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.

Release Candidate Changes

Version 8.3.0.107 [January 5, 2021] is currently in testing.

[.46] * Upgraded to amCharts4
[.46] * Fix for audit failure event log entry showing up for the service account instead of per-server login account
[.46] * Added reporting to the SNMP Trap monitor
[.46] * Fixed database transfer for the Directory Quota monitor
[.46] * Clicking the Parent Group button will refresh the parent report
[.46] * Configurable cache minutes for Server Status Report
[.46] * Pasting monitor will no longer try to customize them but will paste as-is
[.46] * Better credential syncing for the Database Monitor templates
[.50] * Increased timeout when communicating with ESXi
[.50] * Can set an SNMPv3 privacy/encryption password in the SNMP Trap monitor to receive encrypted traps
[.55] * Disk Space monitor won't remove mount points when deriving from a template
[.62] * Fix when using credentials with templates
[.64] * Added the caller to the alert for certain Active Directory events
[.64] * Fix charts for Service and Process monitors
[.64] * Less CPU usage in large installations
[.71] * Fix for rare crash in MIB parser
[.73] * Fix to prevent monitors disappearing under heavy load
[.75] * Fix for Network Scanner ignores with wild cards
[.75] * Multiple stats combined into a single CSV file will show stat names at the stat change boundary
[.75] * Servers coming out of Maintenance will be able to regardless of whether the Satellite is connected or not
[.75] * Fix for occasional problem in the Console when moving computers would show a double shadow computer
[.80] * Reduced CPU usage for large installations
[.83] * Variables html page written out in UTF-8 to handle non-ASCII characters
[.88] * Configuration to hide empty datasets when running a report on multiple datasets
[.90] * Speed increase for Console startup and in the Service and Satellite
[.92] * Performance monitor will keep a more stable connection to the performance counters when wildcards are used
[.101] * Rebuild with new code signing scheme
[.101] * Fix for START_MAINTENANCE and END_MAINTENANCE with GID of 0
[.105] * Better support for downloading CSV files from reports
[.105] * Web Page Monitor can use cURL for requests to support more ciphers on older Windows versions
[.106] * Fix for server charts showing wrong date
[.107] * Not caching performance monitor error data

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.