Thank you to our community members who spent many hours hammering the 4.1 beta release over the past few weeks and got us to this point of a solid GA release. Notable changes and additions include:

HQ Web Services API Updates – The web services API will include a set of command line tools for performing administration and configuration tasks. You will be able to use command line tools to access and update information about inventory, metric templates, alerts, escalations, users, and roles.

MySQL Product Plugin Updates – The MySQL plugin has been optimized to use a minimal amount of queries to capture all performance stats, thereby reducing the impact monitoring could have on overall performance. Replication monitoring has also been added.

Audit Logger – Events around changes to alerts will now be written to the database with an indication of the user that performed the action. Auditing will also optionally be configured to write to a log file.

Support for Private Groups – Users that are authorized to create groups may designate a group to be “private”.  Private groups are invisible to other users, including admin users.  You will be able to share a private group by associating it with a role.

Additional Alert Acknowledge and Fix Options – New options on the Alert Center page will allow you to acknowledge and fix selected alerts, and to annotate acknowledgments.  A new option in the Recent Alerts portlet will allow you to acknowledge Alerts as well as fix them.

Search Returns Usernames – The Search button in upper right corner of each page in user interface now returns users, as well as resources.

SUPPORT IMPROVEMENTS

New HQ Health Database Queries – The Database tab on the HQ Health page will have new queries, one that returns a count of stalled escalations, and two that show database locks and activity.  The new queries are troubleshooting aids for Hyperic support.

HQ Health Database Actions – Actions will be available on the Database tab of the HQ Health page. A purge auto-inventory queue action will allow you to delete the contents of the queue, in the event that you are having trouble importing resources. Another new action will allow you to purge stalled escalations that were detected with the stalled escalation query.

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