Operating system host monitoring has been improved and supports more operating systems, including Solaris, HPUX, AIX and other UNIXes. Windows 2000 is also supported.
Optional Windows service component can be installed on a Windows server to get extended Windows statistics and Oracle alert log file
Operating system host overview has been completely redesigned to provide a more consistent look-and-feel and more operating system host performance information, including network, storage, paging/swapping and processes statistics
Version 2.1 adds more operating system drill-down views: network connections, user sessions and storage. Process view can be configured to show process tree (parent processes).
Version 2.1 adds more Oracle drill-down views: file I/O, temp I/O, archive destinations and archived logs, system statistic table and chart views.
New System statistics chart view allows to display and analyze Oracle statistics for a month
Oracle availability report has been added
Various enhancements to existing views: more information about KEEP and RECYCLE pools on Instance view, new columns in Session List view: activity, CPU used, redo generated, network - bytes sent, network - bytes received, logical reads, PGA memory, UGA memory, physical reads and hit ratio.
Better support for Oracle DataGuard configurations, including detection of a switchover/failover operations, new DataGuard alerts, and full support for a mounted but not open Oracle database (e.g. a physical standby) in all views. Oracle alert log is also retrieved for a mounted Oracle database.
New alert have beed added: standby database not applying logs, archive log gap detected, physical standby out-of-sync, KEEP and RECYCLE pool usage. Tablespace free space alert can be configured to not fire when any of the files are auto-extensible
Alerting and notification functionality has been significantly improved to provide for more reliable issue detection and notification including: testing for new connections to make sure new connections can be created, notification on connect/disconnect, starting/stopping monitoring, encountering a critical condition that might prevent monitoring like memory shortage, resending email alerts if the previous attempt failed, alert pending period - a period of time to wait before raising an alert, more detailed alert logging and better alert identification scheme to skip sending redundant alerts
Various user interface enhancements including new Speed Gauge item on Oracle Instance view and the Activity column on the Session List view, time period chooser and overview band for drill-down charts to zoom in/out and analyze historical data, faster drill-down view access with Go To navigation tree, alert popups always on toggle switch, bar chart showing extended information on mouse hovering over a bar and import of tnsnames.ora entries.
Background (service) mode option has been added