PA Server Monitor Change History
Updates in 2010
| 3.7.7.20 |
* File & Directory Change monitor will report on files in new sub-directories on first pass * Email templates used when Event Log monitor sends on every matching event * Bulk Config can merge changes into existing Event Log and Performance monitors * Upgraded PDF creation component * Added StatusText variable * Report index page links will have refresh commands * Additional logging * Added automatic retry in FTP monitor * Citrix Probe reports results more robustly |
| 3.7.6.33 |
* Registry setting to hide Hourly Alert Rate chart * Fix to Event Log monitor's 'Report Events Separately' setting * Extra PDF generation logging * .CSV attached to report emails * Some internal settings incorrectly being cached * Less CPU usage * HTML email sender will send if EITHER a PDF or report image file exists * Registry entry to disable report index page and report links in upper right corner (except PDF generation) -- useful for consultants * Fix to Direct Send (e-mail action) on MX lookup error * Fix to some situations where Disk Space charts were not showing up * Web Page tests will will force proxy usage * Event Log filter matching will ignore extra white space |
Updates in 2009
| 3.7.5.40 |
* HTTP header changes for .pdf (for help with loading PDF when using SSL) * Email message prioritization (important for shutdown alerts) * Floating point values stored in the database for Performance monitor and Script monitor * Database transfers parallelized * Extra SNMP Trap logging * Numeric columns right-aligned in tabular reports * Images show up better in generated PDF reports * Date/time selection fix when choosing a time within past 24 hours * Group and Server status reports updated before mailed * Fix to a single debug log line * Process monitor's operator selector changed * Changed to SWFObject 2.2 for better Flash compatibility |
| 3.7.4.31 |
* Added "Reports_MaxLargeServerNameLen" registry setting * Somewhat more robust event log source fetching * Extra logging for the SMS action * Less registry usage * Moved to SQLite 3.6.19 * Direct email sending added to E-mail action GUI * Installer correctly updating product's .NET-based components * Database memory limits added * Fix for a regression bug in the Service monitor * Properly suppressing actions when a monitor can't run or in error state * PDF report generation working with SSL self-signed certificates * Synthesized network counters functioning with counter translation * % Committed Bytes In Use added to Linux/Unix * Security Alert for affected monitoring working again |
| 3.7.3.30 |
* Adding new computers is faster * Fix to Event Log monitor that keeps alerting on a cleared event log that remains empty * A few missed report URLs use the configured host name * Uptime statistic is shown to 2 decimal places now * Background report generation can be (and is by default) disabled * More efficient status report generation * Fix to race condition when getting service status at startup * Added memory to System Details portion of server status report * Decreased memory usage by releasing cached resources sooner * Decreasing lock contention * Database cleanup happens later * Ignored file list will be copied when a File & Directory Change monitor is copied to other computers * Process Monitor will switch to "Can't Monitor" if no process list is retrieved * Discovery ping sweep is faster * Added /COMPRESS_DATABASES option to Console (does SQLite VACUUM) * Optimized email sending, so shutdown alert works again |
| 3.7.2.10 |
* Added GUI setting for no-overwrite-reports for Scheduled Reports * CPU and memory charts will use minute rollups to keep from overloading the chart * Right-click Add New Action in ALL ACTIONS will create the selected action type * SNMP monitor handles types that were added only using MIB * Fix to crash involving Security Alert changes * Changed File & Directory Change monitor default to 4 hours instead of every 30 minutes for bandwidth purposes * SNMP Trap handling added * Entered credentials can be used even if it appears they might not work * Can add additional performance charts via the StatusReport_Match_OtherPerf registry setting * Fix to missing Disk Charts for very precise situations * Added Bulk Config to set Server Status Report delivery settings * Fix to Uptime Reports - checks True uptime a minute at a time, plus corrected SQL * Better database performance when recording Performance statistics * Renewing licenses won't warn if expiring in 14 days * Execute Script can record data and generate reports * Increase Server Status Report fluidity * Fix to race condition-based crash in Server Status report creation * Added Acknowledge 'All for Computer/Device' and 'All Shown Above' buttons on the Server Status Report for Error Auditing |
| 3.7.1.15 |
* Fix to Performance monitor graphs not showing up when added manually * Large table report redirector page working now * Fix to occasional missing disk charts * New features in the external API * Smart Config with Performance monitor works much better with non-English Windows * Group Status Report has configurable monitor box sizes, and is a bit more condensed |
| 3.7.1.6 |
* Much more attractive and informative reports * Web Page monitor reports more accurate times to the database (alert times are correct) * Fixed a possibly/likely thread handle leak * Computer Notes now shown on All Servers report and Server Status report * Additional monitor detail shown on Group Summary report * Reports available in PDF * Service monitor removes uninstalled services automatically * All mailed reports have PDF version sent along as well * Multiple Server Temperature monitors supported for alerting on different thresholds * Better statistic cleanup when using MS SQL Server * Stored Windows passwords can be updated more easily * Added hourly Error/Alert count chart * Scheduled reports can have a PDF version stored in an archive directory automatically * Setting report time frame parameters is easy with new @ notation * Tweaks to reports based on user feedback * NTLM authentication support (for Exchange) added to the Email Action * New Bulk Config operation to set all monitors to be dependent on a Ping monitor * Upgraded to latest SQLite version * Added Uptime dataset collapsing when doing uptime for Tabular or CSV output * Log file contention issue fixed * Fixed Discover ping sweep functionality * Service monitor has a new 'monitor all Automatic start services' feature * SSL supported for web-based reports (see Settings -> HTTP Settings) * Fewer DNS lookups needed internally * Group status reports show group heirarchy * Auto-scaling Visual Status Map report * OK alerts not sent when the coresponding alert was suppressed * Disk Space monitor supports Linux/Unix via SNMP to hrStorage, and shows admin shares for Windows * Public API for basic operations * FTP Server monitor added to Pro version * Mail Server monitor now supports SSL connections * Event Log monitor can alert if log cleared * Server Status report supports error acknowledgement to help with IT workflows * Bulk Config operation to set server status report settings * Bulk Config operation to enable/disable monitors * Emulated Performance monitor stats (CPU and memory) for Linux/Unix machines/devices * SNMP monitor lets you give a friendly name to an OID * Visual Status Map editor will push lights that are off the map back onto the map * All Errors Report shows computer alias name * Small ad hoc reports generate much faster * Event Log can optionally send emails on each matching event * Added services to ignore in the Service monitor * More accurate Uptime Summary % when using non-raw data summarization * Ping monitor defaults to red when failing * Non-English SNMP CPU and Memory counters will show up in server status reports * Parent Group button on group reports * Decreased CPU usage in some parts of the service * Performance monitor slow down fix * Recent Errors shows up on Server Status report when using SQLite * Performance monitor no longer forces schedule change, but instead suggests it * Visual Status Map graphic stretches better, or stretching can be disabled |
| 3.6.6.5 |
* Important security update for the embedded HTTP server (found out about problem on May 5th, fixed on 6th, confirmation of fix on 7th, deployed on 8th) * The Reboot action won't queue requests if a reboot is already in progress |
| 3.6.6.1 |
* Added ComputerName var to Execute Script monitor * Fix to mail timezone offset when day light savings can't be detected * Ability to rename scheduled reports * Configurable report date formatting (via registry) * Reworked report creation GUI. Also supports creating multiple Scheduled Reports at once * RPC retry mechanism triggers on additional error codes * Event Log monitor is recording event type to database again * Fix to some multi-data set grid reports where some grids didn't render * Data sets can be grouped into easier to manage sets when creating reports * File Age monitor can optionally alert if no files found * Web Page monitor can be configured to NOT display page content on error * Event Log monitor should be better at finding remote message DLLs, especially for Vista and Windows 2008 * Minor report HTML tweaks * Moved event message resource out of CoreLib so updates won't get stuck on WMI * Major GUI speed ups for large installations (1000+ servers) * Smart Config will create dependency on Ping monitor if it's created * Fixed bug introduced in Scheduled Reports when multi-create Scheduled Reports were added * Monitor Can't Run errors can now be suppressed just like normal alerts * Email action message config dialog now handles more lines (scrolls vertically) * Scheduled reports were losing their manually set name when editted * Made retry logic use seconds (rather then erroneously using ms) * Fix to non-relative path in server status report * Better computer name/matching/filtering in HTTP server * Better performance in the Performance monitor :) * Scheduled Report editing bug fixed * Protection in Event Log monitor against bad 3rd party message files * Additional CPU efficiencies added to File & Directory monitor * Empty data sets that can't be charted will be removed in graphical reports * Improved diagnostic logging for report requests * Report properties are remembered/defaulted from one report run to another * Computer configs copied from one server to another now correctly re-assign the dependencies * SNMP walk handles out of order results * SNMP GUI can show nodes not found in walk, but loaded from MIB * Fix to Server Temperature monitor GUI when there are 10 temperature probes or more |
| 3.6.1.24 |
* New global filter on the Event Log monitor * Help links added to Adding Actions dialog, and Citrix config dialog * Directory Quota path entry doesn't grab/move the cursor * Citrix probe supports registry-based login wait time * Fix to Start Service action * Scheduled reports auto-refresh (in the browser) on their refresh cycle * Fix to Browser pane to stop showing 'Action Cancelled', and also much better Back functionality * Added the File/Dir Size monitor to PA Server Monitor * Added more error logging to report generation * Added Sleep method to Execute Script action * Retries added to File Age monitor for help on busy networks * A number of minor user interface enhancements * Reporting fix for reports that show IP addresses * Fix to monthly rollup that includes a day light savings transition * Mailed reports will have a clickable link above the report graphic * Bulk Config comes up quicker * New common finder UI * New Calculated Status monitor * Fix for occasional red X in emailed reports * Configurable delays to handle Windows RPC failures * Added retry WMI probes * Additional logging, and more error messages have user hints |
| 3.6.0.76 |
* CSS fix for IE 6 and ExtJS 2.2 grid headers * Ping monitor attempts to quiet false positives by sending more ping packets * Citrix monitor working again (especially on 64-bit Windows) * Fixed a memory leak in the Console GUI * Extra logging in the Event Log monitor * Fail safe in Event Log monitor to not alert on old events * Settings can now turn default training on and off * Citrix probe correctly logs out and disconnects now * Log File monitor fix to detect changes in files where the Last Write time doesn't update * Date columns in reports now sortable in all locales * Fix to Ping monitor recording all ping times as 30,000 ms * Multiple datasets on the same sortable table report supported |
Updates in 2008
| 3.6.0.48 |
* Event Log monitor handles larger event log entries, and some event log sources that weren't handled before (DCOM) * Start Application action has settable description field in the Console * Server status report will now show mount points * Imported Event Log monitors won't alert on old events * Status reports refresh as soon as clicked * Fix for old 3.4 licenses * Fix to SNMP monitor that wasn't displaying all OIDs retrieved * Event Log notification can specify the source, event ID and category * Monitor node shows last run time * Directory Quota monitor no longer automatically sends user quota messages if over * Improved Startup Wizard |
| 3.6.0.26 |
* TCP Port monitor forcing disconnect when connection fails * New monitors added to a server that is in maintenance mode will themselves start out in maintenance mode * Quiet unimportant PAWMI shutdown errors * Relative paths used for HTML reports (CSS, images, etc) - republishing reports should 'just work' * Event Log Sources are cached * Service monitor wizard will only add monitors that are auto-start * Moved to .NET 2.0 for .NET components * Fixed Directory Quota when using email pattern for end users * Advanced monitor options: Monitor dependencies, alert suppresion, monitor training, and more * UI update -- cleaned up monitor configuration screens * File Age monitor can specify poll schedule * Fixed broken Find feature in Console * Multiple identically named data sets will be differentiated with an (ID=x) * File & Directory Change monitor performance increases * GUI for setting database cleanup * New credentials will correctly get used when changed without restarting the service * Group status light was grey for groups with child groups, but no servers * RPC retry for Services, Disk Space, Event Log and Performance monitor polling * First start wait period will apply to database connections as well as monitors * Fixed not being able to rename a few monitors * Loading legacy 3.4 configs with maintenance schedules fixed * Moved to SQLite 3.6.4 * Additional diagnostics in the Event Log monitor |
| 3.5.4.7 |
* Log File monitor reports helpful error if illegal regular expression is specified * Alerts about a service not running didn't include the service name * Introduced sortable report tables * Status report creation is more efficient * Added All Errors Report to top-level group reports * SNMP strings that are actually numbers will be interpretted as numbers * Better error message when bad credentials are tried * Adding new servers across a slow link will happen faster * SNMP monitor keeps pseudo-ints (string integers) as integers * Added Advanced Email action property of reversing email server used * Fixed a bug in the report time picker property * Tweak to Server Status report |
| 3.5.3.64 |
* Event Log monitor will set script value 'current value' to the time of the event log item * Network Message (net send) action lets you configure the message template * Sped up database transfers a bit * Bulk Config will short-cut out (to an error) if the service isn't running * Bulk Config Edit Monitor will ask which monitor to use as the starting template * Work around for negative ping times on some dual-core AMD Processors * Fix to auto-select of deep computer/group nodes * Fixed description overrides in Email, Pager, SMS and Network Message * Fixed nodes that won't expand * New Find feature * Quicker server status report updates * Actions (Restart Service action) now get the computer name to work against * Unmonitored computers will show up grey instead of green * Delays in the Console from servers being down (when fetching service list) have been mitigated * Large lists of existing reports are handled more efficiently in the Console * Console is much more efficient when handling large installations * Added Monitoring Scope report * Improved tabular report CSS * Fixed All Servers report to correctly account for disabled monitors and maintenance mode * Event Log monitor will use less bandwidth over a slow link * Restart Service action is much smarter, and Service Monitor takes advantage of it from Smart Config * Smart Config will no longer add duplicate monitors * Disk Space monitor will only create two monitors in Smart Config, and will add drives regardless of whether they're below threshold * Added Bulk Config Smart Config request * Improved and simplified server discovery dialog/process * Disk Space Monitor has a better 'fixed' message (includes current size) * Change to SNMP Monitor to better handle AIX replies |
| 3.5.2.56 |
* Disabled monitors were incorrectly showing a yellow (warning) status * Console: Monitor Types and Action Types now give hints in the 'All Monitors' and 'All Actions' category on how to create * Email action title updates correctly * Solved a deadlock issue involving servers entering and leaving maintenance mode * Added ability to force Scheduled Reports to always write to a new location * Uptime Reports with averaged time ranges were not reporting correctly * Added EscalationStep to Execute Script action variables * CPU watchdog disabled during database transfers * Bulk Operations now correctly shows servers when multiple groups have the same name * Console should never again crash during UI updates * Ping monitor uses unsigned MS formatting, and ignores failed pings in shortest-time searchs * Event Log monitor will report on a maximum of 1000 events per run |
| 3.5.2.30 |
* Added support for partial-hour timezones (Newfoundland!) * Check for very large maps that can't be allocated * Added WFICALib.dll to the build (for the Citrix monitor) * Sorted server list in the Event Log monitor's report properties * Fixed a high-memory condition * Lower CPU usage in some situations, and additional performance improvements * Better remote event log message support * Added target date to All Drive disk space reports * Monitor icons accurately spin to indicate activity again * Database connection resiliency added to MS SQL connections * Log File monitor handles truncating log files * Service monitor has new 'Add All Running Services' button * Efficiency gains: Faster scanning, less CPU load * Faster drag-and-drop for servers in groups where many hundreds of servers exist * Performance monitor more resilient to network/server outages * Scheduler thread stall fixed relating to servers leaving maintenance * Added check for Citrix ICA Client in the Citrix Probe * Internally used performance counters will work on non-English Windows versions * Fix to avoid potential deadlock problem * Updated Console icon |
| 3.5.1.32 |
* Added $Group$ to expansion variables * Added action to put servers/monitors into maintenance and pull out of maintenance * Added Summary Disk Space report that shows one line per data set * Added Group-based All Computers report * Group status reports update correctly when servers and groups are dragged around * Added support for multiple server maintenance periods * Added Manufacturer and Model to the Server Status report * Added Bulk Config Rename Monitors operation * Added Monitor Summary Status report type * Bulk Config failed some operations if it ran into non-Latin characters * Corrected spelling error of 'occurred' * Fixed installer so ServerScript can always register * Fixed the Disk Space Summary report's sorting * Temperature monitor guesses units better when they aren't specified * Fix for Visual Status Map report which occasionally stopped updating * Added Citrix monitor login and connection-specific timeouts * Minor speed improvement when communicating with MS SQL Server * Viewing a server status report automatically finds and selects the server in the navigation tree * HTTP error log fix * HTTP requests to the local machine will ignore proxies by default * Less memory pressure when running large SQL statements (for reports, etc) * More obvious when a maintenance period is not set * Setting up escalation periods is more straight forward * Log File monitor won't complain that there are no files just because they're all too old |
| 3.5.0.143 |
* Monitoring service can optionally check for updates every 30 days from the service and notify via email message * Fixed an issue in the Discovery process * Added Run Now (for all monitors on a computer) under the Operations menu of a computer node * Application works better with .NET 1.1 (as well as .NET 2.0 currently) * Server status reports update much more quickly, especially in large installations * Fixed rare case where CPU usage would go very high, usually involving network errors |
| 3.5.0.124 |
* Fix to Uptime reports where data rollup other than Raw used with MS SQL Server backend reported 'No Data' * File & Directory monitor performance improvement * Times in MS SQL tables will be UTC instead of local time from this point forward * Reports with period summarization will take local timezone into account * Server maintenance start times honored more accurately * Execute Script action added back in * Start Application action can use replacement variables * PAChartGen forcibly shutdown after 120 seconds * Group and server status reports created in separate threads * High CPU usage diagnostics added - fix for rare 99% CPU usage |
| 3.5.0.115 |
* Microsoft SQL Server supported as a backend database * Citrix XenApp client probe monitor * Server and server room environment monitor * Running process monitor * Bulk Configuration for making configuration changes to many servers or monitors at once * More attractive reports, and new report types * Less CPU used, less memory used, can monitor more servers/devices |
| 3.4.10.35 |
* Authentication fix for machines in non-connected (ie from a Workgroup) or non-trusted domains * Improved support for UTF-8 report emails * HTTP requests will optionally follow redirects based on a registry setting * Activity view only shows a single instance of "Monitor Busy" * Fix very rare crash in the Event Log monitor UI with some video cards |
Updates in 2007
| 3.4.10.14 |
* Message Box action now works on Vista, and in Terminal Services windows as well * Not prompting for proxy auth credentials until after an HTTP 407 is received * localhost used for Run Now command rather than computer name * Write to Log File action has configurable max size * Log File monitor updates its progress in View System Activity * Log File monitor interactive test will offer to stop after 30 seconds * Log File monitor can skip older files * Log File monitor has better code-page guessing and user-specified settings * Log File monitor uses server credentials to access remote files * Message Box action uses configurable message text * SNMP Monitor works when other services are listening for traps * Performance monitor configuration uses login credentials to access counters on remote machines * Easy Configuration works better with optional usernames and passwords * SNMP monitor works with other SNMP listeners on same machine |
| 3.4.10.4 |
* Minor resource leak in the Console has been fixed * Report templates can be customized * Emailed status reports with embedded report graphs show correct graphs * Servers entering and leaving Maintenance mode have been assigned a specific system security alert category * Additional date cut-off precision when returning data for single day charts * Simplified Ping monitor GUI, including using ms instead of fractional seconds * Increased SQLite page size for better I/O efficiency * Deleting orphaned SQLite master journal files * Performance monitor thresholds times can be set in seconds * Impersonating before hitting web pages (for Windows-authentication based web sites) * WinHTTP client auto-detects more proxy information from IE settings and handles proxy authentication * Log File monitor now easily handles thousands of log files * Email throughput optimization * File & Directory monitor fix to store file dates in UTC to handle next year's day light savings time :( * Ability to remove HREFs in emailed HTML status reports |
| 3.4.9.15 |
* Importing configuration for a server whose name contains the name of the source server works better [Thanks Dennis P] * Changes to Performance Monitor to handle international number formats [Dennis again!] * Web Page monitor interprets embedded charset directives to read web pages in all languages * Changes to reduce remote logins on Windows machines * File/Directory Size Monitor's 'percent size change' calculation fixed * Fix: Disk Space monitor shows free bytes in $CurrentValue(1)$ when doing percentage comparison * Phone Dialer (DTMF/SMS) action will force $Details$ to be a single line of text * Emailing reports works with UTF-8 report files * WMI polling no longer causes the floppy disk to seek |
| 3.4.9.2 |
* Web Page monitor correctly handles URLs with = character and ignoring multiple failures * Added additional logging for report generation * Change to try and make WMI let go of our DLL on shutdown * Fixed a repaint problem in read-only text boxes * UTF-8 used for HTML reports to better support customers of non-Latin based languages (particularly Asia languages) * Fix to Event Log monitor that wasn't recording what it had seen in custom event logs |
| 3.4.8.17 |
* Fix in the periodic daily scheduler for monitors with a fixed start time and a small period * Added logging for hosted .NET CLR startup * Alternate technique for finding drives in WMI * Phone Dialer (DTMF/SMS) action will appropriately serialize multiple calls to the phone/modem * Server maintenance scheduled now copied when importing from a configuration file * Added support for the MachineIP script and message variable * Changed the way .CSV files are attached to mailed reports |
| 3.4.7.6 |
* Added SMTPS (SSL-encrypted SMTP) support * Optimized status report creation * Added additional diagnostics for File & Directory monitor * Added the File Age monitor * Alternate File & Directory monitor exclusion algorithm * Added escalation capabilities to the File Age monitor * Fixed custom event log source filtering * Event Log monitor will fire on 'None' Event Types if all event types are being alerted on * Updated to SQLite 3.4.1 * Improved database layer efficiency * Ability to delete multiple reporting data sets at once * Additional Performance monitor retries added to failure scenario handling * Greatly reduced flicker while scrolling and resizing |
| 3.4.4.4 |
* Application correctly matches subdomains (ie mail.yahoo.com and yahoo.com) * Using better HTTP client library * Ignored directories in File & Directory monitor can be scrolled, cut, copied and pasted * More aggressively throttling CPU usage to the target value * Web monitor's CACHEBUSTER values ignored when recording report data (so dataset names are stable) * TimeInErrorStr and SecondsInError variables added to notification script * Added repeating event escalation support * Fixed error in scheduled reports UI where no report type is chosen when OK is pressed * Fixed an error in recording and reporting on Event Log entries * Added additional SMTP logging * Backup From address added to the Email action * Added Phone Dialer support sending control characters (useful for sending SMS messages via an attached phone) * Added Phone Dialer support for variables (for sending SMS messages via an attached cell phone) * Added the scheduling and delivery of computer and summary status reports * Fixed end-user email alerts for the Directory Quota and User Quota monitors * Added Server Temperature reports |
| 3.4.1.25 |
* Additional error checking and logging added to Performance Monitor * Log files handle branding * Split database tables in the EventLog monitor for better performance * File & Directory Monitor can be throttled via registry setting * File & Directory Monitor now uses an edit box to add ignored files * Added additional controls to monitor and improve internal efficiency * Diagnostics added for graphical report creation * Fixed a path length overrun in File & Directory Monitor * Creating graphical reports is slighly faster and uses less memory * Quieted some less important internal warnings * Fixed logging of error code for failed SNMP queries * Ensuring the monitor's last run time is accurately saved * Added additional startup logging * Uninstaller behaves better * SNMP monitor handles multiple simultaneous requests better * Optimized the scheduler thread * Activity tracker has been highly optimized * Better throughput for a busy File & Directory monitoring system * File & Directory monitor will complain if a monitored directory can not be accessed * Updated trial licenses to 25 servers * Security message about app starting to match message for app stopping * File & Directory monitor can accept individual file specifications * Monitor result status in log file output changed to be more user friendly * Ability to disable CPU throttling * Guarantee no hanging linefeeds in outgoing SMTP messages * Scheduler fix that sometimes prevents auto-maintenance from starting |
| 3.4.0.39 |
* SNMP monitor * Automated server maintenance scheduling * Phone Dialer action for sending DTMF/CallerID alerts over the phone system via a regular modem * Dial-Up Connection action for connecting to the Internet so notifications can be sent * Fixed a bug in the Log File monitor which couldn't display gigantic test results in the UI * Much more flexible scheduling for monitors, maintenance and scheduled reports * Fixed Ping monitor which could get stuck if actions were to be fired immediately * Fixed Log File monitor to better handle Unicode log files * Mailing of HTML reports is now supported * Upgraded to SQLite 3.3.13 * Additional logging and error reporting in Performance monitor * Improved server credential handling and related user hints * MessageBox actions correctly truncate messages too long for the screen * The system will allow you to add duplicate computers if you really want to * Update to handle Lite->Pro or Pro->Custom upgrades when existing service is running * Option to have status reports almost instantly up-to-date (see Settings -> Status Report Settings) * Hardened internal HTTP report server * Ability to set action names for E-mail, Pager and SMS actions |
| 3.3.2.10 |
* Fix for the Ping monitor where it can get stuck if a ping response is not received |
| 3.3.2.9 |
* Fixed a sporadic problem in the Console when showing existing reports |
| 3.3.2.8 |
* Servers can have a human-friendly alias (most helpful when the server was originally specified by IP address) * New Uptime report * Service monitor supports the Uptime report * Web monitor supports the Uptime report * TCP Port monitor supports Uptime report * Ping monitor supports Uptime report * Mail Server monitor supports Uptime report * Ability to delete most datasets from the create report views * Logging SMTP activity for troubleshooting purposes * Fixed the scheduled report dialog that was always selecting the first data set * Able to get status reports (via WMI) from additional machines * Fixed a crash in report auto-print if running as Local Service |
Updates in 2006
| 3.3.1.5 |
* Event Log reports * Changed the threshold for the free memory status light, and it can be disabled completely * Fix for groups within group support * Change to attempt monitoring for NT 4.x machines * Allow manually removing of groups |
| 3.3.0.4 |
* New branding graphics to match new website * MessageBox action constrained so it doesn't go off screen * Fix for a problem when valid licenses are not recognized |
| 3.2.24.7 |
* Action/notification event escalation is now supported on most monitors (where it makes sense) * File & Directory Change monitor now records findings to a database and supports reports * Scheduled reports moved to a more prominent position. They also now have their own schedules * Most reports now allow selection of date ranges rather than the number of monitor checks * Larger graphs shown on some displays * Many minor user interface improvements * Performance Monitor now handles selecting "All" instances of a counter * Fixed an issue with the Ping monitor where ping requests could get behind * Cleaned up event log entries that get created by this application * Fixes to the User Quota monitor database interaction * Performance monitor will ignore the first few invalid data errors (returns 0) as a work around for an apparent Win2003 error * Removed WMI free disk space red light in server status report * Increased default max threads to 80 * More efficient database cleanup |
| 3.2.22.19 |
* Can now connect to domains that are untrusted, or remote computers without having synchronized local accounts * Fixed configuration of Start/Stop/Restart Service action so it can be edited from All Actions panel * Upgraded to SQLite 3.3.7 * Various minor user interface tweaks to make it easier to use for first-time users * Additional debug logs for tracking down a customer reporting issue |
| 3.2.22.11 |
* Reporting option to show sizes in bytes, K, MB, GB in reports with the units shown on the y-axis * Ability to do multiple delete on ignored files in File & Directory Change monitor * Made the End Training button in the File & Directory Change monitor visible again :( * Log file truncation now keeps some of the previous log instead of completely truncating it * Added logging for reports when a parameter is missing * Fixed an issue in the File & Directory size monitor that kept it from alerting on growing files * Cleaned up exception reporting message * Fixed HTTP server where requests (specifically report generation requests) could get truncated * File/Directory Size monitor now also reports the previous size of files/directories in the alerts * Additional application helps |
| 3.2.21.6 |
* Free edition shows correct icons when adding new monitor * PerfMon will no longer record error values to the database * Performance monitor schedule adjusted as needed to account for counter duration checks * Web page monitor working correctly with https (SSL) URLs again * Importing configuration from file no longer causes two servers to appear in the user interface * Added "Used Disk Space" report to Disk Space monitor * Server Temperature Monitor added (using SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php) * Fixed an issue with re-publishing reports via an alternate web server * Security alerts if monitoring could be interrupted * Pending email and MsgBox notifications quickly sent if shutting down (to support security alerting) * Removed requirement to give a name to each monitor before saving * Debug logs can be enabled without restarting the service |
| 3.2.20.9 | * Group within group support added to the Console for arbitrary server/device grouping * Fixed error where computers could be added with no name * Run ad hoc reports off the monitor node in the navigation tree * Fixed timezone issue for outgoing email messages * Not sending credentials to WMI if probing local computer * Fixed a rare crash that might occur in the Console while reports are generating |
| 3.2.19 | * First status report for a newly added computer shows up quicker * Fixes for Web Page Monitor error when server is auto-added * Reboot action changed so a server can be specified, and sets the reason to "planned shutdown" * UI wrinkles smoothed out * Decreased instances of log file contention * Necessary account rights assigned more precisely * .NET 2.0 support added to the existing .NET 1.1 support |
| 3.2.15 |
* Added new Log File Monitor * Added new TCP Connection Monitor * Reduced CPU utilization generating reports * Don't try to get service list from remote computer if it can't be contacted * A fix for looping error notifications when multiple notification types are mis-configured * Fixed import of reports from config file * Removes references to bad scheduled reports that don't exist * Fixed a .NET error when things get behind * Changed our User-Agent string to be browser compatible |
| 3.2.9 | Ability to disable WMI checks, and account privileges are updated automatically to ease remote administration |
| 3.2.7 | Made activity log files more easy to import into other apps |
| 3.2.6 | Major update! * Less CPU usage creating reports * Added groups to server list * All servers and server group summary reports * Further database access optimization * Upgraded to SQLite 3.3.5 * Added server notes * Many minor UI tweaks and bug fixes |
| 3.1.26 | Event log monitor can now filter on more than one event ID |
| 3.1.25 | Fixed a memory leak that happens when charts are created :( |
| 3.1.24 | Changed the default monitoring time to a more reasonable value. Fixed an issue with slow reports because of a missing database index. Better event log entry information |
| 3.1.22 | A number of customer requests: making it easier to publish reports, .NET 1.1 or 2.0 support, server maintenance mode. |
| 3.1.21 | Many small usability tweaks. Accessing WMI using explicitly declared username. Better performance (less CPU usage) and slightly smaller memory footprint. Configuration of system broadcasts. Upgraded to SQLite 3.3.4 |
| 3.1.15 | Final fix for the .NET 1.1 issue. No known problems of any sort. Slightly improved performance. |
| 3.1.13 | .NET 1.1 has mixed-mode deadlock/loader lock issue which affects some installations of PA Server Monitor. We now detect it, and have done some work around work. More will likely follow. Also added better information to failed reports. It's been a hard week. |
| 3.1.12 | Fixed a rare false positive in the Ping monitor. Also removed a couple of internal notifications that customers are finding irritating. Initializing the .NET subsystem in a better fashion and checking for the .NET Framework 1.1 SP1. Fixed a small issue with password validation. |
| 3.1.8 | Major update to version 3 of our monitoring framework! |
Updates in 2005
| 2.2.15 | When given a choice about which event log description to use, always choosing the longest one, and also ensuring Server Monitor-generated events are never alerted on |
| 2.2.13 | Fixed a single-line text message that is wrongly appended to some Event Log alerts, and also fixed an issue with excluding some events from monitoring |
| 2.2.9.1 | Added internal timeout to the web monitor. Work around for an undocumented limitation to the Windows Reboot API |
| 2.2.8.1 | Re-enabled bulk install support in Setup and enhanced internal ping monitor robustness, added WatchDog registry setting and web monitor now shows error status if any pages are in error |
| 2.2.6.1 | Automatically grants necessary rights for the product directory and registry key to the user running the Server Monitor service (if not running as Local System) |
| 2.2.4.4 | Server Monitor 2.2 released! |
| 2.1.1.13 | Customer reported today and we confirmed today an issue in the Ping Monitor. The fix is very safe so we wanted to get it out ASAP. |
| 2.1.0.12 | Fixed an issue that kept the Disk Space Monitor and Directory Quota Monitor from loading on Windows 2000--Thank you Ulf! |
| 2.1.0.11 | Although no customers have experienced any problems, continued development unearthed a slight chance for a bug, and we couldn't sleep until we fixed it (bogus monitors could show up in the list) |
| 2.1.0.10 | ServerMonitor 2.1 released! |
| 2.1.0.7 | Beta of ServerMonitor 2.1 released |
Updates in 2004
| 2.0.0.12 | Beta of Server Monitor 2.0 released! |
| 1.0.0.6 | First Beta release |
