Change History of Monitoring Agent for Internet Service Monitoring

• Added support for Windows Server 2022 (Datacenter and Standard editions)
• Aha! idea ITMAPM-I-68: Implemented APM ISM performance issue
• APAR - IJ44739: Fixed the issue for Internet Service Monitoring Agent Configuration user interface when APM Server 8.1.4 Interim Fix 13 is applied.

• Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0 on x86_64 Operating System
• Upgraded the Log4j to version 2.19.0
• Fixed the following defect:
  • Defect 142272: Bad data is displayed for Radius Monitor on Linux platform

• Added support for SHA 256, SHA 512, AES 256, AES 192 and other authentication and privacy protocols in the SNMP monitor.

• Added fix for vulnerability reported against Log4j library under CVE-2021-4104. As a part of solution log4j has been upgraded to version 2.17.0.

V8.1.4.0.14

December 2020

08.20.12.00

• Added support to enable creation of data validation conditions based on MIB names from the selected OID group in the SNMP profile. After upgrading the agent to 8.1.4.0.14 version, you need to deploy any one profile to make this functionality work properly.
• Porting v6 APAR IJ26672 in APM: ISM - https monitor - Receiving response [HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request] when urls in configuration have # character.

V8.1.4.0.13

September 2020

08.20.09.00

• RFE 142342:  Added support for having URL length up to 2048 characters for HTTP and HTTPS protocols.
• Porting v6 APAR IJ26330 in APM: ISM 7.4 HTTP Monitor does not follow redirect to HTTPS URL - gives "302- Bad Status from server - Failed to Break Apart URL" Error.
• Porting v6 APAR IJ26216 in APM: ISM 7.4 HTTP/HTTPS monitor with content check (Regexp) and 303 HTTP return code fails.
• Porting v6 APAR IJ26216 in APM: ISM 7.4 HTTPS URL monitoring with redirection gives "Content check fails - return code 302 - SSL Handshake failed" error.

V8.1.4.0.12

June 2020

08.20.06.00

• Added support for profileUpgrade tool for windows platform.
• RFE 136554: Two standalone utilities, Properties Migration and Profile Migration have been made available on Drupal Tech note site for migrating Monitor properties and Internet Services profiles respectively from Legacy version of ISM agent 2.4 and ITM to APM version. These utilities are supported with ISM agent version 8.1.4.0.12 onward.

V8.1.4.0.11

March 2020

08.20.03.00

• Added support for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 on x86-64 (64 bit) platform.
• Enhanced the configuration panel to have Active and Description fields for every monitor element listed in profile edit dialog box.
•  Added Activate and Deactivate buttons on profile edit grid, so that user can activate/deactivate multiple monitor elements at a time.
• Enhanced the delete functionality in profile edit dialog box so that user can delete multiple monitor elements at a time.
• APAR IJ23087:No data available from Internet Service Monitoring agent

V8.1.4.0.10

December 2019

08.19.12.00

• RFE 118387: HTTPS monitor now supports SNI enabled Web Servers.
• RFE 136517: HTTP and HTTPS monitor now support ampersand in URLs and support for Danish characters is provided in REGEX field of HTTP and HTTPS monitors.
• RFE 104769: Modified ism_startup.sh to prevent stopping of  non ISM processes.
• Provided functionality of activating/deactivating monitor elements.
• Provided support for editing default settings under the Data Validation tab for HTTP, HTTPS and DNS monitors.

V8.1.4.0.9

September 2019

08.19.09.00

• Added support for RHEL8  on x86-64 (64bit).
• Added support for IBM Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus from agent side.
• Provided functionality of Addition/deletion of monitor elements from existing profile.
• Provided profile rename functionality.

V8.1.4.0.8

June 2019

08.19.06.00

• Added support for SAA monitor.
• Added support for ILMT Tag.

V8.1.4.0.7

March 2019

08.19.03.00

• Added support for LDAP, NTP, NNTP, SOAP, SNMP, SIP, RTSP, RPING, RADIUS and TFTP monitors.
• Added support for Windows 2008 R2 server OS and Windows server 2019.

V8.1.4.0.6

December 2018

07.04.00.05

• Added Support for Windows 64-bit and Linux 64-bit platforms.

V8.1.4.0.5

September 2018

07.04.00.04

• Added SaaS support.
• Edit functionality for the Internet Service Monitoring Agent is enhanced. All the monitors that have configurable parameters can be edited.

V8.1.4.0.4

July 2018
(On premises only)

07.04.00.03

• New agent available in the Base Extension Pack.
• The Internet Service Monitoring offers to determine whether a particular service is performing adequately, identify problem areas and report service performance measured against Service Level agreements. Internet Service Monitoring works by emulating the actions of a real user. It regularly polls or tests Internet services to check their status and performance.
• Added support for DHCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, ICMP, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, TCTPPORT, TRANSX monitors.