Metrics must be deleted regularly from the Monitor to limit the amount of disk space used. By default, metrics older than 5 days are deleted daily as part of the maintenance plan.

Previously, you could keep metrics for an indefinite period of time and you could control how much space the metrics occupied. Now, you the longest amount of time that you can keep metrics is 2 weeks, and you cannot specify how much space the metrics occupy. Also, metric data cannot be migrated to a new version of the SQL Anywhere Monitor. The -c option for the Migrator utility has been removed. See Backing up the Monitor.

When adding a database resource to the Monitor, you are prompted to supply the user ID and password credentials for the database. When adding a version 16 database, you must supply the credentials for a user that has the SYS_SAMONITOR_ADMIN_ROLE role. Similarly, when repairing a version 16 database resource, you must supply the credentials for a database user with the same roles.

When prompted to supply the user ID and password credentials to close a connection to a database, you must supply the credentials for a user that has the DROP CONNECTION system privilege.

For resources of pre-16.0 databases, you can continue to supply the credentials for a database user with DBA authority. See Adding a database resource.