HostMonitor 和 RCC 改進:

• Find (Ctlr+F) 和 Search again (F3) 選項已新增至多個清單：
  - 行動概況 (（在設定檔名稱內搜尋；如果需要尋找具有特定值的參數，請使用 Find&Replace 選項）)
  - 使用者定義變數
  - 服務清單（Service 測試）
  - 事件日誌來源清單（NT Events Log 測試）
  
  
• 與 Windows Server 2025 相關的細微改進
  
  
• 新的「未記錄」的 hostmon.ini 選項允許對 SNMP Get 測試表達式進行浮點數處理，例如 TotalTraffic1 = [1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.1] + [1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1]。 原始 SNMP 標準中沒有 Float 類型，但某些 SNMP 代理程式使用 Opaque 資料類型來實現此目的。您可以在 hostmon.ini 檔案的 [Misc] 部分中新增 FloatForExpressions=1 行，然後重新啟動 HostMonitor。

  以下問題已解決

• 修正了 15.00 版本中與可選狀態處理相關的錯誤

  HostMonitor 和 RCC 改進:

• "Accounts"選單中的新項目：
  - SSH Key Manager
  - Set/Change Master password
  （Connection Manager 和 SNMP Credentials 項目已從 Profiles 選單移至 Accounts 選單）
  
  
• SSH Key Manager
  此工具可讓您管理用於驗證 SSH 測試元素的私鑰和公鑰。私鑰認證優先於密碼認證。 這意味著如果目標伺服器的私鑰在SSH Key Manager中配置，則該金鑰將用於該伺服器上的身份驗證； 否則，將使用 Connection Manager 中指定的密碼。 使用 SSH Key Manager，您可以匯入和匯出金鑰、驗證指紋、在主機金鑰變更時批准新的公鑰以及刪除金鑰。
  
  
• Set/Change Master password
  此選項可讓您變更用於加密包含敏感資訊的檔案的主密碼，例如私人 SSH 金鑰、用於連接到遠端系統的帳戶等。 如果您將 HostMonitor 和設定檔移至另一個系統，則第一次啟動軟體時需要輸入此密碼（如果您立即將 HostMonitor 作為服務啟動，請使用 RCC 輸入主密碼）。
  
  
• 腳本管理器提供"Find"和"Search again"選單。 HostMonitor 審查設定檔列表，尋找每個欄位中指定的文字：名稱、建議、平台、腳本程式碼、評論、歷史記錄等。
  
  
• 您現在可以使用可選的提示字串自訂測驗項目的相關 URL 欄位。 例如，[title=GOOGLE]https://www.google.com?various=1&parameters=2 此字串告訴 HostMonitor GUI 在各種選單項目、報告等中顯示短標題 GOOGLE。點擊這樣的元素時，將使用標題後指定的 URL。
  - "舊" %RelatedURL% 變數提供 URL 時沒有任何提示
  - 新的 %RelatedURLHint% 變數僅提供提示
  
  
• 改良的 Auditing Tool

  RCC 改進

• 新版 RCC 與 Wine for Linux 8 和 9 相容，可以在現代 Linux 系統上啟動（先前版本的 RCC 可以在舊版本的 Wine 上運行，例如 3.6，但無法在新版本上運行）。
• 使用「套用新設定時顯示確認訊息」選項時，RCC 會顯示懸停提示而非模式視窗。
• 其他圖形使用者介面改進。

  HostMonitor、RCC 和 RMA 改進

• 增強 DHCP 測試：您可以手動指定用於測試的網路介面。將 DHCP 測試的 RequestIP 屬性設定為類似 <Request IP>/<Interface IP> 的字串，例如例如，10.10.10.101/10.10.10.1
  
  
• 改進的 SSH 測試：您可以使用私鑰驗證而不是密碼。如果目標伺服器的私鑰在 SSH Key Manager 中配置，那麼將使用該金鑰進行驗證。否則，將使用 Connection Manager 中指定的密碼。
  
  
• 您也可以設定當主機的公鑰改變時軟體的行為方式。 SSH Key Manager 提供 3 個選項：
  • 設定一次警告狀態，自動核准新金鑰
  • 在操作員核准新金鑰之前，請勿連接到主機。
  • 自動核准新金鑰
  如果您選擇「在操作員批准新金鑰之前不連接到主機」選項，且主機金鑰因任何原因發生變化，則 HostMonitor/RMA 將不會在伺服器上執行 SSH 相關測試，直到您開啟 SSH Key Manager，驗證新公鑰的指紋並確認其合法。 （注意：新的未經批准的公鑰以紅色標記）。

  Active RMA 改進

• 您可以設定代理程式以與主和備份 HostMonitor 和 RMA Manager 一起工作。 如果您指定使用逗號分隔的兩個主機名稱（或 IP 位址）來指定的 HostMonitor 位址（例如，10.10.1.5、10.10.2.100），則代理程式會嘗試連接到第一個位址；如果無法建立連接，它將嘗試使用第二個連接。
  您也可以為兩個 RMA 經理配置兩個位址。如果您需要從兩個位置管理 RMA 代理，則此選項很有用；如果您遇到網路連線問題並需要切換到備份網路服務供應商，此選項也會有所幫助。

  RMA Manager 改進

• 新版本與大量 ActiveRMA 代理（超過 1000 個代理）配合使用，運行速度更快

  HostMonitor 和 RCC 增強功能:

• 改進的“Acknowledge status”功能，現在允許您確認問題（測試狀態 Bad 或 Unknown）N 分鐘/小時/天或直到具體時間，例如2026-10-25日。 操作員可以稍後調整該時間。當指定的時間到期時，HostMonitor會將測試顏色變更為「紅色」（下次測試後，除非此時結果回到「good」狀態）。 如果使用「stop alerts」識別選項，操作將在指定時間到期後復原。
  此外，如果您設定選項 ResetRecurrencesOnExpiredAck=1（hostmon.ini 檔案的 [HostMon] 部分），HostMonitor 將在確認期間到期後重置重複計數器 (Recurrences)，即使測試狀態保持不變。 這允許您從一開始就啟動預先定義的操作序列（例如，如果您將警報設定檔配置為僅在測試狀態從「good」變更為「bad」時向管理員發送電子郵件，則 HostMonitor 將啟動認可期滿後再次執行此操作）
  
  
• HM script: AckTestStatus 和 AckTestStatusByID 指令可讓您指定確認到期時間。您可以使用 TILL 或 FOR 選項：
  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 與 LDAP 測試：您現在可以完全停用憑證檢查（除了"Accept certificate with invalid hostname", "Accept certificate with invalid dates"等舊選項）。 此選項很少需要，可以透過將以下行插入 hostmon.ini 檔案的 [Misc] 部分來啟用：
  sslCertCheckModeIMAP=0
  sslCertCheckModeLDAP=0
  
  
• SNMP Trap 測試：更好地處理「全域」錯誤。例如，如果 HostMonitor 未能開啟指定連接埠進行偵聽（通常是連接埠 162），它會將狀態設為 Unknown 並顯示所有 SNMP Trap 測試項目的錯誤描述。 此報告現在使用「good」測試的子集（如果沒有「good」SNMP Trap 測試，程式也可能使用「Unknown」項目）。 這樣可以在解決問題後更好地修正錯誤。
  
  
• Folder/File Size 測試：您現在可以將檔案掃描器從典型的 Windows 行為變更為更符合邏輯的行為。 例如，如果您使用 *.LOG 等通配符遮罩來檢查資料夾，Windows 搜尋將傳回副檔名為 .LOG 的所有檔案、副檔名為 .LOGLOG、.LOG22、.LOG.zip 等的檔案。 還有其他奇怪的細微差別。您可以更改為更符合邏輯的行為，其中'？ '匹配給定位置的單個字符，'*' 匹配任意數量的字符。 在這種情況下，*.LOG 搜尋將僅對副檔名為 .LOG 的檔案進行計數。只需在 hostmon.ini 檔案的 [Misc] 部分中新增行 StrictMaskCheck=1 並重新啟動 HostMonitor。
  
  
• GUI 的小改進，包括 LogViewer 的改進
  
  
• 新變數可以作為測試項目參數（如名稱、評論、相關URL）
  %DisguisedFolderFullPath%
  %DisguisedHost%
  %DisguisedPath%
  %DisguisedObject%
  這些變數與 %FolderFullPath%、%Host%、%Path% 和 %Object% 類似，但某些字元將被 DisguiseChar 取代（預設為「?」）。 您可以將[DORA] 部分新增至hostmon.ini 檔案並配置以下選項：DisguiseMode、DisguiseChar、DisguiseLen、DisguiseRatio、NonDisguiseMin、非偽裝最大

  64 位元版本的 HostMonitor

• 與 HostMonitor 與活動 RMA 代理、Remote Control Console 和 Web 服務通訊相關的效能改進
• 已修復錯誤

  RMA Manager

• 改進的 GUI 速度，在管理數千個代理程式時您會注意到這一點

  新測試方法

• HostMonitor，適用於 Windows 的 RMA：一種新的防火牆測試方法可讓您檢查 Windows 防火牆狀態和設定。 它可以檢查本機設定檔和群組原則（網域、公用和私有設定檔）。 對於每個設定檔測試可能會檢查是否啟用了防火牆、檢查通知狀態、入站和出站過濾器狀態、日誌記錄設定等。

  改進

• HMScript 改進：SetTestParam 和 ReplaceTestParam Threshold 指令允許設定 URL 測試的雜湊值 (CRC32/MD5/SHA256/SHA512)
• HMScript 改進：SetTestParam 和 ReplaceTestParam Threshold 指令允許為 HTTP 測試設定 CRC32 校驗和
  例如
  ReplaceTestParam _AllURL Threshold e173a1db 4510E13C
  SetTestParam releaseCheckSum Threshold 565d688cd2e9527169c1989baea14bc1
• Telnet 改進：SetTestParam 和 ReplaceTestParam Threshold 指令允許設定 URL 測試的雜湊值 (CRC32/MD5/SHA256/SHA512)
• Telnet 改進：SetTestParam 和 ReplaceTestParam Threshold 指令允許為 HTTP 測試設定 CRC32 校驗和
• HostMonitor 和 RCC：Auditing_Tool 改良

  Web Service 改進

• 提高了超過 50,000 個測試項目和數千個主測試項目的情況下網路地圖資料產生程式碼的速度。然而，在顯示具有如此多元素的複雜地圖時，網頁瀏覽器仍然會運作緩慢。

  與 SNMPv3 相關的 MIB Browser 和 Disk Meter 改進

• 新的授權方法SHA256、SHA384、SHA512。
  SNMP標準中僅定義了MD5和SHA1演算法，但許多製造商使用更強的SHA256/384/512雜湊值。
• 新隱私模式（加密）：AES192、AES256、AES192C、AES256C。
  AES192、AES256、AES192C 和 AES256C 未在 SNMP 標準中定義，但許多製造商使用這些演算法。 Cisco 使用的 AES192C 和 AES256C 模式與使用 SHA256、SHA384 或 SHA512 授權模式時的 AES192/AES256 等效。
• SHA1 授權和 AES128 加密代碼速度提高約 25%

  MIB Browser 改進

• 選單項目"Find exact name"：搜尋具有特定名稱的節點。搜尋不區分大小寫。例如，如果您鍵入“sysuptime”或“SYSUPTIME”，軟體將尋找節點“sysUpTime”，但不會尋找“sysUpTimeEx”
• 選單項目"Find name" - 尋找名稱包含搜尋字串的節點。例如輸入“time”，軟體會尋找“sysUpTime”、“sysUpTimeEx”、“ExtraTime”等名稱中帶有字串“time”的節點
• 選單項目"Find description"：搜尋描述中具有特定字串的節點
• 稍微快一點的 MIB 檔案編譯器
• 修正了無法輸入字母「f」的 GUI 問題。

  以下 HostMontior/RCC GUI 相關問題已解決

• Log Viewer 與日期/時間搜尋相關的更正
• 與 NT Event Log 測試方法相關的較小 GUI 修正
• 與 URL 測試方法相關的較小 GUI 更正
• 與 DHCP Pool 測試複製相關的小修正（Network Map 視窗）
• 與 HTTP、Process、DHCP 和 Printer 測試相關的「匯出到文字檔案」功能修正（僅 RCC 應用程式受到影響）
• 修正了 OS Updates 測試方法觸發時與 %AlertThresholdValue% 和 %AlertThreshold% 變數相關的問題
• 與 %FolderParent% 變數相關的一些更正
• 其他較小的 GUI 更正

  HostMonitor、Windows 的 RMA：SNMPv3 相關改進

• 新的授權方法SHA256、SHA384、SHA512。
• 新隱私模式（加密）：AES192、AES256、AES192C、AES256C。 AES192、AES256、AES192C 和 AES256C 未在 SNMP 標準中定義，但許多製造商使用這些演算法。 Cisco 使用的 AES192C 和 AES256C 模式與使用 SHA256、SHA384 或 SHA512 授權模式時的 AES192/AES256 等效。
• SHA1 授權和 AES128 加密代碼速度提高約 25%

超過 50 種測試方法受到這些改進的影響：

• SNMP Get
  
• SNMP Table
  
• Traffic Monitor
  
• Network Interface Status
  
• SNMP 模式下的 Disk Free Space
  
• SNMP 模式下的 Process、Memory 與 CPU Usage 測試
  
• 與 Cisco、Juniper、F5 Big IP、Netscaler、NetApp、QNAP、Sonicwall、Synology、UPS 和印表機相關的所有測試

  HostMonitor、RCC 和 RMA 改進（適用於 Windows）

• SNMP 設定操作已改進
• 如果在hostmon.ini檔案的[Misc]部分新增QuickLogAfterInactive=0行並重新啟動HostMonitor，則當測試狀態發生變化時，它將不會在QuickLog中新增日誌，例如Ok->OutOfSchedule->Ok 或 Bad->OutOfSchedule->Bad
• 其他小的 GUI 改進

適用於Windows 的HostMonitor、RCC、RMA：NT Events Log測試方法

• 您現在可以在每個設定檔中設定多個過濾器記錄的過濾器設定檔。例如。您可以設定一個測試來檢查以下事件
  - Application Hang 來源，所有事件
  - Application Error 來源，事件類型 Critical、Error 或 Warning
  - Group Policy Client，事件 ID 52，訊息描述中包含字串"error"
  （和先前一樣，單一測試項目僅檢查一個日誌通道，例如 Application）
• 一個或多個測試元素可以使用此過濾器設定檔並偵測來自不同來源的事件。
• 如果您使用相同的過濾器設定檔配置多個測試項目（檢查許多不同系統上的日誌），則可以修改單一設定文件，所有相關的測試項目都會受到影響
• 「Mark unused」和「Usage report」選項可協助您有效率地管理篩選器設定檔

  HostMonitor：Microsoft Teams 操作得到改進

• 微軟計畫在 8 月 15 日停用「office」webhook。新的 HostMonitor 可以使用「office」和「workflow」webhook。
• 工作流程模式需要具有高級 Power Automate 授權的 Microsoft Teams 帳戶，並且應該在 8 月 15 日之後執行。 因此，如果您使用 Microsoft Teams 警報方法，我們建議使用 Microsoft Teams -> Workflows，建立 Webhook 並變更為 HostMonitor 作業指定的 URL。 （只需打開“操作屬性”視窗並複製新 URL 而不是舊 URL）

  HostMonitor 和 RCC：GUI 改進

• 內建日誌檢視器提供「Find the test」彈出式選單項目：開啟主視窗並選擇與所選日誌相關的測試項目（如果測試項目仍然存在）
• 其他小的 GUI 改進

  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)