This topic describes new enhancements and features that are provided with WebSphere® Premises Server 6.1.x.
This release includes updated levels of some of the prerequisite software, as well as support for new levels of software. See Hardware and software requirements for details.
This fix pack release of WebSphere Premises Server supports a high availability topology. See Planning your high availability topology to get started.
You can migrate WebSphere Premises Server from version 6.1 to version 6.1.0.1. See Migrating the product to get started.
In releases prior to WebSphere Premises Server 6.1 Fix Pack 1, each timer was associated with one timeout value. In Fix Pack 1, you can make a timeout value flexible, meaning you can apply one timer to different timeout values. See Configuring the PortalControllerAgent to use flexible timer values for more details.
A Find and Install link has been added to the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console to allow you to download Data Capture and Delivery bundles. See Downloading bundles for more information.
The Configuration Variables link in the console has been removed. You can see the system configuration by viewing the properties in the SystemAgent.
The About link was removed from the console. To find out how to retrieve version information, refer to Checking the server version.
In previous releases of WebSphere Premises Server, you used the premises.properties file to make configuration changes to the system. In this fix pack release, the premises.properties file has been replaced by an agent called the SystemAgent. The SystemAgent is configurable through the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console like other agents. When you add or modify a property for this agent, there is a 60 second delay before it is available to the system.
Event flows into and out of WebSphere Premises Server are now controlled by agents that are TaskAgentType, and which are configurable through the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console like other agents.
In this release, in addition to being able to import XML through the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console, you can also do it using a command line.
A new servlet is available to update the status of inbound print profile topics. See Print profile support for details.
This release of WebSphere Premises Server supports the Application Level Events (ALE) 1.1 specification. As part of this support, the product provides an ALE Administrative Console, which enables you to easily administer the ALE server. See Managing ALE for details on this new console.
This new servlet builds on the event gateway servlet by accepting XML as input and then converting the XML into an IBM® Sensor Event that is placed on the SIBus. You can use this servlet to get ALE events from Data Capture and Delivery to WebSphere Premises Server ALE. See ALE 1.1 ECReports servlet for details.
The Reusable Event Monitor component enables WebSphere Premises Server applications to include dynamic event information. See Reusable Event Monitor component and sample user interface for details.
A Write to Tag Profile has been added to Device Kit. For more information, see the Device Kit documentation available at: http://www.eclipse.org/ohf/components/soda/.
New Data Capture and Delivery agents have been added to the configuration:
See Agent details for a complete list of agents.
The WebSphere RFID Premises Server product is now called WebSphere Premises Server.
WebSphere Premises Server now uses an installation wizard that installs all of the prerequisite software for you. For details on using this installer, see Installing the product.
Support for WebSphere RFID Device Infrastructure 1.1.1 has been removed from this release.
WebSphere Premises Server 6.1.x no longer packages Device Manager server. If you have Device Manager server from WebSphere Premises Server 6.0, you can still use it with this version of WebSphere Premises Server.
Instead of using Device Manager server, this release uses a bundle loader, which is an OSGi bundle that locates a list of bundles and performs the action specified on each bundle in the list once it is started. For more information on using this bundle, see Installing a remote Data Capture and Delivery controller.
WebSphere Premises Server uses a new event format, called the IBM Sensor Event, and has a new event flow which leverages the WebSphere Application Server service integration bus (SIBus). For more information on this new event flow, refer to Managing event processing.
The Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Premises Server component is included in this release of WebSphere Premises Server. Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Premises Server provides a visual console that automatically locates the active tags that are monitored in real time. Personnel or assets can be monitored in virtual danger zones and Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Premises Server will send safety and security breach alerts if assets or personnel are not qualified for entry or exit. For more information, see Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Premises Server.
This release introduces a new way of printing using profiles to send and receive messages through the WebSphere Application Server service integration bus. For more information, refer to Managing printing.
This release provides an EPCIS Connector sample application to convert tag reads and aggregated tag read generic events into EPCIS XML events, messages that adhere to a standard EPCIS schema, that then are augmented with information either from the database or from the generic event. For more information, refer to EPCIS Connector sample application.
The WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console now supports Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 7.0 Web browsers.
WebSphere Premises Server uses Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT), an Eclipse-based open source reporting system, to run and display the tag read reports within the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console. For more information, see Reporting.
WebSphere Premises Server provides Tivoli® Provisioning Manager for Software SPD files for WebSphere Application Server, DB2® for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows® and WebSphere MQ running on Windows platforms only. For more information, see Installing using Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Software.