PA Server Monitor Release Candidate

This page is where you can find our very latest release. Versions that make it to this page are considered solid and candidates for production release, but they haven't finished testing or received enough feedback yet. If we implement a feature or fix for you, we will typically send you to this page to try it out.

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Current Preview Release

Version 9.6.0.59 [16 December 2024] is currently in testing.

[.165] * Satellites will not send down notifications if the hosting server is in a maintenance window
[.165] * Better per-user service detection
[.165] * Custom chart generation for line and bar charts
[.175] * Reports have the option to choose logarithmic charts
[.180] * Fixed repeating error when SNMP disk space check fails
[.180] * Added the status tab to the Advanced Options of the Inventory Collector monitor
[.190] * Fix in Web Page monitor that could ignore an error when a HEAD command is issued
[.190] * Added support for undocumented configuration merge. Contact Support for help
[.207] * Changed from SMPP v3.3 to v3.4 which is more common
[.207] * SMPP action will try to use a persistent connection, and send one message at a time
[.207] * Upgraded to Chromium 109
[.207] * Syslog sender action can send using UTC (default) or local server time
[.232] * SNMP monitor configuration can do a filtered walk to pull back a subset of the OID tree
[.232] * Fixed email maintenance reply command processing when email format is HTML
[.232] * Fixed a deadlock in File Sight FileInfo processing
[.238] * Chromium helper (Console.exe) processes shut down better
[.256] * Better Console operations for a user that doesn't have Windows admin rights on the local computer
[.259] * Added $Now(spec)$ replacement variable for usings parts of the date or time
[.270] * Web Page monitor can report on desired error response codes using the NOT response code pattern
[.270] * Web Page monitor will report more than one found problems in the alert description
[.270] * Added audit log for monitor templates being enabled and disabled
[.280] * Minor report CSS improvement
[.280] * Updated to OpenSSL 3.0.15
[.280] * Deleting an item in the Console will ask for confirmation, with a checkbox to not ask again
[.280] * Fixed Dynamic Table reports that sometimes showed an empty first page
[.282] * Added Bulk Config "Computers: Copy Computer Custom Properties to Other Computers"
[.282] * Fixed Web Page monitor's checks for headers changing
[.295] * Fixed a bug in a SQL Server error handler
[.295] * Added support for more VMWare ESX performance counters
[.299] * Added Support for {+/-}amount{d/w/m/y} for the $Now()$ replacement variable
[.326] * Web Page monitor won't alert on empty page if a redirect 301 or 302 was received
[.326] * Visual Status Map handles the same light being on the map more than once
[.326] * Set Satellite Host can use the value DELETE to remove a setting
[.326] * curl usage will set the m_finalURL parameter which gets set to the $mon.Var0 in the Web Page Monitor's scripts
[.342] * Smaller MonitorStatusHistory table in busy installations
[.342] * Less CPU usage for large busy installations
[.342] * MAC address will only be used to lookup manufacturer if the source IP is from the local subnet
[.344] * 'Combined' server charts with multiple values will be guaranteed to use different colors for different stats
[.344] * Server charts will snap to the nearest value to show for the cursor
[.351] * Saves in the Console will synchronize a little quicker to the Central Server if the user does a Run Now
[.351] * Don't let computers use not-yet-loaded icons in the Console
[.351] * Fix for curl not returning last response (considering redirects)
[.351] * Satellite reports will indicate status is the Last Status if not connected
[.351] * Fix for $mon.SendMail not working when run on a Satellite
[.352] * File & Directory Size monitor can alert separately on previously seen files vs target files not seen
[.352] * Load icons from custom folder AND the default folder
[.379] * User configurable (via registry) Execute Script editor font size, with larger default
[.379] * Fix for hardware monitor sometimes not alerting
[.412] * Monitors that were firing Alert Red were not firing actions
[.432] * Fix for DNS monitor when there is an initial lookup failure
[.432] * Fix for web interface reports list under View Existing Reports
[.433] * Custom line charts will show more data points, which can be further configured
[.440] * Custom line chart changes to shown down events better
[.440] * Fix for regression bug when doing Run Now on monitor on a Satellite
[.444] * Fix for DNS Monitor which wasn't always doing recursive lookups
[.445] * Added ComputerAlias to VBScript Execute Script monitor
[.445] * Simplified SQLite database cleanup
[.445] * Fixed editing content of Executive Summary parts
[.456] * A monitor won't come out of its "First Run" status if the first run is an error
[.456] * Logging failed login attempts that come through the web interface
[.463] * Giving the Helper more time to startup before timing out
[.002] * New Console status dots - can be configured to go back to the colored borders
[.002] * Fix for recognizing well-known performance counters on Satellites for non-English Windows
[.058] * Expression evaluation is more performant
[.058] * CPU optimization: Event Log monitor has better include/exclude Expressions parsing
[.058] * Log File, Email and SNMP Trap monitors now also have ignore filters
[.058] * Fix for problem in Event Log and Active Directory Login Monitor propagating error so a cleared event log is not falsely reported
[.058] * Fixed a recently introduced issue with rotated log files not getting deleted
[.058] * Template propagation is faster
[.058] * Hardware monitor not using cached values to try to better detect hardware changes (and avoid false positives)
[.058] * Upgraded to IPWorks SNMP 2024
[.058] * Fix for the report 12/24 hour setting not being honored everywhere
[.058] * More efficient log writing
[.059] * Fixed log file temporarily locking during in recursive situations

Updates / Upgrades

PA Server Monitor can be upgraded by simply installing the latest version on top of your existing installation. Your settings and databases will be upgraded as needed.

You might need to reset the PA Server Monitor service's Run As account (from Settings or the Windows Services applet), but other than that no further configuration changes will be needed.