EMCO Ping Monitor - Release Announcements

Version 4.7.15 is available

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:44:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Added the brand-new Office 2013 look and feel
Reduced system memory usage

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Special characters in report data cause formatting problems in HTML email notifications
Line feed characters are replaced by HTML line breaks tags in plain text emails
An error while pausing the monitoring process for any host (both manual and automatic pause) that makes it impossible to control the monitoring activity
An error while drawing the main form

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Version 4.7.14 is available

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:35:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Added options to sort and filter hosts by their connection statuses
Added an option to filter hosts by IP addresses
More descriptive names are given to the columns that display response time characteristics
When an IP range is specified, the End IP field is automatically filled with the value of the Start IP field on receiving the input focus

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

A host cannot be resolved if its name contains non-ANSI characters, but it should not be treated as Internationalized Domain Name
The application requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable to start

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Version 4.7.10 is available

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:51:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Added an option to sort hosts by IP addresses
Added an option to filter hosts by host statuses
Monitoring statistics filtering has been improved
Indication if the host is auto-monitored is moved to a separate column

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

An error happens when trying to perform the application update on a fast Internet connection
The application fails to initialize when loading hosts with the legacy format of settings

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Version 4.7.8 is available

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:20:00 GMT

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

The application fails to start on Machines running Microsoft Windows 8 RTM

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Version 4.7.7 is available

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:21:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Improved skin chooser interface
The new Metropolis Dark skin is added to the bonus skins set

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

The application fails to start in specific environments
The application fails to start if the Application Log view is closed

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Version 4.7.3 is available

Tue, 29 May 2012 17:29:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

During the monitoring pause all actions are postponed until the monitoring process is activated again and the connection status is defined
The monitoring pause time do not affect the outage time and uptime
Not only custom actions, but all enabled actions are displayed in the Host Details pane
The On Monitor Start terminate action is considered to be obsolete and removed

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Possible SQL transaction error while logging
The Application Log structure is broken after automatic removal of logged events
Possible error while resetting the monitoring statistics

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Version 4.7.2 is available

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:27:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Added support of Microsoft Windows 8 and .NET Framework 4.5

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Terminate actions are not initiated in some cases during monitoring of multiple hosts

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Version 4.7.1 is available

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:12:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Added an option to reset all UI layouts to default state
Buttons on the Ribbon bar are regrouped to make the user interface more intuitive

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

The application cannot work with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 installed
Application Log Auto Remove and Show Options are not respected when the application is running longer then a day

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Version 4.7 is available

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:51:00 GMT

Monitoring time intervals

If you don't need to make hosts monitoring after working hours, you can configure the application to make monitoring only on defined week days and/or at the defined time interval. The monitoring interval options can be configured using the Preferences dialog.

Notification loop

The new notifications configuration options allow to repeat e-mail, balloon and sound notifications, if required. For every notification type you can configure a number of times it should be repeated (including infinite repetition) and a time interval between notification repetitions. As a result notifications will be executed the defined number of iterations or until the next connection status change.

New Add Host dialog

The dialog windows that is used to add new hosts is updated. Configuration options for added hosts are displayed now as tabs on the left side of the screen, so you can see all available options without scrolling.

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Added the option to specify custom sounds (WAV files) for sound notifications
Added columns that display passed pings count, failed pings count and last outage start time
Added highlighting of inactive hosts
Improved host copying behavior

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Version 4.6.8 is available

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:29:00 GMT

Extended list of custom actions

The supported list of custom actions was extended and now includes the 'On First Connection Failure' action. The 'On First Connection Failure' event occurs when a connection to a host fails immediately after the monitoring process is activated and in this case the specified action is executed.

Extended list of notifications

E-mail, balloon and sound notifications were extended and now can be generated for 'On First Connection' and 'On First Connection Failure' events.

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Optimized system resources usage

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