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EMCO Ping Monitor Changelog

What's new in EMCO Ping Monitor 9.0.9.5861

Sep 14, 2023
  • New and improved features:
  • Detailed report configuration improvements
  • Performance and Windows compatibility improvements

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 9.0.8.5705 (Jul 31, 2023)

  • New and improved features:
  • Compatibility improvements with the new Windows builds
  • Resolved issues:
  • Group email notifications sometimes include messages from previous time periods

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 9.0.6.5594 (Mar 25, 2023)

  • Improved email notification templates
  • Improved stability of ping results in some environments

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 9.0.5.5401 (Dec 18, 2022)

  • Resolved issues:
  • UI sometimes crashes on sound and balloon notifications
  • Internal Server Error: can't find the Quality property

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 9.0.3.5392 (Nov 11, 2022)

  • Resolved issues:
  • Sometimes a client reconnects to the server while a user is trying to edit host settings
  • An error on copy/paste in some cases

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 9.0.2.5390 (Oct 26, 2022)

  • Resolved issues:
  • An error reported when there are other docking windows beside documents in the documents zone.
  • An exception in the PingMonitor desktop UI under certain conditions when a host state changes.
  • Time zone handling: Europe/Kiev was officially renamed to Europe/Kyiv.

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 9.0.1.5388 (Oct 18, 2022)

  • Resolved issues:
  • An error reported when there are other docking windows beside documents in the documents zone
  • Time zone handling: Europe/Kiev was officially renamed to Europe/Kyiv

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 9.0.0.5356 (Oct 5, 2022)

  • Introducing Alerts:
  • The program introduces alerts that help you to discover current problems with monitored host. You can configure as many alerts in the program as you need. Each alert uses a custom condition based on real-time host monitoring characteristics, so once the condition is satisfied for a monitored host, the program reports an alert for that host. The program displays a total number of current alerts in Overview and also displays a list of alerts in Alerts Summary, so you can see all detected problems for monitored hosts. You can acknowledge alerts for the selected period while working on resolving the problem. A list of acknowledged and active alerts can be reviewed separately to help you navigating through the current monitoring problems.
  • Managing Alerts and Notifications:
  • The program allows you to configure alerts in the program preferences. The program provides predefined alerts that are reported when host states are changed to Down or connection quality is changed to Bad or Critical, but you can create custom alerts. You can use any real-time monitoring characteristics in the alert condition, including host state, quality, packet loss, latency, jitter, etc. The program can send notifications and execute custom actions when alerts are started and ended. You can assign notifications and custom actions to alerts and host state/quality change events and configure notification settings.
  • Managing Alerts and Notifications:
  • The program introduces document-based interface. Now all monitoring data are represented in a document, you can navigate through it to see specific monitoring characteristics, such as Alerts, Hosts Statistics, Hosts State and Hosts Quality. Each document works with its own set of hosts, so you can open multiple documents represented different host. Each document has its own navigation and UI settings, so you can use different data filtering, grouping and sorting settings in different documents. You can create custom layout to organize multiple documents on the screen according with your needs.
  • Program Navigation Improvements:
  • The program now provides improved navigation, so you can quickly switch between screens representing different data. Now all monitored data are represented in the document interface. You can use the navigation bar to open different pages representing information about all hosts, such as Overview, Statistics Summary, Alerts Summary, State Summary and Quality Summary. You can also drill-down to the host level and review hosts statistics, alerts, state and quality. All monitoring information about all hosts and for a single host is available in the same document view.
  • New Overview Screen:
  • Overview now displays additional information, including host performance statistics for a specific period, so you can see on the chart how performance of the monitored hosts changed over time. You can also see an interactive chart with alerts, so you can see how many alerts are currently active and acknowledged.
  • State/Quality Data Representation as a Table
  • The new table format of data representation is available for State Summary and Quality Summary. It allows representing the information about the current hosts state/quality as a table, where each host is represented as a table row and monitoring metrics are represented as the table columns. You can use data sorting, grouping and filtering options to organize the table data.
  • State/Quality Data Representation as a Table:
  • Now all hosts statistics collected for a host is represented on a single screen the displays host performance, availability, latency, quality metrics as well as the chart displaying real-time ping tracking and other charts representing latency and uptime, state and data for a selected period. You can also find host state and quality intervals and host events on the same screen. You don't need to switch to the different views to see all these data. Now they are represented on the single screen.
  • Improved Host Statistics:
  • At the bottom of the Hosts view you can find a chart representing hosts activity, so you can see how many hosts are monitored, paused or not monitored. The chart is interactive, so you can click specific activity valued to apply a filter and display those hosts in the view.
  • Custom Fields Improvements:
  • Now you can specify default values for custom fields in the program preferences, if required, and override them on for a host or for a group. You can display host values in the Hosts view and apply data sorting, grouping and filtering using custom fields values. To display custom fields you can use a column chooser for the hosts table.
  • Overriding Global Settings:
  • You can override settings provided in the program preferences for a group or for a host. The program allows you to override alerts and notification settings, so you can enable and disable alerts and notifications for a host or for a group. You can also override e-mail recipients and notification activation time to configure custom schedule for a host or for a group.

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 8.0.20.5114 (May 8, 2022)

  • Resolved issues:
  • Monitoring of all hosts is terminated when starting monitoring of a host with a label containing {} symbols

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 8.0.18.5112 (Feb 10, 2022)

  • Resolved issues:
  • The context-dependent Ribbon UI tab's header has a wrong size
  • The filter expression selector is blank in State/Quality monitors when a filter is applied
  • An error happens when requesting an Extended Evaluation license

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 8.0.17.5111 (Oct 21, 2021)

  • New and improved features:
  • Added compatibility with Windows 11 and Windows Server 22
  • Resolved issues:
  • Possible error when generating a report
  • Minor compatibility issues

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 8.0.15.5109 (Sep 16, 2021)

  • The high-precision measurement incorrectly handles the ICMP reply message duplicates
  • Possible group duplicates in State and Quality monitors under certain conditions
  • The line breaks of multiline host's descriptions are visible in e-mails as HTML tags

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 8.0.12.5107 (Jul 6, 2021)

  • Resolved issues:
  • Instability of the desktop client program in some environments
  • The high-precision measurement incorrectly handles the ICMP redirect message

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 8.0.11.5103 (May 12, 2021)

  • High-Precision Latency Measurement is incompatible with some types of WiFi adapters

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 8.0.9.5085 (Apr 1, 2021)

  • Resolved issues:
  • An error happens when changing preferences in the program

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 8.0.7.5079 (Feb 16, 2021)

  • New and improved features:
  • Minor performance improvements
  • Resolved issues:
  • Fixed the conflict with the NordVPN/WireguardVPN
  • Fixed a possible error on creating a host or a group
  • Fixed Timeout, TTL and Packet Size options overriding for a gateway

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 8.0.3.5050 (Nov 20, 2020)

  • Resolved issues:
  • Fixed web interface that fails to show state and quality monitor pages for 10,000 or more hosts
  • Fixed the 'Static IP' host's configuration option that doesn't work as designed

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 8.0.1.5048 (Nov 11, 2020)

  • Optimized monitoring engine:
  • The new monitoring engine was designed to optimize the monitoring performance and reduce the system workload. The new engine reduces the CPU workload by 50% and the memory consumption by 25%. The data storage mechanism has also been optimized to reduce the disk storage consumption by 25%.
  • Monitoring of 8,000+ hosts:
  • The new monitoring engine allows increasing the number of monitored hosts with no hardware upgrade. Using the Enterprise edition of the program, you can monitor 8,000+ hosts on modern hardware. It's three times as many hosts as it is possible to monitor using the previous version of the program on the same hardware configuration. The practical limit of monitored hosts depends on the used hardware.
  • High-precision latency measurement:
  • The Professional and Enterprise editions of the program include high-precision latency measurement with 0.01ms precision. It allows using the program in low-latency networks for precise measurements of the ping latency. High-precision latency measurement is enabled by default, except in the Free edition, which uses the Windows standard latency measurement with 1ms precision.
  • Client/server architecture and remote access:
  • The Free and Professional editions of the program now use the same client/server architecture as the Enterprise edition. The server works as a Windows service to perform hosts monitoring, send notifications and generate reports. A GUI client can connect to the server and work with the collected information. All editions now provide a monitoring web interface. The Free edition of the program allows establishing a single connection to the server. The Professional edition allows two concurrent connections to the server. The Enterprise edition doesn't limit the number of simultaneous connections.
  • New and improved features:
  • Windows compatibility improvements
  • Respect the IP4/IP6 protocols priority when resolving the host's address
  • Improved Time Zones support in reports

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 7.3.2.5143 (Oct 29, 2020)

  • Resolved issues:
  • Fixed a possible UI crash upon addition of a user or group in Access Control View on a host system with accessibility options activated

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 7.3.1.5115 (Jul 8, 2020)

  • New and improved features:
  • Reduced CPU consumption
  • Line breaks are preserved in the host's description when sending e-mail notifications
  • Resolved issues:
  • Fixed hanging of the desktop application on the Host Statistics view under certain conditions
  • Fixed hosts monitoring stops due to exceptions thrown while monitoring under heavy CPU load
  • Fixed possible deadlock on logging
  • Fixed possible memory leak in dialog forms
  • Fixed possible user interface crash when updating data in forms

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 7.1.2.5035 (Nov 15, 2019)

  • New and improved features:
  • Increased maximum allowed command size when specifying custom actions
  • Resolved issues:
  • The link for excluding missing items from filter on the web interface does not work in specific circumstances
  • Possible error when loading objects on program startup

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 7.1.0.5033 (Oct 16, 2019)

  • Response latency tracking:
  • The response latency along with state and quality changes tracking is included to the host statistics for live intervals.
  • New and improved features:
  • Significantly improved responsiveness of the program web interface
  • Resolved issues:
  • The program fails to import database from version 6 in case it can be no longer launched
  • Possible application failure due to critical error when selecting auto-filter row in the Hosts tree view

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 7.0.8 (Aug 29, 2019)

  • Resolved issues:
  • The web interface in the Enterprise edition cannot be launched on IIS server version less than 10.0
  • The charts are failing to load leading to the fatal error in the program when the client time zone has fractional UTC offset

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 7.0.7 (Aug 19, 2019)

  • System state overview:
  • There is a new view in the program that provides you with an overview of the current state of the monitored hosts. There you can see the number of the monitored, non-monitored and paused hosts. The same view shows the total number of the monitored hosts in different states (Up and Down) and with a different connection quality (Good, Warning, Bad and Critical). All numbers are clickable, so you can navigate to the hosts with the selected Activity, State or Quality.
  • System state overview:
  • Connection quality tracking
  • In addition to the host state monitoring, the program can now monitor the connection quality for the monitored hosts, so you can see it on screen and get notifications when the connection quality changes. The connection quality is determined using the packet loss, latency percentile and jitter metrics to show the quality as Good, Warning, Bad or Critical.
  • Connection quality tracking
  • State and quality monitors:
  • Using the State and Quality Monitors, which are available in the Enterprise edition of the program, you can see the states and the connection quality of all the monitored hosts on a single screen. Those views are designed for control rooms where the monitored hosts should be represented in a compact form while their state and quality are displayed by means of different colors. It is possible to sort and filter the displayed data to show hosts with the required characteristics only.
  • State and quality monitors:
  • Determining the host performance and displaying statistics for a selected period
  • You can select the required period and get information on the host performance and statistics for the selected period. The host performance is determined using the uptime, packet loss, latency, CV, MOS and other metrics. The collected metrics are displayed in charts where you can see how they change over time. You can also get information about the number of outages and the periods when the host was in a different state or had varying quality characteristics during a selected period.
  • Determining the host performance and displaying statistics for a selected period
  • Improved monitoring web interface:
  • The web interface, which is available in the Enterprise edition of the program, has been significantly improved. It now allows seeing all monitoring data and statistics though the web without opening a GUI client. The new web interface allows starting and stopping monitoring for hosts and groups.
  • Improved notifications:
  • In addition to the host state notifications, now it is possible to send notifications when the connection quality changes. You can configure multiple notifications for every event in the updated notification settings dialog in Preferences. For example, you can send e-mail notifications and execute custom actions such as Windows commands, scripts or executables. To reduce the number of notifications, it is possible to group messages into one e-mail within a specified time interval, or group multiple events into one e-mail for every host.
  • Host timeline and raw ping data exporting:
  • Using the new Timeline view, you can see raw ping replies for a selected period and the host state and quality for the same period. That data is displayed on charts, so you can see how they change over time. If you wish, you can export raw ping data into a CSV file and open it in an external program.
  • Host timeline and raw ping data exporting:
  • Hosts filtering in reports
  • The reports configuration now includes a filter that can be used to filter report host members. You may specify that the report should only include the hosts that meet the condition.

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 7.0 (Aug 16, 2019)

  • There is a new view in the program that provides you with an overview of the current state of the monitored hosts. There you can see the number of the monitored, non-monitored and paused hosts. The same view shows the total number of the monitored hosts in different states (Up and Down) and with a different connection quality (Good, Warning, Bad and Critical). All numbers are clickable, so you can navigate to the hosts with the selected Activity, State or Quality.
  • Connection quality tracking:
  • In addition to the host state monitoring, the program can now monitor the connection quality for the monitored hosts, so you can see it on screen and get notifications when the connection quality changes. The connection quality is determined using the packet loss, latency percentile and jitter metrics to show the quality as Good, Warning, Bad or Critical.
  • State and quality monitors:
  • Using the State and Quality Monitors, which are available in the Enterprise edition of the program, you can see the states and the connection quality of all the monitored hosts on a single screen. Those views are designed for control rooms where the monitored hosts should be represented in a compact form while their state and quality are displayed by means of different colors. It is possible to sort and filter the displayed data to show hosts with the required characteristics only.
  • State and quality monitors:
  • Determining the host performance and displaying statistics for a selected period
  • You can select the required period and get information on the host performance and statistics for the selected period. The host performance is determined using the uptime, packet loss, latency, CV, MOS and other metrics. The collected metrics are displayed in charts where you can see how they change over time. You can also get information about the number of outages and the periods when the host was in a different state or had varying quality characteristics during a selected period.
  • Determining the host performance and displaying statistics for a selected period
  • Improved monitoring web interface
  • The web interface, which is available in the Enterprise edition of the program, has been significantly improved. It now allows seeing all monitoring data and statistics though the web without opening a GUI client. The new web interface allows starting and stopping monitoring for hosts and groups.
  • Improved notifications:
  • In addition to the host state notifications, now it is possible to send notifications when the connection quality changes. You can configure multiple notifications for every event in the updated notification settings dialog in Preferences. For example, you can send e-mail notifications and execute custom actions such as Windows commands, scripts or executables. To reduce the number of notifications, it is possible to group messages into one e-mail within a specified time interval, or group multiple events into one e-mail for every host.
  • Host timeline and raw ping data exporting:
  • Using the new Timeline view, you can see raw ping replies for a selected period and the host state and quality for the same period. That data is displayed on charts, so you can see how they change over time. If you wish, you can export raw ping data into a CSV file and open it in an external program.
  • Hosts filtering in reports:
  • The reports configuration now includes a filter that can be used to filter report host members. You may specify that the report should only include the hosts that meet the condition.

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 6.3 (Mar 13, 2019)

  • New and improved features
  • Reorganized permissions configuration process to support large enterprises domains with remote domain controllers
  • The program now supports early access version of .NET Framework 4.8 shipped with Windows 10 Insider Preview

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 6.2.1 (Aug 7, 2018)

  • New and improved features:
  • Significantly optimized the server startup routine to avoid the service timeout issues on specific PCs
  • Optimized user and group principals handling when configuring and applying permissions
  • Resolved issues:
  • The fatal error occurs when trying to generate a detailed report or display a historical data chart on PCs with explicitly disabled DST
  • The state and status column filter conditions are not restored from layout

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 6.1.1 Build 4995 (Jan 31, 2018)

  • New and improved features:
  • The below features have been introduced for the first time or significantly improved in this release:
  • The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is now supported
  • Resolved issues:
  • This release resolves a number of issues, the most important of which are listed below:
  • The application exits with fatal error in case the live data chart displays data for both moments that are inside DST and outside DST
  • Incorrect height of the main window status bar

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 6.1.0 Build 4993 (Oct 30, 2017)

  • Web reports:
  • The Enterprise edition of the program now includes web reports, that allows you to see host monitoring information in a web browser remotely from any computer without having to install any client software for this purpose.
  • Web host monitoring statistics:
  • The Enterprise edition of the program allows you to select a host and see its detailed statistics for the selected reporting period remotely in a web browser. The displayed information is similar to the information displayed by the GUI client.
  • New and improved features:
  • Added an option to define a match criteria for values in the auto-filter rows for grid and tree views
  • The matching text in tree views when searching via the find panel is now highlighted the same way as in grid views
  • Resolved issues:
  • The sounds and balloons notification loops are not interrupted on connection status changes

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 6.0.9 Build 4989 (Aug 30, 2017)

  • The program now supports early access version of .NET Framework 4.7.1 shipped with Windows 10 Insider Preview

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 6.0.7.4980 (Jun 13, 2017)

  • New and improved features:
  • Possible errors in the log after sending several e-mail notifications in a row
  • A report storage path edit should not accept mapped drives
  • Possible errors when launching monitoring for multiple hosts on startup with defined monitoring intervals

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 6.0.6.4975 (Apr 27, 2017)

  • New and improved features:
  • Improved stability when working with remote MS SQL database servers

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 6.0.4.4955 (Apr 7, 2017)

  • New and improved features:
  • The program now supports .NET Framework 4.7
  • Resolved issues:
  • Detailed regular reports based on historical data for days that include those when the time was switch from and to the Daylight Saving Time are not generated

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 6.0.3.4955 (Feb 28, 2017)

  • This release resolves a number of issues, the most important of which are listed below:
  • The historical data for days when the time was switch to Daylight Saving Time is stored incorrectly
  • It is impossible to create reports based on historical data for days that include those when the time was switch from and to the Daylight Saving Time
  • The Host and Group edit forms are incorrectly initialized when the settings are overridden, that leads to the fact that the overridden settings are reset to defaults after editing, if not specified correctly again
  • The latest outage start time is displayed in the UTC time instead of the local time in the Hosts Browser and the Hosts views

New in EMCO Ping Monitor 6.0.0.4950 (Feb 15, 2017)

  • Introducing Enterprise edition:
  • The new Enterprise edition of the program works as client/server and allows multiple clients connect to a server and work concurrently. The server works as a Windows service in 24/7 mode to make hosts monitoring, collect statistics and generate reports
  • The client is a Windows program that can connect to a server running on a local PC or connect to a remote server through LAN or Internet. Multiple clients can connect to the same server and work concurrently. The client program displays UI and allows a user to manage hosts, start/stop monitoring, review statistics and perform other operations.
  • User access management:
  • The Enterprise edition of the program allows multiple users to run clients and connect to the server. By default users who belong to the group of administrators on the PC, where the server is installed, can connect to the server, but you can change the default settings. The program allows to create roles, configure their permissions and assign these roles to Windows principals. You can configure programs users in the Access Control view.
  • Monitoring performance optimizations:
  • The monitoring engine is significantly optimized to reduce consumed resources and allow to monitor thousands of hosts concurrently. The Free and Professional editions of the program have licensing limitations that allows monitoring up to 5 and 250 hosts correspondingly. The Enterprise edition doesn't have licensing limitations for a number of hosts, but the program capability depends on the used hardware. On a modern PC it is possible to monitor 2500 or more hosts using the Enterprise edition.
  • Gateway checks:
  • When you monitor remote hosts, located, for example, in Internet, and your Internet connection fails, the program reports outages for all Internet hosts because they cannot be reached by the program. In this case it is incorrect, because the hosts are reachable by other users and the problem is in the Internet connection of the program.
  • To eliminate this scenario you can specify a gateway that should be checked. If a ping to host is failed, the gateway is checked and an outage for the host is reported only if the gateway is accessible. You can specify a gateway, used for all hosts, in the program Preferences. In the Professional and Enterprise editions of the program you can override the global gateway settings and specify a custom gateway for a host or a group of hosts.
  • Operations view:
  • The new Operations view allows you to see the currently running operations, check their progress and cancel them, if required.
  • E-mail improvements:
  • The program improves compatibility with SMTP servers used to send e-mail notifications. The program becomes compatible with servers that support implicit SSL only. Also the program optimizes sending of e-mail notifications when many notifications should be sent at the same time. Additionally, the program adds the option to specify the attachment name template for reports that should be sent via e-mail.