Feed: EMCO Ping Monitor - Release Announcements - AggScore: 66.8

Version 4.7.3 is available

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

• During the monitoring pause all actions are postponed until the monitoring process is activated again and the connection status is defined
• The monitoring pause time do not affect the outage time and uptime
• Not only custom actions, but all enabled actions are displayed in the Host Details pane
• The On Monitor Start terminate action is considered to be obsolete and removed

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

• Possible SQL transaction error while logging
• The Application Log structure is broken after automatic removal of logged events
• Possible error while resetting the monitoring statistics

Version 4.7.2 is available

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

• Added support of Microsoft Windows 8 and .NET Framework 4.5

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

• Terminate actions are not initiated in some cases during monitoring of multiple hosts

Version 4.7.1 is available

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

• Added an option to reset all UI layouts to default state
• Buttons on the Ribbon bar are regrouped to make the user interface more intuitive

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

• The application cannot work with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 installed
• Application Log Auto Remove and Show Options are not respected when the application is running longer then a day

Version 4.7 is available

Monitoring time intervals

If you don't need to make hosts monitoring after working hours, you can configure the application to make monitoring only on defined week days and/or at the defined time interval. The monitoring interval options can be configured using the Preferences dialog.

Notification loop

The new notifications configuration options allow to repeat e-mail, balloon and sound notifications, if required. For every notification type you can configure a number of times it should be repeated (including infinite repetition) and a time interval between notification repetitions. As a result notifications will be executed the defined number of iterations or until the next connection status change.

New Add Host dialog

The dialog windows that is used to add new hosts is updated. Configuration options for added hosts are displayed now as tabs on the left side of the screen, so you can see all available options without scrolling.

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

• Added the option to specify custom sounds (WAV files) for sound notifications
• Added columns that display passed pings count, failed pings count and last outage start time
• Added highlighting of inactive hosts
• Improved host copying behavior

Version 4.6.8 is available

Extended list of custom actions

The supported list of custom actions was extended and now includes the 'On First Connection Failure' action. The 'On First Connection Failure' event occurs when a connection to a host fails immediately after the monitoring process is activated and in this case the specified action is executed.

Extended list of notifications

E-mail, balloon and sound notifications were extended and now can be generated for 'On First Connection' and 'On First Connection Failure' events.

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

• Optimized system resources usage

Version 4.6.6 is available

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

• Added the Last Outage column in the table view

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

• Potential application hang while starting the monitoring process on Windows Vista and above

Version 4.6.4 is available

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

• Added an ability to work with Internationalized Domain Names
• Added additional columns for the table view, such as: IP Address, DNS Name, Current Outage
• Added a feature to copy/paste hosts and copy statistics information, optionally including column headers
• Added integration with Windows Power Management settings to prevent switching computer to a sleep mode when monitoring is active
• Improved monitoring statistics output to prevent its clearing after monitoring stop, so it is now possible to analyze it
• Improved logging to include an overall ping statistics into log report
• Improved Custom Actions to set the working directory pointing to an executable file location, if the executable path is rooted or the executable can be found in any of PATH environment variable directories
• Improved host names input validation
• Improved system resources usage

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

• Wrong date format during Application Log export
• Wrong IP address resolution for specific hosts
• Potential error when stopping the monitoring process

Version 4.6.2 is available

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

• Improved system memory usage
• Improved integrated Help

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

• Outage length is calculated incorrectly in specific environments

Version 4.6.1 is available

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

• Improved hosts connection status decoration to display different icon for indeterminate status

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

• Potentially wrong detection of connection status change
• Reset Statistics does not reset overall shortest and longest outages time

Version 4.6 is available

Add hosts by IP range

Using the Professional version of the application you can add a group of hosts for monitoring at one step by defining an IP range. If corresponding option is enabled, IP addresses are resolved to host names. IP addresses that are failed to resolve can be skipped from adding to the list of hosts.

Application log export

Application log entries can be exported to CSV or XML files using the new Export button available on the Application Log toolbar. Pressing this button activates the Export Log Wizard that allows to select required export format and export options.

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

• Improved hosts export and import process
• Improved support for custom screen DPI settings
• Improved host states highlighting in the Table View to highlight paused state if the Highlight Connection Status option is enabled
• Used more intuitive Custom Actions and Terminate Actions trigger event names

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

• The Custom Actions feature may work incorrectly for the On Connection Loss event if time restriction options are used for the Custom Actions