AggreGate Blog http://blog.aggregate.tibbo.com New-gen device management Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:45:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Customer-driver development http://blog.aggregate.tibbo.com/2012/04/02/customer-driver-development/ http://blog.aggregate.tibbo.com/2012/04/02/customer-driver-development/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:45:02 +0000 admin http://blog.aggregate.tibbo.com/?p=225 Similarly to test-driven development, customer-driven development assumes that most features are requested by the clients. That’s the way we’re approaching AggreGate v5. Large ongoing projects force us to add many minor features and improvements that cannot shine when being written to the news list. However, tons of these small things make large projects really “work” and solve their business tasks.

We’re going to update our Case Studies section soon, check back later!

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The trial version of AggreGate 4.5 is available in the downloads section. Give it a try!

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  • Native failover clustering that doesn’t require any third-party software or high-availability technologies built into operating system
  • Distributed architecture helping to group multiple servers divided into several layers to ensure unlimited scalability
  • Support for grouping rows and fields in all Data Tables
  • A large library of dynamic vector symbols designed to build SCADA and building automation displays
  • Statistical Process Control module that stores long-term time series data in a fast and efficient Round-Robin Database (RRD)
  • WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) device driver
  • Several hundreds of smaller improvements and bugfixes
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Row and field grouping

Field grouping

The new editor will be available in v4.43.

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Get the latest release in the downloads section!

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When adding an SNMP device account, this algorithm quickly detects MIBs the device supports and allows operator to select ones to be monitored. After that, only OIDs defined in the selected MIBs will be polled.

However, if you want to obtain all SNMP variables provided by device, you always fall back to original SNMP walk method.

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The new release delivers over 200 improvements and fixes for AggreGate core and different modules, so we suggest to upgrade your installation.

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  • Animated
  • Non-modal
  • Stickable
  • Groupable
  • Color-coded to reflect alert severity
  • Auto-hidden after a certain time

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