January 2011 : ProActive Windows Agent 2.3

Bug

• [AGENT-63] - It seems that Agent uninstall does not remove all the files in C:/PF/PAG/
• [AGENT-70] - Error in the log
• [AGENT-72] - Add a better error handling for problem related to paths that contains mounted network drives.
• [AGENT-78] - System.NullReferenceException in addUserDefinedJvmParameters
• [AGENT-84] - SubInAcl is not installed by Agent installer
• [AGENT-88] - Guest account cannot run Agent Controller GUI
• [AGENT-89] - Only admin users can uninstall the ProActive Agent
• [AGENT-90] - On some jdk/jre distributions the jvm crashes due to hardcoded -Xms option
• [AGENT-92] - The default configuration file contains invalid values.
• [AGENT-93] - The pnp communication protocol is not supported by the agent
• [AGENT-94] - The configuration file is not writable by another user
• [AGENT-95] - The created user is not added to the Performance Analyser group during the installation
• [AGENT-97] - The Notepad opens en error message if there are no logs yet
• [AGENT-106] - User option not persisted - number of cpus
• [AGENT-109] - Agent GUI - number of runtimes not saved in configuration file
• [AGENT-114] - Agent Control for All Users is not functionnal
• [AGENT-117] - Registry key access restriction does not work on Windows 7 - 64 bits
• [AGENT-121] - When stopping the agent the parunas tool is killed without freeing ACE this can lead to SetUserObjectSecurity() will fails with ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_QUOTA

Improvement

• [AGENT-39] - Account used to launch the ProActive Agent requires Log on as a service rigth assignment
• [AGENT-47] - Ask a "Restart Application Now ?" after configuration changes
• [AGENT-75] - The check for admin rights should be done in the .onInit Function
• [AGENT-76] - The UAC should be supported
• [AGENT-77] - The minimum required .NET Framework version should 3.5
• [AGENT-79] - It should be possible to install the service under a non-administrator account
• [AGENT-80] - When installed as non administrator account the ProActive Agent should be able to log to the user home dir
• [AGENT-81] - A non admin account should be able to control an installed ProActive Agent
• [AGENT-82] - Write logs to %TEMP% and config to %APPDATA%
• [AGENT-85] - Add info about the account created if not existing in config panel
• [AGENT-86] - Error message if service logon right is not set should be improved.
• [AGENT-87] - The config file should be copied if the config directory is customized at install time.
• [AGENT-91] - Rename "Add/Remove JVM Parameter" to "Add/Remove JVM Option"
• [AGENT-99] - When installed put the agent doc inside a doc directory.
• [AGENT-101] - Add "Runtime" to the Memory Limit in the GUI editor
• [AGENT-104] - Add double-click selection of the available Network Interface
• [AGENT-105] - Add Icon to the GUi editor window
• [AGENT-107] - The Resource Manager connection must use as default java class the 'unique' node starter
• [AGENT-110] - Children processes should not be able to escape from ProActive Agent JobObject.
• [AGENT-111] - When the agent service is installed under LocalSystem account the window of the spawned runtime(s) should be hidden from the logged user.
• [AGENT-118] - Reuse the iexplore process when viewing Logs
• [AGENT-119] - Reduce parunas verbosity
• [AGENT-120] - Use the same date layout in log files

New Feature

• [AGENT-73] - During agent installation create an account that will be used to install the ProActive Agent as a windows service
• [AGENT-113] - The agent service must be installed under LocalSystem and the login/password must be stored in a registry key with a restricted acces

Task

• [AGENT-83] - Updated doc for 2.3
• [AGENT-112] - The ProActive Agent must spawn runtimes under a non-admin user account
• [AGENT-115] - Update GPL v3 to AGPL v3 and headers in .cs files
• [AGENT-116] - Add pnps to the gui protocol list

Bug

• [AGENT-122] - The parunas tool does not log errors
• [AGENT-123] - The ProActive Agent does not support Domain User Accounts (ie non-local accounts)
• [AGENT-125] - The GUI action to open the logs dir does not handle not existing directory
• [AGENT-129] - On Windows Server 2008, user creation fails

Improvement

• [AGENT-126] - During installation if the Domain is not local "." inform the user that the account cannot be created

Task

• [AGENT-128] - Update 2011 copyright header in the Agent GUI this is required for SCHEDULING-1073

Main New Features:

• Improved data privacy.

Bug

• [AGENT-149] - Always available mode restarts weekly
• [AGENT-152] - The Screen Saver must affect all screens
• [AGENT-153] - During the installation the agent account login and password do not support unicode chars
• [AGENT-154] - the password of the ProActive Runtime account must encrypted
• [AGENT-162] - Update the dependency to Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package
• [AGENT-163] - The cd must be agent install dir before calling pacrypt.dll from C#
• [AGENT-164] - If the user refuses to download SubInACL tool the installer doesn't show the correct warning message
• [AGENT-165] - The installer must forbid the use of "." as default local domain and use the %COMPUTERNAME% instead

Improvement

• [AGENT-148] - Add delay between multi-runtime start
• [AGENT-151] - if the PA Screen Saver is activated if the started runtime exits by itself it must be restarted with a delay
• [AGENT-155] - ProActive Agent Control should be able to change the runtime account
• [AGENT-156] - The enabled connection should appear as a select box
• [AGENT-157] - The Runtime Incoming Protocol should be moved from Connection tab to General tab.
• [AGENT-158] - The Runtime Incoming Protocol should be moved from Connection tab to General tab.
• [AGENT-159] - The aes key must be randomly generated at each installation
• [AGENT-160] - The aes keyfile permissions must be restricted to admin users and local system only
• [AGENT-161] - Add "Change Account" button explanation in the doc