Post Description

Advanced Host Monitor carries out constant monitoring of availability and speed of servers. In case of errors and failures in server work, HostMonitor warns the manager (or tries to correct a problem independently). In the program 55 methods of testing are used, there is a considerable quantity of options. Besides, HostMonitor allows to create the detailed broad gulls in various formats (Text, HTML, DBF and ODBC), there is the built in editor of reports convenient and the clear interface etc. In the new version work HostMonitor, Log Analyzer, Remote Control Console, RMA Manager, Web Service and MIB Browser is improved.

Key Features:
. using 62 test methods our software can check almost any parameter of your servers;
. highly flexible action profiles allow you to start actions in predefined order depending on the test results;
. HostMonitor creates various log files using different detail levels and file formats (Text, HTML, DBF and ODBC);
. built-in Report Manager allows you to create and customize reports to your liking in a variety of ways;
. using Remote Monitoring Agents for Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris you may easily monitor remote networks;
. Web Service, Telnet Service and Remote Control Console simplifies remote management;
. and this is not all...

Improvements

HostMonitor, RCC, RMA for Windows: redesigned Drive Free Space test offers several new features:
you may check disks on remote Windows systems even if remote systems do not share disk resources but allow WMI requests;
single test item may check all fixed (local) drives, check all removable drives and/or check specific list of disks and find drive with minimum free space or drive with minimal percentage of free space (e.g. you may setup test to check all removable drives plus disk C: and F:)
you may check drives for minimum free space or check for percentage of free space
new variables provide information about disk (disk with minimum free space): %DiskID% returns disk id (e.g. C: or F:), %DiskLabel% returns disk label
Note: if HostMonitor or RMA is started on VMWare virtual Windows system and you setup test to check space on local CD/DVD disk, system may show popup window "There is no disk in the drive" when disk ejected. Solution: specify hostname or external IP address of the system instead of using "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" as host.

HostMonitor, RCC: new GUI option "use expression" can be enabled for Search operation when you search for test item within test list. With this option enabled you may use search expressions like:
('%Reply%'>90) and ('%Status%'=='Bad')
('web' in '%TestName%') and ('10.10.' in '%agent%')
Note: these expressions should conform to the same rules that are used for "advanced actions" but "historical" variables (variables like %StatTODAY_MinReply%, %StatThisWeek_DeadRatio%) cannot be used here.

HostMonitor, RCC: Report Profiles window offers "Usage report" popup menu item. Such report tells you what folders (within loaded HML file) use selected report profile.
HostMonitor, RCC: Report Profiles window offers "Mark unused" option. With this option enabled profiles that are not used by any folder (within current HML file) will be displayed in grey color.
Note: this option does not check if report profile is used by some external HM Scripts

HostMonitor: some antivirus software (e.g. AVG Resident Shield) could lead to poor performance while HostMonitor saves settings to disk. We changed some modules to avoid such problems.
Other minor GUI improvements

Log Analyzer: new option tells application to display Min/Max/Average fields using real numbers instead of integer numbers. This is "hidden" option - means the option is not accessible thru GUI however you may turn it on by inserting RealForMinMax=1 line into [Misc] section of logsman.ini file.

Fixed The following issues were resolved

HostMonitor, RCC: if statistics mode set to "Display alive/dead ratio of passed/failed tests", GUI could show invalid alive/dead ratio for test items that were executed more than 21474836 times without resetted statistics. Fixed
Also installation software registers standalone DLL (kseventres.dll instead of hostmon.exe) for event messages, helps to avoid "Message not found" strings in Event Log

Issues related to Advanced Host Monitor package version 9.00-9.18 were resolved
HostMonitor, RMA for Window and WMI Explorer: in some cases WMI test did not work on Windows 2000. Fixed
RCC: if you modify alert profiles, reports or schedules and then click Cancel button, RCC could keep displaying modified profiles. Fixed. Note: this error did not affect real settings/profiles stored by HostMonitor
Web Service: in some rare cases web interface could show obsolete test status/reply. Fixed