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PA Server Monitor Change History

Updates in 2026

10.0.0.268
*Custom Status Pages
*Single Sign On
*Modbus monitor
*Configure user rights via groups or continue to use per-user rights.
*A new Security Audit report
*Azure Metrics monitoring
*System Audit Monitor for SIEM, etc
*Automated server to server file copy between the Central Server and Satellites.
*Execute Script (monitor and action) supports PowerShell 7 if it is installed on the server
*Automatic self-signed certificate renewal based on configurable maximum age (note that ACME/Let's Encrypt has been supported for a long time)
*Sections of server reports (charts, monitor status, recent alerts) can be collapsible and default to open/closed
*Partial configuration import allowing you to import pieces of other configurations or just pieces from backup files
*New maintenance mode that can still monitor and record to the database, but not fire actions
*Much faster server and group status reports
*Additional security enhancements
9.7.0.167
* Change to MIB parsing: Only the Central Server will parse MIB files - Satellites will receive the MIBs database
* Upgraded to libssh2 version 1.11.1
* Increasing Strict-Transport-Security maximum age to 1 year
* Stricter failed login lockout counts
* Fixed Powershell v2 Execute Scripts that stopped working
* Faster Inventory Database responses, which helps speed up server status reports
* MIB files are parsed on the Central Server, and synced in parsed form to Satellites and Fail Over
* Fixed copying custom properties to computers to not return an error when there wasn't one
* Improved server selector in a few places
* Stable inventory props that are stable don't have to be fresh (no stale check)
* A single Multi-port chart will show up as a normal chart instead of having a chart area around it
* Added help buttons to all monitors and actions
* Fix to handle path matching with wild cards on very long strings
* Fixed an extremely rare crash involving scanning long paths
* A better experience testing database connection strings
* Fixed issue of Console not getting monitor status updates if the Central Server restarts while the Console is running
* Improved the server type probe which affects Automatic Configuration
* Fix for File & Directory Change monitor when working with IPv6 addresses
* Fix for repeating change notifications in the System Audit database
* Inverting monitor status takes more statuses into account
* Fix for the Process Monitor in the case that WMI requests fail
* Upgraded to OpenSSL 3.5.4
* Fix for configuration sync issues between the Central Server and Satellites
* GUI Fix for changing disk space thresholds for templates
* Improved efficiency of communication with Satellites, which has also shown reduced memory usage in some cases
* Added Turkish language support
* Better handling when lack of TLS cipher support causes problems
* Added report creation, deletion and changes to the System Audit report
* Database Connection String tester/finder works better with the Encrypt keyword

Updates in 2025

9.6.2.130
* Fixed Inventory Collector error when using WMI to collect details
9.6.2.128
* Fix for Task Scheduler Monitor to properly fill in alert rows
* Better handling of busy monitors
* Better throughput for the Event Log Monitor and Event Validator monitors
* Improved the Bandwidth dialog's credential view
* Fixed uninstaller
* Fix for Process Monitor causing high CPU in WMIPrvSE.exe in some cases
* Run Now (directly or via API) will allow the monitor to pass throttles and run
* Support for Import-Module in Execute Script monitor and action can be disabled
* Active Directory Monitor can be configured to store fewer login events to the database
* Fix for Process Monitor for remote servers reporting a WMI error if the target process is not running
* Fixed the Satellite Configuration report
* Able to rename custom reports
* Forcing a monitor to OK state will also reset the Alert Suppression state
* Throttle CPU usage when parsing performance data objects
* More efficient use of WMI to get process information
* Fix of bug introduced in 9.6.0 that caused some servers to not exit maintenance mode
* Fix for renaming a computer when the new and old names overlap
* Fixed broken trend line on line charts
* Service monitor can ignore disabled services
* Call URL Action's test will return much richer data
* Easier to read monitor/computer change notes
* File & Directory Change monitor will delete blobs more often
* Fixed a problem with failing PagerDuty sends when a date was null
* Added $RowVarsCSV$ expansion variable
* Added a Test button to the Write To Event Log action
* Improved auto-forwarding of group reports
* Database Monitor can watch secondary (.ndf) database files
* Parsing MIBs uses less CPU and is faster
* Satellites can be set to auto update from the Central Server
* Database monitor splits MDF file size out from "Data Size"
* F5 in the Console can Run Now on a monitor (F2 for renames was already supported)
* New user account locked out (for failed PA Server Monitor logins) audit event
* Small CPU efficiency improvement in the PALowPriorityHelper
* Cleaning up a few old database files that are no longer in use
* Default Global Monitors and templates won't be recreated on service restart
* Web Page monitor follows complicated redirects better
* Upgraded AWS SDK DLLs
* MIB parser will use less CPU and throttle better
* Web Page monitor uses per-monitor-run cookies (when using cookies)
9.6.1.55
* Upgraded to SQLite 3.50.0.4
* Fix to reverse the default of EnableScriptCredentialAccess_Require_Obj2 setting for backwards compatibility
* Changing the server name in the Set Server Type dialog will correctly change the name in monitors and credentials
* AD Login Monitor will filter out duplicate events before writing to the database
* Fix bug causing session to reestablish when opening the Database Server Monitor
* Added logging for alert suppression decisions
* Fixed error message when a SNAP Tunnel can't be created
* New Set Protected Satellite Config settings Bulk Config operation
* New Satellite Protected Settings lock
* Replacement variables like $Item(x)$ can use -1 for x to get the item that has a problem
9.6.0.462
* Updated to OpenSSL 3.5.1
* Updated to ipmiutil 3.2.1
* Updated to latest vcredist (x86 and x64)
* Removed vcredist_x86-2012.exe from the installer
* Changed from SMPP v3.3 to v3.4 which is more common
* Upgraded to Chromium 109
* Upgraded to IPWorks SNMP 2024
* Satellites will not send down notifications if the hosting server is in a maintenance window
* Better per-user service detection
* Custom chart generation for line and bar charts
* Reports have the option to choose logarithmic charts
* Fixed repeating error when SNMP disk space check fails
* Added the status tab to the Advanced Options of the Inventory Collector monitor
* Fix in Web Page monitor that could ignore an error when a HEAD command is issued
* Added support for undocumented configuration merge. Contact Support for help
* SMPP action will try to use a persistent connection, and send one message at a time
* Syslog sender action can send using UTC (default) or local server time
* SNMP monitor configuration can do a filtered walk to pull back a subset of the OID tree
* Fixed email maintenance reply command processing when email format is HTML
* Chromium helper (Console.exe) processes shut down better
* Better Console operations for a user that doesn't have Windows admin rights on the local computer
* Added $Now(spec)$ replacement variable for usings parts of the date or time
* Web Page monitor can report on desired error response codes using the NOT response code pattern
* Web Page monitor will report more than one found problems in the alert description
* Added audit log for monitor templates being enabled and disabled
* Minor report CSS improvement
* Deleting an item in the Console will ask for confirmation, with a checkbox to not ask again
* Fixed Dynamic Table reports that sometimes showed an empty first page
* Added Bulk Config "Computers: Copy Computer Custom Properties to Other Computers"
* Fixed Web Page monitor's checks for headers changing
* Fixed a bug in a SQL Server error handler
* Added support for more VMWare ESX performance counters
* Added Support for {+/-}amount{d/w/m/y} for the $Now()$ replacement variable
* Web Page monitor won't alert on empty page if a redirect 301 or 302 was received
* Visual Status Map handles the same light being on the map more than once
* Set Satellite Host can use the value DELETE to remove a setting
* curl usage will set the $mon.Var0 in the Web Page Monitor's scripts
* Smaller MonitorStatusHistory table in busy installations
* Less CPU usage for large busy installations
* MAC address will only be used to lookup manufacturer if the source IP is from the local subnet
* 'Combined' server charts with multiple values will be guaranteed to use different colors for different stats
* Server charts will snap to the nearest value to show for the cursor
* Saves in the Console will synchronize a little quicker to the Central Server if the user does a Run Now
* Don't let computers use not-yet-loaded icons in the Console
* Fix for curl not returning last response (considering redirects)
* Satellite reports will indicate status is the Last Status if not connected
* Fix for $mon.SendMail not working when run on a Satellite
* File & Directory Size monitor can alert separately on previously seen files vs target files not seen
* Load icons from custom folder AND the default folder
* User configurable (via registry) Execute Script editor font size, with larger default
* Fix for hardware monitor sometimes not alerting
* Monitors that were firing Alert Red were not firing actions
* Fix for DNS monitor when there is an initial lookup failure
* Fix for web interface reports list under View Existing Reports
* Custom line charts will show more data points, which can be further configured
* Custom line chart changes to shown down events better
* Fix for regression bug when doing Run Now on monitor on a Satellite
* Fix for DNS Monitor which wasn't always doing recursive lookups
* Added ComputerAlias to VBScript Execute Script monitor
* Simplified SQLite database cleanup
* Fixed editing content of Executive Summary parts
* A monitor won't come out of its "First Run" status if the first run is an error
* Logging failed login attempts that come through the web interface
* Giving the Helper more time to startup before timing out
* New Console status dots - can be configured to go back to the colored borders
* Fix for recognizing well-known performance counters on Satellites for non-English Windows
* Expression evaluation is more performant
* CPU optimization: Event Log monitor has better include/exclude Expressions parsing
* Log File, Email and SNMP Trap monitors now also have ignore filters
* Fix for problem in Event Log and Active Directory Login Monitor propagating error so a cleared event log is not falsely reported
* Fixed a recently introduced issue with rotated log files not getting deleted
* Template propagation is faster
* Hardware monitor not using cached values to try to better detect hardware changes (and avoid false positives)
* Fix for the report 12/24 hour setting not being honored everywhere
* More efficient log writing
* Fixed log file temporarily locking during in recursive situations
* Added (laptop) battery status to Inventory Collector and Alerter
* Fixed Bulk Config for Event Log monitors not adding newly checked Event Logs to monitor
* Event Log config dialog will show the selected Event Logs at the top of the list
* Self-signed SSL certificates will automatically regenerate if about to expire
* Fix for Event Log grid in templates inheriting the 'New Event Source' values down into many other sources
* Configurable mobile notification thresholds
* Configurable, and improved, calls to get data from ESXi
* Report builder will show Performance Counter aliases where available to more easily match/find counters being monitored
* Status Overview report shows monitor status count details
* Grids take monitor scale factor into account
* Fixed erroneous unneeded ODBC access attempt
* Fixed "Force Precise Schedule" checkbox on monitor schedules not staying clicked
* Fix for login failing with 2FA
* Saving monitor templates with no changes will not actually save, and thus not trigger a propagation
* Script editor works better with tabs
* Execute Scripts (both monitors and actions) can do a Run Now on monitors ($mon.RunMonitor and $act.RunMonitor)
* Fix for custom monitor Subjects not getting used when monitor is on a Satellite
* Performance counters watching w3wp instances (IIS instances) will have the w3wp#1, etc replaced with the IIS AppPool name
* Faster Console navigation for large installations
* Made more dialog windows resizable
* Satellite configuration database will sync more often (to prevent Satellite Down alerts during fail over)
* IPMI will retry on another well known failure case
* Fixed some errors where somethings get stuck if the computer's clock is set into the future
* Find dialog (Ctrl+F) allows searching for objects by settings and properties
* Added the safer $mon.GetCredentialsObj and $act.GetCredentialsObj which returns a PSCredentials object in the Execute Script monitor and action
* Reduced memory usage by the File & Directory Change Monitor
* Added $mon.TargetCredentials for Execute Script monitors which returns a PSCredentials object
* Group column report differentiate disabled from maintenance with icon
* Better support for parallel database queries
* Event Log Monitor can scan .evt and .evtx files
* Logging SSH port used
* Fix for reports that broke when some selected data sources didn't have any data
* Fix for recent regression bug in the Event Log Validator monitor
* Regression fix for some reports not showing up because they were missing a dataset title
* Email failing to send will list the email address in the global status message
* Event Log Monitor has UI improvements/fixes when reading .evt(x) files
* Fixed an issue where MS SQL Server-based reports could end up being truncated
* Fix for regression bug introduced in .206 (8 days ago) where the Event Log monitor was not reporting on new events
* Execute Script Monitor will show Powershell script errors better
* Fix for Satellites not regenerating expired SSL/TLS certificate
* Retry DNS lookup in DNS monitor on a timeout
* MessageBox action uses message templates better
* System Alerts can use monitor-specific replacement variables if defined in the alert context
* Fix for the Satellite using too much CPU when the Central Server can't be reached
* Improved some logging
* Fix for $mon.GetCredentialsObj for the Execute Script monitor
* Fixed crash in START_MAINTENANCE in External API
* Added right-click on monitor to force it to an OK state (to reset Event Escalation)
* Process monitor will report the user running the process in alerts
* Pasting a template into a Power Templates folders will differentiate it from existing templates if needed
* SendMail commands in Execute Script will try Direct Send if there are no SMTP server credentials
* Charts will show legend entry in tool tip, and hovering over legend will highlight chart line
* Large improvement to database cleanup on very large tables
* New report Display Type that will create one chart per data item instead of combining on the same chart
* Warning about Alert Suppression settings that are too tight and might prevent alerts
* Automatically changing Alert Suppression settings that are too tight
* Active Directory Login Monitor records who is doing many of the events
* Fix for case where SNMP objects threshold comparisons done as strings when it should be done as a numeric value
* Fixed how Ad Hoc/Scheduled Report charts respond to dark mode
* Slight improvement to dark mode color
* Fix for $mon.SendMail when no SMTP username is given
* Improved handling of the Global Monitors object
* File & Directory Change monitor can limit scan depth
* GET_MONITOR_INFO supports MID parameter
* Applying host:port settings in the Satellite configuration app will take effect immediately
* Fix for exporting tables to CSV when quotes, commas or new lines are in a field
* Improved MIB parsing
* Fix alert text format for the File & Directory Size monitor when thresholds are less than 1 MB
* Call URL action can add extra headers
* Added sorting parameter to some reports
* Fixed rare database deadlock caused by specific database errors
* Propagating a Performance Monitor will also translate (if needed) the additional VarX counter paths
* Improved the Monitor Changed diff for the audit report
* Registry configurable CSV separator character
* Fixed report parameter reading when the Console and Central Server are using different languages
* Error shown if empty username is used in the Credential Manager
* Import-Module will work in Powershell Execute Script monitors and actions
* Additional (redundant) protections against Satellites using extra CPU if they can't connect to the Central Server
* Satellites will use Central Server's CPU limit if a specific one was not set
* Auto-Recovery step of restarting the service (Central Service or Satellite) if the max CPU target is surpassed for 5 minutes after throttling is applied
* Diagnostic ping can use registry defined value for the -n parameter
* More thorough cleanup of network connections on shutdown
* Fix for changing where actions run from being ignore if it is the only change
* Powershell Execute Script monitors and actions can use IMPORT-MODULE
* Some fixes for the Credential Manager
* Internal improvements when looking up credentials
* Fixed throttling for File & Directory Change monitors
* Process Monitor can skip fetching the process user account (performs better)

Updates in 2024

9.5.0.133
* Changes in Local Console language setting will ask if it should also be applied to the Central Service
* Web Page monitor can alert on changed headers
* Fixed some date/time parsing and handling of time zones and milliseconds
* Fixed a bug where the Inventory Uptime field in the CSV report output was not being written correctly
* Group Overview report can now show 20 custom columns
* Updates to OpenSSL 3.0.13
* Fix for LDAP directory traversal when LDAP_PARTIAL_RESULTS is returned
* Event Log monitor will show and can filter on the EventData/UserData XML
* Fix for not handling the truncation/replacement of the Action row variables ($Item(x)$, etc)
* Performance Monitor will automatically show 5 largest processes when a memory alert is fired
* Added File & Directory Size chart options for Server Status Reports
* Fix for regression bug where outgoing headers and name-value parameters were lost from the Web Page Monitor
* Fixed a problem of template variable replacements (like $Details["$1", "$True"]$) where the replacement contained a $ character
* Fix for Bulk Config's "Monitors: Set Monitor Parameters" to work on the File & Directory Monitor ignored files list
* Updated to putty.exe v0.81.0.0
* Better error handling when writing to the System Monitoring Audit log
* Web login page will break out of frames
* Fix for some charts that aren't generating because of a data type change
* Symantec Endpoint Protection v14 is now detected by System Details
* Validating UTF16 before sending to the database
* Fix for 2FA not being reliably enabled
* Improved Failover setup compatibility checking
* Added $DeviceMAC$ replacement variable for using the MAC address
* Fixed bug where MonitorStatusHistory was cleaning up in batches that were too large
* MAC address lookup will use ARP table if a direct ARP request fails
9.4.0.185
* Fix for services that didn't get restarted or stopped properly
* Server status report can show monitor notes
* Current Errors group report can show monitor notes
* New user right to control who can set monitor notes
* Fixed name replacement when copy/pasting monitor to same server
* Fix for session cookies timing out when an HTTP connection is reused for a while
* Additional change to further prevent Client De-Sync (CSD) attack
* Less CPU usage getting a process list via SNMP
* Preventing negative performance counter values
* Give the ability to change the SSL certificate and private key filenames
* Fixed a few more places where the server status report could render twice
* Enabled HTTP server on IPv6 by default for new installations
* Added Dynamic Rules List rule "Has Monitor of Status"
* Doing some automatic index rebuilding to improve report performance
* Service Monitor will request StatIDs in bulk
* Dynamic Groups can have different server chart definitions
* Improvement showing what changed in monitor configuration XML
* Web interface can scroll the navigation tree correctly
* Improved CA renewal detection to make it easier to delete the CA folder
* Fixed embedded Chromium from needing to login again so frequently
* Automatically use LDAPS instead of LDAP whenever possible
* Extra checks to remove deleted monitors from the run queue
* Updated to SQLite 3.44
* Force a good session in the External API if one doesn't exist
* Fix for some property operator handling in non-English
* Showing expired certificate errors more prominently
* Better SNMP retries
* Failed HTTP requests that failed to an IPv6 address will try again with IPv4
* File Age Monitor can ignore sub-directories
* Fix for Console not remembering login servers when logged in as non-admin
* Service monitor can be configured to only record service status if the service is monitored - could shrink data table to 1/3 of size over time
* New separate, smaller, default size for Monitoring Status History database table
* Making error when compressing databases visible
* Never recording per-user services to the database from the Service monitor
* One-time check of Ignore Per-User services on all Service Monitors
* Fixed All-Systems-GO race condition
* Fix for External API CREATE_CHART that wasn't honoring width and height
* PALowPriorityHelper_Net4 runs in 64-bit
* Added system audit entries for monitors start/ending maintenance, and for System Alerts
* Fixed performance issue in the Dynamic Server List rule Has Service
* Cleaning the Statistics database table more often
* Syncing InventoryList.txt and SNMP-Perf-Mapping.txt to Fail Over
* Minor performance improvement - more noticable in larger installations
* Updated to curl 8.6
* Improved Broadcast message tracking
* $act.CustomProp can request custom properties from a Satellite in the case of a Satellite Down message
* When a Performance counter returns an error, reset sooner to try and fix it
* Fix string sent for monitorCustomMessage in Powershell Execute Script
* Fix missing monitorCustomMessage sent with Satellite Down Messages
* Fixed Calculated Status monitor when runnnig VBScript and requesting status of a remote monitor
* Improved performance counter parsing and handling
* Fix for crash in Disk Space Monitor when empty path is encountered
* Satellites can correctly inherit Custom Properties from the top Servers/Devices node
* Startup wizard fixes

Updates in 2023

9.3.0.77
* Device icon selection can also be based on the manufacturer
* Manufacturer can be determined by MAC address if other methods fail
* Fixed a rare case where a monitor could be reported stuck when it is actually fine
* New External API filter in the HTTP Server Settings dialog
* Added license information to the [System Summary Reports] > System Statistics report
* Fix for Event Log Monitor on non-seekable event logs (Analytic, Debug, Diagnostic) not finding bookmark
* Ignoring AD attributes msExchSafeRecipientsHash, msExchSafeSendersHash, msExchBlockedSendersHash
* Always using SHA256 with certificates, even on low sercurity setting
* Fix for regression bug in the Email action editor
* Fix for services that didn't get restarted or stopped properly
9.3.0.64
* Setting to control the maximum number of propagation threads
* Using CIM APIs (WS-Man) before falling back to WMI for Inventory Collector
* Process Monitor will confirm change of which process is being watched
* Updated to amCharts 5.4.2
* Some chart performance improvements
* Fix for Satellites running monitors after the Central Server restarts
* Fix for Satellite registration table database error
* Added support for more TLS 1.3 elliptic curve sets
* Monitors on Satellites won't lose their internal status after the a reconnect with the Central Server
* Resetting SNMP Monitor's error count when a good value is retrieved
* Trying WMI before WS-Man by default, but showing WS-Man error if both fail
* Bandwidth monitor will remove non-complying interfaces only after being at 0 bandwidth for 5 checks
* Improved client TLS 1.3 support
* Added check box in Auto Recovery dialog to disable the notification banner
* Quieting bogus errors in the log file from OpenSSL
* Fix for Disk Space returned via WMI request signaling a false negative
* Exporting a report table includes field headers
* Better logging of errors coming from OpenSSL
* Better LDAP connection management
* Active Directory Change Monitor can target individual objects (groups, users, etc)
* Improved the Active Directory Change Monitor alert messages
* Fixed a javascript quoting problem in the web interface
* Fixed error in web based report creator for a few data types
* Targeting .NET 4.8 for TLS 1.3 support (TLS 1.3 only available in Windows 11 and Server 2022)
* Updated embedded CEF (Chromium) browser
* Upgraded to OpenSSL 3.0.10
* Standardized SystemDetails_Log.txt location
* Fix checks when the DNS Monitor receives multiple responses
* Fixed display of DNS Monitor changed response value
* Can import and export monitor templates in the Console
* All Servers report can show monitor titles
* Added search and replace for Custom Property operations via Bulk Config
* Better performing Console, especially for large installations
* Updated ODBC Driver for SQL Server from 17 to 18 in the installer
* Fixed ordering GUI for All Servers and Group Summary reports
* Overview report (column report) can show custom columns from monitor title filter
* Fixed Disk Space retrieval error when retrieved via WMI/WS-MAN
* Fixed charts not showing in PDFs
9.2.2.98
* Limiting how large a ErrorHistoryDB description string can grow to
* Fixing when Strong cipher settings are shown if the cipher list doesn't match
* Note on Delete menu option when monitor or action is locked
* Quieted some noisy alerts coming from the service when All-Systems-GO first can't be reached
* Fail Over Console will be able to show HTTP server settings
* Consoles connected to the Fail Over can show more reports
* Fix for some missing Inventory property values
* Made the PASystemDetails.exe NOT depends on the Windows CRT DLLs
* HTML Table and CSV reports will correctly remove the 'empty value' sentinel
* Fix for broken Satellites summary link in the web interface
* Fix for being able to view Satellites in web interface without having the View Satellite Status user right
* Added titles to Console nav button bar
* Fixed duplicate fields in some Configuration Audit reports
* Satellites report all IP addresses
* Improved Credential Manager usability
* OpenSSL initialized with prime256v1 curve group
* Fixed delays in the Console when the Esensor EM01B Monitor is open
* Added the Satellite Configuration Summary report
* Allow access to the HTTP Settings and Database Settings dialogs from the Fail Over Slave
* Stop syncing the HTTP server port from Central Server to Fail Over Server
* Filters for the Active Directory Login Monitor work on the final event text, including the field headers
* $Facility(x)$ for the Event Log Monitor is now the Event Log that the event came from (i.e. Application, System, Security, etc)
* Ability to disable a server that is maintenance mode in the Console
* Fixed problem with Satellites not knowing about other Satellites
* Fix for repeating text in Recent Alerts
* Fixed tooltip links in dark mode
* Added tooltips to see all errors on the All Servers report
9.2.1.53
* Templates can be marked so the derived monitors automatically disconnect from the template after propagation
* Added ability in Auto-Recovery options to enable or disable auto restart for SQLSetConnectAttr problems
* Monitors and actions can be locked and unlocked
* The Configuration Audit report can show which monitors and actions are locked
* Protection against memory leaks caused by report template problems
* New Custom credential type
* Execute Script monitors and actions can access saved credentials if enabled (disabled by default)
* Fixed multiple login that happens during a web login
* Fix for crash in HTTPS server from unusual request
* Additional diagnostics and logging
* Directory Quota monitor can alert on directory separately
* Added ctSNMP to the script GetCredentials function
* Fixed Directory Quota monitor from sending bad alerts
* Fixed some web interface display issues
* Using per-product web session IDs
* SSL/TLS certificates (including CA) will be recreated if the MD hash is SHA1
* Web interface fixes for selecting items
* Option to disable the required ping response before the Inventory Collector probes run
* Erasing previously calculated inventory values if they can't be updated (i.e. no underlying data)
* Fixed bug where full reset to Satellite didn't reset the configuration database
* Fix for web based report Generate button when custom logos are used
* Fix for crash caused by asynchronous request to Satellite
* Filtering out "Unconfigured Disk" with "Disk Error" disk entries from ESX hardware monitoring
* Fix for some corrupted text in certain scenarios
* Added a few more default ignored services to the Service Monitor
9.2.0.120
* Added additional details to the output of the GET_MONITOR_INFO External API call
* Cleaned up and standardized the message template implementation
* "Strong" cipher setting is using an update list of allowed encryption ciphers for SSL/TLS
* Automatically try curl when on 2012R2 or order when ERROR_WINHTTP_SECURE_FAILURE (12175) errors happen
* Limit can't run or error alerts to once every 2 minutes per monitor
* Consoles making long requests to Satellites won't time out in the Console
* Fix for regression bug that affects disk space stats for SSH and SNMP
* Performance increase throughout the product
* Current Errors report will show monitors where the Satellite is disconnected
* Satellites will dynamically scale up callback threads as needed
* Fix so same ErrorID (AlertID) is used for error and fix events in more cases
* Fix for Directory Quota database error in some cases
* Fix for template propagation timing out at Satellites
* Added Green and Grey status icons for monitors, servers and groups
* Ability to show the Startup Wizard again from the Configuration menu
* Fixed Service Monitor to fire individual Fixed alerts
* Fixed some parsing/displaying of expression strings with double backslashes
* Added more troubleshooting hints to common errors
* New navigation bar in the Console
* Fixed some HTML problems
* Changed dark mode icons
* Fixed Console resource leak
* Installer checks to ensure Satellites can't be installed on Central Servers, and vice versa
* Fix for the Active Directory Login Monitor for non-English Windows installations
* Fix for Recent Alerts not showing up in emailed server status reports
* Improved default sorting in reports
9.1.0.23
* Ignored files in the File & Directory Change monitor will come from template parents as needed
* Ignored files in the File & Directory Change monitor can use wildcards * and ?, including in templates
* Fix to Log File Monitor's bulk config for "Monitors: Set Monitor Parameters"
* Fix for reports that contain $ which was showing an error
* Right clicking a monitor in the All Monitors trees can take you to the owning computer
* Added exception handling/logging support to PASystemDetails.exe
* Passing Powershell the default credentials the same as we do with WMI requests
* Changes to chart pagination when there are large numbers of charts
* Preventing report render "bouncing" in the Console
* Fix for cleanup of Directory Quotas and File & Directory Change databases that can delete quotas
* Switched the Citrix probe from .NET 3.5 to 4.6+
* Better handling of missing Inventory values in the Inventory Alerter expressions
* Restarting the service once per day if too many SQLSetConnectAttr errors are seen
* Fixed some date parsing in some non-English languages such as Japanese and Chinese
* Satellite down computers/monitors are correctly shown red/yellow according to the setting
* Boosted All-Systems-GO monitor priority so it doesn't run late
* Dynamic groups can have their own server reports settings
* Improved the status pop-up for monitors at the top of group reports
* All Servers Report indicates if there are more monitors in alert state
* Event Log Validator will show previous match when a match is not found
* CSS cleanup
* Enabling Servers/Devices in Bulk Config lets you indicates whether monitors should be enabled or disabled
* New "IPv4 Address Range" rule for Dynamic Server Lists
* Fix for first item missing in some datasets in the web report interface
* Added reporting system uptime to System Details
* Alerting user to expired SSL cert on login attempt
* Fixed error when saving report PDF to archive location
* System Details can skip the Windows Update check via Inv_SkipWindowsUpdate registry setting
* Disk Space Monitor can handle 15.9 Exabyte drive sizes from 7.9 Exabyte sizes before
* If a Disk Space Monitor contains expressions, the expression will responsible to add or remove drives
* Added [System Summary Reports] > Monitor Uptime report type
* Handling WMI requests when the password contains a comma
* Optional status colors on Console nav icons
* Fix for odd numbers of combined charts missing one value
* More advanced database connection string parsing
* Fix for drives not reporting disk space overage separately with advanced deduplication
* Fixed web page request parameters display
* Disk Space monitor supports PB and EB units
* Small optimizations for Console navigation tree status updates for large installations
* Console can show Dynamic Server List <> Dynamic Group linkage
* Fix for crash in Pager Duty action
* Web interface works better if report protection is turned off
* Fixes to the Error History report
* Remove duplicate disk threshold definitions from the Disk Space monitor
* DB_LIMIT errors will show which value needs to be increased
* Protection against Client-Side Desync attack in HTTPS server
* Moved to OpenSSL 3.0.8
* Regenerating certificates to ensure SHA256 message digest
* Setting Syslog sender to use RFC 5424 format by default
* Better error when when Lock (log file lock) can't be locked
* Fix for File & Directory Change Monitor corrupting non-ASCII text
* Better handling for some non-ASCII column label images
* Moved to the richer PagerDuty v2 API
* Show message template type (alert, satellite, report, etc)
* If OpenSSL reports MD is too weak, regenerate certs as needed
* TCP Port monitor will resolve addresses before calling IPWorks

Updates in 2022

9.0.1.12
* Added new Wait action (useful for Action Lists and Scheduled Actions)
* Fixed some bugs in the Configuration Audit report
* Passing service Run-As credentials in WMI request if no other credentials are being used
* Less memory and CPU usage when shrinking File & Directory Change monitor databases
9.0.0.434
* Dark mode
* New web interface
* When Network Scanner copies computer configuration, it will also copy credentials
* Performance monitor can check if values are in or not-in a set
* Fix for Console sorting issue
* Better report template error handling
* Exception logging in PALowPriorityHelper_Net4
* Fixed XML unescaping
* Fix for escaping strings sent to Helper for Powershell scripts
* Restored PALowPriorityHelper_Net4 to a 64-bit process
* Introduced $CustomProp_Raw(x)$ custom property which does not do any character escaping
* Applying computer config (from a Bulk Config copy operation, or a Network Scanner monitor) can copy credentials even when they are remote
* Fix for PALowPriorityHelper_Net4 having wrong version in some build scenarios
* Updated amCharts5 version
* Fix for LDAPAccess not detecting an error condition and returning a partial list which causes false errors in the AD Change Monitor
* Web interface handles limited-rights users better
* File & Directory Change monitor database sizes drastically reduced
* Fixed rare problems in the Directory Quota monitor
* When updating Satellites and Endpoints, the Satellites will update the Endpoints after they update themselves
* Added a message template to the Syslog Sender action
* Reflecting device's Satellite-disconnected state out to Consoles better
* Discovery end IP address is now inclusive
* Fixed passwords getting lost when configurations are imported
* Fixed credentials not getting propagated when the Network Discovery monitor finds new devices
* Fixed report parsing bug when language is set to French
* Failed emails don't send System Alerts so soon
* Reduced CPU usage
* Setting failed mail sending global status after 3 failures
* Improved cases where PDF renderer works
8.5.0.291
* Added OAuth support to the Email Action, Error Acknowledgement, Mail Server Monitor and EMail Monitor
* Service Monitor can ignore Per-User services
* Fix for rare case where reports that get stuck looping while generating
* Fix for the HTTPS client accepting an expired certificate
* Limit the number of times the Reboot action will try to reboot a server
* New automatic system check for the internally used SSL certificate's expiration and warn if getting close
* File & Directory Change monitor can scan sub-folders for specific files
* Fixed rare deadlock in heavily loaded system
* Protection for Action Lists to not fire non-notification actions in System Alerts
* Added 'First day of current month' time selector for reports
* Fix for correct Smart Config dialog showing up in Remote Consoles
* Potential work around for EvtOpenSession calls getting stuck in Windows' wevtapi.dll
* Ability to serialize access to server Event Logs
* More efficient sending of large emails
* Monitors don't lose their Last Run time on a Satellite after a restart
* Added ALIAS option to the ADD_SERVER External API
* Syslog monitor will switch to source address when host is 'localhost'
* Inventory Collector collects serial numbers/service tags from more devices for your local database
* Added ignored sub directories for File/Dir Size monitor
* Performance increase in the Console, especially the SNMP object selector
* Fix for Web Page monitor not appending web page content in all requested situations
* Change to allow wildcards in Service Monitor templates
* Additional internal security checks
* Fix for a string comparison bug
* Active Directory Change Monitor correctly does substring checks for ignored objects and attributes
* Cleaning up extra tabs in critical fields during an import/read
* Updated to zlib 1.2.12
* Updated to curl/libcurl 7.82.0_2 (because of zlib)
* Updated to libssh2 1.10.0_2 (because of zlib)
* Fixed a rounding error in the Bandwidth monitor
* Using UTC time for maintenance end times so time zones are not an issue
* Fix for some default monitors not showing up after adding a new computer
* Updated 7za (7-Zip) to 21.7.0
* Simplied SSL certificate names in CA folder
* Improved monitor dependency mapping when copying monitors and templates
* PDF renderer will wait longer for retries
* Prevent HTTP request storms to/from Satellites
* Fix for some template changes not getting propagated
* Greatly improved efficiency of device mapping and finding
* Fix for custom chart editor sorting
* Added control for output of the Email monitor at customer request
* Improved automatic language translation process
* Added registry-based extra Play Sound methods
* Fixed promoting a monitor to a template when the monitor is selected in a different category
* Use a shorter timeout for remote requests on the UI thread in the Console to keep it more responsive
* Added Amazon ECS for monitoring
* Local IP address shown in reports, etc can be changed by index number into list of local addresses
* Updated to OpenSSL 1.1.1o
* Better job figuring out system PID
* Fix for Active Directory Change Monitor
* Log File Monitor works better with Bulk Config
* Added AWS Elasticache device type
* Fixed regression bug involving checking ranges of Event IDs in the Event Log Monitor
* Database monitor reports a formerly silent error
* Trimming path in Log File Monitor
* Fix for ignored AD attributes being alerted on
* Added support for AWS CWAgent custom performance counters
* Updated to latest PAExec
* Updated .config files to reference .NET 4.8 and 4.8.1
* AWS counters will be fetched without the cache when in the Performance Monitor configuration
* Fix for slow Network Scanners with large IP ranges
* Better XML diff in audit messages
8.4.1.19
* Fix for quickly growing Security Event Logs
* Cache the running process list so Event Log monitors have better performance
* Optimization so the Active Directory Login Monitor will use less CPU
* Event Log and Active Directory Monitors won't do impersonates when resolving SIDs
* Bandwidth grid is more stable
* Show a message box if a file fails a signature check
* Fix for a crash when queueing emails that are rejected by the mail server because of size
* Error message from PASystemDetails will be shown in the monitor status
* Added an Auto Recovery feature to automatically rename corrupted database files. See Settings > Auto Recovery
* Added support for $TunneledHostPort(remote_port)$ to Console_Operations.ini
* Added putty to build, and new SSH to Device command option
* Status updates from multiple Satellites won't cause repeating alerts to fire
* Auto-scaling unit added to many reports
* More verbose Service Monitor logging
* Added Most Recent Value report summarization type
* New anti-virus support added to the Inventory Collector
* Added IP address to the "Sent From" field in alerts
* When an Action can't run, the source monitor will be shown when possible

Updates in 2021

8.4.0.174
* Added more diagnostic logging
* Upgraded IPWorks
* Fix for showing scaled SNMP values in charts and GUI
* Fix for slow right-click on Devices nodes in the Console
* New self-signed certificates default to being sha256 signed instead of sha1
* Server charts will show an additional decimal point's info in the tool tip
* Syslog monitor will show error status when it can't listen on required port
* Event Log Monitor will try to resolve GUIDs and CLSIDs to give more meaningful messages
* Added more encryption and authentication options to SNMP v3
* Detect stale VMWare connections better
* Fix for server chart tool tips
* Fix for custom charts not being sized as desired
* Checking DLL signatures when loading
* Server/group charts with 6 or more data lines will show the title next to the value in the tooltip
* Added new Monitors: Replace Actions Bulk Config command
* Fix for SNMP Trap monitor that couldn't filter on field descriptions
* Added /AUTO_LOGIN Console command line option
* Fix for RD Gateway Monitor reports
* Configuration Audit report will be written to unique directory so it doesn't overwrite other similar reports
* Fix for very rare crash in the Console
* Better support for receiving encrypted SNMP Traps
* Fix for some non-English date parsing
* The DNS Monitor can alert on changes to DNS response
* Added new Monitor Statuses custom group report part
* Mail Monitor will now store credentials in a per-monitor manner
* Fixed crash in Syslog monitor
* Fix for crash during configuration restore from disk
* Protection against Console thinking servers aren't owned by a group
* Added auditing entries for moving computers to different groups, and running Bulk Config
* Console updates status icons in navigation panel better
* Updated to OpenSSL 1.1.1l
* Updated to libcurl 7.78.0
* Updated to libssh2 1.10.0
* System Details WMI calls will use packet level authentication
* Added Regular Expression support to Dynamic Server List and Inventory Alerter monitors
* New hourly System Audit event that the service/Satellite is running
* DNS Monitor will show all lookup results in the monitor status
* Fix for DNS Monitor that didn't report failures properly
* Bandwidth monitor data set handles large numbers of interfaces better
* Bandwidth monitor columns are sortable (click column header)
* Logging a host ping if the database connection is reconnected
* Removing stale stats from multiport bandwidth charts
* Event Log Monitor and Active Directory Login Monitor better handle fast filling event logs
* Dynamic Groups with missing base Dynamic Server List monitor will be deleted
* Bandwidth monitor supports expressions to specify which interfaces to monitor
* Disk Space monitor templates can use expressions to specify which disks to monitor
* System Alerts use a message template that can be modified
* Fix for errorneous "monitor stuck" alerts
* Collecting disk status via WMI Inventory Collector similar to System Details
* Fixed a bug so there is better email alert throughput under load
* Reduced how much MIB files are read
* Added Groups: Delete Groups to Bulk Config
* Setting process wide COM/DCOM security to RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_PKT_PRIVACY
* Added AD attribute ms-mcs-admpwd and ms-mcs-admpwdexpirationtime for ignore to the AD_Attributes.csv file
* Disk Space monitor can check for new drive in an external process
* Fix for sorting in the Active Directory Change monitor report
* Fix for Web Page monitor URL bulk load
* Console remembers navigation panel width between restarts
* Better error reporting in the Execute Script monitor
* Added Italian translation files
* Fix for configuration import problem
* Handle canceling out of the startup wizard better
* Added mouse scroll wheel support to some grids in the Console
* Active Directory Change monitor will gather data from Satellites for reports
* Fix for disk space monitors that would not configure drives that were found
* Will attempt to get remote drive list from Windows via WMI
* Updated to NAudio 1.8 with new API to play sounds more quickly
8.3.0.265
* Fix for problem parsing MIB files
8.3.0.262
* New default self-signed certificates will use sha256 instead of sha1 for signature
* Fix for slow right-click on Devices nodes in the Console
* Added better error reporting to the Upgrade to 64-bit helper application
8.3.0.260
* Faster operation for large installations (1000's of devices)
* Less CPU usage in large installations
* TLS 1.3 support added to the user interface
* Upgraded to amCharts4
* Fix for audit failure event log entry showing up for the service account instead of per-server login account
* Added reporting to the SNMP Trap monitor
* Fixed database transfer for the Directory Quota monitor
* Clicking the Parent Group button will refresh the parent report
* Configurable cache minutes for Server Status Report
* Pasting monitor will no longer try to customize them but will paste as-is
* Better credential syncing for the Database Monitor templates
* Increased timeout when communicating with ESXi
* Can set an SNMPv3 privacy/encryption password in the SNMP Trap monitor to receive encrypted traps
* Disk Space monitor won't remove mount points when deriving from a template
* Fix when using credentials with templates
* Added the caller to the alert for certain Active Directory events
* Fix charts for Service and Process monitors
* Fix for rare crash in MIB parser
* Fix to prevent monitors disappearing under heavy load
* Fix for Network Scanner ignores with wild cards
* Multiple stats combined into a single CSV file will show stat names at the stat change boundary
* Servers coming out of Maintenance will be able to regardless of whether the Satellite is connected or not
* Fix for occasional problem in the Console when moving computers would show a double shadow computer
* Reduced CPU usage for large installations
* Variables html page written out in UTF-8 to handle non-ASCII characters
* Configuration to hide empty datasets when running a report on multiple datasets
* Speed increase for Console startup and in the Service and Satellite
* Performance monitor will keep a more stable connection to the performance counters when wildcards are used
* Rebuild with new code signing scheme
* Fix for START_MAINTENANCE and END_MAINTENANCE with GID of 0
* Better support for downloading CSV files from reports
* Web Page Monitor can use cURL for requests to support more ciphers on older Windows versions
* Fix for server charts showing wrong date
* Not caching performance monitor error data
* Fix for rare Console synchronization bug
* Charts render asynchronously so the browser responds quicker
* Event Log Cleared message will contain the bookmark information for verification purposes
* Event Log monitor will show process and command line (if possible) when a Process ID is in the event
* Active Directory Login Monitor contains Domain field for running reports against
* Satellites and Endpoints have a better back-off when failing to connect
* New bandwidth data sent/received charts and report
* Performance boost (less CPU usage)
* Fix for failing to get a list of drives from a server
* Additional XSS protection added (credit to Ryan Jones)
* Added CSV export icon to tables in most reports
* Report CSV files that are empty will have _no_data appended to the filename
* New user right for View Satellite status
* Starting and ending Immediate Maintenance handled asynchronously
* Enhancement to speed up chart rendering
* Significantly faster internal HTTPS server
* Fix for MONITOR_ENABLE External API call
* Entering and leaving maintenance will only fire the associated System Alert, not the "changes might affect monitoring" alert
* Added FORCE to Smart Config to force duplicates if specified
* TTFB shown in Console when testing Web Page Monitor via service
* HTTPS client reading much larger chunks to speed up Console sync
* Fix for some garbled PDF attachment filenames for non-latin character sets
* Run Now commands are handled asynchronously
* Added QFE Last Installed Date inventory field
* Fix for Inventory Report date parsing
* Added -V 2 to IPMI commands (uses lower privilege level)
* SNMP Walk will try alternate OIDs to work around broken agents (Windows Server 2019 for example)
* Can set Use Curl via Bulk Config for Satellites
* Added replacement variable support to connection strings for the database monitors
* Fixed showing and editing SNMP v3 credentials in the Credential Manager
* Better dynamic TLS support for the Helper application based on installed .NET version
* Fix for Calculated Status and Execute Script monitors not honoring error suppression rules
* Fix for charts that cover the daylight savings shift
* Fixed rare Hardware Monitor crash
* SystemDetails module of Inventory Collector uses correct domain with credentials
* Fix for SNMP table view for long OIDs (Windows services table)
* Added Device IP/Hostname, Device Alias Only and Device Aliased Name inventory fields
* Set a maximum size of email message digests
* Performance improvements
* Added Source ID and ExternalRef columns to the Error Audit report and database
* Fixed the enabling and disabling of Automatic Configuration in the Console
* Support added to SNMP monitor to easily monitor table columns
* Performance improvements
* More reliable Satellite and Fail Over updates
* Fix for Active Directory Login Monitor filtering on username
* Creating SNAP Tunnels has additional security checks
* Failed login recording with automatic and configurable lockout
* Added support for ignoring uninteresting folder paths in the SSH Disk Space monitor
* Added support for defining "Instances" in Execute Script reported statistics
* Group chart height grows dynamically with legend size
* SNMPWalk will try to do bulk again after walking backwards to find a new start node * New Bulk Config operation to securely copy device credentials from one Satellite to another
* Prevent overlapping template propagations
* Selecting device in a Dynamic Group won't cause the selection to jump to the 'home' group of the device
* Account locked messages show calling application type
* Changes to template propagation to increase robustness
* Mobile Device actions will show Last Contact in right-click menu
* Fix for a few template propagations that would happen repeatedly
* Better linking of Linked schedules between template derived monitors

Updates in 2020

8.2.1.1
* Fix for regression bug where Inventory Collectors on Satellites stopped reporting
* Ability to change report email subjects to just the report title
* Database Monitor connection string propagation works with templates
* Can specify independent Up and Down actions for Satellites
8.2.0.74
* Added some APC battery properties to the Inventory Collector
* Inventory Collector monitor can read SNMP values from InventoryList.txt
* IgnoreScriptErrors variable added to $mon for Powershell Execute Script
* Fixed rare problem where older state would show up in monitor status
* Added RENAME_USER_ACCESS command line to rename user access settings
* Updated Web Page Monitor to allow scripts between checks for extracting data from pages
* Fixed Bulk Config's Monitors: Delete Monitors to work on template-derived monitors
* Fixed some problems with database transfers
* Fixed race condition during template propagation where some monitors might get lost
* AD Login Monitor will throttle it's CPU usage better
* AD Login database writer is a bit more performant
* Fix for Ping Monitors getting behind
* Fix for Web Page Monitor regression bug from 8.1.0.33
* New Remote Desktop Gateway monitor
* Disk Space Full Check will by default use straight line prediction instead of looking at quadratic
* When a monitor comes out of Satellite Disconnected it will show its previous status
* Web Page Monitor can append content in OK status (as well as Alert status as before)
* Web Page Monitor script $mon.Details will be appended to the monitor status whether firing actions or not
* Improvement to help prevent the internal HTTP server from getting behind
* Task Scheduled Monitor will show
* Fix for UI glitch when chosing field values for reports
* Fixed a problem with accessing ESXi servers when the password contains a space
* Fix for SNMP Walk when looking for the starting OID for devices that respond with End of MIB
* Logging that will show which Performance object is returning faulty data
* Ability for Performance monitor to try to continue even if data is corrupted
* Better finding the starting OID for an SNMP Walk
* Internal changes to reduce CPU usage
* File & Directory Change monitor doing proper impersonation on one call where it was missing before
* Better AWS counter monitoring error messages
* Changes to reduce CPU usage in large installations
* Change to Log File Monitor to allow checking multiple lines at once for patterns
* Update for SNMP Monitors that will now show charts in their alerts
* Fix for database transfer of the Active Directory Change monitor
* More shutdown logging
* GET_SERVER_PROP API function supports multiple property look ups per request
* Emailed report PDFs will use the report title for the PDF file name
* Better check for customer SSL/TLS certificates before regenerating
* Event Log monitor handles timeouts better
* Execute Script won't alert based on FireActions if $mon.ReportResults has already been called
* AD Logins report fix
* Rebuilt a library with (little used) SIMD extensions removed for broader CPU support
* Added 'contains' and 'does-not-contain' operators for text-based SNMP checks
* Recent Logins report for the AD Login Monitor can show recent login at the start or end of a period
* Added Group Name to Custom Group Report email subjects
* Better LDAP error when credentials are wrong
* Protect Console against a rare crash
* Added $mon.ComputerAlias for the Execute Script monitor
* Added operators % ^ & | to the expression evaluator
* Fix for lock in the Service monitor
* Added support for multi-Item escalation in Execute Script monitors
* AD Login Monitor can cleanup the database without needing a locally running monitor
* When exporting computer config as a template, monitors are disconnected from templates as needed
* When importing computer config from a file, do not 'fit' monitors - import as-is
* Fix for group reports not showing internationalized titles
* Fix for duplicate rows in the Largest Directories report for the Directory Quota monitor
* Change to support the APP_POOL_WAS\Current Application Pool Uptime performance counter
* Disk Space monitor can retrieve disk stats via SSH
* Registry setting for optionally forcing HTTP connections to not get reused
* Registry setting so Run Now can optionally NOT override monitor period and dependencies
* Added HTTP/2 support to the Web Page Monitor
* Fix for Executive Summary report section titles
* Fixed testing Execute Script powershell monitors when they are a template
* Fixed TCP/UDP selector for SNMP monitors
* Fix for Database Server Monitor template propagation
* Fix for expanding performance counters with ? and Regular Expressions
* Fix for SNMP v3 Traps/Informs
8.1.0.11
* New Task Scheduler Monitor * Better HTTP filtering of requests that come from localhost * Better startup experience for first install * Bulk Config's Set Credentials works with using existing credentials * Registry configurable option to combine CSV report files * Fix for rare issue of disk space charts growing * Email Monitor works better with Office365 * Added 'By Satellite' to Bulk Config's server selector * Scheduled Report 'contains' fields are restored properly * Fixed Dynamic Server List "Monitor Title" 'does not contain' operator * File & Directory Change monitor's Ignore Files list propagates as a template correctly * Added ENABLE_MONITOR external API function * Acknowledging errors can temporarily suppress alerts (see monitor's Advanced Options > Alert Suppression) * New report CSS * Updated Content-Security-Policy so IFRAMEs can load poweradmin.com help pages * Restored missing Ping and Inventory Collector templates to their Auto Configuration groups * Upgraded to the latest PDF renderer * Added Bulk Config operation Computers: Notes to set or clear notes on multiple devices at once * Polished some start up wizard interaction * Fix for Two Factor Authentication when using Active Directory for logins
8.0.4.20
* Internal Python initialized in a safer way * Charted titles change more reliably when the underlying statistic's alias is changed * Setting DNSCache parameters MaxCacheTtl and MaxNegativeCacheTtl to prevent Ping false positives because of DNS caching * Added LOOKUP_CID and SERVER_ENABLE to the External API * Fix for text descriptions from SNMP Nodes if syntax is wrong * Fix for alerting on empty Event Logs * Fix for alerting when the Event Log is cleared * Regression fix for Event Log monitoring * Updated from OpenSSL 1.1.1c to 1.1.1d * File & Directory Change monitor works with Bulk Config's Monitors: Set Monitor Parameters operation

Updates in 2019

8.0.3.113
* Minor UI update to look less dated. See the View menu to change back * New support for some AWS Cloud Watch counters * New Active Directory Change Monitor * Convenience fix for "Logins by User" report * Fix for Bulk Config operations that didn't work on Monitor Templates * New Most Recent Logins report for the Active Directory Login monitor * Remove duplicates from Active Directory Login monitor report output * Fix for rare crash * Improved MIB parsing * Fix for missing nodes in MIB tree * Fixed the PDF button when used within the Console * Decreased short term memory use, and a small performance increase * Fix for form-post escaping * Reduced log load for some monitors * Dynamic Server List rule for Server/Device names accepts wildcards * Error History OK Time field will be filled in even if unacknowledged alerts * Fix for User Access interface when rights not automatically granted to new users * Quiet a false database error * PALowPriorityHelper_net4 (Powershell 4/5) is now 64-bit * Improved MIB dependency resolver * Added an AWS Counters chart definition * New MIBs are loaded every 60 seconds * Charts that are all 0 values show up better * New Alerts menu to Broadcast text to user alert actions * Default Message Templates will use the correct default language setting after it changes * Run Now will override the monitor's schedule or dependencies * Fix for merging charts with data from multiple monitors where amounts of data aren't the same * Uninstaller will unregister from All-Systems-GO as needed * Failed action notifications won't cycle and alert via the same failed action, causing a crash * Bandwidth monitor can set thresholds in %, Kbps, Mbps, Gbps or Tbps * Improved computer name mapping, better local computer detection * More helpful diagnostic message when a report fails to run * Fix for Set Maintenance Schedule user right * CSS change to prevent wrapping in the report index tree * Added GET_NOTES and SET_NOTES to External API * Fix for Service Monitor template propagation of non-auto start services * Protection against bad response from DNS server
8.0.2.15
* Two Factor Authentication can be enabled on a per-user basis at Settings > Remote Access > Filter User Access * New User Right to control who can update Satellites and Fail Over * Ping monitor will work around Windows internal DNS cache failure * Fix for race condition when launching the PALowPriorityHelper application * Fix for Default bandwidth alert minutes over threshold * Increased SQLite memory usage limit * Better GUID caching in the Active Directory Login and Event Log monitors * More precise UCRT check * Added optional HEIGHT and WIDTH parameters to the CREATE_CHART External API command * Changed cipher list ordering for Weak cipher list so Windows 2003 can still connect * Check socket state before making an SSL/TLS connection * Address Resolver handles ISATAP IPv6 addresses * Added vcredist-x86 for VS2012 for IPMI usage (thanks Thunderbyte!) * Can use a remote login to the local Central Monitoring Service to get a full Local Console if: local Admin, admin rights in app, rights to top Servers/Devices group * Can disable the local credential-less login * Trend lines go out 33% beyond the chart * Reordered some lines in the HTTP/S server to potentially reduce locking * ReqResponseDN.dll is correctly updated by the installer * Fixed internal lock that can freeze the service * Fix for Bandwidth monitor that couldn't select interfaces to be monitored * Increased performance of the Active Directory Login monitor * Increased performance of DNS resolver * Fix for Log File monitor
8.0.1.172
* WMI (Inventory Collector), PDF, and charts use the .NET 4 Helper * Current Errors Report will succeed in more situations * Switched to newer MIB parser, and added a larger MIB library * Defaulting to requiring a login to view web reports * New User Right for setting maintenance schedules * Fix for row variables in Execute Script actions * Handle double-width charts in Executive Summary/Custom Group reports
8.0.1.150
* Preventing old SNMP 'bandwidth' monitor from getting created * Added additional group-level Custom Reports * Added SSL certificate checking to the FTP monitor * Fail Over will be able to run the All-Systems-GO monitor even if it is not active * Fix for Database Server Monitor that wasn't alerting on databases created or deleted * ChangeMonitorStatus from Execute Script monitors and actions can correctly update the running monitor's status * Change to report page refresh functionality if an HTTP error happens * Fixes for duplicate columns in the Group Overview report (column report) * Alert charts will use better units, especially for Disk Space monitors * Diagnostic pings are on by default * New Bulk Config to cleanup unknown Actions * Bandwidth charts will filter out values that are too high and thus ruin the chart * If System Details fails to get Windows Update data across the network, copy it to the target machine on the next run * When Satellites reconnect, they will quickly sync the monitor status to restore status back to what it was (overwriting the Scheduled status) * Scheduled monitor status is grey indicating it is an unknown state * Hardware monitor works with templates * Fix for Satellites: Set Host bulk config operation * Windows credential setting can choose credentials from an existing server * Install .NET 4.7.2 if needed via .NET Web Installer * New Credential Manager * Don't show Top X chart on a group when there are no devices in the group * Fix for SNMP monitor that would switch between UDP and TCP transport * Fix for generating PDF of Custom Reports that might be for a different report * Web Page monitor headers and posted name/values are kept in original order instead of sorted * Fix for Ping monitor caching DNS lookup results by default * Fixed a small memory leak * Outgoing alert emails will be processed in parallel more for greater throughput if needed * Restored the missing Hourly Error Count chart * Write to Log File action has a configurable output template * Fix for possible crash in Execute Script monitor * Old v7 Console will be replaced with a message to update short cuts * Protection against crash in PAPDH * Fix for Welcome Dialog with newer versions of IE * A little better tracking of who creates computers when done via Network Scanner * Remote Console failure to write to its log file will not broadcast a System Alert * Ping monitors with multiple IP addresses can be differentiated in the reports better * Master server won't do a Fail Over file sync for first 10 minutes of the service starting up * Don't alert on monitors missing actions if the monitor (or server) is disabled * Fixed rare crash triggered by mobile app usage * Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c * Satellite disconnected status shown on devices and monitors with a striped background * Fix to ignore PAExec in the File & Directory Change monitor * Explicit SSL/TLS version selection in the HTTP Settings dialog * Better Live View (with simple filtering) * Credential Manager will prompt if deleting credentials referred to by other devices * Explicit SSL/TLS version selection in the HTTP Settings dialog * Better Live View (with simple filtering) * Resolve IP addresses in Active Directory Login Monitor for more meaningful alerts * Fixed rare crash in IPv6 address resolver * Logging will recover from network errors better * Fix for computed Performance values using variables * Fix for File & Directory Change monitor so it again shows full path for Changed files * Added Event ID 4768 "A Kerberos authentication ticket (TGT) was requested." to the Login Monitor for Failed Logins * Easier to read reverse DNS name lookup for Active Directory Login Monitor IP addresses * Upgraded to AmCharts 3.21.15 from 3.20.4 * Charts can now be normal width, double width, or full width (double width is new) * Execute Script monitors can overwrite their own status as they run * Better chart resizing * Automatically flush DNS cache when pings fail * Can now add charts for Citrix login times, FTP times, Mail monitor times and TCP Port times to the Server Status Report * Added audit change events for Servers/Devices and Actions * Exporting templates can now export all appropriate credential types if requested * Fixed Multiport bandwidth charts for some customers * Updated to SQLite 3.29.0 * Better database cleanup routine for Active Directory Login monitor * Top-level Monitor Templates won't propagate into the *Automatic Configuration groups * Upgraded to InnoSetup 6 * Allowing Group report editing in Remote Access Edition * SNMP Monitor works with floating point values * Check All and Uncheck All buttons added for the Event Logs to Monitor list * Defaulting back to version 7 behavior of Ping monitors caching DNS lookup results * Satellites are automatically accepted by default
8.0.0.434
* Better, Faster, Stronger - many improvements in monitor performance, template propagation, etc * 64-bit, which means almost no memory limitations. * All-Systems-GO monitor to be assured your monitoring system is up and running * IPv6 support * Better performance when using RDP through a SNAP Tunnel * All licenses come with Unlimited Ping * SNMP over TCP (as well as UDP like previously) * More Bulk Config operations * Bulk load SNMP monitors from a spreadsheet * Group notes (similar to Server Notes) * More flexible and powerful monitor settings * New User Rights for more control * Event Log monitor opens and runs faster on older versions of Windows (pre-2008) * SNMP Monitor uses the SNMP Retries registry setting instead of being hard-coded * Monitors that cannot run will fire System Alerts at most once every 15 minutes (instead of on every run) * Added SNAP Tunnel audit events * Advanced Deduplication will block all actions on a duplicate as documented, not just notifications * Added some database caching for frequent requests to increase performance * Fix for Calculated Status monitor for rapidly running monitors * Fixed Monitor Change auditing event * Fix for Disk Space Monitor reporting predicted full disks, and then immediately reporting it is OK and under threshold * Fix for Satellite Up/Down messages that were missing the Satellite name * Added new All Actions Access permission * Email send throttling can be controlled via registry setting * View System Activity shows template propagation * Disk Space monitor status will show all disks, even when alerting on each separately * Removed [ ] around monitored values in Disk, SNMP and Performance Monitors * Fix for template dependencies not propagating properly * Enforce OpenSSL server cipher order * Template propagation speed improvement when Satellites are involved * Group-level Notes that can be added to Group reports (similar to Server Notes) * Easy Config can query for IPv6 Neighbors * Added $DeviceNameOrAliasOnly$ replacement variable * Fix for Smart Config that wasn't adding actions when using a template as the base monitor * Fixed device property "Date Added for Monitoring" from getting reset * Can set Performance Monitor and SNMP Monitor threadholds to compare against "Previous_Value" - useful for detecting reboots * Syslog Monitor's filter editor will always edit the correct filter * Prevent memory fragmentation when cleaning up the Login Event Database * Reports can be run that are not limited by memory size * Fix for dependencies on templates * Fix for rare crash in SNAP Tunnels * Increased reporting speed in some cases * Updated expiring SHA1 code signing certificate * Upgraded to IPWorks 16 * Handle very large emails more efficiently * Using different heap memory management settings * First template propagation will wait until the Central Service has been running for two mintues * Fix for ping handles being reset too often * More efficient log file writer (easily handles 10X the logging) * Plugin Monitor fix to handle single-line output * Added Bulk Config to enable/disable monitoring of Servers/Devices * Bulk Config can be used to disable the internal HTTPS service within the Satellite (will break Inventory Collector) * Registry setting to allow Ping monitor to use cached DNS results * Configuration setting to prevent the 'Start specified service on monitored computer' action from being created * New Bulk Config operation - Computers: Allow/Prevent Template Propagation * Central Server will sync MIBs to the Fail Over regardless of MIB sync settings * Bulk Config's Monitors: Set Monitor Dependencies works with monitor templates * Improved Network Map device layout * Event Log Monitor and Active Directory Login Monitor will skip events older than 3 days * Fix for rare configuration synchronization failure * Disabled servers leaving maintenance mode won't become enabled * Prevent Bulk Config from misconfiguring a template with the Monitors: Set Monitor Parameters operation * Much faster processing of GetNextID for large installations (used in template propagation) * Database Server Monitor handles databases with spaces in the name * Syslog and SNMP Trap monitors will use the optional registry configuration values * Added the ability to block some accounts (external customers for example) from seeing Recent Alerts on servers and Current Errors in groups * Can start and end Immediate Maintenance on servers in Dynamic Groups * Fix for regression crash in SNAP Tunnels * Fixed View Template button at the top tempate bar in the Console * Added Show Monitoring Coverage on Group reports user right * Fix to the Startup Wizard * Fixed the "Show devices that do not contain specified monitors" parameter for the Configuration Audit report * Small reduction in memory usage for large installations * Tool tips for most fields that are too long to display * Caching domain lists * Additional support for IPv6 for SNMP-based requests * The Central Service and Fail Over Service will wait longer for Satellites to reconnect after just starting up * Central Service will sync a fresher copy of the Satellite status database to the Fail Over Service * Fix for formatting in the Environment Monitor when alerting on humidity or luminescence * SNMP Trap monitor has option to show trap/field descriptions in alerts * Set Server Maintenance action shows server names with groups * Monitors in Can't Run state (or Internal Error) will NOT move through Event Escalation steps, but instead reset escalation to the beginning. * Email Message Digest age is registry configurable (defaults to 1 minute) * Less memory usage when sending large host name lists to the central server * Tighter syncing between the Console and Central Service * Fix for ability to disable Drag and Drop in the Console * Fix for very rare memory corruption bug that can happen during log rotation * Added time stamps to Satellite up/down and also System alerts * Ability to message digest all emails, including the first one in a while * Change that should prevent the CompNameCache database from growing so much * Fix for Day Light Savings transition date calculations * Fix for rare race condition in Cache Manager that caused configuation updates to get lost * Fixed units in the charts in email alerts * Retries when an error occurs while retrieving ESX disk space * Enhancement that reduces CPU usage on heavliy loaded systems * Better SNAP Tunnel performance (RDP to Satellite for example) * Bandwidth Monitor's 'Alert After' field is honored * Expanded Call URL Action's Content-Type field * SNMP Monitor will strip common text from chart titles * File & Directory Change monitor speed increase * Increased report refresh reliability * Added ability to have group reports refer to child group reports * Data Sets in the report builder will show device aliases if defined * Fix for Email Monitor reseting IMAP folder to INBOX * Bandwidth monitor alerts automatically scales bandwidth values in alerts for easier reading * Custom Group report Custom Charts can be separated by device * Optimizations for increased performance * Ability to turn off compression for syncing in the Cache Manager * Satellite Down can cause servers and monitors to be yellow or red * CRC header restored to the configuration backup files * Multiport bandwidth chart handles detecting in/out port matches better * Active Directory Login monitor works better for non-English Windows installations * Fix for Hardware monitor configuration that wasn't showing 1 hardware device

Updates in 2018

7.2.0.346
* SNMP monitor status will show dates and times instead of the raw tick values * Newly pasted servers will be disabled to give a chance to make any changes before enabling for monitoring * Added explicit locale to javascript date/time rendering * Update to enable retrieving monitoring data from ESXi 6.7 * Fix for Custom POST parameter parsing in the configuration for the Web Page monitor * Object selection user interface with very large lists (thousands) loads much quicker * Fix for Bulk Config not filtering on monitor templates correctly in all cases * Added View Diagnostics to Web Page monitor's Results dialog * Automatically use IE embedded browser if older than Windows 7 (Chromium browser won't work) * Changes to the Event Log monitor to prevent audit log entries in the Security log in certain situations * Don't clear actions when coming out of Can't Run if also now in Alert state * Minor fix to Login Event parsing * Fixed hot-links to help pages * Additional logging added * Better name resolution in Event Log entries in some circumstances * Large report warning/redirect page will not be used when generating PDFs * More diagnostics when Satellites can't connect * External diagnostic ping done on a failed connection to the Central Service * Fix crash that can happen when doing HTTPS logging * Satellite has 'FTP Logs to Support' button * Fixed some non-English date parsing for report periods * Calling StoreValue in scripts won't trigger a Monitor Changed audit event * Newly added Custom Properties will show up in the Alert Reminders editor * Trend lines in reports are shown with dashed lines * Updated SQL ODBC driver client to version 17.2 * Fixed archived log files getting deleted too soon * Fix for second try on failed File & Directory Change monitor's prescan count * Cleaned up monitor changes in the audit report * Added ChangeMonitorStatus to Execute Script monitors and actions * Fix for potential missing status in the Group Overview (Column) report for CPU, Memory and Bandwidth * Prolonged internal ping failure will automatically restart the monitoring service * Fix for users with low rights being able to register their mobile phone for alerts * Find dialog can now also find monitors, actions and groups * New Bulk Config operation to force re-propagation of all templates * Copy Computer option in the Console will remap Monitor Dependencies * Scheduled Reports and Ad Hoc reports can be grouped into folders via the new Report Group tab * Don't return alerts to the mobile apps about deleted computers * Extra logging around the Fail Over Slave status * Unstable OS time alerted on (affects monitoring) * Process monitor will show full command line in alerts * Syslog action can send alerts in a single line of text for easier 3rd party integration * Pasting a monitor will put it in a 5-minute maintenance mode. This behavior can be changed in Advanced Services > Advanced Settings "PastedMonitorMaintMin" * Right-clicking a monitor in the Console will show the monitor's status information line (with truncation if needed) * Hardware monitor will scan twice to ensure stable hardware status list is received from the device * Fail Over Slave will do less when it is not active * Fix for broken $DeviceName$ variable * Large configurations are sent in batches to the Console if needed * Similar to maintenance mode, monitors will ignore activity that happened while they were disabled * New Monitoring Coverage report which can output data to CSV, etc * PA Helper net4 will target .NET 4.6.1 to gain better access to TLS 1.2 support * More flexible configuration for using only the Alias in reports * Console loads much quicker * Event Log monitor using correct account when resolving GUIDs and SIDs in event text * Email server connections are disconnected after a failure so subsequent connection can succeed * Fix for custom monitor templates turned into default monitors during Smart Config * Better Satellite backoff when many are trying to connect at once * Satellites make initial connection quicker * Disk Space monitor won't automatically add both ESX and SNMP drives (which are duplicates) * Event Deduplication closing of events will use the monitor's true type * More diagnostics when configuring the Fail Over * Support for using curl when the Windows TLS support is too old to connect * Fix for converting non-English counter paths when propagating templates * Disk Space monitor propagation will add new disks according to the Add Disks setting on the monitor * Faster Console response * Listing all .NET 4 versions that are supported in the .config files * Fix for Fail Over Slave not receiving all configuration data * Better Console performance for limited rights users * Added IPv4 and IPv6 Inventory fields * Protection against Action List loops * Fixed issue with Inventory data getting deleted * Quieted some nuisance alerts from the Fail Over * Added $Satellite_Name$ replacement variable * Configurable timeout while communicating with ESX, with increased default time * CSV file output is a little easier to read * Fix rare crash/memory corruption caused by multi-threaded reports * Diagnostic ping output can be added to Ping monitor alerts * Don't create duplicate Restart Service actions in Smart Config * Better mapping of templated dependencies to server-local monitors * Fix for missing report PDF in email when email report images are disabled * Better Satellite configuration message when a Satellite is connected to an inactive Fail Over * Syslog database cleanup uses the same optimized cleanup operation as the Event Log monitor * Configuration syncing to a Fail Over works better with very large installations * Limited access users will see the group reports defined at the top Servers/Devices level * Bandwidth reports have a selectable output unit * Improved SNMP Monitor timeouts * Faster Event Log monitoring for older versions of Windows
7.1.1.54
Windows 7/2008 R2 or newer is required for the Console to use the embedded Chromium browser. Otherwise IE with some limitations will have to be used. * Able to clear credentials in the Changed Stored Passwords dialog by entering a blank password * Auto report forwarding in groups now works with the Executive Summary report * Fix in SNMP/Performance configuration that removes per second conversion if no threshold is set * Improved credential caching for remote cases * Execute Script action will use a thread pool to control CPU and memory usage * Execute Script actions run faster and more can run at once * Execute Script and Call URL actions can be configured to run wherever the calling monitor ran * Thread Pool will alert if it is falling far behind * Updated 7za to version 18.05 because of CVE-2018-10115 * New "= New Event Sources =" category in the Event Log monitor for monitoring sources that might be added later * Added $AlertType$ replacement variable * Added $AlertID$ and $AlertType$ columns to the Write to Log File * Added warning to installer about Windows 7/2008 R2 requirement for embedded Chromium browser * Fix for regression bug in ADD_SERVER external API function * Plugin monitor will fill in a status string if one doesn't come back from the plugin * Updated System Details to see more Windows Updates * Fix for very rare crash when backing up the Configuration database for a Fail Over Slave * File & Directory Change monitor is much faster * Event Log monitor does a better job of mapping GUIDs into usernames for non-default domains * Fix for remote access filter user interface involving groups that get moved * Ability to copy and paste devices * Better reconnection attempts for Satellites that are disconnected * Alert Reminders can use Custom Properties * Fix for Full Disk Date calculation
7.1.0.108
Windows 7/2008 R2 or newer is required for the Console to use the embedded Chromium browser. Otherwise IE with some limitations will have to be used. * System Alerts that are fired for servers entering and leaving maintenance will use a Maintenance status instead of Alert status * Possible to use the Fail Over without a shared database, though data monitored during Fail Over will NOT be available to reports * New flat icons and buttons to modernize the look of the Console a bit * Performance monitor path expansion can use regular expressions for instance matching * Fixed a rare deadlock * Faster MIB parsing * Monitors coming out of server maintenance will revert to their previous status instead of going to Scheduled * Added missing index to LoginEventTextSequence * Reduced database contention in the Active Directory Login monitor when the database is being compressed * New Plugin Monitor * Active Directory Login monitor's compression will keep closer tabs on pending queue size to reduce memory usage * Fix for missing $Details$ variable content in Alert Reminder emails * Option to save database space by not writing the full Event Text to the database from the Active Directory Login Monitor * Login Monitor stores login events, but optionally not the full event text * Activity Chart shown in navigation column when the button bar is hidden * Syslog Sender action can send alert description and/or row variables * Changes to speed up Snap Tunnels, for better RDP tunneling experience * Bulk Config's Computers: Set Automated Maintenance Schedule can clear all maintenance schedules if specified * Fix for servers on Satellites that would come out of maintenance when the central service was restarted * Stripping initial . from OIDs before passing them to SNMP library * Fix for parentheses in scaling expressions * Fix so the Free Licenses don't require activation * Ability to force Full Disk Prediction to only use a straight line formula * Added SET_GROUP_PROP and GET_GROUP_PROP to the External API * Added "Last" {day} of month to scheduled items (monitor, reports, maintenance, etc) * Improved initial database connection error reporting * Fixes for some errors in the language translation files * Advanced variable support in SNMP and Performance monitor thresholds * Upgraded to CEF (Chromium) 3.3325.1756 * Monitors are automatically enabled (if needed) when promoted to a template * Removed duplicate custom logo when report shown within frame of outer page when using Web interface * Faster group reports in large installations * Directory Quota monitor will erase quotas for monitors that have been deleted * Can have multiple Network Scanners per source monitoring system for monitoring multiple address ranges * Logging and possible fix in getting lists of Event Logs * Fix for charts not showing up in PDFs generated from the web report * Fix for SNMP drive names on Windows containing volume names and serial numbers * Fix for File & Directory Monitor that could get stuck and always be busy * SNMP get-bulk failures will be retried as get-next * Ping dependency-created Ping monitors will clear any connection to templates * ESX host connections will be cached for only 5 minutes * Returning newly created ID for External APIs ADD_MONITOR, ADD_GROUP and optionally for ADD_SERVER * Removed 3DES ciphers from High security setting
7.0.4.209
* SSH Execute Script monitors can use replacement variables now just like the Actions have been able to do * Template selection in Smart Config is an extended-selection instead of single-selection control * Fix for crash in the Active Directory Login monitor * New HTMLEmail_NoDataFiles setting to not attach CSV files to reports * Fix for saved CSV and PDF filenames (@@@ was getting appended) * Log ping result if an HTTP/S connection fails * Ability to restart the monitoring service after too many WAIT_TIMEOUT errors in the Ping monitor * Protections against bad Run Now commands for monitors/computers that can't be found * Loading a memory cache from the database much more efficiently * Fix for parsing IPMI output from iDRAC 8 (from local connection?) * Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.2n * Detailed monitor activity chart can show data from the Satellites * Ensure sent emails go to the Audit Log, regardless of the (separate) Perm Log setting * Connection string editor/parser won't remove unrecognized fields * Performance monitor will attempt to translate counter into local languages during template propagation * Fix for Active Directory Login database writer that would write multiple copies to the Overflow database when erroring * Changes to help the StatIDs stay synced between the Central Service and Satellites * Fix for Evt Event Log API detection fails when a server is down. Will prevent old events from being alerted on going forward. * Detecting SNMP errors more robustly * Prevented DB_LIMIT errors when calculating monthly uptime * Reset Ping handles automatically after too many timeouts * Disk Space monitor will by default ignore temporary drives from /dev, /run, etc * Active Directory Login Monitor will truncate alerts if they get too large * The Syslog Action can use replacement variables and custom monitor messages * Diagnostic access checks are performed when the Service/Satellite starts to report to the user if there are problems with their configuration * Active Directory Login Monitor database writer will work on smaller batches so it can monitor the queue size better * Hardware Monitor fixed Alerts vs Error alerting * Dynamic Server Lists will trigger template propagation on server removes too * Active Directory Login Monitor performance improvement (500 login records/sec) * Active Directory Login database writer keeps up with heavy loads much better * Added $Notes$ replacement variable for us in actions, email templates, etc * Protection against very large HTTP to HTTPS URL overflow * Fixed memory leak * Added option to send logs to support from the Console * Control memory usage in the Active Directory Login Monitor * Better SSL certificate expiration warning * Fixed small memory leak * Users with limited rights will only see Actions that are attached to Monitors that they can see * Fix for Restart Satellite command in the Console which would restart the Satellite service more than once * Added several HTTP/S security headers * Fix for sending emails when graphics, PDFs and attachments have all been disabled * Fix for inadvertently applying Ping dependencies to Global Monitors

Updates in 2017

7.0.3.242
* Alert Reminder messages will indicate which rule fired the reminder * Change so the Visual Status Map report can be used with the Lite License * Better monitor dependencies from templates * Fix for Bulk Config's Edit Monitor Parameters when selecting templates * Event Log Monitor coming out of Maintenance on a Satellite will not alert on old events * Array-type Inventory values can be shown in System Details * Ping threshold can check against 1ms threshold * Forcing TLS 1.2 support when using Windows 8.1 or Server 2012 R2 where we know it is supported * Additional SNMP diagnostic logging * Added MERGEIMPORT command line option to import a configuration into an existing configuration * Fix for Satellite Up/Down messages that use a different template * Extra protection against corrupted MIB files * Added rHTMLEMAIL_NO_PDF to disable PDF attachments in reports * HTTP Server allocates less memory * Fix for Log File action truncation when using UTF-8 files * Dynamic Groups will be empty if their source Dynamic Server List is disabled (or not in an OK state) * Double-signing (SHA1 with MS Cross-signing certificate, and SHA256) installers * Registry settable fields to grab SNMP Trap original address from * All SNMP Traps and Informs can be logged to the service log file * Added System Activity events for database cleanup activities * Fix for Network Scanner that wasn't honoring wildcards in ignores * Active Directory Login Monitor database uses much less space * Windows Defender added to list of supported AV products in PA System Details * The Start Application action can specify it should be run on the "Central/Satellite where the alerting monitor runs" * Registry setting (DiskSpaceMonitor_AlertOnCantRun) for Disk Space monitor to use previous Can't Run status instead of Alert if a drive can't be found * Fix for the Active Directory Monitor's database compression * Importing BLOCK_AUTO_CONFIG setting from config cxml files * Improved Windows AV detection in Inventory Collector * Better error message when Powershell-based Execute Script times out * Fix for Consoles not being able to login when "Local only" HTTP server filtering is on * Fix for database writer lock in the Active Directory Login Monitor * Fix so Satellites can do Smart Config with templates * Fixed some error messages in the PA Desktop Notifier * Satellite Down messages will have an AlertID like monitors so they can be tracked in third party systems * Added debug logging for Service Monitor template application * Fixes for issues introduced in build 201 * Fix for Active Directory Login monitor reports * Slightly less CPU usage * Syslog sender optimization and logging * Web Page monitor supports configuration deltas in the Monitors: Set Monitor Parameters Bulk Config operation
7.0.2.39
* Fix so the Server Temperature monitor can use data from the SpeedFan HTTP Agent * 'Licensed To' in Console will update after license activation * Better negative 'down' value on charts * More efficient CPU usage * Alert reminders won't be sent for disabled or in-maintenance monitors * Network Map report works with Lite licenses now * Fix for Active Directory Monitor that would overflow the central queue if a monitor never ran on the central service * Faster handling of database requests when too many rows are returned * Fix for disappearing server status charts * IMPORTANT Fix for bug in Event Log monitor AND Active Directory monitor where events could get skipped and not processed * Not showing report logo for reports shown within the web-based report frame (that already shows the logo) * External API ADD_SERVER is handled asynchronously so it doesn't timeout while being worked on * Fix for Bulk Config's Delete Monitor operation not working on templates * Fix for Active Directory Login Monitor that wasn't processing filters correctly * Custom Property DISPLAYED_NOTES is now connected to the Notes that can be shown in the server status report
7.0.1.37
* Disks not found in Disk Space monitor will go into Alert instead of Can't Run * Fix for crash caused by async ping threads that get behind * Fix in Service Monitor where all string compares didn't support wild cards as advertised * Moved to OpenSSL 1.0.2k * Fix for three crashes * Better template selection in Auto Config dynamic groups * Fix for Directory Quota reports * Computer and monitor enabling/disabling tracked in the System Audit report * PA Desktop Notifier will restore dropped sessions as needed * Past alerts easier to view in PA Desktop Notifier * Better comparisons for ignored services in the Service Monitor * Additional PA Desktop Notifier diagnostics * Fix for rare crash involving multiple email alerts and alert charts * Better CPU throttling in the File Age monitor
7.0.0.140
* New Action Scheduler monitor * New Active Directory Login Monitor * New Bandwidth Monitor * New Hardware Monitor * New Disk Full Prediction Alerts in the Disk Space Monitor * Automatic Configuration feature based on dynamic groups and monitor templates * New Monitoring System Audit Reports * Advanced counter thresholds for the SNMP and Performance monitors * Less memory used and more efficient CPU usage * Console responds quicker when viewing server reports
6.4.0.307
* Fixed sorting problem in the Console's navigation tree
6.4.0.306
* Support for increasing the Error History table's ActionDescription column size * Added new All Servers part for Executive Summary reports * Fix for SNMP dialog's Add Direct entry * Added Debug Logging as a setting that can be set via Bulk Config to Satellites * Turned starvation warning alert counts way down * Added Satellite name to Configuration Audit report * Additional logging and diagnostics added * Additional logging and diagnostics added * Fix for Event Log monitor not reporting events separately * Protection against bogus monitor starving alerts * Changed installer's ODBC driver to: Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for SQL Server * Fixed problem with the Console viewing the Fail Over Slave's status page * Won't sync DB Connection string to Fail Over Slave so it can be different if needed (different driver version for example) * Fix for the local Console so it can login using the hostname, and not just 127.0.0.1 * Added IsDeviceType dynamic rule * Added the $WinDir$ replacement variable * Updated EULA indicating a customer's logos can be shown on our website unless asked not to * Change to decrease number of error alerts when a monitor can't run because of a reboot * Added option to control whether TLS 1.2 can be disabled (like for SSLv3, TLS1, and TLS1.1) * Restored the missing "suppressed alerts for {0} before entering error state" message in alerts * Satellites forcing command filter to * so that PASystemDetails and PALowPriorityHelper can connect * File & Directory Change monitor won't report on deletes if settings have changed so it doesn't fire false positives * First character of Live View can be a ! to show all lines that are NOT the given line * Fix for broken language translation in the service * Added a filter to View System Activities * Fixed API_GET_MONITOR_INFO which was not checking all status values * Better interface for Dynamic Server List rule selection * New registry-value based Dynamic Server List rule * Service Monitor will use non-internationalized service/short name as well as translated display/long name * File/Directory Size monitor can use floating point threshold values * More accurate Is Still In Error rule for alert reminders * Added IPMI support for bulk setting server type * Empty template-based monitors won't be propagated to servers/devices * Disk Space monitor will honor the local "Add New Disks" setting * Expanded performance counters get a better alias * Fix for ESXi 6.x that has known issues returning sensor data * Boot time from ESX correctly interpretted as UTC * Server type probe was reporting almost everything as SNMP * Disk space full prediction won't kick in with less than 3 days' data * Fix for manually overriding SNMP object type * Added Monitoring Software Is Installed dynamic server list rule * Fix for handling passed in credentials during Smart Config * Added group-level template blocking during template propagation * Template propagation will complete faster * More precise probe to determine if a server is Windows or not * Fix to some Dynamic Server List rules to filter out recently deleted servers/devices * Don't block the email sending thread with an exception message box * Web Page monitor can alert on page not changing * New GET_PERF_STATS external API * Database monitor handles bad database connection better * More diagnostic logging * Added Bulk Config operation to set IPMI credentials * More robust initialization * Fixed appending \ to the end of disk space paths when SNMP or ESX * File & Directory Change monitor won't alert about deletes just because a file is now being ignored * Better handling of incomplete data coming back from VMWare ESX * Faster template propagation * Removed some internal bottlenecks * Fix for very rare database locked-caused crash * Added options for what alerts to combine in Email Digests * New Custom Data Set report type for the File & Directory Change monitor * Bandwidth monitor is reading the ifXTable ifHCSpeed value * Alert digests handle charts from multiple alerts * Network scanner can ignore by ip address range * Fix for reports that have to restart because they are collapsing (or not) to a single line per data set * Compressing drill-down link data for customers running large numbers of reports * Fix for thread balancing error * Increased shutdown timeout value that was too short * The Group Summary Report won't show dynamic group contents to prevent massive reports * Additional efforts to get Central Service and Satellite to shutdown nicely * Subscriptions will report sooner to prevent becoming unlicensed * Diag's SETCONFIG command can set numeric values now as well as text * Quicker service start reporting * File & Directory Change monitor is recording file size and date to the database for reports * Reports stuck in a loop will break out and fail so other reports can run * Fix for reports that can get stuck in a loop * The Group Summary report will NOT show Dynamic Groups by default, but report settings can change that * Disk Space monitor will remove drives when templates are propagated, and use settings during normal running of the monitor

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