June 12th, 2009· In previous builds the Event Log Action level did not save causing all Event Log actions to be sent out with warning levels regardless of what the user set the value to. This bug has been fixed.
May 6th, 2009· When impersonating to Windows 2000 computers users may have received an invalid logon failure. This bug has been fixed.
· We upgraded the 3rd party toolbar, docking bar, and menu bar controls to the vendor’s latest version.
February 28th, 2009· On systems that contain the Symantec SNAC Network Provider a fatal error may have been thrown during startup. The network provider incorrectly reports itself twice to the operating system causing the application to fail when attempting to insert the provider name into a keyed list. The code has been updated to check for the existence of the provider name prior to adding it to the list.
November 15th, 2008· Fixed several user interface issues
November 13th, 2008· In previous builds when filtering a large file within the viewer, advancing to the last page, and the last 400 entries did not contain an item that would pass the filter, the viewer did not display the last filtered entry. This bug has been fixed.
· When searching for entries on Windows Vista it was difficult to see the entry that was found. The list view focused color has been alerted to use a lighter shade of the highlighted color.
· In previous builds the tray icon had a one minute delay built in as a work around for a startup issue rarely seen on Windows Vista. We believe we have resolved the issue and have therefore removed the startup delay.
October 24th, 2008· When rebooting a Server 2003 machine, the service would fail to start when the service was configured to forward internal messages to a syslog server. The failure occurs when the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service has not yet started. The installation has been updated to install the service with a dependency on WMI. If the software was previously installed, you must uninstall and then re-install for this change to take effect.
· When creating a new monitor from a Windows Server 2008 or Vista computer the browse for folder dialog only displayed the Desktop folder. On previous operating systems this was not a problem because My Computer appears under the Desktop folder. The dialog now defaults to the My Computer folder.
· Fixed a spelling error in the File and Directory Monitor Wizards.
· A bug was recently added that caused the mouse cursor to remain an hour glass when the Configuration Wizard loaded. This bug has been fixed.
October 9th, 2008· All scheduled routines can now be disabled on specific days of the week.
September 24th, 2008· Added significant optimizations to file monitor read code
· When reading an entry delimited file the read performance was slow. The read algorithm has been optimized. The total time to read a delimited file now takes as little as 7% the time it took in previous builds.
· In previous builds email output supported attaching images. When sending a large email the process of parsing the email for attachments takes significant memory and CPU load. To increase performance, email HTML templates can no longer reference images. If you have created your own templates with background images please let us know and we will look into providing an option to parse the template for image references.
· When specifying a monitor exclusion period users can now choose between shutting down the monitor or continuing to monitor the file but suppressing actions.
· Users can create a new action based on a current action. From the Actions Manager select the action to base the new action on and then click Copy.
· The action configuration dialogs have been moved from the application library to our Corner Bowl Software common library enabling code reuse between all our applications. Please note there are several minor user interface differences.
· We have boosted the syslog forward action performance. Previously the UDP socket was recreated for every entry forwarded. The UDP socket is now cached.
· In previous builds if a monitor was removed while running, the file was updated immediate after deleting the monitor, users may have seen an error message within the service log that stated a configuration failed to load. This bug has been fixed
September 18th, 2008· Users can now specify the tag within text email and user interface alerts such as the message box and tray icon alerts. The {NAME} tag is now supported within HTML email alerts.
· In previous builds the email limiter always limited emails per the configured maximum value despite the limiter being disabled. This bug has been fixed.
· When monitoring large files, users may have seen a File Watcher Error within the service log file. When this error occurred, the corresponding action did not fire. This bug has been resolved.
September 17th, 2008· A bug was introduced in the previous build that prevented users from reviewing logs not configured. This bug has been fixed.
September 13th, 2008· In previous builds the log monitor algorithm loaded entries into memory in several locations. The algorithm has been updated to stream the data from the file through each filter significantly decreasing the memory foot print and decreasing the time to read large files.
· In previous builds some of the monitor configuration parameters were not updated while the service was running. These bugs have been fixed.
· Users can now specify to exclude weekends when scheduling reports and configuring real-time monitors.
· The start process action has been modified to include an interact with desktop option enabling user interface executables to launch while logged in.
· In previous builds when monitoring a directory newly created files were not read when the read method was set to READ ALL. Instead the application waited for the file to change. The behavior has been changed so newly created files are read. Please note, if the file is created while the service is off, the file will not be read when discovered.
September 11th, 2008· Users can now specify to exclude weekends when scheduling reports and configuring real-time monitors.
September 11th, 2008· In previous builds the log monitor algorithm loaded entries into memory in several locations. The algorithm has been updated to stream the data from the file through each filter significantly decreasing the memory foot print and decreasing the time to read large files.
· In previous builds some of the monitor configuration parameters were not updated while the service was running. These bugs have been fixed.
September 10th, 2008· In previous builds, when a log entry delimiter was specified, all newly detected file content was loaded into 2 locations within memory. One of these locations has been removed decreasing the memory footprint in half.
September 5th, 2008· Users now have the capability to suppress alerts and actions. Users configure alert and action suppression via the File or Directory Monitor Wizards. Once configured, the service will assign an alert flag to the real-time monitor upon an entry passing assigned filter criteria. Once the alert flag is set, filtered entries are ignored until the flag is cleared. The user can configure the alert flag to automatically clear after a period of time, for example after an hour, or the user can manually clear the flag via the user interface. Once cleared the next entry that passes the real-time monitor’s filter criteria will fire.
· The Network view now includes a new tree node for each file mask assigned to a directory monitor. Each file that passes the file mask will now display under the appropriate directory monitor’s file mask.
· In previous builds the output and service output views did not properly display log entries that contained embedded carriage returns and/or line feeds. These bugs have been fixed.
· The log entry delimiter rules have been enhanced to allow users to indicate an empty line delimits each entry. To specify an entry starts or ends with an empty line, select the Starts with or Ends with option via the File or Directory Monitor Wizard and leave the delimiter pattern empty. Users can also specify an ends with pattern that optionally supports regular expressions.
September 4th, 2008· Added monitor alert state and alert and action suppression functionality
September 1st, 2008· Made numerous usability enhancements and fixed several UI bugs
August 29th, 2008· Added several user interface enhancements and fixed several minor user interface bugs
August 28th, 2008· Added several user interface enhancements and fixed several minor user interface bugs
August 25th, 2008· If monitoring a file from the end of the stream and the file was truncated, Text Log Monitor re-read the entire file rather than attempting to search backwards for the last line previously read within the newly truncated file.. This bug was recently introduced when another feature was added. This bug has been resolved.
· Both the Output view and Service Output view did not display application log entries when run on specific locales. For example, when run on Italian operating systems both the Output view and Service view would remain empty thought out execution time.
August 8th, 2008· This build includes an email limiter or spam control. To configure the email limiter select Options from the Tools menu item. From the Mail Connection tab, enable the email limiter and specify the maximum number of emails to fire and the period to apply the rules.
· If running multiple directory monitor reports at the same time and one of the directories could not be found other reports may have failed to execute. This bug has been fixed.
· When appending lines to a scheduled report, users may have seen an index out of bounds error. This bug has been fixed.
July 11th, 2008· In previous builds the monitoring service handled lines terminated with a carriage return line feed combination or a carriage return but did not properly handle files that were delimited with line feeds only. This bug has been fixed.
· In previous builds users may have seen an invalid login failure when attempting to open a file discovered under a directory monitor. This bug has been fixed.
June 25th, 2008· When monitoring a file that requires alternate login credentials the thread that receives the file changed callback was not re-impersonating before opening the file. If the calling thread did not have the alternate credentials already associated with it, the attempt to read the file may have failed. The sub-routine now forces impersonation prior to opening the file.
· When running a report on a file that requires alternate login credentials users may have seen a login failure thrown. This bug has been fixed.
· In previous builds when configuring an event log action users were unable to set the event ID larger than 100. This bug has been fixed.
June 22nd, 2008· In previous builds, upon creating a new directory monitor, previous directory monitors without user friendly names assigned would no longer display the directory name within the tree view. This bug has been fixed.
· In previous builds when a scheduled report ran the service did not output a message stating the report was running. A message has been added to better aid in troubleshooting.
· When opening an empty file the viewer incorrectly display the line position percent. This bug has been fixed.
· In previous builds when monitoring a directory, the function that keeps the monitor in synch with the file system did not impersonate prior to requesting the directory contents causing a logon failure when impersonation was required.
June 15th, 2008· There were 2 significant impersonation bugs that were fixed. First, in previous builds users may not have been able to open files in the viewer if impersonation was required. Second, the service was unable to run scheduled reports on files if impersonation was required. Both these bugs have been fixed.
June 4th, 2008· The text log monitor user interface now applies log entry delimiter settings when displaying a log file enabling each entry to display as a single line item rather than each line as a single line item. This is most useful when viewing entries than contain embedded CRLFs. This is also useful when viewing a file that does not contain CRLFs, for example, when viewing emergency broadcasting alerting system output.
· Users can now filter a file and then export the results to CSV, HTML, and XML. In previous builds users could only export to TXT.
· When applying file output actions to monitored logs, users now have the option of backing up the previously written output file. This is most useful when scheduling, for example, a weekly report of all error entries within a target log file. The end result is an archive of files that contain weekly error reports.
· In previous builds, the user interface would display a blank page when the user attempted to goto a line that was beyond the number of lines contained within a file. The application now displays the last line within the file.
· The action items within the Action Manager dialog are now sorted alphabetically.
· The items within the list controls on the Real-Time Actions and Scheduled Actions tabs of the Configuration Wizards are now sorted alphabetically.
May 29th, 2008· When separating email addresses with a semicolon followed by a space, the email function would attempt to send an email to an empty address. This bug has been fixed.
May 28th, 2008· The directory monitor now supports date and time pattern matching enabling users to apply less than frequency rules to a directory that contains archived logs.
· Less than frequency detection enabled users to input 0 and negative numbers. This bug has been fixed.
· When creating a new directory monitor, the output window displayed an error about the net_name missing. This bug has been fixed.
· When renaming a directory monitor via the Directory Monitor Wizard, the tree node was not updated with the new name. This bug has been fixed.
· If a report was configured to read from the end of the file, the first time the report ran the entire file was read. This bug has been fixed.
· If a directory monitor was configured to report but not real-time monitor, the report would always read the entire file even if the read method was not set to read all. This bug has been fixed.
May 24th, 2008· An obfuscation bug was recently introduced that rendered frequency detection inoperative. This bug has been fixed.
· The service log view now offers filter capability. To view this new functionality, select Service Log from the View menu item.
May 21st, 2008· Since frequency detection was added, if a user added a filter or action to a file monitor configuration the changes would not take effect until the service was restarted. The directory monitor did not have this problem. This bug has been fixed.
· The text log monitor algorithm incorrectly handled Unix style files. This bug has been fixed.
April 24th, 2008· Added frequency detection support to real-time monitors enabling administrators to receive notification when a log entry fails to fire within a specified frequency or fires more often than expected.
· Added Properties menu item to the Network view’s popup menu enabling users to more easily change the credentials assigned to a mapped computer.
· Made several minor changes to the help file.
· The Mail Connection page within the Options dialog now allows users to send a test email message.
April 4th, 2008· Users can now assign a number of lines to append to each action when an entry passes filter criteria.
· In previous builds, if using a real-time directory monitor and reading the entire file, duplicate actions may have executed. This bug has been fixed.
· In previous builds, the Directory Monitor wizard would indicate correctly when a user removed a mask, however; the wizard did not actually remove the mask. This bug has been fixed.
· The scheduler was updated to include exclusion periods for minute based schedules.
April 2nd, 2008· Users can now save filtered entries to MySQL.
· Filters can now be renamed as well as copied to a new filter.
· The message box alert now includes a View Log button that automatically opens Text Log Monitor and opens the log file referenced in the alert.
· Fixed forward and backward clock issues.
· In previous builds, when syslogging to the localhost, the application syslog messages did not correctly bind to the local adapter. This bug has been fixed
March 19th, 2008· In previous builds the print function did nothing. This bug has been fixed. Text Log Monitor uses the ‘output.html’ template to produce a temporary HTML file. This file is then opened using the program associated with HTML documents. Users can create their own custom template that includes their corporate look and feel as well as which header values to print.
· The Windows menu item under the View menu was accidentally removed while removing the empty Windows top level menu item (which did nothing). The menu items that were previously under the View | Windows menu item have been restored under the View menu item.
· In previous builds the simple text email did not write out the log entries that passed the filter criteria. This bug has been fixed.
March 19th, 2008· The help file was overhauled.
· In previous builds filters did not properly handle grouping when the first group failed the criteria but the second OR group should have passed. This bug has been fixed.
· If you set the logical group back to unassigned via the wizard, the corresponding tree node was removed from the tree. This bug has been fixed.
· The email action stated the oldest entry was displayed for the simple text message. This comment has been removed as the message either shows all entries or none based on the replacement tags the user specified.
· The Actions Wizard did not save the vertical resize bar location. This bug has been fixed.
· The Actions Wizard now supports selecting and deleting multiple actions at the same time.
· In previous builds, when creating a new filter the user was required to click the new criteria button. The Actions Wizard now automatically creates the first criteria for the user.
· The Windows menu item which did nothing has been removed.
March 10th, 2008· The message box alert now enables users to set the font, font color, and background color.
· The default message box alert has been modified to include the host, filename, and entry count.
March 6th, 2008· In previous builds, when monitoring files or directories, there was no way to configure the service to read the entire file contents the first time the file was read. An option has been added to the File and Directory Monitor Wizards to enable this functionality.
March 4th, 2008· In previous builds, there was no way to monitor a stream of data. Programs that stream output to file without line feeds could not be monitored. This limitation has been resolved.
· The alert history saved results for 90 days. This could cause the alert file to grow significantly. This file now only saves results for 3 days.
· The message box alert did not display the message box as the top most window. This bug has been fixed.
· The Report Wizard did not refresh the available filters when switching between the real-time and report actions tabs. This bug has been fixed.
· When selecting the Local Disks tree node, all child nodes were re-loaded causing all expanded directories to collapse. This bug has been fixed.
· In previous builds, the Directory Monitor wizard did not validate the entry pattern configuration. This bug has been fixed.
December 21st, 2007· The message box alert maintains alert history. In previous builds the list was never truncated causing memory to leak. This bug has been fixed.
December 11th, 2007· System administrators can now configure Text Log Monitor to run a process when a log entry passes filter criteria
December 11th, 2007· System administrators can now configure Text Log Monitor to run a process when a log entry passes filter criteria
November 20th, 2007· Added numerous new action types. Actions are now created stand-alone and then assigned to files.
· Added scheduled reporting.
· Added tray icon.
· Added the ability to specify a delimiter for log entries enabling multiple lines to be filtered and included in each alert.
· In the previous version you could not specify filter criteria to remove empty lines. This limitation has been resolved.
· In the previous version there was no option for the directory monitor to read the entire file when it was updated. This limitation has been resolved.
· Added a Configure Actions toolbar button.
· In the previous version the does not contain filter criteria did not work. This bug has been fixed.
· In the previous version the < and > characters were not escaped with sent via email or exported to HTML. This bug has been fixed.
· 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.
November 14th, 2007· Added numerous new action types. Actions are now created stand-alone and then assigned to files.
· Added scheduled reporting.
· Added tray icon.
· Added the ability to specify a delimiter for log entries enabling multiple lines to be filtered and included in each alert.
· In the previous version you could not specify filter criteria to remove empty lines. This limitation has been resolved.
· In the previous version there was no option for the directory monitor to read the entire file when it was updated. This limitation has been resolved.
· Added a Configure Actions toolbar button.
· In the previous version the does not contain filter criteria did not work. This bug has been fixed.
· In the previous version the < and > characters were not escaped with sent via email or exported to HTML. This bug has been fixed.
· 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.
November 8th, 2007· Added numerous new action types. Actions are now created stand-alone and then assigned to files.
· Added scheduled reporting.
· Added tray icon.
· Added the ability to specify a delimiter for log entries enabling multiple lines to be filtered and included in each alert.
· In the previous version you could not specify filter criteria to remove empty lines. This limitation has been resolved.
· In the previous version there was no option for the directory monitor to read the entire file when it was updated. This limitation has been resolved.
· Added a Configure Actions toolbar button.
· In the previous version the does not contain filter criteria did not work. This bug has been fixed.
· In the previous version the < and > characters were not escaped with sent via email or exported to HTML. This bug has been fixed.
· 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.
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.
May 21st, 2007· The viewer was not properly clearing entries from the viewer as it scrolled. This bug has been fixed.
March 28th, 2007· Updated several tree view icons and fixed several tree view bugs
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