June 13, 2008: v7.11.0
The ServersCheck
Network Monitoring Software monitors, reports and alerts on the availability and performance of
networked devices and servers.
When performing an upgrade to a major new version, then we strongly recommend to first test the new release in the evaluation mode with having the alerting disabled in order to validate your configuration in the new version while keeping the older version in production.
The ServersCheck Monitoring Software can be installed in one of the
38 following languages:
English, Français, Deutsch, Nederlands, Español, Italiano, Português, Dansk, Norsk, Svenska, Suomi, Русский, Estonian, Latvia, Lietuva, Polski, Český, Slovenčina; Slovenčina, Magyar, Româna, Afrikaans, Ελληνικά, Türkçe, עברית, العربي, اردو, 中文 (Simplified and Traditional Chinese), 한국어, 日本語, Hindi, Malay, Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino, Vietnamese
What's New in ServersCheck Monitoring Software 7.x?
Release 7.11.0
New feature release - new license file required
- New: Voice phone alerting using SkypeOut to make land line phone calls (BETA)
- New: VoiceModem_tester in the add-ons directory enables to configure & test voice phone calls
- Update: Voice phone alerting has been reintroduced with new configuration and improved call detection using menu options during call
- Update: HUMIDITY monitor now enables to be alerted on failure between an minimum and maximum range (default 40% and 70%)
(note to existing customers: a manual upgrade is required to enable the voice phone alerting features)
Release 7.10.3
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Issue when adding a new DEVICE MONITOR where the previously added device is always shown
Release 7.10.2
Maintenance Release
- Fix: SNMPTRAP rule would show the first digits of an IP address also as last digits.
- Fix: Default settings were prefilled with dummy data
- Fix: FILEZSIZE check would not show settings when adding a new monitor of that type
- Fix: PINGAVG check would not execute within set time frames
- Fix: Uptime via SNMP could generate wrong result when milliseconds are returned.
- Update: JP.lang file has been updated
Release 7.10.0
New feature release - new license file required
- New: Default Monitor Values can be defined to preset values for some checks and alerts
- New: MSP Edition - Beta Release 2.0 - Replication of configuration between agent and central server
- Update: Device Scan redesigned for better usability, bandwidth discovery added
- Update: Monitor New Device performs name lookup via SNMP & netbios
- Update: Network Scanning speeds has been increased; device name discovery through netbios
- Update: Network & Device Scan now use Default Monitor Values to set tresholds & alerts
- Fix: Slider would not allow to set interval larger than 900 seconds
- Fix: SMS field in alert settings would show email alert
- Fix: When modifying operating system on device, then device type value would return to default value (File Server)
Release 7.9.1
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Trial version would only execute first 10 rules
- Update: Syslog alerting now sends device ID in alerts
Release 7.9.0
New feature release - new license key required
- New: NTP (Network Time Protocol) check has been added
- New: RULES check allows to generate alert when a combination of other rules are DOWN (requires Business Edition)
- New: 8.0 beta feature of managing the maintenance window for a rule (when not to check)
- New: 8.0 beta feature of creating & editing reports
- Fix: In some cases the s-alerts would fail with an ordinal error due to a conflict with another libeay32.dll
Release 7.8.8
Maintenance release
- Fix: WINDOWSHEALTH check would skip disk if empty due to problem in WMI; workaround fixes the issue
- Fix: s-alerts.exe component could stay at 100% CPU usage in 7.8.x installations when using a GSM modem
- Fix: Changes to some error code data when testing email settings
- Fix: update in monitoring_manager & monitoring_rule for exception handling
- Update: Retry interval has been added to bulk edit options
Release 7.8.7
Maintenance release
- Fix: Errors Suggestions when Testing Settings would not work in IE6 & IE7
- Fix: In release 7.8.X in some cases the rule dependency would not correctly work due to an architecture change. This has now been corrected
- Fix: "Execute Application" alert settings were not correctly saved for Warning alert levels
- Fix: Alert Settings could be overwritten with a previous value when editing a rule
- Update: When Testing Settings, the screen loads immediately with a loading icon
Release 7.8.6
Maintenance release
- Fix: LINUXHEALTH rule matching for CPU has been enhanced so that other commands like "top b n 2 | grep 'total' | sed 's/total/Cpu(s)/g' | sed 's/$/ id/'" are supported.
- Fix: Incoming SMS where not read correctly in 7.8.X versions
Release 7.8.5
Maintenance release
- Fix: If a rule has not yet been performed, then it is now considered being OK
- Fix: Time filter would not be applied when the EVENTLOG check type did not include a string match
- Update: Device selection and then rule selection when creating a bandwidth report
- Update: Device selection and then rule selection in rule dependency
- Update: FILE check now also supports wild cards and file count
Maintenance release - Recommended upgrade for all 7.8.x users
- Fix: Duplicate rules and unable to login issue fixed
- Fix: Pausing groups would not work when multiple groups were paused
- Fix: Clicking on graph icon would not work in older browsers due to HTML coding issue
- New: Retry interval can now be set to any interval (default was 3s)
Release 7.8.3
Maintenance release
- Fix: Bulk Edit would fail when sending large amounts of data through browser
Release 7.8.2
Maintenance release
- Fix: Saving of page refresh settings would not work in 7.8.0
- Fix: SNMP Trap add-on would not recognize wild card OID's
Many language files have been updated
Release 7.8.0
New license key required
- New: Bulk Edit function for BUSINESS and PREMIUM editions
- Update: Performance of sending SMS alerts using GSM modems is optimized resulting in an important performance gain for sending out alerts
- Update: New menu option 'MANAGE'
- Update: Body of SMS messages can now be customized
- Update: 'TEST SETTINGS' for email and SMS is grayed out until 'SAVE SETTINGS' has been performed
- Update: When changing an option in the 'General Settings' option, then the changed values are directly visible
- Update: SNMP Trap Receiver would fail if trap would not contain IP address
- Fix: When editing a rule from the device view, then the user is now sent back to the device
- Fix: In 7.7.0 saving settings of a rule after changing alert options then the alert settings changes are lost
- Discontinued: due to the unreliable nature of voice phone alerts, ServersCheck no longer provides active support for this option and recommends users to use SMS or email based alerts instead
Release 7.7.0
New license key required
- New: GUI Implementation of Modal UI to improve navigation and usability
- Update: SSL Configuration Tool 1.1 released - Out of Beta
- Update: ServersCheck Configuration Service rebranded as "ServersCheck WebServer Service"
- Update: WINDOWSHEALTH & LINUXHEALTH checks now store each value in a separate row when using ODBC logging. SERVERSCHECK_DATA table has new field called 'ValueType'. Update database schema.
- Fix: Warning alerts for WINDOWSHEALTH & LINUXHEALTH checks was not correctly stored
- Fix: In some situations a WINDOWSHEALTH graph would be shown as first graph for other rules
- Fix: License reading issue in 7.6 for PROFESSIONAL editions
Release 7.6.3
Maintenance release
- New: SSL Configuration Tool to run ServersCheck Web Server in HTTPS mode*
- Fix: mySQL & ODBC logging
- Fix: Test Settings of SMTP outgoing mail server could stop ServersCheck Web Server
- Fix: Scheduled Reports would not be sent in some situations
- Update: Support for the URLIMAGE check in HTTPS mode
* This requires a manual upgrade. Not available through the upgrade.exe tool.
Release 7.6.2
Maintenance release
- Update: mySQL support for ODBC logging
- Update: time error reported when a check times out instead of current "UNKNOWN" errors
- Update: Pause/Stop button in Group View
- Update: MSP edition improvements for avoiding errors related to data not being received
Release 7.6.1
Maintenance release
- Fix: Some values were correctly saved for Windows checks but not shown in the check definition settings
- Fix: mySQL check test could stall the web server requiring a service restart
- Fix: Alert acknowledgement text was not shown in the Rule Log History
Release 7.6.0:
Major new release - New license key required
The most important change in this version is that the username and password for all Windows based rules is now managed from a list of credentials. Current defined username and passwords will still work but when the settings of a rule is altered, then you will need to select a user from the list of credentials.
*** IMPORTANT NOTE ***
As this is a major upgrade, we recommend to first test the new release in trial mode on a test system using your configuration prior to putting it into a production environment.
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- New: Suggestions for solving common errors can be found by our Error Solving Suggestion Tool
- New: Credentials for Windows checks are now centrally managed
- Update: Improved error reporting for SERVICES checks
- Update: Improved error reporting for PROCESS checks
- Update: Improved error reporting for EVENTLOG checks
- Update: Improved error reporting for REGISTRY checks
- Fix: Overflow error could occur when running EVENTLOG checks with many entries in event log
- Fix: EVENTLOG check can now monitor local system too
Release 7.5.8
Maintenance release
- Fix: Solves issue in the disk exclusion for the WINDOWSHEALTH check type.
Release 7.5.7
Maintenance release
- Update: WINDOWSHEALTH and LINUXHEALTH checks now support disk exclusion (for example to exclude networked drives)
Release 7.5.6
Maintenance release
- Fix: Static HTML output was not generated in some cases due to structure in serverscheck.conf file
- Update: Sensor communication DLL has been updated with some enhancements
- Update: Remarks are now shown in static HTML report as in main interface
- Update: DOWN? status in static HTML reports follows same logic as in main interface
Release 7.5.5
Maintenance release
- Fix: structure in the serverscheck.conf file could result in graphs not to be created
- Update: Environmental sensor monitoring checks rewritten to better deal with timeout issues
- Update: Temperature and Humidity check rewritten to avoid duplicate calls and to share data accross checks
Release 7.5.4
Maintenance release
- Fix: Email alerts would include the \n character instead of carriage returns in emails
- Fix: Instructions on alert would duplicate carriage returns
- Update: Last note added to a rule in now shown in the remarks column (mouse over on info icon)
Release 7.5.3
Maintenance release
- Fix: When running in trial mode, the 10th rule would not be executed
- Fix: In Device View when clicking on "Unlinked Rules", then all rules are shown
- Fix: New line breaks in the alert acknowledgement could corrupt the serverscheck.conf file
- Fix: New line breaks in the alert instructions could corrupt the serverscheck.conf file
- Fix: SQL logging would not store date and time stamp in table SERVERSCHECK_CHECKS
Release 7.5.2
Maintenance release
- Fix: The Configuration Wizard would hang when trying to define username and password
- Fix: New Scheduled Reports could not be created resulting in the web server to hang
- Fix: Web server would not work in SSL mode when running as a service or called outside the main ServersCheck directory
- Fix: When creating a report in My Reports using release 7.5.0 or 7.5.1, then the reports were incorrectly saved
- Fix: MSP version: monitoring_thread2 would execute rules locally instead of reading them from udp messages
Release 7.5.1:
Maintenance release
- Fix: Networkmapping.exe would fail in 7.5 when loading the conf file
- Fix: Monitoring_watcher.exe component would send empty alive messages every 30 seconds when no watcher.conf file is defined
- Update: Upgrade.exe now works for 7.5 upgrades and starts services automatically after install
Following language files have been updated: AR, ID, HE, SI, HU, FI, SE, VN, CZ, IT, HI, FP, PL, TC, CN, SK, MY, DE
Release 7.5.0:
Major new release - New license key required
- New: Security Sensors: ServersCheck new product line of security sensors for server racks has been added to the software. Security sensors are real-time sensors. Communication between sensors, security bus and software is handled through the new monitoring_security component.
- New: Camera View: by adding AXIS camera's you can view what is going on in your computer room through the software. The software can start recordings when the security sensors are being triggered.
- New: The SMTP components handling outgoing mail alerts have been redesigned. SSL (STARTTLS) enabled outgoing mail servers are now also supported (eg: Gmail,...)
- Update: The web server now communicates with the browser using the POST protocol instead of the GET protocol
- Update: When alert settings of a rule are being changed, then the browser is redirected to the rule general settings instead of the default view
- Update: All configuration files are now stored in the conf subdirectory
- Update: All license files are now stroed in the lic subdirectory
- Fix: FLOODING check would not correctly show parameters when editing or use them when testing the rule
- Fix: Bandwidth reports now take the correct RRD value for MAX
- Fix: Bandwidth and Trend Reporting would show in 7.x releases always 1/1/1970 as a start and end date regardless of the date being chosen
- Fix: The link in the Scan Device to add new checks did not work due to error in default.lang file
Release 7.1.5:
Minor Release:
- Fix: In some situations the alerting module would stop working. The monitoring_watcher monitors the behavior of the alerting for higher availability
- Fix: Email alerts sent through the built-in mail server did not always report correct time due to time zone differences.
- New: By default Business, Premiums and Enterprise MX8 editions will run in "half speed" mode resulting in less CPU usage and less memory usage. Through the interface, the software can run in full speed mode
Release 7.1.4:
Minor Release:
- Update: FLOODING check supports now USB and Ethernet connections
- Fix: Drill down on PAUSE, HALT and WARNING (if status is DOWN?) would not work correctly
- Fix: Network maps were not being generated correctly in some editions
- Fix: Sla was not calculated on WINDOWSHEALTH checks
Release 7.1.3:
Minor Release:
- Update: Due to a possible memory leak issue in the Adobe Flash Player, it is now possible to disable the charts for linux and windows health checks
- Fix: (for release 7.1.2) when a rule would not have OK, DOWN or DOWN? status then it would be skipped
- Fix: DOWN? interval is now executed with a 3 second interval
Release 7.1.2:
Minor Release
- Fix: When an incorrect DNS for ODBC logging is defined, then this could cause monitoring to stop
- Fix: Interval when DOWN / DOWN? was not used; OK interval was used instead
- Fix: Report Scheduler would send out non-value graphs (sla, availability) when only "value" is selected
Release 7.1.1:
Minor release
- Fix: Memory leak issue due to Windows ODBC handling
- Fix: Alert handling on status change would not be performed correctly
- Fix: HALT status for check would not be shown in GUI
- Update: Monitoring_watcher has been extended with additional internal monitoring features to autocorrect memory issues
- Update: Device or Group Status would show as HALTED/PAUSED when all rules linked to device/group have the DOWN? status
Release 7.1.0:
Major new release - New license key required
- New: SNMPTRAP check enabling to receive and alert on SNMP traps generated by other devices. Included in PREMIUM editions and optional add-on for all other releases.
- New: New component (monitoring_threads2.exe) resulting in a much faster monitoring (highest performance increase for Business and Premium Edition users).
- New: Less disk I/O's when performing checks; status of rules updated every 20 seconds
- New: Redesigning of graphing component resulting in less load on the system and higher availability
- Update: DNS check allows now to specify the record type (A, MX, CNAME, NS or PTR) and the DNS server to use
- Fix: Alert instructions would overwrite the status change in the alert log of a rule when viewed through the browser
Release 7.0.4:
Maintenance release:
- Fix: Drill down from Groups to Devices would show all device names even if not linked to the group drilling from
- Fix: Drill down from Group "none" would not show the rules that are not linked to a group
- Fix: WINDOWSHEALTH check would not correctly send value data to the MSP Central Server
- Fix: LINUXHEALTH check would not correctly send value data to the MSP Central Server
Release 7.0.3:
Maintenance release:
- Fix: SMS alerts over GSM modem: If GSM modem was disconnected or not responsive then other alerts would be blocked
- Fix: From address was not correctly shown when "Saving Settings" for external mail server
- Fix: When adding a rule in the device view it would state that the limit is exceeded
Release 7.0.2:
Maintenance release:
- Fix: Changing settings in SMTP configuration where not shown in GUI
- Fix: Error message (%e) was not passed in alert execute on an application
- Update: SMS alerts are no longer sent as Flash SMS but as standard SMS messages enabling replying for inbound messaging
- New: SMTP settings can be tested by clicking on the TEST button after configuring them
Release 7.0.1:
Maintenance release:
- Update: Drill down on HALT and PAUSED status has been added
- Update: Error message in WINDOWSHEALTH check has been updated to better inform users
- Fix: LINUXHEALTH checks would not report correctly for long volume names and for some single CPU based machines
- Fix: Footer text was not rendered correctly for Unicode based languages
Release 7.0.0:
Major release - New License Key Required:
- New: WINDOWSHEALTH check performing a PING, CPU, MEMORY and DISKSPACE check in one check. Increases performance for monitoring Windows based systems
- New: LINUXHEALTH check performing a CPU, MEMORY and DISKSPACE check in one check.
- New: Flash based HealthGraphs for devices being monitored by WINDOWSHEALTH or LINUXHEALTH check
- New: Device Properties Windows
- New: Automatically detect Linux Agents during scan and suggest LINUXHEALTH check
- Update: Improved selection of items in trend analysis, scheduled graphs and scheduled reports
- Update: GUI redesigned for improved usability on smaller screens
- Update: Network Mapping Tool has been updated for easier selection of rules; circle diameter can be customized
- Update: Uninstaller deletes all but data files required for upgrading
- Update: Start Up time of monitoring has been significantly reduced
- Update: Devices and groups can be created without leaving new rule setup
- Update: Usernames can be created without leaving team member setup
- Update: User profiles integrity (team, usernames and users) has been improved
- Update: When a user is deleted, the user is also removed from all teams he belongs to
- Fix: Service restart would not work if Monitoring Watcher detected monitoring failure
What's New in ServersCheck Monitoring Software 6.x?
Release 6.10.2:
Maintenance release:
- New: LINUXCPU check added
- Update: Linux Agent updated for LINUXCPU check
- Update: Device name is shown in the "Today's Events" box
- Update: KR.lang file has been updated
- Fix: Device description text including " and ' characters would record only the part before the special characters
Release 6.10.1:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: IP address and description would not be shown in GUI after adding a new device
- Fix: File Age check error message corrected when file could not be found
- Fix: Linux Agent process check would not return correct error messages when process was not found
- Fix: Linux Agent would return incorrect error message when disk was not found
- Fix: Copy device rules for SNMP checks would not copy correct data (Enterprise editions only)
- Fix: PAUSE status has been excluded from drill down views on status (OK, WARNING or DOWN)
Release 6.10.0:
A New license key is required
- New: Send out alerts only on OK status (from Down to OK or from WARNING to OK)
- New: SMS messages can be sent to monitoring server to acknowledge alerts or provide feedback
- New: Add notes to rule history
- New: Support for Microsoft Outlook to send out email alerts (does not work in service mode)
- Fix: MSN protocol changed to new IP - alert_msn updated
- Fix: Bug fix for endless loop in Linux Process Listener
- Update: Email configuration has been updated
- Update: Remote Checks are out of beta
Release 6.9.4:
Maintenance release:
- New: Bulgarian, Latvian and Estonian languages added
- New: GSM Modem testing tool in add-ons subdirectory
- Fix: MEMORY check would not store data in SQL database
- Update: SMS alerting configuration and testing has been improved with debugging information and better usability
- Update: GSM Modem communication has been rewritten, support for Falcom Samba GSM USB Modems
Release 6.9.3:
Maintenance release:
- New: Indonesian language added
- New: Filters to restrict viewing based on status (view only down, warning or ok status)
- Fix: FTPFILEFOUND check would return incorrect status
- Update: Korean and Turkish language files
Release 6.9.2:
Maintenance release:
- Fix: Traditional Chinese language was not rendered correctly.
- Fix: Simplified Chinese would not render correctly; due to IE7 problem, Simplified Chinese only works with Firefox
- Fix: Rendering of Malay and Vietnamese language files
- Update: EVENTLOG check has been extended to allow for checking issues only for the last X hours
- Update: URL check can now also sent alerts when a specific content is found (negative match)
- Update: Norvegian language file has been updated
Release 6.9.1:
Maintenance release
- New: 2 new languages added: Malay and Vietnamese
- Fix: The Configuration Wizard would show the main screen if some steps were skipped and showed incorrect text messages
- Fix: In release 6.8.X and 6.9.X drive space checks would fail if the drive letter was not in upper case
- Fix: MSP Agent: when not selecting a group to export, it can create conflict when importing on master. Group selection is now enforced.
Release 6.9.0:
Major Release - New license key is required
- New: Native support for GSM modems as alerting option (Mobile Messenger tool no longer required)
- New: MMS check to monitor availability and performance of Windows Media Server streams
- Update: GUI improvements for non latin based languages including Arabic, Chinese
- Fix: Alert time stamp issue in release 6.8.X
Release 6.8.2:
Minor Release
- Fix: Enterprise users only - when defining Syslog and then removing it, alerts were no longer sent
- Update: Integration with new ServersCheck Remote Booting tool
Release 6.8.1:
Minor Release
- Update: Configuration Wizard now sets Service Logon and configures default team
- Update: When scanning for devices, alerts are now linked to teams instead of email
- Update: Monitoring_watcher has been updated for Enterprise users with additional internal checks
- Fix: Bandwidth report - total traffic report was incorrectly calculated in some conditions
Release 6.8.0:
Major release - New license key is required
- New: Devices can be scanned for recommended checks. For Windows based systems the scan includes disk drives, cpu, memory and running services; for all devices it performs a network scan for most common ports.
- New: Alert IVR is an optional add-on that enables a user to call the server using a phone when receiving alert to acknowledge it
- Update: Scanning new uses DNS to resolve found devices
- Update: RRDTool 1.2.15 is now being used
- Update: Graphs are now smaller in height by optimizing legend
- Fix: MSP: When importing the rules the service no longer needs to be restarted
- Fix: Process of managing teams has been improved
- Language files: Language files have not been updated and will be released upon availability
Release 6.7.1:
Minor release
- Fix: the instructions on alerts where not shown in the alerts options for a rule (although saved correctly)
- Fix: GUI mix up when editing 2 devices after another
- Fix: GUI issue in IE when reporting performance counter issues
- Fix: MSN alerting made compatible with latest MSN protocol changes
- Fix: APPLICATION alert parameters including a double quote (") would not be shown in GUI
- Fix: SMS UCP based alerts could be blocked due to incorrect length calculation
- Update: Following language files have been updated: NO, AF, Traditional Chinese
Release 6.7.0:
Major release
- New: Remote monitoring checks: these checks enable you to have a second opinion on your systems by running the checks on servers operated by ServersCheck and having the status reported back by the software
- Update: the status indication of rules has been improved in order to reduce false positives
- Update: s-service.exe has been updated to terminate monitoring_watcher.exe when service is stopped
- Fix: Memory value would be incorrectly displayed in some situations
- Fix: Graphs would not cause spikes when data synchronization was missed between MSP Master and MSP Agent
- Fix: Bandwidth graphs are now available in the MSP Master
- Fix: Escalated alerts via SMS would not show the actual error message
- Fix: Importing multiple files in the MSP Master could cause loss of data structure in conf file
- Fix: Field in Lotus Notes check when editing
- Update: Following language files have been updated: SK, IT, PT, ES, RU, CN, CZ, FR, HE, DE, JP, AR, SE, PL
Additional languages files will be uploaded to the above url as they become available
Release 6.6.3:
Maintenance release
- Fix: Authentication would not work in some conditions when running 6.6.1 or 6.6.2
- Fix: Menu was not rendered correctly for users with restrictions applied to their login
- Fix: Escalated SMS messages would not show the actual error
Release 6.6.2:
Maintenance release
- Update: MSP data setup, configuration and import/export have been added to improve MSP set-up of ServersCheck
- Fix: Last view setting was lost after each refresh. Fixed.
Release 6.6.1:
Maintenance release
- New: ANTIVIRUS check informs when you when the Antivirus is out of date on the monitored system
- New: Network scan will now automatically add PING rules for each found device
- Fix: when selecting the group icon in all rules view, then all groups were shown instead of rules for that group only
- Update: GUI improvements for better usability
- Update: under the hood preparations for 6.7.X
Release 6.6.0:
New release - new license key required
- New: SNMPSTRING check to monitor string values returned by SNMP devices
- New: Page grouping all value graphs for all rules linked to a device
- Fix: Backup mail routing through our servers has been updated
- Fix: Double quotes in group and device names could cause HTML rendering issues
- Fix: SMTPPOP3 check has been enhanced with additional debugging info and open issue has been fixed
- Fix: Virtual Memory leak in the Monitoring_Manager.exe when using ODBC logging
- Update: s-graphs.exe has been rewritten from the ground up in order to be able to handle more requests per second for graphing; availability and service level graphs for the last 2 hours (daily, weekly and monthly are not affected)
- Update: ODBC logging now requires less database calls
- Update: Monitoring_Watcher (internal fail-over component) has been updated to address & resolve additional potential issues
Release 6.5.0:
Major new release - new license key required
- New: Network scanning - ServersCheck will autodetect devices in network*
- New: Copy devices - templates can be defined and then applied to different systems*
- New: Management of devices and groups has been modified for better usability
- Fix: USB connected sensors would not work under new sensor reading component - rollback performed
* Features require the Enterprise Edition
Release 6.4.4:
Maintenance release
- Fix: Dependency rule would show incorrect label name in drop down field
- Fix: "When not to check" time ranges were not read correctly by monitoring_rule.exe
- Update: Monitoring_watcher.exe has been extended to trap issues in monitoring_manager reported by 1 customer
- IT and DK languages updated
Release 6.4.3:
Maintenance release
- Fix: Alert acknowledgement is now in pop-up; solving refresh issue
- Fix: When only plotting value graphs by modifying setting; databases for new rules were not created
- Fix: Rule label was not visible in dependency field once dependency was set
- Fix: Users could not see their rules in 6.4.X
- Fix: The sign ' in group and device names could cause incorrect rendering in interface
- Update: Networked sensors now communicate over TCP/IP and no longer uses the Lantronix Redirector software
- New: MSP is now out-of-beta as release 6.4.3
- SE, NO, HI, JP and HU languages updated
Release 6.4.2:
Maintenance release
- Fix: Bandwidth reported in graphs was incorrect by factor 1024
- Update: Logging as been reduced to avoid disk space -> debug logging has been extended
- Update: Group management has been redesigned for better usability
- Beta: Support for the MSP version of ServersCheck
- KR, CN, TC, PL, ES, FI, RU, TR, SK, DE, AR, HE, GR languages updated
Release 6.4.1:
Maintenance release
- Fix: Alerts when not all fields were properly completed could be bypassed
- Fix: minor GUI updates improving usability
- Update: Teams and users management has been redesigned for better usability
Release 6.4.0:
Major new release - new license key required
- New: Redesign of GUI to provide quicker and better insight into systems health
- Fix: "On each status change" alerts would be incorrectly shown as "All Down and on each status change"
- Update: The SS6610J sensor is now only polled once when monitoring temperature & humidity; addresses the issue of simultaneous COM port calls
Release 6.3.4:
Maintenance release
- New: Rule dependency can now have multiple levels (hierarchy)
- New: When not to check: day of week is now supported
- Fix: HALT status could trigger alerts when going back to OK
- Fix: Error was repeated in email when going back to OK
- Fix: Error levels would not be reacted on in 6.3.X for TEMPERATURE and HUMIDITY checks
Release 6.3.3:
Maintenance release
- New: Fix in the URL check that caused the GUI to stop responding
- Update: Monitoring_Watcher version 1.0.3 - stable and out of BETA.
Release 6.3.2:
Maintenance release
- New: Monitoring_Watcher.exe component (BETA) monitors availability of monitoring system and restarts when necessary (for Enterprise users only)
Release 6.3.1:
Maintenance release
- Fix: Professional key would not be recognised
- Fix: Endless loop in URLEXISTS check
- Fix: Improved error message logging for the ODBCSQL check
Release 6.3.0:
New Feature Release - New License Key Required
- New: SNMP Traps can be sent by the software to other Network Management Systems (requires Enterprise Edition)
- Update: Rule dependency now also shows the label of the rule in the drop-down box
- Fix: Some language issues in the GUI have been fixed (Javascript, translation, ...)
Release 6.2.2:
Maintenance Release
- New: Sensor handling rewritten in interface and backend. Microsoft .NET framework is required.
- Fix: User report would not be created if user directory did not exist
- Fix: Incorrect ODBC Logging string for Enterprise users would cause checks to stop
- Fix: Power and Flooding sensors would return incorrect status for newer firmware
- Fix: Text messages (SMS) are now truncated when >= 160 characters
- Fix: Issue in date handling in log file causing logs sometimes not to be visible
- Fix: Acknowledge button would not be shown in checks only having DOWN level (and not WARNING; eg HTTPSTATUS)
- Update: New DLL to handle additional errors when communicating with sensors via device servers
- Update: Sensor Agent has been retired (as replaced by device server)
- Update: Windows Agent has been retired (as replaced by ServersCheck SNMP SubAgent)
Release 6.2.1:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Power Sensor values were incorrectly recorded
- Fix: ClickATell messages would not be sent if exceeding 160 characters
- Update: s-service.exe has been updated with internal monitoring and automatic restart in the event of a monitoring failure
Release 6.2.0:
Important Release
- New: MAXDATA check to monitor servers from MAXDATA
- New: Alerting via ePowerSwitch Remote Reboot Unit (currently only available in Europe)
- Update: TEMPERATURE, HUMIDITY, POWER and FLOODING checks have been rewritten - require .NET framework
- Update: Additional s-graphs.exe started by service for increased graphing performance
- Update: s-service.exe has been updated
- Fix: Saved Trend Analysis reports would only render last created report
- Fix: Incorrect properties when clicking on "Configure List of Devices"
- Fix: Alert message when WARNING would display the DOWN message and not the WARNING message
Release 6.1.4:
Maintenance Release
- New: ServersCheck MIB Browser launched and integrates with ServersCheck Monitoring Software for adding SNMP OID monitoring
- Update: SNMP check can now also monitor sysUptime OID
- Fix: URLEXIST and URL would return OK in some situations when connection can not be made
- Fix: TEMPERATURE, HUMIDITY, FLOODING & POWER checks would return OK with 0 as value when the COM port can not be opened
- Fix: TEMPERATURE, HUMIDITY, POWER: the Device Server flag could not be reset
- Fix: In some specific circumstances saved Bandwidth reports could not be retrieved through My Reports
Release 6.1.3:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: on some Windows2003 systems, the monitoring_manager.exe, monitoring_rule.exe and s-server.exe would fail (6.1.0 users or higher)
- Fix: Hebrew language (HE.LANG) contained some invalid characters resulting in Javascript errors
- New: it is now possible to only have value graphs refreshed (and turn graphing of service level, availability off - data logging still happens). See knowledge base entry for more details on configuring this option:
http://kb.serverscheck.com/index.php?page=index_v2&id=34&c=6
Release 6.1.2:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Total bandwidth calculation in Bandwidth Reporting could return incorrect results
Release 6.1.1:
Maintenance Release
- New: ServersCheck's Configuration Server does no longer require a C:\ drive installation of Windows
- Fix: Monitoring_Manager.exe could die in some conditions due to incorrect enterprise.conf file
- Fix: Value graphs for last hours and last day were not being generated
- Update: Following language files have been updated DK, RU
Release 6.1.0*:
Important New Release - New License Key Required
- New: 'Bandwidth Reporting' add-on to monitor bandwidth performand and usage*
- New: 'My Reports' section allowing to save and view Trend Analysis & Bandwidth reports that have been created
- New: Oracle, SQL and MySQL scripts to setup the database for ODBC logging (see add-ons/subdirectory)
- Update; Bandwidth graphs now plot values with dynamic scaling and include additional usage reporting
- Update: Access database (default database) has been updated. Check format before upgrading or running ODBC logging
- Update: Graphing engine updated to RRDTOOL 1.2 with Anti-Aliased graphs
- Update: Memory & DRIVESPACE graphs have been improved for better logging
- Update: TEMPERATURE & HUMIDITY checks now capture values with a 0.1°C precision (previously 0.5°C)
- Update: ODBC logging has been improved for performance resulting in less data storage and less ODBC communication
- Update: Monitoring Service has been extended with new "watchers" to detect abnormal behaviour and self correct issues in order to ensure availability of monitoring system
- Update: devices are now sorted in Device Settings option
- Update: first value graphs are shown and then the error graph followed by the service level graph
- Update: reports are now stored in folders linked to the username that is logged in
- Fix: the Configuration Server was slow in some conditions when being accessed from a remote server
* Users storing data in an ODBC database need to upgrade their database schema prior to running this version
* Bandwidth Reporting Add-On is included in license if purchased before February 1st, 2006
* Following language files have been updated for release 6.1.0:
EN,NO,NL,SE,PT,GR,PL,SP,CZ,DE,FI,AR (other languages will soon)
You can download the language files from following URL:
http://www.serverscheck.net/lang
Release 6.0.3:
Minor Update Release
- New: Japanese language added
Release 6.0.2:
Important Release for 6.0.X users - Recommended update
- Fix: alerts for non-value based rules were not correctly generated
- Fix: non-value based rules' alert settings did display "WARNING" instead of "DOWN"
- Update: improved logging of alerting in monitoring_rule.log files
- Update: Hindi language file updated
Release 6.0.1:
Minor Update Release
- Update: PINGAVG check now also works for non-English based operating systems
- Fix: Norwegian language file, NO.lang, was incomplete
Release 6.0.0:
Major New Release - New License Key Required
- New: Alert acknowledgement & escalation: when an alert is not acknowledge within preset time, then new alert is generated
- New: Increased performance in all Enterprise Editions
- New: WARNING level introduced with level specific alert options
- New: Possibility to modify the name of a rule once it has been defined
- New: Languages have been added: Traditional Chinese and Danish
- New: Static HTML reports are now also created per device (next to existing per rule and per group)
- Update: Devices view with VNC Integration and # rules per status
- Update: Group view with # rules per status
- Update: Integration between teams & logins for improved management
- Update: All language files reviewed and updated (except Hebrew, Afrikaans, Arabic & Slovak)
- Fix: Time zone issue in external emails
- Fix: EVENTLOG fix where check would always return OK on large EVENTLOGS or slow machines
- Fix: Team editing bug causing duplicate entries
- Fix: Some strings would not be shown correctly in Unicode based languages
- Fix: Review and update of several language file on translation accuracy
Important: If you have defined scheduled reports or graphs in a version prior to release 6.0.0, then follow the instructions here:
http://kb.serverscheck.com/index.php?page=index_v2&id=27&c=5
What's New in ServersCheck 5.x?
Release 5.12.0 (build3):
New Feature Release
- New: Job dispatching in Monitoring Manager rewritten resulting in an important performance increase
- New: BANDWIDTH check new produces IN & OUT traffic graphs
- New: 'Edit Devices' added to the Admin menu
- New: Added calender functionality in Trend Analysis & Alert Analysis for improved reporting
- New: Drill up capability in Rules & Devices View
- Fix: Drilling down on empty group or devices would not work
- Fix: Bug fix in BANDWIDTH rule editing
- Fix: External SMTP server was not used in some situations, nor the built-in SMTP fail-over
- Fix: Links in 'Preview' of Schedule d Reports have been removed
- Fix: "ALERTS" view would be incorrectly rendered due to some error messages
- Update: "ALERTS" added in Admin > User profile option
- Update: Layout of Group & Device views set in line with All Rules View
- Update: Stylesheet of web interface has been stored in output/html subdirectory allowing further customization
- Update: Some icons have been modified for better usability
- Update: Last value added in 'ALERTS' view
- Update: Value graphs for the WINDOWSAGENT check
Release 5.11.3:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: When the default image sample_network.png is not in the output/networkmaps folder, then the monitoring_manager would stop
- New: "ALERTS" tab in main screen giving access to alerting reporting of status changes (only in PROFESSIONAL and ENTERPRISE editions)
Release 5.11.2:
Maintenance Release
- New: Last view is automatically retained for the Admin account while the Configuration Server is running
- Fix: PERFCOUNT check would not take the decimal delimiter into consideration
- Fix: "\n" was shown in External email alerts
- Update: %d parameter has been added for email alerts to include device name
- Update: Groups and Devices views include less spaces improving better visibility
- Update: the LINUX agent has been updated to support HP-UX and Sun Solaris
Release 5.11.1:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: The list of rules would be empty when scheduling a report or creating a graph
- Fix: The default year when creating a graph is now set to current year
- Update: The reporting has been added to left side of screen for improved navigation
Release 5.11.0:
New Feature Release - Requires a new license key
- New: Following new language files have been added: Afrikaans (AF)
- New: REGISTRY check enables to monitor if a specified registry entry can be found or not on a remote computer
- New: Serverscheck.conf can be encrypted and as such run in stealth mode
- New: Support for FireFox 1.06 or higher (next to Internet Explorer)
- New: Drilling from groups view to computer view to rule view
- Fix: "Unknown error" reported in some situations for BANDWIDTH check
- Fix: BANDWIDTH check would sometimes report negative values
- Fix: Viewing an incorrect log file could stop the Configuration Server (not the monitoring activity)
- Fix: When refreshed selected non-default Network Maps would jump to the default Network Map
- Fix: In some situations the memory_check.exe could runaway (causing many threads to stay open).
- Fix: Non Internet Explorer based browsers would not be able to display the default Network Map
- Fix: Sensor values would not be graphed when "," would be used for decimals instead of "."
- Fix: Values would not be correctly shown when ServersCheck is installed on system with Finnish regional settings
- Update: Improved Log File viewing (under Log File tab)
- Update: Improved speed in Configuration File when refreshing list of rules
- Update: Alert_smtp component has been updated for non-Englished based Operating Systems
- Update: Debugging info from components has been improved in order to provide better support
- Update: Job distribution & handling between Manager component and Rule components has been improved by avoiding duplicates
Release 5.10.9:
Maintenance Release
- New: Following new language files have been added: Hindi (HI) and Urdu (UR)
- Fix: The Arabic language would not be correctly shown in release 5.10.8
- Update: The static HTML reports generated by ServersCheck are now translated in the language of installation
Release 5.10.8:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: The SS6610C would return incorrect values for the chosen sensor when connected through Serial to Ethernet Device Server
- New: Following new language file has been added: Korean (KR)
Release 5.10.7:
Maintenance Release
- New: Following new language files have been added: Russian (RU), Arabic (AR), Turkish (TR)
- Update: Following language files have been updated: IT, SP, GR
- Update: BANDWIDTH check configuration now connects to remote system to retrieve list of interfaces via SNMP and as result prefilling OID values
- Update: TRAFFIC check configuration now connects to remote system to retrieve list of interfaces via SNMP and as result prefilling OID values
- Fix: Users could not see their checks if linked to groups with non alphanumeric characters
- Fix: SS6610C humidity and temperature sensor check would cause thread to end if temperature and humidity are checked at the same time
Release 5.10.6:
Maintenance Release
- New: STANDARD edition now supports SMS alerting option
- New: Following new language files have been added: Hungarian (HU)
- Fix/Update: MSN alerts would no longer be sent due to change in servers by Microsoft.
- Update: File checking can now monitor locked files like log files from MS SQL server
- Update: Linux Process monitoring would not run correctly when a large number of processes are running on the Linux host. Agent and client have been rewritten. Update all deployed Linux Agent's with current version.
- Update: Lotus Notes check will now internally retry 2 times with a wait interval of 5 seconds when the check receives a "ID locked" error from Lotus Notes.
- Update: Multi-OS check was removed in ServersCheck.exe as it would report incorrect errors on some platforms.
- Update: Following language files have been updated: EN, DE, NL, FR, CZ, SK, PT and CN
Release 5.10.5:
Maintenance Release
- New: support of networked sensors connected through Serial to Ethernet Device Server
- Fix: alert option "All down cycles and each status change" did not operate correctly
- Fix: Linux process check would not return correct results
- Update: Improved logging of monitoring_manager & monitoring_rule enabling easier debugging
Release 5.10.4:
Maintenance Release
- Rollback: an issue has been reported and confirmed on some platforms regarding graphing in releases 5.10.2 and 5.10.3. A rollback of the s-service module has been performed to its last stable version (January 15th 2005)
- Update: Monitoring Supervisor agent reports version and edition of ServersCheck Monitoring Software
Release 5.10.3:
Maintenance Release
- New: the
statuschange.log file stores all status changes for all checks for easy verification
- Update: the
odbc.log now only stores odbc errors rather than all transactions
- Update: URL check component has been updated for improved debugging
- Fix: ODBCSQLDURATION would not correctly record timing
Release 5.10.2:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: ServersCheck would always set status to DOWN when the number of retries equals 0
Release 5.10.1:
Maintenance Release
- Update: Monitoring Service includes new internal watchers to detect and act on run-away components, checks no longer running, graphs no longer being refreshed
- Update: Internal mail server option has been updated to fix an issue of incorrect date formatting on non-English based installations of Windows
Release 5.10.0:
New feature Release
- New: WINDOWSAGENT check enables monitoring of Windows based systems by using a client installed agent
- Update: EVENTLOG check now can optionally scan for a specific string
- Improvements of minor issues
Release 5.9.0:
New feature Release - This release requires a new license key for Professional user
- New: LINUXMEM check enables monitoring of free memory on Linux systems
- New: LINUXDISK check enables monitoring of free disk space on Linux systems
- New: Support for Monitoring Supervisor (more info:
http://www.serverscheck.com/supervisor)
Release 5.8.4:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Multiple email addresses would not work in the Report Scheduler
- Fix: Email headers were not properly formed when using Internal mail server option
- Fix: ST6154 temperature readings would not be correct
- New: Sort on last down time is now possible in main checks overview
Release 5.8.3:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Sensor values would sometimes return a 0 value
- Fix: Values for some checks where not plotted in the graphs
- Fix: Values for some checks where not stored in the serverscheck_data table
- Fix: CPU values contained a space in the serverscheck_data table
Release 5.8.2:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: SMS alerting fixed for Vodafone UK (longer wait time prior to consider a time out)
- New: Update of ServersCheck to support Sensor Agents. These agents enable the installation of sensor in a remote location and the central polling by ServersCheck of the results of those agents.
Release 5.8.1:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Users not having edit rights would not see rule labels in the device and group views
- Fix: Values for graphs would not be stored if value not received within 5 minute time limit. Time limit has been made variable of the check interval so that when check interval has been set to value X, then the value has to be received with X*2 seconds of last request
Release 5.8.0:
New feature Release - This release requires a new license key for Professional user
- New: ServersCheck now directly communicates with SensorSoft environmental devices. Remote Watchman is no longer required. ST6105J, SP6400J, SM6201C, SS610C are supported.
- Update: Improvement of Configuration Wizard for first time users
- Update: Delete rule option is now located at the end of the configuration settings
- Update: Performance Counter checks are now done faster than in previous versions
- Update: Pause rules is now configurable on a per user level
- Fix: + sign is now supported in check definition
Release 5.7.6:
Mainteance Release
- Fix: Check status would not be refreshed under Internet Explorer 5, Netscape or FireFox
- Fix: Hyperlinks to ServersCheck website would not work in some languages
- Fix: Rule delete option in GUI would cause nested frames
Release 5.7.5:
Mainteance Release
- Fix: URL Content check would not correctly save conditions.
- Fix: Scheduled Reports in release 5.7.X would not print data (only graphs)
- Fix: In different languages the ´ sign was not shown in interface (javascript issues)
- Update: FILE checks now output clearer error messages.
- New: Following languages have been added: Slovak, Greek, Hebrew
Release 5.7.4:
Mainteance Release
- Fix: Performance counter would not return correct averaged values (CPU,...) due to issue within Microsoft's API.
- Fix: Groups would cause Javascript error in the checks overview.
- Update: FILE AGE and FILE SIZE checks have been made compatible with non-US date and data formats.
- Update: Returned Values for non-US data formats (eg: comma based decimals) is now supported.
- Update: Values in Graphs for non-US data formats (eg: comma based decimals) is now supported.
- Update: Performance increase for MX2/MX4 and MX8 Enterprise Editions
- Update: FILE AGE now also plots value graph (age expressed in seconds)
- Update: Units are now shown in columns next to values.
Release 5.7.3:
Mainteance Release - All 5.7.X are recommended to upgrade immediately
- Fix: A bug in release 5.7.2 would cause rules not to be correctly written and causing conf data to be overwritten
Release 5.7.2:
Mainteance Release
- Update: Interface has been redesigned for better reading and manipulation of data
- Update: Ordering of columns is now supported in All Rules View
Release 5.7.0:
Major New Release - This release requires a new license key for Professional user
- New: ServersCheck is now available in 9 additional languages (CZ, DE, SP, FR, IT, NL, NO, PL, SE)
- New: Test Settings are now also available when editing a rule
- Update: Performance increase of ServersCheck by reducing overhead caused by RRDTool
- Update: Views selection from checks overview page
- Update: Time stamp is added into name of logs
- Fix: White label in default HTML report when check is down
- Fix: Error returned when File Age check does not obtain value from system
- Fix: Subject and body of External SMTP are now correctly shown in SMTP Settings
- Fix: Edit device/alert in computer view would not correctly save data
Release 5.6.2:
Maintenance Release
- ClickATell notification service no longer relies on the SMTP API id but now uses the HTTP API id (Existing users need to modify their settings)
- Update for Enterprise users where the monitoring_manager now monitors the number of running threads of the monitoring_rule.exe
Release 5.6.1:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: a bug was discovered in 5.6.0 that would make the configuration server crash when a rule was being deleted
Release 5.6.0:
Major New Release - This release requires a new license key for Professional user
- The monitoring rule has been rewritten to use less processing power when idle resulting in better performance
- Checks data is now stored in a new subfolder: data Only required data is processed reducing processing overhead
Release 5.5.5:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Reboot Alerts would not be executed
- Fix: SensorSoft Temperature Check has been updated to work with latest version of RWME.
- Fix: ClickATell now also works for users using External mail server.
- Update: Internal Mail Server now supports line breaks in the email body.
- New: SensorSoft Power Check has been added.
Release 5.5.4:
Maintenance Release for Enterprise Users only
Release 5.5.3:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: In release 5.5.2 and 5.5.1 the modems would not be listed in the Configuration settings.
- Fix: Custom graphs would not plot value based graphs.
- Fix: Monthly predefined graphs would not generated.
- Fix: Report Scheduler would include hyperlinks in reports causing incorrect emails.
- Fix: New SMTPPOP3 could run into a loop causing other checks not to be performed.
Release 5.5.2:
Maintenance Release
- Update: SMTPPOP3 has been redesigned for higher performance and reliability of the check.
- Fix: Dell Open Manage check would generate a Javascript error.
Release 5.5.1:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: ODBC Logging: MS SQL procedure for database logging has been updated.
- Fix: ODBC Logging: ServersCheck would not correctly update the SERVERSCHECK_CHECKS table on MS SQL.
- Fix: The check interval was not shown when logged in as Administrator and creating a new monitor rule.
Release 5.5.0:
Major New Release - This release requires a new license key for Professional user
- New: Multi-user: ServersCheck now supports multiple user accounts and allows to custom define access rights.
- New: External check: custom batch files or exe's can now be executed as checks.
- Improved: The Configuration Server has been redesigned from scratch in order to improve speed, performance and reliability.
- Improved: ServersCheck's monitoring component has been updated to improve speed and reduce unneeded CPU usage.
- Update: ODBC logging: a rule status is now being updated in the database whenever the check has been executed and no longer at the end of check cycle.
- Update: When a rule had a DOWN? status it would block other checks from being executed as long as it was retrying. Now it will release the DOWN? rule and pick it up again at retry interval.
- Fix: Group names would leave an empty line when editing causing ServersCheck to behave incorrectly in some circumstances requiring manual editing of the groups.conf file.
Release 5.2.1:
Maintenance Release
- New: Dell Open Manage: Predefined OID's for Dell Open Manage have been added.
- Fix: SMS alerting component (alert_sms.exe) now support 8bits SMSC gateways (like Cingular Wireless)
- Fix: Group SLA would take paused checks to into calculation. This has been corrected: only active checks are used.
- Improved: The ServersCheck interface has been improved based upon user's feedback.
Release 5.2.0:
Major New Release - This release requires a new license key for Professional user
- New: Scheduled graphs: it is now possible to create custom graphs (which includes results from multiple checks) and schedule them
- New: Report Scheduler: this new feature allows to create reports, schedule them and automatically send them via email. This feature requires a separate license
- New: The refresh rate for the default graphs that are created for all checks can now be custom defined
- New: Default graphs creating can be set per rule.
- New: SNMP4W2K check allows to monitor items like memory, disk space, cpu, ... from a computer by using the SNMP4W2K add-on
- New: Cisco Works Server allows to monitor values returned through SNMP by the Cisco Works Server
- New: Sensorsoft thermometers monitoring: ServersCheck can now monitor temperatures returned by the Sensorsoft thermometers
- Improved: SNMPKB check has been redesigned to make it easier to monitor incoming and outgoing bandwidth through SNMP
- Improved: Timing interval is now also used when a check has a DOWN? status. Prior to this improvement, checks that failed where retried without waiting. The check interval time is now used between retries
- Improved: Fail-over module has been completly redesigned to offer better monitoring, reporting of fail-over status. Requires fail-over license.
Release 5.1.12:
Maintenance Release
- New: ServersCheck has a new file in the output: all.html - if any check is down then the content of this file is DOWN; if all checks are running then the content is OK
- Update: Linux/Unix Process Check can now operate on a custom port
- Update: RDDTOOL v1.048 is now shipped with ServersCheck. More info at http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/
- Fix: URLEXISTS check would not always perform correctly
- Fix: + sign is now accepted in email addresses
- Fix: Time stamp in email based alerts has been changed to also support non-Outlook based email clients
- Fix: Some users could not start ServersCheck due to missing VB component
Release 5.1.11:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: New timing measurement for checks would not be correctly executed in some situations causing some checks to be performed continously
Release 5.1.10:
Maintenance Release
- Update: Values for graphs are now stored in an interval depending on the interval set for the rule (and no longer maximum over 5 minutes). In order to apply this change in an existing configuration you need to delete the existing .rrd files in the serverscheck_database directory. ServersCheck will recreate the files. If previous data is needed, then backup the files before deleting them.
- Fix: ODBCSQL check will now show the value in the report.
Release 5.1.9:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Oracle Check would not be performed correctly.
Release 5.1.8:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: SNMPKB would not calculate values correctly.
- Fix: SNMPKB now also plots value graphs (existing databases have to be removed for this work).
- Fix: SNMP checks would not allow a value to be set in Mozilla.
Release 5.1.7:
Maintenance Release
- New: Performance increase for all Enterprise Editions.
- New: Values are now logged to database when they are retrieved. Database update required (see help file).
- Fix: Error causing checks not be correctly deleted from the serverscheck.dat file.
Release 5.1.5:
Maintenance Release
- New: HTTP HEADER check enables you to scan HTTP headers for a specific string in the header.
- New: HTTP STATUS check enables you to verify the returned HTTP status code by the web server.
- Fix: Issue in the trial version causing incorrect trial expiration has been fixed.
Release 5.1.3:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: PING and PINGAVG checks would not perform the retries if an error is found
- Fix: PINGAVG did not plot value graphs
- Update: Improved logging of alerts so that each alert can be tracked
- Update: PINGAVG check now supports option to also receive an alert when value is 0. In some circumstances, the Windows based PING check can return 0 although the remote computer is unavailable. This option handles this issue.
Release 5.1.2:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: URL check would not operate when verifying websites requiring authentication
Release 5.1.1:
Maintenance Release
- New: Multiple network maps are now shown in the Configuration Server too.
- New: PINGAVG check is now based upon Windows PING command. The value returned is the average value of 2 PING's. Requires an English based Windows installation.
- Update: PING check would not properly function on non-English based Windows platforms. Old PING check has been restored. Value returned is the Round Trip Time.
- Fix: URL check would not operate correctly causing the check to return an incorrect OK status
Release 5.1.0:
Major Update (This requires a new license key for PROFESSIONAL users of ServersCheck)
- New: FTPFILEFOUND checks a FTP server to see if a file can be found or not in the specified remote directory.
- New: SNMPKB allows to average the value of a SNMP device over time
- New: FILEAGE allows to monitor the age of a file in seconds (Create, Last Modified, Last Accessed time)
- New: Remarks can be added to a rule and published in the HTML report
- New: Alert only if other rule failed too: this allows you to only receive an alert if both rules fail
- New: HTTP Get alerts (replacing the current HTTP Post) allows to send out HTTP requests based upon your specification with the same parameters that can be used for email.
- New: Multiple Network Maps can be created
- Update: memory issue has been further addressed
- Update: in some conditions the rrdtool and other processes would run away. The service now monitors it and restarts the processes when needed
- Update: PING check is now based upon Windows PING command. The value returned is the average value of 2 PING's.
- Fix: URL check would not operate correctly causing the check to return an incorrect OK status
Release 5.0.14:
Recommended Update
- Fix: Empty lines would be created in the ServersCheck.conf file causing the application to behave incorrectly
- Fix: Groups would cause the configuration of a check to be truncated and corrupt the configuration file
- Fix: Down's would not be shown in the HTML report
Release 5.0.14:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: In some events Groups summary would not be correctly shown
- Fix: If a graph is not available then the graph will not be shown rather than showing an image not found icon
- Fix: The monthly graphs for response and value would not be created automatically and causing an image not found error in the HTML reports
- Fix: Redesign of the SMTPPOP3 check for better results
- Update: ODBC logging and HTML report creation has been optimized to use less ressources
- Update: SMTPPOP3 can now scan for a specific content in the email and alert on it
- Update: sql script for creating tables in MS SQL server has been added to package
Release 5.0.13:
Recommended Update
- New: URL check now supports authentication for secured websites
- New: fail-over in the s-service.exe; if the s_alerts.exe' memory usage is too high or if it crashed, then it is automatically restarted by the service
- Fix: ClickATell data would not be correctly saved
- Fix: Time stamp in alerts is no longer the time of the sending of the alert but the time the alert was generated
- Fix: Performance of SMTP through external mail server has been increased
- Fix: values would not be correctly shown in the HTML output
- Fix: HTML output per group was not working properly
Release 5.0.12:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: addressed jobs cleaning in the monitoring_manager.exe
- Fix: fail-over in the s-service.exe; if the monitoring_rules' memory usage is too high, then it is automatically restarted by the service
Release 5.0.11:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: addressed memory issues in the monitoring_manager.exe
- Fix: fail-over in the s-service.exe; if the monitoring_manager fails or memory usage is too high, then it is automatically restarted by the service
Release 5.0.10:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: HTTP Posts would not be executed in some events
- Update: Values can now be shown in HTML report that ServersCheck creates
- Update: Help File
- Update: When adding a check, ServersCheck will provide some additional information on specific requirements
Release 5.0.9:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Removed the service configurator due to issues on Windows2000
- Fix: In release 5.0.8 build 0, ServersCheck would not execute more than 3 checks with correct license files
Note: Performing the update.exe in the main ServersCheck directory will update to 5.0.8 build 1 (which is now called 5.0.9)
Release 5.0.8:
Recommended Update Release
- Fix: Application execution alert would not always be correctly saved
- Fix: Last value not shown in graphs
- Updated: Help File has been updated
- Updated: URLEXISTS check can now read values from different values
- New: PERFCOUNT check that allows for retrieving performance counters from a remote Windows based computer
- New: Fail-over feature that automatically restarts monitoring_rule.exe if that crashes
- New: ODBC Logging: store values of checks in database
Release 5.0.7:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Fix of ClickATell Service
- Fix: Email alerts where incomplete for URLEXISTS checks
- Fix: URLEXISTS read file flag would not be stored
- New: Oracle SNMP checks
- New: Linux SNMP checks
Release 5.0.5:
Maintenance Release
- New: New rules are now added through wizard
- New: Before adding a rule, the rule can be tested
- New: Possibility to only receive alerts based upon value condition (so not on timeouts,...)
- Updated: Alerts will now retry 3 times for external mail server with 30 seconds interval
Release 5.0.4:
Maintenance Release
- New: ServersCheck can now be updated through Update.exe option in the ServersCheck list of icons
- New: Data can be downloaded as CSV from reporting center
- Fix: Flickering on page reload has been solved for Internet Explorer 6 browsers
- Fix: SMTP.log stores again email alerts activity
- Updated: email alerts will now be retried twice in the event of a mail error
- Updated: all alerting activity is now written to a log file in the \alerts\logs subdirectory
- Updated: Help File is now shipped with software again next to the online version. New tutorials have been added
Release 5.0.3:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Event log checks would not be correctly performed
- Fix: Regional values are now accepted (eg France 1 000 for one thousand)
Release 5.0.2:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: CPU usage is reduced in PRO and ENTERPRISE edition
- Fix: SMS would not be generated in release 5.0.x
- Updated: Added tutorial for ClickATell
Release 5.0.1:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Service check would not return correct information
- Fix: Process check would not return correct information
- Fix: DriveSpaceNT4 check would always return 0 and errors were displayed in the value column instead of the errors column
- Fix: Dependency option in definition of a rule was alway empty
Release 5.0.0:
Major New Release
- New: Complete new ServersCheck architecture resulting in a significant performance increase
- New: Linux Process Check enables to monitor if a process is running on a Linux/Unix computer
- New: Option to add information about a check in the alert (eg actions to take)
- New: Update all Windows Accounts option that allows to change username and password for all rules
- New: Groups are now centrally managed through an option in the Configuration Settings menu
- Update: View Graphs has been improved so that only graphs for same time interval are shown (current, daily, weekly or monthly)
- Update: URL Exists check uses now engine of URL check (as such SSL is now supported)
- Update: Voice Phone and SMS alerts; when multiple alerts have to be generated, then ServersCheck will wait until the previous has been completed
Release 4.4.8:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Email settings are not correctly generated
- Fix: Minor GUI improvements
Release 4.4.7:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: SMTPPOP3 check would not delete emails
- Fix: PING check would cause alerts when going to the warning status
- Fix: Mail server has now to be selected (either internal mail server or external mail server)
- Fix: Verifies if WMI is installed and if port 1272 is available prior to launching the configuration server
- Fix: Application alerting has been rewritten to also enable scripts and batch files; improved layout
- Update: Improved reporting interface
- Update: STANDARD version has now all the features than the PROFESSIONAL version but is still limited to 3 monitoring rules only
Release 4.4.6:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: team alerting: SMS when there is more than 1 SMS message to be sent then the others are not sent due to modem unavailability
- Fix: team alerting: VOICEPHONE when there is more than call to be made then the others are not sent due to modem unavailability
- Fix: when the calendar day < 10 then the hour is not shown in the Configuration Server.
Release 4.4.5:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: team alerting would not be correctly generated if minutes of the hour less than 10
- Update: real-time status of checks. ServersCheck will now display the status of each check when it is asked for it and no longer only at the end of a check cycle.
- Update: Layout improvements (column headers) for screen resolution 1024x768
- Fix: Months in ODBC format would increase with every entry with one unit
Release 4.4.3:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: smtp_check would be not be terminated if check generates an error.
- Fix: ServersCheck starter is now properly checking if configuration server is available
- Fix: Reporting interface will now warn if no data is available
- Fix: All column headers have tool tips explaining meaning of each column
- Fix: ODBC now logs date/time as time and no longer as string
Release 4.4.2:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Backup SMTP has been reintroduced so that users can use this instead of the built-in mail server.
- Fix: Network maps would not be created if extension of image file is not png in lowercase
- Fix: ServersCheck starter (serverscheck.exe) would not take time enough to let the configuration server start
- Fix: Logs - if a log file would not be present then the configuration server would fail
Release 4.4.1:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: License key module would not recognize license keys
- Fix: Reports would not be correctly produced when ServersCheck is installed in a directory containing a space character
Release 4.4.0:
Important release, all users with a support and maintenance agreement are urged to upgrade
- New: Syslog logging for Enterprise users
- New: SMTP no longer requires an outgoing mail server and is replaced with a built-in mail server
- New: PROCESSCPU check allows to monitor the CPU usage of a process
- New: PROCESSMEM check allows to monitor the memory usage of a process
- New: Reporting option for creating custom graphs and reports
- New: Log file option enabling to monitor log files generated by ServersCheck
- Update: Complete new authentication mechanism making ServersCheck Configuration more secure
- Update: Downtime is now shown in a clear format
- Update: Better description of an error generated on values
- Fix: link in network mapping is now to the HTML report and no longer to the configuration server
- Fix: when a check is deleted it would still perform the check in the backgound until the service is stopped
- Fix: LIBEAY32.dll could cause some issues in some configurations. DLL has been removed and checks have been rewritten to work without DLL
- Fix: SMTPPOP3 check would not correctly save the values set
Release 4.3.9:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: URLEXISTS check would generate an incorrect error string (the ' sign repeated many times)
- Fix: DISKSPACE and DISKSPACENT4 Graphs fixed
- Update: Lotus Notes check will now also open the defined view
Release 4.3.8:
Maintenance Release
- New: FTPFILE is a check enabling to verify if a certain file exists on a FTP server
- Fix: Error in VB causes ms not be 100% reliable, timing in URL has been replaced by other timing mechanism
- Update: Lotus Notes check now tracks also the timing between connecting to notes and opening the database (it does a document count)
Release 4.3.7:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Error reason was not shown in body of email
- Info: AT&T removed from providers list: no longer supports paging and SMS through SMSC in the US
- Fix: URL download time was still set as seconds in the alert section for this check
Release 4.3.6:
Maintenance Release
- Fix: Lotus Notes Check
Release 4.3.5:
Bug Fixes
- Fix: Lock issue causing the Configuration Server to hang
- Fix: Multiple instances s-server issue: only one s-server.exe can be running
- Fix: Graph issue DriveSpace
- Updated: URLExists check allows now for single URLs to be defined
Release 4.3.4:
Bug Fixes
- Fix: Due to problems with NT4, old drive check was reintroduced for NT4
- Fix: Drive Space check would return "UNKOWN" error incorrectly
- Fix: SNMP would not be correctly trapped
Release 4.3.3:
Bug Fixes
- Fix: Due to problems with NT4, old drive check was reintroduced for NT4
- Fix: MSN account settings where not properly shown in the Set-Up section
- Updated: Lotus Notes check has been updated
Release 4.3.2:
Bug Fixes
- Fix: Enhanced memory checked cause ServersCheck to hang
Release 4.3.1:
Bug Fixed and New features release
- New: Voice Phone based alerts by using Text To Speech
- New: Daily charts
- New: Number of down checks and down time is now being displayed
- New: Daily charts
- Fix: Individual HTML checks were no longer rendered
- Fix: Memory, CPU and DriveSpace were not properly working with NT4
Release 4.3.0:
New features release
- New: MEMORY check for Windows® 2000,XP and 2003 based systems
- New: CPU check for Windows® 2000,XP and 2003 based systems
- New: Start remote service as alert (for Enterprise customers)
- New: Reboot remote server (For Enterprise customers)
- Fix: Disk Space check has been redesigned
- Improvement: GUI includes now validation rules to avoid errors when defining checks
- Improvement: URL timings are now expressed in ms instead of seconds
- Fix: Non-alphanumeric characters could cause the graphs not to be shown
Release 4.2.6:
Fixes release - recommended upgrade for URL Content Check users
- Fix: download times in URL content check
- Fix: processes of URL_Check keep growing; process is not properly terminated
- Fix: SMTP From and Body are now properly saved
- New: Upgrade procedure for installing new versions
- Fix: Missing ActiveX component for URL content check
Release 4.2.5:
Important release - recommended upgrade
- Fix: When accessing remotely to ServersCheck, session was always stopped after 10 minutes. Now it is set to kill session if inactive after 10 minutes
- Fix: MSN alerting had on some problems an active X error. This has been fixed by shipping additional OCX
- Fix: Event Log Check has been redesigned
- Fix: URL Check has been rewritten to support MS based proxy servers (ISA)
- Fix: Process Check has been rewritten by using different protocol avoiding errors on some OS (languages)
- Fix: "Equal To" Condition was not correctly performed
- Fix: On some platforms, ServersCheck could take all available memory and CPU. Code has been optimized to avoid file locking and memory leaks
Release 4.2.2:
Bug fixes release.
- Fix: File Negative Content check is fixed
- Fix: SMS Providers list has been updated
Release 4.2.1:
Bug fixes release.
- Fix: All file checks would fail due to an incorrect filename lookup
- Fix: SMTP configuration would overwrite SMTP monitors
Release 4.2.0:
Important release.
- New: Ability to view status of checks on a PNG image (included in ENTERPRISE Edition)
- New: MSN alerting replacing ICQ due to changes in ICQ protocol blocking third party apps to communicate with ICQ network
- New: Execute custom command on failure
- New: Track time between sending email and receiving it (for the SMTPPOP3 monitor)
- New: Values are now shown in the Checks overview page
- Fix: Bug in PING check when no value is given
Release 4.1.0:
Bug fixes and enhancements release.
- New: Monitor list of URLs where ServersCheck reads a file containing a list of URLs and then tests them one by one
- New: Lotus Notes databases can now be checked with ServersCheck
- Fix: ODBC logging failed due to some content in strings
- Enhancement: URL Content check can now read values from a file allowing for checking dynamic content
- Enhancement: File Content check can now read values from a file allowing for checking dynamic content
Release 4.0.6:
Bug fixes and enhancements release.
- Fix: ODBC logging failed due to empty groups
- Fix: SMTPPOP3 entries were not correctly written to configuration file
- Enhancement: ODBC extended with new table
Release 4.05:
Important new release. All users are recommended to upgrade to this release.
- Fix: Bug in SMS when error string was too long
- Improvement: Layout in General Settings (Set-Up)
- New: Backup SMTP server should primary SMTP server not respond correctly
- New: SMS Messages are automatically retried twice
- New: Per check it can be defined whether the check should be included in the output or not
- New: Weekly and Monthly Graphs
- New: Warning level for PING response times
- New: SMTPPOP3 Check; ServersCheck sends a test message through SMTP and checks with POP3 if well received
- New: Traceroute Check; ServersCheck checks route to a target host
Release 4.0.3 & 4.0.4:
Improvements and new features.
- New: HTTP Post added as alert option
- New: Logging of all alerts in the log file
Release 4.0.2:
Important update with ServersCheck Configuration now running as a service.
- New: Configuration Server now also runs as a service
- New: ODBC check is now template driven making addition of new checks easier
- New: Addition of caching headers to solve issue in IE5
Release 4.0.0:
Major update with the introduction of the ENTERPRISE Edition.
- New: Customizable email alerts
- New: Separate outputs per group of checks for the ENTERPRISE Edition
- New: ODBC Logging capability for the ENTERPRISE Edition
- New: Fail-Over capability for the ENTERPRISE Edition
- New: Check dependency enables to halt the monitoring of a check while the parent check is down
- New: Addition of new SMS platforms (ClickATell and GSMSoft) for SMS or PAGER alerts
- Fix: Improvement in SMS modem module
Release 3.5.1:
- Fix: Windows platforms might return incorrect 0 as a value for free disk space causing alerts to be generated. ServersCheck will retry connection if 0 is returned
- Fix: Some modems echo commands causing SMS not to work.
- Fix: Improving SMS configuration in Set-Up module
- Fix: Modem timeouts on SMS alerts has been increased to 60 seconds
Release 3.5.0:
- Improved interface with better indications
- New services, process, drive space and SNMP check modules
- New and simplified SMS and pager module
- Bug fixes in error trapping
Release 3.3.1:
- SNMP check redesigned
- Refresh of HTML Output corrected
- Bug fix causing some checks no longer to be performed
- Redesign of error output when checking on values
Release 3.3.0:
- image check added: you can now check if a dynamic image is rendered correctly. If an error occurs, then an alert is generated
- backend performance improvements
Release 3.2.2:
- Bug fix in s-server when adding a new check
- Rewrite and fix for Oracle check
Release 3.2.1:
- new check added: Event Log
- bug fix in sending test alerts when using SMTP authentication
- refresh rate of checks page is now configurable
Release 3.2.0:
- Added username and password protection for remote access
- New check added: file content, when a string can be found in a file then an alert is generated
Release 3.1.1:
- From email address can now be specified for checks
- Adding default values for team settings
- Improvements in service & process error feedback
Release 3.1.0:
- SMS alerting is now available to freeware users as well.
- Grouping of checks
- Bug fix for SERVICES checking
Release 3.0.5:
- Bug fix for PROCESS checking
- Reintroduced the ServersCheck interactive application
- Navigation improvements
Release 3.0.0:
- Team alerting: alerts can now be assigned to predefined teams
- SMS part of the PROFESSIONAL version: no additional software is required to send out SMS alerts
- Possibility to plot charts for a specific time range instead of the predefined last 24 hours
- Complete redesign of configuration server: from now on a browser is required to manage your ServersCheck application
- Serverscheck databases are installed within the same directory as ServersCheck
Release 2.5.2:
- Sound notification on alert added
- Remote management of ServersCheck (limited to PROFESSIONAL version users)
- Redesign Configuration Server architecture
- Bug fix in check
Release 2.5.1:
- ICQ alerts included
- Optimization and improvement of navigation
- SMTP authentication is now supported for test SMTP.
- Bug fix included for SMTP authentication
Release 2.5.0:
- A redesigned application to manage ServersCheck.
- Improvement on the check definition interface.
- SMTP authentication is now supported for sending out emails.
- New checks added: Oracle, MySql, File, File Content, External, Disk space, Processes.
- Reduced time interval when check is down
- Ability to delete a defined check
- License counter (in About window)
Release 2.1.4: Tray application has been removed. The port of the ServersCheck is now configurable (default to 1272) as requested through the serverscheck.port file. A work-around for the memory issue comes now with the ServersCheck installation.
Release 2.1.3: Updated installation process, interactive installer and interactive menu. Special thanks to Scott Swedorski from Tucows for his valuable input in this matter. You can now start ServersCheck through a serie of Hot Keys enabling you to quicker manage operate the application.
Release 2.1.2: Modification of the check process: it is now possible to create or edit a check while ServersCheck is still running. Check definitions are now read at each check cycle and can be modified at any time. Pausing a check does no longer require to stop the service. The architecture has been optimized to reduce the number of launched cmd windows. S-GRAPH.EXE is a new component that is in charge of generating graphs based upon the RRDTOOL.
Release 2.1.1: Bug fixed in fetching HTML pages in URL check.
Release 2.1.0: ServersCheck Configuration Server has been added to the STANDARD edition.
