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What's new in QuickMon 5.3.22

Mar 31, 2024
  • Perfmon collector - Made 'Average' the default when multiple instance values are available.

New in QuickMon 5.3.19 (Feb 5, 2024)

  • Enhance the Performance counter collector to handle % Disk Time and other Performance counters that requires more time to initialize.
  • Performance counter collector now multi-sample single instance counters as well.

New in QuickMon 5.3.16 (Aug 18, 2023)

  • Add separate Windows for editing Monitor pack Config variables.
  • Bug Fix - pausing while displaying Monitor Pack settings window.

New in QuickMon 5.3.14 (Dec 16, 2022)

  • Filter view - now also include 'Path' to filter by.
  • BugFix: Internal error (not visible to user) when closing filter view some internal Forms errors started and never stops.
  • Add 'group by minutes' to Collector graph control.

New in QuickMon 5.3.11 (Aug 7, 2022)

  • Changing HTTP Ping Collector to show HTTP Status code error codes.
  • Additional changes to Ping Collector to display more details in UI

New in QuickMon 5.3.9 (Apr 6, 2022)

  • Bugfix - Error when creating new Monitor pack and close the select template window without choosing a template.
  • Bugfix - When creating new Monitor pack and close the select template window without choosing a template update events of collectors do not fire.
  • BugFix - Tooltip on About button
  • Global Agent History window - change control layout to be more consistent with rest of the application

New in QuickMon 5.3.8 (Mar 18, 2022)

  • High DPI bug fix. OK and Cancel button not visible for Collector details/edit window.

New in QuickMon 5.3.7 (Mar 11, 2022)

  • Ping collector - display error details in stead of -1 on main UI like Time Out.
  • Add 'Check sequence' override on monitor pack level. Default is not enabled.
  • Note - not providing 32-bit version anymore. If anyone needs a 32-bit please contact me.

New in QuickMon 5.3.6 (Nov 6, 2021)

  • Cosmetic changes - Button styles.
  • Fix: Config variables in Templates: allow [null] and [any] values.
  • Add 'reset templates' button on the General settings window.

New in QuickMon 5.3.5 (Sep 13, 2021)

  • Enhancing PerfCounterCollector to handle more multi-Instance scenarios.
  • Fix bug - editing collector name gets overwritten when refresh of monitor pack happens.
  • Add Computer name property on Process collector.

New in QuickMon 5.3.4 (Jun 29, 2021)

  • A few template enhancements
  • Updated UI - Mostly buttons and check boxes to be flat.

New in QuickMon 5.3.3 (Apr 22, 2021)

  • Fix create new object from Template window to show edit values in list
  • Fix HTTP Ping template to not add extra http://
  • Change SSHQuery collector to exclude empty leading and trailing lines/characters

New in QuickMon 5.3.1 (Mar 17, 2021)

  • Minor update.
  • Change the way the full and quick recent monitor pack lists get launched. To be more consistent.

New in QuickMon 5.3.0 (Feb 13, 2021)

  • Adding the (Windows) Process Collector.

New in QuickMon 5.2.5 (Jan 27, 2021)

  • First version compiled with VS2019
  • Graph control selected series can be changed by up/down keys
  • Graph control selected series can be selected by clicking on the legend

New in QuickMon 5.2.4 (Jan 25, 2021)

  • Expand config variables to apply on name and remote host fields
  • Add a Value unit type to PowerShell collector when outputting numbers
  • Change the Performance counter collector to also use aggregated Instance values
  • Tweaked some templates
  • Add Graph color/settings customization
  • Add setting to allow control over main window startup size/location

New in QuickMon 5.2.3 (Dec 24, 2020)

  • Some advances in template usage (e.g. creating a new Folder now prompts for a name before saving settings)
  • RAW editing is not enabled/visible by default ( can be enabled in application settings )
  • Searching text in the Filter view now allow for some advanced syntax (like AND, OR, NOT etc. )

New in QuickMon 5.2.1 (Dec 1, 2020)

  • Collector Filtered View *
  • You can view a filtered list of Collector states
  • By Name
  • By Category
  • By Value

New in QuickMon 5.1.9 (Oct 11, 2020)

  • Add https security protocol options - e.g. TLS 1.x

New in QuickMon 5.1.8 (Oct 24, 2019)

  • Previous update broke the visual indication on the main window that a collector has been edited.

New in QuickMon 5.1.7 (Sep 23, 2019)

  • This is a minor 'service update'.
  • Tweak the collector editing window. Saving changes do not change current state to 'grey' icon.
  • Small fix to the NIXNICCollector (Summary text description)
  • Note: In Version 5.1.6 the following was changed
  • Add option to SMTP notifier to split 'To' addresses so each recipient gets a separate message.

New in QuickMon 5.1.5 (May 21, 2019)

  • List of changes:
  • Allow the use of the name 'localhost' in the PerfMon collector (maps to '.')
  • Adding a couple of new template entries for creating new monitor packs (requires reset)
  • Adding a new 'Global Collector history' viewer.

New in QuickMon 5.1.4 (Apr 1, 2019)

  • Adding template variables.
  • You can set up variables that will be use to prompt you for a value when use the template.
  • Use [[Variable Name]] to create a variable named 'Variable Name'
  • To specify a default value use [[Variable Name:default value]]
  • Allow using 'exit codes' in PowerShell collector.
  • You can make use of the exit command and $lastexitcode
  • Adding sticky main window location and size per Monitor pack.
  • Option to use either Frequent or Recent application jumplist (From Windows Taskbar)

New in QuickMon 5.1.2 (Feb 25, 2019)

  • Summary:
  • Add option to 'not check' URL on exit(ok button) when editing config to Ping, Performance counter and file system collectors.
  • A few small changes to the editors for 3 collectors.

New in QuickMon 5.1.1 (Oct 30, 2018)

  • Fix to Web Service collector to display actual value used for testing alert

New in QuickMon 5.0.10 (Aug 19, 2018)

  • Fix the RAW Xml config editor. Edited config wasn't saved if it started with "<?xml ..."

New in QuickMon 5.0.9 (Jun 2, 2018)

  • Eventlog collector edit fixes and enhancements

New in QuickMon 5.0.8 (Apr 24, 2018)

  • This is mostly just an UI refresh
  • Recent monitor pack menu item moved on main window
  • Fix tooltip for Open menu item
  • CollectorMetrics export to CSV
  • Exclude NotAvailable state unless Include None/Disabled option is enabled
  • Added Quick toolbars for Collectors and Notifiers

New in QuickMon 5.0.7 (Apr 4, 2018)

  • Log file notifier changes:
  • Can append date to log file name
  • Time format inside log file can be specified
  • Collector metrics exports:
  • Now can be enabled to log automatically
  • Two formats available - CSV and XML
  • QuickMon Service now enables collector state history(was always disabled in past)

New in QuickMon 5.0.6 (Mar 13, 2018)

  • Auto Refresh in 'Collector Details' window set to true by default
  • Clicking on refresh button in collector detail window will trigger a state refresh
  • When using 'Show Filenames In Details' you can also specify top # filenames to return.

New in QuickMon 5.0.5 (Feb 22, 2018)

  • The biggest change in this release is the addition of export collector history functionality. Now you can export historic state info (only manually for now) for reporting purposes.

New in QuickMon 5.0.4 (Feb 9, 2018)

  • Removed automatic restart of firewall service after rule was added. Causing problems on RDP sessions/VMs.
  • Config variables are now applied when in edit mode for some collector agents e.g. PowerShell, WMI, Registry, Eventlog etc.
  • Some SSH agent edit windows are now resizable.

New in QuickMon 5.0.3 (Nov 14, 2017)

  • Add Edit context menu option on main Window for Collectors.
  • Added a few more templates (requires reset templates to become visible).
  • Fixed use of template selection when creating new monitor packs, agent hosts.
  • Added a 'Skip' button on template selection dialog.
  • Refreshing of individual collector host (still a bit experimental)
  • Change log visible from About Dialog.

New in QuickMon 5.0.2 (Oct 29, 2017)

  • There is now an option to have the quick recent monitor pack list sorted by display name or not.
  • Details about which notifiers fired are now visible in the collector detail view.
  • When setting up 'Success, Warning or Error test conditions for some collectors a context menu provide some shortcut values.

New in QuickMon 5.0.1 (Oct 9, 2017)

  • Adding one small but long needed piece of functionality to the File/Directory collector: Search for text in the last X number of lines of a file (Text file implied). This is useful for things like monitoring log files that are constantly updated.

New in QuickMon 5.0.0 (Sep 26, 2017)

  • Uses .Net 4.5.* (thus support for Windows XP has been dropped)
  • The following Collector agent types are supported
  • Event log
  • File/Directory
  • Performance counters
  • Ping (ICMP/HTTP/Sockets)
  • PowerShell
  • Registry
  • SQL (including OLEDB)
  • SSH (General query/CPU/Memory/Disk IO and space)
  • Web Services
  • Windows Services
  • WMI
  • Corrective scripts enhancements (multiples)
  • Variable inheritance plus variables could be used for entire script reuse.
  • Collector detail window auto refresh
  • Easier Remote host/service management plus firewall exception set up.

New in QuickMon 5.0.0 Beta 3 (Sep 18, 2017)

  • Some output formatting changes plus one serious bug fix for SSH/NIX network monitoring collector on newer versions of (Ubuntu).

New in QuickMon 5.0.0 Beta 2 (Sep 15, 2017)

  • A few minor improvements like output values in main UI app when collectors experience errors internally.

New in QuickMon 5.0.0.9 Alpha (Aug 24, 2017)

  • Added more templates. Some SSH agent fixes.

New in QuickMon 5.0.0.3 Alpha (Apr 28, 2017)

  • Added setting to set Collector Auto refresh on by default.
  • Improved ability to install service from UI.
  • Add a way to remove/recreate Automatic Admin mode task from App.

New in QuickMon 4.4.4.403 (Apr 5, 2017)

  • With the shutdown of CodePlex this site will not be maintained anymore. QuickMon is moving to GitHub (in progress).
  • Thus, this will be last update available for QuickMon on this site.
  • The application will now point to the GitHub repository for newer updates. -> https://github.com/RudolfHenning/QuickMon/releases

New in QuickMon 4.4.2.1231 (Jan 5, 2017)

  • Corrective scripts now have setting to limit the number of times it can run in a specified number of minutes.

New in QuickMon 4.4.1.1228 (Dec 30, 2016)

  • Small fix to correct issue with the open monitor toolbar button on the main window.

New in QuickMon 4.4.0.1219 (Dec 30, 2016)

  • Action scripts - scripts that can be run manually from the Collector status viewer.
  • Alert header/footer text - to add some additional info for alerts to help user afterwards.
  • Extra notes for Collector hosts
  • The Collector host editor has been improved/redesigned to add all the new functionality.

New in QuickMon 4.3.9.1114 (Nov 17, 2016)

  • Minor update to fix issue with editing security credentials

New in QuickMon 4.3.8.1101 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Small update to fix the 'Expand' on success in the UI
  • Added a button to edit MonitorPackList.txt when running in Admin mode.

New in QuickMon 4.3.7.1012 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Small UI related change:
  • For a Collector Host when using Remote Host and the default port is used only the host name is displayed on main window (UI) (and port is not anymore). This simply makes it easier to read.

New in QuickMon 4.3.6.915 (Sep 15, 2016)

  • Fixed/enhanced the corrective script functionality so it may take parameters as specified in config. Previously only a single batch file or executable was allowed.

New in QuickMon 4.3.5.719 (Jul 21, 2016)

  • This update add another Notifier filter (only run on host X,Y...) and move the Remote Host list to a separate window.
  • One fix: File Collector displays file names correctly in detail view and alerts (was broken in recent builds).

New in QuickMon 4.3.4.613 (Jun 13, 2016)

  • This update fixes a bug in some of the SSH based collectors where the Collector host will report a warning when there one or all agents reports an error.
  • It is now also possible to export/import all current templates (for backup)

New in QuickMon 4.3.0.516 (May 23, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Config variable changes don't apply until monitor pack is reloaded.
  • Reworked redundant alert text
  • New collector agents:
  • Linux SSH Command
  • Linux Process

New in QuickMon 4.2.2.324 (Mar 26, 2016)

  • Remote Agent Host service can now report on monitor packs serviced plus A few other fixes.

New in QuickMon 4.2.0.304 (Mar 15, 2016)

  • New functionality:
  • Monitor pack Logging: For troubleshooting and keeping a bit of history the Monitor pack itself can enable logging to a text file. A number of flags can be set what to include in the logging.
  • Categories: Collectors (hosts) can be tagged with a number of categories which can be used for selective logging (monitoring) or selective alerting. Notifier hosts can be set up to only accept alerts from collectors with a specified (list) of categories.
  • The QuickMon service now supports multiple instances! This means multiple remote hosts (each with a different port) can be used to service different purposes. Installation of the extra instances is still a manual process (but will be simplified in the future). Use "QuickMonService -help" from the command line for more details.

New in QuickMon 4.1.1.1126 (Nov 26, 2015)

  • Minor refresh.
  • Corrective script paths can now include system environmental variables

New in QuickMon 4.1.0.525 (May 25, 2015)

  • Adding as separate download as default link just downloads 32-bit version.

New in QuickMon 4.1.0.518 Beta (May 19, 2015)

  • This is a Beta release for 4.1 to test the new functionality of specifying an user account to use for a collector host (aka Impersonation). It is fully compatible with 4.0 (but adds some new config attributes which 4.0 isn't aware of).

New in QuickMon 4.0.6.320 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • Cleaned up the main UI plus:
  • About window now display a link to the latest available version (here on Codeplex)
  • Bug in WMI collector detail view that ignored the column order specified fixed.
  • Recent monitor pack file window now allow for clearing the whole list or automatically clean out invalid entries (files that do not exist anymore)

New in QuickMon 4.0.4.311 (Mar 11, 2015)

  • Remote hosts tab now show link to start the local service/host if it is stopped (but the app must be in Admin mode to see the option).
  • When adding the firewall rule the link is removed after the rule has been successfully applied.
  • 'Collector details and metrics' had a bug that did not remove previous 'Current values' if the number of values decreased.
  • Read me file was updated.

New in QuickMon 4.0.3.306 (Mar 7, 2015)

  • Fixed a bug in the core component that affected agents with custom variables and using a remote host.

New in QuickMon 4.0.1.227 Beta (Feb 28, 2015)

  • Has MSI installer
  • Register a new file extension handler (*.qmp4) for Version 4 specifically.
  • Agents for Database, PowerShell, Directory services, Web services and BizTalk have been added.

New in QuickMon 4.0.0.0 Alpha (Jan 22, 2015)

  • Collectors: Ping, Windows Services, File, Perf counter, Event log, Registry and WMI query.
  • Notifiers: Audio, Event log, In memory (for debugging but not visible yet), Log file, SMTP.
  • Service: Remote agent host functionality is working.

New in QuickMon 3.28.1128.2014 (Nov 28, 2014)

  • Some UI cleanup has been done to menus.

New in QuickMon 3.27.1020.2014 (Oct 21, 2014)

  • Added 'Service windows' to notifiers (similar to those in collectors). This means you can set up 'times' when a notifier will be 'enabled' to send/record alerts. Take note that alerts raised during that time will be missed (will not be delayed or something like that) for that particular notifier.
  • Additionally a new property has been added to collectors to 'ignore' all alerts. This is useful if you don't care for alerts from that particular collector but want its dependent (child) collectors to not operate if the parent has an error - e.g. parent Ping collector with child collectors checking resources on that machine.

New in QuickMon 3.26.1005.2014 (Oct 6, 2014)

  • This version adds one new option with using Remote host functionality. If the remote host service is not available on the remote machine the calling collector can attempt to run from the local machine as a backup

New in QuickMon 3.25.916.2014 (Sep 16, 2014)

  • Fixed an issue where Monitor pack level config variables do not apply when using remote hosts.

New in QuickMon 3.23.827.2014 (Sep 11, 2014)

  • Main windows toolbar reworked a bit
  • App setting to pause updating while editing agent configs
  • Context menus can be dragged around
  • Maximum polling time changed to 300 seconds
  • Folder collectors now shown in bold

New in QuickMon 3.21.811.2014 (Aug 14, 2014)

  • This is a simple bug fix version update.
  • Notifier Unattended functionality fixed (when run under service)
  • PowerShell collector test conditions for 'Success/Warning/Error' enhanced a bit.

New in QuickMon 3.20.801.2014 (Aug 1, 2014)

  • Added a 'Directory Services Query' collector agent. This collector allows for querying Active Directory using simple DirectorySearcher queries.

New in QuickMon 3.19.711.2014 (Jul 11, 2014)

  • Copy/Paste of collectors can now be done across multiple windows/instances.
  • Fixed auto saving (sorry it wasn't noticed before)
  • Quick dropdown recent pack list only display file name (no path) by default. App has setting to enable show full paths if required
  • Collector entries now has setting to enable/disable auto expand on first load. Default is expanded. This gets overridden if child collector has warning/error.

New in QuickMon 3.18.707.2014 (Jul 7, 2014)

  • Registry collector can now handle binary and string array data (as in regedit)
  • SOAP web service collector marked as deprecated.
  • Event log collector - text can now be tested with regular expressions
  • File collector - file content can now also be search for (including using regular expressions)

New in QuickMon 3.17.704.2014 (Jul 4, 2014)

  • This version introduces some new functionality like:
  • Configuration Variables for both Collectors and Notifiers
  • Adding 'alerts raised' in Collector stats history
  • Blocking remote host inheritance (as specified in a parent collector)
  • Monitor pack now has a 'Type' property allowing filtering the recent monitor pack list

New in QuickMon 3.16.627.2014 (Jun 30, 2014)

  • Introducing the Dynamic Web service collector. This collector can query both plain SOAP based web services plus WCF based web services.
  • The 'old' SOAP web service collector is still included for this release to give you a chance to convert any existing instances to the new collector. In a future release the old SOAP based collector will be removed.

New in QuickMon 3.15.610.2014 (Jun 11, 2014)

  • This release expand on 'Presets' - now called Templates. A complete Template editor has been added so you can manage templates(edit, save, import and export). Existing agent configs can be saved as a template for reuse as well.
  • Additionally a few other fixes were done as well:
  • Fixed Registry collector - allow 'blank' key value ( values)
  • Default Monitor pack history size is now 100
  • qmp file extension is now the default

New in QuickMon 3.14.603.2014 (Jun 3, 2014)

  • Add/changed default file extension for monitor packs to *.qmp (*.qmconfig still valid)
  • *.qmp (and *.qmconfig) file icon changed.
  • A few more bug fixes (like deleting multiple notifiers)

New in QuickMon 3.13.528.2014 (May 29, 2014)

  • Adding an Audio/sound notifier that can be used to simply draw attention to the application of a warning pr error state is returned by a collector.
  • Adding a property for Notifiers so it can be set to 'Attended', 'Unattended' or 'Both' modes.
  • Adding a WCF method to remote agent host so the version can be checked remotely.
  • Adding some 'Sample' monitor packs to installer.

New in QuickMon 3.12.526.2014 (May 26, 2014)

  • Polling frequency presets fixed (slow, normal and fast)
  • Added collector call duration to history
  • History now displays time, state, duration and details in separate columns
  • Added a quick launch drop down list to main Window (only visible when mouse hover over it)
  • Removed the toolbar border.
  • Changed Windows service collector to report error only when all services from all machines in list are down

New in QuickMon 3.11.520.2014 (May 20, 2014)

  • Polling overrides: Each collector entry can specify a minimum time updating is allowed for it and dependent collector entries.
  • Polling frequency sliding: Additional to polling overrides a collector entry can specify 'sliding' polling frequency if the state remains the same. This means the frequency slows down reducing overhead of polling on a stagnant resource.
  • The monitor pack has an overriding frequency. If used this overrides the hosting process/app polling frequency.
  • Collector history in stats window is on a new separate tab.
  • Alert settings for collector entry is on a new separate tab.
  • File collector has two new properties: FilesExistOnly and ErrorOnFilesExist. This is useful if you want to simply test for the existence/non-existence of a file.
  • Plus a whole number of UI changes to the Windows client.

New in QuickMon 3.10.515.2014 (May 16, 2014)

  • Adding the ability to see 'history' of Collector states (including details of errors or warnings at that time). The history size is configurable (default is switched off) and the Windows Service completely ignores keeping history (no UI or user to access it anyway).
  • The Collector stats window now displays this history plus multiple collector stats windows can be opened at the same time.
  • Additionally fixed a bug in the event log collector that reported an 'Error' state when an 'out of bounds' error happened - which is caused by when something just happens writing to the event log at same time of reading it.
  • Update: found a bug in some changed code that caused an application crash if specifying a remote host for a new collector. Fixed. Please download again if you already downloaded previous one.

New in QuickMon 3.9.508.2014 (May 9, 2014)

  • First official release of the PowerShell script Collector.
  • Corrective script can now also be PowerShell scripts!
  • There are a couple of internal bugfixes to the core components as well. e.g.:
  • Overriding remote host setting now applies to ALL child collectors
  • Main UI app now indicates (in Window title) if there are changes that needs to be saved.
  • Polling frequency can be adjusted by 'slide bar'

New in QuickMon 3.8.502.2014 (May 2, 2014)

  • This release adds an IIS Application pool Collector. It simply checks if an IIS application pool is running or not.
  • Important:
  • Another BIG change is that the MSI installer now exclude all 'Extra' Agents. These can now be downloaded separately as needed. These agents are:
  • BizTalk Agents
  • IIS Agents
  • OLEDB Agents
  • MSSql Agents
  • Each is contained in a zip file with instructions how to install.

New in QuickMon 3.7.424.2014 (Apr 25, 2014)

  • Added 'Copy and Paste' functionality so whole sections/branches of Collectors can be duplicated quickly.
  • Added a Collector statistics window so you can view details like error or warning details, when last polling was etc.
  • On refreshing the icons change to indicate refresh progress
  • A firewall exception can be added from the Windows client for the service (port 8181)

New in QuickMon 3.6.419.2014 (Apr 22, 2014)

  • I've added an OleDb Query collector to access old data sources like mdb or csv files.
  • It can be considered beta but it already works.
  • Unfortunately due to how Microsoft broke things like the Access Jet engine on 64-bit(when you use 32-bit office) it can be a bit of a headache to get to read mdb files. See my blog entry about how to get 64-bit Access db engine to work on a machine with 32-bit office.

New in QuickMon 3.5.415.2014 (Apr 16, 2014)

  • Remote agent setting of a parent collector can override dependent child collectors
  • 'Select collector type' window now groups collectors by type to make it easier.
  • Alert suppression can now also be set by number of 'Polls'/polling events.

New in QuickMon 3.4.412.2014 (Apr 14, 2014)

  • On adding new collector you now have the option to go straight to the raw edit/import from existing window.
  • There is a menu button on the main window to open the 'recent' monitor packs.
  • Rearranging the entries in the collector tree view can be done with the keyboard (CTRL plus arrow keys)

New in QuickMon 3.3.325.2014 (Mar 25, 2014)

  • Added a new feature - Restoration scripts:
  • Restoration scripts are sort of just the opposite of corrective scripts. When a collector's state change from either error or warning to good a specified script can be run.
  • This allows you to have functionality where a corrective script can disable or stop 'something' until the alert state returns to good and the restoration script can restore or start the 'something'.
  • Additionally, warning and error corrective scripts now have the option to be run only on state change or (default) every time the state is warning/error.

New in QuickMon 3.2.207.2014 (Mar 6, 2014)

  • New user interface
  • Simplified management/configuration (editing config' can be called straight from the main window)
  • Ping collectors for ICMP, HTTP and socket ping have been consolidated into one
  • Removed the RSS feed notifier
  • For debugging purposes a separate command line based tool has been added to serve as a remote agent host
  • Full Windows service that is also a 'Remote' agent

New in QuickMon 2.13 (Oct 15, 2013)

  • Removed the ability to query multiple machines with the same query.
  • Added the ability to specify a list of wmi query instances within the same collector instance (this replace 1.)
  • Added a simplistic WMI query syntax builder.
  • Detail window updated accordingly.

New in QuickMon 2.11.2 (Sep 13, 2013)

  • Added auto refresh to the Windows Service and SQL Query collector detail views.
  • Also enhanced the SQL Query collector to allow the detail query to be edited while viewing the details.

New in QuickMon 2.11.1 (Aug 16, 2013)

  • Added an 'Auto refresh' option to most Collector detail view Windows.
  • Also made some minor changes to some collectors to optimize how they operate - e.g. Event log collector

New in QuickMon 2.10.4 (Aug 8, 2013)

  • Added a new Collector for 'simple' Socket pinging.
  • This allows you to 'ping' via any ports/protocol, e.g. telnet(23), ftp(21), http(80), mssql(1422) etc. All you specify is a host name and port number.
  • It does not send any commands to the host (actually just the string 'hello' but it does not even check the response).
  • The purpose is simple to check if a connection can be made and check the round trip time.

New in QuickMon 2.10.3 (Jul 1, 2013)

  • Mainly just a service release - no major changes.
  • Toolbar buttons on main and config window can now be re-arrange (using ALT key)
  • Added property to disable corrective scripts

New in QuickMon 2.10.2 (Apr 25, 2013)

  • Small change to File count Collector - now has setting to simply check for existence of a directory (ignore checking any file counts)

New in QuickMon 2.10.1 (Apr 16, 2013)

  • Small update to fix a few minor bugs in the Registry Query Collector plus setting to enable/disable value expansion of system value placeholders.

New in QuickMon 2.10 (Apr 15, 2013)

  • Added a Registry Query Collector - allows you to query the registry of a local and remote machine.
  • Also add some functionality to the SQL Query collector so it can use the query time (in milliseconds) as return value.

New in QuickMon 2.9 (Apr 10, 2013)

  • This version adds a new functionality (very basic) to allow 'corrective' scripts to be run if a collector raises a warning or error. At the moment it only allows for running a simple batch file (or simple exe with no parameters).
  • A new experimental notifier has been added - Performance counter Notifier. It simply raises the last returned value from each collector (must be a number) as a performance counter. Unfortunately due to the way QuickMon works it only really works if minimum alert level is set to 'Debug'. Could be useful for testing QuickMon itself but not much more.

New in QuickMon 2.8.3 (Apr 4, 2013)

  • Added ability to SQL Query collector to 'persist' open connection if needed. This is useful if you want to test for connection/network drops that might be too quick to pick up otherwise.

New in QuickMon 2.8.2 (Mar 15, 2013)

  • Small change to launch the UI client in admin mode the first time it runs since it needs to create the performance counters that require Admin mode.
  • UI client also 'appears' to load quicker.

New in QuickMon 2.8.1 (Mar 7, 2013)

  • Added performance counters to core, UI and service components.
  • No changes to collectors or notifiers directly.

New in QuickMon 2.8 (Mar 4, 2013)

  • Collectors now have enhanced Service Window functionality - Day of the week and Holidays/Excluded days.
  • SMTP Notifier now allows you to choose TLS and specify the server port number.

New in QuickMon 2.7.3 (Mar 1, 2013)

  • Fixed a bug where the agent config editor would bomb if no previous config existed and you tried to immediately use manual edit.
  • The old "MonitorPackPath" config setting for the Windows service has now completely been removed! If anyone is still using it you must switch to the "MonitorPackPaths" array setting.
  • Changed icons - introduced a new QuickMon symbol (dual lightning bolts making a 'Q')

New in QuickMon 2.7.2 (Feb 27, 2013)

  • Introduced .Net 4.0 Parallel extensions to make better use of multi-threading environments. Amount of 'parallelism' can be configured (UI or config file).

New in QuickMon 2.7.1 (Feb 20, 2013)

  • Some minor UI updates.
  • Includes an updated readme.rtf for people that want to set up the Windows Service.

New in QuickMon 2.7 (Feb 13, 2013)

  • Added new Soap Web Service Ping collector.

New in QuickMon 2.6 (Aug 6, 2012)

  • Introduced .Net 4.0 Parallel extensions to make better use of multi-threading environments. Amount of 'parallelism' can be configured (UI or config file).

New in QuickMon 2.5.4 (Jan 19, 2012)

  • Minor update to fix silly UI bug in the Event log collector config editor.

New in QuickMon 2.5.2 (Nov 11, 2011)

  • Added syntax coloring and highlighting control for manual XML config editing and SQL Query collector.

New in QuickMon 2.4.1 (Oct 21, 2011)

  • Fixed issue where new Event log collector config editor requires UAC access on Windows 7/Vista.