Foxhound 5 Update 1 Is Now Available

Foxhound is a front-line database monitor dedicated to SAP^® SQL Anywhere^® . . .

• Foxhound runs all the time, in production.
• It keeps watch over your databases and sends alerts when there are problems.
• It keeps a record of database and connection-level performance data in its own SQL Anywhere database.
• It lets you scroll and query all the data when you need to fix a problem.

 Foxhound Version 5 Update 1 is Now Available 

Most of the changes in Update 1 are bug fixes with a few minor improvements . . .

. . . but "minor" is in the eye of the beholder; here's a selection:

• Bug Fix: Foxhound Monitor sampling is stopped if dbsrv -k CollectStatistics = No
• Behavior Change: FOXHOUND5UPGRADE=ALL does not set connection flags when upgrading from Foxhound 4, to save time.
• Bug Fix: Repeated "Permission denied" messages are suppressed when SPs: NNN.
• Bug Fix: OFSS CPU statistics are correctly adjusted for connections making heavy use of intra-query parallelism.
• Bug Fix: The Block Reason and Locked Row Query fields are now displayed for OFSS subject databases.
• Usability: The connections section is sorted by "Current Req Status" in Alert #23 Blocked connections emails.
• Bug Fix: Bogus "Item ... already exists" exceptions are no longer displayed for duplicate target databases.
• Bug Fix: Foxhound automatically schedules a Mini-Backup to be performed after certain user actions.
• Bug Fix: Foxhound no longer re-issues Alerts immediately after Cancelled messages when active alerts are disabled.
• Bug Fix: The Display Schema process no longer leaves multiple inactive connections open on the target database.
• Bug Fix: Block Reason now correctly shows "Position Transaction Phantom lock" for phantom row position locks.
• Bug Fix: Block Reason now correctly shows "Schema Transaction Shared lock" for schema locks.
• Behavior Change: Foxhound performance is improved by examining fewer locks when a connection is blocked.
• Bug Fix: The AutoDrop #6 Locks message no longer contains incorrect values.
• Bug Fix: The Monitor Options page correctly handles disconnected databases.
• Bug Fix: The rroad_recalculate_flags() procedure correctly changes the Conn Flags Count column on the Peaks row.
• Bug Fix: FOXHOUND5UPGRADE=OPTIONS is assumed when an invalid value is specified, rather than ALL.
• Bug Fix: Alert #33 and Alert #34 are handled properly when they are enabled and disabled separately.
• Bug Fix: The page title now includes "Default Settings" when the Monitor Option page is showing the Default Settings.
• Bug Fix: Bogus Alert #1 messages are no longer shown when a large Foxhound database is started.

 What's New in Foxhound 5     What's New in Update 1 

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