Documentation Changes Release 12.5
The following documentation updates have been made since the last release of this documentation:
Release Notes
The following documentation updates have been made since the last release of this documentation:
- New and Changed Features in r12.5—This chapter describes event correlation, incident management, compliance dashboards, improved subscription monitoring, data integrity checks, and nested category tags.
- The following Known Issues were removed as they were either fixed or no longer apply in this update:
- Custom Application Name Impact on Archive Query
Implementation Guide
The following documentation updates have been made since the last release of this documentation:
- Event Correlation—Changes to the Server Planning and Configuring Services chapters to document this new feature. The changes include information on dedicated correlation servers and server role planning, as well as configuration of correlation servers and rules
- Subscription delivery and monitoring improvements—Changes to the Configuring Services chapter to document changes to subscription configuration.
- Virtualization—Changes to the Virtualization chapter to address the change in the required parameters to deploy an OVF template.
Agent Installation Guide
The following documentation updates have been made since the last release of this documentation:
- Added the Prerequisite topic to the Installing an Agent on HP-UX Systems chapter
- Added the Installing an Agent on HP-UX Itanium Systems chapter
Administration Guide
Updates have been made to the following areas since the last release of this documentation: Services and CA Adapters, Subscription, Filters and Profiles, Queries and Reports, Event Correlation and Incident Management, and Log Storage
Affected topics include the following:
- Services and CA Adapters:
- Service Configurations—New topics covering the Correlation Service, Incident Service, and other new services.
- Subscription:
- Subscription improvement topics—New and updated topics to cover the subscription download dashboard and other new and changed features.
- On-Demand Updates—This topic updated to reflect changes in the on-demand update process.
- Filters and Profiles:
- Global and Local Filters—This existing topic and other topics updated to reflect that filters can now be set against either the Event Database or the Incident Database.
- Queries and Reports:
- How to Create a Query—This existing topic and related topics changed to reflect that queries can now be directed to either the Event Database or the Incident Database.
- Approaches to Maintaining Keyed Lists—This existing topic and related topics changed to reflect user interface changes to keyed list configuration.
- Event Correlation and Incident Management—This new chapter contains conceptual material on event correlation rules and how they create incidents, as well as information about how to manage incidents.
- Correlation Rules Tasks —This new topic and related topics contain information about correlation rules, designing and applying incident notifications, and examples of using predefined correlation rules.
- Incident Management Tasks —This new topic and related topics contain information about incidents created by event correlation, including viewing incident details.
- Log Storage:
- Data Integrity Checks—This new topic and related topics contain information about the CA Enterprise Log Manager data integrity system. The information includes how to schedule automatic checks, make checks on demand, and work with database signature keys.
API Programming Guide
The following documentation updates have been made since the last release of this documentation:
- getObject - This existing topic contains a description of the getIncidentModel command.
- getIncidentModel - This new topic contains an example of the getIncidentModel command.