Whats New in SPS 6.0
Wednesday Aug 08, 2007
What's New in SPS 6.0?
1) Install Step Component Variable
Allow plans to set component variables on install
2) Dynamic Targetting
This feature provides you the ability to dynamically target components
3) Fine Grained Host Locking
This feature allows you to run multiple plans on same host and provides ability to disable locking of virtual hosts. It is a wonderful feature which you can run the plans in parellel on same host without interupting each others task. This provides you a lot of configurable parameters which you can set according to your requirement.
4) Credentail Constraint
Ability to specify the minimum / maximum username and password length
Ability to specify a character set to which username and password must adhere
5) Service Tag Support
This feature provides SPS to align with the Sun connection . This provides the online patch and application management. If you want to know more about Sun connection Click Here
6) Unix Reboot
Now the MS,RA*& LD comes online even after reboot of the host. This feature provides the startup scripts for all platforms along with the installer. And we introduced "reboot" function in plan which will reboot the hosts. Reboot is required to apply some unix patches, so No manual reboot of hosts and No need of wrting the startup scripts.
7) Installed Component Views
8) Import /Export
Ability to import/export SPS components/plans and compoents from one environment to another. Now you can bundle n number of plans and components from your MS to another.
9) New UI
New UI which you love to work with. The new UI provides you the inline and Online help.
10) SPS Modeler
Its an easy tool(IDE) for writing plans and components. Using the modeler you can write the complex plans and components quickly. Not only that even you can directly check in /check out the from/to your production/test server from your own desktop. This is a wonderful product which have
Intensive help to write the plans, Sysntax Validation & Plan/comp checkin/checkout facilities and much more
For more details on SPS Modeler ClickHere
11) rpm Installers for Linux
You can choose your own installer type for MS and CLI either File based or RPM based for the linux platforms. So better packaging for your environment.
12) New JDK and Postgress
The latest versions of JDK 1.5 and the New version of Postgress 8.1.4 for more stabilty and reliabilty.
13) New Platforms
This release supports RedHat Linux WS 3.0 U5 and Solaris 10 U3 /U4. And what more ... SPS suppports SOLARIS ZONES.
Stay tuned for more details....
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