HostMonitor 和 RCC 改进:

• Find (Ctlr+F) 和 Search again (F3) 选项已添加到多个列表中：
  - 行动概况 (（在配置文件名称内搜索；如果需要查找具有特定值的参数，请使用 Find&Replace 选项）)
  - 用户定义变量
  - 服务列表（Service 测试）
  - 事件日志源列表（NT Events Log 测试）
  
  
• 与 Windows Server 2025 相关的细微改进
  
  
• 新的“未记录的” hostmon.ini 选项允许对 SNMP Get 测试表达式进行浮点数处理，例如 TotalTraffic1 = [1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.1] + [1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.16.1]。 原始 SNMP 标准中没有 Float 类型，但某些 SNMP 代理使用 Opaque 数据类型来实现此目的。您可以在 hostmon.ini 文件的 [Misc] 部分添加 FloatForExpressions=1 行，然后重新启动 HostMonitor。

  以下问题已解决

• 修正了 15.00 版本中与可选状态处理相关的错误

  HostMonitor 和 RCC 改进:

• "Accounts"菜单中的新项目：
  - SSH Key Manager
  - Set/Change Master password
  （Connection Manager 和 SNMP Credentials 项已从 Profiles 菜单移至 Accounts 菜单）
  
  
• SSH Key Manager
  此工具允许您管理用于验证 SSH 测试元素的私钥和公钥。私钥认证优先于密码认证。 这意味着如果目标服务器的私钥在SSH Key Manager中配置，则该密钥将用于该服务器上的身份验证； 否则，将使用 Connection Manager 中指定的密码。 使用 SSH Key Manager，您可以导入和导出密钥、验证指纹、在主机密钥更改时批准新的公钥以及删除密钥。
  
  
• Set/Change Master password
  此选项允许您更改用于加密包含敏感信息的文件的主密码，例如私人 SSH 密钥、用于连接到远程系统的帐户等。 如果您将 HostMonitor 和配置文件移动到另一个系统，则第一次启动软件时需要输入此密码（如果您立即将 HostMonitor 作为服务启动，请使用 RCC 输入主密码）。
  
  
• 脚本管理器提供"Find"和"Search again"菜单。 HostMonitor 审查配置文件列表，查找每个字段中指定的文本：名称、建议、平台、脚本代码、评论、历史记录等。
  
  
• 您现在可以使用可选的提示字符串自定义测验项目的相关 URL 字段。 例如，[title=GOOGLE]https://www.google.com?various=1&parameters=2 此字符串告诉 HostMonitor GUI 在各种菜单项、报告等中显示短标题 GOOGLE。当点击这样的元素时，将使用标题后指定的 URL。
  - "旧" %RelatedURL% 变量提​​供 URL 时没有任何提示
  - 新的 %RelatedURLHint% 变量仅提供提示
  
  
• 改进的 Auditing Tool

  RCC 改进

• 新版 RCC 与 Wine for Linux 8 和 9 兼容，可以在现代 Linux 系统上启动（以前版本的 RCC 可以在旧版本的 Wine 上运行，例如 3.6，但无法在新版本上运行）。
• 使用“应用新设置时显示确认消息”选项时，RCC 会显示悬停提示而不是模式窗口。
• 其他图形用户界面改进。

  HostMonitor、RCC 和 RMA 改进

• 增强 DHCP 测试：您可以手动指定用于测试的网络接口。将 DHCP 测试的 RequestIP 属性设置为类似 <Request IP>/<Interface IP> 的字符串，例如例如，10.10.10.101/10.10.10.1
  
  
• 改进的 SSH 测试：您可以使用私钥验证而不是密码。如果目标服务器的私钥在 SSH Key Manager 中配置，那么将使用该密钥进行身份验证。否则，将使用 Connection Manager 中指定的密码。
  
  
• 您还可以配置当主机的公钥发生变化时软件的行为方式。SSH Key Manager 提供 3 个选项：
  • 设置一次警告状态，自动批准新密钥
  • 在操作员批准新密钥之前，请勿连接到主机。
  • 自动批准新密钥
  如果您选择“在操作员批准新密钥之前不连接到主机”选项，并且主机密钥由于任何原因发生变化，则 HostMonitor/RMA 将不会在服务器上执行 SSH 相关测试，直到您打开 SSH Key Manager，验证新公钥的指纹并确认其合法。 （注意：新的未经批准的公钥以红色标记）。

  Active RMA 改进

• 您可以配置代理以与主和备份 HostMonitor 和 RMA Manager 一起工作。 如果您指定使用逗号分隔的两个主机名（或 IP 地址）来指定的 HostMonitor 地址（例如，10.10.1.5、10.10.2.100），则代理将尝试连接到第一个地址；如果无法建立连接，它将尝试使用第二个连接。
  您还可以为两个 RMA 经理配置两个地址。如果您需要从两个位置管理 RMA 代理，则此选项很有用；如果您遇到互联网连接问题并需要切换到备份互联网服务提供商，此选项也会有所帮助。

  RMA Manager 改进

• 新版本与大量 ActiveRMA 代理（超过 1000 个代理）配合使用，运行速度更快

  HostMonitor 和 RCC 增強功能:

• 改进的“Acknowledge status”功能，现在允许您确认问题（测试状态Bad 或Unknown）N 分钟/小时/天或直到具体时间，例如2026-10-25日。 操作员可以稍后调整该时间。当指定的时间到期时，HostMonitor会将测试颜色变更为「红色」（下次测试后，除非此时结果回到「good」状态）。 如果使用「stop alerts」识别选项，操作将在指定时间到期后复原。
  此外，如果您设定选项 ResetRecurrencesOnExpiredAck=1（hostmon.ini 档案的 [HostMon] 部分），HostMonitor 将在确认期间到期后重置重复计数器 (Recurrences)，即使测试状态保持不变。 这允许您从一开始就启动预先定义的操作序列（例如，如果您将警报设定档配置为仅在测试状态从「good」变更为「bad」时向管理员发送电子邮件，则HostMonitor 将启动认可期满后再次执行此操作）
  
  
• HM script: AckTestStatus 和 AckTestStatusByID 指令可让您指定确认到期时间。您可以使用 TILL 或 FOR 选项：
  AcktestStatus <testname|groupname> [FOR <minutes> | TILL ddMMyyyyHHmm[ss]] [StopAlerts] [<comment>]
  AcktestStatusByID <testID> [FOR <minutes> | TILL ddMMyyyyHHmm[ss]] [StopAlerts] [<comment>]
  例如
  AcktestStatusByID 842 "comment"
  AcktestStatusByID 842 StopAlerts "comment 2"
  AcktestStatusByID 842 FOR 25 "comment 3"
  AcktestStatusByID 842 TILL 031220250544 "comment 4"
  AcktestStatusByID 842 TILL 05052025210000 StopAlerts
  
  
• IMAP 和 LDAP 测试：您现在可以完全禁用证书检查（除了"Accept certificate with invalid hostname", "Accept certificate with invalid dates"等旧选项）。 此选项很少需要，可以通过将以下行插入到 hostmon.ini 文件的 [Misc] 部分来启用：
  sslCertCheckModeIMAP=0
  sslCertCheckModeLDAP=0
  
  
• SNMP Trap 测试：更好地处理「全域」错误。例如，如果 HostMonitor 未能开启指定连接埠进行侦听（通常是连接埠 162），它会将状态设为 Unknown 并显示所有 SNMP Trap 测试项目的错误描述。 此报告现在使用「good」测试的子集（如果没有「good」SNMP Trap 测试，程式也可能使用「Unknown」项目）。 这样可以在解决问题后更好地修正错误。
  
  
• Folder/File Size 测试：您现在可以将文件扫描器从典型的 Windows 行为更改为更符合逻辑的行为。 例如，如果您使用 *.LOG 等通配符掩码检查文件夹，Windows 搜索将返回扩展名为 .LOG 的所有文件、扩展名为 .LOGLOG、.LOG22、.LOG.zip 等的文件。 还有其他奇怪的细微差别。您可以更改为更符合逻辑的行为，其中'？'匹配给定位置的单个字符，'*' 匹配任意数量的字符。 在这种情况下，*.LOG 搜索将仅对扩展名为 .LOG 的文件进行计数。只需在 hostmon.ini 文件的 [Misc] 部分中添加行 StrictMaskCheck=1 并重新启动 HostMonitor。
  
  
• GUI 的小改进，包括 LogViewer 的改进
  
  
• 新变量可以作为测试项参数（如名称、评论、相关URL）
  %DisguisedFolderFullPath%
  %DisguisedHost%
  %DisguisedPath%
  %DisguisedObject%
  这些变量与 %FolderFullPath%、%Host%、%Path% 和 %Object% 类似，但某些字符将被 DisguiseChar 替换（默认为“?”）。 您可以将 [DORA] 部分添加到 hostmon.ini 文件并配置以下选项：DisguiseMode、DisguiseChar、DisguiseLen、DisguiseRatio、NonDisguiseMin、非伪装最大

  64 位版本的 HostMonitor

• 与 HostMonitor 与活动 RMA 代理、Remote Control Console 和 Web 服务通信相关的性能改进
• 已修复错误

  RMA Manager

• 改进的 GUI 速度，在管理数千个代理时您会注意到这一点

  新测试方法

• HostMonitor，适用于 Windows 的 RMA：一种新的防火墙测试方法可让您检查 Windows 防火墙状态和设定。 它可以检查本机设定档和群组原则（网域、公用和私有设定档）。 对于每个设定档测试可能会检查是否启用了防火墙、检查通知状态、入站和出站过滤器状态、日志记录设定等。

  改进

• HMScript 改进：SetTestParam 和 ReplaceTestParam Threshold 指令允许设定 URL 测试的杂凑值 (CRC32/MD5/SHA256/SHA512)
• HMScript 改进：SetTestParam 和 ReplaceTestParam Threshold 指令允许为 HTTP 测试设定 CRC32 校验和
  例如
  ReplaceTestParam _AllURL Threshold e173a1db 4510E13C
  SetTestParam releaseCheckSum Threshold 565d688cd2e9527169c1989baea14bc1
• Telnet 改进：SetTestParam 和 ReplaceTestParam Threshold 指令允许设定 URL 测试的杂凑值 (CRC32/MD5/SHA256/SHA512)
• Telnet 改进：SetTestParam 和 ReplaceTestParam Threshold 指令允许为 HTTP 测试设定 CRC32 校验和
• HostMonitor 和 RCC：Auditing_Tool 改良

  Web Service 改进

• 提高了超过 50,000 个测试项目和数千个主测试项目的情况下网络地图数据生成代码的速度。然而，在显示具有如此多元素的复杂地图时，网络浏览器仍然会运行缓慢。

  与 SNMPv3 相关的 MIB Browser 和 Disk Meter 改进

• 新的授权方法SHA256、SHA384、SHA512。
  SNMP标准中仅定义了MD5和SHA1算法，但是许多制造商使用更强的SHA256/384/512哈希值。
• 新隐私模式（加密）：AES192、AES256、AES192C、AES256C。
  AES192、AES256、AES192C 和 AES256C 未在 SNMP 标准中定义，但是许多制造商使用这些算法。 Cisco 使用的 AES192C 和 AES256C 模式与使用 SHA256、SHA384 或 SHA512 授权模式时的 AES192/AES256 等效。
• SHA1 授权和 AES128 加密代码速度提高约 25%

  MIB Browser 改进

• 菜单项"Find exact name"：搜索具有特定名称的节点。搜索不区分大小写。例如，如果您键入“sysuptime”或“SYSUPTIME”，软件将查找节点“sysUpTime”，但不会查找“sysUpTimeEx”
• 菜单项"Find name" - 查找名称包含搜索字符串的节点。例如输入“time”，软件会查找“sysUpTime”、“sysUpTimeEx”、“ExtraTime”等名称中带有字符串“time”的节点
• 菜单项"Find description"：搜索描述中具有特定字符串的节点
• 稍微快一点的 MIB 文件编译器
• 修复了无法输入字母“f”的 GUI 问题。

  以下 HostMontior/RCC GUI 相关问题已解决

• Log Viewer 与日期/时间搜寻相关的更正
• 与 NT Event Log 测试方法相关的较小 GUI 修正
• 与 URL 测试方法相关的较小 GUI 更正
• 与 DHCP Pool 测试复制相关的小修正（Network Map 视窗）
• 与 HTTP、Process、DHCP 和 Printer 测试相关的「汇出到文字档案」功能修正（仅 RCC 应用程式受到影响）
• 修正了 OS Updates 测试方法触发时与 %AlertThresholdValue% 和 %AlertThreshold% 变数相关的问题
• 与 %FolderParent% 变数相关的一些更正
• 其他较小的 GUI 更正

  HostMonitor、Windows 的 RMA：SNMPv3 相关改进

• 新的授权方法SHA256、SHA384、SHA512。
• 新隐私模式（加密）：AES192、AES256、AES192C、AES256C。AES192、AES256、AES192C 和 AES256C 未在 SNMP 标准中定义，但许多制造商使用这些演算法。 Cisco 使用的 AES192C 和 AES256C 模式与使用 SHA256、SHA384 或 SHA512 授权模式时的 AES192/AES256 等效。
• SHA1 授权和 AES128 加密代码速度提高约 25%

超过 50 种测试方法受到这些改进的影响：

• SNMP Get
  
• SNMP Table
  
• Traffic Monitor
  
• Network Interface Status
  
• SNMP 模式下的 Disk Free Space
  
• SNMP 模式下的 Process、Memory 与 CPU Usage 测试
  
• 与 Cisco、Juniper、F5 Big IP、Netscaler、NetApp、QNAP、Sonicwall、Synology、UPS 和印表机相关的所有测试

  HostMonitor、RCC 和 RMA 改进（适用于 Windows）

• SNMP 设定操作已改进
• 如果在hostmon.ini档案的[Misc]部分新增QuickLogAfterInactive=0行并重新启动HostMonitor，则当测试状态发生变化时，它将不会在QuickLog中新增日志，例如Ok->OutOfSchedule ->Ok 或Bad->OutOfSchedule->Bad
• 其他小的 GUI 改进

适用于 Windows 的 HostMonitor、RCC、RMA：NT Events Log测试方法

• 您现在可以在每个配置文件中配置多个过滤器记录的过滤器配置文件。例如。您可以设置一个测试来检查以下事件
  - Application Hang 源，所有事件
  - Application Error 源，事件类型 Critical、Error 或 Warning
  - Group Policy Client，事件 ID 52，消息描述中包含字符串"error"
  （和以前一样，单个测试项仅检查一个日志通道，例如 Application）
• 一个或多个测试元素可以使用此过滤器配置文件并检测来自不同来源的事件。
• 如果您使用相同的过滤器配置文件配置多个测试项目（检查许多不同系统上的日志），则可以修改单个配置文件，所有相关的测试项目都会受到影响
• “Mark unused”和“Usage report”选项可帮助您高效管理过滤器配置文件

  HostMonitor：Microsoft Teams 操作得到改进

• 微软计划于 8 月 15 日禁用“office”webhook。新的 HostMonitor 可以使用“office”和“workflow”webhook。
• 工作流程模式需要具有高级 Power Automate 许可证的 Microsoft Teams 帐户，并且应该在 8 月 15 日之后运行。 因此，如果您使用 Microsoft Teams 警报方法，我们建议使用 Microsoft Teams -> Workflows，创建 Webhook 并更改为 HostMonitor 操作指定的 URL。 （只需打开“操作属性”窗口并复制新 URL 而不是旧 URL）

  HostMonitor 和 RCC：GUI 改进

• 内置日志查看器提供“Find the test”弹出菜单项：打开主窗口并选择与所选日志相关的测试项（如果测试项仍然存在）
• 其他小的 GUI 改进

  HostMonitor, RMA for Windows: test related improvements

New cache for SNMP related test methods helps to perform monitoring faster when SNMP v3 protocol is used and you have many test items with short test interval for each target host. This does not mean that SNMP v3 will work faster than SNMP v2 or SNMP v1 (SNMP v2 is the fastest version of the protocol) but update may increase performance of SNMP v3 requests.
Note: you may disable this cache – just add snmpv3UseCache=0 line into [Misc] section of hostmon.ini (or rma.ini when agent is used for the tests) and restart HostMonitor (or RMA).
[Misc]
snmpv3UseCache = 0
Over 50 test methods affected by this improvement:

• SNMP Get
  
• SNMP Table
  
• Traffic Monitor
  
• Network Interface Status
  
• Disk Free Space test in SNMP mode
  
• Process, Memory and CPU Usage tests in SNMP mode
  
• all Cisco, Juniper, F5 Big IP, Netscaller, NetApp, QNAP, Sonicwall, Synology, UPS and Printer relates tests

SSH test
If you need to enable old key exchange algorithms, such as diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 you may add KeyExchangeAlgorithms line to the [SSH] section of hostmon.ini file (rma.ini file if RMA agent is used for the test) and restart HostMonitor (RMA agent). E.g.
[SSH]
KeyExchangeAlgorithms = curve25519-sha256,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1

  HostMonitor, RCC, RCC_Themes: GUI improvements

• Service test: minor improvements related to "Choose service to monitor" window
• Traffic Monitor test: minor improvements related to "Choose network interface" window
• New %FolderParent% variable can be used for test patterns

  The following issue was resolved

• Active RMA for Windows version 8.00 – 8.20: remote update by RMA Manager could fail. Fixed

  HostMonitor, RMA for Windows: new test methods

Printer Status test
This test method checks various counters and alert flags provided by printers using SNMP protocol. When some problems detected, HostMonitor will set Bad test status and display error(s) description in Reply field of the test (see also %Reply% variable). Also you may use %PrinterDetails% variable as a parameter of the actions triggered by this test, HostMonitor will provide name of the printer, description, location and information about the problem(s). Test options:

• Ignore open door, cover, interlock status
  With this option enabled HostMonitor will ignore the DoorOpen, CoverOpen and InterlockOpen statuses and will set Ok test status if just these problems are detected
• Ignore almost full/empty warnings
  With this option enabled HostMonitor will ignore "warning" flags such as inputMediaSupplyLow, outputMediaTrayAlmostFull, markerTonerAlmostEmpty, markerWasteInkReceptacleAlmostFull, markerDeveloperAlmostEmpty, mediaPathMediaTrayAlmostFull
• Ignore other non-critical problems
  With this option enabled all non-critical issues will be ignored by HostMonitor. A critical alert is one that stops the printer from printing immediately and printing can not continue until the critical alert condition is eliminated. Non-critical alerts are those that do not stop printing but may at some future time.

We tested various models of Brother, Canon, HP, Konica, Lexmark, Ricoh, Xerox printers. Printers from other manufacturers may support SNMP protocol and necessary counters as well.

Printer supply levels test
This test method checks various counters provided by printers using SNMP protocol. When the level of some supply falls below the specified limit, HostMonitor will set Bad test status and display level(%) and description of the supply type in Reply field of the test (see also %Reply% variable). Also you may use %PrinterDetails% variable as a parameter of the actions triggered by this test, HostMonitor will provide name of the printer, description, location and information about all avilable supplies.

You can set a minimum threshould for each group of supplies

• Check toner, ink levels
  HostMonitor will check the toner and ink levels, ribbon and wax (if printer uses such supplies and provides the necessary data)
• Check waste, water, binding levels
  HostMonitor will check the waste space for toner, ink, wax, water, waste paper, level of binding supplies, staples, covers, etc (if printer uses such supplies and provides the necessary data)
• Check OPC, corona wire, transfer units
  HostMonitor will check OPC, developer units, fuser oil, cleaner unit, transfer unit, fuser oiler

We tested various models of Brother, Canon, HP, Konica, Lexmark, Ricoh, Xerox printers. Printers from other manufacturers may support SNMP protocol and necessary counters as well. Note: many Brother printers do not provide toner level data, just drum status and warning flags related to low level

  HostMonitor test related changes and improvements

VMWare_guest_status test for VMWare ESXi

• HostMonitor now also checks 'configstatus' parameter, e.g. HostMonitor can set Bad test status when duplicated MAC or IP address is detected.
  You can disable this check by adding VMCheckConfigStatus=0 line to the [Misc] section of hostmon.ini file (HostMonitor restart is required)
• HostMonitor may display list of all guests with the "worst" (red, yellow, gray) status. To enable this option, you may add vmShowManyGuests=1 line to the [Misc] section of hostmon.ini file and restart HostMonitor

VM_guest_free_memory test for Microsoft Hyper-V

• HostMonitor can also use GuestAvailableMemory counter when available (on Windows Server 2022). In this case several counters are used for calculations because single GuestAvailableMemory counter does not tell the whole picture, it can show a lot of free memory while most of that "free" guest memory is actually paged to the disk by the hypervisor. However you can tell HostMonitor to only use GuestAvailableMemory counter (when available) by adding the hyperV_AlwaysCountMemoryPressure=0 line to the [Misc] section on hostmon.ini file (HostMonitor restart is required)
• Also HostMonitor can check guest systems with empty name field (old version ignored such guests)

SSH test:

• The following HMAC algorithms are enabled by default: hmac-sha2-256, hmac-sha2-512, hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com, hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com
• If you need to enable older protocols, such as hmac-sha1 or hmac-md5, add HMACAlgorithms line to the [SSH] section of hostmon.ini file and restart HostMonitor. E.g.
  [SSH]
  HMACAlgorithms=hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1,hmac-md5
• If you need to enable older protocols for some RMA agent, then add HMACAlgorithms line to the [SSH] section of rma.ini file (located on the system where the agent is running)
• Also you may enable the following algorithms
  hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com
  hmac-sha2-224
  hmac-sha2-384
  hmac-sha2-224-etm@openssh.com
  hmac-sha2-384-etm@openssh.com

New switch related to "Recheck dependant test items when master test status has been changed" option.

• This option tells HostMonitor to recheck all dependant test items immediately after their master test fails or recovers (otherwise the tests will be executed on a regular schedule). This helps to maintain more accurate statistic information. However HostMonitor does not "touch" dependant items when the master test changes its status to any of the "inactive" statuses (OutOfSchedule, WaitForMaster, Disabled, Paused)
  New option "count inactive master test statuses as well" (located on the same Behavior page of the Options dialog) tells HostMonitor to change the statuses of all dependant tests when the Master test becomes inactive

  HostMonitor action related changes

HostMonitor: HMScript action

• New _AllPrinterStatus and _AllPrinterLevels parameters for HMScript commands like DisableTest, EnableTest, PauseTest, SetTestParam, ReplaceTestParam

HostMonitor: Send E-mail action improvements

• TLS related improvements for "POP before SMTP" authentication mode
• You can also set a specific port for POP3 connection when "POP before SMTP" authentication mode is used: just add 1 or 2 lines in hostmon.ini file, [SMTP] section. E.g. if you want to set TCP port 2095 for the primary mail server and port 110 for the backup mail server, add the following 2 lines to the [SMTP] section and restart HostMonitor
  Pop3Port1=2095
  Pop3Port2=110
  Note: by default HostMonitor chooses the TCP port for POP3 connection based on TLS mode (None-110, Implicit-995, Explicit-995).

  HostMonitor, RCC: GUI improvements

• User Profiles window allows to to export list of operators into comma separated file; use "Export to CSV file" popup menu item
• Some font improvements related to regional (non-ASCII) character sets
• When you use the telnet service, HostMonitor truncates exessively long folder and file names before sending the data to the client, new "unofficial" option allows to set a length limit. You may add TelnetMaxNameLen=<length> line into [RCI] section of hostmon.ini file and restart HostMonitor. E.g.
  [RCI]
  TelnetMaxNameLen=80

  Web Service improvements

• Network Map pane creates separate groups for the following test methods:
  - RAS
  - SNMP Trap
  - ODBC
  - External program
  - Active Script
  - Shell Script
  Previous versions used "localhost" group in this case, unless SetUserIP command was used in order to assign specific IP address to some of such tests so test item can be moved somewhere (to other host node). This command can be used in new version as well

  RCC, Web Service, Log Analyzer, Log Visualizer

• Some modifications in order to support new test methods

  HostMonitor and RCC improvements

• When you select many test items and click Edit button, you may change "Tune up Reply value" explession; Timeout and Retries parameters (number of packets for Ping tests) in addition to other parameters you could modify before.
• "Mark unused" popup menu item for RMA list. When you are managing list of Remote Monitoring Agents using menu LANs -> RMA agents you may use new menu item to grey out all RMA agents currently not used. HostMonitor checks all folder settings, test settings (within loaded test list), action setting and Network Discovery settings
• Minor performance improvements

  The following issue was resolved

• HostMonitor v 14.24 could resolve %FullPath% variable incorrectly. Fixed

  HostMonitor improvements and corrections

• Shell Script test method: rare Windows bug may cause problems for Shell Script test method so we changed HostMonitor code. Note: if you need to use some very old script processors (like MS DOS program on Windows XP) then new version will not work for you unless you switch HostMonitor code to old mode: add ScriptsShortName=1 line into [Misc] section of hostmon.ini file and restart HostMonitor
• HTTP test method: minor changes
  
  
• Actions: %uuu% and %uuu[-0u]% variables can be used as parameters of the actions:
  %uuu% - current local time as UnixTimeStamp (seconds since 1970)
  %uuu[-0u]% - current UTC time as UnixTimeStamp (seconds since 1970)
• HTTP request action: Content-Length parameter could be calculated incorrectly for large POST requests. Fixed
• Send E-Mail action: corrections related to Big-5 charset

  HostMonitor x64

Now we can offer x64 version of HostMonitor. Its not available to everyone and its not needed by everyone, for most of customers x86 (32bit) version works more efficiently and uses less memory. On the other hand, if you have over 100,000 test items plus a lot of remote RCC operators and 1000+ Active RMA agents connected to HostMonitor, then you may need x64 version. It may use over 2GB memory and in some cases works faster. Related forum thread

If you would like to try it, please contact support team by e-mail (HostMonitor menu Help -> Support)

  IPMI related improvements

The following applications support more cipher modes for IPMI related tests: IPMI Health, IPMI Temperature, IPMI Fans, IPMI Voltage, IPMI Current, IPMI Discrete Sensor

• HostMonitor
• Passive RMA for Windows
• Active RMA for Windows
• Active RMA for FreeBSD
• Active RMA for Linux
• IPMI Browser

The following cipher modes are supported

• 00: None
• 01: RAKP-HMAC-SHA1
• 02: RAKP-HMAC-SHA1 + HMAC-SHA1-96
• 03: RAKP-HMAC-SHA1 + AES128CBC + HMAC-SHA1-96
• 15: RAKP-HMAC-SHA256
• 16: RAKP-HMAC-SHA256 + HMAC-SHA256-128
• 17: RAKP-HMAC-SHA256 + AES128CBC + HMAC-SHA256-128

  HostMonitor, RCC GUI improvements

• You may search for a folder by name or comment field using menu Search or hot key Ctrl+Shift+F
• Log Viewer improvements

  HostMonitor, RCC, Passive and Active RMA for Windows (x86 and x64):
      improvements related to Traffic Monitor test method and "Choose network interface" window (this window is also used for Interface Status test method)

• "Request and calculate traffic data" option. If you enable this option HostMonitor will show additional information for each network interface:
  - amount of total received and transmitted traffic;
  - average amount of data per second;
  - bandwidth utilization (%);
  - bandwidth utilization by income traffic;
  - bandwidth utilization by outgoing traffic
  Notes:
  - Bandwidth utilization: amount of data transferred through a network relative to its total capacity.
  - In this case average traffic and utilization percentage calculated based on total traffic thru interface since device reboot (not a current utilization measured for last second or minute)
  - This option is available for SNMP v2c, SNMP v3 enabled devices with 64bit traffic counters
• You may sort interfaces in the list by any field (index, description, speed, traffic, etc)
• When you are creating a new test item, then you may select many interfaces in the list; HostMonitor will create separate test item for each selected interface. As before you may also select "monitor traffic on all interfaces" item, such single test item will monitor all interfaces and check total traffic on the device.
• Other minor GUI improvements

  Active RMA for Linux and FreeBSD improvements

• New faster encryption module
• The agent may provide traffic related data for "Network interfaces" window
• File Integrity test works faster in all modes: CRC32, MD5, SHA256, SHA512
• Text Log test method: some speed improvements related to "expressions" mode
• SNMP Trap test speed improvements. Some customers set thousands of SNMP Trap items with various filters, in such case processing of many Trap messages can lead to high CPU load and slow down RMA agent (especially when "counter fits expression" options are used, thousand items with such option can slow down even new version of the software)

  WatchDog for Linux and FreeBSD improvements

• New faster encryption module (required for HostMonitor v14)

  Minor improvements related to

• Send E-Mail action
• Telegram message action
• Log Viewer
• Web Service

  HostMonitor and RMA for Windows: 26 test methods were improved

The following tests support TLS 1.3

• URL
• Certificate Expiration
• POP3, IMAP
• E-mail, Mail Relay
• LDAP
• FTPS
• HP iLO tests: Health, Temperature, Fans, Power, Disk status
• VMWare host related tests: Host status, CPU Usage, Free Memory, Datastore Space
• VMWare guest related tests: Guest status, CPU Usage, Free Memory, Free disk space

Notes:

• Certificate Expiration test supports TLS 1.3 on Windows 7 and newer.
• Other tests require Windows 11 or Windows Server 2022 (just for TLS 1.3).
• By default only TLS 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 protocols are enabled (TLS 1.1 and 1.2 on older Windows systems)
• If you need to check some very old HP server (iLO2), you may enable TLS 1.0 using hostmon.ini option: add sslProto_HPiLO=10880 line into [Misc] section of hostmon.ini file and restart HostMonitor
• If you need to check some very old VMWare system (ESXi 5.0 or older), you may enable TLS 1.0 using hostmon.ini option: add sslProto_VMWare=10880 line into [Misc] section of hostmon.ini file and restart HostMonitor
• Similar options available for POP3, IMAP, LDAP, FTPS, Email, Mail Relay, URL tests
  [Misc] section
  sslProtocols - sets default TLS options for all methods, including URL;
  the following options may override TLS modes for specific test methods:

sslProto_POP3 sslProto_LDAP sslProto_IMAP sslProto_FTPS sslProto_HPiLO sslProto_VMWare

= 8192   - just TLS 1.3 = 10240 - TLS 1.2 and 1.3 = 10752 - TLS 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 = 10880 - TLS 1.0-1.3

SSH and SFTP tests:

• support keDHGroup16Sha512, keDHGroup18Sha512 and keDHGroup14Sha256 key exchange algorithms
• support the hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com and hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com HMAC algorithms

File Integrity test

• works faster in all modes: CRC32, MD5, Sha256, Sha512

Shell Script test

• Unicode support for output files. Powershell scripts may produce results in such format (output should start with FFFE BOM bytes)
• some speed improvements (if script generates large output before test result)

SNMP Trap test

• speed improvements. Some customers set thousands of SNMP Trap items with various filters, in such case processing of many Trap messages can lead to high CPU load and slow down HostMonitor (especially when "counter fits expression" options are used, thousand items with such option can slow down even new version of the software)

  HostMonitor: improved actions

• Send E-mail action supports TLS 1.3
• Send message to pager over SNPP action supports TLS 1.2
  (Windows 7 or newer is required)

  Performance

Faster compression code for data exchange between HostMonitor and RCC, HostMonitor and Web Service

Faster encryption code for data exchange between all components

• HostMonitor ↔ Passive and Active RMA
• HostMonitor ↔ RCC
• HostMonitor ↔ Telnet client
• HostMonitor ↔ Web Service
• HostMonitor ↔ WatchDog
• RMA Manager ↔ Passive and Active RMA

Note1: for data transmission between HostMonitor and Passive RMA old code is used by default. If you are not using old RMA agents for UNIX, you may switch this module to faster code as well: add Encr3PassiveRMA=1 line into [HostMon] section of hostmon.ini file and restart HostMonitor.
Note2: if single RMA has to perform a lot of tests (e.g. 100 tests/sec), then it`s better to use Active RMA. On the other hand, if you have to use many agents (e.g. 500 RMA) with low load on each agent, then it`s better to use Passive RMA.

HostMonitor and RCC GUI improvements:

• Under some conditions disable, pause or resume of thousands (e.g. 20,000) test items could be slow; new versions work much faster
• Under some conditions remove folder with thousand sub-folders operation could be slow on RCC side; new version works much faster
• Some speed improvements related to Views (more improvements will be done in the future versions)
• Top Hosts pane: better support for large numbers in Reply field (up to 10^36) and small numbers (between 0 and 1)
• Minor Auditing Tools improvements
• Minor GUI corrections

  RMA Manager

• faster import from csv files
• import statistics and progress bar displayed
• import log filter: "Just errors" and "All data" modes

  WebService

• TLS 1.3 supported in HTTPS mode
  (now Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 or newer is required for HTTPS mode; HTTP mode can be used on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or any newer OS)