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1arm4 -- History of visible changes.
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3Copyright (C) 2005-2006, David Carter <dcarter@arm4.org>
4See the end for copying conditions.
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6Please send arm4 bug reports to dcarter@arm4.org or use our
7online system at arm4.org
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9Version 0.4
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11The primary purpose of this release was to add an XMLRPC
12reporting interface that could be used by web management tools,
13but along the way many core deficiencies were uncovered and fixed.
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15The structure of the ARM library and daemon have changed with
16all of the database accesses having moved from the library to
17the daemon. This results in more IPC calls, but greatly improves
18the stability of the agent.
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20The daemon now contains an XMLRPC interface that is being used to
21develop a web management interface. This interface should not be
22considered stable and is very likely to change as development continues.
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24Some of the options to the daemon have changed in name and/or function,
25so please read the documentation before using.
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27Tickets closed in this release:
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2913      Berkeley DB permission errors cause database corruption
3012      Add XMLRPC based reporting interface
3115      API calls should accept empty ids
3219      Need to exit gracefully when daemon is unable to create shared regions
3321      The -r option to arm4_daemon doesn't remove the message queue
3416      arm_register_application accepts blank names and names with trailing blanks
3517      The -r option to arm4_daemon doesn't remove the databases as advertised
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37Known Issues
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39The agent doesn't currently support user defined metrics. This is
40targeted for the next release.
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42In certain cases, program crashes involving programs linked with libarm4
43may leave an open unnamed message queue. This will need to be removed
44manually, or it will linger until the next reboot.
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