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Applications Manager
Release Notes
Version: 9.0
Publication: 05/2015
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Contents
Applications Manager v9.0 Release Notes
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Getting the Latest Information
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What's New
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Active-Passive Failover
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Support for Additional Rapid Automation Agents
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Platform and Oracle Support
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Enabling/Disabling RMI Server Debug with the RMI_DEBUG Job
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Desupported Features
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Known Issue: You Cannot Retrieve a Local WSDL File for a SOAP Login Object
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Matrix
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Automation Engine
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Agents
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Applications Manager Release Notes 1
Applications Manager v9.0 Release
Notes
Automic highly recommends that you back up your Oracle data and Applications Manager file
system before upgrading due to table changes in this release. There is no rollback procedure for
Oracle data and the upgrade process does not back up your data or file system.
Please refer to support.automic.com for the most updated version of these release notes and for
information on known issues.
Getting the Latest Information
Documentation, release notes, and other information is often updated after software is released.
The table below shows where to find the most recent information for Automic software releases.
To find the most recent:
Go to:
Patch description, known bugs, and workarounds
Automic Download Center
HTML5 documentation and .pdf files for documentation and
release notes
Automic Hosted
Documentation
What's New
Active-Passive Failover
The Applications Manager Automation Engine now supports active-passive failover. A secondary
Applications Manager RMI server can be setup and run in stand-by mode (active-passive), so that in
the event that the primary Applications Manager Automation Engine goes down, the stand-by RMI
server will become the active Automation Engine. When the stand-by RMI server becomes active,
the agents will reconnect to it automatically; with the exception of the local agent. That is because
the local agent is part of the Automation Engine installation, and integrated with the specific
Automation Engine system. Therefore, in systems that require RMI server failover, it is
recommended that all jobs be setup to run on remote agents.
Support for Additional Rapid Automation Agents
Some agents that are not supported for Applications Manager v8.0 are supported for Applications
Manager v9.0. These include Web Service v3.1.0, and FTP v3.1.2. For a current list of Automation
Engine support requirements for all Rapid Automation agents, see the Rapid Automation Support
Matrix on the Automic Support site.
Platform and Oracle Support
Version 9 is the first Applications Manager release that supports Oracle 12c databases. When using
Oracle 12c database and you have an Oracle Enterprise Edition multi-tenant system or Oracle
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Standard Edition single tenant system, Applications Manager must be installed into a pluggable
database (PDB) within a container. Your DBA is responsible for creating the pluggable database.
Oracle 12c non-CDB/PDB configurations are identical to Oracle 11g databases.
Enabling/Disabling RMI Server Debug with the RMI_
DEBUG Job
You can now enable or disable RMI server debug by running the RMI_DEBUG job. Like all
Applications Manager jobs, you can request and submit RMI_DEBUG to run it ad hoc, or schedule
it. Activate or deactivate RMI server debug by setting the Enable prompt to Yes or No. The RMI_
DEBUG job is included in the RMI_DEBUG import file.
Desupported Features
The following features are desupported for Applications Manager v9.0:
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The Dashboard
AppMaster
Remote Method Extension agents
VMS agents
OS400 agents
ZOS (mainframe bridge) agents
The supported platforms for the Automation Engine and its agents change between releases.
For a list of supported platforms for the Automation Engine and agents in this release, see the
Matrix below.
Known Issue: You Cannot Retrieve a Local
WSDL File for a SOAP Login Object
You cannot retrieve a local WSDL file for a SOAP login object using the Web Service agent. This
will be fixed in Applications Manager v9.0 Service Pack 1 and a patch is available from Automic
Support.
Matrix
The platforms in the following matrix are supported for Applications Manager v9.0. For questions on
additional platforms, contact Automic Technical Support.
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Automation Engine
Operating System
Oracle Standard/Enterprise Edition
Vendor
Version
11g (11.1.0.6+)
12c Pluggable Database
Sun
Solaris 9, 10, 11
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X
HP
HP-UX 11.x Itanium
X
X
IBM
AIX 5.3+, 6.x, 7.x
X
X
Microsoft* Windows 2003, 2008, 2012
X
X
RedHat
Linux AS/ES 5.x, 6.x
X
X
Oracle
Oracle ES Linux 5.x, 6.x
X
X
SUSE
SLES 10, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0
X
X
* 64-bit Windows is supported but the code is not native 64-bit.
Notes
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Certified and supported Web Servers: Apache 1.3.9+
Certified and supported JDBC Drivers are 3.0 for Sybase, DB2, MS SQL Server
Certified and supported JRE 1.7 and 1.6
Oracle RAC supported
Agents
OS Vendor OS Version
Agent OBES
11i,12
PeopleSoft Enterprise
PeopleTools 8.4.3+
Sun
Solaris 9, 10, 11
X
X
X
HP
HP-UX 11.x Itanium
X
X
X
IBM
AIX 5.3+, 6.x, 7.x
X
X
X
Microsoft*
Windows 2003, 2008,
2012
X
X
X
RedHat
Linux AS/ES 5.x, 6.x
X
X
X
Oracle
Oracle ES Linux 5.x,
6.x
X
X
X
SUSE
SLES 10, 11
X
X
X
* 64-bit Windows is supported, but the code is not native 64-bit.