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.

Current Preview Release

Version 7.1.0.101 [April 19, 2018] is currently in testing.

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New features include:

[.8] * System Alerts that are fired for servers entering and leaving maintenance will use a Maintenance status instead of Alert status
[.8] * Possible to use the Fail Over without a shared database, though data monitored during Fail Over will NOT be available to reports
[.8] * New flat icons and buttons to modernize the look of the Console a bit
[.11] * Performance monitor path expansion can use regular expressions for instance matching
[.11] * Fixed a rare deadlock
[.24] * Faster MIB parsing
[.24] * Monitors coming out of server maintenance will revert to their previous status instead of going to Scheduled
[.24] * Added missing index to LoginEventTextSequence
[.26] * Reduced database contention in the Active Directory Login monitor when the database is being compressed
[.34] * Active Directory Login monitor's compression will keep closer tabs on pending queue size to reduce memory usage
[.39] * Fix for missing $Details$ variable content in Alert Reminder emails
[.93] * Option to save database space by not writing the full Event Text to the database from the Active Directory Login Monitor
[.44] * Login Monitor stores login events, but optionally not the full event text
[.44] * Activity Chart shown in navigation column when the button bar is hidden
[.47] * Syslog Sender action can send alert description and/or row variables
[.48] * Changes to speed up Snap Tunnels, for better RDP tunneling experience
[.55] * Bulk Config's Computers: Set Automated Maintenance Schedule can clear all maintenance schedules if specified
[.55] * Fix for servers on Satellites that would come out of maintenance when the central service was restarted
[.55] * Stripping initial . from OIDs before passing them to SNMP library
[.56] * Fix for parentheses in scaling expressions
[.63] * Fix so the Free Licenses don't require activation
[.63] * Ability to force Full Disk Prediction to only use a straight line formula
[.66] * Added SET_GROUP_PROP and GET_GROUP_PROP to the External API
[.68] * Added "Last" {day} of month to scheduled items (monitor, reports, maintenance, etc)
[.70] * Improved initial database connection error reporting
[.72] * Fixes for some errors in the language translation files
[.86] * Upgraded to CEF (Chromium) 3.3325.1756
[.89] * Monitors are automatically enabled (if needed) when promoted to a template
[.89] * Removed duplicate custom logo when report shown within frame of outer page when using Web interface
[.89] * Faster group reports in large installations
[.91] * Directory Quota monitor will erase quotas for monitors that have been deleted
[.91] * Can have multiple Network Scanners per source monitoring system for monitoring multiple address ranges
[.94] * Logging and possible fix in getting lists of Event Logs
[.94] * Fix for charts not showing up in PDFs generated from the web report
[.99] * Fix for SNMP drive names on Windows containing volume names and serial numbers
[.99] * Fix for File & Directory Monitor that could get stuck and always be busy
[.101] * SNMP get-bulk failures will be retried as get-next
[.101] * Ping dependency-created Ping monitors will clear any connection to templates
[.101] * ESX host connections will be cached for only 5 minutes

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.