April 20th, 2012· Previously when configuring the directory watcher users were unable to disable the suppress action options. This bug has been fixed.
March 26th, 2012· Previously the installer failed when run on Windows Home Server 2011. This bug has been fixed.
February 16th, 2012· Previously users were unable to manually add shares. This limitation exposed itself while a user was attempting to discover Server 2008 clustered disks. From within the Disk Monitor Properties Wizard users can now manually add shares.
January 27th, 2012· Previously when users opted to fire all alerts rather than suppress until the alert state had been cleared the flag was ignored. These bugs have been fixed.
January 27th, 2012· Previously the consumption rate control threw an Int32 overflow error when the daily consumption rate in bytes exceeded the size of an Int32. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously when viewing large disks, for example 2 TBs, the disk properties dialog truncated the "Bytes" units thus only showing the size in bytes without the units. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously the export to CSV saved the file to a UTF8 file format. In order for Microsoft Excel to automatically load the output CSV file the file format must be ASCII. The software has been updated to save to either ASCII or Unicode if explicitly requested.
January 20th, 2012· Recently we introduced a bug into the list view control which rendered the custom column popup box useless. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously the Directory Watcher configuration dialog contained an extra suppress action check box. The extra box has been removed and back-end code updated to deal with the extra configuration parameter.
January 11th, 2012· Previously when using the AutoConfigurator to automatically configure computers added to the domain any applied filters were ignored. This bug has been fixed.
December 15th, 2011· Previously there were several bugs in the schedule distributor algorithm as well as the user interface. These bugs have been fixed.
December 14th, 2011· Previously when executing a duplicate file report against several configured top level directories a fatal error was thrown when duplicate files were detected. This bug has been fixed.
November 15th, 2011· Users can now export a disk monitor's history to a CSV file. From the disk monitor's properties dialog, select the History tab. Click Save to export the history to a CSV file.
August 13th, 2011· Previously on Windows 7 if a user changed the display to 125% some of the wizards did not display correctly. These bugs have been fixed.
July 19th, 2011· Previously on certain systems when adding a new directory monitor to a computer which already contains another directory monitor, all pre-existing text directory monitors were removed. This bug has been fixed.
July 14th, 2011· Previously when installing this software or rebooting the server, the service may have failed to start on some systems. We thought we had fully resolved this issue by removing the code signature from the service binary however it appears all dependent dlls must also be unsigned. This issue has been worked around.
July 5th, 2011· Previously after creating a new disk monitor when viewing the consumption rate report the daily consumption rate may have been incorrect until after at least one day had passed and several data points had been saved. When scanning hourly, the value should now show a more accurate value during the first day of data retrieval.
· Previously when exploring disks and double-clicking a node within the detail view which causes an access denied error to be thrown the tree view would select the directory in question but the detail view would not clear. The detail view now clears.
· Previously the detail view did not show the file count, directory count and total size columns unless the user manually added them via the customer list view header control in the upper right. The columns are now automatically added to the view.
· The columns within the Largest Files Report did not resize when the report was resized. This bug has been fixed.
June 28th, 2011· Previously when installing to Server 2008 R2 if the Application Server Role was not installed the service would fail to start and the installation would fail. The installation now checks for the existence of the Application Server Role when installed to Server 2008 R2 or higher.
June 22nd, 2011· Previously when browsing for the file to remote execute when configuring a start process action an error was thrown. This bug has been fixed.
June 11th, 2011· Previously the service may have failed to start after a reboot if the Cryptographic Service was slow to start. According to Microsoft this occurs because the service binary is digitally signed. The solution Microsoft has provided to the community is to exclude code signing from all Windows Services. The service binary is no longer signed.
June 7th, 2011· Previously the configured threshold value displayed in the disk size and directory size alerts did not show the correct value. This bug has been fixed.
· The list view controls we use throughout the software did not properly redraw the embedded scrollbars when the control was not visible and the application was resized. This bug has been fixed.
June 2nd, 2011· Previously after creating a new disk monitor when viewing the consumption rate report the daily consumption rate may have been incorrect until after at least one day had passed and several data points had been saved. When scanning hourly, the value should now show a more accurate value during the first day of data retrieval.
· Previously when exploring disks and double-clicking a node within the detail view which causes an access denied error to be thrown the tree view would select the directory in question but the detail view would not clear. The detail view now clears.
· Previously the detail view did not show the file count, directory count and total size columns unless the user manually added them via the customer list view header control in the upper right. The columns are now automatically added to the view.
· The columns within the Largest Files Report did not resize when the report was resized. This bug has been fixed.
May 29th, 2011· Previously the installation was not marked to run as administrator. This could cause the user interface not to load during an install or the UI to remain open during an uninstallation. This bug has been fixed.
May 21st, 2011· Previously the schedule distributor did not properly distribute minutes and every X hour schedules where X is > 1. These bugs have been fixed.
May 12th, 2011· Previously when re-configuring a disk summary report that included a server that was off-line or a server that no longer contains a disk or share that was previously configured the configured disks and shares did not display. This made it impossible for users to remove disks and shares no longer available from the report without first removing and re-adding the server from the report. This bug has been fixed.
May 5th, 2011· Previously our host importer function was not enabling users to select the template to apply to newly imported computers. This bug has been fixed.
April 22nd, 2011· Previously reparse points could not be recursed. Recursion is now enabled when the root node is flagged as a reparse point however all sub-directories that are flagged with a reparse point attribute are ignored as reparse points break recursion.
April 5th, 2011· Previously when attempting to view the local disk properties from within the Disk Explorer an object reference error was thrown. This bug has been fixed.
March 31st, 2011· Previously if FIPS compliance was enabled the service failed to start. This typically manifests itself during installation as a service start failure. Upon inspection of the service log file the following error is written: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms. This bug has been fixed.
March 25th, 2011· Previously a bug was introduced which exposed itself when attempting to
· open the Actions Manager from the Assign Action dialog. When opened an
· object reference error was thrown. These bugs have been fixed.
March 16th, 2011· Users can now right click no any computer, disk or set of disks (within the dashboard) and select Properties to re-configure computer/disk monitoring using a properties tabs style dialog.
March 16th, 2011· Previously users were unable to monitor disk space quotas. Users can now use Disk Monitor to monitor shares that have hard quotas assigned.
· Previously uses were unable to monitor local shares. This limitation has been removed.
March 8th, 2011· Previously when restoring a configuration to a new computer the monitor dependent state files were not immediately created. This caused several significant errors that may or may not self-resolve depending on how the monitors are configured. The most common issue discovered was all scheduled functionality was immediately executed regardless of the schedule. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously when deleting a group and a sub-set of the listed child objects the user interface did not properly update the view. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously when saving data to the internal Disk Monitor format (rather than a database) if the output directory did not exist an error was thrown and the history was not saved. The monitor now creates the directory, creates the history file and finally appends the data.
February 2nd, 2011· Per a user request the Start Process action now supports replacing tags
· within the argument list enabling functions such as the Directory Watcher
· to pass the filename that was created, delete, renamed or changed to the
· process being started via a command-line argument. To pass the effected
· filename chose from one of the following tags: {FILENAME} or {NEW_NAME}.
January 31st, 2011· Made several usability changes to the Schedule Distributor.
· Fixed several UI bugs found within the Directory Monitor Wizard.
· Changed the default SMART frequency from 10 minutes to every hour.
January 25th, 2011· Previously when deleting a computer, disk or directory monitor the referenced reports were not cleaned up. The user interface now prompts the user of all dependencies prior to deleting the monitors. When prompted the user has the option to remove or retain the report references.
January 8th, 2011· Users can now configure the Auto Configurator to include a single filter
· to apply when scanning an Active Directory tree. When applied only
· computers that pass the filter are configured.
· The Browse Active Directory dialog now enables users to recursively scan
· and apply an Active Directory filter to each discovered computer.
January 6th, 2011· Users can now configure the Auto Configurator to include a single filter to apply when scanning an Active Directory tree. When applied only computers that pass the filter are configured.
· The Browse Active Directory dialog now enables users to recursively scan and apply an Active Directory filter to each discovered computer.
December 16th, 2010· Previously when selecting a node within the Navigation view the detail view was automatically opened. In large environments or when doing lots of work this can become very annoying when you are not interested in the detail view. The detail view is no longer automatically displayed. To view the detail, either double-click the node as you would have prior to this build, right click and select View Navigation Detail, or press F7.
· Previously the command timeout and connection timeout values found within the Data Providers tab within the Options dialog used Spin Controls. These controls are difficult to use and have been replaced by simple Text Box controls.
· Users can now test scheduled reports immediately by selecting an option within the General Page of the Report Wizard.
December 15th, 2010· Previously when monitoring hundreds of disks that are configured within several groups the user interface was slow to open. This issue has been addressed.
December 1st, 2010· Previously when a scheduled Directory Summary Report encountered a network error while scanning the report would show the Error icon but the status was labeled OK. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously the Disk Monitor Templates did not save the assigned group. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously when applying a Disk Monitor Template to a new selection of computers the wizard would re-scan the already scanned computers for administrator shares. This bug has been fixed.
· The error message for failed SMART Status scans has been updated.
· Previously the Auto Configurator did not show the next execution time when first opened. This bug has been fixed.
· The Select Computers page within the Report Properties Wizards now display the number of computers assigned to the report.
November 30th, 2010· Disk Monitor is now offered with a native 64-bit installer.
· Previously when ever checking a tree node within one of the navigation panes the tree node was automatically selected causing an automatic scan to run. In large environments this was very annoying. The tree node is no longer automatically selected.
· The Disk Monitors Wizard now offers the option to remove computers from the selected computers list that were previously selected through, for example the Active Directory browser, that are not online.
· Previously SNMP traps did not fire on Server 2008 and Vista. This bug has been fixed.
November 30th, 2010· Previously if a user had specified a username and password when configuring their Active Directory connection, computers that were listed within the AD tree that are offline, unreachable or decommissioned were still mapped into the system when the Auto Configurator ran. The Auto Configurator no longer maps these AD nodes into the system.
· Several of the configuration wizards now include a selected computer and disk count where appropriate.
· Previously when canceling a disk discovery an unhandled exception may have been thrown. This bug has been fixed.
· The Disk Discovery dialog now includes an option to hide informational messages.
November 23rd, 2010· Previously when configuring 100s of disks there was no way to evenly distribute the monitor schedules over time which could easily lead to the software bottlenecking. All the of Disk and Directory Monitors now include a schedule distributor option enabling users to evenly distribute scans over time.
· All of the Browse for dialogs now include a Ctrl-A handler enabling users to check all of the objects listed in the dialog.
· Previously when overwriting a disk or directory configuration template the updated values were not saved. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously when viewing a template the template type displayed the obfuscated value. This enumeration is no longer obfuscated.
· Optimized some of the tree view display code for large networks.
November 19th, 2010· Previously users could only assign a single action one at a time to a
· monitor. The Assign Actions dialog has been updated to enable users to
· multi-select actions.
· Previously the tray icon alert status did not properly update once the
· SMART monitor was disabled for the associated disks. If monitoring SMART
· on a disk that did not support SMART or WMI was blocked causing the SMART
· status to trigger causing the tray icon status to trigger. Once the SMART
· monitor was disabled for the associated disks the tray icon status did not
· update. The tray icon status is now properly updated.
· Previously when users selected multiple computers, disks or directories
· within the Dashboard the corresponding Properties Wizard would only enable
· users to re-configure one computer. The wizards now include all selected
· computers.
October 5th, 2010· Users can now encrypt email packets using TLS.
· Previously when re-configuring directory monitors for a server that is currently off-line, the Select Directories page did not show the currently configured directories. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously when modifying the data provider, when the user closed the dialog without saving the changes the in-memory version of the configuration was altered. This required the user to restart the user interface in order to reload the actual values. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously the CDYNE SMS gateway action always resulted in an error even when the action was properly fired. This bug has been fixed.
October 5th, 2010· Users can now encrypt email packets using TLS.
· Previously when re-configuring directory monitors for a server that is
· currently off-line, the Select Directories page did not show the currently
· configured directories. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously when modifying the data provider, when the user closed the
· dialog without saving the changes the in-memory version of the
· configuration was altered. This required the user to restart the user
· interface in order to reload the actual values. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously the CDYNE SMS gateway action always resulted in an error even
· when the action was properly fired. This bug has been fixed.
September 24th, 2010· Disk Monitor now includes a Directory Cleaner which can automatically
· deleted aged files. Use the Directory Cleaner to automatically delete old
· database backups as well as application logs such as IIS logs. Use the
· Directory Monitor Wizard to configure the Directory Cleaner.
· Fixed several tab order bugs within the configuration wizards.
· Previously when a Disk Summary Report was configured to only show disks
· that have passed a threshold or have the SMART status set, the report
· incorrectly listed all disks that were not configured to poll the SMART
· status. This bug has been fixed.
September 16th, 2010· Previously when using the Disk Summary Report Wizard if adding computers
· that are off-line an object reference error was thrown. This bug has been
· fixed.
September 16th, 2010· Disk Summary Reports can now display consumption rate information for a
· configurable date range. To enable this option modify your existing
· reports via the Report Properties Wizard.
September 1st, 2010· Added support for CDYNE SMS gateway.
· Upgraded installation engine to InstallShield 2011.
Disk Monitor now includes support for Oracle database. Once installed select Options from the Tools menu item. Select the History tab. Select the Oracle provider and set the appropriate parameters. To save data to an Oracle server, first download and install the latest version of the Oracle client libraries from Oracle's website. At this time they are named:
· Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Client (11.2.0.1.0) for Microsoft Windows (32-bit)
· Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Client (11.2.0.1.0) for Microsoft Windows (x64)
August 13th, 2010· Previously when viewing a disk space consumption rate report an error was
· received if the date till full was a very high number, such as 700000 days
· or 1500 years. This bug has been fixed.
August 10th, 2010· The last build introduced a serialization bug that caused issues when
· specifying logon as credentials.
August 9th, 2010· Updated all the report wizards to enable users to select computers not
· already being monitored.
· Aliased computers not display in the following format within all the
· wizards: ALIAS (HOSTNAME or IP).
· Fixed a bug seen rarely on Windows XP workstations where a bogus empty
· domain appeared within the network object discover tree controls.
· All the computer selection dialogs have been updated to be more user
· friendly.
August 9th, 2010· Users can now assign an alias or logical name to a configured computer.
· To alias a computer name select File | Map Computer. Type the hostname,
· any required logon credentials and finally specify the alias. The alias
· will appear in the tree view and detail views however the actual hostname
· is used when configuring monitors and reports.
August 9th, 2010· Previously a generic error was displayed when attempting to get the free
· disk space. The function has been updated to get detailed information
· which should help the user troubleshoot the error better.
· Previously if a user disabled the SMART monitor within a disk monitor the
· application would continue to retrieve the status when viewed within the
· user interface. The user interface now only retrieves the SMART status if
· a disk is not configured or if the disk is configured and the SMART monitor
· is enabled.
July 30th, 2010· The Duplicate Files report has been optimized for minimum memory usage at the cost of speed.
· Fixed an installation bug that enabled expired users to install the latest version only to be later prompted by the user interface that they must update their maintenance contract to run the latest version.
July 26th, 2010· The Disk Summary Report now enables users to only show disks that have crossed a warning or critical free disk space thresholds or have triggered SMART.
· The Disk History view previously failed to display the date when displaying records for several days. This bug has been fixed.
July 21st, 2010· The temporary files report now includes Temporary Internet Files directories for each user enabling system administrators to automatically delete temporary internet files on all servers and workstations.
July 20th, 2010· The temporary files report now includes Temporary Internet Files directories for each user enabling system administrators to automatically delete temporary internet files on all servers and workstations.
June 30th, 2010· When the MAC address changes the software now offers the option to
· automatically return and re-register. Previously the user was required to
· contact Corner Bowl Software to have their license reset.
June 16th, 2010· When configuring an email action within the Actions Manager, users can add
· email addresses by browsing the list of known email addresses.
· The Directory Monitors tab within the Dashboard and Directory Summary
· reports now automatically displays the directory size history graph. To
· hide the history, close the docking window. The next time the view is
· displayed, the history will not display.
June 12th, 2010· When adding size on disk support to our Directory Properties page we
· introduced a bug which caused non-Windows devices to throw an error when
· selected. This bug has been fixed.
June 9th, 2010· Disk Monitor now enables users to schedule the service to defragment disks
· on both local and remote computers. For more information see Defragmenting
· Disks in the Help file.
June 9th, 2010· The Directory Properties dialog now calculates and displays the size on
· disk.
June 5th, 2010· Previously after adding or renaming a group, the Disk Monitors and
· Directory Monitors panes did not sort. When a group is added, the tree
· view now automatically sorts. When a group is renamed, the groups can be
· sorted by pressing F5.
· Previously after mapping a computer, the Network Disk Explorer appended
· the mapped computer to the tree view rather than inserting the node in the
· appropriate alphanumerically sorted location. The tree node is now
· properly inserted into the list of mapped computers.
· The web server disk group detail HTML template has been updated wrap the
· Message column.
· Previously the Utilization column incorrectly sorted by the Used Size
· instead of the Used Percent. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously the % of Disk column incorrectly sorted by the Directory Size
· instead of the % of Disk value. This bug has been fixed.
· When re-configuring a Directory Summary report in which one of the
· computers within the report no longer contains directory monitors an object
· reference error was thrown after the user clicked the Select All button
· within the Select Directories page. This bug has been fixed.
June 2nd, 2010· Previously configured File Access reports could not be displayed when
· double-clicked via the Reports and Views pane. The report is now
· displayed.
May 26th, 2010· Several customers had notified us that their SMART status monitor were
· randomly returning success and error results for the same disk. The following errors were possible: "Unable to retrieve logical disk" or "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". The behavior is absolutely unexpected. We wrote a test application to call WMI on a remote computer from various threads at the same time and reproduced the error. Apparently WMI can return nondeterministic results. We don't know of any way around this WMI bug, however, after adding a single simple retry we seem to always get the expected results. Long story short, we added a retry to the SMART status monitor.
· Previously uses were only able to schedule our Duplicate Files Report. Users can now run Duplicate Files Reports on demand. Once run a the report is displayed within the user interface.
· The About Box now includes the number of license computers being monitored and when not an Unlimited license, the remaining # of computers that can be monitored
May 21st, 2010· Users can now print the Directory Monitor list within the Dashboard as well as on-demand Directory Summary Reports.
· The directory summary HTML templates were updated to include all the directory watcher values.
· When mapping computers using an IP address, users may have seen an error stating the host could not be resolved. This bug has been fixed.
May 19th, 2010· Previously both the disk and directory monitors would continually fire if
· both the warning and critical thresholds were crossed. This bug has been
· fixed.
· Previously both the disk and directory monitors would automatically clear
· the next time a scan ran and the sizes were below the threshold. This
· behavior was incorrect. The alert state now remains triggered until the
· service automatically clears the state or the user manually clears the
· state.
· Previously the vertical axis on the history chart incorrectly displayed
· "Free Space (GB)". The label has been changed to "Disk Space (GB)".
· Previously when creating a directory based report, users could not add a
· computer unless the computer already had at least one directory monitor
· assigned. Users can now add any computer that has at least one disk
· monitor assigned. Within the same wizard previously all monitored
· directories were automatically selected. The wizard now leaves the
· directories de-selected forcing the user to explicitly check the
· directories to include in the report.
May 15th, 2010· The automated duplicate files and file access reports could pre-maturely
· return if a file was deleted while the scan was running. This bug has been
· fixed.
· Previously when creating directory based reports, the application only
· allowed users to select monitored directories. Users can now add
· directories that have not been configured for monitoring.
May 12th, 2010· Users can now convert history from one type to another. For example,
· history saved to the file system can not be converted into SQL Server.
· Automated Disk Summary reports can now be sorted by free space, percent
· free, used space, percent used, and capacity. Users can also specify the
· sort order (ascending or descending).
· Users can now specify a report description.
· The disk history is now automatically displayed when a disk is selected
· within the dashboard or disk summary report.
· Users can now print Disk Summary Reports on demand.
May 6th, 2010· Previously directory scans were bypassing directories with the
· "NotContentIndexed" attribute set. This exclusion was included to stop
· recursive scans into the "Application Data" directory present within Server
· 2008 and Vista. Bypassing directories with this attribute caused the
· "Program Data" directory on Server 2008 to be bypassed. We have switched
· the application to bypass directories with the "ReparsePoint" tag instead.
· Using this tag appears to resolve both issues.
· Previously the {HOST} and {PATH} tags were not replaced when used within
· the Subject field of a Disk or Directory Summary Email Report. This bug
· has been resolved.
May 5th, 2010· Previously when a SMART status monitor, temporary file management, or
· report ran and errored, assigned HTML emails failed to fire. This bug has
· been fixed.
· Previously SMART Disk Monitor 2008 directory monitor templates did not
· properly import. This bug has been fixed.
May 3rd, 2010· Since we added the new schedule exclusion rules, disk monitor templates
· could not be updated. This bug has been fixed.
April 27th, 2010· All scheduled functions now include an enhanced exclusion period
· algorithm. For example, users can now configure a monitor to shutdown
· Sunday from 8:00 - 12:00.
· Previously when selecting computers not configured within the Active
· Directory or Network panes within the Navigation view the Disk Monitor
· Wizard did not automatically create new configurations for the selected
· item. Instead the user was prompted to select a computer. The wizard will
· now open and populate with the selected computers.
· Added Select All option to several popup menu bars
· Fixed a minor drawing issue within the Dashboard views.
April 20th, 2010· Previously when monitoring a change in disk or directory size the monitors
· did not properly handle a decrease in size. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously the HTML based email alerts failed to fire becuase the template
· was missing from the installation. The file has been added.
April 18th, 2010· Users can now configure a backup email server. If the primary is down or
· is unable to send your message, the software will attempt to send the email
· using your configured backup email server.
· We added a new tutorial that shows users how to configure Gmail as a
· backup email server.
· Users can now view the consumption rate within the Disk Properties dialog.
· When deleting temporary files within the on-demand temporary file report
· the dialog now displays a finished message and the number of errors
· indicating the function has completed.
· When scanning directories via the on-demand directory summary report the
· dialog now displays the current directory being scanned.
April 15th, 2010· We have added four tutorials to help teach users how to use this softwware.
· A significant memory optimization was made to the duplicate files report.
· Several minor UI changes were made to the Directory Monitor Wizard.
· The Disk and Directories Properties dialogs now show the file name or table name the history is saved.
April 15th, 2010· Added Enable and Disable popup menu items to the Dashboard summary tabs.
· Previously when deleting an object from the tree the previous sibling or
· parent would be auto selected causing the detail view to refresh. This was
· extremely annoying. The detail view is now closed after the object is
· deleted.
· Previously the temporary file summary within the Dashboard displayed an
· Error image after configured and prior to the first schedule. This bug has
· been fixed.
April 15th, 2010The Duplicate Files reports now include 3 match criteria options:
· filename, size and last modified date. Any combination of the options can
· be used.
· The directory monitor exclusions failed to work on the localhost. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously if focus was in one of the navigation panes and a detail view was open the refresh command would only refresh the detail view.
· Previously if the file count or change in directory size monitors were only enabled for warning thresholds the monitor did not fire alerts. These bugs have been fixed.
· Fixed several alert state icon refresh issues within the UI.
April 15th, 2010· When upgrading from SMART Disk Monitor 2008 the license file was not migrated. The license file is now migrated.
· When upgrading from SMART Disk Monitor 2008 and the user previously
· assigned disks from the same computer to different logical groups, the importer did not function correctly. This bug has been fixed. Please note
· computers are now assigned to logical groups rather than shares.
· Previously when a monitor's alert state was set users were unable to clear
· the alert state via the Dashboard. Users can now clear alerts via the
· Dashboard.
· Previously the Dashboard was very difficult to resize. The expander
· controls have been replaced with tabs.
· The Reports tab within the Dashboard now enables users to right click on
· an item and run a report, open the Report Properties Wizard, and delete the
· report.
· Previously directory summary reports run against the localhost incorrectly
· removed the first character in each sub-directory when displayed within the
· results. This bug has been fixed.
· Previously the images associated with the web server output were not
· copied to the default output location causing some of the HTML documents to
· display without all the images. This bug has been fixed.
April 15th, 2010· Previously when installing over SMART Disk Monitor 2008 the disk history
· was not imported. The history is now imported.
April 15th, 2010· Users can now schedule the service to scan large directory structures for active and idle files. Output includes CSV, HTML, and text.
· Fixed several minor bugs with the disk summary web server output.
· Users can now schedule the service to scan large directories for duplicate filenames.
April 15th, 2010· Fixed numerous backend and user interface issues.
April 15th, 2010· The web server output now includes group detail that resembles the group
· detail view within the application.
· Completed numerous GUI usability updates.
· The majority of the help file is now complete.
April 15th, 2010· All of the on-demand reports have been updated to include CSV and HTML
· output.
· Made several updates to UI for better user interaction.
April 15th, 2010· Previously the disk history chart incorrectly displayed certain thresholdlines.
· Started working on the help file.
· Fixed a few action tag implementations.
April 15th, 2010· Several menu popup were modified for usability and consistency.
· Made several changes to the Properties Wizard initialization which hopefully offers a better user experience.
· Fixed a drawing issue discovered in the utilization and threshold bar control.
April 15th, 2010· When running on machines with UAC enabled the user interface required the user to run as administrator. This bug has been fixed.
· When running a directory recursion tool, such as largest files, the function did not execute when focus was in the Navigation view. This bug has been fixed.
April 15th, 2010· When installed for the first time over Disk Monitor 2008, the user interface imports the prior version's configurations.
· Fixed several minor user interface bugs
April 15th, 2010· We are proud to announce the BETA release of Corner Bowl Disk Monitor
· 2010. Our new software has been re-written from the ground up utilizing
· all the new front and back end design and architecture found in our latest
· versions of Corner Bowl Log Manager and Internet Server Monitor.
· Our most significant new feature is the ability to automatically delete
· idle temporary files on all your remote systems. We have also added a
· SMART detail view that shows information such as disk temperature. Also
· worth mentioning, we re-designed all of our reports for better user
· interaction.
· The BETA version of Corner Bowl Disk Monitor 2010 DOES NOT include a
· conversion program for current customers. This functionality will be added
· in the coming weeks.
· The BETA version of Corner Bowl Disk Monitor 2010 DOES NOT include a help
· file. The help file is currently under development.
February 2nd, 2010· Fixed directory monitor bug
· Previously when the service scanned a directory for size, if the path exceeded the maximum length allowed in Windows the scan halted. The scan now logs the error and continues.
December 5th, 2009· Resolved the ‘net_name key value not found’ error often found in older installations.
December 5th, 2009· Previously when generating extension and last accessed reports a path too long exception was thrown when retrieving information from paths that were too long. The exception caused the scan to halt. The scan now logs the issue and continues scanning.
August 26th, 2009· The directory monitor now enables users to monitor the number of files contained within a directory structure. To monitor the number of files within a directory structure, right click on the directory and select Directory Monitor Wizard. Navigate to the Warning or Critical tabs. Set the option to monitor the number of files. The email HTML template has been updated to include the number of files within the directory. If using text based emails or message box alerts, open the Actions Manager and reset the content by clicking on the Default button. Doing so will add the file count to the message. If firing another type of alert you can add the tag to the alert to see the number of files contained within the directory structure.
May 6th, 2009· When impersonating to Windows 2000 computers users may have received an invalid logon failure. This bug has been fixed.
April 9th, 2009· In previous builds access permissions reports failed to return data for directories that contained an apostrophe. This bug has been resolved.
· We upgraded the 3rd party toolbar, docking bar, and menu bar controls to the vendor’s latest version.
March 3rd, 2009· Fixed several minor AD bugs
December 25th, 2008· Fixed access permission bug
December 3rd, 2008· Updated access permissions reports and added largest files report
December 2nd, 2008· Updated access permissions reports
November 24th, 2008· Made several UI enhancements to action selection controls
November 15th, 2008· Added I64 and X64 .Net 2.0 Framework prerequisites for installations run on I64 and X64 hardware
October 29th, 2008· Updated the query disks dialog to use background thread pool
October 28th, 2008· Updated the query disks dialog to use background thread pool
October 24th, 2008· Added WMI service dependency
October 7th, 2008· Added option to hide sub-directory information from directory size reports
October 6th, 2008· Added option to hide sub-directory information from directory size reports
October 6th, 2008· Added option to hide sub-directory information from directory size reports
October 3rd, 2008· Added new directory size report template
September 19th, 2008· The service can now be configured to automatically apply a disk monitor template to newly discovered computers. For more information see Automatically Configuring New Computers with in the help file.
· Default message box actions have been updated to include more information.
· Updated toolbar buttons to fall in line with Text Log Monitor.
· Updated the logical group icon displayed within the Network view to fall in line with our other products.
· Users can now specify to exclude weekends when scheduling reports and configuring monitors.
· In previous builds the email limiter always limited emails per the configured maximum value despite the limiter being disabled. This bug has been fixed.
September 15th, 2008· The directory monitor now saves size information to a history file. The history file is used to populate a graph and can also be emailed to other users. To view the graph right click on the directory and select Properties.
· Directory size reports can now be saved to both HTML and TXT files. Users now have the option to backup or append to the previous report.
September 15th, 2008· Version 2008 includes many user interface enhancements, optimizations, updated email and HTML output, and support for many different types of alerts and actions.
June 3rd, 2008· SMART Disk Monitor now includes an option to receive notification when a directory size changes size between disk checks. To monitor a directory for size changes, from the Monitored Disks tree node within the Network view, navigate to the directory of interest. Right click and select Directory Monitor Wizard. Users can set both warning and critical thresholds.
· The service log view now offers filter capability. To view this new functionality, select Service Log from the View menu item.
May 13th, 2008· System administrators can now create a single directory summary email report that includes directory and sub-directory size information from multiple sources. This function is ideal when attempting to verify disk content has been properly replicated to another disk. To create a directory summary report, create a disk monitor for each disk the target directory resides. Next navigate to the directory from the Monitored Disks tree node from within the Network view, highlight the directory, right click and select Directory Monitor Wizard. Complete and close the wizard (you can de-select all options if you do not need to monitor the directory size). Select Directory Summary Reports from the Tools menu item. Create a new report and complete the wizard.
May 5th, 2008· System administrators can now monitor directories for file changes, file creations, file deletions, and file renames. Upon detecting a change, a message can be written to a file or an email notification fired. The file monitor includes support for multiple filename filter masks as well as multiple filename exclusion masks.
April 15th, 2008· The user interface threw a fatal error on computers with Symantec SNAC Network Provider installed.
· This bug has been fixed.
April 1st, 2008· The last accessed files report did not correctly return all the last accessed files. This bug has been fixed.
· When running a last accessed files report from the deepest directory when the directory and file name concatenated together exceed the maximum length Windows allows for paths, the application would hang. This bug has been fixed.
· When running a report that shows all files that have not been accessed since a specific date an error was thrown when the directory and file name concatenated exceed the maximum Windows supported length. This bug has been fixed.
January 31st, 2008· In previous builds, the summary report did not impersonate causing blank or N/A results when access was denied. This bug has been fixed.
January 9th, 2008· The access permissions reports had several path related bugs when monitoring remote
· Windows is unable to return access rights for some operating system files, for example, pagefile.sys. Previously the access permissions report would log an object reference not found error. The code has been modified to log a more useful error.
· In previous builds, the access permissions report settings were not saved to the directory monitor templates. This bug has been fixed.
· In previous builds, the directory tree nodes did not reflect the current status after the configuration wizard removed a directory monitor. The tree view also now updates the current status to any expanded folders under the network views and mapped computer tree nodes when a directory monitor is added or removed.
January 7th, 2008· The access permissions reports had several path related bugs when monitoring remote
· Windows is unable to return access rights for some operating system files, for example, pagefile.sys. Previously the access permissions report would log an object reference not found error. The code has been modified to log a more useful error.
· In previous builds, the access permissions report settings were not saved to the directory monitor templates. This bug has been fixed.
· In previous builds, the directory tree nodes did not reflect the current status after the configuration wizard removed a directory monitor. The tree view also now updates the current status to any expanded folders under the network views and mapped computer tree nodes when a directory monitor is added or removed.
November 8th, 2007· When running an access permission report, any directories the caller does not have access too would cause the report to exit. The behavior has been changed to simply log the error and continue.
· The History tab on the Configuration Wizard dialog was not resizing when the dialog was resized. This bug has been fixed.
· The Summary Report Wizard dialog did not include both Close and Cancel buttons. This bug has been fixed.
· When making changes to the summary report, users were unable to cancel out their changes. This bug has been fixed.
· When making changes to the summary report, users were not always prompted to save their changes. This bug has been fixed.
· The Summary Report Wizard did not validate email addresses. This bug has been fixed.
October 25th, 2007· In previous builds, users could not use email servers such as gmail because they require a SSL connection. SSL support has now been added to the email client.
· Fixed several minor validation bugs in the Summary Report Wizard.
September 28th, 2007· When making some installation changes for Windows Vista, a maintenance installation bug was introduced that caused some maintenance installations to fail. This bug has been fixed.
September 26th, 2007· On certain systems update installations and un-installations would fail due to a system library missing. This bug has been fixed.
· Rarely the menu bar, toolbars, and network window would disappear. We have been unable to duplicate the problem, however; we have added some code to ensure the menu item, toolbars, and network window always displays at startup.
· Added some debug messages to the access permissions reports when validating users.
September 24th, 2007· Access permissions reports now provide the user with the option to validate each returned user against Active Directory. The result is that reports are limited to real domain users. All internal local system accounts are removed from the report.
September 18th, 2007· Users can now specify if they want to include the owner of a directory or file when creating an access permissions report.
September 13th, 2007· Summary reports now include used space percent used columns.
· The toolbar and docking bar controls were updated to the vendor’s latest release
July 13th, 2007· Users can now create reports that recurse a drive, share, or directory and list either the last X number of files that have been accessed or the first 10,000 files that have not been accessed since a date.
· Logical groups can now be assigned via the Configuration Wizard.
· All application data files are now stored in the common and application data paths.
· In previous builds, the Configuration Wizard enabled users to assign the template from the Intro or Disks selection page. If no disks had been selected, the template assignment did nothing. The template buttons are now disabled on the Intro and Disks selection page.
· When adding new monitors the Monitored Disks tree node was previously refreshed sometimes causing the disk query window to open and query all disks. This behavior has been modified so new monitors are simply added to the list.
· When deleting all monitors from a logical group, the group is now automatically removed.
· The installation now closes all open S.M.A.R.T. Disk Monitor windows.
June 19th, 2007· The Access Permissions tab in the Directory Configuration Wizard did not have the correct label descriptions. This bug has been fixed.
June 14th, 2007· If saved a server name or its share names casing differed from the discovered casing, the access permissions reports would sometimes fail. This bug has been fixed.
· Replaced the Directory Rights menu items and corresponding dialog text with Access Permissions.
· Access permissions reports would error when attempted from a share. A message has been added limiting the report to administrator disk shares and local disks.
· The Directory Monitor Wizard did not initialize the Enabled check box properly. This bug has been fixed.
· Summary reports wizard would overwrite previous reports if the same name but different casing was used. This bug has been fixed.
May 21st, 2007· Since build 5.0.0.45, the tray icon was not updating properly. This bug has been fixed.
May 17th, 2007· The installation executable and all Corner Bowl Software developed binaries are now digitally signed.
· The tray icon did not startup the application with administrator rights. A manifest file was added to fix this problem on Windows Vista.
April 12th, 2007· In previous builds users on networks that utilize HTTP proxy servers were unable to register the software and receive automatic product updates. Once the proxy server is set via the registration dialog, users now receive automatic updates.
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