What's new in ELM Enterprise Manager 8.0.116.1
Feb 16, 2024
- Fixed: Reports created from a view have the correct SQL query to use publication parameters.
- Fixed: Improved user interface for view time picking.
- Fixed: Event collection and handling is more robust.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 8.0.112.1 (Dec 21, 2023)
- Fixed: Daylight Savings Time SQL partitions fixed and new partitions use UTC partition bookends.
- Fixed: Windows 11 is now recognized by Inventory Collector.
- Fixed: Agent to ELM Server reconnect no longer reassigns categories.
- Fixed: Maintenance Window will reset if necessary.
- Fixed: General Performance data inserted correctly into database.
- Added: The ELM Toolkit now has an Advanced Support tab.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 8.0.106.1 (Nov 2, 2023)
- Fixed: Ensure ELMServer.dat backups occur.
- Fixed: Items created via 7.x duplication upgrade correctly.
- Fixed: Performance Monitor instances upgrade properly.
- Fixed: Performance Monitor counter and object display accurately.
- Fixed: ELM 7.x Filters using message contains logic upgrade correctly.
- Fixed: Refresh the Microsoft C++ redistributable library dlls.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 8.0.103.1 (Oct 18, 2023)
- Fixed: Ensure license usage counts are correct when multiple servers are loaded.
- Fixed: Include minutes in the hour exclusion display for clarity.
- Fixed: Hour exclusion must include the end hour or the 11 PM to midnight hour cannot be excluded.
- Fixed: SQL scripts clean up file groups.
- Fixed: Combined event and performance database retention values since the data is in the same filegroup.
- Fixed: Service Monitor recognizes long/display names as well as short names for inclusion and exclusion.
- Fixed: Agent Monitoring Categories are persisted when ELM Server restarted.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 8.0.100.1 (Sep 29, 2023)
- Fixed: ELM Console properly loads a dat file saved with Windows and ELM connections.
- Fixed: ELM Console tree adds children before adding a new item.
- Fixed: When updating 7.x agents, fail if Server or Console features are installed with the agent.
- Added: Syslog Notification Method.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 8.0.98.1 (Sep 9, 2023)
- Fixed: A read access user should not be able to create or edit items.
- Fixed: Forward Event notification method works correctly.
- Fixed: Inventory Collector handles embedded new line characters.
- Fixed: ELM Console Support and About menu items combined to Help menu.
- Added: Allow ELM Console connection using custom credentials.
- Added: Implement ELM Console tree multiselect remove and delete.
- Added: ELM Console automatic check for updates.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 8.0.93.1 (Aug 9, 2023)
- Added: No database, notification only option.
- Fixed: Improved efficiency when reading events without a message resource.
- Fixed: Event/Security/Correlation Views pause correctly.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 8.0.90.1 (Jul 11, 2023)
- Added: Server Synchronization Wizard to update binaries and configuration on other ELM Servers.
- Added: Event Views and Security Views have a Summary display.
- Added: Display service name environment variable is now available for Service Monitor actions.
- Fixed: Event environment variables are available for monitor actions.
- Fixed: Allow trusted IP v6 addresses, not just IP v4.
- Fixed: Custom reports from ELM 7.5 publish correctly.
- Fixed: Custom reports export correctly.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 8.0.86.1 (May 9, 2023)
- Fixed:
- Agent Deployment Wizard failure results are sorted to the top.
- Agent Deployment Wizard correctly deploys to systems having a 7.x agent.
- Performance instance lists are sorted.
- Reading event logs is more performant.
- ELM Console correctly updates when loading MIB files.
- ELM Console explorer tree correctly updates when items are deleted.
- ELM Console explorer tree adds child nodes only when node is selected.
- Multiple licenses update correctly.
- ELM Agent’s Replace Configuration task is more robust.
- ELM Agents react correctly to a dynamic ELM Server port change.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 8.0.79.1 (Mar 29, 2023)
- Fixed: Mail notifications correctly handle multiple recipients.
- Fixed: Upgraded IP Virtual agents keep their type for correct licensing.
- Fixed: Do not allow comma or semicolon in a To mail list.
- Fixed: Ping Monitor time out tries next alias address.
- Fixed: Ping Monitor event message includes text per attempt as in previous versions.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.5.166.1 (Dec 21, 2021)
- Added: Publication duplication Task.
- Added: ‘Physical RAM’ Memory counter available for all Performance Collectors.
- Fixed: Intermittent multiple listing of a new primary database.
- Fixed: Ensure a PDF Publication always has a PDF extension.
- Fixed: If a Publication fails delivery, make sure the Publication Results reflect the failure.
- Fixed: Recurrence description, Publication description, and the next scheduled run should update when a Publication schedule is edited.
- Fixed: ‘No Data’ should be shown accurately in the ELM Management Console.
- Fixed: Remove XLS as a Publication output file type.
- Fixed: Publication After Day for a monthly recurrence is functional.
- Fixed: Deleting an item from the ELM Management Console explorer tree leaves the tree in good state.
- Fixed: A condition that can cause a Publication to continuously run was addressed.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.5.161.1 (Jul 13, 2021)
- Fixed: Allow correlation time out events to be correlation start events.
- Fixed: Set the minimum ELM Console size to 800 x 600.
- Fixed: Set TLS security when TLS used for email notifications.
- Fixed: Increase wait period for resending agent data to decrease bad cache possibility.
- Fixed: ELM Console correctly updates when removing a database, publication, or report.
- Fixed: Use unicode strings for DIMENSION table insertion to avoid duplicate rows in SQL 2019.
- Fixed: Clear All Status for a Monitoring Category applies only to Agents in that category.
- Fixed: Persist ELM Console size and position.
- Fixed: ELM Server Configuration display updates correctly when database retention modified.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.5.157.1 (Feb 24, 2021)
- Fixed: Publication can switch from specific database to the Currently Connected Primary.
- Fixed: Dropping databases succeeds with SysAdmin permissions.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.5.155.1 (Feb 23, 2021)
- Added: Use managed code for license activation.
- Fixed: Moving data from the temporary tables correctly handles various data distributions.
- Fixed: Modified scripts to support SQL 2019 with cummulative updates.
- Fixed: DBCreator permissions supported for SQL 2017 and later.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.5.154.0 (Feb 23, 2021)
- Added: Publications can be set to the Current Primary Database.
- Added: Emailed Publication results contain the ELM Server name.
- Fixed: Initial Agent Inventory view displays correctly.
- Fixed: UNC SQL paths are now supported.
- Fixed: ELM Console crash due to loop in item references.
- Fixed: Intermittent empty bottleneck table.
- Fixed: The Database Collection will always be shown in the ELM Console explorer panel.
- Fixed: The Report Collection will always exist in the ELM Server.
- Fixed: The company name changed to Fire Mountain Software.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.5.145.1 (Jun 1, 2020)
- Added: PublicationName environment variable is now available for report file delivery.
- Added: Long running publications can now be stopped.
- Fixed: Initial Agent Status view displays correctly.
- Fixed: Publication editing allows reset of database and next run.
- Fixed: Publication editing start date is validated.
- Fixed: Publication scheduling is more robust.
- Fixed: Modified publication configuration settings are updated in the All Publications document.
- Fixed: The installer does more path validation before the installation options dialog is dismissed.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.5.100.1 (Apr 4, 2019)
- Added: SendXml command line will send configuration to any 7.0 or later ELM Server configured to accept data.
- Added: SendBinaries command line will send current binaries to any 7.0 or later ELM Server configured to accept data.
- Added: Windows 2019 specific security event format strings.
- Fixed: Modified label from Accept Forwarded Events From (ELM Servers) to Accept Data From ELM Servers.
- Fixed: Allow searching/display filtering on the Message column.
- Fixed: Event Category field now displayed in appropriate monitor and notification wizards.
- Fixed: A thread synchronization issue when calling SQL scripts.
- Fixed: An ELM Management Console deadlock.
- Fixed: Allow reinstall of ELM Agents running unsupported operating systems.
- Fixed: Use the agent description for the agent local to the ELM Server when triggering Correlation time out notifications.
- Fixed: Lock event so Forward Event Notification Method is thread safe.
- Fixed: Improved resiliency of the General Performance agent view.
- Fixed: If there is no database access, ensure Prune and Recovery threads are started.
- Fixed: Connection string encoding.
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.203.1 (Feb 14, 2018)
- Fixed: Updates should not affect configuration. (3380)
- Fixed: Fix server to agent communication race condition. (3379)
- Fixed: Avoid extraneous pseudo data in the bottlenecks. (3378)
- Fixed: Notifications now have default environment variables. (3377)
- Fixed: Clear Status functions with credentials check. (3376)
- Fixed: Allow an event to end more than one correlation. (3375)
- Fixed: SQL script timeout is longer and adjustable. (3374)
- Fixed: Correctly handle event data with format strings longer than 4000 characters. (3373)
- MAIN CHANGES:
- Supported operating systems (Windows 10, Server 2016):
- https://tntsoftware.com/products/system-requirements/
- Dashboard added:
- https://tntsoftware.com/solutions/windows-server-monitor/#WSM Dashboard
- MS SQL (LocalDB) now included with first installation:
- https://tntsoftware.com/solutions/event-log-management/data-storage/
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.195.1 (Jan 3, 2018)
- Fixed: Message field will no longer display non-ASCII characters in the ELM Dashboard. (3371)
- Fixed: Fix EEMSVR start up when it cannot create its performance counters. (3370)
- Added: Syslog Receiver can now parse information from the message. (3369)
- Fixed: LocalDB creation works with non-US locale. (3368)
- Fixed: MMC Console displays times in user’s locale. (3367)
- Fixed: Security event 4624 parsed correctly, added sql function to return a match using regular expressions. (3359)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.192.1 (Oct 20, 2017)
- Fixed: ELM Notification Method environment variable updated for case sensitivity on upgrade. (3358)
- Added: Archive Rollover on monthly, quarterly, and yearly intervals. (3357)
- Fixed: Export/Import works with non-US locale. (3356)
- Fixed: Improve data insertion efficiency. (3355)
- Fixed: Fix EEMSVR start up correlation time initialization. (3312)
- Fixed: Adjust Network InterfaceBytes Total/sec bottleneck formula. (3272)
- Fixed: Read access ACLs are required to show an ELM Agent in the ELM Dashboard. (2529)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.188.1 (Oct 6, 2017)
- Fixed: Security event 4656 is correctly parsed for ELM Security Views and environment variables. (3350)
- Fixed: LocalDB installed with first ELM Server installation. (3349)
- Added: Agent only installation will keep fewer trace files. (3325)
- Fixed: EAM msi installation will succeed after using the Back button. (3315)
- Fixed: Testing an Action against an ELM Agent with a FQDN will succeed. (3314)
- Fixed: All data in a copied EEMSVR.dat file updated correctly. (3311)
- Fixed: Performance improvements made to decrease CPU usage. (3310)
- Fixed: Notification environment variables correctly expanded. (3309)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.186.1 (Aug 11, 2017)
- Fixed: Database merging is more robust. (3298, 3297)
- Fixed: Temporary event data is moved correctly in non-US locales. (3293)
- Fixed: Upgrade correctly processes the temporary event table. (3284)
- Fixed: Install command line help is accurate. (3282)
- Fixed: SNMP data will merge between databases. (3269)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.183.1 (Jul 19, 2017)
- Fixed: The Network bottleneck calculation is too sensitive. Adjust Network InterfaceBytes Total/sec formula. (3272)
- Fixed: The Monitor Job Queue is more robust. (3271)
- Fixed: Archiving SNMP data works correctly. (3269)
- Fixed: MMC Console Server and Agent At-a-Glance Views are more robust. (3268)
- Fixed: Recover from a rare SQL condition. (3267)
- Fixed: Rollover database pruning occurs when maintenance is run. (3265)
- Fixed: Upgrade respects database pruning schedule. (3264)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.180.1 (Jul 7, 2017)
- The following fixes are included in release 7.0.180.1:
- Fixed: Function correctly with non-English locale databases. (3260)
- Fixed: Increase size of Syslog receiver messages from about 4000 characters to 8192. (3259)
- Fixed: Format strings for a couple specialized event logs were incorrect. (3258)
- Fixed: SQL Express primary database rollovers are listed in the archive list. (3252)
- Fixed: Ensure passwords are never written in clear text to installation logs. (3250)
- Fixed: Removed MSG delimiter from Syslog Notifcation Methods. (3246)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.178.1 (Jun 10, 2017)
- Fixed: Keep SQL connection pool replenished by closing connections promptly. (3221)
- Added: Add an ‘Inverted’ column to agent charts in the ELM Dashboard. (3218)
- Fixed: Reset the trace log path on upgrade. (3216)
- Fixed: Creating an Event View from an Event Writer uses a correct Include Filter. (3215)
- Fixed: Make sending trusted server list to an ELM Agent asynchronous. (3214)
- Fixed: Only install LocalDB when the ELM Server component is added. (3206)
- Added: Add a ‘CustomCategory’ property to monitors and notification methods. (3205)
- Added: Add an ‘ELM Notification — Failed’ include filter to the ‘ELM Dashboard Status High’ event view. (3203)
- Fixed: Text in the Selected Row Details of the Dashboard is selectable and copiable. (3200)
- Fixed: The Dashboard splash screen is smaller. (3199)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.173.1 (May 24, 2017)
- Fixed:Default objects are always imported on upgrade. (3191)
- Fixed:Calculated Bottleneck thresholds could be too large. (3190)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.171.1 (May 11, 2017)
- Fixed: Mail Notifications using TLS now respect priority setting. (3186)
- Fixed: Default reports now all respect selecting monitoring category. (3184)
- Fixed: Help file updated. (1885)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.169.1 (May 5, 2017)
- Fixed: The default SMTP port is 25. (3181)
- Fixed: SMTP port for Email reports respects non-TLS port setting. (3177)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.168.1 (Apr 26, 2017)
- Fixed: Dashboard display will initially expand. (3164)
- Fixed: Email reports and notification methods correctly handle multiple recipients. (3160)
- Fixed: ELM Editor 6.5 report last result can be viewed from the ELM Console. (3151)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.167.1 (Apr 14, 2017)
- Fixed: Dashboard data display is more robust. (3148)
- Fixed: Upgrade attempts to redirect schedules to the correct default report. (3147)
- Fixed: Performance data collection is more reliable on upgrades. (3146)
- Fixed: Virtual ELM Agents collect more disk bottleneck data. (3131)
- Fixed: Added details to EEMSVR event id 5217. (3129)
- Fixed: EAM updates are functional. (3128)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 7.0.164.1 (Apr 4, 2017)
- The following fixes are included in release 7.0.164.1:
- Fixed: Security events new in Windows 2016 are parsed correctly. (3124)
- Fixed: Security Editor Reports show more data. (3123)
- Fixed: Agent Deployment Wizard is more reliable. (3122)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.7.159.1 (Nov 10, 2016)
- Fixed: Command Script Notifications expand event environment variables in called scripts. (3033)
- Added: Maintenance Categories have a monthly after day of month property. (3023)
- Fixed: Maintenance Categories monthly Weekday settings work as expected. (3021)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.7.158.1 (Nov 3, 2016)
- Fixed: Forward Event Notification Method cached data respects customized category and message. (3009)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.7.157.1 (Oct 25, 2016)
- Added: Forward Event Notification Method has a configurable category. (3009)
- Fixed: Syslog messages containing a less than character are not parsed correctly. (3005)
- Fixed: Database maintenance could interrupt data insertion. (2912)
- Fixed: Agent registration to ELM Server is more dependable. (2816)
- Fixed: Improved handling of cluster resource groups. (2803)
- Fixed: Install trace files could contain passwords. (2737)
- Fixed: Standby cache file could be orphaned. (2682)
- Fixed: Additional SQL Express databases can be created in low disk conditions. (2616)
- Fixed: Improved description for completed ELM Editor report schedules . (1558)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.7.155.1 (Dec 19, 2015)
- Fixed: Home/Standby behavior is more robust. (2652, 2643, 2626, 2619)
- Fixed: ‘Once’ type Maintenance Categories can be reused. (2651)
- Added: Monitor Actions have a ‘write events to event log’ property. (2649)
- Fixed: Memory leak when Forward Event Notification Methods fails and caches. (2636)
- Fixed: Serial number modification on upgrade respected. (2618)
- Fixed: File Monitor correctly handles embedded null characters. (2615)
- Fixed: Improved Correlation handling. (2614, 2613)
- Fixed: Upgrade of configuration not containing the ELM Server Feature works as expected. (2586)
- Fixed: Upgrade keeps all registry configuration. (2584)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.7.147.1 (Oct 9, 2015)
- Fixed: All Agents container in the ELM Console loads more quickly. (2547)
- Fixed: Disk Queue Length calculations are more accurate. (2531)
- Added: ELM Verify Evt File uncompress option added. (2489)
- Fixed: Agent license class is correctly determined for embedded Windows operating systems. (2486)
- Fixed: Event Alarm is initialized correctly. (2476)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.7.145.1 (Aug 5, 2015)
- Fixed: SQL Express Primary Database rollover is more reliable. (2470)
- Fixed: License usage event can be generated on a daily interval. (2469)
- Fixed: Agent deleted event data was off by one. (2468)
- Fixed: Allow immediate switch from Home ELM Server to Standby ELM Server. (2339)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.7.141.1 (Jul 23, 2015)
- Fixed: Recreating a view based on a Monitor or Event displays an ‘already exists’ message. (2456)
- Fixed: Newly created Monitoring Categories work reliably. (2449)
- Fixed: Register ELM Agent back to an ELM Server is more efficient. (2448)
- Fixed: Safer handling of IP Agents. (2430)
- Fixed: Scheduled Reports respect Monitoring Category assignment. (2424)
- Fixed: Maintenance Category description updates in the ELM Console. (2402)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.7.135.1 (Apr 7, 2015)
- Fixed: File Monitors monitor System32 directory on 64 bit operating systems via SysNative. (2354, 2348)
- Fixed: Allow immediate switch from Home ELM Server to Standby ELM Server. (2339)
- Fixed: ELM Server comes out of failover more reliably. (2333)
- Fixed: Upgrading a 6.5 Event Filter handles 'All Agents' Monitoring Category criteria correctly. (2326)
- Fixed: No longer fail silently when connecting to an existing database without adequate permissions. (2302)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.7.132.1 (Apr 7, 2015)
- Fixed: Allow updates with expired maintenance. (2257)
- Fixed: Maintenance Categories can be set via Monitoring Categories. (2254)
- Fixed: Do not install Web Viewer on upgrade unless both IIS and AppSettings agree. (2253)
- Fixed: The "TNTDiag.exe /Quiet" command line should not display error message boxes. (2252)
- Fixed: The ELM Server should not be putting data in a failover database when not in failover. (2240)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.7.130.1 (Apr 7, 2015)
- Fixed: Correlation View Timeout message is correct on Windows 2003. (2235)
- Fixed: Inventory Collector correctly handles unicode strings. (2234)
- Fixed: Forward Events to multiple hosts using a custom message correctly expands variables. (2231)
- Added: Correlation View Timeout and End Match found events have added detail. (2230)
- Fixed: Properties of a Security View summary event are consistent. (2225, 2223)
- Fixed: Agent Description variable for Notifications is functional. (2222)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.7.128.1 (Apr 7, 2015)
- Fixed: Default SQL Monitor has invalid SQL query. (2198)
- Added: Forward Event Notification Method has a configurable message. (2197)
- Fixed: TNTAgent.exe command line help displayed correctly. (2196)
- Fixed: Detail Alert properties can be viewed. (2195, 2194)
- Fixed: Event Views can display data stored in non-English locale database. (2193)
- Fixed: EAM MSI installation to %WinDir%\TNTAgent works correctly. (2192)
- Fixed: TNT Diagnostics command line respects filters. (2191)
- Fixed: Installation database error is more understandable. (2188)
- Fixed: SQL Monitor should use ODBC for its database connections. (2115)
- Fixed: ELM Inventory Collector is more reliable. (1898)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.7.125.1 (Apr 7, 2015)
- Fixed: Default ELM Editor Reports are no longer added to Failover databases. (2187)
- Fixed: Hour/Day scheduling is more accurate. (2186)
- Fixed: ELM Agent only installation on Windows Core 2012/2012 R2 is supported. (2184)
- Fixed: Agent Deployment Wizard correctly recognizes an ELM Agent behind a firewall. (2177,2161)
- Fixed: File Monitors now monitor the 'Program Files (x86)' directory. (2176)
- Fixed: Removed inaccurate references to obsolete Cluster Monitor capabilities. (2174)
- Fixed: XML import of subobjects is more robust. (2171)
- Fixed: Default ELM configuration is updated. (2170,2165)
- Fixed: ELM Event Filter dialogs are more intuitive. (2168)
New in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.0.227.1 (Oct 13, 2010)
- Fixed: Agent Deployment Wizard allows custom service account. (8757)
- Fixed: Improved Agent configuration update. (8728)
- Fixed: Default items added to Favorites container. (8720)
- Fixed: Inventory Collector is more reliable. (8710)
- Fixed: Improved License management. (8711,8697,8378)
- Fixed: Agent registration no longer depends on NTLM. (8601)