Release Notes
Release 12.1.0.6
E52794-03
June 2014
Oracle Business Transaction Management allows you to define and monitor transactions, and understand the business context of each transaction, including the transaction's consumers and business payload. You can also set performance targets for each transaction and monitor performance relative to those targets. You can trigger alert notifications when performance targets are breached or unusual conditions are met.
This document provides information about the changes introduced with release 12.1.0.6 of Business Transaction Management. It is recommended that you review this document before installing the product or upgrading to this version of the product. This document contains the following sections:
This release includes the following new features:
SOA_B2B – Monitors SOA B2B (Business to business) adapters of SOA applications.
Out of band discovery - enables dynamic discovery period for when an observer attempts to discover new components. For more information on this feature, enabled in the advanced settings for observers, see the Business Transaction Management Online Help.
SOA 12.1.3 - Business Transaction Management is now compatible with Oracle SOA Suite Release 12.1.3.
SOA_REST adapter -Monitors SOA REST adapters of SOA applications (SOA Release 12.1.3 only)
OSB 12c - Business Transaction Management is now compatible with Oracle Service Bus Release 12c. Install the WebLogic 12 observer to use this feature.
The following problems have been observed:
BTM does not support JVM Diagnostics if the server does not use FQDN
You can only access JVM Diagnostics from BTM if the machines where JVMD is installed are known to the Enterprise Manager instance by their fully qualified domain names (FQDN). If a machine has been discovered/registered by the EM in its short form (for example server1 instead of server1.oracle.com) then you will not be able to access JVM Diagnostics for that specific server.
SOA Suite 11g Release 11.1.1.6 bug impacting observer
CR 13895209: INCORRECT WSDL FOR SOA PS5 WEB SERVICES. User Description: In SOA Release 11.1.1.6, if WSDLs of different SOA web services import the same parent WSDL, a query WSDL of individual service might contain all endpoints from different services with the same address location. This affects BTM in that SOA web services importing the same parent WSDL might show more endpoints than they are supposed to have. Sites impacted by this problem should either download the SOA Release 11.1.1.6 patch or upgrade to Release 11.1.1.7 to resolve this issue.
If you are upgrading to release 12.1.0.6 of Business Transaction Management, and you use the observer for JavaEE in WebLogic 12 server, you need to reinstall the observer as described in the Installing Observer Libraries on WebLogic chapter of the Business Transaction Management Installation Guide.
If you are upgrading to release 12.1.0.6 of Business Transaction Management, and you use the JMS probe, you need to remove and recreate all JMS Topic endpoints where the endpoint genre is OSB_Proxy and the endpoint URI is similar to the following:
jms://host:port/%ConnectionFactoryJNDIName%/%TopicJNDIName%
After upgrading to release 12.1.0.6, you can create a script which contains all the necessary commands to remove the endpoints as follows
For Windows, enter the following command to create the script:
btmcli generateRemoveOsbDeprecatedEpScript -s sphereUrl -u userName:password -scriptLanguage bat -o outputFileName
For other platforms, enter the following command to create the script:
btmcli generateRemoveOsbDeprecatedEpScript -s sphereUrl -u userName:password -scriptLanguage sh -o outputFileName
where:
sphereUrl is the URL for the main server
username is the username of the btmAdmin
password is the password of the btmAdmin
outputFileName is the file name of the script you want to create
The following bugs have been fixed in this release:
Table 1 Bugs Fixed in this Release
| Bug Number | Description |
|---|---|
|
16589209 |
TRANSACTION METRICS FOR "STARTED/COMPLETED TRANSACTION RATE" ARE WRONG |
|
16709922 |
MESSAGE LOG BUNDLE URN:AGENT.SERVICE.AP_LOGDEST_17B13F6...ENCOUNTERED UNEXPECTED EXCEPTION |
|
17432225 |
BTM: CANNOT LOCATE THE EP ID FOR THE SERVICE... WITH BINDING NULL/NULL, MEAS. IGNORED |
|
17529399 |
CHANGED OBSERVER POLICY TO NOT SUMMARIZE JDBC - NOW GETTING NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION |
|
17603641 |
FAILS TO DISCOVER OSB PROXY AND BUSINESS SERVICES WITH MESSAGE TRAFFIC |
|
17760139 |
YOU NO LONGER SEE JDBC DETAILS WHEN VIEWING TRANSACTIONS |
|
17812593 |
CAN NOT DISAMBIGUATE END-POINTS BECAUSE THERE ARE MULTIPLE ENDPOINTS |
|
18019119 |
JAVA.UTIL.CONCURRENT.CONCURRENTHASHMAP CONSUMES 1.6GB OF BTM HEAP SPACE |
|
18238167 |
NPE AFTER TOGGLING JDBC SUMMARY MODE |
|
18269049 |
UNABLE TO EDIT "FAULT MONITORING" SETTING WHEN TRANSACTION NAME CONTAINS A SPACE |
|
18470760 |
OSB OBSERVER NOT CORRECTLY DISCOVERING/MONITORING ENDPOINTS BEHIND LOAD BALANCER |
|
18477204 |
MESSAGE LOGGING DATABASE POLICY IS STUCK FOREVER IN AN UNAPPLIED STATE |
|
18615069 |
IOEXCEPTION2 UPDATING SERVLETRESPONSE FOR SERVLETRESPONSEMESSAGE: BROKEN PIPE |
|
18685836 |
ENDPOINTS WITH DIFFERENT INTERFACES FOR SAME SERVICE CAUSE PROBLEMS WITH THE UI |
|
18692593 |
SOA WSA THROWS EXCEPTION: CANNOT PROCESS DUE TO NULL PARAMETER |
|
18720806 |
SETTINGS OF WEBLOGIC FRONTEND HOST/PORT CAUSES BTM TO GENERATE INCORRECT URL |
|
18770741 |
APP DATA FROM OBSERVER EXCEEDS LIMITS OF SPHEREDB.AMBPT_SERVICE.QUALIFIEDNAME |
|
18934050 |
BTM OSB OBSERVER: NPE IN DEFAULTREQUESTHEADER WITH TUXEDOTRANSPORT PROVIDER |
|
ER16562801 |
ALLOW FOR MISMATCH OF SERVICE NAMES BETWEEN SOA OBSERVER AND OSB |
|
ER17271706 |
REQUEST FOR A BTM CLI COMMAND TO PURGE ALL RUNTIME METRICS |
|
ER17300720 |
BTM'S WEBLOGIC PRINCIPAL NAME MAPPINGS NEED TO BE MORE FLEXIBLE |
|
ER17590432 |
BTM OBSERVER UNABLE TO HANDLE LONG DELAY IN REVERSE LOOK UP - WLS STUCK THREADS |
|
ER18008346 |
CAPTURE SSL-ID FROM OSB CONTEXT TO BE USED AS CONSUMER IDENTIFICATION |
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Oracle Business Transaction Management Release Notes, Release 12.1.0.6 for all platforms
E52794-03
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