What's new in IsItUp 8.80
Oct 18, 2023
- Speeding Up Your Network Insights: IsitUp Network Monitor's Fast Event Log Reports
- In the domain of network monitoring, even slight enhancements can yield substantial results. We're pleased to present a recent update to IsitUp Network Monitor, aimed at accelerating the generation of event log reports.
- Making Reports Faster:
- We know that waiting for event log reports to be generated can be a pain. That's why we've revamped IsitUp Network Monitor to significantly cut down the time it takes to process large amounts of event log data. For instance, in the past, creating an error-only report from a roughly 50 million records Event Log would consume several hours. However, thanks to the latest update, this task can now be completed in 10 minutes or less.
- Benefits for Network Administrators:
- For network monitoring professionals, this upgrade translates to tangible benefits:
- Swift Decision-Making: Access to real-time event log insights empowers rapid decision-making, a critical capability for promptly addressing network challenges.
- Increased Productivity: Expedited report generation frees up time for strategic planning and network optimization endeavors.
- Heightened Security Measures: Rapid event log analysis enables early detection and mitigation of security threats, fortifying network resilience.
New in IsItUp 8.79 (Sep 13, 2023)
- Version 8.79 adds a check box to the Loopback monitor setup screen, making it a single click to monitor the email server configured for IsItUp's mail relay. Simply click on the check box shown in red below, and IsItUp will automatically configure the monitor to test the mail relay. Since the mail relay is frequently the organization's email server, it is very convenient.
New in IsItUp 8.78 (Dec 14, 2021)
- Version 8.78 improves inbox caching speed. IsItUp must track changes to the mail relay account’s inbox when the Email loopback monitor is configured. This is necessary to check for loopback messages returned from email systems being tested.
New in IsItUp 8.77 (Sep 13, 2021)
- Version 8.77 corrects an error in the built-in web server that would allow an attacker to display files on the computer that IsItUp is installed on. Taro Software recommends all customers that use the Web View upgrade to this version.
New in IsItUp 8.69 (Aug 1, 2021)
- Improves dependency loop detection. A dependency loop occurs when one or more monitors depend on each other. Currently, IsItUp detects dependency loops only when a device is actually being tested. The new feature tests for a dependency loop when a device monitor is being configured. This check is done when configuring an individual monitor as wells as with Bulk Update.
New in IsItUp 8.68 (Oct 2, 2018)
- Version 8.68 improves the look and feel of the drag and drop operation. Drag and Drop now scrolls when you move the cursor above or below the device view. This allows you to drag one more devices to groups even if they are not currently in view. In addition, as you drag over a drop target, the name of the drop target is displayed as part of the drag and drop icon. This makes it easier to be sure you are dropping to the correct folder. In addition, a new cut and paste option was added to make it even easier to organize your groups.
New in IsItUp 8.65 (Jan 23, 2018)
- Version 8.65 improves the graphing feature by adapting the graph to higher screen resolutions and improving the graphic layout. The example below shows the new format.
New in IsItUp 8.63 (Jan 12, 2018)
- Adds a new SNMP Trap Receiver Monitor to complement the existing SNMP Monitor. With this added feature, IsItUp now has a complete SNMP implementation. The new Trap receiver is high performance and can receiver thousands of traps per second. With this performance, IsItUp can handle the needs of organizations of all sizes. Complete functionality is provided to filter traps by Source Address, Generic Trap, Specific Trap, Enterprise OID and community string. In addition, one or more Variable Bindings can be configured for filtering as well.
New in IsItUp 8.53 (Jun 2, 2017)
- Version 8.53 adds a new SNMP Trap Receiver Monitor to complement the existing SNMP Monitor. With this added feature, IsItUp now has a complete SNMP implementation. The new Trap receiver is high performance and can receiver thousands of traps per second. With this performance, IsItUp can handle the needs of organizations of all sizes. Complete functionality is provided to filter traps by Source Address, Generic Trap, Specific Trap, Enterprise OID and community string. In addition, one or more Variable Bindings can be configured for filtering as well.
New in IsItUp 8.51 (Oct 10, 2016)
- This version adds a new user interface and makes the Email Loop Monitor easier to use.
New in IsItUp 8.50 (Mar 14, 2016)
- Version 8.50 adds a new capability to monitor the state of processes. It uses the Windows WMI technology to retrieve process statistics and can retrieve process information from both a local and a remote computer. You can choose between monitoring the actual number of processes, the total memory used, or the total CPU time used by all the process with the same name. The result can be compared with either a range or a constant and a user defined compare operation. A wide range of compare functions are available including the typical mathematical operations such Less than, Equal to and Greater than. Below is a screenshot of the setup dialog for the monitor.
New in IsItUp 8.48 (Dec 22, 2015)
- The Bulk Update feature is used to make updates to more then one monitor at a time. A new feature was added to make it easier to select the group of monitors you wish to make changes to. With the new feature, you can select the monitors to be modified by groups or by monitor types . You can select one or more monitors by simply clicking on the monitor name, type(Ping,SNMP,Mail,etc) or group. The selection dialog is similar to the monitor selection dialogs used in other parts of IsItUp. Making the User Interface consistent makes IsItUp easier to learn and use. In addition to the monitor selection, a new feature was added to Bulk Update to make modifications to Executables and Sound alerts. The Executables and Sounds alerts are used to run any type of batch or executable file on monitor failure or recovery. A variety of parameters can be passed to the executable if desired
New in IsItUp 8.47 (Dec 22, 2015)
- A new up threshold option was added to the Execute a Batch or Exe file or play a sound alert. You can now set how many times a monitor has to test successful in order to trigger the alert. In addition, the User Interface has been changed to make it easier to add, modify and delete this alert type. Now all the alert types (email/SMS, Page, Executables and Sounds, Restart Services) work in a similar fashion. Since they now all work similarly, it easier to learn how to set them up.
New in IsItUp 8.46 (Nov 19, 2015)
- A new database format has been added so that reports can be run much more efficiently. Event log reports, Up Time / Down Time reports, and graphs are now run in separate threads so as not to interfere with the User Interface. Also many small changes were made to improve data reporting including response time for all monitor types, improved reporting for the DNS monitor and improvements to the setup for the EMail Loop Monitor.
- Addtionally, the optional periodic Email status message was converted to HTML for easier reading. The status message also had a new option added to list the names of the current devices down along with the number of devcies up and down.
New in IsItUp 8.41 (Apr 30, 2015)
- Adds new formatting for the Error Log View:
- The new formatting for the error log view makes it easy to quickly identify problems. Also, a new quick print function was added to the error view. Just right click with your cursor anywhere in the Error View window to display the Print menu.
New in IsItUp 8.39 (Feb 18, 2015)
- Version 8.39 Adds Jitter Statistics:
- Jitter plays an important role in the performance of your network especially if you use streaming, gaming, and Voice over IP protocols. IsItUp has added a new feature to the IP monitor that measures jitter. Both the maximum and minium jitter is displayed as well as the average. In order to get a more reliable measure of jitter, we recommend that more then one packet be sent per test. We suggest sending 50 but you must send at least 2. To monitor jitter, create a Ping Monitor for one or more endpoints in your network
New in IsItUp 8.38 (Feb 18, 2015)
- Version 8.38 Adds Packet Loss Statistics:
- Packet loss statistics are an important part of maintaining your network’s health. Packet loss is particularly important to VOIP, gaming, and streaming media. You can easily monitor your network’s packet loss with a new feature added to the Ping Monitor Sensor. To Setup to monitor packet loss, create a ping monitor for one or more endpoints in your network.
New in IsItUp 8.37 (Jan 5, 2015)
- Email Alerting Templates:
- Email Alert Templates solve the problem of needing to reenter Email alerts for each device. Along with Bulk Update, Email Alert templates offer a complete solution to adding, removing and editing your devices Email notification alerts.
- They can also be created when you are adding a device monitor or using bulk update for convenience. This is described later. When you click on the Alert Template icon, the Alerting Template wizard is launched. It starts with an introduction screen explaining how to use the feature. Clicking on the Next button displays the Setup Email Notifications Templates screen. This screen is similar to the Setup Email Notifications as part of the device monitor creation wizard.
- It has the usually Add, Modify, and Remove buttons for managing alerts. More details are provided in How do I customize Email and SMS alert messages?
- Templates can be added in both the Bulk Update and the create device monitor wizard. Since they both work similarly, the create device monitor screen will be described. On the Setup Mail Notifications step of all the create device monitor wizards, there is an Add from Template button.
- Clicking on the Add from Template button displays the Select Email Templates screen.
- Here you can select one or more templates. When you select OK, they will be inserted into the device monitor you are creating. Because they are copied from the original template, you can make additional customizations to the inserted templates without changing your templates. There is also a Manage button on the Select Email Templates screen that launches the Alerting Template wizard described earlier so you can create a new template here if needed.
- The Bulk Update wizard works similarly with an Add from Template button that launches the Select Email Template screen.
New in IsItUp 8.35 (Aug 18, 2014)
- This version adds a new feature to the Bulk Change Wizard that allows more then one change to alerts, maintenance schedules and other options at a time. For example, you could add a new email alert to all of your devices and at the same time modify an existing one without having to rerun the wizard.
New in IsItUp 8.34 (Aug 12, 2014)
- Adds two new features to improve monitoring:
- The first feature adds packet loss tracking to the ping monitor. You can now specify the number of pings that must be successful during each test cycle for the test to be considered successful. For the example to the right, the number of pings per test is 4 and the number of pings required for success is set to 3. This is equivalent to a 25 percent packet loss tolerance. To get finer resolution, just increase the number of pings per test and adjust number pings required for success accordingly. The defaults for this feature can be set as part of the "Program options" on the configuration tab or they can be set individually by clicking on the "Settings" button on the IP Monitor configuration screen.
- The second new feature allows configuration of any monitor to be normally down. This reverse mode of testing is useful when you want to be notifed if a device comes on line.
New in IsItUp 8.33 (Jun 11, 2014)
- IsItUp 8.33 adds a new feature to the Ping and the TCP/IP Port monitor that converts the FQDN to its IP addresses and appends the IP address to the FQDN in all reports and displays. This makes it easier to keep track of devices especially if the IP addresses are assigned dynamically.
New in IsItUp 8.31 (May 17, 2014)
- This version is a minor bug fix release that corrects an issue with the Http Monitor timeout and a formatting issue with the details display
New in IsItUp 8.26 (Mar 21, 2014)
- This version improves the graphs in both User Inteface as well as the reports
New in IsItUp 8.25 (Jan 17, 2014)
- Adds a new feature to monitor bandwidth on both the computer IsItUp is running on and remote computers. You can now monitor bytes sent per second, bytes received per second, and total bytes per second.
New in IsItUp 8.22 (Nov 22, 2013)
- This version seperates the UI from the testing engine and allows the UI to be displayed on all versions of Windows when IsItUp is running as a service.
New in IsItUp 8.18 (Sep 30, 2013)
- This version is a maintenance release that corrects a problem with double clicking on the tree control in the device view and improves the data validation when setting up a mail relay for alerts.
New in IsItUp 8.17 (Sep 30, 2013)
- This version improves report performance allowing larger reports to run more quickly.
- It also introduces a new feature that allows IsItUp to be run without administrative privileges.
New in IsItUp 8.14 (Sep 30, 2013)
- This version improves the documentation, the email loop monitor, and the install program.
New in IsItUp 8.08 (Sep 30, 2013)
- This version is a major update that adds a new User Interface that makes IsItUp even easier to use then before.
New in IsItUp 7.69 (May 11, 2012)
- This version adds several major new features including a new Windows Event Log Monitor and a new CPU and Memory Utilization Monitor as well as updates to reporting and web access.
New in IsItUp 7.41 (Oct 26, 2011)
- This version adds several new features including the ability to schedule maintenance periods by day of the month instead of day of week, a new keyword, %LastSNMPValue%, for customizing Email messages, and a new feature of the Disk Space monitor to test both mapped and local drives.
New in IsItUp 7.31 (Sep 26, 2011)
- This version adds a new feature to save the database that contains the list of devices being monitored at a user specified frequency. The default is once every 5 minutes. This decreases the likleyhood that recent changes to the list of devices being monitored are lost. In addition, a new safe save feature was added that insures that the device list database will not be damaged if the computer IsItUp is running on unexpectedly shuts down while the file is being saved.
New in IsItUp 7.26 (Jul 4, 2011)
- Adds a new DNS monitor. With this monitor, you can query a DNS server for a FQDN and check the reply for the correct result.
New in IsItUp 7.25 (Jun 6, 2011)
- Adds a new keyword used to customize mail alert messages. The new keyword, "FreeDiskSpace", is replaced by the actual number of remaining bytes on the disk drive being monitored when the mail alert is sent.
New in IsItUp 7.23 (May 30, 2011)
- Adds a new feature to send a periodic (heartbeat) status message at a customizable frequency. This is useful to insure that the computer IsItUp is running on has not failed.
New in IsItUp 7.15 (Apr 10, 2011)
- Improves the Tcp/Ip Port Monitor by adding configuration data for more protocols including SMTPS, POP3S, and IMAP4S as well as many others.
New in IsItUp 7.13 (Apr 10, 2011)
- Adds a new option to the Tcp/Ip port monitor to connect using SSL. This feature allows a wider variety of protocols to be tested including POP3S and SMTPS.
New in IsItUp 7.12 (Apr 10, 2011)
- Adds a new feature to the Tcp/Ip port monitor to send data to the remote server before testing the response. This feature allows a wider variety of protocols to be tested. In addition, preconfigured data was added for Echo, Http ,Daytime, and Telnet protocols.
New in IsItUp 7.11 (Apr 10, 2011)
- Adds a new feature to the Tcp/Ip monitor to test the results returned from the connection. In addition, IsItUp provides preconfigured data to test the returned results for select protocols. For example, the preconfigured data for testing a Pop3 server is "+OK" which is a substring of the normal results returned when connecting to a Pop3 server. Preconfigured data is also provided for FTP,SMTP,NNTP, and IMAP4 protocols.
New in IsItUp 6.94 (Jul 23, 2010)
- adds a new feature to the ping monitor.
- Basic ping parameters such as response time, number of retries,and packet size can be set as defaults for monitor creation as well as modified for each ping monitor individually.
New in IsItUp 6.93 (Jun 22, 2010)
- Adds a new subfolder feature to help better organized the devices being monitored.
New in IsItUp 6.92 (Jun 1, 2010)
- Adds a new feature to diagnose mail server configuration errors and make IsItUp even easier to setup then before.
New in IsItUp 6.91 (Jun 1, 2010)
- a minor bug fix release to correct a problem with the web view.
New in IsItUp 6.90 (May 16, 2010)
- Improves the Disk Space Monitor by providing better disk free space statistics. The maximum free space, the minimum free space, and the standard deviation are computed for each disk monitored.
- In addition, better support is provided for SANs.
New in IsItUp 6.88 (Apr 26, 2010)
- This new release improves the Disk Space Monitor reports by display bytes free and total bytes using units of TB GB, KB or bytes whichever is most appropriate.
New in IsItUp 6.87 (Apr 19, 2010)
- Improves the website monitor by including support for optional client certificates.
New in IsItUp 6.85 (Apr 1, 2010)
- Improves the Disk Space Monitor by displaying the free disk space on the monitored drive.
New in IsItUp 6.84 (Mar 16, 2010)
- The new release adds a new option to define a second SMTP server to be used as a backup. If the primary mail server fails, IsItUp will automatically switch to the backup server and log a warning message. This assures that IsItUp will reliably send mail alerts when it detects failures.
New in IsItUp 6.83 (Mar 16, 2010)
- The new release adds a new Service Manager to control IsItUp when it is installed as a service on Windows Vista and above. It can also be used to control IsItUp from a Remote Desktop connection when IsItUp is installed as a service on any version of Windows Server.
New in IsItUp 6.81 (Jan 30, 2010)
- The new release adds a new Disk Space monitor that can monitor the free space on both local and remote disks. Disks can be monitored for a specific number of bytes or a percent of the total free.
New in IsItUp 6.79 (Jan 30, 2010)
- Improves the restart a service action when a monitor fails by allowing the reordering of the services to be restarted. This accommodates situations where there are dependencies between the services.
New in IsItUp 6.78 (Jan 30, 2010)
- Improves the reporting engine and improves the readability of both the up time / down time and the detailed device reports.
New in IsItUp 6.76 (Nov 11, 2009)
- The new version adds a new report to summarize the up and down time of a device being monitored. In addition, a new feature was added to simulate both successful and failed tests. This makes it easy to test notifications when a device fails or returns to operation without actually having to fail the device.
New in IsItUp 6.70 (Sep 30, 2009)
- improves reports in the comma delimited variable (CSV) format by launching the program associated with the CSV file extension to display it after the report generation is complete. In addition, IsItUp has improved Vista compatibility.
New in IsItUp 6.68 (Sep 14, 2009)
- includes a new feature to monitor the status of both local and remote windows services. In addition, a new action has been added to allow restarting a windows service if a device fails. With the addition of these new features, you can both detect and recover from failures of windows services.
New in IsItUp 6.67 (Sep 8, 2009)
- improves the detail report by including the windows services to restart if the monitor fails.
New in IsItUp 6.65 (Aug 31, 2009)
- Improves the performance of the monitoring engine and improves startup reporting.
New in IsItUp 6.64 (Aug 25, 2009)
- Improves the detail view of a device to more clearly display critical information about device alerts and actions and improves internationalization when viewing devices status from a web browser.
New in IsItUp 6.62 (Aug 14, 2009)
- improves reporting by adding the list of services to restart when a device fails to the detail view.
New in IsItUp 6.60 (Aug 1, 2009)
- improves the system help and corrects some minor bugs.
New in IsItUp 6.58 (Jul 17, 2009)
- adds a new feature to restart services on a local or remote machine when a device being monitored fails. This can be used to automatically recover important services such as web servers, database servers, and Email servers when they fail.
New in IsItUp 6.57 (Jul 4, 2009)
- adds a new Window Service Monitor that tests both local and remote windows services. This can be used to check on the status of important services such as web servers,database servers,and Email servers and alert staff if they have failed.
New in IsItUp 6.56 (Jun 16, 2009)
- Adds a new quick start guide to make in even easier to setup.
New in IsItUp 6.55 (May 25, 2009)
- Improves the performance of the built in web server and adds more precision percent availability calculations.
New in IsItUp 6.53 (May 11, 2009)
- Adds a new feature to optionally ignore SSL certificate errors during testing of secure web sites.
New in IsItUp 6.51 (Apr 22, 2009)
- Improves web server tester by improving it's ability to download to download and cheksum all included images.
New in IsItUp 6.48 (Mar 5, 2009)
- IsItUp 6.48 improves the display of the current state of the devices being monitored. The program now displays different icons for Up, Down, in Maintenance, and Dependent Device Down. This makes it easier to determine at a glance the status of your network.
New in IsItUp 6.47 (Feb 19, 2009)
- Includes a new feature to detect dependency loops when setting up alerting dependencies between sensors. In addition, the Event Log database has been completely replaced was a new high performance database engine which increases logging performance and decreases the size of the database. If your are upgrading from an earlier version of IsItUp, please download the standard install package and select the new upgrade option to complete the upgrade.
New in IsItUp 6.44 (Jan 21, 2009)
- IsItUp 6.44 improves the web view and adds functionality to launch the application maximized, minimized or return to the state and position it was in during the last close of the application.
New in IsItUp 6.37 (Oct 20, 2008)
- New feature to detect dependency loops when setting up alerting dependencies between sensors.
- The Event Log database has been completely replaced was a new high performance database engine which increases logging performance and decreases the size of the database.
New in IsItUp 6.32 (Aug 19, 2008)
- Includes a new feature that allows the monitoring of one or more devices to be dependent on the up state of another device. This feature is useful when you have one or more devices dependent on a hub. With the new dependency feature, you will only get one alert when the hub fails.
New in IsItUp 6.31 (Aug 13, 2008)
- Improves the ability to customize alert messages and includes several minor bug fixes.
New in IsItUp 6.30 (Aug 2, 2008)
- Improves the capabilities of the Bulk Change Wizard which allows users to change testing intervals and to add, modify, and delete EMail alerts to include adding, modifying and deleting Paging alerts.
New in IsItUp 6.27 (Jun 15, 2008)
- includes a new bulk change wizard that can be used to change the test frequency of more then one device at a time.
New in IsItUp 6.26 (Jun 1, 2008)
- IsItUp Version 6.25 includes new support to play a sound (wav file) when a device go down or comes back up.
New in IsItUp 6.17 (Mar 7, 2008)
- Views by Group, Device Type, and Failed Devices only
- User Defined Groups
- Free Upgrades and Free Support
- Individual device notes for contact information,etc
- Now supports remote access through MS Remote Desktop
- New Graphic View charts 'up' time and response time
- TCP/IP Port monitoring
- New Event Log Report that shows you what went on and when
- Improved event logging
- Improved Website monitoring features
- Expanded HTTP testing including content check, webpage checksum, support for GET, POST, and HEAD, Proxy Server
- Runs as a Windows service and on the Windows Tool Tray
- Home, Small Business, and Professional Versions
New in IsItUp 6.11 (Jan 11, 2008)
- Adds a new feature to import and export devices lists to comma separated value (CSV) files. This can be used to manage device lists outside of IsItUp, exchange subsets of the device list with other installations of IsItUp and other uses.
New in IsItUp 6.01 (Sep 4, 2007)
- Web Access using IsItUp's built in web server
- Views by Group, Device Type, and Failed Devices only
- User Defined Groups
- Free Upgrades and Free Support
- Individual device notes for contact information,etc
- Now supports remote access through MS Remote Desktop
- New Graphic View charts 'up' time and response time
- TCP/IP Port monitoring
- New Event Log Report that shows you what went on and when
- Improved event logging
- Improved Website monitoring features
- Expanded HTTP testing including content check, webpage checksum, support for GET, POST, and HEAD, Proxy Server
- Runs as a Windows service and on the Windows Tool Tray
- Home, Small Business, and Professional Versions
New in IsItUp 5.2 (Apr 3, 2007)
- User Interface enhancements - improved status view
- Now supports remote access through MS Remote Desktop
- New Graphic View charts 'up' time and response time
- TCP/IP Port monitoring
- New Event Log Report that shows you what went on and when
- Improved event logging
- Improved Website monitoring features
- Expanded HTTP testing including content check, webpage checksum, support for GET, POST, and HEAD, Proxy Server
- Runs as a Windows service and on the Windows Tool Tray
- Home, Small Business, and Professional Versions
New in IsItUp 5.0 (Jul 19, 2006)
- Now supports remote access through MS Remote Desktop
- New Graphic View charts 'up' time and response time
- TCP/IP Port monitoring
- New Event Log Report that shows you what went on and when
- Improved event logging
- Improved Website monitoring features
- Expanded HTTP testing including content check, webpage checksum, support for GET, POST, and HEAD, Proxy Server
- Runs as a Windows service and on the Windows Tool Tray
- Home, Small Business, and Professional Versions