The CA Performance Management team invites you to download, install, and test the CA Performance Management 2.8 Sprint 4 Kit. This Sprint Kit reflects work demonstrated on March 10th, March 31st, and April 26th, 2016.
The CA Performance Management 2.8 Sprint 4 Kit includes the following new features:
- Simplified and more consistent Business Hours
- Greater flexibility within Scorecard, Combo Trend/Table, and Combo Gauge/Table views
- More options for out of the box Interface, IPSLA, and QoS views
- Improvements to the vSwitch Overview dashboard and vSwitch context pages
The Sprint 4 Kit also includes the following new features from prior Sprints:
- Ability to sync Spectrum GCs of interfaces to PC groups
- Option to encrypt traffic between DA and DCs
- Improvements to vSwitch context pages
- Ability to publish apps and custom content to CAPC
- Ability to leverage On-Demand reports within Dashboards using Dynamic context
- Ability to sync device life cycle states from Spectrum to CA Performance Management
- Automatic APM agent installation to support health monitoring of PM deployments
- Easier Dashboard group navigation through improved group path breadcrumbs
- More consistent and industry standard units of measure in CA Performance Center
- charts and tables
- Improved column labeling in multi-metric family tables
- Easier to build OpenAPI queries with dynamic result set limits in QueryBuilder
Downloading the Sprint 4 Kit
We are piloting a new way to provide CA Performance Management Sprint Kits to those of you in the IM Pre-Release Community who are interested in downloading kits and testing them in a development environment. Some of you may already be aware of CA’s validation platform validate.ca.com. The CA Performance Management 2.8 Sprint 4 Kit is available via the CA Performance Management 2.8 project on validate.ca.com.
To join the CA Performance Management 2.8 project on validate.ca.com and get access to the project and the Sprint 4 Kit, use the following link. If you are already a member of validate.ca.com, this link will work for you too. NOTE: If you joined the CA Performance Management 2.8 project on validate.ca.com previously (e.g. to download the Sprint 2 or Sprint 3 kit), skip Step 1 (you do not need to join the project again). Start with Step 2: "Accessing the CA Performance Management 2.8 Project After Initial Registration".
Just like with sprint kits posted on Cloud Commons or the Marketplace in the past, by joining the IM Pre-Release Community you have signed the CA Pre-Release agreement and are bound by that agreement. Kits are provided for your use only, and in non-production environments only. When joining the CA Performance Management 2.8 project on validate.ca.com here is what you can expect:
1. Join the Project – Do this only once
- Click this link: http://validate.ca.com/callout/?callid=119D4178EBEA4FA180C369DA88B1D4B7
- When asked for a username and password, use the same username and password as you use to access Customer Support Online.
- If you are not already a member of the validate.ca.com community, you will be asked to complete the user registration process. The form asks for some information about your location. The only required element is to specify the country in which you are located.
- You will be asked to electronically sign the Pre-Release Testing Agreement by entering your e-mail address as listed in the section just above the field where you digitally sign.
- You will be asked to fill out a Project Registration Survey. Our Product Management team will be thankful for information about your company, role, and interest in Sprint Kits.
- You will see a Welcome screen displayed. There will be a button at the bottom that you can click to acknowledge the Welcome screen, at which your point you will see the details of the CA Performance Management 2.8 validation project.
2. Accessing the CA Performance Management 2.8 Project After Initial Registration
- Go to validate.ca.com.
- You will see CA Performance Management 2.8 listed under “My Projects”. Click on the link for the project.
3. Access the Sprint Kit
- Once within the CA Performance Management 2.8 validation project, click on “End of Sprint Kits”, under Resources.
- Click on “CA PM 2.8 Sprint 4 Kit" to access the download instructions for the Sprint 4 Kit.
Feedback and Questions
Please post feedback and questions about your experience with Sprint Kits to the IM Pre-Release Community.
Issues with Registering for the CA Performance Management 2.8 Project on validate.ca.com
If you encounter issues registering for the CA Performance Management 2.8 project on validate.ca.com, please contact us at Team-CAPerformanceManagementTeam@ca.com. When you can, please include screen shots to document the issue you are reporting.
We look forward to your feedback on new capabilities in the CA Performance Management 2.8 Sprint 4 kit!