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Overseer Network Monitor Changelog

What's new in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.225.136

Mar 13, 2023
  • Fixes a bug with stopping notifications at a specific #

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.224.135 (Jun 18, 2022)

  • Adds the ability for Windows Service resources to fail if running or not running

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.219.126 (Sep 14, 2021)

  • Updates digital signatures

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.217.114 (Mar 8, 2020)

  • Updates digital signatures

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.215.89 (Oct 31, 2018)

  • Fixes bug saving schedules in some rare circumstances

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.214.85 (May 23, 2018)

  • Adds option to restart services on dependency failures(Tools->Options->General->Misc)

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.213.71 (Jan 25, 2018)

  • Adds "Failing Resources" option to Show dropdown on main Overseer screen

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.207.49 (Jan 13, 2018)

  • Adds notification for large SQLite file sizes

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.205.33 (Aug 17, 2017)

  • Adds SMS support for Bluegrass Cellular provider

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.193.0 (Jul 7, 2017)

  • Fixes problem experienced with some EM1 units

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.171.0 (May 9, 2016)

  • Fixes problem monitoring some websites that require cookies to be set

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.170.0 (May 9, 2016)

  • Changes Event Log monitoring to allow eventID filtering without specifying source

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.167.0 (Jan 21, 2016)

  • Fixes bug with event log duplicate detection when using MSSQL

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.166.0 (Jan 6, 2016)

  • Fixes bug on resource-type defaults in resource discovery wizard

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.165.0 (Dec 29, 2015)

  • Adds SMS support for Bell Canada and Rogers Canada providers

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.163.0 (Oct 6, 2015)

  • Fixes problem on some machines where Overseer Service would timeout when starting

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.162.0 (Oct 6, 2015)

  • Adds support for 'Telus' SMS carrier
  • Overseer installer exe, Overseer.exe, and OverseerSvc.exe are now code-signed with an expensive code-signing certificate

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.158.0 (Oct 21, 2014)

  • Adds 'Start Service' and 'Stop Service' options when right-clicking a Windows Service

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.155.0 (Feb 28, 2014)

  • Adds 'fail if' options to FTP resource type, allowing user to fail based on too many or too few files
  • Remembers column widths in main Overseer resource list
  • Adds 'Up/Down time' column to resource list view, that shows the down-time for a resource if it's down, and the up-time for a resource if it's online.
  • Adds [free] 'Disk Space %' column to resource list view if filtering on disk space resource types

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.143.0 (Nov 16, 2013)

  • Adds Resource List report
  • Adds Event Log Filtering by keyword
  • Enhances GUI responsiveness during resource deletion by deleting resource history in background thread

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.142.0 (Oct 25, 2013)

  • Adds Cellcom as a supported carrier for SMS notifications
  • Fixes bug with FTP server authentication to some non-Microsoft FTP servers

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.141.0 (Oct 15, 2013)

  • Adds support for adding resource type to custom texts

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.140.0 (Oct 12, 2013)

  • Adds the ability to move resources to other groups with drag and drop
  • Fixes authentication bug with event log monitoring
  • Adds the option to check for new Overseer version upon Overseer startup

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.135.0 (Sep 25, 2013)

  • Fixes problem with HTTP authentication
  • Adds the ability to move resources to other groups with drag and drop
  • Fixes problem with un-installer not deleting program data folder

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.133.0 (Aug 31, 2013)

  • Enhances HTTP resource type to be able to check for text in the response, response time, and SSL certificate expiration

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.132.0 (Aug 16, 2013)

  • Adds FTP resource type - check your FTP servers with Overseer
  • Adds TCP Socket resource type - check any port with Overseer
  • Adds Search box to Overseer resource list
  • Adds 'All Groups' to left tree to show all resources in one list, regardless of group
  • Adds the ability to show left tree with smaller icons(set in Tools->Options->Display)
  • Adds the ability to hide resource types in left tree when not used in that group

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.131.0 (Aug 10, 2013)

  • Fixes memory leak with event log monitoring later Windows OS's with Overseer also running a later Windows OS
  • Fixes error attempting to monitor local event log on Windows 8 OS

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.130.0 (Aug 5, 2013)

  • Changes maximum 'free disk space' limit from 999,999MB to 999,999,999MB

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.129.0 (Aug 3, 2013)

  • Adds Event Log Filter Sets feature
  • Fixes bug where editing event log filters sometimes would not save changes

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.127.0 (Jul 2, 2013)

  • Adds %NAME% and %LOGNAME% to custom event log text variables

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.126.0 (Jun 18, 2013)

  • Fixes error message in 5.0.124 regarding index creation
  • Enhances 'aggressive event log' detection to use new event log reading mechanism

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.124.0 (Jun 15, 2013)

  • Adds indexes to Overseer database to improve performance.

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.119.0 (Mar 24, 2013)

  • Adds 'ICE'(Costa Rica) as a cell phone carrier for SMS notifications
  • Adds support for Sensatronics E4 and E16 environmental monitoring units

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.114.0 (Feb 20, 2013)

  • Fixes bug where options screen would throw error if default password, resource group, notification group, or schedule was set to an item that had been deleted
  • Changes OverseerSvc's default TCP port to 12344(previously 12345), and makes this customizable via registry key

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.113.0 (Feb 18, 2013)

  • Changes multi-select editing to support resource dependencies

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.112.0 (Feb 8, 2013)

  • Changes ping resource to log latency to dData field in checklog table

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.111.0 (Feb 2, 2013)

  • Fixes problem with DBQuery resource type when using Windows authentication with a MSSQL named instance(i.e. SERVER\instance)

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.110.0 (Feb 2, 2013)

  • Changes Overseer to be UAC-aware, prompting for elevation to admin privileges when run
  • Changes DBQuery resource type to log scalar results to log table

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.106.0 (Dec 14, 2012)

  • Adds %SQLQUERY% and %SQLRESULT% to custom text variables
  • Fixes problem that crashed service, particularly when MSSQL integrated authentication was used

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.101.0 (Dec 7, 2012)

  • Adds support for actions, such as executing a program

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.96.0 (Nov 30, 2012)

  • Adds support for specifying proxy under tools->options
  • Updates user agent string for HTTP requests

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.93.0 (Oct 19, 2012)

  • Fixes very intermittent bug in Process Monitor resource type

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.92.0 (Sep 25, 2012)

  • Fixes bug present when using MSSQL as the Overseer database

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.89.0 (Sep 24, 2012)

  • Fixes bug when trying to run Overseer a second time with a different user session(via RDP)

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.88.0 (Sep 20, 2012)

  • Fixes bug with incidents not always closing in some situations

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.87.0 (Sep 15, 2012)

  • includes a new feature for ping resource types.
  • added a new setting per user request– the ‘Reachable’ setting.

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.85.0 (Sep 7, 2012)

  • Fixes issue with Overseer 5.x not saving information in the options dialog for ODBC logging

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.82.0 (Aug 30, 2012)

  • Fixes issue with Overseer 5.x, where if closed when minimized, the app would startup off the screen(and therefore unreachable)

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.81.0 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • Fixes issue with Process Monitor on Windows 2003
  • Fixes potential intermittent issue with authentication in some environments

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.73.0 (Jul 13, 2012)

  • Fixes small bug when first starting Overseer with HTTP resources that URLs don't start with http:// or https://

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.72.0 (Jul 12, 2012)

  • Fixes problem with some 4.x->5.0 upgrades

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.68.0 (Jul 11, 2012)

  • Adds a note to installer on Windows 2008 informing that .NET framework must be installed using server manager

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.67.0 (Jul 11, 2012)

  • Fixes a problem in the installer when upgrading from 4.x to 5.0 on some systems

New in Overseer Network Monitor 5.0.64.0 (Jul 11, 2012)

  • Adds button to easily fill SMTP server information to use Gmail account
  • Adds 'Data' section to options, allowing user to change location of Overseer database
  • Adds 'edit' button when managing notifications, schedules, etc.(double click to edit still works)
  • Adds filtering abilities to all item(schedule, notifications, etc.) list screens
  • Adds full, thorough help file
  • Adds new backup and restore wizard
  • Adds resource count to each node of resource group tree on left
  • Adds splash screen when starting
  • Adds support for extended event logs in W2K8("Applications and Services Logs")
  • Adds support for using MSSQL as the Overseer database. Requires addon module.
  • Adds the ability to edit multiple resources at once
  • Adds the ability to filter processes by command line as well as process name
  • Adds the ability to group resources by host/machine in resource view
  • Adds the ability to process monitor to notify when process exceeds CPU% threshold
  • Adds the ability to run discovery for just one host
  • Adds the ability to see the status of the Overseer service and start/stop it from toolbar
  • Adds the ability to set group/schedule/notification group/passwords defaults in options for all new resources
  • Adds toolbar below menu for easy access to frequently used functions
  • Changes edit resource form to include tree-based view on left
  • Changes Edit Schedule layout to hopefully make things easier to understand
  • Changes event log custom text to use built-in custom text system versus resource-specific fields
  • Changes Overseer to use one database file, instead of multiple
  • Enhances auto-discovery wizard to allow discovered hosts or manually entered hosts, better check/uncheck in tree, etc.
  • Enhances availability report to support reporting based on intervals(hourly, daily, etc.)
  • Enhances interactive test dialog
  • Enhances text import wizard to support importing multiple fields and more resource types
  • Enhances the schedule exceptions interface
  • Memory usage or process counts are always logged in the 'data' field for process monitor checks, regardless of failure/success
  • Move resource history interface from right click to 'History' entry in left tree of Edit Resource dialog
  • Overall interface facelift
  • Updated to use v3.5 of the .NET Framework
  • Warns and prevents deletions of items that are used(notification groups, schedules, resource groups, etc.)
  • When a service is stopped and started due to a dependency failure, dependent services are also stopped and restarted

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.47.0 (Jul 11, 2012)

  • Fixes intermittant problem with incidents not always closing
  • Made a change to enhance database performance
  • Now remembers which resource groups are collapsed when refreshing the resource groups pane

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.46.0 (Jul 11, 2012)

  • Fixes bug in 4.1.42 that caused license key information to not be found

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.42.0 (Oct 6, 2011)

  • Fixes bug with red X on resource selection screen when running resource discovery wizard

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.41.0 (Aug 18, 2011)

  • Fixes bug that wouldn't allow proper data entry of relative humidity(RH) % for EM1 resource types.

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.37.0 (Jul 25, 2011)

  • Adds check when deleting groups to make sure groups that contain resources cannot be deleted

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.35.0 (Jul 9, 2011)

  • Adds Resource Availability Report

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.34.0 (Jun 13, 2011)

  • Adds Incident report

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.31.0 (Apr 23, 2011)

  • Adds resource duplication ability

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.30.0 (Mar 29, 2011)

  • Adds �ILTIME% to custom text variables

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.29.0 (Mar 14, 2011)

  • Fixes performance issue when adding event log entries
  • Upgrades 'DevExpress' library components from 9.3 to 10.2

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.24.0 (Mar 14, 2011)

  • Adds fix for non-RFC-compliant web server responses
  • Misc under-the-hood fixes

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.22.0 (Feb 17, 2011)

  • Adds native MSSQL support for DBQuery resource types, including support for Windows authentication

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.21.0 (Feb 14, 2011)

  • Fixes some performance problems

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.1.15.0 (Feb 7, 2011)

  • Adds Resource Discovery Wizard(requires Active Directory)
  • Adds 'First Run Wizard' to assist in first-time setup steps
  • Adds multi-selection support for pausing/unpausing and deleting resources

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.11110.02 (Nov 11, 2010)

  • Adds resource dependencies(available under 'Advanced' on a resource edit screen)

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.11104.01 (Nov 5, 2010)

  • Fixes bug where add/delete/double click didn't work for event filters in recent builds(4.0.11024.01+)
  • Fixes bug where process monitor values wouldn't save

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.11031.01 (Nov 1, 2010)

  • Adds some performance tweaks to startup and GUI updates

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.11030.00 (Oct 31, 2010)

  • Adds event log duplicate filtering
  • Adds notification limiting option(i.e. no more than 200 sms messages per month for a specific phone#)

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.11024.01 (Oct 25, 2010)

  • Adds text file import option for resources under Tools menu
  • Adds 'show current incident' shortcut under right click menu for resources in 'failure' state
  • Defaults group on new resources to currently selected group
  • Fixes bug where group tree on left wasn't re-drawing after making changes to groups
  • misc. navigational enhancements to GUI

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.11020.00 (Oct 21, 2010)

  • Adds option under tools menu to backup config and/or data databases

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.11015.02 (Oct 21, 2010)

  • Adds support for multiple custom text definitions

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.10820.00 (Oct 21, 2010)

  • Fixes problem with new resources getting deleted resource's history

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.10819.00 (Oct 21, 2010)

  • Fixes problem with notify after time setting

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.10815.00 (Oct 21, 2010)

  • Fixes problem with skins

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.10618.00 (Oct 21, 2010)

  • Adds 'Pocket Wireless' to SMS carriers

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.10514.00 (May 15, 2010)

  • Fixes bug that would cause the service to crash on some low-spec computers

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.10503.00 (May 4, 2010)

  • Adds DB Query resource type

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.10310.00 (Mar 11, 2010)

  • Fixes bug that would sometimes give an error about an 'object reference' being invalid when testing a resource

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.10304.00 (Mar 6, 2010)

  • Adds support for TLS/SSL on SMTP relay server

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.10223.00 (Feb 24, 2010)

  • Adds registry setting to allow multiple instances of Overseer on the same computer(contact support for details, if needed)

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.10117.00 (Jan 18, 2010)

  • Adds setting in Options to control if 'recovery' notifications are sent if a resource never has notifications sent for a failing resource
  • Fixes problem with 'notify after' setting behavior

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.10113.00 (Jan 14, 2010)

  • Adds EM1 CSV logging feature

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.1202.00 (Dec 3, 2009)

  • Adds 'Display Name' to Windows service selection dialog

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.1112.01 (Nov 13, 2009)

  • Adds Cincinnati Bell to SMS carriers
  • Sorts SMS carriers alphabetically in drop-down
  • Fixes potential authentication problems if the same machine is entered in different cases(i.e. 'Machine' versus 'machine')

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.1104.01 (Nov 5, 2009)

  • Fixes problem opening event log resources with strict computer registry permissions

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.1029.01 (Oct 31, 2009)

  • Changes Overseer 3.0 import to create schedules as inactive to prevent password lockouts

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.1027.01 (Oct 28, 2009)

  • Fixes problem with notifications for some SMS carriers

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.1026.03 (Oct 28, 2009)

  • Adds Schedule Exceptions(i.e. maintenance periods)

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.1023.01 (Oct 24, 2009)

  • Fixes problem with ping count not saving properly

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.1022.01 (Oct 22, 2009)

  • Fixes problem with EM1 units on local network

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.1020.06 (Oct 21, 2009)

  • Adds help file

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.1015.1 (Oct 17, 2009)

  • Fixes problem with v3 import not importing 'restart service' setting

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.1009.04 (Oct 17, 2009)

  • Fixes error if Overseer is run with UAC on with non-admin account

New in Overseer Network Monitor 4.0.1009.01 (Oct 17, 2009)

  • Fixed problem with authenticating properly for resources on local machine when service is running as the default 'Network Service' user.

New in Overseer Network Monitor 3.0.1.29 (Oct 17, 2009)

  • Complete re-write