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Change History of Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback

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Change History of Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback

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  • Product version
Release date Agent version What’s new
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-IF0011
February
2020
01.00.05.11
Enhance the agent log retention period: sn agent log (ksn_trace*) is configured to keep 10 files (ksn_trace0.log to ksn_trace9.log) and the size of each log file is configured as 10M.

Support playback by Firefox 68.5.0 ESR.

Synthetic Playback Agent 8.1.4 IF11 has addressed the following vulnerabilities:
CVE-2019-17008
CVE-2019-17010
CVE-2019-17012
CVE-2019-17017
CVE-2019-17022
CVE-2019-17024
ICAM 2019.4.0
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-IF0010
December
2019
01.00.05.10
Support proxy with user / password
Support playback by Firefox 68.2.0 ESR
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-IF0009
September
2019
01.00.05.09
More commands support (such as "for each", improvement for command "while")
Kill the hanging firefox in code to  improve the performance
Support playback by Firefox 68.0.1 ESR
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-IF0008
July
2019
01.00.05.08
Proxy setting enhancement
Support playback by Firefox 60.8.0ESR
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-IF0007
June
2019
01.00.05.07
Support playback by Firefox 60.6.2 ESR
Support more commands such as executeAsyncScript , storeWindowHandle
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-IF0006
April
2019
01.00.05.06
Support .side script recorded by Selenium IDE 3.2.X 3.3.X or 3.5.X
Support playback by Firefox 60.5.1 ESR
Support more commands such as wait commands / flow control / linkText locator type
APM V8.1.4.0.7
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-IF0005
March 2019 01.00.05.05
  • Selenium IDE versions 3.2X and 3.3.X are now supported; scripts and test suites are saved in .side format rather than the .html format used by older versions of Selenium IDE. If you have existing .html scripts, you can still use them. In some instances, you might want to edit the .html scripts or re-record them in the new .side format.
  • APAR 136500: IJ13047 SYNTHETIC PLAYBACK AGENT KEEPS CRASHING RANDOMLY
  • Please read the following for Limitation:
V8.1.4.0.4 July 2018 01.00.05.02
  • General improvements.
V8.1.4.0.3 April 2018 01.00.05.02
  • General improvements.
V8.1.4 August 2017 01.00.05.00
  • New filtering feature for synthetic transactions.
V8.1.3.2 April 2017 01.00.04.00
  • New filtering feature for synthetic transactions.
V8.1.3.1 September 2016 01.00.03.00
  • You can prevent passwords that are stored in synthetic scripts from displaying in the Synthetic Script Manager.
V8.1.3 April 2016 01.00.02.00
  • New agent available.

Original Publication Date

03 April 2019

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Document Information

Modified date:
04 March 2020

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ibm10879711