Version 2.60 1st June 2005
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New Features:
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| • | SNMP Support (sending traps) |
| • | Monitoring of application installation/uninstallation |
| • | Monitoring of machine-based autorun registry keys and directories |
| • | Web reports now feature an uptime calculation page |
| • | Ping option for remote update can be toggled |
| • | System health options can now be set to block inheritance |
| • | Process Monitoring can be configured to start after X seconds |
| • | Various enhancements in the management application, including proxy server support for feedback and news feature |
| • | Added ping dependency in heartbeat monitoring |
| • | Added additional monitoring options in heartbeat monitoring |
| • | Added database backup feature (if database is temporarily unavailable) to heartbeat monitoring |
| • | Agents installed through remote update can now be uninstalled on target machines using "Add/Remove Programs" |
| • | Desktop target notification now supports remote hosts in addition to the local host |
| • | "Online Configuration Update" feature was improved for higher stability |
| • | Map IP address to alias in remote update |
| • | Changed MSI installer from Wise to InstallShield for higher stability and more future features
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | Some SIDs were not resolved to usernames correctly |
| • | Clicking on the "Computers" container would show a wrong path in an error message |
| • | Computers would randomely not show up in the web reports computer list |
| • | Saving the configuration would increase the memory usage on the agent, without freeing it (~200kb) |
| • | Some processes in "Process Tracking" would incorrectly show up as "still running" when they had exited |
| • | Bootscan feature of Process Tracking would not record all activity correctly |
| • | Recurring event filters would not work 100% correctly when a schedule would end exactly at midnight |
| • | SMTP Footer would not appear in Mini Emails |
| • | Under certain circumstances on very busy event logs (e.g. security event log on domain controllers) some event records would be skipped and not processed by EventSentry. |
| • | The EventSentry agent would crash under special circumstances when using the summary notification feature. |
| • | When clearing an event log the EventSentry agent would not continue to monitor this log. |
| • | Fixed various issues with SP1 of Windows Server 2003 |
| • | Various bug fixes in the management application |
| • | Various bug fixes in the EventSentry agent |
| • | Fixed problems in combination with DEP (data execution prevention) in SP1 of Windows Server 2003
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Version 2.50 26th January 2005
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New Features:
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| • | Temperature & Humidity monitoring with external device |
| • | Heartbeat monitoring of remote hosts (ES agent monitoring, PING and TCP port checks) |
| • | Local computername may now be added to remote update list |
| • | ODBC Target supports ODBC connection strings in addition to DSN names for easier deployment |
| • | "Audit Process Tracking" can now also be switched off through "Process Tracking" feature |
| • | Recurring event feature lets you define events that you expect to appear (such as a tape backup) during a certain time period, and become notified if they are not |
| • | Computer field added to event log filter properties |
| • | Event Log Backup feature now supports environment variables in file name |
| • | Event Log Full detection now also supports the ODBC, NET SEND, SYSLOG and DESKTOP targets |
| • | GUI: Event Log Viewer supports sorting |
| • | GUI: Remote Update results window allows for sorting |
| • | GUI: Remote Update also sends computer names |
| • | GUI: Remote Update "Computers" container supports sorting and drag/drop |
| • | GUI: Targets support drag/drop |
| • | GUI: Active Directory linked groups now show the actual computers under the "Computers" container and allow for authentication to be set on a per-host level |
| • | GUIDs in event log records are resolved to display name |
| • | Filter Source, Category and Users allow for multiple values, separated by comma |
| • | Filter Source, Category and Users support negation with exclamation mark |
| • | Binary data of events now also available in all notifications, GUI and web reports |
| • | Additional variable support for the FILE target |
| • | ASP and PHP Web reports now work with all supported databases (Access, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle), the PHP web reports have been switched to use ODBC |
| • | A new Database Wizard now creates all tables, indexes and permissions automatically on MSSQL, MySQL and Oracle |
| • | The new MSI installer optionally creates a virtual IIS directory and/or sets up the MS SQL Server database automatically |
| • | SMTP target now supports an optional header and footer that can be added to every email |
| • | Service Monitoring: Included/Excluded services now support wildcards |
| • | Process Tracking: Included/Excluded processes now support wildcards
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | Database layout completely redesigned for faster web reporting |
| • | Event Log Scanning engine significantly improved |
| • | Memory Leak in filter processing removed |
| • | Absolute diskspace limits now work for values > 4Gb |
| • | Selecting a particular set of logical drives would not work |
| • | ASP Web pages corrected to support Access databases without restrictions |
| • | ASP Web pages corrected to support non-US date formats |
| • | Threshold feature incorrectly counting excluded events towards limits |
| • | Filtering of "Filter Text" would not work correctly when filter text attempted to match the last character of an event log record |
| • | Password for group (remote update) not saved correctly |
| • | GUI will not allow more than one instances anymore on computers running Terminal Services to avoid data corruption |
| • | GUI will not freeze while performing remote updates and switching to another application |
| • | Several bug fixes in ASP and PHP web reports |
| • | Unsupported characters were allowed in filter names, resulting in configuration corruption
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Version 2.43 22nd July 2004
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New Features:
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| • | Process Tracking records all process activity in a database and allows you to see a process history on all monitored hosts |
| • | Service monitoring can control services and maintain a set status. Failed services can now be automatically restarted |
| • | Disk Space Monitoring allows for more granular settings for warnings and database connections |
| • | Disk Space Monitoring will now recognize when new (fixed) disks are added or removed during runtime |
| • | Event Log Backup allows for backups of all event logs for faster configuration |
| • | Database table names can now be specified for each of the features requiring a database (ODBC target, disk space trend collection and detailed process tracking) |
| • | GUI: "Force News Update" reloads latest news |
| • | GUI: Filters can be commented
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | Handle leak in eventsenry_svc.exe. |
| • | Memory leak in NonPaged pool when using the TCP syslog target and remote syslog host is not accepting TCP connections |
| • | Launching applications with the "3rd Party Applications" feature might show error "Invalid access to memory location" and the application would not run. |
| • | An error with the summary notification feature could crash the application when a large amount of events (more than the configured maximum) were summarized. |
| • | Right-Click on SYSTEM event log in tray icon opens security log (no other logs are affected)
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Version 2.41 7th June 2004
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New Features:
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| • | Added $HOSTNAME variable to event log backup feature
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | Warning messages in PHP interface removed |
| • | Wrong $DAY, $MONTH and $YEAR variables in event log backup feature |
| • | OLE DB error in index.asp file removed when using an MS Access database
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Version 2.40 25th May 2004
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Version 1.x Compatability mode will no longer be supported starting with Version 2.40 of EventSentry. If you are still running 1.x agents in your network then you will need to upgrade them to version 2.40.
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New Features:
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| • | GUI: Tree in navigation pane restructured for easier navigation, general usability improvements |
| • | GUI: Maximum groups, targets were increased |
| • | GUI: Active Directory Import (with "Link" feature) added |
| • | GUI: Up to 5 remote event logs can be added to navigation pane |
| • | GUI: Change detection added, GUI tries to determine whether changes were made and only prompts to save then |
| • | GUI: Event Log Viewer filter added (filter for errors, warnings, information, audit success & failure) |
| • | GUI: Only active group is sent to remote computers with remote update |
| • | GUI: One-Button remote agent installation |
| • | GUI: Tree status is now also saved/restored when connecting to remote computers |
| • | GUI: ODBC target has a test button now too |
| • | SMTP Target: Mini-Emails can now be customized |
| • | SMTP Target: Dial RAS connections before sending emails |
| • | SYSLOG Target: This target has been optimized and should offer higher throughput |
| • | Custom variables are introduced, variable processing improved |
| • | Variable $EVENTMESSAGE for SMTP subject added |
| • | Automatically backup and clear event logs on a regular basis |
| • | Run command-line applications and log their output to the event log |
| • | Monitor memory consumption of processes to detect possible memory leaks |
| • | Monitor diskspace, including trend change detection |
| • | Trial Version & Full Version are now one product
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | GUI: Remote Update: Health settings of a group could be deleted when only updating filters |
| • | GUI: Service Monitoring would not save changes when adding services that don't exist on local machine |
| • | GUI: Feedback forms do not disappear when connection was unsuccessful |
| • | GUI: Renaming groups could yield random results |
| • | SERVICE: Filter processing has been optimized |
| • | SERVICE: Some boot time events could be ignored |
| • | SERVICE: Formatting of event log records has been corrected and improved |
| • | SERVICE: SMTP message now contain a Message ID
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Removed Features:
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| • | 1.x Compatability Mode was removed. If you are upgrading from version 1.x then you will need to upgrade to version 2.30 first to preserve existing filters.
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Version 2.30 3rd December 2003
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New Features:
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| • | EventSentry now monitors services |
| • | Small enhancements in the management interface |
| • | Filter Groups are now referred to as "Groups" |
| • | Filter Groups can be added/removed in Remote Update, System Health and Filters tree |
| • | PHP version of web interface added (ASP + PHP now supported) |
| • | Added links to eventid.net, google, etc. to web files |
| • | Sylog facility/level now mapped to event category for incoming syslog packets
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | Long date format problem in event viewer resolved |
| • | Rename problem in GUI resolved |
| • | Import Problem in GUI resolved
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Version 2.21 5th November 2003
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New Features:
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| • | Syslog target now supports TCP in addition to UDP |
| • | Remote Update speed improved |
| • | Remote Update displays more informative error messages |
| • | Remote Update now supports different credentials |
| • | Added troubleshooting section in help file and GUI for every target |
| • | Numerous enhancements in the management application |
| • | Added EventSentry Quickstart Guide
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | Event records containing a single dot per line could cut off email |
| • | Potential problems in wildcard feature |
| • | Problem in built-in Event Log viewer with certain events resolved
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Version 2.20 8th September 2003
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New Features:
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| • | (X)HTML emails are sent in multi part/alternative including a non-HTML version of the content. This is useful for email clients that are not capable of displaying HTML messages and for filtering (rules) in MS Outlook |
| • | The $HOSTNAME variable is now supported in the SMTP Sender email field |
| • | The built-in event log viewer allows you to query web sites to obtain information on a particular event |
| • | Installer features (Management package) improved
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | The syslog hostname (as logged & reported by the syslog daemon) was truncated |
| • | The welcome screen might show an invalid event log summary when connected to a remote machine |
| • | Day/Time summaries are sometimes not read correctly on the fly, a service restart is necessary |
| • | Changing the debug logging level requires a service restart |
| • | Various improvements in the management application
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Version 2.11 18th August 2003
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New Features:
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| • | A customizable Welcome Screen shows important information such as EventSentry news, event log summary and more |
| • | Display speed of the built-in event viewer was greatly improved |
| • | Invalid filter order is detected by management interface |
| • | For better usability some menu options were renamed |
| • | Sample ASP pages for querying an ODBC database were added |
| • | On German Operating Systems EventSentry logs German messages to the event log
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | The service (agent) underwent a major security code review |
| • | Memory usage was reduced and optimized |
| • | Exclude filters using more than one target would not exclude events properly |
| • | Drag & Drop would sometimes not work properly |
| • | Creating filters or targets would fail when clicking with mouse instead of hitting enter |
| • | Remote Update would sometimes not connect to certain machines |
| • | Import Wizard would only import ~250 computers |
| • | Size & positioning issues with desktop notification feature were corrected |
| • | Potential problems in the network target have been resolved |
| • | Problems with the summary notification have been resolved
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Version 2.10 3rd July 2003
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New Features:
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | Fixed problems in the built-in event viewer and other minor problems
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Version 2.01 18th June 2003
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New Features:
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| • | Added check box functionality for remote update |
| • | All groups can now be updated at once
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | Fixed problems in the remote update feature (including service installation) |
| • | Fixed problems in built-in Event Viewer
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Version 2.00 5th June 2003
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New Features:
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| • | Added installer software |
| • | Completely redesigned the management interface (GUI) |
| • | Filters can be assigned to multiple targets |
| • | Smtp target enhancements |
| • | Added network target (ala net send) |
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Bug Fix:
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| • | Permanent summary notification on Windows NT4 might not work due to missing %TEMP% variable
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Version 1.15 11th March 2003
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New Features:
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| • | Summary features events are now stored throughout service restarts |
| • | Filter option "Filter Text" is not case sensitive anymore
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | "Stop processing other filters" didn't work in combination with summary feature under some circumstances |
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Version 1.14 25th February 2003
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New Features:
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| • | Targets can now be enabled/disabled |
| • | Multiple concurrent instances of the GUI are prevented
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | The "stop processing other filters" option didn't work correctly under some circumstances |
| • | Bootscan would report too many events under some circumstances |
| • | Using ODBC with a MS SQL Server would sometimes not write events to the database |
| • | Excluding filters for particular targets would under some circumstances not work
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Version 1.12 10th February 2003
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | The filter summary dialog box is cleared/reset under some circumstances |
| • | A filter group update does not correctly set the active filter group on the target computer |
| • | Sending emails with certain mail servers would fail
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Version 1.10 4th February 2003
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New Features:
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| • | Introduced filter groups (see help for an explanation) |
| • | Added the parallel ASCII-printer target |
| • | Added email importance flags |
| • | Added/improved computer list import/export |
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Bug Fixes:
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| • | A special kind of event log entry could crash the service |
| • | Database DATETIME field was not used (text was used instead) |
| • | Event log entries would sometimes be ignored |
| • | Other minor fixes in both GUI and service
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Version 1.03 16th January 2003
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New Features:
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| • | Added the $HOSTNAME variable for the SMTP subject and FILE filename, added HTML customization options.
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Bug Fix:
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| • | If an event log is configured to "overwrite events as needed" and events are being overwritten (because the event log is full) then EventSentry can stop monitoring this particular event log under certain circumstances.
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Version 1.02 22nd December 2002
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Bug Fix:
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| • | Under some circumstances the GUI could crash when performing any kind of batch update. |
| • | The EventSentry service is not affected by this problem.
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Version 1.00 19th December 2002
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This was the initial public release of EventSentry.
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