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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:29 pm    Post subject: Advanced Host Monitor 7.95 Beta Reply with quote

There is version 7.95 Beta
http://www.ks-soft.net/download/hm795b.exe
Not recommended for production monitoring but should be interesting for testing.

What’s new (comparing to version 7.90):

1) HostMonitor and RCC: new User Preferences dialog allows you to setup various GUI options on per-user basis. Previous versions of HostMonitor allow you to setup default GUI setting for all operators and use different color profiles, list of test properties to display, sorting mode, etc for some specific folder(s) of the test list. Now you may set specific color palette for some folder as well, plus you may setup unique color palette and other GUI related options for each operator.
“Per-folder” level settings may be useful when each operator has its own home folder or you want to distinguish some folder among rest of tests. New options allow you to use different GUI settings even if several users have access to the same folder (e.g. “admin”, “manager 1”, “manager 2” and “boss” accounts may have access to Root’ folder (entire test list) but they want to use different color scheme and display different list of test properties).
User Preferences dialog allows you to copy settings between accounts and setup <Default> account. Settings of <Default> account will be applied for each new user account, then admin or user may change its own settings. Note: you may change name of fields using <Default> account only; new name will be applied for all account.
Use menu “User“ -> “GUI preferences” to open this dialog.

2) There are 2 new permissions can be specified for each operator:
- edit GUI options for the account
With this option enabled operator may change GUI options for its own account only. If operator works with HostMonitor remotely using RCC, settings specified in User Preferences dialog will be stored in the profile on HostMonitor system. This allows operator to move between different remote systems, login to HostMonitor and use the same settings on any remote system. When user changes column sizes, RCC sends this information to HostMonitor as well.
- edit GUI options for ALL accounts
If operator with such permission opens User Preferences dialog, he will see list of user profiles and he will be able to change settings for any profile (including <Default> profile), copy settings from one profile to another and so on.
- if operator does not have any of these rights, he cannot change GUI options using HostMonitor. He can change settings using RCC, however these changes will not be stored. Next RCC session will use settings specified for this account by admin (or another operator with necessary rights). This is useful when you want to use the same account for many operators (e.g. guest account).

3) HostMonitor and RCC: new “Select items using expression" option for Views. You may use expressions like the following to select test items you need
('%SimpleStatus%'=='UP') and (%Recurrences%>5)
('%SimpleStatus%'=='UP') and ('mail' in '%AlertProfile%')
('%Status%'=='Out of schedule') and ('%LastStatus%'=='Bad')

Note: Web Service does not support such views!

4) HostMonitor: improved SetTestParam and ReplaceTestParam commands of HM script action. These commands support new parameter testinterval that allows you to change execution interval for specified test items
Usage:
- SetTestParam <testname> testinterval <new_interval>
- ReplaceTestParam <testname> testinterval <current_test_interval> <new_interval>
Where time interval can be specified in hh:mm:ss format or just in number that represents minutes (i.e. 5 is equivalent to 00:05:00, 60 is equivalent to 01:00:00)
E.g.
SetTestParam _AllPing testinterval 5
SetTestParam _AllPing testinterval 00:02:30
ReplaceTestParam _AllCPU testinterval 5 00:15:00


5) HostMonitor: HM script action supports 2 new commands: FlushCommonLog and FlushPrivateLogs
- FlushCommonLog – tells HostMonitor to record into common log current test statuses of all test items except items that do not use common log and items that already have recorded (today!) their status into common log
- FlushPrivateLogs – performs the same operation for all test items that uses private log(s)
These commands can be useful for Log Analyzer in case when you are using Brief logging mode and for some reasons you do not want to use Midnight logging mode (e.g. you want to "flush" log records at noon instead of midnight or you want to "flush" log records for some specific private logs or you want to “flush” log records twice a day)

6) HostMonitor: ShellScript test method may redirect output of external applications without using cmd.exe. This helps to reduce system resources usage when you perform a lot of such tests (Note: if you are using some BAT file scripts, you should call cmd.exe anyway)

7) HostMonitor: SNMP Trap test method: supports wildcard * (just trailing *) for “Message contains OID” test property

8 HostMonitor: calculates time used by main HostMonitor thread for logging and actions (does not include time used by auxiliary threads, its not so important). You may see information like the following using Info Pane
Performed tests: 1877564 | 12.05/sec
Performed actions: 8651 | 0.01/sec | ATC: 0.26 msec/action
Log records: 290543 | 2.10/sec | ATC: 0.01 msec/record

Note: to see this information you should select folder or several test items in Test Details Area. If you select single test item, you will see different information about this specific test only
This option can be useful for investigation of some 3rd party software related problems (e.g. if ODBC driver specified for ODBC logging consumes too much time).

9) HostMonitor: undocumented option allows you to change titles for comment lines displayed by “Comment” dialog (it can be called from Test Properties dialog). You may add line like AlternativeCommentTitles=address;phone;admin_name;admin_e-mail into [Misc] section of hostmon.ini file and restart HostMonitor. Then Comments dialog will display “address” instead of %CommentLine1%, “phone” instead of %CommentLine2%, “admin name” instead of %CommentLine3% and so on.

10) WebService: allows you to setup secured channel between web browser and web service using HTTPS protocol.
Note: data transmission between Web Service and HostMonitor, RCC and HostMonitor, HostMonitor and RMA, RCC and RMA always was encrypted and secured.

11) RMA_CFG utility allows you to specify user account when you install RMA as service

Regards
Alex
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