval.
Improvements
- The References Report – ReferencesReport.xsl – now correctly treats built-in
subset types (such as Logic Domain, which is subset of Setting) and
convenience types (such as Agent Instance, Agent Type or Task Property) by taking their multiple identities into account. Items with
multiple identities now appear in the list as many times as they have identities, each identity
sorted alphabetically by ID. At each appearance in the list, the item's other
identities are given, along with its dependents and dependencies (as usual).
- Added logging information for monitoring the performance of lock and unlock operations in
large Service Optimization server farms.
- Added the ability to deploy individual User Settings. The new behaviour
is controlled by a new parameter Product.W6.Objects.IncludeUserDefinedUserSettings, which defaults to false. User Setting templates are always included in a
retrieval but this new parameter controls whether retrieval should also
include individual User Settings.
Note: This feature should be used with caution.
User Settings are not really suitable for
transportation and cannot be
interpreted by
Xoom – that is, they are
retrieved and
deployed
in their raw form. Nevertheless, we have added this capability to satisfy a few limited
customer requests and have decided to make it generally available.
- Added the ability to include two types of transactional information from the Setting
Collection – Agent status and Agent triggers – that would ordinarily be
excluded during deployment. This behaviour is controlled by two new parameters – Product.W6.Objects.IncludeAgentsStatusSettings and Product.W6.Objects.IncludeAgentsTriggersSettings – both of which
default to false.
Note: The need to enable this functionality is
limited to advanced automation cases where the monitoring of the triggering and running of
Agents is required, and would not normally be useful. By default,
Settings Migration Tool excludes
these settings from
deployment, even if they appear in the
XoomXML being
deployed.
- Increased the information that the AutoCapture tool gathers in a corpus, allowing
the resulting corpora to be more broadly useful. As a result, running AutoCapture
takes somewhat longer than before.
- Significant improvement in retrieval with run time halved in best cases.