Release Notes
| Document Name | Description | File Type |
|---|---|---|
| Stratusphere Release Notes | Review the latest Stratusphere product release notes to learn more about what's new, major bug fixes, known issues, system requirements, and upgrading. |  |
| Stratusphere Release Notes for 5.x.x Versions | Review 5.x.x versions of Stratusphere product release notes to learn more about what's new, major bug fixes, known issues, system requirements, and upgrading. | |
Getting Started
| Document Name | Description | File Type |
|---|---|---|
| Preparing Before the Installation | ||
| Stratusphere UX Preparation Overview | Use the Stratusphere UX Preparation Overview. This includes system requirement pre-requisites and preparation steps to perform in the week before starting with Stratusphere UX. | |
| Stratusphere Sizing Guide | Calculates the amount of space to allocate for your Stratusphere appliances and offers recommendations for CPU, RAM, and disk storage space |  |
| Installing the Software & Starting the Health Check | ||
| Stratusphere Solutions Deployment Best Practices Guide | The Stratusphere Solutions Deployment Best Practices Guide helps you to plan and ensure you are following recommended best practices for installation. | |
| Stratusphere Installation & Configuration Guide | The Stratusphere Installation & Configuration Guide covers system requirements, installation, and configuration of Stratusphere FIT & UX. | |
| Stratusphere UX Quick Start Guide | The Stratusphere UX Quick Start Guide provides a basic overview of Stratusphere UX, our user experience validation solution, and shows how to quickly get started with your Health Check. | |
| Completing Your Health Check | ||
| Stratusphere Diagnostics Checklist | After collecting data within your environment for about a week, use the Stratusphere Diagnostics Checklist to ensure that you have configured Stratusphere™ UX fully, used all its key features to analyze, drill-down and troubleshoot your environment. | |
Upgrades & Migrations
| Document Name | Description | File Type |
|---|---|---|
| Stratusphere Upgrade Guide for 6.5.0 and Higher | Step-by-step instructions for upgrading appliances (for versions 6.5.0 and higher) | |
| Migrating from 5.8.x or Higher to 6.5.0 Appliances | Step-by-step instructions for replacing your 5.8.x or higher appliances with 6.5.0 appliances and migrating your network settings, configurations, and most importantly your data. | |
| Stratusphere Upgrade Guide for 6.0.x and 6.1.x | Step-by-step instructions for upgrading appliances (for versions 6.0.0 to 6.1.4) Note: Please see our migration guide above to move your appliances to our latest version. | |
| Stratusphere Upgrade Guide for 5.8.x | Step-by-step instructions for upgrading any 5.8.x appliances up to 5.8.7 | |
| Stratusphere Upgrade Guide for 5.8.x for RHEL | Step-by-step instructions for upgrading any 5.8.x RHEL appliances up to 5.8.8 | |
Help Guides
| Document Name | Description | File Type |
|---|---|---|
| Stratusphere UX Quick Start Guide | The Stratusphere UX Quick Start Guide provides a basic overview of Stratusphere UX, our user experience validation solution, and shows how to quickly get started with your Health Check. | |
| Stratusphere UX Advanced Mode Dashboards Guide | Basic steps to employ the Advanced Mode Dashboards which provide a front-end overview of key metrics and user experience trends. | |
| Stratusphere UX Advanced Mode SpotCheck Guide | Helps you configure SpotCheck inspections of key user-experience metrics with a broad look at overall infrastructure and platform health as a means to provide a “point-in-time” picture of resource usage and environment performance. | |
| How to Import a Custom Report | Covers how to create a new report in Stratusphere by importing a report design template created using BIRT | |
| How to Place Signed SSL Certificates on Stratusphere Appliances | Provides instructions on how to place signed SSL certificates on the Stratusphere Hub and Database Appliances | |
| Stratusphere TechBrief: SNMP Overview | Explains how to use SNMP traps fired by the Stratusphere Hub and contains OID information for specific alerts | |
| Enabling Privacy Mode | Provides instructions on how to enable Privacy mode in Stratusphere to anonymize user and machine names. | |
| How to Change Appliance IP Addresses | For version 6.0 and higher appliances, this guide provides instructions on how to change the static IP addresses and host name of each and how to update them in different appliances. | |
| Stratusphere Licensing FAQ | Learn more about your licensing options for the Stratusphere Hub. (Versions 6.1.0 and higher) | |
| How to Control Access to the Stratusphere Web UI | For version 6.1.3 and higher, this guide provides instructions on how to limit access to the Stratusphere Hub web user interface. | |
Architecture & Security
| Document Name | Description | File Type |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture Overview | The Stratusphere Architecture Overview provides a basic overview of Stratusphere's three virtual appliances (Hub, Database, and Collector) and how those are designed to work with its Connector ID Key Software. | |
| Security Overview | The Security Overview is intended for IT Security and Operations audiences who want to understand the product from a security perspective within their IT environment. This document also provides information on communication ports used by the software. | |
| Security Configuration Addendum | The Security Configuration Addendum is intended to provide administrators with additional Stratusphere configuration information to meet Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) requirements to enhance overall security. | |
| Hub Basic Facts | Covers basic Hub Appliance systems requirements including environments supported and resources required. | |
| Database Basic Facts | Covers basic Database Appliance systems requirements including environments supported and resources required. | |
| Collector Basic Facts | Covers basic Collector Appliance systems requirements including environments supported and resources required. | |
| Connector ID Key Basic Facts | Covers basic CID Key agent software systems requirements including platforms supported and resources required. | |
Tools & Resources
| Document Name | Description | File Type |
|---|---|---|
| Stratusphere Sizing Guide | Calculates the amount of space to allocate for your Stratusphere appliances and offers recommendations for CPU, RAM, and disk storage space | |
| Getting Started with the Stratusphere API | For Administrators who would like to customize reporting or write applications that use Stratusphere’s vast collection of data collected from their environment, this guide provides instructions to setup the Stratusphere API and a brief overview of the key concepts and main operations. For use with Stratusphere FIT and UX versions 5.6.1 and higher. | |
| Connector ID Key Distribution Tool | Distribute and install Stratusphere's CID Key software enterprise-wide using PsTools (instructions included) |  |
| Importing User and Machine Groups into Stratusphere using CSVs | For environments with a large number of user groups, Liquidware Labs recommends using a CSV based import of user and machine group membership rather than importing the groups from Active Directory. Download this ZIP file for instructions, a script, and a sample CSV. | |
| Chrome Policy Template | Administrative Template for Liquidware's Google Chrome Browser Extension. Please refer to the Stratusphere Installation Guide on how to use this file to install and configure the LWL Chrome Browser Extension within the Chrome browser to collect stats with the Connector ID Key. | |
| Microsoft Edge ADM Templates | Administrative Template for Liquidware's Microsoft Edge Chromium Browser Extension. Please refer to the Stratusphere Installation Guide on how to use this file to install and configure the LWL Chrome Browser Extension within the Microsoft Edge Chromium browser to collect stats with the Connector ID Key. | |