Overview of Monitoring Console Upgrades

The following sections describe general aspects of Monitoring Console that impact upgrading to Java ES 5 Update 1 :

• About Release 5U1 Monitoring Console

• Release 5U1 Upgrade Roadmap

• Monitoring Console Data

• Monitoring Console Compatibility Issues

• Monitoring Console Dependencies

About Release 5U1 Monitoring Console

Monitoring Console Web GUI is an application in SJWC. Release 5U1 Monitoring Console is a maintenance release that fixes bugs in Java ES 5 (Release 5) Monitoring Console and adds a few new features. See the Monitoring Console Release Notes for details. Monitoring Console was first introduced into Java ES with Release 5.

Release 5U1 Upgrade Roadmap

The following table shows the supported Monitoring Console upgrade paths to Java ES 5 Update 1.

Table 13–1 Upgrade Paths to Java ES 5 Monitoring Console 1.0 u1

Java ES Release	Monitoring Console Release	General Approach	Reconfiguration Required
Release 5	Monitoring Console 1.0	Maintenance upgrade. Apply patches.	None

Monitoring Console Data

The following table shows the type of data that could be impacted by an upgrade of Monitoring Console software.

Table 13–2 Monitoring Console Data Usage

Type of Data	Location	Usage
Master Agent configuration data	MonitoringConsoleConfig-base\masteragent.properties	Configuration of Monitoring Framework Master Agent.
Console node list	MonitoringConsoleConfig-base\nodelist	List of the hosts displayed in the console.
Console user preferences	MonitoringConsoleData-base\userPrefs/master_agent	User preferences
Monitoring rules	MonitoringConsoleData-base\persistence/threshold/ma	Monitoring rules

Monitoring Console Compatibility Issues

Java ES 5 Update 1 Monitoring Console is backward compatible with the Release 5 version.

Monitoring Console Dependencies

Monitoring Console has dependency on a number of shared components Java ES components (see Table 1–8).