Aster Lens 5.

10 Release Notes

Product ID: B700-1003-510K

Last Updated: August 12, 2013
Aster Lens version: 5.10

Summary
Aster Lens is a web-based application for viewing visualizations created by Teradata Aster’s
SQL-MR visualization functions.
This document describes Aster Lens and lists system requirements and known issues.
Installation and usage instructions for Aster Lens are provided in the Aster Analytics
Foundation Guide version 5.10.

Contents
• Who Should Install this Release of Aster Lens?
• System Requirements
• Known Issues
• Contacting Teradata Global Technical Support (GTS)
• Third Party Licenses
• About This Document

Who Should Install this Release of Aster Lens?

All Teradata Aster installations using the visualization functions from Aster Analytics
Foundation 5.10 or later should consider installing Aster Lens.

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System Requirements

System Requirements
We recommend that you install Aster Lens on a single Linux system that is not part of an Aster
Database cluster.
System requirements:
• At least 4 GB of memory
• At least 50 GB of disk space
• A 64-bit CPU if using the bundled Apache server
• Operating systems:
• Redhat 6.0 and 6.2
• SLES 11 SP2
• At least one Aster Database cluster
• (Optional) LDAP server
Supported browsers:
• Firefox v19.0 and higher
• Safari v5.1.7 and higher
• Google Chrome v27.0 and higher (full support for Aster Lens, but no support for viewing
downloaded visualizations)
• Internet Explorer v10 (supports Aster Lens, but will not display Sigma graphs. Chord
graphs are supported, but they are not interactive).
When attempting to open locally-stored HTML files that use AJAX technology, as in the case
of downloaded visualizations, some browsers do not display the content because they do not
allow access to local system files for security reasons:
• Internet Explorer 10 issues a warning.
• Google Chrome does not display the content at all.
• Safari and Firefox allow the content to be displayed normally.

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Known Issues

Known Issues
Using “multibytes” as a database name or a user name in the
asterlens.properties file is not supported
Issue ID: ANLY-611
Details: To avoid errors, do not use “multibytes” as a database name or user name in the
asterlens.properties file.

Aster Lens does not support case-sensitivity for column names

Issue ID: ANLY-599
Details: If column names in a Visualization Table have the same spelling, but different
capitalization, Aster Lens considers them different columns, even if the content is identical.

Contacting Teradata Global Technical Support

(GTS)
For assistance and updated documentation, contact Teradata Global Technical Support
(GTS):
• Support Portal: http://tays.teradata.com/
• International: 212-444-0443
• US Customers: 877-698-3282
• Toll Free Number: 877-MyT-Data

Third Party Licenses

Your Aster installation includes a number of open source products. The license text for these
products is available in the Aster Database User Guide, in the chapter “Licenses” and on your
Aster queen, as a set of text files in the /home/beehive/licenses directory.

About This Document

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