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 8.5.0.254 [20 July 2022] is currently in testing.

[.20] * Fix for rare case where reports that get stuck looping while generating
[.31] * Fix for the HTTPS client accepting an expired certificate
[.31] * Limit the number of times the Reboot action will try to reboot a server
[.31] * New automatic system check for the internally used SSL certificate's expiration and warn if getting close
[.31] * File & Directory Change monitor can scan sub-folders for specific files
[.31] * Fixed rare deadlock in heavily loaded system
[.31] * Protection for Action Lists to not fire non-notification actions in System Alerts
[.37] * Added 'First day of current month' time selector for reports
[.47] * Fix for correct Smart Config dialog showing up in Remote Consoles
[.47] * Potential work around for EvtOpenSession calls getting stuck in Windows' wevtapi.dll
[.67] * Ability to serialize access to server Event Logs
[.70] * More efficient sending of large emails
[.73] * Monitors don't lose their Last Run time on a Satellite after a restart
[.99] * Added ALIAS option to the ADD_SERVER External API
[.103] * Syslog monitor will switch to source address when host is 'localhost'
[.107] * Inventory Collector collects serial numbers/service tags from more devices for your local database
[.113] * Added ignored sub directories for File/Dir Size monitor
[.113] * Performance increase in the Console, especially the SNMP object selector
[.123] * Fix for Web Page monitor not appending web page content in all requested situations
[.123] * Change to allow wildcards in Service Monitor templates
[.127] * Additional internal security checks
[.127] * Fix for a string comparison bug
[.140] * Service Monitor can ignore Per-User services
[.160] * Active Directory Change Monitor correctly does substring checks for ignored objects and attributes
[.160] * Cleaning up extra tabs in critical fields during an import/read
[.160] * Updated to zlib 1.2.12
[.160] * Updated to curl/libcurl 7.82.0_2 (because of zlib)
[.160] * Updated to libssh2 1.10.0_2 (because of zlib)
[.160] * Fixed a rounding error in the Bandwidth monitor
[.165] * Using UTC time for maintenance end times so time zones are not an issue
[.171] * Fix for some default monitors not showing up after adding a new computer
[.181] * Updated 7za (7-Zip) to 21.7.0
[.181] * Simplied SSL certificate names in CA folder
[.194] * Improved monitor dependency mapping when copying monitors and templates
[.194] * PDF renderer will wait longer for retries
[.206] * Prevent HTTP request storms to/from Satellites
[.208] * Fix for some template changes not getting propagated
[.213] * Greatly improved efficiency of device mapping and finding
[.213] * Fix for custom chart editor sorting
[.214] * Added control for output of the Email monitor at customer request
[.219] * Improved automatic language translation process
[.219] * Added registry-based extra Play Sound methods
[.219] * Fixed promoting a monitor to a template when the monitor is selected in a different category
[.219] * Use a shorter timeout for remote requests on the UI thread in the Console to keep it more responsive
[.219] * Added Amazon ECS for monitoring
[.230] * Local IP address shown in reports, etc can be changed by index number into list of local addresses
[.242] * Updated to OpenSSL 1.1.1o
[.242] * Better job figuring out system PID
[.243] * Fix for Active Directory Change Monitor
[.248] * Log File Monitor works better with Bulk Config
[.252] * Added AWS Elasticache device type
[.254] * Fixed regression bug involving checking ranges of Event IDs in the Event Log Monitor

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.