Overseer Network Monitor Release Notes

- Fixes a bug with stopping notifications at a specific #

- Adds the ability for Windows Service resources to fail if running or not running

- Updates digital signatures

- Updates digital signatures

- Fixes bug saving schedules in some rare circumstances

- Adds option to restart services on dependency failures(Tools->Options->General->Misc)

- Adds "Failing Resources" option to Show dropdown on main Overseer screen

- Adds notification for large SQLite file sizes

- Adds SMS support for Bluegrass Cellular provider

- Fixes problem experienced with some EM1 units

- Fixes problem monitoring some websites that require cookies to be set

- Changes Event Log monitoring to allow eventID filtering without specifying source

- Fixes bug with event log duplicate detection when using MSSQL

- Fixes bug on resource-type defaults in resource discovery wizard

- Adds SMS support for Bell Canada and Rogers Canada providers

- Fixes problem on some machines where Overseer Service would timeout when starting

- Adds support for 'Telus' SMS carrier

- Overseer installer exe, Overseer.exe, and OverseerSvc.exe are now code-signed with an expensive code-signing certificate

- Adds 'Start Service' and 'Stop Service' options when right-clicking a Windows Service

- Adds 'fail if' options to FTP resource type, allowing user to fail based on too many or too few files

- Remembers column widths in main Overseer resource list

- Adds 'Up/Down time' column to resource list view, that shows the down-time for a resource if it's down, and the up-time for a resource if it's online.

- Adds [free] 'Disk Space %' column to resource list view if filtering on disk space resource types

- Adds Resource List report

- Adds Event Log Filtering by keyword

- Enhances GUI responsiveness during resource deletion by deleting resource history in background thread

- Adds Cellcom as a supported carrier for SMS notifications

- Fixes bug with FTP server authentication to some non-Microsoft FTP servers

- Adds support for adding resource type to custom texts

- Adds the ability to move resources to other groups with drag and drop

- Fixes authentication bug with event log monitoring

- Adds the option to check for new Overseer version upon Overseer startup

- Fixes problem with HTTP authentication

- Fixes problem with un-installer not deleting program data folder

- Enhances HTTP resource type to be able to check for text in the response, response time, and SSL certificate expiration

- Adds FTP resource type - check your FTP servers with Overseer

- Adds TCP Socket resource type - check any port with Overseer

- Adds Search box to Overseer resource list

- Adds 'All Groups' to left tree to show all resources in one list, regardless of group

- Adds the ability to show left tree with smaller icons(set in Tools->Options->Display)

- Adds the ability to hide resource types in left tree when not used in that group

- Fixes memory leak with event log monitoring later Windows OS's with Overseer also running a later Windows OS

- Fixes error attempting to monitor local event log on Windows 8 OS

- Changes maximum 'free disk space' limit from 999,999MB to 999,999,999MB

- Adds Event Log Filter Sets feature

- Fixes bug where editing event log filters sometimes would not save changes

- Adds %NAME% and %LOGNAME% to custom event log text variables

- Fixes error message in 5.0.124 regarding index creation

- Enhances 'aggressive event log' detection to use new event log reading mechanism

- Adds indexes to Overseer database to improve performance.

- Adds 'ICE'(Costa Rica) as a cell phone carrier for SMS notifications

- Adds support for Sensatronics E4 and E16 environmental monitoring units

- Fixes bug where options screen would throw error if default password, resource group, notification group, or schedule was set to an item that had been deleted

- Changes OverseerSvc's default TCP port to 12344(previously 12345), and makes this customizable via registry key

- Changes multi-select editing to support resource dependencies

- Changes ping resource to log latency to dData field in checklog table

- Fixes problem with DBQuery resource type when using Windows authentication with a MSSQL named instance(i.e. SERVER\instance)

- Changes Overseer to be UAC-aware, prompting for elevation to admin privileges when run

- Changes DBQuery resource type to log scalar results to log table

- Adds %SQLQUERY% and %SQLRESULT% to custom text variables

- Fixes problem that crashed service, particularly when MSSQL integrated authentication was used

- Adds support for actions, such as executing a program

- Adds support for specifying proxy under tools->options

- Updates user agent string for HTTP requests

- Fixes very intermittent bug in Process Monitor resource type

- Fixes bug present when using MSSQL as the Overseer database

- Fixes bug when trying to run Overseer a second time with a different user session(via RDP)

- Fixes bug with incidents not always closing in some situations

- Adds a new 'Reachable' fail-if setting to the ping resource type

- Fixes issue with Overseer 5.x not saving information in the options dialog for ODBC logging

- Fixes issue with Overseer 5.x, where if closed when minimized, the app would startup off the screen(and therefore unreachable)

- Fixes issue with Process Monitor on Windows 2003

- Fixes potential intermittent issue with authentication in some environments

- Fixes small bug when first starting Overseer with HTTP resources that URLs don't start with http:// or https://

- Fixes problem with some 4.x->5.0 upgrades

- Adds a note to installer on Windows 2008 informing that .NET framework must be installed using server manager

- Fixes a problem in the installer when upgrading from 4.x to 5.0 on some systems

- Adds button to easily fill SMTP server information to use Gmail account

- Adds 'Data' section to options, allowing user to change location of Overseer database

- Adds 'edit' button when managing notifications, schedules, etc.(double click to edit still works)

- Adds filtering abilities to all item(schedule, notifications, etc.) list screens

- Adds full, thorough help file

- Adds new backup and restore wizard

- Adds resource count to each node of resource group tree on left

- Adds splash screen when starting

- Adds support for extended event logs in W2K8("Applications and Services Logs")

- Adds support for using MSSQL as the Overseer database. Requires addon module.

- Adds the ability to edit multiple resources at once

- Adds the ability to filter processes by command line as well as process name

- Adds the ability to group resources by host/machine in resource view

- Adds the ability to process monitor to notify when process exceeds CPU% threshold

- Adds the ability to run discovery for just one host

- Adds the ability to see the status of the Overseer service and start/stop it from toolbar

- Adds the ability to set group/schedule/notification group/passwords defaults in options for all new resources

- Adds toolbar below menu for easy access to frequently used functions

- Changes edit resource form to include tree-based view on left

- Changes Edit Schedule layout to hopefully make things easier to understand

- Changes event log custom text to use built-in custom text system versus resource-specific fields

- Changes Overseer to use one database file, instead of multiple

- Enhances auto-discovery wizard to allow discovered hosts or manually entered hosts, better check/uncheck in tree, etc.

- Enhances availability report to support reporting based on intervals(hourly, daily, etc.)

- Enhances interactive test dialog

- Enhances text import wizard to support importing multiple fields and more resource types

- Enhances the schedule exceptions interface

- Memory usage or process counts are always logged in the 'data' field for process monitor checks, regardless of failure/success

- Move resource history interface from right click to 'History' entry in left tree of Edit Resource dialog

- Overall interface facelift

- Updated to use v3.5 of the .NET Framework

- Warns and prevents deletions of items that are used(notification groups, schedules, resource groups, etc.)

- When a service is stopped and started due to a dependency failure, dependent services are also stopped and restarted

- Fixes intermittant problem with incidents not always closing

- Made a change to enhance database performance

- Now remembers which resource groups are collapsed when refreshing the resource groups pane

- Fixes bug in 4.1.42 that caused license key information to not be found

- Fixes bug with red X on resource selection screen when running resource discovery wizard

- Fixes bug that wouldn't allow proper data entry of relative humidity(RH) % for EM1 resource types.

- Adds check when deleting groups to make sure groups that contain resources cannot be deleted

- Adds Resource Availability Report

- Adds Incident report

- Adds resource duplication ability

- Adds %FAILTIME% to custom text variables

- Fixes performance issue when adding event log entries

- Upgrades 'DevExpress' library components from 9.3 to 10.2

- Adds fix for non-RFC-compliant web server responses

- Misc under-the-hood fixes

- Adds native MSSQL support for DBQuery resource types, including support for Windows authentication

- Fixes some performance problems

- Adds Resource Discovery Wizard(requires Active Directory)

- Adds 'First Run Wizard' to assist in first-time setup steps

- Adds multi-selection support for pausing/unpausing and deleting resources

- Adds resource dependencies(available under 'Advanced' on a resource edit screen)

- Fixes bug where add/delete/double click didn't work for event filters in recent builds(4.0.11024.01+)

- Fixes bug where process monitor values wouldn't save

- Adds some performance tweaks to startup and GUI updates

- Adds event log duplicate filtering

- Adds notification limiting option(i.e. no more than 200 sms messages per month for a specific phone#)

- Adds text file import option for resources under Tools menu

- Adds 'show current incident' shortcut under right click menu for resources in 'failure' state

- Defaults group on new resources to currently selected group

- Fixes bug where group tree on left wasn't re-drawing after making changes to groups

- misc. navigational enhancements to GUI

- Adds option under tools menu to backup config and/or data databases

- Adds support for multiple custom text definitions

- Fixes problem with new resources getting deleted resource's history

- Fixes problem with notify after time setting

- Fixes problem with skins

- Adds 'Pocket Wireless' to SMS carriers

- Fixes bug that would cause the service to crash on some low-spec computers

- Adds DB Query resource type

- Fixes bug that would sometimes give an error about an 'object reference' being invalid when testing a resource

- Adds support for TLS/SSL on SMTP relay server

- Adds registry setting to allow multiple instances of Overseer on the same computer(contact support for details, if needed)

- Adds setting in Options to control if 'recovery' notifications are sent if a resource never has notifications sent for a failing resource

- Fixes problem with 'notify after' setting behavior

- Adds EM1 CSV logging feature

- Adds 'Display Name' to Windows service selection dialog

- Adds Cincinnati Bell to SMS carriers

- Sorts SMS carriers alphabetically in drop-down

- Fixes potential authentication problems if the same machine is entered in different cases(i.e. 'Machine' versus 'machine')

- Fixes problem opening event log resources with strict computer registry permissions

- Changes Overseer 3.0 import to create schedules as inactive to prevent password lockouts

- Fixes problem with notifications for some SMS carriers

- Adds Schedule Exceptions(i.e. maintenance periods)

- Fixes problem with ping count not saving properly

- Fixes problem with EM1 units on local network

- Adds help file

- Fixes problem with http authentication using Windows authentication

- Fixes problem with v3 import not importing 'restart service' setting

- Fixes error if Overseer is run with UAC on with non-admin account

- Fixed problem with authenticating properly for resources on local machine when service is running as the default 'Network Service' user.