============================================================================ AST RESEARCH, INC. SOFTWARE BULLETIN # 0223B 1-11-96 ============================================================================ Percepta Management Console Manhattan P/V Production Release: 1.20 Available: September, 1995 Revision: A Part Number: Description File Name 911579-037 Diskette 1 of 2 11579035.EXE 911579-038 Diskette 2 of 2 11579036.EXE This is an update to the Percepta Management Console Manhattan P/V. Files 11579037.EXE and 11579038.EXE can be found on AST's BBS (817) 230-6850. AST's BBS supports modem speeds up to 28.8k bps. The above file will also be posted on: CompuServe Go ASTSUPPORT AST Worldwide Web Site http://www.ast.com This release is intended to produce two Percepta diskettes to be installed from Windows. The diskettes include the executable for the Manhattan P and V series systems only. Disk 1 contains compressed files for the distributed DLLs and a setup program. Disk 2 contains the main executable for the Manhattan P/V system. This 1.20 version of Percepta is intended to add new features and to fix problems with the previous release, version 1.12. PROBLEMS RESOLVED A problem was fixed which produced intermittent General Protection Faults on the Windows Management Console. This problem only occurred when a Percepta window was closed quickly before all the data in that window was updated. The horizontal scrolling problem was fixed. New Features Alert handling The Alert Handler was improved by simplifying the selections for alert handling. The alert setup window was improved to allow simple selections to enable any combination of error logging and alert pop-up windows. System board setup screen In the system board setup screen a new option was added to display the CD boot option. Related Host Agents This new management console software is best used in combination with the latest Percepta 1.21 Host Agents software (AST p/n 911580-036) which should be installed on every AST server that you want to monitor. For additional information on the Percepta Host Agents, see Software Bulletin # 0222 on AST's BBS and other On-Line! forums. Production Release: 1.12 Available: March, 1995 This 1.12 version of Percepta is intended to add new features and to fix problems with the previous release, version 1.10. This software is intended for the Manhattan P and V series systems only. A separate part number is used for other server products. PROBLEMS RESOLVED Alert Handling The alert setup window was improved to prevent text from being clipped on some low resolution screens. Disk Array Information This release fixes a problem with attempting to view system drive information when the system has no disk array. Serial and Parallel Port Information This release fixes several problems with display and setting the configuration for the serial and parallel ports. Disk Drive Information This release fixes a problem with the capacity display of 2 Gigabyte disk drives and HBA information when multiple HBAs of the same type are installed. Improved Help File This release includes a new help file which has additional subjects for new screens. It also is improved by providing information on the alert handler. New Features AST PCI Disk Array This release includes support for the PCI disk array. A new Instrumented Object file called ASTDFS must be loaded on the server. Plug-n-Play Information A new Instrumented Object module in ASTSYS provides Plug-n-Play information from the server. The Plug-n-Play information is included with the card survey information. Dynamic Window Sizing This version of Percepta allows windows to be resized, minimized, maximized, moved and other standard window manipulation tasks expected of typical windows. Errata A rare intermittent General Protection fault occurs with Windows where the Management Console software is running. If you close and open windows too rapidly you may experience this problem. No damage will occur and no side effects can be expected. You may need to restart Windows to continue, but the application will stop. Production Release: 1.10 Available: September, 1994 Revision: A This release is intended to produce two Percepta diskettes to be installed from Windows. The diskettes include the executable for the Manhattan P and V series systems only. This version of Percepta is for Production release of Percepta for the Manhattan P and V series systems and it is intended for Manhattan P and V series only. Other Percepta products and part numbers are used for other servers. Alert Handling The alert handling software was moved from the Percepta executable to the Server Launcher screen. This centralizes alert handling to prevent multiple alert Pop-Up screens from each copy of the Percepta executable. Now one alert from one server results in one alert box. This release also fixes several problems with logging errors to the error log file. You can now view the error log without exiting Percepta. Disk Array Information This release fixes a problem with viewing information about multiple Disk Array controllers. Previously some Disk Array HBA information could not be viewed. Community Names This release fixed a problem with the community name selection. If you select the security option from the Quick Facts window, you can change the community names, as normal. These names now take effect immediately. Previously you had to exit Percepta before these new community names would take effect. New Features Alerts This version of Percepta has the alert handler in the launcher window. Previously it was contained in the Percepta executable which required starting a Percepta view. This allows you to set up your alert handling options before you launch Percepta. The dialog box was improved to give the user better control of the alert options. Dynamic Graphic Update An improvement was added to some of the window graphics to accurately represent what is actually installed in a particular system. For instance in the drive bay view, the drives that are actually present in you system are displayed in the picture. Similarly the actual cards present in the system appear in the card cage view. Previously the graphics indicated a fully configured system. Production Release: 1.04 Available: August, 1994 Revision: A This release is intended to produce two Percepta diskettes to be installed from windows. The diskettes include the executable for the Manhattan P and V series systems only. This 1.04 version of Percepta is for Pre-Production use on Manhattan P and V series systems. Platforms and hardware support This version of Percepta is intended for Manhattan P and V series only. Other Percepta products and part numbers are used for other servers. New Features Alerts This version of Percepta processes alerts received from the Percepta agents. You can get Pop-up boxes, log alerts to a log file or ignore alerts. Improved User Interface. Some buttons and menu selections have been removed from earlier releases for other platforms. New user interface options are included. Errata Please see the "readme" file which can be viewed with Percepta.