June 20th, 2011Client:
· New: Device and user information "information-cyclus"
· New: Visualization engine: Graph information is now shown in a "information-cyclus"
· New: Graph information can be shown in embedded graphs
· New: Last backup time is now written in the 'Location & Backup' GUI
· Changed: Application memory manager to FastMM v4.97
· Changed: DomainScan iConnect slightly updated
· Changed: "Locked" to "Busy" to indicate that sync with the database isn't possible
· Improved: Reporting information GUI.
· Improved: 'Location & Backup' GUI, so that it's simpler
· Improved: Sum/average graph information UI.
· Fixed: The folder locations may be saved incorrectly.
· Fixed: The Y coordinate might be a "huge" number when the mouse was below the X-axis
· Fixed: The Y-range information showed data from min to min instead of min to max
· Fixed: The min/max information in the graph information was incorrect
Service:
· New: Registry data is also backed up
· New: The time of the last completed backup is now stored
· Changed: Application memory manager to FastMM v4.97
· Changed: Global event log is now truncated after backup if 'truncate' option is set.
· Removed: 'SuggestLogLevel' registry option
· Fixed: Bug removed in the data gathering module that could lead to data collection stopping in the middle of collecting.
· Fixed: A bug which caused OS Install date not to be retrieved.
· Fixed: A bug in the data gathering module that caused MAC addresses not to be resolved
· Fixed: A bug in the cache cleanup routine that could lead to pointer corruption (and thereby crashing the application)
July 12th, 2010Client:
· Rebuild
Service:
· Fixed: Domain resolution bug, that caused domains to be recreated over and over again.
· Fixed: That the first event time was incorrect
May 11th, 2010Client:
· New: Editor to handle Device lists, including the new XML based device list format.
· New: One can now choose between several fonts in the visualization unit
· Changed: GH Software Online renamed to DomainScan iConnect
· Changed: Updated a number of texts
· Changed: DomainScan Pro renamed to DomainScan Server Monitoring
· Changed: DomainScan Pro is now freeware
· Changed: Main menu reorganisation
· Changed: A number of icons
· Improved: New version of the visualization engine added, which is much faster and easier to use
· Fixed: '0x18' crash bug (NULL pointer error)
Service:
· New: The watchdog service can now detect a seldom 'eternal scanning loop' condition in the scanning engine
· New: ADInter.dll DomainScan communication protocol and APIs
· Fixed: Windows 7 Professional is now correctly detected
· Fixed: Domain naming bug that could cause the domain suffix to become '0'
· Fixed: Domain discovery bug that caused certain domains to be discovered as new at each scan
· Changed: Source code reorganised
August 13th, 2009Client:
· New: Editor to handle Device lists, including the new XML based device list format.
· New: TCP Port editor.
· New: One can now see information about Security products in 'device information' and in the main window (using Field Chooser)
· New: One can now see information about Internet Explorer in 'device information' and in the main window (using Field Chooser)
· New: One can specify that WMI Monitors must only execute on devices that is known to support WMI
· New: Notifications can be marked as ignored.
· Changed: Main menu slighty reorganised
· Changed: Memory manager changed to FastMM
· Removed: Old 'Device list' and 'port' editors removed from Setup.
Service:
· New: Security product detection (Antivirus, Antispyware and Firewall products)
· New: Internet Explorer version detection.
· New: Notifications can be ignored
· New: Support for the new XML based device list format.
· New: One can specify that WMI Monitors must only execute on devices that is known to support WMI
· Improved: Detection of laptops (and portable devices in general)
· Improved: Stability during preprocessing.
· Changed: Domain names for user defined domains altered for "legacy" device lists.
· Changed: Memory manager changed to FastMM
· Changed: Information gathering classes redone to enable multi-namespace support.
· Fixed: Handling of internal classes to maintain expandable lists (such as TCP ports) in order to avoid creation of empty segments.
· Fixed: Various memory leaks and potentiel buffer overrun.
· Fixed: A bug that caused that additional devices wasn't included, unless devices we're already in the scan queue
· Fixed: Notification emails are not issues, if there are no notifications
· Fixed: 'Webserver' devices didn't use the WMI interface.
June 16th, 2009Client:
· New: Device value & net worth calculation reports
· New: Redesigned dashboard.
· New: 'Management' page to the Device UI, which can be used to maintain price and warranty information.
· New: 5 new fields to the device field chooser (related to the new 'Management' page in the Device UI).
· Changed: 'Trend graphs' renamed to 'Usage graphs'
· Changed: Device UI: 'Information' renamed to 'Overview' and 'Numbers' renamed to 'Details'.
· Changed: Dates are now generally formatted as yyyy-mm-dd instead of yyyy.mm.dd
· Changed: DomainScan Service information moved to a 'Outlook' panel
· Changed: Scan time graph moved to the Service outlook panel
· Improved: Reporting capabilities
· Improved: Ping and port scanner user interface redesigned
· Improved: Networt tools user interface
· Improved: Multiple new reports added
· Improved: User feedback during initialization / initial scan
· Improved: Copy-functionality in main/ping and Data analysis improved
· Improved: Domain Report UI redesigned
· Fixed: Paused-IP Range monitors were included in the monitor-matrix view
· Fixed: Notifications filters and copy functions not implemented in the Notifications UI
· Fixed: A bug in the Address Tracker UI, that caused IPv4 matches even though one were searching for IPv6 addresses
Service:
· New: Devices can now contain information about price, warranty and purchase date
· Fixed: Offline-devices would only set the monitor failure count to 1, even though multiple events may have failed
· Fixed: Device CPU load exceeded 100%
· Fixed: Online devices is marked as obsolete
March 10th, 2009· New: A click on the dashboard will now cause that the Information panel shows mount information
· New: Click on row-headers (devices/users) to shows aggregate information in the Information panel
· New: One can now double click on more items on the Dashboard
· New: Domains can now be deleted
· New: Domains, devices and users can now be merged
· Changed: The outlook information panel will always be shown if an item in the device, user, monitor or date panel is selected
· Changed: Overview renamed to Information (in the Outlook panel)
· Changed: The Field Chooser system is completely redesigned and is now stored using XML.
· Improved: Device and user information in the Outlook bar is redesigned.
· Improved: Horisontal lines in the Notification form is now more visible
· Improved: DomainScan will now warn more about license unit usage saturation
· Improved: Handling of the ESC sequence in device/user/domain UI's
· Fixed: A space character between Windows and 2003 may be missing
· Fixed: Device 'Graph' and not 'Notes' was affected by the no-note Kiosk mode setting
Service:
· New: Added memory size gathering via SNMP
· Fixed: Events were filtered away due to being compared to the Notification filter
· Fixed: Notifications are now created when a user exceeds it's number of allowed logins.
· Fixed: CPU load can only be a number between 0 and 100
· Fixed: The device postprocessing could loop forever if a worker thread terminated unexpectedly
January 20th, 2009Client:
· New: One can now choose whether any or all trigger conditions must be meet by the event before a response can be executed
· New: Trigger conditions in the Response wizard is now placed in its own step
· New: Event settings in the Monitor wizard is now placed in its own step
· New: CPU and memory load graphs are now shown in the Device dialog
· New: One can now specify an alternative SNMP login for devices
· New: Notification setup/overview section added
· New: CPU speed/usage, Disk size/usage and Memory size/usage is now shown
· New: Improved Vista-support: DomainScan will now automatically query Windows for Administrator privileges
· New: Preliminary Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 support (Based upon Beta 1)
· Updated: The Device List user interface is redesigned
· Updated: When targets are selected in a Monitor/Response wizard, all affected devices will now have tri-state checkboxes, if the domain has been selected
· Updated: The Device, User and Domain dialogs
· Updated: The monitor/response selection in the Domain UI will no longer show events (to simplify selection)
· Updated: All UI parts where monitors/responses where shown
· Updated: Monitor/Response selection simplified
· Updated: Backend middleware libraries updated to the most recent edition
· Updated: Notification setup can no longer be set from within Setup (The Notification dialog must be used)
· Improved: Graphs are rendered slightly faster
· Improved: The Device UI overview page is redesigned, and more informative, yet simpler
· Improved: Main device list column rendering/sorting speed has improved on selected columns
· Improved: Template import auto incremental suffixing (2), (3), (4) etc. added to monitor/response template import function.
· Improved: Monitor/response handling when devices/users enables or disables inheritage
· Improved: Device and user dialogs update logic improved
· Fixed: User information dialog: The currently used list now works again
· Fixed: A reference to the old registry path that caused the old path key to be created
Service:
· New: The entire monitoring subsystem has been replaced with an updated Control engine, which unifies all processing
· New: CPU speed/usage, Disk size/usage and Memory size/usage is now stored so that the Client can extract information faster
· New: CPU + RAM size/usage is now written to stat files.
· New: CPU Load audit added
· New: Event matrix filters added, so that one can filter events (and notifications)
· New: Preliminary Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2 support (Based upon Beta 1)
· Changed: GDB revision is now 3.8
· Changed: Using Windows NT4 as the host OS is no longer usable
· Changed: Per-device event file is now disabled by default.
· Changed: 'Peripherals' information is now collected during the 1st scan
· Changed: Severity can now go beyond 99 with AutoIncrease
· Updated: Device list handling is now done with a new Device List parser.
· Updated: Device List naming convention slightly changed
· Updated: Unified monitor/event processing, so that Messages and summaries can be extracted as HTML and Text.
· Updated: Task deadlines are now injected as notifications
· Updated: Backend middleware libraries updated to the most recent edition
· Updated: The interface library is now built with Visual Studio 2008
· Fixed: A bug in the mail unit that caused Event mails not to be sent, unless a notification target was set
· Fixed: A bug in change tracking, that caused disksize/diskcount to be reset (unless audit was active during the scan)
· Fixed: A bug in the OSVersion() function that caused that the Vista version is shown incorrectly
August 6th, 2008· New: One can now use Ctrl 1..5 to navigate the tabs in the main panel.
· New: One can now copy the content of a cell in grids by using Ctrl C
· New: Option so that one can disable balloon tips in the main window.
· New: Explore menu added to the Device dialog.
· Improved: One can now connect to a device both by name and IP address.
· Improved: SMTP connection tester
· Improved: Security login tester
· Improved: Device tracking UI
· Improved: User feedback in various places.
· Reworked: Setup interface.
· Redesigned: SMTP and Security pages in ‘Setup’
· Fixed: Random ‘comm error’ bug while retrieving information about a user from the directory.
· Fixed: [Bug 98] Content not cleared, when a filter option from the combo box was applied
· Fixed: A bug in device-tracking that caused that the shown device type was always equal to the current type.
· Added: SMTP daemon now supports servers that requires authentication
· New: Information gathering from the LanManager service is optional
· New: DomainScan can now detect the Virtual Machine provider (such as VMware, Microsoft and Xen)
· New: Users within a domain will now be marked as obsolete 90 days after they are removed from the directory.
· Changed: Basic audit is now required for all other audit options to work.
· Improved: Scanning algorithm and related sub-algorithms
· Fixed: All notifications are now sent to the ‘Notification receiver’
· Fixed: The ‘Event cleared’ notification is now issued correctly
· Fixed: Could not delete Security credentials
· Removed: Support for old ‘DomainScan’ main registry key
June 11th, 2008Client:
· New: One can now set the SMTP “From” name, which is ‘DomainScan Pro’ by default
· New: One can now clear the ‘recent files’ list.
· New: ‘Default path’ option in Setup.
· Improved: The user interface is slightly updated.
· Improved: Database mount time reduced.
· Improved: Database caching highly improved and much more efficient.
· Improved: Database reader engine, which causes higher performance and fixes some outstanding issues (such as bug #90 and #91)
· Improved: DomainScan Pro service monitor.
· Improved: User feedback during scan, in particular during initial scan.
· Changed: Database cache size is now 64MB (up from 32MB)
· Changed: [Local users] is now counted in when the number of online domains are calculated in the dashboard.
· Changed: The ‘service installation’ user interface is completely redesigned and is much more informative.
· Changed: ‘Search’ renamed to ‘Network search’
· Changed: ‘Preferences’ renamed to ‘DomainScan Pro Setup’
· Fixed: A bug in the graphical unit, which could lead to incorrect formatting of axis-texts.
Service:
· Changed: Pre-commit files renamed.
· Changed: The default registry key-name is now ‘DomainScan Pro’. However ‘DomainScan’ will be used on existing installations.
· Fixed: A bug that caused that notifications about connection problems were never cleared if the device were offline in the following scan
· Improved: Service management routines
· Fixed: A bug in the database that caused the database to increase in size by 1KB per scan, and thus leading to gradually slower performance.
· Fixed: An error, which could lead to problems when DomainScan was running on Windows 2000 (or NT 4)
· Improved: GDB performance and stability
April 29th, 2008· New: ‘Web server’ device type added
· New: One can now launch a default remote share from within the device overview
· New: ‘Matrix view’ added to the monitor overview
· New: ‘Device usage’ graph added to the user information dialog.
· Improved: The number of pending database changes are now shown again.
· Fixed: Remote changes to the database are not committed.
· Fixed: The event counter on a device may not be cleared.
· Fixed: Some minor UI issues
· New: ‘Device usage’ statistics are now collected
· Improved: The service will now detect if a per-device files are present which causes improved client performance.
· Improved: Mail queue added, so that mails that couldn’t be sent when created will be resend again later.
· Changed: HOSTS file discovery is now off by default
April 1st, 2008· New: Browse ‘per-folder’ option added in device and user dialogs.
· New: One can now assign a user to task deadlines, and assigned users can be nagged (by mail)
· New: Monitor-wizard shortcut added to the monitor page in devices/users dialogs
· New: One can assign custom email addresses to users.
· Changed: Device/User Note panel renamed to Organize
· Changed: ‘Other/Script’ folder renamed to ‘Per-device’.
· Improved: Service panel in Dashboard can now be resized.
· Improved: Directory panel in the Domain dialog can now be resized.
· Fixed: A few UI issues
· New: Nagging mails can be issued
· New: The local device can now be forced to be found during discovery.
· Updated: GDB Revision 3.7
· Changed: Statistics: Users are now counted in their domain and not the domain that the device belongs to.
· Improved: LDAP synchronization is now threaded.
March 6th, 2008· Changed: Client application renamed to DomainScan Pro
· New: Domain tab in the Information section
· New: Filter tab in the Information section
· New: One can now change or lock the domains for devices and users
· New: The Information window can now be grouped by devices
· New: Filters can be applied to the Device, User, Monitor and Information window
· New: The background colour will change in the Device, User, Monitor and Information window when a filter is active
· Updated: Artwork
· Changed: Domain settings user interface redesigned
· Changed: Device and users information interfaces updated
· Changed: Settings interface updated
· Changed: “User deadline” renamed to “Task deadline”
· Improved: Task deadlines functionality
· Improved: Time/interval filter functionality
· Improved: Device/User note can now be opened in the default RTF editor
· Removed: Database tab removed from the Information section
· Removed: Computers & Devices can no longer be split into two windows
· New: Devices and users can now be locked to a specific domain.
· New: Domains can now operate with a custom scanning interval (i.e. don’t monitor in each scan)
· Updated: GDB Revision 3.6
· Updated: Scanning engine is more robust and modular
· Changed: Domain audit settings are now inherited
· Improved: Per-device folders are also deleted when a device is deleted
· Fixed: A number of potential bugs
January 21st, 2008· New: Service status window added to the Dashboard.
· New: A default device list file is now shipped with DomainScan
· Updated: The setup wizard is now simpler to complete
· Updated: Service and information during scanning improved
· Changed: HOSTS file support is now disabled by default.
· Changed: ‘Event Log’ & ‘Service Log’ shortcuts are now present in the 'Reports' menu
· Changed: Text links in the 'Outlook bar' are now buttons
· Fixed: Memory leakage
· Fixed: Device list editor will no longer remove user notes
· Fixed: Service wizard repair/reinstall now works even if the service is installed prior to reinstall
· New: The scanning engine can now disable directory sync automatically if needed (per domain)
· Updated: Improved GH Software Website synchronization.
· Improved: Feedback upon STOP errors.
· Improved: More robust against Per-device problems (9e760) and directory sync issues (2e8**)
· Fixed/updated: The engine can now recover from a failed online database movement, and will no longer fail forever while trying to move files.
· Fixed: The scanning engine no longer loops forever if all discovery options are disabled.
November 27th, 2007· New: Multiple new Data analysis reports.
· Fixed: Databases can now be mounted though a share
· Fixed: Device list editor will now use the correct folder location for device lists.
· Changed: WMI and SNMP browsers will now use current security credentials by default
· Improved: Error information upon mount errors
Service:
· New: HOSTS support
· New: Mail queue folder option
· New: Support for Windows Home Server
· New: Devices in a device list can now be marked so that the device is not created in the database before it’s seen as online (? Prefix)
· Fixed: SNMP changed so that the ping packet is not empty.
· Improved: Scan progress indicator
· Improved: Eternal loop detection
November 27th, 2007· New: Multiple new Data analysis reports.
· Fixed: Databases can now be mounted though a share
· Fixed: Device list editor will now use the correct folder location for device lists.
· Changed: WMI and SNMP browsers will now use current security credentials by default
· Improved: Error information upon mount errors
· New: HOSTS support
· New: Mail queue folder option
· New: Support for Windows Home Server
· New: Devices in a device list can now be marked so that the device is not created in the database before it’s seen as online (? Prefix)
· Fixed: SNMP changed so that the ping packet is not empty.
· Improved: Scan progress indicator
· Improved: Eternal loop detection
September 24th, 2007· New: One can now load monitor files as templates
· New: One can now test monitors against any known device
· Improved: Excluded devices in an IP range is now shown in gray with a yellow dot
· Improved: The monitor interface has been improved
· Changed: Ping tool: A 2 second delay has been introduced between each ping attempt.
· Changed: Disk/Memory monitors will no longer issue a response if the Notification level has been reached.
· Changed: WMI monitor queries are no longer case sensitive.
· New: Heartbeat function added.
· Changed: Disk/Memory monitors. Non-critical level has been renamed to Notification level, and will no longer trigger a response (the warning level can still trigger responses)
July 31st, 2007Client:
· Added: Response insertions in the process parameter (%name, Úte, etc)
· Added: It's now possible to use device security for WMI, SNMP and Network Search
· Changed: The name of some external tools will now change accordingly to the installed version of Windows.
· Improved: Preferences: About: Release notes are now formatted nicer
· Improved: WMI, SNMP and Network Search user interfaces slightly improved
· Improved: The 'Filter' menu is now also a submenu to the right-click menu
· Fixed: Device type change now commits automatically
· Fixed: Network search no longer returns the result set multiple times.
Service:
· New: Preliminary Windows Server 2008 support
· Changed: User Session monitoring can now be toggled (off by default)
· Fixed: Notifications are now correctly added to the information log and the event log
· Fixed: Event count are ever increasing for each time a device is offline
July 31st, 2007· Added: Response insertions in the process parameter (%name, Úte, etc)
· Added: It's now possible to use device security for WMI, SNMP and Network Search
· Changed: The name of some external tools will now change accordingly to the installed version of Windows.
· Improved: Preferences: About: Release notes are now formatted nicer
· Improved: WMI, SNMP and Network Search user interfaces slightly improved
· Improved: The 'Filter' menu is now also a submenu to the right-click menu
· Fixed: Device type change now commits automatically
· Fixed: Network search no longer returns the result set multiple times.
· New: Preliminary Windows Server 2008 support
· Changed: User Session monitoring can now be toggled (off by default)
· Fixed: Notifications are now correctly added to the information log and the event log
· Fixed: Event count are ever increasing for each time a device is offline
July 16th, 2007Client:
· New: Preferences: Access control: It’s now stated whether or not the Client has access to the database
· New: One can now specify which monitor->response pairs (specify which monitors that can trigger what responses)
· New: The main overview page will now show scanning progress summary
· New: Devices can now be marked as being obsolete
· New: Backup step added to the Setup Wizard
· Improved: The main window UI is updated, and it’s now easier to identify devices with events.
· Improved: Monitor interface
· Improved: Response interface
· Improved: Tasks panel isn't as wide anymore
· Improved: Settings: Service installation now shows what server it's currently managing
· Improved: Domain suffix can now be set for normal workgroups also
· Changed: Device and User dialogs completely reworked
· Changed: The device list editor is now in its own window
· Changed: The database can now be mounted even if it isn’t populated yet.
· Changed: Information events are now shown as notifications
· Fixed: It's now possible to connect to the registry on remote x64 editions of Windows
· Fixed: User and Device prediction can no longer be less than 0
· Fixed: DomainScan Client UI position is now correctly restored when the application is launched
· Fixed: The ‘Techzone’ link in About doesn't work
Service:
· New: Ping information for each device are now logged (if the option is enabled)
· New: Devices can now be marked as obsolete
· New: Events can now be written to a per-device event log
· New: Pre-processing is now multithreaded – which causes a 40-50% scan time reduction in certain scenarios
· New: A new database is now saved immediately in order for the Client to be able to mount the database before it’s populated
· Updated: GDB is now revision 3.4, and is not backward compatible.
· Changed: Information events are now reclassified as notifications
· Changed: Events are now written to a CSV formatted log file for easier 3rd party interfacing.
· Changed: Audit is no longer performed during the initial scan
· Improved: Stability
· Fixed: Engine scanning time is now logged correctly
· Fixed: The number of events per device are now logged correctly
· Fixed: A problem with monitors creating events, even if they're not supposed to.
March 9th, 2007· Redesigned interface.
· Database compression.
· Multithreaded database sync.
· SNMP enhancements.
December 11th, 2006· Improved disk/mem monitor.
· Improved monitor usability
November 28th, 2006· Updated outlook panel,
· Improved setup wizard,
· updated GH Software online module
September 25th, 2006· Warn if local users are logged in.
· Improved regression line.
· Faster network scan
September 12th, 2006· Improved Active Directory interface,
· Improved monitor and response user interface. Performance improvements
June 11th, 2006· In DomainScan v2.02, visualization support on hardware audit has been improved, and it is now possible to make an All-domains domain report. Database synchronization is improved and a few issues have been resolved.
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