BixData 2.3 Released

Submitted by bixdata on May 2, 2006 - 17:12.

BixData 2.3 is now available.

Some of the highlights include:

  • FreeBSD 6.0 support for BixAgent and BixDesktop
  • Improved Network Topology Viewer and Situation Room
  • Better SQL Database support and built-in support for PostgreSQL
  • Important fixes

BixData 2.3 Release Notes

Important Fixes

  • Better Windows NT support for BixAgent, also fixed dynamic .dll problem on Windows NT
  • Fixed bug during adding and removing Notifications on Linux
  • Fixed bug in BixAgent with CPU load during process list on certain Windows releases
  • Minor Reports and graphs fixes

Known Issues

  • BixServer and BixAgent version reports 2.2, it is in fact 2.3

BixDesktop

  • Max OS X Beta of BixDesktop
  • Improved performance in Situation room when adding and removing 100s of hosts
  • Improved network topology viewer
  • Improved server status
  • Limiting ports in network scan to valid ranges
  • Fixed Notification History range initialization
  • Notification History filter now works on subitems
  • Renamed [Clear] to [Wipe] in history
  • Made notifications less prone to sync issues
  • After changing tag icons machinelist will update automatically
  • Split tags into separate lists
  • Changed time control to be integer based

BixAgent

  • FreeBSD 6 Support (Beta)

BixServer

  • now using runserver.sh to start BixServer
  • FreeBSD 6 Support
  • Better database backend support for MySQL and PostgreSQL on Linux
  • Pre-configured support for PostgreSQL on Linux
  • Improved server status