PA Server Monitor Change History

* Added additional details to the output of the GET_MONITOR_INFO External API call
* Cleaned up and standardized the message template implementation
* "Strong" cipher setting is using an update list of allowed encryption ciphers for SSL/TLS
* Automatically try curl when on 2012R2 or order when ERROR_WINHTTP_SECURE_FAILURE (12175) errors happen
* Limit can't run or error alerts to once every 2 minutes per monitor
* Consoles making long requests to Satellites won't time out in the Console
* Fix for regression bug that affects disk space stats for SSH and SNMP
* Performance increase throughout the product
* Current Errors report will show monitors where the Satellite is disconnected
* Satellites will dynamically scale up callback threads as needed
* Fix so same ErrorID (AlertID) is used for error and fix events in more cases
* Fix for Directory Quota database error in some cases
* Fix for template propagation timing out at Satellites
* Added Green and Grey status icons for monitors, servers and groups
* Ability to show the Startup Wizard again from the Configuration menu
* Fixed Service Monitor to fire individual Fixed alerts
* Fixed some parsing/displaying of expression strings with double backslashes
* Added more troubleshooting hints to common errors
* New navigation bar in the Console
* Fixed some HTML problems
* Changed dark mode icons
* Fixed Console resource leak
* Installer checks to ensure Satellites can't be installed on Central Servers, and vice versa
* Fix for the Active Directory Login Monitor for non-English Windows installations
* Fix for Recent Alerts not showing up in emailed server status reports
* Improved default sorting in reports

* Ignored files in the File & Directory Change monitor will come from template parents as needed
* Ignored files in the File & Directory Change monitor can use wildcards * and ?, including in templates
* Fix to Log File Monitor's bulk config for "Monitors: Set Monitor Parameters"
* Fix for reports that contain $ which was showing an error
* Right clicking a monitor in the All Monitors trees can take you to the owning computer
* Added exception handling/logging support to PASystemDetails.exe
* Passing Powershell the default credentials the same as we do with WMI requests
* Changes to chart pagination when there are large numbers of charts
* Preventing report render "bouncing" in the Console
* Fix for cleanup of Directory Quotas and File & Directory Change databases that can delete quotas
* Switched the Citrix probe from .NET 3.5 to 4.6+
* Better handling of missing Inventory values in the Inventory Alerter expressions
* Restarting the service once per day if too many SQLSetConnectAttr errors are seen
* Fixed some date parsing in some non-English languages such as Japanese and Chinese
* Satellite down computers/monitors are correctly shown red/yellow according to the setting
* Boosted All-Systems-GO monitor priority so it doesn't run late
* Dynamic groups can have their own server reports settings
* Improved the status pop-up for monitors at the top of group reports
* All Servers Report indicates if there are more monitors in alert state
* Event Log Validator will show previous match when a match is not found
* CSS cleanup
* Enabling Servers/Devices in Bulk Config lets you indicates whether monitors should be enabled or disabled
* New "IPv4 Address Range" rule for Dynamic Server Lists
* Fix for first item missing in some datasets in the web report interface
* Added reporting system uptime to System Details
* Alerting user to expired SSL cert on login attempt
* Fixed error when saving report PDF to archive location
* System Details can skip the Windows Update check via Inv_SkipWindowsUpdate registry setting
* Disk Space Monitor can handle 15.9 Exabyte drive sizes from 7.9 Exabyte sizes before
* If a Disk Space Monitor contains expressions, the expression will responsible to add or remove drives
* Added [System Summary Reports] > Monitor Uptime report type
* Handling WMI requests when the password contains a comma
* Optional status colors on Console nav icons
* Fix for odd numbers of combined charts missing one value
* More advanced database connection string parsing
* Fix for drives not reporting disk space overage separately with advanced deduplication
* Fixed web page request parameters display
* Disk Space monitor supports PB and EB units
* Small optimizations for Console navigation tree status updates for large installations
* Console can show Dynamic Server List <> Dynamic Group linkage
* Fix for crash in Pager Duty action
* Web interface works better if report protection is turned off
* Fixes to the Error History report
* Remove duplicate disk threshold definitions from the Disk Space monitor
* DB_LIMIT errors will show which value needs to be increased
* Protection against Client-Side Desync attack in HTTPS server
* Moved to OpenSSL 3.0.8
* Regenerating certificates to ensure SHA256 message digest
* Setting Syslog sender to use RFC 5424 format by default
* Better error when when Lock (log file lock) can't be locked
* Fix for File & Directory Change Monitor corrupting non-ASCII text
* Better handling for some non-ASCII column label images
* Moved to the richer PagerDuty v2 API
* Show message template type (alert, satellite, report, etc)
* If OpenSSL reports MD is too weak, regenerate certs as needed
* TCP Port monitor will resolve addresses before calling IPWorks

* Added new Wait action (useful for Action Lists and Scheduled Actions)
* Fixed some bugs in the Configuration Audit report
* Passing service Run-As credentials in WMI request if no other credentials are being used
* Less memory and CPU usage when shrinking File & Directory Change monitor databases

* Dark mode
* New web interface
* When Network Scanner copies computer configuration, it will also copy credentials
* Performance monitor can check if values are in or not-in a set
* Fix for Console sorting issue
* Better report template error handling
* Exception logging in PALowPriorityHelper_Net4
* Fixed XML unescaping
* Fix for escaping strings sent to Helper for Powershell scripts
* Restored PALowPriorityHelper_Net4 to a 64-bit process
* Introduced $CustomProp_Raw(x)$ custom property which does not do any character escaping
* Applying computer config (from a Bulk Config copy operation, or a Network Scanner monitor) can copy credentials even when they are remote
* Fix for PALowPriorityHelper_Net4 having wrong version in some build scenarios
* Updated amCharts5 version
* Fix for LDAPAccess not detecting an error condition and returning a partial list which causes false errors in the AD Change Monitor
* Web interface handles limited-rights users better
* File & Directory Change monitor database sizes drastically reduced
* Fixed rare problems in the Directory Quota monitor
* When updating Satellites and Endpoints, the Satellites will update the Endpoints after they update themselves
* Added a message template to the Syslog Sender action
* Reflecting device's Satellite-disconnected state out to Consoles better
* Discovery end IP address is now inclusive
* Fixed passwords getting lost when configurations are imported
* Fixed credentials not getting propagated when the Network Discovery monitor finds new devices
* Fixed report parsing bug when language is set to French
* Failed emails don't send System Alerts so soon
* Reduced CPU usage
* Setting failed mail sending global status after 3 failures
* Improved cases where PDF renderer works

* Added OAuth support to the Email Action, Error Acknowledgement, Mail Server Monitor and EMail Monitor
* Service Monitor can ignore Per-User services
* Fix for rare case where reports that get stuck looping while generating
* Fix for the HTTPS client accepting an expired certificate
* Limit the number of times the Reboot action will try to reboot a server
* New automatic system check for the internally used SSL certificate's expiration and warn if getting close
* File & Directory Change monitor can scan sub-folders for specific files
* Fixed rare deadlock in heavily loaded system
* Protection for Action Lists to not fire non-notification actions in System Alerts
* Added 'First day of current month' time selector for reports
* Fix for correct Smart Config dialog showing up in Remote Consoles
* Potential work around for EvtOpenSession calls getting stuck in Windows' wevtapi.dll
* Ability to serialize access to server Event Logs
* More efficient sending of large emails
* Monitors don't lose their Last Run time on a Satellite after a restart
* Added ALIAS option to the ADD_SERVER External API
* Syslog monitor will switch to source address when host is 'localhost'
* Inventory Collector collects serial numbers/service tags from more devices for your local database
* Added ignored sub directories for File/Dir Size monitor
* Performance increase in the Console, especially the SNMP object selector
* Fix for Web Page monitor not appending web page content in all requested situations
* Change to allow wildcards in Service Monitor templates
* Additional internal security checks
* Fix for a string comparison bug
* Active Directory Change Monitor correctly does substring checks for ignored objects and attributes
* Cleaning up extra tabs in critical fields during an import/read
* Updated to zlib 1.2.12
* Updated to curl/libcurl 7.82.0_2 (because of zlib)
* Updated to libssh2 1.10.0_2 (because of zlib)
* Fixed a rounding error in the Bandwidth monitor
* Using UTC time for maintenance end times so time zones are not an issue
* Fix for some default monitors not showing up after adding a new computer
* Updated 7za (7-Zip) to 21.7.0
* Simplied SSL certificate names in CA folder
* Improved monitor dependency mapping when copying monitors and templates
* PDF renderer will wait longer for retries
* Prevent HTTP request storms to/from Satellites
* Fix for some template changes not getting propagated
* Greatly improved efficiency of device mapping and finding
* Fix for custom chart editor sorting
* Added control for output of the Email monitor at customer request
* Improved automatic language translation process
* Added registry-based extra Play Sound methods
* Fixed promoting a monitor to a template when the monitor is selected in a different category
* Use a shorter timeout for remote requests on the UI thread in the Console to keep it more responsive
* Added Amazon ECS for monitoring
* Local IP address shown in reports, etc can be changed by index number into list of local addresses
* Updated to OpenSSL 1.1.1o
* Better job figuring out system PID
* Fix for Active Directory Change Monitor
* Log File Monitor works better with Bulk Config
* Added AWS Elasticache device type
* Fixed regression bug involving checking ranges of Event IDs in the Event Log Monitor
* Database monitor reports a formerly silent error
* Trimming path in Log File Monitor
* Fix for ignored AD attributes being alerted on
* Added support for AWS CWAgent custom performance counters
* Updated to latest PAExec
* Updated .config files to reference .NET 4.8 and 4.8.1
* AWS counters will be fetched without the cache when in the Performance Monitor configuration
* Fix for slow Network Scanners with large IP ranges
* Better XML diff in audit messages

* Fix for quickly growing Security Event Logs
* Cache the running process list so Event Log monitors have better performance
* Optimization so the Active Directory Login Monitor will use less CPU
* Event Log and Active Directory Monitors won't do impersonates when resolving SIDs
* Bandwidth grid is more stable
* Show a message box if a file fails a signature check
* Fix for a crash when queueing emails that are rejected by the mail server because of size
* Error message from PASystemDetails will be shown in the monitor status
* Added an Auto Recovery feature to automatically rename corrupted database files. See Settings > Auto Recovery
* Added support for $TunneledHostPort(remote_port)$ to Console_Operations.ini
* Added putty to build, and new SSH to Device command option
* Status updates from multiple Satellites won't cause repeating alerts to fire
* Auto-scaling unit added to many reports
* More verbose Service Monitor logging
* Added Most Recent Value report summarization type
* New anti-virus support added to the Inventory Collector
* Added IP address to the "Sent From" field in alerts
* When an Action can't run, the source monitor will be shown when possible

* Added more diagnostic logging
* Upgraded IPWorks
* Fix for showing scaled SNMP values in charts and GUI
* Fix for slow right-click on Devices nodes in the Console
* New self-signed certificates default to being sha256 signed instead of sha1
* Server charts will show an additional decimal point's info in the tool tip
* Syslog monitor will show error status when it can't listen on required port
* Event Log Monitor will try to resolve GUIDs and CLSIDs to give more meaningful messages
* Added more encryption and authentication options to SNMP v3
* Detect stale VMWare connections better
* Fix for server chart tool tips
* Fix for custom charts not being sized as desired
* Checking DLL signatures when loading
* Server/group charts with 6 or more data lines will show the title next to the value in the tooltip
* Added new Monitors: Replace Actions Bulk Config command
* Fix for SNMP Trap monitor that couldn't filter on field descriptions
* Added /AUTO_LOGIN Console command line option
* Fix for RD Gateway Monitor reports
* Configuration Audit report will be written to unique directory so it doesn't overwrite other similar reports
* Fix for very rare crash in the Console
* Better support for receiving encrypted SNMP Traps
* Fix for some non-English date parsing
* The DNS Monitor can alert on changes to DNS response
* Added new Monitor Statuses custom group report part
* Mail Monitor will now store credentials in a per-monitor manner
* Fixed crash in Syslog monitor
* Fix for crash during configuration restore from disk
* Protection against Console thinking servers aren't owned by a group
* Added auditing entries for moving computers to different groups, and running Bulk Config
* Console updates status icons in navigation panel better
* Updated to OpenSSL 1.1.1l
* Updated to libcurl 7.78.0
* Updated to libssh2 1.10.0
* System Details WMI calls will use packet level authentication
* Added Regular Expression support to Dynamic Server List and Inventory Alerter monitors
* New hourly System Audit event that the service/Satellite is running
* DNS Monitor will show all lookup results in the monitor status
* Fix for DNS Monitor that didn't report failures properly
* Bandwidth monitor data set handles large numbers of interfaces better
* Bandwidth monitor columns are sortable (click column header)
* Logging a host ping if the database connection is reconnected
* Removing stale stats from multiport bandwidth charts
* Event Log Monitor and Active Directory Login Monitor better handle fast filling event logs
* Dynamic Groups with missing base Dynamic Server List monitor will be deleted
* Bandwidth monitor supports expressions to specify which interfaces to monitor
* Disk Space monitor templates can use expressions to specify which disks to monitor
* System Alerts use a message template that can be modified
* Fix for errorneous "monitor stuck" alerts
* Collecting disk status via WMI Inventory Collector similar to System Details
* Fixed a bug so there is better email alert throughput under load
* Reduced how much MIB files are read
* Added Groups: Delete Groups to Bulk Config
* Setting process wide COM/DCOM security to RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_PKT_PRIVACY
* Added AD attribute ms-mcs-admpwd and ms-mcs-admpwdexpirationtime for ignore to the AD_Attributes.csv file
* Disk Space monitor can check for new drive in an external process
* Fix for sorting in the Active Directory Change monitor report
* Fix for Web Page monitor URL bulk load
* Console remembers navigation panel width between restarts
* Better error reporting in the Execute Script monitor
* Added Italian translation files
* Fix for configuration import problem
* Handle canceling out of the startup wizard better
* Added mouse scroll wheel support to some grids in the Console
* Active Directory Change monitor will gather data from Satellites for reports
* Fix for disk space monitors that would not configure drives that were found
* Will attempt to get remote drive list from Windows via WMI
* Updated to NAudio 1.8 with new API to play sounds more quickly

* Fix for problem parsing MIB files

* New default self-signed certificates will use sha256 instead of sha1 for signature
* Fix for slow right-click on Devices nodes in the Console
* Added better error reporting to the Upgrade to 64-bit helper application

* Faster operation for large installations (1000's of devices)
* Less CPU usage in large installations
* TLS 1.3 support added to the user interface
* Upgraded to amCharts4
* Fix for audit failure event log entry showing up for the service account instead of per-server login account
* Added reporting to the SNMP Trap monitor
* Fixed database transfer for the Directory Quota monitor
* Clicking the Parent Group button will refresh the parent report
* Configurable cache minutes for Server Status Report
* Pasting monitor will no longer try to customize them but will paste as-is
* Better credential syncing for the Database Monitor templates
* Increased timeout when communicating with ESXi
* Can set an SNMPv3 privacy/encryption password in the SNMP Trap monitor to receive encrypted traps
* Disk Space monitor won't remove mount points when deriving from a template
* Fix when using credentials with templates
* Added the caller to the alert for certain Active Directory events
* Fix charts for Service and Process monitors
* Fix for rare crash in MIB parser
* Fix to prevent monitors disappearing under heavy load
* Fix for Network Scanner ignores with wild cards
* Multiple stats combined into a single CSV file will show stat names at the stat change boundary
* Servers coming out of Maintenance will be able to regardless of whether the Satellite is connected or not
* Fix for occasional problem in the Console when moving computers would show a double shadow computer
* Reduced CPU usage for large installations
* Variables html page written out in UTF-8 to handle non-ASCII characters
* Configuration to hide empty datasets when running a report on multiple datasets
* Speed increase for Console startup and in the Service and Satellite
* Performance monitor will keep a more stable connection to the performance counters when wildcards are used
* Rebuild with new code signing scheme
* Fix for START_MAINTENANCE and END_MAINTENANCE with GID of 0
* Better support for downloading CSV files from reports
* Web Page Monitor can use cURL for requests to support more ciphers on older Windows versions
* Fix for server charts showing wrong date
* Not caching performance monitor error data
* Fix for rare Console synchronization bug
* Charts render asynchronously so the browser responds quicker
* Event Log Cleared message will contain the bookmark information for verification purposes
* Event Log monitor will show process and command line (if possible) when a Process ID is in the event
* Active Directory Login Monitor contains Domain field for running reports against
* Satellites and Endpoints have a better back-off when failing to connect
* New bandwidth data sent/received charts and report
* Performance boost (less CPU usage)
* Fix for failing to get a list of drives from a server
* Additional XSS protection added (credit to Ryan Jones)
* Added CSV export icon to tables in most reports
* Report CSV files that are empty will have _no_data appended to the filename
* New user right for View Satellite status
* Starting and ending Immediate Maintenance handled asynchronously
* Enhancement to speed up chart rendering
* Significantly faster internal HTTPS server
* Fix for MONITOR_ENABLE External API call
* Entering and leaving maintenance will only fire the associated System Alert, not the "changes might affect monitoring" alert
* Added FORCE to Smart Config to force duplicates if specified
* TTFB shown in Console when testing Web Page Monitor via service
* HTTPS client reading much larger chunks to speed up Console sync
* Fix for some garbled PDF attachment filenames for non-latin character sets
* Run Now commands are handled asynchronously
* Added QFE Last Installed Date inventory field
* Fix for Inventory Report date parsing
* Added -V 2 to IPMI commands (uses lower privilege level)
* SNMP Walk will try alternate OIDs to work around broken agents (Windows Server 2019 for example)
* Can set Use Curl via Bulk Config for Satellites
* Added replacement variable support to connection strings for the database monitors
* Fixed showing and editing SNMP v3 credentials in the Credential Manager
* Better dynamic TLS support for the Helper application based on installed .NET version
* Fix for Calculated Status and Execute Script monitors not honoring error suppression rules
* Fix for charts that cover the daylight savings shift
* Fixed rare Hardware Monitor crash
* SystemDetails module of Inventory Collector uses correct domain with credentials
* Fix for SNMP table view for long OIDs (Windows services table)
* Added Device IP/Hostname, Device Alias Only and Device Aliased Name inventory fields
* Set a maximum size of email message digests
* Performance improvements
* Added Source ID and ExternalRef columns to the Error Audit report and database
* Fixed the enabling and disabling of Automatic Configuration in the Console
* Support added to SNMP monitor to easily monitor table columns
* Performance improvements
* More reliable Satellite and Fail Over updates
* Fix for Active Directory Login Monitor filtering on username
* Creating SNAP Tunnels has additional security checks
* Failed login recording with automatic and configurable lockout
* Added support for ignoring uninteresting folder paths in the SSH Disk Space monitor
* Added support for defining "Instances" in Execute Script reported statistics
* Group chart height grows dynamically with legend size
* SNMPWalk will try to do bulk again after walking backwards to find a new start node * New Bulk Config operation to securely copy device credentials from one Satellite to another
* Prevent overlapping template propagations
* Selecting device in a Dynamic Group won't cause the selection to jump to the 'home' group of the device
* Account locked messages show calling application type
* Changes to template propagation to increase robustness
* Mobile Device actions will show Last Contact in right-click menu
* Fix for a few template propagations that would happen repeatedly
* Better linking of Linked schedules between template derived monitors

* Fix for regression bug where Inventory Collectors on Satellites stopped reporting
* Ability to change report email subjects to just the report title
* Database Monitor connection string propagation works with templates
* Can specify independent Up and Down actions for Satellites

* Added some APC battery properties to the Inventory Collector
* Inventory Collector monitor can read SNMP values from InventoryList.txt
* IgnoreScriptErrors variable added to $mon for Powershell Execute Script
* Fixed rare problem where older state would show up in monitor status
* Added RENAME_USER_ACCESS command line to rename user access settings
* Updated Web Page Monitor to allow scripts between checks for extracting data from pages
* Fixed Bulk Config's Monitors: Delete Monitors to work on template-derived monitors
* Fixed some problems with database transfers
* Fixed race condition during template propagation where some monitors might get lost
* AD Login Monitor will throttle it's CPU usage better
* AD Login database writer is a bit more performant
* Fix for Ping Monitors getting behind
* Fix for Web Page Monitor regression bug from 8.1.0.33
* New Remote Desktop Gateway monitor
* Disk Space Full Check will by default use straight line prediction instead of looking at quadratic
* When a monitor comes out of Satellite Disconnected it will show its previous status
* Web Page Monitor can append content in OK status (as well as Alert status as before)
* Web Page Monitor script $mon.Details will be appended to the monitor status whether firing actions or not
* Improvement to help prevent the internal HTTP server from getting behind
* Task Scheduled Monitor will show
* Fix for UI glitch when chosing field values for reports
* Fixed a problem with accessing ESXi servers when the password contains a space
* Fix for SNMP Walk when looking for the starting OID for devices that respond with End of MIB
* Logging that will show which Performance object is returning faulty data
* Ability for Performance monitor to try to continue even if data is corrupted
* Better finding the starting OID for an SNMP Walk
* Internal changes to reduce CPU usage
* File & Directory Change monitor doing proper impersonation on one call where it was missing before
* Better AWS counter monitoring error messages
* Changes to reduce CPU usage in large installations
* Change to Log File Monitor to allow checking multiple lines at once for patterns
* Update for SNMP Monitors that will now show charts in their alerts
* Fix for database transfer of the Active Directory Change monitor
* More shutdown logging
* GET_SERVER_PROP API function supports multiple property look ups per request
* Emailed report PDFs will use the report title for the PDF file name
* Better check for customer SSL/TLS certificates before regenerating
* Event Log monitor handles timeouts better
* Execute Script won't alert based on FireActions if $mon.ReportResults has already been called
* AD Logins report fix
* Rebuilt a library with (little used) SIMD extensions removed for broader CPU support
* Added 'contains' and 'does-not-contain' operators for text-based SNMP checks
* Recent Logins report for the AD Login Monitor can show recent login at the start or end of a period
* Added Group Name to Custom Group Report email subjects
* Better LDAP error when credentials are wrong
* Protect Console against a rare crash
* Added $mon.ComputerAlias for the Execute Script monitor
* Added operators % ^ & | to the expression evaluator
* Fix for lock in the Service monitor
* Added support for multi-Item escalation in Execute Script monitors
* AD Login Monitor can cleanup the database without needing a locally running monitor
* When exporting computer config as a template, monitors are disconnected from templates as needed
* When importing computer config from a file, do not 'fit' monitors - import as-is
* Fix for group reports not showing internationalized titles
* Fix for duplicate rows in the Largest Directories report for the Directory Quota monitor
* Change to support the APP_POOL_WAS\Current Application Pool Uptime performance counter
* Disk Space monitor can retrieve disk stats via SSH
* Registry setting for optionally forcing HTTP connections to not get reused
* Registry setting so Run Now can optionally NOT override monitor period and dependencies
* Added HTTP/2 support to the Web Page Monitor
* Fix for Executive Summary report section titles
* Fixed testing Execute Script powershell monitors when they are a template
* Fixed TCP/UDP selector for SNMP monitors
* Fix for Database Server Monitor template propagation
* Fix for expanding performance counters with ? and Regular Expressions
* Fix for SNMP v3 Traps/Informs

* New Task Scheduler Monitor * Better HTTP filtering of requests that come from localhost * Better startup experience for first install * Bulk Config's Set Credentials works with using existing credentials * Registry configurable option to combine CSV report files * Fix for rare issue of disk space charts growing * Email Monitor works better with Office365 * Added 'By Satellite' to Bulk Config's server selector * Scheduled Report 'contains' fields are restored properly * Fixed Dynamic Server List "Monitor Title" 'does not contain' operator * File & Directory Change monitor's Ignore Files list propagates as a template correctly * Added ENABLE_MONITOR external API function * Acknowledging errors can temporarily suppress alerts (see monitor's Advanced Options > Alert Suppression) * New report CSS * Updated Content-Security-Policy so IFRAMEs can load poweradmin.com help pages * Restored missing Ping and Inventory Collector templates to their Auto Configuration groups * Upgraded to the latest PDF renderer * Added Bulk Config operation Computers: Notes to set or clear notes on multiple devices at once * Polished some start up wizard interaction * Fix for Two Factor Authentication when using Active Directory for logins

* Internal Python initialized in a safer way * Charted titles change more reliably when the underlying statistic's alias is changed * Setting DNSCache parameters MaxCacheTtl and MaxNegativeCacheTtl to prevent Ping false positives because of DNS caching * Added LOOKUP_CID and SERVER_ENABLE to the External API * Fix for text descriptions from SNMP Nodes if syntax is wrong * Fix for alerting on empty Event Logs * Fix for alerting when the Event Log is cleared * Regression fix for Event Log monitoring * Updated from OpenSSL 1.1.1c to 1.1.1d * File & Directory Change monitor works with Bulk Config's Monitors: Set Monitor Parameters operation

* Minor UI update to look less dated. See the View menu to change back * New support for some AWS Cloud Watch counters * New Active Directory Change Monitor * Convenience fix for "Logins by User" report * Fix for Bulk Config operations that didn't work on Monitor Templates * New Most Recent Logins report for the Active Directory Login monitor * Remove duplicates from Active Directory Login monitor report output * Fix for rare crash * Improved MIB parsing * Fix for missing nodes in MIB tree * Fixed the PDF button when used within the Console * Decreased short term memory use, and a small performance increase * Fix for form-post escaping * Reduced log load for some monitors * Dynamic Server List rule for Server/Device names accepts wildcards * Error History OK Time field will be filled in even if unacknowledged alerts * Fix for User Access interface when rights not automatically granted to new users * Quiet a false database error * PALowPriorityHelper_net4 (Powershell 4/5) is now 64-bit * Improved MIB dependency resolver * Added an AWS Counters chart definition * New MIBs are loaded every 60 seconds * Charts that are all 0 values show up better * New Alerts menu to Broadcast text to user alert actions * Default Message Templates will use the correct default language setting after it changes * Run Now will override the monitor's schedule or dependencies * Fix for merging charts with data from multiple monitors where amounts of data aren't the same * Uninstaller will unregister from All-Systems-GO as needed * Failed action notifications won't cycle and alert via the same failed action, causing a crash * Bandwidth monitor can set thresholds in %, Kbps, Mbps, Gbps or Tbps * Improved computer name mapping, better local computer detection * More helpful diagnostic message when a report fails to run * Fix for Set Maintenance Schedule user right * CSS change to prevent wrapping in the report index tree * Added GET_NOTES and SET_NOTES to External API * Fix for Service Monitor template propagation of non-auto start services * Protection against bad response from DNS server

* Two Factor Authentication can be enabled on a per-user basis at Settings > Remote Access > Filter User Access * New User Right to control who can update Satellites and Fail Over * Ping monitor will work around Windows internal DNS cache failure * Fix for race condition when launching the PALowPriorityHelper application * Fix for Default bandwidth alert minutes over threshold * Increased SQLite memory usage limit * Better GUID caching in the Active Directory Login and Event Log monitors * More precise UCRT check * Added optional HEIGHT and WIDTH parameters to the CREATE_CHART External API command * Changed cipher list ordering for Weak cipher list so Windows 2003 can still connect * Check socket state before making an SSL/TLS connection * Address Resolver handles ISATAP IPv6 addresses * Added vcredist-x86 for VS2012 for IPMI usage (thanks Thunderbyte!) * Can use a remote login to the local Central Monitoring Service to get a full Local Console if: local Admin, admin rights in app, rights to top Servers/Devices group * Can disable the local credential-less login * Trend lines go out 33% beyond the chart * Reordered some lines in the HTTP/S server to potentially reduce locking * ReqResponseDN.dll is correctly updated by the installer * Fixed internal lock that can freeze the service * Fix for Bandwidth monitor that couldn't select interfaces to be monitored * Increased performance of the Active Directory Login monitor * Increased performance of DNS resolver * Fix for Log File monitor

* WMI (Inventory Collector), PDF, and charts use the .NET 4 Helper * Current Errors Report will succeed in more situations * Switched to newer MIB parser, and added a larger MIB library * Defaulting to requiring a login to view web reports * New User Right for setting maintenance schedules * Fix for row variables in Execute Script actions * Handle double-width charts in Executive Summary/Custom Group reports

* Preventing old SNMP 'bandwidth' monitor from getting created * Added additional group-level Custom Reports * Added SSL certificate checking to the FTP monitor * Fail Over will be able to run the All-Systems-GO monitor even if it is not active * Fix for Database Server Monitor that wasn't alerting on databases created or deleted * ChangeMonitorStatus from Execute Script monitors and actions can correctly update the running monitor's status * Change to report page refresh functionality if an HTTP error happens * Fixes for duplicate columns in the Group Overview report (column report) * Alert charts will use better units, especially for Disk Space monitors * Diagnostic pings are on by default * New Bulk Config to cleanup unknown Actions * Bandwidth charts will filter out values that are too high and thus ruin the chart * If System Details fails to get Windows Update data across the network, copy it to the target machine on the next run * When Satellites reconnect, they will quickly sync the monitor status to restore status back to what it was (overwriting the Scheduled status) * Scheduled monitor status is grey indicating it is an unknown state * Hardware monitor works with templates * Fix for Satellites: Set Host bulk config operation * Windows credential setting can choose credentials from an existing server * Install .NET 4.7.2 if needed via .NET Web Installer * New Credential Manager * Don't show Top X chart on a group when there are no devices in the group * Fix for SNMP monitor that would switch between UDP and TCP transport * Fix for generating PDF of Custom Reports that might be for a different report * Web Page monitor headers and posted name/values are kept in original order instead of sorted * Fix for Ping monitor caching DNS lookup results by default * Fixed a small memory leak * Outgoing alert emails will be processed in parallel more for greater throughput if needed * Restored the missing Hourly Error Count chart * Write to Log File action has a configurable output template * Fix for possible crash in Execute Script monitor * Old v7 Console will be replaced with a message to update short cuts * Protection against crash in PAPDH * Fix for Welcome Dialog with newer versions of IE * A little better tracking of who creates computers when done via Network Scanner * Remote Console failure to write to its log file will not broadcast a System Alert * Ping monitors with multiple IP addresses can be differentiated in the reports better * Master server won't do a Fail Over file sync for first 10 minutes of the service starting up * Don't alert on monitors missing actions if the monitor (or server) is disabled * Fixed rare crash triggered by mobile app usage * Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c * Satellite disconnected status shown on devices and monitors with a striped background * Fix to ignore PAExec in the File & Directory Change monitor * Explicit SSL/TLS version selection in the HTTP Settings dialog * Better Live View (with simple filtering) * Credential Manager will prompt if deleting credentials referred to by other devices * Explicit SSL/TLS version selection in the HTTP Settings dialog * Better Live View (with simple filtering) * Resolve IP addresses in Active Directory Login Monitor for more meaningful alerts * Fixed rare crash in IPv6 address resolver * Logging will recover from network errors better * Fix for computed Performance values using variables * Fix for File & Directory Change monitor so it again shows full path for Changed files * Added Event ID 4768 "A Kerberos authentication ticket (TGT) was requested." to the Login Monitor for Failed Logins * Easier to read reverse DNS name lookup for Active Directory Login Monitor IP addresses * Upgraded to AmCharts 3.21.15 from 3.20.4 * Charts can now be normal width, double width, or full width (double width is new) * Execute Script monitors can overwrite their own status as they run * Better chart resizing * Automatically flush DNS cache when pings fail * Can now add charts for Citrix login times, FTP times, Mail monitor times and TCP Port times to the Server Status Report * Added audit change events for Servers/Devices and Actions * Exporting templates can now export all appropriate credential types if requested * Fixed Multiport bandwidth charts for some customers * Updated to SQLite 3.29.0 * Better database cleanup routine for Active Directory Login monitor * Top-level Monitor Templates won't propagate into the *Automatic Configuration groups * Upgraded to InnoSetup 6 * Allowing Group report editing in Remote Access Edition * SNMP Monitor works with floating point values * Check All and Uncheck All buttons added for the Event Logs to Monitor list * Defaulting back to version 7 behavior of Ping monitors caching DNS lookup results * Satellites are automatically accepted by default

* Better, Faster, Stronger - many improvements in monitor performance, template propagation, etc * 64-bit, which means almost no memory limitations. * All-Systems-GO monitor to be assured your monitoring system is up and running * IPv6 support * Better performance when using RDP through a SNAP Tunnel * All licenses come with Unlimited Ping * SNMP over TCP (as well as UDP like previously) * More Bulk Config operations * Bulk load SNMP monitors from a spreadsheet * Group notes (similar to Server Notes) * More flexible and powerful monitor settings * New User Rights for more control * Event Log monitor opens and runs faster on older versions of Windows (pre-2008) * SNMP Monitor uses the SNMP Retries registry setting instead of being hard-coded * Monitors that cannot run will fire System Alerts at most once every 15 minutes (instead of on every run) * Added SNAP Tunnel audit events * Advanced Deduplication will block all actions on a duplicate as documented, not just notifications * Added some database caching for frequent requests to increase performance * Fix for Calculated Status monitor for rapidly running monitors * Fixed Monitor Change auditing event * Fix for Disk Space Monitor reporting predicted full disks, and then immediately reporting it is OK and under threshold * Fix for Satellite Up/Down messages that were missing the Satellite name * Added new All Actions Access permission * Email send throttling can be controlled via registry setting * View System Activity shows template propagation * Disk Space monitor status will show all disks, even when alerting on each separately * Removed [ ] around monitored values in Disk, SNMP and Performance Monitors * Fix for template dependencies not propagating properly * Enforce OpenSSL server cipher order * Template propagation speed improvement when Satellites are involved * Group-level Notes that can be added to Group reports (similar to Server Notes) * Easy Config can query for IPv6 Neighbors * Added $DeviceNameOrAliasOnly$ replacement variable * Fix for Smart Config that wasn't adding actions when using a template as the base monitor * Fixed device property "Date Added for Monitoring" from getting reset * Can set Performance Monitor and SNMP Monitor threadholds to compare against "Previous_Value" - useful for detecting reboots * Syslog Monitor's filter editor will always edit the correct filter * Prevent memory fragmentation when cleaning up the Login Event Database * Reports can be run that are not limited by memory size * Fix for dependencies on templates * Fix for rare crash in SNAP Tunnels * Increased reporting speed in some cases * Updated expiring SHA1 code signing certificate * Upgraded to IPWorks 16 * Handle very large emails more efficiently * Using different heap memory management settings * First template propagation will wait until the Central Service has been running for two mintues * Fix for ping handles being reset too often * More efficient log file writer (easily handles 10X the logging) * Plugin Monitor fix to handle single-line output * Added Bulk Config to enable/disable monitoring of Servers/Devices * Bulk Config can be used to disable the internal HTTPS service within the Satellite (will break Inventory Collector) * Registry setting to allow Ping monitor to use cached DNS results * Configuration setting to prevent the 'Start specified service on monitored computer' action from being created * New Bulk Config operation - Computers: Allow/Prevent Template Propagation * Central Server will sync MIBs to the Fail Over regardless of MIB sync settings * Bulk Config's Monitors: Set Monitor Dependencies works with monitor templates * Improved Network Map device layout * Event Log Monitor and Active Directory Login Monitor will skip events older than 3 days * Fix for rare configuration synchronization failure * Disabled servers leaving maintenance mode won't become enabled * Prevent Bulk Config from misconfiguring a template with the Monitors: Set Monitor Parameters operation * Much faster processing of GetNextID for large installations (used in template propagation) * Database Server Monitor handles databases with spaces in the name * Syslog and SNMP Trap monitors will use the optional registry configuration values * Added the ability to block some accounts (external customers for example) from seeing Recent Alerts on servers and Current Errors in groups * Can start and end Immediate Maintenance on servers in Dynamic Groups * Fix for regression crash in SNAP Tunnels * Fixed View Template button at the top tempate bar in the Console * Added Show Monitoring Coverage on Group reports user right * Fix to the Startup Wizard * Fixed the "Show devices that do not contain specified monitors" parameter for the Configuration Audit report * Small reduction in memory usage for large installations * Tool tips for most fields that are too long to display * Caching domain lists * Additional support for IPv6 for SNMP-based requests * The Central Service and Fail Over Service will wait longer for Satellites to reconnect after just starting up * Central Service will sync a fresher copy of the Satellite status database to the Fail Over Service * Fix for formatting in the Environment Monitor when alerting on humidity or luminescence * SNMP Trap monitor has option to show trap/field descriptions in alerts * Set Server Maintenance action shows server names with groups * Monitors in Can't Run state (or Internal Error) will NOT move through Event Escalation steps, but instead reset escalation to the beginning. * Email Message Digest age is registry configurable (defaults to 1 minute) * Less memory usage when sending large host name lists to the central server * Tighter syncing between the Console and Central Service * Fix for ability to disable Drag and Drop in the Console * Fix for very rare memory corruption bug that can happen during log rotation * Added time stamps to Satellite up/down and also System alerts * Ability to message digest all emails, including the first one in a while * Change that should prevent the CompNameCache database from growing so much * Fix for Day Light Savings transition date calculations * Fix for rare race condition in Cache Manager that caused configuation updates to get lost * Fixed units in the charts in email alerts * Retries when an error occurs while retrieving ESX disk space * Enhancement that reduces CPU usage on heavliy loaded systems * Better SNAP Tunnel performance (RDP to Satellite for example) * Bandwidth Monitor's 'Alert After' field is honored * Expanded Call URL Action's Content-Type field * SNMP Monitor will strip common text from chart titles * File & Directory Change monitor speed increase * Increased report refresh reliability * Added ability to have group reports refer to child group reports * Data Sets in the report builder will show device aliases if defined * Fix for Email Monitor reseting IMAP folder to INBOX * Bandwidth monitor alerts automatically scales bandwidth values in alerts for easier reading * Custom Group report Custom Charts can be separated by device * Optimizations for increased performance * Ability to turn off compression for syncing in the Cache Manager * Satellite Down can cause servers and monitors to be yellow or red * CRC header restored to the configuration backup files * Multiport bandwidth chart handles detecting in/out port matches better * Active Directory Login monitor works better for non-English Windows installations * Fix for Hardware monitor configuration that wasn't showing 1 hardware device

* SNMP monitor status will show dates and times instead of the raw tick values * Newly pasted servers will be disabled to give a chance to make any changes before enabling for monitoring * Added explicit locale to javascript date/time rendering * Update to enable retrieving monitoring data from ESXi 6.7 * Fix for Custom POST parameter parsing in the configuration for the Web Page monitor * Object selection user interface with very large lists (thousands) loads much quicker * Fix for Bulk Config not filtering on monitor templates correctly in all cases * Added View Diagnostics to Web Page monitor's Results dialog * Automatically use IE embedded browser if older than Windows 7 (Chromium browser won't work) * Changes to the Event Log monitor to prevent audit log entries in the Security log in certain situations * Don't clear actions when coming out of Can't Run if also now in Alert state * Minor fix to Login Event parsing * Fixed hot-links to help pages * Additional logging added * Better name resolution in Event Log entries in some circumstances * Large report warning/redirect page will not be used when generating PDFs * More diagnostics when Satellites can't connect * External diagnostic ping done on a failed connection to the Central Service * Fix crash that can happen when doing HTTPS logging * Satellite has 'FTP Logs to Support' button * Fixed some non-English date parsing for report periods * Calling StoreValue in scripts won't trigger a Monitor Changed audit event * Newly added Custom Properties will show up in the Alert Reminders editor * Trend lines in reports are shown with dashed lines * Updated SQL ODBC driver client to version 17.2 * Fixed archived log files getting deleted too soon * Fix for second try on failed File & Directory Change monitor's prescan count * Cleaned up monitor changes in the audit report * Added ChangeMonitorStatus to Execute Script monitors and actions * Fix for potential missing status in the Group Overview (Column) report for CPU, Memory and Bandwidth * Prolonged internal ping failure will automatically restart the monitoring service * Fix for users with low rights being able to register their mobile phone for alerts * Find dialog can now also find monitors, actions and groups * New Bulk Config operation to force re-propagation of all templates * Copy Computer option in the Console will remap Monitor Dependencies * Scheduled Reports and Ad Hoc reports can be grouped into folders via the new Report Group tab * Don't return alerts to the mobile apps about deleted computers * Extra logging around the Fail Over Slave status * Unstable OS time alerted on (affects monitoring) * Process monitor will show full command line in alerts * Syslog action can send alerts in a single line of text for easier 3rd party integration * Pasting a monitor will put it in a 5-minute maintenance mode. This behavior can be changed in Advanced Services > Advanced Settings "PastedMonitorMaintMin" * Right-clicking a monitor in the Console will show the monitor's status information line (with truncation if needed) * Hardware monitor will scan twice to ensure stable hardware status list is received from the device * Fail Over Slave will do less when it is not active * Fix for broken $DeviceName$ variable * Large configurations are sent in batches to the Console if needed * Similar to maintenance mode, monitors will ignore activity that happened while they were disabled * New Monitoring Coverage report which can output data to CSV, etc * PA Helper net4 will target .NET 4.6.1 to gain better access to TLS 1.2 support * More flexible configuration for using only the Alias in reports * Console loads much quicker * Event Log monitor using correct account when resolving GUIDs and SIDs in event text * Email server connections are disconnected after a failure so subsequent connection can succeed * Fix for custom monitor templates turned into default monitors during Smart Config * Better Satellite backoff when many are trying to connect at once * Satellites make initial connection quicker * Disk Space monitor won't automatically add both ESX and SNMP drives (which are duplicates) * Event Deduplication closing of events will use the monitor's true type * More diagnostics when configuring the Fail Over * Support for using curl when the Windows TLS support is too old to connect * Fix for converting non-English counter paths when propagating templates * Disk Space monitor propagation will add new disks according to the Add Disks setting on the monitor * Faster Console response * Listing all .NET 4 versions that are supported in the .config files * Fix for Fail Over Slave not receiving all configuration data * Better Console performance for limited rights users * Added IPv4 and IPv6 Inventory fields * Protection against Action List loops * Fixed issue with Inventory data getting deleted * Quieted some nuisance alerts from the Fail Over * Added $Satellite_Name$ replacement variable * Configurable timeout while communicating with ESX, with increased default time * CSV file output is a little easier to read * Fix rare crash/memory corruption caused by multi-threaded reports * Diagnostic ping output can be added to Ping monitor alerts * Don't create duplicate Restart Service actions in Smart Config * Better mapping of templated dependencies to server-local monitors * Fix for missing report PDF in email when email report images are disabled * Better Satellite configuration message when a Satellite is connected to an inactive Fail Over * Syslog database cleanup uses the same optimized cleanup operation as the Event Log monitor * Configuration syncing to a Fail Over works better with very large installations * Limited access users will see the group reports defined at the top Servers/Devices level * Bandwidth reports have a selectable output unit * Improved SNMP Monitor timeouts * Faster Event Log monitoring for older versions of Windows

Windows 7/2008 R2 or newer is required for the Console to use the embedded Chromium browser. Otherwise IE with some limitations will have to be used. * Able to clear credentials in the Changed Stored Passwords dialog by entering a blank password * Auto report forwarding in groups now works with the Executive Summary report * Fix in SNMP/Performance configuration that removes per second conversion if no threshold is set * Improved credential caching for remote cases * Execute Script action will use a thread pool to control CPU and memory usage * Execute Script actions run faster and more can run at once * Execute Script and Call URL actions can be configured to run wherever the calling monitor ran * Thread Pool will alert if it is falling far behind * Updated 7za to version 18.05 because of CVE-2018-10115 * New "= New Event Sources =" category in the Event Log monitor for monitoring sources that might be added later * Added $AlertType$ replacement variable * Added $AlertID$ and $AlertType$ columns to the Write to Log File * Added warning to installer about Windows 7/2008 R2 requirement for embedded Chromium browser * Fix for regression bug in ADD_SERVER external API function * Plugin monitor will fill in a status string if one doesn't come back from the plugin * Updated System Details to see more Windows Updates * Fix for very rare crash when backing up the Configuration database for a Fail Over Slave * File & Directory Change monitor is much faster * Event Log monitor does a better job of mapping GUIDs into usernames for non-default domains * Fix for remote access filter user interface involving groups that get moved * Ability to copy and paste devices * Better reconnection attempts for Satellites that are disconnected * Alert Reminders can use Custom Properties * Fix for Full Disk Date calculation

Windows 7/2008 R2 or newer is required for the Console to use the embedded Chromium browser. Otherwise IE with some limitations will have to be used. * System Alerts that are fired for servers entering and leaving maintenance will use a Maintenance status instead of Alert status * Possible to use the Fail Over without a shared database, though data monitored during Fail Over will NOT be available to reports * New flat icons and buttons to modernize the look of the Console a bit * Performance monitor path expansion can use regular expressions for instance matching * Fixed a rare deadlock * Faster MIB parsing * Monitors coming out of server maintenance will revert to their previous status instead of going to Scheduled * Added missing index to LoginEventTextSequence * Reduced database contention in the Active Directory Login monitor when the database is being compressed * New Plugin Monitor * Active Directory Login monitor's compression will keep closer tabs on pending queue size to reduce memory usage * Fix for missing $Details$ variable content in Alert Reminder emails * Option to save database space by not writing the full Event Text to the database from the Active Directory Login Monitor * Login Monitor stores login events, but optionally not the full event text * Activity Chart shown in navigation column when the button bar is hidden * Syslog Sender action can send alert description and/or row variables * Changes to speed up Snap Tunnels, for better RDP tunneling experience * Bulk Config's Computers: Set Automated Maintenance Schedule can clear all maintenance schedules if specified * Fix for servers on Satellites that would come out of maintenance when the central service was restarted * Stripping initial . from OIDs before passing them to SNMP library * Fix for parentheses in scaling expressions * Fix so the Free Licenses don't require activation * Ability to force Full Disk Prediction to only use a straight line formula * Added SET_GROUP_PROP and GET_GROUP_PROP to the External API * Added "Last" {day} of month to scheduled items (monitor, reports, maintenance, etc) * Improved initial database connection error reporting * Fixes for some errors in the language translation files * Advanced variable support in SNMP and Performance monitor thresholds * Upgraded to CEF (Chromium) 3.3325.1756 * Monitors are automatically enabled (if needed) when promoted to a template * Removed duplicate custom logo when report shown within frame of outer page when using Web interface * Faster group reports in large installations * Directory Quota monitor will erase quotas for monitors that have been deleted * Can have multiple Network Scanners per source monitoring system for monitoring multiple address ranges * Logging and possible fix in getting lists of Event Logs * Fix for charts not showing up in PDFs generated from the web report * Fix for SNMP drive names on Windows containing volume names and serial numbers * Fix for File & Directory Monitor that could get stuck and always be busy * SNMP get-bulk failures will be retried as get-next * Ping dependency-created Ping monitors will clear any connection to templates * ESX host connections will be cached for only 5 minutes * Returning newly created ID for External APIs ADD_MONITOR, ADD_GROUP and optionally for ADD_SERVER * Removed 3DES ciphers from High security setting

* SSH Execute Script monitors can use replacement variables now just like the Actions have been able to do * Template selection in Smart Config is an extended-selection instead of single-selection control * Fix for crash in the Active Directory Login monitor * New HTMLEmail_NoDataFiles setting to not attach CSV files to reports * Fix for saved CSV and PDF filenames (@@@ was getting appended) * Log ping result if an HTTP/S connection fails * Ability to restart the monitoring service after too many WAIT_TIMEOUT errors in the Ping monitor * Protections against bad Run Now commands for monitors/computers that can't be found * Loading a memory cache from the database much more efficiently * Fix for parsing IPMI output from iDRAC 8 (from local connection?) * Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.2n * Detailed monitor activity chart can show data from the Satellites * Ensure sent emails go to the Audit Log, regardless of the (separate) Perm Log setting * Connection string editor/parser won't remove unrecognized fields * Performance monitor will attempt to translate counter into local languages during template propagation * Fix for Active Directory Login database writer that would write multiple copies to the Overflow database when erroring * Changes to help the StatIDs stay synced between the Central Service and Satellites * Fix for Evt Event Log API detection fails when a server is down. Will prevent old events from being alerted on going forward. * Detecting SNMP errors more robustly * Prevented DB_LIMIT errors when calculating monthly uptime * Reset Ping handles automatically after too many timeouts * Disk Space monitor will by default ignore temporary drives from /dev, /run, etc * Active Directory Login Monitor will truncate alerts if they get too large * The Syslog Action can use replacement variables and custom monitor messages * Diagnostic access checks are performed when the Service/Satellite starts to report to the user if there are problems with their configuration * Active Directory Login Monitor database writer will work on smaller batches so it can monitor the queue size better * Hardware Monitor fixed Alerts vs Error alerting * Dynamic Server Lists will trigger template propagation on server removes too * Active Directory Login Monitor performance improvement (500 login records/sec) * Active Directory Login database writer keeps up with heavy loads much better * Added $Notes$ replacement variable for us in actions, email templates, etc * Protection against very large HTTP to HTTPS URL overflow * Fixed memory leak * Added option to send logs to support from the Console * Control memory usage in the Active Directory Login Monitor * Better SSL certificate expiration warning * Fixed small memory leak * Users with limited rights will only see Actions that are attached to Monitors that they can see * Fix for Restart Satellite command in the Console which would restart the Satellite service more than once * Added several HTTP/S security headers * Fix for sending emails when graphics, PDFs and attachments have all been disabled * Fix for inadvertently applying Ping dependencies to Global Monitors

* Alert Reminder messages will indicate which rule fired the reminder * Change so the Visual Status Map report can be used with the Lite License * Better monitor dependencies from templates * Fix for Bulk Config's Edit Monitor Parameters when selecting templates * Event Log Monitor coming out of Maintenance on a Satellite will not alert on old events * Array-type Inventory values can be shown in System Details * Ping threshold can check against 1ms threshold * Forcing TLS 1.2 support when using Windows 8.1 or Server 2012 R2 where we know it is supported * Additional SNMP diagnostic logging * Added MERGEIMPORT command line option to import a configuration into an existing configuration * Fix for Satellite Up/Down messages that use a different template * Extra protection against corrupted MIB files * Added rHTMLEMAIL_NO_PDF to disable PDF attachments in reports * HTTP Server allocates less memory * Fix for Log File action truncation when using UTF-8 files * Dynamic Groups will be empty if their source Dynamic Server List is disabled (or not in an OK state) * Double-signing (SHA1 with MS Cross-signing certificate, and SHA256) installers * Registry settable fields to grab SNMP Trap original address from * All SNMP Traps and Informs can be logged to the service log file * Added System Activity events for database cleanup activities * Fix for Network Scanner that wasn't honoring wildcards in ignores * Active Directory Login Monitor database uses much less space * Windows Defender added to list of supported AV products in PA System Details * The Start Application action can specify it should be run on the "Central/Satellite where the alerting monitor runs" * Registry setting (DiskSpaceMonitor_AlertOnCantRun) for Disk Space monitor to use previous Can't Run status instead of Alert if a drive can't be found * Fix for the Active Directory Monitor's database compression * Importing BLOCK_AUTO_CONFIG setting from config cxml files * Improved Windows AV detection in Inventory Collector * Better error message when Powershell-based Execute Script times out * Fix for Consoles not being able to login when "Local only" HTTP server filtering is on * Fix for database writer lock in the Active Directory Login Monitor * Fix so Satellites can do Smart Config with templates * Fixed some error messages in the PA Desktop Notifier * Satellite Down messages will have an AlertID like monitors so they can be tracked in third party systems * Added debug logging for Service Monitor template application * Fixes for issues introduced in build 201 * Fix for Active Directory Login monitor reports * Slightly less CPU usage * Syslog sender optimization and logging * Web Page monitor supports configuration deltas in the Monitors: Set Monitor Parameters Bulk Config operation

* Fix so the Server Temperature monitor can use data from the SpeedFan HTTP Agent * 'Licensed To' in Console will update after license activation * Better negative 'down' value on charts * More efficient CPU usage * Alert reminders won't be sent for disabled or in-maintenance monitors * Network Map report works with Lite licenses now * Fix for Active Directory Monitor that would overflow the central queue if a monitor never ran on the central service * Faster handling of database requests when too many rows are returned * Fix for disappearing server status charts * IMPORTANT Fix for bug in Event Log monitor AND Active Directory monitor where events could get skipped and not processed * Not showing report logo for reports shown within the web-based report frame (that already shows the logo) * External API ADD_SERVER is handled asynchronously so it doesn't timeout while being worked on * Fix for Bulk Config's Delete Monitor operation not working on templates * Fix for Active Directory Login Monitor that wasn't processing filters correctly * Custom Property DISPLAYED_NOTES is now connected to the Notes that can be shown in the server status report

* Disks not found in Disk Space monitor will go into Alert instead of Can't Run * Fix for crash caused by async ping threads that get behind * Fix in Service Monitor where all string compares didn't support wild cards as advertised * Moved to OpenSSL 1.0.2k * Fix for three crashes * Better template selection in Auto Config dynamic groups * Fix for Directory Quota reports * Computer and monitor enabling/disabling tracked in the System Audit report * PA Desktop Notifier will restore dropped sessions as needed * Past alerts easier to view in PA Desktop Notifier * Better comparisons for ignored services in the Service Monitor * Additional PA Desktop Notifier diagnostics * Fix for rare crash involving multiple email alerts and alert charts * Better CPU throttling in the File Age monitor

* New Action Scheduler monitor * New Active Directory Login Monitor * New Bandwidth Monitor * New Hardware Monitor * New Disk Full Prediction Alerts in the Disk Space Monitor * Automatic Configuration feature based on dynamic groups and monitor templates * New Monitoring System Audit Reports * Advanced counter thresholds for the SNMP and Performance monitors * Less memory used and more efficient CPU usage * Console responds quicker when viewing server reports

* Fixed sorting problem in the Console's navigation tree

* Support for increasing the Error History table's ActionDescription column size * Added new All Servers part for Executive Summary reports * Fix for SNMP dialog's Add Direct entry * Added Debug Logging as a setting that can be set via Bulk Config to Satellites * Turned starvation warning alert counts way down * Added Satellite name to Configuration Audit report * Additional logging and diagnostics added * Additional logging and diagnostics added * Fix for Event Log monitor not reporting events separately * Protection against bogus monitor starving alerts * Changed installer's ODBC driver to: Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for SQL Server * Fixed problem with the Console viewing the Fail Over Slave's status page * Won't sync DB Connection string to Fail Over Slave so it can be different if needed (different driver version for example) * Fix for the local Console so it can login using the hostname, and not just 127.0.0.1 * Added IsDeviceType dynamic rule * Added the $WinDir$ replacement variable * Updated EULA indicating a customer's logos can be shown on our website unless asked not to * Change to decrease number of error alerts when a monitor can't run because of a reboot * Added option to control whether TLS 1.2 can be disabled (like for SSLv3, TLS1, and TLS1.1) * Restored the missing "suppressed alerts for {0} before entering error state" message in alerts * Satellites forcing command filter to * so that PASystemDetails and PALowPriorityHelper can connect * File & Directory Change monitor won't report on deletes if settings have changed so it doesn't fire false positives * First character of Live View can be a ! to show all lines that are NOT the given line * Fix for broken language translation in the service * Added a filter to View System Activities * Fixed API_GET_MONITOR_INFO which was not checking all status values * Better interface for Dynamic Server List rule selection * New registry-value based Dynamic Server List rule * Service Monitor will use non-internationalized service/short name as well as translated display/long name * File/Directory Size monitor can use floating point threshold values * More accurate Is Still In Error rule for alert reminders * Added IPMI support for bulk setting server type * Empty template-based monitors won't be propagated to servers/devices * Disk Space monitor will honor the local "Add New Disks" setting * Expanded performance counters get a better alias * Fix for ESXi 6.x that has known issues returning sensor data * Boot time from ESX correctly interpretted as UTC * Server type probe was reporting almost everything as SNMP * Disk space full prediction won't kick in with less than 3 days' data * Fix for manually overriding SNMP object type * Added Monitoring Software Is Installed dynamic server list rule * Fix for handling passed in credentials during Smart Config * Added group-level template blocking during template propagation * Template propagation will complete faster * More precise probe to determine if a server is Windows or not * Fix to some Dynamic Server List rules to filter out recently deleted servers/devices * Don't block the email sending thread with an exception message box * Web Page monitor can alert on page not changing * New GET_PERF_STATS external API * Database monitor handles bad database connection better * More diagnostic logging * Added Bulk Config operation to set IPMI credentials * More robust initialization * Fixed appending \ to the end of disk space paths when SNMP or ESX * File & Directory Change monitor won't alert about deletes just because a file is now being ignored * Better handling of incomplete data coming back from VMWare ESX * Faster template propagation * Removed some internal bottlenecks * Fix for very rare database locked-caused crash * Added options for what alerts to combine in Email Digests * New Custom Data Set report type for the File & Directory Change monitor * Bandwidth monitor is reading the ifXTable ifHCSpeed value * Alert digests handle charts from multiple alerts * Network scanner can ignore by ip address range * Fix for reports that have to restart because they are collapsing (or not) to a single line per data set * Compressing drill-down link data for customers running large numbers of reports * Fix for thread balancing error * Increased shutdown timeout value that was too short * The Group Summary Report won't show dynamic group contents to prevent massive reports * Additional efforts to get Central Service and Satellite to shutdown nicely * Subscriptions will report sooner to prevent becoming unlicensed * Diag's SETCONFIG command can set numeric values now as well as text * Quicker service start reporting * File & Directory Change monitor is recording file size and date to the database for reports * Reports stuck in a loop will break out and fail so other reports can run * Fix for reports that can get stuck in a loop * The Group Summary report will NOT show Dynamic Groups by default, but report settings can change that * Disk Space monitor will remove drives when templates are propagated, and use settings during normal running of the monitor

* Change to handle Slack call in Call URL action * MAINT x can be added to Acknowledge Alerts via Email to put a server into maintenance, though it has to be enabled via the registry. * Upgraded AmCharts and ExtJS * Changed how often a Satellite will switch hosts, and don't switch until trying for 45 seconds * Update to IPMI parser based on customer feedback * Fix for not being able to remove a report part for the Server Status report * Fix for computer names not matching in some cases * Fix for SNMP Trap monitor * Fix for SSH script buffer boundary condition * Enabled SSH diagnostic tracing to the libssh2 library * Updated the IPMI parser * IPMI handler will automatically figure out which driver to use * Fix for some SNMP Walks that ended prematurely * Improved SSH failed login details * Bandwidth Monitor GUI fixes * Fix for crash caused when email acknowledge process receives an email with no ack keywords * Updated to ImgSource v6 * Updated to CEF 3.2623 * Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.2h * Updated to SQLite 3.13.0 * Change in regex engine - moved from boost::regex to std::regex * Added Credentials button to the Call URL configuration dialog * Handle charting multiple CPU instances for SNMP and ESX * Getting email bodies handles mulitpart/alternative which helps the Email monitor and the Email Ack processing * ErrorHistory will be able to return the same ErrID even if simple deduplication is being used * Look for Microsoft's ODBC Driver for SQL Server when building connection strings * PagerDuty action can report configuration errors * Fix for startup race condition in the Console * New FORCE parameter for the START_MAINTENANCE external API command * Template propagation will take the target server type when progating a template * Template progagation can be disabled on an individual server basis via right-click menu * Fixed Scheduled Report renaming GUI bug * Console poll cycle time can be synced from Central Service * Event Log monitor can also filter on the username in the event * Monitoring System Auditing (user logins, service restarts, etc) added. Not visible yet - contact us for access * Performance monitor fix for counters that don't get added when copying a monitor or using templates * Split the Disk Space monitor's Auto Add into Auto Add and Auto Remove options * Protection against a slowing Console when there are thousands of reports * Added Bulk Config - Cleanup: Reset All Server and Group Reports to Top Node * Fixed RegEx filter to use regex_search instead of regex_match * New Advanced Settings dialog make obscure settings more visible * Complete logging for CRT installation * Linux memory usage statistics now ignores cached and memory buffers (see http://www.linuxatemyram.com/ ) * Protection against duplicate/crossed reports * Can disable automatic Network Scanner monitor creation * Fixed deleting of empty groups (and not deleting non-empty groups) * Better handling MIME encoded emails in Email Ack * Quicker service shutdown by exiting Inventory Collector monitors when needed * Fix for possible incomplete exports from the Console * Added Group, Computer, Monitor, Template, and Action creation and deletion to the coming audit log * Additional Satellite connection logging * Call URL action correctly escapes variable values when using application/json content type * Fix for Satellite Down notifications that use escalation, but none in the Do Immediately node * Fix to handle credentials with a few specific characters * Applying a configuration file to a device will also set the device type * Fix for DNS monitor configuration user interface * The Satellite update will update the installed Console as well * Change to Event Log monitor to handle Forwarded Events logs where record IDs are not unique or in order * Fix for VCRedist failing to install during setup when the temp folder contains a ~ * Fixed $CustomProp()$ in Satellite Down notifications * Fix for Database Monitor crash while applying templates * Fix for Database Server Monitor-created Performance monitors for individual databases to handle instances better * Added in-depth heart beat chart in the Console (double-click current chart) * Added ADD_MONITOR to External API * Split Critical event log entries separately from Error entries in the Event Log monitor * Fix for alert charts that were not picking up the status report chart settings * Fix for Disk Space monitor aliases that were getting lost * Uninstall will not show the uninstall web page for Satellite or remote Consoles * Added a filter to the Live View dialog * Fixed bug where Custom Properties set on templates could get reverted * Made ping handle reset threshold registry configurable * Regex syntax flag is configurable via Registry and Advanced Settings * Added rel="noreferrer noopener" to target="_blank" links * Ping uptime report will show alias instead of server name * Fix for custom message templates that were not imported from file * Bulk Config's Set Event Deduplication ID will also set the fire actions override values * Can save PDF files directly when generating them from within the Console * Log File monitor can return X lines before the match, and Y lines after * Smart Config's Action selection dialog supports multi-select, and has Select All and Unselect All buttons * Setting to control truncation in Recent Alerts * SimpleStatDB initialized by monitors in cases where it fails initially * Fix for Event Log getting redirected to Application log when the target cannot be accessed * Upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2j, and disabled Triple-DES cipher when using High Security to prevent SWEET32 attacks * Desktop Notifications will use top-most message boxes * Fix for Event Log monitor's Report all matching events separately * Fix for reports that get their cookie values mixed up * Drop down list for help setting Custom Properties * Network Message action properly truncates messages * Fix for Performance Counter when adding multiple counters (instances) at once * Added SATID parameter for ADD_SERVER external API * Corrected confusing Disk Space alert charts * Fix for rare false alarm ping alerts * Make sure monitoring threads don't get stuck in low priority * Less memory reallocation * Fix for translating counters into non-English languages if there are multiple possible mappings * Escalation support for individual items for monitors that can watch more than one thing, and can report on them separately * Email alerts showing web page content is properly escaped * Search for working credentials is faster * New optional parameters supported for GET_MONITOR_INFO * Added support for a configurable Details column in the ErrorHistory database * New 'Is Domain Controller' Inventory property * Additional services added to Ignore by default in the Services monitor * Dynamic Server List monitor can create Dynamic Groups of the same name, with templates added for advanced configuration * Protection against corrupted performance counter data received from a server

* Template monitor dependencies on non-template monitors works better * DNS monitor error message reports expected result * Better template dependency support when multiple monitors of the same type exist * Added expected result to DNS monitor alert message * SetMonitorStatus support added to Execute Script for PowerShell * Fix: Ability to uncheck dependency even if the hosting server exists in multiple groups (dynamic groups) * Added Database Monitor charts for the server status report * Configuration Audit report has an option to show servers that have or don't have the specified monitors * Fix for Network Map reports when displaying Dynamic Groups * Fix for a monitor skipping sending Fixed alerts if it goes from Alert to Busy to OK * Fix for Citrix monitor not able to show the Schedule control * Can't Run 'fixed' actions only run if 'alert' actions were also run for the original Can't Run event * Monitor starvation (never getting to run) alert moved to System Alerts instead of putting monitor into Alert state * Satellites will sync settings once per hour * Additional diagnostic logging added * Upgraded to SQLite 3.11 * Added full text search of Event Log Description field in the report * Discovery for Satellites on the same network won't duplicate findings * Optimized Status Overview report when multiple clients request it at the same time * Console won't show login page after service is restarted * Reduced some bottle necks - handles much heavier monitoring load * Fix for internal Satellite StatID mismatch * Less memory used to send configuration to Console and Satellites * Limit Satellite requests for the statID cache * Fix for database locking when cleaning up some SQLite-based databases * Changes to allow for larger report generation * Fix for database conversions (from SQLite to MS SQL, and vice-versa) * Disabled rSameMacNameAreSame setting * Fix so Satellite starting/stopping System Alerts come through * Optimization to use a little less memory * Ignores for the Network Scanner can use wild cards * Fix so Dynamic Server List monitors can be renamed * Change to make adding new computers faster in large installations * Sorting ports in the Multi-Port chart better * Registry setting to compress configuration backup * Menu options for moving Groups and Computers * Fix to prevent accidental drag-drop and icon stickiness * Satellites forward data sooner when memory is tight * Recent Alerts acknowledge buttons at the top and bottom of the report section * Configuration backups use much less memory * Fix for file handle leak when syncing files to Satellites and Consoles * Less contention for the Performance monitor throttle * Change in the Database Monitor to support named instances better * Logging thread will keep up under load better * Optimization to make HTTPS requests quicker * Closing SSL connections that are stuck sooner * HTTPS handling threads ramp down as need allows * Fix for some memory leaks in the central service * Upgraded from libssh2 1.6 to libssh2 1.7 * Fixes so jumping forward with Day Light Savings will NOT make a monitor count as being behind * Fixed Execute Script monitor which ignored alert suppression rules * Monitors derived from templates will not be shown for Bulk Config operations that will get overwritten by the template anyway * Added GroupPath property to Execute Script monitors (VBScript, Javascript and Powershell) * Optimized HTTP server's thread usage -- can handle larger loads and is more responsive * Not running Satellite reports if not requested * Tracking memory usage in OpenSSL, SQLite and zLib * Fix for string format exception in Database monitor * Fixed memory leak in template propagation * Preventing a possible deadlock when setting servers in maintenance via Bulk Config * New CREATE_CHART External API function * Fix for uptime bar charts * Logging who does RunNow commands * Can indicate to add computers by IP in Network Scanner and Discovery dialog * Fix for Message Templates not being backed up to the backup.axml file * Protection against a type of corrupted database problem * Fix for double-logins with the Event Log monitor when using server credentials * Tranferring Log File Monitor database to MS SQL if needed for failover usage * Added ToLog to PowerShell Execute Script action and monitor * Better delete SQL for StatData tables - performs better in large installations * Ability to initiate database cleanup from the Console (in Reports - right-click on the report type) * Use non-running status when checking if dependencies are satisfied * Configurable Console "Operations" commands when right-clicking a server/device - see Console_Operations.ini * Registry control of when cleanup happens for Event Log, Error History and the StatData tables * Cleaned up some long standing language translation file problems * Improvements to the Bandwidth Monitor (not publicly released yet, but let us know if you want to try it) * Many improvements to the Multi-port chart, including it can be for SNMP or the new Bandwidth monitor based * Cleaning up some Audit Errors occurring when using the Inventory Collector * Database locking protection in the Log File Monitor and File & Directory Change monitor * Enhanced diagnostic logging added * Fix for Event Log Validator when editing as a template * Custom icons will be shown in the navigation tree of the web view * Single dynamically resizing chart for generated reports (can be disabled via registry) * User Access Control dialog allows a simpler view of the user list * New User Access report * Added support for multiple Directory Quota monitors to watch the same folders * Internal ping handles will be periodically reset * Console will show maintenance/disabled on Servers/Device icon * PA Desktop Notifier can show the last 20 alerts it has received * Richer Error Audit report * Error Audit and Configuration Audit reports can query on Custom Properties * Fix for DevProps table's use of Timestamp column * Event Log Validator will show configured source/log even if it doesn't exist on the target * Added IPMI device type, Performance Monitor can monitor numeric sensor values * Can reply with ACKALL to alert email to ack all alerts from the current computer(s) * Logging failed CallURL POST data * Option to allow Satellites to handle server's Scheduled Maintenance, which means the Satellite's timezone would be used * Fix for race condition in Log File monitor initialization

* Testing bad database connection strings won't cause the global System Alert for failed database connections * Failure to connect to a Database Monitor-monitored database will not cause a global System Alert for failed database connections * Console can require delete confirmation via registry setting * Configuration Audit report shows Advanced Options * When the monitoring service restarts, Performance counters that were in error with a duration will stay in error * Database Connection string not tested from Console if Use Trusted Connection is set when OK is hit * Renaming items in the navigation tree can be done by pressing F2 * New users added to Remote Access can have no access by default via registry change * Fixes for error messages from the Database Monitor * Won't alert on monitors being stuck in busy if the Monitor Period indicates it should not have been running * Fixed crash in CSV generation if a single cell is larger than 8KB * Fixed problem of old report files getting attached as email attachments * Configuration Audit report can create .CSV and .TSV report output * Users that can put monitors into maintenance can also do Run Now on them as well * Adding $AlertCharts$ to an email message template will add appropriate chart(s) to the message * New user right to control who can acknowledge alerts * Added support for $Details(x)$ and $Details_Single_Line(x)$ replacement variables * Using alternative and improved performance monitor collection library * Dynamic group monitor status tracking improved * Fix for Alert Suppression involving long or no ping response * Fix for dependency propagation for templated monitors * Added Message Template support for actions * Signing with SHA2 certificate as required by Microsoft * Satellite updates use 1/3 less bandwidth * Database monitor will not upper-case database names * Fix for filtering too many CPU charts * Satellite installations can be prepared and imaged for use in multiple instances * Increased Event Log timeout value * Fixed email alerts will also contain charts as appropriate * ESX datastore stats refreshed before retrieving * Service and Process monitor reports have an option to show group/server/service * Fix for Log File monitor not filling Extra1 variable * Fix for Alert Suppression rules that were not propagating from templates * Fix for action sorting in the Console

* Fix for ack'd alerts that keep firing even when Advanced Deduplication indicates it should not * Fix for automatic icon not being selected for devices monitored from a Satellite * SystemDetails can use the fully qualified domain name to report results * Fix for exporting device templates where hostname in monitors didn't match case of hostname * Updated to ZLib 1.2.8, Windows API version * Event Log monitor's "Event Logs to Check" is now an Extended selection list box * Fix for stress crashes seen in the field * Ensure one database cleanup happens at a time * Per-monitor Dedupe "Fire if Dedupe" command override * Added proxy support to the license upgrade checker * Less memory used initially when parsing MIBs * Fix for bug reporting unknown service startup state * Install won't get stuck if ServerScript.dll can't be registered * Less memory used by the SNMP MIB parser * Fix for Service monitor not being copied * Report Data Set selector will show dynamic groups when sorted by group * Fix for cases where inventory data was not being collected * Execute Script with SSH will parse output even if there was an error receiving the output * Updated to LibSSH2 1.6.0 * Fix for Inventory Collector monitor that was not saving inventory data * Changes to SSH-based Execute Script to allow duplex communication * Inventory Collector will figure out best way to collect data, making it more template friendly * Database monitor created Performance monitor will handle database instances better * New 'Monitor Name Contains' dynamic server list rule * Change to Disk Space monitor so it will get a full drive list even if an error is returned * Registry tunable string caching and sizing * New string memory manager * Monitor Grid can show Next Run Time and/or Last Run Time * Protection against very late ping response or multiple ping responses from one request * Silencing alerts in the Desktop Notifier will also clear the pending alert queue * Fixed double-sync issue in Console and Satellites at startup * Central Service refrains from sending unnecessary monitor templates to the Satellites * Fix for USE [dbname] in Database Monitor to handle names with dashes * Code for the X to close button in the Console * Fix for large reports showing unprocessed Python script * Speed up Console when large numbers of Dynamic Groups exist * Correctly choosing correct default directory at install time * Large lists of groups and servers load into the Console at least twice as fast * Users that are View Report will not see the Ack column in the Recent Activities grid * Users that are View Report will not be able to edit computer notes * Fix to Database Monitor needing [] around database name * Orphaned deleted monitors will be removed from computers * Copying monitors will add "Copy" to the end of a monitor name if an existing one is found * Global registry setting "Console_AutoApply" to require clicking Apply for settings to stick (defaults to current behavior) * SmartConfig and Ping Discovery are much faster * Performance monitor will refresh list of performance objects when applying templates and doing Smart Config * Drag & Drop in the Console can be disabled via registry setting * Fixed rare crashes in the Console * Increased monitor throughput so larger loads can be handled * Monitor-Directed Email action reenabled for Pro and Ultra licenses * Second CPU chart (if it exists) is filtered out * Pressing Escape in the Console will cancel drag and drop * Two asynchronous ping threads instead of one by default -- greatly increases monitoring capacity

* GET_MONITOR_CONFIG and SET_MONITOR_CONFIG External API commands * Ability to choose which IP address the HTTPS server binds to * Fix for bug in copy/pasting monitors and templates * Fix bug in applying template to Disk Space monitors * Fix for crash on some systems when MAC address is retrieved * Updates not installing to previous install folder * Cleans up old uninstall entries so there aren't multiples

* Monitor template support * Customizable group reports * Scheduled scans for unmonitored devices * Scheduled scans for unmonitored devices * PagerDuty alert action * Desktop notification widget * Database monitor * Configurable charts with configurable scaling * Icons for servers and groups * Dynamic server lists and groups based on server properties * Email Message monitor * DNS monitor * Monitor status will differentiate between the Server being in Maintenance or just the monitor * Fix for SQL error when hourly filter filters out all data * Fixed errors in the File/Directory Size monitor alert output * The File/Directory Size monitor can explicitly alert on small/shrinking files/directories * Better looking server status boxes on Group Summary/Overview and All Servers reports * Fix to prevent overwhelming amounts of queued data being sent from Satellites * Don't overwrite the Inventory IP address field with 0.0.0.0 when the name can't be resolved * MIB Files are not all reparsed because of a missing MIB file * Fix for Free/Lite edition not being able to add Fixed actions to a monitor (introduced in 5.8) * LDAP/AD user names trimmed down to just the CN value when displayed * Reduce amount of memory used in large installations with many Satellites when the service starts up * Less memory while doing configuration synchronization * Satellites won't accept Last Run updates for monitors it runs * Fix for when monitors in a Satellite get stuck because of licensing * Fix for SNMP COUNTER values spiking if they exactly hit the 32-bit max value * Configuration data is smaller in memory for very large installations * Catch exceptions in scripts in the Execute Script monitor and actions * Capping monitor status text to 16KB by default (registry configurable) * Advanced Event Deduplication has an option to never suppress alerts * Ad Hoc charts for very small values (.0001) will look better * Added ability (off by default) for Run-Report or View-Report users to be allowed to create SNAP Tunnels (for RDP usage) * Fix for spikes in SNMP Bandwidth report when using custom scaling, per second data, and the value wraps * Live View on Alert Reminders shows more information * Added DedupeID to the Error Audit report, and made the ErrID field visible * Added rel="nofollow" to PDF links in reports * Can now pass /PASSWORD={pw} to Console along with existing /USER={user} and /SERVER={server:port} * Performance charts can combine and compare different value types by converting charted values to percent of maximum * Added Group Path to the All Errors report

* Fix for the "Everything" setting in the Inventory Report * Fix for not being able to set SNMP credentials within the SNMP monitors * Fix for checking Debug, Diagnostic and Analytic Event Logs * Fix for extremely large emails that block future alerts * The Service monitor will consider Automatic (Trigger)-start monitors as Manual start * Disk Space monitor handles SNMP errors better * Smart Config-created Disk Space monitors will default to using global setting for "add new disks" * Added Open http://{server} to server's right-click Operations menu in the Console * Fix for detecting Automatic (triggered) services * 'Report events separately' support added to the Web Page monitor * HTTP library configured to use TLS 1.2 or 1.1 if available * Call URL Action can now post arbitrary text with configurable encoding (for Slack integration, among others) * CPU throttling is no longer a System Alert * Fix for intermittent report, Inventory Collector and Powershell Execute Script failures * Added PermLog for user logins for the application * GroupID can be used for Event Deduplication * Fix for Console showing a login page * Fix for cached ping failures reporting success * Added DO_QUIET and END_QUIET to the external API * Added a Duplicate option to Scheduled Reports * Fix for not updating large training values in SNMP Monitor * Being more specific with flags used when opening a service to start/stop/restart * Fix for Customize option on Copy Monitors to Computer Bulk Config operation * Windows 2003/XP installs will create SSL certs with SHA1, and lower HTTPS security to compatible settings * Fix for expanding some performance counter instances with * * New inventory property for the date when a server was added for monitoring * CD/DVD drives won't get added to the Disk Space monitor when applied from a template * Change to how chart precision is determined * Fix to Service monitor erroneously detecting services as Boot start * Upgraded to SQLite 3.8.10.2 * Fix for monitors not did not correctly end training mode * Fixed "Hide OK" Error Audit check box * Inventory Collector pings slower during trace route * File Age monitor behaves correctly when no _matching_ files are found * Updated CEF (Chromium) to 3.2171.1979 * Change to configuration backup and restore to handle coming v6 features * Fix for rare case where missing disk didn't cause an error in the Disk Space monitor * Fix for some per-second SNMP stats that were calculated wrong * Inventory Alerter monitors will go into Alert state if there is not inventory, instead of 'can't run now' * Alert for monitors that are always Busy and can't ever run * Report won't auto-refresh if you have scrolled down a bit * Upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1p and disabled DHE ciphers to protect against LogJam * Added support for 2048 and 4096 bit Diffie-Helman key-exchange setup parameters * Disk Space monitor has option disk-size based thresholds for easier copy/paste/template usage * Shipping dh2048.pem and dh4096.pem files rather than take hours to generate them * Fixed variables used in Satellite up and down alerts * Fix in System Details for grabbing correct number of pending updates * Upgraded to ExtJS build 4.2.3 * Fix for Corporate Ultra unlimited license not being recognized as unlimited * Fix for some grid columns not lining up under headers when using Chromium * Performance Monitor will report processes, CPU% and PID when high CPU usage reported on for a process or overall CPU * Configuration to control which protocols outgoing WinHTTP will use * UCDavis memory OIDs checked if host.hrStorage table not found * Process Monitor will try most recently successful method (WMI, SNMP, etc) first on subsequent connections to a server * Increased timeout when checking for Windows Updates * Fix for Ack race condition for alerts coming from Satellites * Added GID and ALL options to external API request API_GET_SERVERLIST * E-mail alert Acknowledgement will ignore auto-responder messages * Fix for event escalation that would run actions too often if it got behind * Fix for read only access to whole device tree when a PDF is generated * Updated to EVO PDF converter v6.2 * Exposed AckedBy and AckedTime in Powershell Execute Script * Restart of the Satellite will not cause the monitors to reset their status * Fix for Inventory Alerter running on Satellites going into error over a temporary communication drop * Fix for Satellite statistic IDs that can have the wrong value over time, causing charts to disappear * Acknowledging an alert can stop further alerts via Event Deduplication * HTTPS server will send configurable X-Frame-Options header to protect against click jacking * Fix for errors showing up in Recent Alerts with a blank description * Fix for bad tag in XML Configuration Audit report * Removing common text from the OID-only part of an SNMP Trap alert * Changes so initial license installation is smoother * First time SSL certificate creation via OpenSSL will use low priority processes * Event Deduplication will look at the monitor's true Event/State type, rather than the Actions setting * Acknowledge All Errors in Bulk Config gives the option to not fire acknowledgement actions * Configurable info box sizes for the All Servers and Group Summary reports * Group reports will indicate if a server's status is questionable because of a Satellite being offline

* Fixed File Age monitor when it doesn't find any matching files but needs to alert on All Old or All New * Server Status Report charts dynamically widen to fill any extra space * Can require Console remote login to use same version as Central Service * New Connected Sessions report * Disk Space, Services, SNMP and Performance monitors can all report on errors separately * New SSL certificates will use SHA-256 instead of SHA-1 * New installs will NOT support SSLv3 by default - existing users can go to Settings -> HTTP Server Settings * New installs will use the strong cipher list by default * Upgraded to EvoPDF 5.11 * Better database cleanup for very large Event Log databases * Execute Scripts can read computer Inventory values * Recently Acknowledged Alerts report part added to Server Status Reports * Group Summary report has new "Don't show all-green servers" setting * Group Overview report has new "Don't show all-green servers" setting * 10% reduction in data exchanged between Central server and Consoles and Satellites * Fixed threshold editing in the Directory Quota monitor * Protection against 'connection storms' for sites with hundreds of Satellites * Fix for filter backslash escaping * SNMP inventory collector will use sysUpTimeInstance if hrHostUptime is not available * Server Status Report charts can be disabled * File & Directory Change monitor will log why it claims a file changed * Improvements for cases where the Performance Monitor is getting stuck in locks * TLS 1.0 and 1.1 can be disabled via registry (SSLv2 and SSLv3 can already be disabled) * Additional protection against cross-linked groups * Option to avoid PDH DLL when monitoring performance counters * Fix for uptime report that uses time of day/week filtering * Server Report settings are inherited but also now merged with lower levels * Preventing Disk Space Monitor's check for new drives from degrading and taking a long time * Fix for users with limited rights to be able to create groups and devices within groups in their control * Overlapping custom properties are correctly overridden going down the device tree * Advanced Event Log monitor delta finding works now with IDs added to lists * Another reduction in CPU usage AND a bit more responsive :) * File & Directory Change monitor can track direct child folder creation without monitoring all child folders * Execute Script monitor can return multiple results * Can copy from the Discovery Dialog's Add and Ignore lists (whichever has focus) * Fix for Web Page monitor reporting timeout when using the HEAD command * Reduced CPU usage when doing security check * Actions fire on OK only if they fired in an alert state * Groups and servers can override the order that report parts show up (not just that they exist or their settings) * Configuration Audit report can show credentials used by servers/devices * Fix for Service monitor's "Report each service separately" * Disk Space monitor's 'auto add disk' setting stays set * Error History updates should post before actions fire * Fix for the Event Log Validator which would not see the very newest event * Significant performance boost in core functions * Bulk Config copy config to computers is handled asynchronously * ActionType variable available in Execute Script actions * Fix for HTTP headers passed from Web Page Monitor * Satellite down notifications were not replacing replacement variables * Race condition in Write to Log File actions fixed * Random deduplication field added to disable deduplication on individual monitors * Fix for File & Directory Size monitor which was not alerting when no files found * Better output for the HTML Configuration Audit report * Less internal locking -- can support even more monitors * Helper log file is log rotated * Fix for File & Directory Size monitor alerting when it shouldn't * Can disable image in outgoing report emails via registry setting HTMLEmail_NoImage = 1 * Fix for not being able to end immediate maintenance at the top level * Adjustment to SNMP throttle * Fix for crash in report when access is denied for server * Registry setting to disable MIB syncing * Improvements to MIB parsing speeds * Fixed incorrect MIME type when a report redirect happens * Ability to disable an inherited chart for server reports * Fix to CallURL action that was stuck using GET command * Fix for rare crash in server discovery * More flexible "Console needs to match service version" settings * Fix for Execute Script monitor where SSH scripts could fail silently * Suppressing error messages in reports that limited accounts (probably end customers) see * Better memory management for large installations * Fix for Fail Over file sync that sometimes fails * Update Manager will only show automatically once per version update * File sync to Fail Over will compress files before sending * Digitally Signing all executables, including 3rd party where needed * Log File, File Age, File & Directory Change, File/Directory Size and Directory Quota monitors can use standard variables including $CustomProp()$ in path * Execute Script Action and Monitor can set Custom Properties * Throttling Console config download if needed to reduce memory usage * Compressing XML sent between Central Service and Consoles and Satellites * Fix for $act.TimeInErrorStr not being correctly set in the Execute Script * Added <generatePublisherEvidence enabled="false"/> to .config files so .NET apps won't authenticate their digital signature * Less database locking during cleanup operations * Fixed a few dialogs where the time unit could set incorrectly if using not using English * Service Monitor (and others that can report events separately) won't advance through multiple escalation steps in one run of the monitor * Added SetComputerPropertyByID to Execute Script * File Age, File/Directory Size, File & Directory Change monitors can use expansion variables in the file specs as well as paths * Sub-groups with no access to parent can correctly still read inherited report settings * Scheduled reports not shown to users who shouldn't have access * Fix for extremely large reports displaying internal scripts * Bug fixes * Fix for getting disk space stats from ESX volumes with similar names * AvoidPDH setting can load performance instances that incorrectly report code page of -1 (such as Search Gatherer Projects object) * Registry controllable PALowPriorityHelper drop-dead timer and thread levels * Server order in the Group Summary and Group Overview reports can be configured * Restricted user accounts can put servers/monitors into maintenance if they have that right * Fix for non-English performance counters being recognized for default charting's sake * Exposed monitor-specific Event Deduplication settings for the SNMP Trap monitor * Fix so unlicensed servers can be disabled * Can set Max CPU throttle setting on Satellites via Bulk Config * Fix for putting deep groups of servers into maintenance * Execute Script will return msUNKNOWN if it can't find the monitor whose status is being requested * Sending LastRun as UTC to account for time zone differences in Satellite deployments * Improved hand off from one PALowPriorityHelper to another * Fix for missing IP Address in Inventory Database

* Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.1j (to protect against POODLE vulnerability) * Server Status report charts shown in user's local time zone * Find dialog works via Ctrl-F in more areas of the Console * Fix for applying deltas to Event Log monitor from Monitors: Set Monitor Parameters * User can control Sent Email, Service Start/Stop and Monitor Change permanent logs * Fixed problem where some .CSV files couldn't get saved from a Scheduled Report * Fixed Execute Script (PowerShell) StoreValue method * Satellite up/down notification template can be left empty, in which case the email template will be used * Charts sorted better when they are numeric * Fix for shrinking Network Map * Better support for Bulk Config's Monitors: Set Monitor Parameters for Event Log * Process monitor will not append process name to end of path twice (and will fix existing monitors) * Smart Config lets you specify a starting group for new computers * SpeedFan temperature labels are editable * Log rotation puts files into an Archive folder * Fix for busy Satellites sending error events too slowly when under load * Added default Bandwidth charts for Performance counters * Logging and fix for generating SSL certificates * Syslog monitor validates host more thoroughly before using it * Fixed problem with retrieving disk space on ESX * Event Log monitor writes to database more efficiently * Registry value that will disable all database cleanup * Fix for Execute Script where an alert could say "Script indicates actions should not be fired" * Performance increase * Web Page monitor fix for sites that need client certificates, but will continue without one * New PermLog for servers entering and leaving maintenance * Fix for a crash in the Group Status Column report * Server leaving and entering maintenance mode system alerts can access server custom properties in Execute Script actions * Fix for importing configurations, and for new installations * Fixes for monitoring ESX statistics * Console will give a hint if the HTTP server didn't start because of SSL certificate issues * Server Status Report charts can use user-chosen units * Standardized Permanent Log output, made easier to use in Excel, etc. * SendMail function in VBScript will send as HTML if it sees a <!DOCTYPE in the body * Smart Config can set server alias on new servers * Fixed rare crash when network connection is dropped while SSL negotiation is taking place * Fixed date in Permanent Logs

* Server Status report has new Full History links below Recent Alerts to see alerts from 1, 5, 15, 30 and 60 days back * Recent Alerts can not only hide ack'd alerts, but now hide them when the monitor is OK * For monitor copy/paste, copy now copies to TEXT and UNICODETEXT parts of clipboard * Servers won't exit Maintenance window if Satellite is disconnected * Enabling custom alert text on a Web Page monitor won't cause it to fail * Rotating and compressing log files * Getting drive lists will gather Windows and SNMP when appropriate * Fix to Process monitor which wasn't handling getting a name instead of OID * Registry configurable custom chart sizes for Scheduled Reports (for use in your own pages/apps) * Per-second counters won't have a value of 0 on the first reading * Configuration Audit report has option to show or not show item IDs * Can right-click an Action and select Duplicate * User Access gives the option of granting non-admins ability to put servers/monitors/groups into maintenance * Added proxy info to HTTP error message * Event Escalation for Satellite Down notifications * ErrorHistory items that fail to send get requeued (some were before - now all are) * HTTP Server Settings option to choose stronger SSL/TLS settings * Fix for Support & Maintenance expired reminders that come out too often * Configuration Audit report shows Event Escalation * New long term log file of email sent, and service start/stop times * Removed odd character at the end of emailed SMS alerts * Upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1h to fix the ChangeCipherSpec vulnerability * Performance Monitor now supports * in counter instance * Syslog can use source IP when non-conforming packet arrives * Discovery scanner will check with Active Directory for list of server names * Added Bulk Config option to set monitor Deduplication Field IDs * Added SET_SERVER_PROP and GET_SERVER_PROP external APIs * Fix to ignore PAExec more completely in service lists * Increased time out for Event Log checks * Added row Description value to Execute Script action * Sending simultaneous reports with PDFs works better * Fixed Performance Monitor capping some counters at 100 (like _VM_Process\% Processor Usage) * Improved the Group Overview report * SNMP and Performance monitors indicate how long each counter has been over threshold in alerts * Fixed sorting of server names in All Errors report * Exporting as a template gives an option to export Actions * Fix to allow 15 second drift when looking for last-boot change * Fixed 64-bit SNMP bytes-in, bytes-out wrapping when calculating per-second values * Updated to CEF 3.1750.1738 * Disk Space free/used bytes charts work on the Server Status Report * Fix for security bug that could allow users to see servers outside their group * File Age monitor supports multiple extensions, and extensions to ignore * Service Monitor won't be created by default if it can't access service list * Improved Windows OS detection in Smart Config

* Removed the RecommendUs dialog based on customer feedback

* Changes to Inventory Collector to clarify and minimize changed behavior based on customer feedback * Email addresses can be marked as admin, and only admin will receive Broadcast messages (System Alerts) * Passwords in Userlist.txt are encrypted when next used or service is started * Protection against manually entering non-resolvable SNMP Object names * Added /norestart to vcredist during install * Handle HTTP redirects other than just 301 and 302 * Can set embedded Chromium proxy server via user-specific registry setting * Report folders use IDs instead of names -- handles non-ASCII computer and group names better

* Bulk Config: Copy Monitor to Computers has option to customize monitor or copy as-is * MIB Parser can load MIB files from sub-folders * Update to CPU throttling * Configuration Audit report can be output in text, HTML or XML * Improved SNMP disk detection * Deduplication state is persisted across restarts * Bulk Config can set SSH and ESX credentials * Improved Bulk Config when changing Event Log and Service monitors * Configuration Audit report can show Custom Properties * Updated Monitor Status report with more information * Changes to try and get diagnostic dumps in a few extreme circumstances * New Web Page monitor functionality * Synthetic _Total CPU counter for SNMP counters * Email alert subject and body can be overridden via script * Upgraded to SQLite 3.8.3.1 * Fix for Alert Reminder emails that get the subject prepend or {id:} appended multiple times * The application can remind you about Support & Maintenance expiring * Two new fields added to the SNMP Trap action * Loading PDFs, CSVs in the Console works now * Fix for Service monitor that would revert Ignore settings * Fix for ErrorHistory2 table creation * Recent Alerts will show up for new installations * Fixed broken this month/last month uptime calculator for inventory * Fix for rare crash * Expression operators AND, OR and NOT are no longer case sensitive * Log File Monitor will go into Can't Run Now instead of Can't Run if a file is in use * Missing Ping or Web Page responses will show as a negative value on most charts * Can reset immediate maintenance period while already in maintenance on servers and monitors * Added subdirectory support for the Log File monitor * Bandwidth charts added for Windows servers * Inventory Collector monitor filters on computer type * Differentiating better between same-named Groups in expressions * Inventory Collector is prevented from firing alerts * Protection against divide by zero when sizing Javascript grids * External API can start and end maintenance on individual monitors * Upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1g to protect against the heartbleed vulnerability * Upgraded Chromium embedded browser * Fix Console delay for limited-scope users

* Fix for Web Page monitor that checks multiple URLs * Better SNMP disk detection/labeling

* Upgraded to latest stable release of all 3rd party components * Increased and made configurable mail connection timeout * Won't try to start/stop services when a service is added or has it's startup type changed * Fix in Syslog Monitor where per-facility filters were sent to all facilities * Disk Space monitor will always show free space in alerts, even if checking % free * Won't fire a global error message when a new version is out * Start Service action won't try to run on services being alerted on because they were added, removed or have a changed start type * Smart Config-created Service Monitor will be in training for 1 day to ignore the automatic start services that stop by themselves * Fix for broken reports based on bad date range parsing * Improved Process monitor * Logging website credential changes * Fixed escaping of error messages in Monitor grid, including details pop-up, and Error Grid. * Retry added for case where ESX disk space can not be checked * Fix for Acknowledge notifications that were not being sent * Execute Scripts won't send email when Quiet! is enabled * Alert Reminder defaults to 7 days if no time frame is given * Add Actions Bulk Config operates on Acknowledge Actions now * Event Deduplication (in Advanced Services in the Console) * Direct OID entry for SNMP Monitor * Monitors can be put into maintenance mode individually * Try new authScheme if needed on HTTP attempt with credentials * Fix for backup SMTP server not being used when needed * Database connection string handles the Failover Partner parameter * Disk Space monitor can automatically add (new) unmonitored disks * Error Audit report, and Alert Reminders, now have Recorded Monitor Status and Current Monitor Status fields * Alerts without a defined From address can get sent * Update to PASystemDetails to detect when Windows Update is not configured * Console can group similar monitors together * Group Column report has better column sorting * Settings get synchronized to Satellites more regularly * Scheduled Reports with archived CSV and PDF can control overwriting * Configuration setting to skip troubleshooting hint on a per-monitor-type basis * Sending event Acks to Satellites in batches instead of individually * Satellite installed from command line will automatically connect * Syslog monitor can parse more date/hostname formats * Configurable Recent Alerts columns * Time parser can handle 'Current time - 0 hours' * Expression properties show a tooltip with possible string values * Update for Windows Update pending count * Differentiate between 99.9% and 99.999% in reports * Subscription license can be used in multiple installations * Added EXPORT_SERVER to the External API