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Increase monitored components with confidence

The new subscription based feature in Active Console and Gateway version GA2011.2 allows Active Consoles to be configured so that only updates to active views, charts or dashboards are sent between Gateways and the Active Console. Enabling this feature allows operations teams to increase their number of monitored components with confidence. Only relevant updates will be passed to the console, providing greater efficiency and a reduction in network bandwidth utilisation. To use this new feature both the Gateway and Active Console will need to be running version GA2011.2 or higher.

New NetProbes capability

New Geneos feature, Self Announcing NetProbes allow an Agent known as ‘NetProbe Service’ to follow an application as it is moved from one server to another. In Floating mode, a NetProbe and Managed Entity are configured on the Gateway via the Gateway Setup Editor, but the NetProbe configuration doesn't contain any connection details. The NetProbe can be configured via its own XML configuration file that contains the connection details of the Gateway. On starting, the NetProbe will inform the Gateway of its hostname and listen port, and the Gateway will then connect as normal. If the NetProbe service moves to a different server, the old service will stop communicating and the new service will publish its details to the gateway.

Updates to Active Console

You can now stop the Active Console from minimising to the system tray via the System Tray section of the Workspace settings. This is particularly useful in Windows 7 where the system tray and task bar functionality has changed. The Active Console also now has the ability to create user defined dockables called list views, whose content is populated by paths. They can contain anything from all snoozed items to managed variables assigned to you, or critical and warning cells within your system.

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