What's new in DomainScan Server Monitoring 7.21 Build 322
Sep 14, 2015
- Client:
- New: Preliminary Support for Windows Server 2016
- Fixed: Windows 10 was displayed as 'Windows 10.0 (workstation) instead of Windows 10
- Service:
- New: Preliminary Support for Windows Server 2016
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 7.2 Build 321 (Apr 22, 2015)
- Client:
- New: Support for Windows 10
- Fixed: Windows 8.1 was displayed as 'Vista based core' instead of Windows 8.1
- Service:
- New: Support for Windows 10
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 7.12 Build 319 (Aug 15, 2013)
- New: Added option in Preferences to set the option for the enabling of critical auto recovery
- Changed: Minor dashboard UI update
- Fixed: Bug in the Monitor Wizard where editing of an existing monitor would select the wrong 'Connect as'
- Service:
- New: Support for Windows 8.1 / Server 2012 R2
- New: Alias devices is now detected so that the same device will not be detected twice
- New: Database recovery from critical stops is now possible as long as backup is set and enabled.
- Fixed: Bug in Monitor evaluation algorighm that used an integer value instead of a double
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 7.11 Build 316 (Sep 4, 2012)
- New: Support for Windows 8
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 7.1 Build 315 (Jun 20, 2011)
- Client:
- 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)
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 7.0 Build 312 SR1 (Jul 12, 2010)
- Client:
- Rebuild
- Service:
- Fixed: Domain resolution bug, that caused domains to be recreated over and over again.
- Fixed: That the first event time was incorrect
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 7.00 Build 311 (May 11, 2010)
- Client:
- 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
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.83 Build 303 (Aug 13, 2009)
- Client:
- 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.
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.82 Build 297 (Jun 16, 2009)
- Client:
- 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
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.81 Build 287 (Mar 10, 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
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.80 Build 280 (Jan 20, 2009)
- Client:
- 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
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.74 Build 266 (Aug 6, 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
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.73 Build 259 (Jun 11, 2008)
- Client:
- 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
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.72 Build 248 (Apr 29, 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
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.71 (Apr 1, 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.
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.70 Build 238 Gold (Mar 6, 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
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.63 Build 228 Gold (Jan 21, 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.
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.61 Build 223 Gold (Nov 27, 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
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.61 (Nov 27, 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
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.53 (Sep 24, 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)
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.51 (Jul 31, 2007)
- Client:
- Added: Response insertions in the process parameter (%name, �te, 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
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.51 (Jul 31, 2007)
- Added: Response insertions in the process parameter (%name, �te, 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
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.5 (Jul 16, 2007)
- Client:
- 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.
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.30 (Mar 9, 2007)
- Redesigned interface.
- Database compression.
- Multithreaded database sync.
- SNMP enhancements.
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.26 (Dec 11, 2006)
- Improved disk/mem monitor.
- Improved monitor usability
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.25 (Nov 28, 2006)
- Updated outlook panel,
- Improved setup wizard,
- updated GH Software online module
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.22 (Sep 25, 2006)
- Warn if local users are logged in.
- Improved regression line.
- Faster network scan
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.21 (Sep 12, 2006)
- Improved Active Directory interface,
- Improved monitor and response user interface. Performance improvements
New in DomainScan Server Monitoring 2.02 (Jun 11, 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.