PA Server Monitor Release Candidate

This page is where you can find our very latest release. Versions that make it to this page are considered solid and candidates for production release, but they haven't finished testing or received enough feedback yet. If we implement a feature or fix for you, we will typically send you to this page to try it out.

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Current Preview Release

Version 9.6.0.437 [17 July 2025] is currently in testing.

[.165] * Satellites will not send down notifications if the hosting server is in a maintenance window
[.165] * Better per-user service detection
[.165] * Custom chart generation for line and bar charts
[.175] * Reports have the option to choose logarithmic charts
[.180] * Fixed repeating error when SNMP disk space check fails
[.180] * Added the status tab to the Advanced Options of the Inventory Collector monitor
[.190] * Fix in Web Page monitor that could ignore an error when a HEAD command is issued
[.190] * Added support for undocumented configuration merge. Contact Support for help
[.207] * Changed from SMPP v3.3 to v3.4 which is more common
[.207] * SMPP action will try to use a persistent connection, and send one message at a time
[.207] * Upgraded to Chromium 109
[.207] * Syslog sender action can send using UTC (default) or local server time
[.232] * SNMP monitor configuration can do a filtered walk to pull back a subset of the OID tree
[.232] * Fixed email maintenance reply command processing when email format is HTML
[.232] * Fixed a deadlock in File Sight FileInfo processing
[.238] * Chromium helper (Console.exe) processes shut down better
[.256] * Better Console operations for a user that doesn't have Windows admin rights on the local computer
[.259] * Added $Now(spec)$ replacement variable for usings parts of the date or time
[.270] * Web Page monitor can report on desired error response codes using the NOT response code pattern
[.270] * Web Page monitor will report more than one found problems in the alert description
[.270] * Added audit log for monitor templates being enabled and disabled
[.280] * Minor report CSS improvement
[.280] * Updated to OpenSSL 3.0.15
[.280] * Deleting an item in the Console will ask for confirmation, with a checkbox to not ask again
[.280] * Fixed Dynamic Table reports that sometimes showed an empty first page
[.282] * Added Bulk Config "Computers: Copy Computer Custom Properties to Other Computers"
[.282] * Fixed Web Page monitor's checks for headers changing
[.295] * Fixed a bug in a SQL Server error handler
[.295] * Added support for more VMWare ESX performance counters
[.299] * Added Support for {+/-}amount{d/w/m/y} for the $Now()$ replacement variable
[.326] * Web Page monitor won't alert on empty page if a redirect 301 or 302 was received
[.326] * Visual Status Map handles the same light being on the map more than once
[.326] * Set Satellite Host can use the value DELETE to remove a setting
[.326] * curl usage will set the m_finalURL parameter which gets set to the $mon.Var0 in the Web Page Monitor's scripts
[.342] * Smaller MonitorStatusHistory table in busy installations
[.342] * Less CPU usage for large busy installations
[.342] * MAC address will only be used to lookup manufacturer if the source IP is from the local subnet
[.344] * 'Combined' server charts with multiple values will be guaranteed to use different colors for different stats
[.344] * Server charts will snap to the nearest value to show for the cursor
[.351] * Saves in the Console will synchronize a little quicker to the Central Server if the user does a Run Now
[.351] * Don't let computers use not-yet-loaded icons in the Console
[.351] * Fix for curl not returning last response (considering redirects)
[.351] * Satellite reports will indicate status is the Last Status if not connected
[.351] * Fix for $mon.SendMail not working when run on a Satellite
[.352] * File & Directory Size monitor can alert separately on previously seen files vs target files not seen
[.352] * Load icons from custom folder AND the default folder
[.379] * User configurable (via registry) Execute Script editor font size, with larger default
[.379] * Fix for hardware monitor sometimes not alerting
[.412] * Monitors that were firing Alert Red were not firing actions
[.432] * Fix for DNS monitor when there is an initial lookup failure
[.432] * Fix for web interface reports list under View Existing Reports
[.433] * Custom line charts will show more data points, which can be further configured
[.440] * Custom line chart changes to shown down events better
[.440] * Fix for regression bug when doing Run Now on monitor on a Satellite
[.444] * Fix for DNS Monitor which wasn't always doing recursive lookups
[.445] * Added ComputerAlias to VBScript Execute Script monitor
[.445] * Simplified SQLite database cleanup
[.445] * Fixed editing content of Executive Summary parts
[.456] * A monitor won't come out of its "First Run" status if the first run is an error
[.456] * Logging failed login attempts that come through the web interface
[.463] * Giving the Helper more time to startup before timing out
[.002] * New Console status dots - can be configured to go back to the colored borders
[.002] * Fix for recognizing well-known performance counters on Satellites for non-English Windows
[.058] * Expression evaluation is more performant
[.058] * CPU optimization: Event Log monitor has better include/exclude Expressions parsing
[.058] * Log File, Email and SNMP Trap monitors now also have ignore filters
[.058] * Fix for problem in Event Log and Active Directory Login Monitor propagating error so a cleared event log is not falsely reported
[.058] * Fixed a recently introduced issue with rotated log files not getting deleted
[.058] * Template propagation is faster
[.058] * Hardware monitor not using cached values to try to better detect hardware changes (and avoid false positives)
[.058] * Upgraded to IPWorks SNMP 2024
[.058] * Fix for the report 12/24 hour setting not being honored everywhere
[.058] * More efficient log writing
[.059] * Fixed log file temporarily locking during in recursive situations
[.065] * Added (laptop) battery status to Inventory Collector and Alerter
[.065] * Fixed Bulk Config for Event Log monitors not adding newly checked Event Logs to monitor
[.065] * Event Log config dialog will show the selected Event Logs at the top of the list
[.073] * Self-signed SSL certificates will automatically regenerate if about to expire
[.073] * Fix for Event Log grid in templates inheriting the 'New Event Source' values down into many other sources
[.079] * Configurable mobile notification thresholds
[.079] * Configurable, and improved, calls to get data from ESXi
[.098] * Report builder will show Performance Counter aliases where available to more easily match/find counters being monitored
[.100] * Status Overview report shows monitor status count details
[.100] * Grids take monitor scale factor into account
[.102] * Fixed erroneous unneeded ODBC access attempt
[.102] * Fixed "Force Precise Schedule" checkbox on monitor schedules not staying clicked
[.105] * Fix for login failing with 2FA
[.115] * Saving monitor templates with no changes will not actually save, and thus not trigger a propagation
[.115] * Script editor works better with tabs
[.118] * Execute Scripts (both monitors and actions) can do a Run Now on monitors ($mon.RunMonitor and $act.RunMonitor)
[.124] * Fix for custom monitor Subjects not getting used when monitor is on a Satellite
[.126] * Performance counters watching w3wp instances (IIS instances) will have the w3wp#1, etc replaced with the IIS AppPool name
[.126] * Faster Console navigation for large installations
[.141] * Made more dialog windows resizable
[.141] * Satellite configuration database will sync more often (to prevent Satellite Down alerts during fail over)
[.141] * IPMI will retry on another well known failure case
[.141] * Fixed some errors where somethings get stuck if the computer's clock is set into the future
[.163] * Find dialog (Ctrl+F) allows searching for objects by settings and properties
[.163] * Added the safer $mon.GetCredentialsObj and $act.GetCredentialsObj which returns a PSCredentials object in the Execute Script monitor and action
[.169] * Reduced memory usage by the File & Directory Change Monitor
[.204] * Added $mon.TargetCredentials for Execute Script monitors which returns a PSCredentials object
[.204] * Group column report differentiate disabled from maintenance with icon
[.204] * Better support for parallel database queries
[.206] * Event Log Monitor can scan .evt and .evtx files
[.206] * Logging SSH port used
[.214] * Fix for reports that broke when some selected data sources didn't have any data
[.214] * Fix for recent regression bug in the Event Log Validator monitor
[.215] * Regression fix for some reports not showing up because they were missing a dataset title
[.219] * Email failing to send will list the email address in the global status message
[.219] * Event Log Monitor has UI improvements/fixes when reading .evt(x) files
[.225] * Fixed an issue where MS SQL Server-based reports could end up being truncated
[.230] * Fix for regression bug introduced in .206 (8 days ago) where the Event Log monitor was not reporting on new events
[.230] * Execute Script Monitor will show Powershell script errors better
[.241] * Fix for Satellites not regenerating expired SSL/TLS certificate
[.255] * Retry DNS lookup in DNS monitor on a timeout
[.260] * MessageBox action uses message templates better
[.260] * System Alerts can use monitor-specific replacement variables if defined in the alert context
[.264] * Fix for the Satellite using too much CPU when the Central Server can't be reached
[.269] * Improved some logging
[.272] * Fix for $mon.GetCredentialsObj for the Execute Script monitor
[.272] * Fixed crash in START_MAINTENANCE in External API
[.272] * Added right-click on monitor to force it to an OK state (to reset Event Escalation)
[.295] * Process monitor will report the user running the process in alerts
[.295] * Pasting a template into a Power Templates folders will differentiate it from existing templates if needed
[.295] * SendMail commands in Execute Script will try Direct Send if there are no SMTP server credentials
[.295] * Charts will show legend entry in tool tip, and hovering over legend will highlight chart line
[.295] * Large improvement to database cleanup on very large tables
[.295] * New report Display Type that will create one chart per data item instead of combining on the same chart
[.303] * Warning about Alert Suppression settings that are too tight and might prevent alerts
[.303] * Automatically changing Alert Suppression settings that are too tight
[.303] * Active Directory Login Monitor records who is doing many of the events
[.307] * Fix for case where SNMP objects threshold comparisons done as strings when it should be done as a numeric value
[.308] * Fixed how Ad Hoc/Scheduled Report charts respond to dark mode
[.308] * Slight improvement to dark mode color
[.308] * Fix for $mon.SendMail when no SMTP username is given
[.311] * Improved handling of the Global Monitors object
[.317] * File & Directory Change monitor can limit scan depth
[.317] * GET_MONITOR_INFO supports MID parameter
[.317] * Applying host:port settings in the Satellite configuration app will take effect immediately
[.318] * Fix for exporting tables to CSV when quotes, commas or new lines are in a field
[.323] * Improved MIB parsing
[.323] * Fix alert text format for the File & Directory Size monitor when thresholds are less than 1 MB
[.332] * Call URL action can add extra headers
[.332] * Added sorting parameter to some reports
[.333] * Fixed rare database deadlock caused by specific database errors
[.336] * Propagating a Performance Monitor will also translate (if needed) the additional VarX counter paths
[.336] * Improved the Monitor Changed diff for the audit report
[.336] * Registry configurable CSV separator character
[.336] * Fixed report parameter reading when the Console and Central Server are using different languages
[.343] * Error shown if empty username is used in the Credential Manager
[.343] * Import-Module will work in Powershell Execute Script monitors and actions
[.343] * Additional (redundant) protections against Satellites using extra CPU if they can't connect to the Central Server
[.437] * Updated to OpenSSL 3.5.1
[.437] * Updated to ipmiutil 3.2.1
[.437] * Updated to latest vcredist (x86 and x64)
[.437] * Removed vcredist_x86-2012.exe from the installer
[.437] * Satellites will use Central Server's CPU limit if a specific one was not set
[.437] * 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
[.437] * Diagnostic ping can use registry defined value for the -n parameter
[.437] * More thorough cleanup of network connections on shutdown
[.437] * Fix for changing where actions run from being ignore if it is the only change
[.437] * Powershell Execute Script monitors and actions can use IMPORT-MODULE

Updates / Upgrades

PA Server Monitor can be upgraded by simply installing the latest version on top of your existing installation. Your settings and databases will be upgraded as needed.

You might need to reset the PA Server Monitor service's Run As account (from Settings or the Windows Services applet), but other than that no further configuration changes will be needed.