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Server AIX Agent Release Notes

Latest agent version: Server AIX v1.4.18​


2026-11-09

v1.4.18

New Added support for regex capture values ($1, $2, etc.) in process group names.

New Added agent activation information for the transition to Category v2.

New Added transmission of preventive inspection metering information for servers with a registered preventive inspection license.

Fixed Fixed settings in whatap.conf being ignored when the value contains an = character.

2026-10-21

v1.4.17

New Added the ability to set the collection interval for each Category v2 collection item.

Fixed Fixed the agent failing to start when housekeeping.enabled=false is set.

  • Fixed the process remaining after the service is stopped with the same setting.

Fixed Applied fixes from static code analysis.

  • Improved configuration file handling.
  • Improved error handling in log monitoring.

Fixed Improved handling of the task_timeout setting.

  • Fixed data not being collected when task_timeout is set to 0.
  • Fixed the task_timeout setting not being applied to infra_swap collection.

Fixed Error messages in the agent_event category are now sent as fields instead of tags.

Fixed Added the usage of the most-used file system (pUsedMax) and its mount path (mountName) to the infra_disk category.

2026-09-30

v1.4.16

New Added remote agent stop and restart from OPM.

Fixed Fixed the agent restarting indefinitely after a housekeeping restart.

Fixed Fixed the previous process remaining after an agent restart (stopsrc, startsrc) and sending duplicate data under the same oid.

Fixed Fixed collection commands and user scripts inheriting the collection server session socket.

Fixed Improved privilege dropping when a cronjob execution user is specified.

  • Supplementary groups now follow the target user.
  • Fixed the job running with root privileges when uid or gid was 0.

Fixed Fixed memory usage showing as 0 when memory information collection failed to initialize.

  • Falls back to perfstat values until the first successful svmon collection.
  • Periodic collection continues even if the initial collection fails, and the failure is written to the agent log.

2026-09-04

v1.4.15

Fixed Improved physical link down logs being written to errpt while collecting AIX NIC information.

  • Added link down exception handling through ENTSTAT_MODE.
  • nic.exclude: Specifies NICs to exclude from collection, separated by commas (,).

Fixed Added the os.parameter.custom option.

  • Specify multiple parameters separated by commas (,).

2026-08-19

v1.4.14

New Added an option to exclude mount points from server_disk and infra_filesystem collection.

  • filesystem.exclude.pattern: Specifies the mount points to exclude, using a regular expression.

New Added inspection integration logic.

  • Supports registering an inspection project with the inspection.license option.
  • Separated the data transmission paths for inspection and cronjob.
  • Added inspection pcode information to server_inventory.

Fixed Improved infra_os_parameter category collection.

Fixed Improved cronjob row_id handling.

  • Fixed the value being passed as a string.
  • Fixed duplicate hash values when sending data across multiple rows.

Fixed Added error handling for duplicate cronjob script names.

Fixed Added strftime format parsing for file names in file monitoring event settings.

Fixed Improved the agent patch feature.

2026-08-05

v1.4.13

New Added an option to adjust the housekeeping agent restart time in minutes.

  • housekeeping.hour: default 2
  • housekeeping.minute: default 0

Fixed Fixed the infra_os_parameter collection interval.

  • Changed from 5 minutes to 1 hour.

Fixed Fixed an issue where changing a cronjob setting refreshed the entire interval condition.

Fixed Fixed an issue where the agent restarted because lspv and lsvg took too long to run on systems with many disks.

2026-07-23

v1.4.12

Fixed Improved categoryv2 metrics.

  • Added new categories.
    • infra_os_parameter: OS parameters. Use the os.parameter.custom option to collect additional parameters beyond the defaults (comma-separated).
  • Improved existing categories.
    • infra_filesystem: Now provides NFS filesystem server information and full ZFS dataset paths.
    • infra_process_topn: Improved process environment variable collection. Use the process.topn.envkeys option to specify environment variables to collect (up to 5).
    • infra_nic_info: Improved IP/duplex collection.

Fixed Added a ver tag to folding (recType: 2) data.

  • Prevents unfolding failures caused by field spec changes from category improvements.

Fixed Added a row_id tag when creating a cronjob custom category.

Fixed Strengthened logging for network errors and agent crash cases.

2026-07-13

v1.4.11

New Added an option to specify the user that runs cronjob.

New Added support for Windows-style cronjob schedule options.

  • Runs a job periodically on a specific day and time — daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.

New When using the cronjob folding option, the key (@id) is now generated automatically based on the specified column.

Fixed Improved the infra_process_group custom option.

  • Added data for event processing.
  • Explicitly returns data (count = 0) when no matching information exists.

Fixed Improved settings sync for file keyword, Windows event, and file watch alert configurations.

  • If settings changed while the agent was stopped, they now sync automatically on startup.

Fixed Added hostname and osType information to settings sync requests.

Fixed Changed the pk0 generation rule for cronjob results saved to kvTable.

  • Improved to be based on the specified fields, consistent with tagCount.

2026-06-18

v1.4.10

Fixed Fixed agent patch failure case via OPM

  • WHATAP_HOME environment variable not recognized when installation path was changed, causing patch failure
  • Missing whatap-updater service registration

Fixed Added infra_process_group custom field

  • Field separator for entries created via the procgroup option

Fixed Changed infra_zpool_perf read/write collection unit

  • KiB/s → Byte/s

Fixed Changed infra_kernel queue metrics collection unit

  • count/s → count

Fixed Removed infra_zfs_perf category

  • Unified into infra_zpool_perf

2026-05-26

v1.4.9

New Added new categories and metrics for categoryv2.

New Added custom option support for infra_process_group.

  • Option format: procgrop_[gropuid]=[groupName]@@[user]@@[pattern]@@[except pattern]
  • UI support is planned.

New Added uptime information support in server_inventory.

Fixed Added support for multi-character, Unicode, and tab characters as Cronjob delimiters.

2026-04-16

v1.4.8

New Added support for agent patch via OPM.

Fixed Fixed an issue where External IP was displayed incorrectly in the server inventory.

2026-02-10

v1.4.7

New Added Operation Manager integration support

New Added Cronjob feature

New Added file monitoring event feature

2025-09-05

v1.4.6

Fixed Fixed an issue where the AIX errpt redirect option did not work after modification

2025-05-23

v1.4.5

New Added an option to redirect AIX errpt system log file (for log alert usage)

Fixed Fixed CPU usage mismatch when AIX type is Shared-SMT

Fixed Added timeout handling when disk information collection takes too long

2025-04-23

v1.4.4

Fixed Fixed whatap.conf update error

Fixed Added automatic agent restart function when the server is rebooted

2025-03-24

v1.4.3

Fixed Fixed timeout issue when collecting FileSystem information

2025-03-13

v1.4.2

Fixed Fixed an issue where Korean input was not possible in oname and config settings

Fixed Fixed data type error occurring in categoryv2

2025-02-13

v1.4.1

Changed Improved the agent CPU usage.

Fixed Fixed the error that occurs when any text exceeds the ASCII code range.

Fixed Fixed the lspv command's parsing error.

Fixed Fixed the command termination method when an external command hang occurs.

2025-02-05

v1.4.0

Changed Improved the version compatibility with support of AIX 6.1.4.

Changed Improved the consistency checking when updating whatap.conf.

2025-01-15

v1.3.8

Fixed Supported the AIX 6.1.8 (libperfstat 6.1.8.19) environment.

Fixed Fixed the errors of the disk I/O metrics.

2024-12-13

v1.3.7

New Added the data collection option in Server Inventory Map.

Fixed Fixed the loading error of the Openssl Hash function.

Fixed Improved processing the agent logs.

2024-11-11

v1.3.6

Fixed Fixed the issue where network data is not collected when the OS language set is Korean.

2024-10-17

v1.3.5

Fixed Fixed the issue where the Oname fixing option does not work.

2024-09-19

v1.3.4

New Added the feature to collect server configuration data.

Fixed Improved to fix the OID value after initial startup of the agent.

2024-04-09

v1.2.7

Fixed Fixed the AIX server CPU logical core analysis error: fixed the over-measurement error related to the process CPU.

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