Graphs that are produced on the Dashboard pages can now be saved in either .csv format (the raw data for the graph) or .png format (an image file showing the rendered graph). Where graphs are displayed on the Monitor, Graphs, and Query Analyzer pages, 2 icons to the right of the graph title let you export in these formats. Hover over the icon to confirm which one corresponds to which format. Since .png files typically display in the browser rather than bringing up a Save dialog, either click the icon and save the image file on the resulting page, or bring up the context menu for the icon and choose Save linked file or the equivalent for your browser. (You might need to change the extension to .png in the Save dialog.) (Bug #11754772, Bug #46431)

The method of evaluating functions and expressions now uses the Java Expression Parser. The available choices are different. If you use custom rules with functions that are not implemented under the Java Expression Parser, file a service request with the requirement. For details, see Section 4.1.3, “Overview of Rule Creation”.

A new option, inventory-schema = schema_name, within the agent-instance.ini configuration file, lets you specify a schema other than mysql in which to create the inventory table that records the UUID for a MySQL server.

Oracle has discontinued support for the Intel Itanium platform. We plan to discontinue building MySQL Enterprise Monitor service manager and agent binaries for this hardware platform.

Per the Oracle/MySQL Support Lifecycle policy regarding ending support for OS versions that are obsolete, have reached end of life, or have little usage pattern, we plan to discontinue building MySQL Enterprise Monitor agent binaries for certain operating systems.

See http://www.mysql.com/support/eol-notice.html for details of these EOL announcements. (Bug #12565806)

The Query Cache Has Sub-Optimal Hit Rate rule was updated to avoid false positives on systems with little query activity. The rule only triggers an alert when a significant amount of data is held in the query cache memory. (Bug #12543416, Bug #61111)

When using variable substitution for Alerts, now you can substitute in all fields using the GUI. Formerly, substitution was only allowed in the Advice and Recommended Action fields. (Bug #12537816)

The “Excessive Number of Long Running Processes” rule was updated to also ignore the Waiting for master to send event and Has read all relay log; waiting for the slave I/O thread to update it replication thread states, as these are also classed as idle states. (Bug #12531640, Bug #61081)

Incorrect AlarmAlreadyClosedException messages could be logged if the current “active” alarm was already closed, especially if the alarm was scheduled to be automatically closed. (Bug #12531141)

If you made any changes to the file apache-tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/com/mysql/etools/monitor/pom/hib/ehcache-mysql.xml, those changes are now preserved during an upgrade install of the Service Manager. (Bug #12423748)

The Update installer for the Service Manager did not back up all original directories. The following files and directories were missing from the backup:

./version.txt 
./mysql/docs/* 
./mysql/man/* 
./mysql/README 
./mysql/sql-bench 
./mysql/ssl

(Bug #12424290)

The Key Buffer Size Greater Than 4 GB and Key Buffer Size May Not Be Optimal For System RAM rules were updated to take in to account that the key_buffer_size variable can now be set to greater than 4GB on 64-bit Windows systems. (Bug #12407351, Bug #60991)

Rather than writing the user name and password into the configuration_report.txt file, the installer now writes a placeholder value using asterisks. Make sure to record these credentials yourself at the time of the install. If you remove that report file, the upgrade installer now handles that situation gracefully rather than reporting an error. (Bug #12407359, Bug #60984)

When uninstalling the Agent from an OS X system, some files and directories could be left behind if the installation directory was an external (that is, mounted) disk. The following items remained behind:

Info.plist 
MacOS 
Resources 

(Bug #12416255)

The “Prepared Statements Not Being Used Effectively” rule was updated to look at the status variables relating to SQL-based prepared statements (PREPARE, EXECUTE, and so on) rather than API-based (for example, mysql_stmt_prepare()) status counters. (Bug #12402871, Bug #60919)

The “MyISAM Indexes Found with No Statistics” rule gave incorrect warnings for the performance_schema tables in MySQL 5.5. (Bug #12409234)

The rule “Root Account Can Login Remotely” could give an incorrect warning on MySQL 5.5, if the root account logged in using the local specification ::1 (for the IPv6 loopback interface). (Bug #12325490, Bug #60697)

The “Tables Found with No Primary or Unique Keys” rule gave incorrect warnings for the performance_schema tables in MySQL 5.5. (Bug #12325487, Bug #60695)

Workaround to improve the performance of data collection queries on systems with partitioned tables. For the Schema advisors, the following rules cannot be run against any instances that contain partitioned tables:

Tables Found with No Primary or Unique Keys
MyISAM Indexes Found with No Statistics
AUTO_INCREMENT Field Limit Nearly Reached

(Bug #12351581)

On Solaris, the Agent could crash with signal 11 while accessing a mounted file system, then get a DuplicateAgentUuidException upon immediate restart. (Bug #11924532)

Upgraded the bundled MySQL instance to 5.1.56. (Bug #11897189)

The new properties mysqlenterprise.serviceManagerConnectTimeout and mysqlenterprise.serviceManagerResponseTimeout were added to the Connector/J plugin. The mysqlenterprise.httpSocketTimeoutMillis property is no longer needed. (Bug #11766637, Bug #59786)

For several alerts, the titles mentioning “Security Alterations” were clarified to reflect that they are related to MySQL privileges The advice now points to a view of Query Analyzer that filters for GRANT and REVOKE statements. (Bug #11766681, Bug #59846)

The Agent Memory Usage Excessive advisor reported a value for memory used that was too low. Now the reported value includes the memory used by the Lua scripting language within the Agent. (Bug #11765326, Bug #58284)

The Disk IO Usage and Disk Space Usage graphs are now available on Solaris systems. (Bug #11764734, Bug #57598)

The types for the mysql:variables:completion_type and mysql:variables:concurrent_insert data collection items were changed to the string/varchar type to reflect changes within MySQL 5.5. (Bug #11764502, Bug #57340)

Performing the action Delete Servers, when no servers were selected, would return a popup box with the text “undefined”. (Bug #11766054, Bug #59087)

If the value for agent-mgmt-hostname was missing or incorrect in mysql-monitor-agent.ini, the Agent could crash, and crash repeatedly as it was restarted. (Bug #11766371, Bug #59471)

Removed references to the discontinued MySQL 6.0 release from the rule Row-based Replication Broken For UTF8 CHAR Columns Longer Than 85 Characters. (Bug #11761878, Bug #54410)