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What's new

The following information lists the changes that were introduced in each tool release:

Release 4

Release name: Power Monitoring Expert - Configuration Manager 2.1.0

Release date: April 2017

Note: Archived configurations saved with an earlier version of the Configuration Manager are not compatible with this release of the tool.

New features:

  • You can upgrade a standalone IONE 6.0.1 system to new standalone PME 8.2.
  • You can upgrade a distributed IONE 6.0.1 system to new distributed PME 8.2.
  • You can upgrade a standalone PME 7.2.2 system to new standalone PME 8.2.
  • You can migrate a standalone PME 8.2 system to new standalone PME 8.2 system.
  • Upgrades/migrations to PME 8.1 are no longer supported

Release 3

Release name: Power Monitoring Expert - Configuration Manager 2.0.0

Release date: August 2016

Note: Archived configurations saved with an earlier version of the Configuration Manager are not compatible with this release of the tool.

New features:

  • You can upgrade a standalone IONE 6.0.1 system to new standalone PME 8.1.
  • You can upgrade a standalone PME 7.2.2 system to new standalone PME 8.1.
  • You can migrate a standalone PME 8.1 system to new standalone PME 8.1.
  • Support for migrating historical data.
  • Support for more configurable items.

Release 2

Release name: Power Monitoring Expert - Configuration Manager 1.1.0

Release date: April 2015

Note: Archived configurations saved with an earlier version of the Configuration Manager are not compatible with this release of the tool.

New features:

Improvements:

General:

  • Archive file path and name length can be any length; it is no longer restricted to 256 characters.
  • Improved error messaging.
  • ETL sources are read, saved, and written as historical sources.
  • WebReach Start-up diagrams and Vista start-up diagrams are now supported.
  • A hierarchy is always written to the target system, even if it contains broken device references.

User Interface:

  • Improved messaging and workflows to indicate when services are stopped and restarted.
  • Renamed the 'Diagrams' configuration component to 'Customized Diagrams' to better convey that the tool reads and writes new and edited diagrams only.
  • Improved tool workflows when operations are completed or canceled.
  • The Configuration Manager now displays the Report Subscription's description field:

  • Log pane – Added more detail to log messages and improved log message wording.
  • Log pane – Changed the default initial sort to show newest log messages first.

Reports:

  • Reports that were deleted from Custom Report Packs are no longer imported into the target system.
  • Default report sharing is supported.

Release 1 

Release name: Power Monitoring Expert - Configuration Manager 1.0.0

Release date: November 2014

Initial release.