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Servers Alive v6.2 (build 2279)
New - Updated
- The DENY list for the SNMP TRAPRECEIVER only checked it against the SNMP AGENT IP address. You can now configure Servers Alive to check it against the AGENT IP, the SOURCE IP or both. This can be done by creating HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers Alive\SNMPTrapReceiver\whatSenderForDeny (string) with a value of 0 for AGENT (default), 1 for source, 2 for both.
(this is NOT in the doc for v6.2 as this was added AFTER the doc was finished)
- The SNMP Trapsending alert on a receive trap (trap forwarder) will now also forward the received specific type.
- Servers Alive can convert the source and agent IPs to hostnames of the received SNMP traps. Once the convertion is done we will cache the info for a max of 3600 seconds (1 hour). You can view the current status of the cache via the VIEW CACHE command on the telnet/ssh interface of Servers Alive.
- The DNS check is now able to handle TXT records too.
- The DNS checks can now work with DNS ROUND ROBIN results. In the protocol definition screen (CTRL-P), you can define (when EXACTLY is selected) to "Ignore the order of received IPs".
- The HTML template based output generation can also check within the saif what the previous line's hostname was. As result it will only show the sa_hostname if it's different from the previous line.
- It was already possible to add an HTML output page to several entries at once via the "add to ..." button, you can now also remove it from several entries via the "delete from ..." button.
- The URL (http/https) check accepts all certs as being OK and continues the normal URL check. There is now a new option to "not ignore cert errors".
- In the HTML template based output you can use some operators (GT,LT,...) this can now also be used on SA_RRD_UPDOWN_ENABLED, SA_RRD_UPDOWN_GRAPH_AVAILABLE. SA_CUSTOM_VALUE_1,..SA_CUSTOM_VALUE_7
- The PING check can now also use the Type_of_service (TOS) setting of the ICMP protocol. The TOS will only be send if the sending OS is configured to send the TOS. (for more info on how to enable this http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=248611 )
- The SNMP trap sender always used the "default adapter" to send the trap. You can now force what adapter (IP) will be the one sending the SNMP trap via: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers Alive\SNMPTrap\Localhost (string)
- The SNMP TRAP sender sends it's trap with a SPECIFIC TRAP value of 0, this can now be changed via HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers Alive\SNMPTrap\SpecificType (string) (this is only valid for snmpv1 traps)
- On the ADVANCED setup for both primary and alternate SMTP alerts, you can now select as sender IP: DHCP. This is usefull when using a DUN connection, the IP that is used as sender is the IP that is assigned to the DUN adapter once the connection is actualy made.
- In the CONTEXT menu of a group, you have now the option to remove a group and it's entries. This will NOT delete sub-entries nor sub-groups.
- The SNMP trapsender can send the snmp traps to 2 hosts. The 2 hosts need to use the exact same settings except ofcourse for the IP address. In the setup-alerts-trap sending screen, seperate the IP addresses of both hosts by a comma.
- A entry that uses DUN for it's connection can't be threaded (that was already in previous builds), the same applies for entries that use a specific route (that's added in this build)
Fixes
- All known bugs were fixed
Servers Alive v6.1 (build 2204)
New - Updated
- In the ON-CALL schedule tab (person) you can now select multipli-days at once.
- New HTML tags for the RRD Updown logging, checking interval and priority
- <sa_ip> and %w now contain the IP of the responding server for a HTTP(S) check too. In case of a check via a proxy, it will be the IP address of the proxy server that is returned.
- MSN alerting now works threaded
- On system that have more then 1 IP address (can be on the same nic or due to having several nics), it could be that the mailsending is done via the "wrong" IP. By default the "localhost" is used and we let the OS "decide" what IP that is. In some cases this is not giving the wanted result. You can now tell SA what IP to use as sender (setup-alerts-smtp-primary/alternate)
- The RRD UPDATE generation will create the DB dir if needed, the BAT file will also create the db-subdirs. The graph command will be filled in as command to executed (when its empty, so no value will be overwritten). RRD screen typo fixed.
- Changes Wizard can also update the timeout values
- AIM alerting now works threaded
- The %m parameter contains the RRD timestamp. This can help when you want to do your own type of RRD logging.
- The Global Replace Wizard can now also update/change the custom fields.
- %g contains the group-name for that entry.
- The GUI of the SMTP setup as slighly changed. You can now for both primary and alternate define if a mail (to multiple recipients) has to be send in one session or several sessions. Sending in one session is quicker BUT when the mailserver refuses one of the recipients then the mail is not send at all (refused by the server).
- A URL check will temporary save the retrieve page on disk, this is by default done within the application directory. This can now be changed via HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers Alive\Startup\tempDirectoryforHTTP (string) (if you point to a none existing directory then the entry will be flagged as down with a error saying that the connection was reset).
- You can log (using dbgview.exe) the full SMTP/POP3 communication that is done by the mailsender. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers Alive\SMTP\debuglogging (dword) value of 1 This is typicaly ONLY used for debugging reasons!
- The WAP output can now include tags to auto-refresh the page (the browser will then auto-reload the page).
- The "screens" that have the day/hour scheduler are extended with a day/hour selector, making it easier to select the correct range that you want to use.
- Remote agent check included. More info
- When ADDing a new person, this person will by default get the same "active" setting as the first person (being the default person).
- TCP checks now works threaded too. (same limitations ofcourse as the other threaded checks)
- The URL check (without proxy!) can check an ipv6 website. You need (ofcourse) to have an ipv6 installed on the system running Servers Alive. We will first query the DNS to get an IPv6 IP address for the hostname and if that fails we will try to get an IPv4 IP address for the hostname.
- SMPP alerts can now be threaded.
- XMPP alerts can now be threaded.
- The HTTP STREAM check can now check password protected RTSP streams too. (protected with BASIC authentication!)
- 64bit OS detection and change of registry location when running on a 64bit OS.
- Via the setup-general-interface settings you can enable/disable the updating of the GUI during a check cycle.
- The message for a received SNMP trap can also include the generic/specific type of the trap. If HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers Alive\SNMPTrapReceiver\IncludeType (dword) has a value of 1, then the message for a received trap will include the generic and specific type of the trap too. Example message: Trap received from 199.8.7.6(172.22.150.179) with generic type 5, specific type 23 trigger rule With ....
- The PING check can now use a timeout of less then 1 second. If you enter 0.1 as timeout (example) and 1 frame to send, then we will check if we get a response within those 0.1s (100ms). The response column will show 0% if we didn't get a response within that given timeout, the roundtrip column could however still show the real roundtrip (123ms for example). This less then 1s timeout setting will only work when sending 1 frame!
- The PERFMON logging didn't include the HOSTNAME making it difficult to link it to the correct host.
- At startup we will check if the TELEPHONY service is running; if this is not the case then we will display a message box and quit Servers Alive.
- The SNMP TRAP receiver's lookup will when the OID as such is not found, but the parent OID is, give back as full-name, the name of the parent WITH the index part that was not found. By default it will only go check the real parent (meaning go one level up), you can however force Servers Alive to go more levels up, and this by adding/updating HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers Alive\MIBdb\ParentLevelsToSearch (string)
- In the default saved HTML output, you would get a double pretty-name shown within the table, if the entry had a pretty-name.
Fixes
- All known bugs were fixed
Servers Alive v6 (build 2056)
New - Updated
- PING check is threaded (*)
- URL (http/https) check is threaded (*)
- External COM check is threaded (*)
- SMTP alert is threaded, reducing the time it takes to perform this alert
- HTML template based output can be done from memory instead of disk, making it much faster
- Executive alerting enhanced (to refelect similar options as the status summary)
- "Execute Command" and "sound" can be used as alert on a received trap
- Uptime DB logging (Enterprise edition only!)
- More options in the changes wizard
- More options for the "contains" part of the URL checking
- New and updated HTML tags for the HTML template based output
- Winpopup alert is threaded
- SMPP alert is threaded
- If you give a "command to execute after update", then we will add this to the BAT file that does the UPDATE of the RRD files. This will reduce the cycletime of Servers Alive.
- CRC check for binary files in the URL check got a BIG performance boost.
- FTP upload are done in an async way, reducing the total cycle time
- Several new HTML tags for the template based HTML output
Fixes
- All known bugs were fixed
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