Stratusphere UX Documentation

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.x	Step-by-step instructions for upgrading appliances (for versions 6.0.0 and higher)
Migrating from 5.8.x or Higher to 6.0.0 Appliances	Step-by-step instructions for replacing your 5.8.x appliances with 6.0.0 appliances and migrating your network settings, configurations, and most importantly your data.
Upgrading from 6.0 (P1) to 6.0 (P2)	Step-by-step instructions for upgrading Stratusphere Appliances from 6.0.0 (Phase 1) to 6.0.0 (Phase 2). Phase 1 was made available to a small group of users. Stratusphere 6.0.0 Phase 2 is now generally available for all users as of December 14, 2017.
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
Migrating from 5.6.x to 5.7.0 Stratusphere Appliances	Step-by-step instructions for replacing your 5.6.x appliances with 5.7.0 appliances and migrating your data rather than just updating your appliances. This migration offers enhanced performance that will not be achieved with a simple update
Stratusphere Upgrade Guide for 5.0	Step-by-step instructions for upgrading the appliance version to 5.0

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.
Stratusphere's Next Generation Web User Interface	View and test drive Stratusphere's new Web UI design. Don’t miss this opportunity to provide your feedback while we are still in the conceptual stages of development. Download this guide to get started.
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)

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.