Spotlight® on Sybase ASE
Version 2.5.5
Release Notes
January 20, 2010
Spotlight on Sybase ASE is a monitoring and diagnostic tool for Sybase Administrators. Its unique user interface provides you with an intuitive, visual representation of database activity. Graphical flows illustrate the movement of information throughout the Adaptive Server. Icons and contextual drilldowns provide key statistics and metrics.
Spotlight on Sybase ASE 2.5.5 now supports the following:
The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in this release of Spotlight on Sybase ASE.
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Feature |
Resolved Issue |
Defect ID |
| General | ||
| When you select the Show System Process checkbox in one connection it no longer selects the checkbox for the other connections. | ST51289 | |
| Hiding or moving the SPID column in the User Activity page no longer causes an error when data is refreshed. | ST56945 | |
| The Release Notes and Getting Started files are now installed locally. You can access them from Start | All Programs | Quest Software | Spotlight. | ST57505 | |
| Spotlight on Sybase no longer fails to reconnect after an ASE connection is lost. | ST57697 | |
| The Status column in the Server Configuration page now has a column heading. | ST57698 | |
| If you restore the default settings when viewing the ASE error log, the display no longer displays "loading ..." indefinitely. It now redisplays the ASE error log. | ST57700 | |
| Spotlight on Sybase now qualifies object names to avoid ambiguous references in case insensitive databases. | ST61741 | |
| The nonsasetup.exe now sets the configuration parameters for the Adaptive Server monitoring table when needed. | ST61740 | |
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Spotlight on Sybase no longer unexpectedly disconnects from 15.0.3 Windows
services, which was caused by a Sybase ASE bug.
Note: If you experience the same problem, apply the latest Sybase ASE patch to fix the issue. |
ST62116 | |
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Spotlight on Sybase now detects if a temporary table exists before deleting it, which removes unnecessary errors from the debug log. |
ST65391 | |
| Installation | You will no longer
receive a "Class not registered" error when you install Spotlight for Sybase on Windows 2000 with service pack 4 and without rollup 1.
Note: You may receive the "Class not registered" error when you install Spotlight for Sybase on Windows 7. You can download and install the Microsoft Agent to solve this problem. |
ST57135 |
| The installation file names now follow a standard naming convention: ProductName_VersionNumber. | ST65065 | |
The settings.ini file is now installed in the User Profile folder at this location: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Quest Software\sosyb |
ST66993 |
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of Spotlight on Sybase ASE release.
|
Feature |
Known Issue |
Defect ID |
| Install and Uninstall |
When Spotlight is uninstalled, any registry keys that were created by the application are not removed. See the Installation chapter of the Getting Started Guide for instructions on removing the Spotlight registry keys. |
ST69853 |
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You will receive the following errors when doing a silent installation of Spotlight on Windows Vista when UAC is enabled after following these steps:
1. Install Spotlight on Sybase ASE using the msi installer. 2. Uninstall Spotlight on Sybase ASE. 3. Install Spotlight on Sybase ASE again using the msi installer.
"This functionality is provided by the 'Spotlight Welcome' plug-in which is not installed on the system. Please contact Quest Software for information about obtaining the required plug-ins."
"No Spotlight plug-ins are installed on your system. Please contact Quest Software for information about obtaining and installing Spotlight plug-ins." Workaround: 1. Uninstall Spotlight on Sybase ASE again. 2. Disable the User Access Control (UAC) option in Windows Vista. 3. Install Spotlight on Sybase ASE again using the msi installer. |
ST56049 |
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| General | System processes are filtered out of the SQL Activity grid. As a result, SQL processes are also filtered out if the SQL was run prior to system monitoring and if the user is no longer logged in. | N/A |
| The Total Wait Counts column under User Waits Activity resets and reports a negative count number for the "Spotlight" process ID. | ST50555 | |
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If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7, you receive the
error "A Runtime Error has occurred. Do you wish to Debug?" when you access
the "What's this" help. Workaround: Click No and the help page will appear. |
ST56479 | |
| If you click Welcome to Spotlight | Spotlight on the Web | Spotlight® on Sybase ASE when using Windows Vista, you will receive an error window and Spotlight will close. | ST57515 |
Before installing Spotlight for Sybase ASE, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
| Platform | 233 MHZ minimum |
| Memory | 128 MB of RAM minimum; 256 MB of RAM recommended |
| Hard Disk Space | 50MB |
| Monitor | 1280 x 1024 or higher Note: You should also set the display to use the 64K color palette (65536 colors) or higher. |
| Sound Card and Speakers | Use to sound an alert when a threshold is reached. |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 with Update Rollup 1 or later Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 or later Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows 2008 Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 |
| Database Client | The installation program will install a database client if one is not installed. |
| Database Server | Adaptive Server 11.9.2 or later |
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