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 8.3.1.84 [September 23, 2021] is currently in testing.

[.3] * Added more diagnostic logging
[.7] * Upgraded IPWorks
[.7] * Fix for showing scaled SNMP values in charts and GUI
[.8] * Fix for slow right-click on Devices nodes in the Console
[.8] * New self-signed certificates default to being sha256 signed instead of sha1
[.8] * Server charts will show an additional decimal point's info in the tool tip
[.9] * Syslog monitor will show error status when it can't listen on required port
[.9] * Event Log Monitor will try to resolve GUIDs to CLSIDs to give more meaningful messages
[.14] * Added more encryption and authentication options to SNMP v3
[.14] * Detect stale VMWare connections better
[.24] * Fix for server chart tool tips
[.24] * Fix for custom charts not being sized as desired
[.24] * Checking DLL signatures when loading
[.24] * Server/group charts with 6 or more data lines will show the title next to the value in the tooltip
[.24] * Added new Monitors: Replace Actions Bulk Config command
[.24] * Fix for SNMP Trap monitor that couldn't filter on field descriptions
[.25] * Added /AUTO_LOGIN Console command line option
[.30] * Fix for RD Gateway Monitor reports
[.30] * Configuration Audit report will be written to unique directory so it doesn't overwrite other similar reports
[.34] * Fix for very rare crash in the Console
[.40] * Better support for receiving encrypted SNMP Traps
[.40] * Fix for some non-English date parsing
[.40] * The DNS Monitor can alert on changes to DNS response
[.48] * Added new Monitor Statuses custom group report part
[.48] * Mail Monitor will now store credentials in a per-monitor manner
[.48] * Fixed crash in Syslog monitor
[.50] * Fix for crash during configuration restore from disk
[.52] * Protection against Console thinking servers aren't owned by a group
[.57] * Added auditing entries for moving computers to different groups, and running Bulk Config
[.59] * Console updates status icons in navigation panel better
[.70] * Updated to OpenSSL 1.1.1l
[.70] * Updated to libcurl 7.78.0
[.70] * Updated to libssh2 1.10.0
[.70] * System Details WMI calls will use packet level authentication
[.77] * Added Regular Expression support to Dynamic Server List and Inventory Alerter monitors
[.77] * New hourly System Audit event that the service/Satellite is running
[.77] * DNS Monitor will show all lookup results in the monitor status
[.77] * Fix for DNS Monitor that didn't report failures properly
[.84] * Bandwidth monitor data set handles large numbers of interfaces better
[.84] * Bandwidth monitor columns are sortable (click column header)
[.84] * Logging a host ping if the database connection is reconnected
[.84] * Removing stale stats from multiport bandwidth charts
[.84] * Event Log Monitor and Active Directory Login Monitor better handle fast filling event logs

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.